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London, England, 1834-08-07 00:00:00

SALE OF BEER BILL.

Lord A LTHORP moved the third reading of this Bill.
Mr. T. ATTWOOD had disapproved of the Bill in its
first state, but he now thought it a very tolerable measure.
The Bill was then read a third time.

On Lord ALTHORP moving a clause by way of rider, that
the Bill should not operate with respect to licenses in towns
having a population of 5,000 inhabitants,

Mr: G. W. WOOD moved an amendment, that no license
should be granted to any house rated at less than 101. a year.
Mr. ATT"WOOD contended that the integrity of the poor
was not to be measured by the rent they paid. It was teach-
ing the poor a bad lesson to hold out to them that property
was the only test of integrity.
Lord ALTH OR P then proposed his first amendment,which
was that the " certificate" should not be required in London
and Westminster, nor within the bills of mortality, nor in
places where elections are held, or that return Members to Par-
liament, nor where there may be a population of 5000 persons
according to the last census.
After some conversation as to the mode of ascertaining the
limits of towns, and what houses should be considered as
coming within the limits, the clause was agreed to.
Mr. G. WOOD said, in consequence of the adoption of
this clause he wished to propose an amendment to it, namely,
to provide that no license be granted for retailing beer, &c.,
under this Act, except the houses in which the beer was to
be sold were assessed at not less than 101. a year. This would
secure the public from being afflicted with beer-shops construc-
ted out of the merest hovels,and which in reality were as great
nuisances as could infest society.—( Hear.)
Mr. WARBURTON objected to this amendment. It was
a new restriction, andmost unexpectedly proposed. No notice
had been given of it. No one knew that there was any in-
tention of proposing so serious an additional restriction upon
an already too restrictive Bill. If this amendment were
adopted an immense number of individuals would be excluded
from getting licences, or from getting them renewed, who
never calculated that they were likely to be excluded on any
such grounds. But what he most of all complained of was,
that so important a change should have been brought forward
without any notice whatever.

Mr. CR IPPS said he entirely differed from the Hon. Mem-
ber who last spoke. He thought this a most valuable amend-
ment.—( Hear.) It would tend to make the trade more res-
pectable : it would give the security of some character and sta-
tion in society for the good conduct of the house. There were
few houses in towns rated at less than 101. that ought to be
engaged in such a trade ; and it would contribute to correct
the abuses in small country places, where hovels, as they had
properly been described, were converted into beer-shops, and
which became the scenes of all sorts of iniquity. Greater
hardships than such places could hardly afflict the country, and
yet, without some such regulation as that proposed in the
amendment, he knew not how this part of the evil could be
corrected. Half the houses now in the trade in the country
were rated at little more than 40s. a-year.
Mr. TENNYSON admitted that there was much merit
about this amendment, particularly its tendency to secure the
respectability of the parties who should engage in the trade ;
and if it secured more respectable parties to embark in the trade,
it would also contribute to secure the respectability of the par-
ties who might attend their houses. It would have a beneficial
effect as regarded the occupiers of the houses, and those who
frequented them. With respect to the observations of the
Hon. Member behind him (Mr. Warburton) had that Hon.
Member been so very nice about the interests, property, and
prospects of others, when he sanctioned the original Beer Act ?
Thank God, he had not to charge himself with having taken any,
part in that Bill ; but it was an act of the most flagrant cha-
racter, sacrificing as it did so much involved on the faith of
Acts of Parliament.—(Hear.) With respect to the amend-
ment now proposed, as he sought not to sacrifice that property
which might have been involved on the faith of Acts of Par-
liament—he thought it would inflict much injury and in-
justice to carry it into immediate effect. He, therefore, sug-
gested, that, if adopted, it be provided that it should not come
into operation until April 5, 1836.—(Hear, hear.) That
would enable parties, in the event of their not coming within
the law, or not being willing to abide by its restrictions, to ex-
tricate themselves, and to divert their capital into other chan-
ne!s, or their attention to other objects.
Mr. PRYME thought that there must be some different
criterion adopted to that of the rating of the house, it was so
different in different places. In Cambridge, for instance, the
houses were seldom rated at more than one-third of the rent,
or value ; so that, in fact, such a regulation would exclude all
houses below the rent of 301.—a1l houses except those ap-
proaching to the size of inns.
Mr. WARBURTON said this restriction would exclude
many most meritorious persons, many of those who could get
certificates, and yet could not get licences because they had
not houses approaching to inns.
Mr. T. A TTWOOD hoped that the amendment would be
withdrawn, because the real question ought to be not as to the
value of the man's house, but as to the value of his character.
A man's respectability and real worth were not to be judged
of by the size of his house. If the amendment were pressed,
he would divide the House upon it.

Mr. S. E. STANLEY said he should support the amend-
ment. It was desired to increase the respectability of these
houses and the occupiers. He knew no better plan of arriving
at the respectability of the man than the test of the size of the
house he sought to make a beer-shop.
Lord SANDON also considered that it would be a good
test to secure the respectability of those who applied for li-
censes. It would work well in Liverpool, and if a 10/. house
were to guide the right and the propriety of the elective fran-
chise, he thought it could not be complained of as a test here.
It would also tend to secure good conduct, because the law
had stronger hold of the man who had some property than of
the man who had none. But though he approved of the prin-
ciple of the clause, he was disposed to pay some attention to
the proposition for affording time previously to its coming into
operation, so that parties would have opportunity to give no-
tices to their landlords.

Mr. POTTER said he was surprised that his Hon. Friend
(Mr. G. Wood) should have brought forward such an amend-
ment, and without any sort of previous notice. There were
many Members absent, others who had left town, who would
have been present could they have had the least idea that such
a proposition as the one now before them was to be brought
forward.

Mr. BAINES considered that houses of the "value" of
10/. was the meaning of the Hon. Mover.----(Hear.) With
that alteration he thought that the amendment might pass.
Houses below the value of 10/. might be safely excluded, for,
generally speaking, they cosld hardly have accommodation for
the trade.

Mr. AGL lONBY opposed the clause as no notice had been
given of it. He recommended the Hon. Member to with-
draw it.
Lord ALTHO RP was of opinion that there should be some
test, and although he was opposed to the rating being the
test, and to the necessity of paying up the rates, he should
certainly support the principle of the clause, but would recom-
mend his Hon. Friend either to withdraw the clause, -or, if he
should persist, to alter the clause so as to let the qualification
rest on the value of the house rather than or, the rating. If
his Hon. Friend pressed the clause he should certainly vote

for it.
Sir H. WI L L OUG HBY opposed the clause, as it had been
brought forward at too late a period to have it properly con-
sidered.
Mr. G. W. WOOD said that he should press the clause,
but he had no objection to adopt the suggestion of the Noble
Lord, and apply the qualification to the value of the house
instead of the rating, provided the value was to be not less
than 101. He was also willing that the clause should not come
into operation until the sth of April, 1836.
After a few words from Mr. M. PHILIPS,a division took
place, when the numbers were—
For the clause
Against it .................... .
Majority
The clause was then agreed to.
The Bill, with a few verbal alterations, was passed.
On the motion of Lord ALTIIORP, the House went into
Committee on the Consolidated Funds Bill, and the appro-
priation clause was read and agreed to.
The Spirit Licenses Bill was read a second time, and or-
dered to be read a third time to-morrow.
The Starch Duties Bill was read a second time, and ordered
to be read a third time on Friday next.

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The Bayswater Sewers Bill was read a third time, and
passed.

The Report of the Post Roads (Ireland) Bill was received
and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.

The Scotch Voiers7liegistrat:on Bill was read a thirdlme
and passed.
The Report of the Heritors' (Scotland) Bill was received,
and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.

The House went into Committee on the Bank of England
Bill. The amendments were agreed to. Report to-morrow.

COUNTY CORONERS' BILL.

The question being put that the Lords' amendments to the
County Coroners' Bill be agreed to,
Mr. WARBURTON said there was one of the amend-
ments to which he trusted the House would not agree. That
clause of the Bill declaring the Coroners' Court to be an open
one, and which was agreed to by a large majority of that
House, was struck out by the Lords. This was done on the
representation of Noble and Learned Lords, the law authori-
ties of the other House, who gave it as their opinion that the
clause was unnecessary, as the Coroner's Court was already an
open one* In a modern work upon the subject doubts were
expressed whether it was open, and it was there held that the
Coroner might close it, and exclude the public, In such a
state of doubt he was for retaining the clause, and should
therefore move that the Lords' amendment be rejected.
, Mr. CRIPPS said the clause was one proposed by the Hon.
Member himself (Mr. Warburton). He (Mr. Cripps) had
made inquiry of most of the Coroners in the country, and
they all informed him they considered the Court to be an
open one. Lord Denman, who, as Lord Chief Justice, was
also the Chief Coroner, and the Lord Chancellor, expressed
the same opinion when this Bill was befoie the Lords. ' It
was the opinion also of the then Attorney-General, and of the
Hon. and Learned Gentleman the Member for Dublin. Some
doubt, however, arose from a decision of Lord Tenterden in
the Oldham case, in 1816; but there was a difference of
opinion as to the effect of that decision. The conclusion some
drew from it was that the Coroner, in his capacity of Magis-
trate, might turn any person out of the Court who was miscon-
ducting himself, or who ought not to be present. Ever since
that decision; however, Coroners themselves held the Court to
be an open one, though they considered themselves as having
authority to turn out any person who was misconducting him-
self. The Lord Chancellor, and other law authorities in the
other House, considered the clause unnecessary, and it was on
that account it was left out. He hoped no further impediment
wouldbe thrown in the way of the Bill,as the objection seemed
an ideal one.

Mr. TENNYSON thought the matter should not be left
in doubt. Mr. Chitty, in his reports, drew from Lord Ten-
terden's decision in the Oldham case this conclusion : that the
Coroner by it was declared to have the power of excluding the
public. If the opinion of Lord Denman and of the Lord Chan-
cellor had been given on this point from the Bench, it would
be decisive ; but then it was expressed extrajudicially, as Mem-
bers of the other House. He understood that one Coroner,
Mr. Farrand, still continued to exclude the public from
inquests.
Mr. POTTER said that in a recent Oldham case the
public were excluded from the Court. Mr. Farrand still
confirmed to exercise that fiower, and it was through Mr.
Garnet, the proprietor of a Manchester paper, that the ques •
tion was brought before a Court of Law, to ascertain whether
the right existed or not. • It was most important that the
Court should be open, that the public might have the means of
knowing whether the business was properly done. This was
not always the case. He himself knew an instance of a Man-
chester Coroner who actually deputed his brother to hold an
inquest. The same might be done in other cases if the public
were excluded. There was an instance near Bury of a child
having been burnt last spring. The Jury brought in a verdict
of accidental death. The peasantry in the neighbourhood ex-
pressed their dissatisfaction • the matter was much talked of,
and, if consequence. the child was disinterred. It was found
that the child had been actually destroyed by its own father,
who had since absconded. This showed the importance of
having the Court an open one, and he trusted, therefore, the
Lords' amendment would be agreed to.
Lord ALT HORP said there could be no doubt as to the
propriety and the great importance of having the Coroner's
Court an open one. He could entertain no doubt that the
House of Lords, on having the matter represented to them,
would permit the clauses to be re-iiiserted in the
( Hear.) The case of the Wygon Coroner, who still perse-
vered in the practice of excluding the public, was in itself
sufficient proof of the importance of removing all doubt upon
the subject. The course the House now had to pursue was to
demand a conference with the Lords.—( Cheers.)
A conference was accordingly demanded, and the rest of the
Lords' amendments were agreed to.
The Tithe Stay of Suits Bill was read a third time. and
passed.
Adjourned at a quarter past nine.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Journal de Paris of Wednesday.)

" The Government has received this morning, the 6th of
August, a telegraphic dispatch, dated St. Jean-de-Luz, Aug.
3, seven o'clock, p. m.
" General Jaureguy announces, that on the Ist he beat the
msss of the insurgents towards Iturgoyen, and that the Queen's
troops are pursuing them in all directions."
The Moniteur contains the following telegraphic dispatch,
which was received by the Government on Monday evening :
" BAYONNE, AUG. 4.—The insurgents have been beaten
along their whole line. Since the Ist, Rodil has attacked
them with vigour. We shall have the details this evening."
The Spanish Consul at Bayonne and Lieutenant Colonel
Don Miguel Araos, who has been stationed there by Rodil,
have received the following communication from that Ge-
neral :

" Five thousand factious, commanded by Zumalacarreguy, Uran-
gua, Cuebillas, and others, availing themselves of the advantage
which their positions gave them, attacked me to-day in flank while
I was marching on Olazagutia ; they have nevertheless been beaten,
put to flight, and pursued by our intrepid soldiers, whose valour can
never be sufficiently praised.
(Signed) " JOSE RAMON RODIL."
" Head-quarters Ciordia, July 25, 1834, at 11 o'clock at night.

The letters from the correspondent of a Morning Paper on
the Spanish frontiers, say that another engagement took place
between the troops of Rodil and the insurgents on the 27th,
which was renewed on the 28th ; that Don Carlos had care-
fully avoided risking his precious person,' since, on the 28th,
he was at the distance of several leagues from the field of
battle, having, as it were, one foot in Spain and the other in
France. On the 29th he was at Arenas, and was expected in
the evening of that day to be at Vera, whence he could step
over the frontiers in ten minutes.

Letters from St. Sebastian state that intelligence had been
received there of three battalions of infantry and all the cavalry
of the insurgents having been destroyed. An English brig of
war was cruising on the coast.
The following letter from St. Jean-de-Luz, is dated the
31st of July :—" There has been fighting for two days, be-
tween Estella and Etcherry, about two leagues from Pampe-
luna • the insurgents are closely pressed by Rodil's troops ;
all their communications are interrupted ; the enemy cannot
receive either provisions or ammunition, and the country
does not afford any resources, so completely are the local pro-
visions, which were in store, absorbed by the presence of the
faction which has not ceased for nearly three months to ravage
the country; a break-up is expected every day. All the
cantonments in the neighbourhood of France are well fur-
nished with troops ; several superior officers have been sent to
the frontier to command them. Don Carlos was, on Mon-
day last, at Lesaca, where, whilst he was present at a game
at tennis, which was played by some of the first hands in the
country, he was informed that Jaureguy (El Pastor), at the
head of 3,000 Chapelgorry (as the troops under the orders of
the General are called), was preparing to proceed to Lesaca, to
gain possession of his person, on which the Prince left the place
precipitately, and fled to Aranaz, where he still was yesterday.
General Harispe has been here two days ; yesterday he went to
Behobia, at the head of the 4th Light Infantry, which is in gar-
rison here ; he had also with him the battery of artillery which
is parked in our town. At the bridge of Irun he was vi-
sited by the Spanish civil and military authorities ; the General
received them with his usual affability. He also had a long
conference with one of General Rodil's aides-de-camp, who
had arrived the night before from head-quarters. The troops
left Behobia after a halt of three hours, during which time
different pieces of music were played on the bridge of Behobia,
and particularly the air of Riego, the Parisienne, and the
Marseillaise. To-day the General has passed the infantry its
garrison at Saint Jean-de- Luz in review. General Noguez
arrived this morning in our town : he is labouring under an
attack of pleurisy, which the physicians do not consider to be
dangerous. Yesterday the gendarmerie arrested, at Behobia,
a well-dressed lady : her proceedings with regard to divers
Carlists excited suspicions against her ; in fact, it would
appear that she was to play the noble part, on the frontier, of
a spy for the rebels. She has been sent to Bayonne under
escort. Two trincadoras are fitted out in our port ; they will
have crews of thirty men each, and are to be commanded by
two young Basque Captains, both very intrepid men, and per-
fectly acquainted with the coast. These two vessels are des-
tined to cruise between the port of Socoa and Bilboa. The
report that two or three English vessels laden with arms and
ammunition for the rebels, were about to land these military
stores on the coast, has occasioned the fitting out of these
trincadoras."

The Revista Espagnola of Madrid of the 28th ultimo
contains the following :—" We have considered with the
deepest attention the passage in the speech from the throne
relating to the foreign debt, which has given rise to such
strange suspicions, and cannot discover the least ground for
justifying them. As to the home debt, the speech gives hope
that it will be progressively extinguished from resources which
may be gradually applied with prudent caution and mature
examination to that end. What uneasiness ought to be created
by this language, when the re-organization of the finances
on the basis of a real representative government must produce
the most certain means of meeting all engagements, and
consequently producing a progressive rise in the public
funds as soon as the circumstances which for the moment have
an influence upon their prices have ceased to exist ?
As to the foreign debt, on looking at the resources so delibe
rately pointed out by the speech from the throne, upon the
candour and good faith which will regulate the measures
of the Government, it is impossible for us to find in these
expressions, to which are endeavoured to be given a sinister in-
terpretation, the consequences drawn. The regularisation of
this debt, which is particularly alluded to, can have no other
object than. that part of the debt which remains unliquidated,
and the acknowledgment of which has been deferred. In fact,
how can it be supposed that any Government can have the in-
tention of touching an acknowledged and liquidated debt,
when it is at the same moment about to contract fresh engage-
ments ? Would not this be to attribute foolishly two contra-
dictory and opposite intentions—that of having recourse to
credit, and at the same time that of taking measures destruc-

tive of credit ? For our part, we are firmly persuaded that as
long as a representative government exists in Spain the na-
tional credit will become daily more and more solid, for this is
the immediate consequence of this form of government. Be-
sides, no one can be ignorant that our resources, even at the
present moment, are'sufficient to cover all' our wants if they
are well administered. Who is not aware that a great portion
of the taxes raised are lost to the public treasury ? The well-
directed reconcentration of all the produce would put an end
to those embarrassments to which the old administration of
routine, which never could do away with a single abuse, was
subjected. We know that it is difficult to bring a new system
into play, but the obstacles lie more in persons than in things,
and we loye to rely upon the known firm resolution of the pre-
sent Minister to overcome all obstacles."
The Journal de Paris states that the Government had re-
ceived despatches on Monday evening, fully confirming the ac-
counts of the advantages which Rodil had gained on the 25th
and the preceding days, over the insurgents. This journal
gives the following precis of the movements of Don Carlos,
from the period of his arrival in Spain, down to the 24th :
" On the 13th of July he effected his solemn entrance into
Ellsondo, where he made the several appointments that have
been published. On the 15th, he set out for the purpose of
showing himself to the army and to the inhabitants of the val-
leys of Ulzama, of Basaburna, and of Gulina. Rodil was
at this time at Puente de la Reina, a little behind Pampeluna.
From the above mentioned places, Don Carlos went to join
Zumulacarraguy, in the Amescoas, where he remained until
the 19th, from a desire to show himself in Castile, and ex-
pecting that the gates of Vittoria would be opened to him,
he was induced to make his appearance before Salvatierra
on the 20th. Here he was received at the cannon's
mouth, which forced him to retreat, on the 21st, to
Alzaan. From the latter place, he was again compelled to
retreat by General Espartero, who arrived from Biscay through
Seguro. Having now lost all hopes of being able to seduce
the troops of the Queen, and of obtaining a pacific entrance
into the fortified places, he returned towards the valley of
Bastan, in order to shelter himself from the personal dangers
to which he might be exposed on the other side of the moun-
tains. Since the 24th he has not left the valley ;at one time
he is found at St. Estevan, at another in Elisondo or Lesaca,
always keeping himself as far as possible from the Queen's
troops, which surround him on all sides. We have news of
him up to the 30th, still in the valley of Bastan, hemmed in
on every side, and destitute of every thing. Under these cir-.
camstances, he is become a source of great embarrassment to
his party, who, in consequence of his presence, have a sort of
head-quartet s to defend, and with less facility carry on their
guerilla warfare. He never sleeps two nights in the same
spot. To extricate himself, his rebel troops -must obtain a
decisive victory, which is scarcely probable, inasmuch as they
.have been hitherto beaten in every action."
(From the Journal desDebats.)
•

The villas. of Ciordia, where Captain-General Rodil's
head-quarters were on the 25th, is situated in the Borunda,
two leagues to the eastward of Salvatierra, on the high road
from Vittoria to Pampeluna. Urdian and Bacaicoa, where the
engagement of the 25th took place, are on the same road, be-
tween Echairi- Aranaz and Ciordia. All these points are very
near to each other, upon a scale of three or four hours' march.
According to the accounts of to-day, Rodil has advanced
his head-quarters ten-leagues, by marching, from Estella to the
environs of Salvatierra. But Zumalacarreguy appears to keep
his position in the mountains which command the road from
Salvatierra to Pampeluna. At all events, we have not yet
heard that he has been driven out of that position.
The correspondence from Bayonne of the 30th of July
speaks of an engagement having taken place between Yanzi
and Aranaz. If this should be the case, it must be concluded
that the Carlists are pressed on their extreme right, and not
far from the frontier, by troops from Ernani, for Yanzi and
Aranaz are situated in the valley of Bastan, near the Bidassoa,
rather to the southward of Lezaca and Vera, the two last towns
(bourgs) in Spain.
It should also be remembered, that whilst Zumalacarreguy
was carrying on his operations in the mountains, between Le-
cumberri, Pampeluna, and Salvatierra, the chief of the Carlist
insurrection of Biscay, Zavala always kept the field between the
high road from Bayonne to Vittoria and the sea. We are not
informed whether he has been driven back towards the Bastan
by the forces which arrived from Old Castile, in Biscay, in or-
der to form the extreme left of Rodil's army.
(From the Journal de Commerce of August 5.)
A letter from the Hague, dated the Ist of August, contains
the following :
An agent of the house of Gower, of London, has been here
for some days. It is known that this is the house that was in
treaty for Don Carlos's loan. The publication thereof not
having taken place olicially in London and Paris, several
houses of Belgium and Holland have been applied to. In
Belgium, the house of Osy and Co.otif Antwerp, will receive
the subscriptions ; and•at Amsterdam, Messrs. Delepel, La-
bouchere, and Co. If the detention of M. Jauge should con-
tinue, all the subscriptions will be directed upon Amsterdam.
It is needless to state, that this affair is negotiated with the au-
thority and under the protection of our Government."
(From the Quotidienne.)
Our famous statesmen are fearful -lest the Queen of Spain
or the Princess of Beira should endeavonr to cross France, in
order to join Don Carlos. The most circumstantial orders
have been transmitted to Dieppe to keep watch over all the
passengers in the English packets, and more particularly
women.

The following is from the Gazette du Midi:—
" The journa of the Prefecture announces that the stay of
the Infant Don Sebastian and of the. Princess his wife, at
Marseilles, will be prolonged for some time. ,We have, in
fact, reason to believe that their Royal Highnesses intend to
take sea-water baths in the superior establishment of Clemen-
cean, the reputation of which is no longer confined to Mar-
ceilles. The report which had been spread that the Infant had
fled before a revolutionary riot at Madrid is now explained.
The Prince certainly did receive at Barcelona, where he em-
barked for France, the news of the massacre of several monks
at Madrid, by the Urban militia, on the 18th inst, and he was
the first person who brought the news to Marseilles. was
under the windows of the Infant Don Sebastian, th Sun-
day's melancholy maypole was erected. Having witnessed on
this occasion, for the first time, a celebration of the anniversary
of July, the Prince cannot have conceived any very exalted
idea of our enthusiasm.

(From the Constitutiunnel of Aug. 5.)
Diplomacy is in a very tranquil state in Paris ; there seems
to be but very little to do, for many of the principal nmbassa-
dors are quitting the capital. Whilst Lord Granville's 'post-
chaise is rolling along towards the Springs of Aix, in Savoy,
M. De Werther, the Prussian Minister, is about to travel in
Brittany, and M. D'Appony hardly ever visits his office.
M. Pozzo di Borgo alone attends to business, with an assiduity
which is remarked by all those who approach the Russian
Embassy. Is t'-'3 dull season the time for important foreign
affairs ? What does it denote in the present state of European
politics ? We reply that few matters are discussed in Paris.
If the Oriental question, in which Russia is specially interested,
be excepted, the Corps Diplomatique may be at their ease.
Everything is done in London, and, to the honour of the
Anglo-French alliance, we are bound to say, that the notes
hitherto delivered at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in France
are immediately sent to London, to be discussed in common
by M. de Talleyrand and Lord Palmerston. This fact proves
how intimately united the two nations are.
The subject of foreign politics, which was so slightly touched
upon in the speech from the Throne, has nevertheless excited
some solicitude in the mind of M. Pozzo di Borgo ; he bad
h‘oped that, through his influence, the Quadruple Alliance
would not be so openly avowed ; that it would, no doubt, be
mentioned, but in a vague manner, as an accessary. The
phrases of the speech in which this treaty is spoken of have
appeared to M. Pozzo to be too explicit ' • they prove anything
but that falling off in the amity between France and England
that Russia had hoped to see. Now, the following is the
tactic which is adopted :—This treaty of the Quadruple Alli-
ance which had, in the first instance, so profoundly irritated
the absolute Cabinets, is no longer anything more than a sub-
ject of mockery for them. What is it all about ? cry their
organs. Nothing more nor less than a great deal of embar-
rassment that the people have brought upon themselves for a
1 ong time to come. The seeds of civil war have been sown in
Spain. Whether you intervene or not what does it signify to
Europe ? You have entailed upon yourselves an expense of
men and money, and that's all.
These expressions but ill conceal real vexation. Spain being
freed from the clutches of absolutism, is a progress : the
struggle will, no doubt, be long—fatal, perhaps, to the people
who are engaged in it, but the principle will survive this tem-
porary crisis ; it is something, that a representation system
exists in Spain ; this permits us to look forward to something
better. It remains for the Cortes and the Queen's government
to give a fresh contradiction to Europe by the prudence and
moderation of their councils.

The losses liquidated by one house alone during the last
month are estimated at fifteen millions.

It was remarked that a great number of New Deputies were
at Court the day before yesterday. There were also a num-
ber of of the representatives of the opposition, viz., Messieurs
Lawrence, Glais-Bizon, Havin, Beranger, De Brigode, and
several others. The reception was not over until half-past
eleven.

Yesterday a dinner was given at the Tuileries to several
Peers and Deputies. Among the guests were the Duke of
Bassano, General Haxo, Messieurs Dupin, Agier, Bedoch,
Horve, Viennet, and Dumont ; the King conversed a consi-
derable time with each of these gentlemen.
By an ordinance of the Bth of July, a pension of 6,000
francs a year is granted to the Duchess Dowager of Mon-
tebello.

The Courrier du Bas .Rhin announces 'that, on the 31st
ult., a search by the police was made at the houses of several'
inhabitants belonging to the National Guards of Strasbourgh,
lately dissolved, in order to seize the protest against the disso-
tion of that corps, and the list of the persons who signed it.
The papers demanded were given up without hesitation, as it
was intended that the protest, with the names affixed to it,
should be published.
A white flag was hoisted during the night of the 29th of
July, at the Hotel de Ville of Port-Louis (Morbilian) ; this
flag has been sent to Lorient.
A society of workmen of Dijon has addressed a very re-
markable petition to the Mayor and Municipal Council of that
town, the object of which is•to obtain permission for the open-
ing f the public library on Sundays and ffitedays, in order to
render it accessible to the workmen.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
(SITTING OF AUGUST 4.
M. Bedoch in the Chair.
The order of the day was the sequel of the verification of
the qualifications of the Deputies.
A number of Members were admitted, and took the oath.
A proposition was made for the nullification of the election
of M. Ponteves, for the Var, against which eighty electors had

signed a protest, no account of certain irregularities, and princi-
pally on the ground that an elector who had been incorrectly
inscribed on the lists as having already voted, had thus in
reality been prevented from voting at all.
The protest of the eighty electors having been read,
General Leydet addressed the Chamber amidst interrup-
tions from the centre. The Hon. Deputy was opposed to the
nullification of the election in question, and thought that, as a
general rule, the nominations of Members should not be lightly
annulled, as a fresh election' incommoded a department, and
entailed a heavy expense on the electors.
M. Ponlle supported the nullification, and after stating that
M. Pontevs had applied the epithet of butchers (niassacreurs)
to those who had fought at Lyons for the maintenance of
order and the laws—( Murmurs from the centre)—the .Hon.
Deputy summed up by saying that an elector had been de-
prived of his right to vote, and that had it not been for such
an illegal proceeding, M. Ponteves would not have been re-
turned.

M. Dugabel, amidst frequent interruptions from the centre,
supported the validity of the nomination.
The nullification of the election was put to the vote, sup-
ported by the centre en masse. Election annulled. The
electoral college of Brignolles will therefore have to be again
convoked.

The admission of M. Bastard de l'Etang was opposed on
the grthind of irregularity in the' voting of one of the sections
of the Electoral College of Marmande, in the department of
Lotet-Garonne. The ballot for the election of the officers of
the college had remained open only four hours, instead of six.
Election annulled.
The admission of M. Emilie Girardin having been pro-
posed, and the Hon. Deputy being unable to produce a regu-
lar certificate of birth (acte de naissance), a question arose as
to the difficulty of proving that he had attained the age of eli-
gibility. The question was solved by the production of an
extract of a verdict pronounced by the Civil Tribunal of the
department of the Seine, and dated May, 1844. The ad-
mission of M. Emille Girardin was then put to the vote and
carried unanimously.
Adjourned at half-past five o'clock.
FRENCH FUNDS.—PmiIs, Auo. 5.
Five per Cents., 105 f. 55c. 65c. itc
Four per Cents., 9.f.
1 hree per Cents., 75f. 50c. 55c. 30c.
Bank Actions, 1,700 f. •
Rente de Naples, 92f. 85c. 93f. 92f. 90c. '7sc.
Roman Five..per Cents., 94
Bente d'E*Agne, Five per Cents., 36 354.
Rente d' Espagno, Three per Cents.,
.34% 35M
Royal Spanish Loan, 67% 68.
it ente Perpet.d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 53M 53 51%.
Haytian Loan, 275 f.
EXCITANUS ON LONDON.
Onc month, paper, 2X. 27%c. ; money, —f.
Three niontlis, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 25f. 15,.
—Coors Authcotique.