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London, England, 1844-08-07 00:00:00

ronet would find full co operation in that House in any mea-
sure of that kind which he might introduce.—(Hear, hear.)
Every day there was growing up in the country amongst
men who thought on these matters, a strong feeling that the
Church of England could not receive legitimate, fair, or just
support from measures of a similar character to those which
were now being abolished.—(Cheers.)
Colonel VERNER said he was afraid he had been misun-
derstood. He had not said one word in opposition to the
enactments of the Bill.
After a few words from Mr. HARDY and Mr. WYSE the re-
port was received, and the Bill was ordered to be read s. third
time at Three o'clock to-morrow. _

[LEFT SITTING.]

LATER INTELLIGENCE FROM

OTAHEITE.

SKIRMISH BETWEEN THE FRENCH AND NA-

TIVES.
The Favourite, South Sea whaler, lately arrived, brings news
fourteen days later from Otaheite. A skirmish had taken
place between the French and the natives. By means of a tel
communication which the French have already esta-
blished in the Island, orders were conveyed a day or two bee
fore the Favourite left to one of the French steam-frigates,
then lying in the Bay of Papeete, to embark troops and pro-
ceed to airapu, forty miles distant, and situated at the-
other side of the island of Otaheite. At the time of starting
she had 150 soldiers on board. This order is supposed to have
been caused by an outbreak, the particulars of which, as far
as could be gained, are as follows :
A number of the natives who now live in encampments up
the mountains since they have been expelled the town, were
seated taking a quiet meal, when some Frenchmen came upon
one party, consisting of two chiefs and their wives, and seized
hold of the women, whom they attempted to drag orr
board their boat, then lying moored on the beach a short
distance off. The chiefs resisted this aggression, and were
immediately shot. A third chief then rose up and ex-
claimed, "What, are we dogs, that we are treated thus ?
We are a quiet people, and wish for peace, but you will not.
let us have it." Whereupon the French fired at him, but,
missing their aim, he gave the signal to the natives for an
onset. At the first charge 15 Frenchmen were either killed
or wounded, and a second attack almost immediately taking
place, between 30 and 40 more of tsar number were killed
or disabled by the Otaheitians. Soon ;,ifter this transaction
had taken place, it was reported that =Nay of the French
had deserted, saying they had only been braight out to be
shot at. The men generally do not seem at a 3 contented,
for they appear half-starved and are badly clothed. The re-
gulation that no one is to be allowed out after eight o'eleck at
night is strictly enforced against the natives and foreie,Vers,
but the French themselves seem to pay little or no, atten'tiell
to this order.
Just as the Favourite was getting under weigh the crewr
saw the French steam-frigate return from Tairapu, but the:
wind being favourable for their passage, and they having:
been delayed a long time, they did not put back to learn_
whether any more fighting had taken place.
When the Favourite left, a French whaler, commanded by
an American, had been detained twelve days at Otaheite,
and was still there waiting for dispatches for the French Go-
vernment. The Favourite brought dispatches to the Govern-
ment at home. She had a very quick passage.
The following letters from the island, dated March 29, ap-
pear in a French paper, called the Courier de la Gironde.
'They were brought by the Reunion, a South Sea whaler :
" The affairs of Otaheite are getting into a worse and worse
condition every day. The natives are in open opposition to
us, and engagements have taken place at East Point. The
island has been in a stale of siege ever since the 3d, and the
natives assembled in the mountains constantly threaten our
establishment. A French sentinel was attacked and dis-
armed by some of them on the night of the 2d, and the men
of the post having pursued them, one was taken prisoner.
On being interrogated, his declarations compromised
Mr. Pritchard, who was arrested and confined in a.
blockhouse. The captain of the English steamer after-
wards procured his liberty, on giving his word of honour,
and engaged himself in writing, not to land him era
any point of the Society Islands. The Charte frigate:
arrived at Papeete, March 16, with a reinforcement
of a company of infantry for the garrison, now composed of
a company of artillery and three companies of infantry. The
sanatory state of the troops in the garrison is satisfactory,-
notwithstanding their labours and watchings The natives
have with them in the mountains a number of adventurers
belonging to all nations, and several English convicts, with
which the Society Islands are much infested. A deputation
from the islands of Morea and Eimee lately came to the GdP"
vernment, protesting the devotedness of the people of those
countries to the French. These envoys declared that they
were entirely strangers to the disturbances that had broken
out, and offered numerous presents to the Governor. The
Morea is the island on which the French flag was most recently
hoisted, and is one of the most considerable of the Society
group. Nearly all the property of Queen Pomare is in it. On
learning this step, the Queen yielded to the advice of some
of her family, who inspired her with doubts as to the jri'
tentions of the English. As her privy councillor, Mr,
Pritchard, was no longer present to excite her to an ener-
getic resistance, she sent a feminine embassy to the Governor,.
to endeavour to make a compromise. M. Bruat would not.
enter into any terms. He intimated that Pomare must sur-
render at discretion. We do not know whether the Queen
will accept this, but it is generally expected, and then tran-
quillity will be restored—the departure of Pritchard will then
have produced its fruits. The Gambler Islands, where the
apostolic labours of the French missionaries have been
crowned with the most happy success, are about to be added
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to the French Possessions n Oceania. The tri-coloured.
standard has been raised there, and the people demand a
garrison of French soldiers. It is intended to send them a
company of the 6th Regiment of Marines, as soon as all is
quiet in Otaheite. In the meantime, an English sloop of
i war, stationed at the Sandwich Islands, is seeking a pretext
to take possession of this group, the importance of which is
very different from that of the Marquesas, the Society, and
. the Gambier." _ _

The letter of the Emancipation of the same date says :
" Hostilities have commenced. The entrenched camp at the
Bay of Taravau, near Tarabou, was attacked on the 21st. On
that day, about two in the afternoon, two shots were heard
from the direction of the hill on which the first advanced-
sentinel was posted. Captain Mariani, of the staff, comman-
dant of the bay, immediately sent out two parties—one of
voltigeurs, commanded by an officer, the other composed of
sailors, under a midshipman—to make reconnoisances in the
ravines that run down the bay. The sailors, having an In-
dian for their guide, fell into an ambush, and received a dis-
charge, which they returned with but little effect, because
their guns had been loaded for three or four days, and the
weather being damp, many of them missed fire. The sailors
beat a retreat over the coral rocks and through the brush-
wood, under the fire of the enemy, which killed one man and
wounded another. Captain Alariani, hearing the firing, sent
out an officer and thirty men to cover the retreat of the
sailors. At five o'clock, another attack was made upon the
same hill, on which ten men were then placed, and to whom-
a reinforcement of thirty was sent. The moment these came
up to the position, the natives decamped. Soon afterwards,
a line of fires extended in a curve round the fort, from the
back of the hill to the Queen's dwelling, showed the number
of the assailants. They returned a well-directed discharge
from a double rank. Forty voltigeurs deployed as tirailleurs,
and, taking excellent positions, ably seconded the musketry
of the fort. A howitzer, well served, directed its grape-shot
on the points where the fire seemed to be the best sustained ;
and the Embuscade sloop, moored about a quarter of a league
from the field of battle, threw with success several shell,
anti gradually caused the enemy's fire, to cease. It was now
seven o'clock, and night came on, consequently it was impos-
sible to pursue our foes through the impracticable ravines in
which they sheltered themselves; but shots were repeated
till after midnight. On receiving the first. intelligence of
these events, the Governor embarked in the steamer Phaeton,
and came to the point. Our loss has been two men killed, one
carried off by the enemy, and seven wounded. The loss of the
insurgents cannot be known ; but, on the following day, five
dead bodies were found. We reckon that they must have
had 50 men put hors de combat."

THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)

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BRITISH FUNDS. -
Bank Stock 2llO (Indian 5t0ck..„....„.....
3 per Cent. Red .......
3 per Cent. Cons.
3 per Cent. Red 102% Ditto New Annuities ...
New 3% per Cent. .......
New 5 per Cent. — Ditto 5001.
Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5ma11......
Jan 1860 l2 7-16 Bank Stock for Acct....
Oct. 1859 12% Consols for Act...„..... 991/i
Jan. 1860 12% India Stock for Acct....
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian. 5 per Cent ... ..... ... !Portuguese, 5 per Cent ..... 81%
Belgian, 5 per Cent 103% Ditto, New Ditto -
Brazilian Bonds 84% Prussian, 5 per Cent ..... .... --
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent — !Russian, 5 per Cent 119%
Chllian, 6 per Cent Ditto,! Metallic ..........„.....
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Ditto, 18'24 Ditto, 3 per Cent 33
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — Ditto, Deferred... ..... „.......
Danish, 3 per Cent — French, 5 per Cent...„..120t. —c.
Greek, 18-5, 5 per Cent — Exchange ..- .- ....... .... —f. ---c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1897 — Dutch, 2% per Cent...... 61
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — 'Ditto, 5 per Cent ........101

SHARES.- -
Birmingham and Gloucester 4100 paid) ll4
Ditto, New Si airs, 17% paid
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid
Ditto Quarter Shares (12% paid) ........
Great North of England, 100 paid
Great. Western (75 paid;
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid B3 ,T,
Ditto Fifths, 1.2 paid
London and Birmingham (Stock)
Ditto, New '1 hirtia, 2 paid
London and Brighton (50 paid)
Ditto Loan Notes, 10 paid l2
London and Greenwich (12t. 15s. 4d. paid) 73(
Diito, Preference or krivilege, £lB 175 2d paid :0%
Lendupand South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid) 86%
Ditto Eighths (155. paid)
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
.
Manchester and Birmingham
Al idland Counties (100 paid) 106%
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (33 24.4 d paid)
Ditto New Shares, 4 paid
Yarmouth and Norwich (18'paid)
York and Scarborough Branch (2% paid) ...
Paris and Orleans (20 paid)
Paris and Rouen, 20 paid

HER MAJESTY'S SIGNATURE TO THE COMMISSION;
—Her Majesty signed the Commission for giving the Bert'
Assent to various Bills yesterday morning about five o'clock*
scarcely three hours before her accouchement ! The Coo*
mission was dispatched by the Lord Chancellor to her Ma-
jesty by a special messenger, who went by the nine o'clock-
train from Paddington on Monday evening. It was men-
tioned to the Queen that a Commission requiring her gig"'
ture had arrived, but that she need not sign it until the
following morning. About five o'clock, however, feeling that
her accouchement was fast approaching, and with that pre-
sence of mind so characteristic of her recollecting that sbco_
important public document was in the Castle awaiting ,;
signature, she immediately directed it to be brought, an'
although not free from pain and anxiety, affixed her En;
ture with the same freedom of hand as usual, to the Lie
mission, and the sheets of parchment upon which the Wes,
an
of the Bills were inscribed. As there were seven sheets (21
parchment, the signature of the Queen was required to be
often repeated.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE ST. KATHARINE DOCICF;
Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, a cry was raised of "A
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overboard," when it was discovered that a young man, inol 0.
act of pushing a craft, on which he was employed, fr 111301
ship in the dock, within twenty yards of the dock-house, drags
overbalanced himself, and fell into the water. The _
were instantly put into requisition, and the poor fellow
after the lapse of a few minutes delay, caused by the pren
crowded state of the dock, taken out of the water,
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removed into an apartment in the dock-house, sPe.c_Tdo
appropriated to the purpose. Owing to the admit
arrangements of the Company, in case of an accident. t!lawt-i
kind occuring, the man was immersed in hot water Am
quarter of a minute after he was taken out of thelews,a_t!ar:
Medical aid was immediately sent for, and the usual r
tives were applied ; but, after the most unremitting
a., as
tions fOr nearly two hours, it was found to be of no ave 1.4.4,
life was extinct. The man was not in the water more tu
three minutes.
TEETOTAL EXAGGERATION. —The gin
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Wina,leassumanwnuhaicllh wouldy mpupoor
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rates three times over.— Corh Southern I?eyt s
porter.
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