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gencies shall meanwhile have been organised. The I
somewhat premature petulance of the young Prince
DE JOiNVILLE has recently announced to the world—
in the projected revival of the piratical tactics of the
old French Flibustierie, with all the improvements of
our own MORGANS, TEACHES, and other buccaneer-
ing spirits of that rather disreputable school of adven-
ture—what the nature, visitations, and results of
these Channel hostilities wonld be likely to prove: It
is certain that no man in either country has yet ar-
rived at anything like an accurate conception of the
maximum efficiency and power of naval steam arma-
ments, either for offence or defence. For this reason,
if for no other, let our Government improve on hints
which this brochure may help them to, whether it be
of the manufacture of the Prince or M. Timms,
or the sublime production of their united
genius. It seems to have exploded, like an
unguarded rocket, a little before its time; but that is
no reason why its light—if it afford any—should not
be used for the detection of deficiencies, and their re-
medy, in our preparations on this side. Certain it is
that the importance of harbours of refuge is corrobo-
rated and enhanced by such indications of feeling but
faintly discouraged on the other.
There is another point of association on which it is
a source of unalloyed gratification to contemplate the
growing solicitude of the public mind about the esta-
blishment of harbours of refuge. This is, the
growing desire to connect with their main ob-
ject—the protection of human life, and mercantile
property and shipping the legitimate ac-
cessories of improved communication between
those ports and the metropolis, or other of our
capitals of commercial enterprise and industry, by
means of railroads, to facilitate the carriage of mer-
chandise, &c., and the passage of travellers—and
also of internal improvemements in the plan, ca-
pacity, safety, and convenience of such harbour, by
the building of piers, jettys, &c., adapted to packtt
quays and breakvvatfts ; the deepening of shallows
the removal of obstructions, sunken rocks, &c. In
all these particulars, the able surveys and reports
to which we have more than once adverted of the
President of the College of Civil Engineers, Mr,
J. WALKER, Captains BEECHEY, BACK, FAIR, &C.,
on the relative pretensions of Holyhead and Porth
Dynllaen harbours, are entitled to every praise for
the ability and diligence they manifest. In con-
nexion with these reports we must notice, with equal
praise, the report of Mr. RENDEL, civil engineer, to
the Admiralty on the Chester and Holyhead Railway.
Though ordered by the House of Commons to be
printed on the 10th May, it has been but recently
issued from the Vote-office. It is illustrated by a
tinted lithographic chart of an admirable survey of
Holyhead Harbour by Captain BEECHEY, R. N.;
and Mr. RENDEL to whom " the several
questions relative to the proposed line of
railway from Chester to Holyhead, and the
the enlargement of Holyhead harbour," were
referred for his opinion—has reported with much
clearness and particularity on the important matters
submitted to him. This gentleman's report conveys
incidental notices of the works to be immediately
undertaken ; in Holyhead harbour, particularly,
are works conceived upon so grand a scale, that we
shall be induced to devote a specific notice to some
particulars of them.

visions and ammunition for the army will be formed, and
where all kinds of foreign produce, except woollen and linen
cloths, will be admitted duty free."

The Presse publishes the following from Tunis,
June 6 :

" The sentence of death pronouncethon April 12 upon the
English subject, Paul Xuereb, was executed yesterday. The
man was strangled in his cell, at the prison of the Goletta.
None of his fellow-countrymen being willing to be witnesses
of his execution, Sir Thomas Reade was obliged to content
himself with the employment of the brother of his own valet-
de-chambre to be present, and testify in due legal form the
fact of the proceeding. The triumph was complete, and Sir
Thomas must now be satisfied. Happily, our flag has not
been stained by a deed so disgraceful to Christianity, M. de
Lague having taken care that it should not be hoisted during
the day, either in the roadstead, from which the Camelion
went expressly away, or over the office of the Consulate-
General at Tunis."

THE BOURSE-WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26.

First Highest Lowest

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cults 122 15 .. 122 15 .. 122 10 .. 122 10
Four per Cents. lOB 20 .. 108 20 .. 108 20 .. 108 20
Three per Cents B2 40 .. 82 40 .. 82 40 .. 82 40
Bank of France.. • 3Oll 25 ..3015 ..3011 25 ..3015
Laflitte Bank, I,ooof. Shareslllo ..1110 • • 1110 ..1110
Belgian Bank • • • . • • 660 • • 660 • • 660 .. 660
Belgian F1ve5,1831—....: 103 .. 103 .. 103 • • 103
1840 104/ .. 1041 .. 1041 .. 1041
Spanish Active •••••••• • . 311 .. 311 • • 311 311
Portuguese Five per Conte— 461 • . 461 .. 461 • • 46/
Neapolitan • 99 50 .. 99 50 .. 99 30 .. 99 30
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles.R.B.. .......... 400 .. 400 .. 385 .. 390
L. 8...... ...... 260 .. 265 .. 255 .. 257 50
Rouen
Rouen to Havre ...... •• • 770 • • 770 .. 762 50 . • 762 50
OrleLns •• .• ••••• • • • • 995 .. 995 .. 990 • • 990
Strasburg to Bale.
Avignon to Marseilles 765 .• 765 • . 765 . 765

RAILWAY SHARES FOR 30ra JUNE.
Versailles, R. 8.... •• • • 400, .. 400 .. 387 50 • . 387 50
L. 8•.....
Rouen .......... •• •• •• •• •
Orleans •••••••• lOOO ..1000 .. 990 .. 991 24
Strasburg to Bale•—••• • • .• 247 50 .. 247 50 .. 242 50 .. 242 50
Avignon to Marseilles.... • • 768 75 • • 768 75 .. 762 50 .. 766 25

VISIT OF HER MAJESTY AND PRINCE ALBERT TO
WESTMINSTER HALL.—Her Majesty, Prince Albert,
and suite, visited Westminster Hall yesterday, for the
purpose of inspecting the Cartoons. Her Majesty
arrived at the Hall at one o'clock precisely, and as
received by Sir Robert Peel and Sir James Graham,
and the other members of the Government, Lord
John Russell, &c. Her Majesty and suite occupied
three of the Royal carriages—that in which her
Majesty and Prince Albert were in being open.

MR. JUSTICE ERSKINE.—On inquiry at the resi-
dence of his Lordship yesterday, we were in-
formed, that the Learned judge, although confined to
his room, passed a comfortable night, and is considered
much better, and that all apprehension of danger has
ceased to exist.

TUB NORTII COAST OF AFRICA.-Mr. Wyld, of
Charing-cross, has opportunely brought out an excel-
lent map of Morocco and Algiers, with the opposite
coasts of France and Spain. It will be found ex-
tremely useful in understanding the late movements
of the French and Moorish troops on the frontier, be-
tween Algiers and Morocco, and will indeed be indis-
pensable when Admiral de Joinville commences his
operations on the coast. It is difficult to ascertain
where the camp of General Lamoriciere is pitched,
whether within or without the French frontier,
as we have yet an account from only one party;
but taking the dispatches of General Bugeaud
to be correct, and looking at the boundary line drawn
by Mr. Wyld, the late collisions between the troops
must have taken place considerably to the east of the
frontier. A French Government journal states that
the position of the French troops is nine leagues to
the west of Tlemcen, or about twenty-seven miles,
while the line of demarcation in the map is
at least twelve miles more. The map contains
every town, and (judging from the crowds of names)
we should think also every village, with the rivers and
mountains, in these extensive districts, and is issued
in a cheap form. We find the following note respect-
ing the great chain of Mount Atlas, which extends
through the whole of the country :—" Mount Atlas is
above 13,000 feet in height and is constantly covered
with snow. It contains mines of copper, iron, lead,
silver, sulphur, and saltpetre, and in some places gold,
mixed with antimony and lead ore."

The intelligence from Madrid which is to the 20th,
is of an unfavourable character. "Rumours," says one
of the journals, "are afloat as to various conspiracies
having been formed against the present state of
things. Although some of these reports appear to
to ifs unfounded, it cannot be doubted that at Seville

a revolutionary scheme has been detected, in conse-
quence of irhiCh several officers of the regiment of
re I Aragon have been arrested. We do not believe in
the proclamation of the Estatuto Real at Algesiras,
but the Seville plot proves that the enemies of the
State • do not- slumber. The Government must

LATEST from the UNITED STATES.
LIVERPOOL THURSDAY EVENING.
By the arrival of the Tarolenta, Captain Smith, this
day, we have received New York papers to the sth
instant inclusive. They contain some further political
news of importance, in the form of further correspond-
ence laid before the Senate by the President, and accom-
panied by a message from him and a letter from Mr.
Calhoun ; it consists of nine letters.
The letters are given at length in the Washington
papers, and they shoW conclusively that the United
States Government had given Texas an assurance that
it would affird the latter protection against any attack
from Mexit'o—this was required and given as a sine
qua non before the commencement of negotiations. The
following summary of the letters contains the pith of
their contents :-
1. Mr. Van Zandt, Texan Ambassador at Washington,
writes to Mr. Upshur, Jan. 17, 1844, requesting him to state
whether, in case of renewed hostilities on the part of Mexico,
arising out of the annexation question, the United States Go-
vernment would order such distribution of the United States
forces as would be sufficient to protect Texas.
This was written before the commencement of nego-
tiations ; but no written answer was returned, or is
to be found on file. The answer must therefore have
been verbal
2. Mr. Anson Jones, the Texan Secretary of State, Feb.
14,1844,• writes to Mr. Murphy, the United States represen-
tative in Texas, to say, that if he will give assurance that
the United States shall assume the position of defensive ally
of Texas against Mexico, that Texas will then send a Mi-
nister to Washington to negotiate the annexation.
• 3. Mr. Murphy, on the same day, gives the required assur-
ance in a letter to Mr. Joru,s.
4. Mr. Jonet,-on the next dav, says that these assurances
are so satisfactory that he shall immediately send Mr. Hen-
derson to Washington to negotiate.
5. Mr. Murphy, on the 15th of February, communicates
to Mr. Upshur the assurance he has, given, and adds, that
" he found it utterly iinpossible to ieduce the Texan Govern-
ment to enter heartily into the measure of annexation with-
out them." lie further_ says, that both the President and
himself has located' themselves near each other, and near the
frontier of the United States.
.6. Mr. Murphy, on the 22d of February, writes to Mr.
Upshur, communicating a secret order he had issued, at Pre-
sident Houston's solicitation, .to Commander Davies, of the
United Stetes' schooner Flirt, ordering him to Vera Cruz, to
aid in protecting Texas against an invasion of Mexico! He
hopes the President will approve of this warlike movement,
and adds that it is the opinion of President Houston and him-
self that it will effectually check any hostility. Besides, he
says, "We eanallege" that the armistice was brought about
by the-intervention of the Ttnited States and England, that
it must not be broken without notice; and that, therefore,
the United States .may forcibly oppose any sudden invasion
of Texas.
7. Mr..Nelion writes to Mi.. Murphy, March 11, applauds
his zeal, •approves the general course of his conduct, but re-
grets he has gone a little beyond his instructions in the com-
mencement of the war. 'He, hawever, is directed to assure
the Texan Government that everything shall be done for
their protection.
8. Mr. Calhoun, under date of April 11, writes to Messrs.
Van Zandt •and Henderson 'the Texan Commisssoners, in
reply to Mr. '% Zandt's fetter of January 17, mentioning
as an answer, that the President had issued orders for the
due disposition of the army and navy of the United States
to protect Texas from -all foreign invasion. This letter is
dated the 11th, and the 'treaty was signed on the 12th, •so
that there can 11' no doubt, that the assurance contained
in this letter ..was a sine qua 910,3 to the signature of the
treaty.
9. The rest is merely a note from-Mr. Murphy, explaining
the matter to the Texan Secretary of State.
It is said by a WaShington correspondent of a New
York paper, that Mr. Polk's friends had offered to Mr.
Tyler's party to run only one ticket through the State,
whereby by their forces as a party may be united with
his. It is proposed that each shall have their ballots
headed with the name of their candidate, and submit
them for :the choice of the electors—the candidates
agreeing to abide by the result as decisive.
The Cotton market at New York had been very dull
since the arrival of the Caledonia, and prices had de-
clined. Money continued plentiful, the rate of exchange
just as before the sailing of the steamer.

le have its- eye on conspirators of all classes,
,e and rigorously chastise them. The first want
of a country is that a stop be put to
a the risings and riots, under the miseries of which we
n have been writhing for years past, to the scandal of

Europe. The Government will do well to forward

Y the severest orders to the Seville authorities. The
it letter from that city of the 15th, which mentions the
_ conspiracy, does not enter into details, but represents
_ it as being a most extensive one."
Another event is the departure of all four of the
Ministers for Barcelona, whither they had been sum-
, moned by the QUEEN. Some coup d'etat was antici-
, pated.

The Three per Cents. were done at 27i for cash,
and 28i at 60 days. The Fives 20i for 59 days.

According to an account in the Paris journal, The
Messagee, which appears to be from authority, at-
, tempts had been made to tamper with the troops in
is the neighbourhood of the capital ; and as it was sus-
pected that the Prince DE MONTMORENCY and other
legitimatist chiefs were implicated, the police were
directed to make the domiciliary visits announced in
the journal of Tuesday. The following is the Go-
vernment version of the affair. "For several days,
some sappers of engineers at Issy were the object of
frequent efforts on the part of two individuals to
seduce them from their duty, either by speaking to
them of projects of the Carlist party, and
announcing attemi its which were made, or by
show ing to them and wishing to distribute.
amongst them i amphlets, autographed letters,
and medals with the effigy of the Duke of
BORDEAUX. These soldiers, giving on this occasion
a new proof of their fidelity to their colours, and of
their attachment to their duty, informed their officers
of these proceeding R, and the officers in their turm
communicated" them. to their superiors. In conse-
quence of this inforn la.tion, and a surveillance of seve-
ral days, a man nair red ToUTAIN, who was condemned
;o for a political offenc ein the affair of the rue des Prou-
o vaires, and Cauca. DEssamass, a literary man,
is as-was also M. DE LESPINOIS, a Sub-Prefect under
)f the Restoration, an, Director of the Association of
e St. Louis, were ar, •ested ; and afterwards a search
took place; in virtue 'of legal warrants, at the houses
e of the Prince Du
.11 lioNrmottiricr ROBECQ and 'the
- •
• Duke D'ESCARS. ; several documents, and a quan-
tity of busts and 1 medallions representing the
s Duke .DE 130URDE AUX, have been seized. The
1 affair is undergoir ig the regular legal process."
After tedious debt rtes the Chamber of Deputies
I are now proceding at railroad speed with the Bills
g for new lines throng •bout France. In the course of
Monday and-, Tuesci ty-they passed three important
s Bills relating to the Paris and Lyons, the Tours and
a Nantes, and the P4l wand Rennes railroads. They
e _afterwards proceeded to discuss the Bill for the for-
is . .
mation of a great torthern line, with branches, to
is Dunkirk, Calais,..} ind Boulogne. 'We are glad to THE PRESS AND THE PRESENT
find that a clause t 'or making a branch road to the PARLIAMENT.
. .
_ latter place has been I adopted. It will pass through TO. THE EDI7'OR OF THE SUN. -
e Abbeville. The M embers of this Chamber deserve Sut,—Far be it from me to speak against the public Press,
which is so deservedly appreciated and esteemed • but I
not help thinking thai, in ray humble opinion,' the derly.
e great praise for the lipirit with which they advocate
_ such vast underfakil igs, and the liberality with which journals- and -the present Administration cannot long exist
ly-7 f litres. together. Could the GovernMent keep the people in igno-
'trey vote money sr constructing so manyrance of those measures which do them so much honour-
- We give the folio wing clauses of the Paris and could Members of Parliament turn and change without the
Lyons Railroad 'l3 ill, as a specimen. The sums - knOwledge of their constituents—the present state of things
i
mighi long continue, to the great benefit of the country But
e voted for this alone, it will be seen, amount to nearly wlieti,.far leaving them in this blissful state agno-
e seven millioristerlir tg:— ranee, sleeping on the border of the precipice, the daily pa-
pers " hold a mirror up to nature," and show the people their
• -
a , 44 ACt. 1. A stun of ; '1,000,000 of francs is appropriated for
the construction of tha t part of the railroad from Paris to the chiefs—not as they should be, but as they are—can they becontent to leave their welfare in their hands? Can they
yield them the, trust and confidence due from the go-
;Mediterranean -corripti. led between 'Paris ,and Dijon, and the,
f part comp rjsed betweei Chalons-sur-Saone Rnd Lyons.
• .".The lines shall be directed by the valleys of the Seine, versed to • the governors? Can the people of England,
famed for their love of honour and their inviolable
the Yonne, the Annan on; and the Saone.
Art. 2. There shall be established a branch line from
integrity, regard with any other feelings than those of eon., " -
tempt, a Minister.of State violating the sanctuary of private
3fonterenu to Trozes, L y the valley of the Seine. A sum of
confidence, infringing rules which the very robber holds in
15,000,000 is apportlone• d- for this branch.
respect—a Premier treating affairs which concern the vital
'• Art. 3. on the gran is mentioned in the preceding anti-
i
des, there is opened to the Minister of Public Works, on the iuteresta of the country, and the happiness of millions, as if
estimates of 1844, a cre( lit of 4,000,000 of francs; and on the .they werebut a theatrical farce?-while the representatives
estimate of 1845, a credi tof 10,000,000. of a people who love honour more than life, yield their prin-
Lvonciples without a murmur, at the bidding of a Chief whom
" Art. 4. A sum of 4000,000 is appropriated to lay down they themselves dislike, yct are weak enough to follow ? The
the rails on the whole e tent of the line from Paris
question . " Art. 5. There shall be provided the expense authorised- is needless; ono feeling animates the hearts of all—
byone question is on the lips of the thousands who daily wit-
the present law con formably to article 18 of the Bill of
.July 11,:1842." , ness the ' misconduct of their, leaders, "Are these our
the followingg lette r has been received from Oran representatives ?—are these unprincipled; inconstant men
I those whom our votes have chosen to frame laws
dated Julie for the British empire ?" The Parliament often feels
" 1-lately announced to you the departure for Tangiers of":no Confidence in the ' MiniStry, but to-day the circle
the steamer Vautour, ith urgent dispatches from the Go-, is far extended—the people have no confidence in either
yertior-General. She re iched hir destination without any ! Ministers or Parliament. Are they then unrepresented?
impediment ;. but, in ret urning frith the answers of the Ern- Have such a people no mode of expressing their sentiments--
peror and the Consul-G, tneral of France, she sustained da-
no opportunity of vindicating their rights ? Yes; the Press
mages, which forced her • 'to put into Gibraltar, where she an. .is now the only organ of public opinion, the sole representa-
rived on the 12th. Hoy never, the answers entrusted to her five of the British people. ;They have no trust in their ex-
were impatiently expect( id by Marshal Bugeaud, and, as the.l pedient Government, no reapect for their unprincipled Senatei
-.,Vautourcould not contini usher voyage, application was made they depend on themselves, and confide in their own integrity.
to the English authorities , who at once placed at the disposal But the day is at hand when they will have a Government
of the Captain of 'the Vat( or the English steamer Vesuvius, worthy of them, when the changing politics of the present
Captain Ommaney, which .took her departure immediately; day will be treated with the, contempt they merit, and the
With-an Officer cf the Vat( htr,_ bearing the answers from Tan- .Administration, based upon justice and principle, will com-
giers;with which she arri- t ed, at Mersel Kebar, near Oran. mand the respect and confidence of the empire. In the hope
This officer hastened on to. 1;1ie Governor-General with the dis-
of seeing that day soon arrive,.lielieve me, Sir, your obedient
patches, the purport of w' hie h has not transpired. The column servant, ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
;formed at Oran, and, pls.?) u nderthe command of Major-Gen.l The
,•
Thierry, has not „yet mowed. It comprises no more than 600 ' Marquis of Salisbury gives a grand entertainment, on
infantry. A post is at' ant to be established at Ghazonat, the 15th of next month, totheir Royal Highnesses the Duk
near the mouth of the rig rNadrana, where a store of pro- and Duchess of Cambridge.
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