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TUESDAY; AUGUST ff. Islll
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• STOCK EXCHANOZ,ITIVSLVE O'CLOCK.
Scarcely any besinees done up eci this beer in the Market.—
Casuals are SO e, at which price they MAW steady; Reduced
alp iVanereow will be settling d%
Peens* Prem.—Avery little besings. has been done in the
Market this morning.—Chillan4B44, New Prussian 87*; Old
9 ; Rltselan LSI to 86; New 64i f l pid ; Neapo-
litan 57}; Colsinbian 86j i; Scripl9l.
STOCK EXCHANO3, ONE O'CLOCK.
OUr Market remains steady, with little business dean.
CURRCNT PRICES:
Bank Stock 251.1,4 252-3 per Ct. Reduced 811/4 )4,
2 per Cent. Cons. 801,4 3/8 14— 81/2 per Cts. 911%
per Cents. 995/1 %-4 per Cent. New 994 i Y.t.
Bank Long Annuities 21—India Stock. 2501/2 -
India Bonds 475. 495. pr.--Old Annuities SON
Exchequer Bills of £1 ,000, ss. 7s. ss. pr.
Ditto Small ss. Bs. pr.—Cons. for Acct. 80% A %.

Nothing decisive is yet known as to the new Mi-
nisterial arrangements which must result from the
death of the late Marquis of LONDONDERRY. Some of
our contemporaries are quite in despair at the •" irre-
parable loss" the country has sustained in the death
of his Lordship ; but we have seen so many of those
" irreparable losses" so easily repaired, that we have
no fears on the subject; nor was Lord LONDONDERRY
a statesman of such transcendent talents, or one who
so far outstripped his contemporaries, as to render
none of them capable of succeeding him.
We are not now speaking of the acts of his Ad..
ministration, many of which we have never ceased to
condemn. We merely allude to his abilities; and, in
sa)ing—that we consider him to have been a man of
capacity rather than a man of genius, we do not wish
to detract from his real merit. But that merit ap-
pears to us to have rested on very different claims from
those on which his advocates ground it.
His Lordship had general talents for business,
great industry, much self.confidence, and a facility of
speaking on all subjects, with some ingenuity in
elucidating a subject, and much more in mystifying
it ; but that he possessed enlarged views. either of out
foreign or domestic policy, we deny.
As a diplomatist we doubt his qualifications very
much, and would refer to the negotiations at Cha-
tillon, previous to the fall of BONAPA RTE —to the
Treaty of Paris—or to the Congress at Aix la Cha-
pelle, and challenge one instance of successful, or even
clever diplomacy. With regard to the Treaty at the
conclusion of the war, he had almost everything in
his power ; and yet he restored Colonies without
equivalent, or even securing payment of the debts.
due from the Governments to whom he gave them
up--abandoned the French West India Islands to the
merciless traffic in human blood, on the ground that
he could not enforce its abolition—and did not secure
one political or commercial advantage from twenty
years of triumph.
In everything that has transpired in Europe since,
England has appeared to possess as little influence as
one of the petty German Princes; and the Holy Al-
liance has exercised its tyranny at home and abroad
unchecked.

Continuing our review of the foreign policy of his
Lordship's administration, what shall we say to the
imbecile manner in which the war with America was
conducted, or to the manner in which it was ter-
minated?

Then, with regard to the South American States,
which have established their independence beyond
the power of revocation. This was certainly an op-
portunity which a wise Adminibtration would not
have neglected for extending our commerce; but in
this we have already suffered the United States to
anticipate us, and we doubt not shall suffer others.
The domestic policy of Lord LONDONDERRY'S ad-
ministration is too wide a field for us at present to
enter upon; but we presume his eulogists will not
rest much of his Lordship's reputation on this ; for
the economy and reductions in the public expendi-
ture, the only merit that the Ministers can claim, have
all been wrested from them by the unequivocal and
decided tone that public opinion had assumed.
What then, we would ask, is there to prevent his
MAJESTY from finding individuals to fill the offices
left vacant by the late Foreign Secretary ? There is
no necessity to seek an individual who shall be at the
same time Secretary of State, Leader of the House
Commons, the mouth-piece of Mr.VANstrrastr, and
Representative of Great Britain at the Congress !
but the offices may be divided, and, we are satisfied,
filled with as much advantage to the country as
they could have been by the Noble Lord, whose
melancholy death would have sunk his political cha-
racter in oblivion, but for the injudicious eulogies of
his friends.

The French Papers of Saturday exhibit a singular
picture of the weakness of the Government, and of
the state of public feeling in France. On the one
hand there is the Court of Assizes at*Paris labouring
per fax out nefas to prove that a formidable con-
spiracy does exist against-the Bouasons ; while, on
the other, there is the programme of the oesunmeries
'-cerved on the Festival of St. Louis, or the
day, on Sandal, which would. almost
belief that the Boulamas are the most
• that ever ruled, of misruled a country.

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