regulations, which proposition was nega- Aug. 8. Mr. H. Berkeley moved "That it is expedient in the election for Members to serve in Parliament that the votes of the electors be taken by way of BALLOT." The motion was seconded by Col. Thompson, and opposed by Lord John Russell. On a division the numbers were --Ayes, 86; noes, 81; majority in its favour, 5. In Committee of Supply, Mr. Ward moved the NAVY ESTIMATES, observing that the total reduction effected on the votes, as originally proposed, would be 208,0007; the excess of expenditure, therefore, for the present year, as compared with the last, would only be 6,440. He believed the navy was at present in a most efficient state. Aug. 10. The House having gone into Committee on the CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS BILL, a discussion of some length took place on the proposal of inserting the city of Lincoln in the schedule. On a division it was inserted by a majority of 56-the numbers 69 to 13. Harwich, Aylesbury, Cheltenham, Sligo, Carlisle, Lancaster, Leicester, Lyme Regis, and Bewdley, also took their places on the schedule. After a debate, Bodmin was withdrawn, when a division took place on the question of reporting progress, which was negatived by a majority of 81-the numbers 35 to 116. On a further division Bolton was included by a majority of 118 to 14. Aug. 16. On the vote of 30,2681. for the MINT, Dr. Bowring inquired what condition the decimal coinage was in, and also whether the name was fixed.-Mr. Shiel said the dies were prepared, and the delay had only arisen from a solicitude to save expense. A commission was now pending on the subject of the Mint, and he had no doubt that the result would be a saving of 10,000. a year. spect to the name of the coin, it did not fall within his department. With re Aug. 17. Lord Palmerston moved the second reading of the DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ROME Bill.-Mr. Anstey moved, as an amendment, that the Bill be read a second time that day six months, contending that the intention of the Government in bringing this measure forward was to avail themselves of the power of the Pope over the Catholic clergy of Ireland, so as to enable them to mismanage the affairs of that country still more than He they had already done.-Mr. Urquhart seconded the amendment, contending that there was no necessity for establishing diplomatic relations in order to maintain our friendly understanding with the Papal Court.-Sir R. Inglis agreed with the mover and seconder of the amendment, but from entirely different motives. by Lord Palmerston as a justification for ridiculed the commercial reasons assigned altering the policy of this country. He looked upon the present Bill as the first of England with the see of Rome; and step towards a reconciliation of the church when he considered that the Pope had millions of spiritual subjects in this country, he did not think it was safe to allow carried by a majority of 125 to 46. the Bill to pass. The second reading was Aug. 18. Mr. Christy called the attention of the House to the proposed grant of VANCOUVER'S ISLAND to the Hudson's Bay Company, and strongly deprecated such a proceeding.-Mr. Hawes defended the policy of the Government. He said that for some time there had been many plans had been suggested, but in no a great anxiety to colonise that island, and instance had they tendered to the Government any security that they would be able to carry out their plans.-Mr. C. Buller said the only means offered for colonising Vancouver's Island was by giving it to such a body as the Hudson's Bay Company, The length of voyage and the expenses of that would establish settlements upon it. going there rendered it utterly impossible that it could be colonised, while so much Cape, remained unpeopled. more eligible colonies, as Australia and the was, in fact, a matter of expediency, and it was in the power of the Government, possession of the country upon their reafter the lapse of eleven years, to retake paying the company the expense of the settlement. Mr. Hume strongly condemned the grant of the island to the company, and concluded by moving that an praying that Vancouver's Island should address be presented to Her Majesty Company until an inquiry should be innot be granted to the Hudson's Bay of the Red River settlement. stituted into the complaints of the people divided, when Mr. Hume's motion was The House lost by a majority of 76 to 58. - The grant On the motion for the third reading of BILL, Mr. Hobhouse moved that it be the CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS read a third time that day three months.After a short discussion the Bill passed by a majority of 80 against 13. FRANCE. FOREIGN NEWS. By a decree which appeared on the 17th July, M. Marie was appointed Minister of Justice, in place of M. Bethmont, who resigned on the plea of ill health. M. Marrast was on the 19th elected President of the Assembly, as successor to M. Marie; and on the 19th August he was re-elected for another month. The Commission of Inquiry as to the insurrection of June have completed their report. MM. Ledru-Rollin, Louis Blanc, Caussidière, and other representatives, are seriously inculpated. The commission deliberated whether it should propose the trial of the representatives charged in the report as guilty of complicity, or should leave to the Assembly the initiative in the accusation. They decided to take the latter course. The number of insurgent prisoners is 9,223, many of whom have been already embarked for transportation. The prosecution of Louis Blanc and Caussidière has been instituted, but they have taken flight. Paris has remained quiet, but apprehension of disturbances increases with the progress of the inquiry into the insurrections of May and June, and a monarchical restoration begins to be talked of as an event likely to be brought about. General Cavaignac delivered a speech on the 21st Aug. on the affairs of Italy, in which he emphatically declared that "the only mediation which can usefully take place is a peaceful one." ITALY. A long series of engagements between the Austrian and the Piedmontese forces have terminated very disastrously for the latter. The Austrians completely surprised the Piedmontese on the night of the 22nd July; they swept the whole country before them on the 23rd, 24th, and 25th. On the 26th July a great battle was fought on the heights overlooking the plain of Villa Franca and Verona, 25,000 men being engaged on either side. The positions were taken and retaken twice by each party in the course of the day, and they would have remained in the possession of Charles Albert if Marshal Radetzsky, who seems to have calculated everything like a consummate general, had not directed, at 5 in the afternoon, 20,000 fresh men from Verona on the flank of the Piedmontese. This additional force decided the day, and the Piedmontese, exhausted with fatigue and hard fighting in the broiling sun from 5 in the morning, broke up and entered Villa Franca at 9 at night. They were not followed by the Austrians, but the latter at once crossed the Mincio with a great mass of troops, and secured the heights of Volta, overlooking the position of Goito, to which the King and his beaten army retired. A battle was decided at Goito at an early hour on Thursday the 29th, in which the Piedmontese were again overpowered by superior forces. On the 5th Aug. Charles Albert retreated from Milan to Turin, and Marshal Radetzsky took possession of the former city, of which Prince Schwartzenburg was declared Military Governor. On the 7th Aug. the Austrian general Welden entered Bologna; but on the afternoon of the 8th, on the general levying a heavy contribution, the people rose, and after a terrible conflict, the Austrians were driven out of the city. They then commenced bombarding the town from Montagnola, but the citizens boldly assaulted that position, and drove away the Austrians, who lost 40 killed and 50 prisoners. Shortly after the general evacuated the Papal territories. At the late Austrian diet the Archduke John spoke most decisively as to the maintenance of the Imperial authority in Italy. "The war in Italy (he said) is not directed against the liberties of the people of that country-its real object is to maintain the honour of the Austrian arms in presence of the Italian powers, recognizing their nationality, and to support the most important interests of the state. The benevolent desire to terminate pacifically unhappy dissensions having been without effect, it has become the task of our brave army to conquer an honourable peace." SICILY. The proposals of the King of Naples to the Sicilians are as follows, viz.-1. His second son to be King of Sicilly, wholly independent of Naples. 2. The Constitution of 1812, with such modifications as the Sicilians have deemed necessary. 3. An offensive and defensive alliance. 4. A treaty of commerce and navigation. GERMANY. The Administrator of the Empire, accompanied by the Archduchess and the younger of his sons, arrived in Frankfort on the 3rd of August, and was most cordially received. The following is the list of the new ministry of the German empire.President of the Council and Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Prince of Leiningen (a Bavarian); Under-Secretaries of State (for this department), Menissen, a Cologne merchant, and Max von Gagern, brother of the President; Minister for Home Affairs (Interior), Herr von Schmerling of Vienna; Under-Secretaries of State (for this department), Bassermann of Baden, Herr von Wurth of Vienna; Minister of Justice, Heckscher of Hamburgh; Under-Secretary of State, Brieglieb of Coburg; Minister of Finance, von Beckerath of Crefeld, banker ; UnderSecretary of State, Mathy of Baden; Minister of Commerce, Duckwitz of Bremen; Under - Secretaries of State, 1. (Blank); 2. von Kamptz of Berlin; Minister of War, General von Peucher (a Prussian); Under-Secretary of State, Brandt (a Prussian). Those among the above-mentioned who are not members of the Imperial Assembly are-the Prince of Leiningen, Herr Duckwitz, General von Peucher, Herr Brandt, Herr Kamptz. In the sitting of the National Assembly on the 21st August, the Minister of Foreign Affairs announced the following diplomatic appointments :-Herr Adrian to the court of St. James's; Herr F. von Raumer to the French Republic; Herr Welcker to the court of Stockholm; Herr Compes to the court of the Netherlands; Herr Rotenhan to the King of the Belgians; Herr Raveaux to the Helvetic Confederation. He added, with regard to Russia, that negociations were on foot for appointing an envoy to the court of St. Petersburgh. On announcing the nomination of M. von Bothmer as the Hanoverian plenipotentiary to the central government, the minister stated that the government of Hanover has acknowledged without reserve the central power, and promulgated a law on the subject. PRUSSIA. The Committee on the Constitution have determined that the Houses are to be convoked yearly by the King; in the event of the death of the Sovereign they are to meet ten days at the latest after his demise. From the death of the King to the swearing to the Constitution by his successor or the Regent, the ministers are collectively to execute the royal power. The King will in future be not styled the King of Prussia, but King of the Prussians; and the expression by the Grace of God" is to be used no longer. SWITZERLAND. The draft of the federal constitution has been adopted by the Grand Council of Berne, by a majority of 122 to 35. M. Ochsenbein, the former chief of the free corps, warmly defended on this occasion the conservative cause, and mainly contributed to the defeat of the ultra-radical party. In the Grand Council of Zurich the new constitution has been voted by the 169 members present. If this constitution be generally confirmed, the Switzerland of 1814 will soon have disappeared, and make way for a republic similar to that of the United States. INDIA. Intelligence has been received of decided successes, on two separate occasions, by the Sikh troops and irregulars under the British district officers, over considerable bodies of the Moultan rebels. The force under Lieut. Edwardes had early advanced with success some distance into the Moultan districts, and occupied Leia, where the gallant lieutenant met intelligence of the death of his friends Mr. P. A. Vans Agnew and Lieut. Anderson, at Moultan, and orders from Lahore to recross the Indus, and to content himself with securing his position in the Bunno provinces. His Sikh force, which at first was greatly weakened by desertion, he subsequently re-organized by enlistments of Patans and and Mussulmans. The rajah of Bhawalpore also had rendered important service in cooperating in favour of the corps, and had given a check to a party of the enemy sent against it. Subsequently, a body of latelyenlisted Patans, whom Lieut. Edwardes had detached to attack one of the petty chiefs, ably performed that service, taking the enemy's only gun, and putting the hostile body to flight with some loss. After this Lieutenant Edwardes joined Colonel Courtlandt, commanding in a contiguous district of the Dera, and who had also been able to enlist a good number of Patans in his corps. A second engagement took place on the same day (20th of May) that this movement was effected, and its success was decisive. The enemy suffered great slaughter, with the loss of two guns and five swivel pieces; their chief was killed, and one of second note was taken prisoner. The corps under the British officers now hold possession of the forts of the Dera and the line of the Indus. The enemy's force in the field at present consists of about 3,000 men and eight guns; while that of Edwardes and Courtlandt is formed of three mixed Sikh regiments, 1,500 irregular horse, eight guns, and 20 swivel pieces. WEST INDIES. On the 10th July a slave insurrection took place in St. Croix, one of the Danish Antilles. The slaves demanded their freedom, deposed the Governor, Von Scholten, rescued the prisoners from prison, set fire to and destroyed an immense deal of property all over the island. Part of the town was fired. The estates which mostly suffered were Spreat Hall, Rose Hall, Concordia, Negro Bay, Golden Grove, Manning's Bay, Mount Pleasant. Governor Von Scholten left Croix and came to England by the Dee. The insurrection has since been put down. DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. THE CHARTISTS. The Government authorities having received information from different parts of the country that an armed rising of the Chartists, desperate as such an attempt must appear, was in contemplation, numerous arrests have taken place, and such seizures of arms have been made as leave no room to doubt that some daring and reckless design for disturbing the peace of the country was in active progress. In London, on the night of Wednesday, Aug. 16, it was determined to arrest some of the leading conspirators, and the necessary police arrangements were accordingly made. A party of 300 police, armed with cutlasses, were marched to the Angel Tavern, Webber-street, Blackfriars, where it was known some of the Chartist leaders were assembled, and seized fourteen men, who were conveyed, under a strong guard, to Tower-street. Pistols loaded to the muzzle, pikes, three-corner daggers, spearheads, and swords were found upon their persons, and others were found secreted under the seats on which they had been sitting. Several other arrests of notorious Chartist leaders were made during the night. On the residences of the prisoners being searched, various weapons were found, and in the house of a man named Morgan the leg of a chair loaded with lead, and a number of nails driven in at the extremity, a blow from which must have caused instantaneous death. Amongst the fire-balls, cartridges, &c. were missiles square in form, covered with brown paper, and filled with nails, pieces of iron, and coarse gunpowder. Attached to each is a fusee of cotton, which leads to the powder. These missiles, it is supposed, were to have been thrown into the windows of houses. On the 19th William Cuffey, a notorious leader of the Chartists, was committed for conspiracy. He is a little tailor of about 40 years of age, but possessed of consummate effrontery. At Manchester fourteen men were arrested on the night of Tuesday, Aug. 15, and others afterwards, amounting in all to forty-six. Others have been captured at Ashton, where a policeman was shot in the street. At Bradford ten Chartists were arrested on the 16th. At Liverpool Mr. Martin Boshill, a merchant's clerk, late secretary to the Repeal Confederation, and since president of the St. Patrick's Club, was committed for conspiracy on the 22nd. IRELAND. The more violent advocates of Repeal have recently run into the extremes of Republicanism, and have made no secret of their preparations for rising against the Queen's authority by force of arms. Their tactics have been chiefly directed to the formation of armed clubs, which have become very numerous, particularly in the counties of Tipperary, Meath, Louth, Cork, and Waterford. On the 20th July Mr. W. Smith O'Brien, M. P. started from Dublin on a tour of inspection of these clubs, and was followed within a few hours by Messrs. T. F. Meagher, J. B. Dillon, Michael Doheny, and Richard O'Gorman, jun. who seemed to have indulged in the anticipation of distinguishing themselves as rebel chiefs. In the meantime the English government passed the Act for the suspension of Habeas Corpus in Ireland, as related in our Parliamentary report. At a meeting held in Dublin on the 29th July, Mr. S. O'Brien had assured his hearers that he met at Cork 2,000 men as well arrayed and as capable of efficient action as any troops in Her Majesty's service, and at least 10,000 ablebodied men who promised to support them. The next meeting of the league should be in Kilkenny. "If the trying time should arrive, and Lord Clarendon seemed resolved it should, believe him they would come back to Dublin, enthusiastic as they were then, in a different spirit if they were assured that 100,000 of the men of Kilkenny, Carlow, and Tipperary were ready to walk up to Dublin." Another incendiary, Mr. J. F. Lalor, had stated, that- In the case of Ireland, now, there is but one fact to deal with, and one question to be considered. The fact is this-that there are at present in the occupation of our country some 40,000 armed men in the livery and service of England, and the question is-how best and soonest to kill and capture those 40,000 men." The only performance consequent upon these mighty threats has been an affray with police, which took place near Killenaule, in the county of Tipperary, on the 29th of July. Proclamations having been posted offering a reward of 3001. each for the apprehension of Meagher, Doheny, and Dillon, and 5007. for that of Smith O'Brien, sub-inspector Trant proceeded from Callan, with between 40 and 50 police, in the hope of capturing some of the proclaimed rebels. When they had arrived at Boulagh common, within a short distance of Ballingarry, they were encountered by Smith O'Brien, at the head of a body of the insurgents which is estimated variously as consisting of from 400 1,000 men. The police then took possession of a house close at hand, when the rebel leader, addressing one of the police, summoned the party to surrender. The policeman, in place of shooting Mr. O'Brien, which he might easily have done, went to the part of the building where Mr. Trant was at the time, to report the matter to his commander. Mr. Trant immediately hastened to the spot, but Mr. Smith O'Brien had taken his departure. Mr. Trant forthwith directed his men to fire, when seven of the rebels were killed, and several wounded, among whom was Mr. James Stephens, "an officer," who has since died of his wounds. Not one of the police was hurt. About an hour after, a large military force was on the ground, but there was nothing left for them to do, the insurgents having then disappeared. In the meantime the government at Dublin made numerous arrests, which prevented the departure of many who were to have taken command in the rebel army, whilst those who were to have formed its rank and file throughout the disturbed districts were deprived of their fire-arms and pikes. On Tuesday the 1st August Viscount Hardinge arrived in Ireland to assume the chief military command of the Southern District. After wandering for some days in the neighbourhood of the Keeper mountain, the crest-fallen chieftain Smith O'Brien came on the evening of the 5th of August to the railway station at Thurles, and took a ticket for Limerick. He was recognised by a railway officer named Hulme, an Englishman, arrested, and dispatched the same evening by special train to Kilmainham gaol. Early on the morning of Sunday, August 13, Messrs. Meagher, O'Donoughue, Maurice, and Leyne, were also arrested four miles from Thurles. Dillon, Doheny, and O'Gorman have hitherto escaped. On the 11th of August Mr. Keven Izod O'Doherty was brought to trial at Dublin on the charge of felony for articles written in The Irish Tribune; but the jury would not agree to a verdict. Thomas Devin Reilly was then arraigned on a similar charge, but it was understood that he had escaped to America, and his bail, Mr. Michael O'Reilly and Dr. C. H. West, not appearing, (the latter had been arrested under the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act,) their recognisances were estreated. On the 14th Mr. John Martin was charged with having published in the Felon newspaper certain articles of a felonious character, to deprive the Queen of her style, honour, and title, &c. and levy war against Her Majesty. After three days' trial he was found guilty, and was sentenced to ten years' transportation. Mr. Martin is a Protestant. PROMOTIONS, PREFERMENTS, &c. GAZETTE PROMOTIONS. July 20. Spencer-Venables Argles, of Torrington-square, gent. eldest son of George Venables, sometime of Hackney, Lieut. R.N. by Anne, only daughter and heir of Thomas Venables, of Marden Ash, in High Ongar, Essex, esq. to take the surname of Venables only. July 25. John R. Partelow, esq., to be Provincial Secretary, and Lemuel A. Wilmot, esq. to be Attorney-General for the province of New Brunswick. July 27. George Gervis Cameron, esq. to be Page of Honour to her Majesty, vice Wortley. Aug. 1. Scots Fusilier Guards, Lieut. and Capt. C. F. Seymour to be Capt. and Lieut.Colonel.-2d Foot, Major J. Burns, from 78th Foot, to be Major, vice H. W. Stisted, who exchanges.-57th Foot, Lieut.-Col. T. L. Goldie, to be Lieut.-Colonel.-Brevet, Capt. W. A. Le Mesurier, 45th Foot, to be Major and Lieut.-Colonel in the Army; Capt. T. Wright, 45th Foot, to be Major in the Army.-Hospital Staff, Assist. Surg. T. G. Balfour, M.D. from the Grenadier Guards, to be Staff Surgeon of the Second Class, and Surgeon of the Royal Military Asylum at Chelea., vice S. G. Law. rence, who resigns.-Vice-Adm. Sir F. W. Austen, K.C.B. to be Admiral of the Blue; RearAdm. J. Impey to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue; Capt. G. T. Falcon to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. Aug. 4. Edmund Arnout Grattan, esq. to be Consul for the State of Massachusetts.2d. Foot, Capt. S. W. Jephson to be Major.30th Foot, Major S. J. L. Nicoll to be Lieut.Colonel; Capt. W. F. Hoey to be Major.-77th Foot, Lieut.-Col. N. Wilson to be Lieut.-Col. Aug. 5. John S. Saunders, esq. to be Clerk of the Circuits and Clerk of the Crown on the Circuits, and George Botsford, esq. to be Clerk of the Legislative Council, for the province of New Brunswick. Aug. 11. Colonel Sir William M. G. Colebrooke, Kt. and C.B. to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the islands of Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent, Tobago, and St. Lucia, and their dependencies.-Royal Engineers, brevet Major H. Sandham to be Lieut.-Col. Aug. 15. Captain Richard Phibbs, late of the 48th Regt. to be Exon of her Majesty's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard, vice C. H. Broadwood, esq. resigned.-Hospital Staff, Staff Assistant Surgeon F. C. Annesley to be Staff Surgeon of the Second Class, from 82d Foot.-77th Foot, Captain R. J. Straton to be Major.-96th Foot, brevet Lieut.-Col. W. Hulme to be Lieut.-Colonel; brevet Major Y. M. Wilson to be Major.-Brevet, Capt. Francis Brown, of 52d Foot, to be Major in the Army. Aug. 17. Royal Marines, Col. Second Commandant C. Menzies, K.H. to be Colonel Com. mandant; Lieut.-Col. J. M. Pilcher, to be Colonel Second Commandant; Capt. and |