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parliament.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY.
The Queen's answer to the address on her marriage, and
the answer of Prince Albert and the Duchess of Kent to the
messages voted to them, were presented.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE stated (in answer to Lord
Ellenborough's inquiry) that the Government would take
into consideration the several representations of the East
India Company's petition, presented on a former day, in re-
ference to the trade and population of our eastern empire.
Lord ELLENBOROUGIL moved for several returns on the
subject.
Lord MINTo stated (in answer to the Duke of Bucking-
ham's inquiry) that no official accounts had been received as
to the recent disturbances and proceedings in China, but
that he had no reason to doubt the accuracy, in substance,
of the representations on the subject which have appeared in
the newspapers.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY moved for returns relative
:to the payment of the balance due to the British legion by
the Spanish Government. They were ordered accordingly.
The noble marquis then gave notice that he should on Fri-
day move for further information on this subject.
Lord STRANGFOISD moved for copies of any reports from
the officers of the revenue boards to the Treasury, relating to
the extension of the system of " bonding warehouses in in-
land towns."
The Earl of CLARENDON resisted the motion as unusual ;
as well, he contended, might the confidential opinions of the
law officers of the crown be requisite.
Lord AsHerwrox thought that such returns would be
very useful, and might he advantageously produced. .
Lord MELBOURNE opposed the motion. He had no de-
sire for concealment ; but he resisted this motion on the
ground of it being unprecedented, and of inconvenient ten-
dency.
After some remarks from Lord MONTEAGLE, &c., the mo-
tion was withdrawn, and their lordships adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TnunsnAY.
The Speaker was unable to take the chair, there not being
forty members present at four o'clock.

HOUSE OF LORDS,—FRIDAY.
The Bishop of LOND9Npresent9l a bill "for the amend-
ment of the Church Building Acts. ' It was read first time.
Lord DuscANNON moved an address for a copy of the
commission and instructions of Lord J. Russell to the
"Australian Land Commission. ' The motion was agreed

to.
Lord ELLEN BOROUGH inquired whether it was the inten-
tion of government to submit any other papers than those
already promised relative to China?
Lord IVIELBOURNg answered that all the papers would be
presented as soon as they could be got ready.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH then inquired, first, whether it was
the intention of her Majesty's goveinMent to accompany
those papers with a message from the crown? Second,
whether the government had formed any arrangement with
the East India Company with respect to fixing on that body
a portion of the charge of any expedition which might be
undertaken against China?
Lord MELBOURNE answered, first, that there was no in-
tention to accompany the papers with a message from the
crown. To the second question his lordship declared him-
self unprepared to reply.
On the motion of Lord MELBOURNE the thanks of the
house, previously moved regarding the victory at Ghuznee,
were amended so as to include the victory at Kelat.
Lord STRANGFORD withdrew his notice of motion relative
to the state of the British trade on the coast of Africa. He
had since understood that the subject was more extensive
than he imagined ; he should, therefore, hereafter give notice
for a future day,
Their lordships then adjourned till Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY.
After the presentation of many petitions on a great variety
of subjects, one was presented by Mr. Labouchere from the
common carriers, again praying the adoption of some mea-
sure for the correction of the railroad monopolies, which
seriously injured their business. It was ordered to be re-
ferred to the select committee on railways.
The Thames Plate Glass Company Bill was read the se-
cond time.
Mr. Ew ART gave notice that early is March he should
bring forward a measure on the policy and justice of abolish-
ing the " punishment of death."
Mr. BAINF.S, amidst considerable "merriment," stated
that, on an early day, he should again bring forward his mo-
tion (on which the house was " counted out" a few nights
ago) regarding first fruits and tenths.
Mr. SHAW and Mr. Serjeant JACKSON. stated the nature
of the amendments they intend to propose in the Irish Muni-
cipal Corporations Bill. ' • • -'•,:--s -•-- '• • -•
Mr. GOULBURN moved for a return, which was ordered,
of the amount of postage paid by the public departments
since the introduction of the new plan.
Mr. Fox MauLF. moved for a new writ for Perthshire, in
the room of Lord Stormont, now Earl of Mansfield.
This motion led to a long and curious discussion. It was
contended by Sir R. PEEL, Mr. Goumecras, Sir W. RAE,
Sir G. CLERK, Sir IL Bolas, and Lord STANLEY, that as
there was not the evidence usual on a vacancy occasioned by
an English peer's death—namely, the evidence that a writ of
summons had issued for calling the member to the other
house, it would be fitter to adjourn the question as to the
issuing of the present writ till Monday next; and though
succession to the Scottish peerage of Stormont would take
place without any writ of summons to the House of Lords,
yet it seemed probable that the precedents of Parliament, if
consulted, would show that some process was usual with re-
spect to a Scotch succession analagous to the English writ of
summons, which evidence it might be proper to put in evi-
dence before this house. The government and their friends
were, however, quite resolved on hurrying the writ. But
their whole argument, repeated over and over by Mr. Fox
MAULE, Mr. It STEUART, Lord HOWICK, and Lord JOHN
RUSSELL, was merely that no real doubt existed in anybody's
mind as to the fact of Lord Stormont's succession to the
titles and dignities of his father; and .Mr. HuME, with his
characteristic felicity, desired to know whether there was any
intention of questioning the legitimacy of the noble lord?
Sir W. FOLLETT announced, that though no doubt could
arise in Lord Stormont's case, yet it would he highly inex-
pedient and indecorous to make the issuing of the writ in
each instance depend upon the individual circumstances of
the family.
Mr. O'CoNse sI. surmised that the gentlemen of the oppo-
sition wanted time to find a candidate.• On a division, the
adjournment to Monday was negatived by the ministerial
majority.
Lord PA.L,lnn.,roz+ stated, in answer to a question from
Sir R. PEEL, that the settlement of the " affairs of the
Levant" (the dispute between the Sultan and the Pasha 'of
Egypt, &c.) is still the subject of negotiation between the
Five Powers, but that he could not anticipate the period at
which that settlement would take place.
Lord SANDON rose to call the attention of the house to the
petition of British subjects, claimants on the government of
Portugal, which was presented on the 14th of the- present
month. The treatment of the petitioners had experienced
at the hands of the Portuguese government, in whose service
they had fought and bled, was shameful in the extreme.
(Hear.) When they had demanded a settlement of their
just claims, they were persecuted and treated like common
felons. (Hear, hear.) These men had been induced, by the
conduct pursued by the government of this country in 1832,
to enlist in the service of Don. Pedro, and when at the expi-
ration of their services a settlement was proposed, every
species of fraud was resorted to for the purpose of reducing
their claims. (Hear, hear.) They were refused the payment
of a shilling, unless they would sign a receipt in full hir_the
whole of their demand. Commissions had
.been appointed
for the purpose of evasion—for the purpose of chicanery—
for the purpose of delay. (Hear, hear.). Since 1835, nearly
five years ago, had these men been wandering the streets, in
vain applying to her Majesty's government of Portugal for
support—some perishing from want—some destroying them-
selves in despair. (Hear, hear.) In the August of last year,
a communication was made by Lord Palmerston to the Por-
tugueseminister for foreign affairs, on the subject of these
claims, hut having been rejected, another communica-
tion was made. and Lord Howard de Walden was in-
structed to demand, of the Portuguese government, the
appointment of a commission, to inquire into the claims
of the officers and soldiers who had served in the Portu-
guesearmy, and, in the event of that application not being
attended to, that her Majesty's government would of them-
selves appoint a commission to inquire into their just claims.
Another ecommunication was made in November to the same
effectk ; but since thatthe period there had
.been no advance
made whatever for
interim there had been ase
t.alnen4ieent of their claims. In the
but the present Ministeretit forin Por-
tugal,Ftohreeiggonvie&nani-iresnNst.aosfin9rehostile to the claimants his predecessor had been.
There had been two commissionsar appointed ivjth,in the last
five years. At the head of
resigned his appointment at thewas an Enetsh'soffhter who
a
f five days, as he
saw no possibility of his doing
only one claim had been decided tnoytl of d;4O. x three 4
I y(Loudears
eries of " Hear, hear." He (Lord, Sandon)
le
regard asked
to ithe t
I.lgal
Go-
vernment to pursue the same course with
which
of Spain,
• that had been pursued with reference to the
as he felt satisfied it was the only course
satisfaction. They heard nothing of French, or ofwAolunleariegaishe
or of Belgian claims ; and how did it happen that they
oeheard
only of British claimants, when they (the Portnguese)
so much to this country in blood and money ? (Hear, hear.)
He (Lord Sandon) had no personal concern in bringing this
matter before the house. The subject came under his oh.
servation, and having perused the documents which fell into
his hands, he could not hesitate to urge the just demands of
- , the claimants on the attention of the house. (Hear, hear.)
The noble lord concluded by moving, as an amendment, that
an address should be presented to her Majesty, praying that
her Majesty would appoint a commission for investigating
the claims which British subjects had on the Government of
Portugal, and that her Majesty would take an early oppor-
tunity of enforcing their claims on the attention of that
.. Power.
The original question and the amendment having been put,
. : Lord PALMERSTON said he could assure the noble lord
that in what he had said as to the conduct of the Portuguese
government, relating to the parties on whose behalf he had
addressed the house, he (Lord Palmerston) was
disposed to very much
of the severalree with him, because he thought the conduct
claimants very parties concerned concerned in the treatment_ of the
could assure the nobleeloserrdvtihnagtoerrepi•obatic.m. (Hear.) He
Alajestv's Government
bad pressed ou +h.
- Present Government of Portugal the 1)..
cessity of Appointing a commission
sto sit in London for, the
purpose of examining into these administration having shown a' ldrewslii.es ttiOlistettlitl'ae the
claims, it became her Majessto;:
But
tvernment to give them
every opportunity of doing
0 nmnnig‘vith noticing the
desire which that Government heacil evinced, her Majesty's
Government had sent out the
been read by the noble lord, and it had been since which had
St intimated
. to the Portuguese Government, that as these claims
to sit in
the
still re-
mained unsettled, a commission must be appointed
London, to be composed of one-half British subjects t
one hand, and one-half Portuguese subjects on the e
o
and if the Portuguese Government did
not .. do so, that her;
Majesty's Government would of themselves appoint d • coin.
mission, to consist entirely of British subjects; and that
whatever might be the amount on which that commission
should decide, that it should he immediately demanded of the
Portuguese Government. Hear.) He (Lord P.) therefore
-- suggested to the noble lord (Sandon) to withdraw the amend-
ment he had proposed, as the effect of it would be to pledge
the Government to do that in a way in which it would be
better not to do after the explanation he had given. (Hear,
hear.) After alluding to the unsettled state of the Govern-
ment of Portugal, the result of the long struggle in which
that country had been engaged, as one of the causes of the
• long delay in settling these claims, the noble lord concluded
by min expressing a hope that the amendment would be
withdrawn.
Sir H • HARDINGE could not forget, that when these men..e
y
were driven into mutiny, they were treated as his noble
friend (Lord Sandon) bad stated like felons. (Hear, hear.)
It was monstrous that these
and discipline, had reinstated the Queen upon the throne of
men, who, by their gallantry
Portugal, when they advanced
into mutiny, and, chained like felons, schiims, should he driven
be exposed to the
ting of the people in the streets of Portugal. (Hear, hear.)
had But the noble lord (Palmerston)disregarded
why it
was that these claims had been
wasa for i fivee
fyears.
He (Sir H. Hardinge) thought theree
of
this
. in
and a want of energy in the representative
seeing these men first refused their claims, then country,iven into
mutiny, and treated like felons in the streets of Portugal.
(Hear, hear.)
Viscount SANDON would, in consequence of what bad fad.
. ten from the noble lord, suspend his motion for ari-addreS.
As to the Portuguese government, he must say thatlieliad
C
: self-etc:Ts...in their generosity or their justice, and believed that
C i„,,t Y.)03741 never pay these claims except on Compulsion.
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Alderman Sir M. WOOD inquired whether, as further pro-
ceedings in that case of Stockdale v. Hansard, which caused
Mr. Sheriff Evans's present detention, could not, according
to the judge's order, come en till April 20, it was the noble
lord's intention to keep the sheriff in confinement during
that time?
Lord J. RussELT. answered, if the sheriff had any com-
munication to make, or anything to say, it could come before
- -

the house in the regular manner.
Mr. GonnoN, in answer to an inquiry by Mr. Herries,
said there had not been parties f
notice issued by the
treasury regarding the parties whose opium had been de-
stroyed at China.
Mr. MORE 0 FERRALL (the house having resolved into a
committee of, supply) brought forward the navy estimates, of
which he briefly stated the outline from the usual papers
printed for the house. He announced a contemplated in-
our naval force, the total cost of which was to be
in-
crease.
n9i,000 : and he intimated the intention of government
to add to the number of artificers in the dockyards, and to
take measures for huildiug some line-of-battle ships of a
large class..
Sir GEORGE. CLEB.K said,, that though lie did not intend
to oppose the projected increase, he yet .regretted that no
public statement had been made of the circumstances by
which that increase had been required.. If the admiralty
should employ the grant properly, there ought to remain no
deficiency in our naval establishments. It was a larger sum
than had been asked by the government of 1830, the last
year in which he had enjoyed the honour of being connected
with the admiralty. In 1829 and 1830 the force kept up by
government had been larger than the force voted by parlia-
ment, the practice having then been to vote only the number

of men required for the stations, and not to include the

reliefs. The extra cost was defrayed from savings on other
items. This whole practice had since been altered. The
expense, however;of the year 1830 had been less by X 300,000
than that of the present estimate. It had been admitted by
Secretary of the Admiralty that our ships in the Mediterra-
nean were now on a peace establishment, but they had not
the full complement even of peace ; and to the peculiar cir-
cumstances of that portion of the world a peace establish-
ment was altogether inadequate. Nothing but the object of
moral influence could have justified sending twelve sail of
the line to thatquarter; but for this object twelve sail were not
enough, and still less when so imperfectly manned. We had
increased our Mediterranean force from 9 sail to 12, but the
French had increased theirs from 8 to 15, and these, moreover,
were of a very large class. With respect to disposable force,
there was at this moment but one man of war which

could be despatched to any other point requiring the protec-
tion of our commerce, or the vindication of our national
honour from insult. It had appeared in a preceding part of
this evening that government had not sufficient influence with
Portugal even to obtain bare justice for British subjects.
But should not we have found our influence sufficient, if we
had threatened to withdraw our three ships from the Tagus?
If we were not to receive common attention from Portugal,
why had we, for five years, been keeping up these ships at a
cost of £lOO,OOO per annum ? Again ; the news of the dis-
pute with China had arrived here last July, yet it was not
till just now that a man-of-war and a couple of frigates had
been sent out to reinforce our countrymen there. Undoubt-
edly, the government were now, at last, providing themselves
with funds to meet all exigencies. The number of artificers
necessary for keeping our navies constantly in a state of re-
pair had been estimated under the Duke of Wellington at
6,000 men. The number now proposed was 8,391 ; and if
this amount should prove insufficient to restore our navy,
Voss, indeed, must be the neglect of the government. He
was sorry that such an increase had become necessary. We
were told that our state was still one of profound peace. It
was more like that state in which the Duke de Choiseul had
advised the French to keep us—constantly worried and
fevered with the danger and annoyance of a war which was
never to be brought to-an actual explosion.
Mr. M. O'FERRALL explained on some points of detail,
and said that England could equip for sea a larger force than
any other power could provide in the same time.
Mr. H u 34E saw no reason for an increase of England's
force, except that France and Russia were increasing theirs.
At this rate even peace brought no respite from expense. It
was all owing to the policy of ministers on the Turkish
:question. He enlarged on their mismanagement, but said
he would not propose any reduction.
Lord INGEsTRIE thought that, though the conservatives
had been blathed for exposing the country's weakness, they
had done more wisely to take this course than to have left
the nation under a delusion as to its real strength. It was
asserted some time ago that the force was sufficient ; but that
assertion had now been disproved by the fact that more had
been added ; and this good, at all events, the exposure had
effected. The noble lord then went into some details of com-
parison between our naval force and that of France.
These details were controverted by Admiral ADAM, who
was followed at some length by Sir T. COCHRANE.
Lord PALMERSTON observed, that, except Mr. Hume, no
.member seemed to think the proposed force too large. Mr.
Hume had accused the government of keeping up a war es-
tablishment in peace : others had charged it with keeping up
a peace establishment in war : his own inference would be,
that a just medium had been preserved. Their foreign po-
licy had been attacked ; but whatever its other merits, at
least it had that of success. It had been especially assailed
on the subject of Eastern affairs, wherein, however, it had
been based on the principle of preserving the integrity of
Turkey and the peace of Europe. The Admiralty had been
blamed for suffering itself to be played upon by France ; but
if France had attempted, which he did not admit, to exhaust
our resources,- it was only by a still greater expenditure of
her own. The retention of a large fleet in the Mediterranean
was obviously necessary with reference to the forces of the
other maritime powers ; and the vessels in the Tagus, one of
the most central ports in Europe, were more disposable, and
with less danger of disclosure as to their direction, than even
in the harbours of Great Britain.
Sir R. PEEL denied the claims of Lord Palmerston to the
credit of success. Even among the Powers of his quadruple
alliance he had plainly no influence. Portugal had for five
years refused to do justice to the crying demands of English
subjects, and had violated all her engagements to England in
the matter of the slave trade. Spain had refused even the
permissibn of a body of British merchants to open a chapel
in the Havannah: France, intead of manifesting friendship,
was so far increasing her armaments, as to compel England
to incur vast additional expenses. Ia America, the boundary
question was still unsettled. In short, the whole course of
foreign affairs had been so much the reverse of successful
that the embarrassment of our finances, of which the defici-
ency was yearly aggravated, was actually owing to the necessity
for augmented torce, occasioned by the uneasy relations of
this country with other states.
Lord PALMERSTON, with much warmth and spirit, accused
Sir R. Peel of having dwelt on matters beneath the dignity of
the subject, and of feeling-sore about Portugal, because it was
there that the tory policy had been defeated by a liberal go-
vernment. if there was a want of cordiality on the part of
France, the result was the consequence of the irritating lan-
guage employed by the tory party and the tory press. In
many great affairs the foreign policy of the government hod
been eminentlY successful—in the slave trade treaties with
Spain and Portugal, 'and in the commercial treaties with
Austria and 'Turkey. It had failed perhaps in some unim-
portant particulars ; but in these the conservative govern-
ments had not been at all more fortunate.
Sir R. PEEL observed, that the more unimportant the par-
ticulars in which England's intluence had failed, the stronger
was the inference'how powerless it must he. The alienation
of France from England was no work of the tory press ; it
was the work of that press which wrought under the guidance
of the noble lord himself.
Lord SANDON said he was surprised the noble lord could
have had the courage to talk of his influence abroad, when he
had failed to establish a more enlarged system of commercial
relations. The merchants of England have been applying
year after gear to the noble lord to prevent the expulsion of
British shipping from Portugal, but owing either to want of
attention or want of influence on the part of the British Go-
vernment, that expulsion had taken place.—(Hear, hear.)
With these facts- before him, surely he had no right to say
that his foreign policy had been successful. Had the noble
lord forgotten that the French had laughed him to scorn
I where the interests of commerce were concerned. In point of
fad our commercial interests 'had been neglected in the Gulf
of Mexico, in the Rio de la Plata, and on the coast of Africa,
to such an extent as to prove either that the noble lord was
inefficient as a minister, or that his influence was powerless in
all quarters.
Captain A'CovnT, Capt.ain PECHELL, and other members
said some brisk things about Admiral Fleming's celebrated
appointment ; but no one opposed the vote, which, therefore,
was carried without a division. The house then resumed, and
the report was ordered to be received on Monday.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated, in answer to a question from
Mr. Maclean, that the estimates would he proceeded with on
Monday.
The other orders having been disposed of, the house ad-
,ourned at a quarter past one o'clock.

. . -.-
- dave of absence has been granted by the House 45f CoM-
mons to Sir Charles Coote, till March 8, illness in family ;
Sir George Crewe, one month. illness ; Mr. Ingham, circuit;
Mr. George Cavendish, one month, domestic calamity.
THE LATE Stu F. L. MAITLAND.—The decease of Rear-
Admiral Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland, K.C.B. commander-
in-chief in the East Indies, took place on board his flag-ship,
the Wellesley, 72, at sea, in the vicinity of Bombay, on the
30th December last. Sir Frederick, who expired in the 63d
year of his age, was descended from the noble house of Lau-
derdale ; he has at all times borne with honour and credit
his character as an officer and a gentleman, and to that we
will add a thorough seaman, warmly and sincerely attached
to his profession ; he entered at an early age, and became
lieutenant of the Andromeda in 1795. Sir Frederick was
ever an active man, and in 1801) brought home overland the
despatches of Sir Sidney Smith, detailing his successful
efforts in effecting the treaty of El .Trish. This treaty not
being acceded to by LOrd Keith, led to the Egyptian expe-
dition ; on that memorable occasion, Capt. Maitland covered
the landing of Abercrombie's troops with the armed launches
of the fleet, and subsequently protected one of the wings of
our army with the boats, in the lake of Aboukir. In the
Dragon and Loire Captain Maitland was eminently service-
able to his country, and, by his discernment and energy in
the latter ship, led to the action of Sir Robert Calder's
squadron with the combined Spanish and French fleet.
Captain Maitland subsequently commanded the-Emerald,
ofa as flag
America;ca p tbii,nit
,t
oon Sirthe. Alex::
breakingnde oCuotc ho-f
and in the American war obtained the Goliah, razeed 7.1,
aranidiet,boenßthoyenceo,a9sBt,
the war and the return of Bonaparte from Elba, he was ap-
pointed to the Bellerophon, 74 guns, and joined the blocka-
diug.s4uadron under Sir H. Hotham, off Rochefort. The
battle of Waterloo a second time driving that chieftain from
the throne of France, he took refuge on board Captain Malt-
la's ship, whose previous determination to waken° terms
witnhd the ex-emper4 ir, and whose honourable treatment of
him when a guest, is Well known to the world : hut it is not
however, that on Bonaparte's leavin t
so well kno
ship, he offeredwn, m . , ghe
for Captain attland s acceptance a diamond
valued at 3,000 guineas c the acceptance of which
conscientiously declined. Capt. Maitland subsequently
the Veneer, 74, and in her conveyed the King
81
;pans snuff-box, b o ,
commanded _ .
to Leghorn, and then the Genoa, 74, as
of the Two Sicilies
harbour. On attaininghis flat;
ag
a guard-ship in Portsmouth Frederick
was appointed superintendent
as rear-admiral, Sir
which he resigned on being ap-
pointed Portsmouth dock-yard,
on board the Wellesley at
command he held at the period of
phoisindteeadthto. thLeaidnyip.loirataititinthedo
was'
t. East Indianian.
re-
turn to England in the HerefOrdshir '
the time of her gallant husband's death, and intends to
nrit 'NI FOXES.—On the
CAPTIIRE OP THREE FULL-G-- .1'
morning of Wednesday week, (the partiallyof John
covered with snow,) as Robert and Thomas, son
man-servant,
Watson, Esq., of Snow-hill, accompanied by a
of
ground beings
were x
,oanatdh esiarbzuteontßiyolttio.anc-epdahrika; the observed his
dih the print .
• • al abode, viz.,
It deep hole on the Thistlebottom estate, which bad been
nearly filled with large loose 'stones. On looking round the
place, they also marked another fox in the same hole. Master
Robert thought this too favourable a chance to be neglected,
and hastened home for the greyhounds, leaVing his brother
and two neighbouring farmers,
who had been attending their
, sheep, to watch whether the faxes made their escape. On
his return with the dogs they
commencedremoving
the loose stones, when Reynard was
thatartfully another
attemptingt .ox ypartet aohl
escape, but was caught before he got many yards from the
place. The party being satisfied
re-
mained in the place, they commenced a second search, and,
trim alrli..vem: andt
as they were about to secure him, to their great surprise a
after some exertion, they succeeded in taking
quarters whence the other two • -
third, with all the cunning peculiar to his race, was effecting
c.ad
just before been unearthed; very fortunately
and all h 'd him, and
moment, t y o after a short
Arrived at the mom
his escape from the same
he
and desperate run
was killed by his eager and fleet pur-
befoi e taken alive was next turned off,
[ suers. The one just
batlike his other two col-
and afforded a beautiful little run,hist
depredations were no
leagues, his days were done, and
more,-- Westmorland Gazette. •

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

FRANCE.
REJECTION OF THE • DUKE DE NEMOURS' DOTATION

' BL.
PARIS, THURSDAY, HALF-PAST FOUR.—The Nemours'
.potation Bill has just been rejected by the Chamber of De-
puties.. It was thrown out after the general discussion, on
the question being- put whether the articles should be discussed
seriatim. The majority against the bill was 226 to 200,
leaving a net majority of 26. This will produce a profound
sensation in Paris to-morrow, and throughout France as the
news reaches the provinces, and the MINISTERS MUST RE-
SIGN. It is a great triumph on the part of the opposition
against the crown and the government, and may lead to seri-
ous results.

SPAIN.
Bayonne letters speak much of the political ferment which
exists in the Basque provinces relative to the non-election of
deputies to the cortes. Biscay has taken the lead, and refuses
distinctly to return either senators or deputies. The juntas
of Navarre, Maya, and Guipuscoa have been called together
on the same subject, and it is generally expected that they
will follow the same example as Biscay. The Government of
Madrid has sent down peremptory orders to all the provinces
to proceed to the elections under pain of the royal displea-
sure, but the provinces contend that their freros which have
been confirmed to them without reserve, do not recognise
the Cortes of Madrid. The result promises to be very seri-
ous.
The following telegraphic despatch appeared in the Moni-
tem. :

THE SUB-PREFECT OF BAYONNE TO THE MINISTER OF

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" Bayonne, Feb. 20, 1840.
" On the 18th, the Queen Regent, in person, opened the
Chambers ; Queen Isabella was present at the ceremony,
which terminated well.