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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-30 00:00:00

t your peril : I have hitherto treated your ladies
kindly, but the first move towards Cabool I
ivself released from all obligations towards

11 consider
m and you

" I believe such a message (and such an one will most as-
suredly be sent) would even puzzle the writer of the Indian

rticles of

Morning ChrOrticle.

----.ll;Cie writer only inquire what treatment Christian
ladies and women might undergo in the hands of furious and
bigoted Mahometans; if he did, he would learn that which
might in common charity (leaving the defence of the whig
policy aside) deter him from urging measures which would
only lead to outrages upon our unhappy women a hundred
times worse than death itself.

" HENRY FANE, Lieutenant-Colonel,
Aide-de-Camp to the late Commander-
in-Chief-in India."

A. NEW

NAVY

FOR SPAIN

etter is from the Madrid correspondent of

MADRID, September 18

_ .
at three weeks since a commission was formed by
f the Spanish government, to enquire into the utility
'ect submitted on the part of a British company by
ar. Henry Misiey, for the purpose of rendering available to
,he state, for the reconstruction of its navy, the valuable oak
timber of the magnificent royal forests of Santander, Galicia,
&c. The commission has not yet reported progress, but the
ministerial paper, La Iberia, took up the subject yesterday
in its leading article in a way which shows that there remains
little to be done towards the completion of the project, but

t a proj

to deprecate the national jealousy at the concession of such
luable materials to the hands of foreigners. As the sub-
is one which promises to be not only of considerable
h, but also to British, maritime inter-
ders with a brief outline of the

tance to op—
., I shall present your
,roposal submitted to the Spanish government .
building, equipment, and maintenance of the Spanish navy.'
" To this extent the company offer to furnish the Govern-
ment for an indefinite number of years with all the materials
necessary for the construction and arming of seven ships of
war, including steamers, per annum ; receiving in exchange
a proportionate number of oak trees, which the Government
are to furnish at the usual selling price of the part of the
country where they are situated. The company only pro-
poses to cut two or three per cent. per annum of the trees
''at
fit for the purpose by a Government engineer, so
'at copsewood may arise, and to plant nurseries for their
'cement, beginning in the splendid forests of Liebana, in
_der, where some of the oldest and largest oaks in the
ld are to be found. They offer to erect saw-mills, rail-
s, common roads, canals, slips, stores, foundaries, &c., to
given up to tho Government, on a valuation, at the con-
tusion of the contract ; engaging also to allow 5 per cent.
per annum additional on the value of the timber taken,
till the first year's price be doubled, and further to
allow of 2 per cent. per annum on the cost of the iron ma-
terials fabricated for the equipment of the vessels, until the
cost of the equipment of the vessels, until the cost of the
manufactured metal be brought down to 3 per cent. They
propose to obtain the other materials of construction, pro-
vision, and ammunition in Spain, by public contract, and to
deliver an account of the same to the government, as well as
the wages of shipwrights, labourers, soldiers, and sailors em-
ployed, at the actual cost, and a-half per cent. commission
thereon. They will establish, on account of the govern-
ment, wherever it may please, a manufactory of naval
steam-engines ; furnish the royal docks and workshops
with the newest models and most approved machinery;
and instruct the pupils whom the government may
wish to employ in the maritime steam service. During
the first and second years, the company will furnish
the royal arsenals with sufficient, timber to provide
materials for construction in future years ; and at the same
time engage to furnish 14 vessels of war (in fulfilment of the
strict terms of the contract) to be fitted np in British ports.
They demand the exclusive right of cutting in the Royal
forests : also of cutting timber fit for ship-building in forests
appertaining to the pueblos of Spain—paying, of course, ac-
cording to valuation ; to be guaranteed and protected in all
things by the state, which shall furnish soldiers to the com-
pany for all defensive purposes. The company offer to em-
ploy these troops in their productive works, and pay, feed,
and clothe them, while so occupied ; guarantees to be ex-
changed ; accounts to be settled once a-year, and all misun-
derstandings-to be arranged by arbitration.
" Such is the project for raising Spain once more to the
rank of a naval power in Europe. It is already taken up and
warmly defended against the narrow envious spirit of Repo-
noliem, which would crush it as a " foreign invention," and
if the matters of " the guarantees" can be satisfactorily ar-
ranged, we may' expect to see Spain again in possession of
an Armada on the waters. The royal oak woods in Galicia,
which furnishes the unfortunate " Invincible," in the days
of Philip 11., are now inaccessible only for want of a read,
and this the government has not resources to make ! In
fact, without the help of foreigners, the oaks of Spain might
rot from age to age on their mountains. In the forest of
Liebana alone, it is stated that from 22 to 24. millions of
cubic feet of oak fit for ship building exist. Ih the Sierras
de Segura alone 48 millions are reckoned on ; and throughout
Spain it is caiculated that there are fully 200 millions of cubic
feet suitable for naval piirposes. This" is but one of the many
materials of national wealth yet waiting the hand of enter-
prise to tarn to good account in Spain.

for the re-

CARISTANA, SEPT. 9.—The motion relative to the per-
mission for Jews to reside in Norway has been rejected by
the Storthing. It is true that 51 members voted for it, and
only 41 against it; but as it is a question involving a change
in the constitution, which requires two-thirds of the votes,
it was of course lost.

The accounts received from Russia of a destructive fire at
Kasan, in which about 1,500 houses, and a large amount of
merchantable property, were destroyed, forms a melancholy
parallel with the great disaster which has occurred at Liver-
pool. Kasan is a capital of some importance amongst the
Russians, and as it is stated that much of the property was
uninsured, it may be surmised that the event will occasion
some distress among the inhabitants.

Isabella 11. Queen of Spain, will on the 12th of
October, the 12th year of her age. This is the age at which,
according to the text of the old Spanish law, the minority
ceases. Now, the new Spanish constitution has not modified
these laws ; Queen Isabella will therefore be at the end of
her minority next month, and on the day on which she
attains that age the functions of M. Arguelles will cease, as
those of Queen Christina would do.
DISCOVERY or FOSSIL REMAINS.—We hear from Breda
that.there was lately found at Ooslerwich, at the depth of six
feet below the surface of the earth, the remains of one of
antediluvian animals which, it is supposed, ought to
used with the elephant. It is said to be a mostodan.
remains, though petrified, are in a good state of pre-
ion, especially the grinders, seven in number, which
13 pounds. It appears certain that one of the canine
must have been five feet in length. These monstrous
ins are being collected with great care, and it is intended
tly to publish a description of them.

PETERSBURG.—Next in numbers
ecidedly the English, who form in
ous respects a more distinct colony than the Germans,
many of the latter having
.become citizens of Petersburg and
Russian subjects, or having always been such, while the
former merely belong to the "foreign guests," as they are
called. who, in time of peace, enjoy the advantages of
denizenship, without its burdens. The English mercantile
body call themselves the Petersburg factory. They have
own chapel, and despising all other nations, but more
their protectors, the Russians, they live shut up
h horses and carriages, go bear

as they go tiger-hunting on the Ganges,
disdain to lift the hat to the Emperor himself, and, proud of
their indispensableness and the invincibility of their fleets,
defy everybody, find fault with everything they see, but are
highly thought of by the Government and by all, because
they think highly of thethselves, and reside chiefly in the
magnificent quay named after them, where, however, many
wealthy Russians also have splendid mansions.—Kohl's
Russie and the Russians.

TP the LADY who accepted a Copy of the ONGS Sung
1: by WILSON on SATURDAY EVEN t, has no ob-
jection to send her Address to W. E. avistock Hotel,
Covent-garden, London, she will ob ' e one who does not
request the favour from mere curiosity.

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LIVER THEATRE.

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•-) EVENING, at Eight o'clock.
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" "Saw ye Johnnie cumin', quo' she ?"
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Waefu'-Heart,'

PART II

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WOODSIDE

Mr. WILSON will give his PRINCE CHARLES' EN-
TERTAINMENT on THURSDAY next, the 6th October,
and not This Evening, (Friday.)

TO CORRESPONDENTS

We regret that a press of matter obliges us to postpone an
account of the Everton and Kirkdale Dahlia, &c. Show,
which we shall, however, furnish in our next publication.

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