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TH-E SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, EVENING, JUNE 18, 1846.

Snow-hill as well as the New-street station under their coinideratiod?
I believe so ; at least it was their duty to consider both.
Cross-examined by Mr. WooLicrie—l do not know whether the
Mayor of Birmingham is a shareholder in the Stour Valley line.
Mr. Baker, assistant engineer to Mr. Stephenson, presented a
detail of the estimates, the total cost being 2,200,0001., which would
include the cost of the erection of the proposed station at New-
street.
Cress-examined by Mr. WOOLTCHE, with the view of showing that
this Company proposed to deal with the roads in the neighbourhood
of Birmingham in a way that was not practicable, but he was not
promoters' case, and the Committee then adjourned
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three o'clock till twelve to-morrow.

GROUP LX.
GRAVESEND AND ROCHESTER.
SALE TO THE SOUTH-EASTERN COMPANY.
The Committee met at one o'clock, in Room No. 2, and after a
short hearing,

The CHAIRMAN declared that the preamble of the Rill for the sale
of the Gravesend and Rochester Railway to the South •Eastern Cotn-
pany was proved.

The clauses were then disposed of, and
The Committee proceeded with the

FARNHAM, PORTSMOUTH, AND CHIMES-

TER EXTENSION.

Mr. AMIN, Q.C., stated that some time since a Bill was obtained
for the formation of a line from Brighton to Chichester. The
powers for the formation were to be vested in the Brighton Railway
Company. Last session a Bill was obtained to form au extension to
Portsm. uth and Fareham from Chichester. It was thought advis-
able to vest the powers of the extension in the Brighton and South-
Western Companies. An agreement was entered into between the
companies to petition Parliament for leave to bring in a Bill for
the purpose of vesting the right of extension in them
jointly. The Brighton Company, however, had refused to
perform their- agreement, and to come forward with the Bill. On the
part of the Brighton Company it was urged that the understanding
was that the South-Western Company were to have given certain
fa:jiffies, whith they had not done, and therefore the Brighton Com
pany declined to proceed.
The Committee, after clearing the room, said that they were of
opinion that under the circumstances the Bill should not be pro-
ceeded with.

The Committee then proceeded with the
LONDON AND BRIGHTON AND CROYDON

CONSOLIDATION BILL.

Af;er formal proof had been adduced of the benefit of the consoli-
dation, and an assurance given that the fares would not be increased,
The Committee declared the preamble of the Bill to have been
proved, and proceeded to the consideration of the clauses, which
were all, without exception, agreed to.
The Committee then adjourned.

Railway, complaining of the conduct of the directors, whe
held a meeting under the sessional orders, was attended
by the petitioners, who objected to the line in conse-
quence of the amount of capital which it was proposed to
raise. The petitioners obtained from the directors a
promise that the capital should be diminished.
SUNDAY TRADING.

Lord MONTEAGLE presented a petition from the
parochial authorities of the parish of St. Luke, Middle-
sex, against Sunday trading.
The Bishop of LONDON wished to say a few words
respecting the great good that had resulted from the
operation of restrictive clauses in police Bills, repecting
the sales of spirituous liquors on particular periods
during Sunday. In Liverpool and London the benefits
had been very great. In St. Giles's, since the clause of
the Bill came into operation, respectable females that
could not before walk to the parish church on a Sunday,
now could do so withont interruption. The be-
neficial effects of the clause in the Liverpool
had been such that some time after the Bill was passed
a gentleman in that town, who had been opposed to the
clause, called on him, and at witted his views were
changed, and that the clause had been productive of great
good. Thousands had been benefited in London and
Liverpool, and he hoped, therefore, that the Noble Lord
would receive that encouragement in his intended
measure, to which he was so well entitled.• _

Lord WIIARNCLIFFE presented a petition from the
parish of St John's, against Sunday trading. It was
signed by the rectors, churchwardens, and parish officers,
who prayed that some stop should be put to the pro-
ceedings complained of.
The Bishop of LONDON supported the prayer of the
petition, and said that if all the tradesmen s shops IN ere
closed on Sunday, and the police empowered to give
effect to such an arrangement, the workmen would
compel their masters to pay them on Friday night.
TESTS BILL.

The Earl of HADDINGTON presented a petition
from the Synod of Scotland, stating that they hear, with
great regret, that it was proposed to abolish the Test
Act, and calling their Lordships most serious attention
to the subject.
The House then adjourned at five minutes past six
o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY.

The Lords' amendments on this Bill were read and
agreed to. • .
SHEFFIELD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, AND

MANCHESTER RAILWAY.

Mr. WARD moved, on the consideration of the report
on the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester
Railway (Barnsley Branch) Bill, that the Bill be re-
committed to the former Committee : that the Commit-
tee have leave to sit and proceed on Monday, at twelve
o'clock. The promoters of the Bill felt they bad been
hardly dealt with, as they had not been permitted to
proceed with evidence before the Committee.
Mr. E. ELLICE, jun., thought if the House was to
decide on re-committing Bills after they had already
been disposed of in Committee, Hon. Gentlemen who
served on those Committees had better at once refuse to
attend. It would be useless to legislate at all if the re-
gular business of the House was to be interrupted by
the suggestions of interested parties,anda system of canvass
permitted Which was highly discrediable to the House. It
was but two nights ago that a similar motion was made,
and Hon. Members a ere actually dragged from the
streets to vote in the House. Upon these grounds, he
should most decidedly oppose the re committal of the
Bill, as it would be impugning the decision of the Com-
mittee.

An HON. MEMBER observed that the case had been I,
fully investigated by the Committee, and he saw no
reason that would justify the interference of the House.
Lord SEYMOUR wished to state that, as chairman
of the Committee, he felt satisfied that the merits
of the Bill had been fairly decided on ; and he
certainly thought there was no occasion whatever for the
motion of the lion. Gentleman for the re-committal of
the. Bill. It was cruel to refer back the Bill to the Com-
mittee in the present hot weather, with-nit the slightest
prospect of the Committee coming at any other opinion
than that to which they had already agreed.
Lord G. SOMERSET opposed the motion.
Mr. SPOGNER and M. CAVENDISH supported the
motion.
Mr. G. LEGH said that material injury would be
done to his constituents by the decision which had been
come to. Evidence which ought to have been received
by the Committee had not been received, and under all
the circumstances he thought the House would act per—
fectly right in re-committing the Bill.
Mr. ESTCOURT saw no reason whatever for re-
ferring back the Bill. The Committee had come to
their decision after a most careful examination of the
evidence brought before them, and he would therefore
support them and vote against the re-committal.
Mr. HUME said the Hon. Gentleman had stated that
his constituents were disappointed ; but it would seem,
from the statement of the Committee, the whole matters
brought.before them were fully considered. Were they
to consent to the course now proposed, they.might as
well give up Committees altogether, and toss up which
companies should have their Bills allowed.
Mr. F. FRENCH affirmed, as a member of the Com-
mittee, that they had fairly and fully investigated the
claims of the Bills before them, and come to the decision
objected to after the most careful deliberation.
Mr. ENTWISLE said a few words in support of the
decision of the Committee.

Mr. AGLIONBY thought the House ought to sup-
port, in the main, the decisions of their Committees ;
but, he did not say that in all cases the
House was bound to confirm them. He was
afraid the House was too apt to release itself of
all trouble of inquiry by leaving such matters entirely
in the hands of the Committees. There were many
cases in which the House was bound to interfere with
the decisions, and the question before them was, whether
the present decision was of such a character. Was
there sufficient reason for interfering ? He considered
that, on these grounds, they ought to refer back the
case to the Committee, not because they had come to a
dishonest opinion, but because they might be mistaken,
as the judges often were, and then there was a new trial
always granted.
Mr. GREENE objected to the course proposed. It
would be a very inconvenient thing if every Bill of
which the promoters thought favourably should be re-
ferred back to the Committee, and he would therefore,
if the House Came to a division, vote against the motion.
Lord MORPETH said, that if the question came
to a division he would vote for the re-committal
the Bill, first because he believed the decision
of the Committee to be wrong, and next because they
cut short a great deal of evidence tendered to them.
Mr. PARKER considered that the Committee had
acted injudiciously in cutting short the evidence
tendered to them, and he would therefore vote for the
re-committal of the Bill. More than one-half of the in-
habitants of Lancashire were in favour of such a pro-
ceeding, and there was a very strong impression
on the minds of the promoters of the Bill, that they
had an irresistible case.
MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
The Usher of the Black Rod appeared at the table,
and summoned the Speaker and the House to attend the
House of Lords.
The Speaker then left the House, attended by several
Members.
The SPEAKER informed the House that he had
been to the Lords to hear the royal assent given to
several Bills, for the names of which see Lords' report.
SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.
The debate on the Sheffield and Manchester Railway
was then resumed.

Mr. PARKER, in continuation, remarked that
he could only attribute the loss of the Bill
to the multiplicity and complicated nature of
the measure with which it was grouped. By
means of the decision of the Committee, the people
of Manchester and Sheffield would be cut off from all
communication with that district, which in a great
measure supplied them with coals. And he came to
this conclusion, that the Members of the Committee who
voted for the rejection of the Bill had not had sufficient
local information to qualify them to sit on the Committee.
And really such a defeat as that was a very serious
charge against the Committee of the House. He be-
lieved the Noble Lord opposite was perfectly right in his
decision, and that the conclusion to which this same group
had come, with respect to another Bill (the South York-
shire Bill), which was before the House the cther day,
was a most erroneous decision, and in that case, too, the
members of the Committee were totally devoid of local
information. The decision in the case of this Bill was
not unanimous ; and he bad a right to say that as long
as two of the five were in favour of the Bill, and
those who voted against it were not acquainted
with the varied wants of this populous district.
the Bill should be recommitted for a full consideration
by such Members as were acquainted with Yorkshire
and Lancashire. He would repeat that the Committee
had not had sufficient information laid before
them ; and such facts as these, he thought,
ought to justify the House in departing, in this
instance from its usual course. He believed that if this
decision of the House was confirmed, the important town
of Barnsley would be cut oft' from the other towns
to which its produce would otherwise be transmitted,
and that 10,000 people would be entirely
cut off from all connexion with the west. He was bound
to say that he believed that if the decision in this case
were sanctioned the House would come to a more er-
roneous conclusion than it ever had since it first sat.

Mr. R. YORKE said he was most desirous to put an end
to the very indecent scenes with which the House had
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thwienegk.
tolthheaard
abeseencohinds
speech from the Honourable Gentleman, the Member
for Sheffield, on these subjects. That Honourable
Gentleman insisted that in these matters that
the Members should be locally interested, or having
local knowledge in order that they might come to a
proper conclusion with regard to these Bills. Now
really it was vain at this time of dey to talk upon such
a subject. For many years the House had tried
that system, and it was a manifest failure. He
admitted that in some instances, where Members had
not local knowledge of the districts brought under their
consideration, they had come to unjust decisions ;
but ho believed that every one must admit
that the business of the Committees during the lass
two years had been conducted in the most just and im-
partial manner ; their decisions had given manifest sa-
tisfaction. This Bill was no new Bill before
the House. It had already occupied its attention
the last three years, and on each occasion the
House decided that it ought not to pass.
After giving the subject a fair and full consideration, he
felt bound to say that he mast concur with the decision
of the Committee.
After a few words from Mr. S. WORTLEY,
Mr. PROTHEROE said that, in his opinion, the
Committee on Private Bills, a few months ago, were
prolonged somewhat unnecessarily, and they had given
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rise to a disposition to cut short the proceedings. He
bad sat on one of the longest Committees this session,
and during its sitting he had heard many Members ex•
press great surprise that they were still going on. He
had been asked why they did not shorten the
proceedings by Members who said that they
had given the counsel due notice that they would cut
them short in their proceedings. All this had given
him reason to suspect that according to the present
constitution of Committees just decisions could not be
obtained. On the present occasion he suspected that
there had been a little hastiness on the part of the
Members of the Committee, and certainly some mis-
understanding on the subject before the House. He '
was, however, disposed to support the decision of the
Committee, as the decision of the Committee to which
he belonged had been kindly supported by the House
the other night.
Mr. HINDLEY said that the effect of this Bill would
be to reduce the price of coal Is. 6d. per ton less than it
cost as now brought from Barnsley. If there was a
company ready to form a branch which would
produce such an effect, he did not see why
it should not receive the sanction of the House.
He was told that the Committee to whom the Bill had
been referred had careully examined into the evidence
adduced in support of it, and he had every desire to bow
to their decision, but he was at a loss to kno v the grounds
on which they rejected it. Not one single reason had
been given by any of the Members of the Committee
to show why the Bill had not been passed. He
considered they ought to give some reason why
the cols of Barnsley should not be conveyed
at a cheap rate to Ashton-under-Lyme and other
districts. He was fully satisfied, if the facts were in-
quired into, that the House si ould reverse the decision
of the Committee.

Sir G. GREY should not support the motion, as he
could see no valid reason why the Bill should be
remitted to the Committee for reconsideration because
if they had listened to all the evidence that had been
adduced before them, there could be little doubt that they
would arrive at a similar decision and reject the
Bill. With respect to the ignorance of Committees
with respect to the localities through which lines were
projected, he ought to state that the practice of examin-
ing the Members representing such localities bad become
very prevalent in the present session.
Mr. WARD drew the attention of the House to the
118th standing order, which set forth that the report
on every private Bill should be laid on the table of the
House, and to the 123 d order, which was passed
in order to afford an opportunity of discus•
sing such reports every Tuesday and Thurs-
day. Now they ought nut to sail wider false co-
lours. Now, if this order was, till rendered nugatory,
by preventing discussion it ought to be rescinded, for
now the Pope was dead Committees of the House might
be infallible—(Laughter)—as they might act on the
principle that no Committee in this hot weather ought
to sit a second time. But in this case he considered the
House would do great injustice if they did not refer the
Bill back to the Committee.
Mr. LABOUCHERE wanted to know what was the
benefit to be derived by sending Bills to the Committee,
where the parties were put to enormous expenses in
prosecuting the Bill, if the reports of these Committees
were to be disre.. arded? He thought they would have
every disappointed railway company coming before the
House, praying it to revise the decision, if such a course
was persisted in. He should, therefore, vote on the
present occasion as he always had done, and always
would eo, unless some special circumstance were
brought forward against the motion.
The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the recommittal
Against it
Majority —44
FRELFORD (BERKS) INCLOSURE BILL.

This Bill was read a third time, and passed.
WAKEFIELD, PONTEFRACT, AND GOOLE

RAILWAY.

The Bill for making the Methley, Askern, and
Oakenham branches of the Wakefield, Pontefract, and
Goole Railway, was read a third time, and passed.
On the motion of Sir C. DOUGLAS, the Lords' amend-
ments of the Stafford new Gas Bill were agreed to.
Mr. DUNCOZ,IBE said that no case whatever had
been made out-for haste.- • His opinion was that none of
the Bills should pass at all'; at any rate let them go be-
fore another Committe next year. Re objected to the
Bill altogether, and the proceedings before the Com-
mittee, and he hoped the motion would be withdrawn.
Mr. PROTHEROE was willing to withdraw the
motion.

The motion was accordingly withdrawn.
Several Bills were brought down from the Lords, the
titles of which were inaudible.
BROAD AND NARROW GAUGE.

On the order of the day being read,
Mr. HUME rose to present a petition from the Cor-
poration of Glasgow praying for a uniform guage
throughout the countfy.

(LEFT SITTING.)

HAMPTON RACES
--(THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.)

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)

The Claremont Stakes.

Redshank
Out post .

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Yesterday two young German women, named Mary and
Elizabeth Kauffmai7, were placed at the bar before Mr.
Broughton, charged with having absconded from their bail,
under the following remarkable circumstances :
On the preceding evening three Germans attended at the
court, and, after drawing the magistrate's attention to a re-
port in a newspaper, detailing the particulars of a horrible
outrage that had been perpetrated upon two women in York-
shire, about two months since, by six men, five of whom had
subsequently been taken into custody and committed to York
Castle to await their trial at the ensuing assizes for that
county, and the facts of which outrage excited much public
attention at the time, from their being attended with cir-
cumstances of peculiar atrocity, the applicants proceeded to
state that the injured women, whose master had been bound
over for their appearance to prosecute, had been since tam-
pered with by a relative of the prisoners, and brought up to
London, where they bad been placed in temporary lodgings,
and had places taken for them in a steam-packet, which was
to sail the next morning for the continent ; and they there-
fore sought the magistrate's instant interposition to secure
the young women's persons, or they would, in a few hours,
be out of his jurisdiction, and the ends of justice be entirely
defeated.
Upon hearing this statement, Mr. Bingham placed the
matter in the hands of Rowland, the warrant-officer, who
forthwith accompanied the applicants to a lodging• house in
Buckly-street, Whitechapel, where the two prisoners were
pointed out to him as the persons in question, and he there-
fore took them into custody.
In answer to questions from the magistrate, the elder of
the young women, appaarently about twenty years of age,
now stated, that she and her sister had been brought over to
this country about two years since, under articles of
indenture for three years, to serve a fellow-countryman
of theirs, named Conrad Mauritz, as itinerant musi-
cians, and that while travelling together at the time
above mentioned in a secluded part of the country in
the neighbourhood of Sheffield, they were suddenly set
upon by six men, who overcame their resistance by the
most brutal violence, and ultimately in succession sub-
jected one of them (the eldest) to treatment of too shocking
a nature to be further described, the youngest only escap-
ing the final act of atrocity to which her unfortunate sister
had been exposed, by precipitate flight, while the eldest was
struggling with her assailants. Five of the ruffians were ap-
prehended on the following morning and committed for trial
by the local magistracy, who also bound over Mauritz to
prosecute, and produce them (the young women) as wit-
nesses; but the sister of one of the men had since found
means to communicate with them, and having frightened
them by telling them that if they ventured to appear at the
trial against their assailants their lives would certainly be
sacrificed, made them engage to quit this country imme-
diately. The woman afterwards presented each of them with
a sovereign and an outfit of clothing, and having brought
them to town by the railway, purchased a passage for each
of them in a Calais steam-boat, in which they were to have
sailed that very morning for France, had they not been taken
into custody on the night before.
A Germaa woman, named Isabella Sorg, was then called,
and stated, that at a late hour on Sunday evening last the
two prisoners were brought into her house by a woman, who
hired an apartment for them for a few days, and having seen
them safely deposited there, went away. Soon after she had
left, however, thinking the circumstance bore a very suspi-
cious appearance, she engaged the young women in conversa-
tion, and having ascertained from them the facts one of the
girls had just stated, she immediately informed her husband,
and the result was that the prisoners were placed in the care
of the police, who conveyed them to the station. The two
girls had only been removed a very short time by the con-
stable, when the same woman who had taken the lodging for
them called at the witness's house, and demanded to know
why they had not kept their appointment, and met her at
the steam-packet wharf; but upon being apprised of the
cause of their not doing so, she made a precipitate retreat,
and had not been feund since.
Mr. BROUGHTON said that it was manifest an infamous
conspiracy had been resorted to to stop the course of ustice
in one of the most monstrous outrages that had ever come
under his notice, by procuring the abduction of the only per-
sons whose evidence to the fact could be of any value ; and
he therefore felt it his duty to order the young women to be
kept in safe custody until the police authorities of the county
in which the offence, or rather offences, had been perpe-
trated, could be made acquainted with what had taken place,
and could adopt the proper steps to insure the attendance of
the young women at the York assizes, when the trial of the
ruffians came on.

The prisoners were afterwards removed in the van to the
Westminister Bridewell.

SOUTHWARK.

John Roehe, a powerful-looking man, was charged with
assaulting, with intent to rob, a Jr.S Tilley, and also with
making a very determined resistance on being taken into
custody.
The complainant stated that on the preceding afternoon
he had just quitted a shop in High street with a -Mr. Grant,
who had just got outside the door, and was reckoning some
money, when the prisoner came up and made a sudden snatch
at it. The complainant, however, closed his hand at
the moment, and thus prevented the attempt being carried
into effect, when the prisoner, disappointed, rushed at
him, and struck him a tremendous 's blow undfrier th
nd, e ear
Mr.,
which knocked him down. The comp
Grant,
Grant, here interfered, and was also assaulted and knocked
down ; and when he called out for assistance, the prisoner,
with an oath, swore that he would rip up the first policeman
that attempted to take him. Several policemen came
to the spot, and after a most determined resistance the
prisoner was at length secured and taken to the station-
house. In the course of the examination, it was staaotl, after
stated
atfhart
the prisoner had been recently liberated om gaol,
undergoing two years imprisonment for a similar offence,
and that in fact he had suffered incarceration on many other
occasions.
The prisoner was committed.

On Thursday morning last, about eight o'clock, a man
named Smith, from Belfast, was killed on the railway near Barring.
ton, by a splinter from a stone which he and others were in the act
of blasting. The misfortune was purely accidental and no blame can
bo !WOW to 447 93e.—Qvqtter7an4 pawl! ,

THE MARRIAGE OF THE Q
OF SPAIN.

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(From the Constitutionnel.)
The opinions expressed by M. Thiers and M. Guizot
during a recent debate on the affairs of Spain, and more
particularly on the alliances proposed for Queen Isabella,
have excited great attention at Madrid. They have led
to some very curious communications, the sources of
which we cannot make known, but the authenticity of
which we can guarantee. The explanations confirm all
that was said by M. Thiers on the subject of the young
Queen's marriage, with the exception of one point. It
was nut from Queen Maria Christina that originated the
idea of the candidateship of Count Trapani, which is now
declared to be impossible—it is France that must bear
the responsibility of this brilliant idea. The share
taken by the French Government in the entangled
politics in which unhappy Spain is involved is much
greater than M. Thiers represented it to be in the
Chamber. This question of marriage, so important
to Spain, and to her relations with France and with
Europe, has long been agitated between the Govern-
ments. With more or less wisdom, consistency cr propri-
ety, five candidates fur the Queen's hand have been thought
of—the Duke de Montpen,ier, of the Royal house of
France ; the Count de Montemolin, son of Don Carlos ;
a German Prince of the house of Coburg ; the Neapo-
litan Prince, Count de Trapani ; and one of the sons of
the PrinceSs Carlotta, Mario Christino's sister, have
been successively discussed upon, and preferred or ex-
cluded in the councils of the different European Gov, ru•
merits. The predilections of the Queen Mother have
been from the first in favour of the Duke de Montpensier.
This alliance would certainly have been popular in Spain;
but our Government has uniformly declined it. For
this refus..l there was a serious motive. In such a nation
as Spain great caution must be taken not to make any
foreign influence prominent. The marriage of the Duke
de Montpensier to Queen Isabella would have been atten-
ded with this inconvenience, and have rendered it dis-
- tateful to Spain. This motive of refusal, founded on the
suspicious character of the people of Spain, was a grave
one, but at the same time was not that which decided
the resolution of our Government. It is, in fact, well
known that it has always wished to act in Spain without
having the appearance of acting. The marriage of the
Duke de Montpensier to Queen Isabella might, sooner
or later, give cause for an open intervention ie the affairs
of Spain, of which intervention our Cabinet has a
horror. This candidate put aside, it would have wil-
lingly promoted the pretensions of the Count de
Montemolin. If it had been possible to bring the par-
r ties together, and efface all the traces of the civil war
by the marriage of the son of Don Carlos to the
daughter of Queen Christina, thus confounding ail
rival pretensions, nothing could be more reasonable
than such a union. But, far from producing this
desirable conciliation, . toe choice of the son of Don
Carlos would, on the contrary, revive in Spain all those
feelings of hatred which are but half extinguished. The
Progressists, and nearly all the Moderados, would find
in this alliance a counter-revolution, and events would
soon justify their fears. The Carlists would gather
round the consort of their Queen, and conceive a hope
of restoring through him all of Old Spain that the re-
volution has destroyed. The strife between the restore-

lion and the revolution would be recommenced. The
Fueros, the clergy, and absolutism would make war
upon a social state as yet but insufficiently consolidated,
upon the national property acquired so lately, and
upon the constitutional system scarcely yet com-
menced. Thus the Count de Montemolin, whose mar
riago would be desirable if it were likely to accom-
plish the fusion of dynastic pretensions, cannot pos-
sibly be the successful candidate. As to a prince of
the House of Coburg, our Government has interposed
its veto. This is certainly not because the house
of Coburg is German, and because there is a dread
of re-establishing that antique European Power
which was founded by Charles V., and which cost
France so many wars and efforts to overthrow. Such
a danger could not recur unless an archduke should be
the successful candidate ; for the House of Coburg has
no serious power in Germany. But this house has
become. altogether. English, and on this account cannot
be admitted to a hold in Spain without exciting great ap-
prehension. The French Cabinet., knowing that this
would be thus judged of by the public, has not shown
any favour to this project of alliance. Besides, the
Houses of Orleans and Coburg, although united by more
than one marriage, are not completely amalgamated.
After having set aside the Duke de Monpensier,
because he might give rise to the question of inter-
vention—the Count de Montemolin, because he is ab-
solutely rejected by Spain, even by the Moderados
—a Prince of the House of Coburg, because he
does not inspire much sympathy in France, there
remained but one reasonably political course to take,
that of turning towards one of the sons of Don Francisco
de Paula, nephew of Maria Christina. These are
neither too much nor too little Bourbonists—they are
Spaniards, Liberals, and Princes. To them there is only
one obstacle. Imprudent acts committed by the mother
have weakened the recollection of the service rendered
by her to her sister, Maria Christina. They have been
made displeasing to our Government by their mother
having placed them in the Progressist party. This, in-
stead of reconciling the nephews to the aunt, has caused
their rejection. The family of the Infanta. already irri-
tated, became more and more violent, and suffered itself
to be led to take inconsiderate steps—the division behave
envenomed, and an alliance with this branch was rendered
as impossible as all the others. Our Government,
however, brought forward .the Count de Trapani, in
spite of the objections raised by the Queen Mother, as
we know, to ttis project, but to which she afterwards
resigned herself. As long ago as 1843 our Government
entered upon this subject with the Cabinets of Vienna
and Berlin. At a later day, at the moment when M.
Olozaga was about to quit Paris to become Minister in
Spain, conferences, at which the King of the Belgians
was present, were held in Paris, at which the name of
the Count de Trapani was mentioned, as well as that of
Count d'Aquila, who was not at that time married to a
Brazilian Princess. But it was particularly at the period
when M. Donoso Cortes came to Paris to recal the Queen
Mother that the Neapolitan Prince was directly named as a

candidate. M. Donoso Cortes did not leave unfil atter hav-
ing been much edified on the merits of the Count de Tra-
pani, put forth at the various conferences, and carried
with him a portrait of the Count, destined for Gonzales
Bravo, then Minister. Neither has it been forgotten
that an Ambassador was sent to Spain by the Court of
Naples, by the advice of France, to endeavour to bring
about a reconciliation between the two Courts, and thus
prepare the way for the marriage. At conferences at
the Chateau d'Eu, between the King of the French,
Queen Victoria, M. Guizot, and Lord Aberdeen, the
merits of the several candidates were discussed, and an
alliance between Queen Isabella and a Neapolitan Prince
decided upon as the most eligible. Nothing, however,
could be less politic—more impracticable. The endea-
vours of the Prince de Carini and M. Bres-
son to promote the fulfilment of this project,
have only rendered the antipathy of Spain more
deep and strong. The same feelings which in-
duced France to accept the Orleans dynasty, al-
though Bourbon, produces the effect-in Spain of making
the monarchy popular, al:hough the House of Bourbon
is not so, but the Neapolitan branch is still less so. It
was, in fact, difficult for Spain to forget the manner in
which the Court of Naples acted in the Spanish revolu-
tion, refusing to acknowledge it. This repulsion was
common to all parties in Spain, Moderados as well as
Progressists. The Moderados were unwilling to add to
all the other grounds of its unpopularity, true or false,
that of assenting to such a marriage, and therefore were
almost unanimous in rejecting it. The power to act upon
the impressionable mind of Narvaez, and to make him de-
cide in favour of the Count de Trapani. Then it was that
the Moderados, impressed with the fear that the Narvaez
Ministry might come to an unfavourable resolution,
made those manifestions which, in the winter, em-
broiled Narvaez with his colleagues, and brought about
the dissolution of the Moderado Ministry. In tine, the
acceptance of the Count de Trapani has been unani-
mously pronounced impossible, and in fact he is given
up by all parties. Such is the series of faults which
have brought Spain to the position in which she stands,
and from which no one can tell how she can relieve her-
self ; for alm >st all the marriages which have been suc-
cessively proposed have failed almost irrecoverably. The
Cabinet of the Tuileries is afraid to persist in proposing
for the royal hand the Duke de Montpensier ; the
choice of the Count de Montemolin would raise all Spain
in arms ; the Count de Trapani is acknowledged to be
absolutely ineligible, and our Government will not ad-
mit of a Coburg. The causes of dissension which sepa-
rated the Queen-Mother from the sons of the Infanta
Carlotta have been aggravated. Maria Christina
anxious to have her daughter married, in order that she
herself may be at liberty to leave Spain, says to our
cabinet, give the Duke de Montpensier to my daughter
for a husband, or suffer me to marry her to a Prince of
Coburg. It is evident that our cabinet; after havi'ig
committed the fault of not using its influence in bringing
about a marriage between Isabella and one of the
nephews of the Queen Mother, has deprived itself of the
only chance it had of escaping the alternative of a Prince
of Coburg, that is to say, an English alliance, or of the
Duke do Montpensier, which would be a compromising
marriage. Do not these facts, which are of undoubted
authenticity, render evident to all eyes the want
of
judgment aud foresight in the policy of our Government?

HOP INTELLIGEsCE.
MAIDSTONE.—With the exception of I
(From the Maidstone Jo ground
and pit of one adjoining; our hop-g
turned black, emitting a
of,_ThisiescodyegOe
filthy condition, the lower leavesare in a most
clear of vermin in the
" is eta
The "college ground 'lrnalardens
rather over poled and-.the bine
centre, which part seems
by no means out of :clanger, as
disgusting odour and co.veredllwivtheryvertnin of varioua sorts.
weakly. It is, hoviviservye ,day.
In our report last week a
year 1823, when the' -growth was
;thee
24,817/. 03. 11k ~
mthiesrterianrteoferectr flydea .
being called 1826. Theta were thee about
as
many acres in plant as now—say 46,718.)
F.Antnzoo.—We have a decided decrease of fly, and .the
bine has a better countenance. Notwithstanding, there is a
large quantity of lice, particularly at the outside, when, at
the same time, the middle grounds are almost clean.
OTILAM.—The hops in this and neighbouring parishes
continue growing vigorousl,y, and branching out well, not-
withstanding the fly and lice. remaining very numerous, the
hot weather appearing not to diminish them. The "nigger"
has within these few days come to their rescue. Mid-
summer is near at hand, when the sap will be checked for a
few days, thereby giving some hopes of getting rid of the
vermin before the midsummer shoots or branches make their
appearance, in which case a good crop may yet be got. It,
on the other hind, the fly should continue and attack the
midsummer branches, it will prove fatal to a crop.
MEREWORTH.—lmproving, blue growing fast, and vermin
dying away, the fly golding and nigger making havoc with
the lice.

Pux-rat., WROTHAM, SIIIPBOURNE —The hop plant in
this neighbourhood still continues to thrive luxuriantly, not-
withstanding the increase of vermin. The fly golding and
nigger have increased greatly, and their increase has much
allayed the alarm caused by the increase cf the fly ; upon
the whole there is certainly not so much vermin gs there
mia at the *juin at the Track.