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dare my condemnation of certain recent publications
coming from the reputed leaders of a section in the
Church, I have now to state that my sentiments have
undergone no change whatever since. On the con-
trary, everything has tended to confirm my opinion
that the tendency of those writings is to Romanism."
It gives us sincere satisfaction to see the Bishop of
GLOUCESTER thus speaking out boldly on the subject
of Puseyism, and expressing his strong, heart-felt
conviction, of its injurious tendency. It is, indeed,
an " old friend with a new face"—that is to say,
Popery under the disguise of earnest Protestantism.
It wears a specious and imposing aspect, but it is all
hollowness within, like the apples of the Dead Sea,
which are goodly to the eye, but dust and ashes to
the taste. For the essence of religion it substitutes
the form—the empty shadow for the solid substance•
It makes its appeal exclusively to the imagination'
but leaves the heart and the understanding altogether
untouched. Its language is all unaffected benevo-
lence and humility, but the instincts of its nature are
narrow, arbitrary, and ostentatious. In a word, it is
a mere revival of the spirit of LAUD ; and should it
ever, by any malign series of contingencies, take deep
root in England, farewell from that moment—fare-
well for ever—to independence of thought and liberty
of conscience I

Since we last adverted to the bombardment of
Tangiers, our readers will probably have perused the
interesting private correspondence we have transferred
to our own columns from those of a Morning Contem-
porary, and the account of the affair which has reached
LLOYD'S through its agency at Gibraltar. In noticing
this correspondence (comprehendingletters from officers
on board H.M.S. Warspite, and other vessels), we
must fairly premise that they have afforded us equal
amusement and satisfaction. They demonstrate a
few facts, from which, in our infinite love of peace,
we now draw more cheering auguries than any we
could indulge in on a recent occasion. For they suggest
reasons for hope—we had almost said, confidence—
that the repose of Europe, and the cause of European
civilization are not about to be violated by the restless
petulance and the reckless turbulence of the French
people, or the weak and wicked connivance of the
French Government at their offensive demonstra-
itrations. These happier anticipations, however, we
derive not from any improvement in the tone of pub-
lic feeling in France towards this country, so far as
we can collect it from the Paris journals, but we
draw our inferences from the results of the naval
field-day with which the Prince DB JOINYILLE has
lately regaled the powerful squadron under his com-
mand, in the bay of Tangiers.
These results, so feeble, so worthless, so utterly dis-
proportionate to the force employed, must have unde-
ceived the prepossessions even of the Prince DE
JOINYILLB'S own overweening vanity. This im-
petuous youth (who could not restrain his ardour
to cut a figure in the annals of naval bombarding, even
until the return of her Britannic Majesty's Consul
from his mission of mediation and remonstrance on
behalf of our SOVBRBIGN to the Emperor of MOROCCO,
to whom he had carried the final demands of the
French Crown) ;—this truculent Prince—when the
English force before Tangiers, as well as the Moorish
authorities and inhabitants of that town appear to
have been all equally relying on the pacific adjust-
ment of pending questions, wherewith Mr. DRUM-
MOND HAY, who arrived some three hours after the attack
was known to be charged ;—this Admiral of France
for nine hours battered away at the decaying walls
if a paltry Moorish fortress, without dismounting
half-a-dozen guns, effecting a single breach, hauling
down one enemy's flag, demolishing any one whole
.ection of the town, or landing a solitary soldier, or
ongineer ! The squadron sailed or were towed out of
the bay without even the holiday honour
'f giving the last shot. Yet the Prince
DB JOINYILLE, who is so terrible on paper
and his shot off so combustible and " ultra-WARNER"
a projectile, in the shape of a pamphlet, at no less an
object than the whole British navy, had under his com-
mand, according to the Revue de Paris, this over-
whelming armament, viz. :—" Le Suffren, 90 guns,
one of the finest ships in the French navy; Le Jem-
mapes, 100 guns ; Le Triton, 80 guns, which, besides
the usual ordnance, contains half a battery of Paix-
hans mortars; La Belle Poule frigate of 60 guns;
Gassendi steam-corvette, of 220-horse power and
6 guns ; Pluton steam-corvette, 220-horse power, and
6 guns ; Asmodee steam-frigate, 450-horse power
,Ind 20 guns ; Rubis, a steamer of 160-horse power
and 6 guns; and Pandour, brig aviso of 10 guns.
Besides these last five ships," adds the same autho
rity, " there are four other war steamers." So that
the " various ships and vessels of the squadron form a
total of 378 pieces of ordnance, not including howit-
zers and mortars ala Paixhans. In these ships and
vessels there are altogether 1,200 men, not including,
however, the engineer and artillery companies." The
armament certainly made " a great noise," but not of
that kind which posterity will mistake for renown !
In sober truth—if we may credit the letters alluded to
Is to the mode of taking up his position, the disposi-
tion of his fleet, and the direction in which he opened
his fire, the Prince DE JOINVILLE has still but an in-
different notion of seamanship ; and if be be but an
indifferent seaman, he is a worse officer in command, and
in absolute " muff" at gunnery. Either he had
better return to the study of his theory of steamer
buccaneering warfare on England, or put himself under
iome more able and experienced direction in the appli-
cation of legitimate naval tactics. As for the French
oeople—if they will not hear reason—if they will not
understand the true character of our European policy,
—if they will not appreciate the generous integrity of
,ur deportment towards them, but at the instigation,
,f a lawless and unprincipled faction, pervert, by the
vorst and most unwarrantable constructions, the real
tendencies of all our administrative legislation in its
Foreign branches—if they will not plumb the depth
of that tranquil, inherent, British energy and resolu-
tion whose placid surface they affect to consider as
the indication of a national timidity beneath ;—on their
heads be the disastrous consequences of such perversity,
if it tempt them. But we give them credit for abun-
dant sagacity. In virtue of that quality, they will
read clearly enough, we apprehend, the lesson which
the operations of a British armament on the coast of
Syria and these of a French armament on the coast
of Africa, are so well calculated to teach of the com-
parative naval efficiency, vigour and tactics of the two
nations. Our neighbours, we may suppose, will now
scarcely be brought, even by the ludicrous ravings of
the National, to think the Prince DE JOINVILLB'S

neditated crusade against the naval grandeur of
England a very promising one; or its own vaticina-
dons as to her being presently reduced to the rank of
I third-rate maritime power, any other but an effusion
of the most ludricrous bombast.

In these observations, however, we are far from in-
tending any disrespect to the French nation. We are
quite as ready as the Morning Chronicle to render
all honour to the undoubted courage, the spirit,
4.enius, and enterprise of the French people. But we
cannot concur in those censures of our Contemporary
which it has dealt out so unsparingly against British
naval officers for the freedom of their disparaging
opinions as to the behaviour of the French squadron
off Tangiers, that are expressed in the " Private
Correspondence" we have alluded to. Surely
it was a matter open to the animadversions
of all the world. Nothing could be more
absolute or unqualified than the principle of "might
is right," on which, in this affair of Tangiers, as in so
many other analogous cases of recent occurrence, the
French Government, or its servants, have rushed
upon the last extremities of hostile demonstration to
carry out the immediate objects of territorial acquisi-
ion, pecuniary compensations, or political resent-
ments they have had in view. Nothing could be
more offensive and impertinent than the attempted
reflections upon our strength and our honour, the
wholesale calumnies upon our political and public
morality, the blustering menaces and gas-
conading in which—within and, without the
walls of the two Legislative Chambers, at the
Court, or public theatres, at fetes and festivals—in-
dividuals, private and official, ministerial and opposi-
tionists, ex-ministers, and authors, including the
Prince DE JoiNvinus himself, have indulged, where-
ever England or the English greatness could
ecohualvdebdeonmeandoe
the subject of their malevole
more than our duty, and acted only as a brave and
wise people, in not suffering ourselves to be provoked
by such unworthy fooleries into similar courses, or
still graver acts of excited indignation. But
if we can claim no credit for the abstinence,
because we have only smiled at these ebul..

litions of a too exciteable temperament—surely

we are at liberty to laugh at such a ponderous
pantomime as this of Prince DE JOINVILLE, disguised
as an admiral, popping away at Tangiers for a whole
morning, and popping away again before sunset,
after accomplishing exactly nothing, at a very serious
expense of powder, ball, rockets, coal, and steam
power. Besides, English officers of the navy had
some right to quiz a precocious genius who, in mental
reveries, had already achieved so many nautical tri-
umphs between his departure from the coasts of Cen-
tral America and his last sailing out from Toulon, as
to have expressed himself in terms of no very high
respect for their service or themselves. The Prince
has desired us all to " wait a little and see what he
shall do ;" and a very pretty piece of business he has
made of it.

But shall we learn no lesson from this angry,
though ridiculous and most unjust feeling of the
French public ? Is there no moral to be culled from
the experience of such a fact, as that the French De-
partment of Marine could fit out so promptly and so
creditably such a fine squadron as, all of us musast
allow, the Prince DE JoniviLLE commanded ? It is
clear that all their prejudice and illiberality do not
lead the French people or Government so far to un-
dervalue our maritime force and power, as not to
have induced them to make ample and timely pre-
parations for this or any other such exigency. We
read in the Revue des deux Mondes the following an-
nouncement :

" A flotilla of smaller vessels, carrying siz, eight, and
ten guns, and consisting of goellettes, bulancelles, and
trineadores, and such other light vessels now very sel-
dom used, is to be sent to the Prince ; they are intended
to approach the places to be attacked, whilst the larger
ships discharge at a distance their bombs and howitzers.
Whatever determination the Ministry may come to, the
state of our ports and arsenals is such, now, that their
deeifion can be promptly carried into execution."

We don't doubt it. It is obvious, moreover, that
the Prince's squadron is excellently manned. Now,
having before our eyes this unhappy distortion of
the public mind in France, this rankling sentiment
of towards us, let not our ardent love of
peace—no, nor yet this coup manquee, on the
part of the Prince, divert our Government, for one
moment, from' the solemn, all-important duty of
multiplying and expediting, on our part, all the objects
of naval preparation. Above all, let them apply them-
selves, we repeat (for it is but very recently that we
urged this call upon them), to some such scheme of
encouragement, rewards and provisions, as !shall at
all times ensure the full manning of our ships on any
and every exigency. Let a fair and well digested
system of registration in all our ports be the first
guarantee for the extinction of the odious and dan-
gerous and unconstitutional system of impressment.
Induce and persuade—do not seize and compel—
your sailors to enter the noblest department of their
country's service. Instead of tearing men away,
reluctant victims to your political perils, with arms
and violence from the ties, comforts, and occupations
of their homes, make it their solicitude to enlist
themselves under the banner beneath which BLAKE,
MONS, and SANDWICH, RODNEY, DUNCAN, and
NELSON, ST. VINCENT and EXMOUTH so often led
their fathers to victory, over all antagonists. Remove
from them the appalling prospects of an old age of
unrequited service, and physical suffering ; of
aching wounds, unsolaced by national grati-
tude ; of disabled limbs, or declining powers,
unaided by the fostering care of national support.
Give them encouragements at their entry; pre.:
miums for stated terms of subsequent good conduct;
honours and medals for distinguished services ;—above
all, be just, and allot them fair pensions on retirement
for length of service, or wounds, &c., received in the
course of their duty in peace or in war. Let not this
"length of service," so good and proud a title to such
pensions, be made, as now, so far an indispensable
element in it, that the youngest sailor on board—who
may have most signalised himself and been most
severely handled, and hopelessly disabled,—ia pre-
cluded from this benefit of pension by the necessarily
limited period for which he has served you. But if it
be objected that the public revenue cannot afford such
an extended charge as this scheme of rewards and
provision by pensions would entail, we reply, "Pro-
vide, then, the necessary funds, by cutting down all
unmerited pensions, all idle expenses, now borne
without equivalent or value by the State, for the ad-
vantage of individuals who have no claim upon their
country. Let the sinecures which still support so
many useless scions of the most unproductive branches
of the aristocracy be diverted to the support of your
best, your bravest, and your most efficient servants.
Atone for the neglect of former Governments in the
last two centuries ; and signalise this, by the most wise,
beneficent, and righteous act of public justice, of
national gratitude, which this empire has ever ren-
dered to the promptest and the boldest of its cham-

pions."

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

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

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

stop has been fixed diplomatically, no person can Ise cer •
fain that this limit will not be overpassed. In such cases
it is most difficult to assign the exact share which the fire
is to have. The irresistible force of events is often less
pacific than the intentions of men. In our opinion,
therefore, there ought not to be too great a tendency
either towards war or peace. By an excessive confi-
dence, and by exaggerated alarms, the press can deceive
both men's minds and men's interests. It is events that
must speak. Our duty, as an Opposition journal, is to
hold ourselves well acquainted with the news that are
given, to carefully examine them, to hazard nothing, to
give under the form of a doubt such intelligence as ap-
pears suspicious, and to hold the public on its guard
against speculators in false reports, who endeavour in
such cases to tarn to account the fears or the confidence
which they propagate."
The next article is more peaceable, and carries more
weight, as it appears in a paper which is supposed to
represent the sentiments of: M. GUIZOT—the Paris
Globe. That journal thus advocates peace :
"If the men on Change really know the cause of the
fall of the price of Stocks, they hare well kept the
secret; for all the persons whose position enables them
to know at least as much as the brokers of the real state
Weal-affairs, are perfectly assured of a favourable
solution of all the pending difficulties. Men may be agi-
tated, but things most certainly tend towards a settle-
ment in peace. People are astonished at the vivacity
with which the English press has taken up the affair of
Otaheite ; but, in truth, there is nothing astonishing
therein but this astonishment itself. Above a year has
passed since the Paris journals have been constantly,
talking of Otaheite, Queen Pomare, and the English mis-
sionaries, and exciting public opinion even into delirium.
They have gathered in a pack around them from 30,000
to 35,000 milliners and chambermaids' cooks and travel-
ling clerks, students and gossips of all such classes, who
have each contributed 50 centimes of their money,
and 100,000 francs worth of their passions. All
the portresses of France have an entire knowledge
of the affair of Otaheite, and an intimate acquaintance
with Admiral Dupetit Thouars. In a word, the public
mind has been heated to a white heat by this matter, and
now folks seem to be surprised that the English news-
papers should become the same. But by dint of de-
claiming against the English Government of reiterated
provocations and insults, a reaction has necessarily been
created in England, and the English are driven into a
passion, and compelled to be violently angry in their
turn, merely t.s keep themselves in countenance. After
all, this can merely be considered but as the froth which
is raised to the surface by dint of beating, while the
substance at bottom remains calm and solid. Without
the factitious irritation created by the Oppositions, in a
miserable spirit of intrigue against the Ministries, the
two Governments of France and England would have
settled between them the affair of Otaheite in one quarter
of an hour, for there was in reality nothing in it to arrest
the attention, for any length of time, of right-thinking
and loyal-minded men. Was there or was there not
any wrong done by the French authorities ? If
there was, England had a right to demand reparation ;
and France ought not to hesitate in giving it ; for it is
only by acknowledging our wrongs that we can main-
tain our rights. Now, it is clearly proved that the
French authorities had the right to arrest Mr. Prit-
chard, and send him away, because he excited dis-
turbance ; and neither the English nor any other Go-
vernment can deny the legality of such an act. Only,
there was on the part of the French officer an abuse of
power—a fact which we are bound to admit. Nobody,
therefore, can complain of the English Government for
requiring that this ill-proceeding should be censured, nor
can any man of sense blame the French Government for
ding such censure. It is not at this moment, when
we are bombarding six towns on the coast of Africa,
that we should be accused of weakness in expressing re-
gret for a useless act of harshness. England, if she
does not wish to be accused of folly, ought to be con-
tented with such satisfaction ; and France, if she does
not wish to lie under a similar imputation, cannot refuse
it. And as both the Governments are justly considered
to be possessed of some rationality, the two kingdoms
may be perfectly at ease as to the issue of this af-
fair. We have before noticed the change which has
been operated in the style Of the English press. It con-
tinues to believe that wrong has been done by a French
officer, still exaggerating, it is true, the importance of
that wrong; but as there is some reality in it, the press
has reason when it relies upon the candour and honesty
of France in acknowledging it. At bottom, the English
press wishes for peace as much as France does, and it is
not when peace is sincerely desired by both parties that
war can arise from the harshness of a subaltern officer.
It was better to wait to know what effect the bombard-
ment of Tangiers would produce in London. The effect
is favourable to us. The feelings of the people of Eng-
land have remained unmoved, and thin proves that it
has confidence in the good faith of France. She has an-
nounced publiclythat she will not fire a gun but to avenge
injuries, the existence of which could not be denied, and
that she had no views of aggrandisement in making war
npan Morocco. England, in full reliance upon the word
of France, has listened with calmness to the sounds of
our cannon, although they had awakened the echoes of
Gibraltar; the public funds hare not suffered any de-
preciation—a fact that proves there is in that stock
market more good sense and less jobbing than at Paris."
The other Ministerial paper, the Journal des De-
bats, comments on the Morocco affair in rather a
different strain :—" Without doubt," it says, " the
bombardment of Tangiers caused a.great sensation in
England, and so it ought. It is.not to be wondered
that the English, the possessors of Gibraltar, the pos-
sessors of Malta, the possessors of the Indies, with
which Egypt is the most direct mode of communica-
tion, should look with jealousy upon anything that
could by any chance establish a superior influence to
their own at the mouth of the Mediterranean. The
permanent and, for a long time past, irrevocable oc-
cupation of Algeria by the French, has already been
for them a source of great inquietude." It then
adds : •

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

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

" The superiority which our officers have over their
rivals is too well established for any one to deny
it. It is the natural consequence of more extensive
theoretical knowledge, and longer practical experience.
Out of twenty years' service, fifteen years must have been
passed at sea, whereas in the English service five years
is only required, and it has been admitted by English
admirals themselves that our ships are as smart in their
evolutions as the English. The success of naval actions
depends less on the number of vessels than the rapidity
and precision of their evolutions, on the intelligence of
the commander, and on the instruction of the officers and
the resolutions of the crews. -In the event of a war, all
our attention would be directed towards our navy. In-
numerable steamers would be built in every port. and
some fine day, when a storm had completely swept the
channel, we should suddenly land 50,000 men on some
undefended point of the British coast. This landing and
this result are, in our eyes, but a question of time and
opportunity."

The French Funds on Tuesday were rather more
firm. The Three per Cents. closed at 80f. 40c ; and
the Fives at 120 f. 20c.
THE BOURSE—Tuzenar, AUGUST 20.

Tint Highest Lowest Last
Price. price. Price. Price.
French Five per C3nts ...... 119 65 .. 120 15 •• 119 55 .. 120 15
Four per Cents. lO5 .. 105 •• 105 .. 105
Portuguese Five
Three per Cents..... 80 10 .. SO 20 .• 79 75 .. 80 20
Rank of France...—. ..... 3005 —3005 •.3005 ..3005
Laoltte Bank. I,ooof. Shareslo9s ..1095 • • 1095 • • 1095
1840 . .. 1031 •• 10
Belgian Bank ........ •• •—• 650 .. 650 •• 650 .. 650
Belgian Fives,lB3l.. .. 1031 .. 103 103# 1031
.. 103 t •• 1031
Neapolitan. • .-• ......... ~, 97 50 ..97 50 •• 97 40 .. 97 40
Roman • 1031 .. 103 i
Per Cents.. 431 .. 43 .• 431 • • 431
. 103 f .. 1031 •••

1 "We wish neither to exaggerate the gravity of the
present situation, nor to dissemble its eventual results.
If it be true that certain journals have made the mistake
of too much alarming men's minds, the organ of the Go-
vernment, which reproaches them with doing so, has
perhaps fallen into the error of endeavouring to inspire
too much security. The situation is such that, if there is
no necessity to fear, there is to guard against possible
events. We put aside all that has been mysteriously
said about Mehemet Ali and the East. There are at
the present moment but two questions we grant ; but
it must be declared that from them may spring very grave
complications. The country is aware of this, and holds
....••••••
itself prepared for all consequences. It would feel .01
alarm even from a single circumstance—that the Go- ..tarseines
vernment should appear too certain of the pacific L.,,„...........,
issue of these questions ; for such a certitude could MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.--The returns for
only be the result of an anticipated resignation to
solutions the most regrettable for our honour. In fact, the last week are favourable, The number of deaths
when the incredible expressions by which the English ..
the first
was 932, while on the previous week they were 934.
In the class, which includes epedemic, endemic,
Ministers have qualified the indispensable measure taken
and contagious diseases, there is an increase, as corn-
by our officers at Otaheite, against a Consul conspiring .
against us, the strange doctrines sustained by the whole pared with previous summers,
of deaths caused by
English press with regard to the public right of nations, scarlatina, and diarrhoea. In almost every instance
chiefly in small-pox,
and the persistence that is shown in demanding a repa- there is a decrease. Deaths from consumption, old
ration which is not due, are taken into consideration, the age, and violence, are below the average. The number
idea naturally arises, to borrow an expression of M.
Guizot's, that from all
this there will spring either asmall-pox appears to be greatly
on the increase. The average is eleven, while last
great folly or a great weakness ; that is, that England is week fifty-eight were carried off. The table gives
decided to perpetrate the first, if M. Guizot does not
~ no return of the numbers that had not been vacci-
consent to perform the second. As to the question or
nated. The following is an analysis of the list of
Morocco, in spite of all efforts to the contrary, the po- ,
violentdeaths :—Fracture or contusion, nine cases, of
Hoy of our Government engaged in the path of action is:
this. If the limit at which the French cannon are to . which four were by falls, and three by horse§ and

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Versailles, R. 8.., ......R.A..1 LW36A250811A.. 36E285.0 .. 362 50 .. 362 50
220 .. 225 .. 220 .. 225
Rouen •
Rouen to Havre......,.., 7OO .. 735 •• 700 .. 755
Orleans ....•• -• V 50 .. 942 50 .. 925 942 50

• .... .)32
Strasburg to Bale .. • ... 230
Avignon to Marseilles...—. 730

.. 232 50 .. 230
.. 740 • 730

.. 232 SO
.. 740

RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, 31sT OF AUGUST.
St. Germain
Rouen •••..••...... .
Rouen to Havre .. 700 .. 727 50 •. 700 .. 727 50
0r1ean5............ - 932 50 .• 947 50 .. 920 •• 947 50

Strasburg to Baia ......... . 230
Avignon to Marseilles.-- 730

- 232
740 50 - 230 • 232 50
•• •• 722 50 •• 740

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