The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-26 00:00:00

On the Madrid Bourse the Three per Cents. were
done at 291 for cash ;, 29 15-16ths for 60 days. The
Fives, for cash, 20 and at 60 days 201..

,Owing to the severity of the weather we have no
accounts from Paris later than those of the ,23d, of
which we gave an outline on Saturday. In the
Chamber of Deputies on the 22d a rather sharp dis-
cUssion took place, relative •to the resignation of
M. DE SALVANDT, late Ambassador at the Sardinian
Court.. M. ODILLIZH(BAIROT demanded some expla-
nation on the subject. M. GUIZOT at once replied,
"I will give no answer to questions which hive been
or may be , proposed on that topic." M. ma SAI,
VANDY in like manner refused to answer any ques-
tions. M. THIERS felt annoyed at this, as he expected
to hearfrom that Deputy some account:of the inter=
view between the KING and him ; and then made an
attack; not upon the 'oreign Minister, but the
Crown. We may judge from the following, pik of
his speech, that M. TmEas has met with some slight
or disappointment at the Tuileries f—" Did a Minister
say to M. DE SALVANDY, art Ambassador ought to
be so firmly bound to the Ministry, as never to vote
against it; we pronounce your dismissal ?' Was it,
I ask, a Minister who said this ? If. so, we have
constitutionally nothing to say. :We may discuss the
question, if this conduct of a Minister was judicious
—and nothing more. But in my opinion it was not
a Minister' who so addressed M. DE SALVANDY,.—
(Confusion, and cries of Order, order.') M. DX
SALVANDT thought it his duty in such a case to
tender his resignation. He perceived that he ought
to see in all this only the Ministry, but this resigna-
"tiori was afterwards withdrawn through respect for
the KING, and again offered, because they wanted to
impose a condition on him which ainouiited afpenal
clause. Such are the facts, and I again repeat that it
was.not a Minister who spoke, as I have stated above,
to M. DE SALVANDT.—(Cries of • Order, order; you
are attacking the KING?) I hear the Minister of the

Interior crying out Order.' There is only one way
of showing that there is good reason for such an ex-
clamation, and that is to prove that what I state is
false. What are we to conclude from all this 7 Why,
nothing less than that, under the present AdmithStra-
tion, acts pass which are at variance with the rigour
of constitwtional rules:" -

M. Gthzor. followed,. and in, firm language pointed
out ',what ha considered constitutional government ::
'My Mends, my .colleagues; and myself," said he,
" consider the representative government in as se-
rious a light as any one, and it is because we do so
that, after serious reflection, I refused to reply to the
questions addressed to me. "accept the responsibi-
lity on everything, but not the discussion. There
are matters-which I allow myself to be fully respon-
sible for, but on which I ought not to speak before
the Chamber. If any of you think the silence of the
Government blameable, let him come forward and
Ministry
at to
ion is accepted. You
prefer a bill of indietrnent against me, At no perio • d ,
in any constitutional Government, has iti been the
come forward and
ssp practicettaeu
of constitutional
theo
t r asfoor force
s wt hheiM
rules, and :yet you ask us to
r
infringe them. Silence may be as constitutional, as
language, and we know how to maintain and prac-
tice, as scrupulously as you! the constitutional rules,
when we refuse to give explanations. ...Zike from the
Cabinet the majOrity—overthrOw-the Ministry—at-- -
tack it as you best 'nay-7'nd are your constitutional
privileges, and .no one contests them. But do not
pretend to -dictate to us our duty, or say that we
ought to render an account of of the acts _that. take
place in the fulfilment of the constitutional preroga-
tives. It is through respect -for -the -constitutional
rules, of which you have spoken; that I descend from
this tribune without having replied to your questions.
—(Approbation from. the Centre, aid rumours from
the Left.)" The motion, as we stated on Saturday,
was lost.

We e' have receivedbring notheadFdiaritions7Pers of Satur-
day bu
news. The
Journal des Debate contains a bitter article against
---t
s ,they ;e e
M. TRIERS,' which leaves no doubt of the fact ad-
verted to above,' that a complete rupture has taken'
place between him and the Court. The conduct of
Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS was the subject of
general conversation, and was viewed with alarm by the
friends of peace in Paris. It was generally believed
that the Government had nothing whatever to do
with the affair, and that he had acted on his own, re-
sponsibility.
On Saturday the French Three per Cents. closed at
82f. 50c.; the Fives at 125 f. 80c. ; Orleans Shares.

842 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 830 f.; Havre, 672 f. 50c.; Avignon,
745 ; Spanish Active, 321.

RAILWAY REFORM.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
An important 'inquiry into a practical grievance, which,
though felt by all, presses most severely on the poor
and working classes, is about to be submitted to the
House of Commons by Mr. Wallace, the Member for
Greenock, on the 29th inst. We allude to that Gentleman's
Motion for the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry into
the entire working of the railway system of this country,
The spirit of the present age is against the existence of all
monopolies—the struggle of the present day is between mono-
poly and free trade ; and we can but wonder that a monopoly
so prejudicial to the best interest of this country, so galling
in its exercise to the poorer classes, and so injurious to the
trading interest, by the heavy charges made on all descrip-
tion of merchandise, as is so clearly demonstrated in
the pamphlet entitled " Railway Reform," should have been
suffered to exist up to the present time. Should the
system proposed in this pamphlet be adopted, an immense
benefit would be conferred on all classes. So great a reform
could have no more fitting advocate than the man whose hi-
domitable perseverance and energetic talent carried into effect
Mr. R. Hill's plan of Post-office Reform. For the achievement
of that great work this country is indebted to Mr. Wallace, and
from the well-known character of that lion. Gentleman no
effort will be wanting on his part to induce the Legislature to
carry into effect a reform so obviously necessary, and which ,
is certain to confer on all classes such great benefit without in-
jury to the interest of those who have embarked their capital
in these undertakings.

SCENE AT A CORONER'S INQUEST.—Late on Tues-
day evening an inquest was held at Newington, before Mr.
Carter, on view of the body of a new-born male child, which
was found in a decomposed state in a basket in Trinity-
gardens, by police constable 64 M, while walking his roundc
at two o'clock on the previous Sunday morning. The body
underwent a post-mortem examination, but the medical men
would not undertake to swear that the child had been born
alive. A verdict of" Found dead" was agreed to. On Mr.
Brooks, the beadle, however, going round to obtain the sig-
natures of the jurymen to the inquisition, he found one of
them (named Ward) fast asleep. After being shaken several
times, he fell on his knees. He was then taken before the
Coroner, and reprimanded for his conduct. In answer to a
question from the Coroner he said he could not tell the precise
time he fell asleep, but he understood that the child had not
been born alive. The circumstance created great laughter.
WnisKEßs.—Of all things avoid a vulgar whisker.
moth-eaten, mouldy whisker,
This' is of various kinds. A short, scrubby, indomitable
red whisker is a vulgar whisker; a weak, fuzzy, white,
is a vulgar whisker; a twist-
ing, twining, serpentine, sentimental, cork-screw of a whis-
ker is a vulgar whisker a big, black, bluff, brutal-looking
whisker is a vulgar whisker; a mathematical, methodistical,
ina
master-of-artistical diagram of a whisker is a vulgar whisker.
Whatever is not any of the,e_will do.......putdin University
Magazine.

' officiating R claplain mist be "an officer of
the union, and' paid for his services, is enough
to make one blush for modern legislation,
and its utter forgetfulness, or something worse, of the
moral welfare of those whom it affects to protect.'
The spiritual destitution of the poor, especially
youth and children, in the union-houses of Kings-
bridge, Tavistock, and Preston, does appear, from
the Bishop's account, to be appalling; • the desecra-
tion of the. Church services, in these and other such
houses, almost incredible from its indecorum. And'
this last instance of the scandalous neglect even of
social and moral discipline, to say 'nothing of spiri-
tual instruction, we quote, adding only this acknow-
ledgment, which it undoubtedly extorts from us, that
it confirms the case laid by the Bishop for the neces-
sity of a Parliamentary inquiry. His Lordship's
motion for the present, however, has been 'rejected
by the Lords :
" The Right Rev. Prelate her,e read the evidence of Mr.
Tanen on this part of the question, in which the inferiority
of the instructiongiven, and, in some instances, thc cruelties
practised by the schoolmasters towards the children were
detailed at considerable length, the master, in one case,
having been detected by the ehaplain--herein showing the
value, again, of the appointment • of such an officer—in
attempts to seduce-some of the elder girls in the Union."

Madrid journals, of the 18th, have been received,
and, if they are to be credited, no doubt remained
thitt the means adopted by the Government to put
down the insurgents would speedily be crowned with
success. Accounts from Bayonne, however, state
that risings had taken place at several places ; among
others Teruel and Barcelona. At the latter place
Senor BORELL, a very rich merchant of that city, of
Republican principles, and several other persons, hdve
been arrested, and domiciliary visits in- search
for arms are made daily. • A report prevailed at Ma-
drid that BONET had; in retaliation for the execution
of seven officers, by RONCALI, near Alicant,-,pat four-
teen of his prisoners to ;death. We fear the report
will prove too well founded.