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_MORNING, JULY 21, 1R45.

is, that in reference to the extent and importance of
those succe-ses the army and navy have not been ade-
quately remunerated by the allowance, in the nature of
batta, which has been made to them. The maritime
branch of the force was, perhaps, heavier tasked than the
military one, so that we have no doubt on our mind. that
Captain BERKELEY'S complaint, even if limited to the
naval portion of the armament in question, was well
founded. They have not been adequately rewarded, it
seems to us, looking either to the unusual amount of the
duties performed or the value of the captures made by
them, singly or in conjunction with the army. Yet,
after making these allowances, we must confess that the
question of reward—especially as to the quantum—re
mains one of considerable difficulty. There is, as to all
such matters, the general objection that specific boun-
ties, or rewards for particular services, have a tendency
to grow into largesses for the general perform-
ance of professional duties. We all know from
history, both ancient and modern, that no resource
hss been found so available and decisive for the purposes
of designing despotism—no expedient of despotism at
once so costly and so fatal to a free country—as largesses
distributed with more or less frequency by the Crown to
the forces of the State. Still, however, no objection of
that kind has been ever suggested in the present in-
stance, and we are authorised to take it for granted that
on all hands the services of our army and fleet, on the
seas and shores of China, are considered to be of an ex.
traordinary kind—out of the usual course of such
affairs. Hence the presumption in favour of Captain
BERKELEY'S argument, that they have merited peculiar
rewards, beyond the course (it may be) established by
former precedents. If the general opinion of the country
were less concurrent on this point, even than it is,
surely the gallant men whose cause has thus been
brought before the House of Commons, are entitled
to the benefit of any doubt. The balance should
be struck in their favour, not as a matter of grace and
good feeling merely, but as of sound policy. What can
be more infatuated at any time—what more absolutely
suicidical at the present moment, than for the Govern-
ment of this country to give so grudgingly, and to so
stingy an extent, where in common decency it ought to
bestow freely and to a liberal amount, for signal services
rendered under signal exigencies, as to turn away the
brave fellows who have performed them, disgusted, irri-
tated, and heart sick, instead of contented, and full of
hope and resolution—against the next call you may
make upon them—to uphold your cause and vindicate
your honour with the same ardour and determination?
Instead of this, you drive your best hands, your ablest
seamen, into the service of the United S'ates, or any
other Government where either they will receive, or
fancy they shall, better pay, more liberal prize allow-
ancss, and, above all, more provident care for their future
maintenance, in lieu of being set aside, and " cut
adrift," after having shed their best blood in your
service! And we may remark, by the way, that
there has passed over another session of Parliament
without any measures being yet organised to redeem the
promise given in the commencement of it to one of Sir
CHARLES NAPIER'S spirit-stirring appeals on behalf of a
set of men who have too much reason to reproach the
Government they act for with the most signal indiffer-
ence to their fate after being once "paid off." From
that period they really seem to be treated like those
whom BYRON finely apostrophizes as
" The tools, the broken tools, which tyrants cast away."
We must now devote a word or two to the " charac-
teristic" speeches (as we have called them) of the even-
ing. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, who seems
to possess the most purblind vision of any man in
the House of Commons, of the value of public services
—(not included in that list " of Retired Allowances and
Pensions" in wl.ich he has the good fortune to stand as
the future recipient of some 1,5001. a-year, if we remem-
ber rightly, on the score of so many years former service
in Downing-street)—does not dispute the merits of the
naval branch of our armament in China. Not he ;
he think; they earned very great distinction ; that they
served their country Well ; that they manfully main-
tained the glory, and vindicated the honour of her flag.
But then—" it was not a regular war !" How satis-
factory, how edifying a discovery, for the consolation of
those who are thereby to be put out of their just or
equitable rights to the bounty of their country, decreed
through the Crown ! Does the Right Hon. Gentleman
expect that sailors will hereafter altogether abandon and
be mute upon the subject of prize-money, or does he
desire that, in future, our tars should address a round-
robin to the Admiral, prior to embarking on any expe-
ditien of peril and hardship, or engaging in any action,
to ascertain whether it is all right and " a regular war"
they are going into ? " For"—upon so wise and states-
manlike a hint, they may ad 1—" if not, they will have
nothing to do with it." There may be some doubt what
does, and what does not, constitute a " regular war."
There can be none, we surmise, henceforth, as to who
is, and who is not—a " regular muff." But if this was
the manner in which his fides Achates (Mr. GOULBURN)
met the remonstrances on behalf of the sailors, what was
the language of pins zEneas himself ? Sir ROBERT
PEEL, who has certaiely quaffed, in his time, pretty
deeply of the golden nectar of office, in the shape of
civil salary, grew quite petulant and pouting with
Captain BERKELEY for his unreasonable importunity.
He "complained that professional men always expected
Government to act libei oily towards them (!) without
regard to the other claims on the public purse, or the
means of satisfying them." That they should expeet
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Government to act liberally towards
them may be a serious presumption against them on the
score of credulity ; but that it betokens any unreason •
ahleness of expectation, we must take leave to deny. In
Sir ROBERT'S tariff of public services, either he must
have rated his own and his family's at a very high, or
the British navy's at a very low ad valorem duty. We
are inclined to think he has done both.

subject of a prominent paper in their number for the
present quarter. Both of these articles, by the praise
they award to Mr. FALCONER'S very able tract, entitled
" The Oregon Question," corroborate the high opinion
we recorded of it some six or seven weeks ago. But
they arrive at very different conclusions—upon premises
if not differently stated, very differently combined. The
Edinburgh Reviewer, who shines exceedingly in elabo-
rating a proposition which nobody ever dreamed of dis-
puting—namely, that the Oregon territory is worth very
little, so far as regards its agricultual production ; and,
perhaps, even its capacity for such production, through •
out the far larger portion of its very broken surface,
delivers a most oracular judgment against the cases of
all the parties who have, or have had, as it is contended,
title to possession ; to wit, Spain, the United States, and
Great Britain. Then (still labouring under the influence
of his one idea of money's-worth, and never reflecting
for a moment at what loss of national dignity, and what
saci Nee of national rights, and of political consideration,
only, Great Britain could consent to such an alternative,
in the face, too, of the flagrant bad faith already mani-
fested by the United States, in twice violating their
pledge to abide by the arbitrament of third parties,
agreed upon between tnem ; and as to the boundary
frontier line between their Northern and North-
Western States and the British possessions in
America)—he proposes that we should go with the
United States to arbitration upon the Oregon
dispute. Thank GOD, even in these days when public
men swallow their own solemn pledges with as little
compunction as SATURN is fabled to have gulped down
his own children, there have been declarations made by
our Ministers in Parliament from which it would be
strange indeed if the awakened feeling of the British
public should even allow them to recede for an instant.
It will be not uninteresting, in a future paper, to trace
the history and course of the negotiations which have
during the last thirty years been carried on between the
United States Government and our own, or the preten-
sions of the former to the Oregon territory ; to mark
the shifting character and vague statement of the claims
set out by America—the total obliviousness of facts, and
the bold misstatements of authorities invoked by her
servants—and the temperate but sustained consistency
with which various Governments of our own country
have maintained the rights and title originally affirmed
by us to this important section of the New World. And
because, on a former occasion, we showed how clear,
consecutive, and simple, was the claim of the title which
vests in ourselves, we propose hereafter to demonstrate,
in analysing the grounds of the United States' claims
how powerfully they tend to destroy t' at, and to con-
ciliate our own.

voted against the same Bill in 1841 ; and Mr. GOUL-
BURN not only voted, but also spoke, against the Bill.
Lamentable, indeed, is the condition of a Government
of which no less conspicuous a member than the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, when taunted with a Tote in
office directly contrary to his votes and speeches a hen
on the eve of obtaining office, can only hang down his
head in silence, and sneak out into the lobby to give a
vote which he cannot try to justify. But there is
a lower depth even than Mr. GOULEURN'S on this
question, and that is Mr. GLADSTONE'S. Mr. GLAD-
TONE stayed away. That pattern of political
purism, the ostentatious resigner of office, in order
that without imputation of interested motives he
might advocate Government measures against
which he had heretofore written—that prince of
pettifoggers, who has exhausted casuistry in justifying
his votes for the Maynooth measure and the Irish col•
lege measure, even he could not attempt to justify sup-
port in 1845 for the Bill for admitting Jews to municipal
offices, against which he had divided the House in 1841,
and with all his independence had not the courage to
vote against the Government.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL Happily reminded the House of
Mr. GLADSTONE'S and Mr. GOULBURN'S course in 1841,
when to oppose the admission of Jews to municipal pri-
vileges was to oppose the Whigs.

" The Right Ron. Gentleman who favoured us the Tither
night with a most able speech on another subject, but whom
I do not now see i❑ his place assisting my Hon. Friend—l
mean the Member for Newark (Mr. Gladstone)—made this
statement If it was possible to draw a broad line of prin-
ciple between a Bill to admit Jews to municipal offices, in-
cluding seats in Parliament, the subject would be different
from that which they had now to discuss; but he was satis-
fied that such a line could not be drawn, and the advocates
of this measure must, to be consistent, follow it up with an-
other, throwing open to Jews seats in Parliament, and all
other offices which might be held by Christians.
reason for opposing the Bill was this—that the profession of
the Jews was of itself in the nature of a disqualification
for legislative office in a country where Christianity was
interwoven with the institutions of the State.' Such
was the statement of the Right Honourable Gentleman. I
know how well qualified he is to maintain his opinion, and
I conclude, from his absence to-day, that he no longer
maintains that opinion ; and I am happy to conclude that
he is of opinion that the admission of Jews to municipal
offices will lead to their admission to offices of trust in the
State, and to seats in Parliament. He was not the only
gentleman who held that opinion. The Right Honourable
Gentleman—afar greater authority, as holding high office in
her Majesty's Councils—l mean the Right Honourable Gen-
tleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer—made the same ob-
jection. In answering my Right Honourable Friend the
Member for Edinburgh (Mr. Macaulay), he said that the
Right Hon. Gentleman complained that this particular mea-
sure was opposed as if it involved the admission of Jews to
all privileges whatever. But did the Right Hon. Gentleman
really mean to deny that this measure was not viewed as a
stepping stone to ulterior objects? Did the Right Hon.
Gentleman expect that any Member of the House 'rho had
witnessed antecedent proceedings would be so credulous as
to suppose that those who urged the present measure aimed
at nothing beyond throwing open corporate privileges?' So
spoke the Right Hon. Gentleman in 1841. "

A communication which appeared in the Madrid
Herald° (a journal published at Algiers), compels us to
recur to the atrocity committed by order o!
Colonel PELISSIER, commanding a detachment of the
French corps in Algeria, in the massacre of a whole
Arab tribe, within the grotto of Freckeh, in the
Dahrah—a district of the Atlas range. A Contem-
porary (the Morning Chronicle) very justly remarks
on the limited and transient influence which the personal
character and firmness of the King of the FRENCH exer-
cises over the inherent tendencies of certain command.
ing officers in his military and naval service to indulge
in exhibitions of gratuitous insolence in one quarter and
reckless brutality in another. "No sooner," says the
Chronicle, "do these generals and admirals re-
turn to their commands, than this control is thrown
off, and not merely military control, but even, me
repeat, common ideas of justice and humanity. The hor-
rible catastrophe which has just *-hocked England and
Europe is a proof of this. A French Commander takes
and stifles a whole Arab tribe, comprising 800 souls, in
a cavern, which they have inhabited from time imme-
morial ;—a tribe which, we are told, has never sub-
mitted to the French, and which might, consequently,
claim the rights and the deference due to open
and honourable foes." The .Heraldo publishes quite
inadvertently, as our Contemporary remarks, and as if
in the ordinary butiness-like calculation of its being an
article calculated to amuse its readers, a letter from a
Spanish officer who had been despatched by his Govern-
ment to watch the operations of the French in Algiers,
containing a more detailed account of the Dahrah reels_
sacre, whereof he had been an eye-witness and Writes,
we must say, as the apologist. It would seem that this
is one of the rare cases in which the first report of hot.•
rible events fulls very short of the reality, as
subsequently ascertained. The Editor of the Algerine-
Spanish journal, does not write one word of sym-
pathy, or even commentary '‘m this fearful (Tiede ;
yet had it not been for him., Europe and the e'reilieee
world might have remained in utter iflceorance of
its perpetration. It now seems that the number
of victims thus baked alive must have ex •
ceeded 1,000. Of these, no small proportion con-
sisted of women, and with these women perished
many an unoffending iufan at its mother's breast.
The premeditation is attested, by the fact deposed
to by the Spanish ofteer, who writes that himself
and some companions, near the mouth of the cavern,
encountered some, Kabyles, and found a means
of apprising teem, as an inducement to theta to sur-
render their, arms and their horses, that the French
would betrn them in their retreat if they held out,
and iliad already gathered such a quantity of brush-
w oed for that purpose as loaded fifty-six mules.
The faggots are lighted, the smoke and the flame,
by no unaccountable agency we should have though the Spaniard appears to consider it
" singular" phenomenon, were carried into the interior
recesses of the vast cavern. The Frerch soldiers heaped
up the faggots and renewed them incessantly, as "though
they were feeding an oven." PELISSIER had stated, it
seems, that it would hare been productive of much " blocd-
shed" to have attempted to drive them out at the point
of the bayonet, and so he resorted to the gentle and
humane means of terrible suffocation ! The details are so
appalling that they exceed the imaginations of the most
prurient inventors of didblerie in the most popular school
of modern French romance. That a Spanish Colonel
should write in a strain of disgusting coolness abort
there being no remedy (!) for the necessity under which
the French officer found himself, to adopt thi,
method of exterminating the valiant OW( d Riahs,
does not surprise us. As little do we wonder at
the grateful complacency with which he speaks
of " two yataghans"—snatched from the cold grasp of
murdered men, to whom no opportunity was afforded by
the destroyers for wielding them in fair and open battle—
" that have been presented to him by Colonel PELIS-
SIER, as souvenirs (! !) of this horrible ffair." From
a compatriot and fellow-soldier of the MINAS,
and CABRERAS, the MAROTOS, and the RODILS, we
need not marvel at such specimens of brutalised
insensibility ; or that the same individual should
have purchased a necklace which, with Wither
jewellery, he admits to have been torn and
violently wrenched, all blood-stained as t2uey were, from
French
have
elicited
the mutilated and blackened corse! of the Arab women,
by the uncontrollable raparcites;cfnl should of the
But that conduct so dis a
no stern rebuke—:.o emphatic denunciations—from
Marshal SOULT in the Chambers—no instant dis-
avowal and censure from his Royal Master—
these are matters on account of which we may
well 'de permitted to express our unfeigned as-
tweishment —our sincere regret. PELISSIER, the Spanish
officer tells us, feels but one uneasiness—as to his own
share in this inexpiable villainy. He dreads the ven-
geance of Divine retribution—the atonement to be ex-
acted by human law ? No ; he is proof against
all consequences of that kind ; but he trem-
bles under apprehensions of " the criticisms of the
journals." Of what nicely balanced elements of ruf-
fianism and cosecombry must the moral nature of such a
man be composed! But we venture to predict that the
iron Marshal and the French Government will yet find
themselves compelled to record, by some solemn public
act or declaration, their unqualified disavowal of such a
mode of conducting warfare, even against the chil-
dren of the Desert, and will abandon, on proof of
his guilt, the odious perpetrator of such an outrage
as has been committed in Dahrah against the human
race, to the execration of his fellow-men, and the
utmost penalty which the laws of his country will
inflict for so desperate an excess of cruelty. Such
a reparation will be due, not alone to the public opinion
and feeling of all Europe, but to the just and generous
resentment which the French nation must entertain
against the degenerate soldiers ho have affixed, by bar-
barity so signal, such a great stigma on their reputation.

The Madrid journals of the 11th, which have been received,
contain no news of importance. The Heraldo publishes a
letter from Barcelona of the 7th. It states that Barcelona
was tranquil, and that the resistances offered to the conscrip-
tion in San Andrea de Palomar had ceased. Some prisoners
had been brought into Barcelona. The troops sent to that
town had returned, bringing with them the young men drawn
for the service. Two of the ringleaders had been shot. In
Gracia, Soria, and Molins del Rey, where disturbances had
occurred, peace had been restored. It was hoped that on the
arrival of the troops at Sabadell the same would take place
there. An alguazil and watchman (sereno) had been assas-
sinated at Sabadell.

The Castellano states that the recent outbreak in Catalonia
was caused by the revolutionists.

The Funds declined in Madrid on the 11th inst., the Three
per Cents. closing at 28 for cash, and 281/8 at 60 days ; and
the Fire per Cents, at 21 for cash and for the 26th inst.

We learn from Rome that the Papal Governny:nt, with a
view to the more effectual prevention of cr.,ntraband trade,
has reduced considerably the duties of 'export and import on
many articles of merchandise, an.l intends to apply the sys-
tem of reduction to many otliers.

Letters have been received from St. Petersburgh, which
state that new disasters have befallen the Russian army in
the Caucasus,

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. In the
course of the Wednesday's debate on the Budget in the
(lumber of Peers, the Marquis DE BOISSY complained that
Marshal Solna' had been too hasty in disavowing the con-
duct of Colonel PELISSIER, -whereupon the Marshal pro-
ceeded to vindicate the ':iiassacre of Dahara in the following
terms :—" As to the affair of the Dahara, I pray the Chamber
to believe that in the explanations which I have already
given I r.'dierred only to the act itself. One of the most
inin'lrable officers in the army, Colonel PELISSIER, whose
e:alogium I shall always willingly make, was placed in a
most painful and embarrassing position. He had to bring
into subjection certain insurgents, who had a few days
before most basely assassinated our soldiers; and it was,
besides, the third or fourth time that this population, who
always take refuge in caverns, had perpetrated similar
acts. In 1842, when Marshal BUGEAUD was proceeding
through the valley of Chelif, to pacify the tribes on the right
hank of the river, he sent detachments to this same spot, and
several of the soldiers who presented themselves at the en-
tries of the grottoes to speak of peace were received with a
discharge of musketry, and the greater number wounded or
killed. The next day, when Marshal BUGEAUD sent a de-
tachment to ascertain what had become of these men, they
were found to be all dreadfully mutilated. Last year, General
CAVAIGNAC, being in the midst of the same tribe, met with
similar bad fortune, and his column, being constantly at-
tacked by this tribe, suffered heavy loss. I confess, that if I
had happened to be in the same position, I should perhaps
have done something exceedingly severe; for it must not be
forgotten that the men under Colonel PELISSIER'S command
were the same that in 1842 had seen their comrades so
cruelly mutilated. Is it to be supposed that in such
a position men are capable of enough generosity to
forget past offences ? Frenchmen are too often guilty
of exaggerating facts, without paying attention to the
circumstances that cause them to leave their habitual circle.
In Europe such an act as that alluded to would be frightful ;
in Algeria it finds its explanation ; and you can never im-
pose on an officer the obligation of not repaying the wrongs
which he may have received. There are certain reflections
which it would be prudent to abstain from making, for they
always produce a bad effect on the army. The army, and
the generals and superior officers commanding it, have duties
sufficiently difficult to fulfil, to render it just to estimate
fairly their devotedness and their efforts, and as to the acts
of discipline alluded to, my solicitude as Minister of War

The Oregon question, though it does not occupy the
large space it has heretofore filled in the columns of our
American Contemporaries, continues still to form a
paramount feature of their political disquisitions. With
but few exceptions, they proceed on the same unfounded
but sweeping assumptions ; are marked by the same dis-

reL:ard of logic and of truth, and are pervaded by that

ought to be trusted to, particularly as I never let any infrac.

ignorance of the first principles of national law, which is

tion pass without severely punishing it." The Marquis DE

(according to the Edinburgh Review) " the besetting
fault of American statesmen," and may well therefore be
expected in American journalists. The title of the
United States to the whole of the disputed territory they
take to be now beyond all challenge, because —one or two
of their political fuNctionarics, and a few of their repre-
sentatives in Congress have so ruled it. This difficulty
being thus summarily disposed of, they have next deter-
mined to tak,! possession immediately of the whole coun-
try, decreeing that all the perils and fatigues of the
eghteen months' overland journey to it from the States,
which i E \via and CLARICE achieved with so much diffi-

BOISSY regretted that the lion. Minister of War had thus
pronounced a sort of approbation of the conduct of the officer
in command.
The Journal des Debats and the Globe are the only two
papers who attempt anything like an apology for Colonel
PELISSIER or for Marshal SOULT. The other papers, much
to their honour, comment in the severest terms upon a crime
the disgrace of which attaches to the perpetrators and their
accomplices only, but which the whole of_the brave, the
high-minded, and.Lonourable French nation, speaking by the
voice of ite -Press, emphatically disavows.
'rue following article from the National may be taken 4 a
sample of the all but universal expression of opinion of the

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culty, and the eight months' voyage by sea from the
ports of their republic to the mouth of the Columbia
River, which a handful of American citizens have, from
_ _ _

time to time, been enabled to effect in safety, are not ob-
stacles that can be permitted to interfere with the " au•

whole of the French press :
" We are but little touched by the submission obtained by such
means, and foolish would he be who should consider such a sub-

mission sincere and sure. Terror may be inspired for a day, but
Aerce reprisals are prepared for the future. This matter was
again brought forward yesterday in thr

,le Chamber of Peers, and
_
Marshal Soult appeared to be desirous of altering the opinion
gust will" of the republic 0 occupy. In the next place,
which he had given the other day. He highly praised Colonel
they admit that British subjects are, and long have been, relissier, and enumerated the barbarities exercised by this tribe
against our troops, but none of these circumstances could justify
in territorial and actual occupation of' the country ; and
that British power is, and has been, indisputably exec-
the revolting inhumanity which we complain of. What can be
said to excuse it ? Does it become soldiers like us to imitate the
CiSCd over those subjects througlvait the widely scattered Arabs? If our manners, ideas, and civilisation do not show them.
selves superior, what right have we to conquer their country? But
posts which they occupy in that remote region. And
I
this being so, they have come to a " resolution" that the what gives a more afflicting character to this deplorable conduct is,
that in these same tribes of the Dahara a similar act of resistance
" Biitislu rs," to whom they have already given notze,;: had taken place against Ben-Tami, one of Abd-el-Kader's lieu-
to quit, shall be expelled—notwithstanding that they are 1
tenanata, and that he had acted in quite a different manner.
under the jurisdiction and protection of a body
According to what we find in a journal specially devoted to
- military affairs, this was what took place.
low-countrymen, so intrepid, int lligent, and A tribe Dahara
e.,(0) fmopuert efne it, had taken refuge in these grottoes at the approach of
ofthe Ben-Tami,
,
and had taken with them women, children, stores, and cattle.
to hold their own as the North-West Comps Ay, It is true
that the latter are already located Ben. Tami seized on the crops of the tribe, blockaded the cavern,
; their c'stabli:hruents and then waited patiently until they were forced to come out. The
long since organised; their forts sufficlenaly well built for Marabouts soon came to discuss the conditions of surrender, and
the sort of country and the sort of purposes they are re-
whilst so employed, a fanatical priest assassinated a relative of Abd.
el-Kader, who commanded the infantry. The murderer was seizcil
quir,d for ; well armed and stored ; that their stations and decapitated on the instant; and the blockade was drawn closer
have been selected at the most, elcgible localities, and are
well :upplied and guarded ; that the whole population
do the same. The Tusks several times had to deal hostilely with
tribute,
teev,earns
and
theT h The tribeex ryear thend
iadccnepo ttedmaaklel
the
ee
slightest conditions,d iffipcautldt
y thet
,canty as it is, of those vast solitudes, Indian as well as these very same tribes of the Dahara, and the latter always
uthsenr;wsopmeaekn,
European, is either Engli 4), or not only allied with, but took refuge in these caverns ; but the Turks never thought of
ofuldthemegulo,
smoking them out, of stifling them, of burning them all toge-
absolutely dependent on the North-West Com an
whether as clerks, factors, trappers, hunters, curerps, (3) .1.,
boatmen ; that they command all the passes to and front honour it, if it was rendered accomplices in them; and we
the hunting grounds, around and beyond them ; and are certain that the heroism of the faggot-lighters will dis-
ryanodf children at
army!
lt tshuechbraecatsst,
woAuhid!dlies.t
that they may be said to monopolise the whole supply gust, as it disgusts ourselves, those men of noble hearts, whose
bravery and sacrifices continue in Africa our most brilliant tradi
to :souse its constant renewal at a vast o -
of furs in those latitudes, where they have been compel!;
bona. We see even that Col. Pelissler could not prevent himself
outlay of capital,
from feeling a moment of horror on learning what had come to
directed, like all the great operations of that great Corn- pass. But yet he was the officer in command! It was he who
batty, with unwearied vigour, and consummate skill and gave the orders; it is he who is responsible; and nothing, either
juagment. On the other hand, it is true that large bo-
in the Akbar or in the Spanish letter, or in the details given by
Marshal Soult, proves that this Colonel was placed in one of those
dies of emigrants from the United State have absolutely' - situations where the necessity of the defunct:, and the safety of a
- whole column
committed themselves already, either in preposterous There are points in the debate and divisio —n on the therefore, no ; account for the most enormous extremities. Let,
tempt be made to excuse what is inexcusable ; a
overland pilgrimages to the pocky Mountains, through Jewish Disabilities Bill well worth reverting* to, as general reprobation must reject such infamous violence; and if
p d precipitous barrier dim peaks risiog illthtrative of the habitual t. stolen garment" policy of
whose stec - an
of the men whose garments they burners
Goverfnment accepts it—if a shamehfule etoovleerranninceenatbishoalvteshtehntc•see.
,ontilizlbiiield4reetfto—reit
pisutblic
dress in.
front 19,000 to 16,000 feet above the level 01 the acts, m,,,t, Oa! Government, and its dependence on the generosity fourward mustw bin:rut:sal opinion; it is that we
in defiance of whose unmelting snows and howling tem-
The majorit ' of
remind one of w
pests, the must wi';g• their way amidst all the intolerable . y ninety-one in favour of the second quest to be sullied by these atrocities, which
yshall have to reproach for having allowed the history of our chon.
at
New World. It is
privations of unsatisfied hunger and unslaked thirst, reading of the Bill contained—bow many do our readers was most abominable in the conquest the%Ve send soldiers there,
riles on in Africa.
fatigue, misery, and exhausted spirits, yielding to de- suppose of Conservative Members of the Government ? and not fire.raisecres7l
spair from the incessant contemplation of the dreary Actually fourteen ! The remainder of the majority The Estimates of the Marine were discussed in the Cham-
objcets around them. In what condition they will be to consists of twenty-six officials and fifty-one Members of
make a forage into the British lands, as a slight preli- the Opposition. Add the twenty-six officials to the answer to the Marquis DE llolssY, that the indemnity to Mr.
urinary to their eitablishin, a settlemmit, we should fourteen independent Conservative Members, and the bee of Peers on Thursday, when Baron Maca-Ac stated, in
have little difficulty in anticipating, if they did not an- Conservative party is yet in a minority in that majority consequently had not yet been paid.
Pitereintitn bad not been fixed by Admiral ll.A.unuN, and
flounce themselves beforehand as the " successful which has affirmed the admission of Jews to municinll
- day, at 83f. 35c. ; the Five per Cents. at 121 f. foe.; Or
pioneers" of a vest emigration
direction. movement from the offices.
leans Railroad Shares, i 1,48 f. 75c. ; Rotten, 1,028 f. 75c.;
United States in that The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thurs..-
Among the officials in the majority, the Right Hon. Vi,?rzon, 742 f. 50c,• Havre, 8401. ; Avignon, 965 f.; Basle,
It happens,
252. f. 50e ; Span isisAel Nes, 36% ; Spanish 1 hre e
' per Cents.,
by a curious Coincidence , that the HENRY GOULBURN. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr„
the Foreign ...two terly Review FORBES -MACKENZIE, Lord of the Treasury, and Mr. 36% ; Spanish Passives, 6%.
have, each
The following are the quotations for the new lines :
question as the CHARLES HOPE, Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital
, Orleans and Bordeaux, 165 f. prem. ; Boulegt4, 115 f., 50c,,

ditto; Paris and Lyons (Laflitte); 20r. ; ditto (Caion), par;
ditto (Gannerott), ht.; ditto (Rosamel), 9f. 50c; Tours and
Nantes (Mackenzie), 7f. 50c.; ditto (Drouillard), par;
ditto (O'Neill), 2f. 50c. ; ditto (Jacques Lefevr".); Vial
Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 6fi ditto (Talabot), 27f.
50c.; ditto and Cette (rApeleta), sf. 50c. ; Creil and St.
Quentin, par; Paris and Strasburg (Gannerun), 10f.;
Dijoh and Mulhausen, par; Dieppe, 27f. 50c.

We are now able to state positively, oh the best autho-
rity, that the resignations both of Captain Boldero and
Mr. Bonham have been accepted. It is generally be-
lieved that Captain A'Court, Sir Robert Peers col-
league in the representation of Tamworth, will succeed
Captain Boidero as Storekeeper of the Ordnance ; but
he will not be re-elected for Tamworth without a con-
test, his old opponent, Captain Townshend, being deter-
mined to oppose him, and having a very good chance of
success. Mr. Cripps, Member for Cirencester, is thought
to be the probable successor of Mr. Benham, as Clerk of
the Ordnance. It is expected that Sir Robert Peel will,
on Monday, make a statement of the course which the
Government have thought it right to pursue in conse-
quence of the report of Mr. Hawes's Committee.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the royal
suite, left town at two o'clock this afternoon by the
South-Western Railway for Osborne House, Isle of
Wight.

We would direct the particular attention of our reajers
to the report of the Select Committee of the House of
Lords on the petiions respecting the Irish Great Western
Railway Bill.

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