The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-07 00:00:00

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FRANCE.
M. Delp;cli, an advocate of Agen, compromised in
the disturbances of the Lot et Garonne, was arrested
some time ago, but released. He then went to Bor-
deaux, where he has since resided. On Tuesday
ordere arrived from the Minister of War that he
Should be exiled to Spain. He was immediately ar-
rested, and a few hours later was sent to the frontier
in custody of a police agent.
A great number of political prisoners, confined in
the forts and vessels at Toulon, have been set at li-
berty. They had been arrested for taking part in the
disturbances of the department of the Var.
The Petit-Luxembourg, which i 3 at present being
prepared for the official residence of Prince Jerome
Bonaparte, Governor of Invalides, will no', it is said,
be inhabited by him except on solemn occasions. He
will continue to occupy the lintel of the Invalides, of
which he will continue to be Governor. Hi 3 salary
as President of the Senate will, it is reported, be
150,000 f. a-year, with 80,000 f, more as frais de re-
presentation.

me following is a return of the situation of the Bank
of France on Feb. 5 :

believe themselves forced to employ, that the press is
able to give a support to liberty end justice which we
should seek in vain from the most liberal Government.
Government must treat other Governments wieh exter-
nal respect, however black their origin or foul their
deeds; but happily the press is under no such trammels,
and while diplomatists are texchangirge courtesies, can
unmask the mean heart that beats beneath a star, or
point ow the bloodstains on the hand which grasps a
sceptre. The duty of the j mrnelist is the same es that
of the historian—to seek out truth, above all things,
and to present to his readers, not such things as state-
craft would wish them to know, but the truth, as near as
he can attain to it.
To require, then, the journalist and the statesman to
conform to the same rules, is to mix up things essentially
different, and is as unsound in theory as unheard-of in
practice. Lord Derby tells us that the internal admi-
nistration of a country is a matter of consideration and
arrangement for that country elene; thri.otr am of i' ,e have never I
felt it tr
our duty to protest ain: t any
government in France, and that, therefore, wo have no
right to canvas either the policy or morality of every
step which has been,tekee. As regards statesmen this
ie true; as regards journalists it is ut:erly talse; it is
not only our right but our duty to discuss the policy end
morality of the steps which have been taken, to look at
them in every posetble point of view, and to extract
from them every inference of which they are capable.
The free press of Europe, so long as there was a free
press, exercised toe same right towards us, without
uffonce and without question. The press does not, as
Lord Derby says, aspire to exercise the influence of
statesmen,
which but its owe, arirespectreeerves that respect
Lord Derby is content to profess for a
th sanguinary and unscrupulous despotism for come-
ing more expectable than absolute power and brute
force. We
men not interfere with the duties of states-
, our vocation is, in one respect, inferior to theirs,
tor we are unable to wield the power' or represent the
collective dignity of the country; but iu another point
of view it is superior, for, unlike them, we are able to
speak the whole truth without, fear or favour. Yet, in
discussing French politics, we have never assumed a
tone so offensive as that which the Earl of Derby has
introduced into his homily. We have never said that
for the last sixty years the Government of France has
been a succession of usurpations of one kind or another,
and then contradicted ourselves and libelled our neigh-
bours by stating that these usurpations were, one and
all, the deliberate choice of the nation, or, still worse,
that the extraordinary powers of the French President
have been conferred upon him by the almost unanimous
expression of the public opinion of France. Such
statements are indeed insulting to French honour and
nationality. Those who make them and believe them
treat the gallant French nation as a race
of slaves, barely competent for the choice
of the tyrant who is to trample on them.
In their respect for rank and power they transfer the
crimes of a guilty individual to an innocent people. We
would rather believe that Frenchmen have, like Eng-
lishmen, a love of liberty and hatred of tyranny; that
their rights have been surprised and wrenched from
them by fraud and violence; and that the vote which we
are called upon to respect was extorted by terror and
the misrepresentations of a press drilled in Lord
Derby's own school, to echo in parrot notes the tone of
the dominant class of French statesmen. Which of the
two is more just to our neighbours it is for the public
to judge, but we cannot take leave of Lord Derby with-
out expressing our apprehension that he would be a more
tolerant censor of the press bad its shafts been levelled
at the license of republics instead of the excesses of
despotism. It is strange that in the same speech in
which he so emphatically denies the right of one country
to canvass the institutions of another, Lord Derby
goes out of his way to insult the only sincere and trust-
worthy ally we have left, by telling the United States
that they enjoy far less liberty than ourselves, and that
the tyranny of a majority there is worse than the des-
potic rule of other countries. We hope that the next
time the Earl of Derby condescends to administer a lec-
ture to the press he will set us a better example of the
prudence and moderation which he preaches, and not,
as in this instance, first cruelly defame the nation which
he undertakes to defend, and then seek an opportunity
for ungracious and injurious comments on our most valu-
able ally. We trust also that he will not wholly forget,
while dealing out his censures one th press, that the
utmost flights and vagaries of a newspaper fall immea-
surably short of that intemperance in language in which
it has sometimes been his delight to indulge at the ex-
pense of his political opponents, and which has converted
Many a debate in the House of Commons into something
little more dignified than a prize-fight.
Of Lord Grey we have little to say; for, after adopt-
ing every word of Lord Derby's indiscretions and con-
tradictions with an unqualified concurrence, he expressed
his opinion that the duty of every individual in his pri-
vate capacity was to abstain from all interference in,
that is, from all discussion of, the internal politics of
France. Hie Lordship was, moreover, indignant, and
declared that, though the newspapers might express the
opinions of those who write in them, they do not express
the opinions of any largo party in this country. How
much of this has been retracted by his subsequent apo-
logy we do not know, nor is it very important to inquire,
for we really think we may fairly claim to be as
good judges of public opinion as a nobleman
who derives his knowledge of its existence by,
continually outraging it. If we do not repre-
sent the opinion of the country we are nothing.
No family influence, no aristocratic connexion,
no balance of parties, can preserve to us our influence
one moment after we have lest the esteem and approba-
tic;n of the public. We assert that the opinion of this
country, against which all else is powerless, claims and
demands to be freely exercised, not merely on the con-
duct of our own Governmen', but on that of every
Power on the face of the esrth, and that the conclu-
sions which the press has arrived at with regard to
Louis Napoleon are also the feelings of the sound Eng-
lish hear, nod the ideas of the vigorous English under-
standing. Let those who will preach silence on crimes
which they cannot deny and dare not even palliate; we
have been trained in :moth( r school, and will not shrink
from boldly decliring what we freely think, though it
should be our disagreeable duty to tell Lord Derby that
he condescends to be the tool of the party which he pre-
tends to lead, and Lord Grey that he is the scourge o!
the party which he is permitted to govern.

THE LON.DON GAZETTE, Feb. 6.
13 A NE RITP TS.
Alex tinder Booth, dealer in whisky, St. Maryluare,
Lambeth, to surrender Feb. 17, at half-past twelve, and
March 16, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Johnson, official assignee, Basingball-street ; Langton,
Staple Inn.
Ambrose Croshaw, brickinaker, Park-road, Holloway,
Feb. 20, at eleven, and March 16, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-
street; Taylor, Finsbury.
Lewis Davies, ship owner, Canton-street, East India-
road, Feb. 13 and March ls, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-
buildings ; Linklater,

Geoig e Edward Noone, ironmonger, Notting Hill, Feb.
12 and March 11, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Johnson, official assignee, Basingball-street; Gant, Ni-
cholas-lane.

Joshua Charles Foster, timber merchant Club-row,
Shoreditcb, Feb. 20, and March 25, at twelve .at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Ba-
sing hall-street ; Brown, Finsbury-place.
DAniel Pugsley, warehouseman, Bread-street, Cheap-
side, Feb. 19, at half past twelve, and March 25, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official
assignee, BasinghalL street; Reid, .Langford, and Mars-
den, Bread-street, Cheapside.
William Walker and Stephen Webb, India rubber
warehousemen, Oxford-street, Feb. 21, and March 27,
at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official
assignee; Davis, Son, Campbell, and Hand, Warwick-
street, Regent-street.
James Ferry Silby, timber merchant, Poole, Feb. 21,
at half-past one, and March 27, at twelve, at
atbonC Court
of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee,l3si ghan
street ; Skilbcck and Hall, Southampton-buildings.
Moses Leckwoort, grocer, Wandsworth, Feb.
Bank-
ruptcy. one, and March 19, at twelve, at the Court of
Stansfeld, official assignee; Wellborn°, Tooley..
street. _

William Gosling, ironmonger, Woolwich, Feb- 17,
and March 23, at half-past eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee •, Hughes,
Chapel-street, Bedford-row.
William Horton, grocer, High-street, Islinoton , and March 19, at eleven, at the "' --, Feb.e,-,
Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Aldermanbu
Berk '‘•
ranee, Plows, and Boyer, Old je,,vr,, rY; Law-
a coppersmith,
A i
a r
ch 16 , ,y amber;, Old
Jewry.
at eleven, at the Court
s,,tre,
of Bankruptcy. Groom, official
F Feb. James
a tMoivl•lealrvde,
lace, Lombard -street ; budiows ,r
assignee, Abeureh-
Bedford-row; Whatley and Dryl' "I.' and Janeway,
Edward Lowe, toy dealer, Br and, Reading.
16, at eleven, at the _Bristol Districttol, Pet. 17 and March
official assignee, Bristol; Crosby Court. Hutton,
court, Old Jewry, and Compton, Church-
John Ford and Joseph Alfred Hadfield
facturers, Glossop, Derbyshire,, paper manu-
eleven, at the manche Feb. 18 and March 11, at
Manchester District Court. Mackenzie,
official assignee, Manchester; Heath, Manchester.
Enoch Joshua Burford, salt merchant, Bermondsey-
square, Feb, 16, at one, and March 16, at twelve, at the
Court of BankruPteY.official
Edwards, assignee, Sam-
brook-court
Bucklersbur, asinghall-street; Thompson, Sise-lane,
John Y.
B
Hurley, linendraper, Birmingham, Feb. 24, at
two, and March 23, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
rl.ll:aey• Groom, official assignee, Abcburch-lane;
Depree, Larr 1 Knight and Emmet,
, eine- rine; Motteram,
Birrnin , ham,
Benjamin Holmes, jun., cattle salesman, Bradford,
Yorltsnire, Feb. 23 and March 16, at eleven, at the Leeds
District Court. Hope, official assigner, Leeds; Pickup,
Bradford; Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
William Witty, draper, „Loud?, Feb. 25 and March
17, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Carrck,
official assignee, Hull; Sale, Worthington, end Shipman,
Manchester; Richardson and Gaunt, Leeds.
William Worley, licensed victualler, Stnethvviek, Staf-
fordshire, Feb. IS and March 10, at half-past eleven, at
the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, of cial assignee;
Birmingham; Hodgson, Birmingham; Holland, West
Bromwich.

DIVIDENDS.
At tho Court, Basinghall-strect.
S. Isherwood and N T. Isherwood, Ludgate-bill,
house decorators, March 4, at eleven—T. S. Cartels,
York-street, Westminster,
cueesemonger, March 1, ac
twelve—J. Kaye, Pimlico, coal and slate merchant, Feb.
27, at balt-past one—
J. Williams, Frith-street, Soho,
goldsmith, Feb. 27, at one—S. Dixon, Leeds, draper,
Feb. 27, et halt-past one—lt. M. Forbes, Great Si.
Helen's, City, provision merchant, March 2, at one—F.
Cornell, Halstead, Essex, ironmonger, March 2, at
twelve—G. Whitehead, zeet_etreo, printer, Match 2,

at eleven—N. Gea:y, St. James's-street, Piccadilly and
Oxford-street, stay maker, March 2, at twelve.
In the Country.
J. Dickinson, Walsall, Staffordshire, merchant. Feb-
! 28, at half-pint ten, at the Court, Birmingham—T. Ed-
wards, Burslera, Ssaffordshire, manufacturer cf earthen-
ware, March 1, at half past ten, at the Court, Birming-
ham—E. Round and W. Round, Tipton, Warwickshire,
timber merchants, Feb. 28, at half-past ten, at the Court,
ge, Shropshire,
aStm
half-past
lf-pI idasrtoneblerven,
at the Court,
bßoiTsienlgtehra,23lt.—laGrcl M
18,.
Birmiegharn—N. Mence, Renwick, Worcestershire,
porter brewer, March 2, at half-past eleven, at the
Court, Birmingham—F. G. Monsarrat, Cheltenham,
wine and rpirir merchant, March 2, at eleven, at the
Court, Bristol—J. Courtney, Bristol, banker, March l,
at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—J. M'Burnie, Exeter,
draper, March 3, at eleven, at the Court, Exeter—R.
B. Wylde, Bradshaw, and Clayton Mills, Lancashire,
bleaeeer, March 2, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester
J. Slater, Bradshaw, and Clayton Mills, Lancashire,
bleacher, March 2, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester
—T. Athinsoe, L-eds, Yorkshire, grocer, March 2, at
eleven, at the emu,
PAYIIIE'N'r OF DIVIDENDS.
F. Syder, Felrenearn Nerlolk and Hitchin, Hertford-
shire. grocer. 103 , on 'Tuesday, Feb. 17, or any subse-
qucnt Tuesday, t?,,,,Recn ( levee and two, at the office of
Mr. Pennell, G tii/clha I - chambers, Basinghall- street.
Eastcher,p, Ci:y, corn factor, 45., un Tues-
day, Fab, 10, or any subsequent Tuesday, beta ecn eleven
and two, at the °nice cf Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-cham-
bers, Basinghall-street.
H. K. Aitchison, Greet Windmill street, Haymarket,
wine-merchant, Id., on Tuesday., let b. 10, or any subs:e-
gunt Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the cffice elr. Pennell, G uildhall. chambers, eLeinghall-street.
Toulson, of
VlTts tminster-hridee-roa.d, warehouseman.
a first end final dividend of los. efid. in the pound, in aid of
the first di%i lend cf 20s. in the puund, on naw proofs, on
Tuesday, FL b. 10, or any subsequent Tuesday, between
clever. end two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-
chambers Basirghall-stree t.
W. Seddon, Eccleston, Lancashire, flour dealer, 10s.,
on Wednesday, Feb. 11, or any subsequent Wednesday,
between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Morgan,
Liverpool.
J. Stockdale, Liverpool, soap manufacturer, id., on
Wednesday, Feb. 11, or any subsequent Wednesday, be-
tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Morgan, Li-
verpool.
M. Johnson, Leeds, spindle maker, 11-12ths of a
penny, on Tuesday, Feb. 10, or any subsequent Monday
or Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
Hope, Leeds.
J. Murray, Gresham-street, City, woollen warehouse-
man, Is. 9d., on Thursday, the 12th inst., and three fol-
lowing Thursdays, between eleven and three, at the
office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghall-street.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
J. T. Coulthred, jun., and W. Dyer, Lombard-street
Southwark, white lead makers, March 1, at twelve—D.
Macleod, Ealing, Feb. 27, at lf-past eleven.
In the Country.
J. Foster, Liverpool, filter merchant, March 1, at
eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—R. Maven, Liverpool
and Birkenhead, contracting engineer and iron house
manufacturer, March 1, at the Court, Liverpool—J.
Sherwin, Liverpool, baker and flour dealer, March 2, at
at eleven, the Court, Liverpool—T. Atkinson, Leeds,
grocer, March 2, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds.
CERTIFICATES GRANTED.
W. Davies, Walbrook, coal merchant, certificate of the
first class—E. Evans, Paddington-green, nurseryman
and florist, certificate of the first class—A. Sands, Coal
Exchange and Chatham, coal factor and coal merchant,
certificate of the first class—E. Kitson, Fenchurch-
street, saddler and harness maker, certificate of the first
class—G. Walker, Philpot-lane, merchant, certificate of
the second class—E. Churton, Holles-street, Cavendish-
square, bookseller and publisher, certificate of the first
class—A. Moore, South Wharf-road, Paddington, stone
and marble merchant, and mason and pavior, certificate
of the second class—T. Avant, Bridport, Dorsetshire,
music seller, certificate of the first class.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
W. Blake and W. Jackson, Upper Norton-street,
Portland-road, painters—R. Shaw, E. Halliwell, and R.
Leigh, Oldham, cotton spinners (so far as regards R.
Leigh)—J. Jones and J. Bryan, Birmingham, tailors—
N. Challacombe and J. Mayuu, Lowndes-terrace and
Charles-street,Knightsbridge, silk mercers—J. Abraham
and J. M'Kay Bean, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchants—
H. A. Wildes, H. D.Wildes, and T. P. Fleetwood, Maid-
stone, attorneys (so far as regards T. P. Fleetwood)
Maria Thompson and J. Robinson, Carlisle, slate mer-
chants—J. Fryer and M. A. Gibbs, Warwick, grocers—
J. Watson, G. T. Dunn, R. White, J. Joices, and G
Southern, owners of Kibbleseorth Colliery, Durham—
J. Dixon and H. Hill, Wolverhampton, coal and iron
masters—Ann Turley and W. Turley, Worcester, fly
proprietors—T. Pearson and 11. Pearson, Birmingham,
nail manufacturers—J. Thornley and R. W. Maraland,
Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, drysalters—J. Mathews
and G. T. Doolittle, Manchester, small ware and trim-
ming dealers—V. Luard, W. Berdham, G. Gates, and H.
George, Rotherhithe, stone merchants (so far as regards
V Luard and W. Becdliam)—J. Holdsworth and N.
Holdsworth, Huddersfield, cloth dressers—R. Reeve
and J. Reeve, Goswell street, Clerkenwell, and
Eccleston, Lancashire, gold refiners—E. Smith
and S. Smith, Nottingham, boot anti shoe makers—
J. Powers and J. Powers, Nuneaton, Warwickshire,
grocers—T. J. S. Bissell, J. Taylor, and T. Bissell,
Greceff 11, and Halt,sowen, Worcestershire, nail iron-
monuers (so tar as regars; J. Taylor)-117.
E. Onions, and W. IVLeelhouse, Bradford, Yorkshire.,
mackiee makers (,:o jar ai regards W. Babbisba,w)—
Garforth, W. Pearson, W. Spurr, and J. Thornier,
Bristol, Yorkshire', coal miliers—E. Haley and J. Ed
wards, Bradford, Yerktl.iro, painter?—N. Hill, N. Hill,
Inc., . 11. Hill, G. a Hill. and C. Hill, Rigs, merchant
(so far as regards G. G. Hill and E.
hill, J. Norton, end J. Reid, Friday-street, Cheapside,
tnontracturcrs.

INSOLVENT PE TI TIONERS.
'ferry Raphael, Bristol, cigar dealer,
William Clarke, Bristol, baker.
Thomas Brown, Bristol, rissistant to a licensed vie-
tualFr.
Alfred Derharo,l3ristol, assistant draper.
Stephen Lewry, Stspletield, Sussex, huckster.
David Clark, Woodham Ferris, Essex, builder.
William Bridgcr, Chichester. brewer's clerk.
William Greenwood, Colne, Lancashire, tin plate worker
Charles Jason, Halifax, Yorkshire, butcher.
John Knowles, Arundel, Sussex, wheelwright.
Elizabeth Medcalf, Braintree, Essex, butcher.
John Cottingbam, Harwich, Essex, plumber.
Thomas Robert Morris, Bwlcbgwyn, Carnarvonshire.
Ecan Reeves, Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, gentleman.
William
Rousham,yrjorek,:iinreg:osnldPdrieioarns,d
slicaolifia•xda sEQULSTRATIONS.
John William IV
Abrahamr Wright, t Mepal,urray CRaarsgriadtge! eh
mariner.ire,
writing clerk.
Robert Moores, St. Lawrcnce, Isle of Thanet, Rent.
maker.
E. Baines,
W. Walker, Glasgow, brass-founder, to meet within
the Star Hotel, Glasgow, Feb. 11, and March 3, at
C. F. Parsons, Glasgow, tavern keeper,one.
C. to meet within
the Pickwick Tavern, Glasgow,
March 9, at twelve. Feb.• 12, at two, and
David Miller, Glasgow, manufacture
the Star Hotel, Glasgow, Feb.t to meet within
u
twelve. 12, and March 11, at
Whaernrwesisek‘hire'

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar. com-
puted from returns made in the week ending Feb. 3,
1852, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon
on the importation thereof into Great Britain :
From the British possessions in America )9s. i ad. per cwt
From the Mauritius • No return. ~
From the East Indies ... •• ••. ... 21s. ~
abAver9ge price of the two foregoing
de-
scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as
above, and exclusive of duty • 20s
By authority of Parliament,
HENRY BICKN ELL, Clerk of the Grocers' Comp any
Grocers'-hall, Feb. 6.

We regret to hear that Mr. H. Forth in returning
from, Ashford, Middlesex, on Wednesday night, met with an
accident which resulted fatally. It appears that he left a
friend's house, when it was very dark, in his dog cart, but
without lamps, and that after two or three times expressing
a doubt to his groom that he should not be able to find his
way, determined to return for the purpose of procuring
lights; the horse in turning unfortunately backed the
vehicle into a ditch, and falling backward on Mr. Forth,
crushed him to death—life was quite extinct before assist-
ance could be obtained.

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—There
was a meeting of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
dime ors on Wednesday, when it was determined to make a
dividend this half-year of 3 per cent. per annum. It was
said this would leave a good surplus. The last dividend was
2 percent. per annum.
DUNDALK AND ENNISKILLEN RAILwAr.--Tbe
standing orders were complied with for the construction of
a line from pallibay to Enniskillen, with power to levy a
rate in aid on certain baronies, at an estimated cost of
227,2491.

SUICIDE OF A SOLICITOR'S CLEBK.—Yesterday
morning Mr. Joseph Homer, about 35 years of age,
hat-
peg clerk to Mr. Smith, a solicitor, was found hanging
how%peg in the skittle-ground of the Prince of Wales p
appearedu to have
opposite the Thames Police-court. He on
night, about ten o'clock, and
been dead several hours. He was last seen alivedto have Thurs-
dayis suppose, gone
The de-
into the skittle-ground immediately afterwards.
of the law, and af-
ceased was brought up to the professionterwards entered the royal navyße for some time acted
he sailors who sued for
as the agent of Mr. Smith with the
t Some time ago a disa-
*wages at the Thames police-ccemr.
Smith and the deceased,
and took place between
dismiss him f his ' to froth em-
and the former was compelledhas been in a very desponding
Ploy. Since then deceased
cause assigned for the act is ' -'
a quarrel
state. The immediate
0,0
it in lie was attached, and
with a young leoluan.T
earnest conversation with
onThursday
whom he was seen 11
morning.
" eV.' ALLERS' PECTECTION SOCIETY.--
At
Lac:Tr:sr D 1 t
wry._
cethig of then committee of the above society,
At a special in eb Farrin' don-street
the office, . Thomas . . , yesterday evening,
held at
Mr. Winterbott ) in the
the 6th instant,( in
for the election of
ballot took Place vacancies three gentlemen for the
c. to fill up occasioned o iittce, by retirement, &c.,
when the following gentlemen were declared to be duly
elected members of the board, viz.: Mr. Robert Bamford
W' mII of the Bull's Head, Bioad- street, Lambeth; Mr.
la 'e
George Adams, of the Civet Cat, nigh- street, Kensington;
and Mr. George Clarke, of the Blue Last, Great Distaff-lane,
City.
The court-martial sitting at Clamecy tried on
Monday another of the insurgents, named Protet. It was
proved that he had taken part in throwing up barricades,
and in the attack of the mairie; also that he had stabbed,
with a carpenter's chisel, a gendarme who had seized him,
and was about to repeat the blow when he was secured. The
court declared him gailty of insurrection and attempt at
assassination, and condemned him to death.
LOWESTOFT, FEB. 6.—The Swift, Hartlepool to Jar-.
say, sank near the Dudgeon, 4th iglltyi crew pried.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT-

ROUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 6.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool-
sack at Five o'clock.

THE CAPE.
The Earl of SIALMESBURY inquired of the Noble
Lord at the head of the Coknial Department whether
he could take any means in this country to prevent gun-
powder being exported to the Cape for the purpose of
being sold to our enemies in that colony.
Earl GREY said he was aware that before the war
broke out very great quantities of gunpowder had been
exported to that colony, but he also knew that there
was no law existing here to prevent it being so ex-
ported. Hearing in September last that the exportation
continued, he sent a dispatch to the Governor, re-
questing him to take meaeures to prevent the powder
being so used, as it woull fall into the hands of the
enemy. Steps bad been taken to effect that purpose,
which would to a great extent stop the supply of
gunpowder to the enemy, but he regretted to
say that these precautions were adopted too late, as
many tons of gunpowder
had got to the enemy some
months previously. It wai. impossible altogether to pre-
vent powder being imported into the colony, as it was
very much c?tiantned by farmers and others who required
it to shoot wild beasts with. The K,lfirs frequently ob-
tained it from them by means of coercion and otherwise.

The Earl of MALMESBURY said it appeared to him
that if the sale of gunpowder at the Cape was placed
unda this restriction, that licenses wouli have t be
procured from the Government by persons to whom it
was necessary for self-defmce, either against the Kafirs
er wild beasts, we should have some guarantee against
the enemy obtaining it. The Noble Earl had forgot-
ten that his question applied to arms as well as to gun-
powder.
Earl GREY said there was no fault to find with the
ordinance cf the Legislative Council, except that it
ought to have been passed in the month of February in-
stead of November. The instructions he had given ex-
tended to the prevention of the trade in arms well as
gunpowder int.nded for the enemy. He had seen in the
newspapers a report of certain shipments of arms from
this country; but he had no reason to believe that they
were intended for the Cape.
The Earl of H -kRD WICKE was understood to make
an inquiry about the use of arms by the population at
the Cape; to which
Earl GEY replied that he thought in that country it
was the fashion for almost everybody to carry arms.
RECALL OF SIR HARRY SMITH.

The Marquis of IeiNDONDERaY referred to the
statement made by the Duke of Wellington in regard
to Sir Harry Smith, and said he entirely concurred in
the high eulogium which the Noble Duke had made
upon him; he had obeyed his instructions to the very
letter, and had evinced those distinguished military quali-
ties which bad made his name renowned. He, therefore,
doubted the policy end justice of his dismissal from the
Governor-Geieralship at the Cape. He would ask the
Noble Earl (Earl Grey) whether the appointment of
General Cathcart was that of the Horse Guards or of
the Colonial Office?
Earl GREY deprecated any irree.,ular discussion on so
painful a subject. If the Noble Marquis questioned the
course adopted by the Government, he should bring for-
ward a motion. and teke the sense of their Lordships
upon it; and, it he did so, he (Earl Grey) would be pre-
pared to defend his conduct. It appeared to him that
on the face of the dispatches now before the House,
Sir Harry smith oug'et to be relieved from his office, and
his colleagues in the Government entertained the
same opinion. He therefore thought it his necessary
but painful duty to advise her Majesty to recall him.
As regarded his successor he could assure their Lord-
ships that he did not advise the appointment of a succes-
sor without consulting the highest military authority in
the country. He coesulted the Noble Duke (the Duke
of Wellington), who said that if Sir H. Smith we re
recalled he did not think any officer could be selected
who was more fit for such a high military employment
than Major-General Cathcart. That, he hoped, was a
satisfactory answer. He had the highest respect
and admiration for the character of Sir H.
Smith, and never, in the conduct of
public affairs, had he so painful a duty
cast upon him as that of advising her Majesty to recall
him, but he believed in his conscience that the step was
necessary to be taken, and he did not shrink from re-
eommending it.—(Hear.)
SCOTCH APPEALS.

Lord BROUGHAM, in moving for returns of the
number of Scotch appeals heard in that House, wished
to correct a inisappr,hension that had got abroad with
regard to what he had said when the subject was under
discussion in that house in Juno last. It was said that
he had suggested the appointment of one or more Scotch
judges or an assessor to assist their Lordships in cases of
Scotch appellate jurisdiction. What he had said was
directly the reverse—that there were great difficulties in
the wq of such an arrangement, and all who were ac-
quainted with the subject must know that the difficulties
were insuprable. Without entering further into the
question he (Lord Brougham) had then a suggestion to
make to their Lordships, which, if adopted, would effect
a very important improvement in the mode of conducting
the appellate businuss of the Scottish courts. The sug-
gettion was this—that they should take the Scotch ap-
peals together and continuously at that period of the
session which moat suited the convenience of the faculty
of advocates, whose presence in the two months' recess
of March and M.y would materially facilitce the pro-
ceedings hsfor, or&rerl,
COMNION LAN P.I()GEEDINCiS AME