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other. Possibly from the mutual charities inspired
by Christianity, possibly from the Ix nevolent effects
of civilisation, and probably, also, from the spread of
general enlightenment and the facilitation of inter-
course which has been effected by science and inge-
nuity, the nations of Europe are more intimately
blended together than when they formed constituent
portions of the Roman empire, stretching from the
limits of Armenia to the pillars of Hercules, from the
rivers of Mesopotamia to the wall of Severus. Under
the colossal and majestic government of the C2ESARS
there was undoubtedly every appearance of a real
and cordial coalition of the incongruous
tribes by which Europe was populated. The
sway which radiated from the golden pa-
laces on the Palatine hill, and which seemed to
strike forth to the very extremities of Colchis and of
Belgica, was, however, without any intrinsic strength.
There was bloom on the rind, but rottenness at the
core. Had the combination been federal instead of
subsidiary, there would have been more probability of
the ~Intinuance of the imperial dynasty, though even
then the predominance of any one principality in
that accumulation of tongues and dispositions, would
still have rendered it hopeless to effect anything
like a consolidation of a dominion so unwieldy
and enormous. Now, on the contrary, the
resources of every individual section of
this division of the globe is developed
to the uttermost extent by the sagacity and supervi-
sion of a local legislature. At the same time a
mutual dependence upon each other is insured by the
friendly relations of adjacent kingdoms, and to a very
considerable degree likewise by the commercial in-
tercourse which is maintained in the very teeth of the
protective system.

We would especially insist, therefore, upon the
advisability of maintaining an inflexible and scruti-
nising observation as to the progress of events in the
Peninsula. It was through the superior vigilance of
the French Government that Great Britain was so
surprisingly cajoled in regard to the marriage
of the Princesses. From the deficiency of our suspi-
cion—arising, no doubt, from a laudable Fonesty of
purpose on our part—have arisen all the sorrows,
heart-hurnings, and humiliations, consequent upon
the Montpensier alliance. Bitter as the lesson is, let
us profit by it ! Let us henceforth be more chary in
crediting the amicable declarations of Continental or
Peninsular Courts, and strive to effect the preserva-
tion of peace by a due admixture of jealousy in our
foreign policy ! Let us remember that the Courts
of Europe, whether northern or western, have
frequently before now eluded us by their consummate
and masterly hypocrisy; that each of them can " coin
its cheek to smile." with the felicity of the most prac-
tised concubine ; that their promises and engagements
of amity are as flourishing as lichens, but as unproduc-
tive ! Tedious as may be the repetitions of alarm
and tranquillity, of Carlist insurrections or of Minis-
terial domination, it is requisite that they should be
perpetually watched, otherwise we ourselves shall be
perpetually deceived and perpetually injured. Ab-
horring from our heart the infusion of a systematic
suspicion into the policy of a constitutional Govern-
ment like our own, we are nevertheless so persuaded
of the necessity of vigilance in our correspondence
with the various Governments abroad, that we should
prefer the selection of the lesser evil, as most calcu-
lated to advance the happiness and stabilitate the
tranquillity of the nations of Christendom.

Among the many valuable reforms introduced by
her Maaesry's Government since their last accession
to office, few are of a more beneficial character, or
were more urgently required, than those which have
been introduced for the regulation and control of our
military brethren, for their increased comfort and
respectability, and the improvement of their moral and
social condition. The brutalizing and degrading
"cat" has practically been banished from our ser-
vice, and men can no longer be tortured to death,
or turned into broken-spirited creatures, lost to every
feeling of honest pride and self-respect, for a slight
offence, involving no moral guilt or turpitude. We
say practically, for although there is still, unfortu-
nately, a possibility of such an infliction, to the
limited extent of fifty lashes, not only the public
feeling, but those of the authorities at the Horse
Guards, has been so fully and clearly expressed
against the abominable system, that few officers will
now have the hardihood to fly in its face, and te
bring on themselves the public odium and disgrace
that must be the result of any unnecessary recurrence
to corporal punishments in their regiments. The sol.
dier will, henceforth, be enlisted fur a limited period,
and will have at least the prospect, should he dis-
like his position, of being one day free to
return to his home and family, and a great temptation
to desertion will be removed. A fair chance is
afforded to the deserving and zealous soldier of rising
to a commission by constant and unceasing good
conduct. Warrants have been issued for the esta-
blishing of normal schools and savings' banks in each
regiment, and for accomplishing other desirable im-
provements in the social state of the army ; rewards
for good conduct will be made use of, as well as
punishment for bad, as means for the due preservation
of discipline; and many of the petty and trifling an-
noyances, which, although trivial in themselves, still
harass and vex soldiers, are under the consideration
of the authorities, with a view to their speedy and
effectual removal. Amongst the grievances of this
latter class, there are few productive of greater evil,
or of a more demoralising character to the soldier,
than the entire system of canteens ; and inuch credit
is due to Colonel LINDSAY.for the able and temperate
manner and the excellent spirit in which he brought
the subject unde: the consideration of the House on
Friday evening.
The simple fact that an annual profit of no less
than 53,7521. is derived by the nation, Ns rung from
the hardly-earned pittance of the soldiers—who
are forced to spend their money in one par-
ticular shop, in order that the State may make
money by the monopoly, which they sell at a high
price, and this under the pretext of maintaining and
improving discipline—is alone sufficient to show that
there must be something thoroughly and radically
vicious in the system. A high rent is extorted from
the keeper of the canteen ; he is compelled, in order
to make a profit himself, to exact the most exorbitant
charges, and to supply articles of an inferior and de-
teriorated kind. The soldier is thoroughly at his
mercy ; he is at liberty to charge as he pleases
to give what quality of goods he likes,
while he pays a considerable portion of the
pillage to the Government. There is no
doubt that in some respects canteens afford a de-
gree of convenience to the soldier, and that it is
desirable that he should have an opportunity of get-
ting many useful and necessary articles within the
barrack; but there should not be the temptation to
drunkenness and intemperance, the fertile source of
military punishment, held out to him at his very
threshold, and perhaps the non-commissioned officers
placed in authority over him directly interested in
inducing hirn to spend his available funds in swelling
the profits of the suttler. It is needless to
expatiate on the many evils attendant on
this degrading vice, its injurious effects on the
health and moral character of the man who gives
himself up to its allurements. They are sufficiently
known and appreciated, and require no additional il-
lustration at our hands; but, bad as it is, under any cir-
cumstances, it is by many degrees worse in the soldier
than the citizen. The drunken soldier is armed, and
has the power of putting into immediate execution nis
mischievous projects, of avenging any fancied insult,
by the murder of the supposed offender. The crime
of intoxication, taken by itself, is a serious offence in
the military code, and by the returns recently laid
before the House, from 53 regiments, and 79 depOts,
we find that from January, 1845, to July 31, 1846,
no less than eighty men were brought to the halberds,
and received an aggregate of 7,129 lashes out of 9,193,
to which they were sentenced for drunkenness.
It also leads to insubordination, disposing of neces-
saries, violence to superiors, and in fact to every
other offence for which punishments have been
inflicted ; so that it is not too much to say, that it
originates, at the lowest calculation, three-fourths of
the crimes committed by British soldiers. It is scarcely
necessary to aid to the many strong authorities
adduced by Colonel LINDSAY as to the evil resulting
from the sale of spirits in the canteens, and their effect
in leading the soldiers into habits of intoxication, but
we cannot refrain from adding that of CHARLES
NAPIER, 'who, in his admirable work on military law
and flogging, places the system in its true light when

he says, " I never saw any god arise from a canteen;
it is a den of drunkenness, of gambling, of robbery,
of all that is detestable in iractice and unjust in
principle ; without the more ►olished allurements of
a • hell,' it has all its vices, aid instead of any ob-
stacle being placed between his grog shop and the
troops, the Government drivethe soldiers into it like
sheep into a fold."
We augur the happiest mults from the pledge
given by the Secretary at War, which at once
led to the withdrawal IS the motion, via.,
" that the whole system of canteens should
undergo the most careful consideration, and
should be put on a footing vhich, whilst it would
give to the soldier all the convniences cant€ ens were
intended to afford, would renctr it next to impossible
that they should injure his meals or his health, or
render him unfit for the performance of his military
duty."

The measures that were introduced by the Govern-
ment calculated to afford temporary relief to Ireland
are now virtually disposed of, to far as Parliament is
concerned. They have been sanctioned by the Legis-
lature with an alacrity and a spirit of generosity be-
comingly proportionate to the intensity of the national
distress which dictated their necessity. Could we
predict the turning point of Irish destitution, and the
period (if a brief one) when its extremest limits
would be reached, the Senate night now pause from
its labours in this direction. This, however, it is
not in the power of man to predicate, and hence the
chief difficulties connected witi Ireland, and which
partake more of a social that a political character,
remain to he grappled with. Hitherto our public
councils have only addressed tiemselves to the dire
emergencies of the moment. The social evils across
St. George's Channel are so de(ply seated, and, how
much soever we may be successful in the mitigating
them for a time, so likely to rear, and, in all proba-
bility, in an aggravatedshape, that it is alone to perma-
nent measures we can look with anything like security
for their effectual eradication. Of these measures
the two most Important are, first, an effective Poor-law,
and next, a law which, in plain language, shall, by
a disenthralling process, establish free trade in land.
Of the necessity for the former we have long been
the urgent advocates Looking to what was the
state of England in ELIZABETH'S time, and to the
improved condition of her peasantry and artizans
subsequent to the introduction of a State provision for
the poor, it seems almost unaccountable that a similar
remedy should not have been, ages since, applied to
the subjugation of the identical ills with
which the social system of the Emerald Isle
has been perpetually fraught. Making every
allowance for certain political objections which might
be started against the supposed possibility of Ire-
land's having had a poor law, contemporaneously with
that which the Parliament conferred upon England,
no adequate reason can be advanced why, at least a
century since, the Irish poor should not have been
provided for in like manner with our own. Had this
been the case even fifty years back,—we might
say twenty-five,—we never should have been ap-
palled with the ghastly spectacle which Ire-
land now presents of thousands dying under circum-
stances, the bare contemplation of which is sickening
to the mind, and whereof the details which are hourly
reaching us are perfectly horrifying. And yet it is
little better than ten years since any measure of the
nature of an Irish' poor-law was enacted by the
Parliament, and then it was so miserably stinted,
that, viewed in connexion with the illiberal spirit in
which its provisions have been carried out, it has
proved a complete abortion. However, from the
measure now before the House of Commons, under
the auspices of Government, we hope for better
results, and " better late than never."
We are sorry to perceive that an objection has
been strongly entertained by the "Irish party," com-
prising a long list of the nobility and Members of
Parliament, to that portion of it by which it is pro-
posed to asses the poor-rates in the larger divisions
of unions instead of the electoral, by which the rate
is at present regulated. An influential deputation
waited upon Lord JOHN RossELL on Saturday to
enforce their views on this point. The Government
have altered their original scheme to this
extent, that when the charge on the electoral
district shall exceed half a-crown in the
pound in the year, it shall be charged to the union
at large. We do not demur to this alteration, seeing
the desirableness of the Government's securing, as
far as possible, the cheerful co-operation of the Irish
proprietary In the administration of so extensive and
important a measure as a poor-law ; hut we trust that
no further concession will be made, for, after reading
their resolutions, we cannot discover that
weight in the objections they embody which
the "Irish party" appear to attach to them.
One reason, in particular, in favour of the
snore extended divisions for the assessments is, that
it removes the temptation which would exist in the
smaller, for the proprietors to clear their estates of
the destitute poor, and who would consequently find
it more difficult to gain employment fur their labour
elsewhere. The following extract from Lord Joust
RUSSELL'S reply to the deputation is so truthful, and
so consonant with what we have repeatedly put
forward, that we cannot more appropriately close
our observations than by bringing it directly under
the notice of our readers :
not only in this country but in
I
s" andd' want to which the peopk of that
"He did not mean to express any opinion whatever on the
resolutions of the Irish Peers and Members of Parliament,
but he repeated what he had before said elsewhere, that the
°cPtratielriln
i t°ryidi dully,
mightth t tilhbaeei reducedisneddirgesr even in ordinary years ought to give
del
had upon the property of England, in
times of great distress, and that there should be legal pro-
vis;on made for relieving the destitute in the workhouse
when the workhouse was not full, and out of the workhouse
eompl ae claimot England upon the property Of Ireland, such a claim as the
p
when it was full."

Maurid papers of the 27th ult, have arrived.
The affair of the French tlip stranded in the Bidassoa
is settled. The Spanish Government of course has given
way, and has ordered the vessel to be restored without
the payment of harbour dues. Had the French Govern-
ment demanded the cession of Fuentarabia itself; doubt.
less as far as the Spanish Government was concerned
the demand would have been at once complied with.
MADRID BOLSA, FEB. 27.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 294 for cash ; Five per Cents., at 19 for
paper ; the Debt without interest, at 6 for paper ; and
the Coupons, at 17 for cash.

We have received the Paris papers of Friday and
Saturday.
The Constitutionnel of Friday has a long article on the
speech of Mr. ‘WARD in bringing forward the Navy Esti-
mates, in which it endeavours to show that Mr. YARD
has vastly overrated the force of the French navy. It
is evident, however, that the writer of the Constitu-
tionne/, true to the tactics of the whole Parisian press,
has purposely underrated the force of the French navy,
in order, if possible, to put England off her guald. The
following is the article in questicn :
"England spends this year 147 millions for her navy, and
France 101,500,000 f. These two sums ought to be reduced
each six millions, expended in England for transporting
troops to the colonies, and in France for carrying troops to
Algeria. There remains, therefore, for the English budget
151 millions, and for that of France 95,500,000 f. Let us
now examine the manncr in which these two sums are em-
ployed, in order to see if Mr. Ward was really warranted in
all he advanced on the subject of our naval condition. The
French navy on active service is composed of 29,330 men,
divided amongst 6 ships of the line, 9 frigates, 19 corvettes.
15 brigs, 29 light vessels, 22 transports, and 58 steamers.
The total of vessels on active service is 126, of which only
15, exclusive of the steamers, are at present fit to take an
active part in a serious war. England has 34,000 men at
sea, or 5.000 more than we. This difference is. besides,
considerably greater than it seems by the distribution of
men in vessels of a real force. The English have, in fact,
8 ships of the line of from 72 to 120 guns; 18 frigates of
from 36 to 50 guns ; 53 corvettes and brigs; 44 light vessels,
and 80 steamers; in all 213 vessels, which by the difference
if their construction and their metal, present a force double
of ours. The figures, which we have just compared as much
as it is possible to do when the matter relates to two budgets of
which the services are not altogether similar, clearly prove
how exaggerated are the allegations of Mr. Ward, and how
far our navy is from being in the state of prosperity which he
attributes to it. In order to show the most startling of the
exaggerations, let us remind our readers that, ac-
cording to Mr. Ward, the expenses of our budget this
year amount to 140,984,0001., exclusive of the an-
nual payment of the portion of the 93 millions
which the Chamber divided amongst seven years.
Thus, according to the English statesman, our budket this
year ought to be 154 millions. But in reckoning the annual
payment of the 93 millions, or 13,400,0001., the real figure,
our budget is only 101,500,0001. This sum is sufficient on
condition it be well employed; but there is a great differ-
ence between that and the expenses of the English navy, as
well as those which the imagination of Mr. Ward has as-
signed to our navy. Besides, Mr. Ward has accepted as a
reality what is only a project. In that way the Spanish navy
it-elf would be on the eve of becoming formidable. It is
allowable to suppose that Mr. Ward, with a patriotic view,
which we are far from blaming, has endeavoured to alarm
men's minds, in order to obtain more easily the funds which
it desires to devote to the increase of the English navy. Ile
declared that the French Government would not wait for the
seven years to expend the ninety-three millions accorded to
our navy, but that is an error. The Bill is positive on the
point, and it is pot that enactment which the AlMistry would

think of infringing; even if it dezired to do so it could not.
To construct at the same time in our ports a great number of
vessels, we ought to have accommodation of a far more ex-
tensive description, and building slips which do not now
exist. Mr. Ward also looks on as finished the works des-
tined for harbours of refuge from Dunkirk to Toulon for our
steamers; but scarcely are a few basins in course of execu-
tion, and everywhere else the works are not even com-
menced. Cherburg is far from presenting the for-
miderable aspect which the English Minister has
depicted. Ile has pretended that 6,000 workmen
are daily employed in that port, where he ought to
have represented the average at 1,500. The breakwater
of Cherburg is not by any means terminated, and is advanc-
ing with an extreme slowness. The defensive works are
null; on the land side they have not been commenced, and
it is enough to annoy any well-thinking man to see the in-
sufficiency of the means of defence of the port. Mr. Ward
.has also been pleased to institute a comparison between the
number of fires in the forges of Brest and Portsmouth. In
the French port there are, he says, 127, whereas in the
English one, there are only 48. Undoubtedly it would be
very desirable that what Mr. Ward asserted were true. But
nothing is less exact than this supposition; not only there
are not at Bret 127 fires, but at the moment at which we
write there are not the forges required for the repairs of our
steamers. It Portsmouth has in reality only 48 forges at
work, it may be safely declared that they are sufficient
for every kind of demand on them, comprising repairs of
steamers. Finally, Mr. Ward has carried exaggeration so
far as to say that we had the means of repairing our steam-
engines at Dunkirk ; whereas nothing of the sort is the
case. But these generous exaggerations of Mr. Ward prove
that the English government takes resolutely the initiative
in all measures, which may contribute to augment the force
of its country ; it provides the means of carrying out its
views on that point, by patriotically deceiving public
opinion. Here, the case is very different. If the state of
our naval forces is misrepresented, it is for the purpose of
preventing us from thinking of increasing them. Public
opinion was, in fact, obliged to force the Government to
state matters in their real aspect. At the present moment,
again, it is precisely in order that a false security may not
lull the public to sleep, that we are so anxious to make the
exact resources of our navy known."

Whatever may be tke inaccuracy of Mr. WARD'S

statement regarding the strength of the French navy,
it is abundantly evident that the statement of the Con•

stitutionnel is inaccurate, and underrates that strength

The figures will not work. " The total of vessi-1s in
active service," says the Constitutionncl, " is 126," and
tris after itself having enumerated 158 vessels at the
present moment in the active naval service of France.
This error is alone sufficient to destroy the authority of
the writer.

The Courrier Francais also has an article on the same
subject, in which the French navy is represented as
being in a wretched state. " Mr. WARD," says this
journal, " has been pleased to give a purely imaginary
picture of our naval forces. The only thing that is true
in the balance-sheet which he laid before the House of
Commons was the sacrifices imposed on the Treasury.
All persons that have visited our ports are aware that
the arsenals are insufficiently provided, the building-
yards abandoned, and the basins nearly empty. The
credits that have been voted will not be sufficient to
repair the errors and waste of past years. At Cherburg,
for instance, it can be seen how, for fifteen years, the
greatest part of the credits opened for the navy have
been employed. Works in stone and mot tar have ab•
sorbed almost entirely the funds destined for the fleet
Of all these constructions the fortifie.l circuit of the port
on the land side was, perhaps, the only Gale which it was
urgeet to undertake. Likewise, the completion of the gi-
gar tie breakwater, which forms the artificial port ofCher-
burg, ought to take precedence of all the other w-rks of de-
fence and security. The English are aware of these
facts, as they have their eyes fixed on our slightest
movements. Not long since a distinguished officer of the
British navy, Captain WASHINGTON, of the Blazer
steamer, was sent to Cherburg by the Admiralty.
Member of the committee on the ports of refuge, he
came to examine the works executed in a position where
the genius of man is successful in flinging back the rage
of ocean. Captain WASHINGTON could state to the
Lords of the Admiralty that he had not seen at Cher-
burg a single ship of the line; that only two frigates,
the Reine Blanche and the Forte, were in the de-
serted basins; and that in the dockyards, where
vessels were lying which had been commenced
ten years ago, he had not heard the s,und of
a single blow of a hammer or seen a nail
struck. Similar missions of a confidental cha-
racter were often given by the last Ministry, and are
matters' of common occurrence. When, therefore, a
Secretary of the Admiralty falls into error relative to our
resources, as Mr. WARD has done, the reason must be
that he conceives the error to be useful to his views at
the moment. Mr. WARD judged it advisable at the same
time to pass over in silence the natural advantages of
the British islands, and the formidable means of defence
which English prudence is unceasingly accumulating.
What he wanted, when he made his last statement, was
to have a new credit added to the previous estimates.
The sums appropriated to the navy will this year
exceed by 62,2841. the estimate of last year, and
will amount in all to 5,925,0001. The number of sea-
men is 41,500 men. W hat principally strikes us in the
English budget, is the sage and provideltt employment
of the funds voted. Not a single shilling is turn( d away
from its destination. Attention is being constantly paid
to the state of the fleet, and to the new improvement..
to be introduced in naval constructions. They want to
have a number of experienced seamen always ready;
they are endeavouring to multiply steam-vessels, and
to apply to them all the improvements in machinery.
It is this perseverance, this intelligent attention, which
have raised the naval power of England to so high a
point.

We trust that neither the Government nor the people
of England will be deceived by these statements into con-
senting to any reduction in our n.ival force. The
strength of the French navy is so manifestly under-
rated by these writers, that it seems as though these
articles were written to serve some purpose; and what-
ever that purpose may be, certain it is that it should be
a reason with England for still further increasing the
strength of her navy.
The Minister of Marine is about to put up to tender
contracts fur building six brigs of war, and two store-
ships.
The Moniteur' publishes the following letter from
Marseilles, dated the 7th ult.:—
"Since intelligence reached that the French Chambers
had voted a project of law, permitting the free importation of
foreign grain until the 31st of July next, prices have rapidly
risen. The hectolitre of wheat of the first quality, delivered
at Mar3eilles, costs to-day 23f. 30c., including the insurance.
The price of barley is, on an aver age, from 91. to 10f. per
metrical quintal, and the freight from Marseilles or Algeria
varies from 7f. to Bf. One hundred vessels are loading at
Constantinople and in the neighbouring harbours, of which
two-thirds are destined for Marseilles. The stoc, at Con-
stantinople will soon be exhausted ; but the moment the
roads become practicable, all the corn from the interior of
the empire and the Danubian provinces will arrive in our
capital. There exist likewise in Russia large quantities of
grain intended for exportation, the moment the thaw shall
have reopened the navigation. The corn lying_in the Rus-
sian harbours exceeds 4,000,000 of hectolitre. Unfortanately
the means of transport are scarce, and the price of freight is
still tending to augment. The poit of Odessa is now cora.
pletelv free of ice, and 55 vessels laden with grain have
already sailed for the Mediterranean."
The Government entertains serious apprehensions of
an outbreak in Paris, consequent upon the dearness of
provisions; and in order to be prepared against such an
emergency is quietly arming the forts round Paris, not-
withstanding the provisions of the law to the contrary.
The committees of the Chamber of Deputies have de-
terniinedlhat the proposition of M. DUTERGIER D'HAII-
RANNE, on the subject of electoral reform, shall be pub-
licly read at the next sitting of the Chambers.

The National of Saturday contains an article on the
subj,ct of the great meeting held in London on the sub•
ject of Cracow. It is of a highly laudatory nature, and
the Notional rejoices at the community of sentiment
between England and France on the subject of Cracow.
The Journal des Chemins de Fer announces that the
Abbeville and Amiens section of the Boulogne Railroad
will be opened on the 1.51,h instant, and the Havre and
Rouen on the 20th.

Count BUESSON arrived at Bayonne on the 23, on his
way to Paris.

The Paris Bourse displayed on Saturday a slight tendency
to improvement. This arose out of the termination of the
liquidation (settlement), the conviction that (as above ob-
served) in Spain alone was anything to be perceived me-
nacing for peace, and from the belief that, although at a
great expense, the want of provisions was in a fair way to
be obviated. Frequent interviews of Count d'Argout (Go-
vernor of the Bank of France) with M. Guizot had, more-
over, led to the rumour that that distinguished person was
about to be named Minister of Finance, in the room of M.
Lacave-Laplagne, who desires to retire.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Saturday at 78f. 35c.; the Five per Cent. 118 f. 80c.; the
Orleans Railwify Shares, 1,2771 50c.; Rouen, 868 f. 75c. ;
Havre, 692 f. 50c.; Great Northern. 630 E; Avignon,
8281. 75c.; Vierzon, 581 f. 25c.; Bordeaux, 535 f. ; Bou-
logne, 400 f. ; Basle, 2101.; Dieppe, 330 f. ; Paris and Stras-
burg, 463 f. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 462 f. 50c.; Paris and
Lyons, 491 f. 25c.; Lyons and Avignon, 4801.; Bordeaux
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BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TILE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, 7.ll.tacli 6.
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Boulogne and Amiens, 14 -Bordeaux,
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THE UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION.—OR Satur.
Service Institution,
day afternoon the sixteenth annual meeting of the United
Whitehall, was held in their museum.
Major-General Sir James L. Lushington, vice-president,
presided. The report showed that the institution was pro-
yminogney al
feoring build-
ing
l expense
pro-
gressing favourably. The number of visitors amounted to
tlhBes .
laftervoot opfa
32,885, being larger than any former year. There were up
to the sth March 4,056 members, of whom 235 were new
subscribers, being a great increase on former years. The
total receipts were 1,980/. 4s. 9d., which included 1,3031.
annual subscriptions, and 1361. 10s. life ditto, and there
Thewas arbepaolarnt
alsocein
referredand
a lecture theatre, the fund for that object b • only
384/. 16s.
hand
ofltooL

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of last Night.)
The sales of Cotton in the Liverpool market on Saturday
were 2,000 bales, chiefly American, at 614 d. to 71/id. per lb.
The market was dull.—Railway Shares were inactive, but
the state of the London market not being known, prices were
comparatively steady.
No information has yet been received of the arrival of the
West India mail, nor are there any other later ship arrivals
with news of interest.
It is stated in accounts from Stuttgard that the new loan
of twelve millions of florins for the W irtemburg Government
has been taken by Messrs. Rothschilds in conjunction with
other firms, including the Stuttgard bankers, in a four-and-a-
half per cent. stock.
The following is a copy of the letter addressed to the
Members of the Legislature by the Spanish Bondholders'
Association :
" Sir,—As a member of the Association of Spanish Bond-
holders. and on behalf a great number of British subjects in-
teresred in the public debt of Spain, I am deputed to solicit
your attention to a statement of our claims on Spain for the
large loans of money advanced to her.
" The total amount of the foreign debt of Spain, is about
seventy-eight millions sterling, a large proportion of which
is due to Great Britain, and it is submitted, that the resto-
ration of such a vast amount of British wealth is an object
of national interest, as well as a measure of justice to
a large class of persons in this country, who have long suf-
fered great privation and distress from the oppression and
bad faith of Spain towards them.
Petitions praying for protection and relief from
the Imperial Parliament and Government, signed by
D. Reining, Esq., chairman, and Sir T. B. Leth-
bridge, Bart., Deputy Chairman of the Spanish
Bondholders' Association, will be presented by my Lord
Brougham to the House of Peers, and by the Lord George
Benthick to the House of Commons, and it is respectfully
hoped that the justice and merits of the case will obtain for
it the great advantage of your advocacy and support in Par-
liament."
The English Stock market opened rather better to-day,
but has gone worse since. The rise in Wheat again this
morning, the continued heart-remiing accounts from Ireland,
the unfortunate embarrassment of the North of England
Joint-Stock Bank at Newcastle, and the high rate of interest
offered by railway companies on debentures, all concur to favor
"bear" operations. Consols were 89% 3/4, but are now
89% % for transfer to-morrow. 'rime bargains have been
made at 89% 3/4 ; and the new scrip is flat at % % premium.
Exchequer-bills have realised 3s. to Cs. premium. The New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 92 to 91%. The
Three per Cents. are shut. Bank Stock is firm at 205.
The Foreign market has been very flat again. Spanish
Five per Cents. are 221/ for money, and 221% % for time.
The Three per Cents. have been 33%, Mexican Stock has
been at 22 to 221/s, and Brazilian at 87. Dutch Two-and-a•
Ralf per Cents. have been quoted 58 to 58%.
There is not much doing in the Railway Share Market, but
prices are not lower than on Saturday. In many instances
they appear to be rather firmer. Caledonian, 26 to 26% ;
Ea.stern Counties, 2014 to 201; East Lincolnshire, 67‘, ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 74 (lower by 31. to 4/.); Great
Northern, 2% to 21.
BRITISH FUNDS.

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. .. • . .. .. .. .. 205 204
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 893,/, %%% B`.lq
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Antis. 91% %92 91% 91%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1,60 .. 9 9-16 % 9%
Ditto, 30 years. Oct. 10, 1859 .. 9% 9%
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5. 1860 .. .. 914 94
Consols for Account, April 15 .. .. .. 89% % 21%
Consols, Scrip •• .. •• .. .. .. 0% % p 0% P
Exchequer Bills. 13d. 114 d.
1,0001... .. .... 63 pm. 3 p
5001.-. .. .... 3 6 pm. 6p
Ditto, Small .... 10 pm. 5 p
ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds. 5 per Cent .. .. 87 87
Ditto, New, 1843 .. .„ . .. 83
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent .. --
Ditto, for the Account .. „ „ 2914 21%
Portuguese Four per Cent .. .. 32%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .• .. 2234 '22 %
Ditto, for the Account .. .• .. 2214 2234
Ditto, Passive Bonds .. ~ „ _ 5!4
Ditto, Three per Cent .. ~ „ _
Ditto, for the Account .. „ „ 33-i 3338
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent .. .. 39%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-halt per Cent .. 581,4 58 58
Ditto. 4 per Cent, Certificates .. 91%

N'
PRICES OF PAID. DONEB A EST
CLOSINO
RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
28 IA

Aberdeen.. .•
Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction . .• • • 2% ••• • •••• • • • •
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 5 .... ..
Wolver., and Dudley.. 4 • •
Birming., Wolver., & Stour Valley 5 .. .• 7 .• •• • •
Boston, Stamford, & Birtninghain 7% .. .
Bristol and Exeter • • .. .. 75 ,• . .
Ditto, New .. • . .. 10 .... ..........
Buckinghamshire .. • • .. 6/. 45..... 1,4 p
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares .. • . .. 2% •• • • 25 •• •
Cornwall. 7)4.... 3;i ••••• • • • • •
Direct Northern Scrip 2 214 .. • • • • • • • •
Eastern Counties .. 20 . 20% %
Do. l'erpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 6/. 13s. 4d. p..
Ditto, ditto, .. ..No. 2. 6/. 13s. 4d. %p•••• .• • •
Ditto, York Extension 4 •• • • 4!4%••• • • • • •
East Lancashire .. 14 .• • • ...... •• • •
Ditto New • , .. 5 .... 7 •• .. .• • •
Ditto, ditto New Scrip • • .. 114 •• .. .... ••• • • •
East Lincolnshire .. 4 .... 634 ••.•.. • • • •
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 50 -.... 74 • • .....
Ditto, Half Shares .. • . .. 10 .... 20 .. ... .
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 1254 .... 185 .. •
Ely and Huntingdon .. 1254 - .. ••• . • •
Great Northern (London & York
Regd.) 2% .... 2n, j 4 ...... • • 214
Do., do (Direct Northern Regd.) 3% .. • ..... • •
Great Western .. 117 .. 117
Ditto. Half stares 50 .... 69 .... 69
Ditto, New .. 4;4 •. ...• ••
8%
Lancaster and Carlisle .. 50 • • ~ ~
Ditto, New 5 10 10
Leeds anet Bradford •• .. 35 .... ..... 794
Leicester and Itedtord 165..... dis,
Leeds and Thlrsk 221,4 20%
Ditto, New .. • • .. .. 5 4 434
London and Blackwell .. 16/. 13s. 40. 8 .. • • 8
London, Brighton, and S Coast • • 50 53% t 4
Ditto, Consol. Eighths 10 .. • • • • 12
London and Greenwich .. 12/. 15s. 4d. 014 ..... (Jl4
London an North-Western .. iOO .... 181 .... , .... 182
Ditto, Quarters .. 2 ..........
1) tto ditto, New Shares .. .. 2 .... 14 •• • • .....
London and :Coutli•Western • .41/. 6s. 100... 63 .....
Ditto, New Consol. Eighths .. 40 .... 48

63,14
48
51,4
2!
2214
16%

Ditto, Scrip..
torsion and York Extension Scrip '254 .. 2% % ........
Lynn and Ely .. .. 20 .. • • 22 'A ••••• • • • • •
Lynn and Dereham .. 15 .... 16% ...... • ...
Si anchester and Leeds .. 82 .• .... • • .... •
Ditto, llalf Shares .. 38 .... 4914 491%
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12 .... 164 .......... 164
Ditto, Thirds (i:eg.).. 84s. .... 2qp • • ...... 2% p
Ditto % (late liudders.& Sheff.) 23 .......... 2634
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .... p
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 1 0% •• •
Midland ..100 ... 118% 120 119.. 118
Ditto, New .. .. 30 .... 34% . ...... 34%
Ditto, New .. • .. 2 .... 5i4 14 % 5%
Midland, Binning. & Gloucest.• .100 122% 123% 123%
Nemcastle and Berwick .. •• 20 .... 345¢ 34% 34%
Newmarket and Chesterford 10 .• • • .......... 104
Ditto, Extension .. 21.125..... % p.•••.... p
Ditto, Extension • • .. .. 6 .... 654 . ........ 65(
Ditto, ditto, Waveney Valley.. 2 .... ..........
North British .. 25 .• 344 ........ 343
Ditto, Half Shares .. 1234 .... 164 .
Ditto, Quarter Shares • • .. 24 •• .. 4 4 4
Ditto, Extension .. %.... ItA „ „ „
Ditto, Thirds • • .. • • • • 1 .• .. .....
Northern and Eastern .. 50 .... 55 ..........
North Staffordshire......s 8 7% s t/a
Ditto Scrip (late Churnet and
Blythe): . . .. 2 .• „ • „
Oxfor.LlVorcest.,& Wolverlunptn. 1734 .... 11
Preston awl sVyre 25 ....
35
Ditto, llalf Shares (A) 614 .. • • 10% • .....
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 • • 47i • .
Scottish Central „ .. 15 .... 23 22%
Scottish Midland .. . 17% .... 21% 4
South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 3334 .. • • 37 ••.••• • • • •
Dam. • , (iss. at 321.) No. 1. 20
Do.. New (d 0.32/. 65.8 d.) No. 2. 12
Ito., New (do IS!.) .. No. 4. 8% , • •
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and
2%
S uth Wailes .. • • •• • • 10 •• • • 8 tAi 8 •••• • • • 8
Vale of Neatly .• 2 .... 1 % .......... 154
West Riding Union • • • • .. 428. •• • . I % 1, ••• • • .
134
Windsor, Staines, &S. Western.. 425. .. • • 14 p•••• • • • • 14
York and Newcastle .. .. 25 .... 364 36
Ditto, New.. .. ~ 10 ... 16 434 1G
Ditto, Preference 4 .... 8%• • • •
York amd North Midland .. 50 .... 86
Ditto, Extension • • .. .. 20 .... 37 ..... .....
Ditto. Preference • • .. 2 .... 11% % „
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

104
•z 2.?,
21
3714

22 ••••
• ••
44,

Central of France (Orleans and
Vierzon) • .• •• 12 ...• 15 ....
Dutch Rhenish • • .. .. 7 4m
Northern ut France • • .. .• 8 .... 12%%1,4••,,
Orleans and Bourdeaux .. 6 •.....
Paris and Lyons •• .. 8
Sambre and Meuse .. 12 .... 6% ..
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Union of London .. .. 10 .... 12% ........ .

12!,",
711 i 7

Union of Australia .. .• .. 25 .... • • ........ 25!

EILES.

Real del Monte, Unregistered 3!‘',

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert attended divine service In
Whippingham church on Sunday. The Rev Mr. Protheroe
officiated. The Countess of Claremont, Lady Caroline So-
mers Cocks, Major-General Bowles, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon.
C. B. Phipps, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Colonel
Bouverie also attended the service.
The Royal children went for an airing to the sea beach on
Sunday morning.
Sir James Clark arrived at. Osborne house on Saturday,
and had the honour of joining the Royal party at dinner.
Yesterday, her Majesty and Prince Albert took their usual
early walk in the forenoon on the beach, accompanied by the
Prince of \Vales, Frince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the
Princess Alice.
Sir James Clark has left Osborne House for town.
A deputation on the subject of the distress in, the High •
lands of Scotland had an interview with Sir George Grey
yesterday, at the Home-office. The deputation consisted of
Lord
M.P,M'acdon Mr. Campbell of Islay, Mr. Mackenzie of
Applecrosi, Mr. Matheson of Ardross, Mr. Matheson
of Lewis, M.P., 11Ir. Maclean of Coll, Mr. Campbell, jun.,
of Islay, Mr. Campbell of Jura, Mr. Ramsay, Celenei
WDougall of Dunolly, Mr. Gibb, and Mr. Grey.
Mr. R. Montgomery Martin had an interview with the
Earl of Clarendon yesterday, at the office of the Board of
Trade.
Mr. Edward Ellice, jun., M.P., had an interview with the
Right Hon. Edward Strutt, yesterday, at the office of the
Commissioners of Railways.
'rile Chancellor of the Exchequer was sufficiently reco-
vered, yesterday, from his recent indisposition to attend at
his official residence, in Downing-street.
Mr. William Law Ogilby had an interview with the Right
Hon. T. Milner Gibson, yesterday, at the office of the Board
of Trade.

The Earl of Devon had an interview with Sir George Grey
at the Home-office, yesterday.
Dispatches from the Governor of New Zealand were re-
ceived at the Colonial-office, on Saturday.
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial-
office, for the Governors of Hong. Kong and Ceylon.
Lady Mary Wood left town, yesterday, for Mickleton Hall,
Doncaster.

AMATEUR PERFORMANCES AT THE ST. JAMES'S
THEATRE, IN AID OF THE DISTRESSED IRISH AND SCOTCE.
—There is much excitement in the fashionable world re-
specting the two performances by distinguished amateurs, to
be given at the St. James's Theatre. It is stated that Mrs.
Butler will sustain the principal characters, but no other
member of the profession will be included in the casts.
THE CANADA COMPANY.—On Saturday, notice
was posted on the Royal Exchange, that an election of a
Governor, and three other directors and an auditor, of this
company would take place on the 23d instant.
JENNY LlND.—This charming nightingale of the
north, who has just created such a sensation at Vienna
in Meyerbeer's Camp of Silesia, is expected in three
weeks at Paris, en route to London, where she will im-
mediately make her debut at her IdetjestY's Theatre.

SURRE THEATRE.
Yestenlay evening a very interesting drama, entitled
Lilly Dawson ; or. A Poor Giri's Story," was produced at
this theatre. It is the novel of the same name, by that de•
servedly popular writer, Mrs. Crowe, in a dramatic dres,
by
that skilful artist, Mr. Stirling. The plot is as follows :--
Lilly Dawson (Mrs. 11. Vining) is employed as a domestic at
the house of Jaceb Littlehaus, a smuggler, Nvlte.e
treated with uncommon severity by the family, coesisting
of two sons and a daughter, the former of father
follow the same honourable vocation as their fat",..
and the latter of whom is wedded to a phiegur„`t
Dutchman, Hans Peffer (Mr. T. Fredericks). " Shilu°a
clouds, and darkness," rest upon the birth and parentage _
Lilly Dawson, but from the confession of Jacob Littlehan:
in a moment of mental agony, it appears that be Prb
served her from a wreck. The crew have been murdered ,Y
him and his sons. Luke Littlehaus, front a belief (tn:
• grounds for which do not appear) that Lilly Paws°,
will turn out to be the child of some great person, deter Mine.
to marry her; but she dislikes him, and effects her 17
after an attempt has been made upon her
-
Luke Littlehaus, who thinks that she had been the n'itn""
of a murder which lie had committed, thrcugh the insti;
mentality of a blind beggar the girl is enabler' to obtain
°,
situation for a period of three years, at the expiration.
which, dreading the machinations of Luke Littlehaus, en:
comes to London, and eventually succeeds in ohteininc
situation at a milliner's, from which, however, she is co r.
life
pelled to fly, in consequence of an accusation of having °lig
Joined sonic lace. The real culprit is May Elliot,
female in the same situation, who acquaints Lilly Paw,
1,, bliv
with the act of which she has been gul"_,-;'
which the other is too honourable to o'vu4eed
May. Elliot notwithstanding this noble conduct, iuflue"A,
by Je;.lousy, betrays Lilly Dawson into the hands of
Lit tlehati's, and who with a view to his self-preservation.,
termines to murder her, hut kills his sister in mistake. 1•}111,
Dawson escapes and turns out to be the daughter °v,l;ot
General Markham. The murderer is arrested, MaY
eels
loses her lover, who marries Lilly Dawson, who beg all
long attached to hint, and dramatic justice is rendered
.IIJ
parties. The piece, in addition to startling and varied incidelf'o'r
without which no drama of the present day can ,b°,,Pecrs•
vitality', possesses considerable subordinate merits• ue
feel*
logue is correct, and suited to the speakers, and the
es.
ings embued are natural and suited to the circumstsncm
Mrs. IL Vining, as Lilly Dawson, gave a most correctenT;
bodinient a spirit grown familiar with affliction, but gle.
as childhood in nature—a sort of female Smike. Luke Litt
be
haus was admirably performed by Mr. E. F. Saville, end tri,
other carts were creditably sustained. The piece and
a
nounced fur repetition amidst considerable applaase frog
very crowded house.

ASTLE"Y's AMPHITHEATRE'
A new grand spectacle, founded on Sir Walter Sc°,,ottdS
celebrated, historical romance of Kenilworth was Pr°da-,
here last evening, with appropriate scenery, gorgeous
pointments, costumes, and other magnificent accesseriest
The first act represents the reception of Queen Elizabetb,,,,
Kenilworth Castle; and in this act the whole of Mr- .rat.
magnificent stud is introduced, reviving the cluhesioa
rous scenes of the olden time, after a flays,
to gladden the hearts of the Young Englia,
It is a gargeous and superb spectacle, and was comFae-
successful. The scenes in the circle followed, in which of
Wolff' exhibited his celebrated scene as the JugOter,o,
Antwerp. The Champion Vaulters went through their w'..'ea
derful performances (they may well be called the Chengao.
Vaulters, for one of them threw thirty two somersaults cool!
secutively.) Madame Dumos appeared in her graceful
scene as Fortunio, and M. Leonard exhibited his wonde.rvp
performance on two horses. The gem of the ev,entuo
however, was the performance of M. Pablo I3a:lods
on his tutored steed. This performance tranac
every thing that has hitherto been exhibited A
the way of horsemanship. It is perfectly unique'Adietl
beautiful jet black thorough-bred horse, bridled and ssu
after the ordinary fashion, is introduced into the areuiet
M. Pablo Fanque, attired in the ordinary riding c°5CllOl '
enters and mounts his steed after the fashion of an °14112,01
rider. The orchestra plays a slow air, and the steed pr''-usia
round the circle, keeping time to the air. The calag
quickens, and the horse quickens his movements, Ne-rel ;
time to the music with his fore feet. The air chngnot
it is the cachuca. The horse dances the cachucst
after tie ordinary fashion of dancing horses, but givid
throughout the regular steps, crossing his fore-fee!' $
dancing the cachuca even as (to use an AmericaMOsy
human would dance it—the rider guiding him, end al if
ing backwards and forwards as theorse moves, evel,l„„oe-
they were one ; entirely acted upon by one volition. S°6'l„-aelt
ful, so classical is this performance, that we must F.° our
to classical times and classical mythology to g"'" crag
readers the faintest idea of it. Imagine a Centaur dan_,
the cachuca, and you will have some faint idea of the rid,
formance of M. Pablo Fanque and his wonderful °filo
Suddenly the air changes; it is the Cracovienne, and
you see the Centaur dancing the Cracovienne co -
all the elegance of a Fanny Ellsler, progress''
the hind feat, the fore feet go through all tu`,;ool,
tricate steps of the Cracuvienne, tripping, beatingi"do;
hopping, stamping, as the deesse de la dan, se won't, tee
the Cracovienne gets quicker and quicker; it is ha",,ee•
Polka, and the steed, guided by his rider, polkas most gr,:tes
fully. As the music proceeds. so does the enthusiasm 0`,6,
steed increase. He waves from side to side ; his head.grrder
fully bends, now to the right, now to the left; 1113,1114,
moves with him, and man and horse one Centaur, are P°,..nce.
with all the enthusiasm of a fanatico for the u% of
11 e have thus endeavoured to describe the performance-do
end Per
M. Pablo Fanque, but most inefficiently. Words can
justice to this unique, and wonderful, and most elegant The
formance. It is impossible to describe the indescribable' jos
performances of M. Pablo Fanque is to ordinary
what the le rformances of the Rislevs are to ordinary to of
ling. It must be seen to be appreciated ; and no admires,•
horsemanship—no admirer of the ballet—none who call 4r,
preciate the acme of grace and elegance, should miss te
portunity of seeing the unique performances of
bla Fanque and his wonderful steed. The -RoYa` gad
Hunt concluded the evening's amusements. The house e
crowded. eqUestrlirlotr

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