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WE have sometimes bad occasion to express our j dissent from the policy advocated by Mr. GLAD /TONE, and not unfrequently from the mode in which his peculiar views have been sustained. We have thought him too little disposed to judge of the pre rut and the actual by the standard of the time, and too prone to revert to obsolete principles and super seded ways of dealing with the wants and wishes of the onward world. But we rejoice whenever we can hail in the right honourable gentleman an ad. vocate of progress or an opponent of oppression. To the cause of free industry, Mr. GLADSTONE has ren dered valuable services; and to the cause of a foreign policy worthy of a free country, we trust that he will yet contribute by his eloquent tongue and pen in an eminent degree. The foreign policy of every repre sentative government must in the main be the re flection of public opinion ; but as there is no subject on which public opinion is so apt to err through ig norance or false information, so there is none regard ing which a man of inquiring mind and courageous utterance may do more good by timely admonition and instruction. Mr. GLADSTONE appears well inclined to perform this duty with respect to Italian affairs. It was but the ether day that he placed before English readers M. PARINI'S history of the Roman state. In the unpreten. tow character of a translator, there was little room for the display of his characteristic powers of thought or of expression. But we have now before us a very different, and—in one sense—a far more important production of his pen. In a letter on the present condition of things in the kingdom of Naples, ad dressed to Lord ABERDEEN, we have an exposure of cruelty and corruption, and a denunciation of all that tends to give the existing system countenance or en couragement, worthy of the most liberal of our politicians. Mr. GLADSTONE was an eye-witness of many of the odious incidents ho narrates. He was present at the state trials of last year, and thus had an opportunity . of carefully observing the temper . in which political justice is administered, • and of estimating the effect likely to be produced by severity . of punishment. With the astuteness of observation, and subtlety in analysis, by which his mind is distinguishable from that of his contcmpo ngics, the Oxford dialectician scrutinised the evi dence adduced by the public prosecutor, and weighed the proofs, generally circumstantial rather than of conflicting personal testimony, urged on behalf of the accused. Publicity of trial is one of the last relics of Italian freedom still preserved at Naples and elsewhere throughout the Peninsula. Hence it is impossible for the partiality, insolence, and chicane of those who desecrate the iudgrnent seat to pass unobserved, although the chronicle of its crimes can only be published in a distant land, and in a foreign tongue. Dark and damning is that chronicle u epitomised by the ex-Secretary of the Colonies. Bitter and withering is the scorn outpoured on the baseness of that Austrianism, in tacit complicity with whose guilt Mr. GLADSTONE honourably shrinks from being involved. The history of reaction at Naples is briefly told. Apparently with the design of precipitating revolu tion in the territories of his neighbours, FERDINAND the FALSE, in the spring of 18-18, suddenly . announced himself as a convert to constitutionalism in the most liberal sense. His old advisers were dismissed, and a cabinet of reforming nobles, advocates and others was installed in their room. The king was loud in protestations of confidence in his emancipated subjects, and vows of zeal for the liberation of Italy from the barbarian. A representative chamber was summoned, and for some weeks it was allowed to deliberate and inquire into the accumulated abuses that from 182'2 had remained wholly undisturbed. Symptoms of distrust and insincerity speedily ap peared; and a belief grew general that counter-revo lutionary designs were harboured by the court. The chamber called upon the sovereign to put an end to these dangerous and defamatory doubts by formally swearing fidelity to the constitution. FERDINAND re fused; the ministers resigned; the representative body was dismissed • and the angry remonstrances of the citizens were ;nude the pretext for the memorable butchery and rapine to which Naples was devoted by its most religious and gracious monarch, during the space of many days. The constitution and all that adhered or were suspected of adherence thereto, thenceforth appeared no more. Elsewhere the rigours of reaction seem to have been in some degree assuaged by time. As despot ism regained confidence its activity in vengeance ap pears to have relaxed, and its thinotof political blood shed to have been slaked. In Naples, on the contrary, a more intense appetite for persecution and proscrip tion seems to have grown upon the hated king and his hated minions, according us the term of their im punity in evil has been from month to month pro longed. At first the most notable of the ultra liberals, the loose talkers and threateners of popular resentment, and the few who were supposed to hold influential rank among the secret societies, engrossed the attention of the police and their judicial accom plices. But as the original lists of victims were ex hausted, the sphere of accusation grew wider, and the amount of testimony requisite to satisfy the willing tribunals became daily less and less. Mr. GLADSTONE dwells with honest horror, and consigns to lasting infamy the scandalous unfairness of the whole pro cedure in cases of alleged conspiracy and sedition. Trumpery tales of lawless words spoken or written, unproved imputations of intimacy with revolutionists, and unsubstantiated allegations of knowledge of their assumed designs-, the evidence of notorious spies filling their allotted corners in the great Aceldama, I forged documents of every description, produced without hesitation, and when exposed laid aside without apology or shame,—above all, and worse than all, the undisguised partisanship of the bench, over-ruling objections, browbeating witnesses, inter rupting advocates, and stimulating perjury by open encouragement,—these are the fearful and revolting filatures most prominent in the picture, or rather the graphic cartoon which Mr. GLADSTONE has drawn. Then follow the punishments—cruel, ingenious, loathsome, and unmanly. In noisome and pestilen tial cells, chained together night and day, with scanty food, no medicine, and hardly sufficient air to prolong their sense of suffering, men of family, of letters, of pure lives, of delicate health and suscepti ble minds, are in hundreds at the present hour en during the sentence of slow death for offences, of which, probably, not one in twenty has ever been legally convicted, even according to Neapolitan law, and for which in any civilised country they wo uld be at worst condemned to a limited term of re straint, in a manner nowise tending to humiliate, deride, or destroy them. We say this, puteint aside altogether, for the moment, the weightier consideration whether, against melt sn inhuman tyranny, it is possible to conceive the per petration of any offence which consists in the avowal of reprobation of its practices, sad abhor- mace of its spirit. Ws are inclined to think that the House of COlO- mons, last Tuesday, by adopting Mr. CARDWELL'S clause with regard to advocacy in the county courts, took the course which will prove at once most bene ficial to the public and most fair to both branches d i the legal profession. The ease, as we understand it, stands shortly thus :—By a certain clause in the original County THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 19, 1851. to propose to eject them, there would be • notable Zue court. clatter raised about his ears. Well, there was not long ago at the lower end of Her Majesty and Prince Albeit, accompanied by the Serpentine, a white lodge or hut, occupied by ' the Princess Alice, and attended by the Hon. Amelia one ANY HICKS. ANN resembled the fortunate in- Murray, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Lieut.-Colonel Francis dividuals to whom we have been alluding, in respect Hugh Seymour, went to the Exhibition of the Works of that she occupied a portion of the royal demesne Industry of All Nations, at a quarter put nine o'clock without any rent. ANN had her Pe di g ree, t" yesterdayAl an: a :d r :ll . at . r fh lr P c r h in s c ;so o v f isit ie tte a rshrb r i i ti l o ce a runer a iroodfather — so runs the family history — "ce pate forenoon . y iler . Majesty and Prince Albert GEORGE H. out of the Serpentine, and was remained one hour at the Exhibition, and then returned to , rewarded by permission to keep a stand in the park. Buckingham Palace. Her father succeeded by right of inheritance, and she The Duchasof Kent visited her Majesty yesterday. f Tkl e ttucen ti a t n e d race Alt e rt, el ace9 .. m e accompanied by the Prince .n ' succeeded her father. Upwards of ono hundred years! . Half the Court Guide might envy the an- L thur. "' sad th rT ince y ' r i a i n ee " . A g re l : e ;,,, , r :a' ; tiquityof ANN Hicit.s' family. The grand-daughter : Louisa , sad attended by the Countess of Mount-' occupying a stall in recompense for her grandfather's Edrambe, Lady in Waiting, the Hon. Lucy Kerr, services to royalty ! ANN 'a ease is an exact counter- Mae of Honour in Waiting, Colonel the Honourable part of the MARLBOROUGH family's penaion out of B. Phipm, Major Myddelton Biddulph, Lord A. Charles Fitzroy, Lieut.-Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour, and Mr. the Post-office revenue. Birch, left Buckingham Palace at twenty-five minutes put ' two o'clock yesteday afternoon, for Osborne, Isle of Wig' ht. Be it observed, that we have had no opportunity of examining documents in verification of ANN'S nnrra- Her Majesty and Prince Albert were conducted to their tive ; we take it on the credit of her own statement, carriage by the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain,. the L est of the Horse, the Groom of the Stole to the Prince, a u t n e t t C e lli as the late Mr. BURKE did most of the pedigrees of den, Co c l e llon. bitatiine's Lord Ekrhillitl°Z;el Visco unt the nobility, baronetage, and " landed gen - try," whose annals he has given to the world m his compen- Lieut.-Colonel Francis Seym our. re The royal party occupied' diums. six of the Queen's carriages, and was escorted to the Nine I One would have imagined that our aristocracy Elms Station by a detachment of the Bth Hunan. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Royal Family and might have had a fellow feeling for one whose family Ra ni n4a tra to rela by a special train on the South-Western i history was so exact a counterpart to their own. But perhaps its similarity was the very thing that made The 6 tford Gosport . niversity Commission had a meeting y es .l her an eyesore to them. She was, in her humble terday at the official residence of the First Lord of the i get her out of wich, the Dean of Carl sphere, a living burlesque of too many great families, Tr , asury in Downing-street. Present: the Bishop of Nor isle, the Master of Pembroke, the and they were glad of an excuse toßev. 11. 0. Liddell, J. A. Dampier, Esq., the Rev..Profethe way. sor Powell, the Rev. G. 11. S. Johnson, and the Rev A. I'.. However this may be, poor ANN has been evicted Stanley (secretary). from her stand at the end of the Serpentine , with Mr. John Thornton , Deputy - chairman of the Board of as little ceremony as if she had been only an Irish Inland Revenue, had an interview yesterdaywith the Chan cell the Exchequer at Ms official residence in Down. peasant. About the time the Industrial Exhibition !nur of inestreet. was opened, a law went forth that no itinerant vendors Despatches were sent off yesterday from the Colonial of cakes, oranges, or representations of the Crystal office to the Governor of the Cenadas and the Governors of Palace, were to be tolerated in Hyde Park. the other North American colonies. Some said it was because such crowds of them were Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office attracted to the new favourite lounge that they from the Governor of the Gold Coast. trod on the heels of the exclusives ; others that (Prom last risers Gaga:J.) it was feared that they might interfere with the BUCKINGHAM -PALACE, JULY 17, Her Majesty monopoly of those to whom the vending of refresh having been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Charles ments within the building had been disposed of. ANN, William Earl of Sefton to be Lord-Lieutenant and Custom notwithstanding her ancestral claimsupon roynity,her Rotulorum of the county palatine of Lancaster, his lordship family's occupation of the stall for upwards of a eon- this day took the oaths appointed to betaken thereupon, in . . . . . _ . . 4or the es , - allegiance - - .• tury,"the money she had laid out in improvements, was bundled out of Hyde Park with the rest. No complaints are made against ANN on the score of her morality or general conduct; indeed, if there were, we have never heard that the private deport ment of those who occupy apartments m Hampton Court or Kensington Palace, is strictly investigated. ANN may have spoken her mind freely to and of those who ejected her; that was natural and par donable. Nro apology has been offered for the cold, I and supercilious, and heartless manner in which the grand-daughter of him who saved GEORGE 11. from a ducking was driven from her ancestral stall, from the place where she earned an honest livelihood from the time she was five years old till a few months ago. We must not forget: some compensation was made to ANN for depriving her of her " vested rights." She received a sum equivalent to the rent of an apartment for twelve months, at the rate of five shillings a week. ANN possibly, like all our heredi tary occupants of nests in the royal demesnes, was not a very good manager; the money is spent, and a few days ago, unable to devise any other mesas of turning a penny, she returned to her old haunts, with a basket of cakes and oranges. She was imme diately pounced upon and arraigned at the bar of Marlborough-street Police Court. There she was told that hawking edibles in Hyde I'ark was con trary to law, and she could not be allowed to do it. Well then—she must beg. That, too, she was in formed was against law. What on earth was she to do for a livelihood ? That was her concern. We are not going to be sentimental, and run up a romance on the groundwork of ANN HICKS' mishaps. But a poor creature who from infancy has dwelt under tho shade of Hyde Park trees, seeking a livelihood in a harmless way, as her grand father and father did before, now thrown upon the wide world at a ripe age, is as helpless a creature as any noble lady or gentleman would be in similar circumstances ; and as richly entitled to commisers ' tion. Great credit has been given to people far acts ' of less genuine charity than setting . on foot a sub cription to place the poor creature in a condition to do something for herself. One thing we would suggest to the public. Whea next the MARLBOROUGH sad GRAFTON pension* on the post-office come to be discussed, remember Ann Hick,. steadof the oaths of __ ce and supremacy. BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH, BUCKINGHAM PA LACE, JULY 16.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Major Thomas Myddelton Biddulpkto be Master of her Majesty's Hossehold, vice Major-General George Bowles, reogned. FoREIHN OFFICE, JULY 15.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Bernhard Hebeler as Consul- General in the United Kingdom for his Highness the Duke of Nassau. WHITEHALL, JULY 16.—The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, granting to Major- General George Bowles the office or place of Lieutenant of her Majesty's Tower of London, in the room of General John &divan Wood, deceased. WHITEHALL, JULY 16.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint William John Jordan and Stephen Henry Lee, Expo., to be captains, and Thomas Arundel' Tagg, gent., to be a supernumerary lieutenant in the Artil lery Company of London. WHITEHALL, JULY 18.—The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. George Murray to the church and parish of Balmatlellan, in the presbytery and stewartry of Kirkcudbright, vacant bythe death of the Rev. William Wilson, late minister thereof. CROWN OFFlCE.—Members returned to serve in this present parliament. —July 16.—Borough of Knares , borough : Thomas Collins, the younger, of Knaresbo rough, in the county of York, Esq., in the room of the the Right Hon. William Sehright Laseelles, deceased.— July 17.—Boroagh of Arundel : The Right Hon. Edward Strutt, of Kingston-hall, in the county of Nottingham, is the room of Henry Granville Fitsalan Howard, commonly called Earl of Arundel and Surrey who has accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds. It is with great regret we have to announce the death of the - Earl of Charlevill e , which sad event took , place suddealy on Monday last. By his decease a vacancy occurs in the representative peerage of Ireland. His lord , ship is succeeded in his title and estate by his eldest eon, • Viscount Tullamore, uow Earl of Charleville--Dubbn Evening Mail. The deceased was only 50, and had married the daughter of Lady Charlotte Campbell, better known , under bee seem& Irnaband's name of Bury. Lady Cherie. ville hes Ina Immeetalleed by the pen of Byron and the • chisel of Lheettiost. On Wednesday the Sheffield contributors and exhibitors expressed their approbation of the try able and important services rendered to the town of Sheffield by W. Ovcrend, Esq., and F. Dunn, Esq., by giving a grand banquet in the Cutlers' Min.'''. H. Lorton, E.g., (Mayor) occupied the chair, supported by William Overend, Esq., Rev. D. Trevor, T. Dunn, Esq., Wilson Overcnd, Esq., H. Wilkinson, Esq., O. Vickers, Esq., J. P. Jessock, Esq., S. Butcher, Esq., W. A. Matthews, Esq. The vice-chairmen were S. Deakin, Esq., master cutler, and H. O. Hoole, Esq. The authorities of the Customs department at Portsmouth have received instructions to arrange for the allowance to each man under their orders of five days, in order to give them an opportunity of visiting the Great Exhibition. They will receive their wages for this period, but their expenses will not be paid. Toe Dueness or KENT.—We understand that the Duchess of Kent, the mother of our Queen, is expected to visit Hamilton Palace in company with the Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas in the course of a few days. Extensive preparations have beta made at the Palace for the proper reception of the illustrious visitor.—Glargew Citizen. Courts Act there were three classes of persons vir tea,' entitled to be heard in the county courts—the parties themselves, their attornies, or "barristers in structed by such attornies." These latter words were ' construed, and we apprehend rightly construed, to preclude a barrister from acting u en advocate in the county courts, unless instructed by an at torney! in other words, a party suing or mood in those courts could not avail him- wit at the services of a barrister to act so amid on his behalf, unless he also em elt:l attorney. County-court suitors desiring their causes conducted by barristers could aeadeecomplish this by employing two lawyers of one. We believe this to have been the that instance in which the legislature has ever for mally recognised what was long understood to have been the etiquette of Westminster Hall—the cus tom, namely, that no barrister should be per witted in civil cases to appear as advocate in the superior courts unless instructed by an attorney. That this custom rested only on • rule of etiquette, and had no foundation is **common law, was formally determined by Lord CAMPBELL, when pronouncing the unanimous decision j ot the Court of Queen's Bench in a case which came beim that tribunal from the Oxford Circuit, in which it appeared that the counsel retained for one of the parties in the cause had conducted the case without receiving instructions from an attorney. That this rule of etiquette in the superior courts should for the first time have been converted into a kwislative prohibition on the occasion of establishing a cheap system of judicature, in which it might easily have been foreseen that an attempt to keep the old artificial system must amount to a exclusion of the bar from advocacy in the new courts, was, to my the least of it, somewhat infelici tous. The more natural and wiser course for those who wished well to the bar of England would certainly seem to have been to endeavour as far as possible to relax the rigid etiquette, which might have been sufficiently com patible with the arrangements of the old system, and adapt the habits of the profession to the exigencies of the new. It was probably , after all, not so much from short-sightednesa as from dislike and contempt of the new tribunals, and from an overweening desire to keep up the gentility of a profession in which their own position was secure, and with the social standing of which their own dignity was somewhat bound up—that the leaders of the her in the House of Commons sanctioned or procured the i•=lion of the restrictive clause. But whatever may have been the motives of the step, it was taken ' and its consequences soon became clear; the bar by degrees became virtually excluded from practice in the county courts and a new ekes of advocates sprung up—attornies who acted either in a joint capacity as attornics and advocates, or as to • great extent has become the case, purely in the latter capacity—having briefs indorsed and fees paid to them as counsel. As long as 201. formed the limit of the county court jurisdiction, temsfer of the former monopoly of the bar in Om meets to their brethren in the lower branch et dis painika excited little attention and alarm. When, however, the jurisdiction was extended to WI., and Westminster Hall was fast becoming de serted, and the preference of the country for the cheaper and less artificial system of procedure had been unmistakeably declared, the junior bar saw that their means of professional existence, never very superabundant, were dwindling away to nothing, while the attornics on the other aide became proportionably anxious to retain a privi lege with the advantages of which they had by this time become fully acquainted. In the endeavour thus to secure to themselves the double monopoly at attorneyship and advocacy, they certainly appear to have resorted to some proceedings rather question able both in point of taste and of discretion. Cases were alluded to on Tuesday by the ATTORNEY GENERAL and Mr. ANETEY, in which attornies had combined together to give no briefs to bar risters in county courts, and an instance was mentioned in which a suitor in one of the metropolitan courts, having requested an at torney practising there to retain counsel to appear for him, the person so applied to declined having anything to do with the case, except on the terms of retaining another attorney as advocate. Under these circumstances the ATTORNEY-GE NERAL, moved thereto, as it is understood, by a ' strong pressure from the outer bar, proposed 'a clause last Tuesday, the effect of which would virtually have been to give to the bar a monopoly of advocacy in the county courts in all cases between 201. and 501. The learned and cou rageous gentleman made an exceedingly ingenious speech, and urged all that could be advanced, and not without considerable show of reason, an to the impolicy of supplanting the present race of advo cates by an inferior class, without any gain to the public in . point of economy, and considerable disad vantage in almost all other respects. Nor did he fail to press the obvious topics as to keeping county court judges in check by the presence of an independent and accomplished bar, and keeping up a constant supply of skilled jurists, from whom to select the future sages and administrators of the law. The truth of much of this the house seemed readily to admit, but one short argument was rightly felt to be more than sufficient to outweigh a wilderness of such reasonings as these. The clause virtually sought to re-establish a monopoly—to prevent the public from employing as advocates a set of men with whom they were satisfied, and who practically were found to do their work cheaply and expeditiously, in order to impose upon them the necessity of retaining as counsel those whom they could not employ without also retaining another lawyer as an attorney. The employment of attorney advocates might be incompatible with that cheapness and ex pedition which it was the main object of the county courts to ensure: but this enforced employment of two lawyers where one would for all practical pur pans be sufficient, it was at once seen, mast defeat the me purpose and police of the whole system. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S original clause was manifest) y doomed, when Mr. Coil:maid. came for ward with a suggestion, which has all along ap peared to us to embody the plain common sense of the case. " Away with all monopoly, whether of the attorney as against the barrister, or of the bar rister as against the attorney ; repeal the legislative restriction which precludes barristers in the county courts from acting as counsel, unless instructed by attornies—let the public be free to choose their ad vocates from either branch of the profession, and leave the bar to settle among themselves, as they please, their rules of etiquette, so as to adapt them to this new system of free trade in advocacy.' In ac cordance with these views, which we think perfectly just and sound, the house agreed to the following clause : And it shall be lawful for the parties to the suit, for an attorney of one of the superior courts of record retained by or on behalf of the panics, or fur a barrister retained by or on behalf of the parties on either side, or by the leave of the judge for any other person, without any right to exclu sive or pre-audience to address the court, subject to such regulation as the judge may think fit to make for the or derly transaction of business so that court. It will be observed that this clause throws advo cacy in the county courts open to free competition ; attornies retained "on behalf of the parties," or barristers retained directly "by the parties," may alike act as counsel in those trilunals ; the former words leplise attorney advocates, the latter words legalise barristers uninstructed by attornies. This is fair, manly, and straightforward. The junior bar, if they are alive to their true interests, will throw themselves with manly energy into this field of free rivalry. It is well tole fastidious, but it is also desi rable to feed. The men of horsehair and bombemeen must shake off the coyness of " their fugitive and cloistered virtue ;" to live in rough plenty is almost as agreeable, and quite as respectable, as to die of dignified inanition. And if the system is found to work well in the county courts, why not extend it to the Courts of Westminster also? Kontos COURT and Kensington Palace, though deserted by Majesty, are not left untenanted. The passer-by is not startled, as at Balclothe, by seeing " the fox look out of the window," unless it should chance to be some two-legged Fox of aristocratic con nexions. Well-dressed gentlemen and ladies occupy the chambers, and it is not understood that they pay any rent. For what services theie elegant paupers have been quartered in the royal paiotes it is not our object at present to enquire; yet, if any one were LAW INTELLIGE NCE THIS DAY. EQUITY COURT. Boon VICIXVIANCILLOII *MKT Bet CL WRIGHT V. DOTLE.—MIbd TALBOTT . B MARRIAGE. Mr. Roundell Palmer applied to the court to approve of a settlement proposed to be made upon the intended mar riage of Miss Talbot with Lord Edward Howard. The learned counsel said that the matter was rather °repressing nature, as the marriage had been fixed for Tuesday next. Mr. Rolt said that there were particular portions of the proposed deed of settlement to which the attention of the court would be called. Mr. It Palmer said that there was not much about which there could be any difference, but that perhaps any discus sion had better take place in private. The assented, and withdrew to his pri vate room with Mr. Roll, Mr. R. Palmer, Mr. Bagshawe, Mr. Riddell, and Mr. Ellison, the counsel in the cauge, and the solicitors. WOOL MARKET.-THIS DAY. AA already announced in the Express, the public sales of colonial Wools commenced on the 17th. The attendance of buyers was large, and every lot offered changed hands— fine qualities at full prices, though the low kinds may be considered rather cheaper. A large proportion is taken by continental buyers. For English Wool trade remains quiet, but with prices well supported. A more lively state of ba sin. •••, is expected shortly to arise. The imports of the week amount to NO bales front Ho- bart Town, 1,3.50 from Port Philip, 91 from Odessa, 2,000 limn Sydney, 600 from Algoa Bay, 198 from Hamburg, and 42 from Alexandria, making a total of 6,261 bales. UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.— Yesterday the annual general meeting of the shareholders in this company was held at the offices in Waterloo-place, Charles Graham, Esq., chairman of the company, presiding. The report read by the secretary, showed that for the year ending December 31, 1850, the receipts were 955,813'. ; dis bursements, 578,0601. ; and the funds of the company, 384,0631. The claims upon policies, which in 1848 sad 1849 averaged 61,2191. per annum, were last year 36 fa number, and amounted to only 39,3071. including the boons additions. The gross amount of the company's liabilities from the year 1834 to December 31, 1860, was 5,051,0311., which at the latter date had been reduced by claims, lapsed policies, and surrenders by the sum of 2,277,988/., leaving 2,773,0431. as the nett amount of t .e company's liabilities. The report congratulated the company on the small amount of the claims during the past year, and stated that the number of new policies in the same period was 517, and the amount received in respect of them 13,8591., was more by 6061. than that received for new policies in 1849. The directors had much pleasure in stating that there had been an addition of 64,0001. made to the funded property of the company since THE GANGES (Peninsular and Oriental Steam Na • tion Comp are e's ship ) with the heavy portion of the Dee. 1849. The Hon . F. Scott, M.P.. moved the adoption of "g a • Bast India sad China , t rans, was signalled this morning at the report, which he said disclosed • state of affairs highly w .. 6 ..... tet creditable to the board of directors and all concerned in the "'" • executive departments of the company. Mr. Thos. Curtis AN ARMED . ( ' TANG UP BURGLARS a ttacked the seconded the motion, and expressed his gratification at the house of a gentleman near M acclesfi eld , ab o ut result which the statement before the meeting afforded, on the morrang of Wednesday, under circum l t e urc i e; s tork The report was unanimously adopted. Mr. Luxada then show that the fate of the murderers oli'ethe south, . who haw. L i ... - moved, and Mr. P. Wither seconded, • vote of thanks to list,. and of e other Idmespera oat i r m px parties s tri ln bu t tionwh r the law the directors, which having been passed the meeting sepa rated. can me T l:ave bad but little effect in the way of warning. Mr. Hine, who resides two miles from Macclesfield, ea the INCUMBERED ESTATES COMMISSION.—Yeeterday, old London-road, was roused from sleep by the presence of by an order of the Hoare of Lords, an interesting return • body of five armed men, wearing black masks, in front of was printed of the purchases made under the Incumbered his house, who made a great clamour at the door and de- Estates Commission. The purchasers, English and Scotch, mended admission. In reply to a question from Mr. Hine reside, with one exception, in England. The purchase at his bedroom window, the leader of the gang said they money amounted to 149,0301. 123. 61, and the amount wanted his watch and money, and anything else that might allowed to the purchasers out of the purchase money in be valuable. He told them that he had no watch, and that discharge of incumbrances upon the estates sold was he kept no money or valuables at the house, knowing that 43.9 W. it was in a lonely situation and unprotected, and he EARBADOES RAlLWAY.—Yesterday, after hearing a d vised them tou away. One of the robbers said he further evidence and arguments on the charge against the kn ew " young M . r. Hine" had a watch, and they must directors from Mr. Roxburgh for Mr. Ainger, the official have that. Mr. R. E. Rine, who is a sharebroker, wee in manager, and Mr. Greene for Messrs. 1611, Heyward, and the home, and in bed at the time, and soon erwarde Eotton, the three trustees, calling onthem to account for spoke to them from another window. Remonstrincts 9,0001. and upwards paid as deposit, the Master in Chan- were made, however, under very uncomfortable circum . eery Blunt intimated to Messrs. Tucker, solicitors to the stances, for whilst they were speaking the most active of official manager, that he was not prepared to grant the ap- the gang, who addressed one of his followers by the name plicatiou to open an account as against these gentlemen, ,of " Bluebeard," pointed a pistol at one and then the but that, wishing in all these cases to meet the substantial ot h er of them, swearing with dreadful impeomsmos that justice of the case, be would take time to consider. they would break into the house and take vsysiwase if SOVEB:8 SYMPOBIEN.—Last evening M. Soyer everything was not given up. Whilst this esavereatiest gave • special entertainment at Gore House for the grarafi was going on, some of the men were trying with crowbars cation of his numerous supporters. The es tablishment was to break open the front door, but another of the gang illuminated on the occasion with the manager's usual good appeared to come from the back of the house, and to tell taste, and produced • striking effect. them that a more easy entrance would be effected there, SAVAGE ASSAULT BY • GAMEKEEPER.—OD MOB. for three of the party were instantly detached in that day last a young man named Jones, who has been for some , direction, and soon atter the back door was heard to give time unwell, was in • field at Ham-green, near Bristol, way with a loud crash. Mr. Hine and his son had gathering hembe to make a poultice, when • man named • double-barrelled . gun in the house, but it was not Liege, a gamekeeper in the service of Wm. Miles, Esq., loaded ; and knowing that the progress of the robber, M.P., of Leigh-eonrt, cane up to him, armed with • gun was now only impeded by an inner (aiage) door, whoa and in a state of intoxication, knocked him down with the tihey and the whole family would be at the mercy of the stock-end of the piece, and fired at him, the contents of ruMeae, now demanded a further parley, and the result one barrel of small shot wounding him severely. There is 1 was that they delivered to the burglar the gold watch isf • footpath through the field, and two piilmen who hap- Mr. Hine, jun., and chain, value 201., and all the meg pened to come by at the time interfered, prevented his , they had in the home, which, however, was . silver, and did firing the second barrel, and carried the poor fellow home. ' not mount to a pound. After much simians and a bse He was attended by • surgeon, by whom several shots the fellows thenleft the house. The police have been In here been got out, but some still remain in his person. A formed of the particulars, and are making active inquiries, warrant was issued for the capture of the gamekeeper, hut have as yet no trace of the desperate raglans. The ' but it is stated that the matter has been since compre- robbery, un der such daring circumstances, has emend great t mimed. excitement in the neighbourhood. COTION.—HAvaz, JULY 18. The market to-day, notwithstandiag the favourabld ad vice, received from Liverpool, has not been active, there being but little demand. Sales up to 2 o'clock, 700 bales. Tres-ordisioire New Orleans, quoted at SOL SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—THIS DAY. Mews. Cooper and Davis report the following quota tions :—Prime Meadow Hay, 755. to 8.5*. ; inferior ditto, 655. to 70a. ; new, 555. to 68s. ; ltowen, 60s. to 705.; Clover, old, 75a. to 955. ; new, 70s. to Ms.. Straw, 28s. to 32.1. MONEY MARKET THIS DAT. Two o'CLooz. The English stock market is very quiet to-day, with only a limited attendance of dealers, and owing to the absence of active operations, more flatness has been shown, and a further decline of k has taken place. Money continues easy, but the rumours which are afloat, of foreign loans, by which this market will of course be affected, even if negotiated abroad, have the effect of repressing all inclination to operate in an upward sense. Consols are quoted 961 M for money, and 901 to for the 12th of August. The official report of the day's transactions is as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, 964 4 ; ditto for Account, 961 4 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 974 4 ; New Three and-a-Quarter per Cents., 984 1; Three per Cent. Annuities, 1726, 01; India Stock, 262 263. The unfunded securities continue well supported. Exchequer Bills rule at 51s. to 54e. prem. India Bonds, under 1,0001., mark 625. prem. Foreign stocks are inactive, but the speculative descriptions are flat, and both Mexican and Spanish have receded from yesterday's figures. Sardi s nian scrip is very quiet, but no tendency to a' rally is perceptible. Busines is recorded to-day in the under-mentioned stocks, viz. :—Equador Bonds, 34. French Three per Cent. Itentes, 56fr. 50c.; exchange, 25fr. Mexican Bonds, 304 ex div. ; ditto for account, 31st July, 304, ; ditto small, 304. Russian Four and-a-half per Cents., 1001. Spanish Active Five per Cents. fur account, 204; ditto Passive, 51; ditto Three per Cents., for account, 381. ENOLISII FU Mak Stock, 31415 3 per Ct. Reduced. 572 3 per Ct. Camay. Int I 3* per C 10r e rc . e..2541 . FOREL DB.—To IR DAT. Loog Attultito. 7i Indio Stock, Ditto Bonds. IK:chequer 1,11001.,151a. tit SU. 44 per CL Delilah. 92 4 6 per Ct. Ormaillan. )9 1/1 Do. New. &I 60 6 per Ct. Buell. Ayres, 643 6 per Ct. Mica. 103 9 3 per Cl. Charm. 3 per Ct. Danish. 76 7 26 per Ct. Dutch. 691 l ex the 4 !es Ct. Dutch, 921 f Equador. 311 1 per Cl. Greolida. 164164 .6;Zr Ct.afestozn. 301 i 41 per Ct. Vertivian. N 1 Ditto Deferred. 13 4 5 per CL Portuoune, is 1 5 per Ct. Raritan, 11.1 144 41 per Ct. Sweden, DM 1 per Ct. Spanish, Active, MI 1a 3 pet Ct. Spanish. 381 Do. Ponce, Si 6 If per Ct. Venezuela. u 3 Do. Deferred. 12 13 LATEST FOREII PARIS, Jvir 11. Pc'r Si 73 37 3 94 73 95 SO 6 pee Osnit. ....—. 67 e 3 WOO& ..-.-- 95 15 4 par tom es. ls do. New lima - , 3 pee Llenta. !selling, on London: Aright, 25; 90 dam., 24 62i. Selptas, S. la le Do. 5, 1641 Do. 41 Do. 211 Piedmont S p.Ct PARIS, JULY 18.—St. Germain —; Versailles (right beak). 167 30; Do. (4R Sink), 231 A ; main, and Orleans, S4S, Patio MS Roue° , 647 30; Rouen and Havre, .47 30, Narretlles and Aria- Om 211 SO; Straabourg and Sale, 131 50; Cent e, 410; :Boulogne ad Amiens, 272 30; Orleans and bordeaus, 396 2S; Nortbern, 4,0, hits and Stratiburg, 272 50; Tours and Nantes. 276 25. RAIL JVA YS. THIS DAY. Two o'Ctoca. The depressed state of feeling in the share market amounts to a species of panic, the dealers running down prices of all descriptions, apparently without reason or intermission. A slight tendency to a rally was at one time shown in the heavier shares, but it soon disappeared, and the range is now considerably lower, especially for Lancashire and Yorkshires, Midlands, South-Fasterns, and Great Westerns, in all of which speculative sales have been pressed. The following are this day's prices : - ORDINARY 14HA - REN. Aberdeen, 91; Caledonian, 9; Chester and Ilolyhead, 154; Eastern Counties, 6; East Lancashire, 141 133; Great Northern, 1611 ; Great Southern and Western (Ireland), 381; Great Western, 83 21 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 46 ; ditto Fi ft hs, 21 I ; ditto West Riding Union, 41; Leeds and Think, 114 11 ; London, Brighton, and S. Coast, 94 4 ; Lou. and N. Western, 1224 2 ; ditto Quarters, 261 4; London and South West., 83 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 261 ; Midland, 371 4 8 74; ditto 501. shares, 131 14 ; North Staffordshire, 81 8 ; South Eastern, 214 4 1; York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 17U; ditto Extension, 13: ditto:G. N. E. pur chase, 61 1; York and North Midland, 171 18 171. ____.... LINES LEASIW AT PIPED RENTALS. East LineolashirC,iiiii;r.T per Cent, Yijj Leeds and Bradford, 1011; South Staffordshire, 61; Veer Valley Guar. 6 per Cent., 240; Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, 4.51 ex int. PRIFERINCII GUMMI. Caledonian, 101., 61 ; Chester and Holyhead Guar. 5i per Cent., IN ; Eastern Counties New 6 per Cent. Stock, 101; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Quarter shares, No. 1, 121; York and North Midland 11. and S. Purchase, 81 ea int. FOURION 811 ARMS. Boulogne and Artii;;;;,l4;kiiiiindian, Hi A cx int. Great Indian Peninsula, 4ex int. ; Namur and Liege, 6 Orleans and Bordeaux, 41; Paris and Strasbourg, 10 Tours and Nantes, 61. COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS. WEEKLY SUMMARY OF THE PRODUCE MARKETS. MINCING-LAMB, SATURDAY MORNING, • The produce markets continue dull, and for most articles lower prices have been established. In West India sugar • good amount of business has beet. transacted, importers having submitted to a decline of 6.1. per cwt., strut upon other sorts, where sales have been made, a similar reduction has occurred. The sales of 92,369 baskets Java, held at Amsterdam on the 15th inst., passed off at an advance of 9d. to Is. upon the low qualities, but a decline of 6d. per cwt. on the fine descriptions. For coffee the demand has not been brisk, and upon some kinds of plantation Ceylon, prices about 6d. to Is. per cwt. below those ruling this day week have been accepted, while for the native sorts not more than 375. 6d. per cwt. is obtainable for any quantity. Sales of saltpetre have been made at a decline of about 6d. per s cwt. In tea the amount of business by private contract been extremely limited, but the public sale of yesterday has gone off well. TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAt. The Tallow market remains firm at the following quota tions :—Town Tallow 395. 6,1., or fur cash, 363. 6d. to 375. ; Petersburg Y. C. on tie spot. 38a. ; last three months, 395. 3d.; January and March 395. 6d. to 395. 9d. MAILIZT ATEUAOBB.—Town Tallow, 395. Gd. • fat b ditto, 2s. Id. ; Yellow 395. ; mel te d stu d', 285.; rough ditto, 18s.; Tallow graves, 91.; good dregs, 6s. There is still confidence on the part of holders of Russian, and late rates have been supported during the week ; there is, however, a reluctance on the part of dealers to operate, and only limited transactions are reported at 375. 94 for fine candle. The amount of business concluded for delivery is upon a more extended scale, and the rates paid are 395. 3d. to 395. 6d. for the last three months. There are many buyers rather under these terms. Home melted is not dearer, but there is more busi ness doing at 3.58. to 365. per cwt. nett cash. An impression exist., that fur this sort of Tallow rates will not be lower, although supply is plentiful. Other kinds of Tallow are operated in with more freedom, and former rates are well supported. Of colonial and foreign the stock is 8,000 casks more than last year, but in pritsw there is now little varia tion. COVENT GAItDEN.-THIS DAY. Peaches and Nectarines continue to be sent in large quan- I titles. English Pines and hothouse Grapes are plentiful, and the former cheaper. Strawberries are abundant. Cherries are furnished iu large quantities; they are excellent in quality. West Indian Pines fetch from 2s. to Se. each. Oranges and Lemons are scarce. Nuts remain nearly the same as quoted last week. Asparagus, Carrots, French Beans, from the open ground, and Green Peas are received in quantity. New Potatoes may be obtained at Id. to 4d. per lb. Let tuces and other ealading are sufficient for the demand. Mushrooms are a trifle dearer. Cut Flowers consist of Heaths, Pelargoniums, Mignonette, Heliotropes, Stepho noels floribunda, Pinks, Moss and Proving Hoses. ratan. Puss.apples, per lb., 4. to 7. liitionds, per peck, Gs Grape., hothauer, p. lb., 2. to 31 sweet, per lb., 2. to 3. Peaches ,or d z, 10, to 20s Lemons, per dos., I. to Se Nectertnes, ter dos , lOs to 20s Oranges, per due., 9d to 2. Ctserees, per lb , 64 is 20 per 100, Cs to 111 Melons, each, ,s to se Nellie, per 100, 7. toles I scrawbeerses, per pCtle, IA to Is p. doz., 'stoked Goostbentes, per ball sieve, Nut; Bar, p. boob., 20e to 22. 2. to 4, brazil, p. busk., 12s to 14s Currants, per ball sieve, 3s to S. Cobs, per 100 lb., 20. to 22. YISORTARLC/s. Cabbages per dos., fll to Is artlekokes, per dos.. Is to 2s Cauliflowers, per cloa, Is to Ss Loewe. Cab. p. wore. ed to 9d Preach Beessapeektspee. 3. to 3. coy pre mom 3a to is Beane. per sieve, 2. to 3s 6d Ora B&W% P. Pop:, Id to 34 Pees, pie sky., Is to Is limes Reakk, pw au., 1.114 torte Aspersion, per tut, 1. te 4s led Res., per Ma. Is to 4. Rhubarb, per bead., 3d told Illeassams. peep* Is to le Potatoes, par Pm. 90. to Aka =per bellows, Gd to 63 per ewL, 4. to Is gst Web. 2d to 3d per boob., Is 64 to 31 Ilso.ll, per liamele, 2d to 3d Ternlps, per bends, 3d to Oa Ilip•is per keßeb, 24 to 3d Castusbeis, sack 3d to Is rotas% p. dea. bus., la to 3• Radiate, per dos., col se 9d _ /..... per bee.. 94 to Is Turn* pordas., Sd to le Otßit. IPosk lov bonds. 44 to 44 Celery. per bundle, ed to 9. Basil, pees, per bioeb. Id te 34 arrow, per bonen. *4 Is 113 Slsrlaransolo., per bues6,ll4 telt *dime.. per wee, Is 114 t 2s Watercress. pet Goa enanses. Cruces. pa buneb, led told td to 94 Leeks, per beech. 34 to 44 Corn Salsa, p.bL dm. Is to lead reellaas, per bona, Milo ed Vegetable Mimes, per dos., le. Cults, per lb., 44 toed I to Se. IN EXCHANGES. Vol Account. MlAs* Lowed awing• 76 70 $7 5 w 7! 9ssO [ P.°lll i . - .. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EYRNINO. The event of the day has been a scene of great disturbance in the Chamber, owing to some expres sions in the speech of M. Barochc, which indicated an intention of calling in question the legality of the constitution, on account of the pressure which had been exerted by the provisional government upon the elections of the first constituent. M. Dufauce replied to M. Baroche, and made a long speech against revision, of which he contended the inoppor tuneness. _ _ _ The calm attitude which the Assembly had pre served during the previous sittings was broken yes terday by the impassioned eloquence of Victor Hugo. Seldom has a more stormy series of explosions been witnessed than were called forth by the uncompromising positions of the great poet-orator. Nothwithstanding the jeremiads of the moderate papers about the scandalous provo cation of the spqker, one can only regret that the fervid language of republican conviction cannot be listened to as patiently by the majority as the royalism of MM. Berryer and de Falloux by the minority. The latter, whose languid and feeble flattery of kings was heard with patient disdain by the Mountain, signalised himself yesterday by taunt ing Victor Hugo, in the midst of his impetuous harangue, with a miserable personality. While the orator was dealing with matter purely political, M. do Falloux threw in his face the pension which he had received from the monarchy, and flourished in his fingers the letter of thanks which M. Hugo had written to Charles X. Nothing could be more cre ditable to the poet than the triumphant manner in which he answered this mean charge. While a mere lad he received from Louis XVIII. a pension of 801. Later the government of Charles X. prevented the drama of Marion Delorme" from being represented on the stage; but the king, in order to compensate the author for this prohibition, offered him 120'. in addition to the former pension. This offer Victor Hugo declined. Nothing could he more pitiable than the figure cut by M. de Falloux in the face of this explanation. Accordingly, after the descent of the speaker from the tribune, he revenged himself upon M. Hugo by a wre'ched series of personalities, in the worst possible taste. M. Dupin, instead of protecting M. Hugo against the shower of gibes and scoffs which were directed against his magnificent speech, drily observed that it was the orator who made his audience. At moments the tumult became indescribable ; the whole Right rose en masse, and the bench of ministers bawled and gesticulated like men possessed. But M. Hugo baffled these ungenerous attempts to drown his powerful speech by admira ble presence of mind, and in proportion to the rage of his persecutors lashed them with greater severity. At the noisy close of Isis harangue, ho an swered the brutal personalities of M. de Falloux and his brother legitimists by sparkling and refined wit. " Your ideas , said he, " are not yet returned from emigration." In sum, whatever the merit of Victor Hugo's principles of government, he drew yesterday a most powerful picture of the errors of the monarchy, and exposed with consummate success the littleness of aim of the royal parties in proportion to the vast requirements of the age and country. The frankness with which M. de Larochejacquelin deve loped his ideas forms a favourable contrast to the mock deference of M. de Falloux for the principles of 1789. At the sitting of the Assembly yesterday, M. Vicroa H eoo said he would only accept the debate under • protest against the law of the 31st of May, which had destroyed universal suffrage, and against all kindred laws, such as the laws against the press and against the right of public meeting. Till all those laws were uncon ditionally abrogated, what could the majority hope or expect from revisiou ? Ile wondered that the majority, who laid claim exclusively to the designation of practical men, should bring forward the proposition with the certainty of failure, in the face of the immutable minority who were the inflexible guardians of the sovereignty of the people. It was a waste of precious public time, sod a disturbance of public tranquillity, but since it was the good pleasure of the majority, he was ready to argue with them. In spite of all the protestations and distinctions of M. de Falloux, of M. Berrycr, and M. de Broglie, he would declare that their attack upon the republic was nothing but an attack upon the whole revolution from 171,9 downwards. The revolution was the manifestation of the republic. They were as inseparable as the dawn and the sun. There might be masks in the Assembly, but there were no dupes. Hail the consti tution been fairly and honestly tried during the last 3 years he could have understood a demand for revision for the pur pose of developing democratic ideas, for realising those prin ciples, some of which the constitution had only declared--• the essential rights of the people, the right to labour, to organized assistance, the abolition of the punishment of death, gratuitous instruction, freedom of the press, freedom of conscience, freedom of speech ; the abolition, in short, of all obstacles to the physical and moral progress of man. If, it had been said, the constitution of the French Republic should he the charter of human progress in the 19th century, the immortal testament of civilisation, the political bible of the nations, it should approach as nearly us possible to abso lute social truth, therefore let us revise the constitution, that he could have understood, but that in the middle of the 19th century they should be told, duce is a great light in France, let us put it out ; that they should be told, the French people have hewn out of indestructible granite the first stone of that vast edifice that will hereafter be called the United States of Europe—(loud and long continued cheering)—that they have made a revolution unheard of in history, the ideal of great philosophers realised by a great people—that they should be told all this, and then that it should be added, we arc going to destroy this revolution; we will extinguish this republic; we will snatch this book of progress from the people's hands; we will raze out the dates 179''2, 1830, and 1818 ; we will bar the way against that rash giant who does all things without cousultiog us, and whose name is l'rovidence ; that this @hula be said, that this should be dreamed et, overwhelmed him with astonishment. Proceeding to argue the question which was before them, of re public or monarchy, he said that what was called the fusion had simplified the question; there were but two monarchies—the monarchy of principle, which was legiti macy, and the monarchy of glory, as certain privileged jouruals called it, which was the empire. Ile would in the first place deny that monarchy was a principle. Monarchy had never been anything else but a fact. (Great interrup tion.) He repeated that the poseession of a whole people by one man or one family could have been Lut a fact, and when the fact ceased to exist there was an end of it. Not CI vestige of right remained. A republic might be suppressed in fact, but the right would remain. The rights of kings in this age, in this place, is a mere nonsensical wurd. But will Tilt take the lower ground of utility, will you say that democracy is bad, for a state, and that royalty is better, that political stability is the fruit of hereditary monarchy ? Let us bee. What are your griefs against the republic of 1818? Insurrections? But monarchy had plenty. The state of finauce ? Consti tutional monarchy was dear enough, and was the inventor of large budgets, but your real monarchy, your monarchy of principle, your monarchy of 14 centuries sometimes made itself wilfully bankrupt. (Laughter and cheers.) Your great Louis XIV. now and then scared proprietors, to cite Boileau, A ramect d'un arret qui retrace/4e on pannier. A royal ste t crce w..ich takes a quarter of the subjects' income, is a royal bankruptcy. (Great interruption.) Under the re gency the monarchy pocketed—that is not an elegant word, but it is the true ore-350 millions by altering the currency. Lou, XV. was bankrupt nine times in sixty years. (Lang interruption, caused by a voice calling out, " What of poets' pensions." here M. Victor Hugo triumphantly disposed of the mean charge brought against him by M. de Fallon:, of having accepted a pension from Louis XVIII.) Cardinal Dubois described monarchy as • strong government, because it could become bankrupt as often as it liked. (Much laughter.) The re public of 1848 was not bankrupt, nor, if let alone, would ever become so. The republic had made no war. He might say, in the interest of peace, that it had been almost too pacific, for its sword, but half-drawn, would have suf ficed to send many formidable sabres rattling back into their scabbard. There are miserable accusations spriest the re public that go the round of your newspapers. There are the commissioners of Ledru-Itollin, the 45 centimes, and the so cialist conferences at the Luxembourg. Ah ! beware of the !, Luxembourg for there you may chance to meet the shade of Marshal Fey. (Great uproar.) Men of worn out parties, you misunderstand contemporary phenomena. Because monarchy has vanished, yen say France is vanishing. It w an optical delusion. France is one thing, and monarchy another. France remains and grows great understand that. France was never greater—fo reigners know it, but, it is sad to say, you do not. The orator here drew a striking picture of the varied miseries which had been endured by the royal family of France, and I salted if their friends would replace that family in the muclvenvied Tuileries, to invite • repetition of the same history. He said that within a very short time property and commerce would come to understand that the republic was terra firma, and that monarchy was the TO ground, and that then the royalist party would b d. :t M ally extinguished. In answer to M. Bcrryer's assertion that France could never accommodate itacii to a republic, ha as- I sorted that similar prophecies had been made in op position to representative government ; that the republic was a na tural stcp onwards ; that the masses would soon find their equihbrium,"and that what was called the political fever, and was so injudiciously sought to be repressed, was but • wholesome fermentation. He cortrasted the royalists of the present day with then chivalrous ancestors who fought in La Vendee, and did not reserve the confession of their . s y to stansr political faith till all danger was gone by—men who !pe a, made war upon the revolution, and did not insidiouinsidiouslyauously seek to eu teal " Vire le Rai " in the As ' milltbly, after having twenty-seven tames i n one day it— men outwho did nut come peaceably and sui g , g i g o'o , l , C. 4 .‘. z 13. -44 03 r•se.. r . )(1,1 • I I I . r,