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LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1852-

The prolongation of the captivity of AnD-EL-
KtDEa is worse than a dereliction of duty on the
part of the French Government, it is the abandon-
mentf the Frenchof
part people all those
on the
principles of honour which are most befitting the
country of BAYARD, the land whose sceptre has been
wielded by so many heroes—dating back from the
Emperor NAPOLEON to the
Emperor CHARLEMAGE
N.
It is an incident, indeed, which could not but have
sounded incongruously had it been possible for
F&OIssAET, without an anachronism, to have em-
blazoned it upon the picturesque and gorgeous scroll
of his " Chronicles." Those who best appreciate the
magnanimity of the French character have awaited
with the greatest solicitude, though, at times, also
with the most implicit confidence, the announcement
of that release of the illustrious EMIR which must
have constituted, among all acts, perhaps its most
brilliant, and certainly its most generous vindication.
Ritherto, however, these hopes have been doomed
only to continual disappointment. The circum-
stances which accompanied the capture of ABD-EL.
ICanan cannot be forgotten by the gene-
rality. It cannot be forgotten, for example,
that that capture took place at a moment
When it could have been least expected. The
glorious chieftain of the Arabs had up to that period
set at defiance the bravest as well as the most vigi-
lant of hie European antagonists. He had evaded
their grasp with en adroitness that seemed little less
than mimeo.. tee had n•en to the conquerors of
Algeria what the Phantom of the Flying Dutchman
had been to the earliest of our navigators--a terror
perpetually appearing before th n, and that when
least anticipated, and yet invariably and altogether
removed beyond the reach of their vengeance. It
became at last so remarkable—this evasion of French
arms by Asie-EL-Kepea--'that it grew into the
happiest of all the jests directed against the councils
of the Tuileries, h .ppi,r than any literary sarcasm in
Mk columns of the
Charivari, hippier even than any
pictorial sarcasm
from the p, ucil of the inexhaustible
and incomparable Peawrort. Arne- le
ELeeeanza,
raoreover, con rived to reudeir the jest yet more
"telling" against his opponents by appearing
almost übiquitous in Algeria. Scarcely had he
been forced to retreat in one quarter by
reason of an overwhelming superiority of numbers,
than he started forth at the oppo,ii:e extremity of the
province—always free, always tierce, and always for-
midable. His personal influence among his wild
Arab followers was the more terrible, indeed, from
the enthusiasm inspired by one in whose veins was
said to flow the sacred
and royal blood of the
Prophet. France bagl "Perienc,-d for ears the a if-
thority of this iefilLeece and
the
siastn. Her anxiety, therefore, fury years
this rad, u -
to put ban end to a
con'est so painfully prolonged became
length, of course, proportionally to
th®
enhanced at
he extent of its
re prolongation. Under these circu
stances it wee
that the Commander-in Chief of her f
me
beea aware, in 1847 that orces n Algeria
the E i
Rled in web mia• was entail-
of difficulties that seemed to render idle
the v
foundatie_st hoe of his extrication. A
that himself suddenly surrounded. Re discovered--
-13D-ex.-KADe R
411 sides the French soldi • ery with their ba.

THE SUN,

vone+a hriatlel arou ':kp palli=arle -urrnsainted
wi.h chevaux-d?-Irit,z,-. D -I.rate though his po-ition
wa., how-vt.r, i` i. V.-•r.h-1..3 certain that still, had
A an- EL- Kaneit might have escap.d.
Already he had been in a Nights apparently as fear-
ful, and yet, in spite of every obstacle, he had con-
trived upon each occasion to effect his escape from
the closing grasp of his antagonists. Even then, in
1847, the EMIR might, had he so pleased, have
tightened the folds of his burnoose, have taken the
reins of his Arabian warhorse between his teeth, and,
with his pistol in his left hand and his cimeter in his
right, have cut his way through the ranks by which
he was environed, and flown on " the wings of the
wind" to the freedom and the authority still awaiting
him in the depths of the wilderness. ABD-EL-KADEB.
might still have ventured upon this enterprise—but—
he was not alone involved in the trammels
—there were with him his wives and his
children. Solicitous for their safety, unwilling to
abandon them in the flight that held out to him its
temptations, and unable at the same time to secure
their liberty while accomplishing his escape in the
manner already indicated—the Kum at last came to
the determination to surrender himself upon certain
preconcerted stipulations. ABD-EL-KADER, we may
believe, was induced to consent to adventure upon
this step the more readily from his confidence in
French honour and magnanimity. As it proved,
however, the Emperor NAPOLEON himself was not
subjected to a more grievous disappointment when,
coming to England, "like THEMISTOCLES," he
found himself, not received with hospitality, but
" immolated." Ai3D-EL.KADEIL in like manner de-
livered himself up to France upon the understanding
that his personal freedom was to be assured—and
he was forthwith conveyed across the Mediterranean
and has been ever since in a state of incarceration.
History has already recounted the terrible manner

in wbich the unfortunate EMIR has been avenged,
even in captivity, by the awful dispensations of
DIVINE PROVIDENCE. The Old KING, who was the
prime mover in the infamous act of turpitude, was
compelled to fly from his palace with ignominious
precipitation. His principal ministerial adviser in
the transaction was only enabled to save his life by
escaping in the livery of a footman. The Prince of
the Blood, who bad solemnly pledged the word that
wss found all his own rights destroyed, and
himself expatriated. Marshal BUGEAUD has since
then expired, and General DE LAMORICIERB, after
being imprisoned for a brief interval, has been driven
into a disgraceful banishment. Meanwhile, the
heroic victim of the men who have thus wit-
nessed already the " pride, pomp, and circum-
stance of power"—whether of war or of
empire—scattered irretrievably to the winds
of heaven, has languished in the Chateau
d'Amboise, where he still awaits that tardy fiat
which is to be the signal of his liberation. A veteran
soldier of England has more than once interceded in
his behalf—but unhappily success has not attended
the humane efforts of the Marquis of LONDONDERRY.
Flop: can now only survive in favour of the EmIR
through the homage for justice cherished in the heart
of his Highness the PRINCE-PRESIDENT. It will be
well for his fame and for the honour of France if that
august personage, the chieftain of a powerful Govern-
ment, shall so act towards the prisoner of Amboise,
that the story of the fate of ABD.ELJCADER shall
not form a companion narrative of the melancholy
history of the captivity and death of TOUSSAINT-
L'OVERTURE. From the Akbar of the 7th instant,
we observe with pain, that wishes are ex-
pressed in Algeria that the EMIR may be
still imprisoned for an indefinite period, rather than
liberated on his parole, with permission to reside in
the city of Mecca—and this simply upon the most
paltry of prudential considerations. It was not in
this miserable spirit that was said of yore the grand
old sentence—Fiat justitia, ruat calum. It was not
in this spirit that France acted in the days of
BAYARD. It was not thus that her history was
written, when her annalist was a FRoissAuT. No.
Let Louis NAPOLEON, then, so decide, in reference to
the fate of ABD-EL-KADER, that due consideration
may be had for the honour of the French people, and
for the dignity of the French Government.

One unquestionable duty of journalists is that of
protecting the public from fraud and imposture, and
there seems to be every likelihood of a monster attempt
on its gullibility in the shape of a new Austrian Loan.
Those, indeed, who burnt their fingers with the last
may be a little chary of touching another ; but since
that time money has become more difficult of invest-
ment, and multitudes want a good 5 per cent. who
do not find it easy to obtain more than 3 on good, or
4 on tolerable security, and to whom, therefore, the in-
crease of 5 per cent. stock at 95 is very tempting.
Old dealers in these things well know the meaning
of " very favourable terms offered " quite as well as
every lady who goes shopping knows the meaning of
'' tremend4us sacrifices" and "great bargains," but
hundreds of respectable persons are not old dealers in
investments. They are recommended by some one
who is, and who is, therefore, perhaps a touter for an
Austrian Loan, to invest their savings or bequests in
it; the stock, they are told, is already at a premium.
Any doubts as to security are silenced by the assur-
ance that a ROTHSCHILD is engaged in it, and also many
of the " first houses." Moreover, the young EMPE-
ROR is exceedingly popular ; even in his recent pro-
gress in Hungary he has been most enthusiastically
received, and the last year's income of the Aus-
trian empire showed a considerable increase over
that of the preceding year. By such a smooth
1 tale as this, if the talked-of loan should come
into the English market, no doubt numberless widows
and artisans, the classes we feel for most, and numbers
of persons also professing higher business attainments,
will be inveigled out of their money. Things are
altered for the worse rather than the better since Mr.
CORDEN did such excellent service in exposing the
system by which " the first houses" secure them-
selves and leave the stockholders in the lurch. That
1
sYsteth is neither better nor worse than the bubble
railway
schemes, concocted merely to create stock,
' which the creators could at once dispose of at a hand-
some
profit, and leave the holders to wind up, or go
on at immense loss, as they deemed best. By a few
fictitious sales among themselves, or even real ones,
for which they could amply reimburse themselves,
"the great houses" raise the stock to a premium, and
then get rid of all in their own hands; a fall soon
occurs, the price becomes permanently lowered, and
only for loan No.l to sink yet lower on the announce-
in a few years, that ham No. 2 must ere long be
Soon it turns out that the
enthusiLstic reception in
Embrmeonrutinhot
iitn,sto the market.
Hungary, and
even in Vienna itself, was the enthusiasm of -
exhibited
with
nh
the disaffected, and a tthe soldiery
and police, enthusiasm Word of com-
mand; that even illuminations Were orcl.red at the
penalty of being numbered
that Hungary is determined to regain, at law, its
old rights and privileges, while the boy Empzaoa
more callous than a TALLEYRAND or a METTERNICH,
though but just out of his 'teens, is determined that
the constitutional freedom of some 800 years' growth
shall be assinitlated to the bureaucratic despotism
of his German possessions. To retain Hungary on
such terms is to retain a perennial necessity for fresh
loans, while to lose it by civil dissension is
to shake Austrian credit altogether. On
one condition only can investment in all
Austrian loans bs safe, namely, that that Go-
vernment adopt a really noble, geherous course with
Hungary, and with Lombardy too. Thorough poli-
tical amnesty, and even moderate constitutional con-
cessions, followed as they would be by freer, if not
free trade, would make these two noblest members of
the Austrian confederation mines of wealth to its
tras ury. But, then, the need of loans would pro-
, bably be at an end.
Liberty
can pay its own debts.
I Despotism, on the contrary, is always needy. Not-
, vs ithstandiug taxation has been strained to its utmost
limit, there is still a deficiency ; and the military
establishment requisi •
te to deprive twelve millions of
people of their just ' rights, and to convert them into the
i:tre hlaves of Uhl wortta less and cruel thuse of
Hapsburg, will always more than exhaust the re-
venue which its tyranny can raise*
immorality We say little about the • •ty of lending
money to crush the free and uphold the despot,
merely because we fear it is the argument which will
weigh least in the scales of the money lender,
We only know that our laws will not tolerate
certain immoral investments, such
houses and brothels ; and if law pre
of capital at home, To) think conscience might,
as gambling-
vents
such abuse
at least,

TNL 0 :SI 130 fir,

give an p,.r ro the supplicistious of down-frNid,-/i
freedom ahro-oi ; and might
11—,vier
still the barb .r.us foot now ill on its neck.
Our chief argummt is to the pocket. If the talkcd-
of loan be cal ri,d wo effect, its course will assuredly
be one of premiums and commissions in the hands of
the " first houses," one of discount and uncertain
dividerr's in the hands of ultimate shareholders.
Alost persons think themselves as competent to de
tide on the morality of what they purpose as a news-
paper editor ; we therefore leave each to settle that
question by themselves, or with the Peace Society,
if they prefer it, but we earnestly request them to
think twice before the usual talk about the " first
houses " beguiles them out of their fair inheritance,
or bard earnings.
One word to the head of one of the first money deal-
ing houses in the world, and now a Member elect for
the City of London. Most heartily have we laboured
in the cause of Jewish emancipation, and shall con-
tinue to do so ; but if the name of ROTHSCHILD IS
to be mingled up with a loan for rivetting still
more hopelessly the fetters of Hungary, we and
the citizens of London shall never be persuaded,
at another election, that the tool of foreign libtrti-
cides is the fitting man to personify Jewish freedom
n the British House of Commons.

While General GODWIN and the forces under his
command have been resting quietly at Rangoon, a
very important step in advance has been taken by a
flotilla of light steamers under the command of
Captain TARLETON, a gallant and energetic naval
officer—a step which must materially influence the
proceedings of the British troops, and may possibly
open the eyes of the despot of Ave to the im-
policy of the course which he has de-
iioerately sanctioned. Prome has fallen. Captain
TARLETON was not satisfied with merely
observing the force and position of the enemy ;
he clearly perceived the extraordinary chance that
offered, and took due advantage of the golden oppor-
tunity. With his marines and seamen alone he at-
tacked and captured the town, and that with the loss
of a single life—a seaman—two officers also being
wounded. The resistance was of the most trifling
character, considering the importance of the position.
Several guns and mortars (28 in all) were taken pos-
session of, and actually brought away.
This great success was achieved by a rapid
and unexpected movement in a direction where no
preparations had been made for defence. There
were two branches of the Irrawaddy river, one of
which, that by the left bank, is only navigable in
ordinary seasons. In that quarter the Burmese force
was concentrated, and several formidable batteries
were constructed, " stone bastions mounted with
cannon, which could entirely enfilade that branch of
the river." But while one route was so admirably de•
fended, another was left unnoticed and un-
cared for. The Burmese appeared to think
it a matter of perfect certainty that we
should remain inactive during the rainy season, at
which time alone the right channel would be avail-
able ; and also that we would attack the fortifications
rather than leave them in the rear. They were,
however, deeply deceived. The friendly natives on
the banks of the river gave full information as to' The
impediments, and the means of avoiding them. he
river had been so greatly swollen by the fall of rain,
that ample depth of water was afforded for
the passage of the flotilla by the right
channel, and the main river was reached with but
little damage from the enemy. The garrison fled
almost at the first summons. A panic ensued the
moment it was ascertained that the British vessels
had escaped the obstructions prepared on the left
bank, and that an attack on the town itself was im-
pending—not only was the town taken possession of,
the seamen and marines remaining unmolested for
more than 24 hours, but some of the saucy blue-
jackets made an expedition into the country, stray-
ing a mile and a half beyond the gates, without
meeting anything in the shape of an enemy.
This achievement, great as it is, however, is but of
trivial importance when compared with the prospect
it opens of bringing this unprofitable and inglorious
war to a speedy termination. It is reported, and we
believe truly, that Captain Taitearroei declared that if
he were authorised by his instructions, and had a sin-
gle regiment with him, he could have reached Ave,
and have captured it as easily as he did Prome. The
Burmese would have been taken by surprise—the
danger would have approached from an unforeseen
direction. A decisive blow might have been made
that would have brought his Burmese Majesty to a
due sense of his situation and of the necessity of con-
ciliating his opponents. The opportunity was, how-
ever lost for the time being, but we trust not perma-
nently. However anxious General GODWIN may be
to conduct hostilities selon les regles, he cannot
ignore the new prospect that has been opened through
the enterprise of Captain TARLETON. The lives cf
our gallant soldiers, to say nothing of hundreds of
thousands of pounds sterling, are not to be sacrificed
to a blind obedience to ancient traditions. A com-
mander must now be at least up with, if not in ad-
vance of the times, and if the rainy season should
prove best calculated for formidable demonstrations
the rainy season cannot be passed in slothful inactivity:
although such had been the custom before steam
had been used as a mode of propulsion to our vessels.
It is nearly certain that Ave is attainable by water
during the rainy season ; and it is in the metropolis
only that terms of peace should be dictated. The
lesson will doubtless prove a salutary one, obviating
the danger of further aggression from that quarter,
once regarded as so formidable.

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.

Gross traffic receipts for passengers
and goods, week ending Sept. 18,
1852 £19,644 9 7
Ditto, Sept. 20, 1851... ... ... 19,632 10 7

Increase in 1852 ... ... .£ll 19 0
Total amount from the commencement of the pre-
sent half-year on let August, 1852:
Seven weeks ... ... ... 4136,119 13 3
Ditto, 1851 ... ... ... ... 142,326 17 4
Ditto, 1850 ... ... ... ... 117,229 410
Decrease under 1851 ... 46,207 4 1
Increase over 1850 ... 18,890 8 5
London Terminus, Sept. 20, 1852.

GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY..O.-Traffic for
the week ending Sept. 18, 1852 :
Passengers (25,812), goods and
parcels, horses and carriages.. £4,278 17 3
Corresponding week in last year 4,177 13 1

THE CORPORATION AND THE DUKE OF WELLING..
TON.—Mr. John Wood has given a notice of motion for con-
sidering, in the Court of Common Council next Thursday,
what mark of respect should be paid to the memory of the
great Duke.
Yesterday a large meeting of the most influential
ihhabitants of Hull was held in the Mansion-house, the
Mayor in the chair, at which it was resolved to observe the
c lay of the Duke's funeral by an entire suspension of business,
A nd by religious services in the churches and chapels of the
town.

N. Brulofi, a distinguished Russian painter, whose
" Dornier Jour de Pompeia" was much admired at the French
E ibition a few years ago, died recently at Manciana, near
ito.'ne, where he was drinking the waters for the recovery of
hie health.

t las. S. C. HALL.—We regret to learn that this
lady received
a severe accident while at Killarney, having
stiPntixu•ed her ancle in the Gap of Dunloe; she is, however,
ably. the care of Dr. Kennedy, and is progressing favour-

The Bishop of Exeter has instituted the Rev.
Willi/ an James, 8.A., to the vicarage of Plympstock, with
Turnc hapel annexed, near Plymouth, on the nomination of
the De an and Canons of Windsor • and the Rev. F. E. Long,
111. A., to the rectory of Priors Portion, Tiverton, on the no-
mivati on of the Provost and Fellows of King's College,
Cambridge.

Th e Bishop of St. David's haso instituted the Rev.
.Llanstinan, Pembroke-
shire,e same county, W. C. Bowen, M.A., incumbent
to the rectory of Jordanstownf
Rev. H. Nathan, on
arresidents at Cochin,
ren-
dered -vacant by the retirement of 11:ine
the
Tni3(
et, n
chaplaincy
nhaat olna
ionfeSyi rtJo.
tChoec kßb ur
irtni,st
Malaba coast, South India, has been conferred upon th
Rev. T ', Whitehouse, M.A., curate of Well-walls Chapel,
Hampat ead.
The Lord Chancellor of Ireland has appointPd
Richard C. Pratt, E3q., of Kinsale, late 95th Regiment, to the
commis, sion of the peace for the county of Cork, at the re-
comm ex (dation of the Right Hon. the Earl of Bandon.
TB7R MAGISTRACY.—The Lord Chancellor of Ire-
land Ila a been pleased to appoint Marcus Goodbody, Esq., of
Inchr nc .re Howe, Clara, to the commission of the peace for
the F ag's county.
B A ray Verpker, &q., brother of Dr. Vereker, of
Limerick, succeeds Mr. Bigger, who died suddenly, as ballast
in" :er and comptroller of light duties, at the Irish Ballast
Boa] :d, Dublin.
L icrd John Manners, as first Commissioner of
We °c is and Forests, with the concurrence, as a matter of
COD tee, of the Board of Works, having determined on re-
T,rc ming the unsightly buildings on the Royal dairy-farm at
ogmore for the preparation of new buildings on the same
the works have been already commenced by the con-
' a actors for completing the new Houses of Parliament. The
,e,Fr plans comprise an extensive range of agricultural
buildings, with apartments for farm labourers with their fa-
milies, but no farm house.