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'LONDON :
THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1838.

We were quite convinced, from the first moment we
heard of the occurrences near Canterbury, that they would
provoke a serious investigation in Parliament. Accordingly,
the House of Commons had no sooner assembled last night
than the subject was brought under discussion. Sir ED-
WARD KNATCHBULL rose to move for papers relative to
the commitment of COURTENAY, or Thom, to the Kent
Lunatic Asylum, and to his discharge therefrom. To the
motion no objection was made, and Lord JOHN RUSSELL
proposed of his own accord to lay on the table some addi-
tional papers relative to the applications of Tuom's friends
for his liberation, and the account which he had yesterday
received from Dr. POORE of the whole of the unhappy
transaction.

It results from the frank explanations given by Lord
JOHN RUSSELL relative to the discharge of THOM, that it
took place in consequence of applications by THOM'S
friends, backed by two Members of Parliament, one of
whom was Sir HUSSEY VIVIAN, and that the Magistrates
of Ke-at are in nowise responsible for his having been set
at liberty. -It is due to them to state thus much dis-
tinctly and positively, because we thir.k them very culpa-
ble on other points, and a Moroi-rig Contemporary had un-
necessarily aggravated their misconduct by blaming them
on this account.

Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL, who is, we believe, Chair-
Man of the Quarter Sessions for the Eastern Division of
Kent, who is, at, any rate, a Magistrate residing in that part
of the county, and, therefore, we must be allowed to affirm,
implicated in these transactions, and one of the parties re-
sponsible to the country for their having occurred, took the
opportunity, when he moved for the papers, to vindicate the
Magistrates. He said little indeed in their favour, but that
little is worthy of notice. He said that the deposi-
tion against Timm had been sworn to, which he had
seen, and, " as far as his judgment went no irre-
gularity had been committed." All was done according
to strict rule ; every step was regularly taken which thelaw
prescribes ; and the result was that the lunatic and his
followers wandered about for three days unchecked ; that
he at length committed a brutal murder ; and then he and
many of them were surrounded by soldiers and shot. What
a beautiful picture does this set before us of the excellences
of the law, and the talents of those who administer it ! If
a country bank or two fail—if a little neglect or fraud be
discovered in a Joint Stock Company—if a few of the
people are joyous at a fair and get tipsy—if they choose to
wander in the fields instead of going to church of a Sunday
the Legislature is dreadfully alarmed lest society should
tumble all to pieces, and it hastens by some new and
stringent enactment to bind together the repelling parts.
But here is a case where the population, not much more
numerous than the churches, the clergy and the magis-
trates in their neighbourhood, chew themselves thoroughly
and completely ignorant; are excited into criminality by a
lunatic ; are then shot by the order of the magistrates, one
being a clergyman, and a legislator thinks he says enough to
vindicate the system and satisfy the publie,bydeclaiingthatit
was 'all quite regularly done. For bankruptcies, frauds, drunk-
ettess, or neglect of church-going, the Legislature is hardly
responsible, but it creates and upholds the system for ec-
clesiastical education, and for the preservation of peace ;
and for whatever flows from that system in the accustomed
channels the Legislature is responsible. The regularity oe
the proceedings of Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL and his
brother magistrates, if they were regular, is therefore a
severe condemnation of Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL and
his fellow legislators.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL took the same opportunity to say
a word or two in defence of the Magistrates, which ought
to convince them, we apprehend, of the sincerity of his
often-repeated declarations in their favour, and in favour of
the Church, with which they are closely linked. He has
seen the Reverend Dr. POORE'S letter, and till we see it
'we shall say nothing further on the subject ; but Lord-
JOHN will be mistaken if he think that his certificate
to the Reverend Dr. POORE'S activity and zeal will entice
from the public a verdict favourable to the Magistrates and
Clergy of East Kent. We hope that the eagerness which
is displayed to bring forward their defence, does not arise
from a conviction that they are culpable, and that the judg-
ment of the House must be prejudiced. Above all, we
hope that there is no where any wish to stifle a full and im-
partial inquiry into the whole matter, so that equal justice
may be done to the suffering peasantry, the acting Magis-
trates and Clergymen, and the public at large.
We must, however, own, that the conduct of the House
of Commons last night was not such as to inspire us
with much confidence. It reminded us unhappily of
the sort of regard which the Members of that House
have
for solemn obligations, as known by their proceedings in
relation to controverted elections, and their attempt to
stifle the voice of those who then censured their proceedings.
No sooner did Mr. HUME very praperly and very
justly mention the name of the Church, in connection
with the lamentable ignorance of the people, than there
were cries of " Oh," and " Question ;" and Sir
EDWARD KNATCHBULL, who had volunteered a defence

of the Magistrates; mem to order, and' put it to the Hen.
Member wt 'ether, pending these inquitio, he would not post-
r!The his observations, The rlnodynes are all to be on ore
side, and every word said on the other is to be at once put
down as irritating. Mr. I-lu:,IE very properly remarked
that it was only when some exciting circumstance, like the
events at Canterbury, arose, that the House and public
would pay any attention to the subject, and therefore he
persisted in declaring that the Clergy and the Church are
responsible for the ignorance of the people. He also
deprecated the Ministers of the Gospel tailing the field at
the head of the soldiers ; but when Clergymen, he said,
" were mentioned in the House, twenty voices from the
other side desired to stop his remarks ;" and so the House
of Commons begins by desiring to stifle the most important
part of the invest;gation.

Mr. WYNN, too, condemned Mr. HUME, for making
such an incidental discussion an occasion for a general
attack en the Clergy. But when is the conduct of the
Clergy to be spoken of, if not when the most palpa-
ble proofs of their insufficiency to perform that which
they profess to perform, for which they are most enor-
mously paid, and for performing which they are held up to
veneration, are fresh in the public mind ? We have
all heard of the scientific theorist, who refused to behold
the experiments by which his theory was refuted ; but Mr.
WyNN and hissupportersin the House of-Commons are worse,
for their theory is, that the Church is an admirable machine
for imparting sound religious instruction to the people, and
they not only refuse to examine the proofs of it; insuffi-
ciency, but endeavour to prevent those proofs from being
brought before the House of Commons and the public.
He quoted the instances of BROTHERS and JOANNA
SOUTHCOTE, as if the existence of their delusions was not,
with the late unhappy events at Canterbury, cumulative
proofs of the inefficiency, or mischievousness of the Church.
Those instances of fanaticism did not arise in the wilds of
America, where man broods in almost unbroken solitude
over things he cannot fathom ; but here, in the midst
of our populous towns, and where we have a great
number of Churches, and a vast army of paid priests, who
assert that everything has been explained from the begin-
ning to the end of time, and that man, knowing his origin
and his final fate, may cease to wonder and inquire. The
great merit of an Established Church, which is inimical to
religious zeal, is said to be, that it prevents fanaticism; and
the examples of BROTHERS, SOUTHCOTE, and COURTENAY
are all alike proofs that Mr. WYNN'S theory, which he will
not allow to be examined, is a gross error. The Established
Church, we can tell him and his friends, is put on its trial,
and neither the sudden and ominous silence of the Tory
Journals, which for the last few years have been vexing the
ear of the land with its praise, nor the efforts of its friends
in the House of Commons, will be able to stifle the inquiry
or any longer pervert the judgment of the public.

Great impatience was evinced last evening by certain
Members of the House of Commons, when Mr. HOME, in
his straightforward manner, called their attention to the
real cause of the late disastrous and disgraceful affray in
Kent. They would hear nothing said against the clergy;
nothing against ministers of peace being sent out at the
head of troops to give the word to fire upon the people ;
and nothing against the party who, during the half century
in which they had been in office, had done nothing to dispel
the woful ignorance of the English peasantry. They con-
sidered the time unseasonable for making remarks on the
conduct of the parties concerned, and would gladly
postpone any discussion on the backwardness of the
Church in the cause of general education. Mr. HUME,
however, was of a different opinion, because he knows from
experience that it is only on the occasion of some striking
occurrence, that the attention of the Legislature and the '
country can be effectually excited. The present occasion
affords, therefore, strong grounds for pressing on the Go-
vernment the necessity of taking some steps to establish a
n ttional system of education, either by support:rig- the Bill
introduced by Lord BROUGHAM, or, as they possibly now
have no great reerard for any measure of his, by introduc-
ing a Bill of their own. It is only a truism to say
that ignorance is the great parent of crime. The
fact is evinced every day at our Police-offices,
and Criminal Courts. A great proportion of con-
' via% can neither read nor write. With occasional
exceptions, the commission of crimes may be traced to im-
perfect education. The incendiary fires were raised by the
lowest and most ignorant of the peasantry ; and in coun-
tries where the lower classes are instructed, as in Holland,
Switzerland, and Scotland, crimes are comparatively rare.
With these facts before their eyes, a liberal Government
is without excuse in not taking measures to put an end to
the present disgraceful system. They have been nearly
eight years in office, and what have they done for the edu-
cation of the people ?—Granted some twenty thousand
pounds for building school houses ! They have neither
given cordial support to Lord BROUGHAM, nor done any-
thing themselves ; and in this respect, as, we regret to say
in some other respects, they have Liithfully imitated their
predecessors.

We beg the attention of our readers to a statement of
cert lin Church-rate transactions which will be found in
another part of our paper. It appears that the zeal, or
rather fury, of the Church militant in Bungay, is not a jot
abated by the scandal which its former proceedings had
occasioned. On the contrary, if we may judge from
the disproportion between the offence and the penalty—

between the amount of the rate claimed, and the value of
the articles seized in lieu of it—we must conclude that the
appetite of the celebrated Mr. SCOTT and his associates
for persecution and plunder, is rather whetted than satiated
by their former deeds. The persecutor, we have alway s
thought, has a touch of the tiger in him.

The further consideration of the Copyright Bill, it will
be seen, has been postponed to the 20th inst. From the
discussion which took place last night, there does not appear
to be any chance of its passing into a law this Session, and
before another Session arrives, we trust Honourable Mem-
bers will have time to read the Bill, which it is es ident
some of its opponents—among whom we are grieved
to find Lord Joan RUSSELL—have not yet done.
As the Learned Gentleman who has charge of the Bill has
found it necessary to make concessions to the publishers,
and intends to make some important alterations in the mea-
sure, it is highly desirable that the Bill should be printed
in its altered form without delay.

In our columns of to-day will be found extracts from two
of our Provincial contemporaries—the Bath and Cheltenham
Gazette, and the Birmingham Journal—commenting, in no
very flittering terms, upon the conduet of the Government
upon the Negro apprenticeship abolition question. We
have so often deplored the general blindness of Ministers
upon the Slavery question—so often lamented the ob-
stinacy with which they strove, as it were, wantonly to
outrage the feelings of their best friends, in order to sup-
port the corrupt interests of a body of men by whom
they are heartily detested—that we confess, we are
almost as tired of harping upon this string, as we are
disgusted with the conduct which rendered it impera-
tive upon us to think of touching it. 'We do not go
quite so far as the Bath and Cheltenham Gazette—we
cannot agree with that Journal in the assertion that
Ministers " have exerted themselves more strongly in a
bail cause than they ever did in a good one ;" neither
do we hold with the Birmingham Journal, that in every
instance where Ministers " have been left to the unbiassed
workings of their own hearts, their conduct has been mo-
tived by a study to restrict, if they could not extinguish, the
liberties of thepeople ;" but we do go the length of admitting
that by their temporising and often sinister policy, they have
raised in the minds of many of their warmest supporters two
years ago, grave doubts as to whether the interests of the
country could possibly suffer by the return of the Tories
to power. At all events they have so stultified them-
selves upon the Slavery business, that we seriously believe
in the event of an immediate dissolution of Parliament,
not one in ten of the Whigs who voted with them for re-
scinding Sir EARDLEY WiLmoTT's resolution would be
again returned to Parliament.

Although the public have liberally responded to the ap-
pe.lls made to them from time to time, on behalf of the
Polish Exiles, we are grieved to say that the produce of
the last subscriptions have been for some time exhausted,
and consequently a great number of these victims of the
unparalleled villainy of Russia are now in a state of de-
plorable suffering. Ignorant of the language—wholly
strangers to this country, where they have been forced to
take refuge, having been driven out of France and Swit-
zerland—they.wander about the streets, unable to obtain

THE StIN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 18:38.

employment, or even to solicit charity. They are literally 1
starving. Many of them—a short time ago the possessors
of large estates and abundant wealth in their own country—
are at present some days without a morsel of food, actual!y
famishing—and passing their nights in the parks, or on the
commons and roadsides around the metropolis. We have
seen some heart-rending instances of the ravages ‘'‘ hich famine
is making upon the minds and bodies of fine young men,
v.lom, no long time ago, we saw in the possession of health,
strength, and highly cultivated mental powers. We know
that the benevolence of the British pubic has been most
generously exercised in this distressing case already. But
the rightful suffering we witness amongst those noble-
mined and cruelly-used men, forces us once more to itn-
p!ore the aid of the benevolent, from motives of humanity
alone, apart from all political considerations.

Cape of Good Hope papers, to the 9th of March inclusive,
have reached us this morning. We copy from the
Graham's Town Journal of the Bth of March the fol-
lowing account of another appalling tragedy performed
by the Kafirs or Caffers since the late dreadful murd,r of
Ensign CROWE. Such are the apprehensions at the Cape
of Good Hope at present, that the magazine at Graham's
Town has been placed under a strong guard of the 72d
Highlanders, to prevent the possibility of any sur-
prize, even in the capital of the Colony. The
Lieutenant-Governor has offered a reward of 1001. for
the apprehension of the band of Hottentot
.mu:inecrs, by
whom Lieutenant CnoWE was murdered ; 151. for the
capture of any one of them alive, and half the sum for
shooting any one of them in the bush. The offer of the
last reward is immoral and disgraceful to the British name
and nation. We are confident that our Government will
never deliberately sanction such a mode of subduing an
enemy or punishing a rebel. But we are pressed for space,
and must confine ourselves to the account of the tragical
occurrence referred to above :

DREADFUL MASSACRE OF THE EMIGRANT FARMERS.

By the mail which arrived this morning from the northern frontier,
we have received the appaling intelligence of the massacre of Mr.
Pieter Rctief, together with two hundred and severity persons, com-
prising men, women, and children ! If the acccunt furnished to us be
correct, the Zoolu Chief Diogaan must, with the mo,t subtle treachery,
have inveigled the Emigrants into his territories, and having acquired their
confidence he roust, at a moment when they were thrown elf their
guard by his specious kindness, scattered and comparatively de-
fenceless, have committed this savcge butchery. This is a true sample
of native character, and shows what Europeans may expect when left to
their tender mercies. At present time will not permit us to dweil upon
this painful subject ; we therefore give the following extract from the
acccunt which has just reached our hands :

" Corvsaicao, 4th Marten —Agreeably to the wish of Dingaan
as respects the Emigrant Farmers Fettling in his territory,
Pieter Retief proceeded to take possession of such lands as that chief
bad previously pointed out for that purpose. After a tiresome
journey, and having passed through numbers of Dingaan's peop:e, with
the most friendly intercourse, they arrived at a spot in the vicinity of
Port Natal, where they established their head quarters, and on which
t!.ey purposed to build a fort, &c. Two days after their arrival, Retief
made known his intention of locating on separate plae,s such families
as might wish to be so placed. On the fourth day these persons assem-
bled with their waggons and families, amounting in all to two hundred
and seventy souls, men, women, and children. On the fifth day they
left head quarters, and on the night of the seventh day they were sure
rounded, and attacked by a commando of Dingaan's people, and all
perished, including Pieter Itetief!
" Intel'igence cf this dreadful catastrophe has been received by Mr.
Maritz (.ormerly of Graaff-Reinet), and by him it has been forwarded
to farmers residing on the Met and Modder Rivers, together with a
communication that he wishes as many as are capable to join him for
the purpose of giving assistance to the emigrants remaining at Retief's
head quarters. In consequence, however, of a ruraeur that all are
killed, the farmers are rather tardy in their movements, and some doubt
is expressed as to whether they will proceed."

Advices from Madrid of the 29th ult., put us in posses-
sion of the Duke de FEZENZAC's address to the Regent,
with her MAJESTY'S answer, on his Excellency's presenta-
tion on the 28th, as the Ambassador of France, at the
Spanish Court. It is more cordial than we expected,
omitting, as it carefully does, all reference to the Quadru-
ple Treaty :

" Senora—The King of France has bean pleased to appoint me to the
honourable office of representing him in the court of your august Ma-
jesty. This proof of his Majesty's confidence is the more gratifying as
it affords me an opportunity of congratulating your Majesty on my first
presentation. The arms of Queen Isabel have triumphed ; order has
been re-established among -the people—discipline amongst the troops.
Such happy events are a consolation for the past, and inspire hopes of
the future. God grant that Spain, persevering in the course marked
out by a firm and temperate Government, may consolidate the throne
of its youthful sovereign under the authority of }our Majesty. This
triumph shall be due to the fortitude of a Queen, the affection of a
mother ; and I shall consider myself happy if, during my mission near
your Majesty's person, I shall see an end of the, misfortunes of a noble
nation, about which the King feels so much interest, and which excites
so lively a sympathy among all his subjects."

DUTtil FUNDS.—AMSTEILIMM, JUNE 5.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt,' 2% per Cent • 54' 55
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Alcoa Si .nlic,4!,i per cent
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 79% 80
Commercial Company, 4' per c.:rit IS7!„ 1.2,
Ditto (1632 and 15.33) 5 per rent.
Loan 1835, -t per cent. -
Ditto 1837. 6 per cent.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—ViLxivii, MaY '.:B.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
FoNr per Cents.
Three per Cents. ... t2.),3'
Bank Shares
--APgemeine Zeilung, June 2.

ELECTION EXPENCES BILL.

- .
To which her MAJESTY returned the following, gracious
answer :

Sir—lt is very gratifying to me to see you in this court, chargo
with the office of cultivating those friendly relations which happily ex.
ist between France and Spain. The confidence which the King of
France has placed in you is of itself alone a title to your deserving all
mine.
" I do not doubt of the particular interest of my august uncle and
ally, or of the sympathies of France, in favour of the Spanish nation and
the Queen, my beloved daughter; and I accept with satisfaction your
congratulations on the recent triumphs achieved through the exertions
of the faithful defenders of so just a cause."
Letters from Saragossa of the 31st ult. state that all the
QUEEN's troops in Lower Arragon were concentrated at
Daroca, under the command of General ORAA. That
officer was only waiting the arrival of PARDINAS with his
division to commence operations on an extensive scale.
MUNAGORRI continued to enlist followers. In the mean-
time the Carlists were daily growing more and more dis-
satisfiedi with Don CARLOS, who in his turn treated them
with- more than a wonted degree of suspicion. His parti-
zans, however, seem persuaded that the new loan, when it
arrives, will banish all distrust.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday are, if possible, more bar-
ren of news than the few that appeared on Monday.
There is nothing in them but discussions and re-discussions
about subjects in which the public have ceased to take any
manner of interest--such as TA LLEYRAND'S repentance, the
designs of the Ministry, the military colonization of Africa,
and the amount of the Budget. Paris is, at present, as
dull a capital as any in Europe. The Courtiers have fol-
lowed the Court to Neuilly ; most of the Peers, and the
wealthier Members of the Chamber of Deputies, have
exchanged the atmosphere of politics for the training of
vines and the cultivation of beet-root ; and those who hare
not such occupations to fly to, are silently perplexed as to
whether they shall visit London or Milan during the ap-
proaching Coronations. Our readers must, therefore, even
be content with the annexed brief extracts :
The Phare of Bayonne of the 2d inst., says that " the different move-
ments of the Queen's army are doubtless the prelude to a serious attack
on Estella. By the order of General Espartero, a strong column of
troops made, as we know, a reconnaissance towards that town on the
27th May. This column successively occupied Alto, Arellano, and Di-
castello. The Carlists, who were at first in small numbers at those
places, scarcely offered any resistance, but reinforcements having since
joined them, a brisk fire of musketry ensued, especially in the village
of Dicastello. The Queen's troops passed the night at Allo, and on the
following day retreated towards Sesma and Lorin. During this time
another body of troops made a reconnaissance from Larroga to Oteisa—
d rove back the Carlists' outward posts—and spread an alarm to Echaurri
in the division of Sanz, which seemed to intend to pass the Arga

The Sentinelle of the Pyrenees states the same facts and adds, ac.
cording to the statements of some persons who have come from Navarre,
General Eapartero had also arrived at Lerin, on the f2Sth, with a strong
division, which was g ing to commence operations against the town of
Estella. The artillery necessary fur this attack is already collected at
Larragua.
The same journal adds the following article :

Don Carlos lett Estella, on the 29th, in the afternoon, taking the road
to Guipuscoa. On the following day several military executions took
place in that town.—Le Commerce, June 5.
The last letter from Bayonne says that the Royalists are going to
blockade Pampeluna. Measures ar..l taken to invest tht.t city very
closely.—Gazette de France.
FRENCH FUNDS.—Paets, JUNE 5.
Five per Cents.. 110 f. 10!)f. fsc.
htee per C nte., 6111 65c.
Bank Actions, 2,730 f.
ftente de Naples, !Sf. SOc.
Roman Five per Cents.. 1013004%,
Spanish Actives, 23 224.
Spanish Passives, 478• _
Belgian Loan, 10-234 103 102,%.
Belgian Bank, 1,435 f. 1,432 f. 50c.
rl7ytian Loan, 415 f.
Ll3coANan ON LONDON.
Three per Cents. 25%
Portuguese Loan,
One month, paper. 25f. 42 c.; money, 25(.40,1
Tliree months, paler, 25f. 32%c.; money, 25f. 30.,
LATEST PRICES.
Five ner Cents. 110 f. sc.
Three per Cents., Slf. 65c,
Bank Actions, 2,730 f.
Romans, 101%.
Belgian Loan, 102 A.
Belgian Bank, 1,432 f. ..oc.
Cents.
er 25%,
Spanish Actives, 2.. N.
Spanish Passives. 4'k.
Haytian Loan, 4451.
Portuguese Three p,,

Brussels and German Papers have been received, from
which we select the following extracts :
BRUSSELS, JUNE 2.—The Commercial Council of the City of Brussels
is convoked for Wednesday, 6th June.
" We hear that the Editors of the Revue de Bruxelles have had a
thousand copies printed olf separately of M. Dumortier's observations on
the twenty-four articles, in order to send them to foreign Courts, to the
most eminent publicists, and the most influential members of the French
Chambers and the English Parliament. '
BRUSSELS, JUNE s.—The Echo du Luxemburg hays, that General
Dumortier has caused notice to be given to the Burgomaster of Hatter'ek,
a village situated under the cannon of are fortress, where the colours
were to be hoisted, if that were done the village would be bombarded.
The Journal de Luxemburg publishes a circular, dated 30th May,
addressed by the Military Governor of the fortress to the Burgomaster of
the Commune within the Rayon.
(:ever al Dumortier expresses his regret that he has been disappointed,
and his hopes that tranquillity and order would be preserved hi the
Rayon by the means of mildness and persuasion, which he has constantly
adopted. Unhappily the hoisting of the Belgium colours at Hortish

and Nicderan even, proves that the burgomasters have listened to
suggestions of emissaries seeking their own interests. He again an-
nouncvs that the General of the fortress will put down all similar at-
tempts, and if the burgomasters have not sufficient strength to pre-
vent them, the military General will readily assist them, and adopt, in
concert with them, all measures necessary to insure the safety of the
fortress, andto protect the peaceable inhabitants of the country.
• AL Van Praet, the King's Secretary has returned from his mission
to Paris.
NAPLES, MAY 22 —Yesterday's journal publishes a decree of the
16th May, by which his Majesty pardons the individuals accused of
; political offences in Sicily. The decree does not include the authors
and ringleaders of the troubles and excesses which took place i❑ that
island List year.
ROME, MAY 24.—There is a very frequent interchange of couriers
with the Notth, and it is said that in the last congregations very impor-
tant discussions took place. The Marquis Delcaretto was presented to
the Pope yesterday by the Neapolitan Ambassador, Count Ludolf. The
negociations between this Ambassador and our Government, respecting
the differencesrelative to the &miners, have proceeded hitherto to the
satisfaction of both parties, so that a favourable issue may be shortly
expected. The nego:iation for the exchange of Benevento and Porte
Corvo are said not to promise so satisfactory a result.
BERLIN, MAY 31.—The evening before yesterday a courier arrived
from [tome with the official appointments and confirmation by the
Pope of Dr. Zuesgen as Administrator of the Archbishop of Cologne.
In general, it appears that since Dr. Bunson's departure the Pope has
manifested a more conciliatory disposition with respect to the demands
of Prussia.
King Leopold of Belgium has answer::d the deputation appointed to
present to him an address of the Senate relative to the retaining of
Luxemburg and Limburg in a manner which would give reason to sup_
pose that he would require that all Luxemburg and Limburg shall re-
main to Belgium. It is remarkable that King Leopold should have
made a declaration that was by no means expected from him. The
throne of Leopold was raised by a revolution. It was judged ad-
visable, for the sake of the peace of Europe, to support and con-
solidate it, anti King Wiliam, of the Netherlands, was the victim.
But at that time the political horizon was threatening, and concessions
were made, which certainly would not be made now ; and the Great
European powers are all convinced that no further sacrifices can be rea-
sonably imposed on King William ; and should they be disposial to do
this, if even (which is certainly not within the reach of possibility) they
should be disposed to adjudge Limburg and Luxemburg to Belt ium, how
should this be done ? The Grand Duchy of Luxemburg belongs to
. Germany. The German Confederatio❑ is ready, from motives founded
on the policy of Europe, to cede a portion of the Grand Duchy
to Belgium, and to accept from King Wiliam an indemnity fo
, it in Limburg. But the Belgians insist on keeping all Limburg,
and; all Luxemburg, and taus take a province from Germany,
which has nothing 'whatever to do with the Belgian revolution,
end by keeping all Limburg render it impossible for King William
to indemnify Germany for the loss of Luxemburg. He who can ima-
, gine that the London Conference will require this of King William or
. the German Confederation, has certainly not got his wits about him,
• yet this seems to be generally the case in Belgium. It will certainly be
alleged on the part of Belgium, that a new revolution would be to effect
the treaty of the 24 Articles insisted upon. It would, however, be
really lamentable if the five Great European Powers could not succeed
in executing the treaty of 15th November, 1831, without disturbing
• tranquillity and order in Belgium.
ZEALAND, JUNE 3.—We learn that the fortifications of Fort Boeth are
to be considerably enlarged, and bomb.proof casemates built. —Dutch
Papers, June G.

It is evident from the speech of Sir Edward Knatchbul
last night against Mr. Hume's Election Expences Bill, that
the object of the Tories is by large expenditure to keep off
Reformers ; and it is equally evident that her Majesty's Mi-
nisters do not see the importance of limiting as much as pos-
sible those expenses. Reformers who go to Parliament to do
the service of the country without selfish objects are unwill-
ing to spend their fortunes and distress their families—
Tories who look to repay themselves out of the taxes
of the people do spend, and will spend, to obtain
their object—a majority in Parliament. It is, therefore,
we say, cause of great regret that only 43 Liberal Members
could be found to support that Bill, which, if carried, would
give to constituents the choice of the best men, which at pre-
seat they cannot have, owing to the heavy expenses sihich are
declared to be illegal by the Bill.
It is useless for Liberal Reformers to attempt any reform
measure, if they are to be neglected by the Members as well
as by the Reformeri.
The Bill was lost by 71 to 43.
Not one Liberal Member voted against the Election Ex-
pences Bill.