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SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1845.

THE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, JAN. 25.

candid as well as collected character of the statements
made in them—than we have experienced from the
letters of Lord ABERDEEN. It was certainly in bad
taste on the part of Lord RANELAGII to identify the
source of the injurious treatment he remonstrated
against with his own adherence to, and Lord ABER-
DEEN'S defcction from, political " principles so long
and so. ably maintained by the latter nobleman and
his colleagues in her MAJESTY'S Government ;" for
this gratuitous assumption only brought down, in
return, Lord ABERDEEN'S announcement, that, on
the records of the Foreign-office, instructions had
been found which Lord PALMERSTON, whilst holding
the Foreign seals, had deemed it his duty to issue to
our Ministers abroad, prohihiting them from present-
ing Lord RANELAGH at the Courts to which they
were accredited, on account of Lord RANELAGH'S
having actually, after joining the army " of Don
CARLOS, taken part in operations, in the course of
which the Carlists were engaged with a portion of
the British co-operating force in the neighbourhood
of Bilboa." Lord RANELAGII'S solemn disclaimer of
the fact, admitted by the recal of these " ins ructions,"
as stated, in the fairest and most honourable manner,
in Lord ABERDEEN'S dispatch to him of the 19th
ultimo, does not cure Lord RANBLAGH'S ungra-
cious mistake of attributing their origin to the
wrong cause, and of assuming that cause to be—
the personal abandonment of former political prin-
ciples by Lord ABERDEEN. But surely it was in
still worse taste for Lord RANELAGII, in his letter of
the 7th, in reply to Lord ABERDEEN'S dispatch of the
4th, to instruct the Foreign Minister as to what he
ought to have done, or what his predecessor, Lord
PALMERSTON, " might have pleaded for what he did
do, and to taunt the Noble Earl with bringing
humiliating reproach" upon " those who have the
misfortune to trust in him or to be associated with his
Lordship in office." Lord RANELAGII may plead ex-
treme irritation to account for the caprice of reading
a didactic lesson to the Noble Secretary, and even for
reflections se unmeasured and unqualified on that
functionary's official conduct ; but we doubt whether
even to himself such a plea will excuse an error of
judgment that appears to have elicited from Lord
ABERDEEN only this cold, but courteous and signi-
ficant notice :

DUPIN had been chosen, the darts he has now thrown
from the tribune might have been thrown from the
chair of the President ! For there can be no doubt
that his acrimony has not been created suddenly by
this check ! He thought a month ago as he thinks now,
that the treaty of Morocco has sullied our diplomacy,
and that the hands which signed it are dishonoured ►!
He knew a month ago that by Article 4 France freely
engaged that ADD-EL-KADER, if he ever fell_into our
hands, should be treated with moderation—a clause
which, according to M. DUPIN, is an eternally dis-
graceful blot in our glory. A month ago M. DUPIN,
whether President or not, would have left his chair or
his bench to mount the tribune, and denounce to the
anger of the country the PRITCHARD indemnity. In
a word, the opposition of M. DUPIN blazed out yester-
day, but it has long been smouldering in his heart.
This cannot be an incidental opposition—it is an op-
position of rancour. And yet we have recommended
M. DUPIN for the Presidency. We were wrong, our
loyalty compels us to acknowledge it. The Opposi-
tion knew better than we did what it was about. An-
other time we shall be more considerate. Beyond all
doubt, M. Durtsi has a right to blame that which he
thinks blameable ; it is a right which the lion. De-
puty has exercised very frequently, and upon all
parties. We shall not pretend to dispute his right or
restrain his independence. We merely say that a man
is of the Opposition when he endeavours to overthrow
the Ministry, and that it is perfectly puerile for him to
give out that he is a Member of the majority at the very
time when he is endeavouring, by detaching himself
from it, to dissolve it. M. DUPIN is at bottom a
Conservative ; we know this full well, because he has
given striking proofs of it. We cannot doubt his
wish for peace. He expressed this wish with energy
four years ago, after the treaty of July and the
events of 1840. We have a wonderful recollection
of this. All this, however, does not prevent M.
D must from becoming at this day the most decided,
the most active Oppositionist—and this is
what we did not know, nor could expect.
We add that, even with the Opposition, there
is a measure to be observed; but M. DUPIN,
carried away by his lively imagination and his wit,
has gone beyond all measure. For him, M. DUPIN,
to seek to revive the unworthy scene of last year
against M. GUIZOT without the excuse of a moment,
without any warranting circumstance, without any-
thing to provoke his rage ! M. Durist may believe
us when we say that he will deeply repent his speech
of yesterday. lie has broken out of that neutrality
in which he loved so much to keep himself, and into
which he cannot re-enter very easily. With fine
talents and a sarcastic humour, a man, no doubt, may
succeed in making himself feared—he may become a
dangerous adversary ; but he who spares no one must
soon have all the world in league against him."
All the Opposition journals are loud in their praises
of M. DUPIN, and expected that his speech had done
wonders. The large majority, however, against him
has by this time convinced them of their error.
There is no news of interest in the Paris papers.
When the post left, the division in the Chamber was
not known on the Bourse, but it could not fail to have
a favourable effect.

rHERMOMETER, Lowest, 32 ; Highest, 45 ; Noon, 43.
BAROMETER., 30.11.-WIND, S.W.

NOTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and
"Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the
Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All
the other observations are made at noon. Water freezes at
32 ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on
Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and
"Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather
when the mercury falls below 30.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
kicaliing ..... : minutes after 3 I Everting ... 2'2 minutes after 3.

" Your Lordship wtll excuse me if I abstain from en-
tering into any consideration of other portions of your
letter, personal to myself and relative to my official
duty. I think that these may safely and properly be
left unnoticed."

Still there are many passages in Lord RANELAGII'S
pamphlet that strike us as evidencing abundant good
sense. They prove how much easier it is for men
mixed up with the concerns of public life to express
forcibly sound opinions upon paper, than to control
and regulate their own conduct in respect to those
concerns. He thus alludes, in his introductory re-
marks to the present state of Spain :

" No man, who loves his country, or his species, can
contemplate without anxiety and alarm, the present state
of Spain. There we see not the successive rise and fall
of opposite parties in the State, but a monstrous union
of anarchy and despotism, which, under all changes of
administration, pursues one constant and fearful triumph
over every form of public order and private right. The
people—once temperate, industrious, brave, and loyal,—
are familiarised with butchery and instructed in crime by
the examples of their governors : and the abundant
elements of natural and moral wealth are crushed and
eradicated, by a system which, if permitted to continue,
cannot fail to communicate its frightful contagion to
other States. This is an evil immediately suffered by
Spain ; but it is a danger from which no kingdom in
Europe is safe. The cause, therefore, involved, is not
that of any faction, but of general peace, and of human
civilization."

The Moniteur publishes two royal ordonnances
respecting Algeria; one is for the regulation of the
local and municipal budgets—the other declaring
that the ports of Mostaganem, Arzew, Cherchel,
Djemmaa•Ghazaouat, Deilys, Bugia, and Gigelly
are to enjoy the same advantages and privileges as
those of Algiers, Alers-el.Kebir, Oran, Tenez,
Philippeville, and Bona.
The Globe repeats its assertion that Count DE
MoNTALIvET voted with the Ministry on the Address
in the Chamber of Peers.

We must also emphatically concur with Lord
RANELAGII in reprobating such terms—in respect of
the present hideous disorganisation that rules supreme
in Spain—as Lord ABERDEEN has applied to it :
"In proportion as what Lord Aberdeen calls the
cause of constitutional liberty ' has advanced, the secu-
rity of life and property has diminished ; and amidst
that tranquillity of which he boasts, not only is anarchy
and strife everywhere prevalent, but hundreds are from
year to year put to the most horrible death, without even
the form of a trial."

About four years ago, says a letter from Con-
stantinople, of the 31st ult., a society was formed for
the relief of distressed foreigners in Turkey, and
placed under the direction of the French Ambassador.
Some of the other foreign Ministers, however, having
disapproved of this exclusive protection, the Society
has been, with the consent of the British Ambas-
sador, placed under that of the corps diplomatique
generally.

There is as much of reason as of smartness in a
similar allusion :

" The Noble Foreign Secretary considers ' legal order
and constitutional right' to be synonymous with the
present state of Spain : what he may think would exem-
plify a condition of anarchy and rebellion' it is diffi-
cult to imagine."
Lord RANELAGU will pardon us for saying that the
following passage involves a mere quibble :
" It is necessary to bear in mind that the question
really at issue in the subjoined correspondence is not the
law of Spanish succession, but the re-establishment of
Spanish peace. The rights discussed are not those, re-
spectively, of Don Carlos and Isabel, but of Spain—with-
out reference to party, and of humanity—without regard
to political opinion."
The simple fact is that the very propositions of Don
CARLOS impeached the existing law of Spanish suc-
cession. They contemplated nothing less. They
would have been to the last degree " vague," as Lord
ABERDEEN calls them, and irrelevant to fact, if they
meant anything else. But we must here take leave
of the subject, once more referring the reader to our
abridged abstract of the correspondence.

THE BOURSE—Titußenky, JAN. 23.

First

Highest Lowest Last

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents • • 121 95 .. 122 •. 121 85 •• 121 85
Three per Cents.•• •• 05 20 .. 85 25 .. 85 15 .. 85 15
New Loan •• • • • . 86 40 .. 86 40 .. 86 40 .. 86 40
Bank of France •• 3270 • • 3270 .•3265 ..8265
Collin Bank, 1,0001. Shares • • 1090 —lO9O ..1085 .. 1085
Belgian Bank. ...... •• •• 635 •• 63 • • 635 • • 635
Belgian Fives, 1840
1842 1061 j .. 10614 .. 10614 .• 1061 A
Four•and-a-Ilalf 1031 A .. 10314 1031,‘ 10.11 A
Spanish Threes •.•. • . • ....• 4014 • • 41 • • 4034 • • 41
Active .. • • •• • • Sti% .. 38% .. 38 y .. :1834
Passive.
New Deferred 16% 16% .. 16% .. 16%
Portuguese Five per Cents GO .. GO .. 60 .. GO
Roman

,•
New York Five per Cents.. 100 .. 100
Ohio State Debt ...... • 97 .• 97
RAILWAY SILURES

.. 100
• • 97

.. 100
• • 97

VertuUlla, R. 8.•
L.B . 385 .. 385 .. 385 .. 385
Rouen •••••••• • • •• .• • • • 1(,62 50 1062 50 —lO6O ..1060

Rouen to Havre... ...... ... 840
Orleans • • .. ..... • • .. • .....1130

. 842 50 • 840
.•1131 25 ..1130

.. 840
.. 1130

Strasburg to Bale. .. ... 301 .. 310

.. 306 25 . 307 50

RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, FEB 7.

St. Germain ..... •• ••
Versailles, R.lt.. •
.. 385 .. 385 .. 385 385
Rouen •• •• •• •• •. •• ..•• ..1067 50 ..10G0 ..1062 50
Rouen to Havre••
Orleans ..... •• —ll3O ..1131 25 ..1125 ..1130
Strasburg to Bale.. •• •• 310 .. 310 306 25 .. 307 50
Avignon to Marseilles•• •• .. 930 .. 930 .. 927 30 .. 997 50

The Madrid Gazette of the 17th inst., contains the
following decrees :—The Ist, appointing the Baron
DE MEEK ft Grandee of Castile under the title of
Count DE GRA and Viscount of Loyalty ; the 2d,
appointing the Viscount DE GRA President of the
Supreme Tribunal of War and of the Marine ; 3d,
appointing General Don MANUEL DE LA CONCHA
Captain-General of Catalonia; 4th, depriving Don
JOSE RAMON RODIL of all his honours, titles, and
decorations, and removing him from the list of gene-
rals of the army ; and sth, appointing Don FEE.
NANDO COTONER second in command in the province
of Catalonia. Gen. Rolm. has been stripped of his titles
and honours for refusing to obey the summons of NAR-
VAEZ to appear before a military tribunal at Vittoria,
where he knew justice could not be obtained. The
mother of NARVAEZ has been created Countess nn LA
CONCEDA, and decorated with the cordon of the ladies
Maria Louisa.

TREATY OF COMMERCE MITI[ BRAZIL.—By the
Express packet, from. Rio Janeiro, we are apprised of
a taoinmiision having been appointed to settle the
treaty of commerce with this country. The names
of the three gentlemen appointed are Senhor Paula
Souza, a Senator; Senhor Maia, late Conservator
Judge for the British Nation ; and Senhor Ferreira
Franca, the Minister for Foreign Affairs at Rio. An
offlcer had arrived at Rio, the bearer of the submis-
sion of the rebel chief in Rio Grande, who submitted
after having been four times defeated by Baron
Corxids. The Express has brought a large remit-
tance on account of the dividends.

The Plymouth Auxiliary of the Royal Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has resolved that
two prizes of three guineas and two guineas should be
annually offered to the pupils of the several schools in
Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse, and within five
miles of either of those towns, for the best and second-
best essays on the following subjects :—The claims of
the brute creation to humane treatment at the hands of
man; and the duty of discontinuing all such proceedings
as inflict needless sufferings on any portion of God's
creation, merely for the sake of amusement, or for the
gratification of an idle curiosity.
THE CORN TRADE.—GLASGOW, JAN. 22.—During
the past week the supply of wheat and barley has been
more than equal to the demand. Of oats, oatmeal, and
beans and peas, arrivals have been light. Wheat—The
bulk of imports are English of the last crop, the quality
of which being superior to former years, requires less
mixtures of old than our own, which is soft in condition.
English meets a fair sale at 245. 6d. to 255. 6d. for
white, and 235. 6d. to 245. 6d. per 240/. for red. Free
foreign red inquired lifter at 235. 6d. to 255. 6d. Scotch
new, a heavy sale, and cheaper. Barley—Consumers
continue to purchase cautiously, and only selected par-
cels. The trade is very dull, and prices again lower.
Oats—Few offering from aboard ship, but ex granary
the show of samples is fair. Fine heavy melding lots
maintain attention at full rates. Oatmeal—The stock
now in store being withheld for a further advance, the
quantity offering for sale is not considerable, the price,
consequently, well supported. eans and Peas—The
consumption is increasing, and fine heavy parcels are a
ready sale at last week's rates. Inferior cheaper at
various prices. In the provision and butter market the
extreme rates hitherto paid are not so easily realised,
the trade being rather languid. At this day's market
the attendance was moderate. Purchasers showed little
inclination to do business, holding off for abatement.
The market closed heavy, with the turn in favour of
buyers for all sorts.
RECOVERY OF LADY CHALMERS'S JEWELLERY.—
Considerable excitement has prevails d among the ser-
vants employed on the Brighton Railway, in consequence
of the suspected robbery of a valuable box of jewellery
belonging to Lady Chalmers, stated to be worth nearly
a thousand pounds. It appeared that, a few days ago,
her Ladyship and family travelled from Brighton by the
mail train, with considerable luggage, among which the
box of jewellery was supposed to have been placed. On
arriving at the London-bridge terminus, the property of
her Ladyship was conveyed to her residence, and, after
the vehicle had been unpacked, the jewel-box was missed.
The servant employed to take charge of the luggage was
positive that it had been brought from Brighton, and it
was immediately suspected that it had been stolen at the
terminus, or on the way to her Ladyship's house. In-
formation was instantly forwarded to the railway station,
and inquiries were made at every station along the line,
and at Brighton, without being able to discover any clue
to the lost box. After two day's Truitless search the box
was discovered at the railway station at Brighton, and
was yesterday placed in the safe custody of her Ladyship,
SHEEP-STEALING BY MICHAEL Satur-
day last, a notorious character, named Michael Gibbs,
was committed by Captain Browne to take his trial at
the next sessions for stealing a sheep from a field at
Woolavingtou, the property of Mr. James Ilurnian, of
East Bower farm, near this town. It appears that Mr.
Abraham Winter, of Puriton, who has a field adjoining
the prosecutor's, traced the sheep to the prisoner's
house, a distance of nearly a mile and a half. The foot-
marks of Gibbs were also traced. A quantity of mutton
was found, covered with straw, in a pack-house, under
the same roof the prisoner resided,—Semerstt Ow*
Gazette.

The Three per Cents. closed at 31i for cash, and
32 at GO days ; the Five per Cents. at 23 at GO days ;
and the Debt without interest, at 7i at GO days
with I premium.

The division in the French Chamber of Deputies
on Thursday afternoon has destroyed the little in-
terest excited by the discussion on the Address. Mem-
bers themselves were evidently tired with the tedious
repetitions about Morocco and Otaheite, and were
glad to come to the main point and decide the fate of
the Ministry. M. Durizi, who appears to have been
in one of his most crotchetty fits, probably hastened
the result, and increased the majority for M. GulzoT.
He had been disappointed of the Presidency of the
Chamber ; the Ministry could not trust him, they pre-
ferred a man of less ability, but a man of correct
habits, moderate in his politics, and consistent in his
purposes, and for this DUPIN could not forgive them,
or admit that any one act of their policy was good.
He bitterly attacked them, therefore, for their con-
duct in avery point under discussion. The Morocco
war, the Otaheite affair, and the Right of Search. On
the last, he ww AL.tually rabid, awl would not hear
of a mixed Commission. He would cut the knot
at once, and without England's consent abrogate the
treaties of 1831 and 1833. This sally may have alarmed
men anxious for the honour of their country and the
peace of the world, and added a few number:; to the
majority. But this injudicious statesman did not
confine himself to politics, he could not avoid being
personal, and to excite laughter on the Left against
M. GUIZOT brought forward again the story of the
journey to Ghent. M. GUIZOT may therefore con-
sider himself lucky in enjoying the full enmity of
M. DUPIN, for the friendship of such a man is more
injurious than his enmity. The Journal des Debats
draws a correct character of the man, and rejoices
that, in opposition to its recommendation, he was the
rejected candidate for the President's Chair.
" Without the speech of M. DUPIN," says that
paper, "we should not have much to say.
But M. DUPIN did speak, and this made a remarkable
event in the sitting. Let us be permitted to express
our great surprise. We did, perhaps, expect some of
those raps and sallies which he is accustomed to be-
stow with an almost equal hand upon both the Mi-
nistry and the Opposition, but did not look for a
speech of so much bitterness and violence, for such a
torrent of acrimonious personalities as may perhaps
excite applause from the Left, but which must be re-
pugnant to every noble mind, to every man of sound
judgment and talent. True it is, then, that we de•
ceived ourselves when, a month ago, we proposed M.
Duplis for the Presidency of the Chamber ! His
candidateship was not, as we might have had good
reasons for believing, a neutral candidateship ! jf M.

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