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the Poor Removal Bill we are to await
the explications of the Home Secretary, and
earnestly do we trust that nothing precipitate may be
done in its rejection. The Drainage Bill—one so
intimately linked with the agricultural interests, and
so likely to promote the culture and reclamation of
land—will next come under consideration. And,
although the group of Bills recently introduced
by the late Secretary for Ireland will not
be proceeded with intact, we are rejoiced to perceive
that the one relating to ejectments will be continued
before the House ; and doubly rejoiced that, despite
the modifications by which it will then be accom-
panied, the clause preventing distrainment upon
growing crops will be preserved. The Leasing
Bill and the Tenants' Compeniation Bill are
neither of them to be overlooked, while,
among divers Bills now lying in the Upper House,
the Small Debts Bill will receive every encourage-
ment. Previous to the interrogations of Mr. T.
DUNCOMBE the Premier abstained from revealing
the details of the measures which were to be intro-
duced either by himself or his Right Hon. Colleagues,
and contented himself with promising some prepara-
tory measure for the improvement of waste land in
Ireland. Immediately, however, the Hon, Member
for Finsbury had completed his jocose remonstrance
with the Noble Lord the Member for the city of
London upon the continuance of his taciturnity,
the latter unthreaded, as it were, inch by inch,
the maze of Ministerial intentions. Alluding
to the absence of party spirit in the
formation of his Ministry, and the manner in which
it was modelled, irrespective of class interests, he
said, " I hold, for my own part, that it is not for
the land, or for manufactures, or commerce, but for
the benefit of the whole people, that the Go-
vernment of the country ought to be conducted,"
he solemnly engaging to aid by every possible
concomitant of power the amelioration of the condi-
tion of Ireland ; to endeavour, by every possible
means, to endow her population with the same fran-
chises as those enjoyed by the population of Eng-
land, but to abstain, for the present at
least, from any sweeping measures of reform in the
endowment of the Roman Catholic priesthood. One
curious episode in the revelations uttered by Lord
JOHN RUSSELL was his explanation of the origin
of the phrase "finality," a phrase which he justly
regarded as obnoxious in its common acceptation, and
the origination of which he altogether and emphatically
repudiated. In speaking of the Factory Bill, the
Noble Lord, if we comprehend him rightly, left
the matter wholly in abeyance, because of a dis-
similarity of opinion on that subject existing in the
Cabinet : himself and Sir GEORGE GREY ap-
proving in the reduction to eleven hours, while
that alteration met with the strenuous opposition of
the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Mr. LABOUCHERE.
In conclusion, Lord JOHN RUSSELL condensed,
into a single sentence, the general principles of his
administration. "Those principles," said he, " are to
increase the commerce, to set free the industry of the
country, to promote the union, not the mere
legislative Act of Union, but the union of hearts
and affections between this country and Ire-
land." And nobly and justly did the Prime
Minister characterise these
principles as " calculated
to promote, maintain, and advance the principles of
religious liberty, which, together with civil
liberty, have made this country conspicuous
as one of the greatest nations in the
world." Those are sentiments worthy of Lord
J. RUSSELL, and not unworthy of this generation ;
and, inasmuch as his pertinacity tended to divulge
those sentiments, we are grateful to Mr. DU:WOMB&

The Venice Gazette, of the 3d instant, announces
that the POPE has published a general amnesty for
01 political offenders since 1836 up to the present
time. The appointments of Cardinal AMAT and Car-
dinal Gizzi as Secretaries of State had given great
satisfaction to the people of the Roman States.

Madrid papers of the 10th have been received.
The Heraldo mentions .a rumour that an intrigue
was on foot for the formation of a new Ministry,
with CASTRO Y ()Immo at its head, and of which
GONZALES BRAVO, SEIJAS SALAMANCA, and CONCHA
should be members. The condition on which this

coalition Ministry would be permitted to take office
is understood to be the immediate conclusion of the
marriage of the QUEEN with a Prince of the family
of Coburg.
It would appear from the statements in this paper
that a conspiracy against the Government has been
discovered in Valencia.

The Heraldo has the following on the affairs of
Portugal :

" The Portuguese Government has received a telegraphic
dispatch announcing the dissolution of the Miguelite band
near Chaves. The Revolucao of Lisbon, of the 4th, states
that a conspiracy has been discovered at Vizea, and that a
Miguelite faction had risen at Condeixa, and rendered it ne-
cessary for the authorities of Coimbra to adopt energetic
measures to prevent new disturbances. At Palmeira and
Braga there have been collisions between the troops and the
populace, and blood has been shed on both sides."
MADRID BoLSA, JULY 10.-..-The Three per Cents. are
quoted at 33 cash the Five per. Cents. are reported at 203/4
buyers ; and Passive Debt, 61/2 % buyers.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
The Messager of the preceding evening says, in
allusion to the assertion made by the Courrier Fran
cais, that the Minister of Public Works had autho-
rised the opening of the Northern Railroad in oppo-
sition to the opinion of M. DE BEEVILLE, the Govern-
ment engineer of the road :
~ Before the opening of the road was authorised, the Go-
vernment consulted MM. de Breville and Busche, the engi-
neers in chief of the two sections of this road, as to whether
it could be safely opened for passengers, and it was upon
their respective reply in the affirmative that the service was
authorised."
The Minister of Public Works arrived at Arras on
the 11th, and immediately afterwards proceeded with
the Mayor and other authorities of Arras to Fam-
poux, to visit the scene of the late railroad disaster.
It was reported, on the return of the Minister to
Arras, that he considered it necessary that the peat-
bog over which the embankment has been made
should be drained, and had given orders to that effect
The Tribunal of Aftas has taken up the affair of
the 9th on the Northern Railroad, and has ordered
a rigid investigation, with the view of prosecuting
any persons to whose negligence the injury inflicted
upon the soldiers and workmen by the striking of the
crane may be attributed. Since this second accident,
says a correspondent, great precautions appear to be
taken by the Company. Among other things the
rate of speed has been so much reduced that the train
from Amiens to Paris is sometimes five hours and a
half on the road.

r M. DUCHATEL the Minister of the Interior, has
authorised the legal constitution of the Association
pour la liberte des Echanges of Paris. The ordon-
nance is dated the Bth instant.

Colonel MOUTON, a French officer in the Seikh
service, has arrived at Marseilles from the Punjaub,
by way of Alexandria. He took an active part in
the late campaign on the Sale.), and was present in
all the battles. He has placed himself at the disposi-
tion of the Minister of War.
General MONTHOLON, who is now at liberty, is
waiting at Havre for his
passport to proceed to Aix-
la-Chapelle.
The leading articles in these papers are more than
uninteresting
solely to electioneering matters, and are mere repeti-
tionscash, 831. 15e.
;they are wearying. They relate
of what has been said twenty times before.
PARIS BOURSE, JULY 15.--The Bourse has been again
inanimate, and prices have remained steady all day and
closed at about the same as yesterday. Three per Cents. for
Five per Cents. for
cash, 121 f. 40c. ; for Account, 121 f. 70c. ; Bank of France
; for Account, 83f. 25c. ;
Shares, 3,460 f. ; Neapolitans, 103 ; Spanish Fives, 32; ditto,
Threes, 353/4 ; New Lean not quoted.
RAILWAYS.—The Share Market has been rather de-
pressed to-day, and prices have slightly receded. A report
was current at the close of the Bourse that another acci•
dent had occurred this morning on the ill-starred Northern
Railroad, and that the Minister of Public Works had or-
dered it to be closed for a month. It is more than probable
that this report has originated in the accident reported
in the Courrier Francais, for had there been much credit
given to it, the shares would have in all probability been
more seriously effected, whereas the fall in them has not
been more than about five francs. .For cash—Paris and
Orleans left off at 1,270 f ; Paris and Rouen, 990 f. ; Stras-
burg and Bale, 2171.; Boulogne, 45f. ; Northern, 713 f. 75c. ;
Bordeaux, 562 f. 50c.; ision tereau, • 3751 , • Paris and Lyons,
523 f. 75c.

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THE CABlNET.—Summonses were issued by Lord
John Russell yesterday afternoon to the Ministers, to
attend a Cabinet Council this day at the Foreign Office,
Downing-street. All the Ministers, including Lord
Lansdowne (who is better) and Mr. Macaulay (who has
returned totown),a e:e expected to attend. The meeting
WIVS appointed for three o'clock.