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tary exertions, however, it must be a deep gratification
to the worthy Sheriff himself to peruse the contents of
his printed letter. It must be an assurance that his la-
bours already look propitious, and that he will reap a
plentiful harvest of good if he furthers them yet
awhile with similar assiduity. The chief object he has
already attained is not unimportant ; it is the formation
of a committee : and as a testimony that this corn.
mittee is of an influential character we may, without
enumerating the several names, mention that it is com-
posed of five noblemen, five prelates, the Lord Mayor of
London, and two Members of Parliament. Besides this
it appears that the example given by the petition
forwarded by the committee to the Legislature, impress-
ing upon Parliament the necessity for some immediate
remedy, has been productive of considerable assistance
to the cause, by the subsequent presentation of similar
petitions from " almost every corporation in England
and Wales." The Duke of CAMBRIDGE has
been also enlisted in aid of the unfortunate crimi-
nals in question, his Royal Highness having promised
to support the measure in the Upper House.
Some startling facts may be gleaned, moreover, from
the letter of Mr. Sheriff LAURIE, facts which serve to
illustrate the necessity, feasibility, and excellence of
some alteration like the one proposed, namely the es-
tablishment of " Houses of Occupation," where the re-
leased crowds might obtain shelter, moral instruction, food,
clothing, and the knowledge of some useful occupation.
The necessity is shown in the circumstance that the people
of this description who are disgorged from our prisons,
average annually thirty thousand in number. The
feasibility is demonstrated by the fact that establish-
ments of a like nature have been already introduced in
France, Holland, and Manchester. The excellent con-
sequences w hich would result from such an arrangement
is proved by statistical reports, such, for ex-
ample as the one issued from an in, titution
of this sort, established in 1840, by Count
LEON D'OuncHEs, which gives the gratifying assurance
that " out of every hundred (of the parties admitted) five
only have been afterwards ,e•convicted." We congratu-
late ::r. Sheriff LAURIE on the success with which his
benevolent intentions have already been received, and
heartily wish him a God speed on his mission of phi-
ianthropy.

The accounts from Madrid are to the 7th inst. The
downfal of NARVAEZ is as complete as it was sudden,
and he himself is at this moment an exile. It appears
that the first act of IsTunlTz, after his appointment as
President of the Council on the sth, was to send for
NARVAEZ and announce to him the determination of the
Government that he should quit Spain, at the same time
offering the embassy to Naples, informing him that in the
event of his declining it the Government considered it
advisable that he should proceed forthwith to France.
The embassy was declined, and ill health pleaded as an
excuse for remaining at Madrid for the present (he had
been bled only the day before) ; this excuse, however, did
not avail, and on the nigh t of the 6th he was en route for
France under the escort of a body of cavalry. On the 9th
he arrived at Burgos, where he was so seriously indisposed
that he was obliged to rest awhile from sheer physical
inability to continue his journey ; his rest, however,
was not of long duration, for on the evening of the 10th
he arrived at Bayonne, where be was joined by his
Duchess. It was currently reported in Madrid on the
6th that a pronunciamiento had taken place in Gallicia
against the Government. The accounts were supposed
to be greatly exaggerated. The next day, however,
news arrived in Madrid that the Gallician insurrection
had subsided as soon as the fall of NARVAEZ became
known in that province.
The Paris Presse gives the following account of the
dismissals and appointments which have taken place
since the advent of ISTURITZ to office, and concludes
with what may be considered the official programme of
the new Cabinet :
" Four Captains-General bad been dismissed—viz.,
General Mazarredo, Captain-General of Madrid ; Ge-
neral Breton, Captain-General of Barcelona ; General
Manso, of Valencia ; and General Shelly, of Seville.
These Captains-General—all creatures and personal
friends of General Narvaez—were replaced, General
Mazarredo by General Pezuela, General Breton by Ge-
neral Manuel Concha, General Manso by General Jose
Concha, brother of the latter. The successor of General
Shelly was not known. General Folgosi, Governor of
Madrid, and formerly a Carlist Chief, had been super-
seded by General Cordova, and Colonels Ortega and
Calonge had been likewise dismissed. Ortega. had
been replaced in the command of the Regiment
Reins Gabernadora by Colonel Turon, who had lost it
after the downfal of the Marquis de Miraflores.
M. Loygorri, a private friend of General Narvaez, the
Under-Secretaries of the Foreign and War departments,
Messrs. Sartorius and the Marquis de Vistahermosa ;
M. Sabater, Political Chief of Madrid; and 11L Xavier
Quinto, Director-General of the Post-office, had been
also deprived of their situations. M. Quinto, after being
one of the most violent revolutionists, had become an
ultra-intolerant absolutist. He had taken an active part
in the pronunciamiento of 1840 and in the revolution of
1841, and made himself conspicuous by his fury in de-
manding the death of Diego Leon. He is said to have
been replaced by M. Alvarez Guerra, former director of
the Post-office, an intimate friend of M. Isturitz, and a
most moderate and respectable Conservative. The
Cortes had been convoked for the 24th. The decree
against the press was repealed, and a new project, re-
establishing trial by jury, was to be presented. The
Ministry was about to publish an amnesty, including
men of all parties and ranks, no matter what might
have been the circumstances attached to their previous
career. The family of Don Carlos was alone to be ex-
cepted. The Infant Don Enrique had been recalled to
Madrid. Our correspondent assures us that it was con-
templated to restore to Espartero all his titles and deco-
rations. A similar project had already been attributed
to the Miraflores Administration."
The regiments of Bourbon and Bailen, under the
command of Don JOSE CONCHA, left Madrid for Gallicia
on the 6th.
The royal decree forbidding all time bargains on the
Bolzsat a,
eof the
afterthe6tlh.
15th of April, appears in the Madrid
Ga
MADRID BoLSA, APRIL 6.—Three per Cent. for
money, 30 ;at thirty days, 30 ; Five per Cent., for
money, 20.1 ; Railroad from Madrid to Aranjuez, 2,080 ;
Bank of St. Ferdinand, 280 ; Bank of Isabella, 170 ;
Company of Probity, 185 ; Company of Iris, 125 ;
General Assurance, 83 ; Alliance, 70 ; Anchor, 170 •
Gas Company, 160. Exchanges : London, 37i ; Paris,
16 5.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. The
affairs of Spain are commented on in most of them.
The article on Spain which appears in La Presse, the
organ of Queen CHRISTINA, we have given elsewhere.
Preparations were making at the Palace of the Elysie
Bourbon for the reception of IBRAHIM and his suite,
who were expected to arrive in Paris on the 24th inst.
IBRAHIM will be accompanied by SOLIMAN PACHA, Chief
of his staff, and his son, SAUDER BEY ; Colonel IBRA •
HIM BEY ; Lieutenant-Colonel BOUFORT NUBAZ, In-
terpreter ; and KAEABET, Secretary.
The debate on the naval budget in the Chamber of
Deputies, which was to commence on Monday, would,
it was expected, have been somewhat stormy. Admiral
HERNOUX, who drew up the report of the Com-
mittee, is the intimate friend of the Prince DE JOINVILLE,
and in the report has reproduced the views which the
Prince put forth in his celebrated pamphlet, some two
years since, as to the superiority of steam over sailing
vessels. The report accordingly recommends a large
increase in thegrant for steam-vessels, and a corresponding
diminution in that for sailing vessels. On the other side
M. CHARLES DUPIN and Admiral DE MAcKAu, the
Minister of Marine, have declared that steamers
are quite unfit fur regular warfare, and that there
ought to be a large increase in the number of fri-
gates and ships of the line. M. CHARLES Durni
has published a pamphlet on the subject, from which w e
extract the following table, showing the number of ships
of the line and seamen in the service of France at diffe
rent periods :

Ships. Seamen.
1680, under Louis XIV. ...... 100
1780, under Louis XVI. ...... 81 less than 100,000
1814, under Napoleon ........ 108 at most 120,000
1824, under Louis XVIII ..... 53
1836, under Louis Philippe... 53
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1846, as proposed by the Com-
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may Whatever causes of difference have been hereto-
fore subsisting between Lord PALMERSTON and certain
high personages in France, they appear to have been
completely removed. Ills Lordship has been re-
ceived
Lord
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parties.
a recent
tur d
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was
present
sitti▪
ng of the Academie des Sciences, Morales, and
Poli▪
tiques, where Baron C. DUPIN read the introduction
to an important work he is preparing, under the title of
‘' De la, Force Exterieure de la Grande Bretagne."
Lord Bnotrouszt who is a corresponding member of the
Academy, begged to say, in a few words, that whilst he
was happy to render full justice to the talent of the
author, he could not agree in the opinions expressed by
him concerning the policy cf England in the affairs of
Syria, the occupation of Aden, and the question of the
sulphur monopoly in the kingdom of Naples.
f'
fhe partisans of postal reform in France have been
for some time in communication with Mr. RoWLAND
HILL, who has afforded them much valuable information.
The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, ap-
pointed to examine the Western Railroad Bill, had met
twice on Saturday. In the morning it heard from the
Minister of Public Works the difficulties that had caused
the breaking off of the arrangements between the
LAFFITTE Company and the two Versailles Companies.
The Epo2ue
- states, that there was a chance of those