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LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1844.

Iu the • Houae of Lords, the Earl of WiNcutx.SEA
stye notice that on Friday he should present some
petitions on the corn-laws, and call the attention of
the louse "to public granaries—a .subiect which he
bad.deeply eonsidered.
The ktolsejesolved itself into Committee on the
..BishopriceLziof St. Asaph and Bangor Bill. The
oflyO.t.tsrciros had previously announced that.
y';biltl oppose the motion, but little notice appeared
to*vehden taken of this announcement, for the Bill
- 'tveiltrthiciugh Committee, and was ordered to be read
—a third time on Monday-,
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The Bishop of EXETER moved that the House re-
' Siae itself into Cot.ainittee on the Brothels Suppres-
sion Bill. • . •

.' • gar, Furzu.karmtGE took the opportunity of de-
• • Aviing the statements made by the Bishop of
etvria relative to the suppression of these nuisances
An the neighbourhood of IVestminiter Abbey, and on
property belonging to the Dean and Chapter.
The Bish9p of GLOUCECTER made the best of a
had case, but at the •,aingr. time made a singular ad-
mission. On that very day he said the Dean and

Chapter had given notice to many of the tenants to
quit. We imagined, from the former speech of the
Right Rev. Prelate that the system of purification
had been carried to the utmost pitch. The honour of
purifying the purlieus of Westminster Abbey, it thus
appears, will he conferred on Earl FITZHARDINGE.
The Bill went through Committee, and the House
adjourned.
In the Commons, after the presentation of petitions,
Mr. T. DUNCOMUE again brought on a question
which interests every Englishman—the atrocious
system adopted by Sir JAMES GRAHAM of opening
letters at the Post-office. We cannot abridge his
speech. Every word of it should be read. Sir JAMES
GRAHAM'S reply exhibited a Minister of State in the
most deplorable light. Mr. DUNCOMBE moved for a
Committee of Inquiry. The Home Secretary
resisted the motion. His conscience, he said, was
pure—he had discharged his duty, which was an im-
portant one, and he should resist the motion.
Mr. MACAULAY supported the motion for a Com-
mittee of Inquiry, in a speech which made a great
impression on the House. Indeed, there appeared to
be but one feeling on the subject, though of course
the Ministerial supporters were obliged to vote with
Sir R. PEEL, who did the best he could to get his
ultra-Tory friend—once an ultra-Radical—out of the
scrape.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Mr. MILNES, Mr. SLIM, and
several other leading Members spoke, and the dis-
cussion altogether was full of interest. A division
took place, when, with all the power of the Govern-
ment, in a House containing 372 Members, they could
muster a majority of only 44. If Englishmen sub-
mit to such a system they deserve to be slaves.
The third reading of the Sugar Duties Bill was
postponed till Thursday.
After the transaction of some minor business, the
order of the day was read for going into Committee
on the Bank Charter Bill.",
Mr.- Ilawrmamari, moved that the House go into
Committee that day six months. The motion was ne-
gatived on a division by a majority of 187, and the
Bill was committed.

On clause two being proposed, Mr. NENVDEGATE
moved that the blank be filled up with twenty-two
instead of fourteen millions. Eventually the amend-
ment was withdrawn, and the House resumed.

The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at Ten Minutes past One.

Our readers, on referring to the Queen's Bench
report, will see that the Baron Ds BODE has
at last obtained- justice. He has been struggling with
the English Government for twenty years. That
Government had received from France money to pay
all just claims to French emigrants, but had disposed
of it in a way only known to GEORGE the FOURTH
and the Earl of LIVERPOOL. The Baron DE BODE
was one of the sufferers. He has had the courage, and
the indomitable perseverance too, to prosecute his
clalm to the last. He threw himself on the honesty
and judgment arn English jury, and he has not been
disappointed.
After a trial of three days, the jury returned a
verdict, yesterday, in favour of the Baron's claim,
awarding him the full amount, 364,2661., with in
terest. There are some other claimants still on the
Government for money which has been swamped in a
similar manner, and which, from this auspicious ver-
dict, we trust will yet be restored to the rightful
owners. ' •

In the report from Worship-street office will ho
found another instance of the tyranny which the new
police force would, if they could, establish in tb
metropolis. An industrious man, selling ginger beer
and other beverage requisite in this hot weather for
the poorer classes, is taken into custody, his little
property carried to the Green-yard, and his whole
stock probably destroyed, because a policeman thought
fit to interfere on a pretended order issued by a
sergeant of police. An inspector attended to give
some explanation, and stated that he knew
nothing of the order in question. The Magistrate; of
course, set the man at liberty, but what remedy is
that for such an outrage upon the poorer classes ? If
the public do not support the journals that take an
interest in restraining the inroads of the police on the
liberty of the people, they will speedily find that
Colonel Row and Sir JAMES GRAHAM will treat
Englishmen like Russian serfs. There is an evident
tendency in that direction. We believe Sir J. GRAHAM
to be the most dangerous Home Minister that ever
filled the office, not even SIDMOUTH excepted ; and if
the people of this country wish to preserve their
liberties, they ought to get up meetings in every dis-
trict to pray the QUEEN to dismiss the renegade. He
opens letters entrusted to the Post-office, he disperses
harmless multitudes when they assemble to petition
Parliament for a redress of grievances. He, was once
the advocate for sponging out the national debt, the
most radical leveller of the present time ;
and he is now the most bitter persecutor of the
men who follow out his original principles.
We could bear with some degree of patience such
conduct from an old consistent Tory ; but such de-
spotism on the part of a Radical-Reformer, an osten-
tatious friend of liberty—a professed friend of the
people, and one of the leading men who carried the
Reform Bill, is quite insufferable.

It may be remembered that, in the House of Lords
a few nights ago, Earl FITZHARDINGE having stated
that in the Almonry there were twenty-four notori-
ous houses of ill-fame, all the property of the Dean
and Chapter of Westminster, the Bishop of GLou-
CESTER denied the statement with much virtuous in-
dignation, observing :—" Two years ago the subject
was brought before the Chapter, when they were in-
formed that no steps could be taken, because the pro-
perty was under lease, but as the leases ran out they
refused to renew, and thus abated the nuisance. But
they had determined to take a still stronger step, and
out of their own funds to purchase the remainder of
the leases. They had done so, and from their
own resources they had purchased the remainder
of the leases, and the houses of bad repute
had been pulled down and destroyed." Here we
have a positive and distinct statement made by a grave
episcopal dignitary, apparently on his own personal
knowledge of the facts. There is nothing evasive, or
indirect, or hypothetical, in his reply to Earl FITZ..
/I A RDINGE'S charge ; it is a flat denial, put forth with
the decided air of a man who feels conscious that what
he says will admit of no contradiction. Now, in
answer to the ghostly Bishop's indignant denial of the
charge brought against the Dean and Chapter of
Westminster, we direct our reader's particular atten-
tion to the following facts, which we quote from a
letter in a Morning Contemporary, and which is
signed " A Friend to Truth :"—" Not a single
house in the Almonry has been taken down,
except some which were unoccupied on account
of their ruinous condition.—Nearly, if not quite
every house in the Almonry is one of ill-fame
at this moment, where scenes of the most dis-
gusting character are perpetrated at noon-day. The
Dean and Chapter, and it is said, snore especially the
Bishop of GLOUCESTER, did everything in their power
to prevent this property being improved some years
ago. Within the last month the Dean and Chapter
have declared they would oppose any Bill for the
improvement of this pestilential district." The writer
of this letter adds that he engages to prove every one
of the above facts, whenever, and wherever, called
upon. A correspondent of the Patriot, and who is
also. a parishioner of Westminster, writing on the same
delicate subject, expressly says :—" There is not one
word of truth in the Bishop of GLOUCESTER'S statement.
Four of the bad houses are certainly closed, but the
other twenty are fully and actively employed, as they
have been to my certain knowledge for the last forty.
Years. I have just returned from a personal inspec-
tion of these Almonry nuisances, it being eight
o'clock on Saturday evening, the 15th of June, 1844,
and I have counted twenty of them occupied in a way
that public decency prevents my further describing."
The Westminster parishioner then goes on 'to state,
that during the forty years in which these houses'
have been in use the leases of most of them
have been renewed over and over again ,
and that as the application for renewal is
made every fourteen years, his Lordship and his
colleagues, or their predecessors or representatives,
could not have inspected any of the houses, in order
to settle the renewal fines, without 'seeing 'the im-
moral purposes to which the whole are devoted. -Now,
if these two statements be true, and we see no reason
to doubt their truth, seeing that the writers both
speak from- their own personal knowledge of facts
what becomes of the Bishop of GLOVCSSTaII virtuous

denial of Earl FITZIIARDINGi 8 charge ? The matter
cannot possibly be suffered to rest where it is, and we
do hope that some public-spirited individual either in
the Lords or Commons, will direct attention to the
case, in order that this disgusting nuisance—per-
petrated under the very nose of the Apostolic
Dean and Chapter of Westminster, and almost, as it
would appear, with their connivance may be
promptly put an end to. It is perfectly absurd for
the Bishop of LONDON, in his zeal for the spread of
religion and morality, to advocate the building of
new churches throughout his diocese, when not less
than twenty houses—anything but clerical in their
character—are in full and active employment within
half a mile from the Bishop's own mansion in St.
James's-square, and almost within a stone's throw of
that august spot where the episcopal bench dis-
charge their senatorial functions ! To advocate the
erection of new churches in the metropolis, and yet
at the same time to permit the continuance of not
less than twenty houses of ill-fame in Westminster,
what is this but the most sickening cant and hy-
pocrisy ! The Bishop of LONDON would be far more
usefully and religiously employed in endeavouring to
put down these intolerable nuisances, than in count-
ing the wherrys which may happen to be gliding
over the broad bosom of the Thames on Sundays.

Madrid journals of the 16th inst. have been re-
ceived, but they bring no news.
The Three per Cents. were done at 27i i for cash,
271 for the 30th inst., and the Five per Cents. at 20
for the 21st inst.

The discussion on the proposed railway lines through-
out France still occupy the Chamber of Deputies,
but do not promise a very satisfactory result. There
is evidently a great difference of opinion between the
Government and the Members as to the share the
State should take in these great undertakings. The
Government plan is, that the State should be only at
the expense of forming the line, leaving the laying of
the rails, building carriages, &c., to companies ; while

a considerable number of the Deputies are of opinion
that the whole work should be completed by the State.
On Saturday a division took place on this question
in reference to the Paris and Lyons line. On the
order of the day being read for a grant simply to
construct the road, M. GAUTIER DE ROMILLT moved,
u an amendment, that a sum, not exceeding
62,000,000 francs, be placed at the disposal of the
Government, to enable it to construct the road, and
also lay down the rails along the entire line. The
amendment was carried by a majority of 1, the
numbers for the amendment being 138, and against
137. After these discussions have been brought to a
close, another subject of a more interesting character
will be brought before the Chamber—namely, the
present state of the finances. The report on
the Budget, drawn up by M. BlosoN, has
just been printed and distributed among the
Deputies, and it is not certainly of a very cheer-
ing description. The expenses for the year are
estimated at 1,276,106,791 f. (51,000,0001.) ; the de-
ficits from 1840 to 1844 amount to 178,562,000 f.
(7,100,0000 ; and the floating debt to 300,000,000 f.
(12,000,0001.) The reductions proposed do not ex-
ceed 3,790,766 f. The Committee proposed no reduc-
tion in the army with the exception of recommending
the suppression of 2,000 artillery horses. The total
effective stands thus :-344,000 infantry ; 84,416 ca-
valry ; and, with the proposed reduction, 11,000 artil-
lery. The steam navy consists of 47 vessels. The
following additional details appear in the Journal des
Debats :
~ The extraordinary budget, which is considerably in-
creased in the course of this session, is pointed out with clear-
ness and precision in the report of the Committee. The
gefftral credits granted by the Bill of 1841, for the execution
of the different public works, have risen to 496,821,400 f.
The credif opened by the railroad bills, for the improvement
of the ports, and the fortifications of Havre, are estimated at
534,180,000 f. The total therefore of the deficits, including
the excess of the erdinar,y budget, amounts to 1,209,563,847 f.,
but by deducting credits, which are only eventual, and
reckoning the annuity of the reserve of the sinking fund, and
the last two-thirds of the loan, the floating debt for this year
may be put down at 203,639,842 f.
" The question of the reimbursement of the consolidated
debt in live per Cent. Rentes, which amounts to a capital
of 2,940,309,600 f., represented by 147,040,480 f. of rente, was
the subject of serious examination by the Committee. The
Minister of Finance was asked whether he conijdered con-
version as possible, and if he thought the proposition might
be brought forward at the opening of the next session. The
Minister, although admitting the necessity of giving a solu-
tion to the question, refused to fix any precise period at 1
which the Cabinet would take the initiative in this impracti-
cable measure.

" This reserve of the Minister is sufficiently accounted for
by the financial situation of the country. In fact, as the pre-
vious deficits and the sums voted for the ports and railways
may oblige the Government to have recourse to a loan at no
rery distant period, an idea of conversion might have a
serious effect on credit.

The proposition of the Minister of Finance tending to
reduce from four to three per cent. the interest paid by the
Government for the guarantee deposits lodged in the hands
of the State by officers holding responsible situations, was
warmly opposed by a part of the Committee, and supported
as strongly by others. The division of their opinions was so
nicely balanced that the Committee refrained from giving
any opinion, but will lay the arguments pro and core. before
the Chamber.
" The principal reductions proposed by the Committee are
principally economics on the estimates of the different Minis-
tries, and are chiefly connected with the war budget. The
Commission accepts the proposed effective strength of the
army at 344,000 men, and 84,416 horses, as it has been fixed
by the Minister of War. It considers this force as sufficient
to keep up the organisation of the army, and give complete
security to the country. The report speaks in terms of com-
mendation of the initiative taken by Marshal Soult, in pro-
posing a reduction in his budget of 4,000 men, and 1,000
horses, and soliciting him to persevere in the course he has
begun.

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The budget of the Minister of Foreign Affairs has been
approved in its most essential points; a reduction of 50,000
francs only being proposed on the chapter for foreign
missions.

" The question of the steam navy also occupied much of the
attention of the Committee. The number of steam-vessels
on the Ist of January 1844, was—one of 540 horse power;
three of 450 ditto ; one of 320 ditto ; seven of 220 ditto ;
twenty-one of 160 ditto ; one of 150 ditto ; two of 120 ditto ;
one of 100 ditto ; five of 80 ditto ; three of 60 ditto ; two of
30 ditto ; making together 47 of a strength of 8,210 horses,
but this strength remains to be brought up to that of 15,550
horses, in conformity with the provisions of the different votes
passed on the subject. "

The report concludes with a recommendation to the
different Ministers, of care and precision in the pre-
paration of their respective budgets, and requires that
for the future there shall be annexed to each budget
a list of the emplaye4 and the amount of salaries
received.

THE BOURSE-SATURDAY, JUNE 22.

First Highest Lowest

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cutts 122 10 .. 122 15 .. 122 05 .• 122 15
Three per Cents... • • 82 60 • • 82 60 .• 82 55 .. 82 5.5
Bank of France• • .•... 3070 ••3070 • • 3060 ..3060
Latlitte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesll3s ..1135 ..1135 • • 1135
5,000 f. Bharesso92 30 —5092 50 ••5092 50 —5092 50
Ilelgian Bank ...• • • • • • • • • • • 660 .• 660 660 .. 660
Belgian Fiver,lB3l ••.• • • • 1031 • • 104 .• 1034 .. 104
1840 ...• •• •• 1041 .. 1044 .. 1044 .. )041
1842 .. .. •• • . 1084 .. 1084 • • 1084 .. 108/
Threea • ••• • • • 78 60 .. 78 60 • . 78 60 .. 78 60
Dutch Two.and-a•Hall •• • 62 .. 62 .. 82 . 62
Spanish Active ...• .• • • • • 311 314 .. 314 .. 314
Threes 35 • • 35 .. 35 .. 35
New Deferred • ... 124 .. 124 • • 124 .. 124
Portugueaa Five per Cents.. 464 • . 47 .. 464 • • 47
Neapolitan ...... • • ...• • .. 99 70 99 75 .. 99 70 .. 99 75
Rowan . 104 i .. 1044 .. 1044 .. 1044
'RAILWAY SHARES.

Versailles, R. 14... • • ...... . 380 .. 392 50 .. 380 .. 392 50
L.B . 247 50 247 50 .. 245 .. 246 25
Rouen • • • • • • • .• • • • • • • • • 990 .. 990 .. 990 .. 990
Rouen to Havre. •• • • • • 765 .. 767 50 .. 765 .. 766 35
Orleans .• • ...... • .••1002 50 ..1005 —lOO2 50 .. 1005

Strasburg to 8a1e....
Avignon to Marseilles.. 768 75 .. 768 75 .. 768 75 . 768 15

RAILWAY SHARES FOR 302 H JUNE.
St. Germain

• • 893

Versailles, R. 8........ •• • • 380 .. 392 50 .. 380 .. 392 50
Lat • • • • • • , • . ••• 245 . • 247 50 .. 245 .. 247 50
Rouen •• ..... 993 78 .. 993 75 . 992 50 .. 992 50
Rouen to lietrre•• .• •• ...... 765 .. 768 75 .. 765 .. 768 75
Orleans .....1005 .•1006 25 .•1002 50 ..1002 50
Strasburg to Bale.— .• .• 235 .. 237 50 .. 235 .. 237 50
Avignon to Marseilles— •• •• 770 770 .. 767 50 .. 768 7S

- -
RETURN or HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHASS
or KENT.—Her Royal Highness is expected to arrive is
England, from Germany, in the course of this week. The
alterations which have been in progress at Frogmore-heuse,
near 'Windsor, ever since the departure of the Duchess, have
been commanded to be finished, and the mansion to be pre-
pared for the reception of her Royal Highness by Saturday
next. Should the Duchess of Kent arrive in London before
her Majesty has left Buckingham Palace for Windsor Castle,
her Royal Highness will take up her residence at Clarence-
house, St. James's, and remain there until the Court leaves
town for Windsor, when the Royal Duchess will take her de-
parture for Frogmore-house.
We record with much regret the death of Mr.
O'Hanlon, counsel to the Irish office. It appeared that the
deceased swallowed a fish-bone on Sunday last, which, after
some difficulty, passed into the stomach, but, unfortunately,
it caused irritation in the lower intestines, which were at tha
time predisposed to inflammation. On Tuesday evening, a
violent inflammation came on ; and, in the middle of the
night, mortification ; and, the next day, death. Mr. O'Hanlon
was still in the full vigour of manhood, and his healthful
and athletic appearance gave all earthly premise of a long
life.— Observer.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.—Among the nobility who
have visited the Haymarket Theatre within the last few
nights to see the new comedy, Quid pro Quo, were the
Duchess of Bedford, the Dukes of Bedford, Devonshire, and
Leeds; Marquises Clanricarde and Douro; Earl and Coun-
tess Craven ; Viscount and Viscountess Leveson ; the Earls
of Lincoln, Pembroke, and Belfast ; Lord and Lady Brooke ;
Lady Holland, Lords Ranelagh, Macdonald, Albert Cunning-
ham, Falmouth, and Dillon ; Generals Lord Strafford and
Espartero ; Hon. Spencer Ponsonby, E. Lascelles, F. Leveson,
R. Gore, G. Barrington ; Mrs. Arbuthnot, Sir Henry and
Lady Webster, Sirs Henry Wheatley, W. Freemantle, John
Quin, Andrew Corbett, Captain Martin, &c.
THE IRISH VICEROYALTY.-.--The Duke of Rich-
mond has been mentioned as the probable successor of Earl
Ae Grey. a$ Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, but there is reason
!o believe that Lord Heytesbury will be appointed to that
import ant pot—Herad,