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No reader will be received after One e v e akk on the d ay of treaty, nor any no ti ce d, un l es s the party Ire. or an ag en t f or hi m, du l y aut h or i se d I n wr iti n g. very Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, bear in the left hand corner the words "Tender for ," ealut also be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a wi Z,,signed by a resp ons ibl e p erson , engaging to become bound ka " L as Person tendering , in the sum of 4001. for the due perform es et the Contract. TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. tu AND GENTLEMEN, *b E beg to offer you our grateful acknowledg- Inents for the honour you have conferred upon us by 11 7, 1 ""•-arg us into the Directi on . __llTusting that the 'Proprietors will ever find us deserving of the fidence they have reposed in us, We have tho honour to be, with groat respect, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most obedient and very humble servants, HY. ALEXANDER. W. H. L. MELVILLE. JAMES OLIPHANT. JOHN SHEPHERD. F. WARDEN. East India Howe, April 12, 1848 ......._ TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA. STOCK. GENERGENERLADLES AND GENTLAMEN AL CAULFI ALAD having this day „„ ob tained a seat in the Direction by a very large majority , per -it to st a t e that the result of my canvass excee ds m y most san e: e xpectation, and leads me to hope that open the occasion of an Wirth ac ancy, I shall feel myself justified in proceeding to the ba llot entire confidence of success. ut Minot safticiently express the sense of gratitude which I enter ti• e 3 )vards the general body of Proprietors, many of whom I and ham lire actuated by motives independent of my own claims, add, that handsomely teadered me their support. I would only s circumstance must be an additional incentive to a proper charge of my duties whenever I may be placed in the proud posi ".4 to which I aspire. have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most obedient and very humble Servant, JOHN HAIIVEY ASTELL. 6 i 1 1g0-s . treet, Regent. street, April 12, 1848. , TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. k441)1X3 AND GENTLIIIMEN ' TU ANK you heartily' and sincerely for the ofho nour You have c on f erre d upon me, in electing me a Director mute j lo nourable East India Company, and beg to assure you that i t tit. be uIY earliest endeavour jealously and faithfully to perform my w you and to the State. I have the honour to remain, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obliged and taithild Servant, J. CA.ULFIELD, Major-General. 4 1u$ 12, 1248. Major-General Caulfield .......... 1,452 1 Major Moore .................... 61$ . 834 TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. T LADISS AND GIINTLEMEN HE result o f the Ballot of this day has fully Rag Di induced to off er no opposition to the Elect i on o f Major-General Caulfield. He h as obtained '. the vacant seat in the D i rect i on o f the •!,; India Company: by a very large majority over the only candi tee who contested it with him. Permit me now again to call your yltion to my position amongst the candidates for this honoir, and r : y the claims o f ktr 7ice on which m p re tensions to your favour are ed. I have rece i ved assurances of support and promises of vote s fr . ia 1° 'Ilan)" Proprietors, that I feel quite confident of success at the neat vacancy, and I am prepared at any time to go the ballot, :'te a l e lth ultimo.ably to the intention declared in my published anno uncement of I have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your very obliged and obedient Servant, H. T. PRI/vsEr. 27 . nYde Park-gardens, April 12, 1848. --- TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ENCOURAGED by many promises of supp ort , from my friends, I have the honour to inform you , that it is i=teration to offer myself as a Candidate for a seat in the East thats Direction on the first favourable occasion. I s hall onl y add, hoold I, through your kindness, be so fortunate as to succeed, iu 13, this my great object of ambition, my time and the best energies of _y ullnd shall b e d evote d t o y ou r interests in promoting the welfa r e or our empire in India. I have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble servant, DUDLEY COUTTS 3IARJORIBA.NKS. 34 Iv 4 anpole-street, April 12th, 1848. (OMMERCIAL TRAVELLER. A Com ) mercial Traveller, who has taken the North of England, Ireland, and Scotland for fifteen years, doing with first-class Drapers In the Print Trade, is open for an im:nediate engagement. Refer ences and security if required. Age 36. Address A. 8., at Mr. Thurman's, Bookseller, Carlisle. April 12, 1848. ST. JOHN D'EL REY MIRING COMPANY. A Special General Meeting of the Shareholders in the St. John d'el Rey Mining Company will be held at the London Tavern, zishopsgate-street, on Friday, the 14th April, at Two o'cloek, for the Purpose of Electing a Director in the said Company, vice Stuart Do naldson, Esq., resigned. For the Secretary, W. ROUTH 1, Tokenhouse-yard, April 12, 1948. Proprietors are requested to take notice, that in the event of more than one Candidate being proposed, so that a ballot should be neces sary, they will be required to produce the Certificates of their Shares. The Superintendent's Annual Report from Morro Velho, of the 31st December, 1847, last, having just arrived, may be seen at the Com- Daily's Office. RAILWAY SHARES WANTED.- Mr. SPACKMAN hereby gives notice that he will purchase at market prices, from day to day, the Shares or outstanding Scrip of the following Companies, vie.:—Remington, London and Manches ter, Rastrick's ditto, remanets 4/. returned, Jamaica, South Midland Junction, North Wales, Newry and Enniskillen, Madrid and Valen cia, and Dublin and Belfast Junction. Office hours, Ten t o Four, 1, Guildhall Chambers, Basinghall- Street. THE BEST APERIENT and ANTIBILIOUS n it MEDICINE for general use is FRAMPTON'S PILL OF ge ntle 'f, l4 . which effectually relieves the stomach and bowels by rei no _f9axation, without griping or prostration of strength. 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Let no imaginatively D . er prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hiedered tg_ rul sinterpretation of their supposed contents, from obtaining They are not intended certainly for mere idle curiosity, but tits closet perusal of those more deeply interested, to whom 4,9' are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth on r above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or u o t t st ber, aro a disgra to the age. Furthermore, two other byel Publications claim your attention (same price Is. each, Post Is . 6d.) ailed " What to Eat, Drink, and Z,... vei d , " and" to c be Happy." They are not merely 6 -^ "„,. ls blets. but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the aPhemaral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's e.who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob iuvanee of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as he on would be done unto—to live after nature's laws—and to keep always the "sunny side of the way." The above works may be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street ; Mann, Cornhill ; Nelson, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post or other e) from the either (who may be conferred with personally, 151° ,.. Muffs and evenings), 10. Argyll-plaee R egen t - s t reet; aaa a ll Jounksellara4 REMOVED TO 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE. DR. LA'BIERT ON TUB SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY.—WITH 40 COLOURED EhORAVINOS ON STEEL. Just published, and may be had in French or English, in a Sealed Envelope, 2s. ecl„ or post-free, from the author, for forty-two ,Stamps, SELF-PRESERVATION; a Medical Treatise oil the Physiology of Marriage, Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions, and the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Ma turity, usually acquired at an early period of life, which enervate the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural feelings, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion, Whether arising from these causes, close study, or the influence of tropical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis cretion. With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, explaining their structures, uses, and functions, and the various thiuries that are produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, sud Infection. 13Y SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON. Doctor of Medicine. Matriculated Member of the University of Edin b gh, Licentiate of Ap o th ecar i es ' Hall, London, Honorary Member of the Marriage ondon Hospital Medical Society, &c. thatitmay reqttires the fulfilment o f severa l con di t i ons, i n or d er be really the cause of mutual happiness. Could the vameil.twt.htricoho sourcece ver the origin of d omes ti c wretchedness, be raised, in physical every instance di sc l ose d, i n h ow many could it be traced t o ph„qualifications and their attendant disap pointments. E xcesses are is always injurious ; the gift, which wh en used in moderation is=Tame source o iTght with ad vantage, becomes, when abused .the to the constitutio na l and vital mischief and of great er or l ess i n j ury of giwers. The particular excesses , on are productive of the nature and conseqngreater severitenc e ;h this Treatise prof esses t o dil ate, than any other to 'which It is sublecto.f fiery to the human. frame, This work contains an accurate an d complete account of the Anatomy and Physiology o f the it sLase. It deservedly their relative conditions in health amid di sease, Organs, and of requires the closest attention and study '' , preservation what subject can be of more importance than th e which n of the health and of the physical capabilities of whether unhappy be possessed. It tinLertunately happ ens a t r a e t ry t man should h wh h ile r acquired victim of excessive indulgence and vicious habit:g,o7 hi early life or from the follies of advanced from their invariable consequenc es, unw isely entertains a fesaurireefring ap plying to a qualified physician for relief. Shame and th e dread ' frequently, but erroneously entertained that th ese complaints a re' beyond the reach of art, alike restrict him and prevent his seeking for assistance where alone it can be procured. In acting thus, he forgets that accurate discriminationi n ascertaining the causes of disease, sympathy with the sufferer, and, above all, secrecy, inva riably characterise the intelligent and 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 confidence should be extended. Dr. LA'SIERT has obtained the highest medical honours, as his diplomas certify. and the great extent of his practice for many years is a guarantee for his professional experience, which has reference almost SO lely to the treatment of these diseases. Published by the Author, and may be had of Kent and Richards, 1 1 , Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Starie, Tichborne "roat, Haymarket ; Mansell, 115, Fleet-street ; Gordon, 146, P i adealeall-street, London ; or, free by post for forty-two stamps, or rrot a the Author, who may be consulted on these disorders personally . 4 1:t ter, daily, from Ten till Two, and 11 . 0111 FiTo till Eight . at his - T, 00019;41-nuaro Loam. oi i=l mr-m its a- 14 4, aiNig No. 17,331.] LONDON, THURSDAY 1 11•1=1....../30M1.3.611.614. _ rir 1 - 1 E FOREIGN CATTLE and PROVISION COMPANY. Registered Provisionally, (Pursuant to the Acts of Parliament 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110 , and 10 a nd 11 c. 78 ) Intended Capital 150,000/. (with power to increase or diminish the same) in 15,000 Shares of 101. each. Deposit—One Shilling per Share. No Call will exceed 10s. per Share, of which One Mouth's notice will be given. Offices, No. 3, Lothbury. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Mr. Samuel Woolsey, merchant, Norwich Mr. John Keable, jun., Great Yarmouth William Henry Cayley, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Regent's-park Mr. Adam Clark, salesman, Dumfries and Norwich Mr. Mark Itedgrave, 20, Moorgate-strect Mr. Emanuel H. Van Straater, Rotterdam Mr. John Pittard, provision merchant, Cotton's-wharf, Tooley street Captain James Tomlin, 72, Cornhill Captain J. P. Ckatten, 264, High-street, Wapping Mr. Stephen Fromow, salesman, Norwich Mr. 1/avid Gordon M`Qahae, salesman, Norwich Mr. B. J. Chapman, 4, St. James's-road, Old Kent-road Mr. Samuel Thurnell, Ada-street, Cambridge-heath Mr. Win. Tremalne, 33, Prescott-street, Goodman's fields Mr. Augustus Crook, Bungay, guffelk Mr. John Lewis, 41, Beech-street, Barbican Mr. J. Van Raalte, Great Yarmouth Mr. G. E. Parish, 15, Crammer-place, Waterloo-bridge Mr. J. E. Laws, Great Yarmouth. (With power to add to their number.) SOLICITORS. T. D. Keighley, Esq., 73, Basinghall-street Messrs. Reynolds and Palmer, Great Yarmouth. BANKERS. Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, and Co., Lombard-street Messrs. Gurneys and Birkbeck, Norwich Messrs. Gurneys, Turner, and Brightwen, Great Yarmouth Messrs. Moses, Ezekiel, and Co., Rotterdam. LONDON AND FOREIGN AGENTS. London—A. Spielmann, Esq., Lombard-street Rotterdam and Dordrecth—J. H. Van Straater Amsterdam—E. S. Van Beuaekom Hanover—Jacob Timmer Havre de Grace—Henry Mansina Honfleur—Mons. Magliore Aubert Rouen—Alexander Ault, Brothers Corunna and Vigo—Messrs. Ortega and Co. Bilboa—Mr. Joseph Ta)lor Elsinore—Messrs. Severin, Hiesen, and Co. SECRETARY—James Dove, Esq. This Company is projected for the purpose of organizing a system, upon which the importation of Cattle arid Provisions from the Con tinent of Europe, or elsewhere, may he carried on more extensively and economically than it can be by individual speculation. The bu siness of the Company will be primarily that ofiamorting Cattle, Sheep, and Provisions from Holland, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, arid any other country which presents a favourable mar ket ; and attenti.n will also be directed to the purchase of cured and prepared Provisions, and Dairy, Farm-yard, and Orchard Produce, when it can be imported with advantage. The importation of Foreign Cattle for consumption into this coun try is still in its infancy ; but the rapid progress which it has already made, gives ample assurance, not only of the great profit attending it, but of the existence at once of a demand and supply sufficient to afford active and lucrative employment for the rescurces of a Public Company. The following returns are extracted from the Official Reports of the Board of Trade, made up the sth of January, 1848 : A Return of Live Animals imported in the years 1845,1846, and 1847. 1845. 1846. 1847. No. No. No. Oxen and Bulls.. • . ........ 9,744 .. 17.191 .. 27,811 Cows ••••••••• • • • • • .. • • .... 6,503 .. 25,349 .. 35,138 Calves.... ..... 587 .. 2,503 .. 12,389 Sheep ...... •• • • • • •• • • 15,845 .. 91,732 .. 136,527 Lain , ' ••••••• • • • • • • • .... • • 112 .. 2,892 .. 3,349 Swine and Hogs .. 1,590 .. .3,856 .. 1,242 Total of all kind 5........ 34,380 .. 143,523 .. 216,456 Showing an increase of more than 400 per cent. in 18 46 over 184 5 , and of more than 600 per cent. in 1847. A return of Provisions inverted in the years 1845, 1846, and 1817, 1845. 1846. 1847. Cwt. Cwt. Cwt. 53 .. 2,560 .. 87,067 Beef, salted ................ 81,542 .. 175,051 .. 112,590 Bear, fre5h.......... •.••• • .. 3,272 .. 2,121 . • 5,011 llama Meat not otherwise described 435 .. 1,118 .. 3,114 Pork, salted ........... , ....• 39,540 .. 72,656 .. 235,313 Pork, fre5h............ ..... 133 .. 133 .. 101 Total of all 50rt5........ 133,401 .. 265,281 .. 461,460 Showing an increase of about 100 per cent. in 1846 over 1845, and of near 460 per cent. in 15 47. The above Returns exhibit a Trade in which the transactions ap • pear (from a moderate calculation) to have Amounted during the last year to more than a million and a half sterling, and to have in creased In value five-fold in the short space of two two years. These results, too, have obtained by the feeble agency and operations of individual enterprise alone ; and if these have been profitable, how much more so weuld be the organized operations of a Public Com pany in the same field ? The advantage which this Company possesses, will not consist solely in the greater extent of their resources, and the more perfect agency , under their direction, but also in the economy with which their capital will be employed. By proper arrangements with re spectable houses abroad, they will be able, with a comparatively limited capital, to carry on a very extensive scale of importations from all the productive sources of supply. The Committee have the gratification of announcing that they have secured most eligible water-side premises, and that parties of high character and longstanding abroad, are prepared to enter into the necessary arrangements with the Company, and to co operate with 't in realising its anticipations of success in which they warmly concur. In addition, the committee would advert to the great facilities which the progress of steam navigation and railway traffic has at length afforded for the vigorous and successful conduct of that branch of international trade which this Company will carry on. A constant and expeditious intercourse is now kept up by steam navi gation between the ports of London, Yarmouth, Harwich, Lowes toft, Great Grimsby, and Hull, on this side, and the principal ports of the continent on the other; and from the latter railways are diverging in every direction into the interior of the continent, through the rich grazing districts of Holland, Hanover, Prussia, Holstein, and other States of Germany, from which large supplies of cattle and provisions can thus, at all times, be procured. As an Act of Parliament will not be required for the incorporation of the Company, the expenses incurred In its formation will not be considerable, and the interests of the shareholders will be secured by a deed of settlement, prepared by counsel, until which time all con tracts as to shares will be entered into by and with the secretary only as a trustee for the Company. . The Company will commence operations as soon as a competent number of shares are taken, and a sufficient amount paid up to ren der it expedient. The Committee have power to increase or diminish the capital, and to reserve a portion of the shares for allotment at a future period, if deemed advisable. Applications for shares to be sent to the Secretary, at the offices of the Company, No. 3, Lnthbury, where prospectuses and forms of application may be obtained. Also at the offices of the Solicitors to the Company—Adam Spielman, Esq., Lombard-street ; the Bull Inn, Market-place, the Bell Inn, and the Cattle Market Inn, Norwich; Mr. Laws, the Quay ; Mr. Costerton, Regent-street, and at the Bear and Angel Inns, Great Yarmouth ; Mr. Cavell. Deal ; Mr. Burrell, Hastings; Mr. Freeman, Market-place, Northampton; Messrs. It. Crass) and Son, Lynn ; Thomas Tootal, Esq., Manchester; Messrs. Redadale Myers, and Bailey, Leeds; and at Messrs. John Wills and Co., Liverpool. CITY of LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, for Accumulative and General Assurances. 2, Royal Exchange-buildings. EDWARD F. LEERS, Seoretary. CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS. Presented at the Annual General Meeting, heldlat the Society's Office, on Thursday, March 2d, 1843. Having, at the Meeting held in January, 1847, presented to the Proprietors and Assured a very full account of the Society's affairs, your Directors have but little to communicate on the present oc casion. It may, however, be satisfactory to those now assembled to learn that, notwithstanding the increased and active competition arising from the yearly establishment of many new Life Assurance Offices, the business of this Society still continues to advance. In proof of this, it will be sufficient to state the following facts : I. The number of Policies granted on the lives of Clergymen, a class of persons generally distinguished for longevity, has been greater during the year ending June 30th last (the period compre hended in this report) than in any one year since the commence ment of the Society. 11. The Society's Income, which was 116,382/. In the year ending June 30th, 1846, amounted to 122,906/. iu the year ending June 30th, 1847. 111. The number of NEW POLICIES issued within the year has been 513, and the amount assured thereby 257,0791. Being an increase, both in the number of policies and in the sum assured, over these of any preceding year. In conclusion, the Directors are happy to inform the Proprietors that the Society has not in any degree suffered from the great mor tality which has prevailed of late throughout the kingdom, the claims, both in the course of the year ending June 30, 1847, and also within the six months ending with December last, not having equalled either in number or amount those of preceding years. Tables of Bates and Forms of Proposal can be obtained of any of the Society's Agents, or by addressing a letter to GEO. H. PINCKARD, Resident Secretary. Office, No. 99, Groat Russell-street, Bloomsbury, London. RESTORATION OP THE HAIR " To Messrs. A. Rowland and Son, 20, Hatton-garden, London " Linton, Cambridge, October 25, 1847. 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For Children, it is especially recom mended as forming' the basis of a beautiful Head of Hair, and ren dering the use of the fine comb unnecessary. Price 3s. td.-75.—Family Bottles (equal to 4 small) 10s. Gd., and double that size, 210. CAUTIOX.—Each bottle of the genuine article has the words ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL engraved in twe lines on the Wrapper ; and on the back of the Wrapper nearly 1,500 times, containing 29,028 letters—without this " None are Genuine." Sold by the Proprietors, and by Chemists and Perfumers. ON NERVOUS DEBILITY AND GENERATIVE DISEASES. Just published, the Thirty-sixth Thousand, an improved edition, re vised and corrected, 120 pages, price 2s. i n a sealed envelope,' or forwar led by the Authors, post paid, to any whiress, secure from observation, for Is. 6d., in postage stamps, illustrated with nu merous Anatomical Coloured Engravings. MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PREMA TURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for its PERFECT ESTORATION. A Medical Essay on those Diseases of the Generative Organs, emanating from Solitary and Sedentary Habits. indiscriminate Ex. cesses, the Effects of Climate and Infection, &c., addressed to the sufferer in Youth, Manhood, and Old Age; with Practical Remarks on Marriage, the Treatment and Cure of Nervous and Mental De bility, I hl ich e l v ns e p n o t t e h n e c y, mostSy p s h h i l a i s t t , e a r n ed d c o o t i h l e i t r i t u U ti ri e t i r a e y n i t b a e l r l e ) s i t s o e r it e s d e , s , b , y d with chhthe numerousfu l periodAt Anatomical ate., Engravings al lot ted r onaiL Ti r e in lug the various functions, secretions, and structures of the Steel,wchoolole illustrated ll e u explain ing repro ductive Organs in heaith and disease ; with instructions for private correspondence, cases, &c. By J. L. CURTIS and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 7, Frith-street, Soho-square, London. " Manhood.' A Medical Work.—To the gay and thought less we trust this little work will serve as a beacon to warn them of the danger attendant upon the too rash indulgence of their pa ;alone, whilst to some it may serve as a monitor in the hour of tempta tion, and to the afflicted as a sure guide to health."—Chronlete " ' Manhood.' By J. L. Curtis, and Co.—Their long expt rience and reputation in the treatment of these pain I id diseases is the patient's guarantee, and well deserves for the work its immense cir culation." —E ra . a Curtis on Manho o d' s h ou ld b e in flue hands of youth and old g . It is a medical publication, ably written, and developes the treatment of a cl ass o f painful maladies whi c h h as t oo l ong b een the prey of the illiterate and the designing . "- - - 't d S Gazette.ll e el% Le The Parent, who beholds his beloved child pion]; away, and last approaching to a premature grave, in consequence of some disease, which, for want of careful investigation of its real cause, has been be astonished to find, that in nine-tenths Pl°n set down to the score of con,til will, on perusing this work, per sons of both sexes, who perish of twhatl of tclaiellte,dasepsuolifuoynoaurn; been the indulgence eertain destructive Con sumption, heart disease, tabes, &c., iso habits and practised exclusive origin i youthas much more frequently than it is at all suspected. N.B. Hours of consultation from Eleven till Eight the Two, mid 514 to Cornhill, April 12, 1848. IVESSRS. SMITH, ELDER and CO., beg to A announce that Mr. JAMES'i NEW NoVEL, SIR THEO DORE- BROUGHTON, the publication of which has been unavoid ably delayed, will certainly appear on MONDAY next, the 17th inst. R OYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY, REGENT'S-PARK. The Fellows and Members of this Society are reminded that SA TURDAY NEXT, April 15th, is the last day up n which they may obtain Packets of Thirty Tickets for the Exhibitions for 5 Guineas. EXHIBITIONS of PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUIT for PRIZES to be awarded by the ROYAL BO TANIC SOCIETY, Regent's-park. Wednesdays, May 10th, June 14th, and July sth. Tickets to be had at the Gardens by orders from Fellows. Prise on or before Saturday next, April 15th, 4s. ; after that day, st. ; or on the days of Exhibition, 7s. 6d. each. 1 PENCER'S CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYE. 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To be had of the Proprietors, 29, Nottingham-place, Fleldgate street, Whiteehapel-read, London ; also of Mr. Johnstone, 68, Corn hill Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Prout, 229, Strand; Sanger, 150, Oxford street; Barclay, Farringden-street ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond street; Hooper, 43, King William-street, London bridge ; Finnigin, Milsem-street, Bath ; Elmore, Bull-street, Birmingham ; and of most Perfumers and Medicine Vendors in town and country. Sent to any part of the kingdom by receiving a remittance, post-paid. Please to ask for " Spencer and Co.'s Chinese Liquid Hair Dye." Observe, the Proprietor's address is on the wrapper. ELECTION OF AN ALDERMAN FOR BREAD-STREET WARD. The Lord Mayor has issued a precept for the election of an Alderman for the ward of Bread-street, vacant by the resignation of Mr. Hughes Hughes. The only candidate for the gown is Mr. William Lawrence, one of the most uncompromising ReFormers of the Court of Common Council, of which he has been an active and distingushed member for some years. The election will take place in Cordwainers' Hall on Saturday next. • Alderman Salomons offi..tiAted on Monday last in Bread-street Ward, in the place of Alderman Hughes Hughes, and had also performed the duties of the magisterial office of that gentleman on the previous Saturday, in swearing in special constables for the pro. tection of the peace. The conduct of Mr. Salomons is daily entitling him to the highest commendations of his fellow-citizens. On Tuesday a letter was transmitted to him by the ward clerk of Bread-street ward. The fol lowing is a copy:-- Cordwainers' Hall, April 11, 1848. " Sir,—The inhabitants of the ward of Bread-street, sworn special' constables, desire through me to tender you their sincere and cordial thanks for the marked at tention, courtesy, and kindness evinced towards them by you ; attention they more higly value, because your arduous duties have been superadded to those of an extremely onerous nature in your own ward. " They request me to add, that they shall hail with pleasure the opportunity of publicly testifying their sentiments of regard and esteem for you, which will be afforded to them at the approaching election for alder man of this ward, but no one will be more happy to do so than myself." The Lord Mayor will preside at the election. BATHS AND WASHLIOUSES FOR THE LABOURING CLASSES.—Yesterday a meeting, composed of the com mittee and supporters of the above undertaking for the benefit of the labouring classes in the north-west districts of the metropolis, was held at the institution in George street, Euston-square, to receive a general report of the progress of the institution since its opening in August, 1846; J. P. Gibbins, Esq., in the chair. The statistical .i.nd financial statement was of a highly satisfactory na ture—the numbers of persons who up to the present period have availed themselves of its benefits being more than 185,000 male and female bathers; and above .60,000 poor women have washed, dried, ironed, and mangled the linen of themselves and families, averaging at least four in number in each family. The debt of the society for the building fund has been reduced to 781/. 8. 61. The increase of bathers during the past month, ending the 9th instant, corresponding with the same month last year, was 1.817, and 2,553 washers, &c. The present building is, however, inadequate to the additional ac commodation which is daily required both by bathers and washers, as, during the summer season last year, 200 or 300 were almost daily obliged to be refused ad mis3ion. The New River Company have liberally offered a further site of ground for the erection of addi tional baths and wash houses, as soon as the necessary funds for the erection can be made. The receipts for the last four weeks, ending the 9th instant, were 1601. 6s. Bd., expenditure 1061, 18s. Id., being a profit on the working for that period of 53/. Bs. 7d.; and the donations to 21/. 10s. Id. EAST INDIA HOUSE.—Yesterday a ballot was taken at the East India House for the election of six directors in the room of Sir Robert Campbell, Mr. William Joseph Eastwick, Sir James Weir Hogg, M.P., Lieutenant- Colonel William Henry Sykes, Mr. John Clermont Whiteman, and Sir Henry Willock,K.L.S., who go out by rotation. At six o'clock the glasses were closed and delivered to the scrutineers, who reported that the elec tion had fallen on Mr. Henry Alexander, lion. William Henry Leslie Melville, Major James Oliphant, Mr. John Shepherd, Mr. Fracnis Warden, and Major-General James Caulfield, C.B. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the thanks of the Court were voted unanimously to Mr. Henry St. George Tucker, chairman, and Lieutenant-General Sir James Law Lushington, G.C.8., deputy-chairman, for their great application and attention to the affairs of the East India Company during the past year. SOCIETY or ARTS.—The twelfth ordinary meeting of the Society of Arts was held yesterday evening, at the Society's house, in the Adelphi; Sir J. P. Boileau, Bart.,:Vice-President in rotation, in the chair. A com munication was made by Mr. Digby Wyatt on the art of enamel, ancient and modern, which was illustrated by original drawings. A specimen of wood carving by hand, by Mr. James Batsford, was placed on the table, and much admired by the society for the perfection of the workmanship, and the elegance of the design. Mr. W. Burch communicated some plans connected with im provements: in railway mechanism, the objects being, first, to break the shock of railway trains in cases of co!lision; second, to produce a self. acting graduated time signal; and, third, a suggestion for a new method of applying the elastic resisting power of steel as rail way carriage springs. One subject more remained on the paper, viz., a communication by Mr. C. Chubb, of St. Paul's Churchyard, on a railway safe, and new patent lock, for the use of bankers and others, in conveying valualile parcels upon railways. The construction of this ingeniously contrived chest has been already de scribed at full length, and the absolute security which it affords for the conveyance of bullion, notes, &c., is so obvious from the inspection of the chest itself, and for the arrangement for carrying it, that it is needless here to repeat it. The thanks of the society having been voted to the authors of the several commu nications made, the sitting terminated. SLAVE TRADE.—By a return made to Parliament, just issued, it is shown that in 1846 her Majesty's squa dron captured 39 vessels on suspicion of being engaged in the slave-trade, and 67 in the year 1847. The num ber of slaves landed and liberated at Sierra Leone in 1832 was 1,701; in 1833, 1,838; in 1834, 3,068: in 1835, 4,645; in 1836, 6,904; in 1837, 6,033; in 1838, 5,341; in 1839, 3,233; in 1840, 720; in 1841, 306; in 1842, 440; iu 1843, 808; in 1844, 2,351; in 1845, 1,189; in 1846, none; and iu 1847, none. CONSECRATION OF ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH: Tuesday the Bishop of London consecrated the Church of St. Matthew (in the parish of St. Luke's), City-road. The solemn ceremony was attended by a highly respect able congregation, which filled the sacred edifice, and which is capable of containing about 1,500 persons. The Right Rev. Prelate preached a sermon from St. John, c. xx., ver. 19. The construction of the church is ac cording to the Saxon style of architecture, being built of Cain stone, and Kentish rags, without a gallery, and all the seats are free. The Bishop of Antigua, the Rev. :.I r. Saunders, Rector of the parish, the Rev. Mr. Howard, the Minister of the new church, and the clergy of the district were present. The chants were performed by the gentlemen choristers of Westminster Abbey, assisted by the choristers of the Bencher's private chapel, of Lincoln's Inn-fields. EASTER TERM.—Easter Term commences on Saturday. In the Queen's Bench the ar; ems number 97, in the Common Pleas 96, and in the Exchequer 74, making 266 in the three courts, an insignificant total compared with former years. At the commencement of Hilary Term last they exceeded 350. In the Queen's Bench there are six demurrers and special cases, and 35 for argument ; in the new trial paper 42 for argument, and 15 for judgment. With the exception of two mat ters, the rules for argument are not more than a year old. In the Court of Common Pleas there are 40 entered for argument, and in the remanet paper there are seven enlarged rules, 46 new trials, and 15 mat ters for judgment, besides two registration appeals ; whilst in the Court of Exchequer there are five rules in the peremptory paper, which were obtained in J . Anuary last ; i n th e d emurrer list there are two for Judgment, and 17 for argument ; three special cases for judgment, and 20 for argument ; and in the new trial paper one for judgment, and twenty-seven for ar gument. The arrears of the three courts are by no means considerable, and the Learned Judges will, on the present occasion, begin their labours with. well grounded hopes that the arrears will be further diminished in a short time. A MODEL BOWL OF PUNCIL-1n 1694, a bowl of punch was made at the . Right li on . E dward Russell's house, when he was Commander-in -Chi e f cf his Ma jesty's forces in the Mediterranean. It w as ma d e i n a founta i n i n a garden, in the middle of four walks, all covered overhead with lemon and orange-trees, and in every walk was a table, the whole length of it, covered with cold collations, &c. In the said fountain were the following ingredients, viz.—four hogsheads of brandy, eight ditto of water, 25,000 lemons, twenty gallons of lime•juice, thirteen cwt. of lump sugar, five lb. of grated nutmegs, :300 toasted biscuits, and a pipe of dried Ma laga wine. A canopy protected the fountain' from the rain, and a boy from the fleet rowed a boat round the fountain, and tilled the cups of the companyovbich com prised upwards of 600 men. SECRET DOCUMENTS AND DIS PATCHES OF THE EX-KING OF THE FRENCH. The second number of the Revue Retrospective, pubashed in Paris, contains several documents (dis covered inj the ;'portfolios of Lous Philippe, after his departure from that capital), which possess much interest, and are of no little importance. Nearly all of them relate to the question of the Spanish marriages. The following is the introduction in the Revue to these documents : "The subjoined documents were discovered in two portfolios left by Louis Philippe at the Tuileries, which were said to be lost, but which are now de posited in the office of th e t rocureur -General of the Court of Appeal of P ar i s . A ll the papers are in the handwriting of the p ersonages b y w h o m they are signed. The curiou s account o f t h e Spanish mar riages, written by th e ex -Ki ng to hi s daughter the Queen of the B e l g i ans , an d the letter o f the same to M. Guizot, are mi nu t es i n t h e han d wr iti n g of Louis Philippe, and full o f correct i ons an d alterations. The letters of M. Gui zo t, a ll wr i tten on the occasion of those marriages, are lik ew i se i n th e handwriting of the ex-Minister. With respect t o 31. Salvandy, in whose letters there i s suc h f requen t reference to the King's feet, the lett er i s a l so i n his handwriting; it is signed by him, and everybody will recognise his st 3 le." M. GUIZOT TO THE KING. " Sire,—Glucksberg has just seen me. I shill post pone till Saturday ell that 1 wish to say to your Ma jesty and I do so without regret, because, on the one side, nothing to this moment has been dole at Madrid. Bulwer is suffering from a severe fever, which has placed him in the greatest danger; and on the other aide, I perceive, according to what Glucksberg relates to me, that, notwithstanding the uneasiness which your Ma jesty still experiences, his opinion entirely agrees with my own, that we may proceed to our purpose, and at the same time preserve all that freedom which is neces sary to prevent our becoming the dupes of anybody. " I enclose a letter from Bresson, which informs me that the Duke of Cadiz has at length repaired to Madrid He is new on the scene. Your Majesty will take notice of the words of Queen Christina respecting the opposi tion of the English to the marriage of the Infanta with the Duke of Montpensier. This completely confirms my suspicions in regard to the wishes of the Coburg family, that her marriage should be contracted with a member of that house. " I also send some ordinances of but little moment, which I hope that your Majesty will be willing to sign; and likewise a letter from the Kin of Bavaria, which has just been sent to me by Count Luxbourg. " I intend to set out this evening for Paris. I hope to-morrow to be at Sorbonne, where I expect that my son will await me. I will return to Paris, where I en treat your Majesty will retain everything for me. On Saturday I shall be at the Tuileries an hour previous to the council, with the outline of a trifling project. I was desirous of writing this morning, but have been so in terrupted by visitors that I could not find any oppor tunity. " I remain, Sire, " With the most profound respect, " Your Majesty's very humble and faithful servant and subject, " GUIZOT. " Val Wcher, August 11, 1846." FROM M. GUIZOT TO THE KING. " Sire,—l know that it u ill be late to-day before your Majesty can arrive at Neuilly, and therefore shall not pay my respects to you this evening; but I will be at Neuilly tomorrow morning before ten o'clock. I shall be com pelled to hold with your Majesty a long conversation. I shall be the bearer of good news from Madrid. It is a very important business, but I think duet we very nearly approach its happy termination. " I have the honour of enclosing for your Majesty some decrees of but trifling importance, and also some letters relating to the late attempt.* " I am, Sire, _ _ " With the most profound respect, " Your Majesty's very humble and " faithful servant and subject, " GUIZOT. " Paris, Aug. 14th, 1846, five o'clock." FROM LOUIS PHILIPPE TO M. GUIZOT, MI. NISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. "My dear Minister,—You will see that the subjoined letter must be forwarded to London. I wish that you would address it to Jarnac, and direct him to show it officially to Lord Clarendon, to whom I render, with all my heart, the justice which his friend demands, and also to Lord Palmerston, whom it is proper to remind of certain facts—certain acts which are so apt to be for gotten and unacknowledged. " Good night, my dear Minister, " August 17, 1846." " LOUIS PHILIPPE. FROM M. GIJIZO'r TO THE ICING. " Sire,—l wished to pay my respects to your Majesty this morning; but I could not do so. The sittings of the two Chambers and the necessary debates have occupied me the whole of the day. " The Chamber of Peers, which did not make a house to-day, will to-morrow vote its address. The Chan cellor is desirous that your Majesty Would be pleased to receive it to-morro w evening; so that t h ere s hould be two days' interval b etween the presentat i on of the address and the tri a l o f Tuesday (f)• If your Majesty will be pleased to g i ve me orders I w i l l trans mit them immediately to the Ch ancellor. "No doubt it will b e at Neuilly that your M a jesty will receive the addre ss f rom the Peers. "I enclose letter s f rom Bresson and J arnac . We are approaching the end. I hope we shall reach it without delay. "I am, with the most profound respect, Sire, "Your Maj esty ' s very humble an d faithful servant and subject, " GUIZOT. "Friday, 21st A ugust, 1846, six o'clock." FROM M. GIJIZOT TO THE ICING. " Sire,—Enclosed is the private letter from Bresrn, which has arrived by last night's courier. I add . to it a letter from Rumig N l';' which I have this morning re ceived. .I regret that I am not able to wait upon your Majesty . immediately to consult upon them. I am de. tamed . by letters which are indispensably necessary to me your opinion inGeivcriiet,inwg be written for the courier to-d a y, But in order . . that who o t Len your Majesty may not be under the necessity of giving my letter by M. whom your Majesty can, if you deem it proper,. give such verbal details as you may wish. I think it will be beet that the Infanta Isabella (t) shou'd, as sh! pro poses, bring her brother here. When once he is near your Majesty, we shall be able to direct his conduct more securely. If your Majesty should be of my opinion safe, and . to rgeihrjecltl,yenture to send on this subject I will write immediately to Itumigny to that effect. " Thursday, Oct. ' 11 . 5 71846 c : 4 " GUIZOT. FROM M. GUIZOT TO THE KIN G. sire,—l havo the h onour to sen d y o ur Majesty many things. " Ist. A letter from Rumigny, which ha s j ust reached me, and which I do not a t al l like. That affair lan guishes. We must wait. "2. Tho copies which y our M a jesty wishes for of a private letter from Bulwer to Lord Aberdeen, with re spect to Don llvnry, conqueror but not suitor,* and the sentence in which Lord Palmerston s peaks of Don Henry as the only fitting person. "3. Letters trum Madrid, which have just arrived. "4. A long letter from Jarnac on tho subject of a con versation with Lord Palmerston, in which I perceive Jarnac spoke very well and maintained his position. "5. Letters from D'Andi b and Chasseloup, which show the good effect produced at Turin and Frankfort by our communications. "I beg your Majesty to send me back these letters when you have read them, and made them be read. " I am, &c., " GUIZOT. "Monday, October 19, 18.16." THEbackGto• your Majesty the letters which y ou me, with the _..---- ~ sir F e, ll - 0 1 M hy 1 . . 3 exception of that from Ri u mgny, which I r e t a i n i n order to read it again atte•Ltively, and to writ e to hi m. returned lam very much occupied wi th this bus iness. I wish very much that we should resume possession of D on the Gl j Ir honour ° rr to TO Henry. Nothing could contribute more t o f o il ev i l de signs upon Spain ; and, unfortunately, that exce ll ent Rurnigny has neither ingenuity nor authority. It would be necessary to decide to carry off the Infante. I much fear that he will not know hew to set about it. I w i sh I could find some means. I will send your Majesty his letter at a later time. " I enclose other letters from Bresson, Fontenay, and Dalmatia. "I am, &C., " GUIZOT. "Monday, Oct. 19, 1546." FROM M. GUIZOT TO THE RING . " Sire,—l am quite of your Majesty's opinion. W e have enough of writing, and I will make Jarnac under stand that; but I beg your Majesty to observe that Jarnac did not, in his interview with Lord Palmerston, enter into the verbal discussion contained in his last letter. He only relates and explains to me i❑ his own manner all that occurs betlind the seencs. He has said nothing of the kind to Lord Palmerston or to any one else. submit to your Majesty's inspection, as you desire, a letter from the Marquis de Sesuaarsons. I beg your du * rin T g he th e il r c i o n tfee o rt f a t t h t e he lI pistol t Le proeZ:4 Henri. $ Married to a Pole, and living at Brussel s . * The Inas in italics are in English la th e or i g i uAl. ' le r il i e y s . Henry' on July 29, 1816, S wow 9 APRIL 13, 1848. Majesty- to be plea se d t o re t urn it t o me . I will speak of this young Polignac to the Minister of War, in order that simple justice may be done him, and I will after wards reply to M. de Sesmaisons. " " Saturday, 24th I a O m eiote c r", 1846." " G UIZ OT. Ruraigny, FROM M. GUIZOT TO THE KING. " Sire, —Enclosed are l e tt ers f rom Fl a b au l t, R eyneva l , t and Jarnac. I shall wa it u p on y our Majestyo take y our i nstructions respecting them. "Since the Duke de Bordeaux must be married, I prefer this marriage to that with respect to which your Majesty had been spoken to. " The history of the mission' of Miraflores is a mere fable, and j said so immediately to Lord Normanby. There is no trace of it either written or spoken. I am having search made for the precise date of his arrival and departure. " "I am, & c ., F ride y, 6th November, 1846." " GUIZOT. tmost ur now „ s f re l t , l l l a Ssot TO THE KING. n y o o w nr a M dd aj it e i s o t n y a 's l opinion. s From the first I thought as I I cannot doubt t h at they will be felt; I am sure of it, o rea i . I have always been because your Majest y 's word will make th em "I a m , at your Majest y 's feet, "Paris, Sept. 9." " Faithfully and respectfully, " SALVANDY. FROM M. .—...........—..—...—___ SALV ANDY TO THE KING. "Sire,—l have the honou r your Majesty. Sounder o pi n ions forward the St an d ar d t o to lt is true that they cannot be der ived cannot be entertain e d. I presume that what t heprevents from b e t ter sources. Debate from trans cribing them is the consideration which are discussed—th e that the hypoth eses possibilities of which are con templated, might create uneasiness an d I incline to that opinion. I should be af ra id that public o pi nion p l ace ' (la place) w ou ld b e disquieted th e and `the Majesty will judge of it with your invaria ble wisdom Your '. As M. Guizot will not be rea d y before Wednesday,t I request your Majesty's permi ss i on to retire° son, near the Commanday, Eure, fo r th ree days Grave son, word from your Majesty will recall me in t en hours . 4. My departure will convince your Majesty w h at cow plete security I feel. Your Majesty has done all the things which were impossible to former powers—the work of the Revolution, without disorders or excesses— the work of Napoleon, without despotism or conquests.— the work of the Restoration, in many respects, without commotion, and without unpopularity. You will recom mence the work of Louis XIV., without a war of suc cession. "I place at your Majesty's feet my admiration, my respect, and my fidelity. " SALVANDY. " Paris, 28th, six o'clock r.m." FROM M. SALVANDY TO THE RING. "Sire,—Archbishop Mekitariste, whom your Majesty has been pleased to distinguish, and who has just es tablished a house at Paris, sets out, on Monday, for Venice and the East, regretting that he could not dare to aspire to the honour of paying his heartfelt homage at the feet of your Majesty. He speaks French very well. He is very devout. What does your Majesty think of this situation? I make no request of your Majesty. There is only one question to be considered— that of your service, and who can be so good a judge of it as your Majesty? " I venture to make a request on the subject of M. Leverrier, the admirable discoverer of planets, whose heart melts with joy and gratitude for that officer's cross, which has produced the best effect with the public. Your Majesty has taught this young savant ambition. He aspires to the honour of being permitted to lay at the feet of your Majesty the expression of his gratitude and his over-powering sense of your favours. There are so few mathematicians or geometricians who entertain such correct sentiments that I entreat your Majesty to consent to see him, either in the morning or the evening —earlier or later. " Your Majesty will have achieved a conquest truly worthy of you. "I am, with respect, Sire, " Your Majesty's very humble and very obedient servant and faithful subject, " Paris, Oct. 8." " SALVANDY. TRANSLATION OFFICE OF THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR. "TO M. GUIZOT, AMBASSADOR OF FRANCE IN ENGLAND, AT LONDON. [This letter, written over the head of a letter from the office of M de Remusat, forms (as may be seen) part of a correspondence carried on by the private secretary of the Minister of the Interior of the Government of the Ist of March, with M. Guiaot, the future successor of that Minister.] " Paris, Oct. 18, 1840. " An accidental deafness which troubled me for some time past compelled me yesterday and the day before to apply leeches behind my ears. This is what has pre vented my writing to you until to-day. I have little in formation to give you, as I have gone out very little, and seen very few persons for some days past. " The treasonable attempt (attentat) of Darmes ap pears to have hastened the maturity of a state of matters already almost ripe. The public mind is much alarmed at it, and, I must admit, with reason. It is a wretched state of things, which cannot be shaken for a moment without some such froth rising up out of it. People are beginning to blame the Government generally for not having prosecuted M. de Lamennais's pamphlet, as also a vast number of petty, poisonous writings, which are circulated among the people, and poison their minds. The boldest even go so far as to say that th e National ought to be prosecuted; its style would rem ind one of the days, if they could be forgotten, when its articles were written by the editors of the Tribune. " To cap the climax of the ' situation,' a telegraphic . dispatch has just announced to us that the Queen of Spain resigned her sovereignty on the 12th into the hands of her Minister, Espartero. Thus we have a triumphant revolution on the other side of the Pyrenees, enemies everywhere—abroad and at home. " You know that the Ultras among the Spaniards threaten, arms in band, to bring a republic upon us, whilst Russia throws a new coalition upon us. " The Germanic Confederation, on the invitation of Prussia, has, in its turn, prohibited the transit of horses. " The session approaches meanwhile, and on the first day of it the trial of strength will be made on the ques tion of the presidency of the Chamber. I know that some of your friends think that you ought not to vote, but certainly those are not the most numerous. The Mi nistry will make it an open question; you will thus be free to vote as you wish, and even though it were other wise, I could not understand your hesitating now, above all, when our foreign policy is complicated by a state of matters at home equally grave. " No person can dispute the right of voting against M. Bar rot. The question of his presidency has been precisely what has pre vente d your entering the Cabinet. You will be faithful to y our prece d ents. If you let the 15th of Apr il alone t a k e t h e i n i tiative of his exclusion, you throw us into a situation which will have no issue. mythe smenestitmveieniteseotnhetlhdeneeosen,duucetd,wihficnheeceasn. M. Mole is as imp oss ibl e as M. Thiers. aloneY s o a u v e k nuosw— sary, foreign war—the most decisive Conservative re action, and, if necessary, a sort of terror inspired by the Gov( rnment at home. I see no other means to en able us to struggle against the dangers of our position at home and abroad. M. Thiers represents the revolu tionary spirit in too great a degree. M. Mole is too much fur peace at any price. "You alone represent the just medium—that of Ca simir Perrier, who vigorously repressed domestic dis orders, and dispatched the French army to the assist ance of Brussels, at the risk of drawing a general war upon us. " With energy it is yet possible to :repair all; but there is no need of commencing an energetic line of conduct by an act of weakness. Now, in my opinion, it would be an act of weakness to avoii I voting on the question of the Presidency. That would be quite to alienate from you the old Conservative party, who, at present, desire nothing better than to come to inti mate terms with you; and it would be talso to preserve an equivocal position, at a time when. every position is accurately defined. " Sir, 1 should ask pardon for spething with such freedom to you; but you know my devotion, and you ought to perceive by persevering in the se same ideas, what also is my conviction. " A thousand respectful compliments, " :LAVERNE." [PRICE SD. " On the 24th of December, 1539, Louis Phillipe, who wished to have this list, in order that it m i g h t b e preserved, wrote, with his own hand, upon the report of General Schneider, who had presented the ordinance, the following note, of which ho took care to make a du plicate, and which he affixed to the decree, a copy of which he had also preserved. " I have, for this once, signed the ordinance for the payment which has been proposed to me; but for the future it will be necessary that the accounts of secret expenditure for the War Department be submitted for my approval in the same form as those of the Interior; that is to say, by distinct statements, upon which every article of expenditure must be specified singly, with the same minuteness and detail as are furnished by the two other departments for the Interior and for Foreign Affairs relative to their secret expenditure.' " Dec. 24, 1839." FROM LOUIS PHILIPPE TO THE QUEEN OF THE BELGIANS. " Neuilly, September 14, 1846. " My dearest Louise,—The Queen has just received a letter, or rather a reply from Queen Victoria, to the one you know she had written to her, and that reply greatly grieves me. I am inclined to Lelieve that our good little Queen was as sorry to write such a letter as I was to read it. But she now only sees things through the spectacles of Lord Palmerston, and those spectacles distort and disfigure them too often. This is quite natural. The great difference between the spectacles of the excellent Aberdeen and those of Lord Palmerston proceeds from the difference of their dispositions. Lord Aberdeen wished to be well with his friends ; Lord Palmerston ' I fear, wishes to quarrel with them. This is, my dear Louise, that which caused my alarm respect ing the maintenance of our cordial understanding when Lord Palmerston resumed the direction of the Foreign Office. Our good Queen Victoria sought to dispel those alarms, and assured me there would only be a change of men. But my old experince induced me to apprehend that, through the influence of Lord Palmers ton, much more perhaps thtiehis intentions, the political system of England would undergo a modification, gradual or sudden, and, unfortunately, the affairs of Spain have afforded an opportunity. " In the first moment that followed the perusal of the letter of Queen Victoria, I was tempted to write to her directly, and I even began a letter to appeal to her heart and recollections and demand to be judged by her equit ably, and, above all, more affectionately, but the fear of embarrassing her stopped me, and I prefer writing to e you, to whom I can say everything, to give you all the x pe l lanation necessary to ' r e pl ace t h e t hi ngs i n th e i r true light,' and to preserve us from that odious suspicion which, I may say, with the utmost sincerity, should not be visited on us. "I shall resume matters with you from the beginning, the and go b ac k to origin ebd of the Spanish marriages. You know, my dear expulsion, that during her regency, and long before her nt,hQueen Christina repeat edly invited us to conclude marriages of our two younger sons, the Dukes d'Aumale and de Montpensier, with her two daughters, Queen Isabella IL and the In fanta Louise Ferdinande. We constantly d lie l d to her that, as respected the Queen, however flayttererep b 3 by such an alliance, it was out of the questvioerTiagnhd that we had come to an irrevocable deterwiliation on' the subject ; but that, with regard to the Infanta, we should think of it when we should be nubile, or, as thpy sa y i n England, marriageable ; and that, provided there was a good chance that she should not become Queen, but re main an Infanta, it was an alliance we should very much like, and should conclude with pleasure for the Duke de eiontpemeer. " The military successes of all my sons having giving a new impulse to that favourable opinion which mani fested itself everywhere on their behalf, and after the glorious combat of Ain Taguin, where the Duke d'Au male commanded, and in which he succeeded in cap turing the entire camp (alias the smala) of Abd-el- Kader, surrounded his name with that prestiye which always dazzles the men of every country, a cry arose in Spain, which I may say was almost unil ersal, ex pressing a wish that the Duke d'Aumale be married to Queen Isabella 11. But I coutinued as deaf to that wish as I had been to those which were successively addressed to me to place the Duke de Nemours on the thrones of Belgium and Greece, and to marry him to the Queen of Portugal. My refusals were positive and formal. I never deceived anybody. I spoke frankly to the Portuguese, as I did to the Belgians. I left no illusion in the minds of those who feared or those who desired, and after my sincerity in the intentions which I proclaimed not to accept the hand of the Queen of Spain for the Duke d'Auenale,had been proved with so much eclat by his marriage with a Princess of Naples, it is incon ceivable that Lord Palmerston should now speak to Count de Jarnac, my Charge d'Affaires in London,in a note writ ten with his own hand, of that concealed ambition, which he thinks proper to consider as the moving principle of my:conduct relative to the marriage of the Duke de Mont pensier with the Infanta Louise Ferdinande. " Before even Queen Christina came to Paris, and since that period in the numerous conversations I had with her during her stay amongst us, I always replied to her entreaties—that the husband of the Queen, her daughter, should be one of my sons,—by manifesting to her an opinion, in which I never varied, and which is to-day confirmed by the nearly unanimous assent of Spain, that the husband of the Queen should, on the contrary, be chosen among the princes descendants of Philip V., in the masculine line, a clause which ex cluded all my sons, since they only descend from Philip V. in the female line, by the Queen, my dear and most beloved wife, but which included among the princes then marriageable three sons of Don Carlos, two ;sons of Don Francisco de Paula, two Princes of Naples, and a Prince of Lucca. My Government, fully concurring in that opinion, had even instructed one of our diplomatic agents (M. Pageot) to expose it to the duce Courts of London, Vienna, and Berlin. That mis sion was attended with no result. Nevertheless, Lord Aberdeen was so struck with it, that, after considering all the difficulties those Princes offered, he at once de clared that Count d'Aquila, brother of the King of Naples and of Queen Christina, would be the choice that presented least embarrassment. The Prince having shortly afterwards married the Princess of Brazil, Dona Januaria, the preference of Queen Christina, among those Princes, devolved on her younger brother, Count Tra pani, and it is that (and not any personal preference on my part) which produced what has been called his candi dature, of which so deplorable a use has been since made. The marriage of the Infants, who was only 10 years old, was not then talked of, and one party was endeavouring to force me to consent to the marriage of the Duke d'Aumale and the other to prevent it. It was amidst that struggle the project was started, no matter by whom, no matter how, to marry the Queen of Spain to Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, nephew of the King of the Belgians, cousin-german of Queen Victoria and of Prince Albert, brother to the King of Portugal, of the Duchess de Nemours, and of Prince Augustus, my son in-law. " It was an unfortunate circumstance that such a can didate should have been proposed. It placed all parties in a false position, and me particularly, in consequence of the opposition which I thought it my duty to make to it, and I see according to the terms of the letter of Queen Victoria to what extent parties were mistaken and how unjust they were in their appreciation of the motives which suggested this opposition. These motives sprung as much from the sincere friendship which I bear the Princes of Coburg (and of which, I believe, I have given them more than one proof in the part which I took to facilitate the new illustratons of their house), and us in the same political considerations which induced me to refuse to propose my own children. I was Convinced, and I am still more than ever of that opinion, that it Prince Leopold had been the succ ess f u l cand i date, it would have brought misfortune on the head of this young Prince, and likewise on that of the Queen herself (had she married him), by producing the overthrow of their throne, and by plunging Spain into an anarchy from which it is always so difficult to preserve her. You are aware, my dear Louise, to what point I have developed that opinion so frequently in any conversation with your excellent King, tie well as in the letters which I wrote to him, and you must recollect all the argu ments which I use d to convince him. I will not, there fore, repeat them in this litter, already so loeg, but I will call to your recollection how much, and how con stantly, I regretted that the example which I gave by excluding my own sons has not been followed, and that this candidate, whose success would be a common mis fortune, was not formally r e p e ll e d an d se t as id e from the first by those who had authority to do so, which would have probably saved some from being much and uselessly disappointed, and me from ono of the most poignant griefs I ever experienced (and, God knows, I have ex perienced many in the course of my long life!) and to all our countries, and to the entire world, the danger of the misfortunes which would necessarily. befel themif the present embarrassment was not terminated, as nco l have the firm confidence it will be, by the ma.ain and the consolidation of that precious co rdial standing which alone can preserve them fi:oniit„itmeunodnetr-- " I will now speak to you of the marriage the slightest of pensier with the Infanta. There was reference to it, either when Quee n in 1843, or when I was at Wind v so ret not onriaiscanle ot was u , only in the year 18 45 thrt Lord Aber d ee n spoke to Guizot and me with regar d toli t for b t e h r e d e fi e r n s t t ti. h s ni tm O u c u b '. reply was the same. It old Lord A wished that Montpen sier should marry the Infanta Louise Ferdinande , but I no m ore desired that he should a Q t a m e y en Isabella, and that he son should not espous e wed Queen Louisa thatri might even be assured h the Infanta unt il the Queen was married. Lord Aber deen added, and desire have better;bort fo a r c i h f i t ld h . e ' Be it so,' I rep lied. when I d s h o note shall Queen were to remain sterile, the Infanta would be. come _ t h e n ecessary or the inevitable heiress, and th a t would not suit me no more than you; but, howev e r, there must bo some reciprocity in this affair, and if I g i v e you your securities it is just that in return you should give me mine. Now mice are, that you will do all in your power that Queen Isabella shall choose her husband from amongst the descendants of Philip V., and that Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg be set aside." ' Be it so,' replied Lord Aberdeen. ' We are of the same opinion with you, that the best which can be done is that the Queen should select her husband from amongst the descendants of Philip V. We cannot take the ini tiative on this question as we have done, but we will suffer you to act; we shall merely follow you, and at all eyente we will not act in opposition to you. As to Prince Leopold, you may beAthquil with respect to hi s pre tensions. I answer for it that he shall be neither ac knowledged nor supported by England, and that he shall not interfere with you.' Guizot, to whom I have just read this recital, admits its accuracy, and I am certain of the same testimony on the part of Lord Aberdeen if I could read it to him. Nevertheless, however anxious Lord Aberdeen might be that his agents should act as honourably as he has done, their proceedings did not answer either his or our expectations. They bad recourse to all expedients to malign Count Tra pani, because they were aware that he had the best chance of success with Queen Christina and the Queen her daughter, who repeated constantly to her Ministers Quiero Trapani.' (I will have Trapani.) This young prince was represented as a dwarf, which be is not, for he is of a lofty stature and handsome features. He rides admirably, and he has even gained several prizes in the tournaments of Naples. They then objected to his having been born in Italy, in order to obliterate the re collection that he is grandson of rhilip V. and of Charles 111., and to his having been educated in a convent of Jesuits at Rome, in order to represent him as bigoted, superstitious, and fanatic. Those manoeuvres, directed by the journals of the Progressist party, who unfortu nately have ever enjoyed the favour of the British agents in Spain, succeeded in covering the poor Tra pani with real unpopularity. It was then by an extra ordinary manoeuvre, which originated in the Palace of Madrid, it was imagined—in order to cover the transition of the Queen Christina in favour of the pretensions of the Prince of Coburg —to cast on me the unpopularity of Trapani's pretensions, by making the journals resound with the astonishing absurdity that it was I, Louis Philippe, who wished to impose Trapani on the Queens of Spain—l, who had not, nor could not have any other predilection for him than that which re sulted from my knowledge that he was the one of the descendants of Philip V. to whom the two Queens ac corded their preference—l, well known I dare say for the constant care with which I watched that my Go vernment should abstain from all interference whatever in the internal affairs of other countries—in Spain, as in Belgium, as in Switzerland, as everywhere—l, in fine, who dissolved the Ministry of M. Thiers in 1836 to pre vent the imminent invasion of the French armies in Spain. It is truly surprising that in presence of so many facts, of so many proofs of my respect fur the in deptnience of all states and of all governments, I have been exposed to see this accusation directed against me personally, in the article recently published in the Times, under the title (in large characters) of French Dicta tion in Spain.' " All these manoeuvres brought about that step to which Queen Christina allowed herself to be persuaded. .1 secret agent was dispatched by her bearing a letter from herself to the Duke of Coburg, for the purpose of demanding the hand of his cousin, Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, for the Queen her daughter. The open ness of Lord Aberdeen's character induced him to give us immediate cognisance of this step, which had been concealed from us at Madrid, adding, at the same time, that neither Queen Victoria, nor Prince Albert, nor her Majesty's Government would give any support or en couragement to the demand of Queen Christina. We represented to him that, after what had passed upon the subject, we were entitled to demand of him a more positive expression of the intrigues of the English agents, which had led to this s t e p on the part of Queen Christina : and, in fact, Lord Aberdeen addressed a very severe reprimand to Mr. Bulwcr, who was on the point, it is said, of tender ing his resignation; he remained, however, at Madrid. " Such was the state of things when Lord Aberdeen quitted the British Cabinet, and was succeeded by Lord Palmerston. A very short time after his installation in the Foreign Office Lord Palmerston made a commu nication to the Comte de Jarnac of the fresh instruc tions that he had dispatched to Mr. Bulwer relative to the affairs of Spain, and which he had already sent ' off a few days before without thinking it necessary to give us any previous notice a proceeding by no means conformable to our cordial understanding, and to the manner to which our relations of reciprocal confidence with Lord Aberdeen had accustomed us. In these instructions Lord Palmerston confined to of thethree the num b er of princes whose pretensions to the hand Queen of Spain, Isabella, England admitted, that , is to say, Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg Don Francisco d'Assis, Duke of Cadiz Enrico, Duke of Seville. ; Don " The Conite:de Jarnac was stupefied , name of th e P r i nce of Coburg placd upon this list, mad placed at th e very top. lie told Lord Palrierston , that it was quite at variance with the assurances constantl y given by Lord Ab er d een, and he required that this )can didate should be: s t ruc k out of the list. Lord Palmers ton. replied that it was utterly impossible in every way, since the instructions had been already sent ; that, moreover, the measure having been adopted in the Cabinet, he was unable to make any change in it alone, and that he was not disposed to propose any to the Cabinet. " The rest of his instructions were not of a nature to be at all more satisfactory to us. They were in a com pletely different tone, and had quite another tendency to those of Lord Aberdeen. There was not an indication or a recommendation of a good understanding between us; and the entire tendency of the instructions went to wards assuring the Progressist party of the concurrence and support of England —a party, which, in my eyes at least, is only at bottom the more revolutionary party, the ascendancy of which in Spain had caused many deplor able events, as well in the affair of La Granja, as by placing the young Queen and leaving her under the yoke of Es partero's regency. " Such instructions as these necessarily excited fears of a return of similar disastrous scenes; and in fast tliey excited the most se r i ous - a l arm i n th e p a l ace o f adrid as soon as they were known. The consequence .was, that all those who had been led to make the proposal to the Duke of Coburg, Queen Christina at their head, completely turned round, fearing the renewal of the Progressist insurrection that had been but recently ftr minated in Galicia, and had led to the expulsion of Don Enrico, and came over to us, with the demand for the immediate and simultaneous two marriages of the Queen with Don Francisco d'Assis and of the Infanta with Montpensier. This simultaneity was not only the sine qua non of Qucen Christina for the acceptation of Don Francisco, whom she had never desired until then, but the desire of the Ministry and of all Spaniards, who looked upon the prompt conclusion of these two mar riages as the only means of putting an end to all the in certitudes upon which were based the hopes of a party of men who were getting up new insurrections. "As soon as this change was known, the English agents, more than a month after the instructions of Lord Palmerston, which admitted as a candidate Prince Leo pold of Coburg, made every effort to support the pre tensions of Don Enrico. Nothing could be more untimely, since it was only too notorious that Don Enrico was chief, or rather the agent of all the different revolutionary parties; and Lord Palmerston at once rendered those pretensions impossible by recommending them in official documents. " It is incontestably evident, it seems to me, by this long explanation, that, on the side of England, the line of conduct agreed upon with me was not at all main tained; that the pretensions of Prince Leopold of Coburg were positively accepted, by his being placed at the head of those to whom the English Government made no objection; that combinations absolutely contrary to those to which we had agreed to confine ourselves were ren dered probable and even imminent; and that I thus found myself warranted and necessitated to use my liberty for the purpose of avoiding those combinations, as my Government had always declared that it would do, if impelled to it. It was not I, consequently, who first commenced or gave the example in deviating from our primary conventions. I only yielded to the neces sities of the deviation commenced elsewhere, and qaite contrary to my expectations. " This much explained, I will now sincerely state in, what the deviation on my own side consisted. It con sists in my arranging and bringing about the marriage of the Dnke of Montpensier, not before the marriage of the Queen of Spain, for she will be married to the Duke of Cadiz at the same time as my son to the In fanta, but before the Queen has a child. This is my only deviation—nothing more and nothing less. This fact I desire should be appreciated as it merits by en tering into details which you will lay before Queen Victoria, as best you may be able ; for I consider them an essential to the complete elucidation of the affair, and it is no petty considerations that ought to be l a hindrance, frstlime after a whole life like my own, when for the accusation ation of one is exposed to a suspicion or evl r n ea r y depended upon fact is a matter of notoriety), that t eher Aumale or Mont myself which one of my cons, • having broken one's word, I have of Spain. I did not choose • should marry the Lueen said (and the I easier, the entreaties with which it: and I was able to resist all a marriage. Thus, I was assailed to consent to such done, that my son it a only depended while desiring, as I have alwaysthis family alliance Infanta —because should marry the and was equally agreeable suited me in every mannefra,ml— to the Queen and all my should be contracted except that the Infanta shouldesro, of Spain, and I wrisd i myself with all such Infanta to the throne life a with this disposition dmitted. Lord y I did not desire that it - under the circumstances not necessarily become Queen in this respect, to surround guarantees as the nearness of the and the uncertainties of human Aberdeen appeared to be satisfied disposition on . . ; rantee against my part but he desired a gua the possibility of sterility on the part of the Queen r • and as that equally e n t ere d i nto my own views, n? objection was offered on my own part. Never -o,ciess, in agreeing to this, I necessarily considered it as understood that there should be no objection on the part of England or of its agents to the marriage of my son with the Infanta ; and y e t i t i s a notorious fact that ob jection was made, by anticipation, of every shade and of every degree. " In September, 1845, when Lord Aberdeen spoke to me for the first time, at the Chateau d'Eu, of the mar riage of Montpensier with the Infanta, Queen Isabella IL, although fifteen years of age all but a month, was not marriageable ; and I can assert with all sincerity that, as long as this state of the Queen's health conti nued, it would have been, even with Lord Aberdeen's Observations, a complete obstacle to the marriage of the Duke of Montpensier with the Infanta, her sister. But the Queen became marriageable in the course of the winter ; and she being, according to the assurances that were given us, under the most fa. — vourable circumstances for the marriage state, nothing was left but to know whether the husband she might choose exhibited the best condition or virility. It seemed to me to be certain, from all the information, even of the most minute na ture, taken upen this subject with regard to Don Fran cisco d'Assis, that he was in the required condition, and that consequently there was every probability united for hoping that their marriage would not be without issue. The difference between only waiting for the marriage of the Queen with Don Francisco d'Assis to celebrate that also of the Duke of Montpensier, and the waiting for the birth of their first child, is reduced now to the fact of two lives instead of one between the In fanta and the succession to the throne. " Nevertheless, I may say with all sincerity, that I " SECRET EXPENDITURE. The following is the preface to tit is document, to which we have already referred:— " The Ministerial departments of the Interior, of Foreign Affairs, and of War, show tha.t every year large ameunts of money are charged by the Ministers, under the head of secret expenditure, of whit h no account has been rendered to the King. Louis 1? hilippe, however, during many years, made a collectim i of these annual financial papers, which collection was discovered at the Tuileries,:whence it was sent to the Court of Appeal. These documents, in order to be cor o plete, should also contain other statements, such as grill; .cities to artists and literary men—gratuities which the IS Enlister of the Inte rior and of Public Instruction imprc , perly distributed in secret. "We shall commence to-day wit h the Minister of War, whose secret expenditure may I ie classified under two heads—that giveu away at hot at ~ and that distri buted in Algeria. " The first description of these dist n irsements is almost entirely included in money placed at • the direction of the commandants of the ,military divisiot s, but which does not at all interest onr readers, inch id, ing also secret fo reign missions, which at present itt 1 iould be attend( d with inconvenience to specify, the dr) details of which, therefore, we:shall not relate. , some was "In the secret expenditure for A Jgeria, laid out in Africa, and, although n - R it o or lesse equitable ( d u e r the possesses no particular interest, being; placed under direction of general :officers, or of :51 iperiors e ordered with commands. But the Algerian and paid in France, are frequently or 4 a great and we notice among the participa ti ug parties a x u P o e t n h s e e r s' character , number of French Arabs. ~ Even up to 11ii39, the War Min'st,n • bad made known to the King merely the totals of tht ! account, but for bore at the same tint, to give a list or, the manes of the persons who had received tin inOneini