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      THE BRITISH BANK DIRECTORS . In answer to Colonel Stuart , the Attorney- General said he had never hesitated in his determination to proceed with the prosecution of the Directors of the Royal British Bank . ¦ ¦ ADDRESS ON THE MARRIAGE OP THE PRINCESS BOYAI / . Lord Palmerston moved an address of congratulation to the Queen on the marriage of the Princess Royal . He proposed that this should be presented by the whole House . Mr . Disraeli seconded the motion , which was agreed to , and ordered to be taken up to her Majesty at three o ' clock to-morrow ( this day ) . THE REFUGEE QUESTION .

      Mr . Roebuck asked whether there had been any communication between the Emperor of the French and the Government on the subject of the recent attempt at assassination of the Emperor . He referred to the addresses which had appeared in the Moniteur , containing accusations against England as participating in that attempt . Whatever was published in the Moniteur must be taken to be the reflex of the mind of the Emperor . England had been called a den of assassins ; and nobody could speak better on this subject than the Emperor , who had been a refugee here , and a conspirator against the reigning monarch of France . The brother of the Emperor , M . de Morn } ' , and M . Persigny ,

      the Ambassador , had dared to make the same accusation ; and the latter had not been answered , probably because the person who heard him did not understand him . He ( Mr . Roebuck ) , however , would answer him , and say that , highly as he estimated the alliance of England and France , he estimated higher the honour of England , and that no Englishman would lend his countenance to assassination . It was said that , at the solicitation of- the Emperor , our Alien Law was about to be altered ; but , if we changed the law , we violated the first principle of the Constitution . It seemed that the law of conspiracy was to be altered , and he should like to know the reason .

      Lord Palmerston , said that there had been a despatch from the Foreign Secretary of France to the Ambassador here , urging that the facts should be laid before the English Government , and asking whether any remedy ¦ w ould be adopted for such a case . He would bring that despatch before the House . He defended M . Persigny from Mr . Roebuck ' s attack , stating that his communications with the Government had been highly proper . He would not anticipate the discussion on this subject , which would come on on Monday . Mr . Hoksman regretted the tone of Lord Palmerston ' s speech . He protested against the imputations which the noble Lord had cast on Mr . Roebuck . . He hoped that all papers on the subject would be laid before the House , and also the opinion of the law officers of the Crown . Mr . Roebuck , in reply , said his violent language amounted only to saying that the people of England had been insulted by the Emperor of the French .

      ANNUITY TO I .. ADY HAVELOCK AND SIU HENRY HAVKI . OCK . After a short discussion , a resolution was agreed to granting an annuity of 1000 / . each to Lady Havelock and the present Sir Henry Havelock . EAST INDIA LOAN . Mr . Veunon Smith brought in a bill to enable the East India Company to raise a loan of ten millions on debentures in this country . —After a brief discussion , leave was' given to bring in the bill .

      THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA . - Lord Palmbpston gave notice that next Friday he should bring in a bill to regulate the Government of India . Tho House adjourned at eight o ' clock .

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      NOTICES TO CO »» K&PQK'DBNTS . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted , it is frequently from reasons quiteindependent of the merits of the communication . Several communications unavoidably stand over . No notice can be taken of anonymous correspondence . Whateveris intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications .

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      There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when allthe world is by the very lawof its creation in , eternal progress . —Dn . Arnoi / D .

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      MINISTERS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS . The position of the Ministry in the House of Commons is the position of Xiord PAliMEBston . The only opposition which he has to encounter is the opposition of his own foibles . He has marked out for him many grand successes by the opportunities of the day ; it lies with him to take them , or to

      waive them , at his pleasure . Unless we adopt the doctrine of the predestinarian , and believe that the votes of this session are prearranged , the fate of the Minister was a settled question even on Thursday last ; Paimeeston seems destined to succeed , in proportion as he permits himself distinctly to recognize the facts of each case , and boldly obeys the dictate of common sense . He showed lasfc session that he could overbear

      the resistance of the Commons by all the ordinary tricks which prevail in that assembly . He will be beaten , it is pretty clear , only by himself ; and already we can , in some degree , anticipate the probabilities of his decline . Strong in Ins natural constitution , clear-headed in perception rather than in intellectual cogitation , by nature he thoroughly sympathizes with the English character ; but his diplomatic training has removed him from English political society ; and in the fulness of years he has been a

      mere apprentice at veritable English politics . But the principal questions to which the course of events has brought his Government are , with one exception , thoroughly English questions . Especially so , as an Irishman might 1 say , is the French question , which has become the foremost on the meeting of Parliament . An attempt lias been made to assassinate the Emperor Napoleon . The English people hate assassination , which is exiled from our land by the force-of public opinion . Wo think so meanly of the ruffians , that when we catch them , after the fact , we hang them , and when we catch them in the attempt we whip them . But we never assume ' a man

      guilty until he is proved 9 o > publicly , before a legal court ; and if we hate aBsassinej , we hate any attempt to make us niter our institutions at foreign dictation . ^ Diplomatic considerations , perhaps , and diplomatic conscience make our Prime Minister not unwilling to modify our criminal law at the desire of 'PranceT—* -It-i s—a—delio » te i ^ attemptj-that—to pass a bill through tho two Houses of Parliament which shall satisfy France and not arouse tho national pride of England against tho Emperor and all his friends on either aide of the water . It is a very precarious position upon which the gay and dashing Premier line ventured , Tho principal regular mensuro of the

      session is the bill for placing her Majesty ' s dominions in India under the direct Government of the Grown . Lord PaIiMEESTOJT is pledged to that . He is going to attempt it . He arouses against him all the friends of the East India Company ; all the established Opposition , all the Peelites whose views are of a different tendency , all the Members in both Houses that take an interest in India without feeling a keen interest in the welfare of her Majesty ' s Ministers , all the Independent Radicals feel a jealousy of Patronage , accumulated in the hands of the friends of ' Dowb . '

      The legislation on the subject of the Bank Charter is one that depends not upon the Government but upon the House of Commons , upon the report of the Committee , and upon the general state of opinion amongst those persons who are masters of the subject . It is not so with Parliamentary Reforma question which Xiord Pa : lmebsto : n begged permission last session to appropriate to himself . He asked the Liberal party and the consistent friends of Reform to let him be the Reformer-in-Chief ; they avenged

      themselves for his stopping their bills by consenting—by throwing upon him all the responsibility—by allowing him to be the framer of the measure which the whole country is now awaiting . In the meanwhile reformers of all shades and grades—the reformers of the old school of ' 31 , who think that the bill of Lord John IUtssell now requires an appendix , the reformers of the Manchester school , the reformers of the Birmingham school , of the Moderate school , of the Chartist school , and every school in the country , have

      been talking with themselves and with each other to ascertain in some degree the scope and dimensions of the bill which they expect . Almost all the great towns have been thus sounding the depths of their own desires , and the whole country stands ready to expect a great measure at the hands of that statesman , who , as Foreign Secretary , has always endeavoured to wash his hands of Reform . The position of Lord PaTjMEeston , and therefore of his Cabinet , has now been Btaked upon these three questions—the Reform Bill , the India Bill , and the Alien Bill .

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      ' MEASURES OF SAFETY' IN FRANCE . If the French Emperor be desirous of picking a quarrel with England , and mean to make the Refugee question the pretence , he is not very careful to secure approval from the candid or the indifferent . We might almost say that there is a sort of reckless insolence in his present behaviour , as if he meant it cleai'ly to be understood that he considers the attendance of reason on might to be purely superogatory . At one and the same time he is blaming England , through his

      ambassador , for not watching over the French exiles who have sought our protection , and submitting laws to his Council of State which contain the threat of exile to whole classes oi his subjects . Whither are those new exiles to wend their way ? If they be such dangerous characters as not to be tolerated in France , why should wo be condemned to receive them , and not only so , but to watch over them , divine their secret thoughts , penetrate their intentions , and alter our fundamental laws , in order , at any given moment , tp _ g . ivo _ thcin , Jj aeJ ^ J ^^ thrust them away ? . The Project ot Law discusaod and approved by the Council of State creates many new crimoa and new punishments . Any one , tor example , who ' practises manoeuvres , or entertains intelligences , either abroad or at homo ' with tho object of exciting hatred or contempt against tho Imperial Government

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      FRANCE . "Tho Presse" writes the Daily News Pai-is correspondent , " reappears to-day ( Thursday ) after its two months ' suspension . The Government has taken away from it the privilego of being sold in tho atroots , and in order to counteract as far as possible the effect of this severe blow the journal annnounccs that it will receive weekly subscriptions of If . 2 &o ., for which extraordinary low prico tho paper will bo delivered at tho houses of all subscribers in Puna . But the Prestos retains no element of its former self , beyond tho barren namo . Girardln and Nefftzer are gone . M . Poyrat , who wrote the brilliant article which led to the suspension , and M . Dnrinion , tho member for Paris , both announce in this evening ' s number that they huvo no longer anything to i \ o with tho pnpor . "

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      DKNMARK . Tho King of Denmark was suddenly seized , on Monday evening , with an inflammation of the cheat , from . W , hl « UJto . J , lw 4 » efQrjQ ^ I ^ malady Bhowed itself by a frequont cough , attended with fovor . On tho following day , those symptoms had abated , and at night the patient was tranquil . Ifis Majesty was much better on Wcdnoaday . With respect to tho Ilolbtcin quoation , wo loam from Copenhagen that tho very animated discussions , which lasted through two days , terminated by tho rejection of the llolstein proposals by 41 votes againut 0 . The President declared that tho acceptance of these proposal * would bo equivalent to tho annihilation of tho Great Charter .

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      — v y SATUEDAT , " PEBHUAE . T 6 , 1858

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 6, 1858, page 131, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2229/page/11/