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London, England, 1847-07-02 00:00:00

not been imposed upon. Those who have acted
in the manner described by the Commissioners
should be exposed to the public odium, and,
if their offences are legally cognisable, they
should receive the punishment they so richly deserve,
and should be driven with contumely from the ad-
ministration of the trusts they have betrayed,
the duties they have violated, and should not be
suffered to remain in any branch of the public
service. A public board, consisting of gentlemen
who have deservedly obtained the confidence of the
country, who could not desire wantonly and unne-
cessarily to inflict a stigma upon any person or body
of persons, or consent to sign their names to state-
ments of so serious a nature, which they had not in
the first instance thoroughly sifted, and which they
did not conscientiously believe to be well founded,
have stated the several difficulties to which they have
been exposed in attempting to carry the wishes of the
Legislature into execution. In setting forth the
various kinds of abuses practised they have detailed
cases of the greatest criminality, although of different
degrees. They state " that demands have been made in
a wholesale way of rations for a greater number of
destitute than there are individuals in the
entire population of the disctrict." This they
state to have occurred in " several cases, and
for several thousands in excess." Now there are no
terms too strong to describe this wholesale peculation
and robbery. Surely the law is sufficiently stringent
to reach the parties guilty of such infamous and dis-
graceful conduct. It would almost amount to a par-
ticipation in their guilt to shelter and protect them.
In others, although the parties may only have been
guilty of negligence or of giving a tacit sanction to the.
insertion of improper parties on their lists, and there-
fore involved in a much less degree of criminality
than those to whom we have just alluded, yet per-
sons who could see their own or their neighbours'
servants, labourers, or wealthiest tenants, who from
their circumstances would have been well able to
support themselves without any assistance, partici-
pating in the relief intended only for the destitute,
have proved themselves wholly unworthy of the
trust reposed in them, and should forthwith
be removed from the several committees. The same

may be said of those who encouraged intimidation, or
who did not resist it when assailed with sufficient
energy and courage. Wherever the party incul-
pated has been entrusted with the commission
of the peace it is still more necessary to remove
him from the position for which he is so unfitted.
For these reasons, therefore, and not because
it is required for the vindication of the Irish
character, we conceive that the investigation should
take place. Let the guilty parties receive their
well-deserved exposure and punishment. We ex-
tend to our Irish brethren generally the same
justice that we demand for ourselves, viz., that we
believe them individually innocent until their guilt
shall be satisfactorily established ; and, therefore,
there can be no necessity for their acquittal of that
which is not laid to their charge.

A letter from Tunis, of the 14th., says—
" For several days the money market of Tunis has
been in coma otion, from a report that it was the inten-
tion of the Bey to issue paper money. Twenty contra-
dictory versions were in circulation, but the following.
appear to be the facts of the case. At the approach of
the oil crop, which holds out every prospect of being a
fine one, and which will giro rise to important commer-
cial transactions in the regency, the Government of the
Bey has endeavoured to prevent the falsification of
money, and to remedy at the same time the present
dearth of specie. To attain this double object it has
thought fit to order a new coinage to be made of pure
silver, which will no longer afford the same
facilities to forgers as the present currency, and
in addition a sum equal to the issue of the
new coinage is to be created in treasury bills, pay-
able to bearer, which shall be a legal and obligatory
tender amongst all the inhabitants of the regency.
These bills will bear all the marks necessary to demon-
strate their authenticity, and in order to throw obstacles
in the way of their being forged, offices are to be esta-
blished in all the commercial centres to verify their iden-
tity; in order also that these bills may enjoy the full and
entire confidence of foreign merchants, the local treasury
will be always ready to give specie for them, on payment
of a discount, which is said to be fixed at 4 per cent.
This disecunt, whatever may be the rate established, is
not a speculation on the part of the local government.
It is for the purpose of preventing, by means of the loss
which would attend it, the immediate exchange of these
bills, which, if it were to take place at'par, would be
speedily returned to the Government, and thus deprive
it of the resource which it was desirous of creating by
issuing them. The Government hopes, besides, that
when the commercial interests shall be convinced of the
Wise delay and the prudence observed in the creation of
this paper money, confidence will not fail to be mani-
fested, and that private banks will be formed for dis-
counting at a more moderate rate than that fixed by the
Government the notes which the holders may wish to
change. To complete the advantages of this measure,
the Tunisian Government, as soon as it shall see
paper money taking the position that it has a right to
hope for, is decided on fixing in an invariable manner
the value of money, by giving to French money a legal
rate of currency in its states, so as to put an end to the
sudden and enormous fluctuations which the exchanges
continually experience, and which depend on the varia-
tions in the crops. But all these modifications would be
useless, if the Tunisian Government, in creating a paper
which is to repose essentially and exclusively on credit,
should not endeavour to inspire that credit by the only
means proper to inspire it—namely, by the prosperity of
the country. This prosperity can only be promoted by
a radical remodelling of the system of administration.
This is what the Government of the Bey appears to be
convinced of, for it is decided on the gradual abolition
of monopolies, and on giving the widest encouragement
for the development of agriculture, the true wealth of
the regency, by disembarrassing it of all the obstacles
which Now beset it. These measures, of which we can
announce the early execution, in securing for his High-
ness the Bey Ahmed the approbation of all civilised
governments, will give a permanent credit to his new
financial system, and confidence to all persons who
have commercial and other interests in the Regency of
Tunis."

Madrid papers of the 25th ult. have arrived.
The Gaceta publishes a dispatch from General
CONCHA, dated Braganza, June 16, stating that he
expected to arrive before Oporto on the 22d or 23d.
Another dispatch announces the arrival of Brigadier
BELESTA,:with a corps (formic, at Chaves.
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The Carlist chiei. EL ESTUDIENTE, has surprised
the town of Belorado, and seized some arms and 2,000
reals in money, the property of the municipality.
The QUEEN is expected to proceed forthwith to
St. Ildefonso, and hopes are entertained that her
MAJESTY will be joined there by her husband, with
whom Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA, his father, had a
long interview on the 23d.
The Three per Cents. were done at 291 if for cash;
the Five per Cents. at ; the Debt without Interest at
54 ; and the Coupons at 15.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
The Due DE BROGLIE was to leave Paris on that
day for London, to enter on his duties as Ambassador.
The Comte DE JARNAC, who has been staying at
Paris for a few days, was to leave that city at the
same time, for the purpose of resuming the exercise
of his functions as chief secretary to the English
Embassy.
The election of a Deputy for the fourth arrondisse-
ment of Paris, in the place of the late M. GANNERON,
commenced on Tuesday. There are four candidates
in the field, namely, Messrs. MALGAIGNE, BER-
TRAND, H. SAY, and FLANDIN. The number of
voters was 858, and the votes were as follow :—M.
MALGAIGNE, 317 ; 111. BERTRAND, 229 ; H.
SAY, 197 ; and M. FLANDIN, 105 ; lost votes, 10.
As the absolute majority of 430 votes was obtained
by neither of the candidates, there was to be another
ballot on Wednesday. IL FLANDIN has retired from
the contest in favour of M. H. SAY.
The Budget of the Minister of the Interior was
voted by the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, and
the discussion on that of the Minister of Commerce
and Agriculture was commenced. IN.I. LEON FAUGHRIt
intends to propose, as an amendment to this Budget,
to vote a credit of 40,000,000 f. for the construction of
railroads, instead of one of twenty millions, as proposed
by the Committee. The Government has originally
asked for sixty millions for this purpose. The Go-
vernment have entered into a convention with the
Lyons
prn
ipa
Railwayl Company, of which the following are
the
provisions
" In case the expenses which the company will have
to
ap ushall fe.
thexc e
cd
nt
s
eession now fixed at forty-one years and ninety days by
the royal ordonnance of 1845 shall be
extended to a cer-
,ththee linel length tgli 0
ciintcal ,rn forow tfihxeceds at establishment
o of
millions,
ptaeinndnituumreb.er of years, in proportion to the increased ex-
" The number of years shall be determined, a year
after tip; conclusion of the works on the following basis:—
the eager. a shall remain comprised between 200
and 216 millions
of ,
but ivr -urn of a million
no augmentati n shall be made in the
.
which the company shall'have expezitled beyond the 216
there shall be accorded to it an aouitiouai year
in the said length, without, however, in any case the
duration going beyond 99 years.
"The works relatire to the passage through Lyons