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London, England, 1841-03-06 00:00:00

ith persecution beyond the patience of any man
to bear." What a picture of a regiment, and
what a reproof to Lord HILL, who had sent that
very officer to command the 11th, whom he had
declared unfit to command the 15th! Could
Lord HILL expect that the gallant officers in
India would submissively brook such an insult?
And can Sir HENRY HARDINGE suppose that this
regiment will ever be fit for service while
one of the Indian officers remaiiis under
the command of Lord CARDIGAN ? The
discussion will be read by the army and the
people painful interest, and unless Lord
Ho withicK
'sadvice is followed, and a Court of In-
quiry be instituted, Mr. MACAULAY and the Go-
vernment may rest assured that so far from the
public in a few months admitting that they are in
the right, they will impute to them the chief
blame, and denounce them for encouraging con-
duct which (as Mr. HUME justly said) no man
holding the character of a gentleman could pos-
sibly tolerate or permit.

Letters and Papers from Madrid of the 25th
ult. have reached us. The Regency question
was occupying the serious attention of the Cabi-
net, but no definite resolution had been come to.
The Gazette of the 25th publishes the Conven-
tion for the free navigation of the Douro, which
was ratified on the 23d ult. by the Duke of Vic-
TORIA.

Letters from Mahon announce that the officers of the Ame-
rican squadron are giving splendid parties. It appears that
the Americans have established a quarantine department, but
nothing shows that they have received any Royal permission so
to do, as the French obtained for their settlement, of which
little intelligence transpires The French have augmented
their cemetery, and are expecting a great number of sick from
Algiers.

A dreadful accident occurred on the 24th in the neighbour-
hood of Madrid. Two days before, M. Safont, one of the
richest inhabitants of that capital, having gone on an excursion
of pleasure in the vicinity with his family and a few friends,
was returning on that evening, when the mules of his carriage
suddenly took fright, upset it on the bridge of the river Ar-
gando, and the whole party, consisting of twelve persons, were
(lashed into the river. Al. Safont and another alone were saved;
his father, mother, wife, and daughter, and six others were
drowned. This accident caused a most painful sensation in
Madrid, and nothing else was talked of on the Bourse, where
little business wai transacted. Only three operations were
negotiated in the Five per Cents. at 29 at 30 days, and at 29
for the 9th of March, with premium.

We have received the whole of the Paris
Journals of Thursday. The Illoniteur Parisien
states that an amendment has been carried in
the Committee of the Peers on the Fortifications
Bill, which reduces the grant from 140 millions
of francs to 118 millions, and recommends de-
tached forts instead of the continuous wall
crenelated and bastioned with 2,000 pieces of
cannon. It is of very little importance what
modifications the Peers may make in the Bill.
One thing is certain. Paris will be fortified.
The KING'S triumph is no longer doubtful.
While the Peers are making a show of indepen-
dence the works are in progress, which are des-
tined to overthrow the sovereignty of the people.
Rumours were current in Paris on Wednes-
day and Thursday respecting the pecuniary em-
barrassments of M. THIERS. We know not
whether they be well or ill-founded. The ex
Minister is a man of very expensive habits,
.and we remember that when he visited Italy
several Journals expressed astonishment at the
extent of his purchases of costly and rare works
of art. But if office has not enriched M.
THIERS, he has friends who have known how
to profit by a relationship with the head of a
Cabinet. If half be true that is reported, his
father-in-law is in a condition to relieve him
without any diminution of the wealthwhich he
possessed before M. THIERS' promotion to a seat
in the Cabinet.
The Courrier Francais has discovered that
Lord PALMERSTON is endeavouring to lull France
to repose only to attack her at a disadvantage.
We can assure the Courrier Francais that
France need be under no alarm respecting the
intentions of Lord PALMERSTON, which are as
pacific as the Courrier represents them to be hos-
tile. This we believe to be the conviction of M.
GUIZOT, who is wisely and patriotically engaged
in negotiating a return to those amicable rela-
tions with England, which were interrupted by
the Punic policy of M. THIERS, and the Cabinet
of the Ist of March. Respecting the progress of
these negotiations, we find the following account
in the columns of a Morning Contemporary :
We have received private letters from Paris, from a well-in-
formed quarter, stating in positive terms, that the negotiations
going on between the French Cabinet and the Powers which

signed the Treaty of London, hare advanced to that point that
the Eastern question is expected to be definitively solved within
a few weeks. JU. Guizot's propos.tion to ameliorate the con-
dition of the Christian population of Syria (not to render it
independent, as it has been erroneously asserted in some papers )
has been much approved of by the Austrian and Prussian
Courts. As the 'I reaty of London specially engages the con-
tracting Powers to abstain from any act to affect the authority
and independence of the Sultan, the idea of imposing on the
Porte the condition of nominating a Christian Pi ince to govern
Syria has been out of question ; but it has been thought that
the Porte, as a return for the services it has received, will have
no objection to nominate a Pacha; with a separate government,
for Syria, although incorporated in the Ottoman empire ; this
Pacha to be under the control of the Great European Powers,
in order that there may be a guarantee that the Porte govern
on humane principles the Syrian population.

Scandalous attempts are made by some per-
sons at Alexandria and Smyrna to revive the
popular prejudice against the Jews, excited by
the disappearance of FatherYnomAs and his ser-
vant at Damascus. The following is a fabricated
charge against the Jews, quoted by the Temps
from a letter from Alexandria :
A young Catholic Armenian merchant, named Joussouf Ta-
houil, had contributed in a great degree to traverse the views
of two Jews from Alexandria, who had come to Damascus
under pretence of making inquiries into the facts attending the
murder of Father Thomas, but who had endeavoured to bribe
the witnesses who appeared. Thus he incurred the hatred of
the Israelites, who determined to accomplish his de_truction.
Tahouil unfortunately did not pay attention to the warnings
which were daily given him, and the day after Ibrahim Paella
left Damascus with his army he perished, the victim of a base
vengeance. An Albanian, notorious for his crimes, entered
Tahouil's shop and shot him through the heart. The murderer
was arrested at the same moment, and declared that the Jews
had given him 3,000 piastres to commit the crime, and seve-
ral Turks came forward to depose that the Israelites had at
different times offered them sums of money to assassina'e Ta-
houil as well as other persons who had given testimony in the
affair of Father Thomas.

The Constitutionnel defends M. THIERS from
the charge of having squandered the sum of
500,000,000 of francs during an administration of
eight months. According to this journal, when
M. THIERS took office, there were not 15,000
cavalry horses fit for service. There were not
sufficient artillery horses to bring 100 pieces of
cannon into the field. Of artillery carriages
21,000 were wanted, and instead of 3,000,000 of
muskets in the arsenals, there were only 1,800,000.
In whatever way M. THIERS spent the public
money, the result is that in a few years there will
be a deficiency in the French ti*asury equal to
forty millions sterling !

Count Alexander de Larochefoucauld, Peer of France, died
esterday, at Paris, at the age of 65 years.
The Messager contains the following article

" The Wu'rtzburg Gazette, the Franconian Courier, and
some other German Journals, pretend that notices have been
published by some French authorities of the left bank of the
hhine ; :for instance, at Lauterburg—inviting Bavarian soldiers
to desert, promising that they should receive the value of their
arms and accoutrements, and be admitted into any French
regiment which they might prefer.
" These statements are absJlutely false. Nothing of the
kind has occurred. We give them the most formal denial.
" Even were not such facts entirely at variance with the
honourable principles of the French Government, the existing
laws would render the entertainment of such an idea impos-
sible. In fact, Art. 2of the law of March 21, 1832, expressly
f rbids the admission of foreigners into French corps. No ex-
ception is made to this regulation, only relative to the foreign
legion in Africa, and even in this latter case they are not
armed and equipped till after their arrival in Africa and their
incorporation in the legion. They cannot serve France on the
Continent. . . _

" The Marshal, now Minister of War, has even restricted
within the narrowest limits the execution of this part of the
law of 1832, by lately prohibiting the admission of a foreigner
into a French corps, even as a supernumerary musician, or as a
t dlor to a regiment.
" We will add, that whenever deserters have come from
Germany to France, the French Government has always, on
the application of their families, and through the medium of the
Consuls, ordered them to be given up."--Le Constitutionnel,
March 4.
We find the following passage in a letter from Amsterdam,
dated the 28th of February Though the house of Hope
and Co. has hitherto disposed of orrly fifteen millions of the last
Russian ban of fifty millions of florins, it is affirmed notwith-
standing, on good authority, that it is intended to contract at
Amsterdam a new loan of one hundred millions of florins."—

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