The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1847

LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAIL-
WAY (BISHOPSTOKE and SALISBURY BRANCH).
Notice is hereby given, that it is intended to open the branch of
this Railway from Bishopetoke to Salisbury on MONDAY NEXT, the
Ist of March.
The times of starting and arrival of the trains, and the fares, will
in the first instance be as follows:
! DOWN TRAINS.
Leave Nine Elms.
Ist & 2d Class Ist & 2d Class Ist &2dClass Ist 2d &3d Class Ist & 2d Class
7 0 A.M. 9 0 A.M. 11 0 A.M. 330 p.x. 5 0 P.M.
Arrive at Salisbury.
10 60 a. 31. 1 0 P.M. 250 P.R. 830 P.M. 9 0 P.N.
UP TRAINS.
Leave .
Ist &2d Class Ist, 2d, &3d ClassSalisbur Isty &2d Class Ist &2d Class
6 0 I.x. 8 30 A.M. 12 0 5 0 P.M.
Arrive at Nine Elms.
10 0 1.)I. 1 30 P.M. 4 0 P.M. 8 50 P.M.
SUNDAY DOWN TRAINS.
let and 3d Class. Ist, 2d and 3d Class.
Leave Nine Elms .... 10 0 A.M. 330 P.M.
Arrive at Salisbury • • 2 0 P.M. 830 P.M.
SUNDAY VP TRAINS.
Ist, 2d, and 3d Class. Ist and 2d Class.
Leave Salisbury .• 8 30 AM. 5 0 P.M.
Arrive at Nine Elms • • .. 1 30 P.M. .8 50 P.M.
PASSENGER FARES TO AND FROM SALISBURY.
Double Journey.
Ist Class 2d Class 3d Class Ist Class 2d Class
15s. 0(1. 10s. Bd. 7s. 01. 245. Od. 18s. 6d.
The following trains will run between Salisbury and Gosport, and
Salisbury and Southampton, viz.:—
SUNDAYS.
Leave Salisbury. Leave Salisbury.
Class I, 2, 3. Class 1, 2. Class 1,2. Class 1, 2. Class 1,2, 3. Class 1, 2.
8 30 12 0 2 45 5 0 8 30 5 0
Arrive at Gosport. Arrive at Gosport.
10 15 2 15 4 30 8 0 10 25 8 0
Leave Gosport. Leave Gosport
Class 1,2. Class 1,2. Class 1, 2. Class 1,2, 3. Class 1, 2. Class 1,2,3.
8 30 10 30 12 30 5 30 7 30 5 30
Arrive at Salisbury. Arrive at Salisbury.
10 50 1 0 2 50 8 30 9 26 8 30
SUNDAYS.
Leave Salisbury. Leave Salisbury.
Class 1,2, 3. Class 1, 2. Class 1,2. Class 1, 2. Class 1,2,3. Class 1,2.
8 30 12 0 2 45 5 0 8 30 5 0
Arrive at Southampton. Arrive at Southampton.
10 0 1 30 4 0 6 30 19 0 6 30
Leave Southampton. Leave Southampton.
Class 1, 2. Class 1, 2. Class 1.2. Class 1,2, 3. Class 1, 2. Class 1, 23.
9 20 11 30 1 0 655 8 0 6 55
Arrive at Salisbury. Arrive at Salisbury.
10 50 1 0 259 830 926 8 30
FARZS.
Salisbury to Gosport, and vice versa.
Double Journey.
Ist Class. 2d Class. 31 Class. lit Class. 2d Class.
7s. Od. ss. Od. 3s. 2d. 12s. Od. Bs. 6d.
Salisbury to Southampton, and vice versa.
ss. Od. 3s. 10d. 2s. 4d. Bs. ed. 6s. Od.
(For further particulars see Time Bills.)
For the convenience of persons attending Salisbury Market on
Tuesday morning a Second Class Carriage will be attached to the
Morning Goods Train, leaving Southampton at 6 A.M.
By order P. LAURENTZ CAMPBELL, Sec.
THIRD

Now ready, In 2 vols., 21s. boand,

EDITION OF HOIIELAGA ;
OR,

,
ENGLAND IN THE NEW WORLD.
EDITED BY ELIOT WARBURTON, Ese.
Author of " The Crescent and the Cross."
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

HENRY RUSSELL AT THE STRAND
THEATRE.

Composer of Woodman spare that Tree—lvy Green—The Gam-
bler's wife —The Maniac—Ship on Fire—The Lite Boat-I'm Afloat
—Newfoundland Dog—and ether Popular Songs, will give his
VOCAL ENTERTAINMENT THIS EVENING, AND EVERY
EVENING. Ile will sing the Song of the Shirt—Paupers Drive—
Gambler's Wife—Ship on Fire; &c. &c.—Songs and incidents 01
Negro Life and Character. _ _ _

li-oxes, 3s. ; Stalls, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery 6d. ; Private Boxes, 11. Is.
Box-office op. n from One till Foar

'UtIE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEBRUARY 27.
TRERNONETER, Lowest, 27; Highest, 37 ; Noon, 32
BAROMETER, 30.14.--WIND E., fif.e.

111(111 WATER AT I.ONDON-BIUDGE THIS DAY.
Morning .. 14 minutes after 12 I Evening .. 40 Minutes after 12.

necessity requiring an advance of 10,000,0001. upon
the average expenditure of the empire, not even the
recurrence of an intermittent scarcity, which cripples
the resources of the population and necessitates a
more rigid economy in Government, can render our
naval estimates, as they at present stand, a matter for
either retrenchment or parsimony. In regard to our
maritime expenses, retrenchment would be suicidal
and parsimony ruinous ; for our navy is our
only defence and safeguard. Our marine power
is the main sinew by which our national
vigour is bound together : it is at once
the means by which our insular authority has
been extended throughout the habitable globe, from
the solitudes of the polar snows to the torrid zone of
the equator, and the instrument by which that au-
thority is maintained and confirmed. Stint our ex-
penditure in that particular, and you sensibly weaken
the whole framework of this gigantic empire. Di-
minish the strength of our sea service, and you
affect injuriously the very vitality of British in-
fluence. Deteriorate in any manner, however
trifling, the condition of our navy, and you
directly peril a correspondent portion of our
political energy. Nor is it alone requisite to prevent
the diminution of the maritime estimates of the United
Kingdom, something more is necessary to continue
undiminished that preponderance upon the ocean
which Great Britain has hitherto preserved—that
moral and physical preponderance which has raised
her from a subordinate archipelago to the predomi-
nant empire in this civilised generation To effect this
it is not merely incumbent upon the Legislature to
avoid any proceeding which might tend to the de-
crease of her naval power, but it is especially and ab-
solutely incumbent upon them to extend her naval
power in proportion to the extension of the naval
power of other maritime empires. In this respect it
is essential that there shall never be any disparity
between the relative naval forces of the earth in pre-
sent and bygone times. Otherwise we shall have
retrograded, instead of having advanced. It is a
fallacy, moreover, to believe that the existence of
peace necessitates the preservation of a balance in the
naval estimates. The supposition is an absurdity ;
and it is an absurdity, because it presupposes that
things terrestrial can remain for any length of time
stationary. Now, it is an immutable law in
mundane affairs, that nations, and principalities, and
separate communities, and distinct individuals must, by
an indomitable necessity of their nature, change.
They must either advance, or retreat—either progress
with the general progression of the age, or retrograde
in an inverse ratio. That has been the presiding
spirit from the primitive days of the patriarchs down-
wards ; it is peculiarly so now. Progress is so
largely characteristic of the present times that it has
become more than ever a necessity ; it is part-and-
pare:4 with the principle of self-preservation.
" Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let
us range,
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves
of change."
And progress is perceptible in every grade and de-
partment without exception. Among others, it is
especially perceptible in maritime affairs.
If we survey the naval expenditure of France,
we shall observe the extent to which this omni-
present principle of progression has developed itself.
We shall find that, notwithstanding the protracted
duration of European peace since 1815, the naval ex-
penses of France have been sensibly enlarged ;—the
increased value of colonial possessions having influenced
this advance almost as much as the more extended
employment of steam power in navigation. So
considerable has been• the enlargement of the
naval estimates of France, that the estimates of the
current year amount to no less than 5,639,0001.; and
that, be it remembered, irrespective of her fortified cities,
of her impregnable capital, and of her enormous Na-
tional Guard, amounting to upwards of a million
men. What meanwhile has been the proportionate
advance of the naval estimates of Great Britain,
bearing in mind that her maritime force is her only
defence, that fortified cities she has none, that her
metropolis is not guarded by a single fosse, that her
militia can in no manner be compared with the
National Guard of her Gallic neighbour ? Why, it
is indisputable that the naval estimates of England
have been long characterised by an undue niggard-
liness. In 1816, for example, those estimates
amounted to no less an amount than 9,516,325/.,
though it must be remembered that in thlt year our
victories upon the ocean were consummated
by the heroic bombardment of Algiers. In 1822
they had diminished to 5,042,6421. In 1832 they had
decreased still further to 4,882,8351. Beginning
with 1840, they were 5,597,5111., and in 1844 they
merely amounted to 5,858,2191. The parsimony
evinced by the Legislature towards the only bulwark
of our national defence has been, indeed, of too long
continuance to be persisted in without entailing upon
the empire effects of the most injurious description.
In his perspicuous speech to the House of Commons,
Mr. WARD formally announces the intention of the
present Government to abandon this destructive
policy. We are heartily rejoiced at this, and we are
rejoiced that the Government has not been deterred
from at once undertaking the good work of innova-
tion by the circumstance of the existing famine,
with its horrible concomitants. The additional
money vote upon the past year of 77,0001.
is not to be rejeeted as exorbitant, while 10,000,0001.
are being obtained and expended for the relief of a
temporary calamity. Those 77,0001. are for the per-
petual advantage of the empire ; it is for the
strengthening of its barriers, it is for the per-
manent benefit, and glory, and greatness of the
British Constitution. Considering, moreover, the sum
to which it is proposed to extend our naval estimates
—a sum on the whole of merely 7,560,9481., of which
1,564,9481. will be applied to what the Hon.uurable
Gentleman the Secretary to the Admiralty aptly termed
" non-naval services "—there is no substantisil, reason
for cavilling at the proposed advance. Peace or war
—the naval estimates must net be grudged.

If not from the number of prospective measures
enumerated in the Royal Speech, certainly, from their
important, and, in some instances, novel character,
seldom has any session of Parliament, for a long pe-
riod past, been opened with greater probable demands
upon the time and grave attention of the rienators,
popular and hereditary, than the present. It is of
considerable benefit to the public that economy of
time should, as far as is compatible with due deli-
beration, be consulted to the utmost in the conduct
of the proceedings in both Houses of the Legislature,
inasmuch as when not engaged within the precincts
of St. Stephen's, Peers and Commoners have impor-
tant duties to attend to in their several localities
throughout the country, the proper discharge of
which have, in a variety of ways, a direct tendency
to promote the social happiness and prosperity of the
people. This is always the cane in the beat of times.
Peers and Members of the House of Commons have
for the most part, by reason of the special commis-
sions with which they are personally entrusted, to take
an active and leading part in the judicial, magisterial,
and other ministerial systems established for the
good order and general welfare of the community.
The advantages, direct and indirect, of havimg: the
nobility and influential gentry constantly residing on
their extensive properties, are inappreciable. Under
the auspices of their personal supervision, general
improvement progresses most favourably. Schemes
of a desirable character, relating to important public
objects—whether they be for the spread of religion,
promotion of education, maintenance of chwitable
institutions, preservation of the public health—over
and above the conservation of the public peace
and the suppression of crime, are felicitously
developed by the immediate presence of an :effluent
and intelligent proprietary. Therefore, even in
periods when the general condition of the cvuntry
bears a healthy appearance, the sittings of farlia
ment should never be prolonged beyond wha t may
be absolutely necessary. But, at a moment like the
present, when a large portion of the United Erqpire is
stricken with dire distress, the labours of the session
should be concluded with the utmost feasilsie dis-
patch.
Last evening, in the House of Lords, Lord
STANLEY drew attention to the state of public: busi-
ness in the Upper House, and regretted the proba-
bility which presented itself of there being scarcely
anything for their Lordships to legislate up ui until
after Easter. The complaint is not a novel or te, and,
we regret to say, that neither is it an unreasonable
one. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE well replie• d, first,
with the observation that, during the past six reeks,

there has been a greater amount of business trans-
acted, and of a more important range, than could
easily be indicated in the commencement of
any other session ; and next, his Lordship
clearly and satisfactorily explained, by referring
to the past and future proceedings in the
House of Commons, that no blame can be attached to
the Government for the delay that has occurred with
respect to the progress of measures connected with
the permanent welfare of Ireland. It was indis-
pensable, in the first instance, for Parliament to de-
cide as to the adoption or rejection of Lord GEORGE
BENTINCICS railway project. It is equally indis-
pensable, in the next, to obtain the sanction of the
Lower House as to the Ways and Means, since, till
the financial questions be settled, the Government
cannot reasonably proceed with the other measures
which they have in contemplation for Ireland.
But, whilst we admit all this to the full,
and concede that the comparison of prompt
legislation between the existing and preceding
Ministries, is decidedly in favour of the former, it is
an undoubted evil, for the reasons we have already
alleged, that the House of Lords should be kept in
a state of inactivity. This idle posture of the Upper
House is frequently produced by the known jealousy
which the Commons entertain against the Peers
taking the initiative in measures of a particular
character. We think this jealousy is pushed to a
prejudicial extreme. However, there are other
measures against which such an objection could
not be started, and: which the Peers could
primarily undertake with greater advantage than the
popular branch of the Legislature. The mea-
sures we allude to are chiefly of a legal mature;
and, as a general rule, we hold that Governments, in
future, should take care that during the recess all
schemes of this character should be fully prepared, so
as to occupy the time and attention of the House of
Peers before the Easter recess. It is, nevertheless,
due to the Government to notice, that the Marquis of
LANSDOWNE last evening communicated, that Bills
for enabling Irish proprietors to sell their estates to
pay off incumbrances, for the better administration of
the penal law, for the improvement of prisoners, and
the reformation of offenders, would be shortly laid
upon their Lordships' table.

Madrid papers of the 20th have arrived.
The Espanol announces that a band of 200 Carhsts,
under the command of Cabecellas, Mosen, Bouet, Tris-
tan}, Ros de Eroles, El Greser, Vilella, and others, had
entered the town of Cervera, in Catalonia, which, how.
ever, they did not attempt to hold. They levied contri-
butions on the inhabitants before taking their departure.
CABRERA was reported to be at Forcadella. It is said
that General BRETON will be recalled from Catalonia.

Carlist bands have also appeard in Galicia, Avila, and
Old Castile.

A letter from Bayonne 5ay5.......
....... _

" The Count de Hernan Polaco, ex-commandant under
Espartero, and Don Celestine Paredes, his Intendant, or
Steward of the Household during the Regency, have arrived
here from London, and leave to-morrow for Madrid. They
are included in the amnesty ; and their journey, it is said, is
connected with certain negotiations going on for the return
of Espartero to Spain."
MADRID BOLSA, FEB. 20.—The Three per Cents. were
done at 3 11,4 for cash ; the Five per Cents , at 20 ; Debt
without Interest, 61/3 ; and the Coupons, at 18%.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
The state of parties in England is the subject of the
leading article of the Journal des Dames. It expresses
its belief that the result of the recent attempt of Lord
GEORGE BENTINCK to oust the Ministry has been
greatly to strengthen the Russell Cabinet, and to prove
to the Protectionists that they have no chance of becom-
ing influential unless they again place themselves under
the leadership of Sir ROBERT PEEL.

If we can place any reliance on the following article,
which appears in the Constilutionnel, the French Ministry
is falling to pieces from inherent weakness. It says—
" The Ministry appears on the road of complete decompo-
sition,
either from disinclination on the part of the new ma-
jority to certain members of Cabinet, or from the following
causes :—M. Martin (du Nord) cannot resume his portfolio,
as the state of his health forbids his again entering for a
length of time on the active and multiplied labours of his ad
ministration. The Cabinet was in consequence bound to
think of filling up his place. Whilst doing so it occurred to
the directing Ministers that it would be advantageous to the
Cabinet for several of the members, considered not very able,
and not very successful in their Parliamentary displays, to re-
tire and make room for younger, more active, and more in-
fluential Ministers. Unfortunately such men are wanting, and
the most able Deputies are not in the ranks of the majority.
Lacave-Laplagne has provided for his family; no person
has met with more Parliamentary checks; his old functions
can easily be restored to him ; the retreat of a man so de-
voted to his relations might pass for a reform, and the Mi-
nistry, freed front such an orator, would deem itself delivered
from the most useless part of its unpopularity. M. Cunin-
Gridaine is very inoffensive, but he is in bad health, and the
famous programme of the coaii,ion, which he formerly signed
with full devotedness, has been long enough consigned to
oblivion for the temporary importance which M. Cunin-
Gridaine had obtained for his platonic adhesion to reform
principles to have entirely disappeared. He is not absolutely
in the way of the Ministry, but he occupies a place without
filling it ; and nothing prevents his being sacrificed to an.)
combination that may be adopted. M. de Salvandy is every
day inventing some new project embarrassing for his col-
leagues. M. Moline St. Yon invents nothing, but he has
11 no credit, no authority. The Minister of Public Instruction
acts too much, the Minister of War not enough; the first is
a difficulty, the second a burden. Both could be sent to the
right-about without any inconvenience. However that may
be, several combinations, in which these members of the
Cabinet were by turns sacrificed, preserved, or displaced, have
been proposed during the last few days. M. Hebert was at
first thought of for the Administration of Justice ; but M. Ile-
bert lied spoken too energetically in favour of the Ministry,
and of a firm execution of the laws; he has been considered
for some time as necessarily rejected by the clergy, and inn-
possible. M. Damon, Minister of Public 'Works, desired to
become Minister of Justice. This matter was much spoken
of for some days. Had this combination been adopted the
Ministry intended seeking amongst the young members, the
most laborious and most practical of the Conservative
party, for Ministers of Public Works, Commerce, and Fi-
nance • the persons thought of were, it was said, M. Vitet,
M. de'Morny, M. Murat de Bort, and M. Bignon. It was
even in the hope that M. Vitet was about to become Minis-
ter, that M. Lanyer showed so devoted a ministerial zeal and
so exclusive a Conservative ardour. Whether it was that
refusals were met with, or for other reasons, it is no longer a
question at present of M Damon for the department of
Justice, M. Hebert has been come back to. It was fiat
determined to entrust to him the portfolio of Justice alone,
and to separate front it the department of Public Worship,
which 1,133 to be either united with that of Public In-
struction or formed into a special Ministry. But these two
expedients raised such objections in the Cabinet that they
were given up. It is even said that M. de Carrie hopes to
become Director of P üblic Worship, in order to give every
satisfaction to the Catholic party. Meanwhile the succession
to M. Hebert in the Cour Royale is already an object of dis-
pute. M. Delangle was on the list of candidates to become
Procureur General, but M. Hebert proposes M. Bondy. we
do not think it necessary to enumerate all the candidates
whose names have been quoted in several journals for
the portfolios of finance, commerce, war, or public in-
struction. The Ministry must be much weakened to mo-
dify itself so profoundly. No complete combination has
at the present moment a character serious enough to be
reckoned on as worthy of notice. But what may be affirmed
is, that if there is any doubt about the composition of the
Cabinet there is none about its decomposition. The weak-
ness, the incapacity, the despotism, the unpopularity, the
idle, or too inventive mind of the secondary Ministers will
carry away with them the head ones, and that before long."
The Moniteur contains royal ordonnances, sanctioning
the Bills recently passed by the two Chambers. The
same journal also contains a comparison between the
numbers of the population of France, as taken in the
census of 1841 and 1846. In the former year, the num-
bers were 34,230,178, and in the latter 35,400,486, being
an increase in the five years of 1,170,308.
During the month of January the general receipts of
the Customs duties upon importations amounted to
9,797,362 E In 1846 the produce in the corresponding
month was 10,820,838 f. ; and in 1845, 11,360,029 f.
The falling off this year, as compared with the receipts
of 1846, has arisen chiefly from the reduction of the
duty on corn. Although the consumption of foreign
corn has been much greater this year, the duty has
amounted to only 202,905 f. instead of 1,122, 858 E, as in
January, 1846. As compared with January, 1846, there
was in the last month a diminution in the consumption
of cotton, wool, linseed, tallow, coal, lead, copper, tin,
linen, and hempen cloth ; and there was an increase in
coffee, corn, cast-iron, hog's lard, olive oil, pepper, silks,
colonial sugars, and zinc.
Serious apprehensions are entertained of the cone-
quences of the falling off of the trade of France, and the
enormous financial deficit. The Committee on the
Budget have, it is said, been requested by the Ministry
to mitigate appearances and realities as much as pos-
sible in their report, so as to make the deficit not appear
more than 16,000,000/. sterling, the actual deficit being
double that amount. In the meantime bankruptcies are
hourly occurring, the small traders are nearly all ruined,
and the large firms are now beginning to experience
difficulties. 'The scarcity of provisions is frightful, and
the price is hourly rising. La Befornse deems it pos-
sible that within two months from this date the 41b. loaf
will cost 40 sons (20 pence). Great fears are in conse-
quence entertained of interruptions of the public tran-
quillity.
The Journal du Havre of Wednesday, after announc-
ing the arrival at that port of the Elizabeth, whale-ship,
from Otaheite, which she left on the 12th of November,
says:—

" Without being so alarming as the first rumours stated,
the news from Otaheite, by the Elizabeth, is not without
gravity. It is far from confirming the hopes of pacification
which the last official note founded on the dispatches of
October 5. But if the state of things be not sensibly ame-
liorated, it visibly tended towards a compromise, which the
general lassitude of all parties made desirable. As the
official note indicated, open hostilities had not been resumed,
but in truth they had not ceased. The defensive works
raised in the insurgent vallies kept in fact the natives in

check, but at the same time required a constant vigilance,
and occasioned partial collisions, which harassed the garrison, ;
and krpt 1 pt Lamy kn. A:. 1 ,r -4•:.
Lion, in which the fatigues exceed the dangers, Governor
Bruat has displayed an activity and an energy not very
common. Presenting himself in turns at every post, and di-
recting in person the most painful marches, he has given an
example ot devotedness which have left traces of failing
health and strength in his countenance. Persons who saw
him shortly before the last arrivals, coming from the en-
campments in the interior, have remarked upon the ravages
which his watchings, his fatigues, and privations of all kinds
have made upon his person. Notwithstanding all his ex-
ertions, Captain Bruat has not failed to use, in compliance
with his instructions, all his endeavours to bring
about a reconciliation with Queen Pomare, and by
inducing her to return to Papeita, to put an end
to the insurrections which her absence perpetuated by seem-
ing to authorise them. After having in vain tried various
modes of conciliation through his own agents, he decided,
however repugnant to his feelings, upon having recourse to
the intervention of several persons whose connexions, or
rather whose quality of English subjects, seemed to insure
for them a favourable reception by Pomare. The months
of September and October were employed in these nego-
tiations, which were by turns interpreted by Mr. Salmon,
Mr. None, and a missionary, Mr. Thompson, all English.
These steps were without any result, the Queen per-
sisting in her obstinate refusal to hold any species of
communication with the French authorities. Finding
this, Captain Bruat, in despair, resigned himself to ac-
cepting the proffered good offices of her Britannic Ma-
jesty's frigate the Grampus, in going to Raiateia, and
there negotiate the arrangement of which the English
journals lately gave us an account. According to the infor-
mation we now receive, that attempt had no greater effect
than those which preceded it. In her puerile wilfulness the
Queen, who wishes for nothing more earnestly than to resume
her royalty, has taken Capt. Bruat en grippe, and with that
childish vanity which is the peculiar characteristic of savages,
she has refused to listen to any proposals from him. She has
personally, if we can believe the accounts we receive, no
aversion to the French people or Government, but she de-
tests Capt. Bruat, and her animosity against him is so great
that in September last she wrote to the King of the French,
making his recal the only condition of her submission. But
this letter was not transmitted. If these details are correct,
and we have every reason to believe them to be so, a judg-
ment may be formed of the abnegation shown by M. Bruat
in reiterating his propositions for an arrangement, and of
the strange position in which he is placed. Besides this,
it is notorious at Otaheite that Pomare has communicated
to a French resident, in whom she has great confidence, a
conciliatory treaty, dated October 22, and signed by her own
hand, stipulating for her return to Otaheite, on acceptable
conditions, provided a new governor was appointed. This
overture had apparently reached the Government, when it
resolved to replace Captain Bruat, and, no doubt, to satisfy
the infantine capriciousness of Pomare, this officer, who,
from his services, and the dignity of his character, deserves
so well of his country, will be made a sacrifice. However
this may be, the news of his recall reached Papeite on No-
vember 6, by the English ship deannettee, which brought
the French mail of July 15. The selection of M. Lavaud,
already known to Pomare, by former relations, was received
as a certain pledge of a change of measures, and his con-
ciliating character will, no doubt, on his arrival, reap the
fruits planted by the firmness and perseverance of his prede-
cessor, in an undertaking which his laudable efforts have
brought to maturity."
The most complete stagnation prevailed on the Paris
Bourse on Thursday. The Three per Cents. closed at 78f.
60c. ; the Five per Cents., 118 f. 85c. ; the Orleans Railroad
Shares, 1,276 f. 25c. ; Rouen, 872 f. 50e. ; Havre, 682 f. 50e. -
Great Northern, 632 f. 50c.; Avignon, 840 f. ; Vierzon, 587 f.
50c. ; Bordeaux, 535 f. ; Troyes and Montereau, 305 f.; Basle,
210 f.; Dieppe, 335 f. •, Paris and Strasburg, 468 f. 75c.; Tours
and Nantes, 468 f. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 492 f. 50c.; Lyons
and Avignon, 480 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 4501. ; Belgian
Iwo-aryl-a-Half per Cents., 54; ditto, Three perSents., 35k.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN- RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEBRUARY It.

Boulogne and Amiens, 144--Luxembourg, 2k.—Namur and Liege,
31/i—Ziorthern of France, 13—Orleans and Bordeaux, 714.

ELECTION

'614 '• '7;l, t
Ad` j, ' *kit. '
eri.V.lol4lo -
,111016‘ .
- ""''