The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-29 00:00:00

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M•••=••••
Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN moved the second reading of
the Malt Drawback Bill.
After a short diFctlsior, the }lon. Gentkman, on the
recommendation of Mr. MILES, withdrew the measure.
The adjourned debate on Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S reso-
lutions was then resumed by Mr. P. Howann, who
opposed both the resolutions and the amendment. The
House was subsequently addressed by Mr. ESCOTT, Sir
JOHN WALSH, Lord HowlcK. Sir J. HANDIER, and Sir
R. PEEL, after which Lord JOHN RUSSELL briefly
replied.
The House then divided upon Mr. S. CnAwFonD's
amendment, which beiug negatived by a large majority,
thQ original motion was put, which was also lost by a
majority of 7S.

The opposition made by the Catholic prelates of Ire-
land to the Academies Bill is an unfortunate occurrence
at the present time, as it will be mixed up with the
Maynooth affair, and throw difficulties in the way of
the Government, which may tend very much to mar
their plans for restoring peace to that country. It ap-
pears to us that the Irish bishops attach too much
importance to the question of religious education in col-
leges. In England the practice of teaching divinity to all
the students at the two Universities has become obsolete,

DON'S, worth 3,0001., and also sacrificed in the flames.
Mr. KING, the father of the lady in whose apartment the
fire originated, Lad wiih hire a very valuable chest of
plate, which has been, douLtless, melted in the ruin. I
Now the fire was seen and the house alarmed, by one
or two active and intrepid men servants, and an omnibus
time-keeper, very shortly after midnight; yet, strange
to say, we find no account of any combined or active
exertions of the police. It was an opera night, and
the French company had been giving a performance at
the St. James's Theatre. There must have been plenty
of the constabulary within reach ; but, somehow or
other, as we have too often occasion to remark, they
are seldom to be found when they are most wanted.
And when two or three do present themselves in such
scenes of unofficial exigency and alarm, we never hear
of bold and disinterested exertions to save human life
in fearful jeopardy. That they should not have assem•
bled on the spot long before Mr. Inspector BERESFORD
marshalled them—which was precisely when all the mis-
chief was done, all the loss of life and property per-
fected—i s surely highly discreditable to the vigilance,
and reflects little credit on the courage of this highly-
paid and much-eulogised, but, too often, very inefficient
force. We have nothing to complain of in their subse-
quent deportment, or their services in protecting the
ruins from intrusion ; but why were: they not at hand
to snatch the inmates of the house from the flames ?
They should be kept in much stricter training, and be
much more easily got at, to justify the enormous charge
of their establishment. According to the evidence of a
witness at the inquest, the man who had charge of the
escape ladders was totally unfit for duty, or all the vic-
tims might have been saved. This shows what might
have been done by the prompt and strict superintendence
of the police.

and it never existed, as far as we are aware, at any o
the five collegiate institutions in Scotland. Our northern
neighboars, as all the world know, have not suffered
on that account. They have neither become in-
fidels, nor Roman Catholics, nor Episcopalians, but
adhere as religiously to the Kirk and the religious tenets
of KNOX, and the other fathers of the Calvinistic Church,
as they could have done, had they never heard of any
other system of belief. Why, therefore, should the Ca-
tholics be afraid ? If their religion cannot stand upon
its merits, there must be something in it radically
bad or defective, and it is rather disparaging to Irish-
men to insinuate that, if they are not watched by their
priests and constantly steered in the right way, they will
become Protestants or infidels. There is not the
slightest ground for such fears, and it would
be well, therefore, for the heads of the Church
to weigh all the circumstances well before
they make demands on the Government which
must be inconvenient, and may be ruinous to the best in-
terests of their country. The mixed education in the
National schools, they know, works well ; Catholic and
Potestant children learn the rudiments, and some of
the higher branches of instruction together in the
same classes, and we have not heard that
any proselytes have been the result on either side.
What fear can there be that attempts of the kind will be
made, or be successful, upon young men whose religious
feelings are already formed, who still may have daily
opportunities of attending their own churches, and
receiving religious instruction from their pastors ?
Besides, they ought to remember that in this world of
difficulties, mankind cannot obtain all that they may de-
sire, or that they believe really good. Parties who
differ in opinion must yield a little, allowance must be
made for prejudices, national as well as religious, and
mutual forbearance be cultivated, else civilised society
would become more intolerable than even the wildest bar-
barism. We have strong hopes, therefore, that the
Irish prelates will endeavour to meet the views of the
Government as far as they can with a conviction of
safety, and have no doubt that on the other side
every disposition to conciliate will be willingly shown.
It is a fortunate circumstance that the present Lord-
Lieutenant is one qualified for such a juncture, and pos-
sesses a knowledge of the world, and an amenity
of temper, joined to sterling abilities, which have already
surmounted great difficulties in important negotiations.
The reply which Lord HEYTESBURY made to the pre-
lates, on receiving the deputation, augurs well for
the cause. According to the Dublin Evening Post,
his Excellency expressed his conviction that " the
Government would pay the utmost attention to opinions
and suggestions coming from such a source, and with
the best disposition to adopt those suggestions, so far as
they could do so consistently with their duty. The de-
cisiun upon those points would rest with the Govern-
ment, who, he felt assured, were most anxious to
provide for the moral guardianship of the pupils,
arid to prevent any possible interference with the reli-
gion of any class. Looking to the various suggestions
in the memorial, his Excellency stated it as his own
opinion, that no serious obstacle was likely to arise on any
point but one, namely, the vesting the appointments in
a board of trustees, as the Government, he thought,
would have a decided objection to such an arrangement,
which could not be expected to work satisfactorily."

We have received Madrid journals of the 21st inst.
On that day the Cortes met for the last time previous
to the prorogation. No business was done ; but in the
Chamber of Deputies some questions were put, respect-
ing the news from Rome, evidently intended for the
Ministers, but no Minister was present. One of the
speakers said, a petition, signed by several Deputies,
had been presented to the President, demanding an
extraordinary meeting of the Chamber, for the purpose
of hearing explanations from the Government on the
relations between Spain and the Court of Rome ; but
the President informed him the petition was not signed
by the requisite number, and, of course, was invalid.
Another speaker complained of the absence of Ministers,
and the President, finding there was no business
before the Chamber, pronounced the adjournment,
and at that moment three Ministers, MARTINEZ
DE LA ROSA, MON, and PEDAL entered. They
were surprised, or pretended to be surprised,
that the Chamber was adjourned, and thus escaped
some questions which they might not find it convenient
to answer. In reference to the objections of the POPE
to the propositions of the Spanish Ambassador at Rome,
the Herald() says :—" It cannot be doubted that the
Court of Rome will acquiesce in the fundamental terms
of the treaty, which are the political acknowledgment of
the Queen of SPAIN, and the religious sanction of the
sales of national property. The Holy Father's assent is
only accompanied with some restrictions, upon which it
is difficult to pronounce, as they are not sufficiently
known. But it may be safely affirmed that there is great
exaggeration in the rumours in circulation." Rumours
prevailed, and they seem not to be without foundation,
that NARVAEZ has fallen into disgrace at Court, and
that a serious misunderstanding exists between him and
Queen CHRISTINA. Don CARLOS, according to accounts
from different quarters entitled to full credit, has at last
resigned his claims to the throne of Spain, in favour of
his son, the Prince of Asturias. The consequence of
this, it is anticipated, will be the marriage of the QUEEN
with that Prince, in order to put an end to the dispute
about the succession. LOUIS PHILIPPE, with his usual
skill, is said to have arranged this affair.
On the 21st the Three per Cents. closed at 321 for
cash, and 334 for account ; and the Fives at 24i for ac-
count ; Debt, without interest, at 60 days,

The dreadful catastrophe at RAGGETT'S Hotel on Mon
day night, or rather the morning of Tuesday last, was
one of the most distressing we have had to record since
the commencement of the present year, prolific as that
has already proved in domestic horrors. So distressing
a sacrifice of human life, under circumstances so fear-
fully contrasted, in some of their associations, with the
deplorable event that they resulted in, may well seem to
carry with it to all hearts its own impressive lesson on
the frailty of human existence, and the evanescence of
those gifts of nature and fortune which all ranks of civi-
lized society so extravagantly prize. But we do not
affect to discharge the duty of moralists in adverting to
it. Our object is to claim once more the attention, net
of the municipal, not of the police authorities
of this great city, but of the Legislature itself,
to that scandalous deficiency of precautionary
and protective arrangements, in sudden and alarming
exigencies, that ought to be always available, at certain
known stations, in sufficiently numerous] districts,
for the purposes of succour and refuge. We have so
often, in common with other journalists, pressed upon
the police magistracy and the parochial authorities of
the metropolis the responsible duty that devolves upon
them of providing such means, and duly organising their
supply and application, that we should despair—were
we to renew our appeal to them—of doing so with any
greater degree of success than has attended our former
efforts. It is really high time that the Secretary of
State for the Home Department should introduce some
measure on this subject, with clauses of sufficient strin-
gency to ensure for its enactments a faithful and vigilant
execution. Fire-escapes ought to be, undoubtedly,
deposited in some permanent locality in each
of a given number of districts, into which
the city and liberties of Westminster and
their suburbs, for example, might be divided for such
a purpose, without delay. Every possible means should
be adopted for giving the most extensive publicity to all
these details. The deposit, and the prompt supply
of these escapes, should be made with, and required of,
responsible parties, paid for the discharge of these duties,
and amenable in heavy penalties for, any neglect of
them. To each of these district stations at least one
messenger should be attached, in order to, ensure at all
hours instant communication with the nearest establish-
ment of the fire brigade. In this way there would be
no time lost on the outbreak of a fire—first, through the
absence of any party specially charged with the duty
of looking out for such accidents; secondly, by rea-
son of the distance of the point to be applied to ;
thirdly, by that uncertainty which often produces
irreparable delay with regard to the precise direc-
tion in which fire-engines and fire-escapes are to
be carried, even after the fact of a fire having broken
out is ascertained by the brave and active men who
know not in what direction to hasten. It may be ob-
jected by some that an organised system of this kind,
simple as the plan would be, would entail on parties an
objectionable expense. Such an objection would really
not be tenable, however ; for the expense would form
almost an imperceptible item in the general amount of
the parochial expenditure. But if it did—would pa-
rishioners hesitate to pay an insignificant increase of
rates to sleep in comparative security against the possi•
bility of casualties, fraught with such terrible extermi-
nation, as the calamitous fires occurring among them?
In the destruction of RAGGETT'S Hotel the lady o
a Member of Parliament has perished ; her daughter
escaped, but only by an almost miraculous fortune,
merited, we may add, by the exhibition of a
most meritorious self-possession. .An Earl and his
Countess narrowly escaped destruction ; the noble
father only just succeeds in snatching his infant heir
from the devouring flames, which had already began to
gather round his cot—and, horrible to relate, afterwards
consumed his faithful attendant. In a gallant effort to
rescue one of the inmates of that blazing house—(the ill-
fated lady of the Member for Maldon, who had arrived
in town only the day before, to be present at the QUEEN'S
Drawing- room on the following Tuesday),—the owner and
landlord of the devoted house perishes with her ; and
nothing has been found to attest cr to identify their
mortal remains, but blackened, burnt, and mutilated
masses of undistinguishable humanity. The unfortu-
nate landlord's daughter perished by a fate almost
equally deplorable—falling to the ground before the
fire-escapewitde w.
The
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lady
ye
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whose
firechamber
ecom-
menced
rescued
fwimth exthtreeirme
beds, are
anadarfievde otherfrere
rariec is
.e, aroused
the balconies of the drawing-room windows.
If a calamity so awful in its destruction of human life
could be aggravated by the destruction of valuable pro-
perty, that incident of aggravation has not been wanting
in this case. The unfortunate Mrs. ROUND is supposed
to have had with her the jewels on which she fondly,
perhaps, and naturally looked forward to making her
obeisance to her SOVEREIGN, at the Court of Tuesday ;
and they are valued, it is said, at a considerably higher
amount than even those of the Countess of IfuNTING-

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDA Y_EVENING, MAY 29, 1845.

It appears from the Paris papers that Marshal Bu.
cueup had commenced operations against ABD-EL
KADER and his adherents, and that several skirmishes
had taken place, ending in favour of the French. The
Moniteur publishes two dispatches from the Marshal to
the Minister at War, dated the 6th and 9th of May.
In the first he announces his arrival in the Ouaren-
senis, and his preparatory movements. In the second
he gives an account of two affrays on the 14th, between
the rear-guard of a convoy and about 500 Kabyles, who
attacked it. The enemy were beaten off with the loss
of several killed and 20 prisoners. The French, who
had only eight killed and 15 wounded, captured 300
head of cattle, and made other booty. Another affair of
slight importance took place on the following day. Mar-
shal BUGEAUD states that, in the ',evening of the 14th,
some tribes made their submission. The entire insurrec-
tion in the Ouarensenis was caused, he says, by the
same Scheriff, who raised the Dahra, and who presented
himself as a kind of prophet sent by GOD to delive Al-
geria from the Christians. Two other impostors, how •
ever, are stated to have appeared, one i❑ the Mountai n
and the other in the Dahra. Marshal BIIGEAUD attri-
butes these revolts to ABD-EL-KADER, who was expected
in that quarter. Some additional particulars had been
received respecting the treaty with Morocco. The
Journal des Debuts, in an article on the subject,
which probably speaks the opinions of the Govern-
ment, says—" Fresh intelligence leads us to believe
that this affair is far from having the gravity which has
been attributed to it, and that it is not of a nature to
compromise the solution of the secondary difficulties
which still remain to be arranged with our neighbour in
Africa." It then gives the following letter from Tan-
giers, dated May 10
" The circumstances which have,suddenly arrested the ratifica-
tion of the convention lately concluded for fixing the limits of the
frontiers, are clearing up more and more, and this unexpected
obstacle appears to possess less gravity than could be at first sup-
posed. The convention was intended to seek out and fix the
ancient limits of Algeria, such as they existed when this possession
was under the domination of the Porte. But it would seem
that in the convention negotiated between the plenipoten-
tiaries of France and Morocco, the primitive object had
been exceeded, and that a large portion of territory belonging to
Morocco had been assigned to France. When the text of the
convention was sent to the Emperor, the chiefs of the Kabyles,
neighbouring to the frontiers, were in his presence, and he com.
municated to them what had been done. They all cried out
against it unanimously, declaring that the frontier marked
in the convention was very different from that recognised
before the French conquest, and that the new arrangement took
from them a portion of territory which had belonged to them
from generation to generation. In reply to their pressing com-
plaints, the Emperor had to assure them that it was never in-
tended to encroach on their rights, but simply to fix the
ancient limits of the Turks. A fact which, besides, would
seem to prove that the designation of the frontier was still a
subject of doubt, is that the convention was only signed, it
is positively asserted, by one of the two Plenipotentiaries of
the Emperor, the Caid of Ouchda. The second Sid-
Ahmed-Elkadir, refused to affix his signature, for the rea-
sons which afterwards determined the Emperor himself."
That journal adds :—" At no period, and in no part of the world,
have questions of frontiers been easy to decide. We may point to
the frontiers of Belgium and Holland as an example, they having
been only recently fixed definitively. We may also mention the
frontiers of the English possession in North America, which were
in dispute for uwards of fifty years, and which were de.
cided only two years back. That did not, however, pre-
vent England and the United States from living in peace for thirty
years, as they do at present, although their limits are again con.
tested on another side. We do not see, therefore, why difficulties
which between two civilised nations are habitually resolved by
means of negotiations ought to be arranged otherwise when one of
the parties is what is called a barbarous nation."
Several of the journals advert to a letter said to have
been addr. ssed by Queen POMARE to LOUIS PHILIPPE,
and published in some of the London papers, but it is
so evidently the work of missionaries that it requires no
particular notice. The Presse very correctly thus gives

PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SIIARE.
Aberdeen ............... ........ "1/2, 3%...... to
Armagh, Colcraine,Portrush 1% 2-,,1/2... to
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 134 ...... to 136
Caledonian 5 .. 914 to 814
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln
Churnet Valley
Cork and Waterford ll/2 . . 2% to
Direct Northern ... 2%...... 3% to
Dublin and Belfast Junction 21/2...... 115
to 10%
Dublin and Galway .. ... ...... 2%...... 3% to
Eastern Counties
i Do. New 41. 16s 4%%... to
Eastern Union
to
Ditto Extension
Ely and Bedford ll4 ...... 2% ...... to —3
Great North of England 100 252 248... to 253
Ditto New .. ... 5
Ditto New 2 ...... 35% 37 to 36
Great Western
Guildford, Fareham, Portms. 2% 53/ to
Hull and Selby ... 50 ...106% 1041/2 to 105
Ditto Half Shares. 2 ...... 231/214... to
Lancaster and Car1i51e......... 20 ...... 401 A 3/4... to
London and Birmingham ...100 244 243... to 247
Ditto Thirds
Ditto 14 Shares
London and Brighton.— ...... 50 ...... 641/8 to
London and Croydon... 13/. 15s. 9d.... 181;2%
Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Ct. 6
London and South Western.. 41%...... 80
Ditto New 2%
London and York ........ ...... 2% 4% to 3%
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 2% 23/4% ... to
Manchester and Leeds 73 .. ...153
Manchester and Birmingham 40
Ditto Quarters
Midland lOO lB7 185% to 190
Ditto New 2 28 26 29 to 28
Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100 152
Newcastle &Darlington inc. 25 ...... 5134 to
Ditto New Brandling
34
Newcastle and Berwick
North British ... ... 12% 22f4...... to 21%
Ditto New 1 .. ... 5%3/4 to
North Kent
Perth and Inverness
Rugby, Worcester,:and Tring 1
Scottish Midland
Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2% 4% to 5
South:Devon
South Eastern and Dover ... 331/8 413/4 to 42%
Ditto New, No. 1 8
Ditto New, N 0.2 7 . . 131/2 to
Ditto New, No. 3 2IA •71/4 to
South Wales
Waterford and Kilkenny
York and North Midland ... 50 ......
Ditto Scarboro'Branch
Ditto Selby
Ditto, Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens..
Bordeaux and Toulouse
Bordeaux,Toulouse, and Cette 2
Dijon and Mulhouse 2 ... 2% to
Great Northern of France
(Laffitte's) .... ...... .. 4
Do. Do. (Rosamel's). ..... ... 2 ..... 214
Great Paris and Ly0n5......... 2
Louvain and Jemeppe ... 2
Lyons and Avignon
Namur and Liege........
Orleans and Bordeaux ...
Over Yssel 413 s 4d O%l/2.. to
Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's) 2 ...
Paris and Lyons (Laffitte) ... 2 ...... 234 to
Paris and Lyons (Calon's)... 2 . ... 1% to
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasburg...
Do. (Hainguerlot's)
Sambre and Meuse