The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-10 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

By Express from Southampton we have accounts
from"St.Petcrsburzh to the 29th u:t., brought to hand by the
Amsterdam steamer. It appears that the recent relaxation
of the duties imposed by the Ukase of the 19th June, 184-5,
on F reach ships entering Russian ports has just been made in
lime to meet the exigencies of coaunerce. On the departure
of the Amsterdam, every French vessel that hid gone to
Cromlech during the season had either sailed or was
ready to sail; and ships belonging to other countries were
eagerly taken up at advanaedfreights even for cargoes of the
most common exports of the country, viz. hemp. The Dutch
were buying nip large quantities of barley for transmission
to Rolland, and this alone his cause," every foreign
-vessel to be 'eagerly so. It after at good freights. The de-
=anis coming from England for hemp have not been so active
as they were at the some period last year; and this has given
,Tive to a supposition that eiders thence will very soon increase
ind consequently the prices have been held rather high.
She *she in this article for the present year, up to the latest
day were, 1,132,591 pearls
.against 1,460,221 pouds in 1845,
iladtthe price is 86 to 87 'Roubles, according to quality.
Russian Tallow has maintained a tolerably high price,
and is much sought after. The Oukraino is already very
rare, and brings 1191 to 120 roubles; and the K alomna, which
is also becoming scarce, sells at 119. The ordinary Tallow
forcandles, end of the first gaality, is worth 118 to 1181. The
article that is brought from diberta is sold at 1171 to 118. That
which is proper for the manufacture of soap has not risen from
107 to 168 S. The exportat:one of this article have experienced
a considerable decrease each year since 1843. Thus, up to
the 29th ultimo thee amounted to 40,478 barrels, while at
the same period in 1845 they were 49,473, and in 1843 they
were 51,394 .
Flax is very scores, and the stock on hand is reduced to
about 8:5,00 pounds. The prices hitherto paid have not
exceeded 130 roubles for 12 'heads. 115 fur she 9 heads, and
•105 for the 6 heals; but the holders are standing out for
6 rouble: the berkz more then those prices.
Sail-Chg., have been in great demand by tke Ameri-
cans.

-
Bauks sid Rd" Ha
outs Witertra, 4s. IL, 4‘.34.
Iliambrat, Pawa.. I. M.
DOM, Dumdum, aid

11-;m7
Fnamldllas and /Ego. 14a 6d.
Great N. and W., Mora& and
Thorley, 40..
Gt. 8. and W. Ex., tram Temple-
t:meets Nat.& the Ethan.,
Larne, Belfast, !k Ballymena, 10s.

Aberdeen, 91. 9s.
Caledonian. 16
Do. New, M. 9d.
Direct Northern, 7 at 358. 6d.
E. Indian Bait, 16s. ed.
Edinburgh and Northern, 161. 98.,
4 at 14.
Do. and Newport, 3 at 525.
Edinburgh & Perth, 491., 3 at 41s.
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle,
375., 3 at 37a.

Nara Bratsk Oldish) ft., B.
starr.rdiire, R., 3j p
Railw.sy
-

resistratke.
finer. 8.
Newry, Warrespolnt, and Ili:etre-
ear, 30a. 6d. 31s.
New !toes. t".?uiow, sad Kilkenny

Junction, Ss
Waterford and Kilkenny Exten-
sion to Carlow, 3s. &I.
Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow,
sod Dublin, Is.
Wexbrd, Carlow, and Dublin
Junction, 4.6 d.
Wexford, Waterford, and Valen-
tin. 4s.

41, Sart. 8
North Bri.tish Ext. to Carlisle,
Stock, 3 sale/la/84s ,3 at 84.6 d.,
4 at Itio, Scrip, 84a. Gd.
Scottish Central, New, 9{
Scottish Midland, 7j, 91
Stir ling and Dunfermline. 15s.
2.65.

Clydesdale Bank, 13/. 7s.
United Deposit Maurine, 19s.

r Sinn. B._

A
AirbadalsoLray, 265. ed.
INSIPOsa New, 335. Bd.. 33p.

a~ .mow :~a'

12/ANINAM. =a.
Dundee•wed Perth, 2511.
FAA In. Railway, 113 a.
Min. and Glasgow qr. .h.,184 4s.
Glasgow General Terminus, 9,1.
Glaaae,Kilmar.,& Andros., 32And.
Glaag., Airdrie, & hfookiune.,29a.

Great Indian Peninsular, 6s. &I.
London and Hounslow, I is. 6d.
Man. St Southarnp, 245. GIL, 211. 9d.
Seottish Central, 1911.
Ditto ditto Sew, 941 91.iSouth Midland, 555. 6d.
Gorinla Grmitation Water Co., 7 6
West of Sow. Invest Co., 13a. 3d.
Ditto ditto, 6s.
Glasgow, Kitmarn. and Ayr, 41
Glasgow, Dumf, and Carl., 665. 6d.

PRODUCE.

MINCING-LANE, Half--past Two.—There has been
only one public sale of Sugar to-day, which consisted of 600
boxes brown and yellow Havannah, and sold steadily from
424 to 495. 6d. ; 150 casesof Whke Bahia, at 465. 6d. to 495. ;
and 500 mats and baskets Java, 435. 6d. to 495., whiel were
the average current prices, as the Havannabs were of an old
importation. About 250 hhda. West India sold, yester-
day's prices with difficulty sustained. Refined steady, but
inactive.
Coffee.-2,000 bags plantation were issued in public sole,
and sold without spirit a shade under previous rates, chiefly
55v. to 575. ; a part 635. to 675. Jamaica went off at irregular
prices, and a portion bought in.
Rice.-1,8061 bags of middling to good middling. White
Bengal sold athigh prices. 184. 6cl. to 19s. 6d. The importer
bought in a part at 18s. 6d.
Saltpetre.-200 burs Refraction, 71 sold, 2.55. Bd.
Runs remains steady, but the demand continues limited ;
Leeward proof, 2s. 5d., 2s. 6d.
Colton.—The public sale of 1,000 bales Madras, and 500
bags Porte Rico, went off steadily at full prices.
Tiro.—East India remains firm ; Banes, 945.; Straits sold
at 925.

PRICES CURRENT.

PAVAN, per cwt.
West India, B.P. pm !MD.
I. d. .. d.

Brown 43 0..i11
Yellow &Grey 43 0...41
Flee 49 0...32
laurithis, brown 0...13
Yellow 43 0...47
Fine 4ll 0...33
Oengal &Madras, b 34 0...42
Yellow 43 0...47
White 4O 0...37
Foreign, brown.-- 34 0...43
Yellow 44 0...46
Grey and white l7 0...36
Refined, Harabrce 63 0...72
Lumps al 0...63
Come, in Bind.
West India, ordi-
nary IS 0 40•
Good. 43 0.. 00 0
Fine
Ceyl.m, good ordi-
nary 39 0... 40
Fine ordinary 4l 0... 43 0
line 560,900
Socha, rood to fine 32 0.. 66 0
Osaka Ales, ordi-
Amy t o line 34 0.., 33 0
Sumatra and Pa"
21 0... 25
COCOA.
WOO hog 34 0... 40 0
Andra 32 0... U 0
Ti 5. at per lb.
Coogoo.igim WM. 0 91..0 101
; .at per c wt.
Bengal *BicUM l7 .. IS •
13 0... le •
Java
•
Patna „ . 2.1 0.. 23 0
„
Ben
Gum at per gall.
Leeward Island
Proof.
Demerara, 26 to
39 per amt.
O.P 1 10 2
Jamaica, 30 to 36
per mut. O.P. S 4 9 9
4 .- 4 9
Favourite mark. 4
Bondy, Ist brands 3 4
FLAX, per ton.
.
Riga. P.T.R. 44 0
St. Petersburg, 9
Arad 4O .. • 0
. - - . •

s.
lam, at per tea.
Bars

rip. No. L 111...0 15
MSS* 11 x... 1110
Cargo atOardlff bar 3 10... 8 15
Swedish ll 5... 0 0
Lean, at per ton.
Pig, best lB 15...19 10
Milled, sheet l9 IS 19 17
Bars 2l 10 0 0
Patent shot 2l 10...22 0
red or minium
Speller
Ons, per 252 Imp. gal. d.p.
Fish, Bea 4 pale 29 0... 0
straw 27 0...23
brown ft yellow« 25 0 . 26
77 0...79
tireetri Matter BO 0...80 1
Cod
South Sea 24 0...25 1
Olive,Gallipoli,p.ten 41 0...42
Cocoa Nut 23 10...33 1
Seed, Rape, pale,
per ton
Linseed
Paireisiors, per cwt.
Butter—Cork, let . 94 0 . 95
2nd 90 0 91
3rd 84 0...88
Dublin, Ist 0 0... 0
Limerick, do 9l 0...93
Carlow, Ist 92 0 96
Newry, Ist 0 0 0
Waterford 9O 0 . 93
Beef, India, per
dense
Prime Mess 0 0... 0
Pork, prime mere 72 8...75
Bueon-Pork,Lrerk 168 0...72
Do., Belfast
Bacon, Vi'aterford,
per ewt 44 0...70
Belfast
Lard,Belfastpefrk 40 •
Waterford, do )
Ditto Bladder
HIONN Oi and Cow, at per lb.
B. A. and Vide; s. d. a. O.
der
ted 0 64...11 74
0 4 . A
Wan. arr. 0 ..0
Donated
1111% dry 0 .0 •
Una& %%sip. dry 0 5 ...0
Wait India, dry 0 41 ..0
Oiled 0 3 A $
Nit 1ad1e..... 0 2 .0 1121

Dutch and Flemish 0 0 s
Friesland
HEMP, at per ton. dry 0 88_0 9
St.Petersharg,ricen 30 0...5 0 8.
lads
Per
outahot ..... .... 29 0...29 * 74, bkle 8 0 .16 0
half clean
Riga, Rhine .. ...... 30 0..44 8 Drit Wawa, al per ton.
outshot
Riga. Rhine 3O 0 34 t, ' gissimmiac.. 4 5... 4 10
Manilla
East India Bunn l2 0...13 0 WWEIN.7 6 30... 11 10
Bombay l3 0...17 0 1193.077. anasisa ....„
Jute
TALLOW, at per cwt. 11 13=111011. WS* MI
4 111.15 0
Rt. Petersb, new YC 42 0...43 6 8
Rough Pat 2 4... 0 0 t Insa 9 &AO 0
Tot, at per cwt. Lin la ~...- .... MI 0.-16 0
Banat 9l 0 94 6 Saps 74 -. ... 14 0...17 0
lltralte
Conn. in block., 93 •0... 0 0 Brazil ••••••••••• 30 0....55 0

CATTLE.
SOUTHALL, SEPT. 9.—We had rather a sluggish
demand for all kinds of stock, more eel `Wally so for beef,
which had rather a downward tendency.
Beef mold from
Mutton ... 4.. Od. to 4s. 10d.
lamb • 3.. t 11. Gm Ja. M.
Veal 4..., `• to fa. 10d.
Pork
per More of alba sinking the sibl.

HOPS.
Boßoran MARKEL—Two o' Clock.—Me. Ism Pat-
tenden and Smith, Hnp Factors, report that thei .e is more
doing in Hops at the following prices (duty 190,000`1.) :
£ 8. £ a.
Mid and Foot Keats, from
Weald of Keats
Sussex, from
Farnham.. 4l to 7 0
Yearling Keats
Yearling Sum 4 to 4 4
Old flops 3 to 4 0

Quebec. Bth.—
r, Quebec. Sept.
Bth. Helena, St.

ww....
oIIIELDS, Sept.

John's, N. B.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITIL-April 2i. Flowers of
Calcutta to London, lat. 7 N., lon. 82.60 E. ?day 31.
Rainger, Calcutta to Liverpool, lat. 30 S., lon. 40 E. ;
Alecto, Liverpool to Mauritius, lat. 13.24 N., lon. 25.30 W. ;
Brie Barbadoes, from London to Trinidad, 26th August, lat.
41 N., lon. 14.25 W. August 27. Cambrian, Algoa Bay,
lat. 42.13 N., lon 23 W. July 30. Persia, Sidney to Lon-
don, lat. 11 N., lon. 28.40 W. August 20. Albion, Calcutta
to Newcastle.
Active, Moonsoorcot to Madras, was wrecked off Nebsui,
near Sameldanie, July 16; one Native and four Europeans
mi ng.
The John Cree, from Calcutta to Liverpool, has been
wrecked in the Bay of San Francisco, Island of St. Jago.

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minus, and auded to the separation with the ' Young Ire•
land' party. He said that the first difference with them
arose on the queat;on of education ; and he differed with
them on the subject of the infidel colleges bill, because the
heads of the holy church, of which he was an unworthy
member, disapproved of it, and he never attempted to dis-
agree with them, for he knew that they could not be wrong
—and the propriety of the protest against that measure wee
fully borne out by the news they had lately received from
Rome. (Hear, hear.)"

Such language is not less disgusting than the
rhodomontade of The Nation. It has no tendency
to cherish the spirit which alone deserves freedom,
sr is capable of its enjoyment. If this abject ser-
vility belong, as Mr. O'CoNNELL's language tends to
make it, to the ideal of Irish character, not only
would Irish independence be the greatest of moral
impossibilities ; not only would a prliament in
College-Green be a vain form of freedom, driving the
iron of vassalage deeper into the soul ; bat the quali-
fication of Ireland to act as a member of an empire
with free institutions, would become most questionable.
We demur to Mr. O'CONNELL, in this matter, as the in-
terpreter of Ireland, or of Irish Catholics. He, per-
haps unconsciously, misrepresents hia country to
secure the support of the priesthood. Such tactics
are very ill timed.
At this very meeting Mr. O'CONNELL was calcu-
lating the millions required to feed Ireland. He
coolly takes the amount of ten millions sterling, to be
drawn from the British Treasury, as wanted for the
next twelve months. He speaks of the " unlimited
act" of which he expects ministers to avail them-
selves ; and of which we trust they will avail them-
selves, sooner than let any district of Ireland be deso-
lated by famine. But what is the great and perma-
nent work for which all good men arc wistfully
looking to the present Ministry ? It is that of
National Education. For that, most of all, do they
require to have their hands strengthened. And what
is the great peril to which the present Ministry and
its friends are exposed ? It is the cry of undue
favour to the Popish religion. We hear already of
" Protestant alliances" in formation, or extension.
And, much as we deprecate the bigotry manifested in
some quarters, it cannot be denied that others have as
good a right to assail Mr. O'CONNELL'S Popery as he
has to brand Mr. MEAGHER with infidelity. The
introduction of religion just now into Irish questions
lies chiefly at Mr. 011n_NNELL's own door. The
theological tiger was slumbering, and he has roused
it irritatingly. The English friends of Ireland
must abide the consequences when they meet their
constituents. They will have to grapple with
misrepresentations which he has done them the ill
office of countenancing. This is an ungracious
return for the liberal and unhesitating way in which
they have laboured to provide for Irish wants. It is
playing the game, and playing it unfairly, of the
no-popery faction. It injures the cause of religious
freedom and equality, to which we have been told,
again and again, of the adhesion of the Irish Catho-
lic Church. And it imposes an arduous task on thorn
who will not consent, either to compromise the politi-
cal, civil, and social rights of a Catholic people, or to
admit the interference, and dictation even, of a Catho-
lic priesthood in concerns which are properly secular
and national. They will steadily pursue that course ;
but no thanks to him who, even while taking its
advantages, multiplies its difficulties.

WE yesterday recorded the occurrence of one of
those fearful scenes of blood which from time to time
force from us the exclamation, is this a civilised, a
Christian land ? Why are our rural districts disgraced
by acts at which the savage might shudder ? The only,
the awful explanation to be given is, that it pleases
the wealthy and educated landowners of this country
to uphold, for their mere amusement, a system which
leads inevitably to these bloody deeds.
They talk of national education, of the religious
and moral instruction of the humbler classes, and they
practise game preserving, which has been proved to
be the origin of more than half the crime, and of
nearly all the bloodshed,committed in agricultural dis-
tricts. How long will the British people endure this?
How long will the intelligent of the landed aristo-
cracy bear the odium thus brought upon their order
by their unwise brethren ? The case we refer to will
scarcely have escaped the reader's notice, but we mast
re-state some of its circumstances. In Devonshire,

near Newton Abbotta, sixteen miles from Exeter, on
the Plymouth-road, lies liaccombe-house, with its
wide domain, the property of Sir \V. P. CAREw, Bart.,
who now fills the office of High-Sheriff of the county.
On Saturday night last the gamekeeper and the
gardener of the High Sheriff were on the watch for
pitchers, and having ascertained that some were
is the grounds, they called six other persons to their
aid, amongst whom were Mr. ROBERT RENDELL and
WILLIAM SETTER. What occurred we give in the
words of the- local report :

s The.r pmet in a field, called Blendfield, between I t and 12
at Igor, and anrrossided the place where the poachers were. Mr.
Newell and settee went to the gate of Kiln Held, and whit's
there heard the rest, tall out gate '—a signal previously arranged.
They perceived wo V) one running towants them, with a gun in
his hand, and ra t approaching within a few paces, dis-
covered it was one I bury Warren. They ran into the field, and
Warren canard hi, , an cm if to fire. Mr. Itendell called out,
you'd better not fire; but immediately Warren tired at Seller,
and without taking Me • gun from Aia shoulder, discharged the
other barrel at Mr. n, ,kn. The shot paned by the side of
Mr. Rendell's head, but slue aim at Setter was more deadly
he received the whole cos leant in his body, causing a wound two
inch. In length from wl. Isb the towels protruded, and from the
effects of which the unbrtit Ws man lingered until a quarter past
two on Sunday afternoon, wh • kie expired. On a yort.martem exa-
mination a number of small at ?hot were found in the liver. The
„„rireo„ al, found a piece of a, teased'. watch-chain, which had been
carried into the wound. The p. ner was after . scuffle secured by
Afr. 'leaden, and the next day ta be before H. Cartwright, Env, who
(with the assistance of Mr. Rama 'as; baring taken the depositions of
the various witness", and that of 'h dying man, committed him to
take his trial at the nest 'mixes for r Sul murder, and also for shoot-
ing at Mr. ItendelL"

Can anything more shocking • be conceived ? Here, in
the slain or the slayer, are twos 'learns to the unnatural
attempt to maintain, for the amm torrent of the rich, the
sports of the forest and the wilder, legia in a peopled and
cultivated country. When the deem.' was done, the in-
sane fury, possibly the desperation or fe., which had
instigated it, passed away; and the wretched man,
WARREN, who had attempted to kill are, and had
taken the life of another, of his fell,. Iy-creatures,
came to his senses. " He said to Mr. REN ntr.l., when
in custody, he was very sorry he had done and he
wished his gun had broken in pieces when he j,trst took
it in his hand." What a natural, but, alas!
expression of remorse. And what must be' the
feelings of Sir W. CAREW on the occasion? Here:trC
two human victims immolated, for perhaps three o.e
four days of hattue shooting in a twelvemonth. Nor
is this all. The owner of the preserve, in the protection
of which these horrors have ha ppened, is the officer by
whom the fearful sentence of the law will be executed
on WARREN, should a jury of his countrymen find
him guilty of murder. If not murder, whet is
it ? yet the feeling of the working classes on Lhe
subject is shown by the fact, stated in the report, that
" there was some fear of a rescue by the navvies," so
that it was not deemed prudent to send the criminal
to Exeter gaol till the Monday.
It might have been said that this sad affair was an
isolated, extraordinary transaction, for which no
blame can be imputed to any one but the miserable
culprit ; but that pretence cannot now avail. It is
shown, in the evidence taken before Mr. BRIGHT'S
committee on the Game-laws, that these savage scenes
are the necessary results of the modern system of
game-preserving. An ignorant and ill-fed labourer,
tempted by the apparent facility of killing some of
the wild creatures called game, enters a preserve,
knowing that if detected he will be subject to be
punished by a code of singular harshness and severity;
and when likely to be caught, the excitement of fear
and resentment renders him a maniac or a savage.
We shall refer to a few passages in that evidence

in illustration. Some of them shall be from the evi-
dence of gaffe-preservers. Thus the Marquis of

SALISBURY, who retains a large portion of his estates
in Hertfordshire in a half-wilderness state, for the
sake of preserving game, said, " I think a man is not
justified in preserving game who does not employ
a sufficient force to protect Now, there was no
lack of "force" at Hacoombe ; yet eight game-
watchers against two poachers did not prevent blood-
shed. Possibly the very disparity of "force" caused

it. Yet every game-preserver on a large scale, who
was examined by the committee, insisted on the
absolute necessity of an over-force of gamekeepers
to protect game. The Earl of MALMESBUILY said, " I
conceive that the reason of encounters is because there
are not keepers enough; and I think gentlemen who
preserve ought to make it a duty to hare a much
stronger force than can possibly be sent against them.
If they do that, there is uo great chance of a collision."
His Lordship added that he kept more than THIR-
TEEN GAMEKEEPERS.

The following is Lord SALISBURY'S account of
his standing army of gamekeepers, extracted by Mr.
BRIGHT'S cross-examination :

What number of keepers and assistant-keepers and watchers for
the preservatimi of gone have you upon those 4000 serest-1 have, I
thin*, seven in regular employ, besi&s iny keepers, and my keepers
have =limited power to take say number that they choose ; they have
only one instruction —nerer to attack poachers with an inferior force.
"How are they armed !—Wath blufteons, or common wicks. Ido
not believe that they take out lire-arms ; but I do not iiiterfer e synch
with thew.
. .

"Do you know that they never take out tire-arms !—No Ido not.
"Do they mastiffs and does of a ICIVCiOUS character ! —Yu; I
ALWAYS 12401.11:1Ati TllOl 10 DO 150."

This is surely horrible. When such means are
adopted by the nobles and born-legislators of the
land, for the protection of that which nobody, from
the peer to the poacher, regards as property—the pre-
servation of wild animals—is it surprising that the
ignorant peasantry meet " force " by force, and enter
into murderous conflicts with the gamekeepers?
One more illustration, and that too from the game-
preser•ers' evidence, and we quit for the present
this fearful source of rural crime.

Mr. BROWNE, a solicitor, examined by Mr. Bainirr,
had given an account of a conflict with poachers,
which had some years ago occurred near Nottingham,
and the gamekeepers concerned in it were afterwards
called to discredit some of Mr. BROWN E'S statements.
In fact they confirmed them, and, in so doing, they
gave a description of the fight as graphic, as it is
lamentable to have occurred in this country. This
is from the evidence of the gamekeeper:

Did you tee any poachers ! —Yes ; we met four,
What happened then ! - I pursued them; I went in the face of
them ; they were cowing in at one side of the held as we were coming
in at the other, and we went to meet them ; and when I had gut
within about thirty or thirty-tive yarda of them, they put their guns
to their shoulders. I was the till“ man that was up with thent nearest
them ; they told me to stand back, and one of them said, •' Let go."
I said, " lou must not ;" I put my gun to my shoulder ; I aspectod
shoe reery ,tomcat, and I begun to shout out as if I had another party
very near. I told them to let the dog at liberty.
What happened then!—'they turned round and ran away, and we
followed them in pursuit, and they ran into a wood.
What did you do then I—Asooou as they went into the wood, I sent
one of the men of fur more help.
What happened then'.—We kept going round the wood, and kept
them in till daylight; and In the place where I was laid, I heard them
owning up very near us.
That is., you heard them moving in the wood !—Tes, as though they
were owning right upon me • and I kneeled on the back of a bush,
and laid my gun down, and thought I would have the first man that
made his appearance; but as soon as they saw the light out of the
wood, as soon as they saw that they had got to the outside, they tamest
back again. I beckoned to some of the men at a distance; I them
that I would go in pursuit of them if they would remain, and one of the
men made answer, ••• They will kill you before you will get up to them,
lain sure." One of the men followed me in, and we had not gone
lon yards before we heard them rush out. We followed in pur-
suit In the wood ; we did not we them in the wood, but, we followed
them in pursuit, according to the rush we heard ; the wood was very
thick, and in about live minutes I heard a gun fired. I was afraid
one of our men was shot, and I made up to the place, and I saw him
lying there.
Who was that I—Thomas Dribble. I saw him lying bleeding, with
his thigh nearly shot off.
What did you do then out my handkerchief, and bound
It round to prevent his b to death, and pulled my coot elf, and
put it under him ; the ground was wet.
At that time bad you your gun in your hand !—Tes ; when I picked
him
itnN I laid my gun down beside him ; I laid the gun down, and
left be
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What did you do then I—l ran off home ss quick as I could. Be-
fore I left him five minutes I beard another gun fired ; 1 was afraid
there was another man shot, but I made all the haste I could, and
got help, and alarmed the village, and quantifier came, all that could,
I dare say, with different sotto of weapons; then I went in pursuit
of the men.

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As you were going tack, did you meet any other man wounded ?
Yen ; I had forgotten that ; when I had made the alarm in toe town,
the other man came up that went in with me, and he maid, " 1 hope
t,,ey hove not shot you; look at my hand, they have allot it neariy
oft ; will you cut it off ! cannot live with it so ;" and I wad, 1 dare
not do anything of the sort ; you must go to a doctor ; I must go back
to Thomas Drabble, as you arc nearly at hotne ;" and I left him, and
went back in pursuit of the others.
When you went back in pursuit of the others, what was the next
thing you saw!—The next thing was that we could not find them to
our expectation, the wood being thick, and I told the men to look in the
trees ; I thought we had mialiect them; there Is a deal of ivy in our
oaks, and I told the men to look well in the ivy of the oak trees, and in
doing that they found the men.

And all this ferocity is excited for the sake of the
most puerile amusement in which a full-grown man
can indulge, battue-shooting !

We have received by our usual express the Paris
journals of Tuesday.
The Minister of Public Works has left Paris for
England. During his absence the busite sof his
department will be conducted by the Minister of all
work, the Comte de Salvandy.
Grand manoeuvres took place on the 4th instant at
Strasburg, in the presence of the Duke of Montpen-
sier and the Princes, his guests. They were favoured
by most magnificent weather. On the following day
a bridge was to be thrown over the Rhine, by the
regiment of engineers.
The Paris savings' bank has received during the
week ending Monday, 7th inst., 731,687 fr., the sums
withdrawn being 685,931 fr.
A free trade association is in course of formation at
Marseilles.

The Minister of War, it is said, foresees the neces-
sity of having an extraordinary grant of 25 millions
of francs for the French army in Africa. In Algeria
and the South of France the harvests will be but
indifferent; barleys and potatoes particularly defi-
cient. This failure does not amount to a famine, but
will render it necessary that there be a larger expen-
diture for the troops.
General Narvacz has left Paris for Madrid.
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France is to provide everything fur the two royal
brides of Madrid. Countess Breason is very busy
making purchases in Paris. The Queen of the
French, it is said, will send magnificent presents.
It appears that the arrangements which were lately
alluded to in a letter from one of our correspondents,
relating to a change of proprietary of the Comilla-
tionnel, experience some difficulties in their conclu-
sion. The meeting of the shareholders is postponed
from the 12th instant to the 12th of October. It is
reported that the fair negotiatrix, the Countess
Lehon, had engaged her brother, M. Mosselmann,
without his previous consent, and that this gentle-
man declines assuming the direction of the paper.
Thus, it is likely that the Constataionnel will remain
the organ of the opposition, to the great disappoint-
ment of the ministerial party.
A very great impulse has been lately given to the
Paris Bourse, and a considerable rise has taken place
in every description of security, but in consequence
of a rumour in circulation in Paris on Tuesday that
the French government had received a protest from
the English cabinet against the marriage of the Duke
de Montpensier with the Infanta of Spain, business
experienced a check.
One of the prisoners of the Deira of Abd-el-Kader,
laved from the general massacre which took place
la tely, is just arrived from Tlemcen. His name is
De.lpech ; he was made prisoner on the 23d of Sept.,
and ,-eached the outpost of Laila Maghrnid on the
2nd o 1 August. His account of the murder of the
prisoner.- tallies in every detail with that previously
given by Rolland.

Our letters and journals from Madrid are to the
3rd inst. It is stated that the Queen intends to
restore Do, Francisco d'Assisc to the rank of Captain-
cGeedinnegmlreo Army, which he held ender the pre-
it; The news of her Majesty's m
was reported to NaVe given much satisfaction ialiM
provinces.
El Tiempo contains t long article in reference to
the union of the Infanta end the Duc de Montpensier,
and sums up, like the Espi.'4ol, by protesting against
its legality, on the grounds o! the renunciation by the
Utrecht 'treaty- of 1712, and t. 418 97th article of the
constitution.
One advantage for Spain is at least expected from
the Queen's mamage, and that is that the Queen
Mother Christina will return to Paris.

A letter from the frontiers of Portugal, dated the
29th ult., in El Espanol, contains as follows :
" Whilst we thought everything was ended, a strong
guerilla party has suddenly appeared in the province

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