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DuN, UESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2s, 1844.

The nomination of candidates for the Northern Di=
vision of Lai,cit,ilire took place on Friday last at Lan-
caster, and then-, being no opposition, Mr. J. T. CLIF-
TON was returned. In returning thanks to his con-
stituents, the Hon. Member, after making the usual
electioneering boast that " this was the proudest
moment of his life," took the opportunity of observ-
" I have stated to you a few of my political
opinions in my address, and" now that I have the
honour of s:anding before you in the proud situation
of your representative, I tell you that I will support
Cons,•rvativt: Government. I will support that
Government long I,:mi;ins Conservative, for
believe it, is ,L strong- fit to rule a

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Brea,
and mighty b:ltion. It I did not retain the inde-
pendence of cliaJ.icter which befits a gentle-
man, I should not be a worthy representative
of 'one of the finest crunCe3 of England." . In the
course ol his I):;riiameptao' lzWours Mr. CLIFTON, we
fear, will n to !lad that inde-
pendence and Conservwi,in do not harmonise very
well with each other, but that, in order to maintain
the one, he mu-t make sacrifice °l'
the other. It is nil very well for him to make a
boast of his " io•lependonce” ,:a the haitings, for the
term is a 1 0;e. oil teals with the commu-
nity ies, it is an and 4.4.coarno-
dating one, and commits the speaker to nothing ; but
should he venture upon putting his boast strictly
into practice, he will soon find out that he has essayed
At task which occasionally will be found difficult, if
:not wholly impracticable. Suppose, for instance, he
had teen in Parliament during the last session, how
would he have ree,nciled his notions of " indepen-
dence' with his support ofa Conservative Government?
1..0 co mmon with scores ()for hyr Cow,orv,iti vi•s would
in.i.vitably have been dragged through Ciie dirt by the
3 imister—compelled, in fact, to vote just as he I

pleased, on the penalty of being proclaimed an oppo
nent of Government, and taunted with a wish to bring
in the Whigs, and so seriously injure the prospects of
Conservatism. The last session was a particularly ticklish
one for independent Conservatives, damaging not a few
of them in the estimation of the right-thinking portion
of the community, and we hardly anticipate that the
next will be much more favourable to the character of
these would-be independent members. In fact, to be
a good Conservative, in Sir ROBERT PEEL'S sense of
the term, is merely to see with his eyes, hear with his
ears, decide according to his conviction, and vote at
his dictation. Is Mr. CLIFTON prepared to act in this
easy, accommodating manner ? If he be, he will
certainly redeem his pledge of supporting a Con-
servative Government, but he will just as cer-
tainly falsify his hustings boast of indepen-
dence. But enough of this gentleman, whose prin-
ciples are little to our taste, for in the first place,
there is much that is vague and unintelligible
about them ; and secondly, where they are intelligible,
they savour rather too strongly of that Toryism which
ever has been, and will most likely ever continue to
be, a foe to the progress of all rational improvement.
At the Nomination to which we have been alluding, a
gentleman named LIVESEY made several very excel-
lent and pertinent strictures on the subject of, what
is falsely called, the Protective system. " Protection,"
he said, '• is put forward as a cry on behalf of the '
farmer and the agricultural labourer. They
are always put forward as if there were an
eternal sympathy for them ; but the truth
is—and it ought to come out—that the protec-
tion is not for the farmer or the labourer, but for the
landlord. It is a protection for rents. Farmers are
only middle-men ; whatever they receive goes even-
tually to the owner of the land. You have heard
many speeches about protection, but you have never
yet been told the plain truth that it means protection
for rents." If this truth has never before been blurted
out so boldly as it is here done by Mr. LIVESET,
it has at any rate been pretty generally guessed
at ; and but few people who have the slightest
pretensions to good sense are any longer at a loss
to account for the desperate tenacity with which—
despite all justice, all reason, all humanity—
the monopolists still persist in clinging.to the corn-
laws. Ihe sacred interests of their breeches pockets,
or rather what they fancy to be such, are embarked
in the question ; hence their determined hostility to
free-trade. There is nothing enlightened—nothing
enlarged or magnanimous in their opposition ; they
regard the matter simply as one affecting themselves'
and keep the just claims of the people to a system of
unfettered tr;,de wholly in the back-ground. An
yet these are the men who are incessantly taunting
the free-traders with their mean selfishness, and
vaunting their own superior disinterestedness ! Shame
on such barefaced hypocrisy !

It is long since we have perused a record of the
acts of any public body with feelings of indignation
much more intense than those which have been ex-
cited in us by the conduct of the Poor-law Commis-
sioners in the matter of the Master of the Bradfield
Union Workhouse. In recurring to the facts con-
nected with their treatment of the individual elected,
by irate of the board of guardians of Bradfield, to
that office, it will be unnecessary for us to charac-
terise proceedings which will tell their own tale, and
carry their own comment to the mind of every un-
prejudiced person under whose notice they may be
brought. But we should be wanting in our duty as
public journalists, were we not to denounce,
in the strongest and most emphatic manner, not
so much the arbitrary and insulting manner as the
unconstitutional principle of the conduct adopted by
the Commissioners in this affuir. It is nothing to
urge in their vindication that, in the New Poor-law
Act itself, the powers complained of are clearly vested
in the Board at Somerset House. There has not been
a session of Parliament, for many years past, in the
course of sshich some flagrant blunder of detail, or
some anomaly at common law, or some violation of the
constitutional rights of the subject, has not been in-
corporated into the preamble or enactments of more
than one statute, which, on that account, it
has been found necessary to repeal, or " alter
and amend" by an Act, remedial or explana-
tory, in a subsequent session. Fr.)in the
careless and mischievous hurry with which Bills of
all kinds are dispatched at the approach of a recess or
a dissolution—especially in the House of Commons—
poor-ia w legislation has certainly enjoyed no peculiar
exemption. Were this not the fact, it would be im-
possible to understand how Parliament could have
overlooked, in the existing New Poor-law the as-
sumption of a right of control over private judgment
—an unquestionable infallibility—of official opinion,
which at this time of day none but the Grand Llama
of TIIIBET, the Pope of ROME, or the black King of
the Ashantees claim to exercise to the extent in-
sisted upon by the Somerset House junta.
For what are the facts ? In brief, that in the month
of April last, in consequence of a vacancy occurring
in the office of union workhouse master for the Brad.
field union (Berks), the guardians proceeded to elect
a qualified person thereto, by an unanimous vote of a
board of twenty-eight ; that their appointment in
this instance was for a term of three months upon
trial ; that the Commissioners having objected to the
election, as in due course reported to them, on the
grounds that the party elected (a Mr. BRANOWIN)
was " an inexperienced man," and that " his affairs
were in an unsettled state ;" the guardians remon-
strated that he could not be justly considered as " in-
experienced," because he had been for five years an
active member of their own board, bore a high cha-
racter there, and was greatly respected by all who
knew him, and that he was not amenable to the im-
putation on account of his affairs, since he had met
his creditors in a most handsome manner, and they
were fully satisfied, under the circumstances, with his
composition of 15s. in the pound. And what ensued
on this remonstrance ? The Commissioners withdrew
their objection to BRANGWIN on the score of pecuniary
embarrassments; but without condesceading to assign
any reason for their order, directed the guardians to
proceed to a fresh election.

Let it not be forgotten, in estimating the character
of this freak of official impertinence, that this board
of guardians necessarily consists of elected rate-
payers interested in, and conversant with the business
of their own locality, the moral characters and busi-
ness- talents of their co-parishioners, or ratepayers,
and neigbours ; that they give their services in the
administration of their strictly local trust gratui-
tously; that the Poor-law Commissioners are (to
their own singular satisfaction) fixtures in a certain
desecrated portion of Somerset House, London, re-
ceiving for the discharge of their duties, performances
of this kind included, extremely ample salaries. So
the Bradfield guardians, conceiving that it was
more than probable they were more competent
judges (being on the spot, and having
personal, and even official knowledge of the
man) than the Poor-law Commissioners could
be of the eligibility of BRANGWIN for the office
of master, adhered to their former resolution in his
favour. The " Great Council of Three," exasperated
at the contumacy of these guardians, on the 28th of
May fulminated a " bull," threatening to proceed
against BRANGWIN, and actually "incapacitate him
from holding any office under their commission there-
after, if he persisted in holding office any longer."
BRANGWIN, like a half-penitent king of old, worn out
by the thundering invitations from the holy father,
to resign his crown into the hands of the successor
of St. PETER, resigned his appointment. The board
proceeded, as they had done in the first instance, to ad-
vertise for candidates ; and, lo ! the indestructible
BR.INGWIN was again unanimously elected by a hoard
of eighteen irreclaimable guardians. There was a
voice of anger, as yet "not loud hut deep," in Somer-
set House. The Great Council, however, concealed
for it time their terrible resentment. They merely
issued, on the 18th of June, an order for
BRANGWIN'S dismissal, and a polite "request" to the
guardians to proceed to the election of another master,
in hi.. s'ead, at their earliest convenience. On that day
week, the 25th, they once more announced their re-
solution to take legal proceedings against him, if he
should presume to continue in office after the 2d of
July then ensuing. Some interviews and corres-
pondence on this subject now ensued between the
guardians and Mr. PALMER, M.P. for Reading; and
the latter " being satisfied," it is said, " that the
Poor-law Commissioners had been influenced by pri-
vate" information given to them, desired BRANGWIN
not to resign, as he once more offered to do, but to re-
toill hi, ‘ituation tenet: ora rily. On the 9th of July
the idexol able Commissioners renewed their threats,
accompanied with the intimation, that if he

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persisted in keeping his office they would stop
the payment of any salary to him accruing
from it. After further correspondence with
Mr. PALMER, the board requested of a Mr.
HOPKINSON to be favoured with any information re-
flecting on BRANGWIN, which he had brought before
the Commissioners. This request was forwarded in
a letter. That letter remains—unanswered. But
what followed will not, we predict, remain unnoticed,
so soon as Parliament shall have re-assembled for the
dispatch of business. Up to this point, the highest
offence of the hoard had been, that, whether among
those who replied to their advertisement there were
no stray German Princes, among the host of foreigners
who are now perambulating England, or no specula-
tive pauper-dietarians of rank and station adequate to
satisfy the expectations of the fastidious Commission-
ers, and themselves ambitious of this magnificent ap-
pointment—or for what other reason soever—BRANG-
WIN, the guardians' own choice, was always the
favourite and the elected candidate. But now
the guardians dared to " appeal unto C.XSAR:'
They insolently asked to be admitted into the
presence of Poor-law " Commissioners"—that
more dignified abstraction than Majesty itself.
" On the 20th of July the board wrote
to the Poor-law Commissioners, offering a deputa-
tion to wait on them at any time or place they might
appoint, to explain, and endeavour to come to an ar-
rangement. On the 30th July, the Commissioners again
refused to sanction the appointment, or to receive a
deputation of guardiars to explain—when the board
passed a resolution not to elect another master until
the charges against Mr. BRANGWIN were made
known and proved." Hereupon an Assistant Poor-
law Commissioner attended the board, and announced
the nature of his instructions from the Great Coun-
cil of Three, by summoning the high delinquent
BRANGWIN before the Bench of Reading Magistrates,
who convicted him of the high crime of having dis-
obeyed the commands of "Commissionery," and fined
him in the penalty of—one farthing! BRANG-
WIN in his turn solicits advice from 'the
board, and they order him to remain in the
house and officiate as master. On the 27th August a
motion at the board to replace him by electing some
other master falls to the ground without even a se-
conder. On the 10th September the High Commis-
sioners of Poor law, by order under their great seal,
command the board to proceed to such election within
one month, or failing therein, to answer proceedings
to be instituted against them in the Court of Queen's
Bench. Under these circumstances, there was a
public meeting held in the Town-hall of Reading on
Saturday last, at which resolutions were unanimously
come to, expressive of unqualified approbation of the
course adopted by the Bradfield guardians of the
views entertained of the conduct of the Commissioners,
and the course to be adopted as to further communi-
cations, &c., in this matter, and of sympathy with
Mr. BRANGWIN, on whose behalf a subscription has
been opened.
We have been thus particular in commenting or.
the various stages of this case from a conviction that
it cannot fail to awaken public attention throughout
the country to the dangerous and oppressive powers
vested—by a very defective law—in a very absurdly
constituted Commission, and their inevitable tendency
to result in excesses of this ridiculous, but at the same
time overweening, insolent, and intolerable character-
The speeches of Mr. MATHEWS, Mr. WALTER, and Mr
ALLNUTT, were, at the Reading meeting, temperate,
manly, and most effective.

Accounts from Lisbon to the 16th have been re-
ce'ved. They are void of interest. The Cortes open
on the 30th inst. It is expected that COSTA CABRAL
will have a majority of 22 in the Chamber of Depu-
ties, but that he will be in a minority in the Peers.
SA DE BANDEIRA, PALMELLA, all the old friends and
supporters of Don PEDRO—the men to whom her
most faithful MAJESTY owes her throne—are opposed
to the doings of COSTRA CABRAL.

Accounts from Madrid of the 14th and 16th inst.
have been recived. M. MARTINEZ DE LA RoSA has,
in compliance with the earnest entreaties of the
Queen-Mother, at length consented to accept the
office of Minister for Foreign Affairs. The decree
appointing him to that department is dated the 21st
August.
The Gazelle of the 14th announces that six bat-
talions of infantry and three squadrons of cavalry had
bean ordered to Navarre. The regiment of Castille,
quartered in the neighbourhood of Madrid, marched
for that destination on the 14th. Cabinet Councils were
continually held, and they had never been so fre-
quent since the accession of the NARVAEZ Administra-
tion. Their real object, though every where talked
of, had, however, not transpired, and the public
formed many conjectures as to the precautions
which the authorities were adopting. For several
days past the garrison had been kept under arms,
-Ind the police had been extremely vigilant. It was
very generally believed that the principal cause of
these measures was a dread of a Carlist insurrection.

Letters from Bayonne of the 18th speak of the
propability of an outbreak in the northern provinces.
They state that several roving bands of desperados,
calling themselves Carlists, have made their appear-
ance In the mountains of Catalonia, and commit all
sorts of outrages. These desperados will be soon
amply provided with arms, for ten thousand muskets
were landed on the 11th, near Barcelona, under a fire
from Fort Monjuich. However, the contrabandistas
managed to effect their object.
The electoral returns show that the Ministry will
have a considerable majority even should there be a
split in the Moderado party. Teruel alone had elected
Progresistas, and it was only in Navarre that the
Carlists had met with success. It is said to be the
intention of the Ministry, on the meeting of the Coates,
to bring forward a Bill for replacing the senate by an
upper Chamber, the members of which will be elected
for life ; another for modifying the law on the public
press ; another for important changes in the organisa-
tion of the national guard, and a change in the Con-
stitution tending to reduce the popular influence.

Several reductions have been made in the adminis-
trative military establishments, with a view to lessen
the budget for that branch of the public service.
According to a general statement put forth in the
official Gazette of the 15th, the genaral direction of
the public Treasury has drawn, from August 1 to
September 13, to the account of the San Fernando
Bank, a sum of 55,271,871 reals, viz., for the Queen's
household, 2,978,099 reals; for the Foreign Depart-
ment, 630,000 reals ; for the Department of War,
32,027,192 ; for the Marine, 3,445,750; for the Fi-
nances, 14,065,951 ; and for the Interior, 2,124,879.
Another return says that in August 66,962,417 reals
have been collected in the provinces. Out of this
sum the San Fernando Bank has received, in payment
of the credit of 50,000,000 opened by it to the Go-
vernment in the month of August, 42,033,202 reals ;
for the clergy and public worship, 10,894,901, as
being the amount of the contributions destined to that
twofold object, and of the secular clergy's prop( rty
and 14,034,314 for the expenses and costs of justice,
&c. From another return it would appear that in
August the provinces were to pay 50,000,000 reals
into the San Fernando Bank. The effective sum
paid into it is reckoned at 42,033,202 reals. By
adding the proceeds of the Post-office, Cruzadas, lot-
tery, and mines, the amount of 44,009,996 reals is
obtained.

M. Pio PITA PIzARRo, late Minister of Finance,
died on the 16th at San Sebastian.

frigate, he does not require much time to arrive at the
highest dignities in the State. We should, nevertheless,
wonder at this rapid promotion, if it was granted to an-
ether officer ; particularly it the latter, aster maintaining
that steam-vessels alone presented a complete security,
had had the misfortune to lose the finest specimen of
that description of vessels in our navy."
We find in the French official papers the following
statement, relative to the much-talked-of corres-
pondence imputed to officers of the Warspite.
"M. Eugene Bero, the King's consul at Gibraltar, has
just informed the Minister of Foreign Affairs that Mr.
Walls, the commander of the English frigate Warspite,
went, on the 6th instant, to the consulate, with an Artil-
lery officer of the English garrison at Gibraltar. The
object of this visit was to protest officially against the
letters published in the Times by pretended officers of
the Warspite. Mr. Wallis has, besides, signed a written
protest, which was to appear the same evening in the
Gibraltar Chronicle, and an inquiry has commenced on
board the Warspite, by order of the English Govern-
' ment' to discover the authors of the letters published by
the Times."

The Journal des Debats adds to this statement the
following particulars :
" Captain Wallis declared to our consul that he had
come to protest as loudly and energetically as depended
upon him against the shameful things published by an
English journal, by individuals calling themselves officers
of his frigate. He added that the step which he had
taken was official, and he requested the consul to an-
nounce it officially to his Government and the Prince de
Joinville. Captain Wallis is an old and brave officer of
the British navy, and has performed the most honourable
services. He expressed to the French Consul his indig-
nation and deep mortification that such infamous pro-
ductions should have been dated from on board his ves-
sel, and did so with an emotion and an energy which
proved the sincerity of his words. This emotion was
the more natural, as Captain Wallis declared himself
full of just admiration of the courage and skill shown in
his presence by the officers of the French navy at Tan-
giers and Mogadore, and as the captain during his so-
journ on the coast of Africa had been treated by the
Prince de Joinville with a politeness and a kindness for
which he felt the most lively gratitude. Captain Wallis
also expressed a hope that he would return to England in
time to be able to solicit the honour of being presented to
the King of the French. The Captain of the Warspite was
to deliver to the French Consul a letter for the Prince de
Joinville, and had applied to the Governor of Gibraltar for
the insertion in the Gibraltar Chronicle of a protest which
has of course been published. Already several superior
officers of the garrison of Gibraltar had expressed to the
French Consul the indignation which they felt at the
letters which had apps arrd in the English journal. The
promptitude and susceptibility with which public opinion
in England had already protested against a publication►
which it would now be in bad taste to notice too severely
had almost effaced the remembrance of it ; we hope that
the spontaneous and honourable proceeding of the cap-
tain of the Warspite will remove every trace of the pub-
lication. It appears that an inquiry is taking place on
board the Warspite to discover the authors of the letters
published in England ; that they will be severely
punished, and that the English Government itself has
given orders on this subject. We do not think it ne-
cessary to say that the French Government has had no-
thing to do with this determination, and that it under-
stood too well what is dee to its own dignity and that of
the French navy to take any official notice of an incident
which at the utmost could only lead to an interchange of
personal communication. The officers of the British
navy and army have felt that they alone were compro-
mised by such sad imprudence, and the honourable. man-
ner in which they have repaired it can only raise them
in their own esteem as it does in ours."

A Correspondent of the Constitutionnel writes from
Malaga on the 9th inst.:—
"I have just been informed that Abd-el-Bader was,
on the 2d, in the vicinity of Melilla, a Spanish strong
place on the coast of Morocco, situate at an equal dis-
tance from Oran and Tangiers. We have not heard
whether the presence of the Emir in that part of Mo-
rocco was the result of some new encounter with the
French troops, or if he came there to watch the move-
ments of the Spaniards, whose arrangement with the
Emperor could not be known to him at the time. The
fact is, that he was on the 2d at Alazum, a small town
three leagues south-east of Melilla, with 1,800 cavalry
and some infantry."

Reports were in circulation in Paris on Saturday
that ABD-EL-KADER had been taken, but they could
not, up to the hour of post, be traced to any authentic
source, and the rumour had produced no effect on the
funds. The treaty with Morocco continues to be the
subject of animadversion in all the Opposition journals,
and they all ridicule the ennobling of Marshal
BUGEAUD.

"We are sorry for the worthy Marshal," says the
Constitutionnel, " and his well-known good sense will no
doubt induce him to think as we do, that the Ministry,
in creating IC.m a Duke, intended to do him no service.
France has lost all taste for titles of nobibity, and the
legislators of 1830 perfectly appreciated the sentiment of
the country when they suppressed the penalties enacted
against the illegal assumption of honorary distinctions.
1-lablic opinion admits and tolerates through habit aris-
toer,:tic denominations transmitted by inheritance, or
conferil.Kl by the empire. Beyond these, every duke,
count, or baron, has to encounter the unavoidable shafts
of ridicule.
The laurels of Isly will not protect the
new duke against them, and we regret it. M. Bugeaud,
who was so loi2c:
the point of attack of extreme parties,
had succeeded inb'ilencin g them, and securing to himself,
as a military man, ~he legitimate respect of his political
opponents. Why co,-wteract that fortunate change in
public opinion which re gilered full justice to one of the
most distinguished men in the country ? Why spoil
the effect of a victory, and wound, for mere amusement,
the susceptibilites which a great number. of zealous
friends of the institutions of ilnly feel as lively as the
partisans of Radical opinions ?".
The Reforme of Saturday has a long article on the
subject of Irish affairs, in which O'CoNNELL is rated
soundly for not holding the Clontarf meeting. "By
holding that meeting," it says,
" He would have placed himsel; in the situation which
he occupied before his contest with the Queen's Bench ;
he would have consecrated the rights. of Ireland and his
own, and gained a moral victory ; by abandoning
that resolution, he evinces uncertainty ant. Sear, and in
politics such an admission is an irreparable dt.-(eat."
The article concludes in these words :

----
" O'Connell cannot now destroy his own work. The
seeds of liberty and independence which he has soN.'"
from his triumphal car have sprung up and extended over
the green hills of his country. His past services and
his influence, his new police and his new allies, will tend
n
to retard the day of emancipation. Miraheau also
u marchttc.m,ptaenddt(ocsetra"yhtehlemedby the imameonnse torrent. The
of a ti ;he was carried
alum
same fate awaits O'Connell ; he may quietly retire to
Derrynane Abbey, to rest after the struggle ; twenty
Irishmen will be found, who have regarded as serious his
patriotic harangues, to take his place. Uno avulso non
ddicit alter."
The Llfoniteur Parisien announces the return of
Marshal SOULT to Paris for the 28th inst.
The Constitutionnel says—
" All serious affairs are postponed until after the
King's voyage. On his Majesty's return will be dis-
cussed the new mode of raising the loan, and the list of
the names which are to appear in the next promotion to
the Peerage will be definitively settled. It will, it is
said, be very numerous. The following are already
mentioned as being designed to participate in the promo-
tion—viz., Generals Jacqueminot, Doguereau, Bonne-
main, and Durrieu ; Baron de Sers, Prefect of the
Gironde ; MM. Benjamin Delessert and Pedre Lacaze,
formerly Deputies ; MM. Debelleyme, De Marmier, and
De Montozon, now Deputies ; and M. Victor Hugo and
Marshal Bugeaud. As to M. St. Marc Girardin, we can
affirm that he is not to be included in this promotion."

The Globe of Friday, in the course of an article on
the subject of a communication, by railroad or canal,
between Alexandria and Suez, says—

" The reports that have been spread as to the secret
machinations of Russia and England, for dividing the
East between them, has been completely, and, in a mea-
sure, officially denied. The English Cabinet, called
upon for an explanation, has declared that they were en-
tirely unfounded. Consequently there remains nothing
of these pretended secret treaties but the overtures made
by the English East India Company to the Pacha of
Egypt, for the improvement of the communication be-
te een Europe an/ Asia, across the Isthmus of Suez, by
means of either a canal or a railroad, uniting the Medi-
terranean with the Red Sea. Surely nothing can be
more simple, more natural, more to be wished for, for
the benefit of all nations, than the realisation of such a
plan."
It is evident, from the following article in the Na-
tional, that the progress of the reorganization of the
Polytechnic School is destined to encounter a serious
opposition :

We have received the Paris papers of Friday and
Saturday. The following telegraphic dispatch ap-
pears in the Moniteur of Friday :

" BAYONNE, SEPT. 19.—M. Martinez de la Rosa has
accepted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The official
Gazette, of the 16th, publishes the decree appointing
him to that post, which is dated Aug. 21.
" Majcr-General Pavia was named, on the 15th, Cap-
tain-General of Navarre. On reckoning the ballots, it
was found that the Ministerial party had completely
triumphed at the elections of Madrid."
In announcing the promotion of the Prince DE
JOINYILLE, the Moniteur says---" This just recom-
pense, awarded to the chief of the French naval force
employed on the coast of Morocco, is for the personnel
of that squadron a first testimonial of the high satis-
faction of his MAJESTY, and will be followed by a
general notice, comprising the rewards to be granted
to the members of the expedition who have merited
them, as soon as the propositions of his Royal High-
ness, to this effect, shall have reached the Minister
of Marine."

The Reforme thus sneeringly animadverts upon the
Prince's promotion :
" When a man comes into the 'world a captain of a

The Committee appointed to organise, or rather to
disorganise, the Polytechnic School, is not yet prepared
to execute its monstrous commission. It even appears
that some of its members shrink from the responsibility
which they incur in the eyes of France in making any
change in an institution of which it has hitherto been so
proud. In the first place, M. Tupinier has excused him-
self on account of ill-health, and he has been replaced by
General Tholoze. M. Dode de la Bouneire, a General
of Engineers, was appointed President of the Committee,
an officer who occupied a distinguished rank amongst
the students of the school ; but he did not wish to com-
promise his reputation, and he resigned the Presidency,
which was then offered to M. Doguereau. M. Doguereast
is a Deputy who never speaks in the Chamber except on
the subject of bullets. This person has placed himself
at the head of what is called the party of military re-
action. He asks what necessity there exists for a poly-
technic school ? He asserts that it is necessary to sweep
away the science of mathematics, which has produced so
many independent characters. Let the Committee pro-
ceed. This long-established school has representatives
in the two Chambers, in the army, in the navy, iu the
press. and in every public department. The Committee
will have to account to public opinion, and we shall see
whether M. Doguereau M. d'Haubersatr, and others,
will be bold enough to destroy what fifty years of con-
stant application had raised.'

The Pharamond steamer arrived at Marseilles on
the 17th, from Algiers, which she left on the 15th.
She brings no news of importance respecting the
army, or the movements of ADD-ELACADER. On the
14th a Te Deum, at which Marshal BUGEAUD and all

re present, was
4'nr the

the civil and military authorities
performed at the principal church of Algiers
victory of Isly.

THE BOURSE-SATURDAY, SEPT. 21.