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London, England, 1849-06-08 00:00:00

fifteen horses and some baggage also was taken. T 4
enemy continued, however, to maintain its position
close to the city.
The third. reading of the Fundamental Law is to
take place on the 4th, and be ratifie.l by the King in
person, at a solemn sitting of the Diet on the follow-
ing day, after which it will be determined whether or
not the Assembly will be dissolved.

It is said that France has expressed itself very de-
cidedly on the Danish question, and intends sending
a fleet into the North Sea.

CRACOW, MAY 29.—The five piquets have already
been replaced by the Russian Hussars, as the Hun-
garians suddenly received marching orders, it is said
to Germany, and we are of cpinion for the present to
Bohemia. The castle is said to be occupied by a
mixed garrison, half Austrian and half Russian.
The Russians have brought us the cholera—forty
are laid up with it at the hospital, and five are al-
realy dead.

Field-Marshal Paskewitsch is expected here to day,
and the speedy arrival of the Czar is spoken of.
Apirtments have been prepared for his Majesty at
the Archiepiscopal Palace.
About an hour since 1,000 men of a new Russian
Infantry curps marched into Cracow.
BUCIIAREST, MAY 17.—Next to the insurrec-
tionary movement in Transylvannia, the nomination
of our Hospodar excites the greatest interest here.
The two candidates who stand the best chance are
the Kaimakan, Katakuzens, and the brother of the
governing Prince, Barbu Steibeg. Bibesco has
been created a Russian Prince, and indepen-
dently of a yearly stipend of 100,000 paper roubles
(90,000 ducats) from the Russian treasury.
The fortress of Carlsburg, in Transylvania, still
holds out. In Transylvania, as well as throughout
the whole of Hungary, strong bodies of recruits are
being made. Every male without exception, from
16 to 30 years of age, is compelled to join the army,
and those from 30 to 35 years of age are placed as
guards of the cities and boundaries.

At Kronstadt and Hermanttstadt the Hungarians
are giving such splendid balls as have scarcely ever
been seen in Transylvania, of course at the expense
of the Burghers._

The est;te of Ferdinendsberg, in Transylvania,
presented by the Hungarian Government to Bern,
has, by order of the Minister of the Interior, received
the name of Bemberg.
Large bodies of Poles continue to emigrate from
Galicia t 3 Hungary. The vast extent of the Car-
pathian nwuntains affords ample opportunity of so
doing with impunity.

he Constitutional Blatt of Bohemia says that there
is not a word of truth in the story which has gone the
round of all the newspapers, of the taking, the trea-
chery, and the lamentable end of Kaschau by
the Russians. Not a single Russian has yet
been ,seen in Kaschau, and, indeed, up to this
very moment, there is probably not a Russian
soldier on the Hungarian soil, save and except the
20,000 men at Tyran.—.Hamburgh Papers, June 5.

COURSE OF EXCH,
Amsterdam •• .. 12 2%
Ditu, at sight • • ....• 12 O
Rotterdam .... • • .. 12 2%
A.ntwerp • • ............ 25 85
Elamtairgh .... • •111.8 . 13 12
?axis, 3 days'sight .. • • 25 62%

N G E.— ( THIS DAY.)
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Geaoa .• • •• • • .• .• 26 80
Naples ........ • • • • • • 40%
Palermo, per0z........ 116%
Messina ........ • • •• .. 120
Li5b0n................ 53%
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ltio Janeiro --
ituenos Ayres • ••
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New York, 21 days'slght --
Philadelphia .... •
Patcas • ....
or BULLION, PM 01
Foreign Gold in bars.. XS 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars •• 0 4 10
Silver In bars ...... • • 0 0 0

Ditto, 3 months .... 25 110
larseilles ........ ~.. 25 80
Bourdeaux.... . 25 80
Frankfort on Maine.... 122
Petersburgh, Sil. Rble:. 35 %
Berlin.. .. • • ..........
Vienna, effec. .. 13 0
Trieste, ditto.• •••• • • •• 13 (1
adlid •... •• ........ 49%
Cadiz • • ••••••• • • • • •• 50
Bilbao •• •• •• •• •• •.•
Barcelona
Baville•• •• • ..... •• •• •

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
HOUSE OF LORDS, June 7.
THE TRACEY PEERAGE.
The Committee fur Privileges sat this morning.
The Lords present were the Earl of Shaftesbury
(Chairman), Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, Lord
Sudeley, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord Say and Sale, Lord
Strangtord, &c.
Sir F. KELLY appeared on behalf of Mr. Bour-
dillon, the solicitor to the late Mr. Tracey, merely to
say that that gentleman was in attendance, ready to
answer any questions which their Lordships might
see fit to put him.
Mr. Bourdillon then went under a long examina-
tion, from which it appeared that his father was now
in very ill health at Ostend, and unable to come to
England, and that he himself bad the management of
the proceedings in this case in their Lordships'
House during the whole of the last Sear. His father
had gone to Ostend prior to the order of the House
that he should attend at the bar on the present occa-
sion. He was now far too ill to come back, indepen-
dent of which, pecuniary affairs were also opposed to
such a proceeding.
Lord BROUGHAM would now remind Mr. Bour-
dillon that, upon one occasion, a Prayer-book had
been put in evidence, an entry in which their Lordshps
had pronounced to be a forgery. Then, on the next
occasion, a tombstone had been brought forward, and
that in the following year had been proved to be a
total fabrication, upon which, on the application of
counsel, their Lordships had postponed the further
hearing in order that the claimant might bring over
a witness from America. Had that witness been
brought over ?
Mr. Bourdillon said he had not yet arrived, but
that he had been sent for in March.
Lord BROUGHAM was astonished at such a delay.
Why had he not been sent for long before ?
Mr. Bourdillon said want of pecuniary means had
been the cause. The witness then, in reply to questions,
went on to say that many persons had subscribed
towards a fund to enable the late claimant to detray
the expenses consequent upon the petition to that
House; but he said he was not aware that they had
been induced to do so upon the expectation that as his
success would put Mr. Tracey in the possession of
large estates, those who subscribed—to a sort of
" Tracey Joint-stock Speculation Company," as Lord
Brougham called it—were to derive a profit in pro-
portion to the amount they might respectively contri-
bute. The sum collected in this way was about
3,0001. He did not know that any of the City spe-
culators had subscribed to this fund, for he fancied
nearly all were the friends or connexions of the de-
ceased. He had no doubt but that some of these par-
ties might have looked for some remuneration for
their advances, in the event of the success cf the
claimant in his suit. The persons who had so sub-
scribed were in a respectable class of life. He was
not aware that there had been a general subscription
got up in Cheltenham and other places for this affair.
Mr. J. Wylde then proved having been present in
Dublin with the late Mr. Tracey at the moment of
his death, on the 23d of April last. A post mortem
examination was made, when it was found that an
effusion of blood into the stomach had caused death.
A friend of his of the name of Forrester had ad-
vanced 1001. to enable the claimant to pay the fees of
the House and of counsel, and a friend of Forrester's,
Mr. Van Butchell, had also subscribed to a consider-
able amount, but in his case 10 per cent. per annum
was paid.
Mr. Van Butchell was her called up, when
Lord BROUGHAM said, .he had been very kind to
Mr. Tracey. He was a good .humoured and jolly-
looking person, and if he should be sick—but he
hoped he should not be—he should be glad to be at.
tended by him.
Mr. Van Butchell said he had had the honour of
attending a member of his Lordship's house.
Lord BROUGHAM—And I hope you cured him.—
(Laughter.)
Mr. Van Butchell had been so fortunate, and his
Lordship had thereupon presented him with 200 gui-
neas.—(Renewed laughter.) The witness said that
he had become acquainted with the late Mr. Tracey
through Mr. Forrester, and that it was in conse-
quence of his hearing from that gentleman, that Mr.
Tracey was in pecuniary difficulties in respect of the
prosecution of his claim, that it had been proposed
that a number of persons should contribute a fund to
enable him to proceed. He was one, and had sub-
scribed more than 3001.
Lord BROUGHAM—That was, the witness bad em-
barked in the " Tracey Stakes."—(Loud laughter.)
In the first instance he had given a cheque for 901.
for a note at twelve months' date for 1001.; that was
a deduction of 10 per cent.
Mr. Bourdillon, on being recalled, stated that
several parties who had been about to subscribe had
called to make inquiries of him as to the chance of
the claimant, when he had given them that which
was his real opinion upon the subject, namely, that
the prospect was most favourable.
Lord BROUGHAM, the evidence having closed, said
th it he could not help expressing his regret that this
matter had been postponed last year. The object of
that postponement had been to enable the claimant to
bring a witness from America. But it now turned
out that not only had the parties delayed sending for
six months, but that even now they were not in a
position to hold out any hope that the man would be
tbrthcoming. A great offence had been committed,
and a crime of no ordinary kind had been perpetrated
—first, there had been a palpable forgery in a prayer-
book, then there had been a fabricated tombstone pro-
duced, and then the authenticity of both had been at-
tempted to be supported by perjury. These were grave
offences, and the more so because one of the parties to
them had been a person who had been seeking to obtain
honour and dignity at the hands of their Lordships.
But there was another point. One object of the pro-
ceeding had been, by the making out the claim to the
peerage, to upset an existing title to certain estates.
Well, to effect this end there bad been a sort of joint-
stock speculating body formed, by whom subscrip-
tions had been made to enable the claimant to prose-
cute his claim. A gross fraud ha i, therefore, been
commuted on the privileges of their Lordships'
House, and they were called upon to vindicate them.
There was, however, much difficulty in the way of