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LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 184fi.

Matters are jogging on with sulPtising quietude
at Madrid ; but this very tranquillity in the Spanish
metropolis during the preliminary movement; of such
an unpalatable ceremonial as that of the Gallic mar.
riage with the heir presumptive to the throne of ber
Most Catholic MAJESTY, is more ominous than the
most tumultuary blustering. It is the delusive pause
before the national tempest. Spanish blood has not
so degenerated, Spanish hearts are not so phlegmatic,
Spanish pride is not so eradicated, that their wishes
may be violated with impunity, especially after they
have been so significantly avouched. The descend-
ants of the Cm cannot permit themselves to be bearded
to the teeth by any foreign plenipotentiary, however
plausible, without evincing that fanatical self-exalta-
tion for which they have been during so many heroic
centuries remarkable. Self-respect still survives
iA Spain, despite the Imitations of Mac*

rity, the vicissitudes of social organisation, . and
the encroachments of a spurious regeneration.
Count DE BRESSON must not, therefore calculate upon
the infinitely protracted acquiescence of the Spanish
multitude in those diplomatic machinations by which
he is endeavouring to joia together, with the matrimo-
nial knot, the disjuncted branches of the Bourbon
family, the younger and the elder. Although during
the state pageantry which, on the 25th instant con-
ducted the French Ambassador into the presence of
Queen CHRISTINA and her two• royal daughters, al-
though throughout the progress of this representative
through the thoroughfares of the Peninsular capital
the utmost order prevailed among the spectators, and
no indications of public disapprobation presented
themselves, there is less cause for gratulations than
in the event of a partial emeute.
The principal question for consideration in this
extraordinary affair is, whether the Spanish people
are rejoiced or enraged at the prospect of the Mont-
pensier alliance? Upon that question is balanced
the futurity of the Peninsula. Upon the settlement
of that question rests the prospective tranquillity or
disturbance of Spain—the submission to foreign do-
mination, or the preservation of a venerable and
glorious nationality.
No conjectures whatever can be formed with any
degree of security as to the sentiments entertained by
a community upon any matter connected with them-
selves collectively, except by an assiduous investiga-
tion of a thousand minute and collateral circum-
stances. The inhabitants of those eastern provinces
of the Peninsula, which are designated in the aggre-
gate Spain, have not yet acquired sufficient muni-
cipal and constitutional freedom, they are not
sufficiently emancipated from the manacles of feu-
dality, they are', not indeed sufficiently im-
pressed with a deep craving for the blessings of
political independence, to arise simultaneously, as the
electors of this country would unquestionably de,
supposing any foreign Cabinet had the temerity to '
encroach upon the prerogatives of the Crown or to
battle with the dearest prejudices of the population.
Nevertheless, it is possible to discern the partialities
or antipathies of such a people as the Spaniards
despite their subjection to the majesty of the Govern-
ment. Are the Spanish people, then, rejoiced or
enraged at the proposed marriage of their Princess
with the Due DE MONTITNSIER ? Those who have
watched the intelligence which has arrived from that
European territory since that proposition was first
announced will find the answer to that inquiry
obvious. The most brazen effrontery cannot find in
itself the moral intrepidity to maintain that the
Spaniards have given any indication of pleasure at
the advancement of this Orleans suitor. Unless the
rebellious declarations of newspapers—unless the
general fabrication of protests—unless the sullenness
of the citizens of Madrid on the appearance of the
Court dignitaries—unless the universal execration of
Afrancesados and "Gabachos"—unless the mobbing
of inoffensive postilions and tailors—unless the groans
of indignation uttered, even in Congress, can be re-
garded as testimonies of national exultation, we must
regard the proposition from the Cabinet of LOUIS
PHILIPPE as the subject of Spanish abhorrence.
Although the English Government has been de-
rided for its being " entrapped" by the cunning of
French diplomacy, and although our representative
;it Madrid was declared by the National to have been
" juggled like a nut," we can see no reason for de
ploring the recent conduct of our Ministry. The
refuial of Great Britain to advance any candidate,
her generous reliance upon the honesty and good
'aith of her allies, the calm but emphatic protests
entered at Madrid and Paris by Mr. BULWER and
Lord NORMANBT, every circumstance in this else-
where discreditable transaction, redounds to the
honour, the dignity, and the generosity of
England. We maintain this, notwithstanding the howl
of derision raised against our Government by a syco-
phantic press in the French metropolis. We maintain
tt, in contradiction to the whining lamentations of
many among our insular journalists. While the
other Cabinets implicated in this underhand negotia
Lion are tarnished by its many humiliating charac-
teristics, the Cabinet of St. James's remains
untarnished, and is raised to a still loftier
position by comparison. " Weak Governments
protest, but powerful ones act," is the snarling and
insidious jeer uttered by L'Epoque. Can anything
be more contemptible than this endeavour to scoff a
;rent nation into warfare ? Is it not the mispri,ion
if all constitutional dignities? Much worthier is the
language uttered a few mornings since by another
Parisian print. "It is not ,e ithout some feelings of
humiliation," says the National, " that we see our.
:elves compelled to witness a family, a secondary in-
terest, take the place of great interests, agitate
Europe, and threaten France with some fresh degra-
ilation." Had France acted with as much wisdom
and candour in her foreign policy as England, the
affairs of the Peninsula would not be plunged into
their present lamentable state of confusion ; nor
would royal and ambassadorial honour have been so
grievously compromised.

When Lord JOHN RUSSELL last stood as a candi-
date for the representation of the city of London,
consequent upon his acceptance of the Premiership,
he alluded, in his address to the electors, in very ge-
neral terms, to the cardinal points of reformation
which he thought it incumbent on the new Govern-
ment to promote, in every way, to the best of their
anited abilities. He singled out the peculiar posi-
ion of Ireland, the state of the criminal law, the
dearth of general education, the defects of the law as
affecting the sanatory condition of the people,
and announced, that upon these several matters
the collective energy of the Administration
would be bestowed, with a view to the introduction of
most comprehensive measures for the amelioration,
political and social, of the great nation whose inte-
rests his Lordship had been called on to preside over
and prosper. More important subjects than those
recapitulated in the Premier's address, to which we have
adverted, could not have been selected, and we be-
lieve that nothing more than this selection for future
legislation, especially when viewed in unison with
the high credentials for wisdom and integrity which
were stamped upon his political life, caused the coun-
try to hail with satisfaction the elevation of his Lord-
ship to the highest post in the service of his SOVEREIGN.
Whenever a change of Government takes place the
public, by prescriptive usage, as it were, look
for the enunciation, from the fresh holders of
office, of some specific objects, in contradistinction to
those which have been more markedly favoured by
their predecessors. It has frequently happened that,
to minister to the gratification of this customary ex-
pectation, new Administrations have prominently
put forward declarations to which they were either
themselves indifferent, or were well aware must result
in disappointment. The field, however, which Lord
J. RUSSELL carved out for the especial labours of
hinself and his coadjutors, was not only new, in
the sense of being laid open to public view under
the influential auspices of a Government, but it was
one to which the records of Parliament attest that
Lord Joins had devoted his mind, long before there
was any prospect of his Lordship's assuming the head
of affairs.

During Sir R. PEEL'S public rule Lord Jour;
brought forward, in the Heuse of Commons, a
string of resolutions, declaratory of the neglected
condition of the humbler classes in many respects,
and of the duty of Parliament to legislate for their
wants—sanatory, educational, and moral. Sir JAMES
GRAHAM moved the previous question ; and, by a
large majority, the sound and judicious counsels of
the noble mover were for the time effectively shelved.
Nevertheless, at the first feasible opportunity, Lord
JOHN made known to his admirers and Great
Britain at large, that, with the possession of power,
he would not be unmindful of the principles of
social reform which he had advocated at the head of
a distracted and enfeebled opposition; and with his
Lordship's sincerity in this respect the citizens of
London, in their electoral capacity, were the first to
be made acquainted. The advanced period of the
session when Sir R. PEEL resigned, the multifarious
business that stood over, and required to be first dis-
posed of before the prorogation could take place, -
*els/
more than enough to engross the attention he
of
Administration up tothe commencement cf the recess. t
The public, then, have been necessar:
iiy contented to
Parliament.
re-assembling of
have their hopes deferred till t►

It is, nevertheless, 8 so':irce of satisfaction to turn to
what transpired attlitinauguratiou dinner oftho Sheriffs

of the city of London, on Wednesday last. At these and
other civic entertainments, where parties of every
political shade meet together, it is a wise rule that
an abstinence from political references is, for the
most part, scrupulously observed. Still it not un-
frequentlj occurs, that upon these occasions much of
vast public import is judiciously elicited without
infringing upon the harmony which is essentially
respected. Mr. Alderman CHALLIS, in proposing the
health of Lord J. RUSSELL and her MAJESTY'S
Ministers, offered some interesting remarks, founded
upon his own experience, on the state of our prisons,
the dwellings of the poor, and the deficiencies of
education that characterise the lot of many of our
miserable fellow-beings. Lord Jo= at once assured
the company that, to the subjects of such " utmost
importance," as the Alderman had broached, "the
unceasing and conscientious attention of the Ministry
would be given." His Lordship fervently added—

" Let us hope that those great problems, many of
which have hitherto been hid in obscurity, but which,
nevertheless, are matters well worthy of the attention of
statesmen—matters relating to the social condition of
the community—will receive such attention, that both
here and elsewhere the condition of the great mass of
mankind may be improved ; that not only may our gaols
be made places of less suffering, and greater hope of re-
formation, but that by more attention to the• means of in-
struction many may be preserved from the guilty course on
which they now enter, in utter ignorance of their duty both
to God and man."

This is sound and philosophical. It is probing the
wounds of the body politic to their lowest depths.
Elevate the mind of the nation throughout its entire
range with proportional enlightenment, and crime,
with its accursed legion, which now invests our
choicest citadels of civilisation, will be comparatively
scared from their very precincts. The fell monster
may continue to coast our walls, and hover around
us, but will cease, in progress of time, to eat into
the vitals of a contented, enlightened, affectionate,
and morally disposed community. Cessat causa
cessat affectus. A passing sentence or two of the
Lord Chief Baron came well in aid of the general
tone of Lord Jonx RussELL's speech. We extract
the following with pleasure :

"They might rely upon it that the question of the
suppression of crime did not depend upon the manner in
which they were to deal with criminals in gaol. It de-
pended upon the mode in which they treated the op-
pressed, the poor, and the ignorant, who were not in
gaol. By taking care of those classes, and instructing
them, they would repress crime, and would prevent the
gaols being filled. Let them, then, as far as possible,
raise the humbler classes, give knowledge where they
found- ignorance, and ever relieve where they met real
distress."

These are sentiments of noble and enlarged charity
—reason applauds, and the heart approves of them.
It will be a happy day for this country to behold
them fully developed by the wisdom of our lawgivers.
Lord Joux RUSSELL is a skilful navigator. He
has traced out a chart, and noted down the dangerous
shoals and sunken rocks upon which, for want of a
provident helmsman, the hopes of many a nation have
been wrecked. He has embarked upon an arduous
voyage, and sure we are that millions of his com-
patriots will lend him every assistance to bring it to a
prosperous issue.

It is said that overtures will shortly be made by
Austria, Russia, and Prussia, to the Governments of
England and of France for the settlement of the
affairs of Poland in general, and of Cracow in parti-
cular.

Madrid papers of the 25th ult..have arrived.

The Hcraiclo contains a long account of the formal
demand of the INFANTA'S hand for the Due DE
MONTPENSIER by M. BILESSON, the French Ambas-
sador, the whole of which will be found in another
column.

The Clamor Publico publishes the following corre-
spondence between General SERRANO, one of the leaders
of the Opposition, and Mr. BULWEU, in which it will
be perceived that the latter distinctly and flatly con-
tradicts the assertion made by M. ISTURITZ in the
Chamber of Deputies, " that the marriage most op-
posed by the Minister of Foreign Aflairs of her
Britannic Majesty was that of her Majesty the
QuEms

" TO 11. L. InTLWER. ESQ.
" Esteemed Sir and Friend,—The President of the
Council of Ministers, replying to a speech in which I
expressed my opinion relative to the message concerning
the marriage of her Majesty and the Infanta. made use
of the following terms;--' But what will the Honourable
Member think if I tell him that the marriage most op-
posed by the Minister of Fortign Affairs of her Bri-
tannic Majesty was that of her Majesty the Queen ?
What w3II he say if I add, that the desire and intention
;.ti that Cabinet was to present, as the sole candidate fur
the Queen's hand, another Prince, who, at the present
nn went, is in disaccord with what is passing?' The belief
in which I have been until now, that the opposition made
by you and by the Government of her Britannic Majesty,
referred solely to the marriage of her Royal Highness
the Infanta, hair presumptive to the throne, with the
Duke de Montpensier, and the importance attached by
public opinion to a knowledge of the real sentiments of a
nation, the friend of Spain, regarding. an affair which so
nearly affects our interests and nationality, induces me
(being desirous of forming a projAr judgment and of
rectifying that of my fellow-citizens) to direct myself to
you, in the hope that, if there is no objection, you Wl]
have the gONOdness to manifest to me what you may deem
prudent, and what may conduce to the elucidation of the
enigma, which the words of the President of the Council
of Ministers have created in the minds of the majority of
the Spanish public.
" What I would most appreciate is, that you will ex-
plicitly let me know as much as possible what have been
the general principles followed by your Government in
the affair of her Majesty's marriage, and what are ac-
tually its feelings in respect to the election of a husband
definitively made by the Queen. The object of this
communication being dictated solely by a principle
purely of public interest, I hope you will nut limit me
in the use I may deem fit to make of the answer you
honour me with, and remain your attentive and faithful
friend.
(Signed)

" FRANCISCO SERRANO."
ANSWER.

"TO THE MOST EXCELLENT DON FRANCISCO SERRANO.
"My dear General—l know of nothing in the spirit
of true and honourable diplomacy that should induce a
Minister representing England, in moments and upon an
occasion like the present; to involve the opinions of his
Government in the mystery of forms. This Govern-
ment is honest and frank, and I speak to a gentleman
equally frank and honest.
"I at once, then, answer you, saying that the English
Government, whilst respecting the election of her Ma-
jesty the Queen of Spain, whoever might have been the
Prince she chose for a husband, has always wished it
might fall on a Spanish Prince, judging that such an
election would be the best calculated to preserve
the existing relations in Europe and tho independence
of this country, and which, being most advan-
tageous for the interests of Spain, possessed the greatest
probability of meriting the approbation of the Spanish
people. The manifestation which all parties made a short
time ago in favour of the pretensions of his Royal High-
ness Don Enrique, and the manly, independent cha-
racter of this Prince, joined, it must be said, with the
objections made by persons in this Court, competent to
judge of such a matter, in regard to hie Royal Highness
Don Francisco d'Assis, induced the British Government
to believe that Don Enrique might better unite than any
other candidate the qualities which should adorn the
consort of Queen Isabel, and this opinion was expressed
as one friend might give advice to another in an affair
of importance.
" I cannot declare what has passed in such conversa-
tions; but the formal protest which I have presented on
the part of my Government, the notes which I myself
have addressed to the Minister of State of her most
Catholic Majesty, in which question has not been made
in any way of his Royal Highness the Infante Don Fran-
cisco d'Assis, together with this simple relation, fully
justified, in my idea, your belief that the opposition made
by me and by the Government of her Britannic Majesty,
alone referred to the marriage of her Royal Highness
the Infanta, and whatever may be said to the contrary,
I have the satisfaction of affirming, with the confi-
dence of a person who knows his language is that of
truth, that the Government of her Britannic Majeaty
will see with pleasure the election which has been
made of a Spanish Prince, and if this iti'rince upon
whom has now fallen the choice of 'dor most Catholic
Majesty, corresponds with the 01;.mion manifested in his
favour, and acts according VI the sentiments natural to
the blood which circulates in his veins, that is to say, as
a Royal Prince and true Spaniard, evincing a love of
liberty, respect for the laws, and a firm adhesion to the
independence of this country, not only will he be to-
garded with a just and and favourable sympathy by the
British Government, but likewise will attach to himself
the affectionate and ardent approbation of the English
people, who regard Spaniards as Irl•others, with whom
they have shared the glories and perils of .war ;
allies, with whom they have ever 'been anxious to culti-
as
vate friendly relations ; as m.:ln worthy of enjoying the
benefits of peace and in(lependenee ; and, finally, as
friends, to whom, a 8 :you may perceive by this commu-
nication, their repr:esentative can speak with sincerity and
without disguis:,.
ourecninatgi to
"With th.'is motive, I have the pleasure
.. .
and
p,
you the assuraP.tles of my distil--
7%.ar attentive servant,
L. BULWER."
1 remaining
It is needless to add, that the Clamor Publico was
seized for the publication of these letters.
It is said in Madrid that the Austrian, Russian,
and Prussian Cabinets are in perfect accord with the
British Government in the view which the latter takes
of the Montpensier marriage. They consider that
its consequences threaten the preservation of the ba-
lance of power in Europe, and dynastical and coni-
raerciil intexo* of gain modes, ad, ill ccaljunc4

tion with Great Britain, they have determined to
observe jealously the future conduct of the French
Government in the Peninsula.

NARVAEZ is restored to favour, and has quite inden-
tified himself with the Afrancesado party.
The Government were still endeavouring, by every
species of intimidation, to prevent persons from sign-
ing the petitions against the Montpensier marriage.
The English squadron, under the command of
Admiral Sir W. PARKER, was cruising on the 20th
off Cape Trafalgar.
MADRID BOLSA, SEPT. 25.—Despite the tranquillity
as yet prevailing, so many rumours of an unpleasant na-
ture (several of them, however, very contradictory) were
afloat, that the funds were looking downwards. Three
per Cents., 35i money Five per Cents., 224 money ;
Debt without interest, 64 ; Coupons, 20k. Exchange—
London, 36} money.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
The Montpensier marriage is still the all-absorbing
subject of comment. It is evident that the opponents
of the match have by far the beat of the argument,
and one proof of this is to be found in the anger, ill-
humour, and acerbity manifested by the Presse, the
Epoque, and the Journal des Debats, the only three
journals which support the marriage.
The latter paper speculates on the embarrassments
which may be occasioned to the English Government
by the famine in Ireland. In reply to the reiterated
assertions of the Ministerial journals, that the mar-
riage is popular in Spain, the National says:—
"That nothing can be more unpopular in Spain than
the marriage of the Duke de Montpensier. That ques-
tion has roused all parties, and it meets with a strenuous
and warm opposition even amongst the most considerable
fraction of the Conservatives. The Tiempo and Espanol,
organs of that faction, wage as fierce a war against
it as the Progressista journals. If the Government
had been assured of the public assent, what need
had they of increasing their violence against the
press, of seizing five journals in one day, of
arresting one five times in a week, of sending police
agents to suppress an article at the moment of printing
it, of menacing citizens guilty of signing a petition, and
of patrolling the streets of Madrid with strong detach-
ments of infantry and cavalry ? And all that proves
that Spain anxiously and joyously accepts your mar-
riage ! You must suppose your readers to possess an
extraordinary portion of credulity to dare to affirm it.
Revolt has not yet taken arms,' writes our correspond-
ent, but it is to be found in every heart. I know not
at what hour it will burst forth, but I am certain that
every moment advances the hand which points to the
hour. Christina has played a terrible game, but she
shall lose it.' "

The Siècle is not so opposed to the Montpensier
marriage as some of the other Opposition papers are,
and strenuously urges the French Government not to
permit the INFANTA. to renounce her right of succes-
sion to the throne. Yet, even the Siecle, although
urging the Government to persist in the marriage,
now that it has been entered upon, thus foretels the
consequences of the policy of M. GuizoT, and the
intrigues of M. BEESSON. It asks—" Is our Govern-
ment prepared to meet all the contingencies likely to
accrue from the open or concealed resentment of Great
Britain? Have they their eyes fixed on every snare that
she will lay for it in the Peninsula ? Do they sup-
pose that, the day after the family alliance about to be
concluded, the policy of France toward the Spaniards
will become easier ? Will they continue to accept
in their eyes the responsibility of acts of violence and
reaction, such as have of late disgraced the Govern-
ment of Madrid ? Will they involve the name and
the future prospects of the young Duke DE MONT..
PENSIER, who is personally animated with widely
different dispositions, in the embarrassments of a
forced situation? Do they wish that the Prince, and
the dynasty, and France herself, should be irrevocably
engaged in that deplorable solidarity, of which the hatred
of all Spain will be some day the unavoidable result,
and the just expiation ? What a strange contrast in the
conduct of two rival Powers! Whilst aristocratic
England, faithful to the policy she has already
marked out for herself, supporting liberal and pro-
gressive ideas, fomenting discontent, caressing na-
tional prejudices, artfully flattering that Spanish
pride of which the susceptibilities are so warm, will
command all the passions of Spain, we shall scarcely
be able to command family and Court influences !
Instead of availing ourselves of the double revolution
effected on both sides of the Pyrenees to replace the
family compact by national sympathies, we have,
adopted the contrary course, and the result will be
that an alliance which would have drawn closer the
natural ties between two nations will perhaps serve
to render them irreconcilable enemies, and will create
dangers where we should have found support and
security !"
The Constitutionnel thus alludes to the breach of
the verbal convention of Eu by M. GUIZOT :
" The Journal des Debats reposed yesterday after the
effort which it made the day before. Once that the
words of the oracle have been pronounced the sybil has
become mute. After that, complain that the reply
made to the public is remarkable neither for clearness
nor even for sincerity, you will get nothing for your
pains. It is in vain that you knock at the door of the
sanctuary—the occupant of the tripod will speak no
more. The rumours circulated a week back by foreign
journals, and already forgotten, are willingly recurred
to, but not a word is said about that which occupies
most deeply the French public. You will be told
of the file of equipages, and the slightest details of
an itinerary already so frequently traced out; but to ex-
plain why so public a departure has not been officially
notified to the representatives of the various powers—
that will be carefully avoided. If the Debats supposed
that it was satisfying the public it much deceived itself.
In its wish to systematically extenuate what it would
have done far better to expose frankly, it has let avowals
escape complete enough to cause attention to be directed
to what it concealed, much more than to what
it permitted to be seen. Besides, the truth has
forced its way out on all sides. Every one is aware, in
spite of the reserve of the Debats, that Lord Nor •
manby's note was founded, above all, on the convention
concluded at Eu—a convention, the violation of which
is the principal complaint of England, and on which ex-
planations must be given, for the whole truth will be
spoken in the English Parliament. Every one also
knows that the word " protest " is written in the note,
although the Debats asserted to the contrary three days
hack. Every one knows that Lord Normanby declares
himself authorised to make the most energetic remon.
strance. It would, no doubt, be a great piece of curiosity
to ask what reply has been made to Lord Normanby
note. But that, however, is what the public is most in-
terested in learning. Wo supposed that the departure of
the Duke de Montpensier has not been the only reply made
to the energetic remonstrances of the English Govern-
ment. What is the character of this reply ? What is
the capital point, the very hinge of the whole question,
as on that reply depends the turn which our relations
with England will take. The Debats affirms that these
relations will preserve the character which they have
hitherto had. That is not what the tone of Lord Nor-
manby's note leads one to suppose. It is from the reply
of our Government that the Debuts draws this favour-
able augury ? To allow something to be seen would
have been the most certain means of calming the public.
Meanwhile the Debats, yesterday, copied an article from
the Standard, exceedingly insulting to the Whig Ministry
in general, and to Lord Palmerston in particular. Are
we to perceive in this amiable attention of the principal
and demi-official organ of our Cabinet a first step to-
wards the good accord and good intelligence of the two
Governments 2"

A telegraphic dispatch from Angouleme an-
nounced the arrival there of the Dukes DE MON'I,
PENSIER and D'AUMALE, on Tuesday, at three o'clock
in the morning. They were expected to arrive at
Bordeaux at four that afternoon, and were to start
for Bayonne on Wednesday morning.
The Marquis DE VALDESPINA, Generals GOMEZ
and VILLAREAL, and M. DE VARGA, who were resi-
dent at Bordeaux, have been transferred to the chateau
of Illaye.

The Major-General of the Navy reviewed at
Brest, on the 25th, the troops destined for
Oceania. These troops consist of 1,300 Marines,
200 soldiers of Artillery, 50 Artillery operatives,
and 50 Sappers and Miners, 50 Gendarmes will
shortly be embarked for the same destination.

. ... . _ ....._ .._
The Constitutionnel sage s..
"It il. stated that the Dugueslin, a third-glass ship of
the line, now en the stocks at Roeh'efinti is about shortly
to be launched. Since Aug. 4,1.840, when the Friedland
took the water at Cherbourg, not a single man-of-war
has issued from our five great building ports. At Cher-
bourg three ships of the line, the Austerlitz, the Tilsit,
and the Henri IV., have been in a course of eonstruetion
for several years, and there is mot the slightest talk of
of which vas laid down
their completion, A large steamer, the Sane, the keel
1.
the Priedlae,' '
„,.
......., is left to rot in its place."
"' lea—tately after the launch of
in° Prince DE Joirtvuxis squadron in the Gulf
of Spezzia has been reinforced by the steamers
Caste, Asmodee, and Descartes, which sailed from
Toulon on the 27th ult. They are to be followed by
the Alger ship-of-the-line. It is said the squadron
has been ordered back to Toulon.
The Three per Cents, closed on the Paris Bourse on
Wednesday at 82f. 95c.; the Five per Cents., 118 f. ;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,273 f. 75e. ; Rouen, 961 f. 25c.;
Havre, 725 f. ; Great Northern, 731 f. 25c. ; Avignon,
935 f.; Vierzon, 627 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 566 f. 25c.; Boulogne,
482 f. 50c.; Troyes and Montereau, 3701.; Basle, 231 f. 25c. •
Paris and Strasburg, 503 f. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 508 f:
75c.; Paris and Lyons, 531 f. 25c.; Lyons and Avignon,
492 f. 505.; .Bordeaux and Cette, 442 f. 50c.; Belgian Two-
and-a-Half per Cents., 561 A ; Spanish Three per Cents.% I
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