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were repugnant to his feelings, was bound to confess that he
thought the Noble Earl, who had introduced it had made
out a sufficient case to authorise their Lordships in
arming the Government with additional powers. But
measures for repressing acts of outrage, while the spirit of
insubordination remained, were insufficient to meet the wants
of the case. Eleemosynary relief, too, had frequently been
granted to Ireland, without producing permanent bene-
fit. It was their duty to go to the root of the evil
and to take away the source of the spirit of insubordination.
This was not the time to discuss what these measures
*tight to be; but if, before the third reading of the
Bill, they had no general outline given to them
of a comprehensive measure of general policy,
it would be the duty of the House to record its opinion of
the necessity of coupling with this measure some other
measures 'of the nature of those to which he had
alluded; and if no other Noble Lord undertook the task,
e should on the third reading bring forward a resolution
pledging the House to inquire into the cause
of the evils of the present state of Ireland, and to provide
a remedy for those evils. He thought the provision for levy-
ing a line on that district in which crime was coin

mitted a proper provision, but he trusted their Lord-
ships would not consent to this law without
the addition of a'clause limiting the time of its operation,
and he thought that the clauses relating to persons out
between sunset and sunrise required some modification.
The Marquis of WESTMEATII supported the Bill, which was
read a second time, after which their Lordships adjourned.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
Several railway Bills were read a second time and ordered
to be committed.
On the motion for the second reading of the Bilston Gas
Bill, Mr. R. SPOONER moved that it be read a second time
that day six months. After a short discussion the amend-
ment was withdrawn, the Bill read a second time, and
ordered to hie committed.
Petitions were presented against the enrolment of the
militia, .and also against the free-trade measure of the Go-
vernment.
Mr. ESTCOURT gave notice of his intention, to-morrow, to
bring under the consideration of the House an error in the
report of the Sub-Committee with respect to the West
Riding Union Railway Bill, and to move that the Bill
brought in founded on that report be annulled.
Lord SANDON gave notice of his intention, after Easter, to
bring in a Bill relative to the prisons in, and the jurisdiction
of, the city of London.
Sir R. PEEL, in answer to a question from Sir R. ING.Lts,
said that dispatches had been received by the Government
relative to the war in India; that these dispatches bore
out generally the statements of the morning papers of this
day, that a great victory had been gained by the valour of
the British troops, but, he was sorry to say, with
considerable loss. The particulars of these dispatches would
be published in an ex t raordinory Gazette probably this evening.
The Right Hon. Baronet, in answer to a question from Mr.
O'Cox WELL, said that the Government proposed bringing in,
several Bills with respect to Ireland during the present session,
but it was not proposed to give those nteasures precedence of
the measures now under the consideration of the Houte. The
Government proposed to bring in a Bill to encourage the im-
provent of land in Ireland. They also proposed to introduce
other Bills to amend the law respecting the registration of
county voters in Ireland, and the mode of holding elections
in that country; an alteration was intended to be proposed
with respect to the franchise. With respect to the Municipal
Corporation Bill that would be introduced by the Govern-
ment, the effect of it would be to assimilate the municipal
franchise of Ireland as much as possible to that of England.
SirJ. GRAHAM, in answer to a question from Mr. O'CON-
NELL, said there would be no objection to lay before the
House the papers asked for by the Hon. and Learned Mem-
ber relative to the execution of Bryan Seery.
Mr. E. BULLER then resumed the adjourned debate
on the Customs' and Corn Importation measure.
He advocated the measure of the Government, believing that
protection meant nothing more nor less than this—benefit
to one class of society at the expense of the rest. Although
he had five points to cavil at in the Government measure,
he felt that the carrying of it was of such importance that
he should give it his hearty support.
Captain BATESON would give the measure his most deter-
mined opposition. No man lamented more than he did the
failure of the potato crop in Ireland, or would be more ready
to support a measure that would have the effect of relieving
the misery of that country, but it was a mockery to
say that a measure like the present, which would
have the effect of depreciating the price of the agricultural
produce of that country, would have that effect. In twelve
months' time, if the proposed measure passed, the whole pro-
duce of Ireland would be driven out of the English market
by foreign competition. He still retained the motto of his
county, " No surrender."
Mr. MONTAGUE GORE would give the measure of the
Government his decided and most strenuous support. He
had no fear for agriculture from the competition of other
countries. He would not support the measure if he thought
it was conceded to agitation or fear; he believed that it was
conceded from no such cause, but from a just conviction of its
necessity.
Mr. R. A. FITZGERALD heard with great pleasure the
speech of the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Govern-
ment the other night; he concurred with every part of it,
and would give the measure his decided support. He was
glad to see that the Government intended to introduce mea-
sures to improve the condition of Ireland. He believed if the
Noble Lord the Member for London and his party were in
power they would be enabled to do great good for Ireland.
Captain LOCKI Ass opposed the proposition. They were not
called upon to pass a sweeping measure of the kind to avert a
casual calamity.
Sir G. CLERK advocated the measure. He thought if
Hon. Members looked to what had been passing in the
country for the last twenty years, they would come to the
conviction that the Government were not pursuing a new or
overstrained policy in proposing the adoption of those mea-
sures. He felt convinced, if the measure passed, not a single
acre of land in the country would be thrown out of cultiva-
tion by the importation of corn from Russia, or any other
part of the world ; but that the agricultural part of the com-
munity, as well as the commercial, would be benefited by it.
Mr. LIDDELL wanted to know if there had been no change
in the policy of the Government in bringing forward this
measure ; why the Noble Lord, the Member for the City of
London, sat on the other side of the House, and why the
Noble Lord, the Sec. etary for Ireland, had gone back to his
constituents at Nottingham, and was likely to lose his seat.
He considered the assertion of the Right Hon. Baronet who
had just addressed the House most startling, and not founded
on fact. A great change had taken place in the policy of the
Government, the introduction of the present measure was a
revolution on their former policy, one, as he believed, calcu-
lated to do immense injury to the country, and he should,
therefore, give it his determined opposition. He did not
pretend to say that the corn-laws as they at present existed
should be maintained, but as long as he was a Member of
that House he should contend that they ought to exist in a
modified form. •

Mr. Hurr supported the Government proposition, be-
lieving that the only measure that could relieve the dis-
tresses of the country was a repeal of the corn -laws.
Captain I;IAJUiIe opposed the Government measure.
Mr. MONCKTON MILNES bad never refused ti do justice to
the Hon. Gentlemen opposite whenever they had brought
, forward measures which he conceived to be for the benefit
of the country, neither was be inclined to judge the present
Ministers so harshly as some of his Hon. Friends seemed
inclined to judge them, and seeing the great alterations
which had taken place in the opinions of all those connected
with political life, on the subject of the corn-laws, he
thought that great allowances oug ht to be made for the Minis-
ter. It was for the House to decide whether a statesman should
be permitted to modify his opinion, or whether the country
should be exposed to the danger of perpetual changes. But
he considered there were two questions—the one the secular
rejection of the revenues of the Irish Church, and the other
the repeal of the corn-laws, whichthe present Gevernment,was
precluded upon principle from considering. Under
existing circumstances he could only look upon the Govern-
men t of the Right Hon. Baronet as a Government ad interim to
carry this measure, existing by the permission of its oppo-
nents. He gave his support to this measure, net because be
had any confidsmce in the Government of the Right Hon.
Baronet, but because he felt conscientiously bound, in accord-
ance with his principles, to repudiate the doctrine of protec-
tion as laid down by the agricultural interest. He had
always considered the corn-law as a temporary measure, and
he felt that the time was now come for its removal.
He did not believe that the great relief would be afforded by
the repeal of these laws which Hon. Gentlemen expected,
neither did he think that the fears of those opposed to • the
measure would be realised, Comparing the habits of life and
the physical powers of the English labourer with those of the
foreign labourer, he was not of opinion that the English labourer
would suffer from the change; indeed, he could not suffer,
for his wages were already reduced in agricultural districts
to the lowest possible point, and if the wages of the agricul-
tural labourer in Yorkshire were higher than those of the
same labourer in Northamptonshire, it was because of the
contiguity of Yorkshire to the manufacturing districts. He
believed the tenant;Tarmers would suffer by the change rnol-e
than any other class. The Hon. Gentleman then complained
of the attacks which had been made on the landlords by the
League, and co ntended that the land was let much below its
real value, and that by these changes the landlords might be,
tempted to become mere manufacturers of corn. He
trusted, however, that they would not give way to the temp-
tation, and although they might suffer temporary pecuniary
loss, yet they would maintain their position as the great
supporters of the safety and permanency of this mighty em-
pire.
On the motion of Lord INGESTRE the debate was then ad-
journed until to-morrow.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'clock.

Despite the interference—the rash and unconstitutional in-
terference—of the Duke of NEWCASTLE, despite the autho-
ritative protest of the father, despite the voice of deprecation
which issued from the ducal retirement of Clumber—Lord
Lutcoue presented himself upon the hustings of Newark on
Saturday night, and, according to the show of bands, was
re-elected the representative of South Nottinghamshire.
Though we would be the last to desire any family quarrels to
date themselves from the glorious struggles for freedom of
commerce which are now visible in this country—though we
are as desirous as any one else not to aid by one single ex-
pression in embroiling parties so nearly allied as the two noble
personages above mentioned, we cannot but rejoice that the
manifesto to which, three days ago, we directed attention, has
not deterred Lord Luecous from coming forward as a tho-
rough advocate for the abolition principles. The Quixotism
of the strawberry-leaf aristocrats ; the bold asseverations of
RICHMOND, and MARLBOROUGH, and BUCKING/JAW, seemed
to imply the impossibility of any greater extravagance on
the part of those haughtiest of hereditary dignitaries. When,
however, his Grace of NEWCASTLE, fired with a patriotic
trepidation for his rent-roll, has the consummate hardihood to
oppose the expressed prerogatives of Englishmen by dic-
tating to a constituency the merits of this candidate and the
demerits of his opponent, all the previous achievements
of his fellow-autocrats wither into insignificance, Although
a contemptuous laugh might have been first excited by the
half-whimpering, half-frenzied language employed by his
Grace, although a momentary chuckle may have ensued
upon a first perusal of that most unscholarly and un-
dignided proclamation, our sincerest disgust was excited
by the selfishness which embittered every adjective, the
rancour which burnt in every verb, and the marvellous
effrontery which pervaded every sentence of that impolitic
and ignoble letter. Resolved upon out-doing the former
feats of the ducal phalanx, the Lord of Clumber charged
his blunderbuss to the muzzle, at the risk of an explosion
which might materially damage hiinself. Not content with
the questionable notoriety of tampering, in a secret
manner, with the return of a Parliamentary cham-
pion ; not content with giving his implied patron-
age to a corn-law candidate, by fastening, as it were,
to his canvassing-book a guarantee of his approbation in the
jovial person of his agent—my "Lord Duke " must violate
all decency in characters legible to the multitude, 1--b is
scarcely satisfied with the renown of invisible interference—
he must proclaim his culpable movements with foolscap and
goosequill ! Oratory has asserted the imomeities of a landed
oligarchy; literature must be taxed for Oa same heroic
porpoee. A boon to the few must be preserved by
a eontinuance of an injustice to the many: what
so appropriate for the enforcement of this necessity,
as bad grammar, bad humour, bad iaete, and bad policy ?

Were there not undukely systems to bolster up and
perpetuate ?—what so appropriate for this purpose as an
exhibition of avarice and fury equally undukely in its na-
ture ? Wele there not ungenerous measures to retain ?
' what so appropriate for this purpose as an effort equally
ungenerous ? Were there not laws most unnatural to preserve ?
—what so appropriate for this purpose as an interposition
equally unnatural? But an action so diametrically opposed
to the general temperament audsympathies of our countrymen
was impossible to receive their approbation—its failure was
doomed in the very moment of its germination—it was null
and imbecile in the very senectude of its concoctor. Imme-
diately upon its publication we felt assured that
Lord Luicomf would derive much benefit from it instead
of any actual detriment ; this conviction has been
confirmed by the proceedings of Saturday around
the hustings of Newark. Far from sympathising,
as some unprincipled or small-seeing individuals had hinted,
in the woes of a contemned parent, we would undertake to
vouch that most of the tenant-farmers present experienced
only a gush of pride at the manly and unselfish conduct of
Lord LINCOLN. It would be frivolous to argue upon the de-
ference owing by his Lordship to a paternal interdict; that
deference we doubt not for a moment is rife in the bosom of
the Noble Earl. But upon that interdict it is
preposterous to expect his Lordship to act. Lord
LaNcoi..)( is not surely in his political babyhood ; .
he is not surely a consumer of electioneering
rusks or Parliamentary tops-and-bottoms ; the legislative
candle-cup is not surely the medium of his nourishment; a
ducal bib is not sure'y the fitting garment for a full-grown
Member of the House of Commons. Such an interposition
as that of his Lordship's father is as unseemly as it is most
irretrievably ludicrous ; and we conceive that Lord
LINCOLN, by the taciturnity he preserved on the hustings
as to the api earance of that precious document, acted
most judiciously : abstaining by that silence from any al-
lusions to his parent, while, by so doing, he tacitly pro-
claimed his independence as the candidate of an enlightened
p )licy. If there were sufficient time, we would urge the
electors to confirm the noble position thus maintained by
Lord LINCOLN; and by the numerical eloquence of the
polling booths, proclaim to the Duke of NEWCASTLE the
folly of printing squibs at the instigation of any member of
the Peerage, as well as the triumph which must ever attend
just laws and progressive opinions.

We have received Madrid papers of the 14th and 15th
inst. On the 14th the Senate met, when General SERRANO
read the decree appointing NARVAEZ Commander-in-Chief
of the army, and asked for sonic explanations as to the duties
of that office. General NARVAEZ wished to speak, but the
President interrupted him, and informed the speaker that no
answer could be given to the question in the absence of Minis-
ters, and the Chamber adjourned. On the 15th the Council
of Ministers assembled, and remained several hours in deibe-
ration. After a long discussion relative to the question put
by General SERRANO in the Chamber of Peers on the previous
day, it is said that Ministers declared the title of Com-
mander-in-Chief merely honorary. NARVA.EZ, however,
will not rest satisfied with a merely honorary title; a contest
will, therefore, immediately take place between him and the
new Ministry, and we should not be surprised to hear in a
few days of its dissolution. The appointment has created
much anxiety at Madrid, for a general belief prevails that
unless NARVAEZ is controlled by the Ministry, he will at
once assume the powers of a Dictator.
On the 14th the Three per Cents. closed at 32% at 60
days. The Five per Cents. were not quoted.

The most striking feature in the Paris Papers continues
to be the intelligence from Algiers. Every mail brings
more disheartening news. The Government papers assert
that the accounts have been greatly exaggerated. We,
therefore, can draw no conclusion as to the real state of affairs,
and consider it best to give extracts from the different pa-
pers, that our readers may judge for themselves. The Con-

stitutionnel says :
" The appearance of Abd-el-Kader in the province of Algiers within
a few hours' march of the capital is unfortunately confirmed. The
ex-Emir had been preceded, and his approach announced, by his
lieutenants Ben Salem and one of the many Bou Mazas. Both of
these were beaten, and their followers dispersed. The Bou Masa
was defeated by the Beni Ayssis, in the environs of Denys, to
the east of Algiers. But there had been too much haste in
hoping for the end of the agitation which their presence had created.
They had scarcely disappeared, when Abd-el-Kader. having passed
through the defiles of the Atlas, entered the province of Algiers, and
fell suddenly upon the tribes of the Isser, whom ho made pay dearly
for their constant fidelity to the French. The plain which this tribe
inhabited was ravaged throughout by the cavalry of the Emir, on the
sth and 6th inst. A small detachment from the Marshal's column,
which crossed the plain a few days after, states that it bore all the
aspect of a desert. The people, driven away, fled to the neighbour-
ing tribes, filling them also with affright. Several of their chiefs
fell into the heads of Abd-el-Kader, and were mercilessly decapi-
tated. The Marshal, following the traces of the Emir, has moved
from the west to the east of Algiers. He was in the environs of
Bogbar to the south-west, and he is every moment expected
on the plateaux of flamza to the east. If the Emir was at
the head ef regular tr,ops, this move of M. Bugeaud, would take
him in the rear, and drive him between the sea and the column of
General Gentil, which closes the defiles ef the Isser—while General
Yousouf, on the other hand, who has been sent in pursuit of Abd-el-
Kader, with 600 cavalry, must, it appears, drive his 500 or 600 horse
back upon the threes of the Marshal or General Gentil. But can
any success be hoped for, even ef the best combined tactics, against
an enemy so evanescent ? Many military men consider the sally
made by Abd-el-Kader towards the very heart ef our colony, and al-
most within sight of the walls of its capital, was an act of the utmost
audacity that may be fatal to him. In fact, he seems to have com-
pletely involved himself is a position surrounded by the Marshal on
the south, General Gentil on the west, the sea on the north, and
General Yousouf in close pursuit of lihn ; so- that he has nothing left
but 'to continue on his way to the east and throw himself into the
province of Constantina. To any other than himself such a move-
ment would be impossible. The province ef Constantina has long
been worked upon by his emissaries. It is much agitated by his ex-
pected arrival."
The Messager of Saturday contradicts to a certain extent
these statements :
" Yesterday and to-day reports were-circulated in Paris calculated
to excite uneasiness as to Algeria. We are authorised to contradict
them. The Government has received no other dispatches from Oran
and Algiers than those which have been inserted hn the journals, sad,
far from conceiving any alarm for the environs of this last-named
city, there is every reason to believe, on the contrary, that it was the
appearance of Ben Salem on the Isser, that gave rise to the belief
that Abd-el-Kader, deceiving all the columns in pursuit of him, had
approached Fondeuk. Only one report has arrived since those which
have been published ; and this gives complete assurance as to the
province of Constantino, the population of which is represented is
disposed to give a bad reception to the ex-Emir, should he venture
to appear among them "

The Journal des Debats, however, is more cautious, and
does not to any extent confirm the assertions of the Messitger.
It in fact rather takes a gloomy view of affairs :
" 'rho following is what we can gather of Abd-el-Kader's move-
ments, from the confused accounts given in the journals of the
colony. Let it first be remembered, that Ben Salem, the Khalifa of
the Kabyles of the Jurjura, fbr Abd-el•Kader, made on the sth an
unexpected irruption on our allied tribes on the right bank of the
Isser ; that he was beaten on the 6th by Colonel Blangini ; and
surprised on the 7th in his camp by General Gentil, who had crossed
the Isser, on the news of Bess Salem's attack. Two days after, Abd-
el-Kader, arriving from the desert by Harnett, crossed the Isser below
the bridge of Ben Hini, ten leagues from Fondouk and twenty
leagues from Algiers, but is place of pushing forward on the road
of Fondouk, he de ,cended the course of the river on the left, and fell
like a thunderbolt on the tribes inhabiting the fine plains of the Isser.
These tribes are exceedingly devoted to us. They submitted in 1841
without making any opposition ; they have always been well-treated;
and, having gained much money with us, were in the enjoyment of
remarkable prosperity. Atd-el-Kader and Ben Salem have ravaged
them in the most cruel manner, burning the douars and villages, cutting
down the fruit-trees, taking with them all the cattle, and, in addition,
cutting off the heads of the principal chiefs. It is a cause for asto-
nishment, that Abd-el-Kader has thus advanced into the plain of
laser, notwithstanding the recent disaster of Ben Salem. It is not
easy to conceive why General Gentil was not within reach to pro-
tect these:unfortunate tribes. In these circumstances two battalions
of the national guard were called out ; 500 men, undergoing punish-
ment for military offences, were armed; and, finally, General
Yousouf set out Fondouk with 500 er 600 horse. The Governor-
General, General Bedeau, General Marey, General d'Arbouville,
manceuvred simultaneously to oppose it, and the Emir, in some
measure, passed in the midst of them, and left the whole force
far behind. General Gentil, whom a wise provision had placed
at Oiled-Corso, was not there at the moment when the pro-
vision in question was realised, tract his advantage over Ben
Salem turned fatally against us and our allies. There was also a re-
serve at Blidah at the commencement of the campaign, but General
Comte= had a short time back received orders to quit Blidah with

it aTuTPrOCeed towards Medeah. Orders have been sent to him to
return in all haste to Blidah. Col. Eynard, who commands at Or-
leansville, has been summoned to the province of Algiers, to Milianah,
whence he will descend into the plain if necessary. The circle of
Algiers, which was altogether undefended, ought, therefore, to be at

present sufficiently protected to prevent the enemy from penetrating
there. These great perturbations, caused by a leader at the head of
only 600 or 100 horsemen, lead many persons to suppose that
it would answer better to endeavour to defend or com-
mand for the moment only certain regions, the most
important round our positions, reserving to a future moment to
chastise the distant tribes, in place of wearing out men, horses, and
material in running after Aixi-el-Kader wherever he chooses to lead
us, and where we follow with difficulty, without any probability of
ever being able to come up with hlm, and bring him to action. The
inland districts well guarded ; two moveable columns on the line of
our forts on the desert ; and an expedition on the Malouia in Mo-
rocco, to overturn the political establishment which he endeavours
to found there, is the plan, it is said, which has teen proposed for
this year, No news of Abd-el-Kader had been received at Algiers
on the 12th, since his razzia at the Isser, executed on the 10th at
day-break, but it was said that General Gentil had returned to Oued-
Corso the same evening."

The Presse contains the following remarks on the ruinous
objects.mp
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serious
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accomplishinga n a milliard (i4n0a,000,01.00:
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sterling), sue the expense it costs us is
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100,000e%Ovfe.
organisation of our army. It prevents us fz um allocating
a year to the reduction of taxation, which would add to the receipts
of the Treasury by increasing its proiuce. It prevents us from
executing public works which would enrich the country,
and frein making improvements in the administration or
affairs, which would give durability to our institutions.
Algeria is manifestly intended to perform an all-important
part in the first conflict that shall disturb the peace of Europe, and
terlltlebedei6scmuess-
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should
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our France.s
81014 Sand our miserable rivalry, to occupy yourselves with our African
possesSiOni, atiti for this purpose we require to be roused by the ac •
count of some unfortunate disaster, or by a dispatch containing the
account of some revolting and unnecessary act of cruelty 1 To what
'conclusion wilifsuch a course lead us ?"
• Notwithstanding these sinister accounts, the French funds
continuo tiflll.
The Three pgFepota, closed on the Paris Bourse on Saturday at
84f. 65e. I the Five per Cote t 123 f. 40c. ; the Orleans Railroad
shares, 1,320 f. ; Konen, 1,047 f, 50c ; Great Northern, 773 f. 75c. ;
lEevre, 740 f.; Avignon, 1,007 f. 50a.1 VierZon, 710 f.; Bordeaux,
652 f. 50e.; Boulogne, 547 f. 50c. • Troyes and Montereau, 450 f, ;
253 f. 75c. ; Pieppe, 477 f. 50c.; :Strasburg, 555 f.; Tours and Nantes,

591 f. Passives, 6 munesue Debt, 32_

. .
Ms Wowing are tke tinottitions for other lines:—Lyon and
Avignon (Talabot), 510 f. ; Ditto (Legointe), 505 f. ; Ditto (Corn-
Meridionale), 502 f, 44. ; Ditto (definitlVOL 65f.; Bordeaux
and Cette (Mackenzie), 503f.500. ; Ditto (Espeleta), 410 L ; Charleroi
(Kysaen's), 497 f. 50c. ' • Caen (Delamarre, 5021,
Dimisztuxs, FEB. 16.—Marseilles and. Avignon, 982 f. 500.
Lym, rgp, 19.—Paris and Orleans, 1,226 f. 25c. ; Paris and
Rouen, 1,051 f, ; Orleans and Yierzon, 725.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOE EftlN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK. EXCHANGE, Fps. 21.
Boulogne and Amiens, 11% —Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Mackenzie), 2)4—Ditto (Espeleta), 2 t j —Dutch Rhenish, 6% —(treat
Northern of France Constituted, 15)4—Great Western Bengal, %
—Luxembourg, 24 —Paris and Rouen, 4034 —Rouen and Havre, 30—
Sambre and Meuse, s)4—West Flanders, 4%.

VICTORY OF FEROZEPORE.—At half-past nine o'clock
last evening the Park and Tower guns fired a royal salute In honour
of the glorious vietsry obtained over the Seikhs by her Majesty's
troops and those of the Hon, Nftst India Company under the com-
mand of Sir Henry Hardinge, Gov eopr.General of India, and Sir
Hugh Gough, Commander-in-Chief in that country, Qn the 18th,
21st And 22d of December last, at Ferezepore.
kiNg IKA,Tgny's SHIP QIIEEN.—We find in the Naval
Intelligence, Appearing In the Times of Thursday, from its Ports-
mouth Correspondent, an artigla in reference to the desertion of
seamen from H. M. S. Rodney, which Is Impided to the tyran-
nical conduct of the officers on board. We know nothing of
the correctness or incorrectness of this statement, but
we do know from inquiries we have instituted, that alio-

ther statement which has been linked to it is monstrously
false. It is this, " The Rodney is not the only ship which has suf-
fered seriously by desertion. Wo are informed, the flag-ship at
Devonport has lost upwards of 100 men lately," This, we have
been assured, is quite untrue. The Queen has not lost men by de-
sertion.; and to make the assertion just after the hint about
tyrannical egniluct of officers, is grossly unjust to the highly
humane and universally esteemed captain, Sir Henry Leeks,
end the officers who co.opernte with him in the efficient and
seamanlike management of the ship. lgC) nign can possibly be
more indulgent than fir Henry, no man Can possibly meat the
strongest gratitude of his crew more than he, and Jack is aqt the
sort stf keing to forsake the ship in which lie is well treated, for
a mere crotebgl. t,ll-!.en who have bad the opportunity of bet-
tering themselves have certalillY Otained the kind consent of the
captain to do so, but we repeat, there has been IP 4ehertlen. Here,
the state of the Queen, and the amiable disposition 431 the captain p 4
deers are so well known, that the absurdity of the paragraPh con-
veys its Own eantradiction. ButmiingjhttistbiceehtiodutheeeT,elasenwd
haserer,egitaridst
Oat we au then gbiervatiouL—DenvortinaTendcnt.
the wrong impress en I.ch

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS,

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were about 6,000
bales. There was some improvement in the market, with a little
speculative demand, but the principal sales were to the trade.
The intelligence received from the East Indies this morning, In
anticipation of the Overland Mall, has been the subject of almost
exclusive conversation in the City among the merchants, bankers,
and others. And there is an unanimous feeling of regret expressed
at the great loss of life that has .occurred in the great
battle between the British and the native troops and
the Seikh army. But, above all, the death of General
Sir Robert Sale, who died on the field of battle. The full details of
the information that has just come to hand will be found in another
part of The Sun; of course the private commercial letters have
not yet come to band, and there is not anything known upon mer-
cantile affairs beyond that commnuicated through the medium of the
press ogndia of the condition of the general markets—Calcutta,
Bombay, &c.
In the City this morning there are not any later advices at hand
from,Canada, or other portions of British North America.
The Consol Market has been rather flat this morning, probably
arising from the serious loss sustained by the forces in India. Money
is rather more in request to-day. Consols for to-morrow have
fallen from 96 to 95%, and for the Accoant from 96 to 95% sellers.
Exchequer-bills are heavy at 375. premiun ; East India Bonds at 38s.
premium; the Reduced Three per Cents. at 96!6, and the New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. at 98.
In the Foreign Funds there has been comparatively little business
tran3acted this morning. There is at present scarcely any disposi-
tion to speculate in the continental or in the other bends. The Five
per Cent. Brazilian Stock has improved from 82% to 83% ; the
Equador Bonds have fluctuated only from 3% to % ; Mexican De-
ferred are at 16%. Portuguese Three per Cents. at 58 ; Spanish, at
27 ; Veneauela, at 45 ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are
at 9filA%:.

' The' iictivity displayed by the ♦arious Committees appointed by the
House of Commons preliminarily to investigate the several railway
projects, in order to ascertain if the standing orders have been com-
plied with, is a matter 'of satisthction in the Railway Share Market.
The sooner the fact is known how many Bills are likely to pass tk
session the better. The market for Shares has not been geed this
morning, as the annexed prices will show.

ONE CLOSING
BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock ..
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. • • 96% iti 96%
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. • • 96 95% 95%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 98% 97% 98 98
'Milt Bonds, 1,000/. . .. .. .. ..
Ditto, under 1,0001. ..
.. .. .. 38 38
Consols for Account .. .. .. . 96 95% 95%
Exchequer Bills. I%d.
...)%d.
__

i,oool. .. .
5001. .. .
Ditto, Small

37 .- -- pm.
_ __ _... .._ pm.
--.-- - pm.

CLOSING
PILICES.
83N
40%
3%
22
3114
16%

ONE
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 8234 83%
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent
Equador Bonds ..
Grenada, 1 per Cent
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, Deferred .. 16%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, 3 per Cent .. .. • • 58
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 2734
Ditto, for the Account .. 2734
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent .. .. 45
Ditto, Deferred .. 1434
Dividends on the above payable in Loudon.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 5934
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 95% %
PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOSING
DONE AT
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Birmingham and Gloucester.. .. 100 ....125 • • 125
Bristol and Exeter 70 86 ..... 85
Caledonian .. .. 10 ....
Ditto Half Shares .. 2% •• • • 3% .....
Ditto Extension .. • • • • 2% •• • • 2 %•••• • • • •
Chester and Holyhead .. 20 • • 21% %22 ..
Churnet and Blythe .. 2 .. • • 1%
Direct Northern .. 234.•,.
Dublin and Galway .. .. • • 4 •• • • 4% 4.... ....
Eastern Counties .. 141. 165. 2134% ......
Ditto New .. 81. 16s. ....
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61 I3s. 4d. .......
Ditto, ditto, No. 2. Cl. I3s. 4d. p • .
Ditto, York Extension .. 10s. .. . 34 .......
Eastern Union .. .. 25 ....
........ _
Do. Ipswich & Bury St.Edmunds 634 8% „. •814
Do. Extension to Norwich ..234 .... 314
East Lincolnshire .... 234 • .
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 50 .... 76 ...... 76
Ditto 34 Shares .. • • 5 •• • - 16 ..... 16
Goole, Doneast., and iheflield. &c. 425. p. 1 p
Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) I% 134 %.„ 1
Great North of England . • •
Great Western 85 •• .. 150 ex div. .... 150 x d
Ditto; Fifths .. 20 .. 3334 d
Hull and Selby .. .. 50 .... 106 ..... • 106
Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth 2 ....
Lancaster and Carlisle • • •• 35 ••• • • • ... ..... 56%
Ditto, New .. .. • • ••5 • • 10% 10%
Leiceste' and Birmingham .. 225. .... % die• ••% die
Leicester and Bedford ...• ••• • • • 225• •• • • 34dis ..... . dis
London an i Birmingham ~.. .100 .. • . 222 220 ex div.. 223 x. d.
Ditto Quarters .. .. • • • • 2 .. •. 27 ~ .. • ... 2734
London tad Brighton .. .• 50 .... 6534 3< sadly 65% xd
Ditto, Consol. Eighths • • • • 40 •• • • 55 54 5334
Ditto ditto Fifths .. • • •• 20 •• • 30
London and Croydon .. .. 131. 15s. 9d. 22 22
Ditto, Guarant. Five per Cent 9 „ 10
London and Greenwich .. 121. 15s. 4d. 934 14
London and South- Wes'ern .. 411. 6s. 10d. 774 78 77.... 77
Dttto, Consolidated Eighths .. 28 .. • . 4234 .. ••42%
Ditto, New . . • • • • • 12% •• • • 23% 23%

33i%

~ondop and York .. 3g •
%. '• •'
Lynn and Dereham .. • • • • 5 •• • • 4N Manchester and Leeds .. 82 ..

Ditto Extension— 42s
'Manchester and 14irmingham .. 40 . .
Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) • • 2
.... 10 ......
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) • . 1 ....
Manchester and Southampton • • 2 .. • 234%
Midland ..100 .. • . 148
Newcastle and Darlington Juliet. 25 .... 45 44
Ditto, New .. .. • • • . 1 .... 10% ........
Ditto, New, Brandling . 20 .
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 10
.. • . 22 .........
NeWry and Enniskillen 234 34
Newark, Shefileld,,and Boston .. 2% %.......
North British .. 173 .. • • 27% ..........
Ditto, Dilkeith 25
..........
Ditto, ditto .. 5 .... 6% 6
North Kent and Direct Dover .• 2% 3
North Staffordshire .. 425. .. • . 43%p•• • • • • 3% p
Norwich and Brandon .• 18 .... 26 x d........ 26xd
Northnipton,Banbury,&Cheithm. 2 .... % . 1%
Oxfd.,Worcester, & Wolverinuptu. 123 .... 14% ......
Preston and Wyre .. • • •• 25 .... 343 .... ••• • • • 343
Richmond .. .. • . .. 10 .... 1634
IWO), and Huntingdon 2 .. •. • •
Scottish Central .. . 75 1514 ... . 15%
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2%.... 33b 2% 334
Shropshire Union .. 425. % dis % die
South Midland .. .. 425..... 2%% p 2% p
South Eastern and Dovor .. • . 33% .... 3iiL4.
........
Do., New (do. 301.) .. No. 3. 10 .. . 11
De., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 234 3%14
South Wales .. .• • . .. 5 .. . 534
Teen and Dove Valley.. 1%.... 1
Trent Valley .• • • • • • S .. • . 261% %
Treut Valley and Holyhead June. 2%
York and North Midland
Ditto, Half Shares .. 25 .... 48% ....
Do. E. and W. Riding Exten... 1 •• .. 10

!1%
67 p

-
••• a 4 p....

4% p

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Bottlogrio and Amiens .. 10 .... 11N %
Bord., Toul., & Cette (Mackenzie) 2
Ditto, ditto (Espelete) .• 2 .... 23(
Central of Spain • • .. • . 2 .... 1
Dutch Rhenish .. • . 5 6% ......
East Indian . • • • ss. ••.. . .
Grt. North. of France Constituted 5 .. 15% %•••• • • • •
Louvain and JelnePPe .. 4 . ...
. ....
Luxembourg .. 4 2
44
..
Namur and Liege .. • .
4 .... ... •.. 3 . • •
Orleans and Bordeaux
.. 6 .... .. ••
Paris and Rouen .. • • .. 20 .... 4054

MINES.
Real del Monte, Unregistered

7%
2%
148

MARKET NE WS.-(YESTERDAY

CORN-EXCZ.A.NO
Fresh up from Essex, Kent, Cambridgeshire, and all others quar-
ters, the arrivals of Wheat were on a very limited scale. The at-
tendance of both town and country buyers being somewhat on the
increase, the demand for the finest parcels of both red and white,
was steady, and, in some few instances, a trifle more money was ob-
tained for each, while a good demand was effected.
The middling and inferior kinds, however, were a slow
sale, yet last week's prices were again supported.
We had rather a large show of Barley, the principal portion being
composed of the late unsold arrivals. Although the factors, to effect
a clearance, evinced a willingness to give way in value, the Barley
trade was in a very depressed state, and last week's reduced figures
were with dificulty supported. At the close of the market a clearance
was mot effected. The supply of Malt on offer was
rather large. For the finest corn parcels, the sale was
comparatively steady, at full prices ; but all other kinds
hung on hand, at barely previous currencies. The large arrival of
Oats from Ireland produced a great glut of samples, and had a de-
presssing infiuence upon the demand, which ruled heavy, and prices
declined from 6d to Is per quarter. For Beans we had a very slow
inquiry, at late rates. In Peas next to nothing was doing, yet the
quotations were supported. Flour tolerably steady at late figures.

CURRENCY PER IM}
Wheat—Essex & Kent,
Red, New • • . • 56s to 68s
Di tto,White, Old • • 66s 68s
Norfolk and Lin-
coln, Red..... 52s 65s
Ditto, White.. • • .. 55s 68s

'ERIAL MEASURE
• • 844 to 65i
Oats Yorkshire and
Lincolnsh., Feed. 2211 261
Potato* •. • • 301 32,
Youghal• and Cork,
Black . 23s 25s
Cork, White 24s 29s
Scotch, Feed. . . 30s
Beans—Tick . 34s 41s
Pigeons • . 436 49s
Pease—Grey . . . •• • • 384 Cs
Maple ... . ...... . 41s 44s
White ..... 45s 53s
Boilers
Flour—Town-made
Suffolk •••• • • 45. 493
Stocktn & Nortblk 46s 4S

[ rish, Red ........ 51s 54s

Ditto, Whits .. .. .. 533 57s
tlyei7Old .. .. .. .. .. .. 36s 38s

_
New. • • • 38s 40s
Barley—Grinding..... 24s 25s
Malting .
Chevalier .... •• •• 37s 38D
3falt—Suffolk and Nor-

folk .. .. .. ••• • • • 58s 62s
Brown ... •..• • • • . 57s 60s
Kingston and Ware 63s 65s

FOREIGN GRAIN Ali
Wheat—Dantzic.. 576 to 63s

D FLOUR IN BOND.
Beans .......... Ses to 441
Pease. . . .
Flour—American
Baltic .• • . • • • • • • •

Hamburg .. 56s 62s
Barley -••••• •• • • •• 22s 28s
Oats--New •• • • 253 27s
) sea .. 22s 23s

The arrivals of Beasts rErromToulir orwinEgrttg districts were season-
ably good, and of very superior quality ; indeed we have seldom seen a
better collection of that description of stock. The weather being un-
favourable for slaughtering, the Beef trade was very dull,
• ruendtss,,aDndeviroonisn,
Scot-
land, figure
rea dfoer-
cline in the quotations of quite 2d. per 81Wb
s'rebtairigeealiligvileryt small, yet
at barely, but at nothing
the best Scots being only 4s 2d per Albs. From Norfolk, Suffolk,
Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received 1,200 Scots, home-brecls, and
short horns ; from time northern counties, 400 short horns ; from the
.searTheeelyPork trade was firm, and
small Lambs were
any business was trans.
western and midland districts, 600 Herefords
tf rhoeil
Mutton otoke r
Scots.p
tarratas
eTehwfl England,
eaasst
numbers
ve excessively
ek , 2 50
prices.
variousrloscfhedseu.elpl ,
Prime
quotable beneath,
astereddyaat tti7ise.
prices were well supported.
Per 61b0. to s
8. 4. 0. d. I. cl, to s. d
Inferior Beasts .• •• 2 8 210 Second quality ditto 4 6 4 8.
3econd quality ditto. 3 0 3 4 Coarse-woolledditto 410 5 0
lateper Bibs
decline I ni
in Cafes,
Prime largo Oxen.. 3 6 3 8 southdown Wethers 5 2 5 6
Prime Scots .. •... 3 10 4 2 Ditto out of the wool _
Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 6 Large l'!orkers ..ogs ...... 310 4
..
II
['rime small ditto .• 4 8 5 0 Small 1 410 6
inferior
••
'• •• 0 0
SUPPLY AT MARKET.• •
I Sheep. I Calves. i
Pigs.
15,300 52
204

Ink the °Md.

Beasts.
2,739

this market, and
his
is small.
13031tOUGS HOP MARRXT.
On the whole, a steady hUsiness is still doing in
prices are well supplied. The show of all kinds of

BOROUGH AND SPrrAXMIBLDs.
Since thil day se'nnight these Market, have beett well supplied
with potatoes from most quarters, in fair condition. Most kinds
have met a dull inquiry, and prices have not beell supported. Our
highest quotations must be considered almost nominal.

NEVIGATIL.A.ND LXILDIIIont &mu
The arrivals of country-slaughtered Meat up
during the past week have to our markets
been somewhat on the inerease, though
they have proved by no means large, the time Of year considered.
Notwithstanding the supplies killed in the metropolis have not been
to say extensive, the general demand has been in a very sluggish
state, and in some Instances the quotations have had a downward
tendenuY, tif3.1'4141 oaresmes of foreign $00.e.4 and sheep have been
disposed of.

WOOL.
The imports of Wool have beckon a very limited scale during the past
week, via., about 300 bales. The public sales of foreign and colonial
wools are now progressing. About 3,300 hales have passed the
chair, out of which ;Out 3,000 have found buyers at, in some
stances, a slight decline in the quotations, The quality of the Aus.
tralian wools has certainly improved. The sales will not be con-
cluded till about the end of the month. Privately very little busi-
ness is doing at late rates.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow (Wednesday), at
Buckingham Palace. The Council is appointed at three o'clock in
the afternoon.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert took their accustomed early walk
yesterday, in the royal gardens.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Bowles
and Colonel Wylde, visited Captain Siborne's Waterloo Models, at
the Egyptian Hall, yesterday. The visit was quite private, the
models having been dosed to the public on Saturday. His Royal
Highness expressed much pleasure in examining those historical
works, and examined them minutely.
Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice
were taken airings yesterday, in the royal gardens of Buckingham
Palace.

The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the performance of the
French plays with their presence yesterday evening. The Royal
suite consisted of the Viscountess Canning, Hon. Miss Stanley, Earl
of Warwick, Colonel Arbuthnot, and Colonel Wylde. Her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard and
Sir George Couper, Bart., also honoured the performance with their
presence.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major
Stephens, presided yesterday evening at the German Hospital dinner.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House.
Summonses were issued yesterday morning to the Cabinet Minis-
ters to attend a Council, at half-past two o'clock, at the Foreign-
office. The Ministers who assembled were Sir Robert Peel, the Duke
of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Buecleuch, the Earl
of Haddington, the Earl of Aberdeen, Sir James Graham, Mr. Secre-
tary Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Ellen-
borough, the Earl of Ripon, Lord Granville Somerset, the Earl of
Dalhousie, the Right Mon. Sidney Herbert, and the Earl St. Germans.
The Council sat two hours,
Mr. Murphy, the Mexican Minister, transacted business yesterday
at the Foreign-office.

Mr. Cunard had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street.
Dispatches from the Governor of Hong-Kong were received yes•
terday at the Colonial-office.

Viscount Jocelyn had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

TA T TERSA L VS—Thom:DA L
Thd few changes that arose in the course of a very dull afternoon
were confined to the Chester Cup, for which Sweetmeat, who was
in general demand, became the leading favourite. At the close, 20
to 1 was not obtainable. Mermaid and Whinstone were at a dis-
count on last week's prices, and Best Bower was not in much
request. A few backers of Fitzallen and Cataract, but no material
change in the quotations; a slight Improvement M Tibthorpe, and
a decline in Spithead and Malcolm were the only alterations in the
Derby betting. Very little was done. Last prices :

CHESTED, CUT.
9 to 1 agst Wadlow's lot
7 to I agst the three year olds—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's Sweetmeat—taken freely
22 to 1 agst Lord Mulles Mermaid—taken and aft. offered
23 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Best Bower
25 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Whinstone—taken and aft. offered
28 to I agst Mr. E. IL Clark's The Baron
30 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Mickey Free
33 to 1 agst Mr. Hesseltine's Fitzallen—taken and aft. offered
33 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Cataract—taken and aft. offered
40 to 1 agst Mr. Thonspson's Hope—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Copeland's Arthur
40 to 1 agst Mr. Knox's Colleen Dhas
45 to 1 agst Mr. Ongley's Roderick.
1000 to 20 agst Mr. Davies's Redstreak—taken
50 to I agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Sorella
100 to 1 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's The Libel.

DERBY.
9 to 2 agst Lord E. Russell's Sting
15 to I agst Gen. Shubrick's Brocardo—taken and aft. offered
22 to I agst Col. Anson's lago
30 to 1 agst Mr. E. Peel's Spithead—taken
30 to I agst 'Mr. W. Scott's Tibthorpe—taken
33 to 1 agst Mr. Ramsay's Malcolm
35 to I agst Mr. O'Brien'. The Traverser—taken
40 to I agst Mr. D. Cook's Fancy Boy—taken
50 to I agst John Day na. Nutleaf—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Revelry colt—taken.
OARS.

8 to 1 agst Forth's lot
11 to 1 agst Sir C. Monk's Vanish
18 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Cuckoo—taken
20 to I agst Mr. Littledale's Fantastic—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. aulley's Mendicant.
LIVERPOOL STEHPLE CHASE.
A few small investments were made at 7 to 1 each agst Lance
and St. Leger ; 9 to 1 agst Eagle ; and 12 to 1 agst Vitula.