The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-27 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1849

The cause of popular education has received a very
appreciable impulse from the proceedings which took
place yesterday morning at Tamworth. Compara-
tively unimportant as that secluded borough may be,
the eminent character of its most conspicuous re-
presentative imparts an air of public significance to
matters which would elsewhere be regarded as pos-
sessing a strictly local interest. A glance at the re-
ports given in another column will explain the nature
of the opportunity which enabled Sir ROBERT PEEL
to address his constituents, and through his consti-
tuents the whole bulk of the population of the
United Kingdom, upon a subject of such critical
and paramount interest to their well-being, both
social and intellectual. The assemblage of
a few subscribers to a small circulating
a retired provincial town afforded the ex-
library in
Prime Minister of England an occasion to enlarge
upon the advantages accruing to the masses from the
systematic dissemination of knowledge. A convivial
banquet given towards evening by the municipal
functionary of Tamworth enabled the Right lio.
Baronet to reiterate his remarks upon the great cause
which' involves in itself the welfare and the happiness
of the community. To those proceedings—proceed-
ingsi in themselves so insignificant, but in their n•
fluence so remarkable—we direct the attention of the
people, because in the opinions expressed by Sir
ROBERT PEEL they are listening to the words of one
of the foremost men in the British Parliament.
One of the most prominent considerations which
the Right Hon. Representative of Tamworth endea-
voured to enforce, yesterday, Was, that while the public
and the Government are endeavouring to propagate
intelligence among the labouring classes,
the facili-
tation of the education. of the middle classes should
not be overlooked. He argued, that unless some effort
were niade to forward the interests of the shopkeepers
and tenant farmers in this particular, the artizanand
mechanics would speedily have an advantage over
those in a superior grade of life, and the relative po.
sition of different sections of society would, by this
erroneous and perilous movement, he reversed. To
demonstrate the reason for this rather sombre antici-
pation, he observed that the expenses of educating
the children of the middle classes were found
to he peculiarly onerous. "If," said he, "a respect-
able tradesman sends his son to a boarding-school ten
or twenty miles off, I believe the cost of his education
will not.be less than 20/. or 30/. a year. The boy i 3
not only wi7hdra'A n from his plrents' roof, but a very ;
considerlible expense is incurred for such an educa-
tion as you supply almost gratuitously to the poor.
The ultimate effect will unfortunately be, that you
will of the poor much more perfect
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and complete than the education of the middle class."
The danger of this is obvious, and the necessity of
its prevention is as imperative as its peril is imminent.
The plan by which the Right Hon. Baronet has
undertaken to obviate the difficulty in his own im-
mediate neighbourhood was simply and perspicuously
set forth by himself, and certainly appears, at the
first blush, to promise a large amount of amelioration.
He proposes to admit within a school at Tamwortb,
founded originally by his father, the children of the
middle classes as well as the children of the poorer
inhabitants. After obtaining a master of adequate abi-
lity to ensure a sound and, in many respects, a
superior education, after affording the parents a gua-
rantee that the moral and intellectual improvement
of their offspring shall be properly attended to by
placing the establishment in connexion with the Privy
Council, he invites the farmers, shopkeepers, and
retail dealers of all descriptions in the vicinity to
send their sons to the institution. In return for an edu-
cation including geography, natural philosophy,
history, and science in its various branches, he will
require merely two pounds sterling per annum to be
paid in advance, by quarterly instalments of ten
shillings—the sums accumulated by that means to
be applied for the extension of education to
the humbler members of the community. "In order,"
says he, "to preveilt the entrance of children, to
whom there might be objection on account of dirty
clothes or appearance, I propose that there shall be
provided gratuitously for those on the foundation a
suitable dress, which they shall wear in the school ;
and in making my selection of scholars on the foun-
dation I shall try as far as possible to encourage
morality amongst their parents by making appoint-
ment to the foundation a reward for good behaviour,
either on the part of the parent or child. You may
say that the profligate character of a parent is a good
reason why a well-disposed child should be with-
drawn from the influence of bad example at home.
All I can say is, by way of satisfaction to those who
may send their children for education to this school,
that the selection to the foundation shall be on the
principle of rewarding merit either on the part of the
parent or child—there shall be well-conducted chil-
dren there." It wouli be frivolous to deny that the
effect of this participation of the labouring and
middle classes of the population in the
benefits of instruction, would tend not only
to keep them up to a corresponding parity of
knowledge, but would also go far towards ele-
vating the sentiments of the former, and towards
cultivating a spirit of harmony between both. The
barriers of prejudice would be broken down, and gra-
dually, if the system were effectually practised else-
where—

" Man to man, the wide world o'er,
Would brothers be, and a' that."

hitherto the principal obstacle which has presented
itself against the diffusion of knowledge, in the way
of a comprehensive Government education, has been
the tendency of its advocates to deal too much in
generalities. In this particular it would almost seem
that philanthropy regards details as derogatory to its
dignity. The disputants upon the rival claims of
knowledge and ignorance seem to have arrived at
their conclusions as curtly as the polemical Bishop in
King Arthur—
" Black equals white, plus x y botherorum."

It is to the honour of Sir ROBERT PEEL that he
does not view the details of the proposed system as
beneath the consideration of statesmanship. He re-
gards with too profound an interest the dissipation of
the evils which now darken the glory of our vaunted
intelligence as a nation to consider an explanation of
the mode in which those evils are to be removed as
below his importance as a patriot or as a legislator.

We recently directed the public attention to the
very valuable "Remarks and Suggestions" for facili•
tating the dispatch of public business in Parliament
_ _ _

offered by Mr. THOMAS ERSAINE MAT. It is indeed
a matter of the utmost consequence that the Legis-
lature should be enabled to dispose of the many
urgent and weighty matters that must necessarily
come under its notice. Never, perhaps, was there a
period when a greater quantity of business, and that
of the most vital importance, materially affecting the
welfare of the realm and the best interests of the com-
munity, was about to be submitted for the consideration
of the popular representatives. Most sincerely do we
hope that a more satisfactory account of business
actually transacted, of senatorial labours brought to
maturity, may be returned at the close of the forth-
coming session, than could have been rendered at the

last prorogation. Then we had to lament a grievous
catalogue of unperformed promises, of Bills altogether
withdrawn and postponed, for another opportunity,
or so mutilated in their progress as to be rendered
comparatively useless. It is impossible to
predict what may be the result of the
Parliamentary meeting now at hand. If the same
system should still be suffered to prevail, if the forms
of the House should still be abused, if we should
again witness repeated " countings•out," constant
" motions for adjournment," unnecessary divi-
sions, and useless debates, the introduction of frivolous
and irrelevant matter, and the interminable ha-
rangues of the CHISHOLM ANSTEYS, URQUHARTS,
and other Parliamentary bores, little, indeed, can be
accomplished ; and the achievements of the
future will be even inferior to those of the
past year. If, however, the existing abuses and evils
should be grappled with boldly and resolutely, and
every attempt at ♦exatious or unprofitable delays be
suppressed with a vigorous and decided band, the re-
sult will indeed be fortunate for the country, and the
character and dignity of our Legislative Assemblies
will be materially promoted, in the estimation not
only of our own people, but of surrounding nations.
There is, however, another point of scarcely less
importance, and deserving of the most mature and
attentive consideration. It is essential, not only that
the business should be done, but also that it should
be well done. Much time is too frequently consumed
in attempting to lick into shape crude and
undigested measures, that must ultimately be
relinquished, and glaring defects are often too late
discovered in enactments that have received the legis-
lative saneion. There is, in fact, no orga-
nized system whatsoever—no sufficient precautions
are taken to prevent the introduction of defective or
inadequate measures. If all Bills were subjected
to a critical revision before they could be brought
before either House, in order to ascertain that
the objects of their Parliamentary sponsors would
be thereby fully attained, it would tend mate-
rially to improve their structure, language, and legal
efficiency—we should not witness so many abortive
efforts at legislation, and the Great Council of the
nation would not be brought into contempt and dis-
repute, as is too frequently the case under the pre-
sent system.

A. very able pamphlet has recently appeared in the
shape of a letter to Lord DENMAN from G,
GROVE COOKE, Esq., Barrister-at•Law,* upon the
manner in which legal inquiries are now conducted
by Commissions, and in which appeals from their
decisions are now brought before the Common Law
Courts. The evils of which Mr. COOKE with so much
justice complains, and which he points out so clearly
and forcibly, are entirely attributable to the loose-
ness of the present system, whereby the
framing of our laws are left to mere
chance, to the unskilled and unpractised
efforts of amateurs in. legislation. Mx. COOKE well
remarks " that no single mind can compass the im-
possible labour of watching all our projects of legis-
lation through their stages of formation into laws ;"
and adds, " the misfortune is that at present no
public person is responsible that our Acts of Parlia-
ment shall come forth in a congruous state;" that
" it is the recognised business of no department to
minutia;
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Mr. COOKE directs his observations more especially
to the working of the Tithe and Inclosure Commis-
sions. lle shows the vast importance of the interests
submitted to the jurisdiction of those Commissions,
ianndeonthcee r
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"It has now become the settled practice of the Legis-

* " A Letter to the Right lion. Lord Denman, Lord
Chief Justice of E gland on the Enactments conferring
Jurisdiction upon Commissions to try Legal Rights, and
the Practice upon such Trials, and upon the Feigned
Issues resulting therefrom, with especial reference to the
Tithe aid •Inclosure Commissions. By G. Wingrove
Barrister-at-law Lon-
dCoonok;
on, 1849.
13,3fvetahsealUndidNdl:rTt ample,

lature to work the details of every wide reform by
the agency of a Commission, and it is a part of
the system to settle all legal questions which
arise during the work by means of arbitrators,
assessors, or assistant-commissioners. It is no
exaggeration to say that during the last seven years the
Assistant Tithe Commissioners alone have, by their
legal decisions, adjudicated upon property equal to a
quarter of that adjudicated on by any one of the Common
Law Courts. These investigations have none of the
solemnity and publicity of the Queen's Courts. They
are seldom assisted by counsel, and the magnitude of
their operation is scarcely suspected. Occasional cases
appear in Westminster Hall, but these bear a hardly ap-
preciable proportion to the great mass. Property of the
value of 5001. is adjudged without appeal, and hundreds
of cases, involving ten times that amount, have been ad-
judicated without ever having been heard of by the
general body of the Bar or by the Judges."

Mr. Coosa points out many important defects
in the machinery of the Act that have perplexed
those by whom it was to have been worked, and sug-
gests remedies by which they may be removed. lie
points out "the difficulty of ascertaining the exact
point to be decided ;"
_and the inconveniences at-
tendant upon every one of the courses that were
open for the assistant-commissioner. He also shows how,
for want of sufficient judicial powers vested in the
Commissioners, the proper emoluments of a living
may be greatly diminished for ever, without the
Commissioners being enabled to prevent the act
from taking place. The errors in the Act creating
the Inclosure Commission are also explained. He
objects with great reason to the absurdity of empower-
ing a mere land valuer, a person " almost necessa-
rily destitute of legal education," to adjudicate on com-
plicated legal questions, and award costs—costs which
cannot be obtained back, although the decision may
be reversed. The new principle of allowing an unsuc-
cessful party to bring an action against the Commis-
sioners is commented upon with much severity. It
is, indeed, a novelty in legislation. The incomparable
Judge LYNCH, wbo was always ready to fight with
pistols and bowie knife any person who impeached
his judgments, would be invaluable, as an inclosure
commissioner. Mr. CooKE, thus speaks of this ridi-
culous enactment :

" This is, I believe, a novelty in legislation. It is much
es if, whenever a new trial is granted in the Superior
Courts, the Judge at Nisi Prius at the first trial were
made the defendant in the cause at the next assiz,r.
The inconveniences attendant upon this invention need
not be insisted upon in detail—they will very soon ap-
pear in practice. The Commissioners may abandon
their own decision, and the party in whose favour they
decided is bound by an act over which he has no con-
trol. If they defend their decision, they must identify
themselves with one of the parties to a general inquiry,
in which they are the judges; they must get up his evi
dente for him, collect his proofs, adopt his attorney (or
be will have good reason to complain), consult with him
as to how far they will resist, or to what extent they
will give way; and, as a climax, they must be responsi-
ble for his and (if the decision should be over-ruled) his
opponent's costs. By the last provision of this 56th sec-
tion, • the costs attending any such action shall abide the
event of the trial.' "
And he subsequently offers the following recom-
mendation :

" The inconvenience is, as I submit to your Lordship,
patent; but I have more confidence in pointing out an in-
convenience which I have seen, than in suggesting a
remedy. We are not, however, without precedents for
such a remedy. From the time of the General Inclo-
sure Act, down to the recent Consolidation Clauses in
the Waterworks, Gas-lighting, Paving, and Cemetery
Acts, it has been the custom of Parliament, whenever
attention has been drawn to the subject, to provide a
general and uniform measure, by which powers fre-
quently applied for shall be meted out. Why may not
the stone thing be done in this far more important matter
oft the judicial jurisdiction of Commissions? Itiwould not
be very difficult to prepare by enactment a well-consi-
dered system of trial and appeal, and the particular Act
which establishes the commission would then re-quire,
upon this subject, only a clause to define the jurisdiction
to, be confer red."

We can heartily recommend Mr. COOKE'S interest
mg pamphlet to public notice.

We refer our readers to a letter from Mr. RIGBY
WASON, which will be found in another part of our
impression, acknowledging the error which we pointed
out on Thursday, an error naturally enough
arising in the hurry of calculation, but which
did not in any degree impair the principles of
his proposition. A large per centage must of
course be taken—the transaction will not prove
so. very profitable as it appeared at first sight,
but still an ample margin will remain to
render it well worthy of adoption. He now
assumes 10 per cent. as the basis of his calculation,
which he estimates would produce a sum sufficient
to liquidate the entire debt with the excep-
tion of 150,000,0001., which should be con-
verted into terminable annuities. He calcu-
lates that the property is worth twenty-
five years' purchase. In this respect we think he is
nearer the mark than when he took it at merely
twenty years. According to this view the total
value of the accumulated and realised property
of the country would amount to 5,500,000,0001,
ten per cent., on which would realise 550,000,0001,
and as the National Debt, though nominally,
nearly 800,000,0001., is practically not worth
more than 700,000,0001. at the present value
of Consols, the deficiency would only amount
to 150,000,0001., which might be provided
for by annuities, as pointed out by Mr. WASON.
The project is now fairly before the public, and it is
undoubtedly worthy of a calm and attentive con-
sideration. Let those who feel its vast im-
portance maturely reflect thereon. They may
also, at the same time, consider the
arguments of Mr. BANFIELD in opposition thereto,
that appeared in The Sun of yesterday. Truth will
always he promoted by fair discussion, and a subject
of such magnitude should be regarded in all its
aspects, and viewed in every light.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

During the sitting of the National Assembly on
Thursday, M. GREVY presented the report of the
Committee appointed to consider M. RATRAII'S pro-
position for the immediate dissolution of the Assembly.
The report as read by M. GREY! set forth that the
proposition submitted to the Committee had a double
object—to have the present Assembly dissolved, and
the election of the Legislative Assembly proceeded to
in the month of March. The majority of the Com-
mittee had come to the conclusion that it ought not
to accede to either object.—(Agitation.) It had con-
sidered if the events which had taken place since the
Bill of Dccember 11 had passed were of a nature to
call for a revision of the decision come to by the
Assembly, fur the vote of the organic laws; and,
after mature consideration, had come to the con-
clusion that such was not the case. To stop short
in its labours at present would be to mutilate its task
without much hastening the precise moment of
its dissolution. It was true that though the Assembly
has itself declared, by a Bill, that it should vote the
organic laws before separating, the Constitution said
nothing of the matter. The matter could be gone
back on and revised; but the committee saw no rea-
son for such a course ; but, on the contrary, many
reasons for continuing at its post until it had per-
formed its duty to the end. The committee was of
opinion that it was called on to watch over the first
steps of the Republic—that it had the task before it
of seeing that in the midst of the struggles of parties
inseparable from a new order of government, the Re-
public suffered no damage. Besides, in presence of the
language employed by the Ministry, the committee
thought that the Assembly could not separate—(Agi-
tation)—as the proposition demanded. —(Renewed
agitation.) In addition, the intimidation and mural
violence exhibited in newspapers and by petitions
(great uproar)—was another powerful reason with it
not to yield to the demand made on it. The petitions,
however ought not to be considered of too much
weight, as up to this moment only 173,000 signa-
tures had been appended to those presented. Yet
the object of them was clearly to abrogate the au-
thority placed in the National Assembly by the man-
date committed to it. For these reasons the com-
mittee recommended the Assembly not to take the
proposition into consideration.—(Great agitation.)
Monday next was fixed for the discussion.
Sixteen members have already inscribed themselves
as intending to speak in favour of M. Grevy's report,
viz, :—MM. Alexandre Rey, Alern-Rousseau, Pascal,
Duprat, Jules Favre, Ducoux, Felix Pyat, Baune,
Brives, Coralli, Landrin, Buvignier, Saint- Romme,
Demesange, Th. Bac, Detours, and Trenchant.
Twenty. seven members have inscribed themselves
to speak against the report, namely :—MM. Fres-
neau, Combarel de Leyval, Heeckeren, Charencey,
Pagnerre, Ferdinand Barrot, Lacase, Rideau, Den-
joy, Dufournel, Montreuil, Jobez, Morin (de la
Drome), Barth6lemy Saint Hilaire, Victor Hugo,
Charamaule, Gaslonde, Favart, Flandin, Richer,
Rondeau, Fayet, Depasse, Vesin, Parieu, Grandin
and Gouin.

In the same sitting the Minister of the Interior,
M. LEON FAUCHER introduced a measure for the
suppression of the clubs, which was declared d'urgence,
and ordered to be forthwith referred to a committee.
Tha trial of BARBES and his accomplices is (says

the Gazette des Tribunaux) to commence before
the High Court of Justice at Bourges on Monday,
sth March.
A letter from M. THORE announces that a protest
against sending the persons accused of being con-
cerned in the affair of May 15, before the National
High Court of Justice, is being signed in the Feu-
bourgs, and at the offices of the various democratic
journals.
BARGES has addressed the following letter to seve-
ral of the ultra-republican journals :
" Donjon de Vicennes, 23d Jan.
" Citizen Editor,—As it is a common-place truth
that in politics one is always tried by one's enemies, I
had intended since my arrest to defend myself infinitely
little, before whatever tribunal I might be sent. The
decree for employing the arm of the High Court of
Bourges against the accused of May does not change
much my determination. There, as elsewhere, I shall
protest against the verdict of vengeance of a party, ap-
pealing from the sentence of proscription which awaits
me to the justice of the people, who have annulled many
other sentences, and who will always proclaim—my af-
fection for them makes me sure of it—that I am a good
citizen. It is not then precisely for my own sake that I
now raise my voice against the decision of the Assem-
bly—it is on account of the wrong which it does to those
of my co-accused who had every certainty of being ac-
quitted by a jury. With that exception—ma jai! so
much the better ! When so many other brave citizens
pass before courts-martial, it would have been repug-
nant to me not also to enjoy the advantage of some ex
ceptional jurisdiction; and since it is not known how to
give us any other equality than that of condemnations by
commissions, it is at least something we are gratified
with that—with I suppose the hulks at the end for the
representatives of the people as for the poor represented,
whom the gentlemen of the monarchiical castes call, w hen
they are not afraid of them, the canaille !"
The Club of Fraternity, which holds its sittings
in the Rue Martel, Faubourg Poisonniere, under the
presidentship of M. BONNARD, and which was noted
for the ultra opinions professed in it, was closed on
Wednesday night, by order of the Minister of the
Interior. It had been announced that several mem-
bers of the Mountain were to be present at the sit-
ting, and, as the necessary legal forms had not been
fulfilled, orders were given to prevent the meeting.
At seven o'clock a commissary of police, accom-
panied by several guardians of Paris, entered and
summoned the president to terminate the sitting.
After a protest against such conduct, the president
and bureau withdrew, as did about 500 persons who
were present.
The Commission appointed to examine the question
of the completion of the Louvre, composed of MM.
HAVIN, E. BAVOUX, JOBEZ, BOULATIGNIER, and Buy-
PET, now Minister of Commerce, has terminated its
labours. It has come to the following resolutions,
which it has submitted to the Minister of Public
Works :-1. Utility and propriety in the completion
of a monument, which will honour France and the
new Government.-2. Advantages of the removal of
the National Library, now threatening ruin, to the
new galleries of the Louvre ; a removal, which will
allow the buildings where the library is at present
placed to be sold, thereby saving seven millions, their
estimated value, out of the thirty millions which the
new works at the Louvre will cost.-3. Political
opportuneness of these great works at the present
moment for the working classes.-4. Necessity in the
present state of the finances to listen to the proposi-
tions of certain companies, who offer to advance these
thirty millions; .on condition of having certain State
property made over to them.
M. WALEWSXI is appointed Minister to Florence.
He replaces M. BENOLT CHAMPY, who', after having
refused the Office of Advocate-general at the Court
of Cessation, was sent to Florence. Madame WA-
LEWSXI is a member of one of the first families of
Florence.
We read in the Corsaire:—" The ex-King Louis
PHILIPPE has just written to M. Louis BUONAPARTE
and to M. 0. BARROT. In his letter he protests
that his intentions are pure, and that he has no
desire to engage in politics, in case he should be
permitted to return to France. e All my desire,'
he say., would be to live en bon bourgeois.'
He does not ask as his residence for the château
of Neuilly, which is too near Paris, but for
the chateau of RANDAN, in Auvergne. In returning
to France, his sons and himself would take an oath
to abandon all pretensions to the throne. Neither
the PRESIDENT of the Republic nor the President of
the Council has paid any attention to this strange
letter."
The Corsaire says:—" M. GuzzoT has sent word
to one of his intimate friends that he should not get
ready to return to Paris until after the anniversary
of Feb. 24. The intention of the ex-Minister is to
come forward as candidate at the approaching
election."
M. ADOLPHE BARROT, the brother of the President
of the Council, is appointed Minister of the Republic
at the Court of the Brazils. lie was formerly French
Consul at Alexandria.
The Constitutionnel says, in reference to the anec-
dote related by the National about M. TRIERS and
M. COUSIN, that it is entirely false.
M. E. ARAGO has arrived in Paris from Berlin.
He took his seat in the National Assembly yesterday.
An agent from the Sardinian Government has
arrived in Paris, for the purpose of endeavouring to
procure from the French Government a promise of
assistance against Austria, or failing in that, of pro-
curing the services cf a French General to command
the Sardinian army. The French Government has
refused to give any pledge on the subject ; and
Marshal BUGEAUD and General OUDINOT have each
refused the command of the Sardinian army; General
MAGNAN has, however, accepted the offer of the
Sardinian agent, and he has obtained permission from
his own Government to take service under CHARLES
ALBERT.
The PRESIDENT of the Republic dined on Tuesday
with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and attended
the reception of M. LEON FAUCISER on Thursday.
M. TRIERS had been invited to both, but attended
neither, in consequence of a difference which has
arisen between himself and the PRESIDENT of the
Republic. It appears that on Tuesday morning M.
TRIERS had an interview with the PRESIDENT, in the
course of which Prince Louis NAPOLEON, after com-
plaining of the equivocal position taken up by M.
Limits, with respect to the present Government, al-
luding to the rumours abroad that his object in all he
was doing was to bring back the Count DE PARIS
and the regency, insisted that he should either
frankly take office, or abstain from all interference
with the Government. M. 'lnuits declined to take
office, and they parted rather abruptly.
We are not surprised to hear that the PRESIDENT
has called upon M. Ilium to declare himself' openly,
and we trust M. Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE will
no longer suffer himself to be misled by traitors,
leagued together to betray him, but that he will at
once adopt energetic measures to secure himself, and
to consolidate the Republic.
The Journal de Toulouse announces that, on the
18th instant, a column of the Queen of SPAIN'S
troops having encountered near Labajol a Republican
band of 250 men, commanded by VICTORIAN°
AMETLER, forced them, after a warm engagement, to
seek refuge at Las Illas, on the French territory.
The royal troops followed the fugitives into France,
and there the combat recommenced, notwithstanding
the interference of the mayor and a detachment of
25 French soldiers. Several Republicans were
killed or wounded at the gate of the municipality of
Las Illas, and 18 were captured,nameiy —Victoriano
Ametler, Coll Jose, Gonzales Don Juan, and Perez,
commanders; two captains, two soldiers, and 10
refugees.
Letters from Toulon, of the 26th, state that the
preparations for the expedition to Civita Vecchia have
been stopped, and the expedition itself abandoned, as
France and Austria had determined to permit Spain
to undertake alone the restoration of the POPE.
BO URSE.—PARIS, FRIDAY, JAN. 26.
THREE o'CLcCE..- French Funds opened heavily
to. day—considerably below the closing prices of yester-
day. Shortly afterwards they rallied, and continued
pretty steady till towards the end of the day, when a
great quantity of .Rentes being offered, they went sud-
denly down, and closed rather more than per cent.
below the last prices of yesterday.:Exchange on London
(30 days), 25 32k; ditto (90 days), 25 22k.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JAN. 26.
Boulogne and Amiens, 81/8 ex exchange—Luxembourg
(10/.), DA—Northern of France, s ex diva- Orleans and
Bordeaux, 2% ex div.—Paris and Orleans, 28 ex div.—
Rouen and Havre, 10—Sambre and Meuse. 3%.