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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1846.

There was a Ro: al Commission this evening, for the pur-
p )se of giving the rot•al assent to certain Bills.
Various petitions having been presented,
The Earl of ABERDEEN, in answer to a question on the
subject of the claims of Pritish subjects on the Portuguese
Government, said that he believed the Commissioners had
decided fairly, and that the British Government had no right
to interfere in the matter.

After a few words from Lord BROUGZIA3I with regard to
the claims of Sir J. M. DOYLE,

' The Duke of WELLINGTON bore testimony to the merits
of Sir J. M DOYLE as a military man.

The Marquis of LONDONDERRY knew that Sir J. M. DOYLE
hal received a great deal of money from the Portuguese Go
vernment, and considered that his pressing this claim was
indelicate.

The Duke of RICHMOND advocated the claims of Sir J. M.
DOYLE.

The Marquis of LONDONDERRY presented a petition pray-
ing that the standing orders might be suspended as far as
regarded the County,of Down Railway.
Lord REDESDALE opposed the motion.
The Earl of WICKLOW saw no ground for deviating from
the standing orders with regard to Irish railways more than
with regard to others.
Lard MONTRA:GLE could not consent to the prayer of the
pet it ion.

The Marquis of LONDONDERRY would not press the matter
further after what. had fallen from Noble Lords.
Their Lordshipo then adjourned.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
Several Railway Bills were read a second time, and ordered
to be committed.
Mr. MMoaais moved the second reading of the Great North
and South Wales Railway Bi!l
ra ieneral EVANS presvidied a petition against the Bill. the
sic and reading of which, after a short discussion, was post-
poned to Monday, and the petition was ordered to be per-
sented at the expense of the parties presenting it.
Various petitions were pre,ented against the enrollment of
the militia.

Sir R. PEEL in answer to a question from Mr. VienNox
SMITH said that it was his intention before the close of the
discussion on the Government propositions, to lay before the
House the measures they intended to propose with
res!•ect to the law of settlement and local taxation.
Mr. ETWALL then moved, pursuant to notice, for the ap-
pointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the adminis•
tration of the poor-laws in the Andover Union, and into the
management of the Union Workhouse. The Host. Member
went at considerable length into the details of the occur-
rences that took place in the Andover Union, which he con-
sidered as highly disgraceful, and called loudly for inquiry.
Mr. WAKLEY seconded the motion.

Sir J. GRAHAM regretted that so much of the valuable
time of the House had been occupied upon a workhouse
squabble. He had on former occasions deprecated the em-
ployment of the poor, in unions in the south of England, in
crushing bones, considering that to be an employment of a
penal and repulsive chanter. This mode of employment cf
the poor in unions, had been put an end to since January
last, by an order of the Poor-law Commissioners. The diet
of the poor had been altered; and the, master objected to in
the Andover union had been removed, and a master
appointed a.gainst whow no complaints had been made. In
future district auditors, and not local ones, would manage

and pass the accounts of the union. The Right Hon. Baronet
concluded by moving as an amendment, that a copy of Mr. I
PARKER'S report, and the evidence taken before him on the
subject of bone crushing and Mr. M‘DowALL's dismissal,
should be laid on the table and printed.
Mr. WARLEY felt himself to be in a most awkward posi-
tion, because he was favourable both to the motion and the
amendment. He thought the best course would be to ad-
journ the debate, until the papers had been laid on the table
and printed. He was as anxious as any man not to throw
any delay in the way of the debate on the corn-laws, but
he must confess that he looked upon this as something more
than a workhouse squabble. He trusted the Right Hon.
Baronet would withdraw his amendment, because it might
be looked upon out of doors as a desire to put an end to in-
quiry into the complaints of the poor. He hoped the Hon•
Baronet would make his amendment a substantive motion,
and support that of the Hon. Member for Andover.
Mr. CHaisTIE defended the course pursued by Mr. PARKER,
and called upon the House to grant a Committee of Inquiry.
He looked upon the amendment of the Right Hon. Baronet
as a mere juggle, and if the Right Hon. Baronet was deter-
mined to star dby the decision of the Poor-law Commis-
sioners in dismissing Mr. PARKER, he (Mr. ClimsztE)
should feel it to be his duty, when the question of their sa-
laries came before the House, to do all in his power, in con
junction with other Members, to prevent their receiving
them until justice had been done to Mr. PARKER.

Sir J. GRAHAM said that Mr. PARKER had evinced such
a disposition of insubordination towards his employers, the
Poor•law Commissioners, as, in his opinion, fully justified
them in dismissing him from their service.
Mr. FERRAND thought that it had been clearly shown
that the subject now under discussion was not a workhouse,
but a S •merset-house squabble.
After some observations from Captain Pechell, Sir. R
Inglis, Mr. T. Duncombe, Mr. P. Borthwick, Mr. Hume
Lord Pollington, Mr. J. Jervis, General Johnson, Mr.
Aglionby, Mr. Sharman Crawford, and Mr. Fielden,
Sir J. GRAHAM withdrew his amendment, stating that he
would make it a substantive motion ; but, with respect to the
amendment, of which notice had been given by the Hon.
Member for Weymouth, to extend the inquiry to the causes
which led to the dismissal of Mr. PARKER, he felt bound to
give it his most strenuous opposition.
Mr. CHRISTIE then moved his amendment, which N% as to
the effect of extending the inquiry into the conduct of the
Poor-law Commissioners and their late Assistant-commis•
sioner, Mr. PARKER, in reference to the two investigations
held at Andover, and into all the circumstances under which
the Poor-law Commissioners called upon Mr. PARKER to
resign his Assistant-commissionership.
After a short discussion, the House divided, and the amend-
ment of Mr. CHRISTIE was carried by a majority of 23, there
being 92 in its favour and 69 against it.
The original motion of Mr. ETWALL, and the amendment
of Mr. CHRISTIE, were both of them adopted.
Mr. COWPER then moved for copies of dispatches received
by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs containing in-
formation about the persecution inflicted upon the Bazilian
nuns of Minsk.
Mr. WYSE seconded the motion.
Sir R. PEEL said that the Government had not received
any official documents from the Government of Russia upon
the subject. The only information that had been received
was from the British Consul at Warsaw, who stated his
belief that no such atrocities had taken place ; or if they
had they had been greatly exaggerated. He would advise
the House to be careful how it set the example of interfering
with the domestic affairs of other nations.
The motion was withdrawn after a short discussion.

Mr. NEWDEGATE postponed his motion relative to frau-
dulent and vexatious objections to votes in Warwickshire
and Staffordshire to Tuesday next.
In answer to a question from Mr. P. HOWARD,

Sir R. PEEL said he proposed going on with the Com-
mittee on the corn-laws to-morrow evening, before the
Committee of Supply.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of and the
House adjourned.

Before the amendment of Mr. CHARLES VILLIERS be for-
gotten amidst the steady and rational realisation of our free-
trade wishes, through the instrumentality of Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S graduated policy, we would express our sentiments
with reference to that amendment and also with reference to
the behaviour of Mr. COBDEN on the evening of its over-
throw. As far as our individual aspirations are concerned we
would rejoice as heartily and as enthusiastically as any one
if commerce were instantaneously released from its present
bondage ; an immediate abolition of importation and of ex-
portation duties would be to us an occasion for our most
earnest self-gratulation. When, however, we perceive—as
every reasonable and dispassionate man must perceive, as
the Noble Member for the city of London perceives, as the
First Lord of the Treasury perceives, as the Member for
Stockport perceives—that, under all circumstances, an obsti-
nate demand for free trade to-day (instead of to-morrow or
the day after) would be most inimical to the interests
of the people, we cannot but regard a persistence in such
demands as unwise, as ungracious, and as absolute insanity.
A change so sudden in the whole system of mercantile affairs
would be productive of a confusion which must alone prove
infinitely prejudicial ; besides which, so many preliminaries
have to be arranged, and so many opposite interests to be
balanced, that an immediate annihilation of existing prin-
ciples is impossible. It is both foolish and fallacious to dream
for a single moment of seizing a prize so utterly unattain-
able. We would ourselves grasp free trade immediately—if
we could! But, seeing what insurmountable barriers inter-
cept the pathway conducting to that goal, we prefer under-
mining its barriers and sapping its very foundations by a
three years' application of the sliding - scale, rather
than beat our knuckles to a mummy in a childish
attempt to overthrow such granite obstacles. Three
winters hence, and the golden edict will be in full
operation ; why therefore hazard its fulfilment alto-
gether by an obstinacy so ill-judged and so ruinously chime-
rical? We have a promissory note at thirty-six months for
a payment in full; why risk the settlement of our great
debt altogether by insisting upon its liquidation " down upon
the nail." By these considerations, by a knowledge of the
hazardous character of the views entertained by the lion.
Member for Wolverhampton, and by a thorough apprecia-
tive of the wisdom and the practicable excellence of
Sir ROBERT'S policy, Mr. COBDEN has modulated his enthu-
siasm, while he has, at the same time, adhered with perfect
constancy to those views which he had previously adopted and
these professions which he had already announced. Had the
patriotism of that really noble-minded monarch of the
League been hitherto questionable, his speech of Tuesday
night would have established at once and for ever its
purity, its self-forgetfulness, and its entire consistency.
He saw and acknowledged the impossibility of any
success attending the amendment proposed by Mr. VILLIERS,
lie recognised the danger which would accrue.' to the
Ministerial propositions by any undue perseverence in the
advocacy of that amendment, and therefore, while voting
with his Honourable Friend and associate, in fulfilment
of those engagements into which he had elsewhere entered,
he would, " after the division upon that question, give as
cordial a support to the measure of the Go-
vernment as any gentleman in that House." In
speaking thus Mr. COBDEN has proved himself consistent to
those glorious principles upon which his renown, and his in-
fluence, and his popularity, are built up : he has proved
himself consistent to those patriotic sentiments with
which his past conduct has been animated ;' he has
proved himself consistent in that anxiety for the wel-
fare of his fellow-countrymen which has been so
conspicuously evidenced in the whole of his Parliamentary
career. That small sentence is the epitome of his
public character; it is worthy of RICHARD COBDEN, it is
worthy of the nineteenth century, it is worthy of the great
cause Of FREEDOM TO COMMERCE, and of the offering of food
to the hungry and unprotected labouring classes. The people
will estimate this conduct of their favourite champion as it
merits, so also will the Prime Minister of Great
Britain, so also will the historian of this peace-
ful and bloodless revolution. In commenting, how-
ever, as we have done, upon the propriety of the
amendment introduced by Mr. VILLIERS, we do not for a
moment doubt that the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton
was actuated by feelings the most honourable and the most
conscientious. He had pledged himself to perform a certain
act; that pledge he has redeemed, and we cannot but feel
assured that his co-operation in the Ministerial measures
will be as earnest and as decided as that promised by the
Honourable Member for Stockport. On mature reflection we
are satisfied that Mr. VILLIERS must acquiesce in the sensible
and resolute expressions employed by the two representa-
tives for Finsbury—to whom all honour be accorded I While
speaking thus in commendation of Mr. COBDEN, Mr. Dux-
COaIBE, and Mr. WAKLEY, we cannot refrain from con-
gratulating the constituency of Cheltenham upon the
staunch adherence of th 9 Honourable CRAVEN
BERKELEY to the cause of free trade. His
fidse vote in the minority of Tuesday night is satis-
factory in its very insufficiency; it is an earnest that,
notwithstanding his summoning the League, as it were,
to judgment on the subject of signatures to petitions, his
sympathies are nevertheless identical with those of that
great Associatii.n, and that his voice is ever ready to speak
out in concurrence with their principles.

While the great commercial measures propounded by
Government are being made the subject of violent controversy
in the Lower House, it cannot be uninteresting or unimpor-
tant to note the sentiments expressed among the Peers
respecting a movement which, of its class, has no parallel in
the records of Parliament. It may be said with considerable
show of reason, that more furious opinions upon the
matter are entertaineelbny theirinthe
kingdom;
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treated to these casual manifestations of feeling
dignity.We are
among
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oligarchy, in moments of supreme excitement in-
dignation, when their most cherished thoughts r
start
forth in spite of themselves. At these times, the
smallest peg upon which to hang any of these
ultra-Parliamentary exclamations is taken advantage of for
that purpose—and in this abrupt and disjointed manner, we
obtain a kind of interjectional notion of the thoughts rankling
in the bosoms of those right honourable personages. From
the utterance of those thoughts also we obtain a glimpse
of their intentions. Precisely of this character were
the observations with which, on Tuesday evening,
the Earl of HARDWICKE thought proper to clothe
certain petitions in favour of protection to agriculture from j

different places in the county of Cambridge. In introducing '
those petitions the Noble Lord manufactured another of
those warning speeches with which his brother landlords
have endeavoured to frighten away the agitators for com-
mercial reform—speeches which we cannot but regard
SS the very counterpart of the scarecrows with which
farmers try to prevent the incursion of hungry birds upon
their corn-fields, and which scarecrows are generally com-
posed of mere garbage and rubbish. Desirous no doubt of
giving his cause an appearance of solidity, the Noble Lord-
Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire had recourse to a few quota-
tions from COCKER, which however had not the slightest
bearing upon the purport of the prayer signed by the
said petitioners. Tradition informs us of a fellow
who delighted in the constant narration of an
anecdote about a gun ; and who, whatever the
conversation might be, always managed by some contri-
vancy or other to introduce his pet story, a contrivance which
more generally resolved itself simply into an outcry of "Oh !
talking about guns reminds me of an accident, &c. &c."
Exactly after this fashion do the protectionist noblemen
manage to discover some excuse, some opportune moment,
some appropriate point, at which to repeat, for the nine li
hundred and ninety-ninth time, their old tale
about the destruction of the farming interest, and such like
lamentations. If a railway bill, or a Committee motion, or
a currency measure, or any other topic whatever be under
discussion, up jumps his Grace of RICHMOND, or some
equally outrageous money-lover, with the usual cock-and-
bull story of the lamentable consequences certain to result from
any relaxation of the Custom-house duties. A little episode of
this description took place on Tuesday in the House of Peers
the diatribe of the Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire form-
ing a sort of preface or introduction to it—very pointless, very
irrelevant and very unlucky in its assertions. ," He per-
fectly understood the principle upon which the Government
was dissolved, but he had never heard it yet stated on what
principle the Government was resumed." Really Join{
Mom is quite a sprightly and sagacious logician when
compared with these sticklers for taxation upon
foreign provisions. The Noble Earl does not com-
prehend the principle upon which the present Go-
vernment was resumed I—why, every brain almost in
Great Britain has been perfectly saturated with explanations
of that principle from the very moment the present session
commenced; the public mind (so to speak) is by this time
actually sodden with expositions of that principle—first from
Sir IiOBERT Pam, then from Sir JAMES GRAHAM, then from
Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT, then from Sir G. CLERK, and so on
through the whole list of Government officials. Besides which,
is not that principle conspicuously developedin every clause of
the Ministerial proposition now running the gauntlet of the
protection gentlemen of the Lower House? And yet the
Earl of HARDWICKE, declares his ignorance of the nature of
that principle ! Really the thinness of the agricultural skin
is only exceeded by the thickness of the agricultural skull.
His Lordship then proceeds to perorate his remarks to a
climax, and this he accomplishes by declaring that the
House of Commons had, according to his mind, " lost the
good opinion and confidence of the country by the course
it had pursued"—shutting his ears, of course, to those
cries of exultation ghich circulated throughout the land
at the intelligence of the majority of ninety-sevens
with which that conduct had been confirmed. The
Earl of HARDWICKE declares the Lower House to be
unpopular ; the multitude, through every channel by
which a knowledge of public opinion can be obtained, de-
clare that House (or, rather, the majority of that
House), to be the most popular, perhaps, that ever
legislated for the good of the people. Upon the cessation of
his Lordship's harangue, and despite the decided language in
which the Marquis of LONDONDERRY deprecated the con-
tinuance of a discussion so premature, his Grace of Rion-
MOND enforced the view entertained by his colleagues with his
ordinary rashness of tone and tongue. He accounted for the
97 votes by which the Government had recently worsted
their opponents by an insinuation most bold, and, in our
estimation, most unparliamentary. " All the placemen,"
said his Grace, "_voted. There are a great many offices
vacant, and every man who is looking out for an office voted
for the Government." This is a direct imputation upon
the honesty of the Honourable Members referred to,
and one that is not sustained by a single
scrap of evidence. Various other expressions of a
similar character, were subsequently uttered by the Noble
Duke; in themselves significant tokens of the wrath which is
generating in the Upper House, and of the fierce antagonists
who will be mustered against the free-trade measure imme-
diately upon its introduction to the hall of aristocracy. Let
those noble Oppositionists, however, remember that the will
of the people can never be gainsaid—that it can never be
thwarted beyond a certain time—that,' when roused by the
pertinacious contradiction of an oligarchy, it becomes the
most puissant and the most terrible of despots. Let them
remember, moreover, the passing of the Reform Bill—and the
alternative to which they were reduced by their obstinacy.
Ultimate triumph to the cause of abolition is, however, cer-
tain; and before many years more have elapsed, the eulogium
upon the League uttered on Tuesday night by Lord BROUGHAM
will be echoed by all classes of the community—the tenant
farmers, and even the protectionist dukes, amongst the
number.

We have intelligence from Madrid of the 25th ult. The
Senate that day commenced the discussion on the new elec-
toral Bill and adopted sixteen clauses. The only feature in
the discussion worth notice was a declaration of Senor ISTU-
RITZ, announcing that the objects of the Government in this
Bill were that all opinions should be fairly represented, and
that no unconstitutional means be resorted to for the purpose
of influencing the elections. It is reported that NARVAZZ is
decidedly opposed to the marriage of the QUEEN with the
Count DE TRAPANI, The Eco del Comercio affirms that "it
is the intention of General NAAVANZ to ask the Government
several questions respecting the Trnr.►Nl alliance, to which
he has declared himself adverse.",
The new Minister of Finance had addressed a circular to
all the intendants of the provinces, desiring them to proceed
with the collection of the land-taxes for the purposes of the
state. The total amount is reckoned at 125,000,000 reals
(1,250,0001.), and that for Madrid at 60,0001.
The Three per Cents. closed at 32 at 60 days. No other
stock was quoted.

The Paris papers contain additional intelligence from
Algiers, and the unfavourable accounts from Washington are
referred to by most of them. With the exception of the
Press., they seem to consider the policy adopted by Pom of
a hostile character, and most likely to lead to a war between
England and America. The same journal pays high compli-
ments to Sir R. PEEL for his liberal and daring commercial
policy, but, at the same time, while grateful for reducing
the duty on brandy, it expresses regret that he had stopped
short at wine. This is a very natural cause of regret for a
French writer. The vine producers in the south of France
are half ruined by the system of Customs adopted
by the Government, and an outlet for their second
and third-rate wines in England would be a great
boon. They are perfectly aware of the fact, and
are taking measures for impressing the Legislature with a con-
viction that a change is absolutely necessary, but no French-
man can readily blame England for this state of things; on
the contrary, she merits the highest praise, and France has
only to imitate her example in order to secure the lasting
friendship of the two countries and the peace of the world.
With the exception referred to, the remarks of the Presse
are just :—" The able system adopted in England for the re-
duction of the tariff of import duties there already begins to
bear fruit, since even in France, without taking into account
the difference between the state of the two countries, en-
lightened minds begin to call for an immediate, universal,
unlimited freedom of trade. The reduction of duties upon
the first necessaris of life for the consumption of the people
of England is not only a measure of humanity, Preventive,
perhaps, of disastrous internal disorder, but is also, when
viewed in the light of an expansion of commerce, an act of
the soundest and most disinterested policy. In fact, by
lessening the cost of the means of life to the working man,
Sir R. PEEL renders at the same time the productions of his
hands less dear and more abundant. It is, however, to be
regretted that he stopped at the important reduction of the
duties upon French wines. Before the time of EDWARD
the English drank wine as we do in France, brought in
abundance from the provinces of Anjou and Guyenne. Since
the loss of these provinces an almost eternal war has sepa-
rated England from this source of supply. She has been
forced to have recourse to new aliments, and adopt beer and
spirits distilled from grain. The enormous profit which the
agricultural proprietors derive from the malt with which in-
toxicating beer is made, has driven them to devote nearly the
whole of their produce in barley, and a great portion of their
other corn, to this object." Does not the writer perceive that
the very facts he states would furnish the protectionists with
new arguments?

The Semaphore of Marseilles contains intelligence from
Algiers of the 25th ult., from which we learn that Marshal
BUGEAUD had arrived there on the previous day, with a
small detachment of troops, who appeared to have under-
gone great hardships. A private letter from Algiers says:—
" The soldiers were all very much sun-burnt; their clothes,
which were patched in all parts with coarse cloth and pieces
of skins of animals, were covered with dust. We were much
affected by the appearance of these brave troops, which had
endured such great fatigues and undergone such great hard-
ships, to drive out the enemy and protect our colony." The
following is the last dispatch received from the Marshal, and
is dated Jurjura, Feb. 20, giving an account of his rencontre
with ABD-EL-KADER in that district:—
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fort of the South Flissa, which had been submitted to one Agha
Ben-Zamoun. I had, in passing, chastised the Beni-Khafouns, and
remained in their territory during the 10th. I was joined the same
day by General Gentil, and I sent him to resume his post at
the Col des Beni-Aicha on the 17th and 18th. I invaded the
mountains of the unsubmitted Flissas. Numerous" armed
groups showed themselves on various points at a distance,
but they did not venture on an attack. On the 19th they
came to the number of between 3,000 and 4,000, to the high
mountains at the left of my camp • but I would not attack
them, because I was resolved to approach by the valley of Boghnl,
the sources of the Oued-Kseub, where Abd-el-Kader had been en-
camped for several days. After having marched an hour and a half,
we discovered the cavalry of the Emir, and all his baggage, in a
very difficult defile on a ridge near the regions of snow. Instead
of coming to attack me, as he had promised the Kabyles, he de-
scended the mountain, and entered into the Hamza. This difficult
retreat was covered by 1,500 to 2,000 Kabyles, either out of inte-
rest to the Emir, or because they wished to defend their habita-
tions. When we had arrived near the Kabyles they began to fire
—I then ordered an attack by three battalions. The Kabyles
were successively dis'odged from several positions, and forced at
length to defile en masse in a ravine, where we fired upon
them at a very short distance. They left a good number of
dead, and were followed until night without being able to reach the
column of Abd-el-Kader. To-day three tribes of Kabyles' the most
menaced by the presence of my column, have written to enter into

arrangements. I have sent for their chiefs to my camp, and am
waiting for them. I learned from their envoys that Abd-al-Lader
slept last night at the East of Hamza, and had left many beasts of
burthen in the dreadful ravines through which he had to pass. The
same men agreed in stating that Ben Salem had followed him in his
retreat, as he dreaded the anger of the Kabyles, who have been so
ill-treated by my eolumn on his account.' Marshal Bugeaud enclosed
a report from General Levasseur, dated Constantina, the 4th, an-
nouncing submissions by some of the tribes who had previously made
their submission to Abd-el-Kader, but communicating no other fact of
interest."

The accounts in the German journals, received this morn-
ing, says Golignani of Tuesday, are very contradictory as to
the revolutionary movement in Prussian Poland, and the
disturbances in Cracow, Gallacia, &c. According to some
they were at an end, others state that they had rather in-
creased than diminished. In this confusion we do not find a
single fact from any source worthy of notice, that can
enable us to form an opinion as to the real state of things
in the disturbed districts. And the Constitutionnel, after
giving some particulars respecting the reported insurrection,
adds : - " All this proves that the news given by the German
journals ought to be received with the greatest reserve."
Discontent still prevails to a great extent in the POPE'S
dominions. The following accounts, contained in a letter,
dated Marseilles, Feb. 27, are very distressing, for they
show that Austria is inclined to show no mercy :

" We learn by the Herculaneum, which arrived yesterday from
Leghorn, that about 50 persons have been arrested at Pesaro and
Gano, in the Roman States. Some others had contrived to elude the
search of the police, and amongst them Count Montevecchi, belong.
ing to one of the first families in the country. The individuals coin-
promised in the late affair at Rimini, who to the number of 22 had
set sail on the Adriatic, but had been obliged by stress of weather to
put into Fiume in Dalmatia, have been given up by Austria to the
Papal Government. They lately arrived in an Austrian vessel at
Ancona, and have been shut up in the fort. The rumour that M.
Renzi was to be tried by the military commission sitting at Rimini,
notwithstanding the comp!aints aide on all sides against these
exceptional tribunals, has excited great sensation."
The Three per Cents. closed at 84f. 55c. ; the Five per Cents.,
123 f. 50c. ; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,330 f.; Rouen, 1,065 f. ;
Havre, 747 f. 50e.; Great Northern, 791 L 25e. ; Avignon, 1,007 f. 50c. ;
Vierzon, 752 f. 50c.; Uordeaux, 670 f. ; Troyes and Montereau, 450 f. ;
Basle,urg
Tiers and Nantes, 580 f. • Paris and Lyons (De-
finitive), 631 f. 56.3.;
Spanish Three per Cents. 38% ; Spanish Pas-
sives,fie.Fampoul,Stras-
burg,
.
The following are the quotations for other lines :

Lyons and Avignon Railroad (Talo,o, 610 f. ; ditto (Lecointe),
505 f. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridienale), bO2f. ; Bordeaux and Cette
(Mackenzie), 503 f. 50c. ; ditto (Espeleta), 510 f.; Caen (Delamarre),
502 f. 50c.; Charleroi, 497 f.
.slntszuszs, FEB. 28.—Marseilles and Avignon, 1,017 f. 50c. ;
Northern, 775 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 640 f.
BUSINESS DONE I?•t FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIES