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dissolved. Although our correspondence gives us this
news as positive, we do not publish it as entirely
authentic."

The Funds were greatly depressed on the 22d, in
consequence of the alarming state of public feeling.
The Three per Cents. closet' at 3li cash, and 32i at 60
days; the Fiie per Cents. at 23 at 60 days.

The discussions in the French Chamber of Deputies,
which are likely to be prolonged yet for several days,
are generally without interest, and will probably con
tinue till M. BERRYER brings on his amendment respect-
ing the liberty of the seas. It was said that Ministers
would meet the amendment by a motion which would
give a triumph to neither party, but an interesting de-
bate, however, was reckoned certain, and M. GUIZOT
would have to contend with all the Republicans, Libe-
rals, and Legitimatists. These parties might be better
employed at present in devising some scheme for the
relief of the army in Africa, and restoring disas-
ters which have cast a gloom over France,
than in wasting time and throwing away oppor-
tunities by long speeches on contingent events.
Every packet from Algiers only brings additional ac-
counts of misfortunes. In fact, the army seems to be
disorganised, one-half of the horses lost, and the Go-
vernor-General totally bewildered by the numerous
difficulties in which he is involved. Letters from
Setif, in narrating the calamities which befel
the division of General LEVASSEUR, are unani-
mous in attributing them to the disorder which
reigned in the corps d'armee. "It must be de-
clared," says one of them, " that if the column
had remained organised very few men would have been
lost. Three thousand men, united by discipline, ought
by mutual aid to surmount all the difficulties of a march,
which, after all, was only ten leagues. The snow and
cold were certainly the incidental cause of the disaster,
but the determining cause is the disorder which, in the
absence of the commander of the column, reigned in the
ranks." The Constitutionnel says :—" Accounts from
Tenez to the 15th were received at Oran on the 18th.
Marshal BUGEAUD, on his return from his expedition
from the Ouarensenis, was in that town, and his column,
cantoned in the neighbourhood, was in a state of great
demoralisation. The men were harassed with fatigue,
and the horses could scarcely stand. The greater part
of the saddlery had fallen into the power of the Arabs,
who will not fail to make a trophy of them."
The following deplorable account, in which probably
there is too much truth, appears in the Courrier Frunca;s:

".We learn that the Governor-General of Algeria, who was
on the 11th in the environs of Tiaret, returned en the 14th to
Tenez. What were the motives for this precipitate retreat ?
Was it the want of provisions that prevented the Marshal
from maintaining his ground at Tiaret ? or was it the
fatigue and disorganization of his column that forced him to
go into cantonment at Tenez ? It is unfortunate, but too
true, that the column left strewed on the way behind it
stores which it was no longer able to draw along with it, and
the harness of the horses which expired on the roads, and
which the Arabs will collect as trophies. Most assuredly
the Marshal too much abused the only good quality he pos
sesses, that corporal hardihood which enables him to sustain
fatigues, deprivations, and dangers. He drags along
his soldiers, without regarding !heir exhaustion from
the incessant marches he compels them to make, with-
out end and without object. M. Bugeaud, no doubt, con-
siders as a wonderful activity this restless and blind
mobility, which induces him to be at every moment
changing place for the mere pleasure of changing. He
calls General Bedeau into the Ouarensenis, presuming that
Abd-el-Kader is there. In the meantime the Hamza remains
unprotected, the Hodna rises in insurrection, and General
Levasseur, to occupy the interim, goes and buries his supple-
mentary regiments in the ravines of Djebel Djira, in which
is also involved the column of General d'Arbouville, of whoni
we are still without any news. Now M. Bugeaud retire to
Tenez to cover himself, no doubt, from the rigours of winter;
he drives General Korte, to the bottom of the province of
Oran, into the Yacoubia, where he fancies Abd-el-Kader may
appear some day et. other. He sends Generel Lamoriciere
among the Flittas, in search of the Emir, being himself
unable to find him. He has him tracked by his troops
through the closest recesses of Algeria, and vet the Emir,
who is everywhere seen is nowhere to be found. At a
vast cost, he prepares an expedition to be ready in the
spring to make a move from Djemma Ghazaouat into
Morocco to attack Abd-el-Kader, who establishes his
government more strongly than ever in the very centre
of our possessions. After all these various displays of
forces, after all these grand movements of troops, are we yet
on the heels of this evanescent enemy? Not at all ! Some
say he is in the country of the Flittas ; others, that he is
more to the south, at the extremity of the Chot el Chergui
district ; others, again, that he is in the east, towards Goud-

jilla ; while M. Bugeaud seems to believe that he is to be
found in the Yacoubia, quite to the west, while the Marshal
himself hopes to find him in the circle of Tenez, in the northern
centre. Therefore it is in this wild imaginary pursuit that
our soldiers have been engaged for ten long months, leaving
fragments of their flesh torn off by the pointed rocks, and
on the thorny bushes of the plain. Because it is the plea-
sure of M. Bugeaud, are our soldiers to confront the snow
as well as the sand storms ? to endure the piercing gales of
the winter as well as the suffocating simoons of the summer
in this absurd chase, followed at hazard without glory, with-
out profit ? The razzias have destroyed all the means of sub-
sistence, the hospitals are overcrowded with the sick, whole
battalions have sunk under cold and fatigue, even the horses
have fallen down and died on the road from fatigue, all the
equipments have been worn out or lost, all the stores have
been exhausted. But Marshal Bugeaud, confiding in the
strength of his own constitution, runs first one way, then
another, not knowing where to stop nor precisely what direc-
tion to take. If the Government should still refuse to call upon
him to account for the legions entrusted to him, the mothers
who have thus seen their children perish without glory for
themselves, without benefit for France, these mothers will cry
aloud for vengeance upon this Varus, who thus is sacrificing
a whole army to his own headstrong folly ! Is this all ?
Alas! no. Within three months 12,000 colonists have been
sent over to Algeria, the Government encouraging their enii•
gration, and granting large parcels of land to them to be cul-
tivated. And what has followed ? M. Bugeaud, braving the
will of the Government, ref uses to put the grantees in possession
of their lands, and the poor colonists are prevented from
farming on their own account, or labouring for hire for others,
as no lands are assigned to any of them. Waiting the good
pleasure of the Governor-General, these too confiding colo-
nists are driven to mendicity to satisfy the wants of nature.
They are seen in bands in the streets imploring charity, and
often in vain, or perhaps yielding to the worst suggestions of
misery. Before the credits for Algeria are voted, most of
these wretched beings, deprived of employment, and devoid
of all other resources, in the very heart of winter, under a
climate which decimates them, will have returned to Europe.
Thus M. Bugeaud, if due care be not taken, will have at
once compromised, and perhaps irremediably, both our con-
quest and our colonisation. This is not a question of party
opposition, and rather than accuse the Ministry of all these
disasters, we prefer conjuring them to repair them, if there be
yet time !"

A letter from Rome states, that on the 17th the congrega-
tion of Ignacious Loyola inaugurated in its church, at Rome,
a Tridutun for the conversion of the people of England to
Catholicism, on which occasion the church was filled from
msrning till night.
A great rise has taken place in the French Funds, attri-
buted to large purchases of stock for the account of certain
railway Companies. It was said that the Directors of the
Lyons Company have come to the determination to invest
24,000,000 f. in the French Funds, half in the Three per Cents.
and half in the Five per Cents., and are now engaged in car-
rying out this operation.
The Three per Cents, closed at 83f. 85c.; the Five per Cents., 122 E
65c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,268 f. 75c. ; Rouen, I,olof. ;
Havre, 735 f.; Avignon, 980 f. ; Vierzon, 705 E; Bordeaux, 642 f. 50c.;
Boulogne, 5471. 50c. ; Troyes and Montereau, 457 f. 50c. ; Basle, 252 f.
50c.; Great Northern, 756 f. 23c.; Fampoux, 502 f. 50c.; Belgian
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 571 A ; Spanish Passives,
The following are the quotations for other lines:-
Paris and Lyons, definitive, 614 f. ; the Paris and Strasburg, defini-
tive, b44f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, definitive, 565 f. ; Lyons and
Avignon (Talabot), 511 f. 50c. ; ditto (Lecointe), 505 f. ; ditto (Coin.
pagnie Meridionale), 50;f. ; Bordeaux and. Cette (Mackenzie).
501 E 50c.; ditto (Espeleta, 507 f.; Charleroi (Kysaons), 495 f.;
Caen (llelamarre), 5011.
LvoNs, JAN. 26.-Marseilles and Avignon, 983 f. 75c.; Paris and
Orleans, 1,272 f. 50e.; Paris and Rouen, 1,040 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREION RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK E CHANGE, JAN. 29.
Dutch Rhenish, 7 N—East Indian, 1% —Great Northern of France
Constituted, 144—Great Indian Peninsular, % —Great Western
Canada, 3%—Orleans and Vierzon, 17—Orleans and Bordeaux, 11
—Paris and Orleans, 48%—Paris and Rouen, 39 —Paris and Stras-
bourg (Ganueron's), 216 —West Flanders, s—Luxembourg, 2%.

The Duke of Buckingham has at last

turned Sir Thomas Fremantle out of Bucking-
ham. A requisition from the electors of Buck-
ingham, calling upon him to resign his seat,
has been presented to the Right lion. Baronet, and he is
consequently about to retire from Parliament, and from
the office of Secretary for Ireland. But he does not retire
without a handsome provision for life. Mr. Dean has
been prevailed upon to resign the chairmanship of the
Board of Customs, and Sir Thomas Fremantle is ap-
pointed his successor.

Lord Redesdale has given up the post which he has
so long filled, of whipper-in for the Government in the
House of Lords, in consequence of the new measure.
It will be observed that Lord Ashley, in his speech
of last night, hinted at the plssibility of his
not having another opportunity of addressing the
House of Commons. It is said that the Noble
Lord intends, after voting for Sir Robert Psel's
measure, to resign his seat and appeal to his constituents
for re election. There is a rumour that Lord John
Manners intends to take the same course.
Mr. Lascelles and Lord Courtenay are mentioned es
probable successors to Sir Thomas Fremantle, in the
office of Secretary for Ireland. Mr. Lascelles, however,
would be sure to lose his scat (Wakefield).
PRIVY COUNCIL—The Queen held a Privy Council at
half-past two o'clock this afternoon, at Buckingham
Palace, for the purpose of appointing the sheriffs for the
different counties throughout England and Wales for the
present year. The ceremony was performed according
to ancient practice by her Majesty pricking the roll of
gentlemen nominated to the office on the Morrow of St.
Martin, in the Court of Exchequer.

GRAVESEND AND ROCHESTER RAILWAY.—The fol-
lowing are the traffic returns for the week ending January
24, 1846 :—Passengers, 4,248 ; amount received, 1041.
15s. 2d.

LIBERALITY.—On Wednesday evening one of the
many gratifying acts of liberality, which we are glad to see
growing up into practice amongst many respectable firms—
that of promoting kindly feeling and the mutual interest of
the employer and the employed—took place at the annual
audit of the firm of Thomas De la Rue and Co., of 110,
Dunhill-row, when the numerous foremen and women who
preside over the several departments in that extensive esta-
blishment, were severally presented with a very handsome
and gratifying testimonial of their esteem and confidence, in
promoting, to the best of their power, the best interests of
the firm and those over whom they have the honour to pre-
aidee•e.FrOna a OorresPondat