The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-26 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1847.

The Lords met at Five.
The Markets and Fairs Clauses Bill, the Commis-
sioners Clauses, and the Waterworks Clauses,
tively passed through Committee.
On the motion for the third reading of the Drainage
of Lands Bill,
Tho Earl of ELLENBOROUGH moved the insertion of
the clause, limiting the amount of money to be expended
in carrying' tte,Bill into effect.
The Earl of MINTO opposed the clause, which was
negatived without a division, and the Bill was read a
third time and passed.
Lord STANLEY moved for the production of certain
correspondence which bad taken place between the Ge-

vernment and Sir EARDLEY WILMOT, the Governor of speakers, who, not satisfied with the moderation and
Van Diemen's Land. Charges wholly false and justice of those propositions, a triumph being
calumnious affecting the private moral character of Sir given to neither party, desire that their
EARDLEY WILMOT had been sent to the Colonial-office. own extreme views should be adopted. One
Those charges had been proved to be false and ca- class contend that the area of taxation should be con-
lumnious, and, as an act of justice to Sir EARDLEY
siderably reduced, another that it should be extended.
WILMOT, he moved for the production of these papers.
One demands a townland, or at the utmost a
Earl GREY would not, under the peculiar circum-
stances of the case, oppose the motion, which was parochial rating, all the larger parishes
agreed to. being divided into two or more divisions;
Some unopposed returns were then moved for, and while others assert that great inconvenince
their Lordships adjourned. would arise from any system of subdivision, that the
The Commons met at Twelve o'clock. rates should be charged on the whole body of the
Lord G. BENTINCK stated, in answer to a question, union, and that there should be union settlements,
that he should, after Easter, move an address to her and an uniformity of rating. One party objects to
MAJESTY, praying that decisive measures may be taken the number of ex officio guardians, another desires
for obtaining redress for the creditors of the Spanish that every magistrate should be appointed. Mean-
Government.
while the Government pursue the even tenor of their
On the motion of Sir G. GREY the thanks of the way, and are supported on each division by the most
House were voted to Dr. DEALTRY for his Sermon on
decisive majorities. It is now perfectly manifest that
the Fast Day.
A somewhat augry discussion ensued on the subject an effectual poor-law is necessary, not merely for the
welfare of Ireland and the support of her people, but
of the dismissal of persons from the public works in
Ireland, in the course of which the conduct of the Go-
also for the protection of English industry and the
vernment was attacked by Lord G. BENTINCK, whose
national resources. The English people freely took upon
attack, however, was, to use the words of the CHAN• themselves the extraordinary charges rendered neces-

CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, but a repetition of his
speech on a former evening. In the course of the dis-
cussion Mr. WILLIAms suggested that the statements of
the expenditure for Ireland should be weekly laid on the
table of the House, in order to show how much this
country was doing for Ireland, and how little the Irish
landlords were doing for their own countrymen.
In answer to Lord SANDON, it was stated by Sir G.
GREY that a clause would be introduced in the Vagrancy
Bill, authorising the authorities in_ this country to re-
move Irish paupers to their homes. In the course of a
short discussion which ensued,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that a Vagrancy Bill for
Ireland would shortly be introduced, and informed that
House that from the accounts he had received, he en •
tertained no apprehension of any disturbance in conse-
quence of the discharge of persons from the public
works.
In answer to Mr. COLLETT, Lord JOHN RUSSELL
stated that the first Tuesday after Easter, he should
bring the Ecclesiastical Commission Bill before the
House.
The House then went into Committee on the Poor
Relief (Ireland) Bill.
Mr. J. O'CoNNELL moved the omission of the
clause increasing the ex-officio guardians from one-fourth
to one-half.

Sir G. GREY opposed the motion, and said that it
would be better to meet any evils that might arise by a
special enactment.

the utmost farthing for the maintenance of the people
belonging to it, and if it be not made available to the
utmost extent, if its capabilities are suffered to remain
latent and undeveloped, all those interested therein
may pay the penalty.
There is no want of sufficient means for tilling the
land, save, perhaps, in the case of the cottier. The
occupiers of farms of 20 acres and upwards are as
well able as ever to take all the ,necessary steps, and
to incur all the usual expense. The high price of
corn and the fair amount of the crops fully compen-
sated for the lamentable failure of the potato, which
fell with such crushing force upon the smaller
holdings. They have dispensed with the la-
bourers, to whom they were accustomed to
give employment in other years; in many, indeed
we believe the majority of instances, the landlord's
rent has been withheld, while the deposits in the
savings' banks and the private hoards both of money
and corn have been considerably augmented. And
yet they still hang back, in the vain and ridiculous
expectation that the Government will not only supply
seed, but will also send men from the public works
to till the lands; while the occupiers, looking on in
listless indolence, will have every necessary preparation
for the harvest made for them without either labour
or expense, and be permitted to reap where they have
not sown, to enjoy fruits for which they have not
toiled. That such has been the motive it is impos-
sible to doubt. An outcry has been raised against
the Government for employing the labourer on un-
productive works, and it has been asserted that a
sufficiency of labour could not be obtained by the
farmers for the necessary cropping of the lands—and
this notwithstanding the regulation that any farmer
requiring men could obtain them by making applica-
tion to the inspectors. A certain proportion of the
labourers have been discharged, in pursuance of the
recent Treasury minute. A new clamour is
excited for sending them away, while
there are such quantities of lands afford-
ing such ample occupation. We had hoped
that the decisive and energetic statement of the
Premier would have awakened the people from their
delusion so soon as it was fully promulgated; but it
appears there is another ground which is not without
its effect in keeping the land uncultivated. The
landlords are not willing to give a single shilling un-
less secured that the advance will be applied to the
contemplated purpose, and that they will be repaid
the amount out of the produce, while the tenants bang
back lest the future crop may be made liable for the
arrears of rent. The public generally cannot suffer
from these petty squabbles. The Poor-law will com-
pel a maintenance from the land. The English will
not again interfere to avert the destruction that is
actually courted, and both landlord and tenant will
be involved in one common destruction if these dis-
putes are not speedily and amicably arranged.

After some discussion the Committee divided, when
there appeared—
For the clause - 154
For the amendment
Majority in favour of the clause —l2B
Mr. SaAw then moved an amendment, appointing
justices resident in unions ex•ojjicio guardians, but with-
drew it at the suggestion of Lord J. RUSSELL.
Mr. J. O'CONNELL proposed an amendment, the effect
of which would be to make borough magistrates ex-officio
guardians as well as county magistrates. This amend-
ment was likewise negatived on a division by a majority
of 112, the numbers being, for the original clause, 133 ;
for the amendment, 21.
Mr. SnAw postponed the amendment of which he
had given notice, until the bringing up the report. Clauses
up to 17 were agreed to, and the House resumed.
Tbe other orders of the day were disposed of, and the
House adjourned at a Quarter to Seven o'clock.

The inauguration of the Prince ALBERT as Chan-
cellor of the University of Cambridge cannot be re-
garded by any reflective man as a merely idle cere-
monial. By the investiture of his Royal Highness
with the dignities and prerogatives of that venerable
office a splendid field is opened for the display of
those acquirements and of that natural capacity which
his Royal Highness is said to possess, and for their
direct application to the advantage of the nation in a
manner honourable to himself and profitable to Great
Britain. Besides which, the interests of the illustrious
Consort of our SOVEREIGN are thereby more intimately
interwoven with the general interests and institutions
of the population. Considering the youth and the
acknowledged abilities of Prince ALBERT, and re-
membering that it has been the immemorial custom
of our academical seats of learning to elect to the
Chancellorship some personage whose elevated rank and
distinguished character may afford them something
like encouragement and protection, it is impossible to
deny that the authorities of Cambridge have made
a most becoming selection. Not but what scholar-
ship and philosophy may flourish without being
fostered by the presidence of royalty; not but whet
individual eminence in the acquisition of classica,
lore, or in the mastery of the abstruser sciences, may,
be attained without the interference of sovereignty.
The advantages which mast accrue to Cam-
bridge, from the installation of his Royal Highness
as Chancellor, are of a nobler character than that of
merely establishing an immediate connexion between
the college and the palace. Those advantages will
be of a kind similar to the benefits conferred upon
the renowned universities of Continental Europe by
the patronage of enlightened rulers and the counte-
nance of patriotic dignitaries. The incitement con-
sequent upon the supervision of any august per-
sonage, particularly when that personage is so
directly associated with the head of the Constitution,
has invariably proved beneficial not merely to the
cause of learning itself, but to the cause moreover of
national education.
In our two noble institutions, the Universities of
Oxford and Cambridge—Universities rendered illus-
trious by the glory of the minds which they have
cultured—we find the most appropriate channels
for the employment of the talents of our Princes
in a manner calculated to aid in the intellectual im-
provement of the people. Otherwise royal personages
are debarred from the opportunities of turning their
moral and mental endowments to the common ad-
vantage; otherwise the gifts conferred on them by
GOD are deteriorated by the very splendour of their
position ; they are rendered merely the ornaments of
a Court or the means of obtaining 'distinction in
the pastimes of the field. In times of feudality the
chieftains of the nation acquired renown by partici-
pating in the fantastic chivalry of the crusades, or in
leading on their serfs to the conquest and spoliation
of adjacent states. In an age of civilisation, it is but
right that the Consort of the SOVEREIGN should be
enabled to acquire a somewhat more creditable dis-
tinction, by emulating the promoters of erudition, and
guiding the youth of England in the benignant cam-
paigns of scientific research and literary investigation.
With Cambridge and Oxford are peculiarly blended
the names and memories of our immortal country-
men. In a particular manner they are ren-
dered the sacred depositories of our national
genius, by the antiquity of their foundation
and the renown they have acquired. Before
the munificence of Cardinal WOLSET had been
evinced towards Oxford, the sister Universities had
rendered themselves the particular objects of
monarchical and ministerial regard. Since that
period they have developed their powers in a ratio
proportioned to the advancing spirit of the times,
and consequently they are more than ever entitled to
the consideration of the State and to the benefits
arising from the intellectual capacities of our Princes.
Now, that his Royal Highness the Prince ALBERT
has been formally installed as the Chancellor o

Cambridge, he possesses the means of asserting the
enlightenment of his character, and of confirming
the accuracy of those rumours which have
mentioned him as a man of unusual endow-
ments. By the on dils which have become familiar
to the multitude, in spite of the impenetrable
secrecies of the royal household, Prince ALBERT is
reported to be profoundly versed as a classical
scholar, to be a proficient in living languages, to be
an ingenious artist, a skilful musician, and an un-

affected enthusiast in the natural sciences ; he is de

scribed by those competent to form an estimate of his

capabilities to be familiarly acquainted with the various

sary for the support of the people deprived of their ordi-
nary description of food by the visitation of PROVIDENCE.
They cheerfully assented to the proposition that it
should be regarded as a national calamity, and that a
considerable portion of the expenditure should be
defrayed from the national exchequer. They mur-
mured not at the burdens thereby entailed upon
them. All they required in return for these sacri-
fices was, that the Irish people should try to help
themselves for the future ; that they should adopt
such precautions as would be taken by reasonable and
prudent men, who knew that they had only their own
exertions to depend on in order to prevent the recur-
rence of similar distress and destitution in their
unhappy land. This is a moderate and reasonable
demand, which cannot be slighted or despised. A
further appeal to English sympathies would come
with a peculiarly bad grace from those who by their
own apathy and negligence permitted the land to
remain fallow, and unproductive, and were thus chiefly
responsible for the deficiency in a nations' food. The
time, however, is passing away and the lands are still
left uncultivated and untilled, and there is but a
scanty preparation for the coming harvest. What-
ever may be the causes of this untoward state of

affairs, the proprietors and occupants of the soil must
be the chief sufferers, if it be persevered in. The
real property of the kingdom must be responsible to

departments of literature and the multiform phases of
philosophy. An opportunity is now afforded his

Sooner or later the force of public opinion gains
its righteous ends. There is, however, a body of
men, necessarily armed with considerable authority,
whose services are indispensable, from the nature of
' the duties which they are called upon to perform, and
whose remuneration for the same constitutes a heavy
item of public expenditure, upon whom the weight
of popular censure, with respect either to the adminis-
tration of the system under which they are embodied,
or the personal delinquencies of which so many of
them have of late, from time to time, been proved to
be guilty, appears to produce but little impression.
We allude to the'police force. Notwithstanding that,
in common with other journals, we have felt our-
selves constrained,' from a regard to the liberty and
general welfare of the subject, to offer some severe
strictures upon the conduct of the police, in its
different grades—notwithstanding the sharpr,:ebukes
which their grave errors have met with from
some of the magistrates, and even from the
judges themselves, the police authorit;es seem
to treat with consummate indifference the
just reflections which, from different influential
quarters, have been cast upon their abuse of the im-
portant functions with which they are entrusted.
We are, nevertheless, convinced that their obdu-
racy will be speedily mastered. We have recently
had an assurance in Parliament from the Master of
the Mint, that the reprehensible practice of remune-
rating policemen who give evidence on trials affect-
ing the coinage will be abandoned. We are indebted
to the Lord Chief Baron for this salutary alteration,
made in consequence of the sweeping condemnation
which he passed from the bench upon the obnoxious
practice ; and there is a great probability that the
public will have reason to feel grateful to
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE for the relinquishment of
another practice of a most atrocious character.
At the Cambridge Assizes a man was indicted for
the crime of arson. An inspector of police came

Royal Highness of employing those talents and ac-

forward to depose that, having listened outside the
cell, he had overheard the prisoner make certain
statements of an inculpatory character. Justice
COLERIDGE rtjected the testimony—first, because
" such evidence as this ought always to be looked
upon with great distrust and jealousy by a jury, who
might well doubt the sources whence it arose."
Hereupon the inspector declared that he had fre-
quently been blamed by his superiors on former oc-
casions for omitting to obtain such evidence. The
Judge at once rejoined, "that, if that were so,
there was no wonder that remarks were made on the
testimony of policemen," and condemned the practice as
one which ought to be discontinued for the future.
Unless, indeed, the police authorities be desirous, as

it would appear they are, of acquiring the unen-
viable reputation of a VJDOCQ, they had better lose
no time in profiting by this trenchant reproof of an
English Judge.
One word to the Chairman of the Surrey Ses-
sions. An inspector of the Guildford police
gave evidence, yesterday, in support of an
indictment of precisely the same "eaves-drop-
ping" description with that to which we have above
referred. On this evidence the counsel for the prisoner
commented very severely, and read a report from the
Times of the refusal of Mr. Justice COLERIDGE to re-

quirements in a manner which may elevate him to
the dignity of being a promoter of education, a bene-
factor of the subjects of his August Spouse, and a
Patriotic Prince of that England in which he can
never be regarded as a foreigner.

:he affairs of Ireland continue to occupy the
almost undivided attention of the Senate, to the ex-
clusion of other matters. Each succeeding clause of
the Poor-law for that country is contested with a
desperate energy, and the propoAtions of the Govern-
ment on each point are opposed by the different

ceive such testimony. The Chairman, in summing

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 26, 1847.

Court intriguers, M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN, a gentle-
man not altogether unknown in the courts of justice,
the proprietor of the Presse, which, as the organ
of the new party, has put forth the following ma-
nifesto :
" The famous cry of alarm of Unfortunate France! un-
fortunate King!' uttered by the Journal des Debuts, may
still be remembered. Yesterday the same journal sends
forth the following cry of distress not less plaintive. An-
other blow must not be waited for to awake, or perhaps it
will be too late.' What then has happened? Has M. Guizot
been sacrificed to Lord Palmerston, as formerly M. de
Chateaubriand to M. de ti ills Has M. Tillers, who is to
the Revolution of 1830 what the Prince de Polignac was to
the Restoration of 1815—the danger which threatened it—
been called on to form a new Cabinet? No, nothing of all that
has occurred. What has happened is of a very different
gravity ; M. Leon de Maleville has been elected President of
the Chamber, when opposed to M. Duprat 1 That is not all;
there have been found amongst the majority a certain num-
ber of undisciplined members, who refused to urge the spirit
of intolerance to the point of excluding systematically front
every committee all the Deputies of the Opposition. That
is still not all; three bureaux out of nine authorised the
reading of M. Duvergier de Hauranne's proposition, being
unwilling that the Conservative party could be reproached
with what it never fails to upbraid the Opposition, namely,
to have buried in 1840 the proposition of M. de Remilly. It
is easy to be seen, therefore, that the majority is dissolved,
that France is undone! if any one doubts it, let him read
the article of the Debuts. (Here the Presse gives the article
in question, and then continues.) But let that journal set its
mind at rest ; if there is any danger to be feared tor the ma-
jority, it is not an impartiality, but an intolerance. The im-
partiality which the Debuts rallies so agreeably has swelled
the ranks of the majorities, but never dissolved them. What
ruined the Restoration was not an excess of toleration; if
the Restoration had been less exclusive, it would not have
given the Debuts the triumph and the grief of beholding the
verification of its prophetic words—Unfortunate France
Unfortunate King!" .
The Court, in the meanwhile, is steadily pursuing
its reactionary policy. One of the boasts of the
French nation was, that by the revolution of 1830
they had freed themselves from the yoke of the old
nobility. The King of the Barricades, however, is
preparing the way for the restoration of that yoke.
On this subject we find the following curious article
in the Constitutionnel:—
"Some time before the death of M. Martin (du Nord) it
was reported that he had been made a Count. It was even
supposed that this ennoblement was a consolation accorded
in extremis to the fallen Keeper of the Seals, for the loss of
health and power that he had sustained, a sort of plaything
given to the sick man to amuse him in his sufferings.
This supposisition was an error; it is now certain that M.
Martin had been a Count two years, but that he had not
dared to decorate himself publicly with his new title. That
is not all; it is said that there are at this moment a great
number of counts, of marquises, and even of dukes, of more
or less recent creation, of whose existence no one dreams.
All these nobles in petto await with impatience a favourable
occasion to produce ostensibly their ridiculous titles; but
public opinion does not yet appear to them sufficiently well
disposed, or rather without doubt the Government interdicts
them for some little time longer from giving themselves this
joy. They appear then in the world as simple roturiers,
having secretly the consciousness of their greatness, like the
princes of fairy tales, who live metamorphosed in beasts
during a certain time of trial. Thus no one is certain that
he has not among his friends some one of these nobles honteur
who have had the courage to demand a title of nobility in our
time, but who have not the courage to tell it to their friends,
who would blush at their ridiculous vanity, and dare not
dress themselves out in the tawdry ornaments they have
had the stupidity to make an object of ambition. And not
only do people become noble in these days, but they obtain
advancement in this hierarchy according to their merits. M.
de Salvandy, for example, glorified himself for a long time
on being a Count. All at once—on the very day on which
a Marquis entered his family—we saw his title of Count
disappear, and his signature affect everywhere a strange
simplicity. It is said that the explanation of this fact has
just been made—it is that M. de Salvandy has thought that
he could not have a Marquis for son, and remain only a
Count—he has been created a Duke, and impatienty awaits
the day on which he can produce this new parchment to
the open day of publicity. Such, at least, is what every
one said in the Chamber yesterday. We laughed the other
day at M. Lacave-Laplange, who stuck up so stoutly for the
title of excellency, and one called him ' Marquis du De-
ficit.' Who knows? M. Lacave-Laplange is perhaps also
a Duke of the recent batch ! At all events he certainly
deserves to be."
The Journal des Dads has the following from the
Island of Bourbon :
" The colony of the Island of Bourbon has for some time
been in a state of anarchy. It has not been the blacks who
have risen in rebellion or the mulattos and other men of
colour, always, according to the creoles, ready to bring fire
and sword into the country, who have taken up arms and
given the signal of revolt. No! the example has been set
by the authorities; it was the colonial council which com-
menced the deplorable proceedings which render all govern-
ment impossible. It had appeered that the colonies, not-
withstanding all the complaints they laid through their or •
gans, bad resolved not to contend against the spirit of the
Government, but, on the contrary, to endeavour to act in con-
cert with it. Several. symptoms indicated this disposition,
and particularly the moditica,ions to which the colonial
councils subjected the composition of the councils of dele-
gates which represented them in the Government, and which
are nominated by a plurality of votes. In France the new
nominations were favourably received, and we ourselves ex-
pressed the pleasure we felt in the election at Bourbon of M.
Sully Brunet, a man of sense and moderation, of enlightened
and conciliatory opinions, and who, after having before been
invested with the colonial representation, was deprived of it
because he was suspected of entertaining too liberal and pro-
gressive ideas. We hoped, however, to find in his renomi-
nation a pledge for a sincere return to right reason, and for
a renewal of a good understanding between the mother-
country and the colony. Unhappily our hopes have been
but too quickly disappointed, at least at Bourbon. Scarcely
recovered from a momentary stupor, the passions were
awakened in all their former vividness, and, as their first
gratification, they determined to obtain the annulment of
the election of M. Sully Brunet. The only means of attain-
ing this was to induce the Governor to dissolve the Colonial
Council, because the powers of the delegates cease with the
existence of the political body which nominates them. A
redoubtable minority, consisting of 14 of the Council, un-
dertook to force the Council to this, and succeeded by sys-
tematically absenting themselves from the sittings. The
illness of two members of the majority rendered it impossible
for the labours of the Council to be continued, and the Go-
vernor was under the necessity of making a new appeal to
the electoral colleges. The accounts we have received from
Bourbon come up to December 22d—the day after the new
session was opened by the Governor in person, M. Graeh.
They give us no hopes of seeing a speedy termination to this
crisis, or rather they make us fear that the anarchy will be
prolonged. Out of the thirty members of which the Council
is composed, fifteen have determined to give their votes for
M. Sully Brunet, and the other fifteen are as resolute in their
determination to oppose him. Where then is a majority to
be found? But this is not all. It appears that, in imitation
of the example set by the minority which caused the dissolu•
tion of the last Council, the members of the two parties have
entered into an engagement with each other to do as has
a!ready been done, and by seceding from the Council render
all further proceedings by it impossible, in case their opinion
should meet with a check."
The Reforme states that the prohibition of the ex-
portation of grain by land or sea from Spain had
created a panic throughout the south-western de-
partments of France. " Prices," it says, " imme-
diately rose at Bayonne, Bordeaux, and Toulouse.
In this last town the advance was 4f. to 6f. per
hectolitre. The wheat called bladette ' reached the
enormous price of 36f. to 37f. the hectolitre. In
ordinary years it sells for 18f. All that country
drew its supplies from Spain. The rise is conse-
quently general throughout the south. Lyons, where
a calm prevailed during the last month, receives no
longer any provisions from Marseilles, on account of
the shallowness of the Rhone. In the meantime
numerous purchasers from Auvergne, Burgundy, the
Jura, and the Vosges, allured by the comparatively
moderate prices, have repaired to that market, and al-
ready caused an augmentation of from lf. to 21. per
100 kilogrammes. The markets of Paris and its vi-
cinity continue calm. Flour has fallen from 2f. to 3f.
per sack since Saturday."
In the north-western departments, however, prices
have fallen, and the price of flour fell 4 francs per sack
of 157 kilogrammes at the Paris market on Wed-
nesday.
The stockbrokers of Paris have divided among the
charitable boards of that capital the sum of 45,000 f.,
the amount of commission allowed them for the pur-
chase of Rentes made by the Emperor of RussiA from
the Bank of France.

up the case, "condemned the conduct of the counsel,
in producing a newspaper report for the purpose of
prejudicing the minds of the jury. He really con-
sidered there was too much liberty taken by some
of the Learned Counsel in that court, which
was not allowed in any other, and which took
up unnecessarily the time of the public."
In the first place, we must remark that we are infi-
nitely more inclined to take our lesson of what is
most conducive to the pure administration of justice
from the lips of Judge COLERIDGE than from those
of Mr. J. W. FRESHFIELD; and in the next, we
must inform this gentleman that, in the Superior
Courts a reference to a newspaper report is not con-
sidered irrelevant or impertinent, where the case is of
so recent a date as to have precluded its appearance
in the usual professional' reports of legal proceed-
ings. Under such circumstances, the newspaper
report is always received quantum valeat ; and the
Judge, so far from taking umbrage at the reference,
feels indebted to counsel for inviting his attention to
the latest opinions of his Learned Colleagues. 'Where
the point raised happens to be one of an exclusively
legal character, and such as could not be well under-
stood except by those thoroughly conversant with the
law, none but a strictly professional report would
have much weight with the Court ; but, in the case
before us, those " who run may read," and it were
almost impossible for any one of ordinary capacity
to mistake the purport of Judge COLERIDGE'S obser-
vations. Mr. FRESHFIELD should remember that
" he is a wise man who speaks little."

Some disturbances, caused by the dearness of pro-
visions, took place at Prague on the 14th. The mob
readiness, in case of
Tbroke
si n
were into
re fouror
dbearke edr st'os hboep si
n, and plundered them.
their services being required, and the wealthier inha-
tants have taken measures for supplying bread to
such as may be in want.

The Senate of Frankfort has suspended the duty
upon the import of rice until September next. Most
of the other states of the Zollverein have already
taken the same measure.

A letter from Rome says—
" Monsignor Grassellini, Governor of Rome, had just
adopted a liberal reform for the police, of which he is Direc-
tor-General. The police is for the future to occupy itself
with actions, and not with opinions, and will thus have liberty
to the development of social life. M. Grassellini has also
occupied himself with prisons. He lately visited that of the
Palazzo Madama. On seeing its horrible subterranean cells,
he caused six prisoners who were confined in them to be set
at liberty, and then gave orders to put the prison in a better
state. Investigations are going on previous to the trial of
the persons accused of having taken part in the plots dis-
covered here, at Ancona, and at several other places. The
King of Naples, who was expected at Rome at the com-
mencement of Lent, has not arrived. This has caused some
disquietude, because it is supposed that Austria will endea-
vour to prevent the visit."
Letters from Ferrara state that the Legate, the
director of the police, and other employes, disliked by
the population, had taken their departure. It is also
stated that, in compliance with a summons from the
municipal authorities, the Austrian garrison had
quitted the Mura degli Angioli, of which it had taken
possession as an exercise ground.

The Levant mail brings advices from Constantinople
of the Bth, and from Athens of the 10th instant.
The differences between the Governments of
Turkey and Greece still continued. The English
and French Ambassadors had remonstrated with the
Turkish Ministry against certain concessions which
they proposed to make to Russia in the treaty of
commerce which the Porte is at present negotiating
with that power.

The news from Athens announces the recovery of
King OTHO from his late illness, and the capture of
several bandits—among others of the notorious
THOMA MhLLISSOVA.

Madrid journals of the 19th have arrived.

General SERRANO still remained concealed, and as
no steps have been taken to bring him to a court-t
martial, it was supposed the Ministry would let the
matter drop if the General would abstain from inter-
fering in politics. The QUEEN has signed several
decrees which have recently been presented to her
by the Ministry, and her MAJESTY and the President
of the Council appear to be on the most perfect terms
of intelligence. Rumours, however, were still cur-
rent in Madrid of the probability of the speedy advent
to office of a Pacheco and Miraflores Ministry, al-
though the friends of those gentlemen assert tha
neither of them is at present prepared to take office.

In the Chamber of Deputies, on the 17th, a long
discussion took place relative to the decree prohibiting
the exportation of corn. The Minister of Marine

defended the measure, by urging that it was neces

sary to adopt it, owing to the present situation of the
country and the alarm felt by the people. But he
hoped it would only be temporary, and he promised
that the Government would present a law on the
subject A Deputy proposed a vote of censure on the
Government for having issued the decree, but the
Chamber decided against the motion by a majority of
142 votes to 40. On the 18th Senor CORTINA moved
that the petition of Senor OLOZAGA should be taken

into consideration. The Chamber, however, con-
tented itself with referring the petition to the Elec-
tion Committee.

The English Ambassador had an interview with

the QUEEN on the 18th. It was reported in Madrid
on the 19th that the Ministry intended to withdraw
the Bill for a new loan, on the assigned ground that
the state of the country is not such as to render any
new military expenditure necessary. There are per-
sons however who attribute this reported intention to
the distressed state of the public funds, which is de-
cidedly unfavourable to a new loan.

The prices of food in Madrid are every day in-
creasing, and it is said that very great distress exists
•
in the Balearic Isles.

A letter from Barcelona of the 16th says--
" General Pavia took possession of his post on the 13th,
the day after his arrival, and received at once the felicita-
tions of the officers of the garrison at the palace of the Cap-
tain-General ; General Breton was still residing there, to
whom the new Governor of Catalonia has always shown the
greatest deference. On the 14th the principal authorities of
the town, and the foreign Consuls paid a visit to General
Pavia, and took leave of General Breton. As the two
steamers, the Vulcano and the Blasco, which General Breton
was waiting for, in order to proceed to Port Venires, have
arrived at Barcelona, with troops, it is probable that he will
soon take his departure. General Pavia, on taking posses-
sion of his post, has addressed a proclamation to the Catelo-
nians. I have read this document, which appears to me
somewhat insigniScant ; it is, however, exempt from any
monstrous enactments, impossible to be carried into execu-
tion, and which, in threatening every one, cause apprehen-
sion to none."

MADRID Boma, MARCH 18.—The Three per Cents.
were done on the 18th at 31k for cash; the Fire per
Cents. at 19; the Debt without Interest at si; and the
Coupons at 17. The Bourse remained closed on the
19th, it being the feast of St. Joseph.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
It is evident from the following article in the
Debats that the split in the Conservative camp, a 3
indicated by the election of M. LEON DE MALLE•
VILLE to the Vice-Presidency of the Chamber, is of

a more serious nature than had been imagined. Intelligence from Algiers of the 16th had been re-
" How will the debate on M. DUVERGIER DE ceived. Marshal BUGEAUD had suffered a relapse,
HAURANNE'S proposition end ?" asks the Journal des and his illness continued to increase in spite of the
Dibats. most energetic treatment.
" Two days since the question would, we confess, have The Chevalier RuFEcr has arrived at Marseilles on
caused us to smile. After the vote of Monday, it appears a mission from the Bey of TUNIS.
doubtful. Those who have elected M. de Malleville re-
at the steamer Ardmentrto:
joice loudly over what they have accomplished. They as- The Courrier de Marseille of the 20th says—" We
are enabled to state that the struggle which has so
some the airs of masters with the Ministry and the majority;
they dictate their conditions; they menace to unite with
long existed between the MTahrseeiEllensgliasnhd
GTorvieersote.
the Opposition to carry the resolution, as they coalesced to
carry the election of M. de Malleville, should the Ministry routes
not engage to grant them, before the conclusion of the pre- merit hisasat
gliasvetn terminated. The
sent Legislature, the adjonction des capacitis (which would
give the members of the liberal professions the right to vote whichwAi i
ohßaNd
fobre been pieced
different at
trials,th e disposition
should
returno f
at elections). This is their ultimatum. It is not, let it
Malta, and it arrived there on the 15th. The bo well understood, the adjonction des capacites in which
lish Government has definitively adopted the Mar-
they find an interest, but the desire they feel to increase
Eng-
their importance, and to insure themselves the advantage of
a trifling success by compelling the Government and the •
seines route."
Chamber to pass under their Caudine Forks. They are not
20, and they pretend to impose their law on 200 They
The debate on M. DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE'S
Proposition for electoral reform was resumed on tives I We are convinced, however, that neither the Minis-
try nor the majority will consent to suffer such a humlia-
Wed-
tion. We must incur the risk; we must ascertain nesday, and had not concluded when the post left.
whether we are at the mercy of twenty pretended Con- The Patric says—" The Duke DE GLUCKSBERG
servatives, who join our ranks for the purpose of betray-
ing us to the enemy. The Ministry would commit an has been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at Ma-
unpardonable fault, not only by entering upon such an drid, in spite of the opposition made to this choice by
ente engagrta ement
in it: the Minister, but by nots
would alienste th with deteeirrminationdignity and to Count BEESSON. This appointment has taken place
independence, and would deserve that all honourable men on the reiterated request of Queen CHRISTINA, and
amongst the majority should desert them. What, more- according to the advice of M. ISTURITZ."
over, would such an engagement signify but that our elec-
toral law requires to be reformed, and why, therefore, refuse The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Wed-
to take M. Duvergier de Hauranne's proposition into consi-
nesday, at 791. 10c.; the Five per Cents., 1161. 95c.;
deration ? If the breach is to be opened, why not to all
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2751.; Rouen, 870 f. ; Havre,
systems? You have your ideas of electoral reform, but who 668 f. 75c.; Great Northern, 6281. 75e. ; Avignon, 807 f. 50c. ;
Vierzon, 5701. ; Bordeaux, 5171. 50c. ; Boulogne, 405 f. ;
told you that we had not ours? Each person may sacrifice
his differences and his particular views to the necessity of
Paris and Strasburg, 442 f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 430 f. ;
maintaining what exists ; but if we destroy what is, each Troyes and Montereau, 2901. ; Basle, 205 f. ; Dieppe, 325 f.;
Paris and Lyons, 445 f ; Lyons and .Avignon, 475 f.; Cette,
person ought to possess the right of presenting his ideas, and
in that case the proposition of M. Duvergier de Hauranne 4501.
merits consideration as well as another. Is it because M.
e and f Marseilles, 808 f. 75c. ; Northern, 625. ; Paris and D uvergier is not a Progressist Conservative ? Ask himself.Lyoxs, Maisel' 22.—Paris and Rouen, 87_0f.; Avignon
The number of seceders is, according to all ac- Lyons,
4551.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
COUVtSt considerably underrated by the Debuts. They LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAncu 25.
have as their leader one of the most bold and reckless Vierzon), 14 ii, —Dutch Ithenish, 44 —East Indian, %--Northern of
Faris and Rosen, 34h,
Boulogne and Amiens, 161,4 —Central of France (Orleans anti
France, i 3—Paris and Lyons,SA
of rliticfti Adventurers, one of the most cunning of