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London, England, 1846-05-11 00:00:00

population by an undue inter'eratee with the potato
crop, he pointed out the beneficial influence upon the
market prices of Ireland which had resulted from the
extensive importation of Indian nasal and Indian cern ;
while, as a conclusive repudiation of the charge, he
assured the House, in the most categorical way, " that
the distress in Ireland, though not universal, is general,
and that so far as the statements of it go which have
been made by her MAJESTY'S Government, they wi'l
be found to be fully borne out by the facts as they
exist." The corroboration of these assertions, which
were subsequently pronounced by Mr. STAFFORD
O'BRIEN, are simple and brief, but assuredly they are
emphatic enough. We transcribe, almost at random,
one of his characteristic evidences of the miserably
disorganized and impoverished condition of his country-
men :—" With respect," said he, " to the district of
Clare, in which I reside; when I got there I found on'
one side a schooner attacked on the river by bodies
of armed men ; I found, on the °the r, cattle guar.led
by solliers ; I found on the hills near me a starving,
and, to some extent, a lawless population." Aft. r these
unanswerable proofs of the wretchedness which has
already enlisted the sympathies of Government, and
proofs which no caviller, without the most consummate
amount of scepticism, can gainsay, the Hon. Member
objected, we conceive somewhat unfairly, to the manner
in which the Premier mingled the question of Irish
distress with the corn-laws, immediately upon the intro-
duction of his measure. It must be remembered, how-
ever, that the fact of destitution in Ireland was then ad
doted simply as an argument for the immediate modifica-
tion of the enactments pressing upon the importation of
provisions, while the facts of experience, of logic, of
philosophy, and of common honesty were adduced as
arguments for the ulterior and permanent settlement of
the protective system. That was the only manner in
which Sir ROBERT placed those two important matters
in juxta-position, and, as a conscientious statesman,
he could not well have acted otherwise. The
immediate preservation of Ireland, and the future pros •
perity of tlre British Isles generally, require an instant
modification of the duties imposed upon articles of food.
Justice and Charity league together for the impulsion of
a free-trade agitation to its triumph, and since the world
has existed an ultimate acquiescence has ever been ac-
corded to the demands of Justice and Charity when I
pronounced by the voice of an united people.

The Jesuit party has been defeated in the Swiss
elections.

The Zurich Gazette of the 4th says:—' The Liberal
party has gained a complete victory at the electit
which took place yesterday. Out of the 171 elections
fur the Grand Council the Conservatives were not able
to gain more than 29."

It ar.pears as if the Austrian Government was ap-
prehensive of some outbreak in the north of Italy.
The fortifications of Verona, which have been only
recently completed, and which were not to be armcd s
in anticipation (.f a war, are, according to a letter from
Verona, dated the 20th ult., which appears in the Con-
stitutionnel, armed forthwith, and the park of the Adige
is to be provided with a considerable reserve. General
RIJDETSKY was expected at Verona in the course of the
wcek.

The companions of the unfortunate BANDIERA having
been pardoned by the King of NAPLES, on Good Friday,
have arrived at Marseilles. It is said that his MAJESTY
has also shown mercy to many other political prisoners.

The state of affairs in Finland is anything but tran
gull. A ktter from fielsingford of April 20 s9ys—
" Two nights back, between ten and eleven o'clock, this
town was thrown into confusion by the appearance of 500 or
600 young men, chiefly students of the University, who pro-
menaded the streets singing national songs. They stopped
before the houses occupied by the Russian functionaries, and
broke the windows with stones, crying out, Poland for
ever!' Down with the Muscovite tyrants!' Oscar I. for
ever!' This last cry had reference to the fact of the Grand
Duchy of Finland having formerly formed part of Sweden,
before it was ceded to Russia in 1815. A great number of
these disturbers of the public peace were arrested, and the
Governor- General of Finland has given orders to have them
tried by court-martial."

Madrid papers of the Ist instant have been received.
The Gazette contains the official dispatches of the ge-
nerals employed in the recent affairs in Galicia, and an-
nounces authoritatively the complete pacification of the
province. It also contains a royal decree, dissolving
the regiments of Gijon, Segovia, Oviedo, and Zamora,
which had taken part in the late insurrectionary move-
ment. The colours of the dissolved regiments are to be
deposited in the church of the Virgin of Atocha, and
covered with black crape. All the privates who
took part in the insurrection are to suffLr ten
years' additional service beyond the usual
time wherever the Government may direct, and the
officers are to be brought to a court-
martial. The Government have dispatched orders to Vth-
LALONGA to suspend any further executions of those con-
demn( dby courts-martial. The Archbishop of SANTIAGO,
whose life had been saved by Solis during the insur-
rection, exerted himself to procure the pardon of the in-
surgent chief, but without effect. Sous 3nd fourteen of
his companions were shot through the back at Carral.
The other insurgent officers, it is said, will be re-
duced to the ranks, and sent to the I'hillippine
Islands, to serve for tea years. CONCHA, as a roe and for
his services, has been promoted to the rank of Lieute-
nant General. General PIJIG SAMPER, to whose dilatory
conduct at Santiago the partial success of the insurrec-

tion there has been attributed, is to be brought
to a court-martial forthwith. VILLALONGA, to
whose vigour and prudence it was entirely
owing that Corunna did not kin the movement,
was one of ESPARTE3O.B generals, and remained faithful
to him to the last, refusing to acknowledge the new
order of things until ESPARTERO had quitted the king.
dom. A steamer had left Vigo in pursuit of the
Nervion, on board which the members of the insurgent
junta had made their escape, taking with them all the
treasure in the Bank of San Fernando ; and the salt rent,
amounting to 6,000,000 rials, which they had seized
as soon as they received information of the defeat at

Santiago.

The yellow fever has appeared at Barcelona, brought,
was supposed, from the Cape de Verd Island.

Accerd►ng to the Esperanzci , CARDX, the firmer Pre hi-
dent of the Barcelona Junta and the leader of the
pronunciamiento at Alicant, has been arrested at Medina.
MADRID BOLSA, MAY I.—Three per Cent., 311 for
cash. Exchange on London, 37i.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
On Wednesday the Dijon and Mulhausen Railway
Bill passed the Chamber of Deputies without opposition.
The New Postage was in the course of the same sitting
withdrawn by the Minister of Finance, and in its stead

the Minister proposed a measure abolishing the usual
decime, and reducing the duty on money orders from
fire to two per cent.

The St. Ijigiec and Gray Railway was then brought
forward, but the discussion was not finished. The non-
publication of the Address of the Archbishop of PARIS
in the Monitcur, is the subject of comment in most of
these papers.
The Constitulionnel says :—" We do not yet find in the
Moaiteur, the Address of the Archbishop of Paris. The fol.
lowing is said to be the purport of the phrase whieb gate
offence, and caused the address to be suppressed :—‘ The
Church does not want the protection of any one—it only
asks for liberty.' "
The Qttotidienttd gives the following as the phrase
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which was deemed objectionable 1—
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human
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of
the
conscience, which it governal and of the, supreme Master
liberty orderl6
worthy to
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origin,olcph
which etnithlkltl tit It An qiiipira eldriettk."
The Mokifetir A/geeie:t of theBOth, has the following .—=
"The last npti 10M Ostiftal ttlstiti ealserinently of
thb rittiVettbilti ot the ex-Linir, go bug about teb days. At
that period everything announced a series of operations in
the Djebel-Amour, wh Abd-el-Kader, finding, however,
still slighter resowes thtre thap with the Quled-N.ayl,
L4'll iictittiptil fled the ntimiall, one hundred idaghte
south of Algiers, and thence by A parallel march, and invered
to that of Genera! Yutlih reiteW Maria, d point four days'
j„"'rner trot! 11,401 f, townrA the south. Mt. lie liad
'''"ected together all the disposable horsemen of the
Oul.M-Nayh to the number of four or five hundred
and tite4e Ootritid4e Lis toe of the itien whom he
brought from the Wed, only a few still remain it '
was on the lath that tleneral Yiinf le:zined this complete
change or pAition, Mid be iMitietlialt4 prOeOdeti towards
Gharza, followed by the column of iolonel Ladinirauiti
who was bringing hint A eoirdy; Since then, ribthing
Whatever 13 known of what hai passed, Th!f,'
stance, which is not rare, and which may be explained
by the negligence of an Arab courier, or any other such
incident, appears to hare been seiApd on by ill.disposed per-
sons to spread sinister repots, of Willeh the rl:lMlitistra■
tion would certainly punish the authors if it sucteeded ill
discove,lng them. The nets from the provinces is sattsfan.
tory. That of the west scarcely shows any insurrection,
except in the Lower Dahre, where the column of Mostagit-
nem is speedily to act, if it has not already commenced: The
principal affairs of the spring would appear to be these t the
subjection of the Ouarcnsenis, for which the Marshal Was to
According
received t o
from the A
set nut on May 4th or sth ; and the operations in the south
of the province of Titteri, which are to be entrusted, it is
said, to the Duke d'Aumale."
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the
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preceding .
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He was on •
his way with hia column to Medeah, where
he would wait for a reinforcement of cavalry, and on its
arrival would resume his •
operatlons in the Djebel-
Amour,
The Three per Cents el
831. 95c. ; the Five per Cents,
on the Paris Bourse on Thursday at
1,2521. 50e. Rouen 1 037 , 120 f. 20c. ;the Orleans Railroad shares,
7671. 50c.; Avignon; 925 f ; Ilavrc, 7571. 50c.; Great Northern,
Boulogne, slof. ; Troyes I;ndVsile t:, 675.ft.1;(1.1ardeaux, 625 f. 75e. ;
poux, 440 ; Dieppe, 450 ; Pa: is °nd
graau;burg,;ittars e, 220 f. ; Fant-
Nantes, 537 f. 50c. ; Paris and an
575 f ; Spanish.2sc. ; Tours and
ditto Three per Cents. 271 z
-• ; Lyons,ditto omes.ticActives, 32N. ;
The fo • Debt, 31% •
following are the quotations in railway shares .
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