The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-31 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1852.

The Earl of DER3I has decidedly a bad memory,
5..-a circumstance rather unfortunate for a Prime Mi-
nister, and calculated to involve the affairs of the
country in no little confusion. Had it been any
other man who was speaking as he spoke yesterday
In the House of Lords, we should have been disposed
to charge him with: a_barefaced attempt at prevari-
cation. We are prepared, however, as readily as the
Duke of NEWCASTLE to express an implicit reliance
upon the truthfulness of his intentions. All that we
aro compelled to believe in derogation of bis
character is that his memory is somewhat
treaeheroui, and that this mental frailty
in the lint Minister of the Crown is
liable to prove for the nation fraught with
:lamentable inconvenience. After having recently
manned the Legislature that he contemplated its
PpeedY dissolution (at the same time avowing, it is
true, that hO could not pledge himself to mention any
specific period for the general election), after having,
5, a manner, promised the country the advantages
certain
to accrue from an autumnal session of the new
parliament, the Noble Earl now asserts that be can
Form no opinion whatever on the probable duration
of the presentof house COIII Inons,
reprobating the idea
that its further existence will be of unusually
brief duration, and declares, moreover, that he
=ever even dreamt of an autimmal session followed
by a prorogation. Yet tins 15 the statesman—with
'faculties of recolleciion no: much better than those of
TOM NODDY—whose piinegrlo in Blackwood (for
April) rises to the hyperbolical extravagance of an
rspotheosis. This is the adLe iinstrator whose powers
Are pnegltifA in the nienti4 organ of Protection
pith the most sickening flettery and the most ful-

some adulation. After reading that first article
in the chief of the magazines, in reference
to the Earl of DERBY, we are rendered
more sensible, we must at once admit, of the human
fallibility of the PRIME MINISTER—so egregiously
have the limits of reasonable praise and of dignified
encomium been overleaped, so painfully has approval
given place to a passion of applause that might have
been deemed exaggerated in Bceotia, if addressed to
the shade of a demi-god. Nay—had one of the sub-
limest of the archangels proceeded in celestial pomp
to issue the fiats of the Divinity in some stupendous
region of the universe, more awful solemnity of man-
ner could scarcely by any chance have been assumed
in the record of his movements than that with
which this idolator of the Earl of DERBY has re-
counted the incidents connected with his appearance
in the House of Lords on the 27th of February. As
if the public cared the value of two straws whether
the Earl of DEBBY upon that momentous occasion
was dressed in " a black surtout" (p. 393), or in a
blouse made of bombazeen! As if it mattered one
jot that " before him stood a decanter of water
and a glass" (o. 394), an astounding circum-
stance, particularised we presume for the be-
nefit of some future MACAULAY ! Pshaw
—such stuff as this in the way of panegyric
must not only be distressing to the feelings of the
Noble Lord himself, but derogatory to the reputation
of a very popular and distinguished periodical.
Turning from the pages of Blackwood to the pro-
ceedings of last evening in the House of Lords, we
become more than ever sensible that the PRIME
MINISTER of England, instead of being gifted with
a wholly preternatural capacity," is so far intellec-
tually fallible that his memory is anything but reten-
tive—insomuch that we are disposed to recommend
for his assistance, during the period of his continu-
ance in office, the appointment of a functionary re-
sembling that municipal adviser of the Lord Mayor—
the City Remembrancer.

Our national security we have all along declared
to repose mainly, if not exclusively, in our maritime
service, aided by our marine artillery. It was con-
sequently with pleasure that we observed the motion
submitted last evening to the House of Commons by
Mr. ANDERSON, suggestive of the organization of a
defensive force, whenever it might be deemed ad-
visable, by recdering 100 or 200 of the largest
class of the coast steamers belonging to our
commercial navy available—instead of wasting
a vast deal of unnecessary expense, superfluous
time, and ridiculously ill-placed enthusiasm upon
the calling out of the militia, upon the increase of the
standing army, upon the construction of martello
towers, or upon the use of such weapons and
missiles as COLT'S revolver, the minie bullet, the
sword-bayonet, the improved rifle, and the needle-
gun, or zundnadelgewehr ! Supposing there were
a likelihood of a sudden outbreak 'of war, we are
satisfied that the most rational course to be pursued
under the emergency would be such an one
as that suggested last night by the Honourable
Gentleman the Member for Orkney and Shetland.
Yet even that method of repelling an invader we
should regard as only justified by the abruptness of
the aggression—relying, as we would have the country
do for its security, not upon any • violent mode of
calling its commercial navy to the general assistance,
but rather upon a sufficiently commanding and pro-
perly organized standing navy, seconded by an effi •
cient and well-disciplined marine artillery. The as-
piration uttered yesterday in the House of Commons by
the Gallant Admiral the representative of Greenwich
to the effect that " he trusted the day was not far dis-
tant when no line-of-battle ship would be sent to sea
without an auxiliary screw," is precisely in accordance
with the hope again and again expressed already by
ourselves. With the screw propeller adopted gene-
rally throughout the men-of-war of the Royal Navy
of England, with our dockyards better arranged in
all their various departments, with the manning of
those vessels upon a better system than any hitherto
in vogue, with a more judicious application of our
energies to the development of naval architecture,
with a wiser employment of the funds
already placed at the disposal of the autho-
rities at the Admiralty, and with, maybe, even an
increase (supposing such increase to be found ad-
visable) in the annual amount of the naval estimates
—these islands might, we feel assured, laugh to scorn
all idea of invasion, and transform the arguments of
the alarmists into subjects of ridicule, instead of being
sources of embarrassment. Nevertheless, the motion
before the House of Commons yesterday was so far
good that it pointed attention in the only reasonable
direction, reminding the country that its safety was
dependent not so much upon the new-fangled
chemes of the rifle corps or the re-organized militia,
as upon our general efficiency at sea, both in regard
to able seamen and steam war-vessels. Almost
everyone who spoke last evening upon the motion
of Mr. ANDERSON acknowledged the justice of the
reasoning upon which he proposed to have the com-
mercial steam navy employed by the Government in
cases of emergency for the purpose of repelling any
sudden attempt at invasion. Not only Mr.
MACKINNON, who seconded the motion, but
the Secretary of the Board of Admiralty,
followed by others scarcely less energetic in their
observations, insisted upon the advisability of looking
to the discomfiture of a foreign assailant before rather
than after he had planted his foot upon our shores.
The responsibility will rest with the new Parliament
of so re-organizing, extending, and improving the
maritime power of England as to render her hence-
forth independent of all extraneous assistance a
course at all times judicious in regard to an insular
power, but more particularly in reference to a power
like that of Great Britain, abounding in so many re-
sources of wealth, of energy, and of patriotism.

The great, the all-important question of the Ballot
wes last night brought forward in the House of
Commons by its strenuous, consistent, and indefati-
gable advocate, the Honourable Gentleman the
Member for Bristol. Although Mr, BERKELEY was
left in a minority on the occasion—although that
which has become, and we hope, will continue to be
his annual motion, until his energetic exertions are
crowned with well-merited success, was defeated
by a majority of 102, we sincerely congra-
tulate the Honourable Gentleman on the progress
ho has made, and is rapidly making. Every
discussion is productive of the most beneficial results,
each division shows increasing power on the part of
the advocates for protection to the voter in the exer-
cise of his suffrage. It is true that the Hon. Gentle-
man had formerly succeeded, and that on the present
occasion he was vanquished ; but such a defeat is more
glorious, aye, and more serviceable to the good cause
e.
than a trifling victory. It is found that the topic is
naw invested with a much deeper interest than it for-
merly possessed, that there is no chance of the motion
being disposed of by " count out," or any other
side wind.
It has
w assumedhowoualdmoornalawterigilliaitngthamt
matter
together hundreds
gladly accept the opportunity of rest from their im-
portant and arduous labours. Any subject that can
call and keep together more than 350 Members until
midnight has
achieved a position
h
highly flattering to those by whom it
w
tat considerably
must
ust be after
auspicious auguries to the future results of the agita-
as introduced, and that is fraught with the most
agita-
tion.
It was many years before Mr. VILLIERS
could obtain so favourable a Symptom of the
against the
progress be had achieved inhis crusade
iniquitous bread-tax, and when it was found that the
matter was no longer left in the hands of prosy and
common-place underlings, but that it was taken up
by a Cabinet Minister, there was a universal feeling
among Free-traders that the anticipated triumph had
been more than half achieved ; and the result proved
the accuracy of the impression. We way, in like
manner, congratulate the friends of the Ballot
on the numbers appearing on the division-11st, and
on the elaborate speech of the HOME SECRETARY in
opposition to the motion, as proving the high
which the subject-matter under discussion has already
attained in public estimation. point

It was peculiarly desirable that the question
should be brought under consideration at the present
moment, when we are on the eve of a general elec-
tion, and the country is required to return a prudent
answer to the deeply interesting appeal about to be
made. A large and comprehensive measure of Par-
liamentary Reform will be one of the principal points
on which an unequivocal answer must be
given by the various constituencies. It is a subject
on which a definito cpinion must ba formed, which

no candidate can hope to evade, or to escape from
rendering an unequivocal response. Reformers will
clearly understand that the man " who is not with
them is against them," that any attempt to escape by
an unworthy subterfuge, or a tide-wind, may be
looked upon as indicating a confirmed opinion on the
other side. Indeed, we should far rather
support an open and undisguised opponent
than one of those vacillating timeservers, who
pretends that he cannot make up his mind, while he
is really waiting to sell himself to the highest bidder,
and to vote, not for the benefit of the commonweal,
but in accordance with his own private interests.
There can be no neutrality on the point, and every
candidate must clearly and unequivocally express his
sentiments, if he desires to obtain the most sweet
voices of the electors.

Now, every sincere Parliamentary Reformer
will say, that without " the Ballot" any
measure that could be framed would be little
better than " a mockery, a delusion, and
a snare." What would avail an extension
of the suffrage, if the electors were not protected
in the exercise of their high privilege ? The evils
already sufficiently prominent—the bribery, corrup-
tion, intimidation, and all the other undue influences
now so justly complained of, would only become
more glaring with the increase of the numbers to be
operated on. The franchise would without the right of
"secret voting" become rather a curse than a blessing
to the less wealthy recipients, to the shopkeepers,
tradesmen, farmers, labourer?, and others, who would
find that a very unpleasant interference with their
principles might be carried on by their customers,
landlords, or employers ; to say nothing of the
" pressure from without," which some of our Legis-
lators seem to regard as a portion of the Con•
stitution, as if " Lynch-law" should be imported
into Great Britain to inflict exemplary punishment
on all who venture to disregard the high behests,
we will not say, of the tyrant majority, but of the best
paid mob. Let all Reformers, then, determine that this
question must be speedily settled ; and it will be so,
if they refuse their votes to every person who will not
make an explicit declaration of his opinions on the
subject at the hustings.

We have repeatedly directed the public attention
to the enormous hardships inflicted under the present
system of dealing with cases de lunatico inquirendo.
We have alike insisted on full protection being
afforded to persons about whose sanity considerable
doubts are entertained, and also to others, whose
aberrations of mind are manifest to the most super-
ficial observer. We have endeavoured to show that
the former should not be subjected to incarcera-
tion at the mere will and pleasure of two
" skilful persons," who could easily be procured
to sign any certificate for which a proper
con si-de-ration would be paid, and that the sub-
stance of those, of whose mental incompetence no
doubt could be entertained, should not be wasted to
gratify the cupidity of•interested re latives, or of their
professional advisers, who institute proceedings, not
for the benefit of the lunatics, but to suit their own
private purposes.

We now rejoice to find that the matter bas been
taken up in a quarter that will ensure a calm and at-
tentive consideration of all its varied details, with the
early prospect of a comprehensive measure of reform
being enacted suited to the exigencies of the case.
The LORD CHANCELLOR bas long exhibited an anxious
desire to guard vigilantly the interests of those pecu-
liarly unfortunate wards who could never hope to be
emancipated from the control of the Court. When in
Ireland he laid down the principle, aye, and carried it
into practical execution, that the comforts and enjoy-
ments of the lunatic were the matters chiefly to be con-
sidered, that the property was not to be
wasted in costs, or disposed of by the next
of kin for their own private purposes, but so
applied as a prudent man would deal with his
own income, if in his undisputed possession. In the
different matters brought before him since the Great
Seal of England was confided to his charge he has
exhibited a similar spirit. The wanton and extra-
vagant expenditure, where inquiries are conducted
with the most reckless indifference, because it is sup-
posed that the estate of the alleged lunatic must be re-
sponsible for all costs, have received many heavy blows
from Lord ST. LEONARD& We now find the veteran
Lord LYNDHURST coming forward on the same side,
supported, too, by Lord Tana°, so that there can
be little doubt that the matter is now in a train for
final and satisfactory arrangement. It may not be
carried during the present session, but we have little
doubt that a vast improvement in the law of lunacy
will be among the measures of legal reform by which
the year of 1853 will be distinguished.

THE LATE JOHN CLARKE SEARLE, ESQ.

With profound regret we announce the death
of John Clarke Searle, Esq., barrister-at-law, on
the 15th instant, in the 46th year of his age, for
several years connected with this Journal. The
deceased gentleman had during the last thirteen ses-
sions reported in the galleries of the Houses of Par-
liament. His literary attainments were not only very
considerable in extent, but distinguished by uncommon
versatility. A nervous and fluent writer, he was also a
generous though discriminating critic: while for musical
taste, for appreciation in art, and for knowledge of dra-
matic history, he was scarcely equalled by any other
man in the range of our acquaintance. As it would be
impracticable to define the various phases of his intel.
lectual capacity within the limits of a brief obituary
notice, it would be altogether impossible to accord in
the same restricted space any adequate tribute to his
memory in the name of friendship. Commemorative
words like these are always painful to utter for the last
time over one with whom we have been long personally
associated. Yet in some sense their utterance is grateful,
nevertheless, as affording evidence of the worth of the
one who is gone, and of our sympathy for those who are
left to regret his departure. It is with sorrow, there-
fore, mingled with these feelings of melancholy satisfac-
tion, that we bid adieu to the friend and to the journalist
to one whose various abilities and amiable character had
long caused him to be regarded with interest by very
many of those engaged in the labours of periodical
literature.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, Dimwit 31. —Wind this day at noon N., light
breeze, and dull hazy weather.
LONDONDERRY.—Sid. Superior, Philadelphia.
SCILLY, MARca 29.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. 26th, Yeoman,
Liverpool, to stop a leak, and sld. 28th for California. Off
port, Prins Hendrik, Batavia ; Marcees, Bangolivangee,
both for Amsterdam; Juliet, China; Mary, Calcutta; Liri,
Rio Janeiro, for Stockholm ; Gulf, Batavia.
QUEENSTOWN, Mtncu 29.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Tangier,
Mauritius ; Johanna, Saldanha Bay ; Blake, Callao ; Caro-
line Maria, Monte Video ; Dorcas, Mauritius ; Arundel,
Callao; Inca, Paquique ; ,Pitton, Rio Janeiro; Huntress,
New Orleans, for Havre. Off port, Alderman Pixie, St.
Jago de Cuba, for Swansea.
CROOKHAVEN.—Arrd.--Emannel, Lima.
YARMOUTH, MAncx 30.—The Jons Ruffer, of and from
Christiansand, for Fecamp, got on the South Scroby Sand
last night, beat over with damage, and full of water; as-
sistance has been sent to bring her in. The Lydia schooner,
of Dundee, for London, is on shore on the north beach ;
cargo being landed.
PLYMOUTH, DlRacit 30.—Wind S.W. Arrd. Niagara,
Callao ; Daring, St. Domingo, for Antwerp.
FALMOUTH, MARcst 30.—Wind W. S.W., fresh breezes.—
Arrd. Arbace, Porto Plata; Nautilus, Porto Cabello, for
Hamburgh ; Albion, Sunderland, for Aden, with damage
from contact with the Vivid in the Downs.

PILL, MARCH 30.—Wind W. N.W.—Arrd. Araby Maid,
➢lauritius.

OFF DOVER, MARCH 29.—Reindeer, Mauritius.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 30.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Carib, Islay;
Juverna, Paquique ; Susan, G. Owens, Charleston. Sld.
Nathaniel Thompson, New Orleans; Belle Pauline, Mata-
gong ; William Rennee, San Francisco; 'Las, Yanama ;
Ann Falcon, Lima ; Sobraon, Lima ; Ann Key, Maracaibo ;
Olivia, New York ; Argentinus, Halifax • Recovery, Cowes.
QUEENSTOWN, MARCH 29.—The Amphitrite, for Ibraila,
sunk on the 14th inst. after being in contact with a ship or
barque in let. 49 N., long. 14 NV. ; crew saved.
NEw YORE, MARCH 16.—The Glonlyon (British) was in
collision 6th inst. in the Savannah River with the United
Kingdom ship, and both received some damage. The wreck
of the barque Hopewell, of Liverpool, reported to have
foundered lit February, lat. 22 S., long. 24 W., was seen on
the following day abandoned.
DEAL.—Arrd. from the River,' Magellan, Hong-Kong;
Tartar, Cape and Mauritius; Queen of the Isles, Rio Janeiro.
PORTSMOUTH, MAacit S.S.W. to W.S.W.—
Arrd. Antoine, Sydney, New South Wales.
COWER MARCH 30.—Wind S.W.— Arrd. Aberamon,
Shanghai, and sailed for London ; Hamburgh, Jamaica.
LiQURENRTOWN, MARCH 29.—The Vibilia, Rio Grande to
21 v‘e.r,P(Tl, was spoken on the 15th March, lat. 50 N., long.
theeverY
short in distress, with part of cargo thrown overboard, and
of
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both of
thisand port.
supplied by the Inca,
arr
re. Vibilia had on board parts of the crews

Ma.
of BUNN'S BENEFIT.--It is expected that the
interior Old Drury will present to•night an almost un-
precedented array of numbers and fashion, in honour of the
indefatigable manager, who has spared neither trouble nor
expense this season to gratify the public taste. The task
of a manager of Drury-lane is a truly arduous one, but in
the present instance it has been undertaken by the most
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THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

OPENING OF THE CHAMBERS.
We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
Marshal JEROME BONAPARTE opened the sitting of
the Senate with an address, of which the following are
the principal passages:—
"Asserting his high respect for universal suffrage, he de-
clared that it had inaugurated a new and fruitful (fe-
conde) era.

" He took a retrospective view of the past, and stated that
the regime of the Empire was so powerfully constituted that
its overthrow could only be brought about by a general coali-
tion of the European Powers, which in their turn were aided
by treachery.
" He spoke next of the coup d'etat of 1851, and explained
it by the prestige of the name of Napoleon, which name,
according to his ideas, is the personification of order and of
liberty at home, of independence, of national dignity, and of
greatness abroad. The act of the 20th December sprung
from respect for the only sovereign—the people—and for the
advantage of the people alone was it consummated.
" M. Jerome Bonaparte declared further that the period
of the dictatorship had now reached its termination,
and he pointed out that the Constitution was open to im-
provements. It contained but a limited number of
principles which sprung from the various institutions of
France.

"He next pointed out the duties of the Senate. That
Assembly was not called upon to make the laws; its cha-
racter, influence, and functions were essentially conservative
and moderating. Nevertheless, that Assembly possessed
a right of proposing draughts of laws of great national
interest. lie entreated the Members of the Senate to
show energy, and he laid great stress upon that word,
but he exhorted them also to moderation and cle-
mency. (It is presumed that these words refer to a
demand for an amnesty, of which it is supposed that
it is to be preferred by the Senate.) The Marshal Ji-
rome concluded his speech by stating that he believed his
political career was terminated, but when the President ap-
pealed to his patriotism and his devotion, and that, too,
after so many years of exile and of vicissitudes, and when
Providence seamed to decree that he, the last of the Senators
of the Empire, should be the first among the Senators of the
new reign (regime), he had felt happy to accept the place,
and to be, as it were, the connecting link which chains the
past to the present."
The Legislative body met yesterday at two' o'clock,
under the Presidency of M. BILLA.IILT. The four
youngest Members, Messrs. DALLOS, MACDONALD,
ESCRASSERIAUX, and DIMAY, having taken their
seats as secretaries, the President opened the sit-
ting by a short address, after which he read a
collective letter signed by General CAVA D -
NAC, MM. CARNOT and IlExoN, who declared
that they could not take the oath required
from the Deputies. The President added, that the
signers of the letter must be considered as having ten-
dered their resignation. Another member, M. RE-
NOCARD, having accepted a public office, also resigned
his seat in the Legislative body. M. BILLAULT next
drew, by lot, the names of the members of the seven
Standing Committees into which the Chamber is di-
vided; and the House adjourned at half-past two.
With the exception of the Ministerial Constitutionnel
and the Pays, which have articles laudatory of the
speech of the PRINCE PRESIDENT of the Republic, there
is nothing in the way of comment thereon in their
columns. As regards some portions of the speech this
silence is not surprising, for among the journals are
some which, from their being organs of the Legitimist
and Orleanists parties, cannot discuss with freedom the
allusions relative to the question of the Empire, or are
unwilling to admit that the language of the 'RINCE
PRESIDENT CR this subject is satisfactory. As regards
other journals which represent exclusively the Repub-
lican party, more or less inclining to Socialism, we can
easily understand their reserve respecting those parts of
the speech of Louis NAPOLEON which refer to the oppo-
sition of the party in question; but there are passages
in the speech on which all the journals might have com-
mented without compromising their principles, and at the
same time without saying anything that could have
been considered offensive to Louis NAPOLEON. Such
might have been especially the case with respect to the
declarations made by the PRINCE PRESIDENT
in favour of the maintenance of peace. After
so much wild speculation and so many calum-
nies in some of the foreign journals on this sub-
ject, every Paris journal might have rendered homage
to truth, and contributed to the revival of confidence,
which is so essential to the interests of commerce, by
contrasting the language of the PRESIDENT with the de-
signs which have been imputed to him, and which had
no other existence than in the imagination of those who
have taken so much pains to make the world believe,
that the nephew of the EMPEROR had resolved to follow
only the traditions of the Empire, which were of a nature
to create alarm and distrust.

The Moniteur contains a decree of the PRESIDENT of
the Republic, dated the 27th instant, consisting of the
following articles :

" Art. 1. An edifice destined to receive the national exhi-
bitions, and which may serve for public ceremonies and for
civil and military fates shall be constructed on the system of
the Crystal Palace in London, and established in the Great
Square in the Champs-Elysées.
" Art. 2. The Minister of the Interior is charged to pro-
pose to us, in accord with the city of Paris, the most proper
means of arriving at a prompt and economical solution of this
project."

I.'he departments from which the state of siege has
just been raised aro the RliOne, Drome, here, Ain,
Loire, Arda;ho, Cher, Niovre' Seine, Seine-et-Oise,
Seine-Inferieure, Oise, Loiret, Loir-et-Cher, Eure-et-
Loir. Eure, Yonne' Aube, Saoac-et-Loire, Allier, Gard,
Herault, Basses-Alpes, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, Var, Gi-
ronde, Bas-Rhin, Jura, Gers, Aveyron, and Vaucluse.
Six of these departments, formerly composing the 6th
military division, had been placed in a state of siege after
the events of June 1849. Algeria still remains in a state
of siege.

ThO Presse says—" A rumour has been current for
some time that M. DE PEREIGNY will quit the Ministry
of the Interior for the Ministry of State. We have rea-
son to believe that the rumour is well founded."
The Five per Cents. opened at 100 f. 50c., and closed at
1001. 35e.; the Three per Cents. closed at 71f. 20c.; Or-
leans Railroad Shares, 1,150 f.; Rouen, 7121. 50c.; Havre,
290 f ; Great Northern, 75c. ; Avignon, 270 f; Vierzon,
540 f. ; Basle, 231 f. 25c.; Bordeaux, 575 f.; Paris and Stras-
burg, 552 f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, s3Bf. 75c.; Paris to
Lyons, 601 f. 25c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHA..NGE, MARCH 30.
Boulogne and Amiens, 13,4,—Charleroi and Erquelines, 13
—Dutch Rhenish, 4—Lttaembourg, 44—Northern of
France, 2171. —Orleans and Bordeaux, 133/—Paris and
Lyons, 9%—Paris and Orleans, 46 4—Paris and Strasbourg,
22—Sambre and Meuse, 44—Tours and Nantes, 103A—
West Flanders, 24.

SPAIN.
Advices from Madrid are of the 25th inst.
The works for taking a fresh supply of water to Ma.
drid were in active progress.

Reports were current that the Cortes would be dis-
solved on the 15th May.
The Bourse was closed, as it was the feast of the
Annunciation.

GERMANY.

A telegraphic dispatch from TlAmburgb, dated yester-
day morning (3001), was received in Paris, stating that the
Senate of Bremen, in accordance with the Federal Com-
missioner, had the day before suspended the liberty of the
press and the right of meeting, and had also dissolved
the Chamber. A new Chamber will be convoked
under a different form of election. Bremen was quiet.
The First Chamber of Prussia, on the 27th, adopted
definitively in a second reading, and without discussion,
by 83 votes to 51, the Bill for the future organisation
of the peerage. The extreme right of that Chamber has
given notice of a motion for re-establishing the right of
sporting, the administration of justice, and other aris-
tocratic privileges, which were abolished by the Consti-
tution.

The New Prussian Gazette of the 27th states, that the
Emperor of AUSTRIA has accepted the invitation of the
Emperor of RUS6IA to pay him a visit at Moscow, on
the occasion of the grand files which are to take place
there in the course of the summer.
The Congress in Hanover ou the German fleet have
not had any result, because a million thalers was re-
quired for the maintenance of the vessel. The majority
of the plenipotentiaries would only consent to vote half
a million. The Hanoverian Government and M. DE
SCHEELE used every effort for the preservation of the
fleet, but without success.

The negotiations with the Duke of AUGUSTENBURGH
have assumed a new form. The Danish Go►ernment
has fixed a term within which its offers to the Duke
must be accepted by him, or they will bo considered as
not having been made. The journey of M. DE BULOW,
the Minister of the King of DENMARK, to the Ger-
manic Diet, is said to be to convey to them this deter-
mination.

It is announced that the Germanic Diet will probably
interfere in tho matter of the Constitution of the city of
Frankfort.

It is stated, in a letter from Bremen of the 26th, that
it wag expected that General JAcoBI, the federal com-
missary, would pronounce the dissolution of the Assem-
bly of the Citizens, in the name of the Germanic Diet,
the Constitution not permitting the dissolution to be
pronounced in the name of the Senate.
The Council of the Canton of Ticino has announced
to the Federal Government that the Austrian Govern-
ment has spontaneously offered full satisfaction to the
Canton for the violation of its territory, committed some
time ago by three Austrian soldiers, between Germig-
nano and Ponto Tresca, in tho district of Lugano.
The British Secretary of Legation at Stuttgardt, Lord
WELLESLEY, was interred on the 23d. He died in the
flower of his youth. His remains were attended to the
grave by the English Ambassadors at Frankfort and
Carlsruhe, as well as by all the principal persons at-
tached to the British Embassy and members of the
highest families. He was a young man of great pro-
mise, and had won the esteem of all, and the friendship
of many, by his estimable personal qualities. His
Lordship had been ill for some time, and expressed his
conviction some time ago that ho should not recover,
and had accordingly settled all his worldly affairs. Ho
was the nephew of the Duke of WELLINGTON By his
early death some of the principal English nobility aro
placed in mourning.

RUSSIA.
A letter from St. Petersburgh, in the Emancipation of
Brussels, says :—" The physicians of the CzAn have
just prescribed for him the waters of Schwalbacb, in the
Grand-Duchy of Nassau, only a few leagues from the
French frontier. Thus, before a month is over, and
during a part of the summer, the Imperial Court of
Russia will be established there. In crossing through
Germany, the CZAR proposes to visit the Courts of
Vienna and Berlin, and perhaps will go as far as
Munich."

It is rumoured that a Liverpool mercantile firm, of
great re3peetabiiity, have fallen into diffi(Alitie4 With the
Custom authorities.—Liwrpool AlbiQn.