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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1347.

The House of Lords met at Five o'clock.

On the motion of Lord MONTEAGLE, certain returns
relating to the divisions of baronies in Ireland were
agreed to, after a short discussion.
The Marquis of LAKBDOWNE laid on the table certain
returns relating to the bishoprics of England and Wales.
The Sugar Duties Distillery Bill was read a second
time, and ordered to be referred to a Select Committee;
acr which their Lordships adjourned.
The House of Commons met at Four o'clock.
After the transaction of private business, the pre-
sentation of petitions, and the ordering of various
unopposed returns,
Mr. ROEBUCK asked how it was that the answer of
the Foreign Secretary to the last dispatch of the Mar-
quis of NORMANDY had appeared in the newspapers
before the. dispatch could have reached Lord NORMANDY?
He asked the questiona merely for information, as he
believed that the conduct and good faith of Lord PAL-
MEISSTON and of his
~,beanatst, in relation to the recent
relations with France,
that
completely vindicated.
Lord PALMERSTON said, coorpics of the last dis-
patch of Lord NORMANDY, andt
hadbeen
laidhis (Lord PALMER-
-BTON'S) answer thereto,
the House last night. upon the table of
The Destitute Persons (Ireland) Bill was read a third
time and passed.
In answer to Mr. F. FRENCH, it was statud I
LABOUCHERn that the Irish Government had renewedlir
the Board of Health in Dublin.
On the motion for the second reading of the Railway&
(Ireland) Bill,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that if the
measure were carried, the Government were not pre-
pared to undertake the responsibility of carrying it out.
The Right Hon. Gentleman then went into various de-
ails, with a view of showing the impossibility of the
Government, consistently with the duty they owed the
country, making an advance of 16,000,0001. to the share-

holders in Irish railways, and concluded by moving that
the Bill be read a second time that day six months.
Mr. BAILLIE would not consent to a grant for Ireland,
unless there was one for Scotland also. He therefore
opposed the !notion.
Mr. STUART supported the Bill.
Mr. F. T. BARING opposed the measure. It was-cal-
culated to produce a most injurious effect upon the
money-market, and would do no good to the people of
Ireland. Where a bad line ran through an impoverished
district there would be no security for the repayment of
advances, the line would not be made, and consequently
the labouring population would not be benefited, and
when the line was a good one, the shareholders would,
for their own interest, proceed with the work without
any Government advances. _ _

Several other Hon. Members having addressed the
House, the debate, on the motion of Mr. M. J. O'Cos•
NELL, was adjouined.
The Compensation to Irish Tenants Bill was read a
first time.

The other orders of the day was then disposed of, and
;he House adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'Clock.

Postponements form the very sustenance of an im-
potent minority. Delay and agitation—delay and
agitation—delay and agitation—that is literally the
soul of every feeble and factious opposition. It is
simply upon these grounds that the debate upon the
preposterous Railway Bill of Lord G. BENTINC/C has
been adjourned, and that the House of Commons has
been debarred from at once and emphatically scouting
the proposition as an impudent extravagance.
A more felicitous and lucid speech was never
uttered by the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer than the one delivered
by him yesterday evening, elucidative of the imprac-
ticability of such a measure as the one conceived by
the Arabic imagination and distempered judgment of
the Noble Lord the representative of Lynn. Among
the " One Thousand and One" stories related to the
Sultaun by the daughter of the Vizi Elt, perhaps the most
humorous, and unquestionably the moat perpetually
applicable, is the dream of the penniless pedlar while
sleeping upon a doorstep in Bagdad. Lord GEORGE
BENTINCL has proved himself to be the very counter-
part of that pedlar, with the additional misfortune of
having talked his reverie out loud. Instead, how-
ever, of marrying the first-born of the Commander of
the Faithful, like his ambitious prototype, Lord
GEORGE is calculating upon his assumption of office :
instead of kicking his august spouse in the very ecstasy
of his authority, Lord GEORGE IS counting upon the
transmission of 16,000,0001. to Ireland in the very
extremity of his Ministerial munificence : and in so
doing the Noble Lord inadvertently destroys more
than the Persian somnambulist—be renders himself
bankrupt in whatever political reputation he may
have possessed heretofore, just as the dreaming pedlar
rendered himself bankrupt in a monetary sense by
smashing his basket of crockery.
Lord GEORGE BENTINCK has tasked the credulity
of hls supporters too far, and has insulted their
common sense overmuch. Just as his prospective
Cabinet seems to be emulating the palace of Pande-
monium—

" Rising like exhalations,"

its brittle materials tumble to pieces. Lord GEORGE
BENTINCIC has been carried away by his sanguine
temperament. Such boundless generosity to-
wards the beef-eating and beer-swilling na-
vigators of England ! such amenity towards
the bubble companies of the United King-
doms ! such an affecting tenderness towards the
necessitous condition cf those respectable gentlemen
the stags ! such commisseration for the unna-
tural loneliness of Capel-court !—as if feeding
the already well-fed railway labourers of England
would appease the hunger of the emaciated peasantry of
Ireland, as if promoting the formation of bubble
companies would tend to counteract the perillous
dearth of proviiiona and the ruinous vacillations of
the money-market, as if the patronage of the stag-
ging system were the nourishment of a starving nation,
as if scrip was bread and mutton, and the prosperity
of Capel-court implied the happiness of the sister
island! Admirably did Sir CIIA.RLISS WOOD charac-
terise the scheme of the Noble Lord the Member for
Lynn, as " A Bill for the Relief of Destitute Share-
holders," instead of a Bill for the Relief of Destitute
Labourers I

We cannot be surprised that ridicule should be
thrown upon such a scheme for the assistance of Ireland
hi her present state of awful and appalling wretched-
ness, when the scheme which is ridiculed is so emi-
nently ridiculous in itself: Apparently the proposi-
tion emanating from Lord GEORGB BENTINCH. is
benevolent and philanthropical, but at bottom it
amounts to nothing less tl.an positive cruelty. Un-
witting cruelty it may be, but positive cruelty in its
effect it most undeniably is. It is cruelty (and who
shall gainsay it ?) to interrupt the salutary labours
of the Government with a plan that would be im-
practicable if it were attempted, and that cannot be
attempted, because the intelligence of Parliament
would revolt from its acceptation. It is cruelty to
fritter away in this idle manner the moments de-
voted to our legislative deliberations when Time
is slaying almost hour by hour the
doomed peasantry beyond St. George's Channel.
And it is indisputable and peculiar cruelty to indulge
in mere exhibitions of rhetoric when men and women
are dying from sheer want. We were especially re-
joiced, therefore, to observe Mr. F. T. BARING repro-
bating the " general declamations" with which Mr.
STUART favoured the attention of the House of COM-
mans. This is neither the time for the practising of
a legislative debut., nt, nor for the introduction of a Par-
liamentary chimera.

Under the impression—proved to be perfectly er-
roneous by Lord PALMERSTON'S reply—that his
Lordship's dispatch of Thursday last, addressed to
Lord NORMANBY, had been communicated to a public
journal before it had been officially laid on the table
of either House of Parliament, Mr. ROEBUCK, whilst
putting a question last evening to elicit this informa-
tion, added the expression of his belief, " that the
faith, honour, and candour of this country had been
thoroughly carried out by the Noble Lord and our
diplomatic agents, and had been completely vindicated
hitherto by the publication of the papers produced."
What was the effect of this declaration within the
walls of the British House of Commons ? Did it
produce any mark of dissent ? No, not even a
whisper. Mr. ROEBUCK'S opinion was loudly cheered
by the assembled representatives of the English
nation. This is the second time the question of the
Spanish marriages has been broached in Parliament
since the opening of the session, and it is the first time
that a reference has been made to them since the en
tire correspondence (not garbled nor mutilated, after
the fashion of M. GUIZOT, but in the most unreserved
and fullest shape) between the two Courts, from its
commencement to its close, has been published to the
world at large. What followed further ? Was there
one Member to rise and find fault with the manner
in which our Secretary for Foreign Affairs had con-
ducted the proceedings, on the part of England,
throughout this grave and delicate question ? Was
there one to get up and attempt to palliate the con-
duct of either Louis PHILIPPA or his Ministerial
dupe.? Not one. If there was one ready and willing
to extenuate the one or the other, we can only say,
cox faucibus hcrsit.
This silence is conclusive as to the universal con-
viction of British Peers and Commoners that the
French Monarch hes acted most faithlessly, be-
neath the mask of international amity. This silence,
too, is fraught with true dignity and real grace, be-
cause it evinces that neither house of the British Par-
liament will utter a word to give offence to the great
and distinguished body of the French nation, w ith
the knowledge we possess, in common with the rest
of Europe, that both the Government and the Chame
bers of France are completely enthralled by the des-
patic will of their Sovereign. When Lord PALMERS-
TON adverted, last evening, to the prompt assurance
hich had been tendered by her MAJESTY'S Govern-
ment to Lord NORMAN or, of unshaken confidence in
his Lordship's honour and integrity, which M.
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disregarded by M. BRINSON and his royal master.
The union proposed for the latter personage was so dis-
tasteful to the Spanish nation, that, had it not come off
precipitately as it did, and had it not been effected
contemporaneously with the nuptials of the SOTS..
REIGN, in all probability it never would have taken
place at all. The marriage has been accomplished in
direct opposition to the national feelings of the Iberian
Peninsula, one evident proof of which is, that the
Duc DR MONTPENSISIt resides, and will continue to
reside in Paris ; whereas, looking to how far the
constitutional status of the Duchess in Spain, as
heiress presumptive to the throne, preponderates over
that of her husband in France, and to the stress
which Louis PHILIPPS has laid upon the advantages
of uniting France and Spain by the royal
alliance in question, the natural residence of the
Duc DE MONTI'S/47MR should be not in the French,
but in the Spanish territory. The plain fact is, that
the abode of the French Prince has been dictated by
a sense of personal security, and is entirely in
keeping with the caution observed during his ap-
proach to Madrid, where he found himself supported,
not by the affections of the people, but by files of
soldiers and heavy pieces of ordnance. Another plain'
fact, deducible from a review of all the circumstances,
is, that, from the first, we determined upon consult-
ing the independence of Spain as the paramount con-
sideration ; whereas Louis PHILLIPPS was deliberately
bent upon sacrificing it in every way to his own sel-
fish purposes. Independently of his bad faith, the
policy of Louis Plizurro has been short-sighted.
He is advanced in years, and, in the presence of his
Parliament, has constantly vaunted of the personal
devotion of himself and family to the interests of
France. 'Were the royal purple shortly to descend,
as in the course of nature it may, upon his successor,
it would be with the unfavourable prestige that
the last leading act of the Citizen King was
purely dynastic and anti-national ; and that a cordial
understanding, essential to the maintenance of civil
liberty and the progress of civilization, which had
happily prevailed for years, with but slight interrup-
tion, between England and France, had been wan-
tonly shaken to the foundation, notwithstanding that,
after the revolution in 1830, we were the first to step
forward and guarantee her national stability.

Intelligence has been received that the Russian Go-
vernment has prohibited the export of grain of all kinds
from the Russian dominions. This will seriously affect
the markets both in France and England, more espe
cially those of the former country, where large imports
of corn from Odessa were confidently calculated on.
A Berlin journal announces that the greatest part of
the merchants of Cracow have given notice to their cor-
respondents that they are unable to fufil their engage-
ments, and they can only offer 5 per cent. 1 Shoull
this intelligence be true, Berlin, Dresden, and llamburgh
will suffer severely.
A letter from Warsaw of the Ist states, that all the
Polish money now in circulation is to be called in and
r(placed by Russian coinage. The Government of Po-
land had intended to order the state offices not to re-
ceive from the present time any coins but those of
Russia and Prussia, but on the representations made by
the merchants and dealers, it deferred the execution of
this project until the Polish money had been called in.
The same letter states that any person in Russia or
Poland having in his possession the works of MICKE-
WIEZ is punishable with banishment to Siberia and con-
tiecation of property.

A letter from Stockholm, of Jan. 25, saye—

" Our legislation for manufactures had remained until now
that of the middle ages, with its guilds, superintending
juries, and other obsolete institutions. For a length of time,
and again under the last reign, public opinion vainly soli-
cited some improvement. The burgess classes, notwith-
standing their privileges, at last joined the other three classes
in leaving the royal power all the latitude it might choose to
assume in the matter, and, this day, royal ordinances have
been issued, announcing, Ist, the abolition of guilds and su-
perintending juries, for which are substituted councils of
prud'hommes; 2d, abolition of tha obligatery duration of
apprenticeship (seven years for some lines of business and
eleven for others); 3d, liberty to establish a workshop
without other firmality than a certificate of capacity from
the council of prud'hommes; 4th, the entire emancipation of
domestic labour, any person being at liberty to do what work
be pleases at his own house; sth, the faculty for every man,
having a trade license, to sell what he pleases wholesale or
retail. These provisions are to be in force from the Ist of
July of the present year."

Madrid prpers of the sth have boon received.
The Sotomayor Cabinet, which had not been installed
in office a week, was already falling to pieces. Senor
SEIJAS LOZANO, the Minister of the Interior, has re-
signed in consequence of a difference with his colleagues,
and the whole affair bears such a ricketty appearance,
that it was presumed that General PAVIA, who had not
yet arrived at Madrid, would scarcely consider it pru-
dent to accept office with such colleagues. It was re-
ported in Madrid that Senor Isrunaz was to be sent as
Ambassador to England.
MAnam Bouts, FEB. s.—The Three per Cents,
closed at 32k; the Five per Cents, at 20g; Coupons, 19i.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.

In speaking of the articles which have appeared in the
London journals on the subject of the speeches of M.
THIEIIB and M. G maw the Journal des Debats says—

" The Spanish marriages have caused in England a dis-
satisfaction which we regard as natural, although unjust ;
it is quite a matter of course that the justification which M.
Guizot was compelled to make of his policy should excite
feelings of the same nature. The language of the English
journals may appear to us regretable, but is neither extra-
ordinary nor unexpected."
The escapade of M. Gum sT, in his speech in the
Chamber of Deputies on the Spanish marriage question,
will probably cause his secession from office. He, in
fact, all but directly accused the Marquis of NORMANDY
of having given to his Government a false account of
the interview of the 25th of September. M. GulzoT has
thus placed the English Ambassador in such a position
that he cannot remain passive. It is said that M. GuszoT
offers to make an explanation in the columns of the
.Journal des Debuts. As this explanation so made will
be anonymous and unofficial, of course it will be no
reparation of the injury done to the Marquis
of NORMANDY, and ho cannot accept it as
such. Where the insult was offered there should
the reparation be made, and M. GuszoT, as a
gentleman and a man of honour, is bound to declare
openly in the Chambers that there is no foundation
whatever for insinuating that the English Ambassador
has given to his Government an unfair or an untrue ac-
count of the interview in question, or, if he still persists
in his accusation, he is bound to state what really did
pass at the interview in question. But it is evident that
M. GIIIZOT is wrong, or he would not hare made an
offer to retract through the columns of the Journal des
Debats. A Cabinet Council is to be held on the subject.
It is generally thought, however, that he will leave office
shortly on some question of secondary importance, as
many of the Conservatives have declared that on account
of his maurais procedes in the conduct of the negotia-
tions relating to the marriages, they can no longer sup-
port a Government of which he shall continue a mem-
ber. To add still further to his embarrassments, the
Prussian Minister officially presented to him on Wed-
nesday a protest, on the part of the Prussian Govern-
ment, in which the King of PRUSSIA declares his entire
accordance in the ♦iews of the English Government on
the subject of the Montpensier marriage, and
contends that the issue of such marriage cannot
inherit the throne of Spain, as they are excluded
by the renunciations and provisions of the Treaty of
Utretcht. The l'resse most unwillingly admits the ac-
cession of Prussia to the views of England. It says—
"M. Guizot in his last speech announced that Lord
Palmerston had renewed his overtures to the three Northern
Courts, to obtain from them a declaration in opposition to
the rights of her Royal Highness the Duchess de Montpen-
sier, in case Queen leabella should happen to die without
heirs. It appears that Lord Palmerston has succeeded with
the Court of Prussia, for the Cabinet of Berlin is said to have
made a declaration in accordance with England in this re-
spect:

The Duke of PILMELLA has landed at Toulon from
are Labrador steam-frigate from Algiers.
The discussion on the'address was continued on Thurs-
day, and had not concluded at the hour of post.
A letter from Algiers of the 3d says—". The steam-
packet which came in yesterday evening with the mail
from tho West has brought important news. General
MAREY, having marched from Mcdeah to act against the
Ouled Nayls, at the head of the column placed under his
command, has had to sustain a conflict, but in which
the enemy suffered most severely. We have also expo.
rienced some losses. We are as yet without the details
of this affair, which seems to indicate that Bou leitza
has made some progress in the country. We have just
learned that General YUSSOUF has received orders to
join General MARRY with the whole of the cavalry at
his diposal, and that this column will march on
the Bth."

The lady of the Viscount DE CIIATEA.I7BRIAND ex-
pired on Wednesday, at her residence in the Rue du
Bac. Her loss will be deeply mourned by her friends
and by the poor, for her charity was unbounded.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Thursday at 77f. 50c. ; the Five per Cents., 1171. 95c. ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,227 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 848 f.
75c.; Havre, 6601.; Great Northern, 608 f. 75c. ; Avignon,
817 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 567 f. 50c. ; Bordeanx, 533 f. 7.5 e. ; Bou-
logne, 4121. 50c. ; Troyes and Montereau, 330 f. ; Basle,
202 f. 50c.; Dieppe, 3401. ; Paris and Strasburg, 465 f. ; Tours
and Nantes, 465 f.; Paris and Lyons, 487 f. 50c. ; Lyons and ,