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TIIWSUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 9. 1840

tranquil. A few parties of straggling guerillas still in-
fested the roads in the remote provinces, and particu-
larly on the Spanish frontier, but the authorities were
daily reducing their numbers,
REPORT OF THE MINISTERS TO THE QUEEN.
" Senhora!—Two months have almost elapsed since the
day that your Majesty's Ministers so anxiously awaited, in
order to appear before the national representation with the
programme of Government approved by your Majesty as the
rule of conduct of the present administration. :In fulfil-
ment of it, the Ministry busied itself in the formation of
various projects of law, to remedy the evils complained of
throughout the country, and which chiefly arise from the ge-
neral disorganization, and the want of harmony between the
constitution of the state and the administrative regulations
which, some derived from times of despotism, and others detec-
tive and made in times of disturbance, and based more upon
untried theories than upon a knowledge of the circumstances
of the country, deprive the nation of the immense advantages
of the constitutional system. The chief of these projects were
forthwith offered to the Cortes ; the general opinion of the nation
seemed to receive them with enthusia,m, and your Majesty's
Ministers had conceived the flattering hope that the actual Le-
gislature would co-operate with your Majesty in satisfying the
wishes of the nation, which desires order, peace, reconciliation
between the Portuguese of all parties, harmony between all
the laws, security fur all the citizer.s, and toleration for all
opinions: .

" Unfortunately, Senhora, this did not take place ; expe-
rience has shown that it is impossible for your Majesty's
Ministers to realize what they conscientiously believe to be
the desires and wants of the kingdom. The evils increase,
the remedy is called for, and two-thirds of the ordinary Ses-
sion have already passed away without a single provision
being made. In the Chamber of Deputies only the two first
paragraphs of the reply to the speech with which your Ma-
jesty deigned to open the Session, have been discussed, so
violent are the debates, so agitated the discussions upon
points the most simple and obvious, and which, appearing in
conformity with the opinions of the nation, might be expected
to unite the suffrages of their representatives. Your Ma-
jesty's Ministers therefore believe, and, compelled by their
obligations, solemnly declare to your Majesty, that the pre-
sent Chamber of Deputies is not in harmony with the gene-
ral wishes—does not represent the true national opinion. They
would incur a severe responsibility, would be wanting to
what they owe to your Majesty and your people, if they were
longer to delay the declaration that the case has arrived
which is prescribed by the Constitution, Art. 81, sec, 3. ;
and that your Majesty ought to consult afresh the opinions of
the nation, subjecting to their votes the proceedings of the
Ministry and those of the Chamber. the programme of
the Government is explicit—the two months' discussion has
at least had the salutary result of causing it to be well under-
stood—the nation will pronounce. If your Majesty's Mi-
nisters are mistaken as to the wants of the public and the
means of providing for them, their error will become known,
and your Majesty will be able to carry out the beneficent
wishes of your heart by better counsels ; and if, on
the contrary,_ the Ministers have, as they believe. truly
understood the wants of the people, their efforts, and the
anxious desires of your Alajesty and the people, will not be in
vain. Your Majesty's Ministers waited till the conviction
should become general, and sought rather to be taxed as remiss
and tardy than too precipitate. They are persua,led that public
opinion has done justice to this proceeding, but they are strongly
convinced that, especially after the last occurrences, it is impe-
riously necessary to defer the parliamentary question to the
public votes. This conviction is so powerful in their minds that,
in spite of some formal though unfounded and insignificant accu-
sations brought against some of them in the Chamber of Deputies,
they prefer to appear before the electoral urn with this advan-
tage, and renounce the certainty of seeing those charges de-
spised by the majority of the Chamber, which has pronounced
itself decidedly enough on the few occasions when it has been
possible to come to a vote. They prefer rather to subject them-
selves to the judgment of another Chamber, whose more com-
pact opinion may give, nevertheless, a majority less favourable
to the actual Ministry, than to see longer pratracted:a state of
things whica renders all Government impossible, which
is insupportable to the nation, and which your Majesty is called
on to terminate in virtue of the prerogatives of your Crown.
Your Majesty's Ministers have the honour to submit to your
Royal approbation the following project of decree :
( Signed) " CONDE DE BOSIFIN.
" R. DA F. MAGALHAES.
"A. B. DA COSTA CARRAL.
CONDE DE VILLA REAL.
" " Dated Palace of NecessidadesLFORID()FERRAZ.
, Feb. 24,1840."

DECREE.
" Using the prerogative conferred upon me by the consti-
tution of the Monarchy, article 81, paragraph 3d, I have
thought proper, having heard the Council of Ministers, to
dissolve the present Chamber of Deputies ; and I convoke
the General Cortes of the nation for the 25th day of May
next, the election for Senators and Deputies commencing
on the 22d March of the current year, observing as to the re-
newal of the Chamber of Senators what is ordered by tke single
paragraph of the 62d article of the same constitution. And
this I communicate to the Chamber of Deputies for its intelli-
gence.

(Signed) " THE QUEEN,
(Couuter-signed) " CoNDE DE BoMFIN.
Palace of Neeessidades, Feb. 25, 1640."

The French Journals of Friday and Saturday have
all been received. On Friday the Queen of the
FRENCH, the Dukes of ORLEANS and NEMOURS, and
the Princess CLEMENTINE, arrived at Paris from
Brussels.

It was understood that the Duke of ORLEANS would
embark at Toulon for Algiers between the 13th and
20th inst., where his Royal Highness will take the
command of the first division of the projected expedi-
tion against AIID-EL-KADER.
The marriage of the Duke DE NEMOUIIO with the
Princess VICTORIA of Saxe Coburg, is to be cele-
brated in Paris after Easter. The Pri3cess will remain
during the interim at the Court of Brussels.
in the Chamber of Peers on Friday the debate on
the Vactorieis Bill was resumed. The following article,
which had-been opposed by the SOULT Cabinet, was,
-after a good -deal of -oppcisittati, adopted :
Art. 2. No child under eight years of age shall be admitted
into any of the establishments specified in Article I. From the
age of eight to twelve children are not to be employed for more
than eight hours of t e day in labour, and they are to be al-
lowed time for repose once within that period ; from the age of
twelve to sixteen they are not to be employed in labour more
than twelve hours, and are to have two periods for repose. The
hours of labour are not to commence before five in the morn-
ing, nor to end later than eight in the evening. Children an
not to be employed, no matter what their age, on the holidays
fixed by law. In the event of extraordinary and temporary
night labour, arising from.the stoppage of the moving power.
repairs, &c., children are not to be employed unless they he at
least twelve years of age, and not then for more than eight
hours out of the twenty-four. In order to prevent the necessity
of night labour, the manufacturer is to be permitted to add one
hour to the day labour, but without exceeding the number of
hours lost during the preceding month by stoppages, accidents,
and other important causes."

On Saturday the question of the late corn riots at
Foix was brought before the Chamber of Deputies, 13)
M. DUGANE, who denounced the sanguinary precipi-
tancy with which the PREFECT had ordered the troop&
to fire upon the people. The discussion was not closed
when the mails left Paris for London.

Of political news of interest we find nothing in these
Journals, with the exception of the intelligence from
the East, which will be found elsewhere in our columns.
Espartero's despatch of the fall of Segura states that it sur•
rendered on the 27th ult., the garrison remaining prisoners of
war, consisting of the Governor, 13 officers, an almoner, a
commissary, and 274 soldiers. There were six pieces of artil-
lery, 80,000 cartridges, 25 quintals of powder, and plenty of
provisions and military effects.
BOURSE.--PARIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 7.

- -
191st Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
irench 5 per Cents lll 70 ... 112 ... 11l 6.0 ... 112
4 per Cents lO2 20 ... ,02 20 ... 102 20 ... 102 2n
3 per Cents B2 75 —. 82 85 ... 82 75 ... 82 95
Bank of trance 3140 ...3140 ...3140 ...3140
Laffitte Bank I,ooof. Sh lO6O ...1060 ...1055 ...I 55
5,0001. Sh 5200 ...5200 ...s'oo ...5200 1
Belgian Bank 9,0 ... 90, ... 895 „, 900
5 per Cents lO4B ...1014 ... 1004 ... 10454 `
3 per Cents 73 71... 73 70 ... 73 70 ... 7.1 70
United States Bank Loan .. 98;,6 .., 9E2 ... 981, ... 9,),..
Spanish Active.
Passive
Old Deferred 8 ... 8 ... 8 ... 8
Portuguese 3 per Cents 24 ... 2414 ... 24 ... 24
Neapolitan
Roman 1t13% ... 10354 ... 103% ... 1144,
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
Versailles, R. B 547 50 ... 547 50 ... 547 50 ... 547 50
LB. KO ... 37,i ... 367 50 ... 370
Strasburg to Bale

OFFICIAL INFORMATION. - The Sun never lays
claim to exclusive information, but it does lay claim t,
something like correct intelligence. An Evening Con-
temporary, boasting its peculiar sources of knowledge,
on Saturday last announced that on Thursday
next the Queen would hold a Drawing-room, when,
in truth and fact, no Drawing-room will be held
till the 9th April. We have beard great complaints of
such carelessness and imperfect acquaintance with fact
before, but we did not expect to sec so flagrant an in-
stance of blunderirg in an Evening Journal of the pre-
sent day.

Sir Robert and Lady Peel entertained Baron
Brunow, Baron Bulow, M. Dedel and Madame Dedel, M.
Gmzot, Count Bjornstjerna and Countess Bjornstjerna, Baron
Bourquenay, Duke de Regina, Sir Henry and Lady Emily Har-
dinge, Captain Begot, Sir Walter James, Sir Alexander Grant,
Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Lord John 'Manners, Baron Gersdorff,
Viscount Grimston, Hon. Mr. Grimston, Mr. Manes, &c., at
dinner, on
Saturdaylast,
at their residence in Whitehall
Gardens.

The Speaker of the House of Commons gate
his fourth Parliamentary dinner, on Saturday evening, in Eaton-
square, to the Earl of Surrey (Treasurer of the Household),
the Earl of Darlington, Hon. Colonel Anson, Hon. H. T.
Liddell, Sir Charles Lemon, Sir Charles Burrell, Sir Harry
Verney, Hon. It. U. Clive, the O'Conor Don, Mr. Rumbold,
Mr. Paulet St. John Mildmay, Mr. Wilbraham, Mr. Bram-
ston, Mr. Cripps, Mr. Baring Wall, Mr. Tatton Egerton,
Mr. Pusey, Mr. Sanford, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Byng, Mr. J. A.
Smith, Sir John Pollen, Mr. John Young, and the Right Hon.
Sir G. U. Rose. At ten o'clock the superb new drawing-
rooms were illuminated, when the Right Hon. Gentleman held
his last levee for the season ; it was attended by the Duke of
Wellington (who was looking well), the Marquis of Lans-
downe, Marquis of Normaribv., Sir Robert Peel, Lord Ernest
Bruce, Lord George Bentinel, Lord Hill, Colonel Peel, Lord
Palmerston, and upwards of 150 Peers and Members of Par-
liament.

GRAND DINNER ON WEPNESDAY NEXT.
—The dinner to George Byng, Esq., on Wednesday next, ex-
cites a very large share of
great desire is manifested to get seats in any situation ; but the
stewards, adhering to their original intention not to issue tic-
kets for a greater number than ran be comfortably accommo-
dated, have refused to allow any issue of tickets beyond the
fair limits of the theatre. Finding the demand for places to be
view the splendid so general, they have made a new arrangement of the tables,
by whic.h 163 additional seats will be gained. They have also
determined to issue to be at the disposal of the
stewards,persons will be enabled to
ityd
tshcgiesanlemle.eraynNtsi,cikrie,
manytssrve will be made after twelve
o'clock this da:, anti any person furnished with a steward's
order may get a ticket as far as the 100 additional numbers
will supply. The committee have been most assiduous in the
discharge of their duties ; and from the preparations mark and
making, we ant cipate a most triumphant demonstiaqpn of
Liberal gratitude to the Representative of fifty years' standing.
Lord Holland, Lord John Russell, Lord Clarendon, and other
Cabinet Ministers, will be present, from whom, and from Mr.
Shid, Mr Duncornbe, Lord Howick, Sir E. L. Bulwa-, and
others, speeches will be listened to with great interest. The
musical department is most complete, and the ladies mill have
a treat in the various now compositions to be performed.