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FOREIGN.

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Marshal Bugeaud landed at Algiers on the 27th ult. ; on
the 29th he received the authorities, and announced to them
that during his visit to Paris he had impressed upon the
Government the necessity of making Algeria independent of
, resources from France in case of war, and of maintaining from
90,000 to 100,000 troops in the colony. The Semaphore de
Marseilles states that the Marshal had received dispatches
from General Lamoriciere, informing him that Abd-el-Kader
had again made his appearance on the western frontier, an d
that he had in consequence embarked for Oran on the 31st.
In answer to a deputation from the Agricultural Society, who
had presented him, with a sword voted by the colonists, Mar-
shal Bugeaud said " it would be necessary to fire a few more
shots, and the expedition to if ugia will soon secure to us the
fertile valleys of Kabylis."
The Duke de Montpensier, who has been promoted to the
rank of a Lieutenant-Colonel of Artillery, was expicted to
arrive on the 9th at Marseilles, on his way to join the ex-
pedition.
The Presse contains a correspondence from Berne, of the
3d inst., which admits that the Lucernese had sustained
serious loss, adding that their allies of the canton of Uri had
suffered most severely. The other accounts leave no doubt
of the complete discomfiture of the free corps. The-con-
querors are said to have made above 1,500 prisoners, whom
the Lucerne Government, which intends to make tits ag-
gressors pay the expenses of the war, has sent into the moun-
tains of the little cantons. The number of the killed is not
yet ascertained.
The Vorort has addressed a circular to the cantons, calling
upon them to prevent the raising of reinforcements, and to
repress civil war, and stating that they had sent federal
troops into the Freiamt, a Catholic district of Argovia, where
a rising was apprehended.
Letters from Rome, dated the 21st ult., announce the ar-
rival in that city of their Imperial Highnesses the Grand
Duke and Duchess of Tuscany from Florence. The presence
of the King of Naples and the Grand Duke of Tuscany at
Rome at the same period, leads the inhabitants to hope may
further the wished-for project for theconstruction of railroads
from Rome to Naples and to Tuscany.
The Constitutionnel says that a small Spanish squadron is
about to be sent from Ferrol to Monte Video, to protect
Spanish interests in the Plata, and that the Duke of Seville,
second son of Don Francisco de Paulo, will command La
Perle frigate, which is to form part of the squadron.
The Madrid Gazette mentions the capture, in the Bay of
Chilcb.es, of a smuggling vessel, which had a crew of 18 men.
lissaVir .6.re'D POLIO'S.
The affairs of the laLe Romford Bank were again before
the Court of Bankruptcy. A second dividend of 2s. 6d. in
the pound was declared on the estate of Thomas Johnson,
and the further hearing was adjourned to the 10th of May.
At the Gloucester Assizes, in the case of Yearsley v. bane
and another, which was an action for false imprisonment,
brought by a debtor against a creditor and his attorney for
arresting him, notwithstanding his protection from the
Bankruptcy Court. Lord Chief Baron Pollock observed that
he did not think the protection could be made the founda-
tion of an action of trespass. It was a mere shield, and not
a sword—something that enabled a man to get out of cus-
tody when in it, and directed that the verdict should be en-
tered substantially for the defendants.
The Central Criminal Court was engaged in trying cases of
larceny. Various pickpockets were convicted and sentenced
in the course of the day.
The notorious Captain Pratt was fully committed from the
Mansion House on various charges of forgery and swindling.
It was stated that fifty clear cases of swindling would be
established against him, all of which have been committed
since the 19th of last month.
At Clerkenwell, John Shaughnessy was charged by police-
' constable 201 G with having violently assaulted him. The
constable was taking a man to the station-house on Sunday
week, when the prisoner interfered and ordered the constable
to let the man go; on refusing to do so, the prisoner beat
and kicked him in so dreadful a manner that he has been
ever since unable to perform his duty. The prisoner was
sentenced to one month's imprisonment without fine.
A man named Howard was committed from Marlborough-
street for plundering a licensed victualler of several glasses.
He came with a basket, such as that which was used by
publicans for glasses, and said he had been sent by a neigh-
bouring publican to borrow a few tumblers. The tumblers
were given to him, he was watched, followed, and taken into
custody. His description answers that of a man who has
for some time been levying contributions on licensed
victuallers.
Mr. David Wood, a baker, carrying on business in Mos-
cow-road, Bayswater, and Mr. George Anderson, residing at
No. 66, High-street, Hoxton, charged with having broken a
gas-lamp belonging to the Imperial Gas-light Company,
were fined 16s. each, at the Marylebone Police-court.
Mr. Traill committed an elderly man, named John W lliams,
for three months with hard labour, i
for stealing newspapers
and other articles from coffee-shops.
Two boys named Mountjoy and Callow, neither of whom
was more than 12 years of age, were committed from the
Thames Police-office for horse stealing.
COI7IM—PASSION.II.BI.E.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne have issued
cards for a grand dinner party on Saturday next, at Lans-
downe House, to the Duke de Broglie, and a select circle.
His Excellency the French Ambassador hasagrand dinner
party on Wednesday evening at Manchester-house, the
guests being invited to meet the Duke de Broglie.
It is said that his Royal Highness the Prince of Syracuse,
brother to the King of Naples, intends shortly to visit
this country and that his sojourn in England will be of some
duration.

The Duke and Duchess of Bedford are expected to arrive
in Belgrave-square for the season on the 18th inst.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry and Lady
Alexandrina Vane are expected to return from Paris to
Holdernesse -house at the latter end of the present or early in
the ensuing week.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Blandford have returned

to town from Paris.
The Earl of Durham and the Ladies Mary and Alice
Lambton and a family circle have been passing the Easter
holidays at Lambton Castle. The Noble Earl and Lady
Mary attended the performance of Divine Service at New-
earth on Sunday, when the Rev. the Dean of Durham
preached a sermon on national education.
The Earl of Moray, accompanied by the Ladies Stuart,
N.B.N
has arrived in Stratford-place from Darnaway Castle,
The Noble Earl has not been in town these three years.
Lord and Lady Francis Egerton and family have arrived
in BelgravF-sTiare for the season. We regret to hear that
his Lordship is at present suffering from a severe attack of
gout.
The first Almack's ball will take place on the 16th inst.,
for which Jullien and Koenig's band are retained.

MISCELLANZOTTS.

On Monday evening a meeting of the members and friends
of the Church of England Society of Young Men to aid Mis-
sions at Home and Abroad, established last year, was held at
the Horns Tavern, Kennington, for the purpose of forming
an auxiliary in Southwark. Resolutions, approving of all
the missionary institutions, and to form the proposed auxi-
liary, under the name of "The South London Auxiliary
Church of England Young Men's Society," were then unani-
mously adopted.
On Monday the numerous public asylums for the shelter
of the houseless poor in the metropolis, consisting of those in
Playhouse-yard, Glasshouse-yard, Ogle street, Marylebone,
and Market-street, Paddington, closed for the season. The
number of unfortunate individuals who have received shelter
and food in the above excellent asylums since their com-
mencement, in the early part of December last, has been
upwards of 140,000, many of whom would have perished
from cold and hunger had not those places been open to re •
ceive them.
The annual change of the officers of the Landing Depart-
ment took place on Monday ; a certain number being sta-
tioned at each of the Docks and appointed to the various
compartments of those establishments to take the ac-
counts of ships' cargoes, or attend the examination and de-
livery of the more important and valuable descriptions of
merchandise, &c., according to their separate capacities ;
the remainder of the officers being retained at the head esta-
blishment in Thames-street, for the supply of the quays and
wharfs on the banks of the river, and the reinforcement of
the corps at the different dock-establishments, as occasion
may require, in consequence of the sudden influx of shipping
and pressure of business, or from other causes connected with
the trade of the Port.
The whole of the river dues on shipping frequenting the
port of Stockton-on-Tees have been abolished from Wednes-
day last. Great rejoicings took place in the town in conse-
quence, and the trade of the port is expected to be greatly
increased by the removal of these imposts, which have been
purchased by the Darlington and Stockton Railway.
It will gratify the patrons of the English stage to know,
that her Majesty has been pleased, in the most unexpected
and condescending manner, to express her desire to uphold
the only national theatre now open, by conveying to the
lessee of Drury-lane her gracious intention to honour Ms
establishment with a state command, which is appointed to
take place, we believe, on the 24th instant.
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Piazza Coffee-house, Covent-garden, where about fifty gen-
tlemen connected with the trade and commerce of the cities
of London and Westminster, &c., sat down to an excellent
dinner, provided by Mr. Cuttris.

BANK OF FRANCE.
The statement published by the Bank of France contained
the officiaelnadcicnogunotleof2sittsh peofsii‘tranreiain. d operations for the last
quarter,
From this statement it appears that the specie in the Bank
amounted to 266,290,265 f., and the bills discounted to
94,184,284 f.
The other side of the account shows that the amount of
notes in circulation was 256,317,227 f.; balance due to the
Treasury in account current, 119,458,411 f. • and the balances
due on private deposit accounts, 56,771,171 f.
On a comparison of this account with the preceding
quarter, ending the 26th of December last, it appears that
there is : Francs.
An increase iu the amount of specie of
A decrease in the amount of bills under dis- _

count of
... 63,244,756
On the other side of the account there is—
An increase in the notes in circulation of ... 6,442,607
A decrease in the Treasury accounts of
An increase in the private deposit ac-
counts of 9,459,542
The private accounts-current, as specified in the total ope-
rations of the quarter, show an increase in the receipts of
75,883,477 E, as compared with the preceding three months;
the total sums received and paid on these accounts each
amount to about 52,000,0001. sterling. The total advances
on deposits of bullion amount to 14,978,000 f.; the amount
for the same purpose for the three months ending the 26th of
December was 11,666,500 f. The advances on public securi-
ties were 5,429,000 f., being nearly the same as in the pre-
ceding quarter.
The amount of bills under discount is about 3,650,0001.
The specie held by the Bank of France is about 10,300,0004
against an issue of notes of about 9,930,0001. It appears,.
therefore, that the amount of specie, as compared with the
circulation of notes, is again on the increase, and, the amount
of bills under discount has suffered a decrease as comp d
with the last quarter, of nearly 2,500,0001. sterling.

CITY or LONDON GENERAL PENSION SOCIETY.--•
Yesterday a general meeting of the members of this Society
took place at the London Tavern, for the election of six pen-
sioners, four men and two women. The chair was take* by
Luke J. Hansard, Esq. The Directors stated that they bad
invested 5001. in the life fund, and that there was at present
5,5041. of funded property, besides the surplus fund, amount
ing to 6001., making a total of 6,1041. stock in the Bank of
England. The annual income exceeded that of the last year
by nearly 70/. The ages of the pensioners were from sixty
to ninety years, and they were sixty-six in number at the
present moment. The men receive IL 45., and the women
16s. monthly. The election having been concluded, a vote
of thamis was passed to the chairman, when the meeting ad-
jouned.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAVERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—When President Polk made his recent assertion
of the " unquestionable" right of the United States to the
skegon Territory, and so broadly intimated their intention
tohave it by fair means or by foul, it is pretty evident that
he did a very foolish -thing. That the first speech of a new
President, like the first work of a " prentice hand," must be
taken cum gran salis, we are perfectly aware. We offer no ob-
jection to the national taste which extorts from every Presi.
dent, at every opportunity, these fulsome eulogies of his coun-
try and its institutions ; nor do we forget that our transat-
lantic brethren, like their aboriginal predecessors, have a
constitutional tendency to soar into " palaver" of a random
kind; or that the favourite weapon of the red warrior is still
hurled by the white orator in high-flown prose. But there
are limits to the allowance to be made even to American
Presidents. The British Government has shown itself,
throughout the conduct of this affair, extremely slow to
take Offence. No claim has been put forward on our part
wia%.ch does not admit of ample support by appeal to
eyeery authority which can rationally be appealed to on
'such a subject. The value to the British colonies in North
America of the country west of the Rocky Mountains, and
north of the Columbia, is quite equal to that attached by the
United States to a similar outlet to the Pacific. Our North
American trade westward is chiefly in peltries, and
China is our principal market. To give up the dis-
puted territory to the United States, would, there-
fore, be to give up not only what we have a valid claim
to, but what it is of considerable importance we should re-
tain. Were the elements of the case so altered that the
subject of the dispute should be of small value to us, but of
great importance to the United States, the point of right
might be of little moment. If against us, we should have
no interest in pushing the dispute to extremities ; and, i f
in our favour the conditions of its cession might be readily
and amicably settled by negotiation. But it is not so.
The .labours of several very able men on both sides
have been devoted to the investigation of the respective
claims of the two countries. The result is a very
general admission of the justice of that of Great
Britain, to an extent even greater than that to which it is
now urged. And again, every year increases the number of
settlers in the northern district of the country, who have
placed their dependence for security of person and property
upon the undisputed recognition of British authority from
Canada to the mouth of the Columbia. Since Oc-
tober-, 1818, the dispute :has been avoided by a tem-
porary compromise, under which the territory is left
Open to the subjects of both Powers, without preju-
dice to their respective claims. But this is an arrangement
which, however satisfactory while the country remained un-
, settled and uninhabited except by a few wandering natives
and the trappers and collectors of peltry, is obviously incon-
sistent with the establishment of the forms of government
which become requisite as soon as the regular settler makes
his appearance. Either party is at liberty to terminate
the arrangement on giving a year's notice. But in the
mean time, of course, the rights of both are in abeyance.
The negotiations now going on between Mr. Pakenham
and the United States Government have for their object the
amicable termination of what all admit cannot long endure.
By entering upon them, the American Government has
tacitly admitted that there is something in the case fairly
liable to doubt or dispute. It is not usual either for men or for
nations to engage in conference upon matters which either
party deems indisputable; but while such a conference conti-
nues, it is usual with both to preserve a decent abstinence from
any direct allusion or appeal to popular persuasions or pas-
sions. In meeting our Plenipotentiary, the American Go-
vernment addresses itself to our judgment and our sense
of justice. Does it find in us so great a lack of these
as to necessitate an appeal to our feelings—and is the
American estimate of our courage and our power so
- very low as to justify, even to themselves, the special
direction of that appeal to our fears ? If this be Mr.
Polk's view of the matter, we can confidently assure him he
is wrong ; and that an adherence to it will not only fail to
facilitate the adjustment of the present difference of opinion
between the two countries, but will probably open up one still
more difficult to settle. No doubt a large portion of the Ame-
rican people believe the claim of their Government upon the
disputed territory to be a just one. The national imagination
is agreeably filled by the idea of extending the Union to
the western shores of the Continent; and it needs but the
_ suppression of a few facts, and the sturdy assertion of one or
two doubtful doctrines, to make a popular case in favour of
the claim. But we can hardly believe that even the American
populace can be so besotted as to imagine that we are likely
to yield to bullying what we refuse to a fair demand. " The
old country," groan though it may under the horrors of
despotism and heavy taxes, has vet a fair reputation
for courage—has not commonly been found wanting
either in the ability or the will to fight when fair occasion
offered. We are yet unacquainted, except through the
flowery medium of a President's message, with "the inesti-
mable blessings" of a purely democratic Government—we
do not know what it is to have the highest offices of our Go-
vernment filled by gentlemen caught hastily in the back-
woods, with much party-patriotism and little prudence, and
quite uncontaminated by official experience ; but we like to
keep our own—we do not like to be threatened—and we can
fight if we are forced to it.
STANDARD.—The Dublin Freeman's Journal offers the
following notice of some observations that lately appeared in
the Standard:—" The Standard pipes on a new key. That
rabid bigot finds himself lashed into submission, and strives
to restrain the effervescence of its bile by persuading
itself that the increased grant to Maynooth is not a
concession,' nor yet a measure of conciliation,' but
a measure of compulsion towards the clergy—' a mea-
sure of Government—a measure (says the Standard) of a
sound, and not unjust or harsh policy, compelling the religious
teachers' to qualify themselves for their functions. But we
must reprint the passage here though we have transferred
the whole article to another column :—" The proposed grant
to Maynooth is not a measure of concession or of concilia
tion,' to use a phrase which abuse and failure have rendered
odious and absurd—it is a measure of Government, a mea-
sure of a sound, and not unjust or harsh, policy, com-
pelling the religious teachers of a large proportion of
the Queen's subjects to qualify themselves for the
office they asssume by a far better education than they now
receive. As such a compulsory measure the Roman Catholic
priests in Ireland treat it, although they cannot honestly con-
fess the truth, because they cannot charge the proposition
with injustice or harshness.' If this sort of coercion
satisfies the Standard, we have no reason to complain.
It is—yes, it positively is—a measure of coercion, says
the Standard. Peel may call it coercion ; the Queen
may call it conciliation ; but we know it is neither. Were
it either, we would oppose it ; but it is not—it is down-
right, though neither unjust' nor harsh,' compulsion to
force those 20,0001. upon the priests, and we will call it such.
Why, then, oppose this preposition ?" The compulsion of
which we spoke is not coercion. It is a compulsion by 3.7ne
public opinion of a mark:e- class, which though the very re-
verse of coercion, is, in the long run, the most powerful of all
influences in directing the conduct of men; we ssiy in the
long run, because we think that we have been misun-
derstood upon this point by some critics less unfriendly than
the Dublin Freeman's Journal. We do not 'anticipate an
early manifestation of improvement in the character of the
nriests—the education of an individual is not the work of a day,
still less is the education of a class but we do anticipate
that the Roman Catholic laity knseiving that their clergy
have the means of respectable edsiCation ; and being, as' we
trust they will be, better educated themselves, will compel
the aspirants to the priesthood to avail themselves of the
bounty of the State, and will even add something of their
own, should the bounty of the State be insufficient. This we
count the first stage towards the reformation of Ireland, arid it
will occupy some years; but the second stage is morally
certain to succeed. This, it may be said, is drawing hope
from a distant future. It is—and who knows anything of
political science who does not know that the distant future
ought to be a principal consideration with statesmen ? All
great operations in moral, as in physical nature, are the effect,
of a long train of causes, acting through a long period of
time ; but if such operations are not undertaken, ex-
cept- with the prospect of immediate results, they will
not be undertaken at all. Now to another point. In the
steiniug.support which Lord John Russell gave to Ministers
on Thursday, his Lordship, in the exercise of the accus-
tomed el-aft of his party, did his utmost to damage
the measure ..w.hich he affected to aid, advancing false
and offensive arguments in its support, and Lord John, we
are aorfy to 'say, was countenanced in the same line by some
who ought to have known better.