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London, England, 1847-02-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING,' FEBRUARY 15, 1847

the cup of the political degradation of France to
overflowing, and to prove that the Legislature of that
country has become essentially parasitical. Talk of
the Mountainist portion of the Convention during the
dictatorship of ROBESPIERRE, talk of the Conseil
des Cinq Cents during the first months of the
Directory, talk of the obedience of the legis-
lative bodies at the most potential moments
of the Empire—they are barely to be counted in
comparison with the excessive loyalty evinced by the
majority of the present Deputies. While Europe is
ringing with execrations at the fraudulent and dis-
courteous acts of Gallic diplomacy in reference to the
Princesses of the Peninsula—while every honest
heart revolts at the ignoble prevarication and quib-
bling practised by M. GUlZOT—while the solid foun-
dations of international friendship are crumbling from
1 beneath the throne of the Tuileries, solely in conse-
quence of the political offences of the present Admi-
nistration—the dutiful Deputies are reiterating their
felicitations in the ears of his MAJESTY. This, too, is just
simultaneous with the protestation against the effects
of the Spanish marriage from the Court of Berlin,
with the dignified retirement of the English Ambas-
sador at Paris, with the cordial approbation expressed
towards Lord PALMERSTON by the British Parlia-
ment, and the exposure of the double duplicity of the
French Minister by the Marquis DE MIRAFLORES.
Could any time be more inopportune for the transmis-
sion of a congratulatory address to LOUIS PHILI:PE
from his faithful Chambers, upon the security and
the propitious aspect of his foreign relations ? The
security of his foreign relations forsooth ! The very
phrase is at once an anomaly and a satire.
But that matters are assuming a somewhat serious
complexion it would be amusing to contrast
these meek and most infelicitous felicitations
at Paris with the various troubles which
have originated in different portions of Europe from
the very occurrences rejoiced at by the French Le-
gislature. In Spain itself we find the Government
abandoned to the discretion of an embryo and incon-
gruous Cabinet after having suffered every species of
political vicissitude. In its sister kingdom, Portugal,
we discern a civil war waging between MARIA DA
GLORIA and her subjects, partly from the oppor-
tunity afforded by the misunderstandings between the
Courts of England, France, and Spain, and partly
from the principles of oppression infused into the
hearts of the rulers of Lisbon through the insidious
agency of DIETZ and his anointed patron. In Eng-
land, again, the position of affairs in regard to France
has been for a considerable period ominous and un-
satisfactory. The indignation expressed from the
bureaux in Downing-street has received the emphatic
accordance of the popular representatives at West-
minster. Lord PALMERSTON has announced to the
Marquis of NORMAN BY the " perfect confidence"
reposed in his Excellency by himself and his col-
leagues; and in his turn Lord PALMERSTON has been
greeted with the plaudits of the House of Commons.
Throughout the whole of this lamentable transaction,
indeed, there has been visible the same perpetual
hypocrisy on the part of France, and the same un-
swerving honesty and rectitude on the part of Great
Britain. Pelfide Albion sounds, especially at this
juncture, like a masterpiece of irony upon their own
country, from lips of the least patriotic Frenchmen.
Whatever may be the result of the interviews
which have taken place within the last few days be•
tween the Prime Minister and the Count ST.
AULAIRE, and subsequently between the latter
and Sir ROBERT PEEL, the memory of the
opposite policy pursued in London and Paris
cannot very speedily decay. History will tell how
the reputation of a great King, and the character of
a great statesman, were lost from the lust of a Penin-
sular dotation, and the pandering of a heartless
courtier; it will say that the hand of an Infanta
was gained for a stripling Prince, but that, in
gaining it, a venerable monarch was deprived of the
respect of millions. But, above all, it will prove
England, in her diplomatic discomfiture, to be worthy
of all admiration, and France in her triumphant in-
trigues to be entitled only to opprobrium and
abhorrence.

The greatest enemies to the Established Church I
have been found within its pale ; and, generally, those
from whom there was the best right to expect the
emanation of every improvement for its welfare, have
been discovered to have chiefly retarded the progress
of ecclesiastical reform. The ministers of the Church,
from the prelates downwards, who have been pampered
with wealth, and who, by reason of their educational
acquirements, must have speedily discerned, and been
fully conscious of, the existence of heavy abuses
throughout the establishment of the hierarchy, and
who ought to have taken the initiative in proposing
remedies for enhancing the spiritual well-being of the
people at large, have, for the most part—and
to their shame be it said—been the last to step for-
ward and aid in the removal of unquestionable griev-
ances. This scandalous torpor has been readily attri-
buted by their opponents, both in the doctrine and
forms of religion, to worldly-mindedness. It must
be admitted that the imputation has not been made
without reason. Had the appointed guardians of
the Church evinced, from time to time, the like zeal
for eradicating the chronic evils besetting the admi-
nistration of spiritual affairs, which they have
always so actively manifested whenever their per-
sonal interests have been concerned, the grave charge
of being actuated by sordid views would never have
been preferred against them with any effect. Precept
and example have not been in unison ; and this
glaring discordance on the part of the clergy,
between their ghostly counsel on the one side'
and their public conduct on the other, has
deplorably weakened the influences of religion. For
the great and beneficial changes wrought within the
Established Church during the last fifteen years, to
whom and to what are we indebted ? To the
ministers of the same ? Assuredly not. The rapid
growth of dissent, and the great power and influence
acquired by different bodies of Dissenters, engendered
and cemented by virtue ofthe remarkable and favourable
contrast which their respective ministers presented
in their ministrations, as compared with what was
afforded by non-resident and neglectful pluralists and
fox-hunting parsons, was one great lever by which
reform was materially advanced ; the force of public
opinion, germinated by such discreditable exhibitions,
constituted another. Thus, from compulsion, were
the mitred order and the subordinate ranks of the
clergy found reluctantly acquiescing in concessions
demanded by the spirit of the age. But, notwith-
standing the sharp lessons which have been read to
them ever since Earl GREY advised the Bishops to
" set their house in order," we have occasionally
painful instances of reproachful indifference to the
1 solemn duties attached to the clerical vocation.

Lord STANLBY has recently ,in Parliament, brought
to light an example of this nature. The Dean and
Chapter of Manchester have for some time grasped
nearly 6,0001. a year, leaving all the heavy and
serious parochial duties to be performed by the
clergy of the district, who are miserably remune-
rated ; and the answer they give to the accusation is,
that they are no worse than their predecessors ; and
that they are privileged, by ancient charters, to ab-
scond from their work, provided they pay a daily
fine of sixteenpence! Here's morality with a
vengeance ! But they have gone even further.
They have dispatched two redoubtable canons to
this metropolis to watch Lord STANLEY'S pro-
ceedings in the Upper House, thus manifesting
that the Dean and Chapter of Manchester
are not the men quietly to put up their
swords, but are prepared to fight to the last. How-
ever, Lord STANLEY is not the man to be thus bearded
with impunity. His Lordship has already intimated
that he will move for a Select Committee to inquire
whether the law is insufficient to reach these sacred
truants. Should this turn out to be the case, the
Legislature will not be slow to bring the rebellious
to their proper senses.

The importance of securing a sure and expeditious
communication for our colonial dependencies with the
mother-country cannot be exaggerated. We are,
therefore, delighted to find that Lieutenant WAGIIORN,
to whose genius, courage, and enterprise, the nation
is already so much indebted, has addressed a letter to
Earl GREY, calling his Lordship's attention to the
plan for establishing a regular steam communication
with our Australian colonies, which has now been for
some time before the public. To that letter, which
we republish, in extenso, we would direct the especial
attention of our readers. It is a document, not only
I all who have they
I to be read, but to be studied, b

interest of the country at heart. We will
not here repeat the (to our minds) incon-
trovertible arguments which have been so
well put by Lieutenant Waonoßs ; but we will add
that the importance of establishing a regular steam
communication with Australia is vastly increased by
the discovery, since the plan was ,first proposed, of
the great mineral riches of those colonies—riches so
vast that the time cannot be far distant when the
price of metallic ores in the Australian market will
produce a great effect on the metal markets of the
world, and when it will be as important to our com-
mercial interests to obtain speedy intelligence of the
state of the Australian metal market as of the state
of the metal market in Cornwall. In a political point
of view, also, it is more important than ever to open
a speedy communication with our Australian
colonies. A new constitution has just been given to
New Zealand, and the success or failure of the great
political experiment which is about to be tried in that
colony must depend in a great measure on the close-
ness with which the home authorities can watch its
workings. By the proposal of Lieutenant WAG-
HORN, New Zealand will be brought as near to Eng-
land as Jamaica was thirty years ago. Is it going
too far to affirm, that if steam communication had
been established between England and her Aus-
tralian colonies six years ago, we should have been
saved the loss, the pain, and the humiliation which
the blunders of successive Governors of New Zea-
land have caused us, and that the colony, in-
stead of being in its present miserable con-
dition, would have been one of the most flourish-
ing dependencies of the British crown ? A sum of
100,0001. per annum is all that is required by Lieut.
WaolloaN from the Government to carry out his
plan ; so that even in an economical point of view its
immediate adoption is desirable. It will cost the
nation more than 600,0001. to remedy the disasters
which have occurred during the last six years in
New Zealand—disasters the occurrence of which
would have been prevented, had the home Govern-
ment possessed the means of speedy communication
with the colonial authorities.

We have neeived the Madrid papers of the 6th and
7th instant.

The QUEEN had refused her consent to the marriage
of Don EiirtiguE with the sister of the Marquis of
CASTELLANE. Notwithstanding this the marriage took
place, and the day after Don Erinictuz was arrested by
General PEZUELA, and conducted from Madrid under a
guard. A telegraphic dispatch has, according to the
Constitutionnel, been received in Paris, which states that
he has received orders to embark at Barcelona ; but
adds, that this is not connected with his marriage, but
is the consequence of some intrigues in which that Prince
has been engaged in conjunction with an Englishman
named MISLEY, who has been conducted to the frontiers
of France.

According to the Tiempo, orders have been given to
organise an army on the Portuguese frontier.

On the motion of Senor CORTINA, the papers relating
to the Spanish marriages were ordered to be laid on the
table of the Chamber of Deputies.
Orders have been given to prevent General FLORES
from entering the Spanish territory.

Senor ARETA and Senor SARTORIUS have been elected
to fill the vacant Vice-Presidentships of the Chamber
of Depvties.
MADRID Bot.ss, FEB. 6.—The Three per Cents. 221,i
money; Five per Cents. 20% money; Debt without interest
6% money.

We have received the Path papers of Friday and
Saturday.

In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of Thurs-
day, the amendment of M. DE MALLEVILLE, which was
in effect a direct vote of want of confidence in the
Ministers, was negatived by 243 to 130, being a ma_
jority for Ministers of 113. On Friday the Address was
agreed to by 248 to 84; and on the evening of that day
it was presented to the KING at the Tuileries. The fol-
lowing is his MAJESTY'S answer:—

" Messieurs les Deputi,s,—lt is with a very lively satisfac-
tion that I receive this address. I thank the Chamber for
the loyal co-operation which it gives to my Government in
the general interest, and, thanks to this co• operation, thanks
to our union, and the strength it insures to us, we have every
right to rely upon the maintenance of that policy, which
guarantees internal order and the peace of the world.
Thanks also to this co-operation, we are enabled to lessen ,
the sufferings which weigh upon a part of eur population, '
maintaining at the same time public order and the security '
of commercial dealings. I am much affected by the cor-
diality of the. congratulations which you offer me on the
marriage of my son, the Duke de Dlontpensier. lam no less
so by the confidence you express in the feelings with which
we are animated, which are mine as well as yours, and which
are also those of my sons—they will prove, as I have done,
that on every occasion their lives arc devoted to France."

The Chamber, ou Friday, passed a Bill, authorising
foreign vessels freighted with corn and provisions to take
part in the coasting trade of France, between the ports
of the Atlantic and those of the Mediterranean.
In alluding to the report that the Emperor of RUSSIA
had closed the ports of his dominions against the export
of grain, the Journal des Debats says—

"A report has been current for some days that the Emperor
of Russia had closed the ports of his empire against the ex-
portation of corn. The most recent letters from St. Peters-
burg do not in any way confirm this news."

The dispatch of the Marquis of NORMANDY on the
subject of M. Gutzo-r's speech, and the reply of Lord
PALMERSTON thereto, was known in Paris on Thursday
and produced a great sensation. It is said that the
Marquis was to quit Paris on leave of absence on
Monday. Meanwhile, according to the Siecle, the
French Government is driven to its last shifts to restore
the entente cordialc with England. To obtain this object
it would not hesitate to sacrifice M. GUIZOT, but no one
can be found willing to be his successor. "It was sub-
sequently suggested," says the Siecle, " to dismiss Lord
PALMERSTON and M. GUIZOT, but letters from London
give no encouragement to that plan. It is now sug-
gested to sacrifice the Count DE JARNAC and Lord Wu.-
max HARVEY, but the British Government haughtily
rejects such an idea. An additional incident has aggra-
vated the position of affairs. Marshal SOULT has de-
clared his intention to resign the Presidency of the
Council. In fine, the prediction of M. GUIZOT is being
realised. Positive intelligence has been received of the
adhesion of the King of PRUSSIA to the interpretation
given by the British Government to the Treaty of
Utrecht. Thus the Cabinet is realising its programme,
to maintain the British alliance, and to bring France
into the European concert.' "
On the subject of the adhesion of Prussia to the views
of England with regard to the Montpensier marriage,
we find the following very pertinent remarks in the
COILS titutionnel:—

" Prussia has positively declared against the eventual
rights of the children of the Duke de Montpensier to the
throne of Spain. That Power no sooner entered on a more
liberal policy than it formed an alliance with England against
us, and separated from France in a permanent manner on a
question which can only be solved by futurity. Would any
one have supposed, a year ago, that the promulgation of a
constitution in the roost enlightened states of Germany would
be accompanied by a rupture with France? Is not that event
the most severe condemnation of the conduct of our Govern-
ment? Will Prussia alone adopt that course? It is probable
we are told, that one of the other two great continental
Powers will also declare against the eventual rights of the
Duchess de Montpensier. There is one thing certain—
namely, that our Government is constantly menaced by
Austria, and placed in the alternative of either finding itself
alone against four—that is, altogether excluded from the
Councils of Europe—or obtaining by the most odious sacri-
fices that the menace be not executed. In this last case,
Switzerland and Italy, after Poland, will be left, without pro-
tection and defence, at the mercy of the Absolutist Powers.
Our Government must either be completely isolated, or the
accomplice of some attempt against the independence of
nations and liberty 1 Such is the situation in which the pre-
sent Ministry has placed France."

But it is not Prussia alone which has joined England
in her views of the nature of the treaty of Utrecht. The
Union)lfonarchique (formed by the junction of the France,
the Quotidienne, and the Echo de Paris, and the avowed
organ of the Legitimatists) says—
" The Presse announces that the Cabinet of Berlin has
given a favourable answer to Lord Palmerston's note, on
the succession to the crown of Spain. We believe we may
assert that this answer, which cannot yet have been officially
transmitted, will be collective; for the three Cabinets of
Vienna, St. Petersburgh, and Berlin have agreed to act in
concert. Our information authorises us in saying, that the
answer will first call to recollection that, as the three
Cabinets have net acknowledged the Government of Isabella,
they did net intend to depart from the reserve they
had adopted and hitherto kept; but that they saw with full
satisfaction, that the English Cabinet had come to a reso-
lution, the object of which is to induce Spain, as to the
questio❑ of succession to the crown, to return to the same
position in which she stood before the last will of Ferdi.
nand VII."

The same paper states " that the Court of Madrid has
expressed a desire that the Duke and Duchess DE
MONTPENSIER should shortly return for a time into
Spain ; but it is said that M. BREssoN has advised that
this visit should be adjourned. The negotiations on
this subject are still going on."
Great activity prevails in the dockyard at Toulon,
where three line-of-battle ships are fitting out besides
frigates.
The business in the Chamber of Deputies on Satur-
day was confined to the monthly organization of the
bureaux. The Conservatives have the majority in the
appointments of presidents.
COUlts .AETIIENTIQUE.—PARIS, FEB. 13.—French Five
per Cents., 118 f. 20c. 25c. 30c. 35c. 54c. 50c. ; Four-and-
a-Half per Cents., 100 f. ; Four per Cents., 104 f.;
Three per Cents., 77f. 60c., 65c., 60c., 77c., 75c., 70c. ;
Bank of France Shares, 3,255 E ; Obl. of the City, 1,320 E;
Neapolitans (Rothschild's) Detinitives, 1011. 75c.; Romans,
1011/ lAf.; Belgian Five per Cents. (1840), 1011,4 f.;
Ditto (184.2), 1021/4 ; Ditto, Bank, 905 f.; Spanish Active,

331,4 ; Exchange on London—one month money, 25f. 20c. ;
three months, paper, 25f. 5c.; money, 25f. 21/./2c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEBRUARY 13.
Boulogne and Amiens, 14N—Dutch Rhenish, 4x—Namur and
Liege, 2%—Northern of France, 12 IA —Paris and Lyons, VA--
Rouen and Havre, 26 x ex div.—Sambre and Meuse, 6%.

MONEY and COMMEWIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUAlfirillit TO THREE.
very inactive.
The Cotton market at Liverpool on Saturday was quiet.
IThere,ooo own-Sales 3,000 bales, including
changespeculation. in
Shares
wereprices.
There hare been no arrivals with late news, if we except
the usual Continental mails.
was no
o

The price of corn is still on the advance here, and it will be
seen by the market report in another column, that there is a
decided rise in wheat, &c., as compared with last week. The
recent severe weather has no doubt contributed to this.
The necessity of an alteration in the laws relating to
Bankruptcy and Insolvency has been generally admitted,
and there is some force in the following suggestions, which
are a portion only of those submitted by a merchant here to
the consideration of high legal aathorities, and of the Com-
missioners of the Bankruptcy Court. The writer proposes—
" That if an insolvent could, with the consent of two-thirds
or three-fourths of his creditors (both as regards the number
of persons, and the amount of their claims, and proved to be
bow; fide creditors), effect a compromise, this majority should
bind the whole to accept the same. This would prevent a
vindictive creditor bringing the estate to a bankruptcy, and
thereby causing an unnecessary expenditure and sacrifice of
the property ; such an arrangement is now applicable to
insolvents not being traders. (Vide 7 and 8 "Vic. cap. 70,
for facilitating arrangements between Debtors and Creditors.)
—That a bankrupt be allowed from 2/. 10s. to 151. per
cent., on the dividend his estate pays ; thus :—lf the
dividend of hie estate be from 35, to ss. in the pound,
the bankrupt to receive 2% per cent.; if from ss. to 7s. 6d.,
3% per cent. ; if from 7s. 6d. to 10s., 5 per cent. ; if
from 10s. ty 12s. 6d., 7% per cent.; if from 12s. 6d. to 155.,
10 per cent. • if from 15s, to 17s. 6d., 12% per
cent. ; and if from 17s. 6d. to 20s. 15 per cent., provided
he has not practised fraud, either by obtaining goods within a
given time of his stopping payment, (unless he can show that
at the time of taking such.credit, he had no cause for antici-
pating a failure within the given time,) or otherwise render-
ing himself amenable to the several clauses of the proposed
Act, which provide against fraud. The above return to be
granted, and delivered to the bankrupt, immediately after
the amount of dividend has been ascertained; until which
time, the bankrupt to receive a moderate allowance from the
estate, if no fraud has been proved against him.
It is further suggested that the court should have an ap-
pointed accountant for bankrupts, to be paid, like the official
assignee, by a per tentage on the assets, and that any cre-
ditor seeking an undue preference should forfeit all claim.
The value of the public securities has been enhanced to-
day, and matters wear a more cheerful appearance in the
Stock Exchange. The price of Consols for transfer
has been 903/4 to 91, and for the Account-day, the 25th, at
90% to 91. It would appear that the Bear party are making
arrangements for the settlement, and that this has en in-
fluence, because it indicates that they are not certain of
prices ruling lower than at present. The improved tone of
the Paris Bourse has also had a favourable effect. Exchequer-
bills have been quoted 6s. to 9s. premium The New Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 933/4 to 92%, and the
Three per Cents. 91 to 914. East India Bonds are Bs. to
13s, premium, and Long Annuities are 9;H.
The foreign bonds have been rather firmer also, but there
has not been much doing. Spanish Active Stock has re-
alised 2et ;;:i, and the Three per Cents. 35 3514. Portu-
guese Four per Cents. have been dell at 35. Mexican
Bonds have realised 21% to 29%. Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. have been at 5814.
Railway- Shares have been rather firmer. Aberdeen, 2214
to 23; Caledonian, 26% s 4 ; Birmingham and Oxford, 13%
to 14 ; Eastern Counties, 21% ; Great Western, 123 to
124; Blackwell, 8% to 14 ; North Western, 184 to 1%;
South-Western, 64 ; Midland, 1201 ; Newcastle and Ber-
wick, 324 ; North British, 34% to 35 ; North Stafford, 8%;
Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 3% to 4%; South-Eastern,
Nos. 2, 134 ; York and Newcastle, 3.51/4 to 36% ; and
Northern of France, 12%.
BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING

____.
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 91 !i 91 91',q 914
Three per Cent Consols Annuities .. .. 90% X 91 90%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 92%% 03
Long Annuities, Expire, Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9% 9%
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. .. .. .. 813 p 13 p
Consols for Account .. .. .. .. .. 90% 91 905
Exchequer Bills. 1 lid. 14,6 d.
1,0001... .. .... 6 9 pm. 6
5001. - . .. .... 6 9 pm. 9
Ditto, Small ...• 6 9 pm. 9

ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent •• • • 85
M—tican Bonds, 18,..6, b per Cent .. 21% 22 22
Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 2214 2214
Portuguese Four per Cent .. .. 35 35
Ditto, Small .. .. .. . .. 36y4 36
Spanish 'Solids, 5 per Cent •. 24% 24.4
Ditto, for the Account • • • . .. 24% 24%
Ditto, Passive Bonds • • • . •• s',i 5Ni
Ditto, Three per Cent • • • • • • 35N 354
Ditto, for the Account • • •• • • 35%i 35 35
Dividends on the above payable In Lend=
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 58 I{ 581‘;
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Corti:lca:ea .. 924

BUSINESS CLOSING
PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen.. .. .. 25 .... 22% 23 23
Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction .. .. • • 2% •• • • 2% •• • .
Birmingham and Gloucester.. ..100 .. .. 123 ex div 123 x.d.
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 5 .... 14 13% 13%
Birming., Wolver., and Dudley.. b .... 10% • • lO%
Binning., Wolver., & Stour Valley 5 .... 7 .. •
Boston, Stamford, & Birmingham 225. ••••• • • • • • %
Buckinghamshire .. 845... !4% p. ex Int %px.int.
Caledonian .. .. 30 .... 26% .
Ditto, Half Shares ..
Direct No-thern Scrip
Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 12%.... 4% ••.. • •
Eastern Counties .. .. 20.. ..211A% % ex dlv 21% x.d.
Do. Yerpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 135. 4d. ••..• • • •
Ditto, ditto, F 2. 61. las. 4d.
Ditto, York Extension 4 .... .
Ditto New b .....
East Lincolnshire .. .. 4 .... 6% .
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 .... 76 75 . 75
Edinburgh and Northern .. .. 15 ....
Ditto, New .. • 31A ••.. •
Ely and Huntingdon 12%.... 13% •• • • •• • • • • 13%
Great Northern (London & York
Regd.) .. 2% % ...... • • 2%
Do., do (Direct Northern Regd.) 3% .... 3% ••••• • • • • • 3%
Great North of England . ..100
Ditto, New .. 5 .... 59%
Ditto, New .. • • • • • • 1% 17% ex div 17%x.d.
Great Western .• • • • • •• 85 • • ..124 123.... 123
Ditto, Half Shares . • .• .. 50 . .
Dit to, (Nailer Shares • • .. 12%...• 19 ix
•• • • • • • •
Ditto, Fifths • • • • • • •• 20 •• .. 2814%
Ditto, Xew • • • • • • • • 4% •• • • 814 %
Huddersfield and Manchester .. 16
Ditto, ditto, Extension • • • • 5 •• • . 634 ::▪ •• ••
•
Ipswich wad Bury St.Edmunds .. 14 • • • • •
••• •
Ditto ditto, and Norwich .. 5 ,• • • • •
Lancaster and Carlisle • • .. 50 „ • •
..•
." • • ' •
Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manchester 27% 35 • •" •
Ditto, Branch Half Shares • • 5 10,/ 1; •••••. . • • •
. .
Leeds and Thirsk • • • • • • .. 22% „ 19q
London and Blackwall .. 161. 135. 4d. 814% .. ;;;;;•
Ditto. New,
Ditto, New, No. 2 .• • • • • • 10% p.. .
Ditto, Extension • • • • • W
• 7% 5
••
London and North-cstem .lam
%,,..
•• • 194% x div•• •
Ditto, Quarters ••• • •• • • 2 • • 19 .....
Ditto ditto, New Shares • • • . 2 .... 14 13%
Ditto, Fifths • • • • • • • 2 •• • • 17% x d
Ditto, 401. Shares M. OC, B. • • 40 „, „ 71,„ x d....
London and South-Western • • 411. 6s. 10d... 64▪ • • •
Ditto, New .. 22% .... 25u. • •
" ..... .• .•
Ditto, Tenths • • • • • • • • 5 •• • • 5%
Ditto, Tenths .. • • • • • • 4 •• • • 4%••
Ditto, Scrip• • 'and •• '• •• 5•• •• % ••
London, Salisbury, Yeovil ..........
Lynn and Ely .. .. 2004.. • •
••
......
Manchester and Leeds • • • • •• 82 ..•• • .
Ditto Extension 425. .... 1 p.. ......
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 ~•
alidiand ..100 ... 129% x div.• •.. 122%
Ditto, New .• • • • • ••30• • • • 34% x div... ~ 343,
Ditto, New .• •• • • ••2•• • • 5% x div.....
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 ....
Newcastle and Berwick • • •• 20 3214
• • • • 100 • • ..129.. %
Norfolk .. „ .. 129%
North British.. • • • • .. • • • r,„ •• • • 34% 35
Ditto, Half Shares • • • • • • .hfe •• • • 16% 17 17
Ditto, Quarter Shares ••.. 2% 4%,.
• • 4%
Ditto, Extension • • • • • • %•• • • 1% •, • • Is
.• 1 .
Ditto, Thirds • • • • " cn •••3%%• • • • • • • 3%
Northern and Eastern ••
• • • " , • • • •••_.
Ditto, New • .. 14 23 xdi •
23
North Staffordshire • • • • •• • 8% • „ 8%
North Western • 25
Preston and Wyre '• 6
17,• •• • 396 •• • • •• • 34%
Ditto, Half Shares (zi) • • • • 212 ••• • a a ••••• • • • • • 10%
Scottish Midland • • • • 22
sSoburethweEtryternanadnßdiprmoyinogrhant..
•3% 4. S.. • • • •
Do.. New (d0.....TAL 65.8 d.)
NNoo:
42: 14 143144::••
14314
Don New (do. 151.) • •
South Wales • • • • ' • •• 10 •••• •• •• 7%
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and
• 2 •••• 2%%.•
Goole••••••• ••• 425... n • ,A,2%
West Riding Union • • • • .„c ......
York and Newcastle •• • • As' ••• •3•/N 36% .... 36%
Ditto, New.. • • • • • • .. A
.•••• 12%••••••••.• 11%
Ditto, Preference • • • •
50 " 874
York and North Midland • • • •... Bxd ........ 87xd
Ditto, Preference ••2 •••• 11%• •••••••• 11%
Do. E, and W, Riding Exten... Jo .... 22 21
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens • • • • •• 18 •••• 14%%.• •• •••• 14%
ford., Toal., & Cette tMackenaie) 2 •• •
• • .....
Ditto, diito (Espelete) ••2 ..
.... 43' ...
Dutch Rhenish • • • • • • " 7 •'• ' • • 4%
Italian and Austrian . • • • •• 4 ...• 21/11 •• ...... 2%
Luxembourg • • • • • • • • n
Nortnem France ••. • • • •• • • 12% ••••••• • • • • • 12
Paris and StrasboArg •••• • • 5 " • '•••• • • • • 3%
Rouen and Havre,-. .. 20 •• • • • • ... •• .. 26%xd
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Provincial of Ireland 25 .... 44% 44%

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.

MINES.
Real del Monte, Unregistered .. •• • • 3'.', —•• • • •• •

4%

19%
4%
Ti P

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY)
LONDON, FEB. 15.—Wind S., light breeze and hazy,
with rain.
DEAL, FEB. 13.—Wind N.W. to W.N.W. ; 14. W.S.W.,
strong.—Arrd. New Zealand, Smith, Calcutta ; Sovereign,
Stuart, Madras ; Britannia, Coulthard, St. John's, New
Brunswick ; Amazone, Stein, New York, for Bremen. Sid.
Jessie, Cuba ; Beaufort, ditto. Arrd. frem the River,
Atlantic, Honduras; Jane, Rio Janeiro ; Brontes, Charleston,
Posthumous, Cuba.
PLYUOUIII, FEB. 14.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. James
Campbell, St. Andrew's, New Brunswick, for Liverpool.
Sid. 12th, Helban, Batavia.
CLYDE, FEB. I3.—Wind W., hard.—Arrd. Mogul, Oli-
phant, Batavia ; James Bunt, Simons, Antigua for Belfast.;
Charlotte, Faulds, St. John's, New Brunswick. Std. Emi-
grant, Price, Mobile.
Iltaa„ FEB. 13.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Lanark, New York.
FaLmouTir, FEB. 14.—The Susan, Mealy, St. John's, Now
Brunswick, to London, put in here yesterday, with part of
cargo thrown overboard, loss of boats, bulwarks, and having
been on her beam ends. The Souvenir, London to Limerick,
put in here yesterday, with damage to bows and cutwater,
having been in contact with the James, Salmon, St. Andrew's
to Liverpool, which had been previously dismasted. A
barque, waterlogged and abandoned, with foremast and bow-
sprit standing, was passed 30th ult., in lat. 45 lon. 11, by the
Sedulous, Levis, since arrived here.
CORK, FEB. 12.—Wind Northerly.—Arrd. Ann Carr,
Carr, Maracaibo ; Chatham, Bears, New York ; Wilhelmina,
Lawson, Callao. Sld. Malabar, Mobile.
t MILFORD, FEB. 13.—The Eden, Mariglia, Venice to Cork
or Falmouth, on shore near Broadhaven 26th ult., has been
got off and brought in here.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 13.—Wind S.S.E., light; 11, W., fresh.
—Arrd. Anger, Bell, Bombay; Ann Martin, Martin, Bom-
bay; Dryad, Hanson, Lima; Potentate, Lima; Centaur,
Rio Janeiro; Golden Fleece, Palethorp, Macao; Rowland,
Blanchard, New Orleans; Harmony, Jamieson, New Orleans;
St. George, Hutchinson New Orleans ; Lord Seaton, Fitz-
simonds, New Orleans Denmark, Andrews, Virginia; She.
nanduah, West, Philadelphia; Leonora, Dale, New York;
Islam, Shackford, New York Glen, AVNulty, Newfound-
land; London, Michael, Calcutta; Kelby, Carter, New
Orleans; Arabian, Ilawkins, New Orleans; Glenarvon' Guy, New York ; Frederica, Atkinson, New York ; Patna, Pori-
6onby, China ; Tory, Sharp, Savannah; Euphemia, Ricks St:

John's, N'evr Brunswick. Sld. Jeremiah; t•-arnqt; Sitaidgbaa:
DEAL, FEB. 14.—The John, Rice, from Charente to
ran foul of the Jane, Stanley, from London to Rio Janeiro,
whilst at anchor this morning; the former lost mainmast,
bowsprit, rudder, Ste., and the latter lost anchor and chain,
sustained considerable damage, and is leaky ; both vessels
remain in the Downs.
Linutroon, FEB. 13.—The Jane, of Bristol, from St.
Andrew's to Liverpool, dismasted, but not in want of assist-
ance, was passed 4th inst., in long. 12, by the Ann Martin,
Martin, arrived here. 14. The Stephen Whitney, Popham,
from New York, and the Anjer, Bell, from Bombay, were in
contact last night in the river; the latter lost mizentnast.
RELATING TO TILE LOVELY MARY, OF ST.

JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND.
A dispatch was received at Lloyd's this morning, an-
nouncing that Commander Caffer, of her Majesty's steam-
sloop Scourge, had fallen in with the brigantine Lovely
Mary, Stanton, of St. John's, Newfoundland, from Water-
ford, let of January, under jury masts, riding at anchor
about two miles to the southward of the Dante Rocks. The
Scourge brought up into the Cove of Cork.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE--MONDAY.

During last week the arrivals of English Wheat, Barley,
Malt, Oats, and foss up to our market were on a very
limited scale; those of Beans and Flour moderate. Very
little Corn of any decsription reached us from Scotland, but
from Ireland the receipts of Oats were considerably on the
increase, though, comparatively speaking, trifling. The im-
ports of foreign Grain were small, but we had a fair arrival
of American Flour. Fresh up this morning, coastwise as
well as by land carriage and sample, the arrival of Wheat of
horse produce was very small ; hence, as the supply of that
article left over from Friday was unimportant, the show of
samples was by no means adequate to meet the wants of the
dealers, whose attendance was good,especially from the country.
We have, therefore, to report a brisk demand for all kinds,
at an advance on ast Monday's quotations of from 4s to 5s
per quarter, and at which most of the parcels offering
changed hands. As was the case on this day se'nnight, there
were several orders received for English Wheat from the
northern ports, and one or two French speculators were bid-
ding high for middling qualities. however, several of them
were unexecuted. With Foreign Wheat we were scantily
supplied. Most kinds moved off readily, at 15 to 2s per
' quarter above last Monday's prices, being the same amount
of improvement as noticed on Friday. Holders generally
were very firm. We had a short supply of Barley on show,
owing to which, and to the maltsters being short of stock,
the sale was firm, at a rise in value of from is to 2s per
quarter. At the close of the market very few parcels re-
mained unsold. For superfine Malt there was a steady sale,
at a trifle more money ; but all other kinds were
a slow inquiry, at late currencies. The quan-
tity of Oats being somewhat on the increase,
the Oat trade was rather inactive; nevertheless, all
selected parcels realised full prices without difficulty.
In Beans, the sale was slow ; but we have no alteration to
notice in the quotations One or two cargoes of Yeas were
taken for Ireland. The trade was firm, and prices were well
supported. Most of the Indian Corn which arrived last
week has sold at from 66s to 72s per quarter. The Flour trade
was very firm, and prices had an upward tendency.

CURRENCY rEit IMPERIAL MEASURE
A-heat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier BlB to 855
Red, New.... 68s to Ells Oats—Yorkshire and
Dltto,White, New 71s 874 Lincolnsh., Feed. 328 371
Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe . • .... .. —38 s
coin, Red..... 668 708 Youghal and Cork,
Ditto, White. .
Irish, Red • ..... • • —6 —s Cork, White ... • . 368 39s
Ditto, White .... • • —s —8 Scotch, Feed... • • 353 38s
Rye—Old ....... ••• • . —s a Beans—Tick ......... 453 498
New.• .... •• 48; 58s Pigeons •. . 518 536
Barley—Grinding ... • • 47; 514 Pease—Grey . ........ 52; 55;
Malting . ........ 586 626 Maple . .......... 51s 556
Chevalier .... •• • 62s 633 White............ 58 606
Malt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers
folk ...... ••• • • . 788 806 Flour—Town-made .• . 62s 686
Brown . 698 71s Suffolk . • ........ 50s 526
Kingston and Ware 796 828 Stocktn & Norfolk 518 536
brrILITHPLMI.D.

The past week's imports of live stock into London have been
as under :
From whence. Oxen.

Cows.

Sheep
233 —
30
123
87

Calves

5 ...... 14

tftable had died in consequence of the injuries he had received
fto the male prisoner.
It appeattd that, on gaturday night last, a numerous body
of Irish labourers entered the Castle Tavern, Holloway-road,
when their conduct was so riotous and disorderly, that the
landlord, Mr. Francis, refused to serve them, and several left
in consequence, but the prisoners remained and insisted on
being served. Finding that they would not leave, Mr.
Francis tarned off the gas, when Edward Burke stooped his
head, rushed at him, and butted him in the face, by which
he broke his nose. He then knocked him down, and kicked
him several times, and Mr. Francis's son coming to his assist-
ance received such severe injuries from the prisoner, as to
compel him to keep his bed, and be placed under surgical
treatment, and he was now unable to attend to give his evi-
dence. The prisoner was at length ejected, and the door
shut, but they broke it in, attacked Mr. Francis again,
fractured one of his fingers, bit, and otherwise injured him.
Several policemen having heard cries of murder, hastened to
the spot, when it required no less than ten of them to remove
the prisoners to the station-house, and on the way there Ed-
ward Burke seized Constable 291 N, and knocked him down,
and upon his getting up gave him a tremendous kick in the
lower part of the abdomen. The policeman immediately ex-
claimed, " Oh dear, I am a murdered man !" and fell quite
senseless to the ground, when he was removed to Guy's
Hospital, where he lies in a very dangerous state. The
female prisoner, OR her way to the station-house, threw
off her bonnet and cloak and fought like a fury, spitting,
scratching, and biting at every one who came within her
reach.
Mr. GRZENWOoD committed the prisoners to Newgate for
trial at the Old Bailey, but ordering them to be again
brought up on Saturday next, when, it was hoped, the con-
stable and Mr. Francis, jun., would be so far recovered as to
enable them to attend to give their evidence.

WORSHIP-STREET.--(THIS DAY.)
Chares Lewis Sauchey was charged with obtaining the
sum of 31. Is. of William Arnold, an ex-waiter, and a pair
of boots of George Arnold, brother to the latter, so long ago
as July of the year 1843, under the following circum-
stances : _ _ _

William Arnold stated that at the above time he was a'
waiter at the White Lion, Whitechapel •road. The de-
fendant, who stated that he was head engineer to Mr. Steven-
son, used the house at the time, and was in the habit of dis-
playing some very unique tools, which he said he used in
his business. The prisoner's hands had the appearance
of those more of a lady, and the small instruments
he produced induced the belief that he had been
accustomed to the more scientific part of engineering than
what is called hard work. The prisoner subsequently, under
the promise of procuring prosecutor a situation as stoker on
one of the railways, obtained of the latter, in the course of
four weeks, the amount of 31. ls., besides eatables and drink-
ables which prosecutor had himself paid for. The prosecutor
was also induced by the prisoner to leave his place at the
White Lion, as there was a situation ready for him at the
Camden-town Station to enter upon immediately, but on
going to that station he discovered that no such person as
the prisoner was known upon the line, and he never after-
wards saw the prisoner until Saturday last, when in company
with his brother, and he was given into custody.
George Arnold, who said that he was a boot and shoe-
maker, stated that the prisoner called upon him at the above
time, and represented that lie had interested himself on be-
half of his brother William, and he believed had succeeded
in obtaining for him a situation on the railway. Witness
solicited of him an order for a pair of boots. The prisoner
replied, that if he gave him one be should not be enabled to
pay him for them until his governor arrived in town, which
would be in a week or two. Witness, however, made the
boots, but never saw the prisoner until Saturday last as
above described.

Mr. BROUGHTON said be should bold the prisoner to bail
for his re-appearance, himself in 251., and two sureties in
201. each, in order to give time for other inquiries respect-
ing him.

Her Majesty conferred the honour of knighthood
at the levee upon Sir Henry Edward Fox Young, Lieutenant-
Governor of the Eastern District of the Cape of Good Hope.
Sir Henry Young embarks for his destination per the Pot-
tinger steam-ship to-morrow morning.
ERRATUM.—In our report of the conclusion of the
proceedings in the House of Lords on Friday evening, an
error inadvertently crept in. It was the Sugar Brewery Bill,
and not the Sugar Distilleries Bill, which was introduced
into the House of Lords iu the evening. The Sugar Dis-
tilleries Bill was not read a third time in the Commons until
late in the night.
GAME.—[t is generally believed by the farmers in
the Isle of Wight, that one twentieth of the produce of their
farms is destroyed by the game ! while their labourers cannot
obtain half food enough for their families! The cottagers
are in want of food and firing, having only from 9s. to 10s.
per week to subsist on, everything is so dear that their
miserable pittance will not hold out, there is little hope of
their being able to crop their little garilens, seeds are beyond
their reach, garden beans are double the price they were two
months since, and to mend the matter, the Rector has put a
tithe this year on their little gardens.
Mr. Standish, Ml'. for Wigan, lies dangerously
indisposed, and but slight hopes are entertained of his re-
covery.
REMOVAL OF THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE RIGIIT
HON. T. GRENVILLE TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM.—Saturday
the concluding portion of the library of the Right lion. T.
Grenville, according to his bequest was deposited in the
British Museum. The time occupied in the removal was five
days, the number of books being 20,300 volumes. In value,
on account of their excellent condition, magnificent binding,
and extreme rarity, they are estimated at 100,0001. To give
only a slight idea of the value of this acquisition to the Bri-
tish Museum, for which a special room has been provided, a
notice of one of the books will suffice. The first is the " Biblia
Sacra Latini," upon vellum, the first edition of the Holy
Scriptures, and the first book printed with moveable metal
types by the inventors of printing. This book was printed
at Mentz, by Guttenburg and Faust, between the years
1450-5, and is executed in double columns, in imitation of
the choir books of the period. The cost of getting up this
work was so great that Schoeffer, the son-in-law of Faust,
states in " Trithemus's Chronicles" that 4,000 florins were
expended before twelve sheets were finished. This Bible is
known as the Mazarine Bible, on account of a copy having
been discovered in the library of Cardinal Mazarine. It is
so scarce that but four copies upon vellum and fourteen upon
paper exist, nearly all of which are in public libraries. With
regard to the value of the book, it may be stated that one
upon paper, fetched, at the sale of the library of the Duke of
Sussex, 1901.
We regret to announce the death of Captain
Dillon, whose voyages and adventures among the natives of
the islands in the Pacific are familiar to every reader, and
who, it will be recollected, discovered and brought to France
the remnants of the Astrolabe, the sole relics of the unfortunate
La Peyrouse and his companions. Captain Dillon died on
Tuesday almost suddenly.— Galignani.
BATTERSEA PARK.—On Saturday the surveyors
were busily engaged taking the levels for the bridge to cross
the Thames to the new park about to be formed in Battersea-
fields, from near the Chelsea Waterworks, having direct ap-
proaches on the Middlesex side from Sloane-street and the
Commercial-road. The park will extend from the Southwark
Waterworks to the Battersea Bridge-road, inclosing all the
ground between the Thames and the Wandsworth-road, and
a promenade and carriage drive to be formed on both sides of
the river, to extend on the Middlesex shore from Vauxhall-
bridge to Cheyne-walk, Chelsea.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT WANDSWORTH.—On Sa-
turday evening, between seven and eight o'clock, the pre-
mises belonging to Mr. Bell, lucifer match manufacturer, in
Garrett's-lane, Wandsworth, were discovered to be on fire.
The flames commenced in the steam•-engine boiler house, and
very speedily they penetrated the roof, and rose a consider-
able height, threatening destruction to the principal portion
of the spacious works. With all possible expedition an
engine belonging to Mr. Bell, and another from Messrs
Watney, the distillers, were got to work, which prevented the
fire from spreading. The brigade engines arrived from
London. The fire was extinguished before term o'clock, but
not until considerable damage had been done to the premises.
How the fire originated could not be ascertained.

CORN TO CAVALRY HORSES.—In consequence of
the present extraordinary high price of oats, occasioned by
the general scarcity of all descriptions of grain, an order has
just been issued from the Horse Guards to the colonels of all
the cavalry regiments in her Majesty's service, for a consi-
derable reduction to be made in the supply of corn to the
troop horses. Heretofore the regulation was for each horse
to have 101 b. of oats per day, generally averaging, from the
excellent quality of the corn contracted to be supplied for
cavalry horses, about two gallons. According to the new
regulation ordered to be carried into effect by the Commander-
in-Chief; the quantity is to be reduced from 101 b. to 71b. per
day, making a diminution in the consumption of nearly one-
third. In a cavalry regiment of SOO horses, under the new
arrangement, the enormous saving of upwards of 50 bushels
of oats will be the daily average, and nearly 18,000 bushels
in the twelvemonth.

DEATH OF VICE-ADMIRAL YOUNG.—Died at
Denmark-hill, on Thursday evening, after a short illness, in
the 68th year of his age, Vice-Admiral William Young, an
officer better known to the mercantile marine of the country,
when Captain Young, for many years in the Transport-office,
Deptford, than any other officer in the navy. Vice-Admiral
Young was one of the few surviving original directors of the
Dreadnought Hospital Society, which, with the Marine
Society, he designated his " pet children."
Lord John Russell and Count Alexander Mensdorff
visited Count St. Allaire last week. Sir Robert Peel called
on his Excellency at the Embassy, Manchester House, on
Saturday last.

COLONIAL APPOINTMENT. —We understand that
Christopher Rawlinson, Esq., [of the Western Circuit, and
Recorder of Portsmouth, and who was one of the intended
Judges under the Small Debts Act, has just been appointed
by Sir George Grey to the Recordership of Penang. The
appointment is worth 4,00 W. per annum.
SALARIES ON THE GREATWESTERN.--Mr. Saunders,
the secretary, gets 2,500'. a-year ; Mr. Gooch,lonctonrst(7e
superintendent, 1,000/. ; Mr. Clark, superintendent,
and Mr. Pyke, head accountant, 550/. Clark, thee Bristol
superintendent, gets 550/. ; Ashbee, Of Exeter, 325/. ; and
Graham, of Gloucester, 180/.—Herapath's Railway Magazine.
EXTENSIVE BURGLARY.-011 Saturday police
the
received information of an extensiverobb robbery having been
committod between twelve o'clock on Friday night and seven
street, Knightsbridge.
at the house of Mrs. Wallis, No. 188,
SlKnightsbridge. It appears that Mrs. Wallis
was sitting sitne.ting up during the night attending a sick child, which
slept in the kitchen. While doing so she heard no noise in
the house, but, on going up stairs after seven o'clock on Sa-
turday morning, she found the rooms in disorder, and on exa-
mination found that eight silver table-spoons, a dozen silver
tea-spoons, a pair of silver sugar-tongs, a gold watch with
gold chain attached, a silver watch, a pair of gold ear- rings,
a mourning ring, two 20/. Bank of England notes, two 10/.
ditto, and two 5/. ditto, with 1201. in gold, had been carried off
by the thieves, who left behind them a bunch of picklock
keys, an old pair of stookings, and a screw-driver.
The Duchess of Inverness had a dinner party last
evening at Kensington Palace. The Earl of Auckland, Vis-
count Melbourne, and Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston
were among the guests.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON TILE GRAVESEND AND
licieffasTng RAILWAY.—On Thursday evening Benjamin
Ballard, one of the labourers employed in this undertaking,
left his barrow filled with chalk, and on resuming his labour
on Friday morning proceeded towards the opening, for the
purpose of shooting his load, when, it appears, from the
intensity of the frost the mass had become frozen together,
and adhered to the barrow, which drew him headlong down
the shaft, a depth of 160 feet, by which he was killed on the
spot. Deceased was a single man, about 23 years of age.
The body was conveyed to the North Aylesford Union
workhouse, at Strood, to await a coroner's inquest.
ARREST FOR DEBT.—(IRELAND.)—The Bill just
laid before Parliament " To limit arrest for debt in Ireland."
provides, that arrest in all actions for debt, nut exceeding
201. and costs, shall be abolished.
The illoniteur Algerien of the 30th ult., in giving.
an account of the last razzia of General Cavaignac, whit h
has already been mentioned, states that Abd-el-Kader him-
self had but a few hours before been in the same neighbour •
hood committing a razzia upon a tribe which was hostile to
him.