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The first preparatory Conference between the Lords
and the Commons, on the subject of the laws regarding
the Roman Catholics, was held last night in the Painted
Chamber. On behalf of the House of Lords, seven of
its Members have been elected to attend the Conference,
viz. the Lord*President of the C.uncil (Earl EATEWRST),
Earl Gaily, the Earl of ELDON, the Marquis of LON•
DORI/MIRY,. the Duke of DEVONSHI RI, the Bishop of,
DURHAM, and Lord COLCHESTER. The House of Cons-,
mons selected twenty•fout Members, among whom were
three Members of the Cabinet, Mr. Secretary HUSKISSON,
Lord PALMERSTON, Mr. C. GRANT, and also Mr. LUIS/
Secretary for Ireland. Sir F. BURDRTT, in the name of the
Commons,requested that their Lordships would concur
in the sentiments of the Resolution adopted by them.
The Lords Managers having then returned to their
House, it was resolved that the 9th of June should be
fixed for the discussion of the subject, to which
their Lordships are to be specially summoned. The
Earl Gault then rose, and presented a Petition from the
English Roman Catholics, signed by the Duke of
NORFOLK, and by about 13,000 other persons, praying
to be admitted to the enjoyment of the same rights as
their other fellow-citizens: he presented similar peti-
tions from different other parts of the country.
In the House of Commons, Sir Roustax Wasors re-
peated his former questions to Ministers relative to the
present state
.of foreign affairs. Mr. Secretary PEEL
said, that all the answer he could give for the present,
consistent with the duty imposed upon him as Minister of
the Crown, was, that the Cabinet of Great Britain, from
the first moment when the Treaty of the 6th of July was
signed, had remained faithful to its wishes to fulfil that
Treaty most, punctually and scrupulously. England
had, still, prepared with her Allies the means of carry.
ing this intention into execution ; but it was no less true,
that the declaration of war of one of the contracting
Powers lately made against the Porte, did inyolve im-
portant considerations as to the means of executing that
Treaty.

By the German Papers received this morning,we learn
that the Marquis of CARANIAN, the French Ambassador
at the Court of Vienna, left that capital, for Paris, on
the 6th of May, the same day when an autograph letter
from his Majesty the Emperor of RUSSIA was received
by the Emperor FRANCIS of AUSTRIA, declaratory of
the resolution of Russia to abide by her decisions in the
policy she is pursuing towards the Ottoman Porte. This
letter, and the sudden departure of the French Ambassa-
dor, have made a deep impression upon the public of
Vienna. The Saxon Minister at that Court also left the
capital for Dresden ; and the Prince Porzusta has
been appointed Envoy Extraordinary from his Majesty
the Emperor of Russia at the Court orßavaria.

The King of BAVARIA has ever shown himself the
most uncompromising friend of the Greek cause, and
would form with the King of WIRTRAIBURO and the
Grand Duke of BADIN, both closely connected with
Russia, an alliance not altogether insignificant in the
present state of affairs. We beg to direct the attention
of our readers to the following article from St. Peters-.
burgh to the 231 of • April—.
4. Foreign Journals reason a great deal about the ap•

poaching war with the Turks. The matter is very
simple. The progressive advance of the Southern
Provinces of Russia demands the unconditional liberty
of the B!ack Sea—an actual liberty, not a liberty depend •
ing only on• Treaties, which the Porte concludes to-day
and breaks to-morrow. Till this liberty shall be ob-
tained and consolidated, as the freedom of the Baltic is,
there may be a truce, but never peace between Russia
and the Porte."— Algerneine Zeilung, May 13.
Indeed, nothing less than a total expulsion of the
Turks from Europe appears now to be the aim 'of her
adversary. Perhaps we may yet live to see a new
Greek Empire rising again upon the ruins of the de-
stroyers of its former greatness and independence!—
The following are further extracts from these Papers:

VIENNA, MAT 6.

An Austrian courier, who left St. Petcrsburgh on the
23d April, has brought, as we learn, the answer of hi
Majesty the Emperor Nicholas to a letter of our Emperor,
in which his Majesty made a last effort for the prese:v,-
lion of peace. We are assured that the answer declares,
that the late decisions of the Russian Cabinet will be
persevered in. This news had a considerable effect on
our Exchange, and our Cabinet immediately dispatched
a courier to Paris. The Marquis de Carman himsel
sets out for Paris to•day.

VIENNA, MAT 8.

Yesterday there was much agitation on our Exchange.
At first the funds declined, in consequence of a report
that was spread, that the Russian army had passed the
Pruth ; afterwards they recovered, in consequence of
the high quotations in the accounts from London and
Paris. Today they are rising. The sudden departure
of the Marquis de Caraman for Paris has eAcited some
sensation. Count Von Schulenberg, Ambassador from
the King of Saxony, is none to Dresden.