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compact and treaty of the Union, ancr-4-i;10'::r:---":"'
as that union exists, never can that equality be taken 4 4
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usurpation. By virtue of that right thus secured l3y7iiis• Ism:24
ternational compact and solemn treaty—by virtue of
that supreme, unalterable law, I now demand that my
client shall be admitted to the enjoyment of the pri-
vileges of the elective franchise. I have proved that he
is the owner in fee of land in this county, of the clear
yearly value of forty shil:ings. I have proved that a
similar owner in England is entitled to the elective
franchise. I now call upon you, Sir, in obsdience to the
sixth article of the Union, to place him upon the registry
of this county. I admit that the Parliament of the
United Kingdom has attempted to raise the lowest
qualification for the elective franchise in Ireland to 101.;
that is to make it five times greater than the lowest qua-
lification in England. I acknowledge that Parliament
has attempted to deprive the Irish forty-shilling free-
holders in fee of their elective franchise ; and thus to
take from her Majesty's Irish subjects a privilege
which still be!ongs to her Majesty's Enslish
subjects. But that is the very act the sixth article
of Union renders the Parliament incomptent to do.
The Act of Parliament attempting thus to violate the
articles of union is ipsofitcto null and void. My client's
right to the elective franchise stands precisely on the
same grounds on which the rights of tic Parliament it-
self stand. The same treaty that gives to the United
Parliament each and every one of its rights over Ireland
gives also, uno flutu, to my client his right to the elective
franchise. The Parliament can no more legally deprive
my client of his right to the elective franchise so lung
as a similar right exists in England, than my client can
legally deprive the Parliament of its own peculiar rights.
I now demand that my client shall be placed in respect
of the elective franchise upon an equality with his Eng-
lish fellow subjects, snd be put in possession of his con-
stitutional right. For if the treaty of the Union be still
in force— if the pledge so solemnly given be not broken—
if the terms and conditions granted to Ireland es the
price of the union be not withheld—if the supreme un-
alterable law bo not violated, and the constitution of the
country trampled under foot—then is my client's right
to the elective franchise as perfect us that of the Sove-
reign to the throne.
The Assistant-Barrister, in giving his decision, com-
plimented Mr. Ellis upon the able manner in which he
brought forward the claim: the arguments were quite
new, and in rejecting the application, he took a note of
the case—Mr. Ellis being afforded the right to "ap-
peal."

THE RIVER PLATE.

The following is the minute signed by the Earl
Aberdeen, on which Mr. Hood acted in his recent mis-
sion to the River Plate. It does not differ in any mate-
rial respect from the summary of the propositions, as
published by the Monte Videan Government, in the
document which we translated a few weeks ago:--
"The Government of her Majesty the Queen of Great
Britain, and his Majesty the King of the French,
having had under their consideration the proposals made
by General Rosas to the Plenipotentiaries of the two
Powers, as a basis for the pacification of the Argentine
and Oriental Republics, dated the 26th of October, 1845,
notwithstanding they give to General Rosas full credit
for the anxiety which he expresses for the restoration of
peace, order, and a return of that friendly commercial
intercourse which has hitherto united both republics
with the Governments of England and France, regret
that they cannot accede to the proposals in their present
form; bat the two Powers, having no separate or selfish
objects in view, and no other desire than to see the peace
and independence of the States of the River Plate, as
recognised by treaties, securely established, confiding
also in the .desire expressed by General Rosas to co-
operate in the re-establishment of tranquillity upon
principles of equity and justice, have agreed to the fol-
lowing propositions, in order to arrive at a perfect and
final adjustment of the present differences:—
" 1. That General Rosas will unite and co-operate
with the two Powers in obtaining an immediate suspen-
sion of hostilities between the Oriental forces in the city
of Monte Video and those in the country.
2. That the armistice having bean established, the
Plenipotentiaries of England and France will claim from
the Government in Monte Video the immediate disarm-
ing of the Foreign Legion, and of all other foreigners
bearing arms and forming the garrison of the city of
Monte Video, or who may be in arms in any other part
of the Oriental Republic.
3. That General Rosas will, simultaneously with the
execution of the preceding condition, cause the whole of
the Argentine troops, officers and soldiers, to be with-
drawn from every part of the Oriental territory.
" 4. Immediately after the Foreign Legion and the
other foreigners in Monte Video shall have been dis-
armed, and the Argentine troops withdrawn from the
Oriental Republic, the blockade of Buenos Ayres shall
be raised; the island of Martin Garcia shall be evacuated;
tne Argentine vessels or ~,ar shall be returned, as far as
it is possible, in the same state as when detained; the
flag of the Republic saluted with 21 guns; and all mer-
chant vessels, with their cargoes shall, on both sides,
be given up to their original owners.
'• 5. The navigation of the river Parana is admitted to
he inland navigation of the Argentine Confederation,
and subject only to its laws and regulations, so long as
the Republic continues to occupy buth banks of the said
river.

" 6. It is freely acknowledged and admitted that the
Argentine Republic is in the unquestioned enjoyment
and exercise of every right. whelher of peace or war,
possessed by any independent nation ; and if the course
of events in the Oriental It. public -tuts made it neces-
sary :or the Alied E.wers to interrupt for a timi the
e xercise of the b,lliger,nt rights of the Argentine
Be-
public, it is fully admitted that the principles on which
they have acted would, under similar circumstances, have
been apolic:,ble either to Great Britain ur France.
" 7. After the di,erming of the fUreign troops in Monte
AI leo shall have been clY:e!ted,aLd the Argentine forces
shall have evacuated !be Oriental territory, a new elec-
tion for the Presidency of the Oriental State shall take
place, according to the forms prescribed by the consti-
tution. This election sh.ll be made freely and without
restraint from any side whatever. General Oribe shall
previously declare that he will abide by the result.
"S. A general and complete amnesty shall be declared,
with full security for life and property, and oblivion of
the past. The rights of foreigners shall be respected,
and their lawful claims, of whatever nature, admitted.
But this amnesty shall not prevent those Buenos Ayrean
emigrants, whose residence at rlonte Video might give
just cause of complaint to the Government of
Buenos Ayres, and might compromise the good under-
standing between the two republics, from being removed,
according to their choice, to the nearest foreign port, or
else transferred under good escort from the places situ-
ated on the coast, or in the neighbourhood of the coast,
to any other place in the interior which they shall
,select.

" 9. General Rosas and General Oribe having agreed
to the preceding articles, if the Government of Monte
Video should refuse to disband the foreign troops, and
in particular to disarm those who should form part of
the garrison of Monte Video, or should delay unneces-
sarily the execution of this measure, the Plenipotentia•
ries will declare that they have received orders to cease
all furtlit r intervention, and they consequently with-
draw, in the event of their recommendations and remon-
strances remaining withont effect.
" In such case, however, they will, previously to re-
tiring, obtain from General Oribe the official promise of
a lull and complete amnesty, as above stated, as well as
guArantees for the safety of the foreigners who inhabit
either the city or the country, under all future contin-
gencies which may arise.
London, sth May. 1846.

" ABERDEEN.

MESSRS. ROWNEY, DILLON, AND ROWNEY'S Mo
DERN IMPROVEMENTS IN PENCILS.—We lately received
some b!acklead drawing pencils from Messrs. Rowney,
Dillon, and Rowney, of Rathbone•place, of a very novel
character, being neatly and elegantly finished, and
which, on trial, proved vastly superior to those of the
old kind, notwithstanding their extremely low price. The
lead is so beautifully tempered as to retain a fine point
for a length of time, anti 1, ;Lis,. free from grit or danger
of breaking, the common faults of pencils of the present
day, while the process of finishing, which polishes the
cedar and stamps the tn%kets's inssne and the degree of
the pencil in gold, is mo •t ingenious, and refic,cts
great credit on the taste of the mant,fal-
turers. We took particular pains in tryst g
these pencils in every possible way, aad they
are such as completely to justify us in according them
the very highest praise. From an inspection of some
very beautiful drawings dune with them, •their full
superiority is made manifest. An evenness of tone, and
their freedom in handling, combined with the intense
depth of the softer degrees, point out their value over
the Cumberland lead pencils. The material from which
black lead pencils are manufactured is keind in various
countries, as North America, Bohemia, the East Indies,
France, Spain, Guernsey, England, Ireland, and Scot-
land. And yet it is a curious fact that the lead
of each country differs most materially from that of
others, either in the form of crystallization or in the
substances found in combination with it. The Burrow-
dale mine, in Cumberland, has long been held in the
highest esteem, from the purity of the lead found in it;
and some idea may be formed of its value from the fact
of the manor of Borruwdale being, at the dissolu-
tion of the monastery, let by James for the
yearly rental of fifteen shillings and four-
pence, while, in 1804, the stock of black-
lead then on hand was valued at 54,0001., and the value
ot• the annual consumption stated to be 3,5001. This
amount which afterwards greatly increased has latterly
proved too heavy a demand for the productive powers of
the mine ; and the immense falling off in the quality of
the produce has led many of the pencil manufacturers to
try various compositions as substitutes. Among other
inventions, a Mr. Brockeden, an artist of very consider-
able ssicntific acquirements, patented a method of com-
pressing lead-dust into a solid form, but this, however in-
g6ii'onS in theory, has not answered in practice as we
found the pencils made from this lead to be exceedingly
rotten, and it is now scarcely made use of by any of the
pencil manufacturers. The failures of other sources in-
duced Messrs. Rowney, Dillon, and Rowney to investi-
gate this subject more fully, and, with the aid of Mr.
Thomas Rowney, of the Royal College of Chemistry,
have succeeded in producing an article of great import-
ance to the Fine Arts as well as of general utility to the

COUNTY COURTS.—Last night's Gazette contains
an Order in Council for the division of the county of
Worcester into three districts, under the " Act t?
amend the law respecting the office of County Coroner. '
The districts to be styled the North, Middle, and South
districts.

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The Duke of Wellington does not receive any
company this Christmas at Stratbfieldsaye, owing to the
indisposition of his friend the Right Honourable Charles
Arbuthnot, who continues confined to his room, from a
severe attack of gout. Lord and Lady Charles Welles-
ley are staying wipx the Noble and Gallant Duke,