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HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY

Lord AaHLEY reported from the Lyme Regis election
committee that T. N. Abdy, Esq., had been duly elected.
Mr. LABOUCHERE, in reply to Mr. Hume, stated,
with reference to Van Dieman's Land and Australian
colonies, that the Government hoped to be able, before
the close of the session, to propose measures for extend-
ing free institutions to these colonies.

His answer not being satisfactory to Mr. Hume, he
gave notice that he should bring in a bill himself on the
subject.

After a short discussion, Mr. S. Crawford obtained
leave to bring in a bill for securing the rights-of outgoing
tenants in Ireland.

Mr. LABOUCHERE, at the instance of Lord George
Eentinck, explained some recent transactions which had
taken place in.Demerara relative to the state of labour in
that colony. It was true that some incendiary fires had
taken place, but measures had been immediately adopted
by the governor to restore order, which he hoped would
be effectual.

A conversation ensued between Mr. Milnes and Sir G.
Grey relative to the proceedings in Trafalgar-square, the
right hon. baronet stating, with regard to the collisions
between the people and the police, that the consequences
which bad followed had all been comprised in the break-
ing of some lamps, which the police most effectually, but
most moderately, suppressed.
On the bringing op of the report on the Passengers
Bill, Mr. LABOUCHER.E intimated that he had amended
it, in conformity with the suggestions of the previous
night, by providing that sick passengers landing on any
part of our shores should have the right to be conveyed
back to the place of embarkation, and that in the case of
persons lanqing in consequence of sickness the passage
MOT

Lould be returned

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-

-WEDNESDAY

On the motion of Mr. ANSZEY, the house resolved i
self into committee on the Roman Catholic Relief Bill.

Sir R. INGLis objected to that portion of the first
clause which went to repeal the Ist of Elizabeth, enjoin-
ing the oath of supremacy. At present Roman Catholics

from taking that oath, but the penalties
were retained at common law, an immunity not enjoyed
by their Protestant fellow-countrymen ; he therefore
moved the omission of the words " shall be repealed."

Considerable discussion took place nn this amendment;
but it was negatived on a division by a majority of 94

50 voices

Mr. HENLEY then moved that part of the clause be-
ginning at the 17th line, at the words " so much of an
Act passed in the Ist year of the reign of Queen Eliza-
beth," down to the words " in any wise concerns the
Roman Catholics," be omitted, as it was that part of the
clause which repealed the said Act of Eliiabeth.
Considerable discussion also took place on this amend-
ment ; but it was negatived on a division by a majority of
155 over 119 voices.

After agreeing to some other clauses, the committee
got involved in an angry polemical discussion of no im-
portance in itself, but of some importance as to its con-
sequences, when a motion made by Sir G. GREY was put
and carried that the Chairman shoyld report progress and
ask leave to sit again on Wednesday next.
On the motion of Mr. CoLvILE, the Game Certificate
time, and ordered to be committed

Bill was read a se(
that day fortnight

HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY

•
The Archbishop of YORK presented a petition from a
place in the county of York against the admission of
Jews to Parliament.
Similar petitions were presented from the Bishop of
OXFORD, from places in the county of Oxford.
The Earl of EGLINTOUN presented a petition from Ber-
wick against the Currency Act of 1844.

Some little conversation ensued, in which the Earl of
Shrewsbury, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and Lord Stan-
ley took part. relative to the street disturbances in the
metropolis. It was admitted that the mobs were rather
of a thievish than of a political character, and that the
police had acted well in dispersing them.

HOUSE OF COMMONS

-THURSDAY

A great number of petitions on the different subjects
'true presented.
Mr. BIUGIST postponed his notice of motion for leave
to bring in a bill to abolish the Game Laws till that
day fortnight.

BRITISH MECHANICS AND WORKMEN IN FRANCE.
Mr. A. STAFFORD wished to ask a question of the go-
vernment relating to the expulsion of mechanics and
artizans from France since the commencement of the
revolution, and if such had been the case, whether the
British government had taken any steps to relieve their
wants and procure means to convey them to their re-
spective homes. (Hear, hear.)
Sir G. GREY said, on Sunday morning he received the
copy of a letter sent to Lord Palmerston by the British
Consul at Rouen, stating that the French populace had
demanded the immediate discharge of all British labour-
ers and mechanics employed in factories or on railroads,
and that a considerable number in consequence were
ordered to leave France almost without clothes, and in a
state of great destitution. He (Sir G. Grey) immediately
sent orders to the British Consul to engage a steam-boat
to convey the parties so circumstanced to England, and
he also gave instructions to the Mayor of Portsmouth, on
their arriving in that port, to make necessary preparations
and arrangements to convey them to their respective
homes. (Hear.) These arrangements had been made,
and the unfortunate individuals alluded to, some of whom
belonged to Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other places in
Scotland, appeared (he was informed) very grateful for
the attention which had been shown to them. (Hear,
hear.) They had means provided for enabling them to
return to their homes. (Hear.)

,
Mr. S. CRAWFORD moved for leave to bring in a bill to
amend the Irish Poor Relief Extension Act, with a view
to repeal the 10th section, commonly called "The Quarter-
acre Clause." The hon. member contended that this
preliminary clause, which forbade relief, out-door or in-
door, to all persons in possession of a quarter of an acre
of land or upwards, inflicted the grossest injustice on many
who could not get rid of their occupancies.
Sir WM. SOMERVILLE opposed the motion as unneces-
sary, as it was held that the guardians had power to give
relief to such persons as tendered their occupancies to their
landlords, whether accepted or not by the landlord.
Mr. O'Flaherty, Mr. Fagan, Mr. P. Scrope, Mr. F.
O'Connor, Mr. Clements, Sir. G. Grey, Col. Conolly,
Mr. E. B. Roche. Mr. Aglionby, Major Macnamara, Mr.
Reynolds, Mr. Alaunsell. Mr. Wakley, Mr. Drummond,
Colonel Dunne, and Mr. M. O'Connell, took part in the
discussion which followed.

The house divided—For the motion 21, against it 114
—majority against the motion 93.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY.
Mr. LABOUCHERE, in reply to Mr. F. Scott, stated that
t t Colonial Secretary hoped, before the close of the ses-
sion, in consequence of representations from Australia, to
bring in a bill for separating the government of New South
Wales from that of Port Philip. His noble friend had
also under his consideration whether it would not be ne-
cessary in that bill to introduce certain other alterations
in the constitution of New South Wales.

Sir B. HALL, in reply to Mr. Hamilton' stated that it
was his intention to take the sense of the house, in com-
mittee of ways and means, upon the proposition of which
he had given notice, for extending the income tax to Ire-
land.

The house went into committee.of ways and means on
the income tax resolution ; but the debate principally re-
solved itself into one of free trade and protection, accord-
ing to the views of the various speakers. The votes of
the hon members, however, would be thus distributed :
In favour of the government proposition of continuing the
tax for three years—Mr. J. Wilson. Mr. Miles. Mr. Bro-
therton, Mr. Cardwell, and Mr. W. E. Gladstone ; for
Mr. lilume's amendment, of limitation to one year—Mr.
J. B. Smith, Sir W. Molesworth, and Mr. Disraeli; the
debate standing adjourned, on the motion of Mr. Mac-
regor, till Monday.

The Passengers Bill was read a third time and passed

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL

ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA.
The Royal mail steam-ship Hibernia, from Boston and
Halifax, arrived in the Mersey on Saturday morning, at
half-past one o'clock. She brought advises from New
York to the 27th alt., £40,000 in specie, and thirty-four
passengers..

- On the 21st ult. the venerable John Quincy Adams was
seized with apoplexy in his seat in the llouse of Repre-
sentatives, and died on the following night. Another
account states that he died in the house, in the Speaker's
room, and adds—" Congress marked its sense of the
mournful event by immediately adjourning for a week.
All the party bickerings that had passed between the
members but a moment before were hushed on the in-
stant. The citizens of the capital partook of a like feel-
ing, business was suspended, and a general gloom took
possession of every one, so much so that several persons
put on mourning.' All the cities of the Union had tes-
tified their respect for the memory of the deceased. His
public career commenced in 1781, when he was but 15
years of age.

- The meeting of Gen. Taylor's friends, at New York,
which had been adjourned to the 22d, was held on that
day ; it was attended by 15,000 persons. Various reso-
lutions in favour of Gen. Taylor being the next President
were proposed, and carried unanimously.
The Courier and Enquirer says : ' Money is easy,
but there is not much activity in exports. Our stock of
flour is so small on the seaboard as to prevent any such
fall in prices as might benefit shipments ;. and the last
accounts for cotton were so lift). -
is not any Nt there
The

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eat disposition to operate in that staple.
been larger than pr
so to advance the rate;
ill a downward aspect.

sales fur export to England ha
oiisiy, but not sufficient)
freight. The market has
change on London rt
The total exports

treasury oonus. UC,ICU institutes
?t. to February 19, were— at Paris a "Comptoir National d'Escompte " W 7th a
.6; wheat, 211,217; corn, capital of twenty millions. The city of Paris hie eilbscri-

bed a third of that sum, promises another third in obliga-
tions, and the State affords the third third. Another
decree restores to the island of Bourbon its republican
name of " Reunion."

A decree fixes at five per cent. the interest on the sums
deposited at the Savings Banks of Paris.
The payment of the dividends on the Four, Four-and-
a-Half, and-Five per Cents. commenced on the 6th, on
whiCh day-3,893,916f. were paid on 5843 inscriptions.
According to the Constitutionnel, the following diplo-
matic appointments are to take place :—M. d'Harcourt,
London ; M. Boissy, Rome ; M. d'Alton-ShO, Turin ;
General Fabvier, Constantinople ; M. de Tracy, United
States.; M. Beaumont, Vassy, Denmark ; M. de la-Mos-
kowa, Spain. All these gentlemen were, if we mistake
not, Members of the late Chamber of Peers.

The, Journal du Havre announces the arrival, on .Fri-
day, from Rouen, of the steamboat lately named the Louis
Philippe, but now the Sesostris, with 238 Irish workmen,
who had been employed in the great spinning mill at
Rouen, called the Foundre, and who, in consequence of
the late events, had been discharged. These men went
to Pont Audemer, hoping to be received into a manufac-
tory established there by one of their fellow country:nen,
but were disappointed, and therefore came on to Havre to
obtain from their Consul the means of returning to their
own country.

The Minister of War is making arrangements for the
relief of the National Guards of Paris from their onerous
duties, bye the recalling of the regular troops, and the Mi-
nister of the Interior in preparing for the elections.
A commission is appointed for distributing fundsmeces-
sary for the service of religion, and the preservation and
restoration of churches.

On Wednesday, a highly-respectable and numerously
attended meeting of English residents at Paris was held at
Meurioe's Hotel, Col. Fletcher in the chair, when an ad-
dress to the French Provisional Government, drawn up
by Captain Boyle, R.N., was agreed to. - The address,
whilst cautiously abstaining from an expression of opinion
as to particularforms of government, congratulated the
people upon their courage in vindication of a just, right,
and their moderation in the hour of victory—the National
Guard upon their admirable exertions in protecting life
and property—and the Provisional Government for the
wisdom of their measures in critical and trying circum-
stances. The address expressed strong hopes for the con-
tinuance of amicable feeling between the people of both
nations. Many of those present bore testimony to the
kindly spirit manifested towards the English by all classes
since the late change of government. One gentleman who
held a considerable amount of investments in French Se-
curities, declared his intention of not sacrificing one pen-
nyworth of what he bad purchased, and his hopeful and
confident tone was responded to by others.
Our Paris despatches, dated Thursday evening, confirm
the account of the resignation of Prince Metternich, in
consequence of the emperor having rejectediiis advice to
grant concessions to Lombardy, Bohemia, and Hungary.
Much apprehension of disturbance is felt at Vienna and
throughout the imperial dominions. The Provisional Go-
vernment have issued a proclamation advising the people
to pay their taxes, that the government might be relieved.
Tranquillity prevailed.

The Palais National, formerly the Palais Royal, is given
to the Minister of War to establish an etat major and
battalion of mobilised National Guard.
CommuNtsm.—The omnibus drivers and. cdnchicteurs
have all struck. They demand to be set on a footing with
all the employei of the Northern Railway—that is to say,
be allowed their dividend or profits on the receipts, ac-
cording to amount of salary.
M. Lambert, who was attached to the household of the
ex-King Louis Philippe, and Lieutenant-Colonel of the
3rd Legion of the National Guard of Paris, has blown out
his brains. The day after the late events he gave in his
resignation as lieutenant-colonel and entered the ranks as
a private.

THE WORKMEN. -On Wednesday, the paviours of
Paris struck for an increase of wages : they refused to re-
sume their work unless the government gives them Bf. a
day in place of 4f. the ordinary price. The goVernment,
not being inclined to yield to such a demand, has em-

ployed journeymen maims to repave the streets.
RETRIBUTION.—In 1830, no sooner bad the Dey of
Algiers arrived in France as a prisoner of Charles X. than
the King was dethroned and exiled ; and in 1848, no
sooner had the Emir Abd-el-Kader reached the shores of
France as the prisoner of Louis Philippe than the King
of the barricades was dethroned and exiled ! The Dey,
at the fall of Charles, exclaimed, " God is just : he has
avenged me !"—and who would prevent the Marabout,
Abd-el-Kader, from making the same assertion of provi-
dential retribution ?
SYMPATHY FOR LOUIS PHILIPPI

—The Presse.says

—" A considerable number of journeymen joiners who
had assembled to converse upon their own situation were
alluding to the 1,000,000 f. of the Civil List, which the
Provisional Government had promised to distribute
among them, when at the moment the arrival of Louis

Phillippe and his family at London in a state of depriva-
tion was announced. Upon hearing this news one of the
men present said, Sacristi! that is very hard upon
them. I tell you what should be done. The advice
of Beranger should be followed. A million distributed

amongst us would be but very few francs a-piece. Well,
then ! Let it be sent to the ex-King. The arlms of the
poor do honour to misfortune ! ' "
A BRAVE GIRL.—The following is from the Presse

" A young girl was present at the late massacre of the
Municipal Guard of the post of the Place de la Concorde,
which fired on the sth legion. There remained only one
of these unfortunate men. ' Mademoiselle,' cried M. de
V—, commandant of the firemen, ' you may save this
man ?" What must Ido ? lam ready !' "fhrow your-
self into his arms, and claim him as your father !' The
young girl threw herself at the same moment into the
arms of the municipal guard, and, weeping, cried, Gen-
tlemen, in the name of God, spare my father, or kill me
with him 1' At the same moment the quiskets of the as-
sailants were lowered, and the municipal guard, protected
by his liberatress, was saved.
THE MEN AND WOMEN SERVANTS.—Among those
who have suffered most from the revolution are men and
women servants. There are an extraordinary number of
these poor creatures out of bread. With the domestics
of the court must be reckoned those of ministers and
aides-de-camps, officials, and foreigners, English, Russian,
German, &c., leaving Paris, with the reduced establish-
ments of people whose means have suffered, as well as
those who, even if they could, would not like to make an
ostentatious display of wealth. The peers are abolished
—the deputies broken up ; and, consequently, the number
of men and women servants not knowing what to do is
truly pitiable. The war department gives great dissatis-
faction to the National, which blames General Subervie
for the character of his appointments. All important
commands and trusts are conferred upon men who are
amongst the most devoted servants of the late Govern-
ment.

MISERY BEGINNING.—PARIS, TUESDAY MORNING:—
How to support public credit is the question of the day.
The failure of the bank of Gouin and Co. has profoundly
touched the public sentiment because of the name of
Jacques Lafitte, and by means of certain associations pro-
ducing sadness has given a tendency to alarm rather than
actual alarm itself; for we are still under the influence of
hopeful expectations. The revolution of 1830 ruined
Jacques Lafitte, who publicly asked pardon of God and
his country for the hand he had in placing Louis Philippe
on the throne. That throne is destroyed, and the suc-
cessor of old Jacques is the first to be swept away in the
storm. The public are clamouring for relief. Trade is at
a stand-still. The look of the shops, except those which
sell the mere necessaries of life, is gloomy. Propositions
of various kinds, for the relief of people of business unable
to meet their engagements, abound. As no one will think
of laying in new stocks of goods, the manufacturers must
soon begin to feel the pinch. If manufacturers, then
workmen ; and workmen have been taught to expect the
advent of a new era. The State has taken a voluntary
pledge, and it behoves it not to trifle, with hungry sto-
machs and inflamed minds.

THE PROSPERITY AND FALL OF LOUIS
PHILIPPE.

The following extracts from the leading articles of the
Times are interesting, the one setting forth the immedi-
ate cause of the success of the mob in Paris ; the other
pourtraying Louis Philippe in the plenitute of his power.
First, the cause :
"After Count Mole's failure, the King sent for M.
Thiers. That gentleman may be said to have actually
formed a Cabinet in conjunction with M. Odillon Barrot
and M. Duvergier de Hauranne, for they instantly pro-
ceeded to the discharge of the highest possible duty which
could devolve on Ministerial responsibility. The one act
of their government was the publication of that incon
ceivable proclamation stating that no further resistance
should be made, and the promulgation of orders to the
officers commanding regiments to withdraw them. This
was, of course, the capitulation of the Monarchy. Mar-
shal Bugeaud, who had the command of the troops, and
had now completed his preparations for a general attack
on the barricades, and was confident of success, protested
most energetically against this extraordinary order, and
said that if it was acted on all was lost. The King's then
Ministers, M. Thiers and M. Barrot, insisted; the King
took their advice, and Marshal Bugeaud resigned the
command of the troops, observing that it was useless for
him to retain it if nothing was to be done. General La-
moriciere was therefore named to the, command of Paris,
and M. Thiers and his friends proceeded to effect their
pacific arrangements. The effects of their orders were
immediately perceptible, although the declaration of their
names was certainly not followed by the consequences
they had anticipated. The officers of the army, indig-
nant at so unexpected a. termination of their duties,
sheathed their swords, the men allowed themselves to be
disarmed by the mob, whom they had been ordered not
to resist, and the people encountering no serious opposi-
tion from the Municipal Guard, which was cut to pieces,
rushed on to the conquest of the Palais Royal and the
Tuileries. To sum up this narrative in two words, the
dismissal of the Gnizot Government rendered it impossi-
ble for the Executive Government to act effectually ; the
subsequent advice of M. Thiers and the resignation of
Marshal Bugeaud rendered it impossible to act at all. If
this be, as we have every reason to believe it is, a correct
narrative of these transactions, we are not surprised that
M. Thiers and his colleagues should not have made them-
selves conspicuous in the subsequent passages of this re-
volution."
Now the picture :
_

" This day fortnight Louis Philippe was the most
prosperous, the most powerful, and accounted the ablest
Sovereign in_ the world. If the reader will just think of

it, he mill find that this wonderful man had attained the
very acme of success, consideration, and power. It is a
work of time to enumerate the many circumstances of
his splendid condition. His numerous, handsome, and
dutiful children : • the brilliant alliances—one of them
recently concluded—which brought into one family infer.
est the vast region from Antwerp to Cadiz ; the near
prospect of an event which would probably make .his
grandchild tile st:rcrifigu, his don the Kepi t of Spain;
the great cross and drawbaa of his reign just removed—

Algeria pacified after eighteen years' war ; his immense
private fortune ; his eleven or twelve palaces, unequalled
for situation and magnificence, on all of which he had
recently spent immense sums of money; his splendid
army of four hundred thousand men, in the highest dis-
cipline and equipment ; a Minister of unequalled energy
and genius, who had found out at last the secret of
France ; a metropolis fortified and armed to the teeth
against all the world ; the favourable advances recently
made by those powers who had previously looked down
on the royal parvenu ; the well-balanced state of his
foreign relations, and the firmly-grasped reins of the
political car—all these gifts of fortune, and more, if we
had time to go on with the list, were heaped upon one
man, in such profusion as really to pall the imagination.
What crowned it all was, that Louis Philippe was allowed
the entire credit of his success. It was all the work of
his own hands. He might stand like the ancient king on
the walls and towers which he had drawn round his city,
and contemplate the perfect work of beauty and policy
which himself had made. The balance of Europe, the
causes of peoples and kings, the issues of peace and war,
were in his hands. If there was an amari aliquid in this
garden of roses and delights, twenty impregnable forts
and a hundred thousand armed men were no insignificant
watch upon a few disorderly subjects. Solon himself
himself would hardly have ventured to preach upon his
envious text, ante obitum nemo, to a safe a man."
Nought strong as the imagination to draw the reverse.
It must be familiar to the minds of all.

THE ORLEANS FAMILY.
The Globe states that, on quitting the Tuileries, the ex-
King and Queen of the French left behind them one of
their grandchildren, to whom they' were devotedly at-
tached, in the charge of some of the ladies in waiting.
This child was nursed under the care of the aged queen,
and when her majesty arrived in England, she inquired
most anxiously whether any tidings of her little favourite
and the ladies had been received. It was rather remark-
able, and was highly gratifying to the queen, that Mr.
Laurence and Lady Jane Peel (who were the first of our
nobility, in company with Lady Henley, to visit the royal
exiles on their landing at Newhaven), should be able to
relieve this anxiety. Lady Jane Peel had received letters
to the effect that the royal child and the ladies had been
permitted to remain in the Tuileries till after the revolu-
tion, when they were conveyed to a place of safety. It is
scarcely necessary to add that her majesty expressed her-
self highly delighted with the intelligence. Before they
separated, the ex-queen informed Lady Jane Peel that she
felt happy omarriving safely in England. She did not care
how humble life she led there, for it would be bliss to the
anxious moments which she had latterly passed in France,
and she hoped that now she should end her days in peace.
Her majesty seemed sensibly affected by her situation.
Another paper gives the following particulars respect-
ing the Duchess de Montpensier :—" She suffered more
than any of the royal family. Having been left behind in
the Tuileries she took refuge in a wood closet, and put on
a servant's clothes and apron, whilst the mob got posses-
sion of her blue bonnet, and bore it about on a pike. In
disguise the duchess succeeded in reaching, on foot,
through the invaders of the château, the embassy of Por-
tugal, from whence she was conducted to England by
Colonel Thierry. It has proved a sorry match for the In-
fanta—she has lost for ever the two millions of francs wrung
from the Spanish government at the time of the marriages.
The last of this money was paid away but a week ago for
the purchase of a forest near Poitiers, now under seques-
tration. So much for the fate of one of the royal
heroines of the Spanish marriages."