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LONDON, TUESDAY. AUGUST 5, 1845.

The Lords met at Four.

The Royal Assent was givon by Commission to
several public and private Bills.
Their Lordships then adjourned, and re-assembled at
Five o'clock.

On the motion that the report on the South-Eastern
Railway Bill be brought up,
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE presented a petition
from a person named MOURILLIAN against the Bill, and
moved that it be re•committed.

Lord REDESDALE said the allegations in the petition
had been inquired into before the Standing Orders'
Committee, and that they were frivolous.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE withdrew his motion,
and then moved, as an amendment, that the evidence
takes before the Committee be printed.
On a division this motion was negatived, the numb.2rs
being—For receiving the report, 37 ; for the amend-
ment, 1.

Lord STANLEY moved the third reading of the Taxing
Masters Court of Chancery (Ireland) Bill.
The Earl of WICKLOW moved, as an amendment,
" that all persons to be appointed under the Bill should
be solicitors of the Court of Chancery in Ireland, who
should have been in practice for the space of ten years
•or upwards."
The amendment, which was supported by Lord
COTTENHAM, Lord CAMPBELL, the Marquis of CLAN-
RICARDE, and Lord. LANGDALE, and opposed by the
LORD CHANCELLOR, Lord STANLEY, and the Earl of
St. GERMANS, was carried by a majority of 6, the num-
bers being-19 for the amendment and 13 against it.
In answer to Earl FORTESCUE, it was stated by Lord
STANLEY that the execution of the persons convicted at
Exeter of the murder of Mr. PALMER and some of the
crew of the Wasp, had been respited, in order that the
opinion of the judges might be taken on the point of
law raised at the trial.

The County Rates Bill was read a third time.
The Duke of RICHMOND moved that the Portsmouth
Railway (Atmospheric) Bill be recommitted.
The recommittal was opposed by the Marquis of
NORTHAMPTON; along discussion ensued, and eventually
the amendment was carried ; shortly after which their
Lordships adjourned.
The Commons met shortly before Four o'clock, and
went up to the Lords to hear the royal assent given to
various Bills.
On their return

Mr. HAIVES presented a petition from the Chairman
of the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway Company against
the London and York Railway Bill, representing that
many of the names on the subscription list were those of
paupers and many of them were forgeries. He moved
that the petition be printed.
The motion, which was opposed by Mr. B. DENNISON,
Mr. WARD, Mr. BERNAL, and Mr. DARBY, and sup-
ported by Mr. ROEBUCK was agreed to.
Mr. B. DENNISON then moved the third reading of the
Bill.

Mr. ROEBUCK moved that it be read a third time that
day three months.
The amendment, which was supported by Mr. HAwEs
and opposed by Mr. W. PATTEN, Mr. B. DENNISON and
Mr. WARD, was negatived, and the Bill was read a third
time and passed.

Mr. ESCOTT gave notice of a motion for next session,
for the admission of Indian corn duty free.

Sir It. PEEL gave notice that, tomorrow, he should
move the adjournment of the House till Friday.
Mr. S3IYTHE postponed, till next session, his motion
on Portendic.

In answer to Sir R. Nails, it was stated by Sir R.
PEEL, that the subject of the propriety of rebuilding
Westminster-bridge was under the consideration of Go-
vernment.

In answer to Mr. CHRISTIE, Sir J. GRAHAM said that
the Brazilian pirates condemned at Exeter were respited,
in order to give time to have the legality of the convic-
tion argued.
Mr. G. W. HOPE, in answer to Mr. P. HOWARD, said
negotiations were still going on between the Governmen,
and the New Zealand Company.
After a few words from Lord PALMERSTON on the
subject of the causes of the recent accident on the Dover
Railway, and from Mr. TUFNELL and Sir J. GRAHAM,
on the case of JOHN MAYES, supposed to have been im-
properly convicted of felony,
Mr. MOFFATT asked whether the new Houses of
Parliament would be ready by 1847 ?

Lord LINCOLN said the Committee-rooms would be
but not the Hall.

Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in answer to Lord EBRINGTON,
said, that measures had been taken to prevent the re-
currence of such revolting scenes as had occurred at the
Spafields burying-ground.
On the motion for going into a Committee of Supply,

Mr. M. GinsoN rose for the purpose of drawing the
attention of the House to the state of our relations with
Brazil, and also to the question of encouraging the
immigration of labourers into the West Indies.
A brief discussion ensued, but Sir R. PEEL declining
to enter into the matter at any length, the subject
dropped.
Mr. HAWES then brought forward his motion respect-
ing the conduct of Mr. WEAN, which led to a long di4-
cussion, in the course of which the House was addressed
by Sir J. Graham, Mr. Shell, Mr. W. Patten, Lord John
Russell, and Sir R. Peel, but ultimately the motion was
rejected, and the House adjourned at a quarter-past 11
o'clock.

It is believed by persons likely to be well informed,
that the close of the session will be followed by a change
in the Government far more important than the substitu-
tion of Lord M —AHON for Mr. TENNENT, or of Mr.
CRIPPS or Sir CHARLES DOUGLes (whichever may be the
foi tuuutus puer) for Captain BOLDERO. 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. PEEL
will find no difficulty in preserving Lord STANLEY'S
dignity unimpaired, while be at one and the same time
relieves him 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.
GLADSTONE,LOrd ELLENBOROUGH, and Lord DALHO USIE.
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 Jions 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 hint 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
SUTTON should be put into some berth which will be a
comfortable provision 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 MAlloN's ac-
ceptance of the secretaryship 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 commencement of his administration by offering one
of the Vim-Chancellorships to Lord COTTENHAM.
This must be Lord MAHON'S consolation for the other-
wise apparently low estimate of his qualifications, im-
plied in a proposal that he shall 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 Chargé d'Affaires of the
PAcTrA. 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 he favoured the Greeks. Eighty
millions of piastres is the estimated amount of damage occa-
sioned by the fire at Smyrna.

According to the Gazette de Cologne, Prince MErrEnNicir
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 METTERNICII 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. AN-
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 28th have arrived. The QUEEN,
during her stay at Saragossa, had pardoned a criminal under
sentence of death. Her MAJESTY was expected at St.
Sebastian on the 2d of August.
MADRID BOURSE.—Three per Cents., for Cash, 284 ; for
Account, 29h; Five per Cents., for Cash, 21h.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.

The Moniteur publishes various royal ordinances—among
them one authorising the Minister of Marine to apply, in
1845 and 1846, a sum of 9,760,000 francs to increase the
squadron on the western coast of Africa, and 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 Algerie, AIID -EL- KADER had evacuated
the territory of Algeria, and had retired to the deserts of the
south-east, which belong neither to Algeria nor to Morocco.
Ile 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 him from returning into their
dominions.

On the Ist inst. the Duke and Duchess of NEMOURsS
arrived at Perigueux. Count BRESSON 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 fortunate in his speculations
on the Bourse, and had won large sums from Salamanca and
from NAuvAEz, and the latter had determined to get back
his money by getting up a pretended Progressista conspiracy
for the especial purpose of involving CERIOLA. The col-
leagues of NARVAEZ, however, demurred to taking any part
in such an iniquitous scheme, and CERIOLA, having been put
on his guard, escaped to Paris.
There was nothing done in the Funds on Sunday.
The following are the quotations for the new lines :
MARSEILLES, JULY 29.—Marseilles and Avignon, 1,017 f.
50c. ; Boulogne, 627 f. 50c.; Orleans and Bordeaux, 675 f.
LYONS, JULY 31.—Avignon and Marseilles, 1,050 f., cash ;
Paris and Orleans, 1,2551., ditto; Paris and Rouen, 1,102 f.
ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 807 f., ditto; Orleans and Bor-
deaux, 685 f., ditto; Nismes and Montpellier, 550 f.

DREADFUL RAILWAY
ACCIDENT.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

Great Chesterford, August 4, Two o'clock, P.M.

A dreadful accident has just now occurred on the Cain-
bridge line of the North-Eastern Railway, between this and
Littlebury, by the down quick train running off the line, by
which several carriages were smashed to atoms and set on
fire. The stoker, killed on the spot, now lies under the en-
gine. We can just see his hand, but cannot get him out.
The engineer's leg is smashed, and several persons are sitting
about the corn fields with bruises and contusions, and clothes
torn to pieces. Trunks and carpet bags are torn and broken
to pieces, some burnt, and the contents are lying about in all
directions. Men with pails of water are endeavouring to
quench the fire of the wreck, Which is burning most furi-
ously. This line has only been opened five days.
Since writing the above, I hear there are two more persons
very much hurt.