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tion (now at least, if not before), and moral
courage sustaining that honesty of intention, would
be to convict ourselves of moral blindness." " Pos-
terity will not occupy itself with the vascillations and
defects of the present generation of statesmen. It will
remember, as we remember of the past, great names
only as connected with great deeds ; and the greatest
achievement of this age is that which destroys the 'food
power' of a banded oligarchy, breaks up monopolies, and
proclaims the rights of peaceful industry. With this
the name of Sir ROBERT PEEL must, now be inseparably
connected, and it is a great honour ; there can be no
higher reward for personal ambition."
In the utmost limit of these expressions the vast bulk
of Englishmen now living and yet unborn will ac-
quiesce ;—a thought pregnant with incitement to one
labour4 for a great achievement amidst the debris of
many gigantic factions, and fraught with consolation to
one subjected to incessant vituperations! It is in this utter
dismemberment and assimilation of parties that one of the
chief benefits of the movement consists. " There can be
no more exclusively Tory or exclusively Whig Cabinets,"
says the reviewer; this is an inference too manifestly
correct to require the authorit, of further argument;
and in its veracity is centred the welfare of future
It is in the consideration of the character of
Lord PALMERSTON that we cannot induce ourselves for
a single moment to coincide with the Westminster
Review, otherwise its strictures are dictated with much
discrimination ant impartiality. The fact of the vic-
tory, however, will constitute its noblest history; the
enumeration of those statesmen who have shared in its
achievement will form their truest, and surest, and most
imperishable eulogium.

Accounts from Madrid of the 16th announce the for-
m-Ilion of a new Ministry. NARVAEZ, it is thus seen,
constructs a Cabinent with wonderful dispatch. On the
12th ITIRAFLORES and his temporary collea pies were
told they w. re no longer wanted. and three days after
their places were supplied from a list most probably
drawn up before their dismissal. Of this new Cabinet
NARVAEZ is the chief and at the same time acts as Mi-
nister for Foreign Affairs. Senor ORLANDO, a devoted
adherent of the Captain. General, is Minister of Finance,
BURGOS, who filled that department in the reign of FER-
DINAND, succeeds IsTuarrz as Minister of the Interior,
D'Easris, formerly editor of the Cerra) _National, is ap-
pointed Minister of Grace and Justice, and General
PENZUELA, a Carlist, Minister of the Marine. All the
members of Ross's Cabinet are excluded, and NARVAEZ
has so far attained his object.
On the 14th the Three ,per Cents. closed at 29 for
cash, and 28 15-16 for the 30th of April ; the Five per
Cents. at 21 for cash, and 21i for the 30th of April ;

the shares of the Bank of San Fernando, 255 ; ditto oi
Isabel, 168, &c.

In the French Chamber of Peers the discussion on the
Secret Service Money Bill was brought to a close on
Friday evening, and on a division the numbers were for
the Bill 106, against it 22; majority for Ministers 84. The
speech of VICTOR HuGo, on the Polish insurrection,
was listened to with great attention, and is much praised
for its noble sentiments, as well as moderation. " Two
nations," he said, "for the last four centuries, had
played a disinterested part in European civilisation—
France and Poland. The former had shed light on all
sides; the latter had kept back the incursions of barbarism.
France had been the missionary of civilisation, and
Poland its knight-errant. When a people had done
well to humanity, it resembled a man who has done
good service to his fellow- men. Gratitude was due to it ;
and if, in the course of time, it by chance fell away from
its lofty position, it still remained surrounded with that
halo of glory which memory shed around it ! Such was
the case with Poland ! She was still great and noble,
notwithstanding her partition. And why was she so?
Because she had been always most useful to European
civilisation—because she had bravely defended it when
threatened eighty years back; when she was struck from
the list of nations, a universal regret was manifested.
The remorse of FREDERICK was caused by his having
mutilated that kingdom, and the regret of NAPOLEON by
not having restored it to its former rank. He (M. V.
Him)) was not one of those who counselled an European
conflagration. Writers, thinkers, philosophers, were
men of peace. If he raised his voice at present in favour
of this unfortunate nation, it was not to urge ether na-
tions to war, but to protest against the late attack on
European civilisation. He could see nothing more odi-
ously inimical to peace and civilisation than the fact of the
Austrian Government having excited the lower classes in
Gallicia against the nobles. What, then, was it he asked
from the Chamber? Not to furnish fleets, or armies,
or wealth, but to nobly put forward their great moral
ascendancy. A protest ought to proceed from that as-
that
their voices should reach abroad, and that this truth
should be heard—that a nation could not be effaced with
Impunity from the map of the world. In such a mani-
festation every party could join. The influence of
France was great. France had inherited the power of
Rome in the middle ages, and possessed at present the
same authority in civilisation as Rome had done in re.
ligious matters ! Let, then, France speak, and much
would be done ! That was the intervention which he
demanded, and the Chamber might rest satisfied that it
would be of powerful effect." These sentiments were
loudly cheered. On Saturday, in the Chamber of Depu-
ties, General JACQUEMINOT brought forward a
motion to increase the number of officers in
the National Guard of the Seine, when M. ODILON
BARROT took the opportunity of blaming the Government
for disbanding the National Guards in several of the
provincial towns. The motion of General JACQUEMINt,T,
it was understood, would be carried. The following dis-
patch, received by the French Government, brings news
fr.ire Algiers up to the 16th instant. It will be seen
from it that ABD-EL-KADER has again escaped from his
pursuers, probably to surprise th‘m in some other

quarter:—
" PznploNAisr, MARCH B.—The Montezuma, which left
Algiers the day before yesterday, arrived to-day at Port
Vendre. General De Bar writes to me from Algiers on the
16th. On tie 7th Colonel Cirnon retook from Abd-el-
Kailer, on the south of Boghar, the booty he had carried oft
irom our allies. General Jussef attacked the Emir on the
13, eighteen leagues to the south of Zahzz, and captured his
baggage and mules, which were on their way to Boucada.
Abd-el-Kader saved himself with great difficulty. Lieutenant
Lacoste and tha interpreter Levy were rescued, both severely
wounded. Marshal Bugeaud was expected at Algiers on the
17th or 18th."
We regret to find that on Saturday a fatal railway
accident occurred on the Paris and Rouen line. A
special train, which left Paris on Saturday morning,
*WI the Government Commissioners sent to inspect the
fortifications at llavre, ran against a diligence mounted
II a truck, which bad been carelessly left on the railt,
£he diligence, which contained twenty-two passengers,
was completely destroyed ; three persons in it were
killed and four wounded.
We have accounts from Berne to the 16th inst. The
Constituent Assembly was opened on that day by a
speech from the Avoyer M. DE TAVEL, which he con-
cluded by a pray er to the ALMIGHTY to bless its labours.
The Assembly afterwards proceeded to instal its provi-
sional board, and Messrs. SCHNEIDER and FUNK, the,
Radical candidates, were elected—the first President,
.end the second, Vice-President. M. NENHA US only
obtained eight votes; and M. BLOESCU three. The Com.
mittee charged with drawing up the project of regula•
noes for the Constituent censisted of Messrs. SCHNEIDER,
FUNK, STCEMPFLI, and KOHLER. " On the 18th,"
writes the correspondent of the Journal des Debars,
" Divine service will be celebrated in the Catholic and
Protestantfchurches, previous to the opening of the ses-
sion. A solemn sermon will afterwards be preached in
the cathedral by the Protestant minister WEYERMANN,
who has acquired a great reputation for sanctity in
Switzerland by heading a free corps in the expedition
against Lucerne."

On Saturday the Funds and Share-market was very
firm on the Paris Bourse. The following are the prices
of the Funds:—

Five per Cents., I2of. 45c. 30c. ex. div. ; Four-and-a-Half per
Cents., 113 f. ; Four per Cents., 106 f. 50c. ; Three per Cents., 84E
20c. 10c. ;:Bank Actions, 3,4101. ; Rente de Naples (Rothschild's),
1011. 25c. , Romans, 191 U % ; Belgian Five per Cents., 1840, 102% ;
ditto, 1842, 105% ; Belgian Four-and-a-Halt per Cents., 101; ditto,
Two-and .11-Half per Cents., 57 ; Spanish Passives, 3%; Belgian
Bank, 1835, 955 f. 9501. ; ditto, 1841, I,loof. Exchange on London,
one month, 25f. 60c. ; three months, money, 25f. 45c.
Railway shares for the Account—Settling of April 2—St. Germain
have risen 141: 59c., Versailles (Left Bank) and Rouen to Havre, 101.
each ; Paris to Orleans, 71. 50c. ; Orleans to Vierzon, :.f. ; Orleans to
Bordeaux, Avignon to Marseilles, and Northern, 2t 50c. ; Paris to
Strasburg, lt. 25e.; Nantes, Versailles (Right Bank), Dieppe, Rouen,
and Strasburg to Bale, are all utivaried. For money, Versailles (Left
Bank), have risen 1 lf. 25c. ; Paris to Orleans, 71. 50c. ; Boulogne,
.51. ; Northern, Paris to Strasburg, and Versailles (Right Bank), 2f.
I,oc. each, Nantes, 11. 25c. ; Avignon to Marseilles and Orleans to
Vierzon not quoted.

Five per Cents.' 120 f. 50c. 55c. ; Four per Cents., 126 f. 50c. ; Three
per Cents., 84f. ; Bank Actions, 3,400 f.; Reate de Naples (Roths-
child, 101 f. 50c. ; Romans, 101 ; Belgian Bank, 945 f : Belgian
Five per Cents., 1840, 102% ; ditto, 1842, 105% ; Spanish Passives,
5% ; Spanish Three per Cents., 1845, 37%. Exchange on London,
one month, money, 251.60 c. ; three months, money, 25f. 45c. ; paper,
25f. 42%c.

IiVSINESS DONE TN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Kama 21.
Barbadoes, % —Boulogne and An-liens, 12%—Bordeaux, Tou-
louse, and Cette (Espelota), 2 %—Dutch Rhenish, 6 —Great Nortkere
of France Constituted, MA —Great Western Canada, 3A —Lyons
and Avignon, 2—Luxembourg, lAi —Madrid and Valentia, A —Na-
mart ur and
29 Liege, 2%—Orleatis and lierdeaux, 12A—Rouen and
Ile, .

Sir Robert P .eel had a dinner party on Saturday at
his residence in Whitehall-gardens.
The Low Moor bon Company are busily engaged in
casting cannon of considerable calibre.
THE LATX JOHN LANo.a.N.--1 he mortal remains of
John Langan, celebrated in England for his pugilistic en-
counters with Spring, the English champion, arrived in
Dublin on Friday night, and were interred on Saturday in
GlgeSovin Cemetery.