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PROM TIM =OILY. DAVID THURSDAY, MAY 17.
VIENNA, Mar 7.
Yesterday, all sorts of news were circulated, said to
have been brought from Sr. Petersburgh by an extra-
ordinary courier; and according to which M. de Ri-
benupierre had quitted Constantinople, a Russian Rimy
was on the point of passing the Pruth, &c.
These reports appear wholly unworthy of belief, and
are probably forged by speculators in the Funds. Let-
ters from St. Petersbnrgh, coming from an authentic
source, merely say that the answer of the Divan, re-
specting the Greek question, was, however, true. Re-
ports of war may have been spread in that capital, but
the Court does not seem to have renounced the hope of
leading the Porte by negotiations to more moderate
sentiments—Augsburg Gazette.
MADRID, May 3.
The Josirmal ?like Iwo Worlds, published at Cadiz,
repeats the news, that a Cacique of Peru, formerly Co-
lonel in the service of the King of Spain, has revoked
against the Republican Government at Lima, and col-
lected a division of above 4,000 men, with which he has
begun to act in favour of the Monarchy.
Father Cyril' Member of the Council of State, and
General of the Cyril',
has received the King's orders
to visit all Convents depending on him; and it is said
dot he has just set out to execute this Cornm:--*
Echo du Midi.

PARIS, Slay 16.
A Journal says—" We have news f,om Hayti,
brought by the Diana merchantman, which has just
entered Havre, and by the Messange, which has entered
Rochfort.
We have received the law of the Republic, dated
19th February, which, dating from the lid of the same
mooch, exempts all articles of the produce or manufac-
ture of Hayti, from all duties on exportation, on the
ground that the greatest encouragement should be given
to agticulture and commerce ; and that it is proper to
relieve them from a part of the burdens which they

have to support."

PROM Tug QUOTIDISYNE.
PARIS, )1.7 13.
The situation of the English Ministry begins to clear
up. The two speeches of Mr. Canning and Mr. Peel
shew us the ground on which the new Ministry is here-
after to be placed. Mr. Canning has declared that the
Government would not bring forward the Catholic
Question, so that the only circumstance which could
lead us to'hail the triumph of that Minister no longer
exists. England is now to possess a Whig Ministry
without any compensating advantage. What will be,
the probable consequence of such a state of things ?
It would be absurd to suppose, that the chiefs of the
Whig party have consented to support Mr. Canning
without. laying down conditions ; and that Minister,
having declared, on the other hand, that he was com-
pletely opposed to Parliamentary Reform, it necessarily
follows, that no concessions can be made to the Radical
Party ; but in the management of the exterior policy of
England, and Europe may feel most, it is not unlikely,
the consequences of Mr. Canning's embarrassing situa-
tion. The sy.stern of Mr. Huskisson is not yet accom-
plished in all its parts: both worlds will yet see Con-
stitutions and Republics. In few words, this is Mr.
Canning's position :—lf the Whigs support him, they
will support him with their principles, and those prin.'
ciples will, for that reason, become the rule of Govern-
ment. If the Whigs abandon him, in consequence of
not finding him sufficiently docile to 'their project: and
their ideas, Mr. Canning, who is repulsed by the Tories,
will have no support remaining, and he will fall before
the first important question that is raised. Lie cannot
avoid one or other of these consequences.
PROM TUE CONSTITUTIONNEL.
PARIS, Mar IS.
The opposition to acts of authority, when those acts
have a regular and legal character, is always reprehen-
sible, because order is the first want "(if society; but
never 011 we be seen to push that love of Order so
far as to dissimilate the wrongs committed by power
and the acts of injustice which provoke resistance.
The School of Medicine has been for some days agi-
tated by dissensions, which have become too important
for us to pass them over in silence. It will be rennin.
bered, that the death of Dr. Laennec caused in the
month of February a vacant Professorship in the Col-
lege of France. According to a regulation, till that
respected, the Professors of that College, and the ninth
Section of the College, presented each a candidate ;
and one of them was to be selected by the Minister of
the Interior for the vacant Professorship. When the
same candidate was presented by the Academy of the
Professors, the Minister used to ratify that choice by
his assent. M. Magendie, one of the most distinguished
physicians, and sevens of Europe, had united all the
suffrages, and the public considered his nomination as
certain ; when he learned that, contrary to all former
precedents, M. Corbiere had just replaced Dr. Laennec
by another person. M. Itecannei, wt o has been se-
lected by the Minister, is a physician, whose merit no
one denies; but under these circumstances, nomination
was considered less as the reward of his talents than the
reward of his opinions: the insult which is thus in-
flicted on two harried bodies, whose suffrages werecon-
temned, was reckoned among the triumphs of the
Jesuitical party.
The Journal des Debella adds, that on Saturday the
Gendarmerie occupied the Place de Cambrai ; but there
does not appear to have been any necessity for their.
interference. On Tuesday several students were ar-
rested and carried to the Prefecture. A great number
of their companions followed them, protesting against
the measure. Numerous groups assembled on the Quai
des Orfares and the Pont Neuf. New detachments of
Police were sent to different points, and order appears
to be restored.
• Bat on %mond, Honor-II Counsellor of Sate, Mem-
ber t f the Academy of Sciences (section of Mineralogy),
and son-in• law of M. Dacier, died on Tuesday, at, not
a very advanced age.

IMPERIAL PAREIAMENT.
•
ROUSE OF LORDS, May 18.
Oa tie sod= of the Martell of Lausnowy, the amendment of
the Commas melte Sming" Guns Bill, limiting the time of setting
Spring Gamin dweßlarlsouses from " sun-set to sun-rise," was
to.
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AoItICULTuftAL LAWS.
Lord TEYNH AM presented a Petition from the city
of Lincoln and its vicinity, against the importation of
foreign wool; also Petitions against the proposed Corn
Bill from a Hundred in the county of Sussex t from Ash-
ford, Wye, and other places in Kent. The Noble Lord,
stated, that he did not think he should have sufficiently
4iScharged his duty, unless he called their Lordships'
attention to the many petitions which had been laid on
their Lordships table against the proposed alteration in
the Corn Laws—petitions from almost every owner and,
occupier of land in the kingdom ; and he hoped the!
statements contained in those petitions would make some
impression on their Lordships.
Lord ARBUTHNOT presented two Petitions from the county
et Kincardine against the roposed Corn Bill.
The Marquis CAMDEN presented a Fetichist to the same effect
Ras Rochester, Dartford, and other places in Kent.
The Marquis of SALISBURY had a Petition to pre-
sent to their Lordships, on a subject which would occupy
their Lordships attention to-night, if the Noble Lord
opposite (Goderich) should not consent to postpone the
discussion of the question. He wished to ask the Noble
Lord if he would feel any objection to postpone the
second reading 4 the Bill, to discuss which the, Hon,/
was summoned ? lithe Noble Lord should have any',
objection to do so, he (the Marquis of Salisbury) hoped
be might be permitted to protest against the principle
of the Bill, if he allowed it to pass thropgh this stage
without discussion. A Noble Friend of his (the Earl of
Lauderdale), who was to have taken a leading part in
the discussion expected to take place to-night, and with-
chit whose assistance thesentiments of those Noble Lords
who opposed the Bill would be very imperfectly urged,
was from many circumstances prevented from:attending
in their Lordships House to-day. If, therefore, the Noble
Lords who opposed the Bill should allow the second
le_ading_to pass without discussion, he hoped the Noble
Lord opposite would agree to fix a day for the purpose
of committing the Bill, at a time sufficiently distant to
enable the Noble Baron now unfortunately absent to
attend in his place there, to state those objections which
ihe entertained towards the present measure. He would,
'submit to the Noble Lord opposite, that this day week
be fixed for the House going into a Committee on the
Bill, and he, for one, would allow the Bill to be read a
second time now without further discussion.
"Lord GODERICH certainly felt the greatest regret
that any circumstances should have rendered it impos-
sible for the Noble Lord who had been alluded to to at-
tend is his place. He felt a great desire to accommodate
that Noble Lord as far as his public duty would per.;
gait him. If /is own feeling only were to be consulted,
he should be quite ready to postpone the second
reading of the bill; but considering that the discussion
'of the bill had already been postponed to this day, he,
felt many objections to defer it again. He was inclined
to hope that the Noble Lords who opposed the bill
would not feel any objection to allow the bill to be read
a second time to-night—and by so doing no person
could be supposed to have pledged himself to any opi-1
nion on the question—and the debate on the principle
of the bill might take place on the motion that the bill
be committed. In fixing a day for that purpose he
should be quite ready to consult the feelings of the Noble
Lord who was then absent, and to do any thing that
might ensure the Noble Lord's attendance in that House.
Though he differed from the Noble Lord in opinion, he
should be very far from desiring to discuss the question
in his absence. He therefore thought that the bill
might be allowed to be read a second time to-night,
and that next Friday might be fixed for the day on
'which the motion for the House to go into a Committee
should be made. If upon that day there should exist
any corresponding cause to that which had been just
now stated, which might render it desirable to postpone
the motion to a further day, he should be quite ready
'as do so, taking for granted that the Noble Lords op-
posed to the bill would not desire any delay beyond
that which was reasonable.
The Marquis of SALISBURY stated, that when he
mentioned Friday next as the day on which the motion
fee committing the bill should be proposed, he was not
award that it was the day of the Oaks; and he was
afraid that there would not be on that day such an at-
tendance of their Lordships as would be desirable on the
discussion of the proposed bill—(A laugh.)
The Earl of ROSSLYN thought that there could be
no difficulty in discussing the principle of the Bill on
the motion that the House resolve itself into a Commit-
tee. It was quite as usual is their Lordships House to
discuss the principle at that period as at any other, and
that mode of proceeding was in many cases very con-
lenient. He made these observations in order that those
Noble Lords who were anxious to express their objec-
tions to the pi inciple of the Bill might not be supposed
that in allowing the Bill to be read a second time they
' were abandoning one atom of principle, or giviag up
any advantage to which they were fairly entitled.
The Earl of MALMESBURY would be thelastper-
son in the world to oppose any arrangement which
would enable the House to have the assistance of the
Noble Lord who was then absent; but in allowing the
Bill to be read a second time, he begged it to be dis-
tinctly understood that be did not give up one iota of
principle. He had come down prepared to resist the
Bill on principle ; and he should have done so even if
he had stood alone. He was ready to subscribe to the
.lan proposed, and to take the debate upon, the prin-
ciple of the Bill upon the motion that the Bill do go
ism a Committee.
Earl STANHOPE was ready to acknowledge thel
courtesy of the Noble Lord opposite ; but he did not'
conceive that there could be any difficulty in postpon-
ing the second reading the Bill, to the principle of,
which he strongly objected. 1
The Marquis of SALISBURY would wish Fridayl
next to be fixed for the day on which the motion for
committing the Bill should Ise made, as he was now
given to understand th4t that day was not the tidy of
the 04ks.
Lord GODERICH was not aware of any reason that
would prevent a full attendance of the H..use on Fri-1,
I day nest, as by that time an event, which he should,
have great hesitation to allude to in their Lordships',
House would be over—( A laugh.) He should there-
fore fix Friday for the House to go into a Committee,
as he thought that day would suit all parties.
The Marquis of SALISBURY then presented a Petition from.
Hertford against any alteration in the Corn Bill.
Lord ItEDESDALE presented a Petition from certain
owners and occupiers of land in the county of Corn-
,wall. The Noble Lord stated that the capital that used
kforaterly to be employed in working mines was at inc-
.

sent laid ont upon the cultivation of land, and that
that cultivation was now twice as great as it. forme 4y

used to be.
Thd Fan of ROSSLYN presented Petitions from perishes In
Beeklngbanribire, against any attendee/a the Cern Laws.
The Marquis of LANSDOWN presented a Petition frees Dun-
dee, against the proposed alteration In the Carts Laws. on the
ground of its being too favourable to the Asricultural Isterat.
Lord GODERICIt movid the second readies of the MO for
dating the Importation at Foreign Corn. In making this mo-
be wished to be distinctly understood, that he thought it im-
itleole that acquiescence in the present motion an the part of the
Lords, could be supposed is pledge them to any favourable
Won of the Bill. '
-The Bill was then-read a secood time and ordered to be ewe-
mined on Friday nett, tar which day th;ir Lerdahips were ordered
0 be summoned.
A/IAI RS OF PORTUGAL.
Lord ELLEN BOROUGH was anxious to draw the
attention of their Lordships to a subject of extreme ins-,
portance, unconnected with those discussions, which
had so, frequently of late occupied the time of the House,
and unconnected with that question which had just that
moment been disposed of. The subject which he wasi
at present desirous to bring under the notice of their
Lordships, was the state of the British troops in Portu-
gal. The answer given some time ago by the Noble
Lord, who was Secretary for Foreign Affairs, to a goes-,
tion which be (Lord Ellenborough) had asked, had,
placed him, and had placed their Lordships, in a skim.,
tion of great difficulty. As his Noble Friend had stated
that the production of the informltion for which he had
asked would interfere with the progress of negotiations
which were at present pending, he certainly should fcell
great difficulty in moving that an Address be presented'
to his Majesty, requesting his Majesty to order to be
placed on the table of that House, information re-
vesting the state of Portugal. He had, however, a
clear parliamentary ground for calling for that in.
formation; and by not calling fot it at the 'present
moment, he did not express any approbation of those
negotiations which were now pending, because he was
kept in total ignorance of the state of Portugal. If he
enderstood the nature of those negotiations, they were
most important, and in the present state of things the
most important event that could take place would be
the instant withdrawal of our troops from Lisbon. The
cases fesderit under which the British troops were sent
to Portugal, it was said, existed no longer; but they
were retained in that country for purposes other than
those for which they had been sent there. If that were
the case, his Majesty's Ministers were placing them-
selves under the most awful responsibility. Ih the
present state of Portugal, it was barely possible that
British troops should garrison Lisbon without being
obliged to take part in domestic contests ; and the first
shot fired by a British soldier commences the war of
opinions. It was reported that the British troops re-
mained in Portugal for a purpose different from that
for which they had been sent to that country. It was
said that they remained in that country for the purpose
of maintaining the Government. If our troops should
be obliged to take part in civil dissensions, Spain would
have a just ground of war—France would have a just
ground of war; and there was no Power in Europe who
would not take advantage of the circumstances under
which the Government had placed themselves, and
which mist plunge this country and Europe into a
state of general war. It was impossible for a keen ap-
prehension not to take this view of the question ; and in
abstaining at present from pressing for the production
'of papers, he expressed a hope that at ne distant peri3d
that information which he desired would be given to
the House. If, however, his Majesty?: Ministers should
not feel it to be their duty to lay any paper upon the
subject on their Lordships table before the 'douse Ito
parated, he should think it to be his duty before thit
time arrived, under the present state of things, to press
for the information he wanted.
Lord DUDLEY and WARD stated, that the reason
for which he had on a former occasion declined answer-.
ing a question similar to the present, which the Noble
Lord had asked, still existed. Undoubtedly his Majes-
ty's Ministers were acting. on the present important
question, upon their own responsibility. They weal
performing an act which in their judgment was the beet
they could perform, and when the time for discloses*
arrived, they would then see whether that judgmelli
would be confirmed by Parliament. In the meantime
be would neither confirm nor contradict any of those
conjectures in which the Noble Lord seemed inclined
to indulge. All he could do, was to entreat the Noble
Lord not to indulge further in those conjectures, but to
wait till the question was fully and fairly before the
House.

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The Report of the Committee granting leave to bring In a WU
to annul the marriage of Edward Gibbon Wakefield and Ellen
Turner. was read and agreed to.
The Bail was then brough: in and read a first time, and ordered
to be read a second time next Tuesday.—Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Mr. WALLZS, from the Office of Woods, Ake. presented a Copy of
the Lea., granted to the late Duke of York, of the site of Gadd,
phin House.
Mr. PORTMAN presented a Petition from the Protestant Du-
, 'enters of Blaodford, in Dorset, praying for the repeal (prat Cor-
poration and Test Acts.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. MUNDY presented a Petition from the Protestant Dissen-
tets Of a plate in Devon, praying for a repeal of the Test and Cor-
poration Acts.—Ordered to be printed.
The same Hon. MZINBIII presented a similar Petition front
another place in Deven.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. L. KECK presented a Petition from Louthberough, against
the practice of burning Hine* Widows.
The same Hon. Hamann presented a Petition from a place In
Leicestershire against Roman Catholic Emancipation.
Mr. SYKES presented a Petition from the Seamen of Hull,
complaining of the system of impressment, and praying for he abro-
gation. The Hen. Member supported the prayer of the Petition,
and said, that the Petitioners hailed with delight the appointment
of a Prince of the Blood to the bead of the Peti-
tion was ordered to be printed.
Mr. SYKES presented a Petition from the Unitarian Dissenters
of Kingston-upon• Hull, praying for a repeal of the Teat and Cor-
poration Arts.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. RA MSDEN presented a Petition from the Protestant
Dissenters and other Friends of Religious Liberty in New Melton,
praying fora repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts.—Ordered to
be printed.
Mr. A. ELLIS presented a Petition from twenty heads of Fa-
mines in a Town in Kilkenny, praying that means might be afforded
them to emigrate.—Referred to the Emigration Committee.
Mr. MANNING presented a Petition trent certain Electors of
the Borough of Peary°, against the PenryeEkction
to be printed.
?dr.. HLISKISSON presented a Petition from certain Pro-
, testant Dissenters of Liverpool, praying for the Repeal of the Cur-
panda° and Test Acta. The Right Hon. Gentleman observed,
that the question had not keen mooted in Parliament for thirty-
seven years; and he must say, that he did not consider the claims
, advanced of so urgent a nature as those of some other classes who
warred disqualifications ham religious opinions.—To be printed.
' The same Right Hon. Gentleman presented a Petition from
Sandwich against the Alehou.e Licensing 13111.—lteferied to the
-Committee on tke said Bell.

Sir S. K NATCH kIU LI. presented a similar Petition from Deal,
in Yent.—Referred to the Committee.