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highest estimation as a body (although there are
many honourable exceptions), and may enable them
to evade the full performance of the duties now
legally, as they were at all times morally, incumbent
on them.

We admit that there is apparent justice in the
latter part of this reasoning. The magnificent and
disinterested assistance which we last year afforded
entailed many difficulties on our own people, but it
was freely and unhesitatingly given, and we are
much mistaken, were a similar emergency again
to happen, if equal aid would not again be as readily
proffered, although it thereby became necessary to
cut off all our comforts, and to limit even the very
necessaries of life to the utmost. Yes, we would
willingly share our last crust with our Irish
brethren before they should perish from want,
while we had an abundance or even a sufficiency.
The ingratitude of the recipients, however worthy
of censure, could not justify us in abandoning them to
a wretched and miserable fate. Even if all were
tainted with the crime, we should forgive our erring
brother, however guilty he might be, but it would be
the height of injustice to punish the innocent for the
offences of a few. We believe that deep and' heart-
felt thanks are rendered to their benefactors in the
cottages of the labourers, preserved with their families
from lingering and painful deaths by English benevo-
lence, and that however much the M'Hales or the
Laffans might rail and vituperate, our prompt and
efficacious assistance was appreciated by the humble
classes, who reaped the benefit thereof. The only
argument, therefore, requiring an answer to justify
her MAJESTY'S Government in having sanctioned
the general collection, and to induce the public
generally to contribute liberally, is the last of those
we have above set forth.

Two letters, for which we shall endeavour to
find room to-morrow, from persons whose autho-
rity cannot be impugned or controverted, furnish
the most satisfactory reply thereto, and completely
vindicate her MAJESTY'S Ministers from the charges
that Lhave been brought, the complaints that
have been uttered. The first is from Mr. TRH-
VELYAN, the Secretary of the Treasury, who
may be presumed to speak with full authority
63 to the Ministerial intentions, and whose
testimony, therefore, is unexceptionable. The other,
on which it is chiefly based, is from Sir JOHN Bust-
GOYNB, whose recent experience in his important po-
sition as chief of the Relief Commissioners, must
entitle his every statement and opinion to the greatest
weight and authority, and who fully explains the
reasons why another effort, such as that of last year,
is necessary. Mr. TRETELTAN distinctly and posi-
tively states—

" That the new Poor-law will be enforced in Ire-
land to the utmost extent of the power of the Govern-
ment—that no assistance whatever will be given from
national funds to those unions which, whether they
have the will or not, undoubtedly have the power of
maintaining their own poor—and that the collection
of the rates will be enforced as far as it can be, even
in those distressed western unions in which some
assistance from some source or other must be given."
This completely removes the fear that any portion
of the sum about to be collected can be allocated or
disposed of in a manner or to objects different from
those contemplated by the donors. It is only where
the circumstances of the locality are such that the
entire property of the district is insufficient for the
support of its inhabitants, and that no exertions of
the owners and occupiers of land would enable
them to provide for the enormous mass of destitution,
that any assistance whatsoever can be rendered.
True it is that this lamentable state of things may,
in a great degree, have been occasioned by the cul-
pable remissness, the adoption of an erroneous system
by the fathers of, and, we may say, its continuance
by, the present race. But much as we may condemn,
justly as we may censure the foly of their con-
duct, we are not on that account to abandon
them to their impending ruin. Sir JonN
BURGOYNE has proved that although the eastern dis-
tricts, comprehending four-fifths of the country, may
by considerable sacrifices struggle through the diffi-
culty, " the remaining fifth—that along the west—
remains in the most deplorable state, and has not
within itself the possible power of relief; that Ire-
land in all parts is still in much distress, but along the
west very active and extended benevolence is required
to be exerted from elsewhere to prevent the most hor-
rible scenes. That this calamity is continuous, and
can only be gradually removed by a new order in
the social system, which it will be the interest, and
must be the effort, of all parties to introduce and
accelerate."

We heartily commend the letters to which we have
referred to the consideration of our readers. We
doubt not that they will remove the scruples, no
doubt conscientiously felt by many kind-hearted and
benevolent persons, who feared the misapplication of
their bounty, and that it will induce all who have
the power to respond liberally to the invitation of
their SOVBREIGN, and from their abundance to re-
lieve the wants of the needy and destitute, and in the
most acceptable manner to testify their sense of the
great mercies that have been vouchsafed to them,
and the sinoerity of their thanksgiving and gratitude.

The Levant `Neil brings adviees fr'om Constanti-
nople of the 28th, and from Athens of the 30th ult.
The Porte has given effect to its resolution prohibit-
ing Greek commerce in Turkish ports, by ordering
the cargoes' of 17 vessels to be discharged. The
Russian Minister had, it was said, protested against
this proceeding. The Pachas of EGYPT and TUNIS
have recognised the orders of the Porte to suspend
relations with Greece.

BEDERRAM Bar was expected at Constantinople
on the 29th. The cholera has broken out at Samsoon.

The address of the Greek Chambers, in reply to
the speech from the throne, appears in the Moniteur
Greo of the 30th. It is, as usual, an echo to the
speech. General GRIVAS is at Jannina.

Letters from Rome state that the Austrians were to
evacuate Ferrara on the 3d instant.

On the 21 a collision took place at Turin, between
some soldiers of the infantry and artillery regiments,
in which several were killed on both sides.
The Grand Duke of TUSCANY has issued the follow-
ing additional motu proprio:—

His Imperial and Royal Highness, being desir-
ous that whilst the organic and disciplinary regula-
tions of the Civic Guard continue to form the subject
of the constant attention of the Royal Council of
State, all the necessary arrangements may be pre-or-
dained for accelerating the formation of the said Civic
Guard in the capital in such a manner as to secure,
according to circumstances, an instantaneous service,
nominates and appoints by these presents,—
" Major-General the Chevalier Francesa Caimi to
be the Commandant of the said Guard for the commu-
nity of Florence ;
" The Chevalier Gaetano Baceani to be Major in
the above-mentioned quarter ;
" Chevalier Gaetano de Pazzi to be Lieutenant-
Colonel Chief of Battalion in the quarter of Santa
Croce ;
" M. Pasquale Benini to be Major in the above-
mentioned quarter ;
" The Marquis Chevalier Vincenzo Caffoni to be
Chief of Battalion and Lieutenant-Colonel in the
quarter of Santo Spirito ; and
" Professor Emilio Sauterelli to be Major of the
said quarter.
" The General Commander of the Civic Guard of
Florence may take due and opportune measures for
immediately carrying into effect, in a provisional
manner, the service of the Civic Guard in Florence,
availing himself of the citizens who, in due form of
law, have already inscribed, or who may in future
inscribe their names on the registers of enrolment
opened in the respective quarters of the city, and who,
in the exerciserof their functions, will wear, besides the
national cockade, the distinctive device of a white
and red rihand on the left arm, until the regular
uniform shall have been proposed and approved.
(Countersigned " LEOPOLD, G.D.
" V. F. CLMPINI.

" L. ALBIANI.
" Florence, Sept. 24."

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
The following ordonnance, on the subject of the
new loan, appears in the litoniteur :
"Louis Philippe, King of the French, to all whom
it may concern, greeting► :
" Considering the law of August 8,1841, respecting
a loan of 350,000,000 f.
" On the report of our Minister of Finance we have
ordered, and do hereby order, as follows :
" Art. 1. Our Minister of Finance is hereby au-
thorised to proceed to the sale, by public competition,
and by sealed tender, of a sum of Three per Cent.
Rente, sufficiently to produce a capital of
250,000,0001. The said Rente shall be entitled to
the interest of Dec. 22, 1847. The sale shall be mad*
to the parties offering the highest price, subject to the

reservation gt a minimum to be fixed by our Minister
of Finance.
" Art. 2. In conformity with the provisions of the
second paragraph of the only article of the afore-
mentioned law of August 8, 1847, the dotation of the
Sinking Fund shall be augmented from January 1,
1848, by a sum equal to the hundredth part of the
nominal capital of the Rente which is to be negotiated
in virtue of Art. 1 preceding.
" Art. 3. Our Minister of Finance is charged with
the execution of the present ordonnance.
" Given at our Palace of St. Cloud, this 9th day of
ned) " LOUIS PHILIPPE.
October, I(Bs4i7g.
(Countersigned) " A DUMON,
Minister of Finance."

The tenders for this loan (which amounts to
10,000,0001. sterling) are to be handed in sealed at
the hotel of the Minister of Finance, at twelve
o'clock on the 10th Nov., and the Minister will place
on the table a sealed paper containing the minimum
price which will only be opened in case no tender
shall have reached the minimum. A tender once
delivered cannot be withdrawn. The different instal-
ments of the loan are to be paid as follows :—On the
22d of November, 1847, 12,500,000 f.; on the 22d of
December, 12,500,000 f.; on the 7th of January,
1848, 5,000,000 f.; and afterwards 10,000,000 f.
monthly, on the 7th of each month, down to Novem-
ber, 1849, inclusive.
The Union Monarchique has the following on the
recent change of Ministry in Spain :
" The Duke Decazes received yesterday morning
from the Duke de Glucksberg, his son, Minister of
France at Madrid, a letter containing the particulars
of the change of Ministry in Spain. That letter was
written in the night -of the 3d, at two o'clock, A.M.
The Duke de Glucksberg mentioned that he was
awaiting, in order to close his letter, the conclusion of
the conference which took place with the Queen, and
which he had just learned. He announced the com-
position of the Cabinet under the Presidency of Nat.-
vaes, and added that the affair had been so well con-
ducted, and the secret so closely kept, that at mid-
night neither Salamanca nor any other Minister was
aware of what was going on. When M. Salamanca
was informed of it, it was impossible for him to pre-
vent or retard the change in the Cabinet. The reso-
lution adopted by the Queen was as prompt as the
negotiation had been secret. The decree was signed
between one and two o'clock, so that it might appear
in the Gazette of the 4th. M. Decazes, on receipt of
his son's letter, waited on Queen Christina, who had
returned to Paris, from Malmaison, on Friday."
It was rumoured in Paris that the change cost
LOUIS PHILIPPE 48,000/., which being applied in the
proper quarter, produced the consent of the unfor-
tunate QUEEN to perhaps the last change on which
she will be permitted to give an opinion. Louis
PHILIPPE, fearing that SALAMANCA would dissolve
the Cortes, and that the new Cortes would re-establish
the Salique law, as is ardently desired by the great
majority of Spaniards, determined at once to pur-
chase all who could be purchased, and thus the
change was brought about.
It was supposed
.that NARVAES had already at-
tempted his grand coup, as the Madrid mail of the
sth had not arrived in Paris on Sunday. CHRISTINA
is to leave Paris immediately for Madrid.
M. DE BEAUVALLON, ex-editor of the Epoque,
a protege of M. GUIZOT, and the friend of NARTAEZ
and CHRISTINA, whose duel with the unfortunate
DUJARRIER has already rendered him sufficiently
notorious, was on Saturday found guilty of wilful
and corrupt perjury, and sentenced to eight years'
imprisonment. In the course of the trial, Ds BEAU.
vaLLort boasted of his intimacy with NARVAEZ.
IN.nsotsacnittur a soeiis may be said of the Spanish Premier.
The Duke D'AumaLE arrived at Algiers on the Gth

The Echo Agricole states that the price of flour
continued to decline in the Paris market on Friday
and Saturday, the best quality selling from 69f. 75c.
to 71f. per sack of 157 kilogrammes, and the inferior
from 62f. to 69f.

MARSEILLES, OCT. 6.—Marseilles and Avignon,
505 f. ; Northern, 507 f. 500.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Ocrozsa 10.

Boulogne and Amiens, 13%2—Northern of France, 101,4
—Orleans and Bordeaux, 3%—Paris and Lyons, 43/4—Paris
and Rouen, 334—Rouen and Havre, 194—West Flan-
ders, 1%.

PORTUGAL.

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING.

By the arrival of her Majesty's iron sloop Recruit,
Commander Slade, at Spithead, this morning, we
have news from Lisbon to the 4th, at which date the
city was perfectly quiet.
The Cabinet had not been dissolved, and the elec-
tions were to go on under a new decree, explaining
the proposed revision of the registration.

The Terrible had not arrived with the Count
Bomfim and fellow prisoners.—Herald.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

This being the day to which Parliament stood pro-
rogued fro the 21st of last month, their Lordships
met shortly before two o'clock, for the purpose of
further proroguing the Imperial Legislature to Thurs-
day, the 11th of November. Among the Peers pre-
sent we noticed the Marquis of Clanricarde and the
Earl of Auckland..
The LORD CHANCELLOR entered the House
and took his seat on the Woolsack shortly after Two
o'clock. The Noble and Learned Lord, on taking
his seat, stated that her Majesty bad been pleased to
command a Writ to issue under the Great Seal for the
further prorogation of Parliament to Thursday, the
11th of November.

The writ having been read by the clerk at the
table, the proceedings ended, and the Parliament
stood prorogued to Thursday, the 11th of November.

There were several ladies present to witness the
ceremony. The frescoes seem to be proceeding with
great activity, especially Mr. Maclise's " Chivalry,"
which appears, judging from the height of the scaf-
fold, to be nearly completed.

NEW MARKET RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

THE CESAREWITCH STAKES.

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Geraldine .•• ••• ••• ••• 3
Thirty-one ran. Won by a length.

RIGHT OF WAY OVER LORD HOLLAND'S PARK.—
At the Middlesex Sessions yesterday, the subject of the
long talked-of stoppage of the public footway across
Lord Holland's Park, at Kew, was brought before the
notice of the Court. It will be remembered that Lord
Holland is desirous of diverting a road which now runs
from the Great Western road, across his Lordship's
Park to the Uxbridge road, by constructing a direct
road from Earl's Court-lane, across the site of the Hip-
podrome, and so to the Uxbridge-road, by which means
his Lordship's Park would assume a much more private
character. The contemplated alteration has caused
much dissatisfaction among the inhabitants of Kensing-
ton, but, nevertheless, it has received the sanction of
the Board of Highway Commissioners, and of the
vestry of the parish in which the property is situated.
But before the alterations could be carried out, it was
requisite that the sanction of the Court of Session
should be obtained, and, to gain that object, Mr. Bod-
kin, the barrister, appeared in Court. However, in
consequence of a slight legal informality in the pro-
ceedings of the Board of Highway Commissioners, the
application could not be entertained, and it was with-
drawn until the defect was remedied.
AFFAIRS OF 'MESSRS. REID, ROBERTSON, AND CO.
—We understand that an adjourned meeting of the cre-
ditors of Messrs. Reid, Robertson, and Co., was held
yesterday, at which ail offer of nine shillings in the
pound, payable by instalments, was made to the meet-
ing, and conditionally entertained; no definite conclu-
sion, however, was arrived at.—Glasgow Saturday Post.
Captain of Corvette Bourdon- Gramont, Governor-
General of Senegal, died at St. Louis about the end of
August, of fever. M. Duchateau, chef de battaillon, has
assumed ed interim the functions of governor.
LoNDoN PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY.—The annual
general meeting of this society was held last night in
the Hall of Commerce. D. w.:wire, Esq., presided, who
brit fly explained the origin, objects, and constitution of
the society, vt hien was founded in 1841 for the relief of
the deserving poor, by providing them with bread and
coals during the winter season. The Honourable Gen-
tleman warmly advocated the cause of the charity, which
was formed to relieve a deserving class of poor persons.
The secretary read the report, which showed an increase
in the funds during the past year. Last winter the
society had distributed 4,700 tickets for 41b loaves of
bread and for 541 b. of coals. The income, which •was
24761. 14s. 6d. had kept pace with the expenditure. The
report was adopted,
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addressed by several
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preside at the neat anniversary festival. ;4414
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