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obliged to resign in consequence of the oppressive
and tyrannical conduct of the Governor towards
officers and prisoners. The charges are plain and
distinct, .and, if well-founded, must be perfectly ca
pable of proof. We should think that Captain
GROVES would himself be most anxious for a full in-
vestigation ; for, until such takes place, the public
mind cannot be satisfied on the subject ; if by a pos-
sibility those charges should be established, the
person who could act in such a manner must be
held quite incompetent and unfit for the discharge
of duties requiring the greatest degree of discretion
and judgment.
The decision of the House appears to have been
greatly influenced by the promise of the Home
Secretary, that a full inquiry should take place
without delay, and his statement that he was
prepared to lay the report of the Inspectors of
Prisons, which contained a distinct answer to
each of the sixteen charges, on the table. The
matter, therefore, is not yet concluded, and on the
result of the promised investigation being made
known, and the report of the Inspectors published, it
will be competetent to any Honourable Member
again to call the attention of the House to the sub-
ject. From the advanced period of the session, and
the delay which must necessarily occur before such
an iniestigaticr. can take place, it will be impossible
fur the matter to be brought to a conclusion until
next year, and the public mind, during that period,
will be kept in suspense on the subject.

From the Roman States the news continues to be
of the most cheering description. The new Pons is
occupying himself in introducing reforms and im-
provements into every department of his administra-
tion. He is daily signing orders for the liberation of
political prisoners. The following official announce-
ment on the subject of railroads was published on the
14th in the Privileged Gazette of Bologna by
Cardinal VANNICELLI CASONI, the Legate who
had just returned from Rome :—" Amongst the im-
portant affairs that have engaged the attention of the
Holy Father since his accession to the Pontifical
throne is the construction of railroads in the Papal
States, for which several projects have been presented.
Pius IX. being desirous of acting with prudence in
this serious affair, which is of the highest interest to
his beloved subjects, has resolved to appoint a com-
mission to examine these projects. His Holiness has
consequently ordered, that if there are other propo-
sitions to make they shall be sent to the Secretary of
State for the Interior, who will receive and collect
them together, waith-q the ulterior decision of his
Holiness."

Prince HENRY, of Prussia, uncle to the presen
KING, died at Rome on the 11th.

The greatest excitement had been occasioned in
Kiel, by the publication of the decree of the King of
DENMARK, on the subject of the succession to the
Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. The students had
met and proposed to burn the obnoxious decree. This
proposition, however, was not carried into effect, but
Professor CHRISTIANSEN, the representative of the
University, was directed to solemnly protest against
the decree in the name of the German people, and
to defend their rights.
The Past Ampt Gazette of Frankfort has the fol-
lowing from Posen, dated the 15th :—" It is reported
here that the Emperor of RUSSIA intends to grant an
amnesty to all the Poles still remaining in Siberia,
who were sent there for the part that they took in
the revolution of 1830. M. KOURNAOFFSKI, who was
arrested and put in prison at Sonnenburg, just after
the last insurrection of Posen, for publishing a revo-
lutionary lithographic print, has attempted to commit
suicide by stabbing himself in four places, but he is
expected to recover."

Madrid papers of the 18th have arrived. The
Heraldo, in an article on the subject of the QUEEN'S
marriage, proposes that Don FRANCISCO D'Assis, the
eldest son of Don FRANCISCO DI PAULA as a candidate
for her MAJESTY'S hand, in preference to his brother,
Don ENRIQUE. Don FRANCISCO, it appears, has
been specially invited to the royal banquet
to be given in honour of the birth-day of
the QUEEN-MOTHER. The Liberal party con-
sider that the obje,lt of the QUEEN-MOTHER,
in thus apparently favouring Don FRANCISCO is to ex-
cite a jealousy between him and Don ENRIQUE, and
to create dissensions in the Liberal party by starting
two candidates. While Din FRaNcrsco, however, is
thus ostensibly put forward as a candidate fur the
QUEEN'S hand, an intrigue is, it is said, going on in
Paris under the auspices of MARTINEZ DR LA Rosa,
to bring about speedily, but quietly, a marriage be-
tween the QUEEN and the Duke of GENOA, the
second son of the King of SARDINIA. It is true that
of late his Sardinian Majesty has exhibited
slightly liberal tendencies, or to speak more
correctly, has had something like a personal
quarrel with Austria, and is endeavouring
to rally an anti-Austrian party around him, hut the
base treachery of the Prince DE CARISNAN of 1821
has never been forgotten or forgiven, and an alliance
with his son would justly disgust the whole Spanish
nation. The Trapani alliance seems to be completely
given up, Prince DE CARINI, who had been sent as
Ambassador from Naples to Spain for the purpose of
forwarding the views of Count TRAPANI, has been
recalled, and M. ANTONINI, late the Neapolitan Am-
bassador at Vienna, has been accredited to the Court
of Madrid.

MADRID BoLsa, JULY 18.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 34k for cash ; the Fire per Cents., at 21 ;
the Debt without Interest, at Gi ; the shares of the
Bank of San Fernando, at 390; and those of Isabel,
at 203.

EV

July on the Northern Railroad, there has been
scarcely a single French line on which accidents
have not occurred. On 'Wednesday night one on
the trains on the Paris and ouen line was nearly
burned. A lamp which lighted the snail-waggon
having got out of order, the spirits of
wine which it contained fell on the table,
and set fire to some papers laid upon
it. The clerk of the post-office, after vainly endea-
vouring to extinguish the fire, opened the window
and called for aid, but his voice not being heard and
the flames increasing►, he leaped out of the waggon
and broke his leg. The train, however, soon after-
wards stopped, and the fire easily extinguished.

A letter from Port-au-Prince, of the 17th June,
announces the settlement of the differences between
France and Hayti, and the return of the French
Consul to Port-au-Prince on the 16th of June, where
he was received with a salute from the fortifications, and
with enthusiasm by the people. The following is an
extract from the letter :
" This great and difficult question is now terminated. The
negotiators, who have at length settled the I.ff dr, have been
engaged in it fir a long time, and have found it exceedingly
difficult. The propoAtions made on the part of the Govern-
ment by the President were twice rejecter'. The English
Consul, Mr. Usher, and the Vice-Consul, have been very
active in settling the question, and the final settlement
is in a great measure owing to them. The conitions
upon which the affair is arranged are, first, an indeininty of
5,000 gourdes for the injury done to M. Duhrac ; second, in-
demnity for damages done to other French subjects; third,
the Government of Hayti to write a letter, asking the French
Consul to resume his functions; and, fourth, a salute of
twenty-one Burs to the Consul on entering the port, and the
French frigate Thetis to return the salute."

The Algiers papers of the 17th represent the
country as completely tranquillised. M. SALVANDY,
accompanied by Marshal BUGEAUD, had returned to
Algiers highly delighted by the reception he had met
with in the Provinces.

The Paris Bourse was much firmer on Thursday
than it had been for some days previously. This may
be in some measure referred to the circumstance that
rumours, which had been in circulation on Tuesday
respecting a respectable bankkg-house, were ascer-
tained on Thursday to be totally devoid of foundation.
The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 20c. ; the Five per Cents.,
121f.70c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,268 r. 65c. ; Rouen,
968 f. 75c.; Havre, 675 f. ; Great Northern, 697 f. 50c. ; Avignon,
872 f. 50c. ; Vierzon' 610 f. ; Bordeaux, 532 f. 50c. ; Troyes and
Montereau, 365 f.; Basle, 215 f.; Fampoux, 410 f.; Paris and
Strasburg, 482 f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 495 f. ; Paris and
Lyons, 503 f 75c. ; Spanish New Deterred, 14 ; ditto Domes-
ticyebt,.32l/8 ; ditto Passives, 5.

The following are the quotations for the new lines :
Lyons and Avignon Detinitives, 475 t.; Bordeaux and
Cette ditto, 4721. 50c.

MARSEILLES, JULY 18.—Marseilles and Avignon, 866:
25c.; Northern, 705 t. ; Paris and Lyons, 525 f.

BUSINESS LONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Juror 24.
Boulogne and Amiens, 12%—Bordeaux and Mediterranean, 1%
—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Espeleta), '7;,—Dutch Ithenisb,
6/4—East Indian, %—Northern of France Constituted, 1214—Or-
leans and Bordeaux, 7%—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 5!6—
Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 4 —Rouen and Havre, 2614.

RAI LWA Y COM in EES

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Room A.
CORIJW.&LL.

This Committee reassembled to-day at eleven o'clock.
Mr. JAMES addressed the Committee on the part of the
petitioners, contending that the course of the railway
through the town of Bodmin was so injurious to that place,
as to be tolerated only by an amount of public good, which
was not by any means established by evidenca. He also
contended that Bodmin, from its importance (notwithstand-
ing Mr. Brunet's evidence), the sessions being held there,
and a large amount of business transacted there, was the
place where the line should be laid out if a central commu-
nication were contemplated. He then adverted to the gra-
dient of 1 in 37, which he felt assured would never have been
sanctioned by Parliament at a period when legislation on
railway matters had arrived at its present perfection.