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AMPTON, advertised for sale by me, by auction, on Monday, ' (Fr; m thy, New Orleans Bee.)
the 13th Julv instant, at the Dolphin Inn. Southamrton, have • Steam-:oat.) were comin2 in tr,,ni ;ht. San Bernado and
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It is understooo, rays the Galrcstot Courier ol the I,t,
that arrangement are makirg, or air.'-try made, to have
an agent of our Government at New Orleans, who will
have the power and authority to fund in that place the
promissory notes of Texas, in conformity with. the Act r..f
_ f these notes

ROYAL SURREY THEM RE.
The daring -Teats of the celebrated Van A mburgh in the New
Historical Drama of Alungo Parke," with his incomparable
collection of Lions., Leopards, and Tigers, has already created
•he utmost astonishment—thousands have witnessed the won •
derful effects, and he will appear every evening till further
notice.

the last Session of Congress, the some as i,
were presented at the Treasury depat talent in this councen-
try. This measure, it is belitved by many, will enha
the value of our money at least twenty per cent. on pre-
sent quotations.
The Galveston Papers publish the Act for the Redemp-
tion of the Promissory Notes of the Government now in
circulation. Section Ist provides for the engraving of
certificates of stock in the funded debt of Texas. The
2d provides that all sums of the promissory notes preseulal
prior to the lit July shall ba admitted for funding, and
certificates of stocks issued to the holders, bearing interest
at 10 per cent. per annum, and redeemable semi-annually
in gold and silver—the first pa ment of interest to be
made on the 15th December next—and said certificates
to be redeemed after June, 1845.
The third section allows 8 per cent. only on certificates,
issued upon the notes paid in after the Ist of July. The
first payment of interest to be made on the 15..11 of April,
1846. The sixth section provides for the prepration and
preservation of the proper vouchers.

THIS EVENING, JULY 11.
Will he acted a New Dran auc Spectacle, entitled
MUNGO PARKE; OR, THE ARAB OF THE NIGER.
Kaifa, the Arab, by Van Amburgh, in which character he
will be attacked by a leopard and a tiger, and finally encounter
the whole herd in their dens.
which will be added,
THE WET NURSE.
To conclude with the New Village Tragedy, entitled
THE LIFE OF A WOMAN';' OR, THE CURATE'S
DAER.
Realization of Howarth's celebrated " Harlot's Progress."

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
BRILLIANT SUCCESS of the BATTLE SINFONIA !!
FOUFITH WEEK ! !
GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET
CHAMPETRES,
By Godfrey's unrivalled Band.
Ile vast Panorama al Fresco of Iceland and its Volcanoes, by
Danson—Breaking up of the Ice—Melting of the Snows—
Release and Departure of the Discovery Ship.
Carter's astonishing " Koniaphostie," or "Lime Light.
Eruption of Mount Heela, &c.
Every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
Programe of the Concert for July 13th, 14th. and 16th.
Overtures—Der Frieschutz, Semiramide. Quadrilles—La
Tete de Bronze, Les Echos. Waltzes—ae Kosenden, rower
of London (composed expressly), Les Roses. Grand March—
Die Templar and die Juden. Glee and Chorus—Toe Chough
and Crow ( Guy Mannering). Fantasia—Sur des Motifs de
" Luccia de Lammermoor," arranged expressly by Godfrey
(First time). selection of popular Airs from " Robert le Dia-
ble." Aud
THE GRAND BATTLE SINFONIA,
The celebrated chef d'oeuvre of Beethoven,
Revived with more than its original effect awl grandeur.
ADMISSION ONE SHILLING.
Concert commences at Six.

LIST OF CABIN PASSENGERS BY THE
"ENGLAND" PACKEF-SHIP FROM NEW
YORK:—
D.ivis Lawler, Esq , and Lady, of Cincinnatti, 01iio ;
Boswell Middleton, Esq., Lady and two servants, Jamaica,
W.I. ; Mrs. Eder, of Edinburgh; Miss Jones, of Liver-
pool ; Mrs. Collins, Alabama ; Miss Collins, Alabama ;
Miss Mary Middleton, Jamaica, \V. I. ; Mrs. Bartlett.
Bo;ion ; J. S. Balls, Esq., Park Theatre, New York, and
Urury Lane, London ; Mr. R ,bert Harrington, cf Phila-
delphia; Captain William Young, of Liverpool; Mr. J.
Pittman, of Lowell, Massaehusets; Mr. G. Robios, of
Lowell, Ma,sachusela ; Mr. John Lambert, Leeds, York-
shire ; Mr. William Gowans, of New York; Mr. Ro.Asell.
of Tpronto, U. C. ; Mr. Herbert C. Willis, F,;ig.land ;
Field, of Baltimori“ Mr. Henry, cf ;
E.1,,,;74 de Cool, St. Thowny, W T. ; Mr. StI;AM,
of London; Mr. Seafortii, of sbet-Beld; Mr. J. :oRodes,
t+itiluiewuri ; M Esq.. Jamaica;
Master Emson Middleton, Jair Miss T. aica ; Middletoo,
and nurs,-; Mr. Randolph Lawler, Cinektiatti, Ohio;
Mr. Rion Otes Swan, Coquimbo; William Jones, of
London; Mr. J. M•Haffie, of Duodasil, u= cailado.—
B. L. WAITE, Commander._

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The Timber S:lips Lull went through a Committee
in the Lords, last night, after an amendment proposed
by Lord CoLCHESTEE, to extend its operation, bad been
rejected.
huiperance, at least in Ireland, roe= very much
disliked by the Maiquii of WESTMEATH. He has
encc or twice sneered at it, and last night described the
cuiperance pledge as a vieee of slip-slop, and quoted a
pa,titti4e from a presumed litter 01 J,4rtl FORTESCUE.
approvir.g of Temperance Societies, only i., PCMdt!inn
it. Why should the Noble Marquis have such an
aversion td temperance, when it is plain, from his lan-
4uay., that he is :!'e most temperate of men
Toe Marquis of NonMANDY lead no official informa-
tion on the sub.kt of the letter.
The Duke of WELLINGTofi was also av,ainst temp, -
rAne,. prwessions, when they wt;re 50 numerous as to
excite terror.

(aux.

L. nip4.ranee is not so much dishked by the Zarl
DEVON. one of the most courteous of th,. Peerq. as 1,3
he 11,..rquii of WEsTmEATH, and the NoWe Earl ex•
prcsied his regret that the Alarquls should treat the
temperance move:rent as an absurd fiction. The Noble
E sp,,ke well of it aed of Father MATHEW.
The E of Wtomow was afraid the temperance
movement might be taken advantage of to promote po
pular excitement, though it will not be drunken ex-
citement.

The Marquis of WESTMEATH reiterated his sneers
at temperance, and the subject dropped.
The Earl of ABERDEEN withdrew his Bill anent
giving peace to the Scottish Kirk, chiefly because the
violent members of that hick repudiated, and because
the Government were opposed to it. So ends ano her
legislative abortion of a Session fruitful of miscarriage:.
The report on the Municipal Corporations (Ireland)
Bill was received, after the Bishop of EXETER had un-
dertaken the particular task of defending the Corporation
of Dublin. Several verbal amendments were made,
and the Duke of WELLINGTON s.uggeAed that the taxa-
tion clause should be amended. _ .

The Administration of Justice Bill went through a
Committee with amendments, and at a Quarter before
Eight their Lordships adjourned.
The SPEXICER informed the Commons that the oppo-
nents to the return of Mr. BOTFIELD for Ludlow had
withdrawn their opposition.
Mr. Muxrz gave notice, that on Monday he will
move that on divisions strangers should not be ex-
cluded from the Gallery. Mr. EASTUOPE is next Ses-
sion to renew his motion as to Church- rates.

In reply to Capt. POLHILI., Mr. LABOUCHERE stated
,hat. the Regency. Lill would he forthwith brought into
the House.

ifie Order of the Day being rr.oved for a Com-
mittee of Supply, Mr. WALLACE called the attention
of the House to the Report of the Select Ctim-
mittee appointed to inquire icto the Court of S,s,ion.
Ind at the conclusion of his observations withdrew the
otori‘m be had announced on the sulik.et.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBF., with that devotion to the good
of the people which has emle4red him to his
eonstuuents, next moved a resolution disapproving 01
exposing persons to be treated as felons who were sea-
!cum{ to imprisonment for politir•al offences. He re-
ferred particularly to the case of LOVETT and Cot-
LINS, and stated that he agreei with every word of that
!the! for which they were punished. He said their
treatment was harsh, and even unparalleled. The
Hon. Member also brought most of those cases under
the notice of the House, of which we have already laid
he particulars before our readers, and spoke of the
treatment which these persons had received with just

indignation.
Mr. WAKLEY seconded the motion, but concluded
by expressing a Lope that his Hon. Colleague would
not divide the House on it, relying on the assurances
of the Under• Secretary of State, that the system
'Dad been improved. Ile wished all persons to be
placod under the control of the S,:,:retary of State.
S r G. STRICKLAND would have brought the citse of
vile prisoners in the Wakefield House of Correction
under notice, but he knew the Hon. Member for Fins-
bury would do it better than he should, and he left it in
in his hind 4. _

Mr. Fox MAULE went through the different cases,
and showtd that in several the prisoners bad beet,
allowed to have a and hail received other indul-
gences. He denied that the police were employed at
spies, and justified the sentence of Messrs. LOVETT
and CoLLINs. The debate which ensued occupied the
whole evening.
Mr. D'lsnAeu spoke against the Government, and
described it trampli►.g down the liberties of the people
Mr. WARBURTON thought the Government had
completely carried the nation with it in the prosecutions
li,d instttuted, but that the prisoners had been
punished more severely than the law warranted. It
Hon. Friend divided the House, he would vote for
his resolution.
Mr. WAtty took the same view.

Mr. BRUGES condemned very severely the conduct of'
Mr. ROBERTs, CARRIER, and others, and thought they
deserved to be very severely punished.
Mr. Sergeant TAI.FoURD explained that the great
subject of complaint was, that all these persons were
suffering a more severe punishment than the law

ordered:
Lord;JoHN RUSSELL defended the conduct of the
Government, and spoke with some bitterness of those
who, after the danger was passed, excited or promoted
complaints against the administration of the law. The
persons were punished according to law, and he hoped
the House would not agree to the vague resolution of
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE.

Mr. HUME expressed his regret at the language used
by the Noble Lord, and at the tone he had employed.
Sir ROBERT PEEL referred the prisoners to the law
if they were illegally punished, and very chivalrously ex-
plained that the real culprit in the ca-e, the cause of all
the cruelties, was the law, as passed at his suggestion
by a boroughmongering House of Commons. He rather
taunted the Members with nut having amended the law,
while he and his followers hive laboured most assidu-
ously and continuously to obstruct every amendment,
and have kept the monstrous law he defended on the
Statute-book. As the people know on his au-
thority that the law is the great culprit, and
as they are taunted by him for not amending
the law, we h pc they will take the hint and
insist—and if they do insist, Sir ROBERT is not the
man to deny them—on the had law being swept awa).
Sir R. PEEL is one of those persons who think if they
can plead a law, every injustice and every cruelty is
warranted. A Judge who has only to administer the
law may make such an excuse, hut a legislator is bound,
above and before all things, to make just and good laws,
not to plead his own unjust enactments as a complete
defence of the cruelties which flow iron: tin m.
After Mr. AGLIONBY and Mr. C. BULLER hid spoken,
the House divided on Mr. T. DUNCoMBE'S tnoti-n, and
decided against it by 117 to 29. The Committee of
Supply was postponed. Some routine business was
ironstand the CHANCELLOR or the EXCHLQUER
obtains to bring in a to continue the Joint
Storkeß(tatii' (cave
Act for two years.
ain le i e(
The Hollze sat till Halt-past Two.

The trial of OXFORD terminated at a little be•
fore eight o'clock last night, in a verdict of acquit•
tal, oa the ground of insanity. We feel unfeigned
satisfaction that the Jury, who had an opportunity
of scein4: the prisoner, and of carefully observing
his manner (luring ;.w° days, when he was pined
in a peculiarly ariuous situation, anti whn Must,
therefore, he much better judges than we are of the
value of the evidence conceining him, aie of

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opinion that he was, at the tone of NI lig the p evervtli,eg resembling partiality or op- 1
toll, not in a sound state of !mod. r the sake pre,sioi to‘,are
.5. any
class
of Reformers. It •
of her MAJESTY, for the sake of the 'oatm eal ri 1S Of 110 `'v',<l! to ca:t blame
Von the Prisons
utation, ';- li;;I tl•
, regulations of isittie! Magis-
6care,
we
,hound
lie disposed to lean.t the con- tri,'e"• nnb:ie know of no distinctions
and for the sake of our futtare.
w ,
elusion of the JOle, and rejoice that they could I).:ter, , the Ext-rntive Aid those who act under •
come co•eictentiously and
honestly to t;lat emeriti- . thtla . They lock only to one party, and that party'
sion. Her MAJESTY, we inter from the votei.ct, . •;.tie Government, rho they know; have the power,
we hope it for her and for the country, has nothing an who, too, have exerted it, to counteract the rules
to fear from any one of her subjects, unless he be &t ?rison discipline. Mr.
FOX MAULE himself
insane. 1 :admits that he interfered in one instance, not by
The Jury also had doubts whether the pistols .euggestion, inn by instruction and order. We itive
were loaded with ball, a point which sufficient pains this instance of mercy in his own words :—" The
were perhaps not used to ascertain. Some miii- only complaint these Persons made was the very
tart' men ought to have been called to prove that reasonable one that they were not allowed a knife
the marks on the wall were made by bullets. to eat their food, but were compelled to use a spoon
Other parts of the wall might have been fired at, for that purpose, t,vhsch, on being informed of, the
and thus it might have been ascertained whether Government immediately ordered to be rectified."
those marks had been made by pistol halls. By If they can dispense with one regulation they can
firing also from the spot whence OXFORD fired, dispense with all, and if Mr. FOX MAULE were
the probable direction and distance of the balls, if •
he fired any, might have been ascertained. More-
over, it is probable that the inside of the barrel, after
a pistol is discharged, presents a different appearance,
as it may have been loaded with ball, or only with
powder. There are many considerations of this
kind which military men would have suggested ;
and, to make the case complete, such evidence
ought, we think, in the absence of more certain
and more painful proofs that the pistols were loaded
with ball, to have been adduced. It was not ; and the
Jury were not convinced that the pistols were loaded
with ball, which probably strengthened their con-
viction that the prisoner was insane.
We must acknowedge that we are glad that
the life of the wretched youth is saved by the ver-
dict of the Jury. To spill blood at the gallows,
when the victim is bound and helpless, who tt,c
mighty mass of society are handed a,,ailtet,
and there is no hope of escape, is perhaps one of
the mist revolting species of homicide, and one
which experience has now proved is extremely in-
jurious to the society which initcts it. Wit stied) a
trial ought to have something more for its object
OW to save a life or condemn a fellow-creature to
death.
death.

to assert the contrary Lill the Greek Kalends, no
human being would believe him. For all the par-
ticulars of this interesting but afflicting discussion
we must refer our readers to the Parliamentary re-
port. To Mr. DUNComBE the greatest praise is
due. With every wish to support the Government,
and voting with them in every question that threatens
their stability, he does not so fat forget the princi-
ples of liberty and independence which actuate him
more, perhaps, than any Member of the House, as
to shrink front denouncing measures which cast op-
I probnum, not only on Ministers, but on all who
support them. Ott cvery occasion he is the friend
and advoc.ite of the oppressed, and the enemy
of their oppressors, whether these be Tory,
Whig, or Radical. Arid this is the man whom
some of the electors of Finsbury would supplant
by a venerable gentleman who would close the
Zoological G‘irdens on Sunnav, and carry out to
I the utmost till those Puritanical Acts, for which
we have rehicantly denon"ced Mr. Fox MAuLE,
and the New Police. We observe that the Hon.
conduct
,ei rub:: adverted vaerit)euctlicteumsaoilln, ew
irleol,r) aartkstheofsuoeugrsesot
irot
ntle
or
l.
, . his lii,pecitor, dressed as a butcher, and feigned
illness, in order to entrap an innocent woman.
He, of course, juqtlied our anitnadversions ;
but the UNDER-SECRETARY, instead of simply
asserting that this man was not a spy, would have
done well tg state what investigation had taken
pkoe, and what punishment had been inflicted for
such au outrageous attempt to punish a woman for
an act of charity and mercy to the vety policeman
who UMW forward to convict her, Not a word has
been said on the subject since the details were coin-
umoicated to thy Home-office. Are they too
wicked to bear ;he light of day ? In the case to
which we referred the policeman acted as a spy,
and someihnig more ; he suborned the publican s
dati;liter to con:mit an illegal act, and the Magis-
tratedi,inissed the charge With some indignant re-
lit mercy to Lord Non-
marks of reprobaition.
1,,,,,,,;Thy amt Mr. Fox MA IJI.E, We mast Ft:.
some that the worst deeds of the police
are unknown at the Hum-office. We are
compcilcd, reluctantly, to reprobate measures
like these, because we are desirous that.
the (lovernment should succeed, and because
we are convinced from our knowledge of
the public mind, that by adopting, or even per-
mitting, such a line of conduct towards political
prisoners, Lord MELBOURNE and Lord ~Toter
ItUsSELI, are taking the IPQNt oPlItlii! Pv-Wls to
tk'WoY their pokical power, and pave the way to
office of a party who would inflict gteat calamities
cn the country, -

To lning home guilt conclusively to any person
is one thing, to inflict punishment exactly com-
mensurate with that guilt is another and di>onct
thing; and %%bile the former is the duty of society I
for its own advantage, the latter seems to he &Ili,
cult of appreciation, if it be not wholly beyond the
faculties of man. What relation, for example,
there is between OXFORD'S firing a pistol, sup-
posing him to he sane, anti hangliT, him, we kiiow
not ; but it is of infinite iinportanee to the peace of
society to ascertain all the causes which led to
staph a vicious act, and to take measures
to remove theaf, if tliqt can be done. Now,
verdict of insanity assumes that the ingtiyes of
such a person are beyond all rale—are up ceouut-
ai)le, or miraculous. as it were-,—or, at least, ate
pe-
culiar to the organizition of the individual, and are
not to be found in other persons. 11 such a %w-
-het, thotelh it save his life, shein!d stop investiga-
t'ithl Itfave all the causes of his aberration in
ftrli force, it woald tigt Ilr sotsfiwtoty if! tbe.riblic-
His trial was only to establish the fiet of Ins inno-
cence or guilt ; the more important question is, how
insanity in loin Caine to take that peculiar shape.
It is quite doe that society cootains, and cfl,
ways has contained, many peisops temporarily or
permanently alienated from reason, Ott stich
weak-minded individuals the doctrines of those who
are not themselves deluded have a powerful effect.
They are selected by hypocrites for their dupes, and
by scoundrels as their tools. Those who are nut
rall,ticised themselves, but assume fanaticism for
their purposes, can easily fanaticise these weak or
disorganized persons ; and on those who influence
them rests the responsibility, however difficult to
trace it, of the delinquencies of their dupes.
We do not charge the King of HANOVER with
plotting to take away the life of the QUEEN. Fie
never saw OXFORD, and never directed anybody to
communicate with him ; but neither did the PoPE
nor the General of the Jesuits, we believe, see either
DAMIEN Or RAVAILLAC, or counsel the crimes
they perpetrated. No particular teacher can be
pointed out as having instructed FIESCHI and
ALIBAUD ; they caught their madness from the ex-
agri;erated and distempered doctrines of a party, and
thought they were acting meritoriously in carrying
them into execution.
A hasty exclamation of HENRY 11. is said to have
led some of his zealous servants to murder InoM As
A'IIEcKETT. Or even, though no hint' were ever
given, some forward persons might plot mischief
from supposing it to he advantageous to their
masters. Neither the King of HANOVER, therefore,
nor his immed,ate friends, may ever have bad any
com-nunication with OXFORD ; and yet the denun-
ciations Of her M AJESTY by ins pal tisans---1 he man-
ner in which the QUEEN was held up to opproln win
at Canterbury, Livetpo oyclt,rioanfiensl It da I _!—the bru-
ntl language used towards her by the Mails and
S'anclards, may have kindledi.
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is Ihe dnesiteeviecivkuleuila)itictlN.eeEr,astaNTi‘rol:Liseit
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relto) entre:
inretigtue
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shall regret if the investigation wholly terminate
with the trial.
A good deal was said in the course of it about
die letters written to the prisoner being in his (mu
handwraing ; but might that not have been
done to avo,d all chalice of cr minatiog
another, while it gave the prisoner all the
information he desired. Conspirators are accus-
agitiiiiil e
hl: eh
ae%qeu ail
kpea:ri tiiciiiidiautcoerds
:au
et
wined to take bonds, as it were, that all should be
(pallyiheir
crimes,
the letters that lie might appear as guilty- as the
others, and be unable, if treacherous, to convict
diem. We cannot assert that his associates have
been sufficiently traced or examined, and cannot for
a moment believe that the verdict, though it exone-
rates him completely, disprove:3 the existence of
persons who have profited
weakness, and
have urged him on. Among the disappNinted ul-
tras, there may be some who are nearly as mad as
OXFORD, but with a great deal more cunning, who
have used his madness to attain their own wicked
ends.
At any rate, the do.:trines which may have fired
his insanity may fire that of others. Society
abounds in fearful portents as to the state of men's
minds; there is probably a great fund of such latent
insanity in existence, and they who rouse it into
life, though they be Reverends, or Right Reve-
rends, Right Honourables or Most Nobles, ought to
be held responsible, unless the plea of insanity can
be alleged in their favour, for the mischief they cause.
Without questioning the propriety of the ver-
dict, we may observe that some of the circum
stances dwelt on as proofs of insanity, in other
minds are regarded as the signs of a generous
and noble ambition. He would go to sea, he said,
and become Admiral Sir EDWARD OxFonn, a
germ of ambition similar to that which had led
NELSON to many victories and many honours. He
was anxious to be spoken of, to be noticed, to acquire
notoriety. Why scores and hunch eds of calculating
men, who ate considered very acute, pay for advertise.
tnents, or speak long speeches, which they carefully
correct,or make furionsanslauo h ts on those whom they
have formerly called Noble or Right Honotuable
Friends, and are content to issue with then own
stamp the spurious coinage of the Tory press—are
content even to earn the last'ung and just hatred of their
fello
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w Lary notoriety. Neither in these circumstances,
me circumstance tier
DENMAN said, would be a most dangerous doc
to justify the verdict
of the Jury. We bow,
however, to their better
and we shall much rejoice in their
verdict if it should be the means of promoting a
searching iovesti,Tation into the circumstances
Which made his Ciereditary insanity take the &ree-
ltion of aiming at, her MA JEsTY's

The readiness with which British capitalists have 1
subscribed for the formation of a railuay he.
tween Paris and Rouen has given great satisfaction
to the -French people. Even in the report made by
a Select Committee on that Railway Bill, to the
Chamber of Peers, the fact is noticed as a gratifying
proof of the increase of good feeling, and popular
friendly relations between the people of the two
countries, " What has particularly struck your
Committee," says the Report to the Peers just al-
luded to, " has been the names, among other sub•
scribers, of those Erglish capitalists who have so
powerfully contributed to the formatio❑ of those lines
of railway which at present cover their own countty.
Half of the capital for the proposed line has bee❑
subscribed in England, and will he spent in the pay-
ment of French workmen. This union of English
and French capital is a happy omen of the con-
tinuation of that alliance which causes these t
great nations. mutually assisting one anotht r, to
twitch at the head of civilizydynrope, and, in con-
solid,Ating peace, to ensure the welfare of all."
This is the language of patriots and statesmen, and
the fact of i;s having been addressed by a Coin-
: mittee of Peers to that body in its legislative
capacity, impresses us with a higher opinion
cf the good sense of the French Peerage
than we ever previously entertained. In this
country, we know, the d.frus►ou of such
sentiments will give unqualified satisfaction
to honest men ot• every party. Our countrymen
have at last discovered that nature, instead of in-

tending England and France to be enemies, de-
signed them to be friends and allies—to live in good
neighbourhood one with the other, and in the con-
stant interchange of acts of kindness and benevo-
lence. That Frenchmen have made a similar dis
covery is not more certain than delightful to us.
To a few old rooted prejudices on both sides,
which tine and the spread of intelligence will
filially eradicate, we can mutmaily afford to make
large concessions. Having established a re-
putation for courage as durable as the world
itself, France and England can afford to live
p:-aceably, their repose undi.turbed by circum-
stances which might embroil natioils of more equi-
vocal pretensions in fierce hostilities. To either
of th,:in no glory cal henceforth accrue from shed-
ding the blood of the other. To peace, then—
lasting peace--and the realization of its innume-
rable blessings, be the thoughts of the English and
French people directed for the time to come. The
Governments, we are happy to observe, are fore-
most in setting a good example to their subjects.
It is from no fault either of M. THIERS or Lord
PA LM ERSTON that the commerce between the two
countries continues to be burthened with restrictions
injurious to the true interests of both ; nor are the
Cabinets of London and Paris responsible for the
existence of any jealousy which may be yet enter-
tained by factions, -whether iu France or England,
of the moral influence which public opinion in one
country is acquiring in regulating not only particu-
lar acts, but the general conduct of the other. As
regards each other, the Governments of France
and England have done, and are doing, their duty
with perfect good faith, and in a spit it admirably
calculated to realize the blessing so patriotically
hoped for by the French Chamber of Peers.
On Thuridav the Chamber of Peers passed the
Paris and Rouen Railway Bid, by a majority of
98 votes against 22. The proposed line from
Rouen to Havre has received the sanction of the
Penis, who, in their report, recommend it to be
begu.i next year. We understand that the Govern-
went will not wait so long, but that the work will
be commenced at once._ _

With the exception of the net's received in Lon-
don ‘e,terday b express, and published in our
Leering Edi iou of yesterday, we find nothing of
much importance in time Paris Journals of Thurs-
day. The following extracts possess some inte-
rest :

We find the following paragraph in the Courrier de Bor.
Beaux :

additional centimes are inexorsble as fate. I, is
positixely kn ban Ihat they will produce distros, and
seizure ma;. be recourse to ii. order to secure the pro-
duce It is a forced loan without the promise of re-
pay meet.

"The possesses of estates of Bordeaux already pay,
wider the head of department.el ee,,timcs a, d mur,icipsl cen-
times more than kighty additional c‘ ntirnes. A little
more and the tax taill be doubled

,
consistent,
The diKussion last night on the motion of that
sf.ncere regret by
hament, Mr. 1 :. ~., n
uNcomftE, will he read with
independent, and useful Member of
Pat
all the friends of the present Go-
vernment, and with inexpressible it:dignation by
countless thousands throughout the country. Mr.
DUNCONIIit; made out a clear case. He proved,
incontestably, that political offenders since
the days of
the Star Chamber, not ex-
cepting even the worst Tory Governments, had
never been treated as LOVETT and COLLINS, and
fifty more, have been treated under the otherwise
mild and gentle sway of a female Sovereign, and
with the permission and s,inction of statesmen
whose political principles, till now, ever led them
to regard the conduct of the people: with a lenient
eye, and emboldened them to stand forward nobly

•• This is the' the rp G.,v,,rnment wti .11 the revoluti nof
18:30 promised u,."—La Gazette de France, July 9.
PAMS. Jrl.l' 9 —We ree. by the C'onriier du
Bresd which arrived at Bordeaux, nevi's from Cxyenne,
diated M ty 26.
A ver) unusual quantity of rain has fallen thi; year ; the
owoef s of Runeou Hod sugar plantations Hill lose the
great. r part of their cups
The d striets that bate suffered the moat arc Kaw Ap-
prou ,gue, Cowie Le C 'nal, ar d L'Oyaek. There is five
feet water in the houses, whqh however are in elevated
situati os. The sugar houses of Messrs. Manyme aad
Fleury have in en to.settt array by the .aters.
Prince ANOieh of Savia arrived at Vienna on tl:c 30. h
of June.

The Moniteur of this morning publishes the law pro-
longing the charter of the B*nk of France. granted by
the lawn of 24 h Germinal; in the year XI, and of the 22d
of Apri 1806, till the 3 st of D,cember, 1867.
It cc se or b moddied 0.. !he 31st of
Decemb. e. 1855, if 5.% ord.•red by a law %o ed Li one of
.11- two Se,!•s r ns precediog that &to.
Tho of the B ink represented by 69 900 shares,
of I,C(Of ancs ea •11, cannot be increased er dimiuisheil
except by a special law.