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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENIi•G, JULY 2O, 1844.

only monument of the lost ship. The depth of the water
1. Ler ; she sunk was about 35 feet.
6,) tar then as the destruction of the vessel is concerned,
the experiment was completely successful. The object of
Capt. Warner was to show that, if chased by another ship,
he had it in his power at any time he chose to annihilate his
enemy, suddenly, at once, and without any warning. But
the question was asked, and will he asked on every hand,
flew was it done ?" A very natural question, but not alto-
grther a very just one, for if Capt. Warner disclose his secret
Le will go profitless. But still the question to a certain ex-
tent might be answered. Of course the nature of the compo-
sition is not expected to be revealed without a competent
reward ; but is it necessary that no one should see the ex-
ternal form of this "infernal machine," nor the mode of put-
ting it into operation? Where there is much mystery there
is generally a proportionate degree of mistrust ; and this feel-
ing has already operated to the prejudice of Capt. Warner.
The answer, however, which he gives to all such questions is,
" That is par t of my secret, and therefore I cannot tell you
anything at all about it." No doubt he has confided-his
secret to some of those friends who so zealously encourage
and assist him ; if so, that is a fact in his favour. But after
the surprise produced by his experiment of Saturday last has
subside' there will be many suspicions and conjectures afloat.
IH ven on the same day and on the spot they were pretty rife.
Some persons wished to go on board the John o'Gaunt
previous to her destruction to inspect her, in order to satisfy
themsAves and others that there was nu magazine concealed
in her. They were not permitted ; the answer was, that if
one were permitted ten would desire the same favour; and if
ten, a thousand; that would be most inconvenient. Again,
it was said, " Were you to go, you might come away as wise
as you went ; for, if any agent of destruction were hidden in
the ship, it might be under the ballast, or in fifty places, of
v hick you and a hundred other persons would never dream."
But the experiment itself is esteemed by the Captain's friends
as the best answer, for say they, the agent of destruction was
palpably applied externally; had there been a magazine on
beard or within her, the effects would have been very different,
a id her deck would have been blown up, which was not the
case ; hor deck did not burst until she was sinking, and then
in the usual manner when ships are suddenly submerged.
1 Some persons conjectured that the instrument of destruc-
tion was conveyed from the steamer to the ship by means of
a rope. We used a strong telescope, but saw no rope but
the tow-line, which when let go hung loosely over her lar-
board bow. Others thought that the agent being attached
to a line was suffered to float with the tide against the ship,
and that then the line being pulled let off a trigger and pro-
duced the explosion. More scientific individuals imagine
an electrical battery- to have been used ; others, an air-gun ;
o; hers, that a substance is put to float without any guide on
the water ; others, that a submarine shell is sent in the
direction of the ship's bottom. But though every body was
watching, and watching narrowly, with all the aid that
optical instruments could afford them, the mode of operation
is, we believe, still as profound a secret to the world as before
this public experiment. We believe Captain Caffin was in
one of the revenue cutters, yet he was unsatisfied.
Captain Warner was asked to permit a few gentlemen to
be with him on board the steam-boat ; but, for the reason
before stated, he declined. Even the crew of the steamer
were all sent below before he began to operate, and kept there
until the explosion took place.
It is useless, therefore, to attempt to tell what we do not
know. But one thing is clear—Captain Warner is in pos-
session of a marvellous engine of destruction ; and though it
'ray be regarded by some persons as a horrible invention,
it it become known it may be taken as a harbinger of uni-
versal peace. A war carried on with such agency would be
indeed a war of extermination—a war of extermination to
both parties, and therefore useless. Of necessity, then, men
mould appeal to reason and not to violence.
Captain Warner received the congratulations, personally,
on Saturday evening of Lord Brougham, and the other no-
blemen and officers who remained in Brighton ; and Mr.
Sumes, who says he fully expected that Captain 'Warner
would destroy his ship when he gave it to him, has ex,
pressed his willingness to give him another for the further
proof of the Captain's powers, if the Government are no,
now satisfied, or will not provide one to satisfy themselves.

SUMMER ASSIZES.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, July 19.
CROWN SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.)
THE BRADFORD MURDER CASE.—His Lordship took
his seat at nine o'clock this morning, when the five per-
t ,ns charged with the murder of Benjamin Gott, at
Fradford, were again placed at the bar. The Learned
.i ridge commenced summing up, by expressing his regret
that he felt it necessary to have the jury locked up for
toe night, but he was satisfied that it would be much
store satisfactory to them to have the evidence reca-
p tulated this morning, accompanied by such observations
a.; he should think proper to make to them. The pri-
soners at the bar, together with John M'Cann, not in
custody, were charged with the wilful murder of Ben-
jamin Gott—the highest crime which one subject could
commit towards another—and which involved the lives
of the prisoners, and was sufficient, therefore, to engage
their most serious attention. No doubt Benjamin Gott
came to his death by violence, but several questions of
importance, of some nicety, and of some difficulty,
would arise for their consideration, and decision ; but
P hatever might be the result of this inquiry, be could
not but lament that such scenes should be exhibited in
this country, of the description of the one out of which
this unhappy occurrence had arisen. It was impossible for
any person acquainted with human nature to suppose
tat a party of men should parade through a popular
town like Bradford, exhibiting party colours, and playing
tunes of a party and offensive character, without pro-
ducing riot and even bloodshed; and when he heard from
one of the witnesses that no such procession as the one
in question had taken place for a number of years, he
could not but regret the renewal of the practices of such
exhibitions. With respect to the nature of the proces-
sion, and the tunes_ that were played, for the purpose of
exhibiting some sort of triumph over a certain class of
the inhabitants or Bradford, it was impossible for any
one to doubt that the tune of the " Boyne Water" was
not played with such intention, although one of the wit-
nesses, who was a member of one of the Orange Lodges,
had at first stated that it was played because it was a
merry tune ; the same party, however, afterwards ad.
mated that the tune was played in commemoration of
William passing the Boyne water, the remembrance of
which circumstance was very offensive to a large por-
tion of the Irish people. The tune was played in Brad-
ford on the day in question, and in that part of Brad-
ford where the principal part of thu Irish reside ; and
there could be no doubt it was caculated to excite their
feelings, especially so when it was played in that part
of the town where they lived Not that such act jus-
tified what afterwards took place ; but one could not
bet lament that such things should take place. He
iped the jury would divest their minds of all they
bad previously heard, and form their judgment on
what had taken place in that Court. The indictment,
rich charged the prisoners at the bar with the murder,
also contained a charge of manslaughter ; so that if the
jury should be of opinion that the prisoners were not
guilty of murder, they could return a verdict of man-
slaughter; or, under a recent statute, of an assault only;
or if they found that the charges had not been brought
home to the prisoners, they would acquit them alto-
gether. They would first ascertain the quality of the
act, whether it amounted to murder, or whether it was
accompanied by circumstances which would reduce the
orence to manslaughter. The crime of murder was to
kill with malice aforethought, but if they found that the
offence was committed under the excitement produced
by the offensive tunes played by the band, and in the
course of an affray in which blows were exchanged, then
the crime wonld only amount to manslaughter. It would
next be their duty to ascertain what part the several
prisoners had taken in the act. The man or
teen who struck the fatal blow would be guilty either
of murder or manslaughter, but the other parties might
be guilty or not, according to the part they took in the
ansaction. If several persons form one common de-
si:7,n, and perpetrated one common deed, and went out
together for the accomplishment of such design, then
whatever one did, in carrying out the object, they were
all equally responsible; but if they did not go out with a
preconceived plan, and without knowing what they
were going to do, and the blows were given, then the
party who actually struck was alone guilty. The
Learned Judge then went minutely through the evi
deuce, the recapitulation of which occupied the Cour
nearly two hours.

Thwe jury then retired, and after an absence of an
hour, returned a verdict of Guilty of manslaughter
against all the prisoners.
'Cho sentence was deferred.

IPSWICH TIIEATRICALS:—The theatre, under the
nagement of Mr. G. Smith, has been open during the
week. Madame Celeste and Mr. Webster have appeared in a
variety of favourite characters. The celebrated "Polka" has
been danced by these two first-rate artistes to crowded
hi uses, amidst unbounded applause. In this favourite dance
51.idame Celeste had displayed her inimitable graces, and
a serted her claims to the high position she maintains upon
tie metropolitan boards. Mr. Gomersal has also introduced
a novelty in the shape of a comic song, intitled " Statty
Fair," in which he introduced the Mock Cachouca. It has
been received with great applause, and no doubt will have
a " run." On Wednesday night the performances were under
the patronage of Lieut.-Col. Daly, and the officers of the 4th
Light Dragoons, upon which occasion, the band of the regi-
ment was in attendance. The house was crowded to overflow ;
indeed the brilliant appearance of the upper circle revived re-
collections of olden times, and afforded inexpressible gratifi-
ca;wn to the lovers of the drama. On Thursday night, the
inances were under the patronage of the Stewards of the
Races. The 3laid of Croissey, foreign Affairs, The Trum-
peter's Daughter, and Binks the Bagman, as on the previous
evenings, went off with the greatest possible eclat. Of the
various characters personated by Madame Celeste and Mr.
Webster we can say no more than that they were sustained
to the high admiration of all present. It is long since the
play-going public of Ipswich have had such a variety of
bri:liant entertainment placed before them, and we as heartily
corgratulate the manager upon his success as we applaud the
spirit of enterprise which induced him to form engagements
with two such " bright particular stars" as Madame Celeste
and Mr. Webster, whose appearance on these boards, limited
as it is to only a few nights, will be long remembered with
pleasure.—lpswich Journal.
CARLISLE, SUNDAY.—The King of Saxony arrived
at Hamilton Bush Hotel, in this city, at six o'clock last
evening. Immediately on his arrival, the King, accompanied
by the Mayor, visited the castle, cathedral, &c., and after re-
nuCning all night, left at twelve o'clock to-day, for Hamilton
Palace, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Hamilton.
CARRIAGE OF GOODS ON THE GREAT WESTERN
PAILWAY.—It will be remembered that considerable discus-
sion was excited a month or two back, with respect to cer-
tain clauses in one of the Bills of the Great Western Railway
Company, relative to the conveyance of goods on that line.
It appears from the evidence of Mr. Saunders, the Secretary,
before the Select Committee, that these clauses were inserted
aolely to raise the question of the right of the carriers to
make into one large package a number of smaller parcels,
and that they were withdrawn upon the promise that the
subject would be considered by the Select Committee. It
was explained by Mr. Saunders that these clauses were not
intended to apply, save to parties making profit from the
carriage of parcels—for example, not to the parcels of book-
sellers, who were loudest in condemnation of the measure.—
.Railway Record.
THE ALBERT CAP.—Last Monday a party of sol-
- passed through this town with a deserter, who were
equipped in the famous " Albert cap." As might be
bxreeted, the novelty of this unique piece of military
bowl-dress excited no small attention, and met with
similar jeers to those which have elsewhere greeted its
appearance. From our own observation, we should cer-
tainly not be disposed to enter the lists in its defence,
believing that it merits all the ridicule that has been be-
stowed upon it—Leicester Mercury.

TIIE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Jura. 22.
NERMOMETER, Lowest, 51; Highest. 74; Noon, 73.
BAROYLETER, W.S.W.

NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

humiliating and disastrous issue to his perverse exer-
tions. Lord HEYTESBURY has now as fair an opportunity
as statesman ever had, of achieving for himself high
renown as a politician, and earning the respect and
gratitude of all classes of Irishmen. It is not ex-
pected of him that he shall favour the Catholics to
the injury of the Protestants, but simply that he shall
administer equal justice to both parties, and show that
there are no longer divided councils at the Castle by
whose malign influence every useful remedial measure
is sure either to be strangled at its birth, or else to be
so frittered away and clogged with mischievous ex-
ceptions as to be rendered nearly, if not quite, ineffi-
cient for any practical purpose. Till now—if we
except the administration of Lords NORMANDY and
FORTESCUE, so fruitful of good results—the Lord
Lieutenant and the Chief Secretary have usually
been opposed to each other in their views, the one
acting as a sort of drag-chain on the other, to curb
his movements, and paralyse his measures, should
they chance at any time to sin on the side of liberality.
Thus was it throughout the whole course of Earl de
GREY'S administration. The Chief Secretary, Lord
ELIOT, being considered somewhat too liberal for
such an official, the Viceroy deemed it his duty to coun-
teract his views, or if not absolutely counteract them, at
any rate to throw a variety of insidious obstacles in the
way of their accomplishment. If Lord ELIOT pulled
one way, Lord DE GREY immediately made a point
of pulling another, and the consequence was that
little or nothing of vital importance to the interests
of Ireland was done, and people began to wonder—
not taking into consideration the difficulties and
delicacies of his position—how it was that a man
who professed such liberal opinions as the Chief
Secretary had always done, and who had openly
boasted of them not a month before his entrance upon
office at the Castle, should have accomplished so little
that was in accordance with his professions. Lord
ELIOT suffered much in public estimation from this
apparent lethargy and indifference on his part; but
the fault was not so much his, as the fault of a pur-
blind, vicious system of which he was made the scape-
goat. Henceforth, however, if our anticipation of
Lord HErrEssußr's course of policy prove to be
correct, Lord ELIOT will have a finer opportunity
than he has yet had, of carrying his liberal views
into practice. He will not be teazed and thwarted,
and obstructed at every step of his progress, and k e
worried into moving in one direction, when he feels
that he ought to move in another ; nor will he be
taunted with being two liberal, when he feels that,
if anything, he his hardly liberal enough, for it is
hardly possible to suppose that so experienced and
thoroughly practical a statesman as Lord HETTES-
BURY, who has seen so much of life in all its forms
and varieties, and who has passed so many years
in the public service, during which be cannot fail to
have noted the steady, uninterrupted progress of libe-
ral opinions both at home and abroad—it is hardly
possible, we say, to imagine that such a statesman can
seriously dream for an instant of persevering in the
Irish policy of his predecessor, more especially when,
from first to last, it has proved so egregious a failure.
Hence we may expect to find the Viceroy and his
Secretary acting in a spirit of mutual harmony, in-
stead of doing their best to hamper and embarass each
other.

The debate on Mr. M.GinsoN's motion of Friday
night, on the subject of incendiarism in Suffolk,
Norfolk, Essex and Cambridge, afforded another ex-
ample of the narrow and contracted spirit which
directs the votes of the House of Commons, under the
leadership of Sir R. PEEL. That House will not
legislate, it seems, on grounds so unparliamentary as
the admitted existence of a fearful system of criminal
outrage, tending to the destruction of property and life
—widely spread—and in active operation over a vast
extent of agricultural district. This is not case enough
for putting in motion those precautionary processes of
inquiry and prevention, which must have resulted
from the appointment by her MAJESTY of a " Com-
mission to inquire into the condition of the agri-
cultural labourers in those counties, and to ascertain
the nature of the grievances under which they
labour." The motion for this Commission—founded
on an allegation " that there is reason to believe
that the incendiarism which has prevailed for
some time in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and
Cambridgeshire, is caused by deep discontent
among the labouring population of thoco ooun
ties"—that motion was lost by a majority
of 89 (there being for it, Ayes 41, Noes 130.) At
the amount of the majority we are not so much sur-
prised, for it is about the average maximum of the
Government's numerical superiority on divisions;
but at the paucity of the supporters which such a
motion could array against the compacter and larger
phalanx of its opponents, we are at once astonished
and ashamed. Liberal Members of all shades of
political opinions were bound to have assembled, in
order to affirm a proposition based on the clearest
principles of humanity and common sense,—in
greater force than an aggregate handful of 41.
The contemplation of their weakness seems to
have emboldened Sir JAMES GRAHAM to indulge
in his favourite propensity of reading lectures
to all who venture to doubt of the wisdom, the effi-
ciency, the benevolence, the paternal character of the
home administration of her MAJESTY'S Government.
Poor Sir JAMES, who has passed this session through
so many phases of Ministerial declension, is becoming
somewhat maudlin in his captiousness. Before the
Post-office exposures he was simply disagreeable. His
obstinacy was constitutional (physically speaking, we
mean). His crafty and insidious way of stealing a
march upon the House whenever it was practicable
to do so, in advancing some unpopular measure a
stage or two, was only the natural development of
his characteristic tendencies. He is a born stra-
tegist; and, like the " Nature" which was the
presiding Divinity over the worship of " Capability
BROWN,"—that planner of parks and wildernesses,—
he " abhors a straight line." Ills contrasted affecta-
tion and arrogance of manner, half lisp and half
rudeness, was deplored only by his friends; it was
a source of amusement to his enemies. But
ever since the night on which he was reduced
to the hard necessity of imploring a Committee
—a Secret Committee—of Inquiry into his
own conduct, the bearing of the GRIEME
of Netherby has become strangely altered.
He is querulous, deprecatory, didactic. He
relies for his escape out of perpleing► ques-
tions or unwelcome reminiscences, arising out of
the current debate, on appeals of the most grave but
delicate nature, to the prudential consideration of the
old Members ; or he throws himself in his blandest
and most dexterous manner on the "generous cour-
tesy" of the young ones. He is eager to persuade
each of the one hundred and ninety and nine antago-
nists of his scheme for the amendment of the New
Poor-law that he has "prepared a clause " to em-
body the views or remove the objections that form
the ground of the intended opposition. And he talks
so complacently of the implicit deference which he
pays in all things to "his high sense of public duty,"
that one is compelled to suppose he has at last wrough
himself into a delusive conviction of that apo.
cryphal fact.

Let us see what were the cirumstances under which
Mr. GinsoN's motion was brought forward ; and
what was the alarm-cry so successfully raised by Sir
JAMES GRAHAM and his colleagues as to lead to its
rejection.

Mr. Ginsox relied, very mainly, on this strong
avowal by Sir HENRY BANBURY, a gentleman. of
eminent distinction in Suffolk, where his family have
long been settled—" I must avow my conviction that
these incendiary crimes are symptoms of a smoulder-
ing and dangerous discontent"—and in the language
of a letter addressed by the Hon. and Rev. GODOI,
PHIN OSBORNE t 6 the Duke of RICHMOND, Mr. GIB-
SON said—

" The writer stated, that a deputation of landowners
and tenant-farmers bad recently waited upon his Grace
to apprise hin of the dangers by which they were threat-
ened ; but that there was not at that meeting a repre-
sentative of the agricultural labourers. The Rev. writer
then proceeded to say, that if the Noble Duke and those
in a similar position bestowed upon the condition of the
13.bourer3 half the attention they had given to the land-
lord and the tenant question, or to the improvement of
their cattle, he believed they would arrive at the same
conclusion with himself—that there was no one creature
belonging to the farmers—there was not an animal they
reared for use or for sale—that had been the subject of
so much neglect as the agricnitural labourer.—(Hear,
hear.) The Rev. Gentleman requested the Noble Duke
and his fellow-landowners to compare the way in which
the labourer was housed, fed, and clothed, with the
treatment bestowed upon their animals, and then to
answer to the public and to themselves why the condi-
tion of those unfortunate persons had been overlooked."

In arguing upon the impossibility of not referring

the atrocities of incendiarism to some such causes as
these, Mr. GIBSON showed that they could not be re-
ferred to the detestation with which so large a portion
of the labouring community regard the New Poor-
law; for similar crimes had prevailed (to a yet
greater extent even) under the Old Poor-law. When
it was considered how large a share of the labours of
legislation were devoted to moral and religious pro-
vision, as the House was told, for the rural and
agricultural population—what stress was laid, always,
on the necessity for keeping up a system, on their
account and behalf, of the most extensive pastoral
superintendence and church accommodation—it was
difficult to disbelieve that they could be actuated in
the commission of these incendiary enormities by any
feeling short of a sense of personal wrong, and
neglect, and injury, at the hands of their employers.
It was not to be credited, under such
circumstances, that any increase of the number of
churches, any additious to the body of the clergy, in
these districts ; or any legislative enactments artifi-
cially to raise the price of bread, would put down this
unhappy feeling, or prevent these infamous outrages,
if something more were not done to relieve the physical
distresses of the poor. For these, and other reasons,
the Hon. Member prayed the House to affirm his
motion.

Sir JAMES GRAHAM could not imagine, he said,
what could be the motive of Mr. GIBSON for bring-
ing forward such a subject. " Why had he thought it
his duty to state that the interests and comforts of
the poorer classes were neglected by that House ?
He begged to remind the House that there was such a
thing as funning a smouldering flame."
The Right llon.Baronet next schooled Mr. GIBSON
for playing truant from the school of St. Stephens's by
a short parenthetical trip into the country :
" The Hon. Gentleman, wishing to seek enjoyment,
had been absent while the other Members of the House
bad been discharging their duty as legislators, en-
deavouring with the most earnest attention to devise
some means by which the misfortunes of their poorer
fellow-subjects might be ameliorated. But what was
the meaning of the comparison the Hon. Gentleman had
instituted between the poor of this country and the abori-
gines—Hottentots. Caffres, and lisquimaux ? (A laugh.)
What was the meaning of the Hon. Gentleman's obser-
vations as to the selfishness and cold-hearted disposition
of the landlords ?"

But the vial of the Home Secretary's wrath was
poured out on the head of the Hon. and Rev. Mr.
OSBORNE. Mr. GIBBON observed he was a most excel-
lent man,—a distinguished clergyman.
" Sir J. Graham—A ret. clergyman ! lie entertained
the highest respect for the clergy of this country ; but,
even among the most humane members of that body,
there were some indiscreet individuals. Nay, there was
such a thing as a popularity-hunting parson, just as there
were agitating Members of Parliament.—(A laugh.)"

Now, in this evasive, timid, hushing policy of which
Sir JAMES is so admirable an expositor, lies the fatal
vice of the present Government's legislation on great
social questions. The night and the day are equally
frighted by hideous spectacles of ruin in blazing home-
steds and desolated farm-houses. Grain, cattle, furniture,
personal property of all kinds, live stock (and not sel-
dom human life), perish with awful frequency in these
devouring visitations, by the abominable crimes of the
cowardly incendiary. Yet Sir J. GRAHAM and others
would have us remain quiet ; not as we verily believe,
because of a perceptible decrease in the number of
calamities, but because he would not willingly find
Commissioners of Inquiry reporting to Parliament,
that want and misery—low wages and dear bread—
were at the bottom of their sufferings by whose ven-
geance it is surmised that these horrors are perpe-
trated; or that cheap bread (which it is the duty
of the Legislature to give them) and higher wages
(from the necessity for giving which neither master
manufacturers nor master farmers, nor farmers' land-
lords, should be allowed to excuse themselves on the
plea of bread being cheap) would touch the very root
of the evil ; and establish the hopeful reign of peace
and plenty, in place of the baneful dominion of famine
and despair!

More State murders, for we can give no other
name to the executions ordered by NARvAEz, have
been committed in the east of Spain. It appears
that three Carlists and two smugglers were arrested
in the month of June, at Caspe, a town in Arragon,
and their trial before the Criminal Court of the dis-
trict was fixed for the Bth inst. The trial had com-
menced, the evidence for the prosecution was closed,
and the Counsel for the defendants were allowed till
the rztli L. prcparo the defence. But superior orders
put an end to the trial. An officer, commanding
a detachment of twenty infantry and nine ca-
valry, arrived from Alcaniz, at Caspe, on the
evening of the Bth. Next day the three unhappy
Carlists were removed from their dungeons and en-
joined to confess, and at 12 o'clock they were shot.
The judge opposed, by every legal means, so flagrant
an injustice, but what can the tribunals do in presence
of bayonets ? One of the three sufferers, Pajares,
died without confession, and Christian burial was
denied to his remains. The El Clamor Publico makes
the following striking remarks on this atrocious act of
injustice and cruelty :
" It would be vain to seek among the most barbarous na-
tions and at the periods of the most cruel tyranny so atrocious
and scandalous a fact. Savage hordes themselves respect
the forms and sanctity of justice. But the men at present in
by means
assuming the attributes of
wi
of the military dictators of the
powerth
e iudiaciraer3 n,
pot wac,eor content,
state of siege, who send men to the scaffold without even the
semblance of a trial ; they seek their victims among the inmates
of the prisons and withdraw them by military force from the legi.
timate power of the tribunals, from the protection of the laws
and the safeguard of Justice. It is incredible that such a system
should find advocates. Those aro not political questions in-
volving the forms or
.guarantees of the representative Govern-
ment; they are social questions—questions of honour and
humanity. The nation abhors such iniquitous proceedings,
the entire opprobrium of which must fall on the ruling party,
and on the men who represent in the Cabinet its doctrines
and principles."

The Heraldo, a Government paper, thus attempts
to excuse these deeds of horror :

" The province of Almeria has just been proclaimed in a
state of siege. This measure is caused by occurrences in
various places, and the machinations of rioters, which, on the
7th, were followed by demonstrations on the part of the lowest
classes of the people, and seditious cries. There is no doubt
as to the revolutionary party bring already preparing for
another pronunciamento. Besides the attempted riots at
Almires, Saragossa, and Murcia, the troops have been insulted
at Grenada. At Cadiz an attempt has been made to tamper
with them, and, at Madrid, depOts of arms and ammunition
are daily detected. Foreign prints, which aro considered to
be well informed, also affirm that the day of a general rising
is not distant, and that even Espartero thinks of trying his
fortunes again."

The Verdad, a Barcelona paper, dated the 15th
instant, contains the following:—

" Yesterday, two English ships of war, the Formidable, of
84 guns, and L'Aigle, of 24, anchored off Barcelona. It appears
that they are proceeding to Tangiers, where all the maritime
nations will soon have a squadron. It is Vice-Admiral Sir E.
Owen who commands these ships."

On the Madrid Bourse the Three per Cents. were
quoted on the 13th at 27 for cash, 27i at 60 days, and
the Fives at 20i for 60 days.

The Paris papers received to-day add little to the
intelligence from France published on Saturday.
The business in both Chambers was rapidly drawing
to a clr.,se. More than two hundred passports of De-
puties had been signed by the President, and most of
them were to leave on Sunday for the country. On
Saturday M. GARNIER PAGES brought forward
motion to empower the Government to raise a loan
by public subscription on the Three per Cent. Stock,
as had been done lately in Belgium. The Finance
Minister, though he did not directly oppose the mea-
sure, stated the disadvantages which it would impose
upon the Government, and at the same time admitted
that in some respects it was preferable to raising a
loan by contract. The motion was carried by a large
majority, but still it is understood that the Minister
of Finance may raise the loan either by contract in
the usual way, or by public subscription. He was
expected to make a statement on the subject in the
course of the day. Most of the papers make strong
comments on Lord PALAIERSTON'S speech relative to
the slave trade. The following are the remarks in
the Journal des Debats:—

" We are bound to declare that Lord Palmerston's speech
has singularly disappointed us. It appears that it was not
very successful at home, for the English journals do not take
the least notice of it. It is the usage in England at the end
of the session for one of the leading Opposition Members to
Formerly, review the labours of the political year, called business of the
session. Lord Lyndhurst took up this task, and
acquitted himself of it with wonderful success. But Lord
Lyndhurst is now Chancellor, and takes his repose. Indeed,
he is generally thought to repose himself too much, and to
abandon himself to somnolency on the woolsack. During
the last three years, Lord Palmerston has gathered the in-
heritance of Lord Lyndhurst, and has regularly before the
end of the session come forward, and delivered a well com-
posed, academical oration, full of mind and spirit, as every-
thing is which Lord Palmerston does when he feels it worth
his while to take the necessary pains. That spirit we expected
to find on this occasion—but we have sought for it in vain.
During the whole of the business of this session, so fertile in
checks to the Tory Ministry, Lord Palmerston made choice—
why or wherefore we cannot tell—of a question which is cer-
tainly not without importance, but with which the people on
both sides of the Channel begin to be wearied—that of the
right of search. The late Whig Minister moved for some
papers relating to the treaty for the suppression of the slave
trade, and availed himself of this to revive discussions which

were happily dormant for the moment, and which all his
cold declamation was not able to rouse. Four or five months
ago Lord Palmerston pompously announced his intention to
move an address to the Queen, praying her Majesty not to
ratify any change that might be proposed to be made in the
existing treaties as to the right of search. The Chamber
showed the high interest it took in the Noble Lord's motion
by leaving its benches empty on the day it was to be made,
and his Lordship was silent from want of hearers. Lord Pal-
merston thus driven to suspend his motion, gave notice that
ho should bring it forward at a future day. This he has now
done, but unfortunately the subject was what is vulgarly
called rechauffe—a stale dish hashed up again. Sir Robert
Peel, feeling:himself at ease in meeting an attack so feeble,
afforded the House considerable amusement at the expense of
the ci-decant Whig Minister. The evident coldness of the
House must have satisfied Lord Palmerston that, in endea-
vouring to awaken jealous feelings between England and
France, he made a useless appeal to passions which are
rapidly being absorbed and extinguished. The Minister of
1840 seemed indeed to feel that he was pleading a bad cause,
for he, in the conclusion, made the amende honourable by pro-
testing that no one could more highly than he did appreciate
the advantages of a union between the two greatest consti -
tutional kingdoms of Europe. But if Lord Palmerston
speaks sincerely, if he really conceives the benefit which a
good harmony between the two nations must produce to the
cause of humanity and civilisation, how happens it that he
misses no Opportunity for sowing the seeds of jealousy and
animosity between them? On this occasion Lord Palmer-
ston has proved himself, as he almost always has done, a man
of ability without judgment."

The .Arational alludes to the speech in its usua:
manner, attacking the English Government and M
GUIZOT at the same time :

" It will ha seen by the debate that the expression of pub-
lic opinion in France is treated very lightly by our neigh-
bours. The solemn will of the Chamber of Deputies, as ex-
pressed in two addresses, and in several unanimous votes, is
nothing to them. The English statesmen always hope to
arrive at the constant object of their efforts, always the
same, be the Ministers Whigs or Tories. They think that a
moment will come in which we shall get tired of desiring to
protect our navy and trading vessels against the pretended
police imposed by England. And how, in fact, should they
not have this hope, when they behold our Chamber vote
black and white with a marvellous facility, as has just oc-
curred in so grave an affair as that of the railroads? When
they see that M. Guizot, the defender of the right of search,
the advocate of the English prerogatives, has become sta-
tionary on his Ministerial bench, in spite of the so-often ma-
nifested reprobation of public opinion and of the French Par-
liament."

THE BOURSE-SATURDAY, JULY 20.

First Highest Lowest

Price. Pi:ice. Price. Price.
French Five peremts....•- 122 10 .• 122 15 •• 122 05 122 10
Four-and-a-Half ...• 113 .. 113 • • 113 .• 113
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.•• 82 10 .. 82 20 -. 82 10 .. 82 10
Bank of France..... •• ••.• • 3080 ..3100 . 3080 ..3095
Laflitte Bank, I,ooof. Shareslo2o —lO2O .. 1020 .• 1020
5,000 f. Sharesso67 50 ..5067 50 —5067 50 ..5067 50
Belgian Bank.
Belgian Fives, 1840 •• •• 1051 .. 1051 .. 1051 .. 1051
1842 •••••• •• 1081 .. 108/ 108/ •• 108/
Dutch Two-and-a-Half ••••• 611 • • 61 .• 611 . 61f
Spanish Threes .• • •
Active ...... ••• • • • 301 • • 30i • . 30/ • . 30+
Portuguese Five per Cents •• 441 • • 44/ • . 44 • • 44/
Neapolitan •• 98 95 .. 99 •• 98 95 .. 99
Roman •.
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, lI.P 3's .• 385 .. 385 .. 385
L. 8.. .... ••.• . • 245 .. 246 25 .. 243 75 .. 246 25
Rouen • 985 .• 085 .. 985 .• 985
Rouen to Havre.. • • ..... ••• 765 .. 765 .. 763 75 • • 763 75
Orleans •••-• • • • • 982 50 .. 982 50 .. 981 25 981 2.5
Strasburg to Bale-- •• •• 238 75 .. 238 75 238 75 .• 238 75
Avignon to Marseilles— ..
•• 767 50 •• 767 50 • 767 50 .• 767 50
RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, 31sT OF JULY.
Versailles,R.B ~.• •• 382 50 .. 387 50 .. 382 50 .. 387 50
L. 8.......•• •• •• 243 75 .. 246 25 .. 242 50 .. 246 25
Rouen • • • • 986 25 .. 987 50 .. 986 25 .. 987 50
Rouen to Havre•...... •• . • 765 • • 765 .. 765 .. 765
Orleans • 982 50 •• 985 .. 981 25 .. 983 75
Strasburg to Bale— •• • .