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London, England, 1839-07-20 00:00:00

in
.that case, is to become of the Turnpike
mortgagees? There is at this moment, ac-
cording to the Report of the Select Committee
on Turnpike Trusts, a debt of upwards of nine
millions due by Turnpike Trusts in England and
Wales. This debt, let it also be known on the
same authority, is annually increasing, and for this
reason : the Trustees not being able to pay the in-
terest of the money, adopt the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER'S plan, and add it to the princi-
pal ! This may not be very consolatory intelli-
gence for the bondholders, but it ought to be a
powerful motive for those persons to join the post-
masters and innkeepers in their application for re-
lief, for the interests of both parties are intimately
connected—they are in fact so bound up together
as to be almost identical.

The colonisation of Africa ; the state of the
French army and navy, and the death of the Sultan
MA lIMOUD, respectively occupy the attention of
French politicians, but there is nothing especially
to interest an English reader in their comments
upon these subjects. " Poor Africa'. feelingly
ejaculated a Deputy in the Chamber, when the
M:nister of Justice, in answer to a complaint
that justice was badly administered in the colony,
observed that it required time to appoint notaries,
lawyers, bailiffs, and the complex and expen-
sive machinery of French Criminal Courts in
the new colony ; and never was ejaculation
more natural. If the system of French law
be amonc, the boons reserved for Africa,
well may those who sympathise with the sufferings
of the inhabitants ejaculate their pity for their hard
fate. Of course the passport system which virtually
converts continental states into vast prisons, whose
inhabitants dare not move a step but under the sur-
veillance of the police and other spies of the Govern-
ment, will not be overlooked, among the blessings
to be conferred by France on the wandering
Bedouins and Mauritanian Arabs. To dose a
people with lawveranity and priestianity is the ne
plus ultra of modern civilization.
Marshal SouLT stated the French army to con-
sist of 300,000 tffective men, which in fifteen days
could be augmented to 500,000, without appoint-
ing an additional officer. France has 160 dispos-
able battalions of infantry, and 200 squadrons of cavalry
ready for the field, exclusive of a sufficient force for effec-
tual garrison service. She has, also, seamen enough to
man forty ships of the line, and fifty frigates.
The Semaphore of Marseilles of the 16th inst. con-
tains a letter from Beyrout, of the 28th ult., which
states that HAFIZ PACHA had made a retrograde
movement, in consequence of the representation
of Marshal SOULT'S Aid-de-camp, Captain CAILLE,
and that the Turkish army no longer occupied
the Egyptian territory. According to another ac-
count, the ammunition of HAFIZ PACIIA blew up on
the night of the 4th inst., destroying 500 of his troops,
and wounding upwards of 1,000. The. Governor of
Tripo!i had been assassinated, and the treasury plundered
by a Bedouin horde.
Letters from Constantinople of the 2d inst. confirm
the news of the death of the SULTAN, and the peace';ul
accession of ABDUL MEDJID to the Ottoman throne,
It was supposed that the SULTAN expired, not '4n the
29th but the 27th, and that his death was ke,pt secret
for reasons of State.

From Madrid the news is of the 11. th, but the
accounts received are 50 trivial as to 'or: unworthy of
notice. The fellowithr paragraph fror.o. a French journal
includes the only intelFgence of any moment from
Spain :7 .

'evening the following ac.
The Quotidienne gives this
count from Catalonia :

" News from the best '.4...10rity has reached us. The
Count d'Espag,ne, after hp,,i„g withdrawn from the French
frontier, had returned t
.o Bergs, where, pretending to fear
that he should be P:Aicked, he made great preparations
for defence. All on a sudden he has made his columns.
march against a-tiainst Manresa. The village of Sanpadon
attempted to defend itself; he has caused it to be burnt,
.fin• having refused to receive (hurts V. when lie came
to Catalonia.

" Oa the 4th. Llurch de Copons occupied the suburb
of Ylar.resa. On the 6th, a strong convoy, with ammuni.
ti'on and prjectiles set out from 13•2r,ga in that direction.
Vabiez, who was on his march to S'ilsona, is said to have
proceeded on the tiJi against the Carlist army. On the
9'h, in the morning, the firing against Manresa continued.
We shall soon kti•ivv what has passed."
The passage which we have printed in italics, shows that
the Count d'Espagne perseveres in his system of destruc-
tion. We doubt, however, of his apply ing it to Manresa.
Manresa on the Llobraget is one of the rich, st towns in
Catalonia. Its manufactures of woollen cloth furnish
clothing for a great psrt of Spain ; important by its posi-
tion and its population ; placed at the foot of the most rug-
ged mountains and the most difficult defiles of Catalonia
It was, in 1820, the centre of an ultra-apostolic movement
in favour of 1..);-.n Carlos, which was first put down by this
same Count d'Espagne. The clergy has great Lfluence over
the (by no means liberal) inhabitants of Manre.sa..:*.cl-
methodistical dull plains, where nothing Is heard but the
sound of the bells and the noise of the looms.—Le Com-
merce.

The 3loniteur of the 18th has no official part.
The King leave; Neuilly and i 3 going to reside at St.
Cloud, which has been fitted,;up in great splendour.

BOURSE.-PARIS, IHCIcSDAY, J.CLY IS.

HALF-PAST TIIREE.-Toe market has been very dull.
For the Account the Three per Cents. opened at 79f.
55c., and closed at 791. 85c., a rise cf 10c. The Five
per Cents. fr2.rn I 70c., advanced to 1111. 80c., last
price, being an advance of 10c. For Money the Three
per Cents. are unaltered, and the Five per Cents. are
me. higher. The Bank of France have advanced 51. The
Laffitte Bank Shares have not varied. Nothing done in
the Belgian Five per Cents. The Belgian Bank Shares
are 51. lower. The Spanish Active has been stationary at
191, which is a fall of a per cent. The alterations in Rail-
way Shares are a rise of 201. on the Versailles Left Bank,
and 101. on the Strasburg to Bale. The St. Germain,
the Versailles Right Bank, and the Havre, are unaltered.
For the Account the Belgian Three per Ceats. 721. 10e.,
and the Portuguese Three per Cents. 211.

f irst Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price.
French 5 per Cents
4 per Cents lO2 20 ... 1 2 50 ... 102 50 ... 102 50
3 per Cents 79 Si ... 79 65 ... 79 55 ... 79 65
Bank of e'rance 2750 _O5O —.07 4 5 ...2715
Latfitte Back I.ooof. Si: lO5O ...4050 ...1050 —.1050
5,00 J. :',li 5200 —5200 —.5200 —.5200
Belgian Bank 7Bl ... 780 50 ... 780 ... 780
Spauish Ac,ive
Nea. olitan 99 8) ... 19 91 ... 99 80 ... 94 ,45
Ronian .. 101% ... 101% ... 10t) ... 101%
RAILWAY SHARES.

St. C;ermair,
Versailles, rt.jl t,B7 50 ... 6,7 5) fB5 /83

L.B. 3:5 ... 370 ... 355 ;:: :170
Havr •
Orleans .. 454 50 ... 459 50 ... 452 50 ... 4!.2 50
Strasburg to Bale ... 315 ... 325 ... 315 ... 325

ASPHALTES AND BI fUNIENS.
Seystel (English)
Galyaniz:d Iron
BELk4I. AN le UNDS—BRUSUELS, JULY 17.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild'. Loa;:, 5 per Cent. L IN
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 91%
3 per Cent. 7o,i
Loan of City, H 32.4 per Cent
Society of Commerce, 4 %per Cent IN
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 74%
National Society .
—Brussels Papers, July 17.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Viewhts, JULY 9.
Five per Cents. Metalliques ........ ... 107%
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents
El.aik Shares .. —.-..... ....... 1,',00
—4ogemeine"Zei........—. tung.*July 14
,HAMBURG BORsElsl HALLE, JULT le.
Bills. Money. ,
1 Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank .hares
An 10-Russian Loa,- ~. 1i:7% lON
Russi in S per Ceot, lst series, Certificate ...... 14)•.:% 10.2%
Inscription, Ist Series..
liu,sian 5 per Cent. Hop , and t:o. 3d and 4th
Se •i es
Ditto in Certificates _
Dutch A cLial 12eht, 2l pc Cent 5l 54
Ditto - per Cent I 1
Poli,h Bond,
New ! icket
Anglo. f,ailish Loan, 3 per Cent 71% 71%
Norwegiiin Loan, It-31. 4 per Cent......
EXCHANGES ON WINDOM.
HAMBURG, JULY 16.-13. 514.—Tw0 months, 13. 3%.
PETFRSBURGII, JULY 5. -11%.
15'.:,ti.i.s, JULY ,:s.—i hrsc in .oths, 2. 2,34.
. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Buweir,• JULY 12.
Bins. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent. 1113% 10,3',8Pruhtian Engkish Loan, MO, 4 per cait 1(21;4 1027%
kJ:change oil I.ondon, three mont'ks 6 1.1%
—Prussian State Gazette. July 13.