The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-24 00:00:00

75,000 f., but only en condition that the army withdrew; that
we should not penetrate into the interior of their grottoes;
and that they should keep their arms. These conditions hav-
ing been refused, they returned into their grottoes; they
resumed their firing on us and on such of their own party as
attempted to escape ; and on our side orders were given to
continue throwing down wood. Three hours were given to the
Arabs to refiect on their position. At length, on the 19th, after
twelve o'clock, the wood was again set fire to and kept up all
night. What pen can describe this picture? To behold in the
midst of the night, by the light of the moon, a body of troops em-
ployed in keeping up an infernal fire, to hear the heavy groans of
men, children, and animals, the cracking of the calcined rocks as
they tumbled down, and the continual detonation of firearms
During the night, too, there was a terrible struggle between the
men and cattle. In the morning, when the entrance of the
caverns was set clear, a horrible spectacle struck the eyes of the
assailants I have visited the three grottoes, and this is
what I saw. At the entrance lay oxen, asses, and sheep;
their instinct had drawn them to the opening, to breath
the air which was wanting inside ; amongst these animals,
and heaped together under them, were women and children.
I saw a man dead, the knee on the ground, and the hand
on the horn of the oxen, and just before him was a woman
holding a child in her arms. It was easy to see that this
man had been stifled, as well as the woman, child, and ox, at the
moment when the Arab was endeavouring to preserve his family
from the fury of the animal. The grottoes are of immense size;
yesterday 760 corpses were reckoned ; only 60 men came our,
three-quarters dead; 40 could not survive, and died immediately;
there are ten who have been sent to the hospital in a most dan-
gerous state ; and the ten others have been sent away to their tribes.
To-day, the 23d, we are still in front of these grottoes, which it is
impossible to look at without shuddering. Pestilential exhala.
tions are breaking out. At ten o'clock we raise our camp. Scarcely
had the news of this terribly catastrophe become known, when the
whole Dahra submitted. From all quarters the Arabs are coming
in, bringing their arms; our camp is encumbered with muskets,
and in consequence the troops are to receive six days' provisions,
in order to dispose of the mules to carry the arms. It is necessary
to be, like us, on the theatre of events to recognise all the efforts
which were made to prevent this catastrophe, and to comprehend
the importance of reducing these folks, in the interest of the gene-
ral tranquillity. But the grottoes of the Ouled Riah will always
have a sad renown,"

The Moniteur contains laws authorising the Minister of
Public Works to make concessions of the following lines of
railroad :—First, of the railroad from Paris to the frontier of
Belgium, with embranchments from Lille to Calais and Dun-
kirk ; second, of the railroad from Creil to St. Quentin ; and,
third, of the railroad from Fampoux to Hazebrouck. The
duration of the lease of the former is not to exceed 41 years;
and the maximum of that of the Creil and St. Quentin and
Fampoux and Hazebrouck lines is fixed at 75 years. No
Company is to be admitted to bid for the concession of those
roads unless it shall have been previously approved by the
Minister of Public Works, and deposited the required se-
curities.

The French Funds improved on Monday, principally on
account of the rise in British Consols.

The Three per Cents. closed at 8.31. 50c. ; the Five per
Cents. at 1211. 85c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,165 f. ;
Rouen, 1,037 f. 10c. ;Vierzon, 745 f. ; Havre, 852 f. 50c. ; Avignon,
965 f. ; Basle, 260 f.
The following are the quotations for the new lines :-
Orleans and Bordeaux, 1651. prem. ; Boulogne, 105 f. ditto ;
Troyes and Montereau, 15f. ; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte),
25f. ; ditto (Calon ), par • ditte (Ganneron), 6f. 50 c. ; Northern
Line (Laffitte), 50f. ; ditto (Rosamel), 12f. 50c; Tours and
Nantes (Mackenzie), 9f. 50c. ; ditto (Drouillard), par; ditto
(O'Neill), 3f. 50c. ; ditto (Jacques Lefevre), par; Lyons
and Avignon ( Lecointe), 121. 50c. ; ditto (Talabot), 311.
25c. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), sf. ; Bordeaux
and Toulouse (Mackenzie), par; ditto and Cette (Espeleta),
6f. 50c. ; Creil and St. Quentin, par; Paris and Strasbourg
(Ganneron), 101. 50c.; Dieppe, 25f.
MARSEILLES, JULY 17.- arseilles and Avignon, 950 f. ;
Boulogne, 6201. ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 670 t: ; Vierzon,
745£ ; Avignon and Lyons (Talabot), 531 f. 25c. ; ditto (Sebas-
tiani), 512£ 50c. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 502 f.
50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette (Espeleta), 5021. 50c. ; Toulon,
495 f.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were about
5,000 bags, including 1,000 American on speculation. The
market was rather quiet, but full prices were obtained. 300
Pernam, 6%d. to 63/4d. ; 100 Bahia, 6d. ; 200 Maranham, sd.
to 5%d.; 200 Egyptian, at 6d. to 9d. ; and Ameri-
can, at 3%d. to 5%d. per lb.-There was a good
market for Shares, and a large business was done, :-
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 5% ;
Blackbu-n and Preston, 21%; Bolton, Wigan, and Liver-
pool, 25 26%; Caledonian Extension, 23/4 ; Cambridge and
Lincoln, 4%; Chester and Birkenhead, New Shares, 61 ;
Clydesdale Junction, 8% ; Derby and Crewe, 495. ; Dundee
and Perth, 31. 595. ; Eastern Counties, Perpetual, 8 4d. ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 80 ; Edinburgh, Leith, and
Grantham, Preference Shares, 14; Edinburgh and Northern,
38s. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 201/4 ; Grand Junction,
237%; Ditto, Eighths, 22% %; Goole and Doncaster, 21s. ;
Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 9% 103/4 ; Leicester and
Bedford, 3% % ; Leicester aad Birmingham, 21. 41s. ;
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 33/4 ; London and
South-Western, New 501. Shares, 14%; London and York,
5% 3/ ; Direct Northern, 2% 3; Leeds and Dewsbury, 23%
24 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 1/2 ; Leeds and West Riding
Junction, 7,N; 1,4 ; Manchester and Birmingham, New
Shares, % % ; Manchester and Birmingham Continuation,
2 ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 25%; Ditto,
Sixteenth Shares, 9% ; Matlock and Midland, 7% ; Mid-
land Railway, 401. Shares, 28% ; Ditto, Consolidated
Bury and Derby, 150 ; Mold Junction, 1%; Newark and
Sheffield. 2% %; North Kent, 23% ; North Wales, 2% ;
North Wales Mineral, New Shares, 5%; North estern,
4% 5; Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate, 51s. 2%;
Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 43/4 ; Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton, 71/z ; Sheffield and Manchester,
Quarter Shares, 16% ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, No. 2, 71,4 ;
Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, 265. 6d. 355. ; Shrewsbury,
Oswestry, and Cheshire, 3% ; South-Eastern and Dover,
New Shares, No. 3,8%; South Midland, 3% ; Wake-
field, Pontefract, and Goole, 19%; Welsh Midland, 3%;
West Lancashire, 28s. 6d. ; West Yorkshire, 71/a 3% ; Wor-
cester and Tring, 275. ; York and Carlisle, 33/4 ; Belfast
and Ballymena, 6% ; Cork and Bandon, 7 % ; Cork and
Waterford, 28s. 6d. ; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 814 % ;
Dublin and Drogheda, 104 ; Dublin and Galway, 3%; Great
Southern and Western Extension, 12%; Londonderry and
Enniskillen, 3%; Newry and Warrenpoint, 3 ; Waterford
and Kilkenny, 23/4 ; Dutch Rhenish, 8% 44; Jamaica and
South Midland, 5% 34 ; Northern of France (Laffitte's), 5%
%; Ditto (Rosamel's), 2%; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's),
595. ; Ditto (Ganneron's), 2%; Verona and Ancona, 41s. 6d.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 22.-The sales are
-Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5 1-16 ; Blackburn and
Preston, 21% ; ~Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 25% 26 ;
Churnet 534; Derby and Crewe, 2% ; Direct Northern,
; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 78 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares,
19%; Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction, 10s.
12s. 6d. prem. ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 21s. 6d. 215.,• Grand
Union, 335. 6d. 335. ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway
and Canal, 9% ; Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 6% ;
Leeds and Thirsk, %,• Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester,
25 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 7 5-16 36; Leicester
and Bedford, 3% % ; Leicester and Birmingham, 214 ;
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 4 3% ; London and Wor-
cester, Oxford and-Rugby, 255. 265. 3d. ; London and York,
51/4 ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 2314 ; Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 63/4 ; Manchester and Bir-
mingham, New Quarter Shares, 7% ; Manchester and Bir-
mingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 2 3-16 ; New-
castle and Berwick, 1934 ; Newcastle, Durham, an Lan-
cashire, 9s. prem. ; North Easterr, 15.16 ; North Staf
fordshire, 51/4 14; North Western, 434 13-16 ; Nottingham
and Mansfield, 1 11-16 ; Nottingham, Erewash, Ambergate,
and Manchester, 2% 3 ; Nottingham, Belvoir, and Grant-
ham, 10s. prem. ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares,
No. 1, 16% ex int. ; Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union,
2% 2 ; South Midland, 3% %; West Midland, 3 7-16 ; West
Lancashire and Coast Line, 1% 9-16 prem. ; West York-
shire, 7 1,4 ; Whitehaven and Furness, 2% ; Worcester,
Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union, 1% 1-16; Great Northern of
France, English, 5%.
The following are some interesting particulars of the tim-
ber trade at Liverpool:-" This month 36 vessels, 19,851
tons, have arrived, and, as compared with last year, a much
larger supply of timber from Quebec. The market, in con-
sequence, has not opened as animatedly as had been hoped
for, the consumers in the country holding back in the expec-
tation of timber being lower; and as the timber-merchants.
in most instances, have imported several cargoes direct from
Quebec, the regular importers have had a narrower field for
the disposal of their carves, and have been obliged to give
way. The entire arrivals since the Ist of the month have
been from British North America 36 vessels, 19,851 tons, of
which 27 vessels, 16,150 tons, are from Quebec; and from
the Baltic five vessels, 1,867 tons, three being from Dantzic,
one from St. Petersburgh, and one from Abo."
There are no ship arrivals to-day with later intelligence
from foreign parts.
The Funds have been rather dull this morning, but
although prices are not higher, Stock is comparativelyscarce.
Consols have been 99 to 9914 for Money, and 991/4, buyers
and sellers alternately, for Account. Exchequer-bills have
rallied to 545. and 565. premium. The New Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents. have realised 102% %. Bank Stock is
firm at 21114.
The Foreign market is very well supported-Spanish Ar-
chives have been 2614 A, and the Three per Cents 37% %.
Portuguese Old Bonds were at 87. Colombian have been
firm at 173/ to 18; Mexican have been marked 37; Dutch
Two-and-a alf per Cents. have been 62%, and Russian
118%.
The Railway Share Market is fluctuating, and there is a
good deal doing. London and York have caused much ex-
citement, owing to the favourable decision.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock 2IIU 2111%
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 99i/4 99 99
New 31/1 per Cents ...102%% 1021 A
Long Annuities to expireJan.lB6o 111/ 7-16 11 7-16
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5,1860 ... 11% 11 3-16
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, 1,0004 11,4 d 54 56 pm. 56
Ditto 5001. .
Ditto Small — pm.

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CLOSING
PRICES.
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PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent. 481
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 173/4 18
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... 37
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents —
Ditto. Account ... ..... ....-
Portuguese 5 per Cents. B7
Ditto, Converted...
Ditto, Account
Russian Bonds ... 118%
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. •
.
Ditto, Account 2640A
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent. ••• -
Ditto Account
French, 3 per Cent
Exchange
Belgian 414 per Cent. — 100
Dutch, 2% per Cent .
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific...• 99% 99%
PRICES OF CLOSING
B.tILWAY SHARES • • P tiD A ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 ......1341/2
Bri'ton, Lewes, & llast. 20 ...... 26 .•• ......... •• •
Bristol and Exeter 7O ...... 961/2
Do. New .... . ......... 2 ...... 12
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln 1%...... 4% M
Chester and Holyhead... 15 ...... 211/2
Churnet Valley
Clydesdale Junction ..... 5 ... 81A%
Cork and Waterford ... 11/2 l%
Coventry, Bedworth, and
Nuneaton

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