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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 11, 1846.

, opportunities of acquiring a knowledge of the
vitally important question of the social con-
dition of the people with respect to the
tenure of land and the relationship of
of landlord and tenant, being the Under Secretary
for Ireland. All these appointments prove that the
confidence of the Crown has been bestowed without
reference to religious distinctions, and that the motto
of the Government, in the distribution of its patron-
age on every new vacancy, will be, " Detur digniori."
It is surely not asking too much of the Irish people
to demand their confidence for a Ministry so consti-
tuted, and to require them to abstain, at least until
their well-founded expectations should he disap-
pointed, from any proceedings calculated to embar-
rass or impede their friends in the government of the
country. That they will act in this prudent and
generous manner we doubt not, and doubtless their
country will soon receive the benefit of so wise a de-
termination.

laity. The meaning of this electoral address is
"Vote as your priest tells you."

The Electoral Committee of the Extreme Gauche
is composed of Messrs. DUPONT DE L'EURE (chair-
man), ARAGO, General TIIIARD, LEGENDRE, MARIE,
and CARROT, and GARNIER "AGES (secretaries).
The Moniteur contains an ordonnance elevating
General JACQUEMINOT to the peerage. It was again
rumoured that Marshal SOULT had tendered his re-
signation, and that M. GUIZOT would be appointed
President of the Council of Ministers.
According to the Presse—

" The Minister of War had written to the Maritime Prefect
of Brest to know how long it would require to fit out the
frigate Psyche for a distant expedition.. Captain Lavand,
commander of that vessel, which is to relieve the Uranie,
had been called to Paris to receive his instructions. It was
believed that he would replace Captain Bruat in the Govern-
ment of the French possessions in Oceania."

"In announcing the departure for Tunis of the
squadron commanded by the Prince DE JOINVILLE,"
says the Constitutionnel," we mentioned that this de•
parture was connected with the attempt which it was
supposed would be made to instal at Tunis the
Austrian Consul, who claims to be received in virtue
of an order from the Porte, whereas the BET pretends
that it is he alone who can accord the exequatir.
What would indicate that political matters have some
cornexion with the sending out of our naval forces
there is, that M. DE LAGAIJ, our Charge d'Affaires,
has received orders to return forthwith to his post.
He arrived at Toulon on the 3d, and embarked next
day."

The Frankfort Journal states that there is no longer
any reason to doubt of a reconciliation being on foot
between France and Russia.

In the same paper we find the following :

" The Diet of the States of Lower Austria has just been
closed. The demands of the State have been transmitted to
the Marshal of the Diet. The Aulic Chancellor has been
charged to draw up a project of law on forced labour (corree)."

Lieutenant WAGHORN, who has by this time left
Vienna for Trieste, was received with the greatest
consideration by the Austrian Government. Prince
METTERNICH had positively assured him of the com-
pletion of the Salzburg Railway in three years. It
was said that the English Government had requested
him to make six successive experiments of conveying
the Indian overland mail vie/ Trieste, before being
called on to decide in favour of that port.

The Moniteur publishes the law relative to the
railroad between Paris and Cherbourg, passing
through Evreux and Caen, with a branch to Rouen,
which the Minister of Public Works was authorised
by the Chamber to concede directly to the company
represented by Count DE BRETEUIL, the Duke de
PLAIZANCE, M. EDWARD BLOUNT, &C. The same
law authorises the direct concession of the Versailles
aim .a.vvuuca e.. 7 w 2.u.caaa rt. .r MILE rEREIRE,
VEICHTHAL, and TARDE DES SABLONS, allowing six
months from the date of the promulgation of the law
for the dissolution of the two Versailles Companies,
or the final settlement of their respective claims.
Notwithstanding the improvement in the funds on
our Stock Exchange on Monday, the Paris Bourse of
Wednesday was exceedingly flat.

Tt
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manded of the Sardinian Government the dismissal
of M. BALBO, the author of the " Prospects of Italy,"
and of the Marquis D'AZEGLIO, a distinguished
Italian author, from the offices which they respec-
tively held under the King of SARDINIA—a demand
with which his Sardinian MAJESTY had refused to
comply.

According to letters from Rome it would appear
that the POPE has commenced his reign by an act of
good policy as well as of humanity. He has given orders
to dissolve the extraordinary Political Commissions,
and to suspend all political prosecutions. On the
28th his HOLINESS signed the pardon of Professor
ORIOLI, who had been Minister of Public
Instruction during the revolution of 1831,
and there is every reason to believe that
within the course of a few days a general am-
nesty will be published. The Governor of Rome
had caused several persons to be arrested. He was
called on by the POPE to explain his conduct, and
being unable to give any satisfactory reasons, the
prisoners were ordered to be immediately set
at liberty. In consequence of a disagree-
ment among the Cardinals comprising the tem-
porary commission of Governm-nt, Cardinals Lem-
BRUSCHINI, MATTEL and BENNETTI had tendered
their resignation. They belong to the old party of
the serviles, and LAMBRUSCHINI was the Minister of
the late Pope at the time the " thunders of the
Vatican" were launched against railways. On this
last subject a letter from Rome of the 28th, says—

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The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 25c. ; the Five per
Cents., 121 f. 70c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,270 r.
Rouen, 1,005 f.; Great Northern 722 f. 50c. ; Avignon,
877 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 635 f.; Bordeaux, 572 f. 75c. ; Boulogne,
4701. ; Basle, 2171. 50c. ; Fampoux, 405 f.; Paris and Stras-
burg, 4861. 25c. ; Tours and Nantes, 502 t. 50c.; Paris
and Lyons, 526 f 25c. Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents, 56.
The following are the quotations for the new lines:--
Lyons and Avignon, definitives, 500 f.; Bordeaux and
Cette, definitives, 4801.

Lvolsts, JULY 6.—liars-Gilles and Avignon, 833 f. 75c.;
Paris and Orleans, 1,268 f. 75c. ; Rouen. 1,016 f. 25c. ; Lyons,
528 f. 75c. ; Vierzon, 632 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 726 f. 25c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDoN STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 9.
Boulogne and Amiens, 12%—East Indian, 54 —Louvain and
Jemappe, % —Luxembourgh, 214—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 6
Pads and Rouen, 39 % —Sambre and Meuse, 4%.

HAMBURGH and FLANDERS MAIL

BRUSSELS, JULY 7.—The average price of wheat in
the week ending on Saturday, the 4th of July, was
991 99c., and of Rye 15E 69c. per hectolitre.
Mademoiselle Rachel, who has had so sudden and
violent an attack of sporadic cholera, is much better to-
day, and there is every reason to hope that her conva-
lescence will be speedy if no accident intervenes.
The Chamber of Representatives heard to-day some
explanation of the Government respecting the
credittreaty
concluded between Belgium and Holland.
The Chamber passed supplementary votes
for the departments of the interior, foreign affairs, and
finance, then the project of law relative to the iron rail-
way from Havre to Manage, which, after some remarks
from M. Rogier, to which the Minister of Foreign
Affairs replied, was unanimously agreed to by the 51
members present.
The Chamber then adjourned till the President sum-
mons the Members, which he will do when the Government
is readyAo lay before the Chamber the treaty with Hol-
land. IkMercier arrived from the Hague this morning,
but he has not brought the treaty with the Netherlands
which was confidently expected. The treaty is so far
complete, that the three I)utch and two Belgian nego-
tiators have signed it. The King of the Netherlands
has been informed day by day of the process of the ne-
gotiators. It must nut be supposed, that the want of
the Royal signature can leave the work long incomplete.
Our correspondent at the Hague informs us, not only
that our negotiators have signed it, but that the King.
who intended to spend a tbrtnight in visiting two of his
provinces, wrote to the governor of the province Of
Gronningen, before he left the Hague, that being ob-
liged to return to the Hague by Thursday next, he must
put off his journey to that province for some days. Thus
on Thursday the King of the Netherlands will be back
at the Hague ; he will preside in the council of Minis.
ters, and there is every reason to believe that the for-
mality of signing the treaty will immediately follow.
The King, who was expected yesterday evening, will
stop some days longer at Ardenne.
CRACOW, JUNE 25.—Mr. Wenda, a landowner, who
was given up by the Russian authorities, and who, in
the late insurrection at Cracow, had the rank of lieu-
tenant, was given up to the Russians. A few days ago
his sentence was carried into execution, viz. to stand for
two hours in the pillory at Radon, and then to be ban-
ished to Silesia.

" The question of railroads is already resolved in princi-
ple, according to the wish generally expressed by the men
who take an interrst in the progret.s of industry in the
Pontifical States. It is even asserted that the line from
Rome to Civita-Vecchia has been conceded to a company
represented by Count Cini. Prince Torlonia has applied for
the line from Civita Vecchia to Ancona, and that from Rome
to the frontiers of Naples is applied for by Count Pianciani.
Thus, it will be seen, that the impulsion is given by the
most honourable, rich, and intelligent men in the country,
and it is favoured by the Government."

BREMER, JULY 4.—The Rhenish Observer has no-
tice from Berlin, dated June 18, that the Bremen and
Weser Gazette are prohibited in the whole of the Rus-
sian monarchy.
WARSAW, JUNE 28.—Our journals contain today
the names of those persons (eighteen in number), all
whose real and personal property is confiscated, accord-
ing to the sentence of a court-martial, confirmed by the
Prince Governor, for having taken a part in the late
insurrection. They are chit fly young, between twenty
and thirty years of age ; the oldest of them is the
priest Sciegiennes, wilod is forty-five years old.
The list does not contain the names of all those on
whom sentence has been passed. There are, besides,
many others in the citadel whose sentence will be pub-
lished in the sequel. It is not to be supposed that the
confiscation of the property of these persons is the whole
of their punishment. They are all banished—partly to
the mines of Ural, partly to Siberia.

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COPZNHAGEN, JULY 3.—im the 2d his Majesty pre-
sided in an extraordinary Council of States, in which it
is affirmed a matter of great importance was discussed.
JULY 4.—F..r many years past we have not seen so
many ships of war in our road as at this moment. Be-
sides the Gesion and Flora, we have the Swedish and
Norwegian squadron cif twelve ships, of various eizes,
which have fired salutes in honour of the King's birth-
day. The two Russian men-of-war which were in our
road sailed to-day.
BERLIN, JULY 4.—The last accounts from the pro-
vinces of Posen, say that the consequences of the late
attempted insurrection begin to be severely felt in that
province. Among those consequences are the sales by
auction, and the sequestration of so many estates, and
the very unfavourable result of the Midsummer fair.
This evening we expect our monarch, the King of
Saxony, and Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, from
their excursion to the Isle of Rugen.
The friends and proclaimers of the Constitution now
announce another day for the proclamation of a Consti-
tution for the Russian Monarchy, namely, the 3d of
August, the birth-day of the late King—according to
them, the birth-day of the new order-of things. We
shall see how far these professions will be fulfilled.

SIR THOMAS is somewhat singular that,
at the time of the last election, Sir Thomas Wilde should
have received during his stay in this city his appointment
as Attorney-General, and that yesterday, on the eve of his
second election, lie should have received his elevation to the
dignity of Chief Justice: We presume that he will at-
tend our assizes next week in his judicial capacity.— Wor-
cester Journal.

DEVONPORT, THURSDAY.—Up to the present period
opposition.S i r G
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without
Friday),
lmeitovemerrrs IN AGRICULTURE—There is a fine field
of wheat
Islehestoonf
Ntvhieghfrnwhioefi of Mr.
lanted Alfredp in double rows ten Hearn, at Standen,
Cowes,
inches apart, with thirty inch spaces between, which admits
the plough to pass freely and destroy all the weeds. The
wheat is seven feet high and the ears seven inches in length;
it is four clustered Talavera wheat, and contains from 48
to 72 grains of corn in each ear ; we have some sent to our
the land is poor in
office as specimens, though there are some selected ears that
even measure eight inches we are told, and the straw as
manurenext y
eDock
stout as the largest part of the stern of a tobacco pipe. It is
Mr. Hearn's intention to plant the field with wheat again
oeivaELotealtosheiTpa.Tairroirrve—dhe uses liquid
quality, with a chalk bottom.
nezNu eafrroimn ththeespfaacrems-ybaertdweteannksthe; rows ;
Ve-
stearn-packet wharf, from Havre, with twenty-two horses
on board, which have been working for some time on the
French railways, and will in future be employed on the
Ta
th tttrhs: *tit. morningKatharin
et
Trent Valley Railway, now forming. It appears that the
animals having been accustomed to the particular work re-
quired on railways, will be more serviceable than horses that
have not been so engaged.
Loss OF SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN POUNDS.
—On Thursday information was received by the police that a
mercantile clerk, residing in Bridge street, Blackfriars, had
lost a pocket-book, between Jones's bank, and the. Royal
Exchange, containing 415/. ; and that a gentleman residing
in Margaret-street, Cavendish-square, had left behind him,
in a cab that carried him from Bolton-street, Piccadilly, to
his residence, country and Bank of England notes to the
amount of 300/.
FEARFUL COLLISION IN BOND sTREET..--Thursdre
afternoon, between the hours of one and two o'clock, an
accident occurred of a most fearful character, to Geo. Henry
Patterson, Esq., of Br-.
.)anston-square. Mr. Patterson was
proceeding along New Bond-street, in one of Hanson's
patent cabriolets, when the rain began to descend in torrents,
and the driver had orders to increase his speed. On passing
Brook-street there came another vehicle of a similar descrip-
tion, both going at a pretty smart pace; and before they
could get out of each other's way they came in direct colli-
sion. At this time Mr. Patterson quickly endeavoured to
escape, ;:nd in getting out, the horse suddenly backed, and
he wam thrown down, and the wheel passed on to his left
leg. lie was removed into a surgeon's; where he received all
the attention the nature of his injuries demanded. Both cabs,
as well as the horses, are considerably damaged. The drivers
escaped *Rh a few bruises only.

TAUNTON _ELECTION.
TAUNTON, FRIDAY, TWELVE, NOON.—This morning
was appointed by the returning-officer as the period of
nomination. The Right Hon. Henry Labouchere,
accompanied by his friends, arrived at the hustings
shortly after eight o'clock, and the usual pre-
liminaries having been gone through, the Right
Honourable Gentleman was proposed by James
Bunter, Esq., as a fit and proper person to represent the
borough of Taunton in Parliament. He took occasion
to advert to the connexion of Mr. Labouchere with the
town, remarking that it had existed for sixteen years,
and that he had had the pleasure of proposing him as a
candidate ten times.
T. WARREN, Esq.; seconded the nomination.
No other candidate being proposed, the Hon. Gentle-
man was declared duly elected amidst loud acclamations.
The Right Hon. Henry LABOUCHERE then addressed
the electors as follows—Gentlemen, I have waited to
address you until I was able to do so under that title
and in that situation which I assure you I value beyond
any other distinction in public life which it is pos-
sible for me to attain—l mean in the character of
your representative.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, a seat
in Parliament, when conferred by an inde-
dependent and intelligent constituency, is to any
Englishmen a mattet of just pride—(Hear)—butt when
conferred under circumstances like those which charac-
teri,e the present occasion, I conceive that distinction,
valuable as it is in itself, greatly enhanced.—(Cheers.)
I do not meet you on this occasion a stranger, nor ad-
dress you now for the first time. My excellent friend
who proposed me to you, and by whose side I
have had the satisfaction of standing ever since
I came to Taunton, has reminded you that the connexion
between us has now lasted for sixteen years, and that
this is no less than the tenth time on which I have had
to thank you for returning me as your representative
to the House of Commons.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen,
those sixteen years have not been unproductive of im-
portant political changes, and they have been marked
by as great and important events as any sixteen
years in the history of this country.—(Hear, hear.) You
have had an opportunity of observing my conduct under
almost every variety of circumstance. I have stood
before you when I belonged to a small and dispirited
minority, and I have stood before you in the capacity in
which I now stand again—as a servant of the Crown ;
and you have had an opportunity of judging whether
my principles, my conduct, and my language, have ever
varied under either of those circumstances.—(Hear,
hear.) My Hon. Friend has truly told you that the
circumstances of the present election were peculiarly
gratifying to me. In canvassing on this occasion I
found that I have not lost a single old friend, whilst, on
the other hand, I acknowledge the gratification I have
received from the universally kind reception I have met
with, and that, too, in many instances from some who,
from conscientious motives, have hitherto felt it to be
their duty to oppose me.—(Cheers.) Under these cir-
cumstances I may truly say that I shall return to the
House of Commons with increased feelings of
gratitude and fresh sentiments of pride with
regard to my connexion with your town.—(Load
cheers.) I shall imitate the example of my friends
who proposed and seconded me, in not addressing you at
any great length; at the same time, however, I feel, that
in accepting this renewal of the solemn trust placed in
my hands, it is due both to you and to myself
that I should make some observations.—(Hear,
hear.) It is now five years since I last adddressed
you as a candidate on these hustings. I was at
that time a Minister of the Crown, but I did
not long remain so. I believe almost the first vote
which the House of Commons came to was fatal to the
existence of that Government, in the ranks of which
I xerved. Without any personal regret, certainly, I
took my leave of office, and retired to do that which to
my personal feeling is a far more agreeable situation,
that of an independent Member of Parliament.—(Bear.)
But I am happy to say that the vote of the House of
Commons which struck down the Ministry of Lord Mel-
bourne did not destroy the principles which that Minis-
try advocated.—(Loud cheers.) And, gentlemen, I for
one will acknowledge that I never had the slightest
fear that it would produce that effect.—(Cheers.)
I was thoroughly convinced from the best con-
sideration I could give to the interests of this great
country, that those principles were founded in truth,
and must ultimately and speedily be triumphant.—(Loud
cheers.) I did not fear that those who succeeded us
would follow any essentially different course from
that which we ourselves had pursued ; and, accord.
ingly, although I have been nominally a mem-
ber of the Opposition, and sat on the oppo-
site benches to the Government of the day, yet
there has been scarcely any important measure which
that Government during those five years have brought
forward which I have not by my humble vote contributed
to support.— (Cheers.) Those measures w ere, some of
them, measures of enlarged religious freedom—some of
conciliation and justice zolreland—some of them measures
of free trade calculated to enlarge and extend the com-
merce of this country ; and the crowning measure of all
has been that great measure which the assent of the
Crown has just stamped with the authority of the law
of the land—l mean the complete and final repeal of the
corn-laws.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I can assure you—and
those among you who know my private tastes and habits
will believe in the sincerity of that assertion—that no five
years of my Parliamentary life were ever spent with
satisfaction equal to those during which, without the
tons, and anxieties, and responsibilities of official life, I
had the satisfaction of seeing those principles for which
I have always contended carried into execution; and also
the gratification, by my humble vote, of lending my best
support to their success.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, the office
to which the gracious favour of my Sovereign has called
me is, as you have been reminded by one of my friends,
not the least responsible or the least onerous of those
which are undertaken by the servants of the Crown. I
can assure you that, in taking my share of the Govern-
ment of Ireland, •I accept the office in no spirit of pre-
sumption with regard to my qualifiaction for the duty.
This, at least, I trust I may say, that no effort on my
part shall be wanting to fulfil those duties ; and if I
shall be able to contribute, even in the smallest degree,
to the happiness, contentment, and prosperity of that
part of her bLejesty's dominions, I shall look back
to the day on which I took office as the happitst and
proudest of my lite.--(Cheers.) I trust that the little
acquaintance which I possess with the local affairs of
that country will be compensated iv finding myself sur-
rounded in the Administratiiin by Irishmen, long and
intimately connected with the affairs of that country,
and deservedly respected by the inhabitants; and still
more do I rejoice that I shall have to serve under a
Lord-Lieutenant who has been flit- the greatest. part of
his life a resident landowner—(Cheers)—and who from
his disposition and ability is, I am sure, eminently quali-
fied to carry into effect those gracious wishes and in-
tentions which it is well known her Majesty feels in an
especial degree towards that portion of her dominions.
I trust that in the governmant of Ireland we shall be
able to follow up those principles on which the govern
ment of all free countries ought to be conducted--

mean, to support the law that it may be respected, and to
improve the law that it' may be beloved.--(Loud cheers.)
I can assure you I highly value the honour of repre-
senting so steady, so consistent, and intelligent a body
of constituents. With regard to other political subj vets,
I do not know that I need trouble you by going into
detail. I have always stood upon these hustings as a
liberal candidate and a reformer.—(llear, and cheers.)
At the same time I have always told you that there
is not a Conservative in this town or county who is
more deeply attached than I am to the great institutions
of this country, or who is more thoroughly satisfied that
the true interests of the community consist in our
preserving and maintaining them unimpaired.—(Cheers.)
But I believe, at the same time, that in order to maintain
institutions unimpaired, it is absolutely necessary to take
care that they do not stand in the way of all such im-
provements as may be required either by the al-
tered circumstances of society, or by the in-
creasing intelligence of the age. I believe that
Englishman is the truest Conservative, and best
supports the institutions of the country, who
takes care that there is nothing in them which cannot
be reconciled with great and necessary improvements.—
(Cheers.) I love and reverence the mixed con-

sstitution. of this country, and if I saw the
just prerogatives of the Crown or the just
prerogatives of the peerage assailed, I would de-
fend them just as firmly as I would the rights and
liberties of the Commons of England, to which I
belong.—(Hear, hear.) I feel it necessary to say this,
because I stand here on popular principles, and am
surrounded by the friends of popular principles in
this town, and because I have lent my assistance
to the furtherance of many measures which I trust and
hope will have the effect of enlarging the liberties of
the people, and extending wide the principles of reli-
gious liberty to those classes of my fellow-countrymen
who may, dissent from the Church of England—wh, ther
as Protestant Dissenters, or as Roman Catholics—
(Hear, hear, and cheers)—and have always felt it
my duty in public life to do nothing which would shake
those great fundamental institutions of the country—
(Hear, bear)—on the contrary, those institutions have
not a more sincere friend than myself.—(Cheers.) The
Hon. Member again thanked them for the high honour
conferred upon him, and retired amidst loud and pro-
longed plaudits.
The Hon. Member was afterwards "chaired," a very
superb car, drawn by four horses, being used for the oc-
casion.

We are sorry to learn that the surviving infant of
Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley remains in a very precari-
ous state. Tie Duke of Wellineton was deeply affected at
the loss of his eldest grandson—'ndeed, we are informed that
his Grace exhibited more emotion on being informed of the
fatal termination of the child's illness than he has done for
some years past.
Lieut.-General Sir Edward Kerrison and Lady Kerni-
son, returned on Wednesday, evening from Derbyshire,
and Ime town to, day for Oakley Park, SulWlk,