The following is given in the siforning Chronicle ea rt

correct accouat of the proceedings of the fpswich Election Committee. " The Committee have come to several resolutions, which we state not ex- actly in the order iu which they were passed, but so as to render them more M.. telligent to the public. They have iesoltaal "'That a prima jimie cute of agency has been established agalust Arthur Bott Coolos " That a prima f tele case of agency has been establisheilagainst John Dasent. " That Arthur Butt Cooke, John Dasent, and John InIgrtmswere guilty of bribery. " That Arthur Bett Cooke, John Pilgrim, John Bond, and Robert Clamp, alstanded to avoid the service of tke warrant of the Speaker of the House of Commons. [N.B. .Tolai Dasent also absconded ; he returned after the yeti - Comas had closed th..ir case, that he might be examined on behalf of the sitting 3Ienihers. " That laihery and-corruption did exist, and was practised, at the last elec- tion ; Iit that no illegal acts have been established against the sitting Members. " By this it will be seen, that although the Committee have exonerated the siltieg- Members front the chatge.of personal bribery, yet they have not yet piese n il ay •pecitio resolution that illegal acts have not been established against the ogenta of the sitting Moulins; and if the petitioners succeed in the scru- tiny then the question will never arise. If they fait in the scrutiny, then, of course, the opinion of the Committee must he taken on this point. If, how- eve, the Committee had decided that illegal acts had been established against the sitting Allinbels,' the petitioners would have been obliged to have entered iron the 12I-rutiny, in the same manner a* at regent, to !educe the majority of the sitting Members. The lists delivered in by the peoners amount to 109, in si7; separate clams. That deliveled in on behalf of the sitting Members amounts to 43. The majolity over Mr. Morrison wae 41, oven Mr. W.ason 24; and upon NYednesday the petitioners struck off 13 of the votes given m favour of the sitting Members. The scrutiny tvill most certainly go on,- and the ad- jouroment was purely a matter of accident. We offer no opinion • of the pro- 'battle a sin-cost of eith k er party. We now the petoners i feel confident n cutting down the !najority, and very likely the sitting•Ilembera are equally certain of retaining their present position."

Tim dropped Election petitions are to he considered on the follow- ing days— Carnarvon and Belfast, June 18 ; Worcestershire (East) arid Tralee, Jane 16; Bolton and Kerry, June 11 lonmouth and Limerick, June 2; Horsham and Cork County, May 26 ; Ennis and Balifiix, May 21; Youghal and Roscommon, Tuesday, May 19.

A writer in Thursday's Chronicle addressed the following caustic lettsr to Lord Stanley— Of all the own at this moment in England, there is not one whose heart bears so s rest a weight of sorrow, vexation, and chagrin, as your Lordship's. What ! has Peel becn obliged to resign, even though supported by the Stanley Section, and thsir puissant loader? Has my Lord Stanley, whose vaulting ambition so overkaped it-elf, that he thought to hold the balance between both parties, and "fay the pact of the monkey with two eats—give them the rind and keep the good portion of the cheese to himself—has this Lord, who in fact thought to seize open the seat of honour while others were contending for it—bas he found the in plate of play ing this lofty character, he has all the while being acting the part of the old woman between two stools ?

Oh: what a tilling off is there, my countrymen."

In truth, my Laid, there never was a man in England that at one time held so ge, .1 a hand, and played his cards so badly. You are, indeed, most completely the old woman between two stools, acting with. a party that you cannot, with- out lasing all remains of character, continue to support, and who are not such blockheads but that they must fiercely° that my Lord Stanley wanted to make them a stepping-stone to his ambition. You so far overrated yourself, my Lord, that you thought your weight and influence sufficient to prop the tottering Tory faction ; and had such been the ease; they of course could nut have done less than have exalted their preserver to the highest pinnacle amongst them. You supposed, any Lord, that your old friends could not stand without your assistance ; and that. in fact, into whichixer scale you threw your weight it would prepon- derate. Alas, how mistaken you have been! And as for your old friends, they have found they can do without you, and they care for your suppurt just as little as they dread your opposition. My Lord Stanley thought he would be the saviour of the Tory party, and then dictate his own terms,— - 014 ever thus, from childhood's hour,

I've seen my fondest hopes decay."

It is stated in the Charleston papers, that the brig Enterprise, which sailed frein Alexandria ( United States). last January, for Charleston, with a cargo of slaves, and put into Bermuda in distress, where the slaves were liberated, arrived at Charleston on the 13th ult. The Charleston Courier states that the slaves were insured in that city for al,000 dollars ; and thus speaks of the Bermuda authorities: "This unwarrantable conduct of the officers of the British Government, in interfering with and forcibly taking possession of the property of Amerman citizens—this piracy, under cover of the law—this high- handed insult to the flag of the United States—talls for the action of our Government ; and we confidently trust that prompt rneasures will be taken to redress the wrongs and avenge the insult which has thus a second time been offered to this country." IThre Americans bad better corn-fine themselves to the internal slave-trade, if they disrelish such pro- ceedings as are here complained of. To carry on the trade in slaves on

i the high seas, s piracy by their own laws.] It Inns been fully demonstrated what the deadly influences were that

dissolved the Cabinets of Lords Grey and Melbourne—first, the absurd attempt at conciliating enemies by heaping on them posts and situations of Lon.our and influence, thereby strengtbeniug the hands of their ad- versaries, and enfeebling those of the Government ; and second, the =policy of retaining the secondary chiefs in all departments, with the:r whole hosts of underlings, who ultimately became spies and in- formers for their old masters, to the great prejudice of the Whig Go- yernment. The mistake committed by the Whigs consisted in not ant.roeueing their tried friends and adherents into all the secondary and inferior situations. It was the two late Whig Governments that made the notable discovery, that it was wisdom to conciliate and show favour

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to nveterate political foes, and consummate folly to place any reliance on devoted friends.—Caledonian Mercury.

A. shock of an earthquake had been experienced in the town of Green-

wich, Connecticut, whieh lasted for ten seconds, and was SO severe that several keel's fell. The alarm was naturally very great ; but no lives were host, nor dues any serious injury to property appear to have been sustained, The postage of a newspaper from. Greenwiob.to Leadonie Awed , 3d.1.while the same paper sent from London to Greenwich is charged only Id. • The copy of Gallynina'S lliessenger, which WM brought over by the

• regular Post-office steam-vessel, came to us as a letter. Some of our

• readers may not perhaps be aware, that a most absurd and blundering clause was introduced it) the Post-office Act, which passed in the course of lastsession by which clause no Continental newspapers published in a language which is not that of the country in which they are printed are allowed to conic to Eugland by post otherwise than as letters. So that every newspaper coining from France, published in the French

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guage, s now admitted into England by the payment of a postage of tld. ; but Calignani's Messenger, which is in English, though a Paris paper, would be charged about 3s. fid. The intention of the clause was to prevent the possibility of an evasion of the Euglish stamp-duty, by the printing in France of English papers destined for circulation in England ! Asif it could enter the brain of any one in possession of his eight senses to deal in news which would have to be sent over from London to Calais, to be printed there in English, and brought back from Calais to London for the use of Metropolitan readers ! At least an exception should have been made in favour of Gclignani's Messen- ger, which is as muck a Paris pithier as any other, and will surely do no injury to the revenue of the English Stamp-office by being admitted on the same footing as the French journals.— Times.

The Police Gazette of the kingdom of Saxony has the following. " The public is aware that a band of murderers, robbers, and thieves, remarkable for the number of individuals belonging to it, has long been confined in the prisons at Oschatz. There were no fewer then ninety- six persons in prison on this aeccunt. What a Herculean task for the officers engaged in the investigation ! It was, therefore, no wonder that the documents in the cause, and which were sent to Leipsic for the sentence to be passed, had accumulated to the almost unparalleled quantity of three hundred and ibrly-threc columes ; and it. cannot excite surprise that the expense of looking over the documents and drawing up the sentence amounted to 841 dollars. The sentence was published on the 16th and I 7th of last month, by which four of the criminals are ordered to be broken on the wheel, and two to be beheaded. The re- mainder were sentenced to imprisonment for various terms, from ten years to six months. Among them were twenty-uine women, but few of whom were condemned to severe punishment."