POSTSCRIPT.
Bont Houses of Parliament met last night. In the House of Commons a writ was issued for the election of a burgess for the borough of Tiverton, in the room of Lord Palmerston, who has accepted the office of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Governor of Dover Gastle. The announcement caused great merri- ment.
The CMANCELLOR OP ma Excunquaa altered the day for bringing forward his Budget from the 11th to the 15th April.
Mr. DuNcomita renewed the question of the "Kossuth note," by asking how Sir R. Mayne got it, and who translated it for the Home Secretary, and whether the same note was used as evidence by the
Austrian embassy in the Court of Chancery.—Sir a C. Lewis replied that Sir R. Mayne got the note from a policeman. When itwas brought to the Home-office, he sent it to the Foreign-office for translation, and-
when that was done, he had directed it to- be forwarded to Count Apponyi, to be used as evidence in support of the claim of the Austrian Government for a civil remedy. In taking that course he had simply acted in accordance with international law, and what was due to a Government with which we were upon terms of amity. Lord H. Venn having called attention to recent occurrences at Warsaw,
Lord JOHN Russzu said, according to the reports which had reached him, the eonduet of the people of Warsaw, in the midst of
great excitement and indignation, had been marked by great forbear- ance, and a desire to preserve the peace of the city. As to the con- cessions said to have been made by the Emperor, he was at present imperfectly informed, but he believed that the measures resorted to had. been these ormildness and conciliation rather than severity, and, judging from the recent account of emancipation of the serfs, which was the sole act of the Emperor, there was ground to hope that what, ever farther steps were taken would be with a view to improve the condition of the people of Poland. It was not, however, a case in which our Government were called upon to interfere.
In reply to a question put by Mr. MONSELL, the noble lord stated that it was believed that the occupation of Syria by French troops until the 5th of dune would be useful; but it was clear that a con- timed occupation would in fact transfer the_goveniment of the country from the Sultan to- other Powers, and the British Government could not consent to such .a violation of the treaties by which the integrity of the Turkish Empire was guaranteed. The motios that the House at its rising adjourn till Monday, 8th April, was then agreed to ; and the House was immediately afterwards "counted, out" at half-past nine o'clock,
The House of Lords, after transacting some formal business, adjourned until the 9th of April.
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