The Sun. — London, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. Notice is herd), given, that the next HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETIN - of the Proprietors of thin Company will be held in,Lotnion, pursuant to the Act of Parliament, iit the Padding ton Station, in Tin:tisDAY, the 17th of February mixt, at Twelve for One o'clock precisely, for t!.e Election of Three Directors in the place of the tame number who will retire rotation, and for other purposes of business. The Chair will be taken at One o'clock precis( ly. CIIAR,T.ES , USSEI.T., Chairman. BARRINGTON, Deputy-Chairman. The Directors retiring are re-ellgible under the provisions of the Act. The Transfer-BookA will be closed on and from Monday the 7th Of February, and will not be re-opened until after the said Halt - - yearly General Meoting, on thelith of February ; and the Dividend for the Half-year ending the 31.4 t of Decembt . r la,t will be paid to the proprietors wit) may be reglgtered on the Company's books when elostxl. By order, CliAlii,ES A. SAUNDERS, Secretary. January 13, 1818, A RT-UNION OF LONDON. Tncorporkted by Royal ClO Suhscription of Prize-holler at the Annum Distribution will he entitled to select for himself a work Of art as heretofore, and every •autiscrilxr will receive for each guinea an impression of a line en:traving by F. B•con, after E. hi. Welmert. The Prisoner o; (floors, already completed and at pre.ta, and a volume of thirty wool engravings, illustrathr; "L'Allegro" and " li Penseroso," with the text. GEORGE GODIV I\, Honorary Secretaries. I.F: IS POCOCK, 4, Trafalgar-square, January, lats. ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSCRANCF , SOCIETY. 28, CORNIIILT., LONDON. Capital £300,000. Empowered by Act of Tarliament. Title institution embraces important and substantial advantages With respect to ►lfe assurances and deferred auanitles. The assured has, en all occasions, Die power to borrow, without expense or for feiture of the policy, two•thirds of the premiums paid (see Table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in terests to meet other conventencies or necessity. Assurances for terms of years on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION 01 PROFITS. The increasing prosperity of the Society ins enabled the Directors et the annual meeting keld on the 12th May, 1847, to declare a fifty boies, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid 9n each pulley effected in the profit scale. EXAMPLES. The Annual Report, witk tables of rates, S. 'Mee, sr any of its branches in the eeantry ; e: ** forwarded post free. F. DIRGITSON CAA lIIX, Secretszy. Beaver Tagllonl .• ••..••• • • • .• • • from £0 9 0 Chesterfield and Codrington's, aid every description of Over-coat, handsomely trimmed.. ••• • • • ••• .... • . • The itullmer, eapectally adapted for snowy and wet w:••athor •• • ..... ••••..••..••• • • • • • • • • • • • 1 • • toy's Winter Coats, to every style •••... • • .. 0 6 0 11.1ra's Do. Trousers, haul . • Dress Coats.. •• • •• • • •• •• ••• • • • 1 0 0 Frock do.. Dotble-hreasted Winter ..............4. . 0 9 0 Boys' Humor and Tunic Suits ••••• • • • • •• • 16 6 )(ADZ TO MILSERIL. Winter Coats, Is every style and shape, hand somely trimmed • • • • •• • • " • • ' • • • • • • • • • .• frm I 6 Milled cloth Over-eoats, velvet collar a nd cuffs .• 2 4 0 Tweed Wrapper.............. Doeskin Trousers ••••••••••• • '' ' • • • • • • • 1 2 4 or Dr,ss,.. ..... •• • • • ••• .• 1 6 0 Drees Coat • • • .... ••• • • • 1 12 3 Best qaality wade.. •• • • .• 215 0 Frock e. o• . Best quality made.. •• • • 3 3 0 Coahmere Vests .• .• •. • • ..... ............. • A 6 Ratins, Plain or Fancy •• • • ...... .•• • • • ••••• 012 • Boy's Ilussar and Tunic Snits . • •• • Great Coat.. .. A Salt of Clotho complete ...... ••••••• • • • • • • • 1 16 0 Mourning to any extent at Five Minutes notice. 1 1 I Perms- Sam the A .l Annual ( Policy Ronne in 'cat Re- Assured AIM g ?re- taken addition Bonne in ductloo of may bor o . minitt.ltit in Assured. r Cask. Annual row on m I Prellllllllll. Policy. ......-- --.. £ a. 4. £ a d. ---- Z a. d.l --- £ it. d. r 1837 243 9 31112 6 i 18 4 6 '494 6 IS x , z a. d. 1838 218 4 8! 99 810 18 13 8 445 0 0 SO 1000 1839 192 1 le 86 9 3 13 4 9 395 11 1 74 3 4 1 1 1840 143 5 101 66 3 4 919 1 346 2 3 1 i 1841 133 14 2; 61 17 69 9 2 296 13 4 I 1842 111 6 8i49 10 0 7IS 4 1247 4 5 .1001.. nay b• kid at the ~ .n application, will GRAVESEND vitt BLACKWALL RAIL WAY, and fall and BLACKWALL FACKETS. Railway toad Boat inoladed in onto Payment. Fere Cabin and lecend Claes Ballway, NINIIPBXCE ; Woe* and First Chun ditto, ONB MULLING. To or front Sisal's/1 or internale Piers, rem Cabin. Ife other Peekets call at the Grays ear Ckeenbithe Piers. From TYeTerraee Pier, Gravesend, at 716, B%*, 9%, 11%, 1,3, aid 6. Sundays, at 7%, 1%, 11%, 1, a, Lad 8. Freon the Srunswtok Wharf, Blackwell, at 9%, 11, 12, 1%, 3,4, and 6*. Sundays, at 9%, 11, 1%, 3,4, and s*. The TRAINS starting one quarter st as heir berlvre each of these times. Packets narked 4 are run direst, the rackets not being per mitted to step at Piers er for Boats. Omnibuses from Fenckarch-street Statics to LB parts of London every quarter of an hour. BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 4/. 45.; Six Months, 21. 18i. ; Throe Months, 11. 16s. ; to be had of the Collectors oa board the Pockets; Mr. Moak, Terrace I'lor, Gravesend; or of Mr. Saunders, Brunswick Wharf, Blaokwall. lovenibor 2M, 1847. ACURIOUS ACROSTIC. A ttend to the following curbing lay, A word of advice we've a wish to convey ; A llow us to offer (you cannot do less) A few observations concerning choice dress. A 11 those who have purchased of MOSES And SON, A dmit that their garments were never outdone ; ♦ nd, reader. you'll Mid when you purchase goods there, A dvantages offered you, many amt rare. A steunding improvements do MOSES' display, A nd many choice novelties tamed in the day. A 1 no other house can the public behold ♦ ttnictions to equal what MOSES' unfold. A int thou silly look at the prices we quote, A het we pre,ent which we wish you to note. A 11 folks when they fled that the prices thus run, A Tail themselves gladly of MOSES and SON. A nd do they regret when their bargains are made ? A re they ever disposed to find fault with our trade ? A it answer to this we at *nee will bestow,' A nd the answer's In one little negative—\Ol LIST OF PIIICLS. 11.1• DI MADE. Observe.—Any article purchased, ready ramie, or made to rare- Mire, If nut approved of, will b• exchanged, •r if preferred, tk• Money returned. MOSES and SAN. Tailors, Woollen/rapers, Cl•tkters, Hatters, nosier's, Furriers, lt•ot and Shoemakers, and General Outtltters, fur Ladies and Gentleraen, 154, 15h, and 156, 137 Minories, and 81, $4, 85, and SG Aldgate, City, London. flanatssa.-IZ. Moses and Son regret being obliged to guard the pnblie against investors, but kayo learned that the antradesmen /Ike falsehood of being connected with them, or it's the saute concern, bat§ been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. They have no connexion with any other houre is or out of London; and these who desire genuine and chess clotking, &0., should call at, of send to, Alineries and Aidgate, City, London. otice.—No business transacted at this establishment from sun set Triday, till sunset Saturday, when business is resumed till twelve o'el•ck. DREDGE'S lIE AI, • ALL, or celebrated Em brocation, has long been known throughout the West of England as the most efficacious remedy for Rheumatism. Lumbago, Pains in the Limbs and Numbness, Sciatic and Paralytic ANec. tion:, F'ace•aclte, Sprains and Bruises, Burns and Scalds, Spasms and Cramp, Stiffness of the Joints or Neck, Frozen Limbs, Chilblains before they are broken. It is likewise an infallible cure for that dan. lierous disorder the Quinsey or Sore Throat, in which it was never known to fail after a few hours' application. Observe—That none can ne genuine unless the stamp affixed to each bottle contains the name and address of Barclay and Sons, No. ys, Farringdon-street, who have purchased the property in this ♦alttable article from the executors of the inventor, William Dredge, late of Wishford, Wilts. ltetail price, ls. I Isid. and 2s. 9d. per bottle; and sold retail by all respectable Medicine 'Venders in town and country. A It It I A G E. One half the world are desolately single, and the other OuPPosing them married, questionahly contented. DiMdence, or a Renee of right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes em 14tter the latter. The solitary ono may shield himself under the plea Of caution and worldly prudence, and the Indissoluble, regret un conspeosteg hurry ; but The truth lies deeper. Physical Incapacity, had broken health, aro the great hindrances to domestic happiness and social content. The dowry should net be the only marriage set tlement. Honour and justice demand that health should form an item In the compact; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes or neglect wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, If these surmises concern you, procure Dr. CULYERWELL'S little MEMOIRS On Single and Married Life," pals. in 2 vols., Is. °holt (by best, In stamps, Is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively "tined, Ar prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered 1 7 Misinterpretation of their supposed contents, fl'ons obtaining th._er'a. They arc not Intended certainly for me re idle cariosit y , but 7, r the closet perusal of th ose mere deep l y interested, to whom they are offered as antagonistic to the empirical trash put forth on the above subjects, by sraqualitled authors, which alone or together, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other dill's publications claim yoar Attention (same price Is. each, bT Post Is. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and '''veld," and " ilow to be Happy." They are not merely Pamphlets, but equal In quantity a library volatile, nor are they the ranee ephemeral scribblings of the holm, but the study of the author's life, who owes his present existence, health, and position to this .b netvance of the maxims he would inculcate —Ls de unto others as ke Would be done unto—to live atter nature's laws—and is keep always On the "satiny side of the way." The above works may be bad of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleot.strcot ; Mann, 35, cornhin ; :Saloon, 447, West ?Strand ; or direct (by pest or other- Wise) from the author (who may be conferred with personally, mornings and evenings), 15, Argyll-plate Regent-street; and all P.ooksellen. DR. LI'MERT THE SECRET INFIRMITIEA OF "YOUTH AND MATURITY.-WITH 49 COLOURED I/NORA/INGE ON STEEL. Jest published, and may he had In French or English, in a Sealed Envelope, b. bd„ er post-free, front the anther, for forty-two Stamps. SELF-PRESERVATION; a Medical Treatise en the Physiology et Marriage, Infelicitous and Unproductive Unlace, and the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Ma- Wray, enually &Attired at an early period of life, which enervate the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural ftellngr, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Fractica: Observations en the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion, Whether arising from these causes, close study, er the influence of tropical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis. Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements reeulting from Indis cretion. With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Jteproductive Organs, explaining their structures, uses, and functions, and the various Initiries that arc produced In them by solitary habits , excesses, and tichttoz. BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D.. t. BEDFORD-STRUBT. ERDFOJtD•EQUARD LONDON. tenter of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edia- Iturgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member of tko London Hospital Medical Society, !cc. Marriage requires the fulfilraoat of several conditions. in order that it may be really the cause of mental happiness. Conid tke veil- which covers the origin of domestic wretchedness, be raised, and Its trio soiree la every instance disclosed, la how many could it be traced to physioal disqualifications and their attendant disap- Mintmenta. Rxceosao are always injurious ; the gift, which when need in moderation is fraught with advantage, becomes, when the prolific source of rolsohief, and of greater or less Injury to the constitutional and vital powers. The particular exeesses. on she nature and oonseqaenco of which this Treatise professes to dilate, 1 . 1 .ma productive of greater severity of misery to tke human fram e, than any other to whi c h it is subject. This work contains as accurate and complete account Of the their t ,' ra Y_ and Physiology of the Reprodnetive Organs, and of relative nunditons is health and disease. It deservedly y b e ( r , m o res the 0 -osest attention and study, for what subject can ben d ofta°rth'e hubortanee than the preservation of the health, Physical capabilities of which every max should rx)2" " l ' It unfortunately happens that the unhappy victim of exer 4 ofive isdalgenco and vicious habits, whether acquired la early life or frora the follies of advanced age, while suffering from their invariable consequeacea, unwisely entertains a fear of ap plying to a onc ..i ia. • Physician for relief. Shame and the dread so frequently, but erroneously entertained that theme complaints are beyond the roach of art, alike restrict him and prevent his seeking for assistance where alone it can be procured. In acting thus, he forgets that accurate dlscriminatioa is aseertainiag the causes of disease, sympathy with the sufferer, and, above all, secrecy, lava dahlY characterise the intelligent aid practical physician, and to the Medical man who can show by his possession of the requisite legal qualifications that he is entitled to esteem and respect in his profes sional pursuits, the utmost centldenee should be extended. D r . A'SfERT has obtained the highest medical honours, as his diplomat' ce rtify, and the great extent of his practice fer many years Is a rourantee for his professional experienee, which has reference almost Solely to the treatment of these dishases. Published by the Author, and may be had of Kent and Richards , ". Paternoster -sew; Halms ' y, 63, Oxford-street; Start. , Tichhonte trost, Ilaymartet• Mansell. 115, Fleet - street ; Gerd** , 146, .-414 onhall-street. 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' ,8•11 ; !'e. 4 .; " .. 4 , - ''''' - ..x..4.,. • " ; - ,'' i„,4 •,- ,op , 14? ., t. ,p ..Z ' ,f `.. ,) .. , + is not and you believe that that internal position o f that position of the political liberty, of :ty, and of the religious liberty, is the ,ion of the Swiss Confederation and of its Europe ? Ido not hesitate to say that to add that such a state of things must not subsist.—(Marks of approbation.) Two things are requisite to make it cease. It is necessary that the Powers of Europe, who have guaranteed the per petual neutrality and the inviolability of the terri tory of Switzerland, should continue to understand each other, to concert among themselves, and to hold to Switzerland, within the limits of their rights, as well as of the right of that country, a clear and decided languag e . It i s n ecessa ry, a t th e same time, that, Ly the empire of truth, by the in fluence of advice loyally given, by the influence of that understanding, evidently and efficaciously established between the Powers, a salutary reaction should be brought about in Switzerland itself; it is necessary that the sensible men, the honest men of the interior of Switzerland, should acknowledge the bad course in which they had been engaged, and employ themselves efficaciously an d energe ti ca lly t o get out of it, and to get their country out of it. The Honourable Count de .Montalembert yesterday ad• dressed to Switzerland, in terminating his speech, some presentiments—l will not say predictions. The same thing, said he to Switzerland, will happen to you that you yourselves have done. You have pre ferred conquest to alliance, and you know the evils of conquest. M. de Montalembert is deceived. No, nothing of that kind will happen. There is not in Europe, in the hearts of any of the great Powers who are treating in this affair—there is not the shadow, the most distant appearance even of bad designs or ill-will to Switzerland. The independence, the prosperity, the neutrality of Switzerland are today, as in 1815, necessary to Europe. They are desired and wished for by Europe altogether. Switzerland has only to return to the legal, moral, regular order established by the treaties —to the same order, which is the only one, that suits both Switzerland herself and Europe. That depends upon her. I have the confidence and the hope—yes, I have the confidence that that will arrive, and that Switzerland will return of herself to that order of which she has need, and which Europe has the right to see reigning in her territory. But, I repeat, that will not arrive except en the condition that the un derstanding, the union, the common action of Europe, shall be evid en t t o th e eyes o f S w i tzer l an d , and shall give to honest people the strength to do that which they ought to do, by making them feel the necessity of it.—(Hear, hear.) After a few words from the Count de Montalembert in explanation, The President read the seventh paragraph of the address which was adopted without a division. JANUARY 18 5 1848. [PR ICE SD. which has substituted might for right, a conquest for an alliance, will one day learn to her cost what the, abuse of force and conquest is. When she shall, know it, and when she shall come (not by me, God. forbid !) to be insulted in her defeat, she will miss, as; a funeral oration, what is consoling under the greates'; adversity, the respect and sympathies of honest; men. As to conservative or political Sv%itzerland— for to me that is the same thing—l shall take the: liberty of giving her a counsel, which is—not to in vite any . foreign pow er t o h er a id, t o rec k on on ly on. herself. Let her find strength in union, in a perfect understanding of her wants, and, above all, in a per fect respect fur the principle of religious liberty i • it is surely time that the Protestant and C a th o li c Con servatives should understand each other. lam of opinion that the cantonal sovereignty is henceforward definitively lost ; but the religious sovereignty will. remain triumphant after so many trials. I shall, on. that point, only repeat what M. Villemain, a year back, said of Poland, which I love to compare with Switzerland A people which watches by its altars over its nationality cannot perish." The pre sent situation may be thus briefly summed up; the flag which, in 1832 and 1834, you vanquished at Lyons, has now risen again on the other side of the Jura, on the most liberal frontiers of France, and with the support of England; and, in France, you now have more than in 1832 and 1834, open sympathies, avowed by the Convention and the Mountain. I do not ask, it may well be supposed, for any measures of exception ; but what I desire to witness is that well disposed men may open their eyes—may arm them selves with resolution. For me, the greatest of evils is fear. What, think you, has been the origin of all the catastrophies which have desolated France ? The fear which the well-disposed have felt of the vilest wretches.—(Cries of " Yes, yes," approbation.) Let us not give up to the wicked a monopoly of energy; let the right-minded defend order at home and abroad, by testifying their horror and disgust for all that resembles 1792 and 1793 ; let the principle of all men, anxious for what is right, be the union of liberty with order and peace; let us comprehend, by what has just passed at the other side of the Jura, how dangerous it is not to tolerate liberty even amongst those who do not think as we do. Let us not forget that that liberty has just been betrayed and immolated through the agency of England, and that France is bound to be its rallying point and its safe guard.—(Loud and continued applause.) foreign statesmen should not be brought forward in our discussions. What I then called for I now again demand for the name of a Noble Lord, yesterday men tioned in this tribune. I return to the question itself. It is true, that independently of the interest of Swit zerland—in the interest of European action we have attributed—l have attributed—a great importance to the circumstance that England should enter into that action. I have from the first moment made sacrifices to arrive at that result. I believe I have a right to say, that the independence of our policy with regard to England is now well proved.—(Movement.) It is fully proved that every time we meet a great national interest we do not hesitate to do all in our power to make it prevail. But we have not, and shall not in future, on that account continue the less to attach ex- trine importance to the good intelligence between France and England; we will not continue the less to think that on great occasions, in the causes of civiliza tion and justice, the common action of France and Eng land is salutary for the peace of the world. What we thought one, two, or three years ago, we continue to think to this day. Every time that, in maintaining both the independence of our policy and the dignity of our country and of its government, an occasion presents itselt of bri ng i ng F rance an d E ng l an d t o ac t in common in any o f th e grea t causes o f w hi c h I spoke a little ago, we will do it ; we will attempt that common action, even if we should have some inquietude as to the result of our a tt em pt s .—(V er y good.) In the question which now occupies us we should have thought that the action of England, in common with that of the Continental Powers, would not have met with any great difficulties. The inte rests and the rights of the sovereignty of the cantons and the relations of the Helvetic Confederation with Europe had all presented themselves, as I have just recalled occasion of to four t he revisionrecol lection,ofthe in 1832 com an p d act. 1833, T he on the principal secretary of her Britannic Majesty had at that time manifested his opinion, and characterized his policy. Here is a dispatch which, on the 9th of June, 1832, he addressed to the English Minister to the Swiss .Confederation, with the order to commu nicate it to the Diet. My honourable friend, the Duke de Broglie, has made allusion to it in his speech. I demand of the Chamber the liberty to read it. Lord Palmerston wrote to Mr. Percy on the 9th of June, 1832 : IRELAND. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. DUBLIN, JAN. 16.—Notwithstanding the positive assertions to the contrary, there has been a decrease, and a decided one, in the extent of crime in the dis turbed districts of the south since the Special Com mission commenced, and the proclamations were issued by the Lord-Lieutenant, under the Act for the Pre vention of Crime. The Limerick Chronicle—an authority not likely to be questioned on this point— has deemed it necessary to contradict the statements of some Dublin Conservative journals, to the effect that all the measures of the Executive had failed to produce even a temporary abstinence from crime. The Limerick Chronicle adds—" There has been no murder in Clare or Limerick since the Special Com mission came down to these counties." " LORD PALMERSTON TO MR. PERCY. " Foreign-office, June 9, 1832. " The events which have passed in Switzerland during the last session have attracted the attention of M. GUIZOT'S SPEECH. The following is the speech delivered by M. Guizot on the Swiss question, on Saturday, in the Chamber of Peers : his Majesty. Great Britain having been a party in the treaties of 1814 and 1815, by which the neutra lity and inviolability of Switzerland have been guaranteed, and in consequence of which the system has been established which unites the separate can tons in a general confederation, it is impossible that the Government of his Majesty can see without un- The President of the Council—Before entering on the subject under discussion I wish to re-as sure the Chamber as to the expression of " Swiss cantons," employed in the Address. It is the word consecrated by custom, and is found in all the credentials delivered to the King's ambassadors in Switzerland. Thus, therefore, when the Committee on the Address employs thelexpression in question, it only makes use of a term generally used in our relations with Switzerland. Gentlemen, if anything could inspire me with a sentiment of regret for having done my whole duty in an important and complicated matter, and accomplished all the ob ligations of a sound and just policy—a regret which I trust I never shall experience—it would be what occurs to me in this debate. lam a point of attack for the most opposite reproaches. I have done too much or too little—l acted too soon or too late—l was actuated by good intentions, I carried into effect good principles, but not efficaciously, not sufficiently. Why are these contradictory reproaches ? Because I was unwilling to attach myself to any fixed or exclu sive idea—because rwas determined to take into ac• count all rights, all interests, all facts—because I wished to present unceasingly to the mind the whole question, all its elements, all its phases, and the future as well as the present. I admit that certain inconveniences have resulted therefrom, and certain sacrifices were rendered necessary ; still I per sist not the less in thinking that I was right, that I did my duty, and that the future, perhaps at no re mote period, will prove it. I consider the arguments of the Duke de Broglie relative to the question of right and the points of fact to remain still unanswer able. I also accept as legitimate the approbation which the Duke de Noailles bestowed on the princi ples that guided the Government in this matter ; and I regard as a tribute in our.. favour the deep and vir tuous imkressions which Count de . . Montalembert yesterday made in every heart. These are the important parts of the question, and what I have to treat before the Chamber is insignificant when compared with them. What I have to address you on is simply the prudence and propriety of the conduct adopted by the Government towards Swit zerland. Gentlemen, since 1830 the policy of France towards Switzerland has been invariably favourable— on the one hand to her independence abroad, and on the other to her liberties at home, and to the progress of her internal government. As an irrefragable proof of the truth of this assertion I can appeal to our conduct on two great occasions : first, in 1830 and 1831, when were accomplished the internal revolutions which followed ours, these revolutions having received the strongest support from us ; and secondly, in 1832 and 1833, when the revision of the federal compact occupied the attention of the whole Confederation. Far from offering any opposition to that proceeding, we supported, as much as in us lay, the legitimate exercise of the right of Switzerland to decide in her own affairs. But when this question of the revision of the compact was dis cussed, we were in presence of a moderate, liberal, and governmental party, who had no desire to renew and prolong revolutionary proceedings, but were, on the contrary, anxious to terminate them and govern the country regularly. Unfortunately, by the side of that party, and during the time that it governed Switzerland, new facts developed themselves. A religious spirit sprang up with great violence —a spirit of a dogmatical and ardent character. I allow that there are dangers attendant on such a spirit, hut taking everything into consideration, I am of opinion that it does more good than harm to society. By the side of that awakening of religious spirit was placed the progress of the Radical party, for if the religious sects had been in presence of a moderate and liberal Government in Switzerland, you would not, in all probability, have ever heard anything of the late events. The Radical party is naturally anar chical, tyrannical, and profoundly irreligious ; a struggle, therefore, quickly set in between the Radical party, having the advantage in the majority of the cantons, and the religious spirit, active and ardent in the others. In place of a moderate and prudent Go vernment, such as we had previously lived with, we found ourselves in presence of a Radical one, which neither dissembled nor repressed, I am forced to declare, the hostility of their party against the con servative policy of the Government of July. In a great country it is not necessary to pay any marked attention to the language of journals, or to the out breaks of such or such a person in a public meeting, when by the side of such demonstrations there is a strong Government to repress them. But when clubs evidently weigh on the Government, when the men who govern are themselves governed by what is s a id by the journals, how is it possible not to take notice of what is printed in such publications, and of what is done in the clubs ? It was that which we were led to do by the changes, I may almost say the revo lutions, effected in most 'of the Swiss cantons. But what was our conduct then ? Did we menace Swit zerland ? Did we assume a belligerent attitude ? Not in the slightest degree. At the very time that we felt the necessity of assuming towards Switzer land an attitude of observation and warning, at that very moment we rendered homage to the principle of the independence of nations and of foreign governments. We have been accused of not having gone far enough, of not having spoken loud enough at first, of not having at once provoked in Europe preventive and efficacious measures against what was going on in Switzerland. Why did we not do so ? From respect for the independence of the Swiss and of their Government. As long as the Deputies sat regularly in the Diet and discussed their affairs legally, by what right could we interfere ? As long as there was a chance that the affairs of Swit zerland could be regulated amongst the Swiss them selves, we did not think it fit to go beyond warnings and advice. We took measures certainly to bring about promptly an understanding amongst the Powers of Europe, if such should become necessary ; but we went no farther. Our respect for right did not permit us to go beyond that point. But when the explosion took place, and all reconciliation . amongst the Swiss themselves was clearly impossible—when the seven dissentient Deputies withdrew from the Diet, did we lose a day to offer mediation ? No, w e at once called for the com mon action of the great European Powers—of all of them—for we held it to be most important that the action should unani mous. First, in the intere st of Switzerland ; because we were always anxious that all material intervention should be kept back—that nothing should be employed but a moral influence, in order that it might be of use to Switzerland; that action we considered ought to be unanimous, and that unanimity we care fully endeavoured to attain. Next, we sought for it in the interest of France—in the interest of our gene ral policy. And before I enter on this part of the q uestion, I think it right to remind the Chamber that three days back demanded that the names of easiness the prospect of any important changes in the federal compact, which might affect the political ralations of Switzerland, with respect to neighbouring states. " The Government of his Majesty has been in formed by you that a proposition will be made to the Diet at the period of its approaching meeting, for the revision of the federal compact. The Govern- The only agrarian outrage of a serious character in the Limerick papers is the following:— "On Thursday evening, during the hours of six and seven o'clock, an armed party entered the house of a respectable farmer named Malone, residing near Goulogue, about a mile and a half from Doonass, beat him and his son severely, threatening him if he did not give up the lease of the lands he held from Mr. Lloyd, of Mount Catherine, they would again visit him and not leave him so quietly. Malone's wife is dangerously ill from the effects of the fright. On Malone's assuring them he had not the lease in the house, they departed after firing two shots. The. neighbourhood of this well-conducted man is thickly inhabited, yet no one came to his assistance." ADJOURNED SPECIAL COMMISSION AT LIMERICK. went of his Majesty has not learned what alterations in this compact may be expected to be proposed. It may happen that there are, perhaps, changes which may be made with advantage in the dispositions of the compact, and against which no foreign . . power could raise any - reasonable objection. But any alteration which may tend to the destruc tion of the independent sovereignty of the se parate cantons, and of placing all under the arbi trary authority of a central government, will produce a change of so much importance in the political condition of Switzerland, with respect to its foreign relations, and will be so much at variance with the stipulations under which the neutrality and inviola bility of the Swiss territory have been guaranteed, that the guaranteeing Powers would undoubtedly be authorised to raise objections against any such change. The neutrality of Switzerland is essentially at tached to the federal system at present established in that country, and consequently when, in 1815, the great Powers of Europe proposed, not less for the general interests of all than for the particular advan tage of Switzerland, to invest its territory with the character of perpetual inviolability:and neutrality, the contracting Powers required, as an ii i +pensable preliminaiy to such a guarantee on their part, that all thAcantors, without exception, should sign the federal 051ipact. " You must therefore lose no time in taking the necessary steps to acquaint the proper parties with the sentiments of the English Government. On this point, you will say that it is very far from being the intention of the Government of nis Majesty to inter fere in the purely internal affairs of the Swiss Go vernment, but that in a matter having such direct relation with the stipulations of the treaties in which Great Britain is a party, the Government of his Ma jesty is persuaded an expression of its opinions, frank and without reserve, will be received as a proof of interest and friendship. " You will say that if the changes which it is in tended to propose in the federal compact have relation solely to reglenientary dispositions, it might be more prudent to postpone them to a future period, when the public mind will have become less agitated than it is at present, for fear that in raising these questions in the present state of opinion, other and more em barrassing discussions may ensue. But if the inten tion be to make changes such as militate against the The judges are to return from Clare to Limerick on Tuesday next, and on Wednesday they are to open the adjourned commission. The calendar of prisoners for trial at the adjourned commission in Limerick contains the names of ninety-three persons, and embraces no less than twelve distinct cases of murder or conspiracy to murder, besides Whiteboy offences, attacking houses, seizing arms, &c. This is an appalling exhibition of crime, after the numerous cases disposed of alrt ady at the commission for. this county. The first case for trial at Limerick is 'that of the Q,uains, fur the murder of Mr. Ralph Hill. LIMERICK, JAN. LS.—TILE COaVLCT3 FOR MUR DER.—WiIIiAm Ryan (Purl:), Andre,w_Dea, .and 'John Renihan, under sentence of death in the county gaol, for murder, nre, we learn with salksqction, all become reconciled to their ignominious fate, and sin cerely penitent. The Rev. Mr. Bourke, Rev. Mr. Bunton, and the Rev. Mr. Quinlan, of St. John's parish, visit them daily, also the Sisters of Mercy. A barrel of gunpowder, in the possession of IVil liam Vaughan, a labourer, at Doonas, was discovered yesterday by the police. We hope the local magis trates will look close to such a matter as this, Ali the villages in the proclaimed counties are to be occupied by a large military force preparatory to general search for firearms. MEETING OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC 8151101.5.—A provincial journal says—" The Roman Catholic pre lates of Ireland will hold another conference in Dublin, upon the poverty and distreks of their several dioceses, before the meeting of Parliament on the 3d of February." NEW MEMBER OF TUE NATIONAL BOARD OF EDU CATION.—James Gibson, Esq., barrister-at-law, has been appointed, by his Excellency, a member of the National Board of Education. independent sovereignty, and the political and separate existence of the cantons, you will strongly represent ail the diffiulties and all the dangers that the execu tion of such a project will produce, as it appears to be incompatible with the arrangements established in virtue of the treaties of 1 8 15. You will observe that it is altogether improbable that all the cantons will agree to a plan which would be a manifest injury to many of them, and that consequently every attempt to execute such a reform may lead to a civil war." I ask the lion. Count de la Redorte what difference he finds between this languague and ours—between these principles and those which we have supported ? It is evident that there is none ? It is evident that the sovereignty of the cantons has been in these latter times much more seriously attacked and compromised Father Mathew intends to visit Rome before pro ceeding to America. APPALLING CASE OF DESTITUTION AND DEATH.— The Limerick Examiner says—" On Wednesday last an inquest was,held in the neighbourhood of Hospital under melancholy circumstances. It appears a family. named Touby, consisting of the mother and four chil dren, were in fever, in a temporary hut, erected for the occasion. On the night of Tuesday the hut took fire, when the eldest son, Michael, who was nearly convalescent, exerted all his strength, and succeeded in removing the mother and three children beyond the reach of danger, but having returned to see if all was safe, tile burning hut fell on him, and he was found next morning a black and shapeless cinder. The above is the substance of the evidence delivered at the inquest. The deceased was a fine young man, about 18 years of age." The Terrible steam-frigate, which left Cork fcr ,Rnvass. and is not to steam the passage. The crowded state or me VCseel linnet) and naval supernumeraries, prevented General , N r e a r p r i Charles, commanding in the T ag us. and his on a familyvisit t p o r o c h e i e s ding rel a f t v o e m , C A o d v i e n r b a y i t s h i e r i e h r l e, by what has taken place in Switzerland than it could have been in 1832, at the time when the revision of the compact was treated regularly and constitutionally in the Diet itself. 1.“ leac2, th. c F .aninn of the Powers who signed the treaties of Vienna, as to the meaning of these treaties—as to the rights of sove reignty of the cantons—as to the necessary relation established between these rights and the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland—that opinion was univer sally admittted ; and we might have hoped that', it would he equally so in present circumstances. It has been otherwise. We have no right to complain of this. A Government is quite entit led t o modify its policy ; but when we have m ade sacrifices of times sacrifices of language, to have the concurrence of England to our propositi o n of mediation, in order that by our unanimity it might be more i effi cacious in Switzerland, and we ha d, I repeat t, some right to hope that result, and no one can be surprised that we sought it. For my own part I do not repent the sacrifices wh ich I advised the Government of the King to make in order to obtain the unanimity of which I speak. I regret it the less, because, although these sacrifices have retarded the offer, and consequently prevented the efficacy of th e mediation, the Swi ss question appears to me to be far from being t e rminated, and Europe ought no t so soon to cease to occupy itself with regard to it. I will not, gentlemen, again place before you the picture which the Count de Montalembert so eloquently placed before you yesterday, of the interior position of Switzer land. It requires an absolute n ecess it y to i n d uce one to resolve to bring such facts before you, and in such language—the only language in which they could be s poken of. I will limit myself to a resume in a few words of the melancholy s it ua ti on o f th a t country. Whatt do you think of politi ca l lib e rty in a confedera tionin which one part of the sovereign states is in the military occupation of the others, and where troops and federal representatives preside at the elections ? What do you think of civil liberty in a confederation where property is treated as you have seen ; where exile, .con demnations, and fines amounting to confiscation, are inflicted without trial, not by the tribunals of the country, but simply by the provisional Government itself--by the conquerors? They are real war con tributions. What think you of civil liberty in a country where the ancient chiefs of the government of certain cantons are, at the moment of the elections, carried out of their cantons, because it is feared that they will iefluence the elections, and carried to another canton until the elections shall have been finished ?—(Llear, hear.) What think you of re ligious liberty in a confederation where such facts as have been brought to your recollection occur, whe ther with regard to Protestants or Catholics ? I wish to add nothing to this but a document, which I ask the permission of the Chamber to read, and which proves the stat e in which the relations between the civil powers and the Catholic Church are at the present moment in the Confederation. It is the protest of the P ope , Pius IX., transmitted in his name to Switzerland, and addressed by himself to the Helvetic Confedera tion, ag ainst all that has passed in that coun try. Here it is. [ Di. Guizot then read the protest.] Gen- ALARMING FlRE.—Yesterday morning, between the hours of five and six, a fire, nearly attended with the most disastrous consequences, brok e ou t u p on th e premises belonging to Mr. James Baldock, the Kent and Essex Inn, situat e i n th e K en t a nd Essex-yard, Whitechapel. The flames originated, from some unexplained cause, in the front bar, and when first discovered they wer e ma ki ng f ear f u l h avoc am ongst the spirits. The whole of the inmates were immediately aroused, and a messenger was sent for the engines. There being an abundant supply of water obtained from the East London mains, the brigade, under Mr. George Fogo, the foreman of the district, set to work, and after some time the further progress of the alarming element was cut off, but not until a considerable quantity of spirits had been consumed, and the bar burned out. Fortunately, Mr. Baldock was insured in the Licensed Victuallers' Fire-office. In accounts from France it is stated that the pro dice of the Marine Salt Works in that country for 1844 amounted to 3,385,495 metrical quintals, valued at 12,984,205 f., and that the manufacture afforded employ ment to 15,064 persons. It was understood among par ties interested in the exploration of salt-pits that the Government were desirous of investing:the State with the privilege of the exclusive management of the sale of this article, and that with this view a project of law bad been brought before the Chamber. According to what was known of the nature of the measure. the proposal appears to be that the fixed price by the State shall be 2,c. per kilogramme, and by retailers 30c. In these accounts . i t is B e,„:goirak.ninmgginflonrg the in terest d s t b h e a e t n t the recently attention di r o e o f te tli d e to asser h te a discovery of zinc. In Liege, where ind i cations ha ve already proved favourable, so great a desire has b een ma nifested to engage in adventures of the kind, that several applications for concessions have latterly been made to the authorities. SITTINGS OF TUE COU RT OF CIL:Viet:RT.—A me morial very num erously signed has been agreed to, and is on the point of presentation to the Lord Chancellor, setting forth the great inconvenience and loss of time occ asioned i to the barrister s an d a l most a ll th e so li c ito r s practisingg n the Court of Chancery, from its sittings being held during t erm t i me at a p l ace di s t an t from the Master's offices, and other places of business. It also states that the C our t s a t Li nco ln's Inn are more commo dious to the public as well as the practitioners since the opening of the new Hall there, which Courts are wholly unoccupied during term. The memorial then prays that his Lordship will direct the necessary steps to be taken for causing the sittings during term at Lincoln's Ilin during such terms iu which Parliament is not sitting. A similar memorial is in agitation among the country solicitors, who are greatly inconvenienced by the Courts sitting so far from the Law Institution in Chancery-lane. The returns connected with the Prussian ports of Konigsberg and Pillau show that the number of vessels which arrived there during 1847 amounted to 951, measuring 54,139 lasts. The departures included 9E4 veueli, met wring 57,388 lade. N0.17,-260.] LON DON, T UESDAY, EVENING NI/ANTED, a PARTNER in an Eng ineerin g and Boiler-mak:fig Establishment, In full work, well-situ ated to one of the principal outports. The present Establishment is fully employed with work for ,team-boat Companies and other par tes of the highest respinsibility , and is capable of considerable ex tension. 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The Music Hall, Lecture Room, and Royal Motel Assembly /tottm arc alf attached, and under the same management. The Royal hotel is in the most central situatlon in Newcastle. r RICTURES OF THE URETHRA—ABUSE or INSTRUMENTS. Just published. price so., SYCI. in cloth, rpHE PATHOLOGY AND RATIONAL IL TREATMENT of STRICTURE of the URETHRA, in all its Varieties and Cemplicatlorui. With Practical Observations en the Use and Abase of Instruments to the Treatment thereof. The whole illustrated by numerous and important eases, and ►eing the result of long, extensive, and successful practic*. By F. R. COCRTENAY, M.R.C.6.L. Published and sold by 11. Bannerol, 219, Regent-street ; Deighten and Laugliton, Liverpool ; Hodges and Smith, and Fanner and Co., Dublin. NOTICE. PREVIOUS TO TIIE CLOSH OF THE _ R OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, en the 49th instant, for Additions and Decorations, Dr. RYAN will LBCTURE en SANITARY MEASURES, and en the nature of 3ISINFECTING AGENTS, in 001111eXi01 witk this important sub ject, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at Ilalf-past Three, and every Evening, except Saturday, at Niue o'clock. Ou the alternate days other Lectures on CIE MISTILY. Dr. IZACII IIOFFNER will LPCTURE en IthliPlltiTlON and VENTILA TION, In connexion witk the above Sailjeet, Daily at Two, P.m., :ft which a JET of STEAM, as a Ventilating Agent, will be ex hibited. The Opilleal Effeets include the OXT-lIT.ROOEN MI CRO:4,2OPN, New DISSOLVING VIEWS, &c. IYORKING MO DELS •f MAC LEINER!' explained. Tho DIVING 1i LL and DIVER, &c .kdrnleslon, le.; ileho•la, Ilalf-price. REPEAL OF THE WINDOW TAX. Yesterday evening a meeting was held at the British Hotel, Cockspur-street, attended by many of the most influential inhabitants of Westminster, who have for many years exerted themselves to obtain a repeal of the window-tax, and who conceive that the present is a most important time for pressing upon the Government the justice and necessity of repealing that unfair and impolitic tax—and that !say sanitary measure unaccompanied with the repeal of the window duty would be defective and unsatisfactory. The requisition stated that those who joined in it believe that the efforts already made to obtain a repeal of this' tax may be materially aided by an organiza tion, embracing the metropolitan districts with the provincial towns and boroughs, many of which, while strongly opposed to the tax, have not fully exerted their influence in seeking to obtain its repeal. The meeting was fully attended. Mr. Charles Lushington, M.P., was called to the chair. The CHAInIWAN said that the subject of sanitary improvement had of late made great progress, and he was glad to be able to state that the Government were desirous to afford every assistance to this pro gress. The rich had now joined the poor in this desirable work, and he had no doubt of its perfect success. Mr. HUGGETT, the secretary, read several letters from various eminent individuals apologising for non attendance, and expressing entire sympathy with the views of the meeting. - Mr. WYLD, M.P., proposed the first resolution, which, in terms, stated that the window-tax is un equally imposed, falling most heavily upon the trad ing and productive classes—that it restrains the in dustry of the country, and obstructs the progress of architectural improvement—that, excluding light and preventing due ventilation in dwellings, it tends to encourage habits of uncleanliness, to engender the mcst fatal diseases, and to impoison the health and strength of all classes, especially the labouring poor. The Hon. Gentleman enforced the correctness of the : position taken, with respect to the injustice of the impost, and argued that its abolition would be at tended with the most beneficial results without any injury to the revenue, for the people, rather than con sent to the continuance of a tax so oppressive, would submit to taxation in another shape, so that the defi ciency would ;easily be made up. Ile was happy to find some gentlemen around him who had been en gaged in obtaining a repeal of the house-tax in 1833 and 1834. He thought they had a strong claim for a repeal of the window-tax, for, if he remembered rightly, they were at that time given by Lord Althorp, or his Administration, a distinct pledge that the impost would be abolished. The window tax pressed most severely on the middle and working classess, and though they were reported to be agitators, it was found they had acted most patiently under the burden and the taxation that afflicted them. If the window- tax had oppressed the rich with anything like the severity with which it bore down upon the poor, he thought it would long since have been removed ; but the middle classes, from a desire not to interfere with the Ministry of the day, or to embarrass them in their legislative measures, abstained from agitation, and hence it was that they found the impost still main tained. The Noble Lord now at the head of the Government was one of those who acted with the Grey Administration when the pledge of abolition was given —he, to a certain extent, was carrying out the principles of that Government, and it now became incumbent on him to redeem the pledge, if for no other reason, or on no other ground, than simply because the pledge was given some years back. The present was a most opportune period for agitating the question, and a convenient season for organisation, for when they saw a Government determined on effecting sanitary reform, it was fitting they should call their attention to this tax, as affecting the health of large towns and the lives of the middle and lower classes. In their first report, issued by the Sanitary Com missioners, the state of the sewers alone was pointed out as the cause of sickness and infection, and the various diseases which preyed upon the masses of the people. Not a word ss as said about the shutting out of wholesome air, and the impeding of proper ventilation, by the blocking up of windows consequent on the burden of the win dow-tax. It struck him as rather strange that so much attention should have been devoted to the im perfect sewerage of the metropolis and large towns, ;slide the thorough ventilation of the houses was altogether overlooked ; but then, upon reflection, he remembered that windows were taxed, and that the sewers were not.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) Ile hoped, however, that the windows would not be over looked, and that ere long they would have free air, plenty of light, and good ventilation. He rejoiced that Westminster was now doing—what it had always done—its duty, and that it took the lead in an organi• zation which, he had not the least doubt on his mind, would terminate only with the total repeal of the window-tax. Larger towns were only awaiting the example of London, to follow it ; and before many weeks had elapsed their organization would be general. The feeling was, that the tax must and should be repealed. True, it yielded something like 1,600,0001. per annum, but then the people were content to pay an equal sum in another form ; and after that meeting, when the ramifications of the projected association were complete, and the organization wide extended, they would say as one man that the tax should not longer be continued. The advocates of the tax men tioned, that as it was easy of collection, and as it yielded 1,600,0001. yearly, it could not be dispensed with; but neither of those questions of expediency ought to enter into consideration. The tax affected the health, the lives, and the rights of the people. It was pronounced to be unjust and oppressive, and it should be repealed.—(H ear, hear.) Mr. HEALET seconded the resolution. He said there could be no doubt of the importance of this question. There had as yet been no guarantee given to the public that a chang? was to be made in the existing laws with respect to the window-tax. He had no doubt of the success of this movement, for it was one deserving of the most perfect success. The Government could not, in fact, provide perfectly for sanitary reform unless it provided free circulation of air and free access of light.—(Hear.) The resolution was unanimously agreed to. Mr. SAUNDERS, of Bath, said that this tax operated with great severity upon the city of Bath, in conse quence of the peculiar plan upon which the houses were built. This tax was, in fact, opposed to the liberty of the subject; and when it was considered what a small amount of revenue it returned, it would be at once edmitted that such an obnoxious tax ought not to be continued. He had great pleasure in pro• posing this resolution—" That an association be now formed, to be called The London and Provincial Union for the Abolition of the Window-tax,' for the purpose of obtaining, by every legal means, the total and immediate abolition of that obnoxious tax." Dr. Sfstrsosr seconded the resolution, which was carried by acclamation. Mr. J. Gloms proposed the appointment of a com mittee to carry out the views of the meeting. The resolution having been seconded, was unani mously agreed to. A vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman, after which the meeting separated. JAMES TIIIi J SECOND, EDITED DT W. 11. AINS• WORTH, EsQ.—A. new historical romance has just ap peared undsr the auspices of that established favourite, Mr. Harrison Ainsworth, entitled " James the Second," which will afford the reader a comprehensive view of a most important period in our history, whilst interesting him with a lively narrative full to overflowing of charac teristic adventure and pictures of life and manners. The King and his Court—the most influential political and religious leaders—Colonel Sydney and the emissaries of the Prince of Orange —and the plots of Sunderland, Father Petre, and the French Ambassador arc brought forward with all the scenes of that great drama which ended in establishing the Protestant monarchy and reli gion in England. The stirring nature of the times in sured to the reader a stirring story, and in the practised hands of Mr. Ainsworth, such materials were certain of being invested with all the attractions that can bo given to a well-constructed fiction. The inauguration of the part of the Marseilles to Avignon Railway between the former city and Arles, took place on Sunday last. FRENCH CHAMBER OF PEERS. COUNT DE MONTALEMBERT'S SPEECs SWITZERLAND ON THE 14Tu INST. Count de Montalembert—Out of all the documents that have been presented to us, I shall take notice only of that in which M. Guizot speaks of the coun ter-action which the victory of the Radicals would have in Europe, and of the dangers which the Duke de Broglie yesterday so eloquently depicted. What ever may have been hitherto said, the war in Switzerland was neither for nor against the Jesuits, neither for nor against the Cantonal sovereignty; they fought there for you, and they fought there against you—they battled for and they battled against that regular liberty of which you are the representa tives in Europe.—(Hear, hear.) Such was the real object of the struggle called forth by men who would not demand better than this very day to fling from the other side of the Alps and of the Jura the fire brand of civil war. It is social order--liberal order — which has been vanquished in Europe by a new in vasion of barbarians. Before entering on the question, allow me to remind the Chamber that at this very period last year I was in this tribune to denounce the violation of treaties and the occupation of Cracow ; this year I am about to do the same thing. Last year the question in agitation was the last remains of Poland, this year it is the cradle of Helvetic liberty. I will not speak to you of the excesses committed, of priests killed in the heat of combat, of those outrages which have been branded with reprobation by the highest authority in the world, by the Sovereign Pontiff. But see what was done in cold blood after the contest. The Radicals re-established confiscation, that punishment of the times of oppression and feudality. They have levied fines, not only on religious houses, but on the citizens themselves. And what were those fines ? They were the entire fortunes of the vanquished.—(Sensation.) They did not stop there. The conquerors dared, with their blood-stained hands, to write the name of St. Vincent de Paul ; and do you know why ? In order to exclude the sisters of charity, guilty of having de voted their lives to the service of the poor and of the sick. They were driven out like wild beasts, and only had an hour's delay allowed them to quit Switzerland. —(Murmurs.) But this is not yet all. Behold those men ascending the road which many of you have followed, that road which has been traversed by so ' many Christians, where the French Republic itself halted with respect, where Napoleon left remem brances of glory and toleration, and where repose the mortal remains of one of the brave officers of our army, General Desaix.—(Hear, hear.) Do you know where they are going ? They are going to rob the monks of St. Bernard.—(Hear, hear.) And here Count Pelet (de la Lozere) must allow me to make one observation ; it is not only the Jesuits that have been struck ; the Protestants of the Canton of Vaud suffered similar treatment ten days after; they also were forbidden to exercise any kind of religious wor ship. The consequences of the events which had taken place in Switzerland have already been felt in France. In the department adjoining that country the people were in alarm. I was in Bourgogne, where the banquets of Dijon, Chalon, and A utun took place. You know what a part Switzerland played in those scenes. Ido not come here to denounce the banquets and their originators. I approve of the language of the com mittee. Those manifestations are tolerated by liberty, and it is liberty I wish, above all things, to defend. Religion has no need of defence, it is eternal ; pro perty changes hands, but it always exists and defends , itself. But what ends with a people is liberty— during long ages it disappeared. Take care ; Radi calism will destroy liberty ; Radicalism is its anti podes, it is the exaggeration of despotism. Count Mole—Excellent 1 Count ee Montalembert—Liberty is respect for man, Radicalism is contempt for man—contempt the most arrogant. I consider myself entitled, more perhaps than any other, to speak in favour of liberty. I have been deemed exclusively devoted to religious liberty—but no ; I am devoted to liberty of every description—to liberty in its fullest sense.—(Appro bation.) Liberty has been the idol of my existence, and if I have anything to reproach myself with, it is that I have loved it too well. But I do not repent having done so--(hear, hear) —and it is because I love it so ardently that I cannot bear to see it sullied. I comprehend the tactics and the language of the persons of whom I have just spoken ; but what I do not comprehend is, the conduct of a dynastic and regular opposition which applauds the success of Radicalism in Switzerland. If the cause of the Swiss Radicals were to triumph in France, what should we have ? Disorder and anarchy—nay, worse than anarchy, for that at last becomes extinguished of itself. We should have organized Radicalism, and yet the dynastic opposition applauds it. We have witnessed the annihilation of liberty at Friburg, Lucerne, everywhere. Lately, in the canton of Vaud, an electoral law was established ; the ballot was abolished ; voting by a show of hands was decided on ; mad the election was placed in the bands of the prefect, who frequently proposed himself. Lately, too, a Jesuit happened to say to the prefect, " Count the votes 1" He was at once seized on and thrust out of the canton. The elections are effected in several cantons under the influence of the federal troops—that is, of foreign bayonets. How do you suppose the most moderate of the Radicals act ? During the elections they place the candidates and electors who are in their way in the guard-house. — (Laughter.) Such are the theories of the men to whose success toasts were drunk at the banquets of the Opposition ! But since I have thus denounced to you the crimes which have been committed in Swit zerland, whom do you imagine I consider as the principal offender ? The Foreign Secretary of State of her Britannic Majesty.—(Sensation and agitation.) When Noble Peers stand up in this tribune, and speak what they think of the Emperor of Austria and of Prince de Metternich, I may surely declare m y opinion of Lord Palmerston. It is he who la my eyes is the executioner of the inde pendence of Switzerland ; it is he who, at the moment of making a manifestation in favour of the good right, insisted on a previous under. standing among the Cabinets, and so produced pro crastinations, during which he pressed on hostilities in Switzerland. At a later period, when the work of iniquity was accomplished, it is he who declared in the House of Commons, that he had nothing to say to the excuses which were being committed; it is he, in fact, who enveloped by his patronage those who put down independence and justice in Switzerland. I have always been a partizan of the English alliance I have defended it under many circumstances, against the attacks of its adversaries ; moreover, I am a pas sionate admirer of that great Eeglish nation who first presented to Europe the model of constitutional go vernment ; but these sentiments cannot stifle the ex pression of my opinion and my judgment on the presen t line of policy pursued —a policy everywhere t h e same. Where is the great man who at this mo ment represents England in Switzerland going when he quits Berne.? To Constantinople—and why ? To promote a war on Greece, on that young monar chy, which is the enfant cheri of Europe, and one of the glorious works of the present day. There can be re doubt that the Minister who sends him there has causal the death from grief of.one great Minister, M. Coletti, whose praise is in every mouth.—(Marks of adhesion.) There are no Jesuits in Greece.— (Laughter.) No, but there is French influence, and he cannot suffer that, and if he has opposed justice in Switzerland, it is because the cause of justice is the cause of France.—(Hear, hear.) We have also had in our history many gloomy days, but never such sad pages. We have had our days of despotism, but it was a glorious despotism. Anarchy has also been at other periods carried in Europe at the point of our bayonets; but then at least we preserved at home peace, order, security, and justice.—(Hear, hear.) It is not with impunity that England has followed her policy. The encouragements given to anarchy in Greece, in Switzerland, will not remain unpunished ; the flames of that conflagration will cross the channel, and show England that propriety, j us ti ce , and liberty arej not the privilege of one nation alone. pass from the Must I nowgreat criminal to the small one, and examine the policy of our own Cabinet ? I believe that it had good intentions, and lam grateful to it for them ; I believe it was in the right in wishing to intervene in the affairs of Switzerland, and I have nothin g to add to the lu minous demonstrati on y esterda y made by the Duke de Broglie, but I find that the conduct which it adopted neither responded to its intentions nor to its duty • I consider that it acted under the influence of a yoke for which I always reproach it—that of weak ness. Thus, if it had shown itself more sympathetic and more porterful at Ferrara, it would have been still stronger in Switzerland. When the Ministry has been spoken to of the Jest:its, it has not had the courage to say that that was only a farce The phan tom which it caressed two years since has nose risen with a threatening aspect, the l aw i n j ust i ce says , " Do not to another what you would not that another should de unto you." But it soon after adds; "The justice that you mete out to others shall be meted out to you." It is unnecessary for me to say, that 1 do not ask for a post humous interv entiun of which no one dreams. lam not in office, and Ido not occupy myself with the policy of the day or of the morrow, but I plunge into the future, the look of a man who believes in Divine justice. Switzerland, ALBION /10TEI„ BRIGGATE, LEEDS. SARAH WALKER, Widow of the late Thomas Walker, begs to return her sincere thanks to her Friends and the Public for the kind Patronage bestowed upon her late Husband, and also to 4111101111 CC that it is her intention to continue the busisess as heretofore; and it will be her constant endeavour to deserve far ther patronage and support. No expense shall bo spared in the Ho tel to afford every accommodation to Commercial Geitlemen and Private Families. The Albion Hotel is in the most central part of LeedS. Good Stabling and ChoiCe Wines. lIWALKER'S NEEDLES (by authority) , • the "QUEEN'S OWN," with the new large eyes, are easily threaded, even by the blind, and have Improved points, tamper, and finish; the labels are correct likenesses of the Queen and Prince Albert in relief on coloured grounds. Sent free by post, by any respectable dealer, on receipt of thirteen stamps for every shilling value. H. WALKER'S NEEDLES TOR THE MILLION are about half the price of the " Queen's Own." 11. 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The new design for an Overcoat, upon which this title was conferred, has met with the approbation of every connoisseur of select taste or distinguished judgment. It has been assumed by the potentates o 1 the Courts of Europa, and celebrated, beyond eonceptlon, by the nature of the pa tronage which received it at home. By Messrs. SWAIN and CO., Court Tailors, a 79, Oxford-street. Price 21. WELLING'TON SURTOUT—Patronised by Prince Albert, the Royal Family, the Duke of WeWigton, the principal Nobility and Mime of the Guards—Two-and-a -halt Guineas. A stout milled substance of superlative , quality for winter, at Three Guineas, is now also ready. It is presumed that the reputation of the Patentee as a West-end Tailor for the last '2B years, as also the fast that this popular gar ment is now worn by almost every nobleman and gentleman in the kingdom, renders comment on its quality and style unnecessary. 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Prepared only by Thomas Howard, Surgeon Dentist, 64, Berners street, who will send it into the country free by post. Sold by Sa vory, 229, Regent - street; Sanger , 150 . Oxford- street; Starkie. 4, Strand ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Johnstone, 68, Conakill ; and all Me dlelne Vendors. Price 2s. 6d. Mr. Howard continues to supply the loss of teeth on his new system of self-adhesion, without springs or wires. This method does not re quire the extraction of any teeth or roots, or any painful operatien whatever.-64, Iterners-street, Oxford-street. At home from Eleven till Four. EYEBROWS, MOUSTACHIOS, and WHIS 10ETtg produced in a few weeks, and Baldness removed and prevented by the use of GRIMSTONE'S AROMATIC REGENE RATOR, an essential spirit, drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers, a tew drops of which cure headache in a few minutes ; it is also a meit delightful, fragrant toilet perfume. 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" Mrs. NVetkley, of No. 3. swan-street, Borough, takes this oppor tunity of publicly thanktn,e• Mr. W. Grimstone, of the lierbary, High catc for the etticaey of his Aromatic Regenerator, in haring com pletely reatnreAl the hairon her head, after tieing it about tour months, and the whole of her hai r is much stronger and more luxuriant than ..... l ever was bolero the baldness appeared. " Mrs. Weelley inserts this testimony to the virtues of Mr. G.'s Itegenator, feeling assured that many ladies would gladly purchase an I Is. bottle it they were as certain of its virtues as she is, front ex perience, not only In the restoration and production of hair is abuncl lx.oe, bat as a eure et nervous heallaehe; as a toilet perfume iti far beyond any to her taste. She will feel a pleasure in answering any ady of respectability to the above fact .-3, Swan-street, Borough." In cases of the hair becoming thin, weak, or turning grey, afe w drops en the crown of the head occasionally. every week, will pre vent the hair from coming away with the comb, mate it strong, and orevent It turning grey, rendering the hair luxuriant ad curly. A few drops on your hairbrush before brushing the hair, n will give the Lair brilliancy, causing it to aunt. The most delicate 1114 may use this delightful p roduct of the most aromatic herbs flowers with confidence ; its refreshing >rout removes headache and makes it a mos u t necessary compdropsanion e the toilet. In canes of nevons headache, per u the crown of the head; If very bad, repeat It every quarter of as our. to tenet eases relief is certain in ten minutes. It produces air ou children's heads in a few appplications. If toed on infants' ends, it has such a peculiar cooling influence en the brain as to pre vent convulsions, as well as promoting the growth of hair.—See 'ant phl et of testimonials. 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Id., er by post, direct front the Establishment, 3s. 6d. in postage stamps, rrHE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on JJLL the infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of inereary, with remarks on Marriages, and the means of obviating certain dis qualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By It. and L. PERRY and CO., 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; Starie. 23, Titehborne -treet, Haymarket ; and Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street. PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings. PART 11. treats 01 the consequences resulting from excessiveladul gence, and their lamentable aces o❑ the system, producing mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative *capacity. It is illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings. 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CONTROUL OF THE PASSIONS a Popular Inquiry Into the Concealed Cause of it premature Decline, with Instructions for its Complete Reetorntion. Addressed to those suffering from the destructive consoquences of excessive indulgence, terminating in Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or Constitutional ak and Consumption. Including a comprehen sive MAItRIAGE, Incontinence, and Celibacy. We t n ,t d t l i g o e n s Illustrated with Coloured Engravings, explanatory of the various Cases, &C. By C. J. LUCAS and Co.. Consulting Surgeons, No. 60, Nevrmiut street, Oxford-street, London. Member •f the London College •f Itedlecnc:, &c. &c, CONTENTS OFTIIE WORE, Chap. 1.. —Bodily and Mental Exhaustion 'ind E u p c i e le d ps b y y inordinate indulgence of the PASSiOIIII, illustrated w , th Coloured Engravings, Chap. 2.—Baneful Results of Secret Vice on the Mind and Body, odifdsiet74:Yni m ii oping ni l: g i n :o Melancholy,hst,r viit o s olndiges tion,nte and other c evidencedstrvi c e t , is te In he sanity, tey a n n , Duties of Married Life, and on tile unhappihess caused by Unfruitful Unions. Chap. 3. —Debility and Exhaustion of the principal Vital Functions, the nature alai treatment of limpotenc,o and Sterility, and the imperfect performance of the Marital act, caused toms, complica hyt ho practice ofself-indulgence. Chap. 4.—Gonerrhec a, its syinp tions and treatment, Gleet, Stricture, and disease of the Prastate. Chap. b.—Syphilis, and its attendant maladies and treatment. Clses, and concluding observations, Plates, &c. 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