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vernment that the law should be strictly enforced on the
first appearance of an advertisement for a foreign lottery.
Lord STANLEY gave the required assurance, and the
Bill was read a third time and passed.
The Field Gardens Bill was read a second time.
On the motion of the Earl of BESBOROUGH, the re-
port of the Select Committee on the petition of JOHN
PYM and others, against the Dublin and Galway Rail-
way, was ordered to be referred to the Committee on the
Bill, and their Lordships adjourned.
The Commons met at Twelve.
The Lunatics Bill was reported, as was the Dublin
Jury Presentments Bill, and the Drainage of Lands
Bill, and the Poor-law (Scotland) Bill.
The Jurors' Books Bill and the Highways Bill were
committed.
The House then went into Committee on the Valua-
tion (Ireland) Bill.
Notwithstanding a vigorous opposition from Lord
CLEMENTS and Mr. S. CRAWFORD, the Bill passed
through Committee at the morning sitting.
At the evening sitting the Small Debts Bill, No. 3,
was read a second time, and committed, pro forma, for the
purpose of introducing several amendments.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE then drew the attention of the
House to the case of Eliza Price, who had, while in cus-
tody on a charge of stealing a halfpennyworth of coals,
been chained for four days to a grate.
Sir J. GRAHAM promised to inquire into the matter.
Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT, in answer to Mr. WAKLEY,
admitted that the accounts which had appeared of the
flogging of the two soldiers at Windsor were substan-
tially correct. The men had been flogged for disobe-
dience to the orders of the officer in refusing to march
to the black-hole.
Captain BERKELEY then moved that the House do
resolve itself into Committee, to consider the propriety
of an address to her MAJESTY, humbly requesting that
she would be graciously pleased to grant a pecuniary
recompense to the officers, seamen, soldiers, and marines,
engaged in the operations against the Chinese Empire,
in the years 1840, 1841, and 1842.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the
motion on the ground that it was en infringement of
the power which had been always jealously reserved to
the Crown.
Sir C. NAPIER, who supported the motion, complained
of the special pleading of the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER, and of his denial of justice.
Mr. J. A. SMITH, Mr. H. BERKELEY, and Captain
PECHELL, also supported the motion.
Sir R. PEEL admitted the value of the services ren-
dered in China. It was a most disagreeable duty to re-
fuse these claims, but he felt bound to oppose the
notion.

Mr. IVILLIams thought that ample remuneration for
the services in China had been made already.
Lord PALMERSTON quoted the case of Navarino as a
precedent for the present motion. He thought the
Government had made a very niggardly allowance to
the brave men who had been engaged in China, and he
hoped the matter would be taken into serious con-
sideration.

The motion, which was supported by Captain
HARRIS and Captain PLIIMAIDGE, and opposed by Sir
JAMES DUKE, was negatived on a division. The num-
bers being, fur the motion, 27 ; against it, 68 ; ma-

lority 41.
The House then went into Committee of Supply.

The motion of Captain BERKELEY for a Committee of
the House of Commons, to consider of the propriety of
addressing her MAJESTY, praying her to grant some
" further pecuniary recompense to the officers, seamen,
soldiers, and marines, engaged in the operations against
the Chinese empire, in the years 1840, 1841, and 1842,"
led to a debate, i.yhich, if it had no other merit, elicited
two most charistic speeches—the one from Sir ROBERT
PEEL, the other from the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER. It is impossible for any Englishman to look
back at the operations of the conjoint expeditions which
we dispatched, in those years, against the Chinese; to re-
member the admirable, good understanding which the sa-
gacity and vigilance of the officers, commanders-in-chief,
by sea and by land, maintained between both branches of
the service ; to reflect on the brilliant com-
bination of patient endurance under incessant
fatigues, harassing duties, and insidious disease ; and
that prompt and dashing energy with which, as the oc-
casion called for it, every description of operation on
shore or afleat was undertaken or achieved—without
feelings of pride and enthusiasm. The discipline main-
tained, the zeal and alacrity exhibited, furnished the
most gratifying evidence that the character of our brave
army and our daring navy, had, in no respect, degene-
rated from that of their illustrious predecessors in the
palmy times of that terrible war which it sustained, sin-
gle handed, against the united forces of France and all
the other Continental Powers, in the early part of the
present century. Of the merits of Sir H. Goucn and
Sir W. PARKER, and the officers employed under them
in these Chinese operations, there can never be enter-
tained but one opinion. No reward can well be
deemed too great for such successes, so unexceptiona-
bly accomplished by them. Our own opinion clearly
is, that in reference to the extent and importance of
those successes the army and navy have not been ade-
quately remunerated by the allowance, in the nature of
Latta, 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
has 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 States, or any
other Government where either they will receive, or
fancy they shall, better pay, more liberal prize allow-
ances, 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."

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tained the glory, and vindicated the honour of her flag.
But then--" it was not a regular war 1" 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-
dition 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 adl—" 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 mum" But if this was
the manner in which his fidus Achates (Mr. GOULBURN)
met the remonstrances on behalf of the sailors, what was
the language of plus iEneas himself ? Sir ROBERT
PEEL, who has certainly 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 liberally towards them (!) without
regard to the other claims on the public purse, or the
means of satisfying them." That they should expect
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-
ableness 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.

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-
regard of logic and of truiii, and are pervaded by that
ignorance of the first princiOles of national law, which is
(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 functionaries, 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 take 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 LEWIS and CLARKE achieved with so much diffi-
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-
gust will" of the republic to occupy. In the next place,
they admit that British subjects are, and long have been,
its territorial and actual occupation of the country ; and
that British power is, and has been, indisputably exer-
cised over those subjects throughout the widely scattered
posts which they occupy in that remote region. And
this being so, they have come to a " resolution" that the
" Britishers," to whom they have already given notice
to quit, shall be expelled—notwithstanding that they are
under the jurisdiction and protection of a body of our fel-
low-countrymen, so intrepid, intelligent, and competent,
to hold their own as the North-West Company. It is true
that the latter are already located ; their establishments
long since organised; their forts sufficiently well built for
the sort of country and the sort of purposes they are re-
quired for ; well armed and stored ; that their stations
have been selected at the most eligible localities, and are
well supplied and guarded ; that the whole population,
scanty as it is, of those vast solitudes, Indian as well as
European, is either English, or not only allied with, but
absolutely dependent on the North-West Company,
whether as clerks, factors, trappers, hunters, curers, or
boatmen ; that they command all the passes to and from
the hunting grounds, around and beyond them ; and
that they may be said to monopolise the whole supply
of furs in those latitudes, where they have been compelled
to secure its constant renewal at a vast outlay of capital,
directed, like all the great operations of that great Com-
pany, with unwearied vigour, and consummate skill and
juilgment. On the other hand, it is true that large bo-
dies of emigrants from the United State have absolutely
committed themselves already, either in preposterous
overland pilgrimages to the Rocky Mountains, through
whose steep and precipitous barrier dim peaks rising
from 12,000 to 16,000 feet above the level of the sea, and,

in defiance of whose unmelting snows and howling tem-
pests, they must wing their way amidst all the i►,tolerable
privations of unsatisfied hunger and unslaked thirst,
fatigue, misery, and exhausted spirits, yielding to de-
spair from the incessant contemplation of the dreary
objects around them. In what condition they will be to
make a forage into the British lands, as a slight preli-
minary to their establishing a settlement, we should
have little difficulty in anticipating, if they did not an-
nuance themselves beforehand as the " successful
pioneers" of a vast emigration movement from the
United States in that direction.

It happens, by a curious coincidence, that the
Edinburgh Review and the Foreign Quarterly Review
have, each of them, taken the Oregon question as the
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 age. 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
tittle, 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 hare had, as it is contended,
title to pDssession ; 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

sacrifice of national rights, and of political considerations
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. Thauk 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 on n 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' claim,
how powerfully they tend to destroy that, and to con-
ciliate our own.

There are points in the debate and division on the
Jewish Disabilities Bill well worth reverting to, as
illustrative of the habitual " stolen garment" policy of
the Government, and its dependence on the generosity
of the men whose garments they dress in.
The majority of ninety-one in favour of the second
reading of the Bill contained—how many do our readers
suppose of Conservative Members of the Government ?
Actually fourteen ! The remainder of the majority
consists of twenty-six officials and fifty-one Members of
the Opposition. Add the twenty-six officials to the
fourteen independent Conservative Members, and the
Conservative party is yet in a minority in that majority
which has affirmed the admission of Jews to municipal
offices.

Among the officials in the majority, the Right Hon.
HENRYGOULEURN. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr.
FORTIES MACEENZIE, Lord of the Treasury, and Mr.
C lIARLES HOPE, Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital,
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 vote in
office directly contrary to his votes and speeches when
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. GOULBURN'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

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 fur 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 Joax RussE.LL happily reminded the House of
Mr. GLADSTONE'S and Mr. GOI7LBURN'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 other
night with a most able speech on another subject, but whom
I do not now see in 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 bad 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—a far 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 who 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."

The Madrid journals of the 11th, which have been received,
contain no news of importance. The Herald() 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 Andres 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 28% at 60 days ; and
the Five per Cents. at 21 for cash and for the 26th inst.
We learn from Rome that the Papal Government, with a
view to the more effectual prevention of contraband trade,
has reduced considerably the duties of export and import on
many articles of merchandise, and intends to apply the sys-
tem of reduction to many others.
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
Chamber of Peers, the Marquis DE BOISSY complained that
Marshal SOULT had been too hasty in disavowing the con-
duct of Colonel PELISSIER, whereupon the Marshal pro-
ceeded to vindicate the massacre of Dahara in the Mowing
terms :—" As to the affair of the Dahara, I pray the Chamber
to believe that in the explanations which I have already
given I referred only to the act itself. One of the most
honourable officers in the army, Colonel PELISSIER, whose
eulogium I shall always willingly make, was placed in a
most painful and embarrassing positiori. 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
bank 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
CAvaraxac, 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 lite 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
ought to be trusted to, particularly as I never let any infrac-
tion pass without severely punishing it." The Marquis DE
BOISSY regretted that the Hon. Minister of War had thus
pronounced a sort of approbation of the conduct of the officer
in command.

The Journa? des Debats and the abbe 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 honourable French nation, speaking by the
voice of the Press, emphatically disavows.

The following article from the National may be taken as a
sample of the all but universal expresaiou of opinion of the
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
fierce reprisals are prepared for the future. This matter was
again brought forward yesterday in the Chamber of Peers, and
Marshal Soult appeared to be desirous of altering the opinion
which he bad given the other slay. He highly praised Colonel
Pelissier, and enumerated the barbarities exercised by this tribe
against our troops, but none of these circumstances could justify
the revolting inhumanity which we complain of. What can be
said to excuse it ? Does it become soldiers like us to imitate the
Arabs? If our manners, ideas, and civilisation do not show them-
selves superior, what right have we to conquer their country ? But
what gives a more afflicting character to this deplorable conduct is,
that in these same tribes of the Dahara a similar act of resistance
had taken place against Ben-Tami, one of Abd-el-Kader's lieu-
tenanats, and that he had acted in quite a different manner.
According to what we find in a journal specially devoted to
military affairs, this was what took place. A tribe of the Dahara
had taken refuge in these grottoes at the approach of Ben-Tami,
and had taken with them women, children, stores, and cattle.
Ben. Tami seised on the crops of the tribe, blockaded the cavern,
and then waited patieittly until they were forced to come out. The
Marabouts soon came to discuss the conditions of surrender, and

whilst so employed, a fanatical priest assassinated a relative of Abd.
el- Kader, who commanded the infantry. The murderer was seized
and decapitated on the instant; and the blockade was drawn closer
than ever, The tribe then accepted all the conditions, paid the
tribute, and the next year did not make the slightest difficulty to
do the same. The Turks several times had to deal hostilely with
these very same tribes of the Dahara, and the latter always
took refuge in these caverns; but the Turks never thought of
smoking them out, of stifling them, of burning them all toge-
ther—women, old men, and children at the breast. Ah ! let
us not speak of the glory of our army! Such acts would dis.
honour it, if it was rendered accomplices in them ; and we
are certain that the heroism of the faggot-lighters will dis-
gust, as it disgusts ourselves, those men of noble hearts, whose
bravery and sacrifices continue in Africa our most brilliant tradi-
tions. We see even that Col. Pelissler could not prevent himself
from feeling a moment of horror on learning what had come to
Pass. But yet he was the officer in command It was he who
gave the orders; it is he who is responsible; and nothing, either
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
situations where the necessity of the defencs, and the safety of a
whole column, account for the most enormous extremities. Let,
therefore, no attempt be made to excuse what is inexcusable ; a
general reprobation must reject such infamous violence ; and if
the Government accepts it—if a shameful tolerance absolves these
burners of women and children—it is the Government that hence-
forward must be responsible before public opinion ; it is that we
shall have to reproach for having allowed the history of our con-
quest to be sullied by these atrocities, which remind one of what
was most abominable in the conquest
of the New World. It is
war which France carries on in Africa. We send soldiers there,
and not fire-raisers."

The Estimates of the Marine were discussed in the Cham-
ber of Peers on Thursday, when Baron MACKAU stated, in
answer to the Marquis DE BOISSY, that the indemnity to Mr.
PAITCHARD had not been fixed by Admiral HANLEGIN, and
consequently hail not yet been paid.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thurs-
day, at 83f. 35c. ; the Five per Cents. at 121 f. 60e. ; Or-
leans Railroad Shares, 1,1481. 75c. ; Rouen, 1,028 f. 75e.;
Vierzon, 742 f. 50c. ,• Havre, 8401. ; Avignon, 9651; Basle,
2521. 50c; Spanish Actives, 36%; Spanish Three per Cents.,
36%; Spanish Passives, 6%.
The following are the quotations for the new lines :
Orleans and Bordeaux, 1651. prem.; Boulogne, 1151., .50c.,
ditto; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte), 20f.; ditto (Calon), par;
ditto (Ganneron), .5f.; ditto (Rosamel), 91. 50c; Tours and
Nantes (Mackenzie), 7f. 50c.; ditto (Drouillard), par;
ditto (O'Neill), 2f. 50c. ; ditto (Jacques Lefevre), par;
Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), sf• ; ditto (Talabot), 27f.
50c.; ditto and Cette (Espeleta), sf. 50c. ; Creil and St.
Quentin, par; Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), 10i.;
Dijon and Mulhausen, par; Dieppe, 27f. 50c.

We are now able to state positively, on 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 Peel's col-
league in the representation of Tamworth, will succeed
Captain Boldero as Storekeeper of the Ordnance ; brt
he will not be re-elected for Tamworth without a cam-

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 thoug►bt
to be the probable successor of Mr. Bonham, 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 readers
to the report of the Select Committee of the House of
Lords on the petitions respecting the Irish Great Western
Railway Bill.

A GENTLE HINT TO NEWISPAPEB. WRITERS.—The
Morning Advertiser gives the following notice to cor-
respondents :—" Vicrilarius is thanked, most grate-
fully and sincerely thanked, but the plot had been pre-
viously discovered, and our friends aro now publicly in-
formed that the Editor of the Morning Advertiser is
alone wholly responsible to the proprietors and the pub-
lic for the character and opinions of the leading arti-
clis which appear in this journal, all of which are
either written by himself or under his direction, dic-
tation, and revision ; therefore, any person claiming
credit for any line of policy advocated in the Advertiser,
either in private, through an inflated and foolish vanity,
or with tho,e in authority, through a less excusable and
more despicable motive, is a trickster and a traitor, of
whom further particulars may be obtained by applica-
tion at 127, Fleet-street. For the information and edi-
fication of our hyperclassical contributors, some of
whom—we are pained to add—are equally deficient in
their a; preciation or apprehension of common sense,
common honesty, or common decency, we hereby give
them notice that the motto of the Adertiser is, and ever
shall be, while under its present management, Parcere
subject is et debellare superbos.' "

DEATH OF EARL GREY.

It is our melancholy duty to announce to our readers
that the amiable, the venerated Earl Grey expired at
Howick on Thursday evening last, at twenty minutes
past eight o'clock. He was the last of that glorious
band which, headed by Fox and Sheridan, upheld the
cause of the people in those dark and gloomy days wher
the service of the people was a service of danger. He
was the last of the historical statesmen. His name is
associated with that of great men—Burke, Pitt, Fox,
Sheridan ; it is associated, also, with great principles.
He was no expediency man ; he sacrificed, for upwards
of thirty years, all hopes of office—at a time, too, when
the emoluments of office would have been most acceptable
to him—rather than sacrifice for an instant the cause of
Parliamentary reform to which he had devoted his life
and, at last, when he did accept office, his first great
measure was the Reform Bill. The character of Earl
Grey, as a statesman, will best appear from the following
sketch of his eventful career :

Charles Grey, son of General Sir Charles Grey, was
born 1764, and educated at Eton and at Cambridge. In
1786 he was returned to Parliament for the county of
Northumberland, and immediately joined the Whig
party, then in opposition, under Fox. His first speech
was delivered in the debate on Mr. Pitt's Commercial
Treaty with France. The oratorical talents which he
displayed on this occasion secured to him a foremost
position in the House. During the same session, which
was his first, he was named one of the managers of the
impeachment of Warren Hastings ; and from that time
we find him always taking a leading part in the debates.
In the debates on the Regency Question, in 1789, Mr.
Grey took an active part in opposing the proposed re-
strictions on the authority of the Prince of Wales. He
was not, however, on all occasions quite" so devoted a
courtier to his Royal Highness as others of his party.
In 1795 he moved a reduction of the allowance to him
proposed by the Ministry. But the most brilliant period
of his exertions was at the commencement of the French
Revolution. On this occasion Mr. Grey showed himself
superior to those alarms which induced so many of the
Whig party to desert their principles and party con-
nexions, and to oppose the progress of liberal views of
Government. Throughout the whole period of his long
and hopeless opposition to the war, he firmly adhered to
Mr. Fox, and at the very period in which others
thought it necessary to take a determined stand against
what was regarded as a democratic spirit of encroach-
ment, Mr. Grey thought that the interests of order,
as well as freedom, required further concession of power
to the people. In 1792 ho took a prominent part
in the formation of the Association of the Friends
of the People, and was commissioned by that
body to be the organ in the House of Com-
mons of its views of Parliamentary Reform. These
he supported in the speech in which, on the 6th of May,
1793, he moved to refer the petition of that Association
to a Committee.. This speech contained a detailed and
clear view of the history of Parliamentary Reform, and ,
a foroible statement of the grounds that rendered its
adoption necessary. His eloquence was, however, of
little avafi, and, after an adjourned debate, the motion
was negatived by 282 to 41. It was not until the 20th
of May, 1797, that Mr. Grey, who during the last few
years of the eighteenth century imitated Mr. Fox's se-
cession from the ineffectual labours of opposition, again
brought forward the subject of Parliamentary Reform.
and propounded his own plan. This plan is remarkable
fur the large measures of change which the Whig leaders
did not at that time think it dangerous to urge. He
proposed the division of the country into electoral dis-
tricts of pretty nearly equal extent, and returning only
one Member each, with Household Suffrage, and Tri•
ennial Parliaments. The motion for leave to bring in a
Bill embodying this plan was rejected by a majority
o? 165.
In 1801, during the winter of which year his father
was raised to the peerage as Lord Grey of Howick, he
distinguished himself in Parliament by his opposition to
the union with Ireland. In 1806 Mr. Grey, who by the
elevation of his father to the earldom was become Lord
Howick, for the first time took office as a member of the
11Iinistry which was formed by the coalition of Mr. Fox
and Lord Grenville. He was made First Lord of the
Admiralty; and on the death of Mr. Fox, in the autumn
of the same year, succeeded him as Secretary for Foreign
Affairs, and leader of the House of Commons.
In this distinguished position Lord Ho wick remained
but a very few months, during which, however, he bad
the good fortune to associate his name with the Aboli-
tion of the Slave Trade, by introducing, on the part of
the Government, the Act which put an end to that
traffic. Having proposed a Bill for the authorising the
promotion of English Catholics in the navy and army,
the bigotry of George 111. took alarm at this encroach-
ment on the principle of intolerance, and he not only
compelled the Ministers to drop the Bill, but insisted on
their pledging themselves never again in any form to
moot the question of conceding privileges to the Catho-
lics. This Lords Grenville and Howick, to their houour,
refused to do, and the Ministry was in consequence dis-
missed.

In 1807 he succeeded to the peerage, and took his seat
in the Upper House as Earl Grey. From that time
until 1830 be remained steadily in opposition.
He became Prime Minister in 1830, and during the four
years which he continued in office he had the satifaction
of carry ing the two great measures to which he had de-
voted his life, viz., Parliamentary Reform and the Abo-
lition of Slavery. Since'his retirement from office, in
1834, he has taken no part in politics, but has resided
principally at Howick in the bosom of his family.
It is almost impossible for us, his contemporaries,
to take a calm and dispassionate view of the
career of Earl Grey, but his bitterest political op-
ponents admit that his was essentially a great mind,
Despising the petty minutiae of details or leaving them
to be arranged by his subordinates, he at once proceeded
to great principles. An elegant ora'or, a conscientious
and high-Minded statesman, he carries with him to his
grave the regret, the love, the veneration of his friends
—the respect and the admiration of those to whom he
was politically opposed. He is succeeded in his titles
and estates by Viscount Howick, a statesman far in
advance of his late colleagues in many points, and one
who will worthily support the honoured name which he
has inherited.

The Government contract for 12,000 gallons of
white wine for the navy, was yesterday taken by Messrs. Lemon
Hart and Son, of 59, Fenchurch.street, City.
BROADSTAIRS.—The arrivals at this most delight-
ful little watering place are increasing daily. Among the late
arrivals we notioe the Prussian Consul, Mr. and Mrs. Hebeler
and family, at Upton-house; Captain Carnac and family, No. 1,
Chandos-place; Rev. T. B. Newell, No. 2, Chandos.place; Mrs.
Chrystie and family, No. 3, Chandos-place ; Rev. Henry Lindsey,
No. 4, Chandos-place ; Mr. and Mrs. WCabe and family, Fort-
house; Mr.:and Mrs. Formeroy and family, Lawn-house; Mr.
Gwinnell and family, 4, Nuckels-place ; Captain Drake, R.N. ;
Mrs. Glass, Miss Darby, Mr. Scott, Mr. Maltby, Mrs, Webb, Mrs.
Hesse, Captain Horatio Austin, R.N. ; Mrs. Sweetman, Serene
Cottage; Mrs. Hay, H. Goodson, Esq., Regent Cottage; Miss
Trew, Rev. J. Jackson, Prospect-house ; Mr. Mackintosh, Wel-
lington-house; Mr. Harrington, Purmont Cottage; Edwin Bald-
win, Esq., 1, Elder-place; Mrs. Pigeon, 6, Nelson-place; and
Captain Fordyce.

it is rumoured in fashional)le circle that Mr.
Jones, of Glanisrane Park, High Sheriff of Carmarthen, is shortly
about to lead to the Hymenial altar the young and beautiful niece of
Lord Campbell, and daughter of Sir George Campbell, of Eden-
wood, Bart.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained
Dowager Countess of Morley, Dowager Lady Holland, and a select
party at dinner on Thursday, at their residence on Carlton House.
terrace.

The Speaker of the House of Commons has sent
out cards of invitation to the chief officers of that branch of the
Legislature over which he presides, for the customary entertain-
ment to those gentlemen, on Saturday, the 2d of next month.+
the week preceding the prorogation of Parliament.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NINVES.
CITY, QUAR7EI? TO TILItI;3I'.
The business done in the Liverpool Cotton Market
yesterday amounted to 10,000 bales, including 2,000
on speculation, and 1,000 for export. Shares were firm :
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 18.—The sales are •
—Belfast, Ballymena and Carrickfergus, 6 11-16; Blackburn,
Burnley, and Accrington, 9% •, Bolton, Wigan and Liverpool,
20% 203/4 ; Caledonian, 11 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 5% ;
Churnet Valley, 5% ; Clithero Junction, 3% ; Derby and
Crewe, 2%; Eastern Counties, New, 12%; Ditto, Perpetual,
No. 1, 81. 2s. ; Erewash Valley, 31 ; Exeter, Yeovil, and
Dorchester, 3; Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junc-
tion, 10 prem. ; Grand Union, ; Great Giimsby and
Sheffield Junction, 23/4 3; Huddersfield and Manchester Rail-
way and Canal, 8% 8%; Ditto, Junction, 6% ; Leeds and
Thirsk, 5% 5 ;Leeds and West RidingJunction,634 ; Leicester
and Bedford, 425. 445. 6d. ; Leicester and Birmingham,
1% 3/4 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3 1-16 • London
and York, 4% 41/4 ; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and
Midland, 5% 5%; Manchester and Birmingham, 611/Q ;
Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 71%z ; Manchester and Birming-
ham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 325. 6d. ; Man.
chester and Birkenhead Continuation and Mold, Ruabon,
and North Wales, 10s. prem. ; Midland Railway Consols,
401. Shares, 30; North British, 26; Ditto, New Shares, 7 ;
North Eastern, 13/4 ; North Staffordshire, 4%; North Union,
B, 113 ; Nottingham, Erewash, Ambergate, and Manchester,
2 7-16 2%; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, 17
ex int. ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, No. 3, 7 ; Shrewsbury and
Trent Valley Union, 1% ; South Eastern and Dover, No. 3,
8%; South Midland, 2% ; Trent Valley, 18%; Wakefield,
Pontefract, and Goole, 18%; Welsh Midland, 35-16 ; West
Lancashire and Coast Line, 1 7-16 prem. ; West Yorkshire,
614 ; Whitehaven and Furness, 1%; Dutch Rhenish, 51/
prem.
There are not any colonial arrivals to-day of a date later
than those before received. In circles connected with New
Zealand, additional accounts are most anxiously looked for.
Tile general tenour of some of the private letters that have
been shown us, is that matters will be arranged.
The issue of notes by the Bank of England during the
week to Saturday last, was 29,682,650/., a decrease of
209,275/., but there were 1,210,8151. less of notes in the
banking department. The public deposits are 3,874,220/.
smaller, owing to the payment of the dividends, official sala-
ries, &c. The other deposits, however, are larger by 1,315,079/.
In the bullion there is but a slight decrease, viz., 221,8461.
The market for Consols has been rather firm to-day, at
994 % for the Account, and at 99 to % for Money. This is
the pay-day on the Consols Account, which was settled yes-
terday, and the differences have been well met. Exchequer-
bills are at 545. to 565. ; Indian Bonds at 71s. premium ; and
Bank Stock at 211%.
Very little business was in progress in the Foreign Stocks
to-day. The quotations for actual operations are annexed.
There is a pretty firm market for the Railway Shares.
The demand is good, and of, apparently, a most decided
bond fide character.
SittITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 2111/2
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 995i%
3 per Cent. Consols Anns 99%
New 34 per Cent. Annuties
India Bonds 1,0001 ... 71
Ditto under 1.000/
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 13/4d. 11/,d.
1,000/.
500/. ... —

Ditto Small —
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent —
Ditto Deferreu
Columbian Bonds. 173/4 18
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 3314
Portuguese Benda, 5 per Cent —
Ditto Converted
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o
Ditto for the Aocount.
Ditto Passive Bonds 6%
Ditto 3 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account.
Belgian 4% per Cent. 99%
Dutch 21,12 per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 994
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush 1% 1
Bristol and Exeter
Bristol and Gloucester
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln
Chester and Holyhead
Churnet Valley
Coventry,Bedwortb,andNun-

eaton
Coventry and Leicester
Cornwall ...
l'irect Northern ... ......... .. 2% 3% to
Dundalk and Enniskillen...... 21,4 3% to
Eastern Counties
Do. New 41. 16s . 7%14... to
Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 6/.13s 4d 1%...... to
Ely and Bedford l% 2% to
Great South and W. (Irish)... 10
Great North of England 100 228
Great Western BO 214
Ditto Fifths
Lancaster and Carlisle... 2O ...... 481/4 .. .. to 47%
London and Birmingham ...100 244
Ditto 14 Shares
London and Blackwell 16% lO .. to 9%
London and Brighton
London and Croydon... 131. 15s. 9d 23
London and South Western.. 41% B 2
Ditto New ... 2% 133/4 to
London and York ... ..... ...... 2%...... 53/4 4M to 4
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereham
Manchester and Leeds 76 .....171
Ditto Quarters
Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 22s
Midland

Ditto New
Newcastle & Darlington tiunc. 25
Ditto New Brandling
Newcastle and Berwick
Newry and Enniskillen ...... 21/E 34.- to
North British
Ditto New 1 .. . 7% to
North Staffordshire
Norwich and Brandon ... 10 .....
Ditto, New 1
Oxford and Worcester 2%
6%... to 7%
Rugby. Worcester, and Tring 1
ihrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 21/ 3l/4 to
South Devon
South Eastern and Dover ... 33%
Ditto New, Ns. 1 8
Ditto New, N 0.2 7 .. ... 17%...... to 17
Ditto New, No. 3 2% 81,4%... to
South Wales
Trent. Valley and Holyhead
Junction l% l3/ to
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 2X to
fork and North Midland ... 50 ......114,4 to 114
Ditto, Extension

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens
Great Northern of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. Do. (Rosamel's) ...... ... 2 ..... 21,x to
Jamaica Junction
Do. South Midland Junction 1
Louvain and Jemeppe
Namur and Liege........
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 4
Paris and Lyons ( Laffitte) ... 2
Parts and Orleans...
'aris and Rouen ..
Rouen and Havre
Sambre and Meuse
Verona and Ancona I
West Flanders
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster ... 20