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London, England, 1842-06-13 00:00:00

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The French Chamber of Deputies on Saturday afternoon,
closed its Session. There were about eighty Members pre-
sent. The Alinisters for Foreign Affairs, Interior, and Public
Works were on the Ministerial Benches. M. Duchatel read
the Royal Ordonnance closing the Session of 1842. The same
ceren'i ny took place in the Peers. The decree of disseltuicm
will appear in this day's Moniteur, convoking the Electoral
Colleges for the 9th of July,
A telegraphic despatch from Bayonne of the 10th, punished
lta Saturday's Moniteur, has the annexed intelligence front
adrid : On the 6th General Rocil a..cepted the Ministry of
War, with the mission of forming a Cabinet, of which he will
be the President. An attempt has been made at Burgos to
Pruelaim the Constitution of 1812. General Hoyos has been
a!iit, from Madrid with troops to put down this attempt. '1 he
Government has published energetic circulars against all at-
tempts of this nature."
Another telegraphic despatch from Madrid, received by the
rreneh Government yesterday (Sunday), states that on the Bth
Wit. General Rodil had failed to foi an a Cabinet.
The Portuguese Government has not yet ratified the Slavery
a 4‘rll„.4.Cotermaiercial treaties. What shuffiers these Portuguese
inisrs are !
tieTtleloliwcianrgd of Directors of the Belgian railroads has adopted
additional means of security on the north line.
iiiMaists of a species of tower placed on the lender, rising
ur the chimney of the engine, on which is seated a watch-
:" who, from his elevated station, can see the whole road to
cl great distance. He carries a horn, with which he can imme-
diately Warn the engine-man to stop the motion, should he
Perceive any obstacle in the way, or any accident likely to
Weuri.

A letter from Amsterdam, June sth, says
Harmony has been entirely restored between the ex-King
t, the reigning family. Yesterday the Count and Countess of
,`,ittssatt visited the Queen at Ler country residence at Soestdyk.
.t_ao-Countess was received by her Majesty as the wife of the
4,,,er-in-law. It is said that the Queen expressed hers ncere
17nowledgments for the great kindness and attention paid by
Countess to the Count de Nas,au during his recent illness.
This reconciliation will give grreat pleasure to the nation."
lierlin is about to be enriched with a collection of 845 Indian
Zallttscripts, almost all in the Souse. it, and containing the
sir
of the Vedas, which AI. Bunsen, the Privy Councillor of
B.° ~'
fltbassy at London, has purchased from the heirs of the la e
R.
n,. Chambers. The Vedas are in no library either in Lon-
t__r Paris, and the Bodleian collection at Oxford has oh-
agre—wod: this work only within a few weeks, by Professor Wilson's
e,i;'ng to cede his precious collection. The copy of the
v-""'s Purchased for Bel lin, alone cost 1,000/ in India, and the
tedas comrise 120 numbers. The whole collection cost M.
• Il'etn 1,25
r 0
.

tiel;le„ PUBLIC OPINION.
L:e'euorning Herald thus alludes to the Affghanistan (pies-
* •"'“ The most popular fllacy rela•ive to the Affghan
fitrilea fallacy on which alone, any
•hum. an being attempts to
our perseverance in the policy which is now again marching
L„it 'unties across the Indus—is, that it is nece,sary to re-
Ittalib in Affghattistan in order thet Blitish India may be
it-ted from internal danger. How the tranquillity of India
into be preserved by sending one-fourth of the Indian army
-Centrl Asia, without increasing the force within the n us,
i;ea.'itteetion far beyond the ken of ordinary solution. If thee.
ole."aager in India, we need every soldier we possess within
kr----(Avn territories ; if there be not present danger in India,
e tee not more. likely to create. hazard by diminishing our
412.1,11,4aq strength in that empire, than by keeping it at home ?
Air cherished excuse, that we must prosecute the. war in
1.541141 mi to support our position in India—that it is
nemy-
ta be successful where we have been defeated, in order to
eelent disturbance in India, is in every aspect in which it can
''sPitte.ted, most poor, most worthless. The excuse—we will
seike"itnify it with the appellation of rea:on—is a gross and
TratL, libel on the British Government of India."
es%tat '‘e Advertiser has the following remarks upon the present
s-isse et: public affairs in the country The best part of the
ailie-14 is over, and it were certailily as well to inquire in wh. at
tiapsttitcle is the country? In this we broach a substantive
to the only real one with which legislation has
Iti,e',,•E'rom this time last Sear have we advanced a step?
„ "Lie agricultural, manufacturing, or general interests of the
b4a-„,,ti7 improved one jot ? Are we lightened of our onerons
oat dens rif taxation ? Our commerce—is it enlarged? The
1 °nal happiness—is it augmented ? Nearly a year has
pet 11.1 ed. since the Peel-power came into operation. In that
pro here are manifest- evidences that art, that science has
sib
,:ed--that the luxuries of the rich have aceu-
has --eeem ; on the other hand, we now ask, what
eraie'"iovernment done ?—what has it effected in ad-
ens itbe circumstances of the people ? For an
Alsebv' +et Us look to its measures. Its first act was
iiseomrenewal of the hateful sliding scale ; its second an
; hs th:rd a mock profession of commercial enfran-
Oot• -.eat. Under the renewed sliding-scale the people will
Pl..eat bread cheaper than hitherto ; under the income-tax a
4,tiwivie bearing down of the means of all classes will be the es.
let as rsalt; under the new tariff commerce will scarcely be
Rope itra.al what it was. In the meantime the population has
a;Za---toid"terheeasing—the profits on commerce gone on decreas-
,v, wages of the people constantly adjusted by the
they ca. ."e4r employers, at that last term lower than which
Ileer4." ga, Oh, for the coming winter ! Added to this,. a
the bottZtteiteitted in that affluence of barbarity, which denies
a distuebeY,l4 feigns to proffer ; and, as if this were not enough,
Very pia TifurreneY, by which men are to be robbed of the
is the conri.i.rY retain in their hands. Without any fiction this
The Cliree,l°!` tee are in at the present moment."
Proposal ssspeleeletineonarnents as follows on Lord‘. John Russell's
eepress our entir R.bribery at elections : We are bound to
d Billssent from all that part of. Lord John Rus-
04beiehjtroif Proposed ehit
provides for au inquiry to be carried
Committeebcoarnoui,gny. of Peers and Commoners.
.The
14Zt°,1 tb les be the disfranchisement or other punish-
With respect to the seat, the
.House of
akey we''s 1)0 pretext for interfering, and its assistance is not in
'lfex'Y required. Nor is it wanted to aid in the mere work
iLPostre ; a Committee of the House of Commons is per-
triPetent to get all the information requisite to satisfy
esti he ie:Mind. The only case in which such a Committee..
tits by any use is where it is proposed to follow up its inqui-
levity disfranchisement, or any other such measures of
111 leasil against the particular borough as require an Act
Nthi, ipanlent to carry them into effect. In such a case, as
ri,"_talse affects to require evidence taken before itself as
"rieNrid of any penal legislation, it weuld certainly be. as
litetzttlrei4l24ve one. common tribunal, to which both Houses might
If there is to be such a tribunal, Lord John
Wise ili q y'a
well frame it according to a plan of which the
,of Lords has already approved. We were sorry, how-
-"
lied hirn saire- that, with the exception of the mon-
Sse
tPorovision of having a Common-law Judge to play the
,:•esses tau -Jug of Peers and Commons, he meant to take the
Nee sent down bth House of Lords in 1834 ; ron look-
etitisere;%hnoe clauses wee find them as ill-drawn as it ie pessibie
este,"
tO tt ob,erves, in an article on the subject of light coin-
tiite. The Government plainly has no other power in the
the_ete; e-ort,that of punishing the cli pers when it can catch
use plosif" it is at least eq-aally plain,pso it seem.s to us, that
it, gio bait . and the public only, have, and have always had,
No although it now appears they have not exercised
11"Rht ati is bound to take a sovereign not of the legal
144E3.4N man is pi-melted from using whatever meanshe
of sh eessary to ascertain that a sovereign tendered to him
else e lee
741 n. gal weight. We are old enough to remember. the
1.414 . a lin house int o vrhich there was much chance of a guinea
elt: Way was without an apparatus for ascertaining the
guinea. For a considerable period we have been
iwsiege Y the admitted and notorious excellence of our gold
ee.elnes' irftt this trouble. But it was easy to foresee that the
,Zithet t arrive when we should be exempt from it no longer,
ceerrsftiLthenever it did come some loss and much temporary
tittiS4lo;%,riee would have to be endui ed. The re-awakened
tliet"oag e?.' the public will henceforth, no doubt, supply what
s ean supply, an adequate check to the Operations
I,llPtees 4144 and filing gentry, in whose interest the 1% hig
114 it
to so zealously exerting themselves, unless what they
4., d si°,l)ee regarded as utter nonsense. The evil now expe-
Oe 2,i", we are persuaded, be of short duration."
psettitie, 4tess,B, ?peaking of Lord John Russell's. Bribery at
tb,'-tthy 'MI, sap He has introduced a Bill in every way
4011, Ito author—a measure of such profession and pre-
lee'e -"cautionary like the Reform Bill, arbitrary and des-
e the N p la empirical like both of them, and
fa;_ eve oor.. w, s Whisk (if adopted) to originate more serious evils than
tsicett Proposes to cure, es hile its tendency to give an
et Ile, le,esle. to bribery is (at best) most problematical. For
~skkahib htle yielding to none in our desire to see bribery
sePietkilse ef.edi end deploring as a national misfortune the great
iis,4l" be,l'estlgns, we feel bound to declare that the worst
pf 'well, would be lees intolerable than such a ma-
tt.,-•
ht ,,,patio hunter, public and private, as Lord
pd~eb may would 10vIllably create. Some of our
oti itie!je Imagined from . tone of Sir Robert. Peel's
ietetted C": aaY, and from the open.-^g
ate to to brie cordial sup urt to the Noble
words, in which he
ex 9 in the orTS motion for
-,i11,1) that the measure, of 7bleihwe'
1.-elesYs Pre" °lir disapprobation, has been approve, by her
this,obe.losernment. This, however,' is far from the egg>
liosepeld an eel's
speech, though expressing agreement in the
esfekeet stated te be in view was throughout a quiet ex-
ststi! teethe follies of Lord J hn,Russell's Bill."
sobjece
of the presento distress, the Leeds Times
hitt:l4oo is now obvious that the great bulk of the people of
iktig kith); tule in a state of deep suffering and distress, out of
tiot al sutierl ahnrt of a general and combined effort on the
itktia"rillitsid„ean extricate them, without involving in the
tlth kite sae settled " institutions" of the country. After
etkiti:Pts to palliate and deny the existence of distress
ele4overbrganturing districts, it is at length fully admitted by
It Pelpite.bt, and even proclaimed by authority from every
IDs
lies!
In the ki
,d „
R 4 lees! the foll • n"nn.
!t'Pe 'ery. i !'wtsig from the Scotsman law to put.
r„,toasihis lid intimidation effectually if indeed such a Jaw
o~wNate ' Mild he an intolerable ty;anny. It would de-
. s liberty
with
of dealing with 'Whomsoever he pleait d
ses,
wiekfere
his private and social intercourse, and
inter
`,NV"' and penalties the very expression of his counte-
lite! of ie ,bail Lord John Russell s measure as a remedy for
lk ."kolas `it •`"e More
not
ser clamant abuses which prevail at elections;
' 4Pi by far the as *substitute for secret voting, which we
e most likely means of ensuring honest re-
isaablin
;tit eeitenp, Post says :—" After all, the Mail-
at, %Var. right—and th-t, , rrentteu Lord De Grey goes, after
wihrerely, hand on the Government of Ireland. And
4i44,1144 itig tub s there a more bungling apprentice. We.
teti with orii,esenay, we do believe, that he came to this
7n"est -intentions. But, he did not •ee his dif-
fletii4ol"ass.c;rdi?t know the people into whose arms he would
414 ealtia or le 4
.he could not, perhaps, appreciate the
47e ,sortiele
et;.l.lstsotiety,
qe sugar duties, the Somerset County Ga-
oft' ‘t, RR' du • r. Labouchere's motion for the reduction
tt 'Pe was neeativ et
WA I eeesie, „ e eby a large majority; but the
er,, to ..ail!,..by shoeing the country the extent
4,iteet. 1%44.
subjectest by this most barefaced
c:lste44;lltellt:itii,ee
delastiltl-e,oluacti
tic.,s, that tne West India interest is too
and, therefore, it has ecaped the mea-
t:tile
zlttoolull dowii their°;ti'grernret c" nOrt:Ii(e":4• " Let the latter
0.44, %le' -• s •
~14ht the basnlis yet discovered is meet tatirliiies of Mr.
oti • rtsp, late keeper of the 'Gloucester Hotel,
• 1101_ is about 9701. of debts.
7"1,, about
ts k few Whirh i 3 at present dull, is expected to im-
tlOtie47 weeks. Manchester 1
tinpr ,vement Navin sas much depreesed again,
vem•hed. At Rochdale the
I,4llites has inereaeed
v 414: bessinm, ,but Bradfoi d, Huddersfield, and
Tb~es2stationary.
h ueKlay) is fixed for the production of Messrs.
.11-41aneeesh
is PsuP:e.._r
b,a.. deficiency' of
" ° ,fr(r)omm
s(),0001. to
iso expected
eet, at Briehton f which it
ti,snered,
81:1T itt9i that considerable property remains yet
Ntyiewith 4
vi"u 9ne of the
(assignees has been over to Gr-
oia,t.lel7o-tra,:ingi.
eaoes. ursday's trains to Ascot carried no less than
V N' MIVETS.
ofltk `4%, have ee tor the erectien of a new colossal music-hall
. `•Lan ehUr tired ah site in King William-street, at the