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6 That it connects the ports of Shoreham and New-
haven, and the county town of Lewes with Brighton and
London.

7. That it runs through the centre of the counties of Surrey
and Sussex, and afrurds great facilities of communication cast
and west.

S. That it is supported by a great majority of the inhabi-
tants of Brighton.
9. And lastly t That the Committee adopted Sir .102‘a
rtc:rinie's line, upon a careful considcrg.
Vence upon the varioul: I:nlY6 Jore it,
ot the Irhole of the

Ministl=:;; 7lowever, have chosen to stnltify ttve
._.port of the Committee, but upon what Oninds we
will not take upon us to determine. Our deliberate
conviction is that they have therein acted most un-,
tty leaving room to question their impartiality)
snd‘chat is s►ill worse, establishing a dangerous pre,
cedent, subversive of the authcr%ty of the House ut
Commons.

The 'scene in the Hol!tz. of Commons last evening,
during the Xs.:,ussion on Sir JAMES GRAitAMS mo-
tiol4 WAS in the highest deftect tiieresting, and the
result must have 13fttt iiiost gratifying to every impart
tial Mentbet ut the House. The contrast between the
conattet of the plaintiff and defendant (if we may use
law terms) was sa striking, that the House, after Mr.
STANLEY'S satisfactory explanation, would listed to
no other Member. Sir ROBERT INGLIS tried in vain
to bring back the House to " the real point at issue ;"
but the House had made up their minds on the sub-
ject, Mr. WI NN considered his authority would have
some weight, and succeeded the Hon. Baronet; but he
was equally disregarded, and after two t..r three attempts.
to be heard, his voice, which was raised to its utmost
pitch, was drowned amidst the general noises and the order
was discharged with acclamation. The incourteous beha-
viour of the Cumberland Bart.contributed, pethaps even
more than Mr. STANLEY'S spirited and candid state-
ment, to such a result. Even if he had been culpable,
the treatment he received from Sir JAMES GRAHAM
would have been sufficient to produce an acquittal.
The account of the short scene behind the SPEAKER's
Chair seemed to fill every Member with disgust ; the
Hon. Baronet could make no reply to that part of the
subject ; and, none of his friends, not even Mr.
RICHARDs or Mr. BORTIIWICK, volunteered to come
to the rescue. It was gratifying to see unfair and
malevolent conduct towards old friends meet with such
summary and effectual punishment from both sides of
the House. The silence of the Tories was even more
expressive than the loud cheers of their opponents.

There was an animated discussion in the House of
Commons last night on the subject of the privileges of
the House, which have been called in question by the
Chief Justice of the King's Bench, as far as the pub-
lication for sale of reports, &c., containing libellous
matter, is concerned. Lord HowiCK commenced the
debate by moving the following resolutions :

" That the power of publishing such of its reports, votes,
and proceedings as it shall deem necessary or conducive to the
public interests, i 3 an essential incident to the constitutional
functions of Parliament, more especially of this House, as the
representative portion of it. .
__

" That, by the law and privilege of Parliament, this House
has the sole and exclusive jurisdiction to determine upon the
existence and extent of its privileges, and that the institution
or prosecution of any action, suit, or other proceeding, for the
purpose of bringing them into discussion or decision before any
court or tribunal elsewhere than in Parliament, is a high
breach of such privilege, and renders all parties concerned
therein amenable to its just displeasure, and to the punishment
consequent thereon.
" That for any court or tribunal to assume to decide upon
matters of privilege inconsistent with the determination of
either House of Parliament thereon, is contrary to the law of
Parliament, and is a breach and contempt of the privileges of
Parliament."

These resolutions are in strict conformity with the
spirit of the report made by the Committee appointed
to inquire into the law and practice of Parliament. The
Committee found that the House did possess, and had
always acted upon, the powers which the advocates
of privilege claim for it. Lord Howices resolutions,
therefore, really amount to nothing more than a decla-
ration, founded upon an uninterrupted stream of pre-
cedent through the last two centuries, of the privileges
vested in the popular branch of the Legislature. These
privileges are no doubt extensive, and at first sight
may seem inconsistent with the liberty of the subject ;
but they are not so in fact. On the contrary, we be-
lieve them to be essentially necessary to the well-being
of the nation—the upholding and improving the
civil and social system of which we so justly boast
the superiority over other nations. What, it will per-
haps be asked, is there no danger in allowing such
arbitrary power to a single branch of the Legislature ?
Where then, we answer, is the power to be lodged ?
It must be lodged somewhere. It is absolutely neces-
sary, we take it for granted, that the people should be
informed of the proceedings of the House of Commons,
and how is this to be accomplished, if the rules of in-
ferior Courts are to interdict communication between
Members and their constituents. We lay it down
as a fundamental maxim, that the acts of the
House of Commons are exempted from all legal ju-
risdiction, because that House is the representative of
of the people for whom, and by whom, all laws are
supposed to be made. We therefore contend for the
omnipotence of the House of Commons in this matter
of privilege, and in so doing are, we conceive, con-
tending for the pre-eminence of the rights of the people.
That individuals may occasionally suffer by the exer-
cise of authority on the part of the House of Commons
is nothing to the point, although it seems to be the
only argument relied upon by the opponents of the re-
solutions, because it is met and refuted at once by the
plea of, public benefit, to which all private considera-
tions must give way. Instances of what appears to
be, and indeed is, great individual hardship, are occur-
ring daily and hourly in those very Courts of Law,
which pretend to limit the powers of the Commons of
England. The whole system of law is little else than
a system of sacrifice of individual and natural right to
the supposed interests of the social state. But not to
go farther than the mere course of proceeding at the trial
of a cause in a court of justice, what can be more strictly
parallel to the case in question than the publication of
the evidence given in court, which we instanced on a
former occasion ? The evidence may contain matter,
the publication of which whether true or false, may be
ruinous to the character and fortune of individuals.
Does the law say you shall not publish such evidence ?
Or does it say that the sufkring, and perhaps in-
nocent party, shall have compensation for the wrong ?
By no means. It says simply, but unanswer-
ably, there is no remedy for this. It is a partial
evil arising necessarily out of a general good. The
public interest requires that proceedings in Courts
of Justice should be published, and this being the
case, it is impossible to prevent occasional injury to
individuals. So it is with the publication of the pro-
ceedings of the House of Commons, but with this dif-
ference, that, as these proceedings are infinitely more
important than those of any other other assembly, their
publication is of proportional importance in a national
point of view. As to the distinction which Lord DEN-
MAN attempted to set up between the publication of
Reports, Votes, &c. for sale, and not for sale, we are
perfectly astonished that a man of his penetration
should have allowed himself to attribute the least
weight to it. If the publication be necessary and
desirable what can the mode signify—the greater the
publicity the greater the benefit.

The whole of the Paris papers—,-morning and even-
ing—have been received. The Charte of Monday
night contains the following telegraphic intelligence
from Spain :

BORDEAUX, MAY 28, HALF-PAST 7, P.M.—On the 24th the
Infante (Don Sebastian) entered Huesca. Irribarren attacked
him the same day, and after having caused him a loss of 400
men, retired on Almudevas, where he was still on the 25th,
Don Sebastian remaining on the same day at Huesca. Bri•
gadier-General Leon, commanding the Christino cavalry, was
killed. General Irribarren was wounded, and has been re-
placed by Buerens, who had on the 21st arrived at Saragossa,
with 3,000 infantry and 200 horse. Nothing is said of the
future direction of the Carlist expedition.
The death of General LEON, who was a brave offi-
cer, will be severely felt by the Constitutionalists.
Notwithstanding the cautious wording of the dispatch
we are inclined to think that IRRIBARREN was re-
pulsed in his rash attempt to dispossess the Carlists
of Huesca, with a force numerically one-third less
than that commanded by Don SEBASTIAN. The
replacing of IRRIBARREN by BUERENS in the com-
mand of the troops, shows that the former gallant offi-
cer has been wounded so severely as to prevent him
from keeping the field.
On the subject of the movements of the PrOoder

on the Ebro, the Mes.cager has the following observa-
tions, suggested by the letter of a Carlist e6rtespotident
at
.Baree!ona

Yesterday our advicts left Don Carlos and his troops at
Luena and Marracos. On the 23d the Carlists occupied
these two poaitions. On the 24th the Pretender erossed, be-
tween Arrbe and Gitrrea, the too Mad from garagosa to
Jomai anti Mitered tittesta: After reading the dispatches of
an intercepted courier from Saragossa, the Pretender seeped
tb pitrsqe directly road toWards 1d Ciitaloniat This
appeart; hokVeVef., to have heen.but a reigned one,
l'ot t o tit@ tilglit of the 24th he suddenly changed his di.
rection, ascended to the north, and 7:-
r...ny marched towards
the Jaca mc"An!aT.l: On the morning of the 26th his batta-
irons namktea And Ballo, at tho corner of this ftiOlkn:
Meat . ,
It appears that grace designed by Don Carlos
for diva ><rak ta.r his Government. Numerous bands appear to
Omit his arrival in Upper Catalonia. The whole upper Dart
of that province, we are assured?, awritii but hit Pelbae to
join his standard, it that his march between the
Vd 'Ltd i:ith has determined a rising at Loarre, Sarsa,
Sietarno, Ayerbe, and in all the neighbouring places, and that
in all that part of Arragon the Queen's authorities have been
expelled, and replaced by_ Catilst authorities. Whilst ben
Cartes adVinte% towards Upper Catalonia the agitatioti ebnr,
tinttei at narcclona, and the poptilatioh, its well as the military
authorities, arc preparing for a fresh and bloody conflict. The
municipality and provincial deputation, dreading the move-
ments and not wishing, say they, to be • the victims of it, aro
retiring cn masse.

This statement is full of exaggeration, both as re-
gatds the success of the Carlists and the popular hos-
tility to the Constitutional authorities. The mountains
of Upper Catalonia will afford but bleak quarters to
the army of the Pretender. His affairs were never
mote desperate than they are at this moment.
A Spanish Envoy Extraordinary arrived in Paris
on Monday evening with dispatches for the French
Government. Of their contents nothing had transpired.
We regret to learn that ESPARTERO had not, on
the 44th, moved towards Tolosa. It is really unfor.
tunate that this General cannot be brought to follow
up the successes which occasionally attend his arms.
Had he bestirred himself he might have reached the
Ebro ere this, and so brought the strength of the
Queen's army to bear against the Carlist expeditionary
force. Instead, however, of pursuing the Carlists he
remains at Hernani, ordering reconnoisances for the
discovery of concealed stores, leaving the country to
be desolated by an enemy regardless of the usages of
civilized warfare.

The Monde, an ultra-republican and seldom well-
informed journal, publishes in its impression of Mon-
day the following extract from a letter from Madrid,
dated the 20th instant. We offer no comment upon
the statement which it contains, save that it wants
authentication :

Three extraordinary couriers have arrived here to-day from
the army of the north, bringing extremely important dis-
patches relative to a conspiracy which had been discovered in
the army, and in which several superior officers, and one or
two Majors, are said to be implicated ; their object being to
declare for the Pretender as soon as a favourable opportunity
should offer. The chiefs of this conspiracy are said to be
some persons in the Queen's palace, and several others of the
higher classes of society.
The Minister of War has just sent two couriers to General
Espartero, with orders to arrest above forty officers of all
ranks, and to have them tried by a court-martial, and shot in
twenty-four hours, if their crime should be duly proved. Some
important arrests will be made at Madrid to-night, but I do
not believe that an attempt to penetrate into the Palace will
be ventured upon. If this misfortune should happen, several
others will follow, for I do not know how the people will re-
ceive this news when it becomes known.

The Spanish Ambassador at Paris has addressed a
letter to the Editor of the Constitutionnel, in which
he positively denies having ever wrote any' dispatch
conceived in terms offensive to the King of the
FRENCH, or insulting towards his MAJESTY'S Go-
vernment. His Excellency complains of the injustice
of the Debats in giving currency to such a falsehood.
The Madrid Gazette of the 21st has also the follow-
ing official contradiction of the calumnious statement,
that such a dispatch was read in the secret sitting of
the Cortes on the 18th instant :

A certain part of the Opposition, having exhausted all its
weapons for attacking Ministers on the ground of their inter-
nal policy, do not hesitate to falsify facts relating to our fo-
reicrbn connections, at the risk of compromising the most sa-
cred interests of the country. They make no difficulty in
stating that M. Campuzano, her Majesty's Minister at Paris,
had transmitted a note to our Government, announcing that
the King not only declined all intervention or co-operation in
favour of the cause of Isabella 11., or, which is the same
thing, of the freedom of Spain, but would entirely abandon
the cause, if the present Cabinet, under M. Calatrava, re-
tained the direction of affairs. We are authorised to give a
positive contradiction to this statement, and to declare its en-
tire falsehood. Others of the same faction have perfidiously
added another pretended communication, as made by the Ca-
binet to the Cortes at the secret sitting of the 19th instant, but
cover their calumnies with the saving phrase—it is said.

The following extract from the Sentinelle des
P.yrennees includes the whole of the advices' from
Spain in the French Papers of Monday.
The Spanish loan of 250 millions of francs is definitively
agreed to by M. Aguado, under the guarantee of England
and France. The loan will be contracted in the name of the
Cortes, and not in that of the Minister of Finance, M. Mendi-
zabal, which the lenders do not approve.

The KING and Royal family are in the highest
state of pleasurable excitement, on the occasion of
the Duke of ORLEANS marriage. Not so his I►n-
perial MAJESTY the ; Autocrat of all the Russias.
He is in high dudgeon, and is reported to have signi-
fied to M. de BAR ANTE, the French Ambassador,
how much the alliance displeased him. It has al-
ready led to unpleasant scenes at the decorous Court
of Berlin.

FRENCH FUNDS.—Psaia, MAT 29
Five per Cents., 1054 f. 50c. 45c. 40c.
Four and a Half per Cents. lOrf. 4Cc.
Emir per Cents., 991. 45c.
Three per Cents. 79f. 60c. 55c. 45c.
Bank Actions, 2,440 f.
Route oe Fap!es, 991 80c 75c. 70c.
Roman Five per Cents., 101 yy 3i.
Spanish Actives, 1147 i aimi.
Spanish Differes,
Spanish Passives,
Belgian Bank, 1,417. 50c.
Portuguese Three per Cents. 29%%.

EXCHANOR ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 35. c. ; money, 25f. 32 4c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 17!ie. ; money. 25L Isc
b.. rs Aulhentegue.

LAST PRICES
Five per Cents., 1181. 45c.
Three per Cents. 79f. 55c.
Bank Actions, 2,411.
Rente de Naples, 991. 75c.
Roman Five per Cents., 10In.
Brussels Bank, 1,4171. sec.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 29%
:,panisli Actives, 244,4.
Spanish Passives 514.
New Differes, 8%.

DUTCH FUN DS— Amwrzaiaat, 1V5z;.:.,9.
Money. Hills.
Actual Debt, 24 per font
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
A snort
syndic, 44 per cent .... 5',2% 9234
Ditto, ditto, 34 per cent 7tl 7ii!it
Commercial Company, 4,,:,, per cent 176 4 17.1
Ditto (1P,32 and 1a33) 5 per cent.
Loan 16:35, 4 1 er cent.
Ditto 1i27, (1 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month I 1 Y 74
Two months

AUSTRIAN FUNDS—VIENNA, MAI: 20.
Five per Cents. Metalliquus
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares
—Allgemeitte Zeitung, May 26. •

The Earl and Countess of Wilton entertained a
select party at dinner on Monday last ; the company consisted
of the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, Lord Rokeby, Coun-
tess Cowper, Mr. Drummond, Mr. and Mrs. Asheton Smith,
Mr. and Lady Augusta Baring, Mr. and Mrs. Anson, and
Count Matuszewic.

The New York papers announce the arrival of Cap-
tain Marryat, the popular novelist, in that city.

. .
Yesterday, a laughable instance of the universality
of one name occurred at the Westminster Court of Requests,
for upon the name of William Smith being called, no less than
25 applicants rushed into court to lay claim to that title.
THE NEW NOVEL," AUNT DOROTHY'S TALE;
OR GERALDINE MORTON."—There is a freshness and talent
about this production which has exceedingly captivated our
fancy. There is not a hack line in it : what a treat for a re-
viewer 1 And a reviewer in these days, when one job succeeds
another with such unremitting activity, that it almost seems at
the end of season, as if we had read only one huge work. We
are not going to say that Aunt Dorothy is faultless ; but her
blots are very venial, and far more than redeemed by a natural
beauty and a fine vein of genuine feeling which pervade the
whole. The descriptions, too, are charmingly natural. Hav-
ing said thus much, we shall merely add (for we will not im-
pair the interest of the narrative) that the object of the author
has been to contrast two female characters, the one founded on
religious principles, the other left more unguarded to the temp-
tations of the world.—Literary Gazette.—[We have heard
that this beautiful production is from the pen of the lady of
Sir William Chatterton.—Globe].
In Union-street, Borough, over the door of a vendor
of varieties, is the following :—" William Smith, Licentious
dealer in Becky and Snuff." There still remains upon the
window of a green-grocer's house the following inscription,
which for a long time baffled the investigations of the curious
" Hay, Sack, and Flour, to let ; which is intended to signify
" A second floor to let,"
A valuable discover)' has recently been made in In-
dia, consisting of several plumes of letters in the Duke of
Wellington's handwriting, feu. id in the records of the Mysore
residency. These documents e. 1
mbrace the period immediately
subsequent to the Duke's taking
command of Seringapatam,
short, the period of
up to his illness in Bombay in 18t,
!' .ildressed to the late
his IVysore government. The ;•-!•
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