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The President of the Direc-
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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
TO-MORROW EVENING
Will be revived Mereadante's Opera IL GIIIRAMENTO. Eloisa,
Madame Grisi ; Isaura, Madame ltellini ; Bianca, Mdlle. Brambilla ;
Manfred°, Sig. Fornasari ; Vacardo, Sig. Moriani.
The Dauseuses Vionnoises will appear In some of their favourite
Pas (it being their last aiipearance but one).
To conclude with LA ESMERALDA
In the Third Tableavc, the admired Pas de Quatre, from the " Lac
des Fees," by Mdlles. Cerito, Ferdinand, DemePsse, and M. St. Lem.
La Esmeralda, :Mlle. Carlotta Grist; Fleur de Lye, Madame
Petit Stephan ; Phoebes de Chateupers, M. St. Leon ; Pierre
Gringo•re, M. Perrot.
applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Hex-
qtlice, Opera Colonnade.
Doors open at Half-past Seven o'clock ; to commence at Eight.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE.
THIS EVENING

Will be repeated an entirely new and Original Opera, entitled
THE ENCHANTRESS. The Music composed by M. W. Balfe ; the
%ibretto, by M. de St. Georges and Mr. Bunn.
Don Sylvio, Mr W. Harrison; Ramir, Mr. Borranl ; Duke
d' Aquila, Mr. Weiss; Nugnez, Mr. H. Horncastle; Stella, Madame
Una Thillon.

To conclude with the celebrated Ballet of LA GISELLE. The
Duke of Silesia, Monsieur Silvain ; Giselle, Mdlle. Louise.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYII4A.RICET,
LESSEE, AR. B. WEBSTER.
THIS EVENING

V:11 repeated a New and Original Corned), by Douglas Jerrold,
milled TIME WORKS WONDER.;. Goldthumb, Mr. W. Farrell;
Felix Goldthumb, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Bantam, Mr. Buckstone ;
Miss Bessy Tulip, Madame Vestris ; Florentine, Miss Fortescue ;
Mies fucker, Mrs. Glover ; Patty, Mrs. Humby.
After which will be repeated a Dramatic Sketch, entitled THE
OLD SOLDIER. Sir Lionel Huffier, Mr. Brindal ; Master Michael
Cramp, Mr. Ti►bury ; Adam Lethersole (aged 95), Mr. W. Farrell ;
Buff, Mr. James Bland; Patience Cramp, Mrs. Stanley; Helen,
Miss Telbin.

To conclude with an entirely New Farce, c,liled THE KIN,I
AND I. Period, 1691. Sir William Melrose, Mr. H. Holl ; Burchell,
Mr. James Bland; Perkin Pyefinch, Mr. Buckstone; Jessie
,Donald,
Miss Julia Bennett.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CET,EST'
THIS EVENING

Will be repeated a New Comedy, entitled PEG WOFFINIITON;
or, The State Secret. The Marquis de Mousseux, Mr. Selby ; Baron
Stuph, Mr, Paul Bedford ; George Tarleton, Mr. Hudson ; Merestick,
Mr. Wright ; Peg Woffington, Miss Woolgar.
After which, THE IRISH ATTORNEY; or, Galway Practice in
1770. Pierce O'Hara, Mr. Hudson; Jacob Wylie, Mr. Cullenford.
After which, an Original Terpsich. irean Burletta, called POWDER
AND BALL ; or, St. Tibbs's Eve. Mr. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mr.
Lambert ; Captain Kidglove, Mr. selby ; Jacob Gerkin, Mr. Wright ;
Mrs. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mrs. Frank Matthews ; Sally Knobbs,
Miss Woolgar.

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY.
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, in Two Acts.
entitled FRIENDS AT COURT. Principal Characters by Messrs.
F. Vining, A. Wigan, Diddear, Turner, Collier, and Bender ; Mrs.
Keeley, Miss \Wars, and Miss Fairbrotber.

Atter which, an entirely New, Original, and Novel Grand Fairy
BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled LES FEES. In which Les
Danseuses Anglaises will appear.

To be followed by a New- Farce, entitled LUCK'S ALL. Principal
Characto to by Messrs. F. Vining, Diddear, Keeley, Meadows, KM-
loch, and Timer ; Miss Hicks, and Mrs. A. Wigan.
To conclude with an entirely New Operatic, Dramatic, Chivalric,
fairy, Romantic Burlesque, entitled CINDERELLA. The Principal
Characters by Mr. Keel,J, Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Frank Mathews, Mr.
J. W. Collier, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Falrbrother, Mrs.
vt,onidge. Miss Grove, Miss Howard, &c
ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—KKENCII PLAY.
. _

Fourth appearance at this Theatre of the popular Actor, M:ARNAL.

THIS EVENINiI

Will be performed RENAUDIN DE CAEN. Redaudin, M.
Amid ; Suzette, lie. Ozy.
TO conclude with L'HO ME BLASE. Nantouillet, Mone. Areal.
!loxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, is. Doors
iil be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Performances commence
at Half-past.

DAV WOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
M. PHILLIPPE'S SOIREES MYSTERIEUSES.
In order to afford to the patrons and fiequenters of this Theatre an
opportunity of witnessing the most extraordinary Entertainment
ever produced in this country, an arrangement has been made with
the Celebrated M. PHILLIPPE (now performing at the at. James's
Theatre with unparalleled success), for Three pertormauces only, of
his astonishing exhibition of

PHYSIQUE A3ICSANTE, MAGICAL DELUSIONS! ! !
Which will take place on MONDAY next, June 30 ; WEDNESDAY,
July 2; and FRIDAY, July 4.
There will be no advance of prices.
Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. Applications for Places, Private
Boxes, &c., to be made to Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box-office, from
Eleven till Four.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
PRGPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY.
Immense and overflowing Audiences attend the re-production of the
Grand Military Spectacle of The Battle of Waterloo.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Introducing
the Double Company of French and English Artistes. The Em-
peror Napoleon by Mr. Gomersal, who is engaged expressly for this
occasion.
New Scenes in the Circle, presenting the first talent of British and
Foreign Equestrians of the present day.
To conclude with the New Grand Pantomimic Spectacle of THE
GREEK RENEGADE.

JULLIEN'S SECOND CONCERT MONSTICE.
FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1345.

In consequence of the immense preparation necessary to give, at
the SECOND GRAND CONGRESS MUSICALE, the same eclat as
obtained at the first Concert Monster, June 20, the SECOND CON-
CERT MONSTER IS POSTPONED, and will take place on FRI-
DAY, July 11, on which occasion great Instrumental No -eltles will
he produced, also several eminent artists from the provinces and
the Continent will arrive, in addition to the Immense galaxy of instru-
mental talent at the first Concert Monetre.

"1, JttHien begs respectfully to draw the attention of Musical
Amateurs to his announcements during the ensuing week, in which
the arrangements pending will he tvivertisol.

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COMBINATION OF ATTRACTIONS.
The Four Juvenile Minstrel Brothers and the Rock Harmonicon,
Every Day, from Nine till Dusk.
ROMANTIC GARDENS AND PROMENADE.
EXTENSIVE AND ITNRIVALLED MENAGERIE.
COLOSSAL MODELLED REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH,
The Acme of Scenic Illusion.
The MINSTREL BROTH -MS, from Four to Twelve Years of Age,
will perform Select Airs at intervals.
The ROCK HARMON ICON from Three till Eight.
knd on MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and THURS-
DAYS, GRAND CONCERTS D'ETE and MAGNIFICENT
DISPLAY of FIREWORKS.
Admission, One Shilling.
Feeding the Carnivora at Half-past Five Pelicans and Polar Bears
at ; Concert at Half- ,a3t Six; awl Fireworks at Half-put

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to the tone of emphatic deprecation in which any possible
collision between Parliain, nt and the courts of law is
spoken of. To the mischiefs of any such col-
lision we are fully alive ; but we cannot think
that the same danger or inconvenience could attach
to it new, v,hich might have been reasenahlv appre-
headed irons it prior ti• 1761, when GEORGE 111, first
cneated juile,s by patents for life. Tliat is to say, se
long as judges held their high and most exalted offices
under the Crown, only " darn,* bene•placito" (as their
appointments then ran), the policy of the State should
have been what the spirit of the Constitution adopts—
namely, to upheld the authority of decisions of the
courts of law against all privilege beyond the law,
claimed by the councils of the Crown, in which there
would probably sit venal judges, its own creature.-.
But now, when the tenure of the judge is qnaindiic se
bene gesserit. there is nettling to fear, where other cir •
cumstauces justify, Parlisment in r: sorting to its pri-
vilege for the protection of its owe offieers --•from its
enfercing that privilege against the decisiet, if courts .1
law. Now H e can imagini no cases str,pger ti
justify the assertion of this privilege thin ha
before the House, or its uniiiediate predee, astir, " Stock-
oale v. Hans,rd.- The pubiication of evidence taken
bef we the Coalluittees of Parliament, is pereaps one of
the most uequalified public bsnefits the Legislature con-
fers on the country It the publisher of so notorious
and scandalous a work us the " Wilson Memoirs," could
it:duce a jury to believe teat he had really been libelled
in one of the depositions printed by order of the House
of Commons, among a hundred others, he was a lucky
fellow. Bat we do not see that, therefore, the writ of
a co..a of law, in which a verdict of damages had been
taken by such a plaintiff, ought to defeat the exercise of
so vital a power as the privilege of Parliament. Under
other circumstances, and as against a private defendant,
it would have mattered not one straw to the public
whether an attorney—Mr. SMITH, or Mr. HOWARD, or
Mr. JONES— did or did not make " a good thinCout of his
action, or how light or how heavy damages he could in-
duce a jury to give him. But it matters much, indeed,
whether Mr. !lowan]) should be allowed, by the capricious
event of an apical to a court of law, with the benefit of
his own technical management, to make the House of
Commons change places with him, and sue it, by its
offici:r, as a civil delinquent. From one parsgrsph
the report before us it would appear that others are
emulous of the successful experiment of Mr. HOWARD,
" Three ether actions are pending at present against
officer's of the House for acts done under its autho, ity, in
one of these action; the damages have been laid at
100,000/. (! !) and they base all been brought in the
Court of Queen's Bench." Of course, they have been.
We will undertake to promise that Court an enormous
accumulation of business in similar actions, if the Par-
liament do not interpose to put an end to the prevailing
fever of Parliament pres,•cutions. But when some of
these gentlemen are so m .dest in their estimate of the
damages they shall go for, as to " write down "
100,0001 upon the record, the House of Commons must
interpose to bar it ; if in no other character, surely in that
of guardian of the public purse. But what is the proxi-
mate cause of a condition of things thus false and
complicated ? As •it appears to us, the ill-judged in-
structions given by the House to Mr. Attorney-General
to plead to the action, Nothing can be more moderate,
yet dignified, more temperate or reasonable, than the
language ot. the " Report," which we published on Sa-
turday. But we cannot help deploring the step thus
taken in this remarkable business. The Committee state
(and no doubt with perfect truth) that the probable in-
tention of the House, in permitting its officer to plead in
this case, agreeably to the precedents of " But dett v.
Abbott," and " Stotkdale v. Hansard," was not to sub-
mit its privileges to the jud‘ment of a court of la*, hitt
merely to bring within the c• gnizance of the Court. in
the most formal manlier, the fact that the acts com-
plained of by the plaintiff had been done by officers of
the House. at the instance and under the authority of the
Hens-. The Ceuta& tee wail:ally contend, in this view
of the cgs., thie thi pliers ought at once to have beez
adailtted by the Coon as a stiff- lent answer to the ac-
tion. The Court did no such teeing, and this is just one
of those cases in which success alone can excuse art
error in judgtrent, whatt,va were the grounds it went
upon.

We do not pause to inquire wherein the analogy con-
sist', that pointed out to the SOLICITOR-GENERAL the
utterly different cas, s of Burdett v Abbott and Stoek-
i!ale v. Han=ard, as precedents to guide the House in
its dealing with this action of "Howard v. Gossett."
But with every respect for the Committee, we dissent
from the doctrine affirmed, in relation to its " First Re-
port," that " as the levying of the plaintiff's execution
" would, in no respect, prejudice the proceedings in the
" Writ of Error," therefore they did not deem it ex-
" pedint to advise the House to interpose to prevent
" the levy." Let us give th,• Committee and the House
full credit for moderation in wishing to proceed by Wri!
of Error to set aside judgment obtained by the plaintiff'
It by no means followed that the vindication of the
of Parliament would be established. It is now
evident that it did n, .t, in fact, ensue on this permission
of the levy. What have they gained by this course ?
A lOss. They nre damnified, not bettered. The Com-
mittee postponed the distinct assertion of a great principle
to a choice of proceedings which, at the best, migh t obviate
the necessity for putting that principle immediately in
issue. Which was the more important point E r them to have
established ; that which would have inhibited, in limzue,
any challenge in a court of law of the privilege, or that
which might indeed, for this time, keep the great issue
of its vindication out of the law courts altogether ; but
could only do so, by invoking in a specific form the re-
medial, and, therefore, the protective, and, therefore, the
superior authority of those very tribunals ? We shall
ever deem it a fatal mistake to have pleaded ; because,
on every principle recognised by the canon, the civil and
the common law in this country, to appear in a jurisdic-
tion under its own form or citation, is to acknowledge
it ; except, indeed, the appearance be under specific pro-
test. Here there has been no such protest. And if
there had been one entered in a former stage of the pro-
ceedings, you tear off your own seal from it by going
elsewhere for a writ of error—unless, indeed, you make
your application so PROTESTING. And this, as laymen—
but earneNtly solicitous for the integrity of those privileges
which we inform all parties concerned in maintaining
them are held on sacred trust for the highest service of the
public—we say this modification cif the recommendation
of the Committee the House of Commons will find it yet
essential to adopt.

It is with great pain that we solicit the attention of
eur readers to the melancholy account we have pub.
lisped of the conflagration at Quebec of the 28th of
May last. By this desolating calamity no less than_
12.000 persons are said to have become homeless, un-
sheltered, and destitut. ; and the 2.000 houses whicb
they had previously occupied have been censurtied by
,he flatnes. One hundred human beings, it is feareo,
have perished in the burning ruins of their homesteads,
or as the helpless, bed ridden patients of a hospital, who
had been purposely removed to a dwelling in another
quarter of the city, the distance of which from the area
of the fire, it was vainly hoped, might protect them from
its ravages. But sparks and burning fragments, wafted
n that direction by a furious wind, accomplished the
destruction of the dwelling, and they perished in it.
The loss of property sustained has been various?), esti-
mated, but probably exceeds 700,000/. sterling.
A disaster mire appalling, has nut often been recarded
even in the annals of_ colonial fires. Much as Quebec
has been of late years improved by the introduction of
substantiaimasonry in the construction of Government
works and of the superior class of private dwellings, it
is still essentially a city of wood. The great mercantile
stores established there, many of the landing piers,
quays, &c., are of that material. Wooden shingle
forms, for the most part, the roofing of the tene-
ments ; and it is, of course, one of the greatest
tilmits in the world for stacked timber, the produce of
the forests of Canada ; deals, battens, staves, logs, &c.
All these appear to have formed fatal elements for the
action of the fire, although its extinction in one quarter
was happily accomplished by the sudden hurling down
of these piled masses. The writer of one account which
has reached as states, that at its broadest point the
breadth of the densely-crowded area, over which this
sudden devastation has swept, is nearly one-third of a
mile. We remark that Lord METCALFE, with his cha-
racteristic energy, and his prompt humanity, has for-
warded 2,0 )01. ; the Roman Catholic Bishop, 5001., for
the relief of the sufferers ; the Hotel Dieu, 5001. As
Cie animosities between the hierarchies of the Roman
Catholic Church and out' own Establishment, which
vent themselves nearer home with so much unbecoming
rancour, are happily modified in Canada by feelings of
reciprocal respect and Christian charity, "our good
Bishop " as he is called, does not cast ungenerous reflec-
tions upon, or impute unworthy motives to, his mitred
brother, as a Bishop of EXETER would deal with a
Bishop of WORCESTER. but frankly and assiduously
emalates his example. The Protestant Bishop of QUE-
BEC embarks with ardour in his pastoral labour of soli-
citing charity for the distressed, and sets in motion the
active agency of all his clergy for the same benevolent
purpose. In Quebec itself about 3,000 of the inhabi-
tants attended at a public meeting, at which between
3.0001. and 4,0001. were sub,crihed. In Montreal a '

similar meeting was about to b • c .evened with a like
object ; and we h-ve no .liitibt that thy• inhabitants of
the Western will come forward generously in aid of

their compatriots of the Eastern province. lii the mean
time we would earnestly eranutenti the atfl,t-in, ca ,e of
these Quehec sufferers to the humane consLieration of
the English public. It is a case of peculiar claim upon
their sympathy, and one which pres .es urgently. for im-
mediate relief: Threat who considr how short is the
dw.-ti,ai of the. warm season in Lower Canada, how
rapid tile approach, and how exoc.:.siv.ly severe the
rigours of a Canadian winter, will at once appreciate
the necessity for immediate exertion on behalf of the
ruined victims of this calamity. Those who cannot
withdraw themselves from the habit of regarding all Ca-
nadian questions under their political relations, and with a
certain degree of political excitoirent, will feel that the
sooner a social evil—adom..4ticiniiiforture—of this mag-
nitude is repnir• d the better it wiII he for the welf,ti e of
the colony a, large. Ti,e:se are not rim, s in which, set
ting out of view consideratiiins ret lameanity, auif apueal•
of private misfortune, it would be expedie,nt to leave th-
metropolis of our moat iii:portanr posssziolis ii A7Deric.i
weakiened by the protracted existence of utimAinteei
suffering •Inte,g its population Ai se,%‘•
Sdef, w!in!d amount to a f! pre-sittup
ti 'ii of itNtninn apathy arid • icon •
11.fiticoce which, in tiepreF,sirig ,lift oven h.
rigs of ;:,t. Lawrtitv.•,, anti
',ion, of some siring their ntighl,ouis on ito•-
of the United St.tes' frontier, it is nit difficult to crtleu
late, though it would be invidi us to dwell upon. Wo
confidently trust that public meetings will he held in our
own metropolis, and in the other groat mercantile and
manufacturing capitals of the united Kingdom, to con-
tribute a liberal fund to the relief of our fellowecountry-
men in Quebec. It will be gratify ing to find, too, tht,t
in an exigency of so awful a nature the Colonial Depart.
,rent here can shake off its customary indiff/rence or
indolence, and vigorously employ both its Parliamentary
influence and its executiv, powers to prompt and rune-
dial measure, for the succour and re-t:stablishment of
the surviving sufferers by this calamity, and the families
and representatives of those who have perished in it.

If we may cr,:-clit the accounts brought by the Great
Western (*tom New York, and the authority of letters
published in that city, said to have been reeeivvd from
Vera Cruz, the knotty question of Tex', independence
would appear to be making good prigress t0.,..J.4, a Fer
Insolent st-ttlement, The Mexican Congress are repr-
s,nted as having intimated their consent to a law for rc-
cognizing fexas as an independent State, on terms
honourable to Mexico, and ativanta;-P.,eou, to both the-
contracting parties. This result alieg.d to be
owing to th- exertions and good trian,geu.ent of toe
English Minister accredited to Texas, who lost no time,
after being fully in possession of the views of the Texas
Government, in putting himself in communication with
the authorities of Mexico, and obtaining the acquiescence
of their Cabinet in the basis of su.eh a treaty as was
finally negotiated. It was farther understood that the
independence of Texas has the joint guarantee of Eng-
land and of France, on condition that she rejects all pro
posals of annexation to the United States or any other
Power whatsoever.

The intelligence to this effect from Mexico appears to
derive confirmation by letters of a previous date from
Vera Cruz. If it he borne out by facts we shall con-
gratulate both the parties to the compact, and the
United States. The only way in which the mischievous
delusion of TYLER'S unprincipled " annexation" scheme
was to be dissipated, was, by putting the citizens of the
United States in the wrong ; for that is the only
chance of inducing them to reason dispassionately
on a prop.)sition too well calculated to gratify
their national vanity at the expense of their
characteristic shrewdness. so long as there appeared to
be no disposition in other Powers to resist their designs.
But Texas, by setting heiref right, as she has now
done, has put the United States in the wrong. The ad-
vances they made to Texas to induce her to become a
member of the F'deral Unhin, proceeded on the assump-
, ion—openly avn.wAl—thst the Government of Texas
th sired ine..rporation wi;h the States ef the Union.
In vindi,.ating her own indep ndence anci grity,
T,xas, irate ad of being absorbed as a component ele-
neut into an unAitidiy federatiri6, secures her own in-
dividual positi,n under the auspices of the two most
powerful nations of Europe. Perhaps, under the com •
plicated relations which the Texas question was fast
assuming, with regard both to the United States and to
this eountry, no course could he suggested so well calcu-
lated to obviate the probabilities of hostile frontier
beti., een Mexico and the United States, and
serious ill-will and heart-burnings between the United
States and this country at some not remote period, as
hat of which we are thus apprised, and which we trust
has been adopted.

Madrid journals of the 20th have been received, but they
bring no news. On that day the Three per Cents. closed at
31 13-16 for cash, and 32;"! at GO days ; the Five per Cents.
at. 21!,4 for cash, and 2178 for the 9th of August ; and the
Passives at 7, at 60 days.

The French Chambers have passed all the estimates for
the principal departments, and the business of the session is
therefore nearly concluded. The Ministers are preparing to
leave Paris for the vacation, and many of the Members of
the Chambers have already proceeded to the country. The
Minister of the Interior will set out for Ems next week,
where he will rennin for a month ; but M. GUIZOT will not
leave Paris for Normandy until his return. According to
the Gazette de France, passports were signed and forwarded.
on Wednesday, to Don CAriLos and his consort, who will
proceed without delay to Greouix, in the department of the
Gard. No passport has yet been granted to the son of
Don CARLOS. " New letters," says that Carlist journal, " have
been received from CARRERA, dated from Bourges. Their con-
tents are of a nature to remove all idea of civil war, which
have been attributed to him and other refugee Spaniards.
The Royalists of this country expect nothing except from
principles, conciliatory means, and public opinion."

The Constitutionnel states that the Seine corvette is to sail
shortly for Otaheite with two hundred soldiers on board.
Another body, already sent out, was to supply the losses oc-
casioned by the combat of Mahahena. The present body is
to be a supplementary force. After having left these men at
Otaheite, the Seine is to proceed to relieve the Rhin, em-
ployed in protecting the whale fishery in Akaroa Bay, in
New Zealand. It is supposed that the greater number of
French subjects will quit that colony, and the Seine is autho-
rised to bring them home.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Thursday at 83f. 65c.; the Five per Cents. at 1211. 65c.;
Orleans Railroad shares, 1,150 E ; Rouen, 100 E ; Vierzon,
700 f. ; Havre, 825 f. ; Avignon, 952 f. 50c.; Basle, 250 f. ;
Spanish Actives, 38* ; Spanish Three per Cents., 41.
Th- following are the quotations for the new lines

Orleans and Bordeaux, 150 f. premium ; Boulogne, 951.
ditto ; Troyes and Moktereau, 20f.; Paris and Lyons
(Laffitte), ; ditto (C)don), 50c. ;; ditto (Ganneron),
sf. 50c. ; Northern line (Leiffitte), 32f. 50c. ; ditto (Rosamel),
5f ; Tours and Nantes ( Mackenzie), lf. 50c. ; ditto
(Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 2E 50c.; ditto (Jacques
Lefevre), pa* ; Lyons and Avignon ( Lecointe), 121. 50c. ; ditto
(Talabot), 27f. 50e. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 71. 50c. ;
Bordeaux and Ttiulouse (Mackenzie). par; ditto and Cette
Lspeleta), 3f. 50c.; Creil and St. Quentin, If. 50c. ; Paris
and Stra-bourg (Ganneron), 71. 15c ; Dijon and Mul-
bausen, If.

LYONS. JUNE 23.—Avignon and Marseilles, 995 f., end of
June: Paris and Orleans, 1,195 E, ditto; Paris and Rouen,
1047 f., ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 740 f., ditto; Orleans
and Bordeaux, 6701, ditto; Moutereau, 725 f., ditto.

It is rumoured that the present Member for Ross and Cro-
marty is about to retire, to make way for an Hon. Baronet
of his own name, with whom it is supposed that there has
long been an understanding to this effect, similar to that
which existed between Mr. Ramsay, the late Member for the
county of Edinbnrgh, and Sir John Hope, to make way for
whom Mr. Ramsay has just retired. Be this as it may, the
young Ross-shire Baronet we allude to is the '• Hope" of
the ultra Tories of his own county; and we b.:tlieve that
they wish him to be their representative, and that
he is now about publicly to announce his intention to
offer himself as a candidate—either on the retirement of the
present Member, or on a dissolution of Parliament. We are,
therefore, happy to be able to assure the electors of this im-
portant county, that whenever a vacancy in their represen-
tation does occur, the Hon. Baronet, or any one who holds
the principles he does on those great civil and ecclesiastical
questions which have excited as deep an interest in Ross and
Cromarty as in any of our Scotch counties, shall not be left
to occupy the field unopposed ; but that a gentleman, who,
it is conf►dently believed, will be most acceptable to the
great majority of the county—whether electors or non-
eleetors—will solicit the honour of their support. WE,
THEREFORE, EARNESTLY RECOMMEND TO THE ELECTORS TO

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