The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1844.

ANNIVERSARY of the STORMING
OF THE BASTILE.
The sixth commemoration in London of the above
event—one which has been always honoured by such re-
unions in every town in France—took place at the
Crown and Anchor Tavern, on Monday, 15th July.
The meeting, which was in the large room, and nu-
merously attended, was remarkable for the perfect har-
mony which subsisted, in an assembly composed of such
various elements as the natives of different European na-
tions thus brought together. A new and peculiar cha-
racteristic was exhibited by this festival, in the cordia-
lity and fraternity of sentiment displayed by the natives
of nations but recently considering themselves enemies.
A gratifying and unanswerable proof was thus exhibited,
that a people who are guided solely by their genuine
feelings, and alive to their true interests, have no diffi-
culty in understanding one another, in effacing the pre-
judices which have separated them, and which govern-
ments have basely endeavoured to perpetuate among
them.

The numerous patriotic addresses pronounced in the
principal European languages, and especially those sen-
timents which invoked the union of all nations in the
same bond of morality and fraternity, were received
with the highest enthusiasm and reiterated plaudits.
Patriotic songs and hymns were,
-also sung, in which all
present joined in chorus. So many working-men—the
representatives, it may be said, of the chief Continental
nations—thus united, as it were, in one family meeting,
and in whom amity and cordiality were displayed no less
in words than in looks, tones, and gestures, formed a
truly delightful and exhilarating spectacle. The evening's
proceedings redound to the honour of those true
cosmopolitans, who have too much good sense and
humanity to permit their governments and a corrupt
press to foment strives and jealousies among them, and
who have shown evidences of a universality of feeling,
which appeared to make the natives of each particular
country think he had found his home. It was an evi-
dence of no ordinary liberality and delicacy of senti-
ment, that the president, elected by the conductors of the
meeting—themselves Frenchmen, and assembled on a
French anniversary—was a native of another nation.
A collection was made in the course of the evening for
the Spanish refugees.
It was also unanimously decided that an association be
formed for the assistance of foreigners in distress in all
countries.—Movement.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.)
Business continues in a satisfactory state in this
market. The demand for yarn is very good, and, for
some descriptions, especially of water twist, a slight ad-
vance has been obtained. Goods are also in fair demand;
and, with the exception of 40-inch shirting (which, though
rather better than last week, are still somewhat de-
pressed), sell reVily at very firm prices. It is satisfac-
tory, however, to observe that there is an entire absence
of speculative feeling in the market. Spinners and ma.•
nufacturers are ready sellers at the market prices, and
generally disposed to accept orders for future delivery.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JULY 15.
We have had a very good demand for flannels to-day,
but very little change in the prices. Manufacturers
complain that they cannot get an advance upon their
pieces in proportion to the advance upon the raw mate- ,
rial. Wool has been much inquired after ; and the
prices are slowly, but gradually, advancing.

THUNDER-STORM AT ROCHDALE. About nine
o'clock on Monday morning this town and neighbour
hood was visited with a dreadful thunder-storm, which
lasted upwards of an hour. The rain descended in
torrents, intermixed with pieces of ice as large as
marbles. Loud peals of thunder 'followed each
other in rapid succession, and • the lightning
was brilliant and dazzling. The heavens ap-
peared wrapped in darkness. For a short time,
some of the streets had almost the appear-
ance of a' river ; and everything threatened a return
CRIMINAL JUSTICE. of the 4th of 'July, 1833, when so many buildings were
On ito order of the day for bringing up tbe,repok on swept away at Spotlend-bridge. The lower part of
the Criminal Justice's (Middlesex) Salary Bill, . the town was quickly flooded. Some little property on
Mr. HUM E asked what the amount, of the salary the new wall was spoiled, from the water rushing
was, to be ? in. The lightning was awful and grand. The
Sir J. GRAHAM said the Bill only contained.a pro.. j electric fluid strui:k the counting-house chimney
vision fora salary—the amount of it was open .to the of Messrs. Petrie, ironfounders, Mount Pleasant, and
consideration of the House.—Report received. ran down the. roof, breaking the blue slates, and passed
TURNPIKE TRUSTS. along the roof by a connecting Tod iron, and entered the
On bringing up the report on the Turnpike Trusts moulders shop, where a number of men were at work.
(South Wales) Salaries Bill, 1 They describe the place as 'filled with fire, rjling like
Mr. lIUME said there was no statement of what was waves. The men'rushed out, thinking the building was
to be the amount of the salaries of the Commissioners 4 falling down, so dreadful was the shock ; and many
and the Secretary. I complained of feeling smart shocks as if thy had been
Sir J.
,GRAHAM was understood to say that the ; electrified. The electric fluid then pasSed to the plan-
amount was to betaken out of theproceeds of the trusts.' ' rang room, where Mr. William Petrie was standing in
Mr. HUME; on that statement, would wigaraw all conversation 'With" one of the ne.i2ti.,'.ltjlay‘ed upon a
opposition to the Bill.—(Hear, hear.)Hepe-dho ft). see polished wheel and -thelaraili'ng 'an'd" passed
the day when all turnpike trusts would be abolished i out of the room without doing any injury-.—Manchesterand the roads made a county charge. Guardian,

The report was then received.
METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS BILL.
The House then went into Committee on this Bill.
The various clauses were then rapidly gone through.
On arriving at the schedules,
Mr. HAWES complained of the manner in which
public business was hurried on. He thought the Noble
Lord might have postponed the Bill without any great
stretch of courtesy, knowing that he (Mr. Hawes) had
several amendments to propose. Everything was pressed
on with a degree of reckless precipitancy quite unbe-
coming the dignity of Parliament and unworthy of a
Government. He should give the Bill all the opposition
he could in its future stages.
The Earl of LINCOLN said the objections of the Hon.
Member were vague and uncalled for. The greater part
of the provisions of the Bill had been agreed to. The ob-
jections to the Bill were confined to few individuals. It
was the Hon. Member's fault if he was not in the House,
and he had no right to blame the Government for the effects
of his absence. The Bill had been fully discussed out of
that House, and had received mature consideration in
Parliament. lie the (Earl of Lincoln) should consider
himself as guilty of a deviation from his line of duty if
he further postponed the Bill.
On schedule C be.,ing proposed,
Mr. HAWES moved that the words " district sur-
veyor" be inserted instead of "official referee."
The Committee divided, when there appeared—
For the amendment lO
Against it 25
Majority against the amendment —l5
On the question that schedule C stand part of the Bill,
Mr. HAWES moved that it be omitted, and the Com-
mittee again divided, when there appeared—
For the schedule 29
Against it.
Majority in favour of the schedule —24
Sir J. GRAHAM suggestedthat the Chairman should
now report progress.
The CHAIRMAN then reported progress, and obtained
leave to sit again.
Mr. HAWES defended the course he had'adopted in
taking the sense of the Committee upon schedule C of
this Bill. It provided that no man should erect such a
paltry building as a green-house within fifteen miles of
the metropolis, without coming to Whitehall-place, in
order to have the plan submitted to an official referee.
This, he contended, was vexatious.
The Earl of LINCOLN said the provision was not
compulsory in all cases.
The House again went into Committee,', and the
schedules were proceeded with.
Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY objected to the para-
graph defining the,duties of official referees as to the
style of the construction of green-houses and other
buildings. Such a power was most inquisitorial, and
ought never to have been thought of'.
Mr. HAWES said he would certainly divide the
House against that paragraph of the schedule.
Mr. DARBY thought the power ought only to exist
as to public buildings and places of public amusement.
The Earl of LINCOLN said he was anxious to meet the
Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Hawes) fairly, and he would,
therefore, consent to the omission of the paragraph alto-
gether on the bringing up of the report.—(Hear.)
Several other schedules were then agreed to, with
some slight modifications.
On schedule K being proposed,
Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY objected to the pay- I
n:ent of the surveyors by fees. The surveyors under the
old Act had made 1,5001. a year, which was a great deal
too much.
'The Earl of LINCOLN said the emoluments of the dis-
trict surveyors from fees were various, varying from 700/.
to 501. per annum. The average was not more than 2001.
per annum, and the present Bill rather diminished than
increased their fees.
Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY thought it would be
better to give each district surveyor 5001. a year, and
make him pay his fees into the Exchequer.
The remaining schedules were agreed to, and the
House resumed.
The Earl of LINCOLN moved that the report should
be brought up at twelve o'clock to-morrow (this day).
After a few word 3 from Mr. HAWES,
Mr. Alderman HUMI'IIERY said that, unless the
Noble Lord would consent to delay the bringing up of
the report until Monday, so as to give the parties in-
terested an opportunity of making themselves acquainted
with the cont,nts, he should divide. It was too bad to
att rapt to pass such a measure in a House of fifteen
Member 3, at ten o'clock at night.
The Earl of LINCOLN was determined the Bill should
not be fixed for Monday; and, if the Hon. Member for
Southwark chose, he might persevere in his division, and
count cut the Howe by that means, in which case the
Biil would conic up to-morrow as a dropped order, and
then he (Lord Lincoln) would state when he proposed
to take it.
Alderman lIIIMPHERY suogested that the Bill
should be again brought before he Hoasa on Saturday.
He did not think the Noble Lord had any right to taunt
Mtn ; hs had a right to oppose the Bill at the first or at
the eleventh hour. He would persevere in his motion.
It was an obnoxious Bill.
The Earl of LINCOLN said he would give the llon.
Member the unfair advantage he had taken, and fix the
reception of the report for Friday or Saturday, at twelve
o'clock.
After some further observations, the motion was with-
drawn, and it was agreed that the report be received on
Friday next, at twelve o'clock.
The Earl of LINCOLN announced his intention of
abandoning the Damage by Fire Metropolis Bill. for
the present session, with the intention of making in-
quiries ; and if the result proved favourable, bringing
it on early in the ensuing session.
The Church Endowment Bill was then read a second
time, and ordered to be committed. The report to be
brought up on Friday next.
Sir E. KNATCHBULL moved the consideration of
the petition of Sir John E. Honey-wood (presented 11th
July). He gave notice that, in the'next session of Par-
liament he would move for a Bill to explain and amend 1
the Act for the Commutation of Tithes.
The petition was then ordered to be printed.
TJ~e other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at Half-past Ten o'clock.

PRICES OF SHARES

IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE
AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK.

Dividend
Per

LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 18.

Annum.

Names of Corn-
pantos.

Amount

Share.

Paid. 'Price.

bi per cent.
41.

Canals.
Ashton and Oldham...
Ashby-de-la-Zouch-av
Basingstoke
Breckneck & Abergay.
Birmingham, 1-16th sh.
Do. and Liverp. June.
Chelmer & Blackwater
Coventry
Cromford
Dudley ......
Derby.-- ......
Danube and Mayne.—
Ellesmere and Chester

Cent.

404
4153.

Erewash . - •••
Forth and .........
Grand
Grand Union
Grand Surrey
Grand Western
Glamorgansh., ay. cast
Gloucester & Berkeley
Grantham .--_-.........
Huddersfield ..... ay
Kennet and Avon av
Lancaster .av
Leeds and Liverpool...
Leicester
Leicester & Northamp
Loughborough ........av
Monmouthshire
Montgomeryshire
Melton Mowbray
Mersey and Irwell
Macclesfield ......
Neath
Oxford ..........
Peak Forest. av
Regent's (or Landon)..
Rochdale av
Shropshire .........
• Somerset Coal.
Do. Lock Fund Stock
Stafford and Worcester
Shrewsbury
Stourbridge ........
Str atford.on..Avon...av
Swansea
Severn & Wye & Rail
Trent & Mersey, 14 eh
Thames & Medway-av
Warwick and Birming.
Warwick and Napton
Worcester & Birming
Wilts and Berks
Wisbeach ......
Wey and

11.5 x.

Si 12L 841.

.sa.
I,loe.

17,. 6d.

101.
8 percent.
28
151.
204
IL 10s.
151.

321.-10 s.

101.
81. 108.

11. 4s.

$ per cent.
U per cent.
i per cent.
4 per cent.
31. 10s.
5 per cent.
5 per cent.
£34 per cent.
4 per cent.
4 per cent. 1

Docks.
Commercial
East and West India
London . .......
Ditto Bonds .....
Bristol... ........
Do.Bnds,var.amounts
St. Katharine
Ditto 80nd5.......
Ditto Bonds
Southampton

Bridges
Hammersmith ......
Southwark, new Subs.
Ditto New of 73( pr c
Waterloo
Ditto Old Ann. of Si,
Ditto New ditto of 71
Ditto Bonds
Vauxhall. av

1% per cent.
I/. Os: Bd.
188. Id.
per cent.
11. 7s.

3%. 10a.
4 percent.
6 per cent.
6 per cent.
3s. 6d. pr sh
51.55.
4 per cent.
Ta. per share
5 per cent.
3/.

Assurances.
Albion
Alfred Life .........
Alliance Brit. and For
Ditto Marine
Atlas
Birmingham
British Fire
British Commercial
Cler. Med. & Gen. Life
County
Eagle
Economic Life .....
European Life
Ditto New
Freemasons
Globe
Guardian
Hope Life
Ditto Fire .........—•••••
Imperial Fire.
Ditto Life
Indemnity Marine
Law Life
Legal and General Life
London Fire
Ditto Ship
National Loan Fun
Palladium Life
Protector Lite
Provident Life
Rock Life
yal Exchange
Sun Fire
Ditto Life........
University Life
Universal Life
Union Fire and Life
Joint Stk flanks
Australasi,
Ditto New
Brit. North American
Commercial of London
Colonial
London & Westminstr
Ditto New
London Joint Stock
Metropolitan..... ......
Provincial of Ireland
Ditto New
National of Ireland
Nat. Provincial Englnd
Ditto New
Gloucestershire ""
Union of Australia
Union of London
Gaslight & Coke

5 per cent./
4305. bds. j
5% per cent.
5% per cent.
5 per cent.
6 per cent.
5 per cent.
4s.
2s. 6d.
per cent.
'l9s.
leb. & bds.
1/. ss.

10s.
'los.
per cent.
per cent.
5 per cent.
1/. ss.

_ .
per cent.
Li)4 per cent
11. 4s.
5 per cent.
10% per cen

R per cent.

6 per cent.
6 per cent.
sper cent.
Cper cent.

per cent.

per cent.
6 per cent.
6 per cent.
ils per share
is. per share

[0 per cent
per cent.

16s.
1/. 56,

11. 7s,

Bath ..........
British .
Ditto ....... ....
•
Birmingham
Binning. & Staftbraish
Bristol
Brighton
Ditto General
City of ',or:don
Ditto New
Continental Consond..,
Ditto New
Equitable
1mperia1........
Isle of Thanet
Independent
Phoenix
Rateliff ••....
South Metropolitan.....
United General,,,,,
Westmins. Chartered..
Ditto New ........
Water Works
Birmingham
East London .....
Grand Junction.......av
Kent
Nw Riv Lon. Bridg An
Manchester and Salford
Vauxhall, late S. Lend.
West Middlesex ay
Yrk BuldgCo.LesProp
Iron Railways.
Birmingham & Derby
Birming. & Gloucester
Bristol and Exeter......
Caledonian
Chester and Holyhead
Eastern Counties
Edinburgh & Glasgow
Grand Juncti0n......,,,
Great North of nglnd
Great Western ....
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Fifths . . ....
Harwich (Braithwaite)
Hull and Selby .. .....
Lancaster and Carlisle
Leeds and
Liverpool & lilanchestr
Ditto Half-Shares
London and Brighton
Ditto Loan Notes....
London and Blackwall
London and Greenwich
London and Birmingh,
Ditto Quarter-Shares
Ditto Thirds., .........
London and S. Western
London and Croydon...
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto New Shares.....,
Manchstr and Birming
Midland Counties.......
North Midland
Do. 4.5 h., iss. 10 dis.
Northern and Eastern
Ditto Scrip, iss.sl. dis
Paris and 0r1ean5.....,.
Paris and R0uen......... .....
Rouen and Havre....
Stockton & Darlington 1
South East. and Dover
Yarmouth and Norwich
I ork and N. Midland..,
Ditto New Shares......

M. and ba.
•041. and ba.
per cent.
(cent.

101.
104
81 per sh
15s per sh

6 per cent.
5 per cent.
6 per cent.

5 per cent
6 per cent.
1% per cent.

2/.-108.
24 198.
24 10s.
$ per cent.
4. 16s.
14 14s.

10s. per sh
IL 4a.

per cent.

Es. per sh.
SU. ss. perch
10 per cent
a% per cent.
31.55. per eh
23 1. per sh.
12s. per sh.

Z s. d.
97 18 0
113 0 0
100 0 0
150 0 0

4 per cent.

10 per cent.
10 per cent.
1)61. per sh

101.17er oh,

11. 14s.
3/.per share
Ss4d per sb
Si. I'7a. pr st
113 s per sl
11.

11. 10s.
1/. ss.
15a.

IL 11—s. 10d.

15 per cent.
per cent.

10 per cent.
10 per cent.

IL
11.
Si.
17,. 13d.

I :los,

/Oper cent.
Ws. per sh.

11.
104 per ■h.

33 16

85-6 i
125 0 •
150 • •
12 10 0
140 0 0
125 0 0
145 0 0
79 9 8
100 • 0
96 9 3
50 • •
19 5 8
100 0 0
100 0 0
78 8 •
67 10 8
105 0 0
110 0 0

100 0 0
Stock
Stock

1417 9 0

Stock

50 -0. 0

50 0 0
6828
5000
100 0 0

70 10 3

100 0 0
100 0 0
20u 0 0

40 0 0

-
50 0 0

20 0 0
40 0 •
20 0 0
77 10 0
50 0 •
20 0 0
20 0 •
20 0 0
100 0 0
100 o 0
75 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
30 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 •.
50 0 •
50 0 •
50 0 •
50 • 01

s. i.

100 0 0

0 0
• 0
13 4
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- ;10'
41 13 4 3

Albion Copper...«
Allen
Anglo Mex., iss.sl. p.m
Ditto Subscription...,
Bolanos
Ditto ........
Brazil. Imp. iss. 51. p.m.
Do. Mocaub. & Coc. U.
Do. St. John Del Rey
British Iroa
Candonga.
Ditto Registered
Cobre Copper
C0piap0...... .......
Columbian, iss. 51. p.m.
General Mining
....
Hibernian .....
Imperial Slate Compy.
Mexican
Mining Co. of Ireland
Real del Monte, Unreg
Ditto Loan Notes
Rh ymney Iron
Santiago de Cuba...—
United Max., iss.2l. pm
Ditto Scrip
Ditto New Scrip...—

0 o
• 0
12 g
• o

25 0 0
5000
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 • 0
50 • 0
20 0 0
20 • 0
SO 0 •
SO 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
10 0 0
16 13 4
12 15 4
[OO 0 0

.32 0 0
41 6 10
13 15 9
100 0 0
SO 0 0
70 • 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
50 • 0
20 0 •
20 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0

5 0 0
15 0 0
100 0 0

150 -0
0

35 0 0
25 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
20 0 •

0 0
55 0 0
20 • 0
50 0 0
10 0 0
60 0 0
25 0 0

Literary.
Londn, with Sin.llcket
London University
Russell
King's College
Miscellaneous
Anglo Mexican Mint-
Australian Agricultur
Brit. American Land,
Canada .....
Upper Canada Bonds
Gen. Steam Navigation
Iberian Mercantile Co.
Ditto Property
Met. Wood Pay., iss. U.
Mex. and S. American
New Brunswick (Land)
New Zealand
& Orien. Steam
Royal Mail Steam ......
Reversionary Int. Soc
South Australian
Thames Tunnel
Van Diemen's Land

50 0 0
25 0 0
40 0 0

leo —o o

100 0 0

All paid

0 • -
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100 0 0 41
100 • 0 91
70 0 0 74
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100 0 0 921
100 0 0 lel
75 • 0 12$
50 0 0 7f.
12 0 • 2::
2 0 0
50 0 • 59
50 0 4
100 0 0
100 0 0 22.1
50 0 0 109
50 0 0 47
10 0 0 11

LOO 0 • 22
2 0 0 21
32 0 0 3'

70 0 0 I IC
39 0 0 4
49 0 • 5
100 0 0 9
100 0 0 9
40 0 0 4,
45 • 0 5
15 0 0 2
249 0 0 3
20 • I 3.
10 0 0 1
[OO 0 0 26,
50 0 0 31
18 0 0 2
50 0 0 10
25 0 0 1 5,

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100 0
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2 10

75 0 0
100 0 0
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75 • 0
25 0 0
50 0 0 Ei

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0 . 20 0 0
' 50 0 0
0 SO 0 0

`ANIES' PRICES.

10 0 0
10 0 0
10 0 0
10 0 0
12 10 0
1 0 0
2 10 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

Henry Sage, the person who was charged on Tues-
with having presented for payment a cheque for 301.,
which had been stolen out of a lady's carriage on Mon-
day, was brought before Sir Peter Laurie for final exa-
mination. Mr. Williams, of the firm of Bush and Mul-
lins, solicitors to the Committee of Bankers for Protec-
tion from Forgeries and Frauds, attended for the
prosecution. Mr. Robarts, of the house of Curtis and
Roberts, and brother of Mrs. Maddocks, the prosecutrix,
was present during the investigation.
Sir PETER LAURI, said that, in order to have com-
plete justice done to:the prisoner, he had ordered strict
inquiry to be made respecting his character and the
characters of the two persons who, the prisoner declared,
had been in his company when he addressed the French-
men who had the cheque in their possession.
The prisoner—l thank you, Sir, for having done so.
J. Hams, policeman, No. 248, stated that he had known
the prisoner during the last seven years. He was a
surgeon, and had been some time ago student at one of
the hospitals, but he lived now with a woman, and kept
very bad company, such as thimble-rig men, sharpers,
and swindlers.
The prisoner—Not to my knowledge ; but a profes-
sional man cannot know the characters of all whom he
attends.
The policeman added that the prisoner was suspected
in consequence of the company he kept ; but witness
never heard or knew that he had ever been in custody.
The two men whom the prisoner had described as having
been in his company when he took the Frenchmen's
cheque into the banking-house, were, witness believed,
crimps They were not in attendance.
The prisoner—Those two persons were with me at the
time. I don't suppose they received the letters calling
capon them to attend.
Mrs. Sidney Maddocks (widow) stated that the cheque
produced had been last in her possession on Monday. It
was drawn by her on the banking-house of her brother
(Mr. Robarts), and she had deposited it in a pocket-
book which she placed in a bag, which bag lay in a
basket in her sister's open carriage, at Holmes's shawl-
warehouse, in Regent street, where she called. She was
about twenty minutes, or, a quarter of an hour, at
Holmes's, and upon her return to the carriage she missed
3 the bag.
The footman stated that he remained outside Holmes's
warehouse, on the form, within view of the carriage,
while Mrs. Maddock's was within the house, and the
,14 coachman said that he remained on the box.
Mr. Mullins then proved the presentment of the
cheque at the counter, and the account given by the
prisoner of the manner in which he became possessed of
' it, which was—that, as he and two friends of his were
34 passing along Lombard-street, two Frenchmen were
disputing about the cheque, and he pointed out to them
the banking-house where it was payable, and took it
134 from them to get it cashed for them, as they did not
3% seem to understand it.
slt The prisoner requested to be informed whether the
Magistrate would take bail.
))4 Sir PETER LAURIE replied that he could not think of
N taking bail in such a case.
The prisonsr—l assure you that I am entirely inno-
)4 cent. I admit that there is something calculated to
excite suspicion ; but that is all.
1% Sir PETER LAURIE—I have given you every oppor-
tunity to clear up the business if you could. I must
commit you for trial, and, whatever be the result, I hope
the case will operate as a warning to people how they
,14( take cheques from foreigners.
The prisoner—It will be a warning to me, I assure you.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.
G. J. Russell, the captain of one of the steam-boats
33. which ply between London-bridge and Chelsea, was
summoned to answer the complaint of Mr. R. S. Upton,
who stated that on Thursday he ;vent to the Pier-wharf,
1% at Southwark-, and purchased tickets for his wife and
62 himself, having first been assured by the person who
took the money that the boat would certainly go to
5% Chelsea. When the vessel reached Westminster-bridge,
7
e however, the captain said the passengers must go ashore,
Mi as he could not go further that night. The secretary
LA • ,
52A said, upon being expostulated with, that people must
2g put up with it. The complainant added, that he had been
4% putpagu aet
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ing. Besides, the captain was not aware that the gen-
tleman had mentioned that his wish was to go to Chelsea
• before the boat left Southwark-bridge.
6% Sir PETER LAURIE thanked the complainant for the
5 trouble he had taken to correct such an evil, and fined
% the captain in the penalty of 10s. and costs.
CLERKEN WEL L.
John Gordon, a well-dressed young man, who do-
t scribed himself as a journeyman jeweller, residing in
7 Woodbridge•street, Clerkenwell, was charged with a
[34 burglary at the house of Mr. "Vaughan, an architect, re-
+i siding at 30, Palk-street, Ping-ton.
Mr. Vaughan and his family being from home on
s, Tuesday, Sarah Hancock, the female servant, invited her
sister to take tea with her on the evening of that day.
• The sister came, accompanied by the prisoner, who pro-
i fessed to be her sweetheart; they went away about
ten o'clock. Between twelve and one o'clock on the
t following morning. police-constable 178 N, being on duty
; in Park-street, heard a noise in the area of No. 30, and
on hastening thither found that the entrance from the
area into the kitchen had been broken open, and saw
the prisoner escaping by the railings. Witness at-
; ' tempted to secure him on the spot, but the prisoner
climbed over the railings, and ran away—the officer
pursued him, but finding that he was very nimble
sprang his rattle: police-constable 212 N attempted to
stop the prisoner, who knocked him down, but the officer
clung to him, and they were rolling on the ground to-
gether when 178 N came up, and he was secured with
great difficulty. On examination, it was found that
some articles which hung in the kitchen had been re-
moved, and that the glass of the kitchen door had been
smashed. The servant said she was sleeping at the top
of the house, but did not hear any noise.
The prisoner alleged that he had made an appoint-
ment of an amorous nature with Sarah for Tuesday
night, but admitted that he had come " a night before
his time."
Sarah indignantly denied the allegation, and declared,
with apparent candour, that she could not be vile enough
to seduce the affections of her sister's lover.
;i4 15a Inspector Thatcher said the prisoner had given a false
5 address.

li Mr. COMBE remanded him, telling him he should com-
mit him for trial on the charge of burglary.
.
i John Barrett was brought up on remand, charged with
s% obtaining money from tradesmen by fraudulently re-
§% presenting himself as the agent of the Anti-Corn-law
3q League.
% Mr. Ivimey, the solicitor for the League, appeared
D
IN for the prosecution, and Mr. Humphreys for the prisoner.
5 The prisoner's brother, a respectable-looking young
rz man, came forward, and stated that the prisoner was the
7% son of Mr. Barrett, hatter and furrier, 72 and 73 Castle-
I~9street, Bristol. He did not think the prisoner was of
7% sound mind. Some time ago he left Bristol, taking with
him clandestinely 251. and two gold rings, the property
of his father, which sum he spent in four days in Lon-
pi don. Various other circumstances had led his family
,N to believe that he was not of sound mind.
A
M Mr. Ivimey said he should certainly press the charge
44 against the prisoner, unless the prisoner's friends wished
,% him to be remanded for the purpose of establishing the
plea of insanity.
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TORY ACT.

THUNDER-STORM IN MAN-
CHESTER.

Mr. Barrett would not, however, ask a remand on
these bounds.
Mr. Saul, secretary to the League, stated that he had
ilt been informed by a correspondent at Bristol that it was
5%
6 not the first time the prisoner had been charged before
%1
8% a magistrate.
4
Mr. COMBE finally decided upon sending the prisoner
131;
for trial.

" The depositions of Messrs. Newman and Ingram-
-2 the main facts of which have been mentioned in our
2 paper of Tuesday—were formally taken down.
s Mr. Paul, a printer, residing in Great St. Andrew-
-7
7 street, Seven-dials, deposed that about six months ago
3 the prisoner called on him, and having stated he was
5 agent and collector to the League, said he wanted to
hare three thousand cards struck off for the League.
Witness, after some hesitation, assented, and the prisoner
gave the following words to be printed on the cards :
A " The bearer is authorised to collect subscriptions for
ithe Anti-Corn-law League. George Wilson, Chairman.
%

2 ADVANCE OF WAGES IN BOLTON.—The opera-
-4% tive cotton-spinners of Bolton, considering the revival
a of trade sufficiently established to warrant an applica-
tion, on their part, for an advance of ten per cent. upon
their wages, being the amount to which they were re-
s duced, in consequence of the depression, that body gave
4 notice to their employers, a mpnth ago, that, unless the
advance was given, they would leave their work on the
13th of July. Up to Friday night no arrangement
had been made, though tbe masters that day had made
5 a proposal to rieet the men half-way, by making an ad-
vance of five per cent. On Friday night, thirty-five de-
g legates, from the various mills in the town and neigh-
bourhood, met at Mr. Suttle's, the Crown Inn, Deans-
gate, to take the proposal of 'the masters into considera-
i tion. It was then decided, by 24 to 11, that the offer
should be rejected, unless the masters would include the
price of gas in the 'adVance. The .delegates were in-
structed to acquaint their masters with' this resolu-
! tion, and to ask for their concurrence. This was done
r on Saturday morning, when the masters expressed
their determination not to go beyond an advance
of 5
,per cent., especially as they had no assurance
that the country masters would make any advance
at. all. This -objection was urged upon the delegates,
by several masters who are very popular with their
workpeople, and its force was felt and acknowledged
by the spinners. The question remaining thus unset-
tled, and the week in several of the mills being com-
pleted on Friday night, the spinners in these esta-
blislnents struck 'on Saturday morning, and re-
mained out that day. On Saturday night, however,
a meeting of delegates and others was held at the
Crown Inn, to determine upon what course should be
pursued. There were 69 spinners present; and, after a
protracted discussion the question was decided by a
show of hands. For adhering! to the original demand of
ten per cent., 6; for an advance of five per cent., and gas
free, 30; for accepting the proposal of the masters, of
five per cent.. 33. It was, therefore, decided to go to
work on Monday morning, pt the advance offered by the
masters, and thus, to the credit of both parties, the dis-
pute is amicably settled.
llAntirEsT.—Both wheat and barley are looking
exceedingly well, and promise an excellent crop, and also
an early harvest. The spring corn, for which so much
alarm was felt a few weeks since, has wonderfully im-
proved in every quarter. Many fariners in this neigh-
bourhood will begin harvesting next week.—Cornwall
Gazette.

Oa Monday morning, about ten minutes or a quarter
past nine o'clock, this town, with its immediate neigh-
bourhood, especially Ardwick, was visited by a rather
severe thunder-storm. Black and dense clouds, driving
from the north and west, rapidly obscured the atmos-
phere ; the rain fell in a heavy shower ; and, about half-
past nine there was an exceedingly vivid flash of light
ning, followed at an interval of scarcely a second by a
very loud clap of thunder.- ThiS was as experienced in
the centre of the town ; but, as we have intimated, the
locality of Ardwick appeared to be within the more
immediate influence of the storm. In the Polygon
Avenue the electric fluid struck one of a row
of poplar trees, near a wooden fence, and
stripped the bark off it for a considerable breadth,
separating it into loose fibres. The lightning also struck
the paling, and threw a portion of it down. A gentle-
man who saw the place almost immediately afterwards,
describes it as-being caused by the flash, almost instantly
followed by the loud clap of thunder already noticed.
But the most remarkable effects of the electric fluid re-
main to be noticed.

About the time when the loudest clap of thunder was
heard in Manchester, the electric fluid entered a cottage
occupied by Mrs. Ferguson, in York-street, Chancery-
lane, Ardwick, near Pin Mill Brow, and struck a boy
named James Edward Jackson, about ten years of
age, who, with his sister, a young woman named
Ann Jackson, had gone into a house a short time
previously. It appears that the boy was not fully
dressed, and had a shawl wrapped round his waist, the
shawl reaching nearly to his feet, and a little above the
lower part of his jacket. He was without shoes and stock-
ings, but was standing in pattens, and was also without
hat or cap. The account that he is able to give of the
occurrence, and which we conceive must be taken with
considerable allowances, is as, follows I was standing
near the fire-place, and 'tt round ball; red like fire, came
down the chimney, and ran round my head, and then to
my feet; and, after it ran round ray head, it burst out
into a flame near the chimney-piece. After it left me,
it went out at the front door into York-street." The boy
also states, that when he felt the " ball of fire" run
round his head, he drew the shawl up so as to cover it.
His hair, especially at the back part of his head, is
singed, as well as the, upper part of the shawl, which
was folded in the ordinary manner. Indeed, the shawl
is much scorched and discolours dat that part. His feet
and ankles are scorched, and the outside of his right leg
blistered; but he received no other injury. He further
states that a teapot, which was standing on the grate, fell
after he felt the sensation of something running round
his head, as above described ; and that, after he saw the
flame, he heard a loud report. His sister, who was in
the house at the time, corroborates the boy's statement
as to seeing flame going out at the front door; and Mrs.
Thornley,. who keeps'a shop in the same street, states
that she heard a scream at the time in question, and
looked out, when she saw flame in the street, and
thought " the whole street was on fire." Mrs. Fergu-
son's house is described to have been full of smoke after
the occurrence ; but it does not appear that anything
was damaged connected with the house, except the
chimney-pot, which was broken. All the neighbours
concur in describing the report which accompanied the
flash as'one of the loudest and most awful claps of thun-
der they ever heard.—Manche.ster Guardian.

INFORMATION UNDER THE FAC

At the Ashton petty sessions, on Saturday, Mr. Davies,
the inspector of factories for this district, preferred an
information against James Shaw, an overlooker in the
employ of Messrs. John and Nathaniel Howard, for
having, on the 27th day of June, employed a boy, named
Hugh Harrop, to work as a piecer for twelve hours in
the day, he not being of the age required by law.
The case excited some degree of interest. Mr. N. Earl
solicitor, appeared on behalf of the defendant. Mr.
Davies said that he had the painful task of bringing the
present charge before the Bench ; but, considering all the
circumstances in connection with the case, he felt it his
duty to do so. He visited Messrs. Howard's mill on
the 27th of June, and found the boy, who had not the
appearance of being thirteen, working as a piecer.
On referring to the books in the mill, he found he
was regularly entered as having been certified by
the surgeon to be of the proper age, seeing which, he
was led to make further inquiry into the matter.
He waited upon Mr. Wood, the certifying surgeon,
and inquired whether he had given a certificate to such
a lad as he pointed out. Mr. Wood told him that he
had not done so ; that the boy Harrop was brought
to him, but he refused to give any certificate, say-
ing at the same time that he would not do, but that
he did give one to another boy who was much older, of
the name of Hugh Harrop. Several witnesses were called
who, on being sworn, stated that they saw the defen-
dant coming out of Mr. Wood's surgery, on Monday
the 10th of June, and that the boy Harrop was waiting
outside, to whom the defendant gave a piece of
paper. The certificate found in the book at the mill,
Mr. Davies said, bore the date of the 10th of June. Mr
Wood, in answer to Mr. Davies, said that he was quite
sure that he had never passed the boy Harrop. In
answer to Mr. Earl he stated that he did pass one boy
working at Messrs. Howards, but not the boy referred
to. Was quite certain that the boy he found at work was
not the boy certified in the name of Hugh Harrop.--The
boy Harrop, on being called, said that he was passed,
and that Mr. Wood put his hand upon his head,
and looked in his mouth, to judge of his age.—Eliza-
beth Royles said she was in Mr. Wood's surgery on the
10th of June, when a lusty man came in with two boys,
and that one of the boys was registered by the
surgeon ; she could not say positively whether defen-
eant was the person who brought the boys in or not.
In answer to Mr. Earl, the witness said that she
could not say whether the last witness was the boy that
was registered. she did not take particular notice at the
time. Mr. Earl said that it was not so much for the amount
of any penalty that might be inflicted, as it was to
clear up what appeared to him so mysterious a case
as the one before the Bench, that he appeared there on
that occasion. He argued at some length the possibi-
lity that Mr.. Wood, in the multiciplicity of business,
might easily have made a mistake. He called several
witnesses, who stated that they saw the defendant
leave the surgery, there being no other boy with or
near him at the time but the boy Hugh Harrop.—Mr.
Davies replied, and referred the Bench to the evidence
given by. Mr. Wood and the witness Boyles. He stated
that he entirely exonerated the Messrs. Howards.
from all blame in the matter, believing, as he did, that they
knew nothing at all of the cases—Mr. Lord said that he
considered the case had been very properly conducted on
both sides. There was no doubt from the evidence which
had been given, that defendant had acted improperly, but
he thought a small penalty in the present case would serve
every purpose.—Mr. Davies said there was another ease
arising out of the first, but he did not wish to press for
more than a nominal penalty for the second offence.—
Mr. Garnett, the Chairman, said the Bench were quite
satisfied of defendant's guilt, and convicted him in 40s,
—Mr. Davies said that if defendant paid costs in the se.
cond case that would be all he should require.—Mr.
Howard said that he believed the defendant to be inno-
cent, and he would pay the money for him.

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BIRTHS.
,Mess
CoOn the 10th inst., at Longford Hall, Derby, Anne, fell
of Leicester, of a son, which survived its birth only
hours.
Ait°'
On the 10th inst., at Brunswick-square, St. Pancras,
Robert Aylwin, of a daughter.

MARIE.
On the 2d inst., at Edinburgh, Lieutenant-Colonel - 'der
Low, of the Madras Army, to Thomasina Agnes, et,joy
daughter; and William Logan White, Esq., of Keller! 00
advocate, to Jane, younger daughter, of the late Sir Ja
Fous, Bart., of Colinton. cif
On the 6th inst., at St. John's, Paddington, Capt. TTllOv
Royal Artillery, to Cara Mary, only daughter of the la
Dance, Esq., Deputy Commissary-General to the Forces.

DIED. • I 01;
On the Bth inst., at New Brighton, near Liverpoo y
_soy
am Welland, Esq., late of the Hon. East India COIF
Bengal Civil Service, aged 79. w
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On the Bth inst., at Gravesend, Mrs. Ann Sharp, w'
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had been dangerously ill for two years, was a patient at On the 9th inst., at Boulogne-sur-Mer, Harriet, se
lay
daughter of Henry Hewgill, Esq. la
the London and Bartholomew Hospitals, and told that
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mari
Ph_„c‘ebe;htehelowt;lfeitiosfte.aFtaliloonrnasre, Esq.
nothing whatever on her stomach ; she was likewise a
row,_ Islington, MiSs„4.
dreadful sufferer from piles: finally, she got so bad as to
keep her bed for nine months, from which dangerous Louisa,u eldest daughter of the/litrP. Gastenhoferptoo
On the 10th inst., at Petworth, Sussex, Thomas a'
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ST. SWITHIN. THE FRENCH IN AFRICA.
The continuance of rainy weather commonly experi- I ALGIERS, JULY 3.—Messieurs the administrators ef
enced about the middle of July, has given rise, it is sup- the Berlines Posies inform you that there is just five
posed, to the popular tradition respecting St. Swithin, I days' journey from the Paris in Europe to the Paris !r1
whose anniversary day is on the 15th of the month. I. Africa. What, then, ought to be your sensations in
We have elsewhere noticed the thunder-storm which
stepping from the Marseilles steamer upon the terra
ushered in St. Swithin here, on Monday morning ; and firma of the Paris in Africa ? Nothing very particular.
have since had the curiosity to make some inquiries as You see yourself in a French town, and that's all. oto the quantity of rain which has fallen in Manchester
arriving at the Place Royale, the only object sale'
during the month of July for the last fourteen years ; shakes your faith in the French town is a large mosqu' and we find the following to be the quantities : which forms a very striking and novel feature in the
July. Inches. July. Inches. ensemble of the Place. You must then picture to your-
-1830 3.21 1837 3.48 self a tolerably-sized square, open on on one side to the
1831 3.50 1838 3.46 sea, where you look over the Mole and the harbour,
1832 2.47 1839 4.63 and a hundred merchant ships and half-a-dozen steamers'
1833 2.27 1840 5.78 and filled up on the other sides with hotels, and shops,
1834 6.71 1841 5.54 and cafes, of four and five stories high, with an espa
1835 1.94 1842 3'4o nade or parade, lined on two paths with growing-up
1836 ,...3.40 1843 5.17 orange-trees, and you have the Place Royale. 'Etter
This gives an average fall of rain during July of is another square as you advance upon the hill of houses,
nearly four inches. In 1842, we find that 2.09 inches where a market is held in the centre, having a fountain'
fell in the first half of July, and only 1.31 inch in the which is also enclosed by cafes and shops. There ars
latter half—which is the one appropriated to St. Swithin's two widish streets, Baba-Azours and Baba-Ouled, rs 111;.
rainy influence. In 1843, on the contrary, P 66 inch fell ning east and west, which communicate directly ;,
in the first, and 3.51 inches in the last half of the month. the Place Royale. These streets are lined with hotel.
In the present month (1844), the fall of rain in the first cafes, and shops, teeming with French goods as cheaP e
half, including the showers on Monday morning (0.29 in any town of France. There is scarcely a street whet inch), measures 1.51 inch. building up and pulling down is not going on. Govern.
But we next come to the state of the weather on St. ment is also building barracks for soldiers on the top
Swithin's day (July 15) on the last nine anniversaries of of the city, and churches of all sorts and sizes in digs':
the watery saint. In 1836 (Friday) the day was wet, rent parts of the city for the worship of every relig!os
and the fall of rain during the week was 1.20 inch. under the sun. In the narrow streets of the tit) ii
In 1837 (Saturday', it was a rainy day ; fall dur- which are as narrow, tortuous, and dark as Mo°rls big the week 1-25. In 1838 (Sunday) it was a streets can be—there are several very strong and band.,
fair morning, but a rainy afternoon ; and the fall some houses built and being built. In fact the rage
t 2 a during the week was only 0.54 inch. In 1839 anxiety to make Paris in Africa deserve its name is be-
(Monday) the day was showery ; but the rain during yond all conception, and many millions of francs ins' the week only 0.75 inch. 1840 (Wednesday) it was have been spent by private individuals. There is an 'm'
very fine all day, but rain fell at night ; and in the week mense faubourg (Mustapha) springing into life all alorf
beginning on the following day, two inches of rain fell. the eastern coast, like a Yankee city of the far nes
t.
In 1841 (Thursday) it was gloomy in themorning, showery There are at least some 50 carriage-omnibuses ruenino,
at noon, and fine in the afternoon ; only 8-100ths of aninch to this and every other part of the, environs. I ale
of rain fell during the day, and 1.17 inch during the week. not forget also that the Government, to please
In 1842 (Friday) it was fine all day ; not a drop of rain fell, Moors, have, besides repairing their mosques, built theta
and the quantity during the week was only 0.10 inch. In two or three handsome bazaars in their moresque fashion.
1843 (Saturday) it was cloudy, and a little rain The bustle and confusion in this African Paris is be'
(2.looths of an inch) fell the early part of the day ; yend description. It is like a great hotel, or an Africa;
but the remainder of the day was fine, and the European bazaar. A fellow traveller of mine could LKti
week's quantity was 0.27. In 1844 (Monday last) think of anything else to compare it to but Epsom race'.
there was a heavy thunder shower in the morning, Of course, as French, Spaniards, Maltese, Arabs, Moors,
which cleared the air, and the weather was beautifully and Barbary Jews, constitute nearly the whole poP1118;
fine the remainder of the day. The fall during two hours, tion, the variety of their costumes has a very droll, .
however, exceeded the week's quantity of last year, being not pleasing effect. The more respectable natives, the
0.29 inch. The above, though ranging through only a Mussulmans I mean, whose calm and retired habit;
limited number of years, will serve to show that St feel offended at this Epsom races bustle from mornit!g,
Swithin's day is not always so wet as is generally sup- to night, retire within their houses, and are rarely
posed ; and all that can be predicated with any degree of seen in the European part of the town. A
great
certainty is that, from causes familiar to meteorologists, many of the lower classes, however, are everywhei,„
i
July is usually a very rainy month, as well as upon an seen ; and little Moorish shoe-blacks follow
you to bitted
average the hottest month of the year ; and it is worthy your shoes in French style. The number of cafes and
of note, that the increase to the mean temperature is de- restaurants are totally beyond calculation. Added 1,
rived chiefly from the night.—Manchester Guardian. this, as the crown of French civilisation in Africa, 3°l
11,
must listen. to with amorous delight, and coquette t 5
singing girls of the musical soirees and cafes. It ws
mentioned the other evening, as an astounding proof a
the progress of civilisation in the interior that Pat
music and singing were to be heard at Blidals, a too°
about eight leagues from this.
Everybody seems to live at the cafes or restaurants,:
Very small houses are inhabited by half-a-dozen familie;
that is, of Europeans ; for house-rent is exceedingly dear'
I don't know whether you will be able to form any COn:
ception of Paris in Africa from this lame descriptor
I should add, however, that Algiers is essentially a g,sr;
rison town, and is full of the military. It must not, als,
be forgotten that the Due d'Orleans had a portion of tile
suburbs on the west devoted to a Jardin des Plante''
which is open every Sunday to the public. I only rnFtr;
tion more, that very formidable fortifications are bent
constructed on the heights : the Mole is gradually beii4
enlarged, and everything wears the appearance of the
determination of the French to retain their Algerlni
conquest. We must not, nevertheless, disguise the foe
that French civilisation, as above set forth, goes more
than any other syste:n of living—if I may so saYr
against the grain of the Moors. They flee it—it hurts'
it shocks them : the noise, the bustle, the cafes, t'id
singing women, Ole women running everywhere en •
doing everything—the shops, the pictures, nay, the 11°'
man Catholic worship, the cross, the images, the proeesti
sions (for processions have begun here): all these, an
ten thousand other things, exasperate the very soul 19c
the Moor, and he shrinks back into the retirement. ()
his secluded home, and tries to dream that the French
have never touched the soil of Algeria.
.It is because
the French have been carrying on a desperate war ra
this country for the last 14 years, and have driven alit
the peaceful objects of commerce from a soil stain ;
with blood unrighteously spilt, they turn round upon s
and bully us because.the Arabs of the interior prefer t,„
go and buy goods from Morocco and Tunis in safety,'
but which goods, it turns out, come chiefly from flg-
land. This is the way in which we rob our neighboni,l
of their natural and legitimate rights. As to the Artto
al.
themselves they are free agents, and we have no control
over them one way or the other. Surely, they maY °
permitted to choose the best market for themselves.
But there seems to be somethingsdike fatality in tlns„
frustration of France's " natural and legitimate bencfitsl3,
Not satisfied with driving away the commerce from t
soil of Algeria by a cruel war, the French were
mined to give it the coup de grace by fiscal regulatioi
" Are not the ports of Oran, Algiers, Philippeville• an •
Bona open ?" cries Monsieur the member' of the Scien-
tific Commission. " No," I answer : you have effel
tually and hermetically sealed them by
the late law 't)
the customs of Algids." The Arabs dislike a deaf
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article as much as war ; and certain it is, that theredre
not the remotest prospect of reviving the -01
with the inhabitants of the interior
or of tl3O
south whilst the new tariff of customs is in
force. The Algerine Sahara will now, indeed, 51°_et
than ever pursue its relations with Tunis in the ",
0
and Morocco in the west, for the supply of its European
manufactures. No razias, no war, no earthly povvers_":o
turn an Arab from a route which leads him to a elleb'il'e
market. I mentioned, however, in my last, that ,
tariff had begun so perniciously that it was likely to nor
dergo iAiportant modifications. The fact of the matt
is that tariff was made against England to ae`,:e
out her manufactures; but it has, and ever will, Pr°'
a failure. English manufactures cannot be kept fro'
the Arabs of the Sahara and the mountains (3,,
Northern Africa; for, if France prohibits their el!..ipf tt
direct into Algeria, they will find their passage side'
ways—" pas des voles laterales"— as ,11. Carette sk"
they do now, from the south. The sooner therefore,:
that France adopts an inevitable course of liberal policy
in relation to the commerce of this country with otbef
nations the better. It will come with a better grail',
done at once, and when already the necessity of t
policy is clearly demonstrated.
Whilst writing about the commerce of the count* De
may be as well to mention, that the export of natl
productions amounts to absolutely nothing. All that o
now is the export of a little olive oil, a little wax, an,, riis
few skins, all in the very small way, and which is in
hands of the Jews, and so made smaller and worse bi
that.
I must now add a word upon the prospects of the .1:
curity of life and property in this country. I an'
sured that during the last year the colony has gres-e,
advanced in security. The Akhbar of the 30th ult. r
to
lates the circumstance of a man who, not being able
leave Bona for debt by sea, left that town and traverse.
the country from Bona' to Philippeville in perfect safety'
and this he gives as an argument of the security of to
country. The distance which the man travelled is °is°
thirty miles. The son of the British Vice-Consul a
travelled from Cherchell to Algiers the other daPoj
distance of about-forty miles, with only two Moors s_,„
another European, in perfect safety. The furthest post 0.",t-
-cupied in the interior is Biskara, lately taken, possession us
by the Duo d'Aumale. The distance from the coast in
direct line is about 200 miles. The Arab chief, ackn°e
ledging the sovereignty of France, who is most cbetg't,
from Algiers (the city), is the Emir of El-Agh°uiloo
which district contains a city with a population of 20,0
souls. It is quite evident, then, that the French Per
in Africa is acquiring stability; and only Abcl.ol-IC3.'mi
prevents this colony, at least apparently so, from rapwi,
advancing in the security of life and property. Of agr,,.
cultural prosperity I can say nothing at present. Too';,
and villages, however, are springing up in this neighboisat
hood, and the number of new emigrants is estimatenoi,
about 1,000 per month. The Spaniards and the Mg ;
tese have been most successful amongst the strangaro
but, I believe, the Germans are doing pretty well ge
cultivators of the soil. Government gives a free passkey
to every French emigrant who applies for it and to e.
with him a certificate of character. On arriving llerj
they shift for themselves. Certainly, the shortness,ro
the passage is greatly in favour of emigration--ab%
within three days, and in steamers. So far, it
inns;
confessed, that the French Government is liberty.
Times' Correspondent.