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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1846.

Previous to the resumption of the adjourned debate yes-
terday evening a mutual explanation occurred between
Mr. HILDYARD and Lord LiNcoLs in reference to certain im-
putations of bribery and corruption at the last election for
South Nottinghamshire. We rejoice that the matter has
now been fully investigated before the House of Commons,
more particularly because all further misapprehension upon
the subject is rendered henceforth impossible. The Earl of
LINCOLN stands before Parliament and before the People
with all his own assertions reiterated and enforced, and
his perfect freedom from the charge of bribery fully vindi-
cated. Mr. HILDYARD, on the contrary, has openly retracted
his accusatory expressions; but having, at the same mo-
ment, acknowledged his fault in uttering those expressions
in the impetuosity of an excitement, consequent upon his
youth and the bustle of his first electioneering campaign, he
claims a certain proportion of our applause for thus publicly
confessing his error. It was, nevertheless, a preposterous and
unworthy subterfuge for the Hon. Member for South Notts to
asseverate that he never imputed corruption to his noble an-
tagonist, the Secretary forlreland ; it is preposterous, because
it is a mere quibble; it is unworthy, because it looks like
shuffling out of a dilemma. Mr. HILDYARD plainly "owns
the soft impeachment " that he did accuse the Free-trade
Committee of Nottingham with bribery, but he indignantly
repudiates the notion that he imputed any similar acts to
Lord LINCOLN, in corroboration ( ?) of which the
Member for South Notts reads to the House, with
the most elaborate distinctness, a provincial report of a
conversation which transpired upon the hustings at the ter-
mination of the contest, and from which conversation, ac-
cording to the construction placed upon it by Mr. JIILDTARD,
it would appear—so heassumes—that he there exonerated
himself from the charge of having questioned the in-
tegrity of the Noble Earl's electioneering conduct.
Now, distinctly appears in the very report which
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by the honourable Member, that he was there
asked, among other questions, whether he imputed
the charge of bribery to the gentlemen
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who supported Lord
LINCOLN, to which inquiry he as distinctly
Two minutes before he accuses the Free-
Nottingham of corruption, nay, last night he acknowledges ' of
having uttered that accusation, and yet upon the hustings at
Newark he declares that he does not impute anysueh conduct
to the gentlemen supporting his antagonist. Now if the
Free-trade Committee were not acting as supporters to
the Earl of LiNcoLtr, wherefore should he, Mr. HILD-
YARD, when addressing the electors at Sutton,
adduce the illegal iircceediugs of that Committee as an argu-
ment In favour of his being received by the constituency in
preference to his opponent? If the Free-trade Committee of
Nottingham were not supporters of Lord LINCOLN, what pos-
sible bearing could their conduct have upon the merits of
the contest between himself and that nobleman? But
the fact was notorious, not only at Nottingham, but
in the metropolis and throughout the kingdom, that
the Committee were among the principal persons interested
in the return of the Right Hon. the Secretary for Ireland
And in the imputation of bribery levelled at the members'
of that Committee, the character of the candidate for whose
interest they were thus said to be violating the law, was as
a matter of course necessarily implicated. The quibbling
upon this point to which Mr. HILDYARD has resorted, is
nothing more than a distinction without a difference;
for, as the Noble Lord the Member for Falkirk very justly
put it overnight, " I do not see any very great
dissimilarity- between charging bribery upon an individu
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and charging it upon a party by whom lie is supporte
The imputation upon Lord LINCOLN was therefore not a
direct one undoubtedly, but it was most assuredly a broad
inferential charge; and in the withdrawal by the Honourable
Member for South Notts of the accusation upon the Free-trade
Committee, the inferential accusation upon Lord LINCOLN.
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words of the Hon. Representative of South Nottingham-
shire are eaten. Nevertheless, the affair ends honourably for
both parties, the acknowledgment of error in Mr. HILD-
YARD enduing the very awkwardness of his position with an
appearance such as to ensure his being regarded in a favour-
able light by every person of discrimination. We feel assured,

moreover, that on a reconsideration of the matter, the Hon
gentleman will perceive that the remarks recently uttered
by the Secretary for Ireland in relation to himself, both in
the provinces and in Parliament, arose not from any personal
pique or cherished rancour, but that those remarks were
elicited first by his, Mr. HILDYARD'S, silence, when taxed
with the utterance of those charges by the Hon. Member for
Nottingham (Mr. GISBORNE), aird, secondly, by the unwar-
rantable personalities of the Noble Member for Lynn. We
trust, now that the matter is so satisfactorily settled, that
everything like ill-blood will subside, and that this, like so
many equally foolish squabbles among our legislators, may
be covered by a deserved oblivion.

A Trieste letter of the 30th ult., from Romelia, states
that the Turks have attacked the Catholics of that country,
torn them from their houses, and dragged them through the
streets, because they would not abjure their religion. The
Greeks were obliged to interfere to save the victims of fana-
ticism from being massacred. From this time the invete-
racy between the Turks and Christians had become so great
that it had been found necessary to send detachments of
troops to keep the peace between them. According to ac-
counts from Damascus, dated March 31, the Catholic
Melchites have also suffered severely from the Turks, who
are encouraged by the authorities, and even by the PACIIA
himself'.

Madrid papers to the sth instant have been received. The
Heraldo states with positiveness that the Cortes will be dis-
solved, and the new Cortes be convened for the 10th of
October. It was reported that a conspiracy had been dis-
covered at Granada, in which five officers of the garrison
were implicated, but it was immediately crushed. The intelli-
gence from the other provinces was satisfactory. The Im-
parcial announces that General NARVAFZ bad accepted the
mission to Naples.
The Three per Cents. closed at 32 for cash ; the Five
per Cents. were not quoted ; the shares of the Bank of San
Fernando at 320 ; and those of Isabel at 185.

The French papers of Monday have been received.
The Chamber of Deputies opened the discussion on the
Bill relative to the supplementary and extraordinary credits
for the years 1845 and 1846. In the Chamber of Peers the
discussion on the Belgian treaty was continued. Baron
Cinkra.r.s DUPIN spoke at great length against the treaty,
and took the opportunity of opposing the principles of free
trade, which several Peers had advocated at the sitting on
Saturday.
The illoniteur announces that the Lyons and Avignon rail-
road line, with a branch to Grenoble, will be adjudicated on
the 10th of June. The line is to have two points of departure
from Lyons, the one at the extremity of the station of the
Cours Napoleon (on the Paris and Lyons road), and the other
on the left bank of the Rhone, near the bridge of La Guillotiere.
The Grenoble branch will cemmence at or near St.
Rambert, and pass through Beaurepaire, Rives, Voiron, and
Voreppe. Companies intending to bid for the Lyons and
Avignon line must deposit their lists of subscriptions in the
hands of the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Public
Works, and two copies of their statutes in those of the
Secretary-General of the Department of Commerce, on or
before the Ist of June. The deposit of the sum required as
security (10,000,000 f.) must be effected before four o'clock,
r.M., on the 9th of June.
The Prince DE JOINVILLE hoisted his flag on board the
Soveraiu three-decker on the morning of the 7th inst., and
inspected, in the course of the day, the different ships at
anchor in the roads of Toulon. The squadron of evolution
was to sail in a few days for Naples.
The KLNIG has, it is said, sent a reply in his own hand-
writing to tke address of the Lord Provost and corporation
of Edinburgh.
A grand review in the Champ de Mars, in honour of
IBRAHIM PACHA, is to take place about the 20th of this
month. It is the KING'S intention to have troops of all
kinds present on this occasion ; and in consequence, not only
the regiments of the garrison of Paris and the neighbourhood,
but the greater part of the regiments of cavalry of the Ist
division, the Ist carbineers, the Ist and 7th cuirassiers, and
the batteries of artillery at Vincennes and Lafere, are all to
attend.
The Ilfoniteur Algerien of the sth instant states, that
perfect tranquility prevailed in the west of the Regency,
from the Dahra to the frontier of Morocco. The great league
of the southern tribes, organised by Ann-EL-KADER, was re-
garded as entirely dissolved. The Duke D'AUMALE
had conducted in person a convoy of 1,500
camels to General JOUSSOUF, together with a
column of fresh troops, with which the General
was to continue his operations against the Emir. The Ouled
Nayls, who had supplied him during the last three months
with the means of carrying on the war, had made their sub-
mission to the Duke D'AIiIIALE. The Marshal-Governor-
was to leave Algiers on the 6th, to take the command of an
expedition destined to reduce to obedience the revolted
mountaineers of the Ouarensenis.
Business on the Paris Bourse opened on Monday under
favourable appearances; but it having become known that
an eminent Lyons banker, largely connected with railroad
speculations, had committed suicide, and that some failures
had taken lace there in consequence, prices receded.

The Three per Cents. closedat 84f. ; the Five per Cents., 119 f. 95c.;
the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,245 f. ; Rouen, 1,035 f. ; Havre, 7561.
25c. ; Great Northern, 761 f. 25c.; Avignon, 915 f. ; Vierzon,
668 f. 75c.; Bordeaux, 622 f. 50e. ' • Boulogne, 505 f. ; Troyes and Mon-
terean, 4021. 50e. ; Basle, 218 f. 75c.; Dieppe, 450 f. ; Paris and Stras-
burg, 512 f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 532 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons,
55f. ; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 5G,i ; Spanish Actives,
33 ; Spanish Domestic Debt, 311/..

The following are the quotations in the new lines :

Lyons and Avignon Definitives, 517 f. 50c.; Bordeaux and Cctte
Definitives, 508 f. 75c. ; Charleroi, 460 f.
MARSEILLES.—MarseiIIes and Avignon, 931 f. 25c.; Northern, 7671.
50c.; Paris and Lyons, 568 f. 75c.
LYONS.—Paris and Orleans, 1,255 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 12.
Boulogne and Amiens, 12—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cetto

(Mackenzie), 2—Ditto (Espeleta), 2—Callao, Lirna, and Pacific
Coast, % dis.— Central of Spain, 1 —Dutch Rhenish, 7—East
Indian, —Great Diorthern of France Constituted, I:s—Lyons and
Avignon, 2 —Luxembourg, 2 —Madrid and Valentia, IIA —Paris and
Lyons Constituted, 7% —Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 5%.