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London, England, 1846-08-04 00:00:00

the happiness and prosperity of Ireland, but would
stabilitate to an eminent degree the happiness, the
prosperity, the security, the tranquility, and the more
extended civilisation of the millions who are bound
together in allegiance to the sceptre of VICTORIA.
Not only is this comprehensive and liberal reform ,
demanded in justice, not only are we called upon to
make such a reparation for wrongs heaped upon a
confiding and deluded race ever since the act of
legislative union passed by the Imperial Parliament at
the commencement of the present century—but our
own self-interest, our own aggrandizement, our own
peace of mind, plead for the alteration in voices that
cannot brook a denial.
Never since the revolt of the Roman Plebeians did
the ancient fable of the body and its members afford
such an analogous application to the government of a
country than at this juncture, and in reference to
Ireland. What was applied to the illustration of the
necessity of unanimity among the various classes in
the eternal city might, with a similar appositeness,
be applied to the illustration of the necessity for the
unanimity among the various divisions of the British
dominions, the limbs of the British empire. Without
a cordial reciprocity between those limbs, without the
most impartial regard to the moral and corporeal health
of all, the entire constitution cannot avoid falling
into a lamentable state of disorganization. The func-
tions would become deranged, and either an unnatural
sluggishness, or an unnatural excitement, be the con-
sequence. To the source of the vitality and the
seat of the presiding sentience of the con-
stitution—in other words, to the Parliamentary
and Government officers we look for the removal of
whatever maladies have already appeared, and for the
accurate adjustment of all differences. Ireland still
continues to be the great Ministerial difficulty,
but under the guidance of an enlightened policy.
and impelled forward by the accordance of
popular opinion, we are sanguine that this great diffi-
culty is now on the eve of being definitely and per-
manently vanquished.
Thanks to Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD, we are
enabled to form some estimate of the intentions of

the present Administration with reference to Ireland.
In answer to the inquiries of the Hon. Member
for Rochdale, Lord JOHN RUSSELL has revealed the
resolutions on this most important subject at which
he has arrived, after mature deliberation. Con-
sidering the miseries which will transpire meanwhile,
through the postponement of any Parliamentary
measure for the protection of the interests
of the Irish tenantry, we . are deeply
grieved to find that the Premier objects to the intro-
duction of some temporary measures ; but we are re-
joiced at the delay, considering the yet greater evils
which might possibly arise from the precipitate adop-
tion of any assuaging enactments.
" Why, fly from ills we have,
To others we know not of?"
Nevertheless, for our solace during this requisite in-
terval, the Prime Minister has pledged himself to in-
troduce a Bill relating to the landlord and tenant

interests of Ireland "at the very commencement of
the next session." And, according to the announce-
ment of Mr. LABOUCIIERE, it was likewise the inten-
tion of her MAJESTY'S Ministers to struggle for the
adoption of six other Bills, relating to the exclusive
privilege of trading, to the rating of property, to
ejectments, fisheries, district lunatic asylums, and the
encouragement of public baths and washhouses in
Ireland. Nothing, of course, can be expected in the
miserable remnant (of scarcely three weeks) which
yet remains of the eventful session of 1846. With
such a programme, however, as the foregoing, we
may safely anticipate the arrival of brighter days for
Ireland, and the prevention of all further squabbles
among the adherents of her veteran Liberator.

The King of the Two SICILIES, accompanied by the
Royal Family and a numerous suite, and guarded by
a squadron of eleven ships-of-war, arrived at Palermo
on the Morning of the 11th ult., to be present at the
fete of St. Rosalie. His MAJESTY, following the ex-
ample of the PoPE, has dissolved the Military Com-
mission for the trial of State prisoners.

The Assembly of States of Holstein, in their sit-
ting of the 24th of July, adopted by a majority of 44
to 2 an address to the King of DENMARK protesting
against his letter patent of the Bth July on the sub-
ject of the succession to the Throne. The Govern-
ment, in opening the States, forbade them to receive
petitions on this subject, and the States also protest
against this interference with the right of petition.
Letters from Vienna of the 20th of July state that
the Austrian Government intends forming a line of
railway from Milan through the Tyrol to the
Danube, which will be continued across the valleys
of the Etch and the Inn, and will terminate at
Braunau. This will give the advantage of
railway communication to the three principal
towns of the Tyrol—Trent, Botzen, and Innspruck.

Madrid papers of the 28th ult. have been received.
The Eco del Comercio of the preceding day had
been seized by the authorities.
According to the _Herald°, IBRAHIM PACHA was
expected to visit Malaga. The Governor of Gibraltar
and his suite paid a visit to Ceuta on the 17th.
There was a report in Madrid that, in conse-
quence of the representations of the Portuguese
Government, GONZALES BRAVO had been recalled
from Lisbon.

MADRID BOMA, JULY 28.—The Three per Cents. 34 :34V8
for cash ; the Five per Cents. at 21% 3% for cash; Debt
without Interest at 6%.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
_ _

They are filled with the details of the preliminary
operations of the elections, such as the choosing scru-
tineers, assessors, &c., which took place on Saturday.
The elections took place on Sunday, and, as far as can
be hitherto ascertained, the result has been favourable
to the Ministry.
The Opposition made strenuous effbrts to carry the
first electoral college in Paris. Their candidate was
General LAMORICIERE, whose successes in Algiers
have rendered him exceedingly popular. He is about to
be connected by marriage with the family of M. TRIERS ;
and M. ODILLON BARROT published an address to
the electors, strongly recommending them to choose
General LAMORICIERE. Notwithstanding all the
influence thus used notwithstanding the pres-
tige attached to his name, General L it-
MORICIERB has been defeated by M. Cast-
MIR EERIER, the Ministerial candidate. In
Paris the Ministers have gained one seat from the Op-
position, and in the country, as far as the results are
known, they have been equally successful. M.
GRAS DE NEVILLE, the Father of the Chamber,
a Legitimist has been ousted at Tarrascon by M.
GASPARIN, a Ministerialist. At Nismes, M. BICHARD,
a Legitimist, is replaced by General FEUCHERES, a
Ministerialist. Both these are Ministerial gains.
The Ministry gains two votes at Toulouse. In
the third college of that city a Ministerialist
replaces an opposition Deputy without a contest, and
the first college the mayor of the town, a Minis-
terialist, has beat M. JOLY, one of the leaders of the
Republican party, who was the former Deputy. At
Cherbourg, General MESLIS, a Ministerialist, replaces
the old Opposition Deputy, and in the third college of
Lille a Ministerialist has gained the seat, which for
merly belonged to the Opposition. The Ministers also
gain a vote at Douay and another at Dieppe, while at
Orsen, M. SALYANDY, the Minister of Public Instruc-
tion, has defeated M.DUPON T DE L'EuRE, the celebrated
Opposition leader. The results of 74 elections were
known in Paris when the latest accounts left. In
these elections the Ministerial gain has been nine
seats. Ministerialists have replaced Opposition De-
puties in ten instances, while in one instance only (at
Rouen) has an Opposition candidate ousted the former
Ministerial Member. The re-elections have been 36
Ministerialists and 27 Deputies of the Opposition.
On Saturday considerable alarm was created in
Paris by rumours of the death of the KING. Accord-
ing to one account his MAJESTY had had a fit of
apoplexy ; according to another he had been fired at
and wounded, and the Due n'AustA.Ln had been
killed at his side. A delay in the publica-
tion of the Ministerial evening paper, the
Messager, contributed to increase the excite-
ment, as it was considered confirmatory of the
truth of the rumours.
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was in perfect health. His MAJESTY expected the visit
of the Prince Royal of BAvaaLt at three o'cluek."