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London, England, 1846-05-12 00:00:00

THE STTIC. LONDON, TUESDAYEVENING, MAY 12, 1846.

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representatives? In our innocence, we had always thought
that a public salary, or fees taken from the public, were
granted in return for services to be rendered, or supposed to
be rendered, to that public. But here the fortunate sine-
curist, not satisfied with the large emoluments received
during his life, secures a handsome independence for his
family after his death. It is like the parish watchcoat de-
scribed by Svarr, which the constable desired to have after
his death made into a petticoat for his wife, a jacket for
his aon.

Our most gallant officers may perish in the service of their
country on a well-fought field; their names may be en-
deared to our recollections by every tie of gratitude, by
every sentiment of admiration ; they may have purchased
the commission, the possession of which enabled them to
risk, to sacrifice their valuable lives, by the expenditure of
large sums of money, and that money may have been
applied in the public service; they may have left widows and
orphans unprotected and destitute, save in the rich inhe-
ritance of a gallant and honoured name, and yet• the nation
makes no provision for objects so worthy of their gratitude,
their protection; but when the sinecurist at length dies
many thousands per annum are to be paid for seven years
after his death to his representatives, the tribute of a
grateful nation for his condescending to accept at their
hands sums sufficient to enable him to roll in pomp and
state, and to acquire and hoard up a princely fortune Shame,
shame, that such things should be tolerated, should meet with
defenders.

Madrid papers to the 4th instant have arrived. The
Government have determined to dissolve the Cortes without
again calling them together. A circular has been addressed
to the different political chiefs on the subject of making up
the electoral lists, and it is supposed that the elections
will take place in September, and that the new
Cortes will be called together in October. Acccording
to the Hera!do, the physicians have recommended sea bath-
ing for the QUEEN'S health, and her MAJESTY will certainly
go to the sea-side towards the end of next month, but
whether to the Basque provinces, to Catalonia, or to Anda-
lusia, had not been determined on.

Don ANTONIO ZUMALACARREGUI, who had been Presi-
dent of the Cortes and Minister during the regency of EsrAR-
TEIIO, died at Madrid on the 2d. Don Awromo was the
brother of Don TOMAS ZUMALLCARIVEGUI, the celebrated
Carlist chieftain.

MADRID BOLSA, MAY 4.—The Three per Cents. were ai
32% cash; Five per Cents. not quoted; Bank of San Fer•
nando, 310; Bank of Isabella 11., 187. Exchange on Lon.
don, 37%.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. On Satur-
day the Central Railway ( Vierzon to Chateauroux) Bill
passed the Chamber of Deputies. The railway is to pan
through Nevers instead of through Moulins. The Bordeaux
and Bayonne Railway Bill, which still remains to be dis-
cussed, will not, it is thought, pass this session. The fol-
lowing is a list of the railway Bills which have passed the
Chamber :—The Bordeaux and Cette, the Western, the Caen,
the Dijon and Mulhausen, the St. Dezier and Gray, and
Central.

In the Chamber of Peers, on Saturday, the discussion on
the commercial treaty with Belgium commenced. The ill-
lowing extract from the Journal des Debats shows the great
progress which the sound doctrines of free trade are making
in France--

" If anything was wanting to prove the progress which
the doctrines of commercial liberty are making in the higher
and more enlightened regions, assuredly it would be found in
the language hear 4 on Saturday in the Chamber of Peers.
Count Beugnot showed in an excellent speech the great inte-
rest that France had in closely allying herself to Belgium,
and preventing the latter from inentitying herself with Ger-
many. In this report the Count regards the conventions
concluded by France as entirely insufficient. He does not
accuse the Government; on the contrary, he acknowledges
it to be in advance, on this question, both of the Chambers
and country, but he accuses the interested coalitions, which
for our part we have always strongly opposed."
IBRAHIM PACUA leaves Paris in about a fortnight for
London. On this subject the Constitutimnel perpetrates the
following amusing bit of absurdity :
" The British Cabinet has watched, not without jealousy,
the long stay made by Ibrahim Pacha in France. It has
therefore intimated to the Cabinet of the Tuileries that it
would be glad to receive in its turn the son of Mehemet Ali,
and our Government has neglected nothing that could tend to
the gratification of this wish, in spite of the repugnance felt
by the Egyptian Prince to expose his health, which is hardly
re-established. to the intemperature of the English sky ;
Ibrahim Pacha will therefore go to London in about a fort-
night. The British Cabinet, always pre-occupied with the
question of the transit across the Isthmus of Suez, will,
doubtless, not fail to make use of all the means of seduction
in its power with respect to its guest, in order to draw him
into their views on the subject. The journey of Ibrahim
Pacha in Europe will thus serve more to further the views
of England than ours. On his return the Prince will visit

Holland and Belgium."
The concluding portion of this paragraph contains a
clumsily awkward admission. " The journey of Inn Anna
PACHA in Europe will thus serve more to further
the views of England than ours." 'Buono( PACHA
then, according to the Constitutionnel, was invited to
France only to servo French interests. The PACHA,
no doubt, appreciates the compliment. On Saturday the
PACHA dined at the Hotel de Ville. The Duke de MONT-
PENSIER, who was present, proposed the health of MEHEMET

ALE, the regenerator of Egypt, and of his son Inusi DI
PACII&, their illustrious guest. The Egyptian Prince, having
returned thanks, proposed the following toast :—" To the King
and to the city of Paris, the capital of civilization and the
arts, the great monuments and liberal institutions of which
do honour to the genius of man, and are the object of univer-
sal admiration; to his Royal Highness the Duke de ➢IONT-
PENSIEB, who honoured Egypt by his visit, and whose pas-
sage left indelible recollections among those who had the
honour to approach him."

The Constitutionnd cc ntains the following in relation to
the approaching trial of LECOJITE :
"An important circumstance had for some time created
some difficulty in the affair of the assassin Lecomte. The
authorities were not able to discover the history of the gun
with which he had committed his crime. The gun is a
double-barrelled fowling-piece of excellent quality, though
not very splendid in its appearance. In the search made at
Lecomte's lodging another double-barrelled fowling•piece
was found, which was recognised as the one which he gene-
rally used when he was a guard in the forest. It was there-
fore concluded that, as Lecomte had left his gun in Paris, he
must have got from a third party, or have bought at the last
moment, the gun with which he fired on the King. Lecomte,
either to give himself more importance, or from some other
motive, had made a great mystery of this question, but the
matter is now cleared. It has been ascertained that the gun
was sold to Lecomte six years ago by a gun-maker in Paris.
He had made use of it at Orleans. It has been recognised
by the gun-maker, and by several persons who had seen it in
Lecomte's hands. The report of the commission appointed
by the Court of Peers to draw up the charges will be made
on the 18th of the present month. The trial will take place
in the beginning of June."
The journals have advices from Algiers to the 3d inst.,
announcing that Ann-EL. KADER, who had for some time
past concealed his movements, had suddenly re-entered the
Kabyl country, and was in the vicinity of the Jurjura.
Owing to this other unexpected irruption, it was believed
-that the French columns under Marshal BUGEA UD and the

..Duke D'AUMALE must again hasten to the east of the pro-
vince of Algiers.
According to the Presse, it was with the greatest
reluctance that Queen VICTORIA yielded to the desires
at her Ministers to postpone her intended visit to France.
It was a fortnight before her consent to the postponement
oould be obtained. The Univers, the organ of the Jesuits,
Luis a long article describing the progress of the Jesuits in
various parts of the world. It thus alludes to the progress of
tlik Jesuits in England :—" The zeal of the Order is not less
active in England. According to authentic data, 98 Protes-
tants, instructed and guided by those venerable ecclesiastics,
returned to the faith of their fathers in 1843, and in 1844 and
1845, 172 others have imitated their example, au], never-
therms, nobody in England is thinking of expelling them
front the British dominions."