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ject of a serious charge, and would only be taken cogni-
zance of in consequence of the provisions of this Act.
They-accordingly inserted a clause enacting, that if a
person should be convicted at different times, upon two
separate charges under this Act, that in the event of
his subsequent conviction of felony before a superior
court, he should be liable to the consequences of a
second conviction for felony, thus magnifying
the childish act, however trifling, to the weight
and importance of the most serious crime. It would
be far better that the measure should be wholly re-
jected, although it possesses many valuable provisions,
than that the House should sanction such an invasion
of the liberties of the people, or such harsh and op-
pressive enactments. We trust their Lordships will
evince their discretion, and with a good grace acknow-
ledge the propriety and sufficiency of the reasons
for the dissent of the Commons, and permit the Bill
to receive the royal assent in its present form.

In days of yore an election for Westminster pro-
duced all sorts of squibs and handbills, which, how-
ever pungent in quality, were regarded as temporary
effusions and treated as the mere ebulitions of
party zeal. But the case is very different
now, and it has been reserved for the present
candidate for this city to introduce a new
mode of warfare, and to try to terrify by legal pro-
ceedings those whom he could not win by preten-
sions such as his. The Committee of Mr. LUSHING-
TON having published a statement of reasons which,
in their opinion, precluded Mr. COCHRANE from any
chance for Westminster, have one and all been
favoured by letters missive from Mr. COCHRANE'S
solicitors of the usual legal tendency. The Com-
mittee have met these letters by a resolution, which
appears in our advertising columns. We can but
wonder at the ignorance and disregard of public opi-
nion which can induce Mr. COCHRANE to imagine
that he can get into Parliament for Westminster,
through the medium of the Court of Queen's Bench.

On the 28th ultimo the funeral ceremony in com-
memoration of Mr. O'CONNELL was celebrated in the
church of St. Andrea della Valle, an enormous
assembly attesting the reverence with which the
name and fame of the Liberator are regarded.
Among those present were the youngest son of the
deceased, the Member for Dundalk, the Rev. Dr.
MILEY, and every Irishman then in the Eternal City,
besides a vast concourse of ecclesiastical and civil
dignitaries, cardinals, archbishops, bishops, princes,
and the most distinguished travellers sojourning in
the capital of the Papal States. As had been deter-
mined from the commencement Father VENTURA
delivered the funeral oration of O'CoNNELL, in which
he drew an analogy between the condition of Ireland
and that of Italy, instituting a direct comparison be-
tween the Liberator of Ireland and the Liberator of
Italy, Pepe Pius IX. During two hours the Rev.
Orator commanded the emotions and kindled the
imaginations of his auditors. Only one-half of the
oration was delivered, however, namely, that relating
to the deceased as a civilian and as a politician ; it
was to be concluded on the 30th ultimo, the perora•
tion being preceded by a consideration of O'CONNELL
as a lover of religion.

A curious document has been laid before the United
Diet of Germany by Count MUNCII-BELLINGHAUSEN.
It was published on the 3d in the Franckfurt Journal,
and is the explanation respecting the occupation of
Cracow, forwarded to the Germanic Diet by the Ca-
binets of Vienna, Berlin, and St. Petersburgh.
The Governments of Russia, Austria, and Prussia
vindicate themselves as a matter of course, and repeat
the old story that the unfortunate republic is merely
to be restored to the state in which it was placed an-
terior to the year 1809.
The Members of the United Diet were unanimous
in the expression of their approval of the extinction of
Cracow as an independent republic. The leaven of
obedience to the right divine is still in the nature of
these patriotic senators !

Journals from Madrid of the Ist instant have
been received.

Among the provincial intelligence which had
reached the capital, was the announcement contained
in the Fomento of Barcelona of the 29th ult., that
subsequent to the encounter at Montagut, the mau-
rauders had separated into bands, and were then
devastating the province of Tarragona. Such was the
audacity of the insurgents, that they had demolished
the stone of the Constitution at Froncoli, and burnt
an effigy of her Most Catholic MAJESTY on the Prado.
Queen ISABELLA had again appeared at the Circus,
attended by the Count DE SANTA CoLomA, her major
domo, and M. VENTURA DE LA VEGA, her Private
Secretary.
Our dispatches mention the recent arrival of the
mother of General SERRANO in the capital, from
Andalusia.

Don FRANCISCO DE PAULI is reported to have re-
ceived a mandate to leave the palace, from the hands
of the Captain-General of Madrid. The time of his
departure was declared to be fixed for the 3d inst.,
and a formal vindication of his behaviour was expected
from the Prince previous to his leaving for San
Sebastian.

The Three per Cents. were done at 28 5-16 ex div.
for cash; the Four per Cents, at 17i; the Five per
Cents. at 17; the Debt without Interest at 5; and the
Coupons at 13.

The Paris journals of Tuesday have arrived.
Many of them are filled with consternation at the
position of affairs in Madrid. The wisdom of the
views taken of the events now passing in that metro-
polis may be gleaned from the following observations
translated from the National. "We are constantly
receiving," says our Contemporary, " the most in-
credible news from Spain. It is an inexhaustible
source of strange tales, fantastic dramas, and un-
foreseen events. We might fill a volume with the
recital of the follies of Spain of which the innocent
ISABELLA is the theme. She has just been in risk
of a danger so great that joking is quite out of place!,
Know that a dark conspiracy has been formed even in
her own palace ; ferocious demons had resolved to
plunge a dagger into the heart of innocence herself;
every preparation was made for executing this hor-
rible design. The apartment of Don FRANCISCO
was to be first entered, from which there is a door
entering the sleeping apartment of the QUEEN. One
conspirator was to give the first stab, another was
to give the second, and, horrible to relate,
Don FRANCISCO himself was to give the last
stroke with the poniard. This, however, was so
long delayed that the Ministry gained informa-
tion of it, and the door of communication was walled
up, Dun FRANCISCO was put under arrest, and in-
terrogated. He confessed all, is about to be sent into
France under a strong escort, and the QUEEN will
not go out again without being armed with a cursek t
of proof. Such is the abridged recital of a crime
plotted in secret, and in which the uncle and father-
in-law of Queen ISABELLA was an accomplice. Hap-
pily, it was easily discovered and prevented. This
Bourbon idiot, who has passed from Cretinism into
madness, is about to be sent over the frontier—it
would have been much better were he to be confined
in a lunatic asylum. Such, however, are the ridicu-
lous, the insensate, fables in which the Spanish Mi-
nistry of the day are absorbed. In the meantime
Mr. BULIVER conducts the affairs of the State, and
the Conservatives intrigue and agitate as much as
they can—exciting disorder, and writing to NARVAEZ
to hold himself in readiness for the moment of his
coming to clear away all obstacles to the accession of
the Duchess DE MONTPENSIER." Here was a dis-
covery with a vengeance—this of the luckless Don
FRANCISCO as a sort of blood-royal assassin ! M.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS, or, as he delights to designate
m
bimself, N. le Marquise DE LA PAILLETERIE, will
his r
a expectedes
fenilleton romance upon
here find additional
tmhaete, Doubler,ials for
arg
few words by the C'ourrier
is well expressed in a
The position of affairs at this moment in Algeria
Francais :—" There are four personages then just
now on the stage : Marshal BuGEauD, who abdi-
Cates ; the Emperor of MOROCCO; who is threatened
with being deprived of his throne, and the probable
successors of these two potentates—the Duc
D'ACIMILE and ABD-EL-KADER.
The Constitutionnel is more bitter than ever in its
allusions to the maladministration of affairs by the
Guiz,t Cabinet, and especially to the rrialappr, vi:L-
tion of the public muileys by many of its corrupt
members. The 1-',./s.sf; writ•s. in a bitiailar, thoui.;li
somewhat more laboured strain.
More interesting intelligence, however, than the