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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1847.

The Lords met at Five.
The Markets anl Fairs Co' uses Bill, the Commis
sioners Clauses, and the Waterworks Clauses, respee:
tively passed through Committee.
On the motion for the third reading of the Drainage
of Lands Bill, _ _

The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH moved the insertion of
the clause, limiting the amount of money to be expended
in carrying the Bill into effect.
The Earl of MINTO opposed the clause, which was
negatived without a division, and the Bill was read a
third time and passed.

Lord STANLEY moved for the production of certain
correspondence which had taken place between the Go-

vernment and Sir EARDLEY WILMOT, the Governor of

Van Diemen's Land. Charges wholly false and
calumnious affecting the private moral character of Sir
EARDLEY WILMOT had been sent to the Colonial-office.
Those charges had been proved to be false and ca-
lumnious, and, as an act of justice to Sir EARDLEY
WlLmor, he moved for the production of these papers.
Earl GREY would not, under the peculiar circum-
stances of the case, oppose the motion, which was
agreed to.
Some unopposed returns were then moved for, and
their Lordships adjourned.
The Commons met at Twelve o'clock.

Lord G. BENTINCI stated, in answer to a question,
that he should, after Easter, move an address to her
MAJESTY, praying that decisive measures may be takes'
for obtaining redress for the creditors of the Spanish
Government.
On the motion of Sir G. GREY the thanks of the
House were voted to Dr. DEALTRY for his Sermon on
the Fast Day.
A somewhat angry discussion ensued on the subject
of the dismissal of persons from the public works i❑
Ireland, in the course of which the conduct of the Go-
vernment was attacked by Lord G. BENTINCIC, whose
attack, however, was, to use the words of the CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, but a repetition of his
speech on a former evening. In the course of the dis-
cussion Mr. WiLLTAms suggested that the statements of
the expenditure for Ireland should be weekly laid on the
table of the House, in order to show how much this
country was doing for Ireland, and how little the Irish
landlords were doing for their own countrymen.
In answer to Lord SANDON, it was stated by Sir G.
GREY that a clause would be introduced in the Vagrancy
Bill, authorising the authorities in this country to re-
move Irish paupers to their homes. In the course of a
short discussion which ensued,

Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that a Vagrancy Bill for
Ireland would shortly be introduced, and informed that
House that from the accounts he had received, he en •
tertained no apprehension of any disturbance in conse-
quence of the discharge of persons from the public
works.

In answer to Mr. COLLETT, Lord JOHN RUSSELL
stated that the first Tuesday after Easter, he should
bring the Ecclesiastical Commission Bill (authorising the
appointment of four new Bishops) before the House.
The House then went into Committee on the Poor
Relief (Ireland) Bill.
Mr. J. O'CONNELL moved the omission of the
clause increasing the ex-officio guardians from one-fourth
to one-half.

Sir G. GREY opposed the motion, and said that it
would be better to meet any evils that might arise by a
special enactment.
After some discussion the Committee divided, when
there appeared—

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 26, 1847.

Wnite Sea the Black Sea, and the Sea of Azoff.
St. Petersburgh alone can furnish 1,600,000 sacks of
rye flour for exportation." •

We read in the Swabian Mercury of the 21st :
" The rumous nhich have been current respecting the
actual position of Prussia, as regards the European policy,
have induced tie King to order his Minister for Foreign
Affairs to convey to the Courtsof Vienna and St. Petersburgh
the most positive assurances that Prussia has not varied in
the system hitherto pursued, and that the fundamental prin.
ciples which hive influenced her in her international rela-
tions remain inchanged. The highest interest of Prussia,
says the King, is to adhere strictly to the alliance which
binds it to -the. two Courts. M. de Canitz has already exe-
cuted this °Die! of.the King."

Accounts from Stuttgardt of the 17th state that a
report had been current there for several days, that
the Emperor NICHOLAS was expected on a visit to the
Princess Royal, the Grand Duchess OLGA. The
King of WIIIITEMBERG had been indisposed for
several days.

Accounts from Turin represent the King of SAIt,
DINIA to be seriously ill. On the 17th his physicians
found it necessary to apply leeches to him twice
in the clay, and he remained so little relieved by
them that, cn the 18th, they were compelled to take
a considerable quantity of blood from him by the
lancet.

Prince OSCAR of Sweden arrived at Rome on the
9th, travelling under the title of Count DE TULGARN.
It was expected he would stay a week in Rome, and
then proceed to Leghorn, where a Swedish ship was
to be in readiness to receive him.

A letter from Leghorn of the 13th says—" Arrests
continue to be made in Tuscany. Amongst the pri-
soners are MM. BA.RBANERA and GEORGINI, and M.
GROSSI, a physician."

At a political banquet given at Porte Molo, an
individual, who had been received at Rome as a
political emigrant, and treated with the greatest
sympathy, rose and addressed to the assembly a most
seditious speech, urging them to strike at once for
Italian emancipation, and producing a tri-coloured
flag. The guests immediately seized the fellow and
conveyed him to the txdice-office, where he was at
once recognised as an agent of Austria.

We are without any intelligence from Spain. The
Bordeaux mail, which arrived in Paris on Tuesday,
did not bring the mail from Madrid.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.
The Ministerial journal, the Dibats, is evidently
annoyed at the result of the election of Vice-Presi-
dent. It does not attempt to disguise the importance
of the election of M. LEON DE DIALLEVILLE ; on the
contrary, it rather exaggerates it, in order to produce
union among the Conservatives, who, it is evident,
are at present anything but an united party.
Like Sir ROBERT PEEL, M. GUIZOT has ruled his
party with a rod of iron, haughtily demanding from
them not advice, but implicit and unreasoning obe-
dience, and, as in the case of Sir ROBERT PEEL, so in
the case of M. GUIZOT, the non7beaureaucrats are
falling off from him, and looking out for another
leader, and some fine day M. GuizoT will find the
great Conservative party shivered to fragments, him-
self the leader of a miserable minority, and his oppo-
nents in power. The Dibats thus betrays the fears
of its master. It says—
" The Chamber bad to nominate yesterday a Vice-President
in the room of M. Hebert, who has become Keeper of the
Seals. The candidate of the Conservatives was 11. Duprat ;
but M. Leon de Maleville, Member of the Left, was elected
after three ballots, he having obtained 179 votes, whilst M.
Duprat had only 178. Our readers will think, perhaps; that
we deceive ourselves, and that we take one name for another.
In nowise; it is really M. Leon de Maleville, Member of the
Left, who has been nominated. It is true that the Left could
not believe its ears, and that M. Leon de Maleville himself
appeared quite surprised. How did this happen ? We know
not; we only form conjectures. Perhaps a certain number
of Conservatives who do not like M. Duprat, and who would
have preferred M. Debelleyme, thought they played a clever
trick against their own party in electing M. Lion
de Maleville; perhaps, for we must say the truth
to everybody, the Ministry did not give itself enough
trouble to rally its friends, and to conduct all wishes
to the same object. We have the soi-disant progresstst Con-
servatives, who may have voted for M. Lion de Maleville,
after having authorised the reading of M. Duvergier de Hau-
ranne's proposition. We have the impartial Conservatives,
who would not have been vexed to give a gage of their im-
partiality in electing the bitterest of their adversaries to the
Vice-Presidency. We have the young Conservatives, who
try their talents at Parliamentary government by following
merely their own caprices. We have, moreover, what is
called the majority of the majority. This majority of the ma-
jority is not numerous; but in separating itself at a certain
time, and in carrying its votes to the lett, it may cause un-
expected events and coups de theiitre such as the election of
yesterday. That always gives importance ; and they are
not less Conservatives, and very good Conservatives. Only
let danger arise to the monarchy and you will see! In the
meantime they amuse theinseivus. is certain is,
that M. Leon de Maleville could only have been nominated
with the assistance of a certain number of votes
belonging to the majority ; what is certain is, that with
these fine tactics the proposition of M. Duvergier de Hau-
ranne has not been buried in the bureaux,' as it ought to
have been; what is also certain is, that we have gone on for
some time from check to check; the Opposition feels aston-
ishment at its success; its members only are nominated re-
porters on all the committees • and who knows if the propo-
sition of M. Duvergier de committees;
will not be taken into
consideration ? Impartiality is such a fine thing ! Be
it so. But the young Conservatives, the Progressist and
impartial Conservatives, all kinds of Conservatives, who
desire to be distinguished by a particular name, must
know well that it is in this way that majorities dissolve. b
that the object to which they tend ? It is without doubt
impossible that the different minds which compose a majo-
rity shall always see things with the same eye; but does it
follow that every one shall vote according to his humour?
If so, at each vote, parties, ao to speak, dissolve themselves,
and we must no longer talk of majority and of opposition.
Instead of having a Parliamentary Government, we should
have a Government of chance, the worst of Governments!
We engage Ministers also to reflect on this. Little things,
when multiplied, will finish by becoming great. Some Com-
mittees made choice of Members of the Opposition for their
reporters; no attention was paid to it. Three bureaux were
formed to authorise the reading of the proposition of M.
Duvergier de Hauranne; it was then said, Bah ! it is no-
thing—the Chamber will reject the motion for taking it into
consideration !' Yesterday M. Leon de Maleville was nomi
nated Vice-President. This blow will be more felt. To
awake we must not wait for another; we should awake per-
haps too late !"
The Constitutionnel thus accounts for the Ministerial
defeat. "This vote," it says, " proves, first of all,
that the Chamber, which for the last three months
has not taken any part in public affairs, and has been
a simple observer of the Government, begins to judge
this Government as we do. We have not, for our
parts, seen with displeasure this Parliamentary vaca-
tion, and this desertion of the public sittings. In
order that a majority so powerful as that which the
Ministry had obtained at the late elections should
perceive the vices of the Government which it sup-
ports, it is good to let it have some leisure,
and to allow it, in place of acting itself, to
see the Administration perform its functions. Dis-
order in the finances, political isolation, and a deficit,
are sad results, and in the end must enlighten those
who do not wilfully shut their eyes. In the second
place, large majorities are easily irritated against a
power which appears to impose on them scandal and
violence. Nominations like that of M. DE CARNE,
an opposition to all progress such as the Ministry,
at present evinces, exeite distrust and call forth dis-
content. When the majority is turned to improper
uses, it is near being lost. In fine, the favourable
vote of M. LEON DE MALEVILLE is an excellent pre

liminary to propositions of reform. No one has more
ably and more cuttingly branded corruption with
reprobation than M. LEON DE MALEVILLE. Several
of his sayings remain engraved in all men's memories.
The votes which he obtained are the first testimony
of the sentiment which is almost unanimous in the
Chamber, and of which M. DUVERGIER DE HaiI-
"NNE was yesterday the eloquent organ."
The National thus describes the effect produced
on the Ministers by the announcement of the num-
bers :

" The Ministry was beaten, and congratulations poured in
on the new Vice-President from all sides. The confusion of the
Ministers cannot be described. M. Guizot could not stand
it ; he went off; M. Hebert's fierce eye was injected with
blood; M. Duchatel felt himself all over with a stupid air, iu
order to assure himself that he was not the dupe of some
hideous dream ; all the others remained nailed to their seats.
M. Lacave Laplagne alone (the Minister of Finances)
showed the resignation of a man accustomed to deficits."
After the election on Monday the Chamber heard
the explanations of the Minister of Foreign Affairs
on the additional credits required in his department.
They approved of the appointment of a Consul at the
Cape of Good Hope, and of an increase in the
salary of the Chinese interpreter. The debate on the
proposition of electoral reform, brought forward by
M. DUVERGIER DR HAURANNE, was commenced on
Monday,
and resumed on Tuesday. It was still pro-
ceeding when the post left. The disturbances in the

Loiret still continue, and all convoys of grain and
flour are henceforth to be escorted by soldiers. A

detachment will be placed in each boat, and another

detachment will accompany it.
It is announced that; the Duchesse DE MONTPEN-
SIER is enceinte, and that she will shortly return to

Madrid, accompanied by her mother, as it is deter-
mined that the accouchement shall take place in the
country "over which her children" are to rule. It

was rumoured in Paris that the Sotomayor Ministry
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had resigned on the 20th.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris bourse, on