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ment, for that by accumulating in periodical reports the
exigencies of the different districts scattered through
either of the four provinces—Leinster, Ulster, Con-
naught, and Munster—and by constituting them-
selves the representatives, as it were, of public opinion
throughout the island, extraordinary facilities would
be thereby afforded to the numerous endeavours of
the Executive to dissipate the gloom which has already
descended upon the population. Until that national
committee be convened, or supposing indeed that it
be never called into existence, the Repeal Association
will form its only reasonable substitute. It is the
only organised body of men solicitous for the restora-
tion of happiness and prosperity to their fellow-
countrymen, which, being altogether distinct from the
commissariat and other boards subordinate to the
Government, affords from week to week anything
like a digest of the deficiencies, the expectations, and
the disposition of the Irish people. In this manner
we conceive that the Repeal Association is conferring,
or striving to confer, a real boon upon our sister
island. It is not so much hankering after the pos-
session of a perfectly unattainable object, as it is
struggling to incite those who are competent—the
Ministers and the landlords—to diminish the woes
by which Ireland is now being desolated.
There is an emulation, moreover, among some of
the most prominent members of this association to
endeavour more earnestly to assuage the sorrows of the
million. Instead of the frivolous and contemptible
bickering ofl some pseudo-patriot in the shape of
a Captain BOBADIL, we observe the generous con-
tention between the Hon. CECIL LAWLESS and his
quondam opponent Mr. O'NEIL. In the circum-
stances attendant upon the last meeting of the Re-
pealers in Conciliation Hall we perceive the texts of a
homily worthy of the perusal of the Young Irelanders.
We would especially remind the latter individuals that
this is not the time for the breedingof ill blood and for
the brandishing of a wooden sword. Ireland is starv-
ing; the heart of the nation is almost broken by late
calamities; death by famine, by pestilence, by as-
sassination, and by tumultuary risings, already
threatens the impoverished and despairing peasant.
Surely this is not the moment for nursing individual
jealousies, for bandying unseemly personalities, for
swaggering like the TELL of a melodrama. Surely
this is not the most opportune moment for intestine
squabbles. The sentiments of Irishmen should at
this awful period merge into one, and that one the
most sacred of all,—the preservation of the existence
of the poor. All parties, without distinction, should
coalesce at this juncture for the better realisation of
the wishes of the Government and the aspirations of
every generous heart—the extrication of the Irish
multitude from the abyss of misery into which they
are plunged. All differences of political opinion,
religious partialities, or class interests, should, at the
very least, !ye waived during the continuance of the
pre ent alarming visitation.
Another imminent necessity is revived for the con-
Aideration of the Legislature, by the brief hut em-
phatic adjuration of Mr. O'CONNELL :—" Rapidity is
most necessary—else the people will die of hunger
before the supplies arrive." If any exigency requires.
more frequent repetition than another in reference to
the existing destitution, we are fearful that it is this
" Rapidity !” Assistance cannot be afforded by a
Government with too much precipitation. When a
!wintry i 3 suffering from such grievous and diffused
privations, scarcely any expenditure on the part of
,he Executive can be termed- extravagant. The
issistance should, indeed, be lavished with a princely
inthificence and with a paternal promptitude. The
lominion requiring that assistance is entitled to
:11,it princely bounty and that paternal considers-
ion. We do net hesitate to assert that this is precisely
:he period in which the Legislature is afforded the
iPPortuuity of demonstrating in the most signal man-
e.r the fallacy, the impolicy, the madness of the
,trundle fur repeal. A splendid moment presents
tself fur disabusing the Irish population of that
chimera, and of proving—though in a totally opposite
sense than the one implied by the Hon. CECIL LAW-
.ESS—that

him, that which they now state in writing, as their
"principal cause" for arriving at the resolution.
Upon the main point the M.P. for West Gloucester-
shire is entitled to a notice of his public answer. We
therefore extract a paragraph in extenso :
" I did, in the strongest language possible,' in 1845,
announce my determination to Lord Fitzhardinge, and to
several of these gentlemen, of immediately resigning my
seat, if Lord Fitzhardinge expected of me a submission
I deemed disgraceful, or by his own acts, at the instiga-
tion of another, forced me into a position which incapa•
citated me from doing my duty to my constituents. I
declare, and I invite each of these gentlemen signing this
letter in the Chronicle individually and collectively to
induce me to forego that declaration if they can, that
the private arrangement' they are now fain to lay
hold of involved public proceedings and those gentle-
men, some of them, know that it did as well as I do.
This private arrangement,' as they call it, affecting my
public position, I am prepared to explain to my consti-
tuents at the right time, if they require it. I will not
further touch on it now, as I scorn to call for any addi-
tional sympathy from the public, or to seem to seek
friends other than the abstract public quarrel may re-
quire."
If, as here stated, the private arrangement involved
public proceedings, and that, as intimated, their in-
tended effect was to place him in a position that
would incapacitate him from effectively serving his
constituents, then, so far from being cashiered, it
seems to us, the electors will eternally disgrace tkons-
selves if they do not reward their present Member by
a continuance of their confidence whenever the next
election takes place. The plot thickens, and the
electors are under a cloud. We trust the sequel will
show that they have spirit enough left in them to
emancipate themselves from oligarchical serfdom, and
that, from very shame of what has been elicited, they
will hereafter exhibit a manly freedom, and shake off
the degrading thraldom of Berkeley Castle. We have
no doubt that Bristol and Gloucester are well able to
defend their own rights.

" UNION IS STRENGTH !"

We may show in the most signal and benignant
canner that in the days of her desolation Ireland
xperiencei the advantage of that Legislative union
.which her truest patriots are erroneously desirous of
lissevering ; Nye may for ever obliterate the recol-
!ecti-m of the wrongs inflicted upon that country by
•)or ancestors ; we may, by a just interference and a
ludicious alacrity, so entwine the interests of these
islands together, and introduce such a cordiality
miongst their population, that in reality as well as
nominally they may be recognised among all nations
Ls the United Kingdom.

The. private rupture that has taken place between
Earl FITZHARDINGE and his brother, the Member for
West Gloucestershire, and also between the Peer and
his two other brothers, the representatives for Bristol
and Gloucester, actuated us, on Monday last, from a
sense of public duty, to proffer some remarks upon
these peculiar and startling fraternal differences. It
is nothing to the public that family quarrels exist
among politicians, but it is a matter for serious
scrutiny when what has been elicited renders it pro-
bable that animosity is to be indulged in,, and ven-
geance wreaked, by an unwarrantable interference
with, and at the expense of, the important constitu-
tional function of electoral bodies. We must say
that the electors of West Gloucestershire cut a
very sorry figure, in so far as we have as
yet been initiated in their political mysteries. Lord
FITZIIARDINOE may confine his defence of what has
occurred to this simple point—that he has habitually
I paid certain heavy registration expenses, and that he
will do so no longer, if the constituents of West
Gloucestershire should re-elect Mr. GRANTLEY
BERKELEY. This is not a very dignified course for a
nobleman to pursue. In the first place, we
disapprove of any Peer assisting by his purse
any man, or bogy of men, charged with the
responsible duty of returning a Member to
Parliament. It is an indirect interference in a
must objectionable shape—an attempt to influence the
composition of the popular branch of the Legislature,
between which and the House of Lords the constitu-
tion has wisely ruled there shall be drawn a line of
perfect independence. The electors, to be worthy of
their vocation, should repudiate with indignity every
offer on the part of a Peer to contribute towards de-
fraying the expenses necessarily incidental to the
fulfilment of political duties. The electors of the
empire ought to be above receiving any pecu-
niary aid from those between whom and them
there exists, for the purposes of political freedom, a
strict constitutional line of demarcation. Such con-
tribution wears in every instance the aspect of a
bribe, and draws after it the inference, pro tanto,
that the recipients will not exercise their functions
with that independence which they ought to preserve
and maintain. But if Lord FITznAUDINGB has suc •
ceeded in converting the electoral body of West
Gloucestershire into a race of fawning parasites, and
found them ready enough to swallow his bait in the
shape of registration fees, and should plead that what
he has done in this respect is an error participated in
by many other members of the House of Lords,
still, to'render his defence of the part he is enact-
ing complete, he should assert that his purse-strings
will be closed in future, should his brother be re-
elected, upon the broad ground that Mr. GRANTLEY
BERKELEY has failed to discharge his Parliamentary
duties, either with efficiency, or integrity, or both
combined, and should distinctly indicate the precise
reasons upon which such conclusions have been

It would naturally be supposed that the sad con-
dition of the labouring population of Ireland at this
moment would demand the most active exertions, the
most zealous co-operation with the authorities, of all
her more favourably circumstanced children. While
famine and destitution are progressing through the
land with giant strides, awakening the sympathies of
every on• possessing the commonest feelings of
humanity, it is surely not too much to expect that
the landowners, who are themselves primarily re-
sponsible for the support of the people, will, to the
best of their ability, discharge the duties entrusted to
their care; indeed, not only do the dictates of
philanthropy impel them to such a course—
self-preservation, which has justly been called the
first law of nature, imperiously requires them so to
do. They are slumbering on a volcano, the sword of
DAMOCLES hangs suspended over their heads, and any
injudicious or improper conduct on their part may
cause the eruption of that volcano, the fall of that
sword.

It is quite impossible for any Government, however
well disposed, for any public department, however
well constituted, to meet the emergency, unless aided
and assisted in their endeavours by those locally
interested, who are supposed to be well acquainted
with the necessities of their several districts, and to
be qualified to suggest the means to be taken for the
relief of those necessities in the manner least burden-
some, and productive of the greateA permanent
benefit to their several vicinities.

The chief duty of course rests on the landowners;
they are morally responsible for the condition of the
people belonging to their several estates. As we have
already repeatedly urged, the land itself is bound to
provide sustenance for the population belonging
thereto. The, labourer is entitled to be fed out of
the produce of the soil on which he was born, and to
the cultivation and improvement of which he has
devoted, or at least is ready and willing to devote, his
labour. This is the first' grand principle, which
cannot for an instant be lost sight of. It was found,
however, that individual exertions alone could not be
relied on, that there were unfortunately too many
who were either unable or unwilling to give the em-
ployment necessary for the support of the poor, and
it was deemed essential that measures should be
introduc..d for the purpose of providing adequate em-
ployment, and charging the am ,unt equitably upon
the entire landed property of the several districts.
With this object, an Act of Parliament was passed,
by which the Lord-Lieutenant was empowered to
call together extraordinary sessions, who were to
present the sums necessary to set the labourers to
work, and to allocate them in such portions as they
might think advisable for the making or improve-
went of such roads, or other public works, in their
baronies as might appear to be most beneficial. To
the persons entitled to take a part in the proceedings
of, and vote at, these sessions, consisting of certain
justices of the peace and associated cess-payers, an
important trust was confided. It was their bounden
duty to calculate as accurately as possible the sum
that would be absolutely necessary for the relief of
the existing distress, to curtail every unnecessary ex-
penditure, so as not unduly to charge the already
overburdened property. Above all, they were to
guard in the strictest manner against any of that
jobbing to which country gentlemen have un-
fortunately too great a propensity, to see that the
money charged to the public was applied for the
public benefit only, and that no private gain or
advantage was to be made out of the universal
calamity. They were to give the aid of their ex-
perience and local knowledge to the officers of the
Board of Works, so as to guide and direct them in
their proceedings—in fact, almost everything was left
to the sessions. They were not compelled to pass
any presentments ; such a provision was supposed to
be quite unnecessary. It could not for a moment be
imagined that any body of men would be so blind to
the duty they owed their country, to every Christian
feeling, as to disregard the claims of the famishing,
or to enter with levity upon the consideration of the
means by which the hungry were to be fed. At first
the proceedings which took place at those sessions
were highly creditable to the parties concerned. If
any fault could be ascribed, it was perhaps an over-
liberality, a granting of sums beyond the necessities
of the people, and too large for the amount of the
property on which it was to be charged. It was, how-
ever, an amiable weakness, and it was impossible to
blame the parties willing so heavily to tax themselves.
Representations having been made to the Executive
of the injurious consequences of expending such large

sums of money on works of a comparatively barren
and unprofitable nature, his Excellency the
Lord-Lieutenant, in a manner deserving of the
highest praise, took upon himself the responsibility
of sanctioning a deviation from the terms of the La-
hour-rate Act, and permitting money to be voted on
certain conditions for the improvement of the soil.
Such a concession should call for the grateful acknow-
ledgments of the cess-payers, and increased exertions
on the part of their representatives at the sessions.
We regret, however, to say that latterly there appears
to be an inclination on their parts to cast all the re-
sponsibility on the public authorities, to go through
their business in the most loose and careless manner.
Presentments have been passed for purposes which it
was perfectly manifest could not be sanctioned by the
Board of Works, all deliberation has been cast aside,
and presentments have been carried en masse without
inquiry or investigation.
Macroom has made itself' particularly conspicuous,
has attained an unenviable notoriety. The proceed-
ings at the sessions there may indeed be termed
" emtraordinary." We find gentlemen of edu-
cation and property, men who should guide
and direct their neighbours, turning the pro-
ceedings into a farce, and practically depriving
the people of the employment they might reasonably
expect, and that at a time when a fellow-creature was
lying dead who had perished from starvation in. their
neighbourhood. Every schoolboy has road that
" NERO fiddled while Rome was burning," but we
could scarcely suppose that Irish gentlemen, and
many of them, as we have been informed, really men
of humanity, would, in the nineteenth 'century, be
goilty of such conduct as is reported to have taken
place at Macroom. A proposition was made to pass
',very presentment brought forward, which narrowly
soaped being carried, as all the others were, by
clamour and violence. Everything that was pro 7
posed was forthwith passed,' no matter what it might
be, until at length, in the words of the secretary, the
matter became too ridiculous to he continued any
longer, and the chairman, at half-past four o'clock, re-
jected all that had not been proposed up to that hour,
and made his escape, with the secretary and county.
.urvey or, from the turbulent assembly. Most sin-
cerely do we hope that we may be spared the repe-

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1846,

It is gratifying to observe that the Repeal Associ-
ation is at present performing an eminent practical
service to Ireland in these days of her tribulation.
Nearly every factious allusion, and all invidious re-
vivals of party squabbling, are, during this period of
scarcity and national destitution, abandoned. The
purpose of the Association scarcely appears to be so
much the repetition of that most fallacious and illu-
sory of watchwords " Repeal," as the consideration
of the necessities of the peasantry, and the avowal of
an anxiety to ameliorate the distresses of the dejected
million. What ti noble contrast is this to the vapour-
ing, and the egregious bombast of the physical force
fictitious
While the latter are brooding over the
fictitrus insolence of the Sassenachs, and nurturing
a diseased passion for vengeance, the admirers
of the moral force movement are striving
by all reasonable persuasions to expedite
the salutary exertions of the Government, to stimu-
late the patriotism of the landlord interest, and to al-
leviate, by every rational ..13ggestion, the suffering'
inflicted upon their beloved country by the inscru-
table dispensations of DIVINE PROVIDENCE. ' A
national committee of Irish landowners has been
suggested as the most probable means of rendering
the improvement of the condition of the destitute
multitude a permanent and effectual benefaction. It
has been observed, and observed with justice, that
such a congregation of influential men, assembled
together in Dublin, would materially lessen the ob-
stacles presented to the benevolent efforts of Govern-

arrived at.
Since we last wrote on this subject another letter,
of the 17th instant, has appeared from the prolific
pen of Mr. G. BERKELEY.. 1114 style is certainly not
felicitous; it is turgid and diffuse, but it presents, in
point of matter, a favourable contrast with that of his
opponent's—it is straightforward. Our readers will
recollect that the "influential supporters" of the
Liberal interest, in other wurds, the hangers-on of
Lord FITZHARDINGE, had shifted their plea fur aban-
doning their present Member, on account of his Lord-
ship having menaced to withdraw his registration
subsidies, and, for the sake of public decen—cy, had set
up as the principal cause for their defection, that Mr.
G. BERKELEY had in 1845 announced his determina-
tion to resign his seat "unless some private arrange,
ment between himself and Earl FITZHARDINGE were
effected." That this allegation was a mere specious
a'tei thought seems pretty clearly established by Mr.
G. BERKELEY distinctly declaring to the traders of
the Castle, that at the meeting of the 6th of October,
not one soul among them told him, or tendered to

THE SUN, LONDON, WE

tition of similar scenes, and that due notice will be
taken in the proper quarter of the conduct of those
who occasioned the disturbance. If men will not
assisrthemserves they cannot expect assistance from
others, and many of the chief actors may bitterly re-
gret the part they took on the occasion, when thee
perceive the fearful results to which it may possibly
give origin. Fortunately the Board of Works have
a controlling power, and by their interposition the
mischievous effects may possibly be avoided. In their
hands we must for the present leave it ; the better
course would probably be for the Executive to annul
the entire proceedings, and to call another sessions
for the district, composed of men who will properly
discharge their duty.

The Nuremburg/ Correspondent publishes a letter
from St. Petersburgh of the 7th instant, which states
that the Russian Cabinet had received the protest of
the Britannic Government against the marriage of
the Duke DE MONTPENBIER, with the Infanta of
SPAIN, and had regarded the conduct of the English
Cabinet with favour. "It appears," adds the letter,
" that the Russian Cabinet has decided on acting in
this affair on the same line as England, and to appeal
to the treaty of Utrecht."

Madrid papers of the 14th have been received.
The fetes in honour of the royal marriages were
still going on. _ _ _

proclamation of the Queen, and the decrees 'hanging
the Ministry. It was like a thunder-stroke to the people.
They soon learned that the regiments were com-
manded by their old colonels. 1)om Carlos Masca-
rina was seen in the streets in grand uniform, whilst
his brother, the Marquis de Fronteira, resumed his
place as Civil Governor of Lisbon. The Duke do
Terceira was going to resume the command of the
division of the North. The National Guard is dis-
solved ; all the constitutional guarantees are suspended
for thirty days. The new Ministry, with Sal-
danha at its head, is invested with the dictatorship, un-
der the orders of the Queen. In fact, the treachery is
complete. The troops, who had not been paid, received
double pay for the day's duty. There were not ten
contos in the state coffers, but plenty of money was
found to pay the effecters of the conspiracy and to ac-
complish this work of darkness. Monarchies, it ap-
pears, strike all their blows by night. This one was so
well prepared that resistance was impossible. However,
all the men the most ultra and the most compromised in
the revolutionary party hastened to join Caasar Vas-
concellos ; others left for the provinces, where the in-
surrection had commenced. Such is the state of' things
that was prepared and concluded by the Queen, Dietz,
and the diplomatic agents of France and Spain, sup-
ported by this Saldanha, who, in his proclamation,
speaks of duty and virtue. It is thus that revolutions
are punished for their moderation. Can any one be as-
tonished if vengeance is terrible?"
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Senor ISTURITZ, having done the dirty work of the
French Government in the affair of the marriage,
and having rendered himself hateful to his country-
men by so doing, is not in a position to be any
longer useful to his foreign patrons, therefore he is to
be got rid of without ceremony. It is stated in Madrid
publicly that the days of ISTURITA as a Minister are
numbered; and even the Herald°, the organ of the
French embassy,hints in terms which cannot be mis-
! taken, at the absolute necessity which exists for getting
rid of Senor 'STUMM as speedily as possible. This
;is clearly indicative of his fate. If the French Am-
bassador orders, the Spanish QIEEN dares not dis-
obey. As the Tiempo says—
' " For some time past the interested counsels of
France have alone been listened to in Spain; and both
in momentous and petty affairs the French Ambassador
issues his orders. We know not one of our political men
whose influence can be even distantly compared with
that which the aforesaid French diplomatist exercises
on the affairs that exclusively concern us. All the doors
of our Ministerial departments and of the Palace are
opened to him much more than to our high function-
aries. These privileges have reached so strange an ex-
tent that even the president of one of our legislative
bodies has been wounded in his dignity by the French
Ambassador."

No amnesty has been issued as yet. It is said there
is a disagreement in the Cabinet on the subject, and
that the King Consort has refused to support those
who take the more merciful view of the question.
Two chests full of crosses of the Legion of Honour
have arrived in Madrid from Paris.

The unfortunate inhabitants of the Spanish pro-
vinces are forced by the authorities to make rejoic-
ings for the Montpensier marriage, whether they are
so inclined or not. The Espanol says—

" The political chief of Murcia has issued an order of
banihhment agailist the advocates who declared that they
would not contribute to the expenses of the fates for the
- •

The same paper complains of the expense to which
France is subjected to maintain the influence of the
Orleans Family in Spain. It says—
" The Maniteur published yesterday, in its official
part, another royal ordinance, bearing the date of Oct.
10, and opening to the Minister of Foreign Affairs
supplementary credit of 200,000 f. for expenses of
couriers and travelling. This is the fourth ordinance of
the same kind which has been issued during the last few
weeks. It is calculated that the proceedings to which
the matrimonial conventions of Madrid have given rise
cannot cost the budget less for travelling expenses than
500,000 f."

Among the Spanish officers seised and incarcerated
by order of the French Government in the Castle of
Blaye, is the old Marquis DE VALDESPINA. The
Guyenne states that the Marchioness, who was re-
siding at her seat at Marquina, on hearing of the
incarceration of her husband, was struck with apo-
plexy, and died instantaneously.
On learning this dreadful intelligence," pursues the
Guyenne, "the Marquis De Valdespina remained without
sensation for several hours. A physician was obliged
to visit him twice during the day, and at present he is
confined to his bed. The Marquis is upwards of 70, and
wants the right arm ; his health, previously delicate, is
much impaired by the humidity and unwholesomeness
of the citadel of Blaye."
We do not envy Louis PHILIPPE and M. GUISSOT
their feelings on reading the above account. It is
seldom that a more wanton act of cruelty has been
ever perpetrated, even by absolutist and irresponsible
Governments, than the incarceration in the damp and
un wholsome dungeon of Blaye of this old Spanish
nobleman, who has been guilty of no crime, and whose
honour is untainted. This outrage reflects the deepest
disgrace on all the parties concerned in its perpe-

ilarriages, on recount of the ip:ereased burdens of taxa-

tration.
The French Government is concentrating a strong
force on the borders of Switzerland, evidently with
the intention of intervening actively in that country
to put down the spread of Liberal opinions.
The Journal de l' Ain of the 16th says-
"We learn to-day that the French troops have re-
ceived orders to march towards the Swiss frontier. A
battery of artillery from Lyons is to proceed-part to
.Nantua, and part to Ferney, there to remain until fur-
ther orders. Two battalions of the 68th, in garrison at
Lyons, are to proceed-one to Nantua, and the other
battalion to Gex. The fort De l'Ecluse is to be rein •
forced by two companies detached from these battalions.
It. is said that Austria and Sardinia are also about to
station troops on the frontiers."
M. GUIZOT seems ambitious of being the M. DE
VILLELig of the dynasty of the Barricades. Already
is he adopting the traditions of the Restoration, and
the France of 1646 will soon become, under his
government, the France of 1823.
The Journal des Debats announces that the Bey
of TUNIS intends to embark on the 15th on his
voyage to France. In announcing this decision to
the French Consul-General, the BEY declared that
he was so much gratified by the benevolent solicitude
of the -KING of the FRENCH, and so sensible of the
value of the present made to him of the steamer
Dante, that he wished to express to his MAJESTY in
person his deep acknowledgment, and to assure him
of his devoted attachment. The BEY added, that he
was most desirous of returning the visit of the French
Princes, who, when they came to Tunis, expressed
so much interest in the prosperity of his country.
The BEY communicated this intention to Sir THOMAS
READ, the English Consul, and informed him that he
would go to London, and pay his respects to her
Britannic MA4ESTY.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Mon-
day at 82f. 65c.; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 75c.; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2571 50c.; Rouen, 935 f.; Havre,
710 f. ; Great Northern, 693 f. 75c.; Avignon, 8921. 50c.;
Vierzon, 612 f 50c. ; Bordeaux, 5601. ; Troyes and Monte-
reau, 360 f.; Basle, 225 E; Fainpoux, 400 f. • Dieppe, 3651.;
Paris and Strasburg, 4981. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 507 f. 50c. ;
Paris and Lyons, 521 f. 25c.; Lyons And Avignon, 4901.;
Bordeaux and Cette, 477 f. 50c.; Spanish Three per Cents.,
3834.
LYONS, Our. 17.-Paris and Rouen, 930 E; Avignon and
Marseilles, 887 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 1161.25 c. ; Northern, 693 f.
75c.; Paris and Lyons, 516 f. 25c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OCTOBER 20.

Lion that weigh upon them. Four advocates having
been banished, the judges, the dean of the advocates,
•end the vice-pretiident of the Provincial Council waited
on the political chief, and obtained the revocation of the
,rder, on condition that the whole body of advocates
should declare the marrivgo of the Duke de Montpen-
ier with the Infanta to be agreeable to it. This was
:Treed to, and the Chamber of Advocates, having as-
st.mbled again, voted (on pain of banishment) a volun-
ary ,übcription."

The Espectador publishes intelligence from the

frontiers of Portugal. Heavy firing was heard at
13adajoz on the 10th, and it was reported in that city
that the Portuguese people had risen on the frontier,
and demanded tha revocation of the royal decrees
and the restoration of the constitution of 1820. The
movement extended to Elvas and to Campornayor.
Two officers of the garrison of the former place and
one of that of the latter had been killed. The conflict
was still going on.
The Bolsa was again closed on the 14th, hut some
jobbing took place at the Puerta del Sol, where the
Three per Cents. were said to have somewhat de-
elined.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.

Some of these journals continue to comment on the
Montpensier marriage, but they merely reproduce
arguments with which the public is already familiar.

The Journal des Debuts gives an account of the
A francesado counter-revolution which has just taken
place at Lisbon. This statement may be considered
as the official defence of the conduct of the QUEEN
and her French advisers, and a most lame and impo-
tent defence it is.

" Wo have received news from Lisbon to the Bth. The
change of Ministry has caused general surprise in that
capital, but has given rise to no disturbance. It appears
that the dread of the new troubles at the future elec-
tions was the principal motive which induced the
Queen to call to .office Marshal Saldanha, who pos-
sesses in a high degree the confidence of the army.
It is stated that, in order to prevent any resistance on
the part of some troers of the garrison, and a popular
rising, the Queen sent in the evening of the sth,
the day before the publication in the official Gazelle of
the dismissal of the Palmella Ministry, appointments,
signed by her own hand, to all the chiefs of the corps
which had been dismissed, desiring them to resume im-
mediately the command of their troops. Thus, in the
night of the 6th, General D. Carlos de Moscarenhos, com-
mander of the Municipal Guard of Lisbon, a'resolute
man, and much devoted to the Queen, found himself at
the head of that body, which is the most important of
the garrison of Lisbon. All the heads of the various
corps, at the sight of the royal decree, gave up their
commands, without opposition, to those whom they had
replaced a few months back. Only in one regiment,
when the order was given to the soldiers to take up
arms, a young non-commissioned officer fired on an
officer, and killed him on the spot. This was the only
incident that signalised the counter-revolution. The
troops have occupied the principal posts of the city, and
the population, apparently perfectly indifferent to this
new change, were collected in groups around the bands
of the different regiments, which were executing na-
tional airs. The Duke de Terceira, appointed General-
in-Chief of the northern provinces, has received the
most extensive powers. lie is to proceed at once to
those provinces, which were the centre of the last in-
surrection. _ _

Boulogne and Amiens, 1414—Dutch Rhenish, 534—East Indian, I
•—ltalian and Austrian, 2%—Louvain a la Sambre, 1% —Luzern•
bourg, fro—Lyons tuid Avignon, I ih—Namur and Liege, 3
Northern of France Constituted, 12%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 8—
Sambre and Meuse, 5.

SPORTING INTRUAGENCE
NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1847.
TUESDA7.—Mr. Greville's Alarm, Bst 41b, agst Mr. Myt-
ton's The Bnron, Bst Ilb. T.M.M. 500, h ft.
SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, 1847.
TUMSDAY.—Mr. Barne's Sotterly, Bst 71b, agst Duke of
Bedford's Duplicity, Bst 51b. T.Y.C. 100, h ft.
(RECEIVED THIS DAT. )
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TunsnAr.
CAMBEINIESNIRE fiTAILES.
7to 2 agst Alarm—t 4t0125 to 1 agst Sting—t and af-
-Bto 1 agst Joanna c—t I terwards offered
10 to 1 agst lago 25 to 1 agst Evenus
18 to 1 agst Red Robin—t 25 to 1 agst False Report
18 to 1 agst Conspiracy—t 33 to 1 agst Laundryniaid
20 to 1 agst Lady Wildair—t 40 to 1 agst Terrier—t
%0 to 1 agst Alexa—t and af- 40 to 1 agst Buttress—t
terwards offered

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Palmella Ministry, eangdrouthnset
The Lisbon correspondent of the National thus r
underupw
ex-
posesthe the intrigues of the Portuguese Afrancesados
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upwards
sr
, which was far from being homogeneous, adt hmadin Ministry
minedallowed itself
each day to fall away and become almost powerles The
bank had received from the Queen, by means of Dietz, a
secret intimation to close its coffers, to extinguish credit,
and thus to add to the embarrassments of business.
Would you believe that lately the
_Ministry could not
find 1,500,000 f. necessary to pay the troops? The mem-
bers of the Cabinet at last proposed energetic means of
getting out of this situation, but the diplomatic character
of Palmella caused them to be rejected. Incapable of
governing at this critical period, shackled at each
moment by the queen and her camarilla, he discon-
tented at the same time the Septembrist party, which
accused him of want of energy, and indicated before-
hand an act of treason. It was, in fact, in preparation,
and its menaces were visible to any one that carefully
observed what was passing. The embassy of Madrid
received and brought back almost every day to the chii-
teau the correspondence of Cabral with Dietz and the
Queen. The first had frequent and lengthened inter-
views with the Charge d'Affaires of France, and Sal-
danha had several private audiences. During this time,
the ex-Commander of the Municipal Guard, Dom Carlos
Mascarina, so determined a Cabralist, who had remained
at Lisbon, was intriguing with the ex-colonels and heads
of regiments, and engaging them in the conspiracy in
the name of the Queen. All the preparations were ter-
minated for October 4th, but the blow was not struck
until the night of the 6th. The conspirators remained
either in the Palace or the neighbourhood. At midnight,
the Queen sent for Palmella, Boinfini, and some other
principal functionaries. She declared to them that she
had resolved to change her Cabinet, and at the same time
presented to Palmella the decree appointing the new
Mail • sters, saying to him, I have charged the Marquis
de Saldanha to form a new Cabinet ; Palmella made
some observations to the Queen on her determination ;
he represented the perils which there would be fur the
monarchy itself to disregard the wishes of a whole popu-
lation, only a few weeks after a victorious insurrection. The
Queen replied that Saldenha was as much the friend of
liberty as any other, &c. 'The resistance continued, but
the assurances that there was no intention of effecting a
counter-revolution were repeated several times, and the
functionaries thus called in the iniddleof the night, learned
that the palace was guarded by the most devoted friends
of Cabral. Bomfim was next made to sign an order, call-
ing en all the troops of the garrison to assemble at day-
break on the Place du Terreiro, near the palace. When
all this was terminated, the Queen withdrew, and, at the-
moment when Palmella and Boinfian wanted to go away,
an officer on service cattle to declare to them that they
were prisoners, and that they could not leave without
further orders. They were there still on the 7th of
October, at seven in the evening. In the morning, the
inhabitants of Lisbon on awakening beheld the streets
occupied by soldiers. Patrols of cavalry were passing up
and down in every direction. Not a cry or movement took
place. There was a noise of arms, the aspect of a city in a
state of siege; all the posts were doubled, al the muskets '
charged, and the artillery, protected by a strong battalion,
wis on the Place de Terreiro. At the same time ap-
peared the... Diario of the Government, containing the