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LONDON, FRIDAY. APRIL 17, 1846.

The speech of M. TIIIERS, on Wednesday, in the
French Chamber of Deputies, his visit to this country
last autumn, and the complimentary return made by
Lord PAL3IERSTON, are all favourable symptoms that
the phrase entente cordiale is something more than mere
words. The condonation, too, has come from tho right
quarter—from the artgry party that, till very lately,
miss:A no opportunity of declaiming against the selfish
disposition of England, snd of her wish to overreach
France, and interpret the words of the French KING
only to her own advantage. The speech to which we
vefer, and which was not finished at the hour of post
on Wednesday, related to the strength of the French
navy, and the comparative power of England and France
at sea. Judging from M. Tunas' work on the " Con-
guilt° and the umpire," we are led to believe that he
2onsidered France quite an equal match for this country,
both as regarded the skill of her naval officers, and the
bravery of her sailors. He never relates an encounter
at sea, in which France had not the superiority, or was
not robbed of the victory by some accident, or some.
malevolent, unexpected, and unwarrantable trick on
the part of the islanders. Sea-fights, which En-
lishinni had been taught to believe were
in their favour, and which they had celebrated by tEe
`firing of cannon, by illuminations and bonfires, were,

according to the French historian, no victories at all; they
were all mere delusions ; the French, it is true, had suf-

fered in some -instances, but, as VOLTAIRE says of the
Britis'a troops at the battle of Fontenoy, their defeat
was as glorious as a victory. In every instance that oc-
curs to us, M. TRIERS gives the preference to his coun-
trymen for naval tactics, hard fighting, and daring cuter-
prise, and is only a little puzzled in winding up his tale
to account for the result. From these facts, we are
justified in inferring that, in his reveries about the vic-
tories which, under the ORLEANS dynasty, should equal
those of the empire, he dreamed of the dominion of the
sea as well as the boundary of the Rhine. All these
visions, however, have vanished, for in the speech to
which we allude, he fully admits that France cannot
compete with England at sea. For forty ships of the
line which France can build and maintain, he said Eng-
land could raise one hundred, and the vast difference be-
tween the respective forces, therefore, could leave no room
for doubt as to which would ultimately prevail. This is
an important admission from one hitherto so vain-
glorious, and who may in a few years be again Prime
Minister of France. But this apparent change of opinion
:s accompanied by other circumstances of far more
.eight. Latterly the tone of the Paris journals has
exhibited a great diminution of asperity in reference to
the policy and power of England. They reason calmly
on her victories in India—even praise the moderation
of the Governor-General ; and one of them, usually
most hostile to England, admits that " no nation more
extensively fulfils its providential mission." The op•
position in the Chamber has undergone the same re-
generation—even M. BILLAULT can speak of England
with decent composure; and all these violent and un-
becoming displays which some years since made the
events at Otahelte, and especially the PRITCHARD affair,
Absolutely ridiculous, are never by any chance re-
peated. At one time it was understood that the
ex-Minister was paying his court to the Duke
DE NEMOURS and his brother JOINVILLE, in the hope
hat they disapproved of the peaceful policy which
has so honourably distinguished the reign of their
rather, and that they might join with him in
reviving the glory of the French army, and defeating
England in her own territory by means of steam-boats.
But he evidently has met with no favourable reception
from that quarter, and is obliged to fall back upon the
rely chance of recovering power left to him, and become
a warm advocate of peace with England. Lord Pea,
neasTos is in somewhat a similar positien ; Earl GREY
had pronounced a ban upon him, which went forth to the
vhole of Europe and met with warm approbation from
,he friends of peace, as well as from all those Powers
.vho reprobated the Syrian expedition. The French
')pposition were in ecstacies to find their most dangerous
opponent blackballed by his own colleague, and the war-
tike spirit of Lord PALMERSTON made the real ground
'or demolishing the RUSSELL Cabinet. A brand was
.hus fixed upon the ex-Foreign Minister, which no ex •
planations, no professions of a sincere desire fur peace,
no expressed determination to maintain to its full extent
the entente cordiale, could efface, and the appointment of
Lord PALMERSTON to his former office, in case of a change
of administration, would have been regarded by the
French Chamber as a declaration of war ; for they
night well say—" This is not our opinion only, you
:ourselves admit the fact; you wish to live at peace, but
it the same time, men who know your Cabinet secrets
matter than we do, t.:11 us plainly there can be no secu-
city for peace while PALMERSTON is at the Foreign•
Itfice." The impossibility of giving a satisfactory reply
to such an argument has not been without effect, and
)robably has mainly contributed to the friendly inter-
:ourse of civilities which are now going on at Paris.
Whatever may be the real cause, however, the friends of
peace will rejoice in the result. By personal communi-
=dons, by witnessing improvements as observable in
France as in England, by experiencing the hospitality
and the warm congratulations of Frenchmen of all par-
ties, and also by judging more intimately of the real cha-
racter of the people, Lord PALMERSTON may learn an
useful lesson, and he and M. THIERS may the more rea-

(lily admit the folly, as well as the wickedness, of bring
ng into collision, from personal pique or some cause
equally undignified, two nations whose friendly co-
operation is absolutely necessary for promoting the wel-
fare of both, and securing the peace of the world.

Another glance at the devastations which still pro-
ceed in our beautiful, but doomed Ireland, is almost re-
quisite, from the terrible character of the most recent
intelligence from that quarter, nor can it but be inte-
resting at the present juncture. To-night Parliament
will resume its sittings by taking under immediate con-
sideration the kind of legislation which should be
adopted towards the Irish multitude, and hence it be-
comes absolutely necessary to weigh every indi-
cation of mai. government by which the species
of correctives to be employed become more recog-
nisable. During some_ months it has been our un-
fortunate duty to comment upon the exigencies of that
wretched population, and to insist earnestly and inces-
santly upon the certainty there was of such ulterior
woes as would baffle the interposition and hamper the
movements of the Legislature. Again and again our voice
has been raised in supplication for the destitute millions of
Irish, and in warning against that accumulation of ills
by which the efficacy of any Government intervention
would then become null and powerless. Unless a more
rapid policy be adopted by Parliament in dealing with
the wants of Ireland—unless efforts of a more sponta-
neous nature be made in behalf of the famine-stricken
millions, the " Great Ministerial Difficulty" will
defy the ingenuity of the mass of remedy-mongers.
Circumspection is, undoubtedly, a wholesome adjunct
in legislation, but there are circumstances in which an
over-scrupulousness would be criminal in the rulers of
a great empire. When thousands are pinched with the
fiercest pangs of hunger ; when tumultuary crowds
defy the arm of the law by their insubordination ;
when whole parishes are abandoned to disease and
death, with nothing but poisonous food, it is as
suredly not the moment to cavil over the
propriety of this detail or of that ,formality.
An awful example of this ill-timed controversy
has been given us by our illustrious and incomparable
Hooara u : every one will remember the picture in
which he delineates the heroine of Marriage a la Mode
expiring in acute torments, while the rival physician:
are wrangling over their panaceas. Here is the potion
—here is the inestimable pill; both are paraded as cer-
tain to prove remedial; but in the midst of the argu-
ments the patient attains the climax of the disorder, and
renders recovery through human power all but impossible.
There is a resemblance in the comparison closer than
the superficial might at first conjecture. WILLIAM
HOGARTH, in that production, advanced a great moral
truth of universal application ; what bolds good in this
rt spect individually, holds good also in the multitude ;
what is appropriate in this particular to the physician, is
appropriate hkewi-e to the legislator. Unless, therefore,
some speedier means be applied for the reclamation
of Ireland, the evils of famine, of contagion, of insular
dination, will exceed all ordinary bounds of uppression.
The great under-current is in motion; an effective
effort must be made at once, or the consequences must
prove dire beyond calculation. We do not aspire
to the post of those who would needlessly gene-
rate a panic; we abhor conduct of such wilful
our fellow countrymen goaded on by starvation and
atrocity but when we behold so many thousands
oft
its dreadful concomitants, though w e would still depre-
cate any undue Ireeipitation, we would have the legis-
lative remedy advanced with vigour and alacrity ; with-
out any petty attention to the minutim of separate clauses.
We cannot but hope that the MembPrs of the Lower
House will perceive the real urgency of the case, and spurn
from their counsel anything like captious opposition. We
earnestly trust that, with the various indications of the
present mal-administration of affairs in Ireland—the
incessant and wholesale evictions—the indifference to the
effusion of blood—the • riots around the il,ur-dray at
Tipperary, and the ferocious assault upon the mills, at
Clonmel—we earnestly trust, that with these sig-
nificant facts before them, a conscientious sense
of the responsibility which devolves upon them
will impel them to some conclusion forthwith. Accord-
ing to Freeman's Journal, the wretched beings who
mingled in the last-mentioned outbreak were " reduced to
the utmost extremity of distress; their bones protruding
through the skin which covered them." These are the
people for whose redemption from the jaws of death, and
for whose preservation from anarchy, Government has to
legislate. 'They are not therefore a race admitting of a
tardy or elaborated policy. What good Las to be done
in their regard, must be done at once. Delay is ruin.

The following letter from Cracow, dated April 5, is pub-
lished in the Unir4rsal German Gazette of the 12th :
" The officer of the militia, M. Ducillowicz, who betrayed
the conspirators to the authorities, and apprised them of the
hour fixed for the explosion of the insurrection, has been
struck with apoplexy, and is at present in the hospital. A
nervous fever prevails amongst the Austrian corps of occu-
pation in this city. Letters from Warsaw state that the Go-
vernor of that city has adopted strong measures to preserve
order. The troops sleep in the streets, and at 3 o'clock the
houses are closed. We are ignorant of the state of Gal,
as all communication has been interrupted. We merely
know that the peasants had not yet returned to their duty.
The Austrian army had suffered some loss in the forest of
Niepelomidec. The insurgents dug pits, which they covered
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with loose earth, and when the cavalry chared, several were
dismounted, and put to death without mercy. When in
want of provisions, the peasants advance to Bochnia, and
even to Wretitaka."

There are no later accounts from Madrid than those re-
ceived yesterday, wbich announced the accession of

PIDAL, and AR HERO to the LTURITZ Cabinet, b' which M.
ISTURITZ had been enabled to form a Governmevi. EGASA,
the favoUrite of Queen CHRISTINA, has been foie a tc, retire,
so that either CHRISTINA'S influence is failing or she is getting
alarmed. General SAN; Captain-General of Grenada, had
joined the Cabinet as Minister of the War Department.
The ceremonies of the Holy Week commenced on the 9th.
The QUEEN, accompanied by MARIE CHRISTINA, the In-
fanta LUISA FERNANDA, the Infant DON FRANCISCO DE
PAULO, and a numerous and brilliant suite, went on foot to
seven churches, to fulfil the seven stations appointed by the
Church. Her MAJESTY washed the feet of twelve poor per-
sons of both sexes. The QUEEN and her mother walked
between two rows of pikemen, 'attired in the new uniform,
which is copied from the soldiers of the Prussian army. The
whole procession was witnessed by multitudes of people, who
were very orderly. IsTuErrz, as President of the Council,
walked on the QUEEN'S right hand.

General NORZAGARAY bad left for Estramadura, where he
was to replace in command of that province General AMOR,
Wl.O is recalled.

The announcement made in the Paris papers of the arrival
of NARVAEZ in that city on the 15th is incorrect (indeed, it is
contradicted in the Paris papers received this morning). On
that day he was still at Bayonne.
The Madrid papers of the 9th state that the insurrection
in Galicia had been completely repressed. It is stated, that
in consequence of attempts having been made to seduce the
troops in Catalonia from their allegiance, th 3 Captain-Gene-
ral of the province had issued a proclamation offering their
discharge from the service and three ounces of gold to the
soldiers who should denounce the persons engaged in these
attempts.
Don Hit is Still at Bayonne, but mt under surveillance.
There is passing," says the Courier Fi anfais," at present
at Bayonne a veritable comedy, On Monday the telegraph
transmitted to the authorities of that city orders to cease all
surveillance over the Infante Don Henry, to pay him all the
honours due to his rank, and in his place to watch General
Narvaez, whose intrigues the Spanish Government, it appears,
is apprehensive of. What renders this change the more
amusing is that the police of France were set on the traces of
Don Henry at the formal demand of Narvaez."
The Madrid Bolsa was closed on the 9th.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday. They
are almost exclusively filled with the report of the debate in
the Chamber of Deputies on the Naval Budget on the day
preceding, and with comments on the speeches delivered on
that occasion. M. BILLAULT, during the discussion, made a
furious attack on the Government, and was replied to by
Baron DE MACKAU, the Minister of Marine, in a speech of
which the Presse says—
" Admiral de Mackau has not often obtained the appro-
bation of this journal. Our friends have even sometimes
accused us of a spirit of hostility with respect to him. We
shall to-day prove that we have never offered a systematic
opposition to any one. We, therefore, declare that the
honour of yesterday's sitting must be awarded to the Hon.
Minister. Taken unawares, by a most aggressive speech
of M. Billault, Admiral de Mackau, whom we have again
found such as he was when he first spoke in Parliament,
met the attack with a firmness and precision, which not•
withstanding some appearance of fatigue towards the close
of his speech, constantly captivated the attclition of the
Chamber."
In the course of his speech, the Minister, speaking of the
increase in the steam navy, said :—" We have augmented
the number of those vessels; we now possess. of from 450
to 540 horse-power, 1 of 320, 9 of 220, 22 of 160, 1 of 150,
17 of 120 and under, and, finally, 17 trans-Atlantic steamers ;
so that, if the Chambers decide that the latter shall
belong to the royal navy, we have now at our disposal
72 steam. vessels." He concluded by announcing
his determination to maintain the number of ships of the
line at forty, and of frigates at sixty. The discussion was
resumed on Wednesday by Admiral DE HELE, who
was followed by M. TIMMS, who condemned the Ad-
ministration because it had not repaired the faults
of its predecessors. As France was a commercial
nation, it was necessary that she should have a navy, but it
should be remembered that France was essentially a con-
tinental power. Ile then compared the relative forces of the
French and English navies, and expressed it as his opinion,
that at sea France was in no condition to compete with
England.
It was reported in the Chamber that the Deputies would
have finished their labours by the 31st of May, that the
Peers would rise between the 15th and 20th of June, and
that a dissolution would-immediately follow, so as to have
the elections in July. _ .

King LOUIS PHILIPPE went, on Wednesday, to Fontaine-
bleau, to inspect the preparations ordered by him for the re-
ception of Queen VicromA.
The Austrian, Prussian, and Turkish Ambassadors, Lord
and Lady COWLEY, and several English noblemen and
ladies of distinction, were present on Tuesday at a grand
dinner given by M. GUIZOT to Lord and Lady PALMERSTON.
The strike among the colliers at St. Etienne is said to be
subsiding, and there were hopes that they will return to
work in a few days.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE is in Paris. He has taken
up his abode at the Hotel Meant ige.
The Moniteur, of the 15th, contains a royal ordonnance
appointing members of the Council of Health attached to
the Ministry of Manufactures and Commerce—M. FOULLIOY,
Inspector-General of the Naval Service of Health ; M.

MOIZIN, Member of the Council of Health of the Army ;
and M. PIRON, one of the Administration of the Post-office.

In expectation of the arrival of IBRAHIM PAUL. at Bor-
deaux on the 18th, General FouvuELLE had addressed the
following appeal to the National Guards of that city :
" A Prince, an ally of France, whose military qualities
have been appreciated by our soldiers,—lbrahim Pacha, is to
enter our walls on Satuiday. His Highness will review the
regiments of the garrison of Bordeaux and Libourne on
Sunday, the 19th. To impart more solemnity to that mili-
tary exhibition, the Lieutenant-General commanding the
11th division is anxious that the National Guard should
figure at it. National Guards ! you will hold to render his
Highness the honoar due to him, and piove that Bordeaux,
as well as the entire of France, shares the sympathies of her
_ _

Tie Funds and every description of securities were heavy
on the Paris Bourse on Wednesday, and the prices declined.
The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. GOc.; the Five per
Cents., 120 E 5c.; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,215 f. ;
Rouen, 1,0281. 75c.. ; Havre, 747 f. 50c.; Great Northern,
761 f. 25c.; Avignon, 908 f. 75c. ; Vierzon, 6681. 75c. •, Bor-
tleaux, 6221. 50c. • Boulogne, 505 f ; Basle, 230 f. Dieppe,
450 f; Paris and gtrasburg, 522 f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes,
545 f; Paris and Lyons, 575 f.; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per
Cents, SG.
The following are the quotations for other lines :
Lyons and Avignon Definitive, 5GOf. : ditto (Talabot)
5101. ; ditto (Lecoiuete), 5031. ; Charleroi, 496 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 16.
Dutch Rhenish, s%—Great Northern of France Constituted,
Is—Lyons and Avignon, 2—Luxembourg, I—Namur and Liege,
I4—Paris and Orleans, 48%—Parrs and Rouen, 40—Rouen and
ilavre, 29%—Sambre and Meuse, 2% —Tours and. Nantes Consti-
tuted, 6%.

ROYAL FAVOURS.
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which Np Ip Se Ila ;Set
appeared
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nyesterday,
heaCdAitr;P
Sir Henry Smith's—a baronet.
wvaslithwrittliteing
by a correspondent.
Mr. Fairs, who has acquired so much of deserved
celebrity in the art of decorating houses,
is removing from
llanover-street, where his indisputable taste was rendered so
manifestly superior to all his compeers and by its splendid
front, and which it is universally acknowledged has nothing
to compete with it throughout London. Its chaste and
classical composition is of the early Italian school of archi-
tecture; and within, the magazine and show-rooms are
worthy of its classic front. The residence, No. 2, is also de-
serving the same compliment; it is doomed to change hands
next Tuesday, through the instrumentality of Mr. George
Robins's hammer. All the fashionable world are flocking daily
to see this beautiful specimen of Mr. Fairs' handiwork.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO THE JUPITER STEAMER.—
On Wednesday night, about ten o'clock, as the Jupiter
steam-packet, which is placed on the Bristol and Cork sta-
tion by the General Steam Navigation Company, in place of
the Sabrina, refitting, was coming up the Bristol river from
Cork, with a, valuable cargo of horses, cattle, pigs, and mer-
chandise, the night being very dark, she ran aground at a
little below Round Point, a projection in the river about one
mile from Bristol, and, the tide being on the ebb, as the
water left her she heeled over on her side, and a scene of in-
describable confusion instantly ensued. The horses, being
frightened, broke loose from the horse-boxes, and seven va-
luable hunters, belonging to the stud of Mr. Mason, a gentle-
man resident in Oxfordshire, who bas been hunting in Ire-
land this season, with seven or eight head of horned cattle,
and, as it is believed, upwards of 200 pigs, were drowned;
the vessel was also seriously injured, and the general cargo
much damaged. The scene at this moment, it is said, was
almost an indescribable one ; the utmost confusion prevailed,
horses and cattle were floating up and down the river, and
this morning the shore was literally strewn with. carcases.
The vessel was got off this morning, and is now lying at the
entrance of the Cumberland basin ; it is found that she
makes water, and is otherwise injured, but the extent of the
damage is not yet known. The Jupiter is a tine vessel, and
of upwards of 200 horse-power.
DREADFUL FERRY-BOAT ACCIDENT AND Loss OF
LlFE.—Much painful sensation was produced in Bangor,
North Wales, on Easter Monday, by an accident of an appal-
ling kind, which completely marred the festivities of the day.
A few mintites past 12 o'clock the ferry-boat, managed by
one man and a boy, with, it is calculated, some fiftaen pas-
sengers, of both sexes, started from the off, or Anglesey side,
for Bangor, and before they had got good steerage-way on the
craft she was struck by a squall, heeled over, filled, and went
down. Boats from the ferry-house put off to the assistance
of the struggling people, as soon as was practicable, and
thirteen persons, including the crew, were picked up in lei's
than a quarter of an hour, and conveyed to the ferry-house.
In the course of an hour medical aid was had from Beau-
mauris, and exerted in such cases as needed assistance with
success, save in the case of two, namely, William Rowlands,
of Trecastell, I'enmon, neat Beanmaris, a respectable and in-
telligent farmer, thirty-four 3 ears of age, who has left a
widow and eight children to bewail his untimely fate, and
Anne Owen, single woman, aged twenty-four, a native of
Beaumauris, on the eve, alas ! of being united to the object
of her affections. The ferry, which is called the Garth ferry,
is situated about two miles and a half from the far-famed
illenai suspension-bridge, and is a great sea thoroughfare,
one mile in 'extent at high water. When strong winds pre-
vail, as was the case last Monday, there is a heavy sea run-
ning; but a long term of years' impunity from accident had
inspired the utmost confidence in the passage and boats,
which are considered good sea-boats--now unfortunately
shaken.
Ma. M'ACiIEADY.—This eminent tragedian has en-
tered into an engagement to perform twenty nights at the
Surrey Theatre for 1,000/., commencing next September.
GRAVESE
ND AND ROCHESTER RAILWAY. The fol-
lowing are the traffic returns for the week ending April 11,
1846 :—Passengers, 11,426 ; amount received, 28C1. 2s. 4d.
TROTTING 'MATCH.—Yesterday, Mr. Marsden's cob,
which was matched to trot two miles under seven minutes,
for a stake of 101, decided the issue at Streatham, and won
by twenty seconds.
PEDESTRIANISM.--The match between Sam East, of
Westminster, and Robert Fuller, of London, will come off on
•
Monday next at Cannick• corner, on the Barnet road. The
didance is twenty miles, and the stakee 2001.