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HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY

The Bishop of LONDON presented petitions from places in
Essex, against any further grant to the College of Maynooth.
The Earl of MOUNT EDGECUMBE presented a petition
from " Lisceard, against -the removal of the West India
packets from Falmouth to Dartmouth.
Viscount MELBOURNE said that government
into a contract with a public company-

est India mails

neirpac

a a view of expe-

That company had the power
vhatever port they liked, and
The aovernment had deter-

at Dartmouth, and he had
aience of starting from two

HOUSE OF COMM

that the company had it in
.._

Er. Fox MAULE, in answer to a question from Mr.
ale, said that there was no objection whatever to the pro-
tion of a return of the expenses incurred by the trial of

Earl of Carc

Fox MAuIE, in reply to a question from Mr. Law,
should, if possible, move the second reading of the

r postponed, until Monday next, the second
reading of the registration of voters (Ireland) bill.
The house then went into committee on Lord Keane's
annuity bill, and Mr. EWART moved that the pension should
be limited to Lord Keane's life; which motion was sup-
ported by Captain Hamilton, and opposed by Sir J. C. Hob-
house, who enumerated the services of Lord Keane, and
contended that the pension had been well earned from his
country.

1 on Friday, the 12th of

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WALLACE supported the amendment

Mr. HUME contended that many of the officers who served
Under Lord Keane better deserved a national reward than
the noble lord himself. He, also, was of opinion that the
reward, if given, should proceed from the East India Com-
pany. _ _

Sir R. PEEL was not quite satisfied that this pension
ight not to have been at the expense of the East India

Company, but he by no means meant, in saying this, to de
tract, in the slightest degree, from the merits of Lord Keane
which fully entitled him to the reward.

Mr. HOGG contended that the East India Company were
not called upon to incur the expense of this pension, which
should proceed from the nation, which had already acknow-
ledged the merits of the noble lord, by conferring upon him

a peerage.
After a short discussion, the amendment was negatived by
a majority of 117 to 74.
The house subsequently went into committee upon the
committee.upon the East India Rum Bill, and the clause
equalising the. duties on East and West India rums was
sion as to the best mode of prevent-
mported from the East Indies under

ing other spirits bei
the name of rum.
The other business being disposed of, the house adjourned

THE EASTERN QUESTION,

(From t

•ning Herald of y

terday.)

Negotiati

going on in London between the

to the convention of July

conclusion of a new and more comprehensive treaty, in
which France is.to take a prominent part, having for its object
the settlement of the Turkish dud Egyptian question on the
following basis :

The positions of the Sultan and Mehemet AR being de
fined, _

The great powers—France included—agree to guarantee
for the future the integrity and independence of the Ottoman
empire.

The great powers—France included—agree to guarantee
he hereditary pachalic of Egypt to Mehemet Ali and his

The difficulties' in the way of coming to this arrangement
are manifold, and it is doubtful whether Russia can or
England will consent.
„Aus!ritt
.19 in favour of the treaty.

because France, once relieved of its isolemenl, must proceed
to disarm. France is strongly pressing the negotiation, in
order that she may regain her former position ; and the
binding of Russia by treaty to guarantee the integrity of the
Ottoman empire will. be considered a master stroke of the
Guizot cabinet.

Our informant is of opinion that the treaty will not arrive

,sfill conclusion

FALLING OF TWO HOUSES IN FLEET-STREET
LONDON.

From the Times of Yesterday

Between ten and eleven o'clock on Saturday night the in-
habitants of Fleet-street and the numerous persons passing
up and down the above street were thrown into a state of the
utmost alarm and consternation by the sudden falling down
of two houses adjoining the Dispatch-office, one in the occu-
pation of a Mr.. Dodson, and the other lately occupied by Mr.
Bundy, trunk-maker. About six weeks ago the back part of
the premises of Mr. Bundy was destroyed by fire, and which
it is supposed, from the age of the walls, tended very much
to undermine the stability of thefront wall; but as at the time
the place was undergoing a thorough repair no notice was
taken of the circumstance—in fact, there was not the slight-
est intimation of the accident until within a few minutes of
its taking place. About ten o'clock Police-constable Gar-
4iner and his comrade, who were on duty in Fleet-street, had
—ontion drawn to the house of Mr. Bundy, when,
,ccident was likely to occur, they prevented
any persons from passing on the pavement, and alarmed the
inmates of the house in the occupation of Mr. Dodson, all of
whom, with the exception of a young man of the name of
Myson, a tailor, got out. Shortly after the front of Mr.
Bundy's house fell out, with a tremendous crash, bringing
with it the front of Mr. Dodson's house, followed by the in-
terior. As soon as the immense cloud of dust which arose
from the fallen premises had cleared away, there was seen
Myson in his bed-room on the second floor, with a candle in
his hand, and in a state of nudity. lie was standing by the
bedstead ; for the banisters and landing-place bad all given
way, while his only chance of escape was by means of
a ladder. Those belonging to the parish were immedi-
ately brought to the spot, and with some difficulty the
long one was so placed as to enable the poor fellow to be
rescued from his perilous situation without sustaining anyin-
jury beyond a severe fright. For some days past he had dis-
covered that his bed-room door would not shut as usual,
which circumstance he mentioned to -Mrs. Dodson, and
upon expressing his fears that some accident might happen,
Mrs. Dodson only laughed at him. It appeared that he was
`asleep when the front tell, and to that may be attributed his
safety, for had he rushed to the stairs when the wall fell he
must have been buried in the ruins, as "just as he got to the
door the flight of stairs and landing place fell in. So tre-
mendous was the shock that many of the inhabitants thought
that the shaking of their houses was caused by an earthquake,
and several of them rushed into the street, when they be-
came acquainted with the cause of their alarm. Mr. Vizi-
telly, the printer, of Peterborough-court, who was one of the
first that rushed into the street, immediately offered the use
of his premises to Messrs. Troughton and Simms, the opti-
cians, whose house stood next to Mi. Dodson's, to remove
their property to, and a large quantity was speedily con.
veyed out of the lower part of the house; fortunately, how-
ever, only a portion of the coping fell. A short time afte

fearing that some

the accident a strong party of the city police, under the
command of Inspector Fosbury, arrived and rendered every
assistance in their power to the inhabitants, and they were
immediately followed by Mr. Arding, the builder, and a
strong party of workmen, who directly commenced shoring
up the premises of the Dispatch office, and Mr. Trough.
ton's. Mr. Elmes, the city surveyor, was in attendance,
and aided the men with his professional knowledge.
Like all calamitous events, it was quickly circulated that
several persons were under the ruins, some declaring that
at the time the walls fell there were two females standing on
the pavement. As soon as the adjoining houses were ren-
dered safe, a number of labourers were set to work to exa-
mine the ruins for the purpose of ascertaining whether there
was any truth in ',at workir

-a .ne rumour ; they sig without the
slightest intermission until one o'clock yesterday, but fortu-
nately the rumour proved incorrect ; the only time it 'ob-
tained any credence being about 11 o clock, when a patters
of a female was found. Since then it has been ascertained
that no life was lost, nor as even an accident of the slightest
nature occurred. By two o'clock the whole of the rubbish
was cleared out of the street, and a boarding put up, thus
restoring the thoroughfare to its former state. So dense was
the dust which the falling premises occasioned, that it was at
first supposed a fire had broken out in the ruins, upon which
Colf, the foreman of the Farringdon-street station, came with
one of the engines, and was speedily followed by Mr. Braid-
wood, with one of the engines from Watling-street. Fortu-
nately their assistance was not required. Although the prac-
tical gentlemen whose names are already mentioned were
asked by our informant their opinion as to the cause"of the
accident, no satisfactory information could be obtained. It
is, however, generally supposed that the walls, which were
extremely old, were not sufficiently strong to bear the new
work which had been placed on the roof of the house of Mi.
Bundy. The internal parts of the buildings appeared to have
been in a most dilapidated state. Thousands of persons con-
gregated at the time of the accident, and it was with great
difficulty that the police could effect a passage. The house
of Mr. Bundy was parish property, and that occupied by Mr.
Dodson belonged to the Bishop of Peterborough. The da-
mage done is estimated at £2OOO.

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