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LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 23, 1847.1

scientiously, and ably carried out the form of govern-
ment which was supposed to have been best adapted to
the circumstances." And again, in speaking of Sir.de,
he says, " On the whole, during the last five years,
it had been peacefully governed. There had been
but one serious disturbance, which had been quelled
by General NAPIER, with his usual rapidity, in
fifty-four hours; and at this moment the whole
country was in complete tranquillity, well governed,
and prosperous."
" General NAPIER undoubtedly had done much
good, and many great things. He had abolished
slavery, made many canals, and effected other
improvements ; and already a very promising
account had been given of what was to
be expected. Even but four years ago Sinde
was the rendezvous of bands of cut-throats.
Military government had, therefore, so far been
beneficial." The extract from the dispatch of Lord
HARDINGE is, if possible, still more convincing. That
Noble Lord says—
" With regard to the arrangement which will be best
adapted for the future management of Sinde, I am of
opinion that the whole of that province ought to be
annexed to the presidency of Bombay ; that the troops
and all the establishments, both civil and military, should
be furnished by, and committed to, the charge of the
governor In Council of that presidency ; that, so long as
Major-General Sir Charles Napier continues to exercise
the civil and military duties of the Government, and the
command of the forces in Sinde, it will not be advisable
to make any change in a country recently subdued.
Great advantage has attended the union of the two
appointments of Governor and Commander of the
Forces in Sinde. A warlike military people are more
likely to be disposed to obey the chief who conquered
them than any other public officer who could be selected
by the Government. This opinion is limited to a state
of affairs such as that which has existed in Sinde since
I arrived in India. The state of the Punjaub, during the
years 1844 and 1845, could not with advantage have ad-
mitted of the annexation of Sinde to the presidency of
Bombay. The Government of India could not have se-
lected during the last three years a more efficient officer
than Major-General Sir Charles Napier for the duties he
so ably performs in Sinde. Ou public grounds, there-
fore, there has been no occasion on which I could, with
benefit to your Hon. Company's service, have recom-
mended any better plan for the administration of Sinde
than the present."
If any in this country should be found with suffi-
cient hardihood still to question the conduct of the illus-
trious conqueror of Sinde, we trust the testimonies
thus borne to his merits will silence them. It must
terminate any doubt that might honestly have been
entertained, and none can now repeat or credit the
oft-repeated calumnies but wilful and deliberate
slanderers, who have their own dishonest purposes to
advance. We hope ere long to see those tributes of
esteem and gratitude tendered to Sir CHARLES
NAPIER that England has so often paid to gallant and
distinguished officers, but which have never been
tendered to a more deserving or faithful servant.

Intelligence to the 7th inst. has been received from
Constantinople.
The Journal de Constantinop7e of the 6th states
that several more conferences had taken place
between the Divan and the foreign Ambassadors on
the Greek question, but that it was understood that
the dispatches from Prince METTERNICH had not
changed the state of things. According to this
journal, M. COLETTI was to write to the British
Minister for Foreign Affairs, inviting M. MUSSURUS
to resume his functions at Athens, and a vessel was
waiting at the Piraeus for the letter. Favourable
accounts had been received of the operations of the
Turkish troops in Kurdistan against the rebel BE..
DERIIAN ISEr. He had abandoned the town of
Djezireh to the Turkish General, after a conflict in
which he had several men killed and wounded.
Under the head of Constantinople, we see it an-
nounced that TAHYR PAcHA, formerly Minister of
Marine, and lately Governor of Adrianople, has been
appointed Governor of Bosnia, in place of KIAMILI
PACHA.

Madrid papers of the 16th have arrived.

The loan of 100 millions of reals has been ad-
judged to the Bank of Union in the name of the
House of SMITH and Co., of London. There was
but one tender, and as there was no direct guarantee
the whole affair is regarded as a failure.
The Heraldo, albeit as indignant as its contem-
poraries against Lord PALMERSTON for his speech on
the non-payment by Spain of her debts, is yet more
plan by which those debts may be easily paid. The
plan proposed by the Heraldo is a revision of the
tariff, and the doing away with prohibitory duties.
According to the Eco del Comercio the Spanish
army in Portugal is about to return, in compliance
with the wishes of the English Minister. A Carlist
band has appeared in Arragon. An address, thank-
ing the QUEEN for having given orders for the erec-
tion of a monument to ARGUELLES, has been nu-
merously signed by members of the Progressista
party. It was reported that Faro had surrendered to
the Queen of Portugal's troops under VINHAES.
MADRID BOLSA, JULY 16.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 261 for cash; and the Debt without in-
terest at si.

We have received the Paris papers of 'Wednesday.
On Tuesday the Paris and Lyons Railroad Bill
(giving to the company a lease of the line for 99
years instead of for 41 years) passed the Chamber of
Deputies. The National thus describes the pro-
ceedings :

" The Chamber has pursued its work. It has, con-
trary to common sense and the evidence produced, voted
the Paris and Lyons Railroad Bill. The day must arrive
when, if justice be done, the words of M. Grandin,
spoken in the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, may be
verified. ' This affair must conclude before the Court of
Peers.' That Deputy made unavailing efforts to stop
/he Chamber in its course. It was in vain that he was
seconded by MM. Luneau, Lherbette, Gamier Pages,
and Deslongrais. I❑ vain did several members of the
Centres, viz , MM. Fould, Morny, Darblay, present
and support amendments. In vain did M. Lanyer wish
to supply an important omiFsion. All modifications and
all amendments were rejected, and whilst the com-
batants, out of breath and exhausted with fatigue, were
still struggling, the majority, reinforced by MM. Gouin,
Vivien, Stouvur, and other palladia of the Opposition,
voted what they wished, how they wished, and as much
as they wished. They were still voting at half-past six
o'clock, and would have continued voting until midnight
if it had been necessary to pass the Bill."

The same journal in a very powerfully written
article draws a comparison between the cases of MM.
TETE and DUCHATEL, and thus retorts upon the
Debaty—

" ' Justice is done ; there is nothing more. Justice
has been pronounced; there is nothing more!' Nothing
more, indeed! Do you imagine you have put down all
these accusations of corruption which have reached from
the open tribune? M. Teste is degraded for having re-
ceived 100,000 f.; M. Duchatel conducts the affairs of
the Home Department, for having caused a theatrical
privilege to be paid 100,000 f. for. The former put the
money into his pocket, and the infamy, we allow, is
greater. But if M. Teste took 100,000 f. for himself, M.
Duchatel allowed 100,000 f. to be taken by his friends.
The concession of Gouhenans could not be refused, since
it was favourably looked on by the engineers and the
Ponts-et-Chaust eas. The theatrical privilege, likewise,
according to the assertion of the Minister, could
not be refused, as a favourable report had been sent
in, and the claims of M. Adam were admitted.
However, M. Teste required 100,000 f. in the first
case, and in the second, 100,000 f. were taken by
writers in the pay of the Ministry, with the consent of
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convinced that this corruption took place with the con-
nivance of M. Duchatel ? Is there an individual know-
ing how to read, who has the smallest doubt on the sub-
ject ? Yet M. Duchatel is not proceeded against ; he
preserves his portfolio ; it was sufficient for him to deny
less audaciously than his old colleague M. Teste, and the
Chamber passed on to something else ! After that, boast
of equality before the law ! Will any one dare maintain
that the Ministry is innocent, and knew nothing ? Why,
then, has it not prosecuted the persons who caused
100,000 francs to be handed over to them ? There is,
however, no medium ; either the Minister is guilty of
prevarication, or wretches have made improper use cf an
imaginary credit. lf these are not prosecuted it is be-
cause they are thought innocent, but their innocence
proves that the Minister of the Interior is guilty. And
is a man, how on whom rests the suspicion of crime,
exalted by a considerable majority, when two ex-Minis-
ters are punished with degradation ?"
The Courrier Francais, too, returns to the charge
on the affair of the concession of mines in Algeria,
and calls on the Ministry to prosecute the parties to
the deed as guilty of coalition. It also insinuates
that after Marshal BUGEAUD had protested against
the spirit of speculation and of monopoly to which
the mines of Algeria were sacrificed, the Government,
" for a consideration," gave encouragement to the
coalition. This affair will probably become the sub-
ject of judicial investigation, for we find the following
postscript to the article in the Courrier :
" We have just received an assignation from M. Fran-
cois Jules Talabot who cites the Courrier Francais
before the Bth Chamber to answer for the articles which
we have published on the famous deed of society, in
which IN e have signalised
all the character of a true

coalition. M. Talabot, it will be seen, has taken time
for reflection. If, by chance, he hopes to intimidate
us, we can assure him that he is mistaken. Neither
must he hope to stifle the affair by bringing it
before a jurisdiction which interdicts the publicity of a
trial. The deed, of which we have published the tenor,
subsists: M. Talabot himself does not deny it on the no-
tice which he has served upon us. We do not retract
any of the reflections which this deed gave rise to, for it
interests in the highest degree the future welfare of Al-
geria, and falls thus under the control of the independent
press. We shoald have failed in our duty if we had not
deduced the consequences which it appeared to us to
involve. M. Talabot complains of the way in which
this deed fell into our hands. We have no account to
render him on this point. What is important is the
deed itself, which nothing on earth—no menace, no con-
sideration, no power—shall prevent us from discussing.
We will publish it again if that be necessary."
The Commerce has the following on the subject of
the rumoured changes in the Cabinet. After men-
tioning the Council held to consider of these changes,
it says—
" The Ministers separated, after having decided that
nothing should be done until the opinion of the influen-
tial members of the Conservative party, who meet at M.
F. Delessert's, was ascertained. In consequence, in the
evening, the Conservative Deputies met at the banker's
of the Rue Montmartre, to consider the difficulties of the
situation, and several important questions were decided.
First of all, it is said the resignation of Marshal Soult
was approved of, and his place is to be taken by M.
Guizot. It was also recommended to accept the resig-
nation of M. Cunin GridainQ, Minister of Commerce,
who has several times manifested an intention to with
draw. Next, the Conservative party, it is said, is to
undertake at its risk and peril the foundation of a new
journal, which is to share with the Journal des Debats
the defence of the Cabinet. The new print is to take the
place of the Fpoque, of which the violent death is much
regretted; but, in remembrance of the annoyances of all
kinds which MM. Granier and Solar have caused to the
Ministry, the Conservative organ is to have no chief
editor. Tho political direction is to be entrusted to M.
Muret de Bort, who is anxious to transport to the press
the militant position which he has assumed on the
benches of the Chamber."

We find the following in the Gazette des Tribunaux
on the subject of MM. TESTE and PELLAPRA :
44 M. Teste, whose features bear the profound mark
of the terrible emotions which he must have felt during
the trial which ended in a manner so fatal to him, ap-
pears to have recovered all his calm since the delivery of
the judgment. As soon as he arrived at the Conciergerie
he demanded that there should be procured all that is
necessary to occupy himself upon a work which he began
several years ago, and which, he says, he will now finish.
Orders were immediately given that his request should
be complied with. M. Pellagra arrived at Paris on
Sunday evening by the Northern Railway. He came
' from L'age, arid passed by Brussels. The chamber in
which he has been placed is the same as that which was
occupied by Gen. Cubfires. All the preliminary pro-
ceedings, such as the signification of the decree of his
being put in accusation, the act of accusation, the in-
terrogatory, the choice of an advocate, &c., were com-
pleted with respect to M. Pellapra before he secretly left
Paris ; and his constituting himself a prisoner at the
Petit-Luxembourg is only in execution of the warrant
for his arrest issued by the Chamber of Peers on the Bth
July. It will consequently not be necessary to proceed
to any new examination of M. Pellapra. M. Chaix
d'Est-Ange has been, it will be remembered, chosen the
adv:Tate of that gentleman. It is supposed that the trial
will be completed on Friday, and that on the next day
the decision of the Court will be given."
It is understood that ultii:iately M. TESTE will be
transferred to the fortress of Ham.
General CUBIERES is about to set out for the
United States.

The Orleans and Bourges Railroad was opened on
Tuesday.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Wednesday, at 77f. 70c.; the Five per Cents., 118 f. 65c.:
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,277 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 973 f.
The. ; llavre, 645 E ; Great Northern, 572 f. 50c.; Avignon,
625 f. ; Vierzon, 583 f. 75c. • Bordeaux, 485 f. ; Troyes and
Montereau, 270 f.; Basle, 182 f. 50C.; Paris and Strasburg,
418 f. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 397 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons,
432 f. 50c.; Lyons and Avignon, 435 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette,
458 f. 73c.; Boulogne, 365 f.; Spanish Three per Cents., 321%.
LYONS, JULY 19.-Paris and Rouen, 970 f.; Avignon and
Marseilles, 635 f. ; Vierzon, 592 f. 50c. ; Northern, 572 f. 50c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE,Jurx 22.
I3oulogne and Amiens, 151/4—Dutch Rhenish, 31,4—
Great Western Canada, 31,(—Lyons and Avignon (Consti
tuted), 21/B—Northern of France, 12—Orleans and Bor
deaux, s?B—Paris and Rouen, 38%—West Flanders, 4.

PALACE COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before W. B. BRENT, Esq.)
MOODY v. JOHNSTONE.
This was an action to recover the sum of 91. 7s. 61,
the balance of an account for goods sold. The plaintiff
is a tailor; the defendant, who was described as a gen-
tleman, had not appeared or pleaded.
A witness was called, who proved that he took a note
from plaintiff to defendant, when defendant's footman
brought a message that defendant was unwell and could
not be seen, but he bad been disappointed in a remittance
from Ireland, and would call and settle in a few days.

It was contended that this was a sufficient admission,
nape defendant had denied himself, and was bound by
stateme'l‘ u - the servant.
The Learned JUDGE did not constaer tt aumetent.

The Learned COUNSEL said he could prove that a
person called to settle the action.
The Learned JUDGE said, if the party could be
brought forward to show that he acted by the authority
of defendant, that would do. As this could not be done,
the Learned Judge directed the jury to be dis..tharged
without giving a verdict.
A list of twenty cases was disposed of in less than
half an hour.

INSOLVENT COURT-(THIS DAY.

SMALL DEBTS.—IN RE JAMES HARDING.
In this case the Learned Commissioner Phillips
adopted a new rule in respect to debts under 201. Hi-
therto the Court has decided that in complaints of fraud
where the debts were under 201., it was useless to remand
the parties, as the creditors could not detain their debtors
in prison. In this case, however, the Court held other-
wise and pronounced a judgment.
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It appeared that the insolvent had contracted a debt of
ten guineas with a Mr. Hollis, tailor, of Guildford, for
clothes,
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tready mesoennety, complaint. but he failed
to keep
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Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS declared that in this case
he should not discharge the insolvent, although the debt
was under 20/. He was aware that the opposing cre-
ditor could not detain his debtor, but the detaining cre-
honis a
wporrdo
cre-
ditor could withhold the discharge, and he should remand
the insolvent.—The insolvent was remanded.

MARLBROa
journeyman tailor, was placed before
Mr. Johnu
charged with assaulting a lady of the
-STREET—(THIS DAY.)
arFdowsitoekr:
name of Fitzherbert, under the following circumstances:
The complainant was returning from the Haymarket
Theatre about twelve o'clock last night, and was pro-
ceeding up the Quadrant, when the defendant, who was
the worse for liquor, went up to her, and accosted her in
an improper manner. She endeavoured to get out of his
way, when he detained her by laying hold of her shoulder
with one band, and with the other assaulted her in a
very indelicate manner. She called for assistance, and
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struggled to get out of his grasp. He was proceeding
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assistancevioce
violence,
when fortunately a gentleman
andcame
detained the prisoner till a con-
stable arrived, into whose custody he was at once con-
signed.
The defendant, who pretended to know nothing of the
matter, was fined 51., or one month's imprisonment in the
House of Correction.

the plantations this week, the demand here for all kinds
of Hops—the show of which is good—rules heavy, and,
in some instances, a slight decline has been submitted
to in the quotations. The duty is called 180,000/.
Sussex pockets, 4/ to 4110 s; Weald of Kent ditto, 41 lOs
to 5/ ss; Mid and East Kent ditto, 5/ 10s to 71 5s per cwt.

PROROGATION

PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

To-day ber Majesty prorogued Parliament in perscn, I
and—strange fatality—a finer day never dawned upon
the earth—for her Majesty, in all her pageants, seems
to bring fine weather and sunshine wheresoever she
goes. Go where she will, the genius of bright skies
and balmy air seems to attend her. So it was to-day.
Her Majesty rode in " awful state" to day, under as
bright a canopy as ever looked down upon this fair
earth—through as happy and as cheering a crowd as
we ever witnessed, and looked as healthy and as
happy as we ever saw her look. So did the Prince.
The windows of the houses in Parliament-street and
Whitehall, and various platforms in conjunction with
them, were filled with ladies, as is wont on such occa-
sions, and the struggles amongst the crowd, and the des-
perate attempts of the small knots of persons—females
especially—to maintain their stand manfully, was
amusing in tl e extreme. The proprietors of
crazy tables, and as crazy chairs and forms, sought pa-
tronage in a way to deserve it, and they must have
reaped no small harvest. We hope, however, that the
elderly gentleman whose excessive rotundity caused the
table on which he stood in Parliament-street to swing
wildly too and fro escaped without injury, and that the
lady who owned the desperate fabric helped him safely
to the ground. But that other districts of this great
Babylon pursue their wonted toils—that the hard
wrought artizan labours on, heedless of such displays of
national power and grandeur—that the ill-paid semp-
stress toils on for mere bread—one would think to day
a national holiday; indeed, from the shoals of people
which poured from all directions towards the road which
royalty traverses in its journeys to its faithful Par-
liament

As the Queen passed through the closely scrrkd ranks
of anxious spectators desirous, at any hazard, whether
from house or window, to catch a sight of royalty—and
the police on such a day as this form no mean
" foemen " for excited crowds to deal with—she was
enthusiastically cheered, and seemed to appreciate the
plaudits keenly.
She went to dissolve a Parliament which, unlike the
Parliaments of other states, has run its course. The
sand has run out—it has died a natural death. Strange,
eventful Parliament. Composed of great and powerful
parties at the outset, the sequence presents a strange, in-
congruous commingling of parties. The great Conser-
vative faction split up into fragments, and protection, its
idol, buried in the dust by the very hands of those who
had upheld it as the greatest blessing, and worshipped
it as the gol of their idolatary ; and the Liberal party,
true to their ancient principles dominant in the State.
Stranger vicissitudes surely never attended any Parlia-
ment since the passing of the Reform Bill than those
which have attended the Parliament which expired to-
day.
Her Majesty left Buckingham Palace in the usual
state, with all the accustomed pageantry, shortly before
two o'clock, and pursuing the same route as heretofore,
reached the old door of the new House of Lords shortly
before half-past two. The crowd at this point was
immense. Throughout the whole route the reception of
her Majesty was most flattering and gratifying.
After delivering the following speech, her Majesty
returned to Buckingham Palace in the same order and
with the same results as those we have thus chronicled.

HER MAJESTY'S
SPEECH.

STY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

I have much satisfaction in being able to release
you from the duties of a laborious and anxious session.
I cannot take leave of you without expressing
my grateful sense of the assiduity and zeal with
which you have applied yourselves to the considera-
tion of the public interests.
Our attention has been principally directed to
the measures of immediate relief, which a great and
unr.v,.oentea calamity renuerea necessary.

I have given my cheerful assent to those laws
which, by allowing the free admission of grain'
and by affording facilities for the use of
sugar in breweries and distilleries, tend to increase
the quantity of human food, and to promote com.
mercial intercourse.

I rejoice to find that you have in no instance
proposed new restrictions, or interfered with the
liberty of foreign or internal trade, as a mode of
relieving distress. I feel assured that such measures
are generally ineffectual, and in some cases aggravate
the evils, for the alleviation of which they are
adopted.

I cordially approve of the Acts of large and
liberal bounty, by which you have assuaged the
sufferings of my Irish subjects. I have also readily
given my sanction to a law to make better
provision for the permanent relief of the des-
titute in Ireland. I have likewise given
my assent to various Bills calculated to promote the
agriculture, and develope the industry of that portion
of the United Kingdom. My attention shall be
directed to such further measures as may be conducive
to those salutary purposes.
My relations with Foreign Powers continue to
inspire me with confidence in the maintenance of
peace.

It has afforded me great satisfaction to find that
the measures which, in concert with the King of the
French, the Queen of Spain, and the Queen of Por-
tugal, I have taken for the pacification of Portugal
have been attended with success, and that
the civil war which for many months bad afflicted
that country has at last been brought to a bloodless
termination.

I indulge the hope that future differences be-
tween political parties in that country may be
settled without an appeal to arms.

GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,

I thank you for your willingness in granting me
the necessary supplies ; they shall be applied with due
care and economy to the public service.
I am happy to inform you that, notwithstand-
ing the high price of food, the revenue has, up
to the present time, been more productive than
I had reason to anticipate. The increased
use of articles of general consumption has chiefly con-
tributed to this result. The revenue derived from
sugar especially has been greatly augmented by the
removal of the prohibitory duties on foreign sugar.

The various grants which you have made for
education in the United Kingdom will, I trust, be
conducive to the religious and moral improvement of
my people.
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

I think proper to inform you that it is my in-
tention immediately to dissolve the present Parlia-

ment.

I rely with confidence on the loyalty to the
Throne, and attachment to the free institutions of this
country, which Animate the great body of my people.
I join with them in supplications to Almighty God
that the dearth by which we have been afflicted,
may, by the Divine blessing, be converted into
cheapness and plenty.

HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF
THE CHEST.—Yesterday evening, at a meeting of the
board of management, after the usual routine business
had been gone through, it was announced that Mrs.
Heron, of Montague. square, St. Marylebone, had be-
queathed the sum of 100 guineas toward the general fund
of the establishment.

DRAY Acc 'DEN T.—Yesterday afternoon a drayman,
in the employ of Messrs. Elliot, brewers, of Westminster,
was asleep on the top of the barrels, as the dray passed
down Oxford-street, when a sudden jerk caused him to
roll off, and he pitched violently on his head. He was
taken to Middlesex Hospital, where it was found he was
labouring, under concussion of the brain.