The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-30 00:00:00

to the state of the country and the] unconstitutional
measures of the Government, the Castellano says :
We believe that conspiracies do exist ; we believe
that we are exposed to more peril than is generally
thought • we believe that the Government's enemies
dispose Of large sums, and bring into play every possible
means ; but we also believe that the means adopted by
the authorities of the provinces are insufficient and in-
efficient, and even favourable to the conspirators. Their
perpetual fears confer importance on the conspirators,
make them suppose that the Government is weak, and
enable them to inveigh aloud against oppression and
tyranny. Persecutions, banishments, and imprisonments
produce the worst effect. Let them be relinquished ;
let individual liberty be respected, without neglecting
proper means of severely chastising the revolutionists,
when they date raise their heads. We demand of the
Government a vigilant force and resolution, but we wish
that force to be lawful, at least until an insurrection
break out, and render a transient suspension of the laws
necessary to save the constitution and the throne."
According to another paper, a great number of
officers belonging to the garrison at Alcala had been
dismissed from the service. A rumour prevailed that
a partial change of Ministry was about to take place,
and that the ex-editor and ex-Minister GONZALES
BRAVO would be appointed to the Foreign-office.
The Three per Cents. were done at Madrid on the
22d instant, .at 27 9-16 fOr cash, and 271 at 60 days ;
the Five per Cents. at 191 for cash, and 19i at 60
days ; and the Floating Debt at 60i at 60 days.

madness. England has done nothing to merit the
reproach. During the long period of peace England
thwarted France in only one instance, by maintaining
the integrity of the Turkish empire, an object
which the French Government declared, at a pre-
vious period, it was most anxious to accomplish.
What has France done during the last thirty years ?
She has seized islands in the Pacific, about which, it
is true, we care nothing, but that does not place
France in a better light. She has occupied nearly
the whole coast of Africa on the Mediterranean. She
is threatening Tunis, bombarding Tangiers and Mo-
gadore, and extending her influence from Egypt to
the utmost bounds of Morocco. By the most insi-
dious policy ESPARTERO was driven froni Spain,
Queen CHRISTINA, the favourite of the French Court,
made supreme ruler, and the whole of the Peninsula,
not even excepting our old ally, Portugal, placed
under French dominion. The constitutional Govern-
ment of both countries has been destroyed by French
intrigue, yet the French rage as if they were the
injured parties. There is no sense or reason in the
present proceedings of Louis PHILIPPE'S Government,
and they may depend upon the fact, that the other
nations of Europe.-are not disinterested spectators of
these aggressive schemes. England, thank Gon, is
able to defend herself. She is not easily moved—she
preserves for a long time that silence affreux which
the French army can appreciate, but when her dignity
or her interests are in danger, no country rushes to
the contest with more determined courage. We
should regret to see it put to the proof—we wish to
live in peace with the French people, who have many
good qualities, but the gasconade of their press, and
the encroachments of their Government, in a sphere
which affect our possessions both in the Mediterranean
and India, have increased to such a pitch, that even
,he warmest friends of peace can no longer be silent.

describe as being, constantly, in transitu between
London and Gravesend. It will not be necessary for
us to devote many words to a notice of the very arbi-
trary and authoritative tone adopted by the commit-
ting Magistrates in convicting the parties, against
whom warrants of distress were subsequently
granted for levy of the several fines imposed
upon them by the Bench. To these Magistrates,
it seems—not merely, that the indelicacy and
impropriety of their hearing complaints against
servants of a Company which has long acted in
successful rivalry td that of which they themselves
are notoriously shareholders, did not occur; but,
that, when this fact was distinctly urged upon their
attention, and after one of their body (the Chairman
of the rival Company employing the defendants) had
set them the becoming example of retiring from the
justice-room pending the decision on the charges,
they
persisted in taking the complaints (instead of allow=
ing them to be carried, as suggested, before the
county justices). They broadly vindicated the course
they had taken, and condemned the men in somewhat
heavy penalties. The general outline of the case
involved in the proceedings is briefly stated.
For some time past the enormous increase of the
passengers by steam-boats to and from Gravesend has
been so rapid, that various companies have been
formed to meet the demands for this river-passage
accommodation, the chief of which are the " Diamond"
and the " Star" Companies. To facilitate the em-
barkation and disembarkation of this vast body
of passengers (now averaging, daily, about 12,000
persons), there are two Royal Piers at Gravesend ;
the
older one, situate also in the older part of the town,
called the Town-pier; the more recently coil-
structed one, termed the Terrace-pier, being erected
at a point leading to the new town. The old or Town-
pier is frequented by the packets of the Diamond
Company, the new or Terrace-pier by those of the
Star Company ; and between these two bodies the
usual bickerings, consequent on a vigorous competition,
have naturally arisen. The public, as is usual, and in-
deed it is but the reasonable and legitimate result
of such struggles, has derived the benefit of
this energetic rivalry in that reduction of its
original fares which either Association has been in-
duced to make. The " Diamond " Company we be-
lieve set the example ; of course all the other Com-
panies were obliged to follow it. But (as'' Mr.
CRUDEN observed, when addi•essing his brother ma-
gistrates in a speech, the manliness, pith and purport
of which did him much honour)—while the Diamond
Company engaged, in its advertisements, to carry pas-
sengers from the Town-pier to London, " calling at
Blackwell," for 9d. each, it omitted to inform the public
that an extra charge would be made for the journey
by the Blackwall. Railway. The Star Company fairly
announced "that it contracted to take each passenger by
their boats from the Terrace-pier to London, for the
fare throughout, "by boat and rail," of 9d. only. The.
Star Company, it 'appears, have closed with the offer
of the Blackwell Railway Company, as renewed by
them this season, the latter undertaking to, give " a.
preference to such packets as should resort to.their
rail-pier exclusively—that is, without intercourse with
any piers above Blackwall—by allowing them the
privilege of remaining alongside the
,Brunswick-
wharf for half an hour, thus giving them the chance of
passengers by twaTtrains." The " Diamond" Com-
pany rejected this offer ; and very considerable
benefits appearing to have- resulted to their
wiser rival from accepting a proffer, out of the ad-
vantages of which they have thus excluded them-
selves, the Diamond Company are now disposed to
.ouch their animosity to the Star people to any extent.
As they forget,' however, in so doing that the tra-
velling public generally, and the inhabitants of
Gravesend indirectly, are parties necessarily injured
by the lengths to which this animosity is pursued, we
shall endeavour in few words to expose the barefaced
character of the interested judgments pronounced by
the magisterial functionaries of the " Diamond "
Company.
From whatever causes in addition to those we have
named, the Terrace-pier is eliciting a preference
from passengers beyond all calculation over the Town-
pier. In the month of June last there landed and
embarked at the two piers 330,739 passengers ; of
which number, there were 41,439 more at the Ter-
race than the Town• pier. In July, the numbers
at both piers were 463,045 ; the excess of the Terrace-
pier, being, again, 43,903 over the Town-pier, and of
-ourse the freights of the Star Company, which
use it, being in proportion, erQr those of the Diamond
Company which use the Town-pier. Hence abun-
dant and something of unscrupulous jealousy.
The Star Company's office, whether by design or by
chance we know not, happens to be near this latter
pier ; and it is pretty clear that their servants in
" touting" for their packets and delivering to pas-
senger& cards or hand-bills explanatory of the advan-
tages of their single fares per boat, and
per rail, both, have been just Sufficiently over-
zealous as to bring themselves within the
liability to a charge, or information, or complaint for
obstructing the 'highway, and consequently within the
enactments of a local Act for enabling the Corporation
of Gravesend to prevent annoyances, nuisances, and
obstructions. Perhaps, had the charges in the present
instance'been brought by some private individuals,
—litigious over-much, or smitten with that love of
" making a fuss" about nothing, which is a beset-
ting sin of small travellers, there would have
been little matter for animadversion, though there
might be much for ridicule or for pity.. But it.does
happen that of the five Magistrates,. &c., exclusive of
the Mayor, who were present in the Gravesend Jus-
tice-room at the hearing of the complaints now in
question, preferred against two servants of the " Star"
Company ;—Mr. SPENCER and Mr. OAKES, as stated
by Mr. CRUDEN, were directors or proprietors of the
" Diamond" Company ; and Mr. SOUTHGA.TE, act-
ing as the solicitor for the complainants, was their
secretary 1 Mr. CRUDEN himself, as chairman of the
" Star " Company, after remarking on the mania
festly vexatious feeling in which these charges
against their servants were being now repeatedly
preferred, and putting the Mayor in possession of the
facts, very properly left the Bench before the order
decreeing the penalties was finally made against the
two men. Mr. TICKNER and Mr. SMITH, who con-
curred with Mr. CRUDEN, in holding that for the
sake of decency and the purposes of justice, it would
be more proper to carry the cases' before the
unViassed jurisdiction of the county Magis-
trates, quitted the Bench in company _with
that gentleman ; leaving, therefore, OAKES and
SPENCER, parties flagrantly and incontestably and
directly interested in an adverse speculation,—alone
to concur with the Mayor, in pronouncing for penal-
ties on charges conducted by their own servant and

It would be a short-sighted and unwise policy in
the present Government, indeed, to persevere in that
fatal neglect of the most important of all the inte-
rests connected with our coasting trade, which so

many preceding Governments, equally with them-
selves, have been so justly chargeable-.=on any plea
of having their attention exclusively, engrossed by
the present aspect of our
:foreign relations. There
are popular occupations in the welfare of which—
albeit they rank among the most hardy and pre-
carious which 'are followed by the humbler classes of
our maritime population—:Matters of the most essen•
tial and immediate concernment to the security and
honour of the empire at large are indissolubly bound
up. Among these OUT-FISHERIES are entitled to take
the very first rank. We'phice them, avowedly, before
even our Royal Navy, for the Fisheries are the

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sehocil which form the sailors who are to • man our

ships and to protect our coasts. Whether'we con-
sider them merely in reference to this destination, or
as the purveyors of that vast proportion of healthful
and' nutritious food which they supply for the daily
consumption of an immense portion of our abound-
ing population ;—whether we reflect upon the ready
and effective reinforcement they supply to us in tame

of war, on an element to which they may be said tc.
be native, and amidst whose tempests they can pur-
sue with spirit and confidence the service theyl are
appointed to, whilst less practised hands shrinki ap-
palled from the execution of any duty, thrOughi the
fury of storms and the consciousness of surrounding
perils—or we look upon them, only, as ministerinig to
the first great and universal wants of all huMan
society ;—we are bound to reg:trd the brave and
hardy seamen engaged in our fisheries With pecu-
liar favour. But it is notorious that we have for

many years greatly forgotten our duty in this re-
sp:-.-ct. They halve complained, by memorials, to the
Board of Trade —petitions to Parliament—remon-
strances to the influential people of their vicinities;
they have shown how the larger boats of the French
and Dutch fishermen have committed successive en.

tc
croachments on their fishing grounds from tine
time, accompanied sometimes with acts of violence to
the person ; at others with the destruction of their
nets and tack's. Their complaints have been toe
often wholly disregarded, or riaplied to by measures
that have proved wholly ineffective : such as conven-
tions negotiated between our own. and other Govern•
rnents whose boats have presently treated them as
mere waste paper—and been permitted to do so with
all but absolute impunity. It is curious to remark
how much the national value of our own Fisheries was
underrated—how dimly suspected the policy of en
couraging such ,ur:.:eries of our maritime strength—
before tle days in which our tETTYS, and TEMPLES,
and CIIILDES, OUT CAMPBELLS, ANDERSONS, OSWALDS,
and SMITHS, succeeded in awakening and fixing
pnblic attention to the subject. If a wholesome
jealousy was aroused for a brief, season,, under the
first of the STDAIUTS, to prohibit to all foreigners. the
right of fishing on our coasts, in twenty-seven years
afterwards, under his successor,' 30,0001. were- ac
ceptecl froni the Dutchas the price of rescindinglhat
prohibition; and, leaving them at liberty to monopo-
lise the fisheries of a large portinn of our coasts. The
wiser Scotohi,had already extended and protected
their herring 'fishery for five centuries when the
Herring Statute" of 1337 was passed; but al-
though with the English this invaluable fish ,had
come an article of extensive commerce since the dis-
covery of the process for pickling them in 1390,
nearly four-centuries elapsed before the incorporation
of our British Herring. Fishing Company. In that
interval the aggressions and encroachments our fisher.-
men had to sustain had been repeatedly pressed by
the Crown on the attention of Parliament as fitting
objects for its intervention, and as calling for more
effectual protection at the hands of the Executive.
Of our ancient'fishcry at Newfoundland, which we
have pursued in that distant colony ever since 1577,
we only speak here because, it, haS notoriously proved
often a. grand feeder of the:Navy with able-bodied
and excellent seamen, and because foreign encroach-
ments on the cod fishery grounds around that-large
island have been the actual cause of fierce hostilities
and subsequent treaties between thiS
.country and the
Crowns of Spain and France, the States of Holland,
&c. Our whaling fishery, like the others, has fear-
fully declined of late years, and with it the profitable
employment of some of the stoutest merchant ship-
ping, the most thorough and intrepid sailors
which this country could produce.
It occurs to us that it would well consist with that
policy of nautical preparation on which:we dwelt at
large in a recent article, and at the same time operate
as a boon of well-deserved encouragement to a set of
men whose claims upon the favour of their country
have been too often and too long slighted, to adopt
some immediate and general plan of registration that
should include a perfect calendar of every fishing-
boat on every part of the coast, its tonnage, names,
and numbers of present owners, and crews, occupation
(or branch of fishing), .limits of its usual fishing, &c.
The value of this craft, when information of what is
pas Sing in' the harbour on the-other side of the Channel,
is Inappreciable. For these services, and for bounties
on their volunteering into Queen's ships when re-
quired, &c., &c., funds should-1)e appropriated; and
the 'same operation might likewise include further
provision for wounds, pensions for long service, &O.
We are confident that, in the diSastrous event of a
war, a previously-matnred scheme of: this sort would
,prove of the most essential benefit, to the recruiting
reserves necessary for the maintenance Of our naval
_arm in its full vigour and readiness. For the
happier object Of preserving the continuance of
peace, it would' he an emphatic demonstration of the
completeness of our preparations for war. In
.either
case it would secure the active and energetic vigilance
of a body of men whose local knowledge of the
Coasts of both countries, and the incidents of tides,
currents, shoals, &c., at various points, would render
them the best adapted corps of marine observation, if
We may so speak, that we could possibly hope to
organise. - And not the least.,eurions fact connected
with this notion is, that the plan. of such an organisa-
tion, and the machinery for registering such a force,
ate already set out in the " Second Annual Report of
the Commissioners:of Ireland" (presented to Parlia-
ment pursuant to •5 and 6 •Vict., c. 10(x, s. 122).
We shall 'have occasion' to give some extracts from
this document in a: day' or tWO; and we will on that
occasion :more .particularly commend the simple, but
effective plan, of registration devised by the Commis-
sioners to the reader's attention: '

secretary !
In the course of our experience we have wit-
nessed some tolerably striking specimens of this
accuser—judge—and—jury sort of magisterial
justice in other parts of Kent. We have pot
forgotten the scandalous oppressions and - the
denial of right and law practised for so many
years with impunity on the poor oyster dredgers :of
Queenborough, by a former Mayor of that
since, disqualified borough. But all in good time—
and Gravesend, if such proceedings as these " ex parte
Diamond v. Star," as we may call them, be encouraged,
will rival Queenborough. We had almost forgotten to
state that in times past, when the " Diamonds" were in
the ascendant, their servants used to tout pro thein;
and contra all other companies; and yet, mar-
vellous to tell, not one of these Diamond Magis-
trates, Directors, nor their Secretary, ever
dreamed ofpreferring an information under their local
Act against the delinquents ! We trust and hope the
Lord-Chancellor may have this affair brought under
his notice, for we shall then be assured that this most
equitable Bench w ill receive a most righteous casti-
gation at his Lordship's hands, on behalf of the public.

The following official, communication from Greece
was received by the trench Government on Wednes-
day : ATHENS, AUG. 20.
"M. MAVROCOIDATO •and his colleagues have re-
signed, and their resignation' has been' accepted.
" The KIN.G has, empowered M. 'COLETTI to form a
new Adininhtration. •
" The elections for Athena have been suspended
for some days.
" The city is perfectly tranquil."

In referririg our readers to the proceedings at the
Gravesend 'Police of the instant, Of which
have published a very full report, we are desirous of
showing in how remarkable a degree they affect the
interests and convenience of that very considerable
portion of our metropolitan population, which we may

Madrid"-journals of the, 224 instant ,have
.no: additional .:intelligence
from Morocco. Though the capital was tranquil, ru-
mours of plots and conspiracies prevailed, which
would probably lead to more arrests. In reference

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1844.

fensive ; he says, the least of all is the daily increasing!
numbers of our enemy. He saw and seized 'he precise
moment for action. This foresight, the ealculadons and
plan of his intended movements, are those of a general
whose ability is matured by experience, whose eye is
clear and comprehensive, whose mind is determined, and
whose resolution is to act with vigour. He has been
taught, and knows how to bring into use, the great les-
sons given by the immortal campaigns in Egypt, a
country in which war presented to him the same aspect."
Though we have already given ample extracts
from the papers, we must make room for another ar-
ticle, which points out the object of Lord PALSIER-
STON'S visit to the German Courts, and urges the Go-
vernmen of France to be prepared for the worst. It
is taken from the Siecle, and is as follows :
" It would be dangerous to deceive ourselves,
England is preparing for war. The alliance with
Russia is eventually concluded, and it is endeavour-
ing to raise the spirit of Germany against France.
The task is difficult, and for that reason Lord Palmer-
ston considered that he ought not to relinquish it to the
agents of the Foreign-office. The Noble Viscount, when-
ever there, is an opportunity of injuring France, con-
siders himself as holding office, and we are informed
that the tour of pleasure which he is at present making
at the other side of the Rhine is not without a political
object. He is reviving all the ancient hatred ex-
cited in the year 1840. We 'rust, for all the
reasons we have already given, that Germany will not
suffer itself to be again deceived by the phan-
tasmagoria of French ambition. But if the diplo-
matic plans of Great Britain are yet enveloped in a
veil, her maritime plans appear glaring as the sun. The
Admiralty is ostensibly occupied in placing their sailing
fleet in asondition to crush ours by numbers, and their
steam fleet to prevent an invasion, of which the English
entertain more dread than they wish to admit. They
themselves, notwithstanding their pride, are compelled
to proclaim the necessity of fortifying their coasts. But
facts on this occasion are supremely eloquent—we shall,
therefore, commence by comparing the two sailing
fleets. England reckons 89 ships of the line on the
books of the Admiralty. Amongst these vessels there
are at least 60 which may be considered as absolutely
useless, as they could not be armed again without most
expensive repairs. The fact unexaggerated is, that
England has 18 ships, which would be ready for sea in
six weeks, and might in six months be supported by 10 or
12 others. If the war should be prolonged beyond a
year the Admiralty would have time to complete 7 or 8
of the 15 ships which are in a forward state of construction,
and thus to increase the effective of the British navy to 36
or 40 ships of the line. The comparison appears to be esta-
blished thus :—At the first shock, England 18 ships-of-
the-line—, France, 14. After six months, England 30
ships ; France 20 to 22. After one year, England 36 to
40 ;, France only 20 to 22, because the ships we have on
the stocks are not sufficiently advanced to be finished in
a year. Now, let us compare the steam navy. It ap-
pears from documents communicated to Parliament that
the war-steamers amount to 48, with a power of 15,757
horses. The steam navy of France ought by virtue of
Roj al ordinances to be composed of five frigates of 540
horse-power, 15 of 450, 20 corvettes of from 220 to
320, and 30 vessels of 160 and less. Ships, 70 ; power,
18,750 horses. The 43 steam-vessels afloat on the Ist
of January last represented only a power of 7,340
horses ; but we have been increasing for eight months,
and at the end of the year we could oppose to England
a power of 12,000 horses, represented by 60 ves-
sels, without reckoning thel Levant boats. That,
no doubt, is an unpleasant inferiority ; but it
is. compensated by the necessity under which the
English labour in being obliged to defend various points
against our attacks. These comparisons are not of a
nature to excite alarm. If peace be maintained, not-
Withstanding the irritation existing on the other side of
the Channel, it will be by the consideration that we have
the means of defending ourselves successfully against
England. Our neighbours, brave ,as they be, are not
persons to undertake an affair in which they would have
too much risk to incur. The English Admiralty is arm-
ing six ships of the line; let us in our turn arm and take
advantage of the victory which crowns our arms to make
friends by obtaining justice from the Moor,_ for SWeden,
Denmark, and particularly for Spain. Spain is our
natural ally ; but it is particularly in Morocco that her
interests are identified with ours. Let us forget nothing
—let us neglect nothing. During 14 years right has
been on our side, and insolence on that of our adversa-
ries. Let France, therefore, have confidence in her
right, as well as in her courage 1"
THE BOURSE—WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28.
First highest Lowest. Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
iremehFlyaperC3nts.••••• 119 90 .. 120 10 .. 119 70 .. 119 75
Fourper Cents. ••• 104 45 .. 104 45 .•-104 45 .. 104 45
Three per Cents.— •• S 05 •• SO 20 . 79 75 .• 79 80
Bank of France .. 30250 .. 3025 •.•
3025 ..3025
Lattltte Bank, 5,000 f Sharesso6o —5060 ..5060 ..5060
Belgian Bank ..• ••• • • ...... 660 .. 660 • • 660 660
Belgian Fives,lB3l.• • • 1031 .• 1031 .• 103 .. 103.
1640 .•••.... 1041 1041 .. 104 .. 104
Spanish Old Deferred •• • • •• 51 •• 51 • •
Portuguese Fite per Cents.• 44 .. 44/ .. 44 .. 441
Neapolitan ••• • •• • .... 97 80 .. 97 80 .• 97 80 .• 97 80
Roman •. .... 104 .. 104 .. 104 .. 104
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles,R.B.••••
L.B ••• • •• 228 75 .. 230 .. 228 75 • • 230
Rouen •
Rouen to Havre— • ... • . 722 50 .. 722 50 .. 717 50 •• 717 50
Orleans •.• -..... 942 50 • . 945 .. 940 .. 940
Sktvirasinbourg.
totomßar.eale.m.
723356 •25
723375. 50
723325
50
723356 25
RAILWAY SHARES FOR TIIR ACCOUNT, 31sT OF AUGUST.
et. Germain •• • • 880 880 880 .. 880
Versailles, R.B. • .
L.B.•..••••••• .• 227 50 .• 230 .. 227 50 .. 228 75
Rouen'.. •• • • .... 945 .. 945 .. 937 50 .. 934 75
Rouen to Ilavre.• •• •• •• 722 50 725 717 50 .. 717 50
Orleans .• •••• • • • 940 .. 942 50 .. 935 .. 938 75
qtrathore to Rale._ ... 936 25 236 23 . 236 25 .. 936 25
Avignon to Marseilles.••• • • 735 735 • . 732 50 •• 732 50

The intelligence from Paris is still of a very grave
character, and many persons begin to look forward
seriously to a war between England and France.
The KING, it is understood, has relinquished his in-
tention of visiting England this year. This, with
other symptoms of alienation between the two Courts,
as well as a large proportion of the people, has caused
another fall in the French funds. On Wednesday
the Three per Cents. closed at 79f. 80c., and the
Fives at 119 f. 75c. Great excitement, it would ap-
pear, prevails among the National Guards of Paris.
"Last evening," says the Constitutionnel of Wednes-
day, "'there was a grand banquet in the saloon of
the Opera, given by the National Guard to the
officers of the garrison who directed the school of in-
struction and manoeuvres of the capital. All round
the room the walls, were dressed out with tri-coloured
flags and trophies bearing cyphers of all the legions
of Paris and the banlieue. At this fete the officers
of the troops of the line, the -delegates of all the le-
gions, as well as all the staff of the National Guards,
sat mingled, together. The Prefect of the Seine and
the Prefect of Police were amongst the number of the
guests. The 'table was laid for 122 persons. Pieces
of music, executed by the troops' of- the line and the
National Guard in turn, were heard during the re-
past. Great applause was given to the famous song
in the opera of Charles :
Guerra aux tyrans, jatnais en France,
Jamais l'Anglais ne regnera
The National Guard would not allow the opportunity
to escape of manifesting its sentiments. After having
applauded the song, it drank *toasts in honour of the
•
Prince de-Jorszvthi.E and his seamen, as well as of
our brave army in Africa." The Yational gives some
additional particulars of a. still more warlike cha-
racter, though we are,glad..to find that the superior
officers did not approve of the proceedings
" The National Guard," according to that journal,
" took advantage of this meeting to manifest its pa-
triotic sentiments in loudly applauding, by enthusi-
astic
toasts, the success of the French army and
navy in Morocco. We learned last evening that a
parting toast was to be given by an officer to the
French navy—the Tangiers squadron, and its com-
mander. In the developments of this toast a very
energetic reply was being made, we understand, to
the abuse lavished on our officers and our flag by the
English. The friends of England got afraid, it
would seem, that the expression of such sentiments
might trouble the entente cordiale, and by means
of a long roll of the drums they prevented the toast
from being given. This ridiculous and brutal pro-
ceeding produced a certain disturbance in the meet-
ing, which broke up with murmurs. To-morrow we
shall probably be able to give details about this scene,
Which is far from doing honour to certain persons be-
longing to the Staff."
The. Government journals seem to infer that the
two Cabinets will come to an understanding respect-
ing the Otaheite affair, though we cannot see on
What ground. However, we publish an article on the
subject, in the Ministerisd paper, the Globe, and leave
our readers to judge fOr themselves. The following
appears in that journal of -Wednesday :
" There has not yet been. as we have already (10(4w-4
any note .darebsen to, the Ring's Government by the
British Cabinet on the affair of Otaheite. All the re-
ports with respect to the presenting of an ultimatum on
this subject are destitute of foundation. Nevertheless,
it is to be presumed that the question will soon be
brought forward and answered. We trust that it will
be arranged, and in such a way as to insure the main-
tenance of a.good understanding, not only between the
two nations, but between the two Cabinets. We have
already declared that the question itself, reduced to its
true proportions, would not have required more than
one quarter of an hour's conversation to be set at rest.
Properly speaking, it was not a question, and it only
becameby the language,
now to be regretted, of Sir
Robert Peel in Par
liament, and by the excitement of an
ignorant and passionate press. With a precipitation
which he has no doubt regretted,
one
the First Lord of the
Treasury gave to the affair 'a certain importance, as far
as regards him, and he has almost pledged himself morally
to obtain satisfaction from France. The French Cabi-
net will do all that good sense and equity command,
not only to nations, but to individuals. A British
subject excited disturbances in our territory,—
we seized and expelled him. We evidently had this
right ; nobody will contest it, not even England. Satis-
faction, therefore, on this point cannot be demanded, ex-
cept through bad faith or folly. But if the French
authorities had the incontestable right to seize and re-
move a British subject who had excited disturbances,
there should have been a certain form observed. Lieut.
d'Aubigny has not observed that form, and he has been
reprimanded by his superior officer, Captain Bruat. The
French Government, therefore, cannot refuse to sanction
the blame already expressed by his own immediate
officer on this want of proper form, or the useless seve-
rity exercised by M. d'Aubigny : but the French Go-
vernment can do no more without a departure from that
which is warranted by the real facts, and the morality
of their. position. And, we shall ask, why should we
disavow ._Captain Bruat ? He himself disavowed the
form employed by M. d'Aubigny ; and the form is
the only thing to be blamed in the affair ; for M.
d'Aubigny had an incontestable right to remove Mr.
Pritchard. The conduct to be pursued by France is
traced by good sense. The Cabinet assembled yesterday
to come to a decision on the affair. We believe we are
justified in stating that the Ministers were unanimous in
placing themselves upon, and holding the ground we
have indicated. Will the British Cabinet confine itself
to a demand of what it knows the French Cabinet is
honourably disposed to grant ? If the affair had not
been magnified there would be no hesitation in answer-
ing yes. The entire hesitation in so replying under the
present difficulty arises from not knowing whether the
words used by Sir Robert Peel will permit him to place
such a termination of the matter before the British Par-
liament. He alone can be a judge of that. Neverthe
less, when we recollect that the existing gravity of the
affair is not peculiar to it, and has only become so in
consequence of a precipitate word, it ought not to be
permitted to us to fear that Sir Robert Peel would re-
deem an imprudent expression by conduct which would
be still more imprudent. Cabinets like his exist by ho-
nourable conduct, and not by obstinacy, and there is
too much good sense in the two countries for us to en-
' tertain any serious apprehension as to the issue of such
a Miserable difficulty."
We have published elsewhere two dispatches from
Marshal BUGEAUD, dated Lalla Magrania, giving der
tails of the state of the two armies previous to the
battle of Isly. On these dispatches the Journal des
Debats makes the following remarks :
" The dispatches of Marshal Bugeaud, dated the 11th
and 13th, are a species of preface to the report of the
battle; expected-with an impatience fully justified by the
importance of its results, as already announced by the
telegraphic dispatch. In the meantime, the two preli-
minary reports of Marshal Bugeaud are of great interest.
They show, in the first instance, that the Price de Join-
vine did not open his fire upon Tangiers until made ac-
quainted with the fruitlessness of Mr. Hay's mission, a
fact Which was denied or denaturalised by certain Lon-
don newspapers. Passing to the state of things on the
frontier, to the threatening attitude assumed by the Moors,
their provocations, -and the daily increase of their forces,
it is evident that the patience and lNonganimity of Marshal
Bugeaud hale been very great. o one can blame him
for this, since by his forbearance he has placed right and
justice on the side of France, as well as victory, when the
measure of his moderation was full. We have now had
opposed to us not only the tribes excited by Abd-el-
Kader, whose personal weight and consequence
have become secondary, but a whole Morocco
army with its Kaids and Dachas and a son of
the Emperor Tor its Commander-in-Chief,while another
sori of the Sultan was in full march to join it with rein-
lorcements. They loudly proclaimed their projects and
their hopes ; -they declared their desire to drive us out
of the province of- Oran ; to ravish from us the ancient
kingdom of Tlemcen, .conquered .three hundred years
ago by Kali- Eddin (Chereddin), the brother to Bab
Aroudji (Barbarossa), both founders of the state of Al-
geria. The tribes who have made their submission to
us could not be suffered to believe that the French were
Afraid of the- Moroccorrien, already three times defeated
on,making af-many 'acts of aggression : -the fidelity, of
these tribes Wohld lutie been shaken, and the enemy,
by an expedition, might have got into our rear, and
raised them against us, placing us between two fires.
All must admire the language of the Marshal when
speaking of the danger of remaining longer on the de-

FRANCE AND ENGLAND.—At an early hour this
morning we were informed, on what we were assured
was good authority, that an important crisis has now
arrived in the relations between England and France.
According to our informant,, the receipt of the intelli-
gence from Mogadore on Tuesday night was imme-
diately followed by the dispatch of a special courier
to Paris, as the bearer of a communication from Lord
Aberdeen to M. Guizot. His Lordship is said to
have demanded the immediate evacuation of the island
of Mogadore by the-forces under his Royal Highness
the Prince de )oinville, and to have intimated that,
in the event of a refusal to withdraw the French
troops, measures would forthwith be taken, in con-
formity with the established usage in-similar circum-
stances. The deep interest involved in this statement
makes' us regret-that, at the period at which we write,
it is not possible for us, of our own knowledge, to
affirm or deny the truth of it.—Post. •

THIS D

NEWS

MONEY AND COMMERCIALNEWS.

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The prices of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
firmly supported, and a fair business wags done. Sales
6,000 bales, viz„ 400 Peruvian at itid.; 300 Surat at 24d.
to 31d.; 500 Egyptian, at 61d. to 9d. ; and the rest Ame-
rican, at 31d. to 6d. per lb.—Shares were dull. Birming-
ham and Gloucester, 101; Chester and Holyhead, 6i;
Dublin and Cashel, if • Eastern Counties, Registered,
Lai ; Edinburgh, Leith, and Grantor, 17f ; Grand
Junction, 2171 ; Ditto, Quarters, 541; *seat Western,
Halves, 821; Ditto, Fifths, 241. 3s. 9d. ; Lancaster and
Carlisle, 6f; Liverpool and Manchester, New, 35; ;
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 115; Manchester and
Leeds, Halves, 511; Sheffield and Manchester, 841;
South-Eastern, 38k ; Ditto, New, lii ; Trent Valley,
94; Lyons and Avignon, 375.
In the last accounts obtained from Australia, a sub-
ject is touched upon in the colonial journals which de-
serves attention. It is that the Governor in Council, as
announced in the Government Gazette, expressed his
intention of increasing the fees upon " depasturing
licenses." At a period when the entire energies of the
colony were in a prostrate condition, from the late com-
mercial panic, this step was held to be most impolitic.
Upon this subject a Sydney paper remarks :
" The new regulations under this head, promulgated
in the Government Gazette, will act in two ways—they
will be most oppressive to the licensed graziers, and
injurious to the reputation of ' Governor Sir George
Gipps.' For our own part, we have on the whole been
friendly to his Excellency—we have thought that he had
the good of the colony at heart, and that his measures
were generally conducive to that end ; we have more
than once stood alone amongst the colonial journals in
defence of his policy ; and not long ago, adverting to the.
completion of his term of office, and to the probability of
his early recal, we expressed our belief that he would
retire from his post with a larger share of goodwill from
the people of his charge than had fallen to the lot
of any of his predecessors. But this one act has changed
the whole current of our feelings. Its folly has raised
ourcontempt ; its cruelty has excited our detestation. As
a piece of State policy, it is a despicable blunder. ; as a
specimen of domestic administration, it is despotism of
the coolest but most insulting kind. To the graziers, al-
ready harassed with difficulties and discouragements
almost beyond endurance, it will be a tortuous aggra-
vation of their sufferings ; to the whole colony, depend-
ing as it does upon the produce of its flocks and herds,
it will be a dreadful check to returning prosperity ; and
to the name of Gipps soon to be placed upon our annals
of things past, it will be a deep, and indelible re-
proach."
We have not received any late intelligence from
abroad to-clay. From South Australia we learn that the
colonists were very sanguine as to future prosperity
being in store for them. " Our principal topic of discus-
sion (states a communication) is the mining interest of
this colony. There can be little doubt that the produc-
tion of metals will be an important feature of South
Australia."
Late yesterday afternoon the periodical notice ap-
peared from the Bank of England, announcing the in
tention of the Directors to make advances upon good se-
curities nt three per cent., to be repaid on or before the
23d of October, in sums not less than 2,0001. each.
A considerable amount of business has been transacted
in the Funds to-day. The prices of French Stock
having come lower from Paris the market for Consols
opened rather heavily this morning. At one period the
price for Money and Account was at 981, but
at the present moment an advance has taken
place to 981 for the Account, and to 98i
for Money. The Commissioners bought 5,0001.
Consols at 981. This is the pay-day in the last Consol
Account. The differences have been well met.
The premium upon Exchequer Bills is rather heavy.
Bank and India Stock are much the same as yesterday.
The Foreign Account was settled this morning, and
with but a slight obstruction. The Portuguese Con-.
verted Bonds have fallen to 43,4 ; Spanish Consols to
221 1 ; and the Three per Cents. to 33. There is a
shade of reaction also in the Dutch and Belgian Funds.
South American Bonds are steady.
The Share Market has presented a rather more'stead
appearance to-slay, as the list of quotations will show
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)

_
Bank Stock 199
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities •... bS% 99%
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 98%14%
3% per Cent. Annuities, 1818 lOl%
3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities - -
New 3% per Cent. Annuities lOO% if % •
Long Annuities, Expire 5t r: Jan. 1860 12% 7-16 ,
Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859
India Stock
India Bonds,l,ooo. .. ..................... ..................
Ditto under 1,000 93
South Sea Stock.
Consols for Account .... ....... ........ ........
Exchequer Bills, •Md. I%d
1,0001. *oft."... ..... ••••••• •••••••••••• 7 6 :4 prn.
5001 ••••••• ..... pm-
Ditto 5ma11...... .
Ditto Advertised
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent lO2 •
Columbian Bonds.
Danish Bonds, 1825,8 per Cent 89% •
Mexican Bonds, '837,5 per Cent. ...
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Converted 4414 43T
Spanish Bonds,. Five per Cent 1840 22%
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Three per Cent. .............. -- 33
Ditto for the Account , -
Dutch 2% per Cent 5.................... ..........
Dutch 5 per Cents...-..........—. ... .. ' lOO%
TRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. Pea SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester lOO lo6k to
Caledonian
Dublin and Cashel .... 2% 7% to
Eastern Counties ............. ...... 23
Ditto Perpetual .5
per eent Lis. 4d.... 1
Grand Junction lOO 219% ...... to
Great Western
Ditto 4 Shares
Ditto 1. ifths IS ..... “.. 24%
Hull and Selby
London and Birmingham 100 .220 to
London and Blackwall 16%
London and Brighton ........ -..... 50
London and South Western ...... 41% ...... 82% to 82
London and Croydon
Manchester and Leeds 7O 122 ......... to --
Midland Counties lOO 104% ...... to
North British 2% ...... 2%
Norwich and Brandon
South Eastern and Dover ..... .... 32% ...... 57)%..•• to
Ditto New -
Trent Valley
'Yarmouth and Norwich IS ..... .... 2'7% ...,.. to
York and North Midland
Ditto Selby Scrip
Paris and Orleans ............... 20 ......... 55%% ... to -.•
Parisand Rouen.,.. •••••••-........... 20 ••.......• 30508 ••• to

JOINT STOCK SANKS.
Union of London

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE AUG. 29.—There
has been more business done to:day without much
change in prices :—Blackburn, Burnley, and Accring-
ton, 51s. ; Dublin and Drogheda, '73i ; Manchester,
Bury, and Rossendale, 5/. 16s. g ; Manchester and Bir-
miagham, 52k; Ditto, Quarters, 51 ; Prestod and
'Pyre, 17* ; Sheffield and Manchester, 85 to ' 841 ;*
Manchester and Salford Bank, 12.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY

CORN-EXCHANGE-FRIDAY

Very little Wheat has been received up to our Corn
Market since Monday, while the number of samples of
that grain was small. The demand, however, was in a
very sluggish state, at barely the prices obtained last
week. About 8,000 quarters of Foreign Wheat have
been received this week. Next to nothing was doing in
either foreign or bonded parcels, at almost nominal
figures. Barley and Malt met a retail inquiry at late
rates. Oats were a plow sale,,but their value, as well .as
that of Beans and Peas, was supported.
ARRIVALS.

Wheat.
English, 2,560 qrs.
Irish..
Foreign

Barley. Oats. Flour
10 qrs. 210 qrs. 4,320 sacks.
3.900 ~..
11,550 4,100 gm—.
Malt. 3,880 qrs. 1
SMITHFIELD.
The supply of Beasts was rather numerous; but of
very middling quality. For all kinds of Beef the de-
mand was in a sluggish state, and Monday's prices were
barely supported. There were on offer 30 Oxen from
Rotterdam, and 200 Scots from Aberdeen. The num-
bers of Sheep were by no means large, yet the inquiry
for them was heavy, at late rates. There was a full
average supply of Lambs in the pens, while the demand
was unusually dull, at about previous currencies. Calves
were very dull, and were called 2d per 81bs lower. For
Pigs but few sales took place. Mulch Cows sold slowly,
at from 161 to 191 5s each.

9,890

Per Sibs. to sink the *9AL
s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s.
Inferior Beasts ... 2 4 2 8 Secoudqualityditte... 3, 4
Second quality ditio 210 3 4 Coarse-woolled ditto.. 3, 6
Prime large Oxen 3 6 3 8 Southdown Wethers 3110
Prime Scots, &c.
Large coarse Calves 3 4 4 0 Large Hogs 3: 0
Prime small ditto 4 2 4 4 Small Porkers 3 8
Suckling Calves, each 19 0 33 (I Quarter oldPigs,eachl6l 0 1'
Inferior Sheep . 2 9 3 2 Lambs $ 8
SUPPLY AT MARKET. 1 •
' • -
- NI Beasts,. • SpA 361 hee
so p. I 1
Calves. I P
2i 80p.
I
'' ' DISVPDATiII AND LEADENNAL ..
We had.. very heavy demand here, on the 110
terms:—

At per stone, by the Carcase.
s, d. to s. d. 1 d. to s. d.
Beef, inferior .. . . ... .... .. 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior 6 2 8
-- middling ..... .... 2 6 2 8 - middling lO 3 4
-- prime large ...... 210 3 0 - prime 8 6 .3 6
prime small ..«» 3 2 3 4 Pork, large 0 6 3 6
Veal ................ 3 4 4 4 -small 8 8 4 0
Lamb, 3s 6d to Bd. 1
I
ZOILOUGII BOP IKARZET.
The accounts which have come to hand from the plan-
tations are more favourable, owing to which th 4 demand
here is heavy, at barely late rates. A new pocket of
Hops has been disposed of at 9l 15s per cwt. The duty
is called 125,0001.- Weald of Kent pockets, 61' 4s to
61 12s ; Mid Kent ditto, 71 5s to 91 16s ; tast Kent
ditto, 71 4s to 91; Choice ditto, 101 to 11/ lls• - Sussex
ditto, 61 to 6l lOs ; Mid Kent bags, 61 18s to 81 ss.

COLONIAL
SUGAR—The market for British Plantation has not
been quite so active, and prices have ruled rather lower
this week. The sales are about 1,350 hhds, Including
145 hhds Barbadoes, by auction, which wen heavily
at 56s to 56s 6d for low yellow, and- 64s tb 64s 6d
for fine.
REFlNED—Standard Lumps, have been 74s :to 74s 6d
per cwt. East India. 2,056 bags Bengal sold at 56s to
66s for low yellow to fine white, !and at
50s to 66s for damp and washed ; and 34243 bags
Mauritius partly sold at Gls to 63s for fine yelloW, 53s
to 54s for low, and 47s to 52s 6d for brown, 306 baskets
Java sold at 19s to 20s for grey.
FOREIGN.-31 chests 18 brls Bahia partly sold at 17s
to 23s per cwt., 587 boxes 18 brls Cubas realised 27s to
28s for good white, and 20s to 20s 6d for pod sound
yellow, and 1,292 boxes Havannah went at 31s, to 31s 6d
for fine white, and 19s 6d for mid.
COFFEE.—The market has been dull on the whole.
At auction 26 casks. Trinidad were nearly all taken in
at 62s to 63s for fine ord, and at 50s to 52s for ord, and
78 casks, Jamaica sold is to 2s, lower ord at 525, and
fine ord at 71s to 735. Ceylon has been held rather
firmly, but not much has been done ; 967
bags at auction were mostly taken in at