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GERMAN PAPERS.-(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)

MAYLNCE, JUNE 18.—Fresh troops continue
to arrive in the provinces on the Rhine. Many
are concentrated in the Hundsruck, where there is
at this moment a great quantity of artillery•, in
particular when the corps in Wesphalia shall have
completely crossed the Rhine, the Prussian army
then will amount to 175,000 men. If we add to
the Dutch army of 100,000 men, and the troops
of the German Confederation, the Allied Army of
the North may be estimated at 300,000 men.
The Germans,especially the Prussian troops, shew
great military ardour, which manifests itself in the
martial songs of the soldiers, as they are on their
march. With the exception of some individuals,
actuated by personal interest and ignoble motives,
the attachment to the French vanishes more and
more among the inhabitants of the left bank of
the Rhine, and a national feeling spreads in pro-
portion. Many renounce their former sen-
timents, and publicly express the more noble
feeling that it is unbecoming a man who has a
due sense of his own dignity to receive his welfare
like alms from the hands of a stranger. Such a
feeling, if it becomes general, must excite the most
pleasing hopes in the patriotic friends of Germany.
—Allgemeine Zeitung, June 28.
STVTTGARD, JuxE 26. —Accounts from Jassy
say that the cholera prevails in the two princi-
palities of Moldavia and Wallachia, and particu-
larly at Jassy.
The King is going in a few days to Frederick's-
haven, where her Majesty the Queen now is.
M UNICH, JUNE 23.—Our government has just
appointed a Commission to deliberate on the mea-
sures to be taken against the cholera. This Com-
mission has already had one meeting. It has not
yet been deemed necessary to establish a military
cordon. -

The foreign news has caused great sensation
here. The intelligence of Don Pedro's departure

EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

TUESDAY, JULY 5.

Tho Estafette, from Paris this morning, has
brought us a much greater quantity of continental
intelligence than we can possibly make room for,
without mutilating our reports of momentous do-
mestic affairs. In a preceding column however,
we have given a selection of such extracts as
could not be properly deferred. We direct the at-
tention of our readers, in particular, to the
reports of the movements of the Duchess of
BERRY, which seem to create a great sen-
sation ; of the Anti-English opinions of the
National with respect to the visit of Don
PEDRO to this country ; and to some comments
from La Revolution, on the probability of a rup-
ture between Louis PHILIPPE and his present
Ministry. In other respects, the extracts from
the various Continental Papers, which we this day
quote, are important, as they convey to us the in-
disputable fact, of the warlike attitude of the seve-
ral countries—particularly of Austria and Prussia.

A very interesting discussion took place yester-
day in the House of Lords relative to the re-
appointment of that truly honourable man, Mr.
MICHAEL STOCKS, of Halifax, in the Commission
of the West Riding. Many of our readers may

remember the full statements which we gave in the
STA a a few months since, of a most abominable
prosecution got up against this gentleman, for an
alleged perjury in a matter of account thirty-two
years previously. We then recorded his prompt
acquittal by direction of Mr. Justice LITTLE•

DALE; but what rendered the whole a case

of wickedness never to be forgotten, we gave
copy from the Halifax paper, of a subsequent
written confession of the prosecutor, that he had
been seduced by others to make the charge. Since
then we have been expecting to hear of these par-
ties being sent to New South Wales; and at length
this debate informs us, that Mr. STOCKS has most
properly been restored to the Commission, by the
present excellent Chancellor.
Lord HA REWOOD questioned the proprity of
this conduct, since, as Lord Lieutenant, his
previous acquiescence was matter of usual etiquette ;
and in addition to the charge of perjury,
his Lordship stated that Mr. Stocks had written
a letter to the foreman of the Grand Jury giving,
as appears, a true character of the prosecution,
which letter seemed however, from misconception,
to have produced an adverse effect ; for it was
formally complained of in Court, and in conse-
quence Lord Lyndhurst struck Mr. Stocks out of
the Commission.
The CHANCELLOR defended himself with his
usual acumen and eloquence, and at great length
explained the usages of his office in such cases,
from which he had in no respect deviated ; and he
thought Mr. STOCKS' sensitiveness in writing to
the Grand• Jury was a venial offence. He knew
him only by report, and by the favourable testi-
monies of the whole county in which he resided ;
and as to the charge itself he quoted the Judge
LITTLEDALE (who sat beside the woolsack), in
proof that a more unwarranted case could not
have been brought before a court, and which, in
truth, was no perjury, even if the fact itself of
thirty-two years' standing had been proved.
Lord LYN Dll CAST, with his usual energy went
over the case, produced and read the original do-
cuments, and treated the unproven charge of per-
jury as inconsequential, compared with the letter
to the Grand Jury, an act which he deemed
so indecorous that he considered a Gentlemen
unfit to be in the Commission who could be guilty
of it. This was the sole cause of his having been
struck out ; but he had uo doubt of the propriety of
the act which restored him.

Now, in the face of such high authority, we
venture to state, that there is more of usage
than reason, in this exclusion of defendants
from Grand Juries. They are bound by their oath
diligently to inquire, and true presentment make,
not, as appears to us, of one side only, but of all
sides ; and we take it on ourselves to say, that far
more injustice and inconvenience arise from the
ex-parte evidence before Grand Juries, than could
arise from their literally fulfilling their oaths, and
diligently inquiring from every source. This
subject has been discussed by writers on Juries,
and their conclusions would justify, or, at least, be
an apology for Mr. STOCKS. We appeal to the
common sense of all men, whether if any ho-
nourable man knew that a charge of an infa-
mous crime was maliciously trumped up against
him, and was on hearing before a Grand Jury,
if he tendered his own evidence, or counter-
evidence, could with reason (we say nothing of
blind custom or usage) be refused by a Jury,
bound by an oath diligently to inquire, and
true presentment make ? This question is not
made for this occasion, but is old and legitimate.
The LORD CHANCELLOR thought it hard that
such questions should be discussed in that House.
Lord HAREWOOD justified what he had done—
quoted offended persons in the Magistracy—and
declared he had no personal hostility to Mr.
&outs. The LORD CHANCELLOR declared him-
self at the time ignorant of the letter to the Jury,
which was an impropriety that merited considera-
tion. The Duke of WELLINGTON justified Lord
LYNDHURST, as acting under the letter to the Jury.
The Duke then enquired whether the period of
the Coronation was fixed with reference to its
oaths; but Lord GREY said he had received no
instructions.

Lord WYNFORD'S Bill was read a second time
without observation ; and the Irish Lord Lieute-
nant's Bill, after observations by Lord Mu:
BOURNE, the Duke of WELLINGTON, and Earl
GREY.

The Horst of COMMONS was crowded by at-
tendance beyond all former example, so that a dis-
cussion arose about seats.

Lord Joie RUSSELL, sans phrase, moved the
second reading of the Reform Bill.
Mr. Esrcou RT alluded to the obnoxious change,
which had been introduced by Mr. GREG SON.

Lord ALTHORP stated, that Mr. GREGSON had
resisted the clause by direction of Ministers, who
had since discovered the ill effect of it, and pro-
posed to correct it. He and Lord J. Russetr. ex-
culpated Mr. GREGSON, and it appeared to have
been introduced in ignorance of the usage of rent-
ing, by direction of Ministers.
Sir J. WALSH, in a repetition of arguments
against the measure, moved as an amendment that
the Bill be read this day six months.