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terday, which imputed fraud to the promoters of tbltt
Bill. He moved that the petition be printed, and gave
notice that on Friday he would fund a motion on the

subject.
After a short discussion, Sir IL PEEL suggested that
a Committee should be appointed, to inquire into the
allegations of fraud, made in the petition presented
yesterday by Mr. newns, and ultimately the following
Gentlemen were appointed as a Committee of Inquiry—
Mr. HAWES, Mr. E. B. DENISON, Mr. BARING, Mr.
WARBURTON. Mr. B. Escorr, Mr. HUTT and Lord
Cza-vz.

COL DAMER stated, in answer to the address of the
House, that her MAJESTY had ordered 20,0001. to be paid
to the sufferers by the fire at Quebec.
In answer to Lord PALMERSTON, it was stated by Sir
G. CLERK that the Board of Trade disapproved of the
practice of attaching two engines to railway trains for
the purpose of propelling them. _ _ .

Mr. WADDINGTON having alluded to the accident on
the Eastern Counties Railway,
Mr. WARD said that.he believed it was owing to one
of the wedges having got loose, and that nu human fore-
sight ceuld have provided against it.
COlonel SIBTH ORP thought the Government ought to
take measures to prevent such accidents, and that the
Company should make ample compensation to the suf-
ferers.

Mr.-,GREGORY complained of the incivility of the offi-
cials on the Eastern-Counties Railway, and thought the
Board of Trade ought to have more power.
Colonel WOOD thought one of the Directors ought to
reside at the station.

Mr. WARD said the Company had agreed, that morn-
ing, to pay all the expenses of every sufferer by the
accident.

__Mr. HUME gave notice of a motion on the subject of
:rish workhouses.

A discussion then ensued, on the order of the day
being read for the consideration of the Silk Works Bill,
which, after several Jim. Members had addressed the
House, was adjourned till Friday next.
Lord Joux RUSSELL then rose, and after a few brief
preliminary observations took a clear and compre-
hensive review of the business of the session, adverting
in the course of it to the various measures that
have been passed affecting our domestic condi-
tion and foreign pollicy, and concluding by ex-
pressing a hope that on the commencement of the next
session Ministers would be prepared to introduce mea-
sures more in consonance with the principles of free-
trade.

Sir J. Gaaimilt briefly replied, and, after a few ob-
Tvations from weveral other Honourable Members, the
ouse adjourned.

It is believed by persona likely to be well inforined,

that the close of the session will be followed by a change
in the Government far more important than the substitu-
tion of Lord MAHON for Mr. TENNENT, or of Mr.
CRIPPS or Sir CHARLES DOUGLAS (whichever may be the
fbrturiutus peer) for Captain BOLDER°. " When Lord
STANLEY is fairly out of his New Zealand scrape, it is
believed that good care will be taken to get him out of
the Colonial-office, before he gets into another. The
political process of kicking up stairs, which was new to
the witty Lord HALIFAx, has since become a very trite
expedient; and the practised dexterity of Sir R. PEF.I.
will find no difficulty in Rreserving Lord STANLEY'S
dignity unimpaired, while he at one and the same time
relieves bim from the heavy responsibility of the Colonial
portfolio, and our Colonial Empire from the heavy
weight of his grievous mismanagement. What is Lord
STANLEY'S exact destiny,—from which of the great
honorary posts of the Government he is to continue to
manage the House of Lords, and to watch the turf,—
whether he is to be Privy Seal or President of the
Council, we do not take upon ourselves to say :
nor can we say who ' is to be his successor
Rumour names three individuals, two of whom, un-
doubtedly, would be no better than the doomed Lord
STANLEY, while the chief recommendation, at present,
of the third is that he is comparatively untried and un-
known. These three rumoured successors are Mr.
GL ADSTONE:LOrd ELLENBOROUGH, and Lord DALHOUSIE.
Heaven defend our colonies from the crooked Oxford
Jesuit ; far better than that would be Lord ELLENBO-
ROUGH, or the young and inexperienced Lord DAL-

HOUSIE.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE, the President of the Council,
has been long known to covet the Home-office. Sir J.
GRAHAM has gained, in the Home-office, a reputation
almost unequalled for administrative skill ; and we can
conceive no shuffling of the Government cards which
would more easily accomplish Sir ROBERT PEEL'S ob-
ject, better please all parties, and more benefit all the
great interests which are to be considered, than the
transplantation of Sir JAMES GRAHAM to the Colonies,
of Lord WHARNCLIFFE to the Home-office, and of Lord
STANLEY to the honorary office of Lord President of,the
Council. Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S great administrative
talents are not unaccompanied, it is true, by faults which
have gathered for him a large stock of personal
unpopularity ; but his faults are rather faults of manner,
which offend individuals brought into personal commu-
nication, than faults which would materially detract from
the benefit that the colonies would derive from his singu-
larly clear head and indefatigable industry.
It is not improbable that there will also be some shuf-
fling of the smaller cards in the Government pack ; and
we advise the electors .of Cambridge to be on the look
out, as nothing is more probable than that Mr. MANNERS
SorroN should be put into some berth which will he a
comfortable piovision for life. But the destinies of the
nation will not be materially influenced by the fate of
Mr. MANNERS SUTTON.
Neither will much depend on Lord MAHON'S ac-
ceptance of the secretary-ship of the Board of Control.
We have heard indeed that his Lordship has refused
this flattering offer : and one might indeed be surprised
at his accepting it, or even at the offer being made, if
one did not remember that Sir R. PEEL had signalised
the commenc,ment of his administration by offering one
of the Vice-Chancellorships to 'Lord COTTENHAM.
This must be Lord 'MAHON'S coosolation for the other-
wise apparently low estimate of his qualifications, im-
plied in a proposal that he shalt succeed Mr. EMERSON
TENNENT, and be Lord JOCELYN'S junior at the Board
of Control, notwithstanding that two years ago he was
Under Secretary for, Foreign Affairs, and that his
rank and standing in the House of Commons and in his
party are further illustrated by high character, and a
most creditable literary reputation.

Accounts from Constantinople to the 16th ult., appear in
the German Universal Gazette, according to which the re-
volt which had broken out at Wan was on the increase.
Eleven battalions of infantry, and two batteries of artillery,
were on the march from Erzeroum. The rebels had mur-
dered an Armenian priest and the Charge d'Affaires of the
PACTIA. They are Mussulmans, but of a different sect. The
inhabitants and Rayah Christians support the Porte. A
merchant ship had broUght in news of a revolution in the
island of Candia. The Mussulmans wanted to kill the
PACIIA, on suspicion that be favoured the Greeks. Eighty
millions of piastres is the estimated amount of damage occa-
sioned by the fire at Smyrna.

According to the Gatnte de Cologne, Prince 31ErrEnNicx
arrived at Johannisberg on the 30th ult. The King and
Queen of PRUSSIA arrived at Stolzenfelds on the 28th, and on
the 30th they made an excursion to Coblentz.
From a letter, dated Vienna, July 24, which appears in the
French paper L'Univers, it appears that one of the objects
of Prince MErrEnsicn in seeking an interview with the
King of PRUSSIA at Johannisberg, is to persuade his'Majesty
not to give a constitution to Prussia.

News from Lisbon to the 29th July has arrived. Ax-
TONIO CABRAL had returned to the capital, and had resumed
his office of Minister of the Interior. His brother JOSE had
been nominated Minister of Justice, and had set off on an
electioneering expedition to Oporto, having, before his de-
parture, published two ordinances, which made still further
inroads on the constitution.

Madrid papers to the 29th have arrived. The QUEEN,
during her stay at Saragossa, had pardoned a criminal under.
sentence 'of death. Her MAJESTY wa. expected at St.
Sebastian nn the 2d of August.
MADRID BOURSE.—Three per Cents., for Cash, 28i; for
Account, 29i ; Five per Cents., for Cash, 214

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
The Moniteur publishes various, royal ordivani es---mong
them one authorising the Minister of Alarine to apply, in
1845 i:nd 1846. a sum of 9,760,0 0 francs to increase the
sqnadron on the 'western coast 1;f Afri. a, mid construct and
arm seven additional steamers to be employed on the African
station. Another ordinance authorises the expenditure of
13,000,000 francs for improving the works and harbours of
Toulon and Port Vendres.
According to the A/ge,rip,
_ABD- EL. KADEtt bad evacuated
the territory of Algeria, and had retired to the deserts of the
south-east, which' belong neither to Algeria nor to Morocco.
He cannot, however, remain long there for want of subsist-
ence, but neither can he be pursued' at this season of the
year.' Both the French and the Emperor of Morocco are
adopting measures to prevent hint from returning into their
dominions.

On the Ist inst. the Duke end Duchess of NEMOURS
arrived at Perigueux. Count .ilittssoN had arrived at

Bordeaux.

The great Madrid banker had arrived at Paris, having,
according to private accounts, been compelled to fly from
Madrid in consequence of the threats of NARVAEZ. During
the late crisis CERIOLA had been furtunate in his speculations
on the Bourse, and had won large sums from Salamanca and
from NARVAEZ, and the latter had determined to get back
his money by getting up a pretended Pr,?gressista conspiracy
for the especial purpose of involving CERIOLA. The col-