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with their best interests, have stood entirely aloof from
the agitation. Such conduct deserves every praise— i;
exhibits a great moral principle, of high value in a body
for whom popular respect is of so much importance, both
in a personal and religious view ; and as they have as
much interest in high prices as the landlords, it exhibits
a noble contrast to the noisy and frantic exhibitions,
and to the selfibh claims of rich Peers and commoners.
who would rob the people that they may increase their
wealth, and raise a dangerous commotion in the country
for the most contemptible, sordid, and grovelling mo-
tives. But there is another point of view in the scene which
gives additional weight to the Minister's plans, and opens
up the brightest prospects. Several of the most respect-
able Members in the Commons belonging to the Conser-
vative party, and totally unconnected with the Government
cordially approve of the measures, and in order to pre.
serve a pure conscience and show their independence,
have resigned, or offered to resign, their seats into the
hands of their constituents. Among these we may men-
tion Lord ASHLEY, the Hon. W. H. DAWNAY, the lion.
F. CHARTERIS, and Mr. H. C. STURT, independent of
many others who do not consider electors entitled to
such deference, and who will vote with the Minister.
The resumption of office too by the whole of the PEEL
Cabinet, except one member, is a significant omen. Sir
THOMAS FREMANTLE, in his excellent address to the
electors of Buckingham, says :—" Sir R. PEEL (after the
failure of Lord JOHN RUSSELL) felt it his duty to his
Sovstunats to resume the functions of First Minister of
the Crown ; all the members of his former Cabinet,
with one exception, concurred in that decision, and have
determined to support the measures which have bean an-
nounoed to the House of Commons for the Abolition
of protecting duties on articles of foreign produce and
manufacture." Need we refer as a further
proof, and one which should make the House of Peers
pause in its rancorous opposition to the Government—
namely, to the unanimity which prevails on the question
at meetings in Chambers of Commerce, and in
almost every borough, town, and city, in Great
Britain? The sentiments of our Gracious SOVEREIGN
are well known. The presence of the Royal Consort
in the House of Commons when the Minister disclosed
his plans was significant ; and these symptoms ought
not to be without their effect on the restive Peers, aho
can ill afford to contend against both Crown and people.
The best wish of their friends is, that they may adopt a
prudent and a generous course.

So conspicuous are the exigencies of the Irish people
at this present moment, that Parliament for once is
neither tardy in its expressions of sympathy, or in its
endeavours to afford some substantial evidence of the
existence of that sympathy. From the first Report of
the Select Committee on Railways—which report was
on Thursday laid before both Houses—this anxiety to meet
the advances of destitution in that unfortunate country
was most apparent. On various accounts the sugges-
tions embodied in that report are happily-timed and
judicious. The Committee proposes that a portion of
the railway Bills which have accumulated so wonder-
fully during the recess, be commenJed in the Upper
House "for the purpose of facilitating the dispatch of
railway business during this session." The advantages
which must necessarily accrue from such an arrangement
are too obvious to require any particular exposition.
With reference to the second proposal, namely, that
" this House will not insist on their privilege with

regard to th• clauses fixing and regulating rates and
tolls in such Bills," a political hyper-critic might pos-
sibly object that it was an unnecessary abandonment of
privilege ; but, as the Commons would still retain in their
possession the power of interference, No danger could
mult from such a nominal concession. Besides, in
junctures of such dire necessity as the present, when it

is not only desirable, but absolutely incumbent upon
the Legislature to make some immediate and de-
cisive movement, or hazard the existence of four mil-

lions of the people, entrusted to their protection,
it would be most baneful to daily over the
advisability of a measure through trepidation at
some imaginary evil of this nature. Granting,
therefore, that the peculiar and complicated
position in which the legislators are now placed would
palliate an act of concession greater even than

the one particularised, we turn with extreme
gratification to the sentence which follows:—" The
Select Committee considers that with a view of
affording early and increased means of employment in
Ireland, it is expedient to give facilities for the early
consideration of Irish Railway Bills," and that with this
intention such Bills " should, in the present session,
commence in the House of Lords." Not only does this
proposition originate in sentiments of large-hearted and
open-handed condolence with the Irish multitude during
the woes and the pangs of their present privations, but

it arises also from a conviction that grants of 50,0001.
for the advancement of public works, can never retard
the dark and indomitable on-stridings of famine, how-
ever much such grants may appear to be munificent in the
eyes of an over-economist. To say that such en enact-
ment alone would dispel the miseries which now encum-
ber Ireland would exceed the limits of accuracy, but to
say that, as the section of an extensive plan for the ame-
lioration of such national destitution, the present is a
wise and sagacious suggestion, would be an opinion in
accordance with the rational judgment of every man
of ordinary perception. By the speedy fulfilment of these
intentions on the part of Government, the labourer
whether in Meath, or in Drogeda, or in Kildare, would
be enabled to obtain employment, and that likewise at an
increased smount of wages, according to the competi-
tion for labourers, without interfering with the distri-
bution of the public works' loan, which might be appro-
priated merely to such districts as were labouring under
any remarkable disadvantages. On Thursday, more-
over, Lord CLANCABTT brought this same question of
Irish penury and Irish starvation before the Peers, im-
pressing most forcibly upon their Lordships the necessity
for serve strenuous efforts in behalf of that afflicted
people. Nor did the Noble Earl restrict his importuni-
ties for the attention of the House to a mere alimentary
interposition ; he extended his demand for a Le-
gislative interference to an increase of facilities
for obtaining medical relief. It is not our
intention to enter at this moment upon the consideration
of the character of Lord CLANCARTY'S proposed amend-
ments ; we merely make this allusion to the circumstances
in corroboration of our remark, that Parliament is not
indifferent to the demands for assistance in our sister
island—demands which are each day becoming more
and more importunate. In affording a greater facility
for adequately satisfying these demands, we conceive
that the Select Committee have performed their duty
with promptitude and discrimination. By this first re-
port they have already considerably lessened the amount
of their responsibility. Nor do we regard the arrange-
ment as at all likely to moderate the scrutiny with which
railway matters should be conned; it will, on the con-
trary, by this just distribution of a labour so
extremely onerous, enable the different Committees to
investigate each Bill with increased caution and in-
creased minuteness, because with increased time 1 A more
laudable or more propitious commencement to their com-
mercial campaign could scarcely have been made by a
body so hazardously placed as was the Select Committee.
They have indeed grasped the bull by the horns, and
tethered him down beyond escape. Inasmuch as they
have done this, the railway speculators, the Irish people,
and the public at large, will, to a great measure, be satis-
fied ; their expectations will be partially fulfilled, and
their various cravings will be appeased.

The accounts from Madrid are to the 29th ult. The
Chamber of Deputies had brought the discussion Oil
the Address t• a close, and on that day it was read and
approved, and a Commission appointed to lay it
before the QUBIN. Copies of treaties, recently concluded
with Chili, Portugal, and Morocco, were presented by the
Minister for Foreign Affairs. lle declined to give any
satisfactory explanation respecting them ; the Opposition
contended that explanation was necessary, upon which a
division took place, when Ministers had a majority of 90
against 40. The Chamber then adjourned till the 31st.
The Funds are again lower, the Three per Cents, having
closed on the 99th at 32k, and the Fives at 2n, both at
sixty days.

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They have moved several amendments calculated to
catch popularity and excite hostility to the Government,
but in every instance they have completely failed and
been defeated by large majorities. The last defeat—
that on the right of search question—is the greatest of
all. An amendment was moved by M. BILLIULT, con-
demning the late treaty between England and France
for the suppression of the slave trade, and embodied in
these words:—" That the wish of the Chamber would
have been fulfilled, if, whilst protecting the rights of
humanity, the convention had more surely placed out of
the reach of attack the national flag." BILLAULT was
supported by Durnt, LEYASSICUR, and even by THIERB
though that consistent statesman and disinterested pa:
triot declared last session that he considered the right
of search necessary. BERILYER and several of the
Legitimatist party approved of the amendment, but all
would not do; they were shamefully beaten, the num-
bers, on a division, beng—

For the amendment 144
Against it
Majority for Ministers -73

The other intelligence in tho papers is of little in-
erest. A letter from Otaheite of the 10th Sept., in the

National, states that "Admiral Manua and Admiral
SRYMOUR having appointed commissioners to regulate
the indemnity due to Mr. PRITCHARD, it has been de-
cided that the English Minister was entitled to a thou-
sand and odd piastres. Admiral SEYMOUR refused to
abide by this decisioa, and the negotiations were broken
off. The question is to be submitted to the Governments
of England and France. Admiral SEYMOUR, adds the
letter, consented to salute the flag of the Protectorate,
but refused to salute that of France." We attach no
credit to these statements. We subjoin some miscel-
laneous paragraphs.

The committee charged to examine the Bill relating to
internal navigation met on Tuesday. The Ministry de-
mands for the necessary works a sum of 63 millions,
which, added to the expenses already incurred, raises
the total amount to 288 millions, being upwards of 100
millions more than was calculated on in 1821. The commit-
tee, alarmed at this augmentation, has thought it right,
whilst adhering to the Ministerial plan, to recommend the
Government, and particularly the Ponts-et-Chaussees, to em-
ploy fur the future more foresight in their estimates, and
more order in the employment of the funds. This is the
purport of the report presented by the Marquis de Dalmatie
in the name of the committee.

The Constituttonnd mentions
which has just been dissolved, is to be re-
a a report that the' native
cavalrytlshoefdfo Algeria,
rtlienextcainraign on a new basis.
The Government of 'Tuscany has delivered up to that of
esThb
Rome M. Renzi, one of. the leaders in the rebellion of Rimini,
who had taken refuge in Tuscany. A letter from Florence,
in the Debats, gives the following particulars :—M. Renzi
had returned to Florence from Marseilles, and througk M.
Salvaguoli, an eminent advocate of Florence, petitioned the
Grand Duke for leave to reside within his dominions. The
petition was referred to the Supreme Council, which at once
decided against the extradition. But the Austrian Minister
at the Grand Duchy and the Apostolical Nuncio having in-
sisted upon it, the question was referred to the Council of
Ministers, the majority of whom were of opinion that the
Government was bound by treaty to give up M. Renzi, and,
consequently, he was delivered into the hands of the Papal
authorities in the night of the 23d ult.
The Swedish Government, in order to put a stop to the
increasing progress of drunkenness in Norway, has appointed
a missionary for each of the four provinces of that kingdom,
to travel through them preaching forbearance from strong
liquors, and promoting the establishment and extension of
temperance societies. Compensation is again offered to all
such distillers as shall resign their licenses for making brandy
and entirely relinquish their business.
The French Funds improved en Wednesday, and the
market closed as follows :
Three per Cents., for each, 83f. 750. ; for Account, 83f. Mc. ; Five
per Cents., for cash, 123 f. lfic : for Account, 123 f. 25c. ; Bank of
France Shares not quoted. Neapolitan, 100 f. 40c. Spanish. Threes,
39f..; Spanish Fives and New Loan not quoted.

The Share Market has been generally animated. For cash, Paris
and Orleans closed at 1,250 f. ; Paris and Rouen, I,ollf. 25c. (up 6f.
25c.); Rouen and Have, 700 f. (down 12f. 50c.); Vierzea, 702 f 50e. ;
Strasburgh ant Bale, 257 f. 50c.; Boulogne and Amiens, 5400. ;
Northern, 765 f. (up 6f. 255.); Bordeaux, 645 f. ; Montereau, 450 f. ;
Avignon and Fampoux not quoted.
Definitives have varied but little from the quotations of yesterday.
Lyons done at 620 f.; Tours and Nantes, 570 f ; Strasburgh, 5441.;
Avignoi, 560 f.
RUSIN-ASS DONA IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TYR
LONDON STOCK KICHANGR, Fen. 5.

Boulogne and (miens, —124 —Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
( Mackenzie), 21,4—Ditto (Espeleta), 2—Dutch /thenisk, 7% —Great
Northern of /Praise Constituted, 15k —Great Indian Peninsular, 1%
—Luxembourg, 21,12 —Orleans and Bordeaux, 11% —Paris and Noueu.
39i ex die.—Houen and Havre, 29 ex div.

FLANDERS MAIL.
BRUSSELS, FEB. 3.—The average price of wheat in the
week ending Saturday, Jan. 31, was 24f. 82c., and that of
rye 19f. 43c.

The Chamber of Representatives, in its sitting to-day,
adopted, by a majority of 40 to 13, the project of law for con-
tinuing in force the law relative to foreigners. It then voted
for the continuance of the law granting bounties on the build-
ing of ships in Belgium. It was agreed to by a majority of
58 to 1.

The Chamber received a petition from M. Deridder, the
engineer, desiring permission to inspect all the documents
relative to the sinking of the tunnel of Cumpitch, and asking
a delay of a month to prepare his justification. The petition
was referred, on the motion of the Minister of Public Works,
to the Petition Committee, with a request :to make a speedy
report.
The enormous difference between the average price of
wheat in France and Belgium (it exceeds 3 francs per het-
tolitre) can be accounted for only by the fears which hare
long existed in our country, by the cries of distress which
have been so long repeated. There is here a moral cause, of
which we still feel the effects.
The King transacted business to• day with the Minister
for Foreign Affairs.
Several districts of Limburg, on the banks of the
Meuse, have suffered severely by the inundations occa-
sioned by the extraordinary rise of that river. On the
27th and 28th of last month, the inundation had attained
such a height, that the inhabitants of Heppenert and Aide-
neck were obliged to take refuge in the lofts of their houses,
and to go in boats to Maeseyck to obtain provisions. On the
29th the environs of that town were under water, and the inun-
dations had even extended to the road to Maestricht. Similar
accounts have been received from other places.
An able Belgian electrician has just discovered that the
electric fluid, which gives the most brilliant light whin di-
rected to certain parts of the human body, renders them so
diaphanous that the arteries, veins, and nerves may be
clearly distinguished, and the action f these various organs
studied ; this discovery added to that of the stethescope will
be very useful in exploring the disturbances in the animal
economy.

AUG3BURG, FEI3. 1.-At 5 o'clock this morning we re-
ceived by express, dispatched on the 29th of January, the
important intelligence that the army of the Seiklis had
passed the frontier river, and attacked the English army, by
which they have been defeated. The long-expeeted inter-
ference of the British army in the Punjaub is thus decided.
The house at Trieste, by whose kindness we have re-
ceived this express, observes, " Unfortunately the Inipera-
trice steamer, which brought this important intelligence,
experienced very unfavourable weather, and was (.bilged to
put into Corfu for a supply of coals, so that it arrived here
nearly two days later than it would otherwise have done.
We received indeed this India Mail five or six days sooner
than is usual by way of Marseilles, but we fear that it will
not reach England by Marseilles even if an express is sent
from Trieste to London."

HAMBURGII BORSENHALLE, JAN. 29.
kustrian 5 per Cents ..
.••• • • • • 113
Bank Shares • • • •
Anglo-Russian Loan .............. 10854
Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate. 103}i
Ditto Ist series Inscription ..... ... ~.. 10414
Ditto, Rope and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 99
Ditto, in Certificate.... • ............. 99
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. •• •• • • 90%
Ditto Stieglitz • • • • .• • • • • •, .........
89%
Spanish New 5 per Cent• • ............
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Ditto 3 per Cent...
Polish New 4 per Cent. Joan, 1844.... 83
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent
National Bank Shares •

BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussus, FEB 4
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent •
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent _
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four por Cent • ...
Ditto Threo per Cent • ....... ...... _
Dittoordrihtitrot,yl-Bs4e2v.e.n.
.Mi11i0n5,....... 104-23
Ditto, ditto, 1840 .. .• • • 1007;
Ditto, 1844. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • .• • 99.1/4
Ditto, 1836
1838 • • . • • • • • •• • • •• • • • ..... 74N
I)itto of the City, 1832 ....... • • 10014
Ditto, 1843 •••••••••• • • • • • • •• • • ••• •• 10114
Bank of 8e1gium...... • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • 770
—Brussels Papers. Feb. 5.

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JAN. 28
5 per Cent. Metalliques •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . 112
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ppeerr
CCeenntt:
ddiittttoo:: 10176%
Loan, 1832 •• • • • • • • • • • • • • 1593
Ditto, 1839 • •
hank Shares • • • • • • • • .
Esturhazy's Loan •••••••••• • • • • • • ••
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand • • •• .• 184 y 2
Vienna—Milan • • •• • •
Pesth
Sienna . • ...
Grosetto ........... ...... • • 98%
Oldenburg • • • •
Pestoja ........
Apennines • •
Allgemelne Zeltung, Feb. 1.

100

DUTCH MAIL.

THE HAGUE, FEB 2.—The anniversary of the birth.
day of her Royal Highness the Princess Frederick o:
the Netherlands was observed yesterday in this town,
with the usual ceremonies.

ROTTERDAM, FEB. 2.—We have received the Java
journals from the 15th to the 22d of October last year.
On the 13th, early in the morning, his Excellency tho
Governor-General left Batavia, and proceeded to Brei-
teuzong. His Excellency was accompanied to the
boundaries of the district of Batavia by the principal
civil and military authorities, and there received arid
complimented by the:Assietlii4 Resident of Breitenzong,
and by many native chiefs, who attended the
Governor-General to his palace. On the 21st of
June a piratical proa of Magindanao was at-
tacked and taken by Major Djacka, of Limbottoa,
native officer of the residence of Manado. The pirates
had come with their vessel to this coast, in order to take
in a supply of water; they were, however, soon disco-
vered, and attacked by Major Djacka, with three prows;
arid as they would not surrender, they were all killed.
Twenty-one persons whom they had carried otf were
found in the captured vessel, in a most deplorable con-
dition,
who were thus restored to liberty.
We received from different parts of the kingdom ac-
counts of considerable inundations.

POLISH FRONTIERS, JAN. 20.—The kingdom of
Poland is to undergo the following alterations
the frontier line between Poland and Russia is to be
effaced in the course of this year. 2d, Between this and
the Ist of January, 1847, all persons in office must
be able to speak the Russian language ; and
every who in this time has not learned to speak it
well enough to transact the business of his office in Rus-
sian will be dismissed. 3d. The Government intend
entirely to abolish the Viceroyalty of Poland, and to
make the country, under another name, a Russian pro-
vince, and thus to efface all traces of ancient Poland.
As to the political state of Poland, it is cliii fly this for
which incessant efforts are made to put down the Roman
Catholic Church, and introduce the Greek in its stead;
for all the patriotism of the common people is founded
on their religion, and when they can no longer say " I
am Polish" (for the word Catholic is unknown to them),
but "I am Russian" (by which they mean Greek), Poland
will be a long time before brought to a state of tran-
quillity, for the nobles have now but little influence over
the people, and cannot put them in motion except with
the aid of the clergy.—Silician Journal.

on Wednesday last, we were enabled to present our readers
SIR R. PEEL'S.SPEECIL—In an Extraoidinary Edition,
with the Premier's speech, delivered on the previous evening,
at considerable length. This we were able to do by means of
an express train, arranged by the proprietorof
evening paper, and Mr. Wheeler, the news agent, of Man-
chester, whose praiseworthy exertions on such an important
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occasion we feel bound to record.—Bo!ton Chronicle.
FORTIFICATIONS OF LIVERPOOL.—The new batteries
which are about to be erected at the northern extremity of
the docks, will be so situated as to cross their fire with that
of the fort on the Rock Perch, and to command both the
narrow channels by which alone Liverpool is accessible to a
hostile force.