The Sun. — London, England, 1861-02-05 00:00:00

IPENING OF THE FRENCH C:HAMCERS. The foll.tAving appeared in a portion of our impression of yesterday evening r PARIS, MONDAY, FEB. 4. The French. Chambers were opened at 1 o'clock today by the Emperor, who delivered the follow ing speech :-- MESSIEUtItS LES SENATEURS, MESSIEURS LES DEPUTES, Le discor,r d'ouverture de cheque session resume en peu de mots les actes passs et les projets i venir. Jusqu' a ce jour cette communication restrainte par sa nature ne mettait pas mon Gouvernement en rapport assez intime avec les grand corps de l'E tat et eeux ci etaient privees de la faculte de fortifier le Gouvernement par leur adhesion pub ligae ou de l'eclairer par leurs conseils. J'ai decide que tousles ans un expose general de la situation de l'Empire serait mis sous vos yeux et que les depeches les plus importante de la d iplo matic seraient depasees sur vos bureaux. Vous passrerez egalement dans une adresse mani festee votre sentiment sur les faits qui s' accom plessent non plus comme autrefois par une, simple paraphrase du discours du trona mais par la libre et loyale expression de votre opinion. Cette amelioration initie plus amplement le pays a ses propres affaires lin fact ceux connaitre ceur qui le gouvernment comme ceux qui siegent dans les Chambres et malgre son importance n' attire en rien l'esprit de la constitution. Autrefois volts les savez le suffrage etait restraint. La Chambre des deputies avait il est vrai des pre rogatives plus etendus. Mais le grand nombre des fonetionnairres publics que en faisaient partie don nait an gouvernement une action directe sur sea resolutions. La Chainbre despaires votait anssi lea lois mais la majorite pouvait etre a cheque instant deplaeee par Padjonction facultative de nouveaux membres. Enfin les lois n'etaient pas toujours dis eutees pour leur valeur retell° mais suivant la chance que leur adoption on lour rejet pouvait avoir de maintenir on de renverser un Ministeir de la par de sincerili, dans les deliberations peu do atabilites dans la mnrche du Gouvernement peu de travail utile accompli. Anjourdhui toutes les lois sont preparees avec soin et maturite par un con seil compose d'hommes, eclaires qui donnent lour Avis sur toutes le mesures a prendre. Le Senat gardien du pacte fundamental et dont le pouvoir conservateur n'use de son initiative que dans lea circonstances graves, examine les lois sous les soul report de leur constitutionnalite mais veri table tour de cassation politique, eat composee d'un nombre de membres qui ne peut etre depasse. Le:corps Legislatif ne s'immisee pas it est vrai, dans tousles details d'Administration mais il est nommet directement pas le suffrage universel et ne compte dans son sein aucun fonctionaire public. Il discute les lois avec la plus entiere liberte. Si elles sont repoussier c'est un avertissement dont le Gouverne ment tient compte, mais ce rejet n'ebranle pas le pouvoir, n'arrete pas la marche des affairs, et n'ob lige pas le Souverain a prendre pour conseilliers des hommes qui n'anraunt pas sa confiance. Telles sont lea differences principales entre la constitution actuelle et cello qui a precede la revo lution de Fevrier. Fquisez Messieurs pendant le vote de l'adresse toutes les discussions suivant la mesure de leur gravite pour pouvoir ensiute vous consacrer entiere ntent anx affaires du pays car si celles-ci reclament un examen approfondi et consciencieux les interets a leur tour sont impatients de solution prompter. A la veille d'explicationa plus detaillees je me bournerai a vous rappeler sommairement ce qui s'eat fait au dedaus et au debors. A l'interieur toutes les mesurea prises tendent a augmenter la production agricole industrielle et commercielle. Le rencherissement de toute chose eat la consequence itevitable d'une prosperite crois sant mais au moins devions nous aghercher a rendre lea objets de premiere necessite le moins chers possible. C'est dans ce but que nous avons diminue les droits sur les matieres premieres, aigne un traite de commerce avec l'Angleterre, projecto d'cn contracter d'autres avec les pays voisins, facilite partout lea voies do communication et les transports. Poureealiser ces reformes economiques nous avons ciu renoncer a quatre vingt dix millions de recettes unnuelles et cependant le budjet vous sera presente en equilibre sans qu' it ait etc necessairo de recouvair ni a la creation de nouveaux impota ni as credit public ainsi que je vous l'aysis annonce l'annee derniere. Les changernents operes dans Padministration de I'Algerie ont place la direction superieure des affaires au sein memo des populations. Les ser vices illustres du Marechal mis a la tete de la colonie sont de curs gararttis d'ordre et de pro aperite. A l'exterieur je me suis efforce de proveuir dans Thee relations avec les 5 puissances etrangers que la France desirait sincerement la paix, que sans re• noncer a une legitime influence elle ne pretendait s'ingerer nulle part ou ses interets n'etait pas en jeu, enfin que si elle avait des sympathies pour tout ce qui est noble of grand, elle n'hisitait pas a condanmer tous ce qui violait les droit des gees et la justice. Dcs evenements dificiles a prevoir sent venus compliquer en Italie une situation deja si em barrassee. Mon goavernment d'accord avee ses allies a cru que le meilleur moyen de conjurer do plus Brands dangers etait d'avoir recours au principe de nos in terventions qua laisse cheque pays maitre de ses destinees, localise les questions et les empeche de degenerer en conflits Europeens. Certes je ne l'ignore pas ce systeme a l'inconve nient de paraitre autoriser bien de facheux execs et les opinions extremes prefereraient, les tines, que la France, prit fait et cause pour toutes les revolu• tions ; les autres, qu'elle se mit a la tete d'une reac tion generale. Je no me laisserai detour ner de ma route par aueune de ces excita tions opposees. Il suffit a la grandeur du pays de maintenir son droit la ou il est incontes table, de defendre son honneur la ou il est attaque, de preter son appui la ou il est implore en favour d'une juste cause. C'est ainsi que nous avow; maintenu notre droit en ffaisant accepter la cession de la Savoie et de Nice. Ces provinces sout aujourd'hui irrevocable ment reunies a la France. C'est ainsi que pour venger notre honneur l'extreme Orient, notre drapeau uni a celui dela grande Bretagne, a flotte victorieusement stir les /nun de Pekin et que la croix embleme de la civili sation chretienne, surmonte de nouveau dans la Capitale de la Chine, les temples de notre religion fermes de:puis plus d'un siecle. C'est ainsi qu' au nom de l'humanite nos troupes tont allees en Brie en vertu d'une convention Europeenne proteger les chretiens contre un fanatisme avengle-. A Rome j'ai ern devoir augmenter la garrison lorsque la securite du St. Pere a pare menacee. A Gaeta jai envoye ma flotte an moment on elle semblait devoir etre le dernier refuge du Roi de Naples, Apres l'y avoir laisse quatre moil je retire, quelque digne de sympathie que fat une, infortune Royale si noblement supportee. prfisence de nos vaisseanx nous obligeait a ous .ecarter tousle jours du syst ems d e neu t ra lit e quo Avail; proclame et elle donnait lieu a de s in terpretations erronees. Or vous le saves en poli tique on no cro i t, gnere a une demarche purement desinterelywe, Tel est re xPelle rapid° de la situati on genera l e. Quo a Pkrehensions Ise dissipent done et quo. la , confiance setaffernaiss e _ pour quoi les affairs corn inereiales un non el et industrieliesne reprendraient-elles pas essort ? Ma ferme resolution est de wentrer dans aneun conflit ou la cause, do l a .Potnceau, eaveeoruasitnpouass l.)da:nee' sur le droit et Ie justice., .Q a craindre ? Est-ce qu'une.na l , m tiou •e et n compute comptant qtarante millions d'aines pent redouter soit d'etre entrainer dans des luttes done elle n'appron, verait pas-1e bret - soit d'etre provoquer par une menace qaelcouque; . , La premiere _vertu. d'un people est , d'avoir, conflance, en lui - mettle _et ds ae pas se laisser emouvoir par des alarmes imaginaires. Envisageons done l'avenir avec calme, daus la plaine confiance de notre force comme de nos loyales intentions livrons nous sans pre-occupation exagerees au - developpement des Bermes de prosperite clue la Providence a mice entre nos mains. [TRANSLATION.] The opening speech of each session sums up in a few words the acts of the past and the projects of the future. Up to this time this communication, restrained by its nature, did not put my Govern. ment in :'sufficiently intimate correspondence with the great bodies of the State, and they were like wise deprived of the power of supporting the Government by their public adhesion, or of enlightening it by their advice. I have resolved that every year a general state ment of the situation of the Empire shall be placed before you, and that the most important of the diplomatic despatches shall be laid before you. You will express also, in a published address, your sentiments on the events which are passing ; not, as formerly, by a simple paraphrase of the Speech from the Throne, but by a free and loyal expression of your opinion. This improvement initiates the country more fully into its own affairs—makes it know those who govern it as those who sit in the Chambers, and, notwithstanding its importance, it affects in no way the spirit of the Constitution. Of old, you are aware that the suffrage was re stricted. The Chamber of Deputies had, it is true, more extended prerogatives, but the great number of public functionaries who formed part of it, gave the Government a direct influence over its resolutions. The Chamber of Peers also voted laws, but the ma jority could, at any moment, be displaced by the op tional addition of new members. It, fine, the laws were not always discussed with a regard to their value, 'but according to the chance which their adoption or their rejection might have in maintain ing or overthrowing a Ministry. Thus by sincerity in deliberations, by steadfast ness in the plans of Government, by useful works accomplished, at present all the laws are prepared with care and consideration by a council composed of enlightened men, who give their opinions on all the measures that are under taken. The Senate, guardian of the fundamental char ter, and whose conservatory power never exercises its prerogative except in circumstances of grave importance, examines the laws solely on the question of their constitutionality, but it is in reality the Court of Political Cassation, composed of a number of members who cannot be super seded. It is true that the Legislative Body does [not mix itself in the details of the Administration, but it is elected by universal suffrage, and does not contain any public functionary. It discusses the laws with the most entire freedom. If they are rejected it is a warning of which the Govern ment takes notice, but this refusal does not upset the powers, does not stop the progress of affairs, and does not oblige the Sovereign to take for his advisers men who have not his confidence. Such are the principal differences between the existing constitution and that which preceded the revolution of February. Exhaust, gentlemen, during the vote on the Ad dress, all the discussions on the measure in order subsequently to devote yourselves entirely to the affairs of the country, for if these debates demand profound and conscientious consideration, the public interests in their turn demand prompt attention. On the eve of more detailed explanations I shall confine myself to recalling to you summarily what has occurred at home and abroad. In the interior all the measures taken tend to increase agricultural productions,industrial:and com mercial. Increased prices are the inevitable conse quence of an increasing prosperity, but at least let us endeavour to render the articles of first necessity as cheap as is possible. It is with this object that we have diminished the duties on primary articles, signed a treaty of commerce with England, pro posed to contract others with neighbouring States, and given every facility to the means communication and transport. In order to realise these economical reforms, we have renounced 90 millions of annual receipts and, nevertheless, the:Budget will:present an equi librium, without its having been necessary to have recourse either to the creation of new imposts or to the public credit, as I announced to you last year. The changes which have taken place in the administration of Algeria have placed the su preme direction of affairs in the heart of the population. The illustrious services of the Marshal who is placed at the head of the colony form a suffi cient guarantee of order and prosperity. With regard to foreign affairs I am forced to premise, in my relations with the five Great Powers, that France sincerely desires peace ; that without renouncing her legitimate influence she will not pretend to intermeddle in any part where her interests are not involved; in fine, that if she has sympathies with all that is noble and great, she will not hesitate to condemn all that violates the right of individuals and of justice. Events difficult to foresee have complicated in Italy a situation already so much embarrassed. My Government, in accordance with its allies, have believed that the best method of avoiding greater dangers was to have recourse to that principle of non intervention, which leaves each country master of its own destiny, localises such questions, and pre vents them from degenerating into European con flicts. Certes, lam not ignorant that this system has the inconvenience of appearing to authorise many serious excesses ; and those of extreme opinions would prefer, on the one side, that France should suppress all revolutions; and the other side that she should put herself at the head of a general reaction. I shall not consent to be turned from my resolution by any of these opposing agitators. It is necessary, for the greatness of the country, to maintain its rights where they are incontestable ; to defend its honour where it is attacked ; to lend its support where it is invoked in aid of a just cause. It is thus that we have maintained our right in consenting to accept the cession of Savoy and Nice. These provinces are now irrevocably reunited to France. It is thus that, to avenge our honour in the extreme East, our flag, in unison with that of Great Britain, has waved victoriously from the walls of Pekin, and that the Cross, emblem of Christian civilisation ; crowns anew in the capital of China the temples of our religion that hay been closed for more than a century. It is thus that in the name of humanity our troop have gone to Syria, in virtue of a European Con vention, to protect the Christians against blind fanaticism. At ROME, I believed it to be my duty to increase the garrison when the security of the Holy Father appeared to be threatened. I sent my fleet to Gaeta, at the period when it appeared to be the last refuge of the King of Naples. After having left it there four months I withdrew it, notwithstanding the unfortunate King so nobly supported, was worthy of sympathy. The presence of our ships caused us daily to ignore the system of neucrality which I had proclaimed, and it gave rise to erroneous interpretations, for you know that in politics no one ever believes that any step is purely disinterested. Such is a rapid explanation of the general state of affairs. Therefore, let apprehensions be distipted, and let confidence be re•estab. Why should hot commerce and inaut try be. renewed with fresh vigour ? My firm resolutions s not to enter into any conflict. where • the cause of France will not be based upon right and juetide. IKhati then, have we to fear ? • Can -it be possible,, that, it'lattea and combined nation, amonntingto fortimillions of souls, candread either to be drawn.into contentions of which she does not approve the object, or to be iirovoked by,any menace -whatsoever. The first duty of a peopl e i s t o h ave confidence in themselves, "and not to allow :,thems elves ,to be, carried away by imaginary rtearhenll ia Let us calmly look forward into the f u t ure, Ple,,full confidence of our strength as of our honest intentions, Let us give ourselves up without over-anxious considerations to the develop ment of those germs of prosperity that Providence `has put into our hands. of Mar, and Brotdwater. ITHR NA VY. A letter, dated Valetta, Jan. 31, from a 'Malta correspondent, says : " Her Majesty's corvette, Scourge, Commander W. J. Jones, arrived on Saturday last from Suda Bay (Candia), and on Tuesday the two line-of battle ships Caesar, Capt. J. H. Mason, and Ex mouth, Capt. J. A. Paynter, expected for some days past from Corfu, made their appearance, and will probably remain here for some time. We have now five liners in port, besides several other smaller ships of war, making in all 12 pendants. Such a naval force we have not witnessed here for several months past, the greater portion of the fleet having been stationed this winter at Corfu and Naples. The gunboat Assurance returned from Corfu on Wednesday, and the troopship Himalaya, Captain Seccombe, left the same day for England with naval and military invalids, and officers whose term of service in this garrison has expired, or are proceed ing home on promotion. The following took pas sage by her :—Commander Reeves, R.N.,:Mr.Dow ling, master, R.N., Surg. Monteith, RN., Surg. West, R.N., Lieut. Blackett, R.N., Lieut. Foster, R.N. Lieut. Collier, R.M., M r . Taylor, R.N., M r. Nettleton, R.N., Mr. Hodson, R.N., and 130 sea men and marines. Staff-Surg. Mockler, Lieut. Nash, 4th Regiment, Lieut. Carey, R.A., Lieut. Waddington, R.A., and wife, Ensign Cosens, Ist Battalion 9th Regiment, Mr. Tatum, military store keeper, Mr. Bush, purveyor to the forces, Lieut. Hearn, 2d Battalion 3d Buffs, and 21 non-commis sioned officers and men, 10 women, and 13 children. " Her Majesty's line-of-battle ships Agamemnon and Queen, and corvette Scourge are to leave next week for Corfu, and the linc-of-battle ship Ex mouth later for Naples. The Melpomene frigate and Foxhound gunboat leave port to-day, the former for neyrout direct, and the latter for Corfu with a mail. " The court-martial mentioned in my last letter as having assembled on board her Majesty's receiv ing -ship Hibernia, in this port, to try Dr. Lowry Monteith, surgeon, of her Majesty's frigate Melpomene, Cape. Ewart, on charge of neglecting to pay proper attention to his patients and not treating them with kindness, terminated its pro ceedings on the 29th inst., the sth day of its sitting. The charge was divided into eight separate counts, specifying certain cases in which some of the crew had been sent back to their duty before, as was alleged, they were sufficiently recovered from sick ness, and in two instances in which Dr. Monteith had unjustly accused them of skulking. Dr. Mon teith, in his defence, totally denied the charge, re plying to each of the counts contained in the indict • meat, :and endeavoured to prove, on the contrary, that he was in the habit of treating the men with consideration and kindness. The Court, however, found him guilty of a sufficient portion of the charge to induce it to sentence him to be reprimanded and to be dismissed the ship." A letter from Corfu, of Jan. 27, says:— " There was a regular break up in the fleet here yesterday. The Caesar and the Exmouth left for Malta, the London for Patras, and the Neptune for Athens. It is supposed, however, that the two first named vessels will be replaced by the Agamemnon and Renown or the Queen from your island. A disturbance, but not of a serious nature, took place lately on board the Neptune, owing to the crew not being satisfied with the term of leave granted them to go on shore. Nearly half the crew went on the quarter deck in a body, and cosplained of their alleged grievance, when they obtained what they wanted. The Marlborough was going for a short cruise the same day, and had left her anchorage, bat was recalled, and Admirals Martin and Dacres soon put matters to rights on their return into port. The Commander-in-Chief has had much trouble with the men of the squadron stationed here, o wing to their drunken and disorderly conduct on shore, and in several instances he hec been compelled to order some of them on board before their leave was expired. " A general court-martial has lately been held here on a soldier of the 2d battalion 2d Queen's, on the charge of striking a captain of his own corps in the face, for which offence he was sentenced to penal servitude for life ; but the Court, on account of his youth and previous good conduct, recom mended him to mercy, so that his sentence was commuted to 10 years' transportation. Owing to the frequency of lace of such crimes it is necessary to make an example." The experimental firing from the 80-pounder Whitworth gun at Portsmouth has been brought to an abrupt termination by the discovery of a flaw or rent in the metal at the breech. The gun, - which weighs four tons, has been landed from the Stork gunboat, packed, and conveyed to the railway sta tion to be forwarded to Woolwich. Many naval officers experienced in gunnery are of opinion that the principle of the gun in working metal upon metal is radically wrong. They argue that if any foreign substance is introduced into the bore of the gun, such as a cinder from the funnel, and should get between the inner surface of the gun and the projectile, the latter would infallibly jam, and the gun would burst. The Immortalite, 51, screw, Captain Hancock, received supernumeraries yesterday for the division of the Channel fleet now at Lisbon, and was ordered to sail last evening, but had not left the anchorage at sunset The Immortalite would stay in the Tagus about a week, at the end of which time she will return to Spithead. The Lucifer, steam tender, sailed from Portsmouth yesterday for Pembroke, with jury spars and gear for the Pandora, 5, screw, which vessel will be rigged and navigated round to Portsmouth, Com mander R. Stokes, assist.-master attendant of Ports mouth dockyard and a party of riggers, proceeding round in the Lucifer for that purpose. The Lucifer calls in at Portland and Plymouth Sound on her way down Channel. The Philomel, 5, screw, Commander L. Wildman, will go out of Spithead to-morrow at 7 a.m, and try her speed at deep draught at the measured mile in Stokes Bay, prior to leaving Spithead for her des tination—the coast of Africa. The Rinaldo, 17, screw, will receive her arma ment to-day in the steam basin at Portsmouth. The Cockatrice, new class gunboat, in the same basin, has received her armament, consisting of ono 68-pounder, one long 32-pounder, and two brass howitzers. She is ready for commission. On the north wall of the basin workmen are preparing the ground for the erection of an hydraulic capstan. The following line of-battle and other screw assist.-surg,, to the Impregnable, for Plymouth Hospital. The Stirlingshire Militia are to be immediately disembodied, having been recalled in divisions from their present quarters to Stirling for the purpose. The regiment numbers about 700 men. The Ist York Militia, at present quartered in Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr, are under orders to pro ceed to Pontefract for disembodiment, and will be replaced by the 76th Regiment from Ireland. OPENING OF TIIE FRENCH C11.(1 318 Little need we wonder that the world awaits with breathless expectation the inaugural address of the Emperor of the French on opening the • French Chambers. It is an occasion in every way remarkable. Nine years have followed the coup d'etat, and during the whole of that period the • freedom of speech, writing, and even thought, has been repressed within the French Empire to a degree never before known in the annals of a nation equally civilised. The amount of repression must be judged of by the quantity repressed, and if we consider what free France would have written and spoken during the last nine years we have a fair measure of the force that must have been exerted. Now we are told that, although as appears from a recent instance the press may not write freely, the members of the two Chambers are to be at liberty to speak freely, and that whatever they may say is to be the property of the French nation. Another cause of interest fs the extreme ambiguity of the conduct of the French Emperor during the last year. No Sphinx can interpret the Emperor so well as himself. Then we naturally look to the speech for the solution of the question of peace or war, which is agitating not only every cabinet, but every countinghouse in Europe. We have got the speech, and we cannot help expressing a tear that it will be read by all classes in this country with f ee li ngs o f no little disappoint ' went. The vision of a considerable progress towards real Parliamentary government fades away as we approach the reality. The Speech of the Emperor Napoleon has the faintest possible resem blance to the Speech of a Constitutional Monarch. The measures of the year are not stated with any minuteness or particularity, and the whole document has an air rather controversial than ex pository. The Chambers are invited to strengthen the Government by their adhesion, or to aid it by their counsels, but they are very significantly told the limits within which they are to act and the regions of politics into which they are to penetrate. The Emperor of the French meets the Representa tives of the people by virtue of a Constitution to which they have both solemnly sworn, and which we should have thought they might have taken for granted. But the Emperor feels it necessary to enter into an elaborate, and, es it seems to us, not very successful defence of the Chambers which he is addressing. He tells them that the former Chamber of Deputies was elected by a restricted suffrage, and, though it had more extensive powers, was composed so much of functionaries that the Government exercised great influence. Its votes also were often influenced by party rather than by the merits of the question. The present Legislative Body, on the other hand, is elected -by universal suffrage, has no functionaries among its members, hos all the laws prepared for it by the Council of State, and discuss them with entire freedom, though it is not allowed to interfere with the details of administration. In other words, the old Chamber of Deputies had many faults, but it was, after all, a power and a reality. The new Legislative Body has many merits, but it is without power of consi deration. It was scarcely worth while to enter into such a parallel if a conclusion more satisfactory could not be deduced. No member of the Legisla tive Body can feel that his privileges are at all extended by these remarks; nay, he must be con scious that he is watched jealously by one who has no intention of parting with one atom of substan tial power, or of raising up any body in the State which dares offer to him a serious remonstrance. As regards.what is to us the more important ques tion of foreign politics, the Speech of the Emperor of the French yields still less satisfaction. He avows himself an advocate of the principle of non intervention, although he is well aware that it au thorises sad excesses, and that extreme opinions would place him on the one hand at the head of a revolution, and on the other of a general reaction. Without following either of these courses, the Em peror is content to maintain his right where it is incontestable ; to defend his honour where it is attacked ; and to lend his support where it is im plored in a just cause. The instance of an incon testable right which he selects is the seizure of Savoy and Nice, now irrevocabiy united to France, and therefore we are to presume justly acquired. We cannot think these words reassuring. We cannot think the illustration a happy one, and we cannot believe that either France or Europe will receive as an omen of continued peace the announcement that the same policy which annexed Savoy and Nice is henceforth to guide the destinies of France. As to his ambiguous conduct of last year, the Emperor violated the principle of non-intervention at Rome in order to provide for the security of the l'ope, and at Gaeta from sympathy for the King of Naples, of whose misfortunes the Emperor himself has been the principal cause. Finding, however, that the pre sence of his vessels gave rise to erroneous interpre tations the Emperor withdrew them, and this is all that is said with regard to the inscrutable contradictions of conduct which have so effec tually puzzled the world. Strong in the force of his reasoning, the Emperor requires apprehen sions to disappear, and confidence to strengthen itself. Why, he asks, should not commercial and industrial affairs take departure for a new flight ? His resolution is not to enter into war unless it be based on right and justice. France has forty millions. The first virtue of a people is confidence in itself. Let us, then, he cries, regard the future ' with tranquillity inthe confid ence o f our strengt h and our good intentions. steamers now compose the steam reserve in the Medway, at Chatham, under the command of Capt. C. F. Schomberg : First Division—The Meeanee, 81, 400-horse power; the Phamton, 51, 400 horse power; the Challenger, 22, 400-horse power s ; the Malacca, 17, 200-horse power ; the Chameleon, 17, 200-horse We hive no difficulty in answering the ques tion. Confidence cannot and will not revive, because the past is unaccounted for and the future unexplained. When a great Prince announces a policy like non-intervention, that announcement becomes valueless when we are shown how lightly the policy can be thrown aside at the bidding of mere sympathies and antipathies; and, as regards the future, who can feel reassured by being told that France will act on the principles of right and justice, as if Savoy and Nice had been rightly and justly annexed, or as if any nation ever went to war proclaiming that it drew the sword in the cause of wrong and injustice ? These words have been the playthings of Kings from the first of time, and their natural vagueness is not improved by the illustration of Savoy and Nice. A Speech which explains away the liberties already supposed to be conceded, which implies commercial stagnation and a want of confidence in all classes; a Speech which only mentions a single foreign Power, and that incidentally, which has no word of kindness for any one, which gives no :reason for the immense increase of the Army and Navy, which gives no account of the foreign relations of the country and no assurance of her good understanding with any other country—in which we seek in vain for the slightest hint of the policy which the Govern ment of France is about to pursue, and, above all, in which the Emperor appears neither content with the Constitution under which he is acting, with the principle of non-intervention, nor with the exceptions he has made in it, nor with the state of trade, nor with the state of public opinion— cannot, ought not, to reassure any one. Confidence is made of far other elements. A clear and open policy based on principles easily understood and steadily enforced, a frank and open communi cation of views and motives, and a demeanour which shows that the Prince has at once con fidence in himself and in his people—these are the indispensable conditions of commercial im provement and politi c al tranquillity. The people of France are well assured that no one will wantonly attack her. Are they equally sure that she will wantonly attack no one ? If they are not convinced of this, is not the fault to be traced to a Government which does not repose in its people the confidence it requires from them, and substitutes a few sounding phrases for a fair and candid state ment of its political situation and prospects.— Times, power; the Griffin, 5, 80-horse power ; the Lee, 5, 80-horse power ; and the gunboats Bullfrog, Car nation, Cochin, Griper, and Hasty, each of 2 guns and 60-horse power. Second Division—The Hood, 91, 600-horse power; the Rodney, 90, 500-horse power; the Waterloo, 90, 500-horse power ; the Goliath, 80, 400-horse power ; the Irresistible, 80, 400-horse power; the Severn, 51, 500-horse power; the Galatea, 26, 800-horse power ; the Orpheus, 21, 400-horse power; the Orestes, 21, 400-horse power; the Horatio, 12, 250-horse power; the Dragon, 6, 560 horse-power; the Victor, 6, 350-horse power; the Plover, 5, 80-horse power; the Wanderer, 4, 200-horse power ; the Cormorant, 4, 200-horse power; the Racehorse, 4, 200-horse power ; the floating batteries Thunderbolt, 16, 200-horse power; Etna, 16, 200-horse power ; Thunder, 14, 150-horse power; and Trusty, 14, 150-horse power; and the gunboats Herring, India, Mistletoe, Sepoy, and Surly. Third Division—The Anson, 91, 800-horse power; the Atlas, 91, 800-horse power ; the Newcastle, 51, 600-horse power; . the Eurotas, 12, 200-horse power (mortar ship).; the Swallow, 9, 60-horsa power; the Hermes, 6, 200-horse power; the Virago, 6, 300- horse power; the Locust, 3, 100-horse power; and screw gunboats Britomart, Wizard, Linnet, Manly, Mastiff, Pelter, Spey, Thistle, Thrasher, and Tickler. Fourth Division—The Collingwood, 80,400-horse power; the Leander, 51, 400-horse power; the Phes nix, 6, 260-horse power ; the Salamander, 6, 200- horse power and the gunboat .Fidget. [ADVERTISEMENT.) Pills and medicine invariably ag gravate and perpetuate diseases; their annoyance, dis appointment, and expense may be avoided by persons in indifferent health sending only their address to E. S. Barry, Esq., 77, Regent-street, W., London, and they will receive gratis and free by post the "INVALIDS' OWI4 GUIDE," or Natural Restorer, without medicine or ex pmse, of perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, and refreshing sleep, to the most enfeebled, insuring the removal of indigestion (dyspepsia), constipation, liver complaints nausea, epilepsy, paralysis, debility, nervousness, palpitation, cough, asthma, consumption, dropsy, flatulency, diarrhoea, dysentery, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, colds, noises in the ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpi tation, heartburn, headache, despondency, cramps, spasms, sinking, fits, bronchitis —"llnouestionably the safest Guide to health." The following vessels have been chartered by the Government to sail from Gravesend with military and other stores during the present month to various stations :—the Earl of Hard wicke, Raby Castle, Astronomer, Scotia, Geologist, Fortitude, Dun- . . Bandle, Hero of the Nile, Eirene, Corriemulzie, Earl The Homeward-bound off Deal signal their number to the shore, and from thence a lilagnet carries the glad news to the owners. The same inscrutable force is employed by Mr. Herring in his Magnetic Brushes, &c. Dr. Ilassall states, "I regard them as the most perfect Brushes hitherto made, as respects their mechanical construction, and their Magnetical action." They are the remedy for Grey Hair, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, &c. N.B.—Counterfeit! are being made, Offices, 32, Basingliall-street, Loudon. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Lieut. E. S. Mangan, to the Spiteful ; Lieut. H. W. Mist, to the Hero ; E. Olive and W. Redmark, acting assist.-surgs., to the Vic tory, for Haslar Hospital; and J. Bradley, acting THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY' EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1861 LAW INTELLIGENCE, _Feb. 4. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. DOREE V. DEAN. Mr. G. Francis appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. H. Matthews for the defendant. The plaintiff in this action, Ann Doree, was the daughter of a silk velvet weaver in Wellington row, Bethnal-green, and she sued the defendant, Samuel Dean, who was a foreman at a wholesale chemists, at No. 5, Coleman-street, in the city, to recover damages for a breach ofpromise of marriage. It appeared from the evidence given by the lady's father, that the plaintiff was now about 23 years of age, and the eldest of 11 children. She lived with her parents and earned 16s. a-week at the weaving business. The defendant was a young man of about the same age, or about three months older, and had been acquainted with plaintiff for many years. In October, 1856, he called upon the plaintiff's father, and told him he was about to change his position in life, and wished to be allowed to pay his addresses to the plaintiff. Mr. Doree said he would take time to consider, and, accordingly he conferred with the defendant's father and mother on the subject, and, as he found them quite agree able, he gave his consent. The defendant imme diately commenced paying his addresses, and was not long before he succeeded in gaining the young lady's affections. His visits were frequent at the plaintiff's house, on which occasions he always saluted the plaintiff with a kiss, and when he left in the evening she tslways let him out at the street door, and he saluted her the same way on leaving. After a time the defendant introduced the lady to his father, mother and friends as his intended, and became more constant in his visits. He spent five evenings in the week at Mr. Doree's house and took two sittings for himself and lady at an Independent Chapel Bethnal-green where both families attended. Several of the defendant's letters were read in evidence, to show the terms of affection which sub sisted between the parties. In one of them the de fendant made a quotation in these words—" Ours is no common affection ; it is the gentle, endearing affection of kindred minds, united by the strong hand of esteem," &c. ; and then said, " Dearest Annie, is not this beautiful language P" He then went on to say, in somewhat dubious language, " True affection does not look to beauty. Solomon says, Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain,' " and then quoted these verses : " For outward forms of shape and face Soon wither like the rose, But virtue is the only source From whence true pleasure flows." _ _ _ He concluded by asking his" dear Annie" to answer his letter, saying " Do try and answer this any time you can,' and encouraged her by saying," Do not be afraid to write; say just what you feel, as I always try to do," and adding, " You know we repose full confidence in each other; our hearts are as one, bound by the ties of affection," and signed himself " Your own ever affectionate and fond Samuel." The plaintiff accepted this invitation, and wrote a letter, in which she expressed full con fidence in her " dear Samuel," alluded to the " very happy days" they had spent together, and hoped they would be " many, many more, crowned with the favour of God," for, she added, " His favour is life, and His loving kindness is better than life." The letter was in a very religious strain. Towards the end she referred to some story about " Polydore and Emeline," and said what a pity it was that " he went away to get rich," and that, if it had I been her own case, she could not have let the defen dant have gone on any account, and concluded by saying, " My dearest Samuel, I trust we shall ever have that love and affection for each other that we now have." She signed herself " Your own affec tionate, fond Annie." Matters went on in this happy state for some time ; but, as " the course of true love never did run smooth," so it happened that one evening Annie and Samuel had a " tiff." But Annie was the first to repent, and sat down and wrote to her " own ever dearest Samuel," accusing herself of being "hard-hearted and unkind," and saying that she felt so much grieved that she did not know what to do, and imploring him to forgive her, and to believe her to be " ever your own fond loving Annie," with more last words, " Good night, dear Samuel." The defendant responded to this appeal, and, for once, he put a date to his epistle, which commenced thus :—" January Ist, 1859, 31, Pott-street." The letter was rather a long one. It began "My own dearest Annie," and said he was far from thinking her hard-hearted or unkind, for he had always taken her to be affectionate and as kind as possible; " but, he said, " on Wednesday evening you completely battled me." He confessed he had never felt more in his life, and that he should never forget that walk " along the Mile-end road," but he checked himself by saying it was wrong for him to say he should never forget, and assured his "dear Annie" that he did not intend to say any more about it, adding, " our path till then had been one clear day of sunshine; not a cloud to obscure the sunlight of Heaven; not a word to mar our happiness ; but the clearest day has its clouds, and so it was with us. But (said he) ' forgive, and then forget,' is a good motto, and so that cloud has, so far as I am concerned, blown away into the past, to be forgotten and remembered no more." There was a good deal more to the same effect, and he expressed a hope that both of them might be " more fervent in prayer," and might walk worthy of their high calling as professors of Christianity, and, said he, " let us be ready, for we know not what a day or an hour may bring forth." Not withstanding this caution, the courtship went on very happily for about eighteen months longer, and during this time the parties paid a few days' visit to Ramsgate, accompanied by their sisters. The effect of these visits was visible in the letters which the defendant afterwards wrote to the plaintiff from Ramsgate and from Dover, In the former letter, which he addressed to " My own dearest Annie," he said, " My dearest, though I am far from you now, my heart is close to yours, and will be all the time I am away from you ; " and after more to the same effect, he said, " I cannot kiss you, but send you one in fancy in the letter; accept it, my love, and believe me ever to be your own fond and affectionate Samuel." The plaintiff replied to this letter in the same strain, and thanked God for directing the defendant to her. She told him that she was sitting in her parlour, writing to him, and as she wrote, she looked upon " that lovely likeness" of his, but it (lid not scup like sitting iu the suunnei-house with him. She then exclaimed, " That is a beautiful kiss you sent me I send you one on a piece of lavender, that grows under the fig-tree, which you have so often sat with me under." She said she sometimes felt very dull without him, and could hardly overcome her feelings, but she tried not to let: it be seen ; but she said, "I do not mind telling you dearest, Absence makes the heart grow fonder.' " She told the defendant that on the preceding evening she was looking at the moon, and thought that very likely he was looking at it too, and concluded with these words ---f' My love, with a kiss for you my own dear Samuel, believe me your own fond and affectionate Annie." The defendant went on from Ramsgate to Dover, and then wrote another letter to "my own dearest Annie." He said he could not tell her what sort of evening he had spent in Ramsgate without her. He went to hear "that splendid band on the cliff," but it had no charms for him, for " his thoughts were not there, but far away in London." He said " the niggers were there," as usual, and he listened to them for a short time, and walked away, thinking of you in London. What made it worse to him was "it was such a calm and beautiful eight ; not a ripple on the bread deep ocean," and the brightest moon he ever saw, " shining in glorious splendour over the waters reflecting the shadows of the vessels as they calmly and serenely made their way across." He regretted the absence of the plaintiff, and that she, too, could not see that magnificent sight ; b u t, "Oh !" said he, " you know these two lines : Absence makes the heart grow fonder.' " He then went on to say that, as he sat on the cliff, with all gay persons around him, musing in him self, and gazing on the scene before him (he would not mind telling his " dear") " a tear stood in his eye," and he turned, end said to himself, " I will look no more." He said that the music sounding in his ears, and the'rroon aed water before him, he felt quite overcome. After describing his assent up the Castle•hill, and right out at the top where the flag staff was, 495 feet above the sea, he begged the plaintiff to write him one of her " touching letters," and to " accept a kiss to-night again, my dear, from your own Samuel." Thus the plaintiff and defend ant spent the three years and eight months during which the courtship lasted ; and the time had nearly come when, as prudent people, it was con sidered by the defendant they might be married. The defendant had obtained a situation as foreman at Squire's, the chemist's, in Coleman-street, and his salary had been raised from £7O to £BO and to £9O a-year, and according to the defendant's own view of what was prudent they were to be married when it had reached £lOO a-year. Just when matters were nearing this long-expected finale, and " all went merry as a marriage bell," the defendant on the 12th of Jane, 1860, suddenly broke off the con nection by a letter which he handed to the plaintiff at the street door, after he had spent- the evening with her as usual, and kissed her in the passage at parting. The young lady, op receiving the letter, and mistaking its pur.i port, rushed into the kitchen to her mother, with it glad face, called for a light, and went into the par lour to read ; but she had not power to read far, for she soon found that it dashed all her hopes, anil she fell down in a fainting fit. The usual efforts to restore her proving ineffectual, it was proposed to send for " Samuel," and the plaintiff's father went to him, but he refused to come, saying he would not open the wound again, that he hat; done it for the lady's own good, for he was satisfied theile was such difference between their friends that they could not live happily together. The defendant's mother also urged her son to adhere to his resolu tion, saying, "No, no ; don't go back." The result was that the defendant adhered to his resolution, as expressed in his letter, that " all further engage ments must come to an end." The letter in which the defendant explained the grounds of his resolu tion was a very lengthy one, and in it ho said he had not come to that conclusion hastily, but "after some months of such earnest prayer and mental anguish that he never before felt" The first reason which he gave was in these N, ords, " Your reserve, coolness, and distance to all my friends." He ac cused her of never coming to see any of his family, except when he was there, and then she came for him. He said his family had not advised him to say anything about it, though they had often men tioned it ; and he was afraid, if it was so then, what might it be if they w ere to get married ? The second reason given was her " entire want of con versation with himself." He said he once thought her to be " shy," but it could not be that then. He said he had many a time spent whole even ings with her, and she had not el: igaged in any conversation, though he had often tried. He 'reminded her that God had endowed then with " thinking powers," and that it was not likely that they could live in "unmixed happiness" when she could sit for an hour or two without saying anything. He said that many a time, after leaving her in the evening, he had been con demned for spending the time God had so gra ciously given him without having made any good use of it, or even enjoying social conversation with her. He said he did not write by desire of his friends, but, of course, he had mentioned it to his mother, and '• she had told him to wait till God directed him what to do." He solemnly declared that he was acting from no other motive than what he had said, for ho had no thought of any other lady, and he knew it would be a great trial to the plaintiff, as well as to himself. After telling the plaintiff that he had prayed more for her to God to give her His grace than he had done for himself, he said " These three years and a half, I cannot help saying, have passed on the whole pleasantly,-some times cloudy—often so to me ;" but he could not enter into a union such as nothing but death could sever at the risk of the happiness of all who were concerned. He then requested her to write, as it would be more congenial to him "to settle by letter," and concluded his letter with, " I remain, yours truly, Samuel Dean." At the close of the plaintiff's case, Mr. Matthews took an objection that the pro mise alleged was not proved, as the evidence showed that the promise made was to marry when the defendant had £lOO a year. Mr Justice Blackburn said that was quite im material, for he should tell the jury that the letters supported the declaration, and, if necessary, he should amend it. Witnesses were then called on the part of the defendant. Mrs. Dean, the defendant's mother, stated that she was the chapel-keeper, and had a salary of £35 a year. The defendant lived with her and paid 14s. a week for partial board and lodging, and she gave some evidence of a conversation with the plaintiff when she returned to her the defendant's letters, to the effect that she had said the defendant promised to marry her when he had £lOO a-year. She said her son never walked out with any young lady, for she said, amid loud laughter, which the old lady seemed not to understand, that her son was " very cautious." She said she had not influenced her son in the course which he had taken, though she admitted that when the lady's father called to fetch her son she said to him, " No, no ; don't go back." Mr. Squire, the defendant's master, was called, and said he had never paid the defendant more than £9O a-year salary. The learned council having again addressed the jury for their respective clients, Mr. Justice Blackburn summed up the evidence, and the jury found for the plaintiff—damages, £75. STORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALLS'-MONDAY. A very numerous attendance of subscribers, comprising many of the most influential backers of horses, excited ex pectations early in the afternoon that business would be briskly pursued. These anticipations were, however, dis appointed, and every movement was more indicative of " trying the prices" than a desire to carry on legitimate operations. THE LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. _ _ Anatis, upon an increased outlay, was supported at 12 to 1, and at two points more the Emperor was backed for money, and Cockatoo was in demand at 15 to 1. 20 to 1 was the highest offer against Old Ben Roe, but backers required two points higher odds. Both the Tattler and Jean de Quesne had an upward tendency at the odds quoted. Bridegroom was asked after, but, beyond a few stray shots at 25 to 1, nothing was done. Tom Moody,the stable companion of Anatis, made his first appearance, and was backed at 40 to 1, but towards the close anything be- yond 30 to 1 could not be obtained. Goldsmith, who ap peared in bad odour, lacked supporters, and left off at 100 to 3, taken. Huntsman was touched upon at 50 to 1, and 7to 1 to " half-a-century" was booked about Freshman and Anatis coupled. THE CHESTER CUP. After some fine by-play between the supporters of the stable and the layers, 1,000 to 60 was laid against Chero Arnie, and immediately afterwards some sharp firing took place about Man-at-Arms, 1,500 to 90 being booked, and subsequently 1,500 to 100 was laid, and at the close he evi dently had the call of the mare. The Lawyer was in quired for, but his clients refused 25 to 1. North Lanca shire and First Lord were the only others named, and they found support at 40 to 1 each to small sums. THE TWO THOUSAND. Kettledrum, about whom 7 to 1 was offered early in the afternoon, receded to 8 to 1 offered, and Diophantes was pro moted to the premiership at 7 to 1, taken very freely. Pre ceptresa met with pupils at 8 to 1 and 9 to 1, and 9 to 1 was offered against Klarikoff, and the like odds taken about Mr. Merry's colt Russley. Overton was backed at 10 to 1, and Conqueror, Walloon, and Deucalion at 25 to 1 each. THE DERBY. Dundee was in force, 9 to 2 being taken to some money. 100 to 6 was offered against Big Ben, 20 to 1 agst Klarikolf and Diophantes. Dictator was supported at 20 to 1, and Bombardier, Folkestone, and Kildonan at 40 to 1 each. The Drake, Knight of the Thistle, and Preceptress found backers at 50 to 1, and from the outside division King of Kent was strongly fancied at 1,000 to 15, at which price he was backed to win upwards of X 12,000. 1,000 to 15 was also taken about Deucalion and Cashio. 1,000 to 10 was laid once about Aurelian, and 1,000 to 8 against Walloon. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 12 to 1 agst Mr. Capel's Anatis (taken freely) 14 1 Mr. D. Brigg's the Emperor (taken) 15 1 Mr. Gooderham's Cockatoo (taken) 20 1 Mr. W. Briscoe's Old Ben Roe (taken) 22 i Mr. Gooderham's Tattler (taken) 25 1 Count de Cunchy's Jean de Quesne (t) 25 1 Mr. Angell's Bridegroom (offered) s Tom Moody (taken) 30 1 --Mr. Capj 33 1 Mr. J . m„ oh 's Goldsmith (taken) 50 1 Viscount de Nam,:r's Huntsman (taken) 7 1 Freshman and Anatib coupled (taken) THE CHESTER CUP. 15 to 1 agst Captain Little's Man-at-Arms taken) 100 6 Mr. Godding's Chere Arnie (taken 25 1 Mr. J. Cockin's The Lawyer (taken) 40 1 Mr. J. Robinson's North Lancashire (t f) 40 1 Mr. Whittaker's First Lord (taken) THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 7to 1 agst Lord Stamford's Diophantes (taken) 8 1 Mr. Gratwick's Preceptress (taken) 8 1 Colonel Towneley's Kettledrum (offered) 9 1 Mr. Merry's Russley (taken) 9 1 Mr. Henry's Klarikoff (offered) 10 1 Mr. Merrifield's Overton (taken) 25 1 Sir C. Rushout's Conqueror (taken) 25 1 Lord Stamford's Walloon (taken) 25 1 Mr. W. Day's Deucalion (taken) THE DERBY. 9to 2 agat Dundee (taken freely) 100 6 Mr. F. Swindell's Big Ben (offered) 20 1 Lord Stamford's Diophantes (taken) 20 1 Mr. Thomas's Dictator (taken) 25 1 Mr. Henry's Klarikoff (offered) 40 1 Mr. Disney's Bombardier (taken) 40 1 Mr. Merry's Folkestone (taken) 40 1 Mr. Parr's Kildonan. (taken) 50 1 Lord Glasgow's The Drake (taken) 50 1 Lord Exeter's Knight of the Thistle (t) 1000 —l5 Mr. Naylor's King of Kent (taken freely) 1000 15 Mr. W. Day's Deucalion (taken) 1000 15 Mr. Snewing's Cashio (taken) 1000 —lO Mr. W. Goater's Aurelian (taken) 1000 8 Lord Stamford's Walloon (taken) kxRIMSTONE'S HERD TOBACCO.—.THE "SMOKE CON TROVERSY" SETTLED.—Much difference of opinion exists as to whether smoking is injurious or not. Upon this point doctors have "disagreed . ," as they have done upon most others—but one thing is certain that smoking Grimstone's herb tobacco is beneficial rather than the contrary, and most astonishing cures of asthma, and ether pulmonary diseases, have resulted from its use. To those who are troubled with phlegm in the throat on rising in the morning we recom mend a few whiffs of Grimstone's tobacco before breakfast. To those who are troubled with a hacking cough on laying down to rest, we say take a pipe of Grimstone's after supper, —and to those who require a pipe during the hours of labour or study we recommend Grimstone's as possessing all he best qualities of Virginia tobacco with none of its dis advantages. The absence of the essential oils precludes the danger arising from the narcotic weed—whilst the fragrant herbs and flowers of which Grimstone's herb tobacco is com posed render it not only a valuable medicine agent, but a universal favourite with the fair sex, who have settled the "tobacco controversy" by declaring their admiration of the fragrance of Grimstone's as being far prekrablo to the smell of "that horrid haoty tobacco," I DEATH FRO rif CRUELTY AND STARVATION. Woolwich, before Mr. C. J. C ar tt ar , coroner An inquest was concl u d e d y es t er d ay a t th e R e d A .nt, on Eliza Fisher, age d 35, w h o di e d on h ir e of January. The de cease d f ormer l y li ve d fLtooni2c,3d at Southartzp, ton, and was the mother of f our c hild re n by a gentlemtm residing there. The tw o e ld es t chil dren had been ,placed at school by the fath er , w ho paid for them. About 18 months ago she went with her two yonngest children to reside with a brother, a telegi 'aph clerk, residing at Carlisle, and upon his being oi Tlered to another place he agreed w ith his brother _Henry Fisher, an artilleryman, stationed at Woolw ich, that he should receive her and her two childrev. Her furniture, which was very good, was remov ed from Southampton to Woolwich, and an arranh - ement made by the father of the children to continut' an allowance of £5 a month for the maintenance of the deceased and her two children. She was ailin a when she went to Carlisle, but at the time of gmkg to Woolwich had rallied so much that no person except a medical man or a close observer would have perceived that anything was amiss with her. She was then a fins handsome-looking woman, but on her arrival at the latter place she got worse, very rapidly so within the last six months, and had been bedridden, im becile, and helpless for about four months previous to her death. Henry Fisher, the brother of the deceased, was called, who gave an account of her illness, and endeavoured to make it appear that he had done his best for her, and thatshe was a burden upon him, although the fact was he and his family together had a good income, and received the al -10 wance for her maintenance regularly, and had besides all her furniture, which was very good, far beam - than is usually enjoyed by soldiers. He had little of none of his own. He gave his evidence in * a very pl"evaricating and unsatisfactory manner. T wo ne i gi llbours, named Mary Stay and Isabella. M'Vea, stated that the room in which the deceased was kept was very damp and dirty and had no fireplace; that L. tie deceased was kept there during the recent severe weather in a state of nudity, and lying on straw with no covering except a piece of blanket or rug over her shoulders; that she, being latterly quite imbecile, made a great mess, for which she was often tightly strapped up to the bedpost; that she was insufficiently .supplied with food, both the witnesses having contin ually heard her crying out for food, which when gi Yen to her, as some oc casionally was by the witnesses,. she ate ravenously; that they had often heard her cries upon being beaten, and had seen her crawling' about the floor (being unable to walk) perfectlynaked. Mr. Woods Harding, surgeon to the Union, callfd on the sth Dec., in consequence of an order from the relieving officer, and saw deceased, who was in a - miserable lookingfound the place, with a bad light. He . woman lying upon a straw bed, apparent _v naked, but rolled tightly round with a dirty sort . of quilt. He asked her some questions, satisfied himself that she was suffering from imbecility, and gave a cer tificate accordingly. He hurried from the room AS soon as possible, owing to the dreadful stench, which he was told arose from what she had then done, as she had been cleaned that morning. Saw no indication of death. Imagined that she would go to the Union, as he was told that Fisher could not afford to keep her. Benjamin Wates, the relieving officer, deposed that he visited the case three or four times. He depicted it as truly horrible, and one of the worst that he had ever seen in his lengthened experience. He found the woman in s little back room with no fire, lying upon a straw mattress, apparently naked, but wrapped up in a rug, and altogether in the most deplorable condi tion that it was possible for a human being to be in, She was not lying like a human being, but appeared to be rolling about like an animal; the smell was very offensive, but was worse on the last occasion. The Board of Guardians made en order for her to be admitted into the house, and witness saw Fisher on the 23d December and told him so, but witness heard nothing more of the case until he heard of the woman's death. After some other evidence of a similar character the jury retirned a verdict of manslaughter against Fisher. The coro ner then made out his warrant for the committal of Henry Fisher to Newgai,'', and intimated that he should call upon the parish authorities to prose. cute. A box of precious stones, worth 12,500 dollars which ought to have been brought to England last week in the Royal Mail packet Tasmania, was lost at St. Thomas. PASSPORTS IN BELGIUM.—The Belgian Moniteur contains the following :—" With the view of facilitating international relation's, the Belgian Government has de cided that the verification of passports on the frontiers shall be supproseed from the Ist of February next. Nevertheless foreigners will continue to be required to have passports, in order to stay in Belgium; and the viers roman* ..hlismf.vi for travellers belonging to countries in which Baljians are subjected to that formality. The exceptions established in favour of the Dutch, and of the inhabitants of the adjacent French departments, and of tho Prussian-Rhenan prevVinco are maintained." [ADVERTISEMENT.]—The misery, the disappointment„ the interminable expense of " physic-taking," are now hap pily superseded by the use of Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, which, by a pleasing and natural action on the sys tem, removes chronic and exhausting diseases, and replaces langour and pain by vigour and health. The following are not the least remarkable :—Cure 32,836. " Three years.' excessive nervousness, with pains in my neck and left arm, and general debility, which rendered my life very miser able, has been radically removed by Du Barry's health restoring Food.—Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross, Skib• bereen." Cure 3,906. Thirteen years' cough, in digestion, and general debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Revalenta Ara bica Food. James Porter, Athol-street, Perth.' Avoid Pills and Medicines : they invariably aggravate and perpetuate diseases ; their anneyance, disappointment, and expense may be avoided by using Du Barry's Food which, at a few pence per day, saves 50 times its cost in other remedies, removing effectually, without purging, constipation, indigestion (dyspepsia) nervous, bilious and liver complaints and all their consequences. Certificate . No. 36,418. We find it the safest remedy. Andrew Ure, MD., F.R.S., Dr Harvey, Dr. Wurzer, Dr. Shorland, Dr. Campell. Let invalids avoid the fearful dangers of spu rious and injurious imitations offered under a variety of false pretences. Nevill's imitations are prohibited by the high Court of Chancery under a penalty of £5,000 against Alfred Hooper Nevill and his agents ; and the pretences that Nevill has a patent for Aralica Food and that Du Barry's are connected with such patent are utterly fake. No canister is genuine without the name Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, in onthe seal and wrapper. Shopkeepers who attempt imposition in one article must expect to be distrusted in all others. Packed in tins 11b. 2s. 9d.; 21b. 4s. 6d. ; 51b. 121 b. Os.; 241 b. 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b. canisters are sent carriage free on receipt of Post-office order by Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Re gent-street, London; Fortnum Mason, and Co.; Abbia, 60, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63 and 150, Ox bard-street ; 330 and 451, Strand; 49 and 60, Dishopegato street ; Batty, 16, Finsbury Pavement ; Phillips and Co. tea -dealers ; Petty, Wood, and Co., King Williaill-street, City ; at 127, High Holborn ; and all grocers [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment anti An Unparalleled Cure of a Bad Leg.—F. Bird, gardener, 50, George's-grove, Holloway, was afflicted for twenty years by a bad leg, caused by a blow on the shin, which ultimately formed itself into an angry wound. He con sulted several medical men, and tried almost everything recommended him by sympathising friends, but without effect. As a last rescource ho determined to give Hollo way's Ointment a trial, and, after persevering a few months, he was completely cured, and now enjoys perfect health. Very plain directions for the use of this inestimable medi cine are affixed to each pot, so that the patient may become his own doctor without the slightest risk.—Sold at Pro fessor Holloway's Establishment, l 244, Strand. and by all medicine vendors throughout the civilised world. THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) .. Feb. 18. Do. (via Marseilles) Feb. 12. Brazil and Cape Verde • . Feb. 4. Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &o. F e b . Cuba and Mexico • • Feb. 13 Canada, &c. (via L'derry) .. Feb. 6. Cape of Good Hope, &c. March 1. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Feb. 18. (via Marseilles) Feb. 12. Gibraltar (via Southampton) Feb. 10. India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Feb. 1.8 Do• (via Marseilles) Feb. 12. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. Feb. 10. Do• (via Marseilles) Feb. 4. Lisbon , .. Feb. 1. Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. Feb. 10. Do. (via Marseilles) Feb. 4. Vigo, and Oporto Feb. 1. United States, California &o. .. • • .. Feb. 6 . Western Coast of Africa , Madeira, Teneriffe ..:Feb. 10 . West Indie s and Pacific,,Carthagena. Cuba, &o. Feb. 13. BIRTHS. - ALLEN.—On The 2d inst., at 28, Woburn-place, the wife of C. J. H. Allan, Esq., of a son. MARSHALL.—On the Ist in at 2, Upper Sumtaerlands t Exeter, the wife of Captain Edward Marshall, R.N., of a son. MARRIAGES. MACK—HATCH. ---On the 2d inst., at Clapham. Mr. H. I'. Mack, to Mary ycia, eldest daughter of the late T. Esq., of Dub in. SLIThIGaiticTLS E DGLEY.—On the 2d inst., at the New Church, Argy l e -square, Mr. Lewi s Sli g ht, jun., of Brighton, to Sarah, daughter of Mr. Sedgley, of Banbury.. DEATHS. Anaus.—On the Ist inst., at North-hill, Highgate, John Corbett Adams, Esq., aged 70. BosANQuET.—On the 31st ult., at 9, Lower Berkeley-et., Henry Bosanquet, Esq., aged 68. EsisoN.—On the 3d inst., at 20, Stockwell-park-road, W. Emson, Esq. GORE.—On the 29th ult,, at Linwood, Lyndhurst, Cathe rine Fran ces , w if e o f th e l a t e Charles Arthur Gore, Ist Life Guards, aged 61. ‘• LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, 20 ' .0 . ; No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tuz Sum office, No. 112, Stran44, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of elg Middles Tuesday, February . 5, 1661. _ i ,