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people of Kent, but he withdrew his amendment to that
effect. In truth, however, that is the only important in-
quiry for the Legislature. The whole mischief grew out
of the fanatical credulity of Sir E. KNATCHBULL'S vassals,
tenants, and retainers, and of the vassals, tenants, and retain-
ers of the other neighbouring gentlemen. For lunacy there is
no preventive, and no cure. It is a dreadful visitation to
which our race is subject beyond tho reach of art, and the
real problem for the Legislature to investigate is the mental
condition of the multitude who believed in and followed the
lunatic. Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL and all his friends
shirk and dread such an inquiry, and he degraded into a
personal and party contest one of the most interesting
public questions the Legislature was ever called on to
investigate.

Pursuing his personal and party course, he selected his
Committee from the Ultras or weaklings of his own side of
the House. Lord HOWICK objected to some of these,
such as Lord LINCOLN, Lord CHANDOS, Mr. PRAED,
and Mr. DARBY ; and proposed to substitute for them
Sir R. PEEL, Sir HENRY HARDINGE, Sir THOMAS
ACLAND, and Sir R. INGLIS. That was another
personal question that was debated with great heat,
and ended in a division, which set aside Lord
LINCOLN and placed Sir THOMAS ACKLAND on the
Committee. The Tories selected by Lord HOWICK
were all subsequently placed on the Committee, but they
all declared that they would not serve, and we presume,
therefore, that the Committee will be a complete abortion.
Because Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL was not allowed to
compose an improper Committee, the Tories will have
none, and the amusing personalities of the debate will
be its only fruit.
We believe there never before was a case when the
Member who moves for a Committee refused to settle with
his opponents before-hand, of whom it should be com-
posed. The Ministers shewed their wish for a free in-
quiry, by proposing to place on the Committee a gentleman
who has filled the situation of Home Secretary. But the
Tories would insist on Mr. DARBY, a Quarter Sessions
barrister, and Mr. PRAED, another Quarter Sessions
barrister, sitting in judgment on Lord JOHN Rus-
SELL. Mr. PRAED demonstrate] his unfitness for the
office by his cheers. Such poor partizans as Mr. PRAED
and Mr. DARBY might have been properly selected
to sit on a Committee, to inquire concerning the cha-
racter of a door-keeper ; and by proposing them to in-
quire concerning Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Sir EDWARD
KNATCHBULL showed an improper sense of the importance
of his own motion.

In the course of the evening Mr. PRAED, after some
warm words between him and Mr. E. L. BITLWER, with-
drew from the House, which was considered to imply a
challenge to Mr. BULWER, who was immediately bound
down by the House not to proceed further in the business.
After the House interfered he was obliged to submit, and
we do not blame his acquiescence in Sir H. HARD-
INGE'S recommendation ; but we must say that his
personal attack on Mr. PRAED in the first instance was
quite uncalled for and unwarranted, and was derogatory
to himself, to the House, and to the public. Though politi-
cally opposed to Mr. PRAED, we see nothing, consistent with
the usual laws of honour, to disapprove of in his conduct
towards Mr. BULWER.

It will be seen by our Parliamentary Report that the
Government have consented to withdraw for the present
from the Mails on Railway Bill the 11th and 12th clauses,
which give the Post-office the power of running its own
engines and carriages on the railways.
The principle involved in those clauses is however not
conceded, and should the plan of using the engines and car-
riages belonging to the Companies not prove so effectual as
is desirable for promoting the public service, another Bill is
to be introduced next Session gi% ing the State the power
of employing its own machinery on the railways.
As we never thought that that part of the measure:which
has now been left out could be practically carried into effect
witheut inconvenience, and as the only purpose which we
considered it calculated to serve may perhaps he answered
by holding up contingently a stronger measure over the
heads of the Companies, we do not object to the course
which has been pursued. The Bill will now pass without
any opposition ; the Railway Companies will be put on
their good b,haviour ; and before another Session we shall
have had sufficient experience to decide whether farther le-
gislation be necessary.

The Paris Journals of Monday contain no political in-
telligence of any moment—for we attach no importance
whatever to the prosecution of M. LAITY. By advices
from Odessa, dated the 2d inst., it would appear that the
CZAR has appointed MEKLI KHAN, a Circassian Chief long
in the service of Russia, to negotiate a peace with his
countrymen. The same advices intimate that the Per-
sian Minister of Finance, MinzA MALIK lEHmtL, was
on his way to St. Petersburg to demand reinforcements
from the Emperor to join the army of the Scum' before
Herat.

Letters from several of the Swiss Cantons to the 20th
inst. have been received, from which we learn that serious
apprehensions were entertained respecting the possibility of
restoring harmony in the Republic without violence. On
the 18th the Directory addressed a circular to the Magis-
tracy of the several Cantons, from which we extract a pas-
sage, which tends to confirm the fears entertained by the
Correspondents of the French Journals :

" The Directory has already annoullced, by a circular of the 13th,
that it had ordered the Federal Commissioners to return to Schwytz,
and it has made known to you the mandate with which it has intrusted
the said Commissioners on the subject of the meeting of the Landige-
meinde on the 17th. It now informs you that it has learnt, from a sure
source, that the two parties which divide the canton of Schwytz, have
taken up arms, each fearing to be attacked by its adversary. The To-
rort, justly fearing that this may lead to troubles, has ordered the Federal
Commissioners at Schwytz to report without delay ; and, in case these
armings threaten the tranquillity of the country, to invite the cantons of
Zurich and Gall to hold themselves ready.

" The Vorort must seriously complain to the States that the pro-
clamations posted at Schwytz on the 15th, by the federal Commissioners,
in virtue of their instructions, have been torn down by order of the
authorities.

" We do not doubt but that such proceedings are the object of uni.
•ersal blame, for they show a fixed contempt for the authority of the
Confederation, which the States will doubtless not permit to be tram.
pled upon.

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On the 18th inst. Prince LUCIEN BONAPARTE and his
Lady arrived at Spires. On the 12th the Pore gave a
private audience to the Turkish Ambassador,
The Queen of Naples is, it is officially announced, enceinte.
M. Alexis de Saint Priest, is appointed Envoy Extraordinary, and
Minister Plenipotentiary in Denmark, in the room of M. de Tallye.
rand, nephew of the late Prince, who has been raised to the Peerage.
We have the following letter from Toulon of June 2( :—The re..
moval of the English squadron at Naples has caused an extraordinary
sensation.

The Wakefield, which left Malta on the Ist of June, with dispatches
for Admiral Stopford, arrived at Naples on the 3d, where she remained
till the 16th. This vessel, after touching at Leghorn and Genoa, has
just cast anchor in our road. Its object is unknown. The Medea fri-
gate is going to Cadiz, and will probably sail to.morrow to take the place
of the Sufren of 100 guns, at Cadiz.

P.& Captain A. Wakefield has announced that he expects in the road
of Toulon the squadron of Admiral Stopford, which was to leave Naples
on the I 7th.—Constitutionnel.

VIENNA, JUNE 16.-The Russian Ambassador at Rowe has arrived
here, from St. Petersburg, on his way to his post. M. de Tatischeff,
Russian Ambassador at Vienna is gone to-day to Carlsbad, whence he
will proceed to Toplitz. Sir F. Lamb also will shortly leave Vienna.
It is now positively affirmed that Prince Metternich will go to Bohemia
in the first fortnight of July, to pa; his respects to the Emperor of
Russia and the King of Prussia at Toplitz. The Prince means to go
from Toplitz to Johannisberg, which place, next to Toplitz, will certainly
be, during the summer, the rendezvous of the most distinguished and
influential men. An Austrian courier sets out this evening for Frank.
fort. The unfavourable reports which foreign journals endeavour to
propagate respecting the solution of the question of Holland and Bel-
gium are not at all credited here. We fully rely on the prudence of the
Great Powers, which have taken on themselves the duty of maintaining
the peace of Europe. This peace will not be interrupted, however great
the efforts may be of those who hope to profit by general confusion.
FRENCH FUNDS.-Pmus, JuNs 23.
Five per Cents., 110 f. 65c. 75c. 60c.
Four per Cents., 102 f. 40c.
Three per Cents., 80f. 25c. 30c. 20c.
Bank Actions, 2,7 f Of.
Itente de Naples, 98f. 65c. 8.5 c.
Roman Five per Cents., 101%%3j.
Spanish Actives, 22%14%.
Belgian Loan, 102%N.
Belgian Bank, 1,450 f. 1,447 f. 50c. 1,450 f.
Portuguese Lean. Three per Cents. 24N.
Haytian Loan, 32,5 f 320 f. 030 f. 3:5f.
EXCITANOE ON LONDON.
Onemonth, paper, 251. 47%c.; money, 25(. 45c.
Three months, paper, 251. 32,,4e.; money, 'St'. 20e.
LATEST PRICES.
Five per Cents. 110 f. 95c.
Three per Cents., 80f. 25c.
Bank Actions, 2,7tiof.
Romans' 101.
Belgian Loan, .1021;.
Belgian Bank, 1,45 Cf.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 24%.
Spanish Actives, 24%.
Haytian Loan, :325f.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.-VIENNA, JUNE 16.
Five per Cents. Mc'........ 107

..tetalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares
1457
—Allgemeine Zeitung, June 21.

• Madrid Papers of the ISth inst. have reached us this
morning. The Chamber of Deputies was busied with
the Report of the Committee on the Government Extra-
ordinary Credit project. A motion for postponing its con-
sideration till after the discussions on the Budgets of the
Interior and the Navy was rejected by a majority of 37
votes. Generals SAN MIGUEL and ORAA were, the former
at Saragossa, and the latter at Valencia, with their respec-
tive divisions. The Carlists assassinated one of their best
officers, Captain Don JOSE ROMIERA as he was entering the
door of his own house at Estella. We are not informed
what provoked them to the commission of such a crime.