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years of age should not be separated from their lof any sound from the steamer—these are two pheno-
mothers. mena which it seems to us difficult to account for, ex-

After considerable discussion the amendments were
rejected. The report will be brought up to-day at

twelve o'clock.

The House having resumed, disposed of the other
business on the paper, and adjourned at One o'Clock.

The case of Mr. O'DRISCOLL, which has already
been discussed in the House of Lords, was on Tuesday
brought under the notice of the House of Commons
by Mr. Ross, who moved that an humble address be
presented to her MAJESTY praying for the removal of
that gentleman from the Commission of the Peace.
The particulars of this case of magisterial tyranny—
which is about as flagrant a one as has come before
Parliament for many years—must be well known to
the generality of our readers ; and accordingly we shall
content ourselves with observing that Mr. O'DalscoLL,
after having been proved, on unimpeachable evidence,
to have acted in the first place illegally ; secondly,
with wanton cruelty towards a boy who, from all we
can understand, seems to have given him no earthly
offence; and thirdly, to have conducted hisaself with
gross impropriety towards his brother magistrates,
and then aggravated his offence by refusing to
apologise till an apology was absolutely wrung from
him—after having been proved to have committed all
these multiplied offences in his magisterial capacity,
Mr. O'DarscoLL was very properly superseded by the
Lord Chancellor. But how was he superseded,
and in what spirit was the official communi-
cation of his removal from the bench made known
to him ? He was told, forsooth, to consider that he
was removed solely in consequence of his ill-health !
It was not the magisterial temper that was an invalid,
but the magistrate himself. On the receipt of this
gentle and delicate communication, Mr. O'DRIscoLL
observed with emphasis thig so far from his being in
ill-health, and thereby incapacitated from the dis-
charge of his official duties, he was never in such ro-
bust health in all his life, as indeed he had triumph-
antly shown a short time previously by the vigorous
and energetic manner in which he anointed the
unoffending shoulders—as Counsellor PHILLIPS would
say—of the boy DEMPSEY. But passing the excessive
complaisance of the Lord Chancellor towards an indi-
vidualwvho had so grossly misconducted himself as
Mr. O'Darscom, had done—and this, too, at an age
when years and experience should have taught him
the wisdom and beauty of forbearance—what is to be
;aid for the subsequent proceedings of Sir E. SUGDEN,
who no sooner received a memorial from certain par.
ties in the county, than he instantly reinstated the
man who, but a few months before, he had declared
to be too much of an invalid to discharge his
magisterial functions with the requisite spirit and
ability ? Some of the parties, we should ob-
ierve, who signed this memorial, lived at a distance
)f fifty miles from Skibbereen ; knew nothing of the
eelings of the people whom Mr. O'DRISCOLL had
)utraged ; and most probably had never seen that
'entleman in their lives; and yet it was on the
personal intercession of such men, which should
not have been allowed the slightest weight,
that a magistrate, notoriously obnoxious and
ignorant of his duties, was replaced on the
bench ! Lord ELIOT and Sir JAMES GRAHAM, both
of whom undertook the defence of the Lord Chan
eellor, made but sorry work of it ; the latter, in par
titular, finding that plain prose was riot sufficien

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Liverpool arrived at Southampton on the 22d from
Gibraltar; her dates of departure are—Gibraltar,
July 14th; Cadiz, 15th; Lisbon, 17th; Oporto,
19th ; and Vigo, 19th. Ships of war lying
at Gibraltar—Her Majesty's ship Warspite ;
French steamer Veloce. Cadiz—French line-of-
battle-ships Jemmappes, Triton, Suffren ; frigate La
Belle Poule ; steamers Asmodee, Pluton, Gassendi ;
Danish frigates Thetis and Gefion ; frigate, name
unknown. The Montrose arrived at Lisbon
July 16, at four P.M. The intelligence from
Lisbon is not important. The letting of the tobacco
contract has been fixed for the 20th of September,
and by the terms, which have received the royal
sanction, all European capitalists are invited to com-
pete, and the term of twelve years has been specified
fur the running of the contract. Effective measures
are announced for the suppression of smuggling, and
a cordial co-operation in discountenancing all preju-
dice to the contractors is stipulated on the part of the
Government. The Finance Minister had contrived
to raise a little money to meet pressing wants.

dignified for the occasion, had recourse to the lan-
;nage of poetry, and quoted a panegyrical pas-
sage from DRYDEN'S " Absalom and Achitophel,"
which had every earthly recommendation,
except that it had nothing at all to do with
the case in point. This affair of O'Daiscor.r. will

'We find no news of much interest in the Paris
papers. The Semaphore de Marseilles publishes ac-
counts from Algiers, in a letter dated the 16th inst.,
which announces that Marshal BUGEAUD, provoked
by the general conduct of the Moors, and especially
the treacherous attack of the 3d, was concentrating
all his forces, and preparing to make against them a
definitive demonstration. The measures the Marshal
was taking induced a belief that he would shortly
assume the offensive. Some even said that he con-
templated attacking the Moorish camp on the follow-
ing night. The Sentinelle de Toulon states that the
object of the Prince DE JOINVILLE'S visit to Gibraltar
was to request the Governor not to allow the British
squadron to proceed to Tangiers, and that Sir ROBERT
WILSON had acceded to the request. A circumstance
not very likely, for we find accounts from Barcelona
that the Formidable, accompanied by a steamer, had
sailed from Gibraltar on the 16th, as was understood,
fix the coast of Morocco, probably Tangiers. The
National, in an article written with some care, and
with the usual hostile -pint towards England, con-
trasts the course adopted by the French Government
at Algiers with that of England after the victory of
Lord EXMOUTH. After adverting to some remarks
made on the subject in the English journals, the wri-
ter thus continues :
" England appeared to comprehend that there was for her
a sort of moral necessity to repress the insolence of the Alge-
rifles, and that the only means of arriving at the complete
abolition of the slavery of the blacks was first to abolish the
slavery of the whites. But she still hesitated, and it was
necessary, in order to overcome her irresolutions, for the
example of the rigorous undertaking of the American
squadron under the orders of Captain Decatur, to excite
her pride. 'lt is only then,' says M. Charles de Rota-
tier, in his history of Algiers, ' that this Power determined
to intervene in the difficulties which the Algerine Govern-
ment caused to the kingdoms of Sardinia and of Naples,
and in April, 1816, Lord Exmouth arrived before Algiers at
the head of a tint of twenty-five sail, of which six were
ships of the line. But, appearing above all, desirous of
showing consideration to the interests of the regency, he only
imposed on it in favour of the powers which England took
under her protection—conditions but little advantageous
and little honourable. Naples, in particular, had to com-
plain of the treaty which was then concluded for her.' Such
tire the results of the appearance of Lord Exmouth before Al-
giers. We have seen how the English mention the benedic-
tion of the liberated Christians. A month later, Lord Exmouth
appeared again before Algiers. This time, fortunately for the
Christian slaves, he was grossly insulted by the Algerines ; the
English Consul was arrested, and his wife and children were
most shamefully dragged through the streets. Oran, Bona,
and Calle, were ensanguined with the murder of several Bri-
tish subjects. Then the honour of England was at stake,
and she determined to act at last with rigour against these
bandits, whom she had hitherto treated with such conside-
ration. The details of the affair are known, as well as the
magnificent audacity of Lord Exmouth—audacity wonder-
fully favoured, besides, by the incredible ignorance of the
Turkish, gunners. But, says again the historian whom
we have already quoted, ' the glory of. the English would
be greater if the reproach could not be brought against
them of not having done enough. Political men remarked
at this period, that Lord Exmouth, in the very terms of
his report, had simply received instructions to burn the
Algerine vessels ; and that, being able to constrain this
barbarous Government to destroy its fortification, and to
renounce for ever its piracies, he had simply stipulated
for an advantageous peace for himself and Holland, and
the abolition of slavery. To add to her preponderance in
Europe by this striking action, to avenge her own injuries,
and still show consideration to a Power which might thence-
forward be subject to her, was the calculation of England.'
It is seen by this how far England is entitled to boast of her
disinterestedness; and incriminate our ambition. She did
not retain an inch of ground in Algeria, it is true, but she
had reserved to herself better than that. She had thence.
forward under her hand a band of robbers, whom she could
at any time let loose upon all the commercial navies. We
acted differently, it must be allowed. After having bom-
barded Algiers, we have kept Algeria; but piracy exists no
longer, the Mediterranean is free at present for everybody,
and the whole of Christendom is relieved from these shame-
ful tributes, which nearly every country paid to a chief of
robbers. If we were to act in the same way at present with
respect to Morocco, who could complain ? England alone.
But, decidedly, all the Christian Powers which are still in
the present day the tributaries of this Government would
applaud its fall, and would thank us for our victory."
THE BOURSE—MONDAY, JULY 22.

riot easily be forgotten in Ireland, affording, as
does, another striking proof of how little import-

,ce the due administration of justice is considered
.y the official authorities of that kingdom. Under
he flagrant circumstances of the case, Mr. O'Dats-
;OLL, having been once superseded, should never after-
yards have been replaced on the bench ; and his re-
'ppointment can be looked on in no better light than
is a mockery of the popular feelings of the county.

The result of the experiment with Captain WAR-
IER'S destructive invention for extirpating ships (any
.ther phrase would but inadequately express the
mpleteness of its terrible operation) came off on
iaturday afternoon last, at Brighton. Of the con-.
luct and value of this experiment our readers will be
nabled to form
.their own conclusions from the ac-
•ounts we have published of the transaction. As to
he satisfactory nature of this test, we cannot imagine
hat there can now be much difference of opinion.
Cc cpvs t, oisucd Cap!, ;71c T
..NOESTRE, HENDERSON, and Dicxxrisors (all of the
.loyal Navy), who had the control and direction of
tie affair, demonstrates, we think, that there can
lave been nothing like collusion—no claedestine in-
roduction of combustible or explosive materials into
he hold or stowage of the ship to be experimented on.
These gallant officers declare that it was impossible
or Captain WARNER to know beforehand when they
would give the signal for him to set his invention in'
notion; that when they did make their signal, it was
nswered with the one agreed upon, by Captain
VARNER, who was at that time in a steamer three
tundred yards distant from the John o'Gaunt (the
doomed vessel"). It is also clear that on this re-'
turn signal (the hauling down of the union jack on
aoard the steamer), Captain WARNER commenced
mmediate preparations for this memorable experi-'
nent. With all perfect respect for that gallant and
.ble officer, we take leave to have our own opinions as
o the motives which induced him to send all hands
ielow from the deck of his tug, with the solitary
,xception of the mate. 'We are also free to confess
,hat we consider that motive to have been perfectly
,ustifiabie, if there be any foundation in fact for the,
conjecture we are about to hazard as to the tre-
mendous power actually employed by Captain WAR-
We do not believe, with some of our Contem-
?oraries, that such an effect at such a distance could
have been produced by the discharge of a voltaic or
lectrical battery, the shock of which must have commu-
nicated by wires within the strands of a cable stretched
from the tug to the John o'Gaunt beneath the surface
of the sea. The notion of the line and trigger, we
should reject as equally unfounded. The difficulty
remains to account for'any- projectile, sufficient to
have caused such instantaneous and absolute destruc-
ion, having been discharged at so short a distance
um the shore, without any flame being visible, or
.ny report being audible from the steam-tug. Taking
he report of the naval officers, in conjunction with
.he accounts given by the reporters for the public
gess and other eye-witnesses, and with the important
.verment in the communication of Mr. WALESBY,
:he barrister, to the Morning Post, to the effect that
‘Ca:.tain WARNER was never once on board the John
J' Gaunt from the time of her having left Gravesend
':en days before the experiment came off;" we are in-
clined to dismiss all suspicions of pre-arrangement
g technical preparation on board the craft itself, for
he purpose of this experiment. We look, therefore,
it a few of the facts which immediately preceded the
thenomena of annihilation. We find that a little be-
ore 6 P.M., the towing tug-steamer, having Captain
iVARNER on board, on her passage from Shoreham,
suddenly put about, and for a few seconds hove to
close 'to the John o'Gaunt. Then' she re,,u.aed her
former situation, and brought up between one and
cwo miles off the shore, almost opposite the Old ship
cavern, but in such a position as to present, it would
-eeni, her broadside to -the. tug, which took up her
,tation at about three hundred yards' distance. One

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rrench Five perCsnts..... • 122 20 .. 122 20 .. 121 85 .. 121 85
Four per Cents lO6 50 .. 106 50 .. 106 50 .. 106 50
Three per Cents..
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5,000 f. Sharesso7o —5070 ..5(70 —5070
l;elgian Bank.

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1840.........1051 106' .. 105 i .. 106•
1842 •• •• •• •• 108* .. 1081 .. 1081 .• 104
Dutch Two.and.a.llalf 611 .. 61* .. 61* . 611
Spanish. Threes ...... 33* .. 333 •• 334 ' • ;33t
Active ...... .• •• •• 30* .. 304 .. 30* •. 30*
Portuguese Fiveoper Cents— 441 .. 44* .. 444 .. 44i
Neapolitan ...... ..,.... •• 98 90 .. 99 .. 98 90 .. 99
Roman •• •• ••.•- •• •• 104 .. 104 .. 104 .. 104
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, R. 8......•• • 4OO .. 400 .. 300 .. 390
L.B• • • •• • • 245 •• 248 75 • • 248 .. 247 50
Rouen ••••• • • • •• • • •• •• •• •• 987 50 .. 987 50 .. 987 50 .. 987 50
Rouen to Havre• • ..... •••• • 763 75 763 75 • • 763 75 .. 763 78
Orleans ••.
Strasburg to 240 .. 241 28 .. 240 .. 240

ccouut says—" The moment after Captain WARNER
had answered the signal from the battery"—another
with a lapse of exactly five minutes after that
action," the various heralds of the lightning-like de-
struction which had enveloped the John o'Gaunt
were perceived from the shore.
Now, it strikes us, that the sudden return of the
tug (the Sir William Wallace) to almost alongside of
the craft, was perfectly compatible with a de.,ire, on
.the part of Captain WARNER, to take a last glance at
her hull, or her sheer, with a view to detect the most
Ivantageous position for striking her; and that her Accounts from Madrid of the 16th announce that
ming brought up in so favourable a position to be hit the atrocious executions which had been carried into
from the Sir William Wallace, was in furtherance of effect in Arragon and Catalonia had excited the
this design. But what, if any, were the projectitex greatest public indignation, which might ultimately
employed which could thus rend, freak up, scatter to cause the downfal of the despotic and cruel Ministry.
the winds of heaven, and remove almost every frag- EVen some of the 'Government journals condemn
went and vestige of a strong-built and powerful ship, these unjustifiable acts of cruelty. General MAUR'
with all her rigging and masts, upwards of more than who is to command the troops now on their march
.300 tons burthen ? And how happened it that the to the south, had arrived at Algesiras. The Dutch
explosion was heard anterior to the low, booming, squadron. reached Gibraltar on the 6th, and some days
SitbiriatibedUTT intirriitirlßatal'OSeTzioni IlledeAniyed afterwards left for the coast of Morocco.
craft herself? The absence of any flash—the absence i The Spanish Funds were lower on the 16th. The

Avignon to Marseilles.. •• •• 767 50 .. 767 50 . 767 50 50
RAILWAY SILI.RES FOR THE ACCOUNT, 31sT OF JULY.
Versailles,
H,H,. 4OO .. .0 .. 390 .. 390
L.B 215 .. 244 75 .. 245 .. 247 50
O
985 .. 985 .. 983 75 .. 983 7S
Strasburg to Bale
s
240 .. 242 50 .. 140 .. 240

Avignon to Marseilles..•.•. 767 50 .. 767 50 .. 767 50 .. 7-67- 50

cept on one hypothesis; namely, that the projectile
was a condensed or concentrated preparation of ar-
' geidum fulminans, or even of fulminating gold ; the
explosion of which, by concussion with any solid sub-
, stance, is knisiflOo be followed by all the tremen-
dous effects that arise from the expansive energy
of the electric fluid. This hypothesis is not the less
probable when considered in connection with recent
experiments on some of the larger shells of the same
gentleman's invention, at Woolwich Warren. If we
suppose the machine of projection to have been an air
gun of capacity or calibre sufficient for so small a
ball or shell as would suffice, fraught with this terri-
ble material, for such a work of extirpation, we shall
perhaps be not very far from an approximation to the
solution of •this curious enigma. Then, again, the
appearances described as accompanying the annihila-
tion of the ship; the column of water forced upwards
and forwards through her hull and decks ; the pro-
jection of part of her masts and spars into the air ;
the tenuity of the white smoke that suddenly enve-
rl loped and as suddenly dispersed from the wreck; the
extraordinary area of the explosion, tearing away her
bulwarks fore and aft, and breaching her solid ribs,
snapping off mizen and mainmast, and leaving the
hull so dismantled and dissevered that she filled in
two minutes and went down head over, with only her
foremast standing ;—these are, all of them, compatible
with the employment of the most tremendous natural
agent which scientific chemistry has yet subjected to
her astonishing empire and irresistible control, and, we
are almost tempted to add, with no other known
force, under parallel circumstances. In any case,
the experiment reflects great honour on the sagacity
and skill of Captain WARNER, the spirit of Mr SoleEs,
the shipowner, who supplied the ship, and the libe-
rality of the other gallant friends who provided the
means for testing this marvellous invention. The
Government ought not to lose a day, unnecessarily,
in satisfying themselves, one way or the other, as to
the merits and feasibility of the plan ; and if satisfied
on these points, they will be greatly wanting in their
duty to the country if they do not instantly secure
for it the unfettered benefit and advantage, on almost
any terms, of so effective and tremendous an inven-
tion, provided they be satisfied that the elements of
its construction and application can be kept a secret,
patent only to such high State authorities as the Le-
gislature may think fit to nominate for its inviolable
depository.