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designs has taken place, and that we are prepared to re-
commend the artists whose names are contained in sub-
joined Reports, as worthy to be employed on such works
in the Palace at Westminster, and for such remunera-
tion as may hereafter be determined ; but we again wish
it to be understood that such selection does not imply
the exclusion of other artists, whether they may or may
not as yet have submitted to us specimens of their
ability.
" We have further humbly to state to your Majesty,
that having in former Reports announced our intention
of considering the claims of candidates for employment
in oil-painting, we now propose that artists should be
invited to enter into competition in that branch of art,
and we have prepared the draft of an anouncement on
this subject, offering premiums of public money, to which
we request the sanction of your Majesty."
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These extracts may suffice to give a general idea
of the topics to which the interesting papers in the
Appendix are addressed. We conclude our present
notice with an enumeration of these papers, printed
so as to follow the QUEEN'S Commission, the warrant
appointing additional Commissioners, and the "Re-
port" of the Commission. These papers are—

:‘ I. Notice of the appointment of artists to execute
frescos intended for the decoration of the House

of Lords.
2. Notice on the subject of the intended exhibition o,

oil-paintings in Westminster Hall.
3. Declaration of the Commissioners respecting the
models for sculpture exhibited in Westminster

Hall.
4. Letter from the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart.,
respecting public monuments to men distinguished
for civil services.
5. Mr. Barry's Report respecting the localities in the
new Houses of Parliament which may be adapted
for the reception of works of sculpture.
6. Extract from the Report of the Committee ap-
pointed to examine the localities in the New Houses
of Parliament, which may be adapted for the re-
ception of works in painting and sculpture.
7. Reports of the Committee appointed to inspect the
works of decorative art exhibited in King-street,
St. James's, in the months of April and May, 1844.
8. Observations on the principles which may regulate
the selection of subjects for painting in the Palace
of Westminster, by Mr. llallam.
9. Resolutions, relating to the same subject, proposed
by Mr. Gaily Knight.
10. Letter on the same subject, from the Right lion.
Viscount Mahon to the Right Hon. Sir Robert

Peel, Bart.
11. Letter en the same subject, from Mr. Hallam.
12. The same subject considered with reference to the
nature and various styles of the formative Arts ;

by the Secretary.
13. Dimensions of frescos in the Sistine Chapel and in

the Vatican.
14. Methods of painting adapted to mural decoration.
15. Description of the Patent Kalsomine Tempera.
16. Letter from the Right Hon. the Secretary of State
for the Home Department."

Madrid journals of the 14th instant announce the
arrival from Paris of a naval officer, Lieutenant DE
PLAS, who had travelled with great dispatch, and
brought dispatches for the Duke DE GLUCKSBERG and
the Prince DE JOINVILLE. The Duke was to start
without delay for Cadiz and embark for Morocco, as
Chargé d'Affaires at the Court of the E➢iPEROR. It
was said that he had full powers to conclude a treaty
of peace. This looks well, and is probably the result
of the advice given by the most able general in the
French army, Marshal SOULT, who knows well the
uncertainty and horrors of war. The papers contain
no other authentic intelligence, for the reports they
furnish about the bombardment of Tangiers cannot
be depended on. _

Madrid Bourse, on the 14th.—Three per Cents.
26i, at 60 days ; Five per Cents., no quotations.

The Paris papers are destitute of news. No fur-
ther intelligence had been received from the squadron
under the Prince de JOINVILLE, if we except some
highly coloured and contradictory statements ex-
tracted from the Cadiz papers, of which we give the
following as a specimen. In a letter from Cadiz of
the 9th, it is said that " the Commanders of the se-
veral European squadrons stationed in the Tangiers
waters went and congratulated the Prince de JOIN-
viLLE after the bombardment. Among them was
the Infanta of Spain, Don HENRIQUE. It is also said
that the Commander of the English ship-of-war sent
the officer second in command, and that the Prince
de JoiNvirzn refused to receive him. It appears
that the squadron is proceeding to Mogadore, and
that the PRINCE intends to destroy all the forts on
the coast." The next paragraph has more the sem-
blance of truth :—" The Suffren," says the writer,
" has remained in the Cadiz waters, and the other ships
of the French squadron have proceeded towards Mo-
gadore. But that port presents little safety, and it
also appears that the Moors have at that place consi-
derable fortifications. The Prince de JOINVILLE,
therefore, wishes to take possession of a little island
near Mogadore, in order to command the town and
bombard it with a chance of success. With this view
he awaits reinforcements."

The articles in the French papers are rather of a
pacific character, if we except the Republican Na-
tional, which evidently hates Louis PHILIPPE more
than the English. As our readers will regard with
satisfaction every sympton in these articles of a re-
turn to common sense and justice, we make no apology
for giving copious extracts. The following calm re-
marks appear in M. Timßs' journal, the Consti
tutionnel

" We wish neither to exaggerate the gravity of the
present situation, nor to dissemble its eventual results.
If it be true that certain journals have made the mistake
of too much alarming men's minds, the organ of the Go-
vernment, which reproaches them with doing so, has
perhaps fallen into the error of endeavouring to inspire
too much security. The situation is such that, if there is
no necessity to fear, there is to guard against possible
events. We put aside all that has been mysteiously
said about Mehemet Ali and the East. There are at
the present moment but two questions we grant ; but
it must be declared that from them may spring very grave
complications. The country is aware of this, and holds
itself prepared for all consequences. It would feel
alarm even from a single circumstance—that the Go-
vernment should appear too certain of the pacific
issue of these questions ; for such a certitude could
only be the result of an anticipated resignation to
solutions the most regrettable for our honour. In fact,
when the incredible expressions by which the English
Ministers have qualified the indispensable measure taken
by our officers at Otaheite, against a Consul conspiring
against us, the strange doctrines sustained by the whole
English:press with regard to the public right of nations,
and the persistance that is shown in demanding a repa-
ration which is not due, are taken into consideration, the
idea naturally arises, to borrow an expression of M.
Guizot's, that from all this there will spring either a
great folly or a great weakness; that is, that England is
decided to perpetrate the first, if M. Guizot does not
consent to perform the second. As to the question of
Morocco, in spite of all efforts to the contrary, the po-
licy of our Government engaged in the path of action is
this. If the limit at which the French cannon are to
stop has been fixed diplomatically, no person can be cer
tain that this limit will not be overpassed. In such cases
it is most difficult to assign the exact share which the fire
is to have. The irresistible force of events is often less
pacific than the intentions of men. In our opinion,
therefore, there ought not to be too great a tendency
either towards war or peace. By an excessive confi-
dence, and by exaggerated alarms, the press can deceive
both men's minds and men's interests. It is events that
must speak. Our duty, as. an Opposition journal, is to
hold ourselves well acquainted with the news that are
given, to carefully examine them, to hazard nothing, to
give under the form of a doubt such intelligence as ap-
pears suspicious, and to hold the public on its guard
against speculators in false reports, who endeavour in
such cases to turn to account the fears or the confidence
which they propagate."

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The next article is more peaceable, and carries more
weight, as it appears in a paper which is supposed to
represent the sentiments of M. GuizoT—the Paris
Globe. That journal thus advocates peace :
"If the men on Change really know the cause of the
fall of the price of Stocks, they have well kept the
secret ; for all the persons whose position enables thou
to know at least as much as the brokers of the real state
of political affairs, are perfectly assured of a favourable
solution of all the pending difficulties. Men may be agi-
tated, but things most certainly tend towards a settle-
ment in peace. People are astonished at the vivacity
with which the English press has taken up the affair of
Otaheite • but, in truth, there is nothing astonishing
therein but this astonishment itself. Above a year has
passed since the Paris journals have been constantly
talking of Otaheite, Queen Pomare, and the English mis-
sionaries, and exciting public opinion even into delirium.
They have gathered in a pack around them from 30,000
to 35,000 milliners and chambermaids, cooks and travel-
ling clerks, students and gossips of all such classes, who
have each contributed 50, centimes of their money,
and 100,000 francs worth of their passions. All
the portresses of France have an entire knowledge
of the affair of Otaheite, and an intimate acquaintance
with Admiral Dupetit Thouars. In a word, the public
mind has been heated to a white heat by this matter, and
now folks seem to be surprised that the English news-
papers should become the same. But by dint of de-
claiming against the English Government of reiterated
provocations and insults, a reaction has necessarily been
created in England, and the English are driven into a
passion, and compelled to be violently angry in their
turn, merely to keep themselves in countenance. After
all, this can merely be considered but as the froth which
is raised to the surface by dint of beating, while the
substance at bottom remains calm and solid. Without
the factitious irritation created by the Oppositions, in a
miserable spirit of intrigue against the Ministries, the
two Governments of France and England would have
settled between them the affair of Otaheite in one quarter
of an hour, for there was in reality nothing in it to arrest
the attention, for any length of time, of right-thinking
and loyal-minded men. Was there or was there not

any wrong done by the French authorities ? If ,
there was, England had a right to demand reparation ;
and France ought not to hesitate in giving it ; for it is
only by acknowledging our wrongs that we can main-
tain our rights. Now, it is clearly proved that the
French authorities had the right to arrest Mr. Prit-
chard, and send him away, because he excited dis-
turbance ; and neither the English nor any other Go-
vernment can deny the legality of such an act. Only,
there was on the part of the French officer an abuse of
power—a fact which we are bound to admit. Nobody,
therefore, can complain of the English Government for
requiring that this ill-proceeding should be censured, nor
can any man of sense blame the French Government for
according such censure. It is not at this moment, when
we are bombarding six towns on the coast of Africa,
that we should be accused of weakness in expressing re-
gret for a useless act of harshness. England, if she
does not wish to be accused of folly, ought to be con-
tented with such satisfaction ; and France, if she does
not wish to lie under a similar imputation, cannot refuse
it. And as both the Governments are justly considered
to be possessed of some rationality, the two kingdoms
may be perfectly at ease as to the issue of this af-
fair. We have before noticed the change which has
been operated in the style of the English press. It con-
tinues to believe that wrong has been done by a French
officer, still exaggerating, it is true, the importance of
that wrong; but as there is some reality in it, the press
has reason when it relies upon the candour and honesty
of France in acknowledging it. At bottom, the English
press wishes for peace as much as France does, and it is
not when peace is sincerely desired by both parties that
war can arise from the harshness of a subaltern officer.
It was better to wait to know what effect the bombard-
ment of Tangiers would produce in London. The effect
is favourable to us. The feelings of the people of Eng-
land have remained unmoved, and this proves that it
has confidence in the good faith of France. She has an-
nouncedpubliclythat she will not fire a gun but to avenge
injuries, the existence of which could not be denied, and
that she had no views of aggrandisement in making war
upon Morocco. England, in full reliance upon the word
of France, has listened with calmness to the sounds of
our cannon, although they had awakened the echoes of
Gibraltar; the public funds have not suffered any de-
preciation—a fact that proves there is in that stock
market more good sense and less jobbing than at Paris."
The other Ministerial paper, the Journal des De-
bats, comments on the Morocco affair in rather a
different strain :—" Without doubt," it says, " the
bombardment of Tangiers caused a great sensation in
England, and so it ought. It is not to be wondered
that the English, the possessors of Gibraltar, the pos-
sessors of Malta, the possessors of the Indies, with
which Egypt is the most direct mode of communica-
tion, should look with jealousy upon anything that
could by any chance establish a superior influence to
their own at the mouth of the Mediterranean. The
permanent and, for a long time past, irrevocable oc-
cupation of Algeria by the French, has already been
for
,them a source of great inquietude." It then
adds :

" The English press cannot altogether dissemble its
uneasiness, but it acknowledges that the French Govern-
ment only exercises just reprisals, that the foolish obsti-
nacy of the Emperor of Morocco has fully justified the
chastisement inflicted on him, and that France and Mo-
rocco are two independent States, which may wage war
on each other, if such is their pleasure, without England
having in any manner a right to intervene. The
French Government carried its patience to the utmost
limits, and it may assert, without being suspected
of weakness, that it only waged war in personal de-
fence. It did not seek hostilities ; it never had, and it can-
not reasonably have, any view of conquest, or permanent
occupation of Morocco. It has declared publicly, and on
several occasions, in the two Chambers, that it had not
any intention of adding a single inch of ground to the
possessions of France, already sufficiently extensive on the
continent of Africa ; and if there is anything clearly de-
monstrated, it is that the sentiment of the country on
this point agrees with that of the Government, and that
public opinion universally declares itself against the per-
manent extension of the French dominion beyond the
boundaries of Algeria. When, therefore, the English
press range in battle array a quantity of big words, to
declare that Great Britain cannot consent to Morocco's
becoming, like Algeria, a French possession, we cannot
help thinking that it displays a resolution altogether out
of season, and exhibits an amount of courage which is
not called for by circumstances."

As a counterbalance to the " big words " of the
English press, we take at random, from a Contem-
porary of the Journal des Debats, the National, a
specimen of boasting which it would be difficult to
equal :
" The superiority which our officers have over their
rivals is too well established for any one to deny
it. It is the natural consequence of more extensive
theoretical knowledge, and longer practical experience.
Out of twenty years' service, fifteen years must have been
passed at sea, whereas in the English service five years
is only required, and it has been admitted by English
admirals themselves that our ships are as smart in their
evolutions as the English. The success of naval actions
depends less on the number of vessels than the rapidity
and precision of their evolutions, on the intelligence of
the commander, and on the instruction of the officers and
the resolutions of the crews. In the event of a war, all
our attention would be directed towards our navy. In-
numerable steamers would be built in every port, and
some fine day, when a storm had completely swept the
channel, we should suddenly land 50,000 men on some
undefended point of the British coast. This landing and
this result are, in our eyes, but a question of time and
opportunity."
The French Funds on Tuesday were rather more
firm. The Three per Cents. closed at 80f. 40c ; and
the Fives at 120 f. 20c.
TILE BOURSE—TUESDAY, AucarsT 20.

First Highest Lowest

Last

Price. Price. Price. Price•
French Five per emits.-- 119 65 .. 120 15 119 55 120 15
Four per Cents. ..... 105 . • 105 • • 105 • • 105
Three per Cents..... 80 10 • • 80 20 .. •79 75 .. 80 20
Bank of France... ..3005 ••3005 .•3005 ..3005
Laffitte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesl C 95 ..1095 1095 . • 1095
Belgian Bank 650 .• 650 .. 650 • • 650
Belgian Fives, 1831......... 1031 • • 1031 • • 1031 • • 1031
1840 .... • • 1031 • • 1031 1031 .. 1031
Portuguese Five per Cents • • 431 • • 431 .. 431 •• 431
Neapolitan ••• • • • .• •• . .. 97 50 • • 97 50 .. 97 40 .. 97 40
Roman •. . .
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, R. 8.• • • • ........ 362 50 .. 362 50 .. 362 50 .. 362 50
14.13 • • • • • • • • • • .. 220 .. 225 .. 220 .. 225
Rouen • 945 .. 955 .. 945 .. 955
Rouen to Havre
Orleans
Strasburg to Bale.
Avignon to Marseilles.• •• • • 730 .. 740 . 730 .. 740
RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, 31sT OF AUGUST.
St. Germain •••••• .• .• • . 875 575 875 .. 875
Rouen ••••••••• • • • • • • • • •
Rouen to Havre.-- •• .• 700 .. 727 50 700 727 50
Orleans ••• • • • • • • • • •- • • • • • • 932 50 • • 947 50 .. 920 .• 947 50
Strasburg to Bale-- •• •• 230 .. 232 50 .. 230 . 232 50
Avignon to Marseilles 730 .. 740 .. 722 50 .. 740

COUNTERMAND OF TROOPS IN IRELAND.—FOF some
weeks past, there has been a gradual diminution of the
military force congregated in Ireland at the period of
the State trials. We mentioned, on Saturday, that two
regiments, the 60th Rifles and the 61st Foot, were under
orders at Cove, awaiting the arrival of transports to em-
bark for India. Those transports have arrived, but we
learned this morning, from a source of unquestionable
authority, that an order has been forwarded from the
Horse Guards, and by this time has probably reached
Cove, suspending the departure of both regiments. The
inference is, that their services may, possibly, be re-
quired much nearer home than India.—Dublin Evening
Post.

REVOLUTION IN FRANCE.--A piece of news has
reached us, and appears exclusively in the columns of this
journal. We can pity, but not describe, the state of the
poor Morning Post on reading the intelligence. There
is a female revolution in Paris. All flounces are to be
cut off ladies' gowns. All gowns are to be made very
short. Above all—all elastic crinoline petticoats are to be
abolished. Since July, 1830, a change so startling has
not occurred in Europe.—Punch.
ACCIDENT TO MR. EDWIN LANDSEER Sun-
day afternoon this distinguished artist, whilst riding
along Porchester-terrace, was thrown with great violence
from his horse, in consequence of the animal suddenly
stumbling. He fell on his head, which was severely cut
and bruised. He was carried to the house of Mr. Lin-
sell, the painter, where surgical assistance was speedily
afforded him, after which he was conveyed to his own
residence in St. John's-wood. He is still suffering from
the effects of the accident, but we are happy to hear that
no ill consequences are apprehended from it.
FIGHTING MISSIONARIES.—It is a pity that Exeter
Hall should ever be confounded with Woolwich Arsenal.
A pity is it, that a fabric expressly built and dedicated
to the gatherings of Christian charity—where she pleases
to call her working children, the bright ones of the earth,
together—should be made to " smell woundily of gun-
powder." But so, within these few days, it has been.
A meeting of the London Missionary Society has been
held at the Hall, for the purpose of considering the
naughty doings of the French blusterers at Otaheite;
and the means proposed to meet the wrong committed
was, to do further wrong. The best remedy for the
wound was a gunpowder plaster ! One reverend gen-
tleman proved that he had been misplaced by fate—
certes, he should have been a post-captain, and not a
meek, black-coated preacher of the Christian mission—
for, with a quickness worthy of Sir Charles Napier, he
enumerated the English naval force off Otaheite, indig-
nantly compared it with the force of France on the same
station, made a bold joke about Jack Ketch, and finally
implied the necessity of sending Mr. Pritchard back to
his consulate, with all the hubbub and glory of shot and
gunpowder. For our own part, we think the lips of
Christian charity all-sufficient to settle the difference;
and should be very loth to call in the teeth of a man-of-
war. If, however, the London Mission think otherwise,
we would earnestly counsel them to address themselves
to Captain Warner, whose secret is still in the market;
and who, doubtless, if only to spite Peel and the other
unbelievers, would be very happy to treat with the
peace-loving men of Exeter Hall for a reasonable remu-
neration, Thus, with the London Mission possessed of
Warner's secret, they might disseminate practical bene-
volence by means of the long range, and insinuate true
Christianity among the heathen by the invisible shell.—
Punch.

THE Mooßs.—The moors in Wigtownshire are
very much above an average in game this year, but the
birds are strong and wild, and in consequence of the
variable weather, such large bags have not been made
as might have been expected. A party of five, on Lord
Stair's moors in New Luce parish, bagged 63 brace on
the 12th by five o'clock—one of them (Robert Fergus-
son, Esq.) bagging 22 brace, shooting alone. Since then
the same party have killed 115 brace.—Ayr Qbserver.