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London, England, 1841-07-09 00:00:00

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LONDON:
FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1841.

The large space occupied by our Railroad Map, com-
pels us to be very brief. It is impossible, however, to
publish such a description of this stupendous invention,
and its rapid development over the whole empire, bring-
ing the most remote parts aS near to each other, for all
the essential purposes of communication, as the extre-
mities of the metropolis, and making all England into
one city, without remarking that the stationary or'Con-
servative policy which now seems for a moment to have
obtained the upper hand in Parliament, is founded on a
piinciple in all respects opposed to that principle of rapid
improventent and rapid communication which is exem-
plified in "Railroads. The language they speak, both
morally and physically, and which all men speak who
use and make them, is, " Go-ahead ;" the language of
Conservatives " Stand still." " Let us,", say the inven-
tors of railroads, of locomotive engines, of spin-
ning-mules, of all new processes in art, con-
stituting the bulk of the people, " have some-
thing better, more convenient, and more useful than
our fathers possessed" ; but the Conservatives say " our
fathers made the best of all possible laws, fraMed the
best of all possible Constitutions, had the purest and most
intelligent of all Churches, and we will resist all change,'
because the best possible laws and institutions can 'only
be changed for the worst." They believe that before men
had invented steam-engines or railroads they had in-
vented a perfect Government, which time can neither cor-
rupt nor improve, and they are now to carry it on in op-
position to that progress which is and ever has been as
essentially the principle of society as gravity is of matter.
The rapidity with which railroads have come into use
should astound the Conservative politicians. Within
twelve years they have all been made. Such a stride
was never before taken ; and it is impossible to reflect
that the population of this country is now doubling
itself within thirty or forty years, while in the previous
century it required 80, and before that 200, and probably
from the time of the Norman Conquest scarcely doubled
itAelf in 300 years, without concluding that the progress
which Sir R. PEEL is to take office to resist is prowed-
ing in an accelerating ratio. After all the Reforms
made by the Whigs they are actually taunted by some
of their opponents with not having proposed •at
an earlier period their measures of commercial reform.
The truth is, that the rapid progress of society in
modern times, to which the formation of railways is an
index, has made the bulk of our laws, like stage coaches
and post-chaises, which have- been forced off the road,
no longcr suitable to society. The Legislature has not
reformed half enough, and that Conservadve body which
is now to be augmented has already been much too pre-
dominant in it for the public welfare.
The most backward part of society, and the most Con-
servativ', has obtained a temporary mastership in the
Legislature. It has already done immense and
irredeemable mischief by irrecoverably wasting much
precious time. The gross mistake has been com-
mitted, by factious and party men, of ascribing all our
existing evils to mil-administration, instead of erro-
neous and wicked legislation.; and while the only means
of relief is to be found in an alteration of the law, the
electoral body, under 'the direction of Sir ROBERT PEEL
and Co., requires a change in the Ministers. Those
who have, perhaps wilfully, made this mistake will be re-
sponsible fur it to the country. The deed, hoWever,
has now been done : the Legislature is constituted more
Conservative, more hostile to the natural and inevitable
progress of society, and as sure as railways shall extend,
and the population increases, so sure must such a Le-
gislature either destroy society or be destroyed.

We have received little information of interest in the
political line from Paris by our correspondence of Wed-
nesday. The Council of Ministers which had met on
Tuesday after the K-Lsn's return was said to have been
occupied with the fortification question ; but the main
subject- of its deliberations was known to be the final ad-
hesion of France to the settlement of the Oriental ques-
tion, and her nominal reconciliation with the great
Powers of Europe. There is little doubt now but that
France will actually sign the protocol which closes the
acts of the Conference, but it is suspected she Will set on •
foot secret negotiations both with the Porte and. Greece
for regaining her influence in the Levant. M. PiscA-
TORY'S mission to Athens still remains a mystery, but
frohi the character of that Envoy it is most probable that
he is looking after what sort of a chance there may be
for France, in case of the Candiotes and the other Chris-
tian subjects getting the upper hand, to intervene with
effect. The last accounts received at Paris from the
Levant are favourable to the prospects of the Turks •,
things are more quiet both in Albania and in Syria, atd
it appears that the forces of the insurgents in the Can-
dian mountains have been grossly exaggerated, not more
than 4,000 men being actually under arms.
M. lIt7stANN, the Minister of Finance, had Still a dif-
ficulty in negotiating his loan, and capitalists did not
seem at all anxious to put themselves out of the way to
aeennunodate the French Government. Two failures
have taken place in Paris, one a banking firm, Messrs.
PIERRUGUES, VEii:.:VTAC and Co., the other of a large
Marseilles and West India. house, MARENTIE and Co.
The liabilities are considerable, and many houses here
are sufferers. Some firms in London will also lose by
these accidents.
Some National Guards have beet protesting against
the dissolution of a company of the Ath Legion because
thy elected a captain who had been suspended from his
rank for a political demonstration ; they have sent a pro-
test to the Minister of the Interior, and this will probably
bring about a further cashiering, much to their content-
ment, there being now . nothillg more odious to a Parisian
than being found to mount guard as a citizen soldier.
We should not be surprised to see this institution
abolished by common consent within another ten years ;
it is made elitirely nugatory by the arbitrary, tyrannical
procedure of the Government, and is of no security what-
ever at the present moment to - the family who are, for
the time being, on the throne.
Advices have been received from Algiers ; - nothing of
importance in a" military point of view has been done ;
the expeditionary columns had not returned to their
garriions, had nowhere met with any considerable body
of the enemy, had destroyed vast quantities of corn, &c.,
and had captured one of AIID-E-KADER'S Aghas. The
Duke Of 4.1331 ALE was better.

BOURSE-PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7.

'that Highest Lowest Last
Prier. Price. Frio. Price
trench 5 per Cents
45i per Cents 104 25 ..: 104 gi ... 104 • 5 ... 104 25
pet Cents 99 2i . 99 25 99 25 .. 99 25
31,er Cent!. ex. div 76 45 %6 60 ... 76 .15 ...9176
60
14-,nk of Frkaice
Lttlitte /Link 1,0001 SI area 113. i ...1C35 ...1030 ...1022 50
sJleAlEStares 5140 ...5140 ."5130
Belgian 5 per Cents. 101 10134 ... 101t4 .. 101 !4
1l I'b
5
• 5 5 '" 5
102 40 102 50 ... !fa 40 ... ,(2 50
102 102 ... 1(2 102
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles.L.B...— 10.2
." w 3 102 50 103 75
H. P 1.... 310 312 50 310 ... 312 50
461 4 e 463 ... 460
4.142 50 4142. 50 4t2 50 452 50
235 203 235

Neapolitan

Rouen ...«..«.....
Orleans .........
itrasourg to Bale

There is to intelligence from Madrid of any value.
We. understand that the Infante Don FRANCISCO DE
PAULA is to allow his daughter, the Countess GAROWSKI,
12,000 francs (about 4801.) a year on
condition of her not
inhabiting either Spain, France, Orltaly. ln'h e
millions Count
has
On
n notthe got
Maa an}' Exchange
fortune
30th eleven
of reals had been done in the Fives at 261 5-16 for cash,
and 26-34 for sixty days. On the Coupons'
.-n1 to be ca'-
talised, bargains were done for 2 rea,619,351 is. Exchange
upon London, ninety days, 371
The Malaga journals give the followino•
alarm-
ing acsounts of the mutiny of the garrison of Albn-
cemas :—" On the evening of the 7th ult., the sound of
a musket shot was heard. At this signal the drums and trum
pets sounded, and the soldiers rushed to arms, crying, . Death
to employes, death to our officers, and to all women and chil-
dren. On hearing this noise one of the officers endeavoured
to persu-de them to return to their duty, but he was immedi-
ately shot. An adjutant also fell a victim to their rage. They
pursued him to h s own house, at the door of which he fell
and expired, pierced by a thousand I,a)oret wounds. Two
srrjeants and two sub..officet s met a similar fate. The soldiers
den spread them,elves through the town. committing the
greatest vio!ence. Every rrnale who was unfortunate enough
to fall into their hands was brutally violated. The prisoners
confined in the hulks were rel,23xed and joined the mutineers,
by whom the town was pillaged in every direction. This con.
duct lasted horn the 7th to the 14th. when the 13Iovernor pro-
ceeded, accompa• ied by his staff, to the barneks, and succeeded
in getting the men to point out to him the ringleaders of the
ou break, who were immediately taken into custody, and .even
~f them shot, without, any opposition on the part of their com-
rades. The Governor was, however, obliged to yield to the
soldiery, who were in possession of the town, which remained
in a state of complete anarchy. The mutineers have offered
to return to their duty, on being promised pardon, but threat-
en, if this is not complied with, to massacre all the inhabitants,
and deliver up the place to the Moors." A recent account states
that tranquillity has been again restored.
By the regular Mails from Madrid we have received
the Journals of that capital of the 30th ult. In the
Gazette of that date, we find the following Decree, being
the second promulgated by the REGENT relative to the
dispute with the hloly See :
a,
main 1.
There shall be published throughout the whole kingdom
debt° from the Government, justifying its cemlutt.o4d

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exposing all the offences that Spain and the Spanish church
have received from the Court of Rome, since the accession of
Queen Isabella 11. to the throne of her ancestors, and the vio-
lation of all the rights of national sovereignty committed in the
allocution pronounced by the holy father in the secret consia-
tory;of the Ist of last March, by firmly and energetically pro-
testing against'the contents of the said allocution, and against
all that the Court of Rome may hereafter attempt in support of
its unjust pretensions.
2. Every copy of the above alloeulon, printed at Rome
or in any other foreign Tart, as well as every manuscript copy
of the above, shall be given up to the Government, as shall
be every act of the kind sent furtively from Rome, under the
penalty mentioned by law 50, title 13, book i. of the Noressima
3. The magistrates shall rigorously prosecute, conformably
to the principles of their jurisdiction, all those who shall exe-
cute or invoke, as effective in this kingdom, the aforesaid allo-
cution, and all bulls, briefs, and decrees, emanating from the
court of Rome, and also all ecclesiastics who in their sermons,
or spiritual functions, shall maintain such acts to be effective,
without having previously obtained full powers for so doing,
conformably to laws 7 and 8, book i. of theNoressima Recapi-
lacion.
4. In case of non-conformity to the above, the ecclesiastical
authorities shall deliver over to the secular tribunals all those
members of the clergy who, in their sermons or essential func-
tions, shall excite their flock to disobey the Government, con-
formably to laws 7 and 8, busk i., of the Noressima Recapi-
lacion. The Magistrates, in this case, will act as prescribed
by the law abnvemenrioned.
- 5. The Royal andiencias are made responsible for the due
application of the said laws, on the part of the Magistrates and
Prelates.
"6. All civil, judiciary, and ecclesiastical authorities shall
be informed of the firm determination of the Government to
have the laws respected, to show no tolerance for any fault
whatever, and to prosecute rigorously those who shall not per-
form the duties imposed on them.—See that this be duly at-
tended to. "1 he Duke of VITTORIA.

" Madrid, June 20, 1841.
" To Don J. Alonzo."

The 'Magistrates, Deputies, and Citizens •of Breslaw
have presented an address to the King of PRUSSIA on the
refusal of his MAJESTY to accept anyfete from the inha-
bitants of that city, became they had petitioned for the
promulgation of the general Constitution guaranteed to
Prussia by the Congress of Vienna. The address is
dated the 2d of June, and contains the following spirited
passage :
According to general right, every one is allowed to snake his
Sovereign acquainted with his doubts, his objections, and re-
flections, on the decrees and ordinances of the State ; and why
should not provincial States be allowed to charge their
Deputies, according to their intelligence and their con-
science, with the office of making propositions and petitions
having _for their end the amelioration of the institutions
now in force? It is this right which we have ezetcised
in presenting through our Deputies4at the last provincial Diet.
the petition concerning the States of the kingdom, and we
can see in this neither a result of crude theories, nor a culpa-
ble imitation of foreign manners. It is, Sire, but a pure and
simple echo of the ever-Memorable promises of his late Majesty
the King your father, and of our firm conviction that their ful-
filment at the present moment would be as opportune as
_im-
portant. We could not imagine that by this proceeding, we
were transgressing the limits set by law, but, on the contrary,
we were convinced that it would serve to ensure the continuance
and ulterior development of the civil and political liberty, pro-
tected by a just and enlightened system of athninistration. We
are still less able to abstain from fulfilling this duty, because,
according to the declaration of the recess to the states of East-
ern Prussia, given at Sans-Souci, the. 4th of last October, we
could have api ealed to the memory of the States of Eastern
PI ufsia on the subject of federal right, and have hoped with
confidence that your Majesty would graciously receive the loyal
wishes of your subjects, and even the renewal of entreaties
which you would not grant on that occasion.

We learn by the Flanders mail, arrived last night,
that the railway from Cologne to Aix-la-Chapelle will
be completed on the 15th of August ; and that it will
be opened to the public on the Ist September, when great
rejoicings- are expected to take place. The English,
the people or the Netherlands, and the Americans lead
the way in rail-roads, but they have few followers.

ATIDDLLSEX SESSIONS, JULY B.—On the motion of Sir
George ['arrant a discussion took place respecting the dis-
missal of Mr. Dv, er Irom the magistracy on account of the
charge made against him by the convict Medhurst. The de-
rositions of the Governor, Chaplain, and Assistant Chaplain
to Cold Bath-fields prison were read, from which it ap-
peared that a proposition had been made to Med-
burst, to get him released for 3,0001., which, accord-
ing to Mr. Dyer's account, was to go to a charity. Ihe con-
vict stated, that the person who made the proposition repre-
sented himself as a relative of Lady Normanby, and that the
release would be obtained from Lord Normanby, on account of
that comsection. The Chairman stated, on the authority of
Lord Nrormaribv and'Mr. D)er, senior, deceased, that no re-
lation existed between the two families. The discussion led to
no result.