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LONDON. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 4, 1846.

The LORD Citazicicwas took his seat on the Woolsack at
Five o'clock.

Several petitions were presented on the corn-law question,
which gave rise to conversation in which the Earl of
HARDWICKE, Lord KINNAIRD, the Marquis of Los-
DONDERRY, the Marquis of SAmenusty, and the Duke of
IttcrustoND, who denounced the scandalous manner in
which the farmers had been treated, and who declared that
his only wish for a dissolution of Parliament was, that those
Members who have violated their pledges might be taught
that the people of England liked honesty. The Noble Duke
then attacked Lord KINNAIRD, who had, when raised to the
Peerage, not been a free trader.
Lord KINNAIRD: No, no. _ _ _

The Duke of RICHMOND declared that Lord GREY'S Go-
vernment was favourable to protection ; so was Lord MEL-
BOURNE'S Government, for an Bs. duty was not free trade,
and if an appeal was made to the country it would be found
that the people were in favour of protection.
The Earl of WICKLOW said that up to this time both par-
ties had been in favour of protection ; the only difference
bad been between a fixed duty and a sliding scale, and,
therefore, both having changed, there was no reason why the
proposal for free trade should be brought forward by one
party rather than by another. He considered the League a
constitutional body, and they ought to be congratulated on the
extraordinary succesi which had attended them during their
short-lived existence.

Lord BROUGHAM said there was no doubt but that Lord
GREY'S Government held by the corn-laws. He admitted
that the League was a perfectly legal and constitutional
body • but lie said it was unconstitutional, though legal, for
any Cody to raise a fund to purchase votes. It was said the
League did not do so, but only encouraged people to do so ;
but when they collected a quarter of a million it looked very
much like helping people to raise the 501., to purchase
freeholds. .

Lord REDESDALE explained, in relation to the faggot votes
in Huntingdonshire, to which he ha,i alluded some time since,
that the Duke of BEDFORD was not concerned in the trans-
action.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE then rose to present a pe-
tition from the inhabitants of the colony of Van Diemen's Land,
complaining of the great number of convicts which had been
transported to that island, and which completely demoralised
that colony, contrary to the understanding which had
been entered into with them at the time they
emigrated, and which was that no more convicts
should be sent than could be conveniently regulated, and
ultimately absorbed into the population of the
colony. The Noble Marquis then wont into very
voluminous statistical details for the purpose of
showing the importance of the colony, and the
manner in which the colony was damaged, its
progress arrested, and its society demoralised, by the
sink and refuse of society being transported there to the
amount of 16,000 in three years, which made it impossible
to reform the convicts, or to prevent the total demoralisation
of the colony.
Lord STANLEY said as the petition referred to a period in
which he had been connected with colonial affairs be would
offer a few observations in relation to its allegations. He
admitted that, though somewhat exaggerated, it was in its
main statements correct; the great evil being the arrange-
ment that restricted the transportation of convicts ex-
clusively to that colony. The petitioners had omitted to
statefirst one great fact, and that was that that which was at
imposed as an obligation was felt to be a boon, viz., the
assignment of convict labourers to free settlers, by which
they received much gain. He believed that, although the
in
system of assignment was objectionable
some nevertheless too hastily abandoned, points, it was
Their Lordships weie subsequentl aGd(llressed by the Duke
_ RICHMOND, Lord ',MELTON, EL,
and the Bishop
a OXFORD, and the petition was ordered'tEoTiie on the table.
The Bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and their
Lordships ejourned.

The House commenced business at Four o'clock.
On the motion of Mr. GREENE certain of the standing
orders on railway Bills were suspended with respect to I
Bills entitled to the privileges granted by that resolution of
the House on the 7th of July last.
Certain railway Bills were read a second time and ordered
to be committed.
Several petitions were presented for and against the Minis-
terial measure for free trade.
Mr. T. DustcomnE gave notice of his intentions on the
18th, to move for leave to bring in a Bill to limit the hours
of labour in factories where machinery was employed.
Mr. O'CoNsErd, withdrew his notice of motion for leave to
bring in a Bill to amend the criminal law of Ireland.
Mr. VELURE') wished to ask the Right Hon. Baronet the
Vice-President of the Board of Trade whether any report
was made annually by the Board of Customs to the Govern-
ment of the amount of wheat destroyed in consequence of
being damaged by remaining in the warehouse, owing
to the importer being unah!e to pay the highl duty,
and thereby introduce it into consumption. He asked
this question in consequence of being informed that a large
quantity of wheat had been lately thrown into the Severn
as being unfit for nse.
Sir GEOEGE Cr.EZK said •
d that the Board of Customs made
no annual report upon the subject alluded to by the Hon.
Member, but if what he had stated was the fact there could
be no difficulty in ascertaining the grounds under which the
grain had been destroyed.
Mr. I‘.;EWDECATE then moved, agreeably to the notice he
had given, that it be an instruction to the Selectd Committee
On the petition from Cheltenham that they inquire whe-
thert forged objections have not been served) u
electors for the northern division of the county ofp 1:11-calerwr Warwick
against the claims of the electors to be returned upon the re-
gister of that division of the county.

Mr. G. FINCH preferred the measure of the Right Hon.
Baronet at the head of the Government to the amendment of
the lion. Member for Wolverhampton.
Mr. WARD would support the amendment of the Hon.
Member for Wolverhampton, believing that, in doing so, he
did not peril the measure of the Government.
Mr. LIDDELL opposed the amendment.
Mr. Hurr supported the Government measure.
Mr. P. BORTIIWICK would vote against the amendment.
Mr. HustE would support the Government measure, and,
after he got that, he would try what more he could get.
Lord G. BErtriNcx preferred voting for the Govern-
ment measure to that proposed by the Hon. Member for
Wolverhampton, because before three years had elapsed an
appeal must be made to the people, which the protectionists
hoped would place them in the arms of victory, and defeat
the Government measure altogether. The protectionists
were determined to fight the battle from pillar to post, and
although they might for a time be driven back, they would
rally and gain the good cense.
Mr. COBDEN thought it unfortunate that the motion of
his Honourable Friend had been brought forward at the
present moment, but he believed it was the only time at
which, by the rules of the House, he could have
brought it forward. He had not heard a single
argument urged during the present debate against the imme-
diate repeal. He believed all the tenant-farmers were in
favour of the total and immediate repeal. The Hon. Mem-
ber for Wolverhampton was justified in bringing forward this
proposition by all that had taken place in that House ; and
he for one could not see anything that was likely to damage
the measure proposed by the Government on the adoption
of the proposition of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton.
The Right Honourable Baronet had given no gua-
rantee that his measure would become law, and such
being the case he did not see why those who were
for immediate repeal should give up their principles.
There were a hundred Gentlemen on the other side, who
were ready to adopt any measure, provided they could only
put the Government in a minority. He doubted the policy
of such a course, because he foresaw dangers and pitfalls
for this measure; if it was delayed; he should support the
amendment of his Hon. Friend, the Member for Wolver-
hampton. When the division on this question was over he
would support as thoroughly as any man the proposition of
the Government. He should feel it to be his duty upon every
stage of the measure to be present, in order to give it his support.
If the House of Lords would pass this measure, it would
restore itself to that situation in the country which it held
years ago, when it was said of it, Thank God, we have a
House of Lords.

Sir T. AcLAND preferred the measure of the Government
to the proposition of the Hoa. Member for Wolverhampton
Mr. T. DUNCOMRE supported the Government measure, and
regretted that his Hon. Friend the Member for Wolver-
hampton had brought forward his amendment. He had
voted for a repeal of the corn-laws long before the Anti-Corn-
law League was in existence, and however much it might
damage him with the gentlemen constituting that body, he
felt bound to vote with her Majesty's Ministers. '
The Earl t MARCH was prepared to fight the ghost of the
League with the flesh and blood of the protectionist body.
The Government, in his opinion, ought in common
justice and common honesty to appeal to the people,
Mr. HUDBONN supported the proposition of the Govern-
ment.

Colonel SIBTIIORP declared that the agricultural interest
or the tenant farmers were in favour of a repeal of the corn-
laws, or the measures proposed by the Government.
Mr. WAKLEY regretted that the Hon. Member for Wolver-
hampton was determined to divide the House on this ques-
tion, because it would lead to a supposition out of doors that
there was a division on that aide of the House with respect to
the Government measure.

Lord WORSLEY asserted his belief that the tenant farmers
were in favour of a total and immediate repeal of the corn-
laws.

Mr. NEWDEGATE stated, that from information he had
received, he believed the tenant farmers were not favourable
to a total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws.
Mr. VILLIzas replied shortly, and upon a divaion, his
amendment was lost by a majority of 187.
The House then resumed, the Chairman reported progress,
and obtained leave to sit again on Thursday.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned.

Mr. CRAVEN BKEKEREY should go over to the protec-
tionists. Their cheers seem to be his great ambition, and he
seems to have a great desire to fix discredit on the League.
After Mr. BistouT's explanation of Monday night, we are in-
deed astonished that a gentleman, professing to be a friend
of free trade, should have made the statement which Mr.
CRAVEN BERKELEY first made on the subject of the Chelten-
ham petition, or should have persisted, after the ex-

planation, in treating it as a grate case, de-
manding inquiry. From Mr. CRAVXN BICRKELEY'S
Bret statement, the only conclusion to be come to was, that
the petition purporting to come from Cheltenham was alto-
gether a fabrication. The connexion with the League we
did not see eren at first. It bore the poet-mark of Man-
chester, said the Hon. Member ; but it might eo that, and
the League know nothing of it ; or it would probably have
been a fraud committed by an unworthy servant of that
meritorious and public-spirited body. Mr. CRATEN
EItRICELEY theatrically repudiated for himself the support
of free trade by fraudulent means. What right has he to

suppose that Mr. COBDEN and Mr. BBIGHT are not as

pure-minded as himself ? To charge the League
as Mr. BERKELEY did, with the fraud, as he
chose to designate it—for after all it turns out that
there was no fraud—shows that the wish to discredit the
League must be very strong in the Hon. Member for Chel-
tenham. What have the League done to incur the wrath
of this scion of the lofty house of BERKELEY? Is it Mr.
BRIGHT'S crusade against the game-laws, or the progress
they have made towards wresting the representation of
Gloucestershire from Mr. Gnaiirrucv BURK/LEY, the game-
law champion? Is it that the manufacturing origin of that
great combination is offensive to the pure aristocratic
blood which flows in the BERKELEY veins ? If so,
we cannot think that Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY
has much more reason to be pleased with his new friends,
Mr. PERRAND and Mr. PETER BORTHWICIC, than with the
free-trade manufacturers. We were sorry to observe, when
Mr. Cnavicir BERKELEY first brought forward this Subject
on Friday last, that there was every sign of previous con
cert with the protectionists—that they loudly called for him
when he rose--loudly cheered him, as if prepared for all his
points, and that what came by surprise on the Members sit-
ting or the same side with Mr. BERKELEY, was no news to
the protectionists.

Mr. CRAVEN BER:ELEY wanted to.
now what does this great case of fraud come to ?
And - ----
petition was altogetl:
peti-
tion, having been signed at egrnathures were fabricated, and that the
make the Howe
believe that all the
toax. It turns out that the
one of the agents of the Leaa Cheltenham, was transmitted to
at Blanchester, that he might
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forward it to a Member forUter
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by their own Member.
point with Mr. CRAVEN Ilartx.EsittaeTp.iesiouele
Member says it is a very
that the Cheltenham petitioners did not Irsceunind3twarhtlheeet
petition straight to him. Perhaps it is ; but
we suspect in consequence is, that the Cheltenham pet%
tioners have no great liking for their Hen. Member. 4.nd
his conduct in this business certainly justifies their misgiv-
ings of him.
But to proceed in exploring Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY'S
"mare's nest." The League agent at Manchester discovered
that the petition, as transmitted to him, had no signatures o 1
the first sheet, on the sheet on which the petition is itseif
written. And this would have vitiated the petition, and pre-
vented its presentation to the House. The League
agent, therefore, instead of sending back the petition
to Cheltenham to have some signatures there affixed to the i
lest sheet (which we admit would hate been the right '

A vote of thanks to the Governor-General, the Comman-
der-in-Chief, and the officers and soldiers engaged in the
battles on the Sutlej, was unanimously passed on Monday
by both House' of Parliament. This was only what might
have been expected, as a reward, among others, to the
skilful generals and the brave troops who on that oc-
casion gained one of the most remarkable victories ever
achieved in India. All the speakers agree on this point, and
several of them paid Sir HENRY HARDINGE the highest
compliment for the arrangements he had made previous to
the battle, and for the promptitude displayed when the
most unprovoked and unexpected invasion was made by the
Seikh troops. Two Members of the Commons, connected
with India, bore ample testimony not only to the peaceable
disposition displayed by the Governor-General, but to the
consummate ability with which the affair from beginning to
end had been conducted. Mr. HOME, who knows the
country well, made these remarks :—" If Hon. Members took
the map of India and studied the locality in which the events
in question had occurred—if they made themselves familiar
with the situation, the novel situation, in which the English
commanders had been placed, they would see that it had
been a matter of utter impossibility, by any skill or any
mancenvres, to concentrate the necessary forces in the posi-
tion in which, if concentrated, they could act with the
most effect. Looking to the fact that there were no fords
at Roopur to which the British had access, that there
was the chance of Loodimiah being attacked and no stations
within the distance of seventy miles, he (Mr. HOME) did
not think it possible Aat there could have been a better pe
sition than that taken up at Umballah." Mr. HOGG'S words
are equally favourable to the Governor-General, and opposed
to those who assert that he was taken by surprise. "None
doubted," said the Honourable Member, "that Sir HENRY
HARDINGE'S wishes were for peace. Most truly and ho-
nourably had he striven to maintain peace, and not less
honourably and nobly when he had found that it was, under
the circumstances, an impossibility. He (Mr. HoGo) be-
lieved that in a short time it would be acknowledged that
the military manceuvring had been conducted with consum-
mate skill, and that every available advantage had been
seized, promptly and efficiently, by the British commanders."
In the House of Lords the same eulogiums were passed, and
the fullest justice done to the Governor-General. The Duke
of WELLINGTON expressed his most unqualifie4 approbation o
the conduct of the troops, and paid a high tribute to his old
companion in arms for his cenduct on the occasion. " I
wish particularly" said the Duke, "to allude to the conduct
of my Gallant Friend the Governor-General, who after he
had made all the arrangements appertaining to his duty as
Governor-General, such as collecting all the resources of the
country for the great contest which was impending, and
having made all arrangements for the security of the country,
volunteered his services in his rank in the army, in order to
give his assistance to the officer commanding-in-chief."
This was loudly cheered. The defence of the 62d,
which the Noble Duke took up with such warmth,
does him the highest credit, and we have no doubt will re-

store that celebrated regiment to the high rank which it has
so long maintained. But we must refer cur readers to the
whole discussion. It was interesting throughout, and will
be perused with great satisfaction by the people of this
country, and afford some consolation to the numerous
families thrown into mourning by the lamentable loss of so
many officers and men.

Ingenious as are the arguments with which Mr. VILLIERS
on Monday night enforced his amendment of the Ministerial
measures for abolishing monopoly, we must take leave to
doubt the policy of the Honourable Gentleman's present
proceeding. No one could yearn more earnestly than our-
selves for the immediate operation of free trade, no one
could more heartily desire the immediate destruction of
protection to agriculture with all its insidious and la-
mentable consequences. Nevertheless, cordially and
fully as these aspirations are infused into our
heart, we cannot but perceive the danger of struggling
for an achievement of objects, in the abstract so desirable ;
we cannot but perceive the inconveniences which must re-
sult from such superfluous efforts; we cannot but perceive
that a great and permanent good may be jeopardized, or at
least retarded, by endeavours so over-enthusiastic as those

of Mr. Vlwine. The danger of such an amendmeet would
be that of dismembering a power of which the Premier is
the ostensible head—a power constituted by the amal-
gamation of all the sectional portions of the political
world, Whigs, Tories, Radicals, Liberals, and Conservatives
—a power more noble in its origin and more independent iu

its action than any power to which the legislation of this
country has been hitherto submitted. The inconveniences
which must undoubtedly arise from such an amendment
would be those of rendering a discusaion already very
protracted, one of most interminable duration ;
of militating against the interests of all classes
by withholding from them the boon of coins immediate and
practical good ; and, in addition to all this, of sowing discon-
tent throughout the land by placing all divisions of the com-
munity in a negative position, by leaving grievances still in
action during the continuance of that dilatory de-
bate, by throwing all parties into a state of the
most irksome doubt and uncertainty, tenant-farmers,
manufacturers, shop-keepers, merchants, all in short
engaged in commerce or personally interested (and
who is not?) in the grand question at issue. And, besides all
these highly important considerations, a thoroughly excel-
lent measure would be delayed in its operation, merely for
the purpose of fulfilling certain rash engagements, at the
risk of embroiling the now acknowledged supporters of Sir
ROBERT PEEL; while the coveted prise would, when ob-
tained, merely be the expeiliting for a very contemptible
time an arrangement which by following out that Right
Hon. Baronet's preposition would be ensured after a trum-
pery interval of three years without (comparatively) any
further agitation. We call these three years a very " trum-
pery interval" advisedly, as in the history of nations and the
advance of time they constitute but a mere nothing in
the aggregate of centuries. As to Mr. VILLIERS ad-
ducing the irritable exclamation of the protectionists
—that they would prefer of the alternatives an
immediate to a procrastinated abolition—as to Mr. VII:
MIMS adducing this cry as a sound argument in favour of his
amendment, the idea is prepoiterous. Everybody must have
perceived that those expressions were blurted forth by the
agricultural gentlemen merely from the excessive irritation
of their feelings; that, in fact, it was only tantamount
to a schoolboy wishing to have a promised flogging
over at once, and have done with it. Looking upon the
it th se p
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proposed delay merely as a concession to the protectionists,
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lutely nontinal. Colonial grain, vegetables, and cattle, being
henceforth offered to be free of all import duties, and foreign
articles free in 1849, where possibly can be the utility
of
striving for any further enactments? It is in truth an ava-
ricious philanthropy—a very extortionate benevolence indeed
As nothing human can be complete and perfect in all its par-
ticulars, the scheme advanced by Sir ROBERT, and approved
by a majority of ninety-seven, has undoubtedly its defi-
ciencies. Nevertheless, it is surely worthy of unanimous

Not merely has curiositybeen satisfied by learning the upshot
of the division on Saturday morning,-but it has likewise been
gratified by listening to the arguments adduced by Mr.CoenEst
before the termination of the discussion. Had not his cou-
valescence enabled the Hon. Member for Stockport to take
(however tardily) some share in the debate, there would
have been a manifest hiatus in the proceedings of Parliament
upon this enlightened and comprehensive measure. Every
one, whether free-trader or protectionist, was naturally
anxious to become acquainted with the exact sentiments en-
tertained at this moment by Mr. COBDEN, because in him
they beheld the most influential of all out-of-door political
economists ; because in him they beheld, as it were, the mind
and the muscle of that great Association which had tended se
much to impel the system of abolition to its accomplishment ;
because, moreover, in him they beheld the most popular pri-
vate representative in the House as far as the question at issue
was concerned. Besides which, people were the more desi-
rous of hearing that Honourable Gentleman's voice from the
Opposition benches, as to some sceptics his intentions seemed
to be problematical ; they clung with despairing avidity to
the hope of his impeding Sir ROBERT'S policy by persisting
in his demand for an immediate and total repeal of both im-
port and export duties. It was the last straw at which, in
the agonies of their destruction, these satellites of Mr.
MILES grasped with spasmodic eagerness and stolid perti-
nacity. Mr. BRIGHT'S acquiescence with the Premier, and,
in addition to this, his impassioned eulogium upon that Right
Hon. Baronet, would have satisfied any dispassionate mind
as to the intentions of the Hon. Member's colleague.
Neverthelem, so blinded with their own perverseness were
these self-legislators, that they chuckled audibly in their
club-rooms at the stumbling-block preparing for the Prime
Minister, quoted the epistle addressed by the Mem-
ber for Stockport to the tenant-farmers of Great
Britain, and revelled in these fallacious notions
even in the purlieus of Westminster. On Friday night,
however, Mr. Coupes!, as the embodiment of the Anti-
Cern-law League, as the symbol of the popular voice
and of the popular will, snatched this last phantom of re-
demption from the reach of the protectionists, and cast them
for ever adrift amidst the surge of their own selfish disap-
pointment. His speech was a condensation of the opinions
which have been battling in the Lower House during the pre-
vious twelve nights: the fallacies which were previously
floating about haphazard, without any recognisable shape,
were in that oration reduced to a concrete atom, a kind of
existent nothingness. He was the political pentagraph with
which the mammoth array of argument spreading over the
past discussion was reproduced in a clear, sharp, and minia-
ture epitome. As such Mr. COBDEN'S presence immediately
before the Parliamentary tellers were introduced, was frought
with extreme utility, since with the assistance of his clearjudg-
ment the Members were enabled to take a common- sense
review of the measure and its consequences directly before
recording their vote. Although oppressed with the languor
of bodily debility, there is traceable in the manner of the
Hon. Member for Stockport, during the utterance of his re-
marks, a peculiar and sunny cheerfulness, which is alone at-
tributable to the satisfaction with which he perceived the
triumph of the cause for which, through many bitter and
protracted troubles, he had been the daring and devoted
champion. In the opening of his observations. Mr. COBDEN
pointed out, with a steady finger and a laughing lip, the out-
rageous absurdity of the agricultural gentlemen insisting
upon an appeal to the country as a means of insuring the
perpetuation of the present pernicious barriers against the
introduction of cheap grain ; he avouched the extension
of the franchise, as now practised by the League, to be a
custom sanctified by five hundred years' duration; and he
appealed to their prudence as legislators, to their justice as
Christians, to.. their reason as men, to deny the working
classes no lon p‘ r ready access to plentiful and wholesome
provisions. Compared with the cant, selfishness, and party
quibbles of the land proprietors in opposing Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S policy, the peroration of the Hon. Member's speech
has much real beauty and nobleness. He takes a capacious
survey of terrestrial exigencies; he insists upon the necessity
of allowing the laws of GOD and Nature alone to regulate
the supply of nourishment to the populace; and concludes
with this simple but emphatic language :—" We have set
the world the example in all great improvements. We
gave it the representative system ; the rules and regulations
of this House have become the models for every delibera-
tive assembly. We have given the world a free press;
we have given it civil and religious freedom, and every insti-
tution which belongs to liberty and civilisation ; and now we
are going to give it another example, greater than all."
Depressed as Mr. Compre's energies might have been from
indisposition, he has spoken precisely as he should have
spoken : he has spoken exactly as the people wanted : he has
spoken in accordance with the dignity of his present posi-
tion
as
present glorious ouegnitorainds Bagacious legislator. When record-
ing the revolution in commercial policy, the
future historian will identify with its acceptance—and that
in an especial manner—the name, the words, and the in-
tellect of RICHARD COBDXN. It is seldom that such victories
have to be announced by the journalists--victories achieved
not by the shedding of one drop of blood, not by the waving
of one single sword, not by the deathful propulsion of cannon
balls, but with the peaceful weapon—logic, by the divinest
attribute of human nature—our reasoning faculties. When,
therefore, we remember that these opinions have been mainly
inculcated by one voice, and that voice COBDEN'S ; when gee
remember that a vast moral revulsion in the cause of the people
has been mainly produced by one man's exercise of rhetorical
and argumentative powers--and that man, COBDEN; when
we remember that the means of incalculable happiness to
posterity as well as to ourselves, have been mainly rescued
from monopoly by one bold and vigorous champion—and that
champion Comex—surely, for once, even the most bigoted
should not become niggard of commendation ; their generous
and manly expressions of gratitude should be accorded to
Memo]) Comma/ without stint in length or eartnestness.
With him all real lovers of their kind unite their largest and
warmest sympathies, seeing (as they do) in him a man striv-
ing for the general good of his fellow creatures, without one
solitary motive of a baser kind. Nor was it uninteresting
to mark upon that last night of the discussion the recon-
ciliation which took place between the Premier and the
Member for Stockport—men to whom the present grea
achievement is mainly, and we may say paramouutly, attri.
but able.

The accounts from Madrid are to the 23d ult. In the Cham-
ber of Deputies on that day the Finance Minister brought for-
ward his new plan of finance. The land-tax introduced by
his predecessor he proposed to reduce by 50,000,000 reals.
(500,0000 He intended to abolish the tax on house rents,
to reduce that on the transmission of property and also on
articles consumed in the principal towns. In accordance
ith the recommendation of the Committee on the estimates
he proposed a saving of 46,000,000 reels out of the expenses
of the Ministerial departments, and also some other reduc-
tions which he believed would be considered satisfactory.
He promised to do everything in his power for the creditors
of the State. The dividends he said would be religiously
paid and the first step in strengthening the credit of the
country would be the extinction of the coupons. The state-
ment was favourably received. It was considered certain
that MARTINEZ DE LA Rosa would accept the appointment
of Ambassador at the Court of the Tuileries.

On the 23d the Three per Cent& closed at 32 for cab, and
32 1-16 at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 22 13-16
for the 10th of March.

We find little in the Paris papers that require notice or
could interest the En&lish reader. A telegraphic dispatch
conveyed to Paris by mid-day on Saturday the result of the
division on the corn-laws. Extracts are given in the jJurnals
from those of Germany, relative to the conspiracies said to
have been discovered in Prussian Poland, and threatened dis-
turbances in Cracow and other places. Russia, Prussia, and
Austria were concerting measures to put down any insurrec-
tion that might be attempted. The following appears as an
extract from the Swabian Mirculy :—" It is now evident
that the conspiracy recently discovered had its ramifications
throughout Eastern Prussia, Posen, Gallicia, and the kind-
dom of Poland. So hardy were the conspirators, that even
after the discovery of the plot they continued t., work at their
projects. Russia, Prussia, and Austria are now taking mea-
sures in concert to prevent the insurrection breaking out. A
Prussian army Gf observation is about taking up a position
along the frontier line of the kingdom of Poland, as far as
Cracow. Several regiments of cavalry and infantry have
already marched, and more are following. Troops are to be
put in motion In Silesia. Other troops will be marched into
Poland and Gallicia."

Ono of the Prussian journals states, and indeed that
seems to be the general belief, that the conspiracy has
been got up solely by the Polish nobility, and that the peo-
ple appear to take no part in it.
On Sunday the French Three per Cents. were done at 85f.

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