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A grave accusation is made in es t& - _ - - "tai, -" ,„y ," 4 tcttr against a portion of the Eugl ii'M - s;':. '71,..e7 ^11 .: / English journals, we are told, h a v e b Oirctif '::-, ' - . 6„ calumnious statements respecting thorPrent Ge vernment, serious enough to destrofthe confidence between it and the English Government, and thus having a tendency to disunite the two nations. The charge is a heavy one, but it would have carried more weight with it had it been specific. The nature of the calumnies is not stated ; and as the offending journals are not named we have no clue whereby to discover wherein they have offended. In the name of the English Press we demand that the accusation be made specific, in order that Ivo and our contemporaries ay defend our- selves if innocent, or make ads if we have done wrong. As for anythin iat may be said by the English Press having- a endcncy to de stroy confidence between the French and Eng..;sa Governments, no one knows better than the Empe ror of the French how utterly unable the English Government are to exercise any influence over the discussions of the English press, and how entirely irresponsible they are for anything it may say. This alone is sufficient to convince us that advantage has been taken of the Emperor's absence at Compiegne, by some of those underling s who have been pub li-hing snailar camplaints in the semi-official jour nals of Paris, to foist the denunciation to which we are adverting into the ;Toniteur. These men aro igi (want of how completely the English newspapers are identified with the whole English' people. They fancy that they are like theirown Parisian journals, mere organs of indi?iduals or coteries ; and they flatter themselves that the brutunt fulinen of the Moniteur will frighten the English people into a coercion of their newspapers. The Emperor knows well the absurdity of such a notion, and we feel confident that the escapade of the official journal will cause him serious annoyance and bring down a sharp rebuke on its authors. We maintain that, so far from evincing animosity towards the French people or Government, the general i one and tenour of the English press has dis played a warm friendship for the former, and great forbearance towards the latter. In so far as we ourselves are concerned, our constant aim has been to direct whatever influence we may be able to exer cise over public opinion to the promotion of cordial feelings and extended industrial connexions between the French and English nations. As for what con cerns the French Government, we will not affect to entertain a confi knee in it which we do not feel; but ever since the present dynasty received the sanction of the French people, our comments upon it have been confined within the legitimate limits of aconsti tutional opposition—such as we might offer to an English administration to whose political principles we were hostile. Our relation to the measures of the French Government has undoubtedly been generally antagonistic, but we have been fair and even cour teous opponents. We have lett to pot-house poli ticians the vending of ignoble personal aspersions. We have seized every opportunity to do justice to such of the Emperor's measures as appeared de serving of approbation ; we have recognised the loyalty with which he fulfilled his engagements to England durin g th e war . W e h ave laboured, not to overturn the French Government, but to induce it to adopt a policy calculated to consolidate its own power by promoting the real interests of the great nation whose destinies it has undertaken to guide. TO THE PROPRIETORS of the WESTET2 , ; LIFE ASSURA CE SOCIETY, Parliament-7: aec t , GENTLEMEN, I sincerely thank you for the honour on have conferred upon me in electing rae a Director of your S:wciety, and assure you of my best efforts to promote its prosperity. I rave the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your very obedient servant, JAMES CHADWICK. tirosvenor-wharf, Milbank, 24th October, 1856. r rat 1. Rio? 4D. STAMPED .01). , 1 / 4 A T U 'WAY EVNING. OCTOBER 25, 1856. PAILLASSE STRAW. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all persons desirous of contracting to supply STRAW for PAILLASSES, at the several barracks and stations of the War Department, in Great Britain and in the Channel Islands, for one year from Ist De cember, next, that proposals in writing addressed to the " Director i=eneral of Contracts, War Department, Pall-mall," and marked on the outside "Tender for Paillasse Straw," will be received on or before Friday, the 14th day of November next. Parties tendering are requested not to use any form but that which ea* be obtained at this Department. THOMAS HOWELL, Director-General of Contracts. 'War Department, Pall-mall, October, 1856. 0 . 20,078.) I ,ON D :4N representatire of the ladies? (Hear, hear.) lam thus not only a member, but also the Speaker of the House of Ladies. The pro Feedings of the House of Comm ons, gentlemen, affect your business generally, but the proceedings of the House of Ladies affect not only your business, but your bcsoms. (Loud laughter.) In the Mouse of Commons you tike into conside ration the ways and means ; in the House of Ladies, I think, gentlemen, you know pretty well that the same thing is done. (Renewed laughter.) The question of peace or war sometimes agitate the House of Commons—the House of Ladies is not always exempt from the considera Lion of the same important questions. Divisions occupy no inconsiderable portion of the time of the House of Commons, and I regret to add that they are not altogether unheard of in the House of Ladies. (Loud laughter.) know, however, from old experience, how attached are the men of Bos ton to the ladies of Boston. Twenty years ago, when I was here amongst you, almost every man had a sweetheart, nearly ail the middle-aged gen tlemen had wives, and certainly all had mothers—(renewed laughter)—anal I must say that not Mr. Ingram only, but the English nation, is indebted to the ladies of Boston for having produced such a fine collection of voters as I have now the honour to thank for the kindness with which they have listened to my remarks. Mr. M. Lemon resumed his scat amidst repeated cheers. PUBLICATIONS. MB. PEABODY'S RECEPTION AT HOME. Second Edition, now ready, in 3 vols., AN 0 DERN SOCIETY in ROME, By J. R. BEiTE, Esq., Author of" The Wabash." Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, succemors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street. The village of Danvers, Massachusetts, was decorated on the 9th inst. in honour of the return of Mr. Peabody to his native town after a long absence in England. The British and American flags intermingled their folds at every cor ner. 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Sir D. Brewster bas addressed the following letter to the Editor of the Times : " Sir,—ln the notice of Mr. Faye's stereoscope which I sent ' you under the signature "A," not thinking it of sufficient importance to add my name, I claimed the invention of it for Mr. Wheatstone as well as for Mr; Elliott, referring distinctly to Mr. Wheatstone's paper, •as published in 1838, nd to the later date of 1839, when Mr. Elliot executed his instrument. I therefore gave to Mr. Wheatstone all the originality which he claims from prior publicatio n. But, as I had und ou b te d ev i dence that M r. Elli o t in. vented the stereoscope in 1834, and as his form of the instrument was exactly the same as Mr. Faye's, while Mr. Wheatstone's, though equally ingenious, was diffe rent, I place Mr. Elliot's claim before Mr. Wheatstone's. I believe, therefore, that Mr. Elliot and Mr. Wheat. stone are independent inventors of an instrument or me thod for uniting two dissimilar pictures, and thus pro ducing relief, but that neither of them discovered-thr principle of the stereoscope. Mr. Elliot lays no claim to such a discovery. Mr. Wheatstone does on the follow ing grounds. After quoting a curious experiment on binocular vision, in which Leonardo da Vinci was on the eve of inventing the stereoscope, he makes the following observations : " Had Leonardo da Vinci taken, instead of a sphere, a less sio.ple figure for the purpose of his illustration, he would not only haveobserved that the object obscured from each eye a different part of the more distant field of view, but the fact would also, perhaps, have forced itself upon his attention that the object itself presented a different appearance to each eye. He failed to do this, and no sub sequent writer within my knowledge has supplied the omission ; the projection of two obvionsl3 dissimilar pic tures on the two • retina when a single object is viewed, while the optic axes converge, must therefore be regarded as a new fact in ,the theory of vision."—Philosophical Transactions, 1838, pp. 372-3. Now, this claim to the fundamental principle of the stereoscope is groundless. Euclid knew it. Galen knew it, and explained it. Baptista Porta quotes Galen's explanation, and Illustrates it with a figure. Aguilonius in various parts of his Optics does the same, and in his chapter on the vision of solids (ra nrfpfa,ta sterea) he is puzzled in explaining how the two dibsimilar pic tures give a distinct image in relief. Early in 1852, and more recently, in my Treatise ova the Stereoscope, I have quoted the passage from these authors to prove their knowledge of the principle in question, end Mr. Wheat stone has roads no reply to the statement. It is doubt less strange that he was not acquainted with the re searches of Galen, Porta, and Aguilonius, for he tells us Tvans., 1838, page 372) that, "after looking over the works of many authors who might be expected to have made some remarks relating to this subject, he was able to find but one which is in the Trattato della Pit tura of Leonardo da Vinci." Among these works were those of Pota and Aguilonius, and he has more than once quoted both of them (pages 388, 390, 391, 393), but, though I make this remark, I do nut mean to in sinuate, nor do I believe, that Mr. Wheatstone saw the passages to which I have referred. In the extract from Mayo's Outlines, &c., from which it is evident that Mr. Wheatstone was acquainted with the principle of the stereoscope in 1833, and therefore earlier than Mr. Elliot, there is no mention whatever of any instrument or method of combining the pictures. It affords no proof that the reflecting stereoscope was then in existence ; that he did combine them is obvious, and if he had assured us that he did it by means of the re flecting instrument I should have implicit confidence in le statement. In concluding his letter, Mr. Wheatstone remarks that I was the last person to have disputed the origi f nality of his invention, as he can show from his corres pondence with me in 1832 " that 1 was aware that at that time he was preparing for publication his memoir on the subject." I therefore call upon Mr. Wheatstone to publish this letter, or any part of it that has the least reference to the stereoscope. If it has, I pledge myself in future to place his claims above those of Mr. Ethot, whenever I have occasion to write or speak on the subject. Mr. Wlaeatstone's memoir is entitled " Contributions to the Physiology of Vision," and I may well have known that he was preparing it IT publication without the slightest knowledge that the stereoscope was to be one of the :various subjects of which it treats. As priority of publication is held by Mr. Wheatstone to establish the "originality of an invention," it may be sufficient to state to English readers that if this doc trine be admitted Sir Isaac Newton has no claim to be the inventor of Fluxions. Leibnitz published the method before him, but there is ample evidence that Newton was the earliest inventor. In the preceding observations I have avoided the o ff ens i ve personalities with which this subject has been noticed in a silly article in the Westminster Review. I have no personal feelings to gratify in giving an opinion on this question. As the inventor of the lenticular stereoscope now in universal use, and of other forms of the instrument, I, of course, feel an interest in the subject, and, involving as it does nice questions in the theory of vision, that interest has been greatly increased. In preparing lectures on the philo sophy of the senses I had occasion to study the depart ment of binocular vision ; and in the " Edinburgh Transactions for 1843" I have given the true and de monstrable theory of the stereoscope, after Mr. Wheat stone bad wholly failed and acknowledged his failure (Phil. Trans., 1838, p. 360). That theory has now been before the scientific world for nearly 14 years, and has never been controverted. When the paper which con tains it was written I believed that Mr. Wheatstone was the sole inventor of the principle of the stereoscope , as well as of th e reflecting i ns t r ument, and I never failed to give him the credit of both. 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It has restored bodily and sexual strength and vigour to thousands of debilitated individuals' who are 1 : 1 7 in the enjoyment of health and the Functions of Manbood; and itirAer May be the cause for DISQUALIFICATIONS for MAR --" they are effectually subdued by this Wonderful Discovery. TRIESEMAR No. 11., efie ttuallo , swank.. - . irli the short space of three days, completely and entirely f orms ' (Meet'', Strictures Irritation of the Bladder, Non-retention of , , Pain e of ~, , , and those disorders which topaivl a, le Loins and Kidney s, ruin of ta n d ,-Aube long been thought an antidote for, to the e healt Is th e TRIE portion sEmt of the population. , toms, great C Ontinental Remedy for Syphilis and Secondary Symp. It also constitutes a certain cure for Scurvy, Scrofula, and all ~Cutaneous Eruptions, removing and expelling in its course all corrup thtins and impurities from the vital stream, as altogether to eradicate e virus Of di sease, and exp e ll it w i t h th e insensible perspiration through the medium of the pores of the skin and urine, and is a neve r - failing remedy f or that class of disorders which unfortunately the English Physician treats with 31 •crcur7, the to inevitablP dostrue • lion of the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaParilla In the world cann o t restore. Price I is., or four cases in one for 335„ which saves lls., and in Si, Cases, whereby there is A saving of IL 125. To be had wholesale and retail in London, of Derby and Gordon, 40, Leadenliall-street ; ?rout, 229, Strand; Ilannay and Co., 63, xfurd Inger, 150, -street ; THE ACCIDENT AT LLANSAMLET.— A verdict Oxford -street. bail the Swansea station-master, against whom a jury, ................ i . • of manslaughter was returned b y the coroner's ' m- HUMAN FRAILTY Hancorno surrendered bi ; a. Popular M ed ic a l work, price is-, post free, beautifully illustrated with 100 e ngr avings, se lf ;.t Swansea on Wednesday afternoon, upon which 10 and containing the opinions of d bound Roo valPeau, Latiemand Runk, Ricord, was brought before Mr. G. Grant Francis, an •It gives copious instructions for the ' those 'under verfret restorat nof Who are prevented by impediments from entering into e married ,overil 0 appear at the next assizes for the county, ° tate, also showing the dreadful results from and sYphilis, and the benefits arising trom early abuce, onorrinea, ~ with his own recognisance for 500/ Dr. Bird and Mr. th., ehemic• tests - and Glover in the like, for 2001. each. After the necessary an of the opermatoza, by the Mitre author's newly nstrueted 40 . 0 Pe. with powerful lenses . — piper fo rms -- - and row, and ~,__ Co 23, ternoster hlr. Ilancorne WWI discharged, . AMA all some for the ale of "Triestin ~ ar. 13. and the documents signad, The speeches Commenced with " The Health of Mr. Pea body, and a cordial and hearty Welco me to that distinguished Citizen, eminent Merchant, and public Benefactor." In reply, Mr. PEABODY said—Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen,—The reception you have giVen me today overpowers me. Few boys ever left a New England home under circumstances more humble than I did—none could return more honoured, too, where honour is said not to be usual, in his own country and among his own kindred. I feel proud as well as grateful at these testimonials, so far beyond my merits, but so gratifying to my heart, and which I shall ever esteem the greatest honour of my life. You have alluded, Mr. Chairman, to my course as a mer chant. Heaven has been pleased to reward my efforts with success, and has permitted me to establish, through my own exertions, a house in the great metropolis of Eng land, which I think my mercantile friends here present will bear me out tu saying sustains a high character and credit throughout the world. Coming back to the home of my childhood I hones t tly confess that I feel great pride in this, and I do not believe that you will accuse me of egotism in saying so. I have endeavoured, in the constitution of its members and the character of its busi ness, to make an American house, and to give it an Ame rican atmosphere—to furnish it with American journals— to make it a centre for American news and an agreeable place for my American friends visiting London. That I have partially succeeded in doing so I think I may reason ably conclude from the flattering testimonials which I have received since my arrival in this country. (Cheers.) You have also been pleased to allude to my humble efforts to promote good feeling between Great • Britain and the United States, by increasing the social intercourse between my English and American friends. That a cordial alliance ought to exist between these two countries, founded on social intercourse and personal friendships, as well as mutual interests, is an opinion which I share with most persons who have had the opportunity to see both. (Ap. plause.) lam happy indeed if my humble efforts have aided in promoting au& good feeling. If there are two nations on the face of the earth that ought to be connected by the closest ties of mutual goodwill they are these two countries. (Renewed applause.) It is not in the language ordinarily used that I point to the similarity in their in stitutions, their laws, their language, and their commer cial interests. The exports of this country to Great Bri tain are larger than to all the world besides. The exports from Great Britain to this country, though not relatively so large, are on an equally gigantic scale. A monetary crisis i❑ one country is generally followed by like results in the other. A change in the financial policy on the one side is met by a responsive change in the other The journals of each country reflect at length each other's views and sentiments. Out of this very intimacy of relations there grows frequent cause of difference ; but I am sure that, notwithstanding the little outbursts of jealousy which occasionally show themselves, England is not less proud of her offspring than is America of the parent stock. I can assure you that from the universally beloved Queen who rules those realms down to her humblest suu ject, one feeling of goodwill towards this country prevails. (Three cheers for the Queen.) I say this with the greatest confidence, sine," I see around me many gentlemen who have had an opportunity to see for themselves whether these things are so. To none can I appeal more confidently than to you, Sir (turning to Mr. Everett), who have filled the most• important office abroad in the gift of our Government with so much honour to your own country and so much sa tisfaction to those to whom you were accredited. (Loud. cheers.) I have been reminded to-day that one who fol lowed worthily in the footsteps of my friend on my right has passed away. The corner-stone of the Peabody Insti tute was laid by Abbott Lawrence, but before it was com pleted his pure spirit had left the world. I admired him for his practical talents ; I respected him for his virtues, and loved him as a friend. Like myself, he was convinced of the great importance of conciliation, forbearance, and - mutual goodwill between England and America. During his whole mission he laboured oainestly to cu leivato these feelings, and I take a melancholy pleasure in adding ray humble tribute to his memory—in testifying not only to the profuseness of his own hospitalities and the constancy of his own labours to these ends, but to the heartiness and zeal with which he co-operated in my more humble efforts. The memory of such a man as Abbott Lawrence is doubly blessed. gives vigour to the civiliation of the present day but the world-wide extension of ommercial intercourse, by which all the products o f th e er th an d o f the ocean, of the soil, the mine, of the l oom , I th e f orge o f bounteous nature, creative art, and unti r ig industry, are brought by the agencies of comme rce i n t. th e un i versa l market of demand and supply? No matterin what region the desirable pro duct is bestowed on mai by a liberal Providence, or fa bricated by human skill. It may clothe the hills of China with its fragrant foliate—it may glitter in the golden sands of Californ'a—it ray wallow in the depths of the Arctic seas—it may whien and ripen in the fertile plains of the sunny south—it say spring forth from the flying shuttles of Manchester in England, or Manchester in America—the great won magnet of commerce attracts it all alike, and gathers itall up for the service of man. I do not speak of English ommerce, or American commerce. Such distinctions belitle our conceptions. I speak of commerce in the aegreente—the great ebbing and flowing tides of the commercialworld—the great gulf-streams of traffic which flow roundfrom hemisphere to hemisphere— the mighty trade-winds of commerce which sweep from the Old World to the Jew—that vast aggregate system which embraces the whde family of man, and brings the overflowing treasures of nature and art into kindly rela tion with human want, tonvenience, and taste. In carry ing on this system, thins for a moment of the stupendous agencies that are put inmotion. Think for a moment of all the ships that navig.te the sea. An old Latin poet, who knew no waters beyond those of the Mediterranean and Levant, says that the man must have had a triple casting of oak and braseabout his bosom who first trusted his frail bark on the raging sea. How many thousands of vessels laden by commerce ai1...,t this o neaent nevigating, cot the narrow seas frequen Led by the ancients, but the world encompassing oceans. Think next of the mountains of brick, and stone, and iron, built up into the great com mercial cities of the world; and of all the mighty works of anciept and modern contrivance and structure—the moles, the lighthouses, the bridges, the canals, . the roads, the railways, the depth of mines, the Titanic force of enginery, the delving ploughs, the scythes, the reapers, the looms, the electric telegraphs, the vehicles of all descriptions which airectly or indirectly are employed and put in motion by commerce—and last and most important, the millioni of human beings that conduct, and regulate, and combine these inanimate, organic, and mechanical forces. And, now, sir, is it anything less than a liberal profession, which carries a quick intelligence, a prophetic forecast, an indus try that never tires, and, more than all, and above all, a stainless probity beyond reproach and beyond suspicion, into this vast and complicated system, and, by the blessing of Providence, works out a prosperous result? Such is the vocation of the merchant, the man of business, pursued is many departments of foreign and domestic trade—of finance, of exchange, but all comprehend under the general name of commerce—all concerned in weaving the mighty network of mutually beneficial exchanges which enwraps the world. I krow there is a shade to this bright picture. Where among the works of the fortunes of men shall we find one that is all sunlight ? Napoleon L thought he had said enough to disparage England when helad pronounced her a nation of shopkeepers ; and we Americans are said by some of our own writers to be slaves of the almighty dollar. But these are sallies of national hostility, or the rebukes which a stern moral sense rightly administers to the besetting sins of individuals or communities. Every pursuit in life, however, has its bright and its dark phase; every pursuit may be followed with a generous spirit for honourable ends, or with a mean, selfish, cor rupt spirit, beginning and ending in personal gratification. But this is no more the case with the commercial than any other career. What more different than the profession of the law as pursued by the upright counsellor, who spreads the shield of eternal justice over your life and for tune, and the wicked pettifogger, who drags you through the thorns and brambles of vexatious litigation? What more different than the beloved physician, the sound of whose soft footstep, as he ascends your staircase, carries hope and comfort to the conch of weariness and suffering, and the solemn, palvering, impudent quack, who fattens on the fears and frailties of his victims ? What more dif ferent than the press, which like the morning sun sheds light and truth through the land, and the press which daily distils the concentrated venom of personal malice and party detraction from its dripping wings? I believe that the commercial profession is as capable of being pursued with intelligence, honour, and public spirit as any other ; and, when so pursued, is as compatible with purity and eleva tion of character as any other, as well entitled to the hon ours which a community bestows on those who adorn and serve it, the honours which you this day delight to pay to your friend and guest. I was not the witness of the commencement of his career abroad ; but we all know that it soon fell upon that disastrous period when all American credit stood low—when the default •f some of the States, and the temporary inability of others to meet their obliga tions, and the failure of several of our moneyed institu tions, threw doubt and distrust on all American securities. That great sympathetic nerve of the commercial world— oredit—as far as the United States was concerned, was for the time paralysed. At that moment—and it was a trying one—our friend not only stood firm himself, but he was the cause of firmness in others. Hi s judgment commanded re spect, his integrity won back the reliance which men had been accustomed to place in American securities. The re proach in which they were all indiscriminately involved was gradually wiped away from those of a substantial character ; and if on this soli d base of unsuspected good faith he reared his own prosperity, let it be remembered that at the same time he retrieved the credit of the State of which he was the agent , performing the miracle, if by which the Iwod map soventure of an honest m t mac express turns paper , into gold. A course like this, however commendable , mi g ht proceed from cal culation. If it led to prosp erit y and opulence, it might he pursued for motives exclusively sebish. But Mr. Pea body took a different view of the matter, and immediately began to act upon an old fashioned New -England maxim, ' which, I dare say, be learned in childhood, and carried with him from Danvers, that influence and property have their duties as well as their privileges, and sot himself to work to promote the convenience an d °ahea meats of his travelling fellow-countrymen, a numerous and important class. The traveller, oft en the friendless travel d° the en ler, stands greatly in need of good offices is a foreign laud. Several of you, my friends, know this, er I a m veri sure, by ex perience ; some of you can say how pse ngly, how liberally these good offices were extended by our friend, through a long course of years, to his travelling country men. How many days, otherwise weary, have been winged with cheerful enjoyments through his agency; how many otherwise dull hours, in health and in sic kness, enlivened by his attentions ! It occurred to our f riend es p eciall y to do that on a large scale which had hith erto been done to a very limited extent by our diplomatic representatives abroad. The sniallsalaries and still smaller private means (with a single exception) of our Ministers at St. James had prevented them from extending the rites of hospitality as liberally as they could wish to their fellow-citizens abroad. Our friend, happily, with ample means, determined to sup ply the defect, and brought together at the social board from year to year, at a succession of entertainments equally magnificent and tasteful, hundreds of his own countrymen and of his English friends. How much was done in this way to promote kind feeling and mutual goodwill, to soften prejudice, to establish a good understanding ; in a word, to nurture that generous rivalry inculcated in the sentiment to which you have bid me respond, I need not say. I have been particularlyreqnested by my friend, Sir H. Holland, a gen tleman of the highest social and professional standing, to state, while expressing his deep regret that he cannot participate in this day's festivities, that he has attended several of Mr. Peabody's international entertainments in London, and felt them to be of the happiest tendency in promoting kind feeling between the two countries. We are bound as Americans, on this occasion particularly, to remember the very important services rendered by your guest to his countrymen who went to England in 1851 with specimens of the products and arts of this country to be exhibited in the Crystal Palace. In most, perhaps all other countries, this exhibition had been made a Government affair. Commissioners had been appointed by authority to protect the interests of exhibitors ; and, what was more important, appropriations of money were made to defray their expenses. No appropriations were made by Congress. Our exhibitors arrived penniless—some of them penniless —in the great commercial Babel of the world. They found the portion of the Crystal Palace assigned to our country unprepared for the art and industry which they had brought with them, naked and unadorned, by the side of the neigh bouring arcades and galleries fitted up with elegance and splendour by the richest Governments in Europe. The English press began to launch its too ready sarcasms at the sorry appearance which Brother Jonathan seemed likely to make, and all the exhibitors from this country, and all who felt au interest in their success, were disheartened. At this critical moment our friend stepped forward. He didwhat Congress should have done. By liberal advances on his part the American departme nt was fitted up, an d d ay a ft er d ay some new product of Am e ric a n ingenuity and taste was added to the list—M'Cormick's reaper, Colt's revolver, Power's Greek Slave, Hobbs's unpickable lock, I foa's won derful printing presses, and Bond's more wonderful spring governor—and it began to be suspected that Brother Jona than was not quite so much of a simpleton as had been thought. He had contributed his full share, if not to the splendour, at least to the utilities of the Exhibition. In fact, the leading journal of London admitted that England had derived more real benefit from the contributions of the United States than from those of any other country. Our friend ou that occasion, much as he had done in the way mentioned to promote the interest and success of the American exhibitors, and to enable them to sustain that generous rivalry to which the toast alludes, thought he , , had not done quite enough for their gratification. Accord- The next regular toast was—" England and America— pidchra Mater, pulchrior Felix. Long may they flourish in the Bonds of Peace, Rivals in their efforts to civilise and Christianise the World." The Hon. EDWARD EVERETT responded as follows : Mr. President,—l suppose you have called upon me to respond to this interesting toast, chiefly because I filled, a few years ago, a place abroad which made me in some de gree the associate of your distinguished guest in the kindly office of promoting goodwill between the two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Norman race (for I do not think it matters much by which name you call it), " the fair mother and the fairer daughter," to which the toast alludes. At all events, I bad much opportunity, during my residence in England, to witness the honourable position of Mr. Peabody in the commercial and social circles of London, his efforts to make the citizens of the two countries favourably known to each other ; and gene rally that course of life and conduct which has contributed to procure him the well-deserved honours of this day, and which shows that he fully enters into the spirit of the sen timent just propounded from the chair. To the prayer of that sentiment, sir, I fully respond, desiring nothing more ardently in the foreign relations of the country than that these two great nations may be rivals only in their efforts to promote the welfare and improvement of mankind. They have already done, they are now doing much at home and abroad to promote that end by the arts of peace. Whenever they co-operate they can sweep every thing before them—when they are at variance, when they pull opposite ways, it is the annihilation of much of the moral power of both. Whenever England and America combine their influences in prorating a worthy object it moves forward like a vessel propelled by the united force of wind and steam ; but when they are in conflict with each other it is like the struggle of the toiling engine against the opposing tempest. It i s well if the labouring vessel holds her own—there is danger that she may be buried under the mountain waves, or drift upon the rocks. It is quite obvious to remark on th is occasion and on this subject, while you are offering a tribute of respect to distinguished man of business, that t hese two great nati ons . t wh n i e , h a a re e the d oi twonvg have ol carriede a d much i n leading vm for onma navigation o al nand i nat advancement o nations ona o fmt o eh f fe c e civilisa tion, d i that o they ha a height unknown before. And this consideration, sir, will serve to justify you and your fellow-citizens, if they need justification, for the honours you are bestowing upo n the guest of the day, as it will the other communities in different parts of the country which have been desirous of joining in similar public demonstrations of respect. With out wishing to disparage the services which command your respect and gratitude in the walks of political, military, or literary life, it is natural that in a country like the United States, where commerce is so important an interest you should be prompt to recognise distinguishe d merit in the commercial career—a career of which, when pursued with diligence, sagacity,enterprise, integrity, and honour, I deem it not too much to say that it stands behind no other in its titles to respect and consideration ; as I deem it not too much to say of commerce, in its largest comprehension, that it has done as much in all time, and is now doing as much to promote the general cause of civilisation, as any of the other great pursuits of life. Trace its history for a moment from the earliest period. In the infancy of the world its caravans, like gigantic silkworms, went creeping through the arid wastes of Asia and Africa, with their in finitesimal legs, and bound the human family together in those vast regi ons as th ey bi n d it t oge th er now . Its colo nial establishments scattered the Grecian culture all round the shores of the Mediterranean, and carried the adven tures of Tyre and Carthage to the north of Europe and the south ofAfrica. The walled cities of tho middle ages pre vented the arts and re fi nemen t s o f lif e from b e i ng t ra mpled out of existence under the iron heel of the feudal powers. The Hanso towns were the bulwark of liberty and property in the north and west of E uro p e f or ages. Th e germ o f the representative system sprang from the municipal franchises of the boroughs. At the revival of letters the merchant princes of Florence received the fugitive arts of Greece into their stately palaces. The spirit of commercial adventure produced that movement in the 14th century which carried Columbus to America and Ta cco di Gama round the Cape of Good Hope. The deep foundations of the modern system of international law were laid in the into. rests and rights of commerce and the necessity of pro tecting them. Commerce sprinkled the treasures of the newly found Indies throughout the western nations; it nerved the arm of civil and religious liberty in the Protes tant world ; it gradually carried the colonial system of Europe to the ends of the earth, and with it the elements of future independent, civilised Republican Governments. But why should we dwell on the past ? What is it that ingly, in a most generous international banquet, he brought together, on the one band, the most prominent of his coun trymen drown by the occasion to London, and on the other hand the Chairman of the Royal Commission, with other persons of consideration in England, and his British friends generally, and in a loving cup of Old Danvers oak pledged them, on both sides, to warmer feelings of mutual good will than they had before entertained. In these ways, Mr. President, our friend has certainly done his share to carry into effect the principle of the toast to which you called upon me to reply. But it is not wholly nor chiefly for these kindly offices and comprehensive courtesies, nor for the success with which he has pursued the paths of business life, nor for the moral courage with which, at an alarming crisis and the peril of his own fortunes, he sustained the credit of the State he represented—i t is not these services that have called forth these demonstrations of respect. Your quiet village, my friends, has not gone forth in eager throngs to meet the successful financier ; those youthful voices have not been attuned to sing the praises of the successful banker. No; it is the fellow-citizen who, from the arcades of the London Exchange, laid, up treasure in the hearts of his countrymen ; the true patriot who, amid the splendours of the Old World's capital, said in his heart, "If I forget thee, oh ! Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cun ning; if I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth." It is the dutiful and grateful child and benefactor of Old Danvers whom you welcome back to his home. Yes, Sir, and the property you have invested in yonder simple edifice, and in providing the means of innocent occupation for hours of leisure—of instructing the minds and forming the intellectual character, not merely of the generation now rising, but of that which shall take their places, when the heads of these dear children who now grace the table shall be as grey as mine, and of others still more distant, who shall plant kind flowers on our graves—it is the property you have laid up in this investment which will embalm your name in the blessings of posterity when granite and marble shall crumble to dust. Moth and rust shall not corrupt it ; they might as well corrupt the pure white portals of the heavenly city where " every several gate is one of pearl." Thieves shall not break through and steal it ; they might as easily break through the vaulted sky and steal the brightest star of the firmament. The great sententious poet has eulogised the "Man of Ross"—the man of practi cal, unostentatious benevolence—above all the heroes and statesmen of the Augustan age of England. Who, he asks, " Who hung with woods the mountain's sultry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the sky in useless columns test, Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and artless, pouring through the plain, Health to the sick and solace to the swain." But your Man of Ross, my friends, has taught a noble:: stream to flow through his native village—that bubbling, sparkling, mind-refreshing, soul-cheering stream, which re-. news while it satisfies the generous thirst for knowledge— that noble unquenchable thirst " which from the soul doth spring"--wiiich . gains new eagerness' from the draught which allays it, for ever returning, though for ever slaked, to the cool deep fountain of eternal truth. You will re collect, my Danvers friends, the I_6th of June, 1852, when you assembled to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the separation of Danvers from the parent stock. Your plea sant village arrayed herself that day in her holiday robes. Herresident citizens, with one accord, took part in the fes tivities. Her children, dispersed through the Union, re turned that'day to the homestead. One ion: absent was wanting, whom you would gladly have seen am )ng you. But you had not forgotten him, nor he you. He was beyond the sea, absent in body, but present iu spirit and kindly re membrance. In reply to your invitation, ho returned, as the custom is, a letter of acknowledgment, enclosing a sealed paper, with an endorsement setting forth that it contained Mr. Peabody's sentiment, and was not to be opened till the toasts were proposed at the public dinner. The tinge arrived, the paper was opened, and it contained the fol lowing sound and sensible sentiment—" Education.—A. debt due from the present to future generations."V Now we all know that, on an occasion of this kind, a loose slip of paper such as a sentiment is apt to be written on is in danger of being lost—a puff of air is enough to blow it away. Accordingly, just by the way of paper weight— just to keep the sentiment safe on the table, and also to illustrate his view of this new way of paying old debts, Mr. Peabody laid down $20,000 on the top of his senti ment ; and for the sake of still greater security has since added about as much more. Hence it has come to pass that this excellent sentiment has sunk deep into the minds of our Danvers friends, and has, I suspect, mainly contributed to the honours and pleasures of this day. But I have oc cupied, Mr: President, much more than my share of your time—and I will only, on taking my seat, congratulate you on this occasion, as I congratulate our friend and guest at having had it in his power to surround himself with so many smiling faces and wane hearts. ENTERTAINMENT TO lIA.iiBEBT INGRAM, ESQ., M.P., At the annual dinner of the Evercreech Agricultural So ciety, held at Shepton Mallet , Somcrsetshire, on Thursday evening last, Wm. Miles, Esq., M.P., presid e d . I n th e course of the evening, " The County Members" was given as a toast, in reply to which, Mr. 11iLes said—l have now had. the honour of represent ing this county for twenty-two long years ; and though I belong to possibly a party of politicians almost now extinct —I mean the old Tory party--yet, I trust, you have found that good measures, whatever party they came from, have always had my support. (Applause.) But still, gentlemen, though I thank God I at present enjoy good health, I cannot forget that age is creeping upon me, and all I have to look to is this, that when it becomes me to resign the office which you have thrown upon me, I shall resign it with the goodwill of my constituency, and at the same time with the feeling that, though I may have been mistaken on some questions, yet I have conscientiously upheld what I thought was for the good of the whole nation. (Cheers.) At the commencement of the war I was frequently among you, and then endeavoured to collect your sentiments. I believe I did so honestly and faith fully, and endeavoured to represent them iu Parliament ; and, therefore, when I supported the prosecution of the war with all vigour, I felt that I spoke the language of my constituents. But still, though I and my gallait friend near me (Captain Scobell) have both in our former addresses wished and prayed that the present peace may be long, yet I must not disguise from you the fact, that there are elements at present in the political world which bid fair, as far as human foresight can see, to disturb the harmony which at present exists. I was not aware of it, but the leading journal stated, in an article some three weeks ago, that the basis of the conferences at Paris lays dawn the rule that no .nation was at liberty to maintain a rule or misrule which might affect the interests of a neighbouring nation or the security of Europe. Now we have always'gone, up to the present time, on the principle of non-interference with the internal concerns of any nation. If this was the basis of the consultations at Paris, I say it is entirely opposed to the rule we have always adopted unani mously—the non-interference with the private concerns of any nation; and moreover that it might threaten the stability of any peace. (Hear.) For what we call misrule other de spotic nations may call rule, and who is to be the arbiter between us ? (Applause.) Why at epee it becomes appa rent that it must be force on the ono side and force on the other ; and therefore I think this is a dangerous doctrine to maintain. My opinion is to stick religiously to the principle which for `ears you have adopted—which was years ago laid down by Lord Castlereagh—that of non-interference with the regulations and laws of any foreign country. By so doing you will maintain peace ; by doing otherwise you know not when Europe may be convulsed by a general war. lam for giving way to no power on earth ; let our laws be respected, let our subjects be respected—and so they shall be if ever I can say aye in such a matter—but do not, because a despotic king holds his subjects in thraldom, interfere with the inter nal government of his kingdom, and plunge us into war. While you do me the honour of maintaining me where you have placed me, the principle of non-interference I will main tain, but let our dignity be touched, let England be outraged, and then I will cry out, and shall be answered by almost every voice in this country—" Throw away the scabbard, out with the sword, and at once at it." (Loud cheers.) I have little to address to you on other topics ; the papers are exceedingly dull, and one paper is talking about the annihila tion of party, and another on the necessity of upholding it. But when for two years we have been united on one point, is it to be wondered at that you find some gentlemen voting one way, and some another ? Depend upon it, if aggression is made upon principles, parties will as readily come forward and unite as they have ever heretofore done on such an occa sion. But I do not see so much to regret as the papers do ; I think at present we are going on very well, and I hope and trust that prosperity may still exist, that the agriculturist, the mechanic, and the labourer may be well paid for their k s work, and if so, I do not think we shall have much to cm:" plain of in the want of union of the different parties who ma? represent you. The hon. member resumed his seat amidst loud cheers. On Thursday last the inhabitants of Boston gave a banquet to Herbetr Ingram, Esq., the member for the borough. The dinner took place in the hall of the Corn Exchange, a handsome and spacious building, entirely roofed with glass, and which on the present occasion was very tastefully decorated. The archway -which forms approach to the Corn-market was verry prettily set off with variegated lamps, and bore the word "Welcome" in dahlias of various hues, the front of the building itself being illuminated by gas in the form of a laurel wreath which nearly covered the facade. The interior of the corn market presented a brilliant appearance, the walls being completely festooned with flowers and evergreens, and exhibiting the flags of England, France, Turkey, and Sardinia. Covers were set for 50) guests, although double the number had made ap plication for tickets. At four o'clock the chair was taken by Mr. M. Staniland, a gentleman who had twice filled the office of mayor in the town. Mr. Ingram, whose appearance in the hall was the signal for general cheering, took his seat on the right of the chair. On the left of the chair was Lord William Lennox, brother to the Duke of Richmond. The CHAIRMAN then proposed the health of their hon. member and guest, Mr. Herbert Ingram. The toast was received with the utmost applause, and was accompanied by several rounds of cheers. Mr. INGEtall, iu returning thanks, expressed his attach ment to his native town, and said he took that festival as a sign th its inhabitants did not repent of making him their tsßoimoete sot ni r tm e hh p eea r s d e wt s heseenesnttbat banking members nn iv kd e. ng F ait o n r tote y otr hoe Parliamentseatrr interest, ht h e ne Conservative t s is. e ont r rtl v ehn a pe t ar i Cie v as e : in : n ) nt a at t t orr y teansd i et n e: interest or the landed interest, and sometimes to represent a large landed proprietor desirous of a peerage. These members represented their own interests very well in deed, but not the interests of Boston, or the interests of the country at large. At the last election, however, the constituency determined to elect a person to represent their own and the country's interest. The example had been followed in Nottingham and several other places, where they had elected men well known to the consti tuency, and not sent by particular parties or interests in London or elsewhere. Mr. Ingram said ho felt proud to represent a town which sent out the pilgrim fathers, the founders of a free state, whose inhabitants fought the battle of freedom. He next proceeded to refer to the last session of Parliament and several subjects discussed therein, justifying his vote on the motion of Mr. Muntz respecting the income tax, as well as that of Mr. Spooner on Maynooth. Ho was for a reduction of the paper duty, and for a reform of the state of the law. He thought Lord Palmeiston's bill on agricultural statistics utterly useless, and in its effects quite as likely to mis lead as to inform. He was for a national bank to en courage provident habits, by offering a better security than can be found in savings banks. The bank which he proposed should receive deposit accounts at interest, and also the smallest sums from the poor, who should be en titled to withdraw their money without notice, receiving interest at the same time; and in order to avoid danger during political excitements, the Government should have the option of giving at the rate of par cent. stock for all sums in the deposit account. There could be no possible objection to issuing if. notes. It would save the wear and loss of geld. Sufficient bullion must be, however, always in hand to pay all notes on demand. Not many years would elapse before a Chancellor of the Exchequer would be forced to found a national bank, which has now become an absolute necessity. He was in favour of an immediate extension of the franchise, so as to give votes to persons living in 101. houses, and the joining of the adjacent coun ties to small boroughs, he thought, would prove of great advantage to boroughs of less than 10,000 inhabitants. As for any more extensive reform, no one could hope for it at present. Our fleet and the imperial fleet of France were now about sailing for Naples. He wondered if anything would be said about the freedom of the press to the King of Naples. That subject put him in mind of the old say ing, " the pot calling the kettle black." Ho thought the policy of interference was questionable, unless followed up by strong measures. Mr. Ingram said—Gentlemen, I shall conclude by answering a question put to me by a friend in this room. He asked me, " What is your motive for going into Parliament?" My answer is, that it is a motive to serve my native town and my country. (Cheers.) I leave this legacy to my children—that I served you and the country usefully and faithfully; and I know I shall not go unrewarded in another and brighter world. (The hon. gentleman then resumed his scat amid the most deaf ening and continuous cheering.) Mr. W. D. COOPER proposed "The Members of the House of Commons," coupling with the toast the name of Mr. Oliveira, the member for Pontefract. Mr. Ouvzitta returned, thanks. Mr. P. Trxroao, of the Mark-lane Express, proposed the next toast, " Prosperity to Agriculture.' Lord Wm. LENNOX proposed the next toast, "The Press," coupling with it the names of Mr. Herbert Ingrain and Mr. Shirley Brooks. (Cheers.) Mr. S. BROOKS returned thanks. Mr. INGRAM proposed the last toast of the evening, " The Ladies," to which he would request Mr. Mark Lemon to reply. (Cheers.) Mr. Mass. LeMON —Mr. Chairman, my lord, and gentlemen, I must first be allowed to thank you for the very kind man ner which you have received the toast with which your worthy representative has done me the honour to couple my name. The reception, I am aware, is more attributable to or any claim I may possess to your sympathies. (Cries of " No, no.") ed your own gotoedelinfeeeliiwnghetnianfult: x:nyseumoeuriatdoenif Your lion. member told you a short time since, and told you truly, that one of the proudest moments of his life was that which decided his election as your representative. What must be my TAE EARL OF CARDIGAN. The Post of yesterday publishes a letter signed " George Ryan, author of The Lives of nur Heroes in the Crimea.' " The writer intimates that he is the per son referred to as a " low, hireling slanderer," in Lord Cardigan's recent letter, where the phrase "the malig nant slanders of Messrs. Buck and Ryan " is also used. Mr. Ryan quotes several alleged "conversations " to back up his own contradiction of Lord Cardigan's state ment that his conduct at Balaklava has been but recently canvassed. "On the rout of the Russian cavalry by the Heavy Brigade, by General Scarlett, Captain William Morris, of the 17th Lancere, in the presence of many officers, thus communed with his lordship : Captain Morris—' My lord, you are not going to charge the flying enemy ' Lord Cardigan—' No ; we have orders to remain here.' Captain Morris—' But, my lord, it is our positive duty to follow up this advaptage.' Lord Cardigan—' We must remain here.' _ _ Captain ?Morris—' Do, my lord, allow me to charge them with the Lancers I See, my lurd, they are in dis order Lord Cardigan—' We must remain here.' Captain Morris (to several officers)—' Gentlemen, you are witnesses of my request.' 4 , Was this nothing ' on the subject for many months after the battle of Balaklava "When his lordship retreated from the guns, Captain Alexander Low (now Colonel Low) thus addressed Lord George Paget : Lord George, what are we to do ?' Lord George Paget—' Where is Lord Cardigan ? ' Captain Low—' Did yoe not see Lord Cardigan gallop back through our lines as we were coming up ' Lord George Paget—' rhon we 111'13G tight until we are beaten back.' "I re-assert that the following took place : "Scene, the position which the remnant of the Light Brigade took up. Time, 20 minutes after the charge. Present, the Earl of Cardigan, Captain Jenyns of the 13th Light Dragoons, Lord George Paget, and several officers of the staff. Lord George Paget— it ?' .‘ Sci, Cardigan, you were no The Earl of Cardigan—' Wasn't I though ?' Capt. J.'nyns—' Y , ,u were by my side, my lord, when we reached the guns.' The Earl of Cardigan—' Yes, and there were Cossacks poking at the there—l telt their lances poking about me somewhere !' _ . "His lordship further observes, These calumnies met with no encouragement from tho respectable portion of tht. press. It was therefore unnecessary for me to treat them otherwise than with silence and contempt•' "Has Lord Cardigan lost all recollection of his own de iberate acts ? Now the noble and gallant soldier did not treat what he is pleased to term my calumnies' with silence and contempt,' fur shortly atter the publication of my book he wrote to the Crimea, requesting Lord Wm. Panlet's opinion as to the accuracy of my state ment, wherein I make Lord William an eye-witness of the Earl of Cardigan's retreat. The reply of Lord Win. Paulet is in the hands of the Earl of Cardigan, and would in print be excellent proof of `silence and con tempt.' By the same post the noble lord wrote also to General Scarlett for his opinion on the obnoxious pas sage in my book. " My noble accuser stigmatises me as a paid slanderer. That is a very unenviable character wherewith to stand before a publisher and the public, and I have therefore instructed my solicitor to bring the Earl of Cardigan into court, there to justify—if he can—the language he has so imprudently been advised to adopt towards one who, some 18 months since, the noble and gallant general considered worthy of commendation. "All the necessary witnesses are in the United King. dom. His lordship has riches. Let the noble lord look to it then, that no unseemly legal technicalities be thrown in the way of speedy justice." Sporting Intelligence. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAY. CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. 4to 1 agst Vengeance (t?ken) 15 to 2 agst Coup de Main (taken) 3to 1 agst Pole Star (taken) 100 to 6 agst Poacher (taken) 100 to 6 agst Eloquence (taken) 20 to 1 agst Alma (taken) 20 to 1 agst Malacca (taken) 25 to 1 agat Pretty Buy (taken) 25 to 1 agst Hospitality (taken) 30 to 1 agst Artillery (taken) 30 to 1 ags Lance (take 33 to 1) 30 to 1 agst Porto Rico (taken) 40 to 1 agst Thames Ditton (taken) CRITERION STAKES. 5 to 2 agst Sydney (taken) 1 agst Rosa Bonheur (taken) DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Blink Bonny (taken) 14 to 1 igst Loyola 18 to 1 aget Sydney 25 to 1 agst Zuyder Zee ACCIDENT AT THE ART TREASURES PALACE, MAN CEIESTER.—By the fall of some scaffolding used in the erection of this new building, five or six men were more or less injured !on Thursday evening, but none of them fatally. In pursuance of this object we have doubtless often been compelled to enunciate unpalatable truths. And the present compels us to persist in this un•courcierlike course. The present is no time for soothing flattery. A. combined monetary and commercial crisis in France is prolucing a monetary crisis in England. Here we are in little ultimate danger. Trade and manufactures are with us in an unprecedentedly healthy condition. We run no greater danger than that of temporary pressure and embarrassment from the reaction or contagion of French suffering. That, however, is a sufficient reason why we should seek to avert from France evils which must necessarily be se• verely, though not fatally, felt by ourselves. With regard to France, matters are very different. It is not merely the money market that is disturbed ; the manufactures and commerce of that country are in an alarming condition. And this condition, if not produced exclusively by the unwise policy of the French Government, is in a large measure owing to it, and has been Materially aggravated by . it. This being the case, justice to our own coun trymen, and friendship to our French neighbours, alike compel us to protest against the false policy of the French Government,' even at the risk of irri tating the Emperor, or—what would be nearer the exact truth—his masters, the gamblers of the Bourse, and the protected interests. The fundamental error of the French Govern ment is its having undertaken to do for the people what it is beyond the power of any Government to accomplish. The labouriug classes have been en couraged to look to the Government as able to in sure them constant employment and cheap and plentiful provisions, and other necessaries of life. Under any circumstances the attempts of the Go vernment to realise such expectations must have been futile. But ever since the Prince President or Emperor snatched the reins of government, the seasons have fought against him. He calculated with too sanguine an assurance that the return of confidence and commercial activity, the result of the establishment of a " strong Government," would be permanent. Some men see a strange fatality in the circumstance that war, famine, pes tilence, inundation, have marked every successive year since December, 1852. It has been as if " the stars in their courses fought against Sisera." Every year there has been a deficient harvest. The grape disease has shown no symptoms of abasement. This year there is at least a doubtful harvest ; and to this have.. been superadded the inundations and the certain failure of the silk crops. The agriculturists have lost their crops, and the manufacturers lack their raw material. The Emperor has sought to counteract.. these evils by immense and costly public works, and by giving an artificial stimulus to ma nufactures and commerce. In this he has been stimulated and confirmed by daring speculators, who have found their own profit in the course whielt they have induced or encouraged him to pursua. The consequence is that large sums have bcon expended, and larger debts incurred, in beau tifying Paris and other cities ; and monopolist spe culiitofs have been enabled tolanneli out into foreign enterprises, which are extensively withdrawing capital from the country. We say nothing at proent of the lavish expenditure incurred by at tempts to dazzle the populace by Imperial osten tation, though that, too, is an item in the account. But the day of reckoning, which we have foretold from the beginning, is fast approaching. The foreign engagements the Credit Mobilier can only be met by the continuance of that drain of capital which is paralysing domestic industry. The public workscan only be continued by imposts upon the proprietary class, which must impoverish many and alienate the affections of all. The system has not realised what was expected of it. Builders, paviours, artists, have had employment ; but in a r,e r , e i i t s t s i et d eci e au s d u ai ll n lyy e nrdiiiasl risen. the great centres o f manu f actur i ng i n d ustry there Provisionshick it and house rent e e d r .o scrtiosisabhaansdaornriovredpeirn. sz . st in the policy that has been adopted. The prospects of the coming winter fill men with the darkest forebodings. An immense strain has been put on the national resources ; people are seeking employment at a time when it is most improvident to increase publi c wor k s ; fi nanc i ers at their w i t ' s end talk of a s us p ens i on o f cas h payments—in words of a recurrence to the system of assiguats ; the Emper or ' s popu l ar i ty declines,and 8 secret co: hso cieties extend. The most alarming feature of this state of affairs is the uncertainty and vacillation which seems to pervade the action of Government.. Disapproba tion of undue speculation is expressed, but no effi cient measures are taken to check it. One day it is announced that the works at the Louvre are opened for the completion of the Boulevard_ et a suspended, and the next a supplemental credit is Se bastopol. Alleviations of the restrictive .t _do tne system are announced, and then indefini9ly than post poned. Either the Emperor is undoes one day what he has do •_ or there is "a in his uncertainty how to proceed; power behind the throne greater panic-stricken,ie on the preceding throne "—the Bourse • withhold him from interests—strong enough to gam bler d s . a ,c n i d iss t i h o e n, pr t o L t r e o c u t g e h d such au anxious moment free is tribune, is indispensable to the obeying the dictates of his . better judgment. At discussion facts would safety of France. By free be elicited and a sound policy struck out. B y f ree 1,110 press and the discussion a public opinion would be formed that would enable the Eserror to bid defiance to the secret and sinister influences which now enthral hint. By free discussion the irritation necessarily engendered in the minds of men denied the m ea ns of - ascc rtaining the causes of their sufferings, or of relieving themselves by the utterance of their com plaints would be dissipated. And yet, by a judi cial blindness, at this very moment the Press of France is more strictly gagged than ever. It therefore becomes the imp era ti ve d uty o f t h e P res s of England to urge th e s e di scuss i ons, an d e xpress those opinions in th e i nterest of F rance which Frenchmen ar e denied the liberty of urging or utterin g for th emse l ves. T o d o t hi s •i s a duty we owe both to France and England, and we still con tinue to discharge it—temperately but firmly—nn- deterred by the oracular fulminations of the I Moniteur.—Daily .News. A BOOR FOR EVERT HOUSEHOLD. 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