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that, in case of a Regency, the sceptre be entrusted
to virile hands. This is an attestation, on the part of
the late Duke, that he did not wish the Regency to
be bestowed on the Duchess HILENA, to whom the
education of her children will give ample employment.

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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publtc eptivion.

" Who runs way read."

FOICZIGN.

An extraordinary express from Paris brings news of
yesterday's date. The King was to receive at the Tui-
leries, to-morrow, the condolence of the National Guard
of Paris.

The Regency question is much discussed in the Paris
papeis of yesterday, and, incidentally the probable tone
of the New Chamber of Deputies and the prospects of
the Ministers. _

The King was still resolved to open the session in
person.
The King and Queen of the Belgians arrived at Neuilly
on Sunday evening, at half-past six o'clock. Their Mu:
jesties alighted at the Petit Chateau; and were received
at the &or by the King, Queen, Duchess of Orleans,
and the rest of the Royal family, to whom the mourn-
ful meeting was confined. Their Majesties conducted
their august daughter into the chapel, and there re-
mained with her a. considerable time. • The (thole af-
flicted family then assembled in the Queen's apartments,
and there remained till they all retir.d for the night.
The Prince de joinville is now the only person wanting
to complete the family meeting, and he is expected by
the end of the month. This young Prince seems destined
to receive the intelligence of disastrous events in his fa-
mily while at sea. It was at Brest roads that he learnt
the death of his sister, the still deeply lamented Duchess
of Wurtemberg.
On the news of the Duke of Orleans' death M. Thiers
quitted Vichy, where he was residing with his family.
He arrived yesterday in Paris, and immediately repaired
to Neuilly,, where he was received, says the Gourrier
Francais. by the King.
The Gbbe says—"-His Majesty, after the embalming
of the body, and before the coffin was closed, asked the '
'clergy to bless the remains of his. son, over which the
Dean of the Chapter of St. Denis pronounced absolu-
tion. The mortal remains of the Prince were then car-
ried in procession to the chapel,, for the embalming had
taken place in one of the apartments of the palace. The
'Queen was heard' to exclaim, with her eyes raised to
heaven, •My God ! My God! The blow is not too
great ; but is severe ; yes, it is severe I'"
We find the following in the Constitutionnel :—" It
appears certain from the autopsy that the Prince did not
jump from the carriage, and an eye witness of the acci-
dent corroborates this opinion. M. Dubois-Deuzy,
merchant, of the Pas-de-Calais, wha happened to be
within six paces of the equipage, declares that he did
not see the Duke of Orleans spring from the carriage,
but, in a moment or two, saw the Prince stretched on
the ground, with his sword between his legs. He imme-
diately raised up the Prince, whom he did not know, but
two gendarmes soon rrrived,, and recognised the heir to
the throne."
The Presse says, in allusion to the will of the Duke
of Orleans :—" We can add, that in one of the clauses,
the Prince, whilst giving fitting praise to the elevation
of character and superiority of mind which distinguish
the Princess Helena, speaks in express terms of the
necessity, in case of a minority, of not entrusting the
regency except to virile hands, able to support the
weight of State affairs in grave conjunctures, and to de-
fend the independence of the institutions and liberties of
the country. We believe we can state that, before it was
known that such was the wish of the lamented Prince,
the same opinion had been voluntarily expressed by his
august widow."
The French Opposition Journals do not agree as to
the way in which the news of the death of the Duke of
Orleans has been noticed by the English Journals. The
Courrier, honestly and generously laying aside all anti-
English feeling in respect for truth, says—" They (the
English Journals) are unanimous in expressing their
regret with the utmost propriety and sincerity." The
Siecle admits that regret is expressed, but, with an utter
want of candour and good feeling; says it is because the
English fear that the calamity which has occurred will
induce the French nation to choose another Ministry,
and become stronger by putting an end to domestic
dissensions.

Madrid correspondence of the 10th inst. states, that
letters had been received in that capital from Barcelona,
announcing that the man shot as the rebel chief Felipe
was not Felipe, and that General Van Halen's despatch
was premature as to the point of identity.
The Journal do Frankfort states that the fire at

Leuchtenberg, on the sth inst., which we have already
noticed, was the work of incendiaries whilst the inha-
bitants were asleep, and that, owing to the want of water,
they were unable, when roused from their beds by this
calamity, to save more than a dozen houses from the
flames. Three persons were burnt to death, end several
were .very much injured. The inhabitants were on the
following day wandering about destitute of shelter, and
many of them nearly naked.
The St. Petersburgh journals of the sth inst. an-
nounce the recal of M. Perier, who is said to be dis-
liked by the Emperor, and they mention the fact as a
proof of the desire of the French Government to be on
good terms with that of Russia. It is said, however,
that in order that the recal of M. Perier may not ap-

pear to arise from any dissatisfaction at his con-duct, the
business of the legation will be for the present carried
on by M. Andre, the first Secretary.
PARVICAMENT.A..I2.Ir.

The House night till ten o•clocl:

Besides receiving several petitions against the Collieries
Bill, including one from females employed in mines in
Scotland, repudiating Lord Ashley's benevolence, it was
chiefly employed in discussing the Drainage (Ireland)
Bill in a Committee, which passed through that stage
after a division.

The re-committal of the Collieries Bill, which stood
for last night, was postponed till Monday, and it seems
now very unlikely that it should pass this session.
The Commons were employed the greater part of the
evening with the Poor-law Amendment Bill. Mr.
Sharman Crawford's amendment, to give the Irish Poor-
law Commissioners power to grant out-door relief, and
Mr. Fielden's amendment, that the Bill be no further
proceeded with till a full inquiry has been made into the
effects of the law on the condition of the working classes,
were both lost by large majorities. A great number of
the clauses of the Bill were struck out by the Ministers,
and the remainder were assented to, after some oppo-
sition and some divisions. The House afterwards dis-
cussed the Australia Bill in Committee, and ad-
journed at Two. o'Clock.
PUBLIC OPINION. _

The Times accuses the Government of a breach of
faith as regards its conduct on the New Poor-laws :
" It will be seen by our Parliamentary report that Sir
James Graham has acted, as we always predicted he
would, and has postponed the leading provisions of the
6 Poor-law Amendment Bill ' till another session.
Avowing that his main object was to secure the con-
tinuance of the Commission for fire years, he has been
content to carry through those clauses which regulate
the niiinber of Assistant-Commissioners, the mode of
issuing notices, &c., and some other matters of technical
detail ; and this he found no - difficulty in doing last
night. Lcoking back upon the manner in which the
present Bill (or shall we call it the late Bill ?) has been
introduced, presented, and now finally withdrawn,
we can scarcely acquit the Government of some-
thing very like a breach of good faith. When they
assumed office in the autumn of last year, we were
most solemnly promised that they would devote the
interval then to elapse before the ninting of
Parliament for dispatch of business, to a variety or pur-
poses, one (and not the least prominent) of which was
the: solemn and serious reconsideration of every part of
the Neiv Poor-law, with a view to immediate legisla-
.

Lion. Everything which has fallen from the lime
Secretary during the present session, as well as their
whole manner of proceeding, convinces us that this

pledge was insincerely given,— and that it has never been
redeemed. They have not looked at any part of the
subject, except with the eyes of the Poor-law Com-
Commissioners. They have not thought of legislating
immediately on any part of the subject, except for the'
prolongation of the power of the .Poor-law Commis-
sioners. At the commencement of the session they
gave the strongest possible proof that they had taken
no pains to mature, and did not mean to take any pains
to pass, any comprehensive or satisfactory measure;
foP the topic was passed over in absolute silence in the

Qicen's speech." -
The Herald says—" The late Government was driven
out of office by the obloquy attached to its deeds, and
the present Government may soon be deprived of power
by the consequences efthe acts of its predecessors. The
frUe-trade agitation has been the bass accompaniment
of the whispers of Downing-street. It has been sounded
byi the one party to drown a nation's reason, and it has
bon partially adopted by the other party as a means to
paY for the measures that had thrust forth its opponents
from power. This phantom will soon have played its
part, and then some new toy will be requisite for the
public fancy—some new idealess proposition, to account
for things not understood. There is then a chance,
be ore some new folly is taken up, that the public way-
wi.
dness may turn, and direct itself to spur real into-
re. tv. In that case Members of Parliament will find it
as interesting to study international law as they now do
to stupify themselves over dry tables of statistics—they
will then take to treaties with as much zest as to tariffs,
and find as agreeable a field of declamation in the wrongs
and dishonour of their country as in the perpetration of
crime, in the submission to injustice, in the overthrow of
the i Constitution by -*the interference with established
for and organic statutai."
We take the following from the Chronicle :____4, Sir R.
Peel has promised Sir Robert Inglis that he will employ
himself during the recess in seriously considering the
suliject of Church Extension, and preparing a Govern-
pation ofleistire for
meta plan filr at least its partial aceemplishment. we
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general condition of the country, it might have been
feated that topics of a more temporal description would
have a prior claim upon his thoughts. All statesmen are
not so gifted with the power of abstraction as that they
can be considering for the good of souls while multitudes
are famishing fur want of food. The state of the country
as to food, was, it is true, the subje_ t of Sir Robert
Peel's consideration during the last recess. He may
think it fair that soul and body should take turns in the
cart of his mighty mind. But his effort, in temporals,
11,4 not been so successful as to warrant his discharging
himself of the subject. His one year of power leaves.
the reople worse off than it found. them. To think of
!i.e. Church he must stop his ears to the continuous wail
of dis!ress. Parliamentary' debates er Anti-Corn-law
conferences may no longer force it upon him ; but as yet
:here is no prospect of its abatement. One of the lust •
pledges that ruined tradesmen and starving workpeople
would require of him, r,t ! ie close of the session, is, that
of considering the extent of a Parliamentary grant for ,
the building and endowment of new churches."
The following appears in the- Post :—" We congratu-
u-, ' i

late
_the. people_of_England_on_the.prospect,_ that the.des-
titution of the means of sound religious instruction.
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which has so long been the greatest opprobrium and the
most fearful disease of the laud, is soon to be removed,
or materially abated. For this unspeakable blessing th©
nation will be indebted, under Providence. to the pious
zeal and unwearied perseverance of Sir It. Inglis in the
tirst place, and in the second to the advantage for which
it has struggled for so many years, until at length suc-
cess has crowned its efforts, of posSessing an Administra-
tion strong enough to brave the resistance of sectarians
and infidels, and wise and conscientious enough to iden-
tify itself with the Church of England. The necessity
of some great national exertion, of the kind indicated by
the language of Sir R. Peel . on Monday night, in the
Elouse of Commons, is adthitted by all who do not
avowedly withhold that confession, either froth contempt
for religion, or from hostility to the national religious
establishment."