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LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21. 1345.

applies the persuasions of external force to the Ro.
manists with as little compunction - and modera-
tion as to the Jews whose felicity it is to live
under his -beneficent sway. The most enlightened and
populous of the cities of another hemisphere, the capi-
'tal of one of the States comprising that Federal Union
which we are accustomed to speak of as the model of
republics, only the' other day witnessed the shedding of
the blood of some of its best citizens, in a fierce affray
between contending religious factions, that seem to re-
vive the memory of those which, in the age of JUVENAL,
constantly afflicted Alexandria between Pagan sectaries;
and some few centuries afterwards, between the still
more ferocious Christian (so called) dogmatists, who
supported or opposed the intolerant ATHANASIUS. It is
in 1544 and 1845 that we have a Roman Archbishop
exhibiting, as they were exhibited in the middle ages,
the very vestments of our SAVIOUR (?), and working
miracles at Treves—in the shape of profitable collec-
tions for his treasury—as marvellous, as credible, as
disinterested as any that were ever contrived at the
shrine of our Lady of Loretto. In Switzerland--sueh
is the insanity produced by this religious hatred—the
peaceful Cantons have been moved to a suicidal civil war,
the embers of which are not yet extinguished, chiefly for
the object, on the part of one of the States, of retaining
that social subjugation which is always synoni-
mous with the permitted presence of the Jesuits ;
whom another State, in a spirit of intolerance,
accurately following that to which it was oppo:e.l,
had sought to expel by means equally violent and ille-
gal. But it is in Germany that the preaching of the
Abbli JOHANNES RONGE, the great exposer of the sacred
relics at Treves, has aroused the fiercest storm of this
theological persecution. Romanism, Jesuitry, infallibi-
lity, have arrayed themselves in all the panoply of the
orthodox one and indivisible Church against the daring
challenger of genuine old clothes. From such a cause—
from beginnings so humble, almost so ridiculous, has just
arisen the unwonted incident of a sanguinary popular
commotion in that which may be called the commercial
capital of Saxony—the peaceful and enlightened Saxony
—whose excellent Monarch was so lately the honoured
guest of our own Sovereign. German blood has flowed
in an unseemly contest between the people, irritated
against his Majesty's brother, the Grand Duke, a zealous
favourer of Romish infallibility, and the humble, but
energetic, and simple-minded HONOR, the second LUTHER

Mr. LYELL'S recently-published " Travels in North
America," contain a chapter devoted to the English
Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The eminent
geologist's inquiries into the condition of the universities
in the United States exposed him to many counter-
inquiries as to the English universities ; and Mr.
LYELL felt much shame and humiliation in being com-
pelled to tell of the complete neglect of science and
philosophy in Oxford and Cambridge, and of their
general inefficiency. In order to direct public attention
in this country to what is so great a mAtter of shame
and reproach to us, Mr. LYELL has entered at con-
siderable length into the question of the English Uni-
versities ; and as there is no one whose opinions on such
a subject are more entitled, by scientific acquirements
and fame, to attention, we make no apology for present-
ing our readers with some extracts from Mr. LYELI:B
chapter on Oxford and Cambridge.
The general rule in Oxford and Cambridge is, that
the university professors have no audiences. The edu-
cation is carried on, not by the university professors,
hut by college- tutors : and the subjects taught by the
college-tutors are almost exclusively classics and mathe-
matics, which are the subjects of examination for de-
grees. Those who aspire to honours through the me-
dium of these examinations have no time to attend the
lectures of the university professors ; the college sys-
tem of education, and the college-created system of uni.
versity examinations, fill up all their time ; while those
who do not aspire to honours, and do not devote them-
selves to classics and mathematics, have no inducement
to attend the professors' lectures, as the universities give
no honours in connexion with the subjects which they
profess. Au attempt was made in Oxford in 1839 to
require the attendance of all under-graduates, on some
professors' lectures ; and on very strong representations
of many of the most eminent professors, the Board of
[leads proposed to Convocation a statute requiring
attendance on at least two series of professors' lectures
as a preliminary qualification for the B. A. degree. The
proposed statute was rejected by Convocation ; but
4.nother statute was passed compelling professors to
lecture. We quote Mr. LYELL'S remarks on this con-
duct of Convocation and its results :
" While they threw out that part of the proposed statute
which would have gone far towards reviving thesprofessorial
chairs, they passed another part requiring the Professors of
Astronomy, Experimental Philosophy, Chemistry, Geo.
logy, Mineralogy, Anatomy, Botany, Medicine, Civil
Law, English Law, Greek, Arabic, Sanscrit, Anglo-
Saxon, Poetry, Modern History, and Politics' Economy, to de-
liver regular courses of lectures. They were, in fact, bound,
not only by ancient statutes, to require the teachers above
enumerated faithfully to discharge their duty, but in modern
times, or since the examination statute of 1800, they had
sanctioned the foundation of new chairs, such as Experi-
mental Philosophy, Mineralogy, Geology, Political Economy,
and Sanscrit, and had accepted annual grants from the Crown
to endow certain readerships. In homage therefore to the
moralandobligationstheynugatory,theyincurred,continuedtorendernew old foundations an
outward conformity to the statutes, by enforcing the delivery
of lectures, the efficiency of which they allowed other parts of
their system entirely to defeat. Their conduct reminds us of
the orders issued by Charles r, to offer up prayers through.
out Spain for the deliverance of the Pepe, while he suffered
his army to retain him prisoner in the Castle of St. Angelo.
After the year 1839, we may consider three-
fourths of the sciences, still nominally taught at Oxford, to
have been virtually exiled from the University. The class-
rooms of the Professors were some of them entirely, others
mostly, deserted. Chemistry and botany attracted, be-
tween the years 1840 and 1844, from three to seven
students; geometry, astronomy, and experimental philosophy
scarcely more ; mineralogy and geology still taught by the
same professor, who, fifteen years before, had attracted
crowded audiences, from ten to twelve ; political economy still,
fewer; even ancient history and poetry scarcely commanded
an audience ; and, strange to say, in a country with whose
destinies those of India are so closely bound up, the first of
Asiatic scholars gave lectures to one or two pupils, ant' these,
might have been absent had not the cherished hope of a Boden
scholarship for Sanscrit induced them to attend."
Mr. LYELL'S account of Cambridge is very similar:—
" Very recently at Cambridge, all branches of knowledge
taught by the professors—in a word, every subject except
what is understood in our universities by classics and mathe-
ma' ies— have had sentence of banishment passed upon them in
the form of new compulsory examinations, under the manage-
ment of college tutors, the Oxford plan of awarding honours to
classical arid mathematical attainments alone being adhered to.
The professes of chemistry and anatomy, who had formerly
considerable classes, have only mustered six or seven pupils,
although still compelled to give courses of fifty lectures each.
The chairs of modern history, and of the application of
mschinery to the arts, once numbering audiences of several
hundreds, hare been in like mariner deserted. Yet dispensa-
tions are rarely granted for the discontinuance of useleas duties,
even when only two pupils present themselves. Moreover,
here, as at Oxford, it is not uncommon to give such theirs as
mathematics, natural philosophy, chemistry, botany, astronomy,
geology, mineralogy, and others, to clergymen, who combine
them with clerical duties, or throw them up when they obtain
preferment ; and who, however eminent, owing, as they must
do, a mixed allegiance, partly t.) their ecclesiastical order, and
partly to the professional body. cannot stand up with heart and
courage
in defence of the public, as opposed to the clerical and
collegiate interests.'

To a casual observer of the progress of social institu-
ons, nothing would he so little likely to present itself
n the shape-of one of the great disturbing forces which
till vex their tranquillity—as religious discords. The
odium titeologichtm," for so many centuries the scourge
►f the old world—the fomenter of civil and of foreign
wars—thedethroner of crowned kings—the great motive
of external and domestic •treasone—the restless peace-
breaker in private families as well as States—ha been
thought, by many, to have outlived the fires by which
its seal was anciently inflamed. Bait he who trusts that
so desirable a consummation is accomplished, will soon
discover his fatal error. His steps will be "super cineres
dolosos." The fire is not extinct—it still exists in all
its intensity. It no longer bursts into fierce and de-
vouring action, rearing on high, to the terrified gaze of
all mankind, its consuming flames; but- the molten lava
foes not the less seethe and boil beneath the surface
which overlays it. And at this very moment the
fatal elewent 'seems to be in a state of agitation,
that is manifested by occasional eruptions, more or less
partial and transitory, in kingdoms of Europe the most
remote from one another. We earnestly invite the
reader's attention to this remarkable modern phe-
nomenon. It is peculiar to this epoch of the nineteenth
century. The " disturbing force" of which we speak
communicates its impulses from seine such mysterious
connexion as only MICIIELET or QUSSET can explain,
in these, our days, from St. Petersburgh to London,
from Dub!in to Leipsic, from Avignon to Treves, from
Rome to New York, at almost one and the same time.
A slight type of its deforming and perverting powers
has been supplied for the consideration of this country
in the obstinate tenacity of Puseyite innovators, in the
rancorous hatred with which seceders from the fold
of our Protestant Church have turned round upon the
institutions which had for years nurtured and educated
them; and in the insidious arts and inflexible perse-
verance with which the emissaries of Rome have, for
=woe time past, addressed themselves to the work of
letaching, not laymen only, butt ordained priests of the
,stablishment from our communion. But no man who
toes not wilfully shut his eyes to the relations of cause

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of his country.
For the particulars of this unhappy collision we must
refer our readers to the aceount we publish in another
column of the disturbances at Leipsic. But we may be
allowed to express our deep regret at the event. It
mars, and neutralizes, as it were, that great experiment
which, since the peace of 1814, has been so successfully
conducted in many European kingdoms, of retaining vast
populations, of different religious professions, in civil and
social amity one with another, and in an unanimous and
willing fealty to the common laws and institutions of the
country to which they all belong. For our own parts, feel-

az as laymen who desire to render to the Church, and

more especially to religion generally, all their just
rights, protection and honour, but who equally desire to
see all ecclesiaitical establishments and professions sub-
servient, not superior, to the dominant power of the
State ; we cannot too forcibly express our sorrow at
this untoward. interruption of that great work of conso-
lidation which we have ever looked upon as one of the
noblest attempts of civil polity in our times. We would
fain hope that the sovereigns and princes in whose terri-
tories this mischievous spirit prompts and matures such
outbreaks, will vigilantly apply themselves to the consi

deration of the best means of all ay ng i f not extinguish•
ing it. Where religious toleration and political justice
have already discharged their respective duties to all
communities in a State, there, we do think, the disturbers
of the public repose, who will not brook the free
and full discussion of spiritual abuses on moral prin-

eiples, but turn upon their challengers with the
vindictive spirit of temporal persecutors, ought to
be repressed by signal punishment. They compromise
the cause of Christianity. They put in jeopardy the
peace of Christendom. The secret movers of these per-
secutions are, we firmly believe, the Jesuits ; and we are

almost tempted to concur in the following recent appeal
of ItosaE for the absolute suppression of these too viva•

cious emissaries of all mischief :

" Arise, then, men of Germany and France ; men of
Great Britain, Italy, and Spain, arise 1 Men of Europe

and America—let us unite with our Government in the
noble enterprise. To the work, like men, the work of
peace and freedom. The hour is come. Let us break

the yoke imposed on faith and conscience—drag down
lying priesthood and the Hierarchy 1 Annihilate dis-
dainful Jesuitism, insulting GOD and man ; and usher in
the glorious reign of truth, light, and righteousness—of
virtue, of freedom, and of love."

ind effect, to the erilenct:s of wtity of purpose and
;ornbination of means, can t),- Liind to the steady and
n.•astired recurrence of thuse manikstations of the re-

complained not, long ago, that owing to the great ex-
pense of college education, and to the Bishops almost
luniversally requiring a college eduemion of candidates
for holy orders, the Chuech was becoming closed to all
but members of the higher and rich middle classes. The
Prime Minister has, in the course of the last session,
emphatically _reprobated the expensiveness of Oxford
and Cambridge. One great source of expense is the
private tutor in the universities, whose very existence
is a reproach to the college tutor who has super-
seded the university professor. The college lectures
being insufficient to prepare the under-graduates for the
examinations, they resort to private tutors, who are paid
at a much higher rate. Mr. LYELL says, "An Oxford
tutor informed me that, in the years 1840 and 1841, no
less Than 250, or one-fifth of the resident students, pro-
cured this kind of assistance, the aggregate sum paid Ly
them amounting to more than 10,0001. a year! Mr.
LYELL quotes Dr. PEACOCK, the Dean of Ely, as affirm-
ing the same state of things at Cambridge. Dr. PEA-
COCK says of the Cambridge private tutors—" These
teachers are young and inexperienced, and not com-
petent to convey enlarged views to their pupils. This
unhappy system has contributed more than any other
cause to the very general, and, in some respects, just
complaints which have been made of late years of the
paucity of works of learning and research which have
issued from the University of Cambridge."
The expenses of college education shut the doors of
Oxford and Cambridge to a large portion of her MA-
JESTY'S subjects ; and religious tests exclude another
large portion. Mr. LYELL advises a royal commission
which might recommend the removal of tests, and sug-
gests many other improvements, and concludes with
the following protest against the exclusive system of the
Universities, with which we shall at present take leave
of the subject.

‘‘ Before the Reformation their spirit was Catholic and na-
tional ; since that period they have dwindled, not into theolo-
gical seminaries, for they have never in practice afforded a
complete professional course for divinity students, but into
places for educating the clergy of the Established Church, and
the aristocratic portion of the laityprofessing the same form of
Christianity. Such a system, coupled with the abandonment
of professional studies its general, tends to dissever throughout
the country men of different callings, creeds, and professions.
It has a demoralising influence. It separates, during the pe-
riod of youth, the nobility and gentry from the higher portion
of the middle classes, the barrister from the attorney, the phy-
sician from the surgeon, the legislators and lawyers of England
from those civilians to whom the government of eighty millions
in India is to be consigned, the members of the Anglican
Church from the Romanist, of Stonyhurst or the Dissenters
of Hackney. the civil engineers of Putney from the medical
students of London. It disunites these and other sections of
the same community, and throws them into antagonist masses,
each keeping aloof from the other in cold and jealous se-
clusion, each cherishing sectarian party animosities, er
professional and social prejudices. It is in the season of
youth, and when men are engaged in the common pursuit of
knowledge--especially if allowed as far as possible to follow the
bent of their own tastes and genius—that friendships might.
easily be formed, to soften these hard outlines. At college
they would be brought together on neutral, and usually on
friendly ground, where kindly feelings and sympathies would
spring up spontaneously, and would be cherished in after life,
by congenial souls, however distant the station, or distinct the
religious opinions or professional employments of their former
fellow-students."

Since the 12th things had continued quiet at Leipsic.
The troops that had tired on the people had been kept
within their barracks—the communal guard had per-
formed the city duty, and had been well supported by
the students. The funeral of the killed took place on
the 15th without disturbance.
The following resume of events in that unfortunate
city is given in the German Universal Gazette, under
date of the 15th :

" Yesterday at five o'clock another meeting of burgesses and
students took place. The reports of the events of the 12th and
13th were first read. The article of the semi-official Leipsic
Gazette produced a great sensation, and it was resolved to
protest against this tissue of falsehoods; but the definitive
resolution was adjourned to Saturday. M. 13luin directed
the attention of the meeting to what he regarded as the moat
essential point, viz , the interment of the victims. Deputa-
tions were sent to the municipal authorities, to ask for the
town colours ; to the staff of the communal guard, inviting it
to attend the ceremony; to the military staff, to remonstrate
on the conduct of the troops during the day, and to ask them
to confine them to their barracks the next day ; and to the
railroad terminus, to receive the deputation returning from
Dresden with the King's answer. The meeting next made a
collection to defray the necessary expenses. The sitting was
suspended for an hour. The measures of the committee re-
ceived the general approbation. The families of the victims
determined to have but one funeral ceremony for all, with the
exception of M. Mortmann, of whose body an autopsy was to
be made, in consequence of his family having lodged an ac-
tion for his death. The deputation from Dresden entered the
hall at half-past nine. It was supposed that the cortege would
muster 20,000 imen. The committee fulfilled their mission
admirably. Everything passed over this morning at seven
o'clock in the utmost order. At five o'clock this morning the
Fletscher Platz was crowded with persons assembled to take
part in the funeral ceremony. The procession began to move
at seven. It consisted of the communal horse-guards ; a bat-
tallion of the communal foot-guards ; the students, in sections ;
the band of the 4th battalion; the flag of the university; the
Committee ; the armourer's company ; another band; the
various deputations of /the trades; an immense train of bur-
gesses and students, with flags, and a detachment of the com-
munal guards. The cortege proceeded along in the greatest
silence, except in passing the chateau, where cries and threats
were uttered. Some disturbance had been feared here, but
nothing took place. In the cemetery, the coffins were placed
side by side in the same grave, and speeches were delivered
over them. The crowd withdrew in the utmost order."
Another letter of the same date says:—
" The deputation of the Municipal Council and the delegates
of the city have returned from Dresden. The King, who re-
ceived them at noon, was affected to tears. His Majesty said
that this event was one of the most cruel trials of his life, and
that he was the more grieved that such an event should have
particularly in Leipsic, as he and his
alwaysand
phuuott ever violating their duty. His up
Ma-
jesty
the most ardent prayers for the good '
oftheafm iiy occurredcountry,had i n
added, that he was the more hurt as the address of the
distrust."
Municipal Council contained passages which seemed to indicate

By a letter from Constantinople, of the 27th ult., we
learn that accounts had been received there of the last
operations of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian
forces in the Caucasus, Count WORONZOFF, in which he
states that he had obtained great and brilliant sucesses.
The general opinion in Constantinople was that too much
importance should not be attached to these first suc-
cesses of the Russians, as it forms, part of the tactics of
the Mountaineers to retire into the mountains ou the ap-
proach of their enemy, in the hope of drawing him into
difficulties and danger. News had also reached Constan-
tinople frcm Circassia. The population of the environs of
Anapa had, at the instigation of SOLINAN EFFENDI, one
of the emissaries of Prince Scßeam, declared against
Rus"sia. These people havejoined the troops of SOLIMAN
EFFENDI, which are commanded by CARA BATYR, Son Of
SEFER BEY, who is an exile at Adrianople. This army
is said to have driven a Russian column froth- Tichowato.
Several Bays of Circassian tribes, which had submitted
to Russia, have gone over with all their followers to
Scriamm, in the Dhagestan, and taken up arms.
SCHAMIL continues to act in the north, and DANIEL
BEY, Ex-Sultan of Jellikoi, in the south of Dhagestan.
Both are provided with artillery. SCRAXIL is reported
to have made an attack on the fortress of Amakchan,
and DANIEL BEY upon the town of Techok. Ia fine,
however, it appears that no serious affair has yet taken
place.

Madrid papers of the 13th have-been received. The
restitution of the Church property to the secular clergy
is the subject of comment in all of them. The Espanol
publishes a letter fr,an Paris, stating that M. Rossi had
received instructions to support the negotiations of M.
CASTILLO Y AYENSA with the Holy See.
The cause of the dismissal of General CAMINERO from
the post of Military Commandant of Malaga, is stated
to be his want of energy during the recent disturbances.
We read in a letter from St. Sebastian of the 13th:—
The day before yesterday their Majesties went for an ex-
cursi')n on the water. Their boat having got aground, and all
the efforts of the sailors to float her being fruitless, ten or twelve
peasants who were at work near the spot rushed into the water
and succeeded in setting the boat free. Yesterday Queen Isa-
bella visited the regiment of Malloua, which is in garrison here.
She was received with enthusiasm, and pardoned several sol-
diers who had been condemned for desertion. After the visit
the Queen and her mother entered a magntticent tent, where
they partook of a collation provided by the officers. The bull-
fights commenced this day, and the Queen and the Infanta were
present. Three bulls were killed,"

vtving p! etensions of the Papal Church which, in the b:ief
tt:ursc of three or four years, have convulsed the most
modern as well as the oldest of States, Mon trebles, and
qmpublics, the host
,gover: led and the worst. Scarcely had
the presumptuous contumac, of a refractory Archbishop
oven resented (trod they were uhimately repressed) by
the King of PRUSSIA, before 411 Franco was agitat, d from
her capital to her frontiers, by the resuscitation of the
Jesuits, and their demand to have the superintendenco of
the education of the youth of thst country But., as if
to prove that the "odium theologicurn" is not the exciu-
iive or peculiar vice of any one Church, but the un-
christian feeling of all churches, rather, the Emperor of
RUSSIA has still more recently fulminated his autocratic
" ukases" for religious conformity, by viliting his Ro-
man Catholic subjects with all the persecutions of the
olden time—the proud and palmy days of spiritual
domination—in order to compel them to come into the
pale of the Greek Church. His tender solicitude for
the " amity of faith," is so excessive, that he i

The education afforded by Oxford and Cambridge is
lot only thus limited and unsatisfactory in character, but

,s most unreasonably expensive. The Quarterly Review

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.
The Consttutionnel has a long and able article on the
manner in which the Jesuits are evading the law for their
dispersion, and in some instances actually disobeying its
provisions. After commenting on the manner in which
the negotiations had been conducted by the Pontifical
Government, it proceeds :
" What is the result? First of all, can it he said that the
law will be executed? The existing hedges will be closed, but
others will be opened; the fathers will not live together in
great numbers, but they will separate into a multitude of little
' communities ; they will continue to remain landowners in corn-
mon, by transgressing the law; the body will not, therefore,
be really dissolved, and therefore the law will not be complied
with, but merely eluded. Thanks, however, to the manifes-
tation of the Chambers, and the apparent satisfaction which is
given them, the scandal of illegality will have disappeared.
Father Moirez will not again assume in a trial the title of
father-procurator, mil M. de Ravignan will not publish
any more pamphlets to defy the laws and the courts of
justice. But have the other effects, which might have been
obtained from a well-conducted negotiation; been obtained ?
Ilas the Pontifical Government diminished, by the conduct
which it has observed, the confidence of the bishops in the
Jesuits ? Will the fathers, transformed into auxiliary priests,
exercise less influence on the ultramontane instruction of the
great religious schools, or less despotism over the secondary
clergy. Will they not have, under the new disguise, more
pretexts and facilities to elude the dispositions which prescribe I
to every professor in a religious school to declare hat he does i
not belong to any unauthorised religious community? Are
not our ministers about to avail themselves of a false appear- I
ance to exhibit more feebleness towards the clergy ? Has the I
Church really separated its cause from that of the society ? i
Has it net, on the contrary, confounded the two more together,
in the whole affair, behind Father Roothan ?
bihePiacDeipn.4 itself,uttes
, the electors, all who read and think in France,
are serious people, who know what they have determined
on. We have not asked for persecution, but we have demanded
from the Government sincere and efficient acts. Sincerely,
then, has all that is noy passing a character of frankness and
truth ?"

The visit of Queen VICTORIA to Germany is the sub-

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ject of comment in many of these journals. They all
attribute a political rn4_)tive to it, but differ eo atuo-t.ig
each other as to what that motive is that an impartial
reader can only come to the conclusion that there is u
political motive whatever in the visit, or, at least, that if
there be one, these writers are profoundly ignorant of it.
The Legitimatist organs see in it a great European con.
gress, from which revolutionary France is excluded, " in
spite of the patronage of mercantile England," to use
the language of .1 a France, while the Commerce con.
eiders that the object of the journey is " to conjure
away the storm which threatens British commerce,"
should the Zollverein Congress, at Carlshrue, at the in-
stigation of the German southern states, increase the
import duties on manufactured articles.
We learn from Bordeaux, 16th inst , that his Royal
Highness the Duke DE NEMOURS was much better, and
that he and the DUCHESS would set out on the 18th
for Mont-de-Marsan. Two grandees of Spain, who
form part of the deputation appointed to accompany
their Royal Highnesses from Bayonne to' Pampeluna,
arrived at Bordeaux on the 16th.
The accounts from Eu are most satisfactory as regards
the health of the KING of the FRENCH.
The Bourse was very animated, and the Funds and Rail-
road Shares generally improved.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse at
84f. 50c. ' • the New Loan at 84f. 50c.; the Five per Cents.
at 121 f. 90c. ; Orleans Railroad shares, 1,307 f. 50c. ; Rouen,
1,0901.; Vierzon, 600 f. ; Havre, 9151. ; Avignon, 1,085 f. ;
Basle, 2851.; Spanish Three per Cents., 38k.
The following are the quotations of the new lines :-
Orleans and Bordeaux, 2201. premium ; Boulogne, 1351.
premium; Troyes and Montereau, 55f.; Paris and Lyons
(Laffitte), 361. 25c.; ditto (Caton), 7f. 50c. ; ditto (Ganne-
ron), 12f. 50c. ; ditto Northern Line (Laffitte), 57f. 50c. ;
ditto (Rosamel), 29f. 50c. ; ditto (Pepin Lehalleur), 15f. ;
ditto (Decan), 15f. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 15f. ;
ditto (Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill) sf. ; ditto (Jacques
Lefevre), 1 ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 20f. ; ditto
(Talabot), 40f. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 101. ;
Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), lf. ; ditto (Espe-
leta), 15f. ; Cr,il and St. Quentin (Kysaens), par; ditto
(Carette), 61. ; ditto (Colbert), lf. ; ditto (Bechet), 12f.r:0c. ;
ditto Hainguelot, 131. 75c. ; Paris and Strasburg (Ganne-
ron), 12f. 50c. ; Dijon and Mulhouse, par; Dieppe, 30f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Atm. 20.
Boulogne and Amiens - ,Orleans and Bordeaux 121
Bordeaux &Mediterran - OverYssel ....... .... ... % p
Bordeaux and Toulouse - 'Paris & Lyons (Lafitte) 3%
Do. and Cette 9llg Ditto (Ganneron's). 21/2
Dutch Rhenish -2%
Dendre Valley ...... - Paris and Orleans.-- 50
Dieppe & Paris Janet - Paris and Rouen 4l
Dijon and Mulhouse ... - Paris and Strasburg
East Indian
Grt Northern of France Do. (Compte de L'Est) -
(Laffitte's) -
Ditto (Rosamel's)
Great Paris and Lyons - Royal North of Spain. 234
Jamaica Junction - Sambre and Meuse .... 814
Do. North Midland - Strasbourg and Basle . -
Louvain and Jemeppe 4l, Tours and Nantes
Lyons and Avignon 234 (M'Kenzie's)
Luxembourgh.. 2% . Do. (Lefebvre's) 2
Namur and Liege ... 4% Verona and Ancona.... 31
Orleans and Vierzon .. 17 West Flanders

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The nuptials of Lord
Macdonald with Miss Wyndham, daughter of the
Countess of Listowel, were solemnised this morning, in
St. George's, Hanover-square, in the presence of a nu-
merous and distinguished circle, the relatives and friend,
of both families. After the ceremony the Earl and
Countess of Listowel gave an elegant dejeuner, in honour
of the occasion, to a large party of the nobility.

MELANCHOLY AND FATAL
OCCURRENCE.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
ILFRACOMBE, AUG. 20.—This morning between seven
and eight o'clock an alarm was raised on the Quay that a
lady was in the sea, and drowning, at the back of the houses
on'the Quay, and a general call for ropes and parties who
could swim, in order to endeavour to save her. The wind
was then blowing strongly from the N.Y., and about high,
tide, the water being nearly twenty feet deep at the backs of
the houses, with the sea beating violently against the walls.
Mr. Edward Stephens, a respectable shoemaker of the town,
happening to pais by, went through the house stripped off his
clothes, and dashed into the foaming waves, and succeeded in
coming up with the lady. A rope was then thrown to her, which
she missed, but on being thrown out a second time, she
succeeded in securing it, and was safely brought to the
steps.

Mr. Stephens, when he found that the lady had secured
the rope, let go his hold of her, when a wave took him out
to sea, and a subsequent wave was seen to strike him ; which
is supposed to have stunned him. He immediately went
under water, and was drowned. He has left a widow and
two children.

It appears that three ladies, of the name of Bailey, from
Peterborough, have been staying at Martin's Boarding-
house on the Quay, for some time, and that they have
been in the habit of bathing in the sea from the-
back of the house. The mode of approach to the
beach is by a flight of steps, but when the tide is up there
is no beach to land on, so that any person bathing at such
time must plunge into deep water. These ladies being most
expert, extraordinary, and beautiful swimmers, have been in
the habit of plunging into deep water ; but this morning the
wind and sea being both high, Miss Fanny Baily.ventured to
bathe, but from the sea beating against the wall she was not
enabled to beat against the receding waters, in order to re-
cover the steps from which she had plunged, and was at the
mercy of the waves ; she did not lose her self possession, and
kept herself nobly on the surface of the waters ; she was
much exhausted on being brought to shore, and was put to
bed instantly, and is now going on favourably. The Misses
Bailey are ladies of good property ; Miss Fanny Bailey's
sisters have been with the disconsolate widow, and have as-
sured her that neither she nor the fatherless children shall be
allowed to want any necessary comfort. The body of poor
Stephens is not yet found.