The Express. — London, England, 1852-07-30 00:00:00

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Whatever may be the accuracy of the form in which this mutual engagement between these absolutist powers is stated to have been contracted. the substance of the alleged compact . is sufficiently in accordance with their external policy to warrant some belief that the sentiments and designs of the despotic trio do not differ very widely from those which are currently ascribed to them. Resting, as their own authority dues, upon the bole basis of hereditary right, as it is called, and dreading--even more than pure republicanism—the succ ess of any attempt to found in neighbouring count ries monar chical systems on any other foundation, the desire of the German and Muscovite Autocrats is to deter the present ruler of France. by the influence of conjoint menaces and threats, from all at , empts at recon structing in France the dynasty of KCPOLEON. In the palaces of Warsaw and of Schonbrunn, the pre tenders of •• right divine" tremble at the name of an "elected Emperor of the French and King of Italy." The memory of the man who climbed up to royalty out of the plebeian mass it loathsome and abhorrent. That France should be paralysed by internal distractions, institutions, or benumbed by the oppression of an exc iting and in glorious mockery of democratic nstitutions, is a matter a. no moment to the brute-force governments of the Continent. So long as M. Lulls BONAPARTE retains the sty le and title of president of a re public. he is welcome to abuse his usurped power as much as he likes; and as for "the republic," the more contemptible its name is rendered in the eyes of the world at large, the better will the despots be pleased. But M BON %PARTE Mast beware how be puts forth his unanointed hand to grasp at dynastic so vereignty. The heaven-born guardians of that imprescriptible prerogative never quarrelled with the amp ff , *tat of the 2nd December, 1c , 51, or with the wholesale confiscation and deportations of 18.12. (linty the contrary; they rather hail these shame ful act' as salutary and significant examples whereby terror may be struck in the hearts of the insubordinate men of Western Europe, and the way he paved for the complete restoration in due time of Ilourbonism in all its irresponsibility. Louis NAPOLEON may create himself Perpetual President, or if he pleases Emperor for life. But woe be unto him should he marry or beget a son. As an individual usurper he may live for ever. He is no more in the eyes of legitimate kings or emperors than a painted athlete in the circus who leaps on the back of an unmanageable steed, and who by alternate blows and bribes, forces the gallant creature to go down upon its knees, or play monkey tricks at his bidding. It is not the success of the mountebank in winning money or applause that these established conjurors fear or envy. Their jealousy is alarmed lest haply he, too, should set up in their peculiar and exclusive way of business, and ED bring the calling whereby they respectively live into disrepute. France may be mis-ruled as long or as much as it chooses, say the allied absolutists, and we shall not interfere so long u she does not permit her present ruler to assume the name of an hereditary monarch. Should she do that, then we, FRANCIS JOSEPH, of Austria, FREDERICK Witusit of Prussia, and NtcuoLts of all the Russian. solemnly protest that the only person whom We can recognise as our monarchic equal in France is our kingly cousin, the Comte DE CHAMBORD. Marvellous, truly, is the infatuation of despotism ; and fathomless the depths of humiliation to which a great and enlightened people may be doomed. Assuming the document to be quite genuine —what have we here? In the face of day three foreign po tentates have the fatuous folly and hardihood not merely to dictate to the French government what form and semblance they will permit it to sesame, but in the same breath to tell the French nation in so many words what shall be and what shall not be the shape of their political chains. Intoxicated with the triumph of their counter-revolutionary measures of the last three years, the despots seem to imagine that all spirit of popular indignation, all instinct of national self-redress, is dead in Western Europe, and that by degrees the effete and degrading despotism of the descendants of Louis CAPET may be re-imposed on a race who thrice in forty years shook it off with scorn. The allied absolutists solemnly proclaim their sympathy in the cause of the dull and feeble line of the Bouanotts, sad coolly speculate in the clauses of a secret treaty ass the probabilities of its restoration in case the FILAMENT should be overthrown by a popular imestte. or a military plot. Dignified and prudent speculations these for the beloved monarchs of Lom lardy, Hungary, and Poland to indulge in truly ; and eminently calculated to propitiate the good will of the French people towards their dethroned and exiled King. But there is something still more in effable in this proceeding—we mean the shabby and short-sighted eagerness it betrays to bargain with Louts "taroLaust as a power d s e ut facto, though founded professedly on universal rage, and to concede him a life estate in despotism, provided the power to nominate his successor be left unimpaired to the people. How far Louts NarotEoN might have been tempted to close with such an offer if made to him in the secret and vague terms of diplo macy, it were idle to conjecture. Still vainer were surmises as to the sincerity with which each an understanding might have been entered into, or the fidelity with which it was likely to be observed in after years. It is clear that the dicta tion of any terms of the kind, and their inevitable publicity .is articles of a tri-partite treaty, rendered all semblance of acquiescence on his part too perilous to be probable. To proclaim himself Emperor for life, after a warning like this, would bs dangerous. All France would feel that it was neither more nor lam than an avowal that her nominally elective Pre sident had coasented to became her governor for life at the will and pleasure of Russia. Louts NAPOLEON has shown himself a daring ad venturer and an audacious aspirant to power; but no "gilded round and top of sovereignty" will scarcely lure him to the brink of a precipice so obvious as the assumption would now be of a style and title actually settled and appointed for him by the coalesced rivals and jealous neighbours of France. If anything could rally a genuine feeling of national pride to his standard, a proceeding so insolent and so invasive of French independence as this might do so. And if anything were wanting to brand afresh the name of Botfaimm with odium and with obloquy, it would be the infatuated course thus pursued by the absolutist allies of the luckless Count DE CHAMBORD. As for Louts NAPOLEON, all middle course seems to be rendered practically impossible. He must either retain the oghe and position of military president of a disfranchised commonwealth, or—resolving to call things by their right names, and avowing the fact that he is by the will of the army absolute ruler of France—place upon his head, as his uncle did before him, the appropriate emblem of hereditary absolutism, and bid defiance to the hereditary monopolists of the power to misrule. In either case an avenging fate must surely await him. WITH the exception of Orkney the returns of all the Scotch elections have been received. Scotland " stands where it did." The meet desperate efforts of the Derbyites have failed to wrest one seat from the Liberals. As before, only one district of boroughs sends a Tory to parliament ; the counties are divided between the Liberals and the Tories in the same proportion as formerly. A large majority of the Scotch constituencies are firm in the reform fahh. 'this immobility of the Scotch representation is • phenomenon not peculiar to the present elec tion. There has been little material change in the balance of parties among the Scotch members since the first election under the Reform Rill. This curious fact we are disposed to attri bute to the circumstance that the electoral body is in a manner entirely new that it was first created by the Act of 1832. Under the old electoral system in Scotland the only voters were mane 2,301 ins the ' counties, most of them with fictitious qualifications-"• "the cadets, dependents, or menials or the great families—and some '2,500 members d self-elected, town councils. These worthies returned the esoteh 45—that phalanx so notorious for its servility. Their number was too small to 'diffuse political corruption extensively through society; their electioneering machinery was quite inapplicable to the constituencies created by the Relorm Act. Hence there is, even in the present tirue,Pearcely any corruption among the Scotch constituencies. The boroughs are remarkably pure, and in the counties it is not so =soh bribery as the Sir l'ertiwor Mix-sycophant disposition to " boo " to great men—a weakness surviving in rural districts from feudal times that enables the squirearchy to carry the day. This state of affairs will probably keep the ba lance of parties in the Scotch representation nearly what it is until sonic change is made in the fran chise or the distribution of the electoral districts. A few constituencies which have veered between the Liberal and the Tory ascendancy might indeed be reclaimed to the Liberal cause. Mr. ANfiensos, ta.c., had nearly carried the Airdrie burghs, notwithstanding the enormous patrimonial in (crest the 11 into family possessed there; and Mr. CARDWELL, brought forward at the eleventh hour, ' gave Sir D. H. BLAIR a close run. Now the Liberal electors in the Airdrie district are still labouring under the paralysis of their energies superinduced by the divisions between the HAMILTON interest and 1 the independent electors attached to the late Mr. VILsvN, of Dundyvan ; were they firmly re-united the district which was at one time represented by Lord LINCOLN, and at another by GILLON, of Wall house, might easily be regained for the reform cause. Ayain, the all but sucees,ful effort in behalf of Mr. C.iatiwELL in Ayrshire, was made notwithstanding a scandalous neglect of the registration by the Libe rals, persevered in ever since 1839, to such an extent, that when Lord JAMES STUART was asked some months ago to allow his son to stand for tho county, and would have done it could he have been shown that there was any prospect of success, not oneof the leading Liberals could give him the slightest idea how the register stood. A vigorous effort at the registration is all that is required to enable the Reformers to redeem the county of RICHARD OSWALD from the Tories at next election. • So, too, with regard to Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, and Dumbartonshire. Every one of these counties has at one time been represented by Liberal members, end might be again. It true that Mr. Snoti.vrr (Dumbartonshire) is as accomplished and liberal minded a Conservative us can be imagined; and his attention to local busineas, his affability, a spice of the humour of the old novelist of his family, have endeared him to his constituents. It woeN not be easy to unseat him; but the attempt to the county ,would not be hopeless were any candidate on his side to succeed him. Again, Colo nel NIURE (lienfrewshire), as an accomplished scholar and man of liberal sentiments, is a general favourite; —hie seat, however, is by no means so assured as Mr. Snou.rrfs, and an eligible Liberal candidata might wrest it from him. Lastly, Mr. LOCKHART'S sole hold upon Lanarkshire is his exemplary attention to local business; no such prestige attaches to him as to the other two we have named. Lanarkshire might easily be gained by a resolute effort. We feel con vinced of this by the results of au inquiry instituted by the late Mr. Cocas Dt•Nr.or a short time before he was invited to stand for Glasgow. There are See constituencies which might and ought to be gained by the Liberals in Scotland. The whole of the boroughs would then have Liberal re ntatives. In all the counties we have named and perhaps in Kirkcudbright), there is an inde pendent electorate, that might be kept decidedly Liberal; in the rest of the Scotch counties, the land lord interest will prevail as long as the present fran chise and the present distribution of electoral dis tricts continue, and as long as there u open voting. Where the great families are Whip, there will be a Whig member returned; where Tories, a Tory; and this not so much from corruption or intimidation, as from a lingering of the clannish and vassal spirit among the farmers—a romantic sentiment, which experience and enlightenment will cure. The comparative absence of a venal, or mean, mer cenary spirit among the Scotch electors is a fact that has a moral of its own. It is owing to the circum stance of the infinitesimally small proportion in which an old corrupt electoral element was mingled with the new one called into existence by the Ile form Act. When the history of elections in Edin burjh and Glasgow is contrasted with their history in Liverpool, it will be obvious how important it is to keep constastexciss pure. Where any considerable amount of corruption has developed itself it is scarcely possible to expel or neutralise it even by a large infusion of new blood. The bad old taints the good new. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY Evaazao. The Muniteur gives at last the official announce• ment of those chum in the ministry, which were reported by the Debata as likely to take place on the President's return from Strasbourg. M. I)rouyn de Lhuys, vice-president of the Senate, is ap pointed ministerlof foreign affairs, in the place of the Marquis Target, whose resignation is accepted. M. Magne, presiden t of the section of public works,agricu I ture and commerce in the Council of State, is appointed minister of public works in the place of M. Lefebvre-Da rage, who is created a senator. The three decrees settling these appointments are succeeded by an an nouncement that the President has decided that M. Baroche, vice-president of the Council of State, shall take part in the labours of the Council of Ministers. The Debats also (fires out that M. Casablanca would be replaced by M. f urgot in the ministry of state. This change is not yet confirmed by tho Monitmr. But it may be noticed that no provision is made in the official journal for the dismissed minister of foreign affairs. lam assured that the resignation of Cuabianca is quite certain, notwithstanding the silence of the Mositesdr. Only the official notice is postponed in consequence of the dissatisfaction of the minister of state with the place offered him in the Council of State u a compensation. It is said that he looks for a seat in the Senate with the full dotation of 30,000 f., a full two-hundred a-year more than he would get se councillor of state. Last night M. de Persigny, on returning to the ministry of:the interior, in the Rue de Grenelle, found his apartments on fire. His first feelings of alarm were naturally for his newly married bride. Having found her, to his great joy, quite unharmed, although in a state of extreme terror, he proceeded to summon Resistance and to take the most energetic means of extinguishing the flame. After some time these were found perfectly successful ; and the amount of damage sustained is happily limited to some arti cles of furniture easily replaced. The cause of the fire was one which has been often followed by more serious consequences. Madame de Persigny was going to bed, when her maid went into her dressing-room, and lit one of the candles on the toilet-table. Instead of carefully extinguish. ing the match the servant threw it on the floor, where it continued to burn, and set fire to a coquettish piece of muslin, in which the whole shrine of female adornment was draped, d /a Pompadour. In an instant, and with the rapidity of gun-cotton, the mirror in which the young wife of the minister of the interior is accustomed to behold her charms was set in terrible flames, and cracked in fifty frag ments by the heat. Fortunately, the presence of mind of M. de Persigny prevented the fire from spreading, and restored order to his alarmed household. The en gine of the ministry was brought out and plied by the soldiers of the neighbouring post, who formed immediately a chain with buckets to the nearest borne-fontame. The furniture of the bedroom, and of the next miori was wholly consumed, and the ' walls calcined. The valuable trinkets of Madame de Persigny and some pictures of worth were destroyed. M. de /*teepee, whose hotel is opposite, having seen the glare from his rooms, instantly repaired to the spot, and lent a helpful hand to Ids rival. The distribution of the Independewe Beige has been stopped to-day at the post by an order of the minister of police. I understand that the reason of this proceeding is the appearance in the Belgian journal of a letter of M. Odilon Barred to the elec tors of the department of the Aisne, in which he ex plains to them his motives for declining to come forward as a candidate for • seat in the council general. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 30, 1852 It is given out as certain that Louis Blanc has made lus peace with the French government, and will be allowed to return to France by the intended amnesty of the sth of August. . The fkrutirafiennsi contains an article on free I trade, in Which it attempts to prove that the adop tion of that principle, although inevitable and inde structible in England, would be fatal to France. I his piretectionary bundle of sophisms seem a mere echo to the long-winded speech of M. Thiers in the Legislative Assembly on the same subject. Much curiosity is felt in Paris on the subject of • new work, said to be published in London by M. Victor Hugo, with a title that none of the journals here dare to publish, This title is lam told the expressive one of "Napoleon the Little." I further learn from the Brussels journals that on Tuesday Met M. Victor Hugo received from the burgomaster of Brussels a notice requiring him to quit the Belgian territory. This measure is attributed in Brussels to the publication by M. Hugo of a pamphlet which has been some time announced. Ito will leave im mediately, and probably join his family in Jersey. The history of the 23 millions of francs just paid off to the Bank of France scarcely warrants the flourish with which the payment was announced In yesterday's dioniteur. The advances made by the bank arc of two sorts. There is an existing loan of 50 millions secured by treasury bonds, and bearing interest at 4 per cent. Besides this, in March,lB4B, the bank advanced to the provisional government 50 millions, under a treaty which enabled the trea sury to call for loans to the extent of 150 millions. This sum of 150 was, by subsequent payments, reduced to 75 millions, and the remaining 25 millions were claimed by the present government immediately after the event of Ike. 2, 1851. Some thing like a panic was produced at the time, which was allayed by an explanation in the Musaiieur that the treasury had a much larger sum lying at call in the bank callers, and that the money was not wanted for use, but was merely transferred upon paper to in crease the public drawing account as a matter of pre caution in case of emergency. Now, however, that this twenty-tire millions is said to be repaid, the operation is treated as any thing but a formality. It is to be observed that according to the treaty of 1848 the treasury was not liable to pay interest upon the 130 millions, reduced afterwards to 73 millions, so long as the treasury account current at the bank *acceded the amount borrowed. The treasury has Wog had more than 73 millions at call in the bank, and therefore the present operation does not save any interest to the public. If, indeed, the 23 mil lions had been applied in redeeming treasury bonds held by the bank, that would have been a valuable diminution of the floating debt. At present, the transaction is merely fresh evidence of an accumula lation of capital in the state coffers. Whatever excitement the municipal elections may be now producing in the departments is shared but in a faint degree by the inhabitants of Paris, who, by special exception, are for the present telieved from any semblance of local self-government. Bet it becomes every day more clear that the elected of universal suffrage in the country will for the most part, in fact though not in form, be as completely nominees of the executive government as the mum- I cipal commission now sitting at the hotel do Ville. People feel that freedom of election will not be per mitted, and knowing this, they generally retrain from wasting their strength iu the vain attempt to beard power. I yesterday mentioned some suc cessful manifestations of an independent spirit in the Re des Ceisie. A more striking, - though a negative inetame. is known to-day as having occurred at Montpelier. This is the only town ,of importance in Fran* where the "noes" had it on the 20th of December. Knowing with what an evil eye they must be regarded on this account, the elec tors have not attempted to provoke a state of siege by opposition at the municipal elections. They have shown their feeling by abstention. Out of 13,141 electors only 4,563 voted, and out of 97 candidates not one obtained the minimum votes required by law to validate the election. The prefect of the Gironde has issued • proclamation stating that to produce other candidate, than those of the government would be not only an act of indiscipline but of hostility. The barristers of the Court of Appeal of Paris met yesterday to elect the council of discipline of the order. The number of barristers who voted was 344. The names chosen have a certain signification, as showing the spirit which yet prevails at the bar. M. Paillet, the oouusel who so ably and eloquently pleaded the cause of the Orleans family against the confiscation decrees, is at the head of the poll with 320 votes. The following is the list of the 19 elected, in the order of their majorities: Paillet, Duvergier, Marie, Chmix d'Est Auge, Plocque, Gaudry, Lionville, Lacau, Berryer, Naboodets, Poniard do Villeneuve, Caignet, I)esmaret, Alexis Fontaine, Jules Fevre, ltivolet, Thoreau, Laudrin, and Bethmont. M. Billault, a member of the council for last year, and who, from his standing at the bar, would have been re-elected nearly as • matter of course, but for the part be hma played in the Corps Legislatif, stood last on the lit of the rejected candidates, having obtained only 72 votes. A decree of the Prince President of the Republic authorises M. Lauzin de Rouville to establish a rail way from Provins to the Ormes, u an =branch went of the line from Montereau to Troyes, and to form a company for the purpose. The conditions on which the concession is made are annexed to the decree. Intelligence has been received of the arrival of the Charlemagne on the 18th off Metelin, about twelve leagues from the Dardannelles. At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. rose 30, and closed at 103.86; the Three per Cents. rose 73, and closed at 73.60. Railways were less animated than yesterday. Lyons, however, rose 201 r.; and Northern, 10fr.; Marseilles and Havre, 7.60 each. edialidstration and revenues, arioordlag to the t p l rep=el the Zollverein. The measures necessary for guaranteeing the monopoly of tobacco, might also undergo sollie r aer dons, and need not form any obstacle to the ease on o a customs union any more than that of salt has been an °balsas to the Zollserrin and the Steuerverein. The differences under the heads of production and consump tion have been duly appreciated, and the mainly fixed for the collection of the revenues must give satisfaction in this respect. Besides, the customs union should only be effected gradually by mean, of a treaty of commerce ; in ease, how ever, the negotiations with Austria did not lead to a result, they would not be =elms, seeing they would be able to ad mit the point of view of Prussia, following which mouse- Meontable °bated.' might arise against the union. Is it not better to examine if the customs union is possible than to repel all investigation. It would be so much more to be regretted that Prussia should refuse to enter at this time into negotiation., an the coalition consider their happy issue an the only means to overcome the prejudice which might result by the adoption of the treaty of Sept. 7, and in this case the other members of the Zollverein would have no serious difficulty in ad hering to it. The in:edition is convinced that isolated ne gotiations cannot lead to a definitive treaty so long as their result is not appreciated in all directions, particularly if an obligatory resolution relative to the September treaty is not come to, it will be impossible to guarantee a definitive customs treaty with Austria. In consequence the plenipotentiaries are authorised to express the wish that the negotiations, the necessity of which is generally acknow ledged, shall be carried on as rapidly as possible, lest the Ices of time may render impossible au arrangement so uni versally desired. SWITZERLAND. The Federal Councilhas received notice from the Swiss consul at Turin, that the Sardinian government has suppressed, in favour of Switzerland, the duty upon thee exportation and importation of raw and thrown silks, and has lowered the duties upon other articles. GERMANY. A German paper, confirming the announcement of a meeting to take place in Aurist between the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia at Ischl, declares that the object of the interview is more pro bably the question of the marriage of the young Austrian monarch than any political question. The Journal du Commerce of Anvers, under date Vienna July 25, says: The treaty ham just been published concluded between Austria, Panne, Modena, and Tuscany, for the establish ment of a complete railway system between tie three state*. The line to be constructed is to bear the name of the Central Italy line. Parting simultaneously from Piacenza and Mantua, it will meet at Reggio, the point of junction; and will go from thence by Modena to Bologna. It will then clear the Appenines either at Pistoja or Prato. At the other side of the Appenines the line will join the Tuscany railway. The establishment of this new route is conceded to a company, with the privilege which excludes every com petition, for the term of 100 years. The government gua rantees a minimum of interest upon the capital. Telegraph oommunications are to be laid down along the line. A decree of the Prince Regent of Baden prolongs the regime of the state of siege on his territories to lst Sept. ZOLLVEREIN. The following is the reply of the plenipotentiaries of the Darmstadt coalition to the declaration of Pruitt concerning the Zollyerein. The scdsrsigued governments have learned with regret that Preens masiated in refusing to take part is the negotia ting@ fee the purpose of concluding • customs mien with Austria. Pram the beginning the Zoliverein has bum con sidered as elm* the way to a customs union gall the states el Ommeny. This end has been kept in view la all the subsequent euellisma bestial. This principle is emseesed in the treaty of September. It was reprodused in the invitation to take part in the eonfereson at Berlin, and in its loot Me Austria, Prussia h a s ac k now l e d ged that • ems _ sad customs union between the 'Loll- Tereus and Austria would be the best means of arriving at • succeosful result. The coalition cannot therefore consider the last declaration of Prussia as an abandonment of her former declarations. The declaration made by Prussia on the 7th June did not appear to the coalition to raise insurmountable obstacles to a customs and come martial union with Austria. The treatToli'iruna cannot be charged with haring left in a Mate of un. certainty the common tariff for the militias union with Austria, as it could not be definitely Amid without the assent of Prussia. It sufficed to have isdketed the mode according to which it might ultimately be a ym eel tbe reject cd Vienna Austria semen to memate oni = emsamias the pooloWlee et Ow AUSTRIAN ITALY. The Postampt Gazette of Frankfort contains the following from Vienna, 24th : Letters from good authority which have reached as from Upper Italy confirm the accounts of a new Mazzinian conspiracy, with eztensive ramifications, having been dis covered by the government, but it is thought that the prin cipal authors of it will soon be in the bands of justice. So many arrests have, it is amid, been made in the Venetian kingdom that the prisons will not be large enough to con tain the prisoners. It is said that, according to a proposi tion made by Yield-Marshal Itedeteky, there will be no more executions, but that the system of mildneskand gene rosity adopted in granting amnesties will be abandosed. A letter from Milan, of the 24th, states that Mar shal ltadetaky had just arrived in that city. DENMARK. The Wanderer of Vienna of the 24th says: The treaty concluded on the Bth May in London, between Austria, England, France, Russia, Sweden, and Prussia, relative to the succession to the throne of Denmark, has been ratifl d by all the powers, and the exchange of ratifi cations will take plate in London in the course of this month. The powers which have not taken part in the con clusion of this treaty have received official communication of it, with an invitation to adhere to it. SECRET TREATY OF THE THREE NORTHERN POWERS. It will be recollected (nays the Morning Chronicle) that a few weeks ago several journals, both in Germany and this country, published an analysis of a series of notes exchanged between the cabinets of St. Petersburg, Vienna, and Berlin, on the subject of the present posi tion of France, end more especially with respect to the double eventuality of the establishment of an elective or an hereditary empire. The conclusion to be drawn from these notes was, that in the event of the establish meat in France of an elective re personal empire, the change being merely nominal, and the state of matters re maining in reality what it was before, the powers might be disposed, for the sake of the peace of Europe, to make a further sacrifice of their feelings by acknowledging it as a government de facto ; but that in the event of an attempt to establish an hereditary government, the powers felt it their duty, as it was also their determination, to act very differently, and that they were resolved never to permit tio flagrant a violation of existing treaties and of public law. As long as a member of the House of Bourbon should exist, the powers were resolved, if the question of right to the throne of France should arise, not to tolerate its being taken possession of by a usurper. To allow that would be to inflict a mortal blow on all the dynasties of Europe. Such is a resume of the numerous notes exchanged between the three northern powers in the course of the months of February, March, and April. In the beginning of May it was agreed that these notes should be made the foundation of a regular treaty between the two Emperors and the King of Prussia, and accordingly this treaty, which is dated the 20th of May, 1852, has been signed, ratified, and exchanged. We are now enabled to give an analysis of this important document, which has not yet appeared in any journal. This convention, like the treaty of the 26th of September, 1815, is placed by the three Sovereigns under the invoca tion of the most holy and undivided Trinity. Their Majes ties the Emperor of Austria, the King of f'rumia, and the Emperor of Russia, considering— That the basis of European order is hereditary right, that in that respect there is a joint responsibility and interest (ardidaritd) between all European states; considering also that, as regards France, the house of Bourbon personifies and represents the hereditary right, and that the present head of that house is the Count de Chambord ; That the power exercised by Id. Louis Napoleon Bona parte is a power de facto, which cannot even prop itself up with the pretended right of the Emperor Napoleon, since the latter voluntarily renounced, by the first article of the treaty of Fontainebleau, "for himself, his successors and descendants, as well as for each member of his family, all the rights of sovereignty and domination, as well over the French nation and the kingdom of Italy, as over any other country ;" That, according to the rules of international richt, the violation of the treaty of Fontainebleau by the Emperor Napoleon, while it released the powers from the engage meats taken by them with revect to him, did not release him from his renunciation, for himself a nd his descendants, of the crown of France ; That, moreover, the very origin of the present power of the President of the French Republic is the negation of hereditary right ; For all these motives, and for many others which it is useless to enumerate, the subscribers to the present conven tion consider it their duty to determine beforehand, and by common accord, the conduct which they ought to hold in the event that one or other of the eventualities above enu merated should present themselves. In the case that the Prince Louis Bonaparte, present President of the French Republic, should ge t himself elected by universal suffrage as Emperor for life, the Powers will not recognise that new form of elective power till after explanations shall have been demanded from Prince Louis Bonaparte as to the sense end meaning of his new title, and after he shall hays taken an engagement— first, to respect the treaties ; secondly, not to endeavour to extend the territorial limits of France; and thirdly, for mally to renounce all pretensions to the continuation or founding of a dynaaty. In the case that the Prince Louis Bonaparte should de clare himself hereditary Emperor, the Powers will not re cognise the new Emperor, and will address to the French government,es well as to all the other European governments a protest founded on the principles of public law and on the letter of the treaties. They will afterwards consult, according to the cies:n=2moms, as to the ulterior measures which they easy think it necessary to take. In the case that • popular or military movement should overturn the go vernment of Prince Louis Bonaparte, or simply in the ease of the death of that personage, the powers bind and oblige themselves to aid and favour by all means in their power the restoration of the legitimate heir of the crown, and in the sequel they will ' no other dynasty but that of the Bourbons, and no o r claimant but 11. Count do Chambord. In acting thus they protest beforehand against the imputation of wishing to attack the indepen dence of France. France is free to organise her internal government as she chooses and the Powers do not reject the system called constitaional any more than they reject any other system. But the recognition of legitimate and hereditary royalty does not interest France alone; It interests all European States. It is • national principle in MI far as regards France, and an international principle in as far as regards the other European Powers. It is on this account that the right and the duty devolve upon the sovereigns of defend ing that principle, and of assisting it to triumph in as far as that depends upon them. This convention is aigaid—nuaccis Josaea , FIiDZILICS. WILLIAM, NICOLAS. TALLOW-CIIANDLERB' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. —Yesterday, the annual meeting of the members of this in stitution took place at the London Tavern, Bishopsgats. street, Mr. B. Breeknell Turner in the chair. A report was read, which stated that the society had been in exist ence nine years, during which time there had bees distri buted to 72 distressed and worthy members of the trade 2,1771. 18s. More than 3,0001. had been added to the funds from the anniversary festivals, and the total income from all sources to the present time had amounted to 7,0101. Be. 6d. Notwithstanding the lose of many valuable subscribers the subscriptions still kept up in amount. The sum paid is pensions for the current year exceeded the amount in the previous year by 311. During the year sees new pen sioners had been elected, and an equal number had died, leaving 47 still on the funds of the society. At the last an niversary festival, over which the Lord Mayor presided, 2431. ls. 9d., clear of all expenses, was added to the funds of the charity. The report recommended that the pensions of the men should be increased from Its. to 11. a month each, and those of the women from 12a. to 16s. a month—to commence from the 9th August —an sr-' rangement which would cause an increase in the expendi ture of about 601. per annum. The total income for the' year (in lading a balance of 2121. from the previous account) amounted to 8921. 64., and the expenditure (including 4611. 12s. paid to pensioners) to 6381. 78. 11d., leaving • balance in hand of Mt. 18s. Id. The funded property now standing in the Three per Cent. Console to t►e credit of the society was 4,0001. This report was adopted, and some routine business having been transacted, the meeting separated. REPRESENTATION OP LTNN.—A rumour is very current that it is not improbable that this borough may very soon be again the scene of contest. It is stated that, in the event of certain arrangements succeeding, by which • noble lord will vacate hie seat, the " conductors " of elec tion affairs have determined uninviting the most gallant the Marquis of Douro to It the vacaucy.L—Norjoik PIRACY AND MURDER BY COOLIES. The following details of the murder of the captain sad several of the crew of the American chip Robert Bonne an taken from the A'orlis China Ikrald : " It was mentioned that two of the seamen of the Holten Bovine had gone off in one of the boats preyi.us ti the Yawl being recaptured by the crew. It appears these meu —named Valentine and Smith—were picked up by Captain Wilson of the Nymph, and taken to Shanghae, w here they made a deposition be ore the American consul, wide, our contemporary of the North China Ileratd publishes. We extract the deposition of Valentine—Smith's is merely a re petition of it. We regret to learn from this deposition t at all that was said of the bad usage of the Coolies by the captain is more than confirmed. That usage, though no enellke, is an extenuation of their crime. We hope that the many severe Lewes lately given to the masters of ships will either put a stop to the Coolie carrying trade to South America, the Sand. wich Islands, and Australia, or make it be emend on with more attention to the comforts and feelings of the emigrant.. Of the coolies per General Palmer, which loaded from Amoy for Sydney, no less than 70 died on the passage. Nothing short of the greatest inattention and carelessness to the wants and comforts of these unfortunate meu could have brought about this mortality. " The deposition of Joseph Valentine, steward of the American ship Robert Bowne, is as follows: s That he was steward in the American ship Hobert Downe, Capt. Bruen, and that said Orin sailed from Amoy about March 20, with a crew of 19 men including all hand., and about 410 Chinese passengers bound fur San Francisco. That the captain in order to maintain cleanlinesss cut off the tails of a great many of the Coolies and obliged them to come on deck and be washed all over in cold water, the men scrubbing them with cane brooms. The Coolies evinced much concern at losing their tails, marry of them crying. They were well furnished with food and water. Oa the 10th day out, while cutting up a chicken at the galley dour about hallpast nine in the morning, the deponent heard a about from the Chinamen, and looking round saw a body of them rushing aft, armed with pieces of wood as clubs, and, at the same time, one from behind seised him round the wrist. With • small knife he held he cut his wrist, and the Coolie let go his hold and followed Lis companions aft. The deponent then went into the galley with the Chinese cook, and both held the doors to prevent the ingress of the Coolies. From a small window in the front of the galley, he saw the murder of the fteemel mate, who was knocked down by blows on the head from ten or twelve men, and some of the Coolies having by that time obtained boarding pike, stabbed him. Ile was thrown overboard not quite dead, and clinging to a rope was stabbed again with pikes till he relinquished his hold. " The Coolies then forced the doors of the galley and stabbed at deponent with the pikes notwithstanding the intercession of the cook. lie succe eded in wresting a pike from them, and drove them aft, one or two of the COMICS falling by his thrusts. lie then jumped down the fore castle hatch, where they barricaded him in. In about an hour they called to him through one of the Chinese, who spoke English, and told him to come up, promising not to hurt him. Ile did so, and was led aft to the wheel, where Smith was also brought. After steering for an hour deponent was taken into the cabin, and ordered under pain of death to show where the captain's valuable* were. I He did so, but they got but little. The men were aloft when deponent came on deck, whither they bad retreated after making unavailing resiet mice. The COOliee told the men if they would come down and take them to land they would nut hurt them. The men did so and they were all well treated while they were returning. Deponent was informed by the Chin, se that the captain, two officers, and three men, had been killed. The Cooliceobliged deponent to attend the wounded among themselves of which there were several, and they said 8 of their number were killed in the fight and thrown overboard. They quarreled much among themselves about the divi sion of the plunder. Land was made about the fourth day after turning back, and after banging about it three days trying to land, the Coolies became uneasy and wanted the ship run ashore. The steersman in trying to pass to the westward side of the island, ran on a reef. They then landed about 150 of the Coolies. The ship slipped off and was anchored in '2O fathoms but dragged into about 80, where she rode with 100 fathoms chain out. The next day they landed 100 or 150 more, and the Coolies wanted a part of t he crew to stay on shore, promising, when all were landed, to allow them to go on board and take the ship to some port. Two of the men were on shore, and not being allowed to get into the boat again, the remander pushed off' and went on board They then got out the longboat and offered to put the Coolies onshore that night, but they chose to wait till next day. The men then agreed to escape that night in the long-boat. The deponent and Smith got in her to hail her out, leaving in the ehip 8 men, who passed in from time to time various articles necessary fur their voyage. After awhile the Coolies apparently discovered their proceedings as there was a great noise on deck, the Chinese running about with lanterns, and as they saw and heard nothing more of their messmates they concluded they were either tied or murdered. At daylight, therefore, they cut loose, drifted clear of the ship and hoisted a sail. In crossing a reef they stuck for an hour which caused their boat to leak badly, so they went ashore on the other side of the same island on which the Coolies were. Here they were well treated by the natives who brought them water, vegetables, and chickens, and set a watch over them at night. The natives were dre ssed in long gowns, their hair done up in • bunch on the top of the head, fastened with a pin with a star in front. After caulking their boat they launched her, made sail, and °lithe Bth day were picked up by the Nymph." AQUATICS. CORK HARBOUR RBOATTA.-TUESDAY. This regatta commenced to•dy. EOLINTON CUP.—This wu the principal nee of the day, and came 011 it eleven o'clock, when the following eight yachts started most beautifully together from their respective moorings, and came in in the following order: Yachts exceeding 40 tons—Time race, ons•half rate Aker's scale-601. Bacchante, cutter, B. 11. Jones, ILYA., 73 tow, Liverpool I Tartar, cutter, W. 11. Davis, LT.C., 43 tow, Cowes Aquila, cutter, I. M. Rowan, 43 tow, Greenock 3 Pauline. cutter, C. Brandreth, LI.C., 49 toes, Ipswich 4 Enchantraw, cutter, K. Madder, LC.T.C., 44 tow, Cork 3 War Hawk, cutter, T. Bartlett, R.1.T.C., SO roue, Thames Cynthia, cutter, 11. Kos, R. St. CI. Y.C., 30 tons. Dublin 7 Echo, schooner, K. Heard, R.C.Y.C., e 4 tons, Kinsale •••• - - - - , What so frequently occurs in boat. Toeing of all kinds occurred in this race, and it is probable that it will have to be run for again, as it is stated that there aro objections to almost all the yachts for fouling, and en objection to the Bacchante, which was otherwise the winner by more than five minutes, making all allowances for tonnage, &e., on the ground that she slipped her anchor pending the race, which is alleged to be contrary to rule. The committee are to meet to consider the matter, and the general impression is, that they will require the race to be run over again. At starting all the yachts went off in splendid order, and tra versed the courts, which extends considerably outside the harbour, within a reasonable time considering the state of the weather; but they had scarcely rounded the eastern fort when they were almost perfectly becalmed, and took • considerable time to make the circuit to the winning-post. Easing? Cur.—The cup. presented by the Earl of Eg mont, was contested for by yachts not exceeding 40 tons, and exceeding 15 tons. Time race according to Iit.C.Y.C. regulations--501. The following were entered: The Antelope, cutter, W. H. Hull, 8.C.Y.C., Blue Peter. The Eglinton, cutter, J. Wheeler, R.C.Y.C., 34 tons, Cork, white and blue perpendicular. The Champion, cutter, J. Daunt, R.C.Y.C., 24 tons, Kinsale, white with red Maltese cross. This race, it is probable, will also prove abortive, and must be run for again. The three boats entered started at twelve o'clock, but as they suffered more from the mode rate wind than the yachts of larger tonnage, which sailed an hour previously when there was a slight breexe, they had not arrived at sin p.m. in harbour ; and if the race is not decided by nine, it will, according to the rules, be necessary to contend for it again. WEDNESDAY. Mali MAJESTY'S Cur, TWO* 100 guineas, was sailed for at Cork to-day. Cynthia, IL floe, R.Bt. George Y. C., 30 lona, Dublin 1 Tartar. W. B. Davies, R I Y.O Cowes 3 Bacelione, B. U. Jones, ILYA, IS, LiwwP o . l Melia, 11. M. Lang, R.N.Y.C., 42, War Gawk, T. Buten, R.I. Y.C, inmates 3 Aquila, J. M. Rowse. &N.Y.C., 4S, Greenock gelato.. Wheeler Paulioe, C. Brwaileth, R.1.Y.C., 38, Ipswich These splendid yachts started in the above order, but the wind was so moderate that there was no sign of their re turn. It is not expected that they can reach the winning post in time; and, i. not, the match will be run for again tomorrow. The Lamm' rum', gentlemen rowers, value 601. Gipsy. Mr. B. aadersoe, lionkatown Una, Mr. Xeog r iniversity, Dublin Etonian. Mr. , 32nd Regiment, Dublin 3 Wisp, Mr. Daff, Linton, Dublin The four boats started well together, the Cork men, however, soon took the lead, and came is victorious by se veral lengths. This race ended the sports for the day, and the result is, that her Majesty's Cup and all the other sailing matches must be run over again to-morrow. THE EOLINTON Cur.—The committee have decided that this race must be contested again on Friday, as it was found imible to decide the objectio n s satisfactorily. THE Eposs GMONT Cur.—This race was won by the Atalanta ( 80 0•011), 27 tons, Kingstown. Tun SCOTCH ELecrione.-7 he election of mem bers to serve in the ensuing parliament for the several counties and burghs throughout Scotland is now all but completed, and upon the whole with very satisfactory re sults. In not a single instance has a conservative been able to unseat a liberal, although it was tried in the eases of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leith Burghs. Kilmarnock Burghs, Banffshire, Caithness-shire, Haddington Burghs, Wigton Burghs, and Rom and Cromarty. Liberal candidates have likewise been preferred to them of more own aaaaa tire opinions in the eases of Aberdeen, Ayr Burgh., Stirling Burghs, and Greenock, and but for the late period at which Mr. Cardwell was started for Ayrshire, and Mr. Anderson, for the Falkirk Burghs, these also might have been added to the list of liberal triumphs. As it is, therefore, the friends of progress hare reason to be proud of the steady adherence which Scotland displayed to the cause of liberal government, unrestricted commerce, public economy, and the reformation and improvement of our national insti tations.—Nor4 British Mei& Cly Court. OSBORNE, THUW4DAT. Iler Majesty and Prince Albert, necompulied b y the Princess Royal, rusk out on horseback yesterdse after noon. The Priam. of Welts atill Prioce nitund, 4 by Mr. Gibbs, also -ode in the neighbourhood of o.bono. The Duchess of Glinice,ter took hare of her 1113je.ty and Prince Albert yesterday morning, and left for It) , le, tended by Lady Caroline Murray and the llou. Colonel Liddell. Lady Caroline Barrington had the honour of king invited to dinner, end the lion. Charles Murray, n t h., arrived from London on a visit to the Queen. The Dore of Buckingham had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official re. sidekee in Downing.street. Sr James Brooke bad an interview with Sir John Fa kington yesterday, at the Colonial•ullice. A deputation of the Great Extramural Cent^tery elation, consisting of Admiral Sir Watkin O. Pell, Mr. It. 11. Lloyd, Mr. William Fairlie, Mr. %Valium Pht-Ips, M r . W. Lloyd Birkberk, Mr. George K. Corfii (ad o i t'd) . and W. F. Cortield (secretary), had an iniersiesr with Mr ' Secretary Walpole nnWednesday, at the llonnisoffi..e. • The Bev. Mr Batchelor had an interview with Sr .10. 0 Pakington yesterday, at the Colonial•iitlice. Mr. Brown rigg had also an interview with the right lion. baronet. Earl Fitohardinge had an interview with Mr. Sim*, y Walpole yesterday. MEETING Or Tint NEW PARLIAMENT.--It is ex. 'acted that the New Parliament will mia.mible about the third week in October. THE OUTRAGES AT STOCKPORT. The examinations have now been nearly brought to a close, and the greater portion of the pereon. with rioting on the 29t11 ult. have either been COMMItti trial at the Cluster Assize. or dismissed. After our rays t t had been despatched on Wednewl ty, Mr. ft• y, proceeded with the defence of Hamlet Mame, one of tht must respectable of the parties charged with the ilestnetia l of property at the Roman catholic chapel, decleting that he etas aiding the authorities, and was leading a party engaged in the same act. Mark Gleam, Usury Ash ton, Thomas Edwards, John Slater, Samuel l'n and Thomas Walker, were then defended by Mr. Sound, r., who called witnesses to rebut the evidence against tine. The magistrates, having retired fur an hour, on returning decided that there was a case anaired Cleaver, Walker, Slater, Edwards, and Pri stun, and they were committed for trial at Chester assizes. Meng Ashton and Hamlet Halm were discharged. The court adjourned at tin tity minutes past seven. The inquiry was ',sumo d Mat morning, at nine o'clock, when Jeeeph Birch, Same 111 ill benison, James Garvey, and George Parry, were deti ailed by Mr. Saunders and Mr. Reddish Parry, also w.seli.,rind with having attempted a rt newel of the dOturhancts ou the night after tha great riots, having made cumin motion to the woman whose furniture he had destroyed, the prosecutor did not cress the charge. Ile was, thriftier, dielt with summanly, and fined tght. fur wilful and main:Mut demuli lion of property. Birch and Williamson were committed et the assixes. Garvey was discharged. The court then ad. Petalled till Monday for the ezumination of Giorgi: sad Witham Walker, wbo have surrendered on warrant. IRISH I'EAT COMPANY. The first annual meeting of the above corporation was held yesterday at the King's Head Tavern, Nedra-. Mr. Mecoaenon, presided. The repot sued stated that the experiment. made up to Mardi la-t year, though they confirmed the statements of Mr. Reece as to the amount aid character of the products obtained Iron the peat, the value of which products was known in the market, yet being made on a very limited wide in the private laboratories of chemists, and not iii cord vessels, leR it to be proved whether the AMC n suits could be obtained from retorts of large dimension.— whether the peat-tar could be Repented from the game, and whether the gases would Income pure SO as not only to save the consumption of extra fuel, but also to produee charcoal. Charcoal was an article in great demand. and though in the calculation of prulits in the pro-Teen, no account had been taken of it, the directors but never Pet sight of it as a valuable product. The experiments since 'weer at Newton Cromlin ' in Antrim, and also at new, oeu London, on a large scale, had been so succeestul that see, rid gentlemen united to form a company with the new, in the first instance, of employing only a 'Nation of the capital to be raised in carrying out operations in this country and in Ireland—Mr. Reece having patents for both kingdoms— and to enlarge the works at a future period. The promo-en, however, thought it prudent, in the first instance, to routine their operations to Ireland, the government being averse to granting a charter for England, and land and labour Deice much cheaper in the sister country. The capital had b een fixed at 120,0001. with power to increase it to 308001. At first the experiments were directed to testing the applicability of the hot bluets to the furnace, and the operation of the gases, and upon the caleulatra made for that purpose the directors had announced in ttt prospectus that the works taught be brought into operator. by calls of U. a share. The site chosen for carrying nut their operations was situated on the north of the bog of Allan, four miles from the town of Athy and near tL Carlow branch of the Great Southern and ' Western Its. way (which had met the company in a mo s t lib era l spin, and had constructed a siding to the works at their own el pense), and comprised 500 acres of bog, which had been ib tamed on advantageous terms on a lease fur 100 years, power being reserved to the company to terminate it on a year's netlike. There had been some delay its bringing the works into operation, and it was not until January last that the fires in the retorts were fairly lit, but within the let few months all the difficulties which had presented them selves in the manufacturing p•ocess (aud they were numer ous) had yielded to the scientific principles employed. 'the directors had recently engaged Mr. Scanlan, the chemist, of London, who had gone to Kilbury in June last to superintend the works, and specimens of the paraffine and the oils produced from the peat had been for warded by him. (These specimens were exhibited to the meeting.) The paraffine, Mr. Scanlan reported, might he produced in immense quantities, and, according to the statements of experienced brokers, was available for the manufacture of candles at Is. a pound,--at which rate la offer had been made by a party to take all that was mute factured for three yeah. The volatile oil, and the tiled oil, would produce, it was calculated by the same brokers, from 2s. to 2s. 6d. a gallon .—the light oil, being valuable for varnishes and the heavy oils for lubricating machinery. and the charcoal, which was the residium, and of which no account had been taken in the original calculation, though the directors had never lost sight of its value, would pro duce at least 40.. a ton, and 2,000 tuns might be sold an nually at 50s. a ton. So far as the works had been carried out, the most successful results were reported ; but such as enlargement as would make them profitable to the shareholders would require a further call of 21. a share—which the director. recommended. The balance-sheet to the 30th of June, which was neat read, stated the total expenditure, including preliminary ex penses, works, machinery, wages, and isecielentals, and s balance in hand of 8831. Is. I Id., at 12,0081. 13.. 811. Tee receipts, 12,0001. from calls and 8/. 13.. 80. from sale of samples, ific., making a total of 12,0081. 13.. Bd. The assets were stated at 7,7431. 17s. 11d,, including arrears of calls; and the total liabilities of the company at 1,5031. Gs. 6d., besides whatever allowance might be made to the directors. The report having been adopted, Other resolutions, authorising the call of 21. a shin. allowing 7001. for the past services of the director*, end 2, recting notices to be given of the forfeiture of sh.irisoa which the calls remained unpaid were carried, and aft, vote of thanks to the chairman the meeting eeparated. FATAL COAL PIT EXPLOSION THL'IroDAT.—An inquest less ripened en Tuesday and continued by adjournment yesterday, at 04 Miners'Arms, Hi ham, near Barugh, in the West Bald* of York, before Thos. Taylor, Esq., deputy coroner, on view of the body of John Foulding, who was burnt PO OP verely by an explosion of tire-damp in the Old Sillstesse Main Pit at Ilighem Common as to result in has death. which took place on Saturday last. From the evidence adduced at the inquest, which wan Teri voluminon it appears that deceased, along with William worth and Benjamin l'restun, was engaged in trial-At the main level in the pit. Preston had had candle stuck all day in a slit between the two board' gates. Deceased used a safety lamp. Sullenly an csl 4 ° - sion took place, and on Houldsworth turning round he ob served a blase some to the end of the telel he se.. woes'ai at. lie waited until the sulphur had gone out, sud new ran to the back-board gate in the main road, where hi found the deceased standing up. Deceased then iso l ,_ w Holdaworth, " I'm done, Bill : his cap or head •••O at time on fire, and Houldswortb had to put out the gams with his hands. Hastily catching him n i t, and puttiug him in a corf, liouldsworth was about to run Foulding to the shaft bottom, when he h ear d P res t on a l so ca lling nut tor help. To release him from the coal round about him less Houldsworth's next duty, an d thi s b e i ng d o ne, and Preston deposited also in the corf, th e y were b ot h t a k e n to the pit hill, and from then ce conveye d h ome . Preston, it thought, may recover, h u t F ou ldi ng was s o severely burnt that Ise only survived until S a t ur d a y last, when death released him from his sufferings. It is the oriuio a Of practical men that sulphur mu s t h a ve ac c umulated between the beard-gate fac e a n d Preston's candle, for it was Item where the explosion took place. The open slit was sto ol 16 yards from the br oa d- ga t e face, and six yards from the naked candle. There were no air-pipes or brattices. it was only a hand-breadth between the top of the .ick when raised up and the roof. One of the standing orden of the bottom steward was that no men should work czcept with lamps in the straightwork, and if he found any I.l*'"'' working without tops to their lamps, hr ordered them out of the pit foe the day. The jury deliberated for neatly two hours, and then returned • verdict of " Accidentally Murat: but they requested the coroner to reprimand the twit . g a steward, which was accordingly done. LONDON ittiVERnIONAKY ISTEREST Si" IEI Yesterday the twelfth annual meeting of this eanipatl place, at the offices, in New Bank-buildings, Deity. Alder man Sit I'eter Laurie took the chair. The i.eentary read • report, which showed a s t ea dy i m rovement in the busin ess of the past year. A dividend of trper Cent. per anouru wa` • usual proposed, and agreed to unanimously. Atter tht vote of thanks to the chairman and directors, ill. a eeugg adjourned. 060; hairy bun p en Opel bonsai eit 1.111.1 1 deo ea et WE ;ii 82,9 wen eorr part of 18 TI rim tem( ber, year 1849 W 1 I. 1 Tim warts whinl men atill n destrt nudity sad c 2-43 G thl p 1m Igloo that 1 town if the of sal, haa front that t WI WWI at dr bnl premd evi 's he the ti hew Tui