The Sun. — London, England, 1854-01-17 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, J. 17, Will be presented PAULA LAZARR9 ; or, The Ladrone's Daßgh ter. Characters by Messrs. G. Bennett, G. Wild, Lee, Belton, and T. Mead ; and Miss Featherstone. To conclude With KING 111.1MMINGTOP ; or, Haleinin and the Land of Toys. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Buckatoue. THIS EVENING, JAN. 17, A Juvenile Night, On which occasion will be performed THE ROUGH DIAMOND. Characters by Messrs. Howe and Buckstone ; Mrs. Fltzwilliam and Miss Ellen Grey. --- After which, the Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOMI3IE, called HARLEQUIN AND THE THREE BEARS ; or, Little Silverhair and the Fairies. Columbine, Miss M. Brown ; Harlequin, Mr. J. Marshall : Pantaloon, Mr. W. A. Barnes; Clown, Mr. H. Marshall. To be followed by A PRETTY PIECE OF BUSINESS. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CaAssam LEAN. THIS EVENING, JAN. 17, Will be performed THE RIVALS. Characters by Messrs. W. Lacy, Harley, Meadows, J. Vining, Mellon, and Addison ; Mrs. Winstanley, Mrs. W. Lacy, Miss Heath, and Miss C. Leclercq. Alter which will be presented the new Grand CHRISTMAS PAN TOMIME, entitdAl HARLEQUIN AN' THE MILLER AND HIS MEN; or, King Selanaudar and the Fairy of the Azure Lake. Harlequin, Mr. Corm tea ; Clown, Mr. Huline ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; and Columbine, Miss Desborough. LYCEUM THEATRE. Uncle: the Management of Madame Vestris, TILES EVENING, JAN. 17, Will be performed A BACHELOR OF ARTS: Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Baker ; Miss F. Hughes. After which, the original Fairy Extravaganza, called ONCE UPOg A TINtE THERE WERE TWO KINCIS. Principal cha racters by Mr. Wright and Madame Vestrls. To conclude with PATTER VERSUS CLATTER. TIIEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII„ Proprietor, sir. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, JAN. 17, win be presented the highly Popular New Nautical Melo-drama, . five taoleaux, with new scenery, the Sea of Ice, &c., new I dresser an d appointments, called TEI E THIRST OF GOLD; or, T rim LOST SHIP AND THE WILD FLOWER OF MEXICO. Principal characters by Messrs. B. Webster, Keeley, Paul Bedford, 0. Selby, Pernik, Marsden, &c. ; Madame Celeste, Mrs. Leigh Murray, Miss F. Maskell, &c. To be followed by the popular and entirely New Grand Specta cular legendary Christmas piece, in two acts, with new scenery, dresses, machinery, and appointments, called NUMBER NIP, or THE SPIRIT BRIDE. Principal characters by Madame Celeste, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, Miss M. Keeley, Miss Cuthbert, Miss C. Harding ; Messrs. Paul Bedford, J. Rogers, Romer, G. Lee, &c. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, JAN. 17, Will be performed THE FIRST NIGHT. Characters by Messrs. Alfred Wigan, Leslie, Lindon, Harwood Cooper, and Vincent ; Miss P. Horton, and Miss Wyndham. To be followed by THE CAMP AT THE OLYMPIC. Charac ters by Messrs. A. Wigan, F. Robson, Morton, and Galli ; Mes dames A. Wigan, Stirling, P. Horton, Chatterley, &e. Followed by THE WANDERING MINSTREL. STRAND THEATRE. Role Lessee, Mr. F. W. Alicroft.—Directress, Miss Rebecca Isaacs THIS EVENING, JAN. 17, Will be performed LA SONNAMEITLA. To be followed by THE IRISH TUTOR. After which, a new grand Comic Christmas Pantomime. entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING NUTCRACKER ; or, The World of Toys. Clown, by 'he i limitable Flexmore ; Harlequin, Mr. Bologna ; Pantaloon, Mr. Griffiths ; Columbine, Miss Goward. Stalls, 55.; Boxes, 3s. • Pitt, Is.; Gallery, 6d.; Private Boxes, 11. Is., to be had of Mr. Allcroft, 15, New Bond-street. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. A GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE on THURSD NEXT, Jan. 19, commencing at two o'clock. Gratuitous admission of the boys of the Duke of York's School, who, by the permission of the Commandant, Col. Clark, IC.H., will attend with their band. Crowded Houses nightly greet the Grand Spectacle, the Wondrous Performing Elephants, and the most gorgeous and successful Panto mime of the Season. THIS EVENING, JAN. 17, (And during the week) To commence with the Grand Chinese Spectacle, THE WISE ELEPHANTS OF THE EAST, or THE MAGIC GONG, in which Mr. William Cooke's extraordinary Trained Elephants appear. Followed by a Reche , che Routine of Scenes of Equestrianism In THE ARENA, supported by the Elite of Europe's Equestrian Artistes. Concluding with Mr. W. Cooke's immensely successful COMIC PANTOWIME. written expressly for this Theatre, by Mr. NELSON LEE, entitled BILLY BUTTON'S JOURNEY TO BRENTFOItD ; or, Harlequin and the Ladles' Favourite. New scenery, dresses, decorations, and appointments, magnificent Car of Industry, &c. Harlequin, Mr. IL Hemmings ; Columbine, Mdlte. Christine; Pantaloon, Mr. Lehman ; and Two Clowns, Mr. C. Adams and Mr. Croueste ; Sprites, Masters Gee and Bradbury. Flox-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. TUESDAY, JAN. 17, _1854 State of the wind and weather at each of the following places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations are arranged in order of latitude. FOLKESTONE—S., calm—overcast. TUNBRIDGE—E., calm—overcast. Gaimrwma—Calm—overcast. STROOD—E., calm—overcast. Swim:lox—E., light airs—foggy. CAMBRlDGE—Calm—cloudy. YARMOUTH—S., calm—overcast. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the weather on Saturday morning at nine o'clock FOLICESTONE—W., calm—cloudless. BIRMINGHAM—S.W., calm—foggy. HOLYHEAD—W., gentle breeze—fine. LANCASTER—S., calm—cloudless. WHlTBY—Calm—foggy. DARLINGTON—S., strong wind—cloudy—light falls of snow—frost. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TUN DAY —Morning 50 min.after 3 Evening 6 min.aft. 4 To-Moaaow— Morning 24 min.after 4 Evening 4 min.aft. 10 THE WEA.THER.-SUE OFFICE, JAR. 17. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 50 —highest since noon yesterday. 47 —lowest this morning and during the night. 49 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30'08. WIND, S.W.—Light airs, and dull, cloudy weather. - , 0.211 nne ~~s Vvb „„ e LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1854, was required ! The directions of " the EMPEROR" are, therefore, to be sought before the line of policy is decided ou, or the PRINCE abandons the pretensions he has put forward. The public pulse is also to be felt, to ascertain whether any beat in unison with that of Mr. THOMAS MULOCK, and whether there would be any prospect of maintain ing a high hand over the stubborn islanders whom the PRINCE condescended to govern. The Times has, therefore, been authorised to avoid committing itself to either side—to abstain from all direct and positive assertion with respect to the truth or falsehood, the accuracy or inaccu racy of these rumours. The letter of " C.", the extract from the United Service Gazette, only de precated any notice being taken or question raised on the point at present. These exactly suited the " policy of abstention" practised by the Leviathan, and were therefore published ; but the epistle of Mr. THOMAS MULOCK, though penned in a congenial spirit, was too distinct and unequivocal for similar treatment. It justified, nay, more than justified, the course said to have been followed by the PRlNCE—insisted that it was his duty to do so, in consequence of his marital headship, and the singularly ' indiscreet reply, which adopted these extravagant opinions, and thanked the writer for his kind communication, would have precipitated the issue which it was the object of the party to procrastinate. There fore, MULOCK was let alone, and " the lead ing journal" wrapt itself up in a cloak of mys tery, not to be discarded until a suitable oppor tunity may arise ! Meanwhile another communication has appeared which could not well have been rejected. Mr. C. C. GREVILLE (Clerk of the Privy Council) has written to say, that a special Act of Parliament had been obtained authorising the Act of Na turalisation of Prince ALBERT to be brought in, without the salutary clause that prohibited him from taking a seat in the Privy Council, pursuant to the Ist GEO. I. ; adding that the same principle had been adopted in the case of the present King of the BELGIANS, when, as Prince LEOPOLD, he was about to marry the heiress Presumptive of the British throne. We certainly cannot see the benefit of the statutory prohibition adopted, no doubt, on sufficient grounds, if it may on every occasion be dispensed with. Mr. C. C. GREVILLE has thus raised a very important constitutional question for the consideration of the Imperial Parliament. He has also disclosed another matter of doubtful practice, and more than doubt ful policy. Members of the Royal Family, it appears, are not " sworn in," but only intro duced to the Council. The PRINCE, then, though a foreigner by birth and education, has, in op position to a fundamental law, been admitted as a member, and, by the adoption of an unconstitu tional practice, has not been sworn to secresy. The caution exercised with respect to the Dukes of CUMBERLAND and S ussEx—English-born Princes —has not been exercised with regard to Prince ALBERT. These revelations alone would render a Legislative inquiry indispensable. They come from such a source as to place it beyond dispute, that the Prince CONSORT has acted as an un pledged and unsworn Privy Councillor, and therefore lend additional weight to the untoward statements that have been generally circulated, and, we regret to be obliged to say, as generally credited for some time past with respect to the conduct of his Royal Highness. declared his intention to follow his example. The trembling Rittmeister offered him his papers and everything back, if he would but leave quietly— but it was his turn now to play the inexorable, and to diminish Austrian obstinacy. He certainly went much farther than the Apostle of the Gen tiles, for he told the supplicating officer, that " the matter was out of his hands, and must be settled between the Austrian empire and his country !" And thus, for the present, ends the affair between the Rittmeister HERR VON FALKENHAYN, of Fele gyhaza, and the Rev. JAMES COOK, Anglo-Catholic Presbyter, Richmond, U.S. FRANCIS JOSEPH knows all about it by this time. Oh, could he but get some fifty million dollars to spare, and would be not bring Mr. COOK and General PIERCE to their senses. His first thought, no doubt, is of ROTHSCHILD. Unfor tunately ROTHSCHILD'S last thought is of bankrupt exchequers. No ; nothing is left him but to im poverish his own subjects yet more, to augment his present and destroy his future income, or to make his amende honourable to the Great American citizen. Could a HAPSBURG but open his eyes, or find some one to open them, he might see in a moment the utter rottenness and weakness of an empire which trembles before a tourist clergyman from the other side of the Atlantic. Well may it alternately shake at the thought of a European war, and cower before the CZAR, when it dreads an American presbyter ; and rather " eat humble pie" to the American President than receive a visit from his navy at Trieste. It occurred to us, too, that Mr. COOK might carry home some useful lessons to his countrymen. He proclaims that the Austrian Government must learn that " there is an important difference be tween their subjects—exposed without remedy to all their whims—and a freeman of the United States." No doubt there is. But there is a still more important difference between Austrian sub jects and the non-freeman of the United States. One greatly, indeed, to the advantage of the for mer. Austria founds her distinctions on locality— America, on the colour of the skin. The former makes Italians and Hungarians politically slaves ; the latter makes all but white men slaves, both personally and politically. Austria compels her subjects to submit to many governmental whims, it is true, and to much worse than whims ; but America compels millions of hers to submit to the unrestrained tyranny, cruelty, lust, or avarice of every individual who can afford a few hundred dollars ; and to submit, as Mr. COOK says, " without remedy." In Austria, there is no Fugi tive Slave Law. In America, the PRESIDENT glories in one as the bulwark of the Union. In Austria, gendarmes hunt suspected travellers ; in America, Tom Lomas and bloodhounds hunt the negro, who has the whim of preferring freedom to slavery. As Mr. COOK observes, "there is a difference." Hapless house of Hapsburg ! Unlucky Austria! Hard enough is it to be poor ; very hard to be short some five millions annually, and to owe twice as much ; but hardest of all to be bearded in its poverty by the cubs of a purse-proud, mush room Republic, and its birthless, untitled Pre sident— " Nil habot infelix pauportas durius in se, Quam quod ridiculos homines facit." But the other day one 'Via RTIN KOSSTA , though his republican vestments indicated unquestionably that he was still in his American teens, was de clared by the President to be " clothed with the nationality of the United States." Even in his Republican petticoats, with Captain INGRAHAM for his AJAX, and. General PIERCE for his AGA MEMNON, he could. laugh at the poor Kaiser. If the tailor makes the man, it is, alas 1 money that makes the monarch. The President, with his pocket full of dollars, snubs to his heart's content the Emperor, with a Rocket empty of florins. The imperial lackeys, too, indignant at the rival pre tensions of a democratic upstart, contrive to force their master every now and then into a humbling p.sition. There is something very undignified in slippingup and falling backwards. A lord looks rather silly before a shopkeeper as he rises, and, after looking at the place, walks off ; but how very awkward must an Emperor feel when his officials throw him on the pavement before a Pre sident, and all the envious little potentates of Europe, safe in their insignificance, are laughing in their sleeves. Maryport and Carlisle North Staffordshire Paris and Rouen.. It will be perceived that " A MAN OF THE WORLD" has, through our columns of this even ing, given to the public a masterly analysis of the character of NAPOLEON 111., in an elaborate letter addressed with a certain graceful inference to the gallant Marquis of LONDONDERRY. A manifest value attaches to the opinions of the writer, as any attentive observer cannot fail to deduce from a careful and dispassionate perusal of his argument, speaking as he does from a per sonal acquain lance with the eminent personage whose genius he has undertaken to delineate. Apart from which, it may here, we conceive, be somewhat reasonably remarked, that the indivi dual who has traced these outlines of one of the foremost men of this age, has evidenced throughout the dexterity of a master hand in his guidance of the pencil, the vigour won by prac tice, and that implicit confidence in the justness of his own views, which is the fruit alone of severe deliberation, and an extended experience. Introduced to NAPOLEON 111. by his uncle, King JOSEPH—" the good JOSEPH" of those memoirs of the Duchesse D'ABRANTES, which are in fasci nation the "Arabian Nights" of modern autobio graphy—" A Man of the World" appears to have estimated the depth, the resources, and the origi nality of that singular temperament not less astutely or leas appreciatively than M. DE LA GUERONNIERE. He recognised in the exiled. Prince, a student " abstracted, yet vigi lant," a man " inquisitive in everything, but studiously incommunicative," one who was "cold and impassive, but full of latent energy," a being " cautious in decision, but, once in action, prompt, rapid, and impetuous," an adventurer, in fine (using that word, of course, in its loftiest signification), " improved by study, steeled by adversity, disciplined by every vicissitude." Nothing can be more admirably felicitous than that limning of his personal aspect where it is said of him, with a humorous paradox or by a witty antithesis, that "frigidly affable and repulsively polite, he avoided either offence or familiarity, but seemed instinctively to coil up his nature from observation." It will be observed on an examination of this remarkable letter, that the writer has passed in review, one by one, the prin cipal events in the career of the reigning EM PEROR. He weighs them in the balance with impartiality. He utters not one syllable bearing the semblance of special pleading. He calls things by their right names. Our own opinions in regard to the subject of his scrutiny are already, we be lieve, tolerably well known by this time to the generality. They possess the advantage at least of having been enunciated at a time when success had not yet put a seal to the acts of the Admi nistrator—that seal by which they are consecrated in the estimation of the multitude—bequeathed to the admiration of posterity by the ap proval of the contemporary population. Not inappropriately, therefore, we may ven ture to add, is this manly and dispassionate analysis of NAPOLEON 111. given to the world in our columns, and not inappropriately has it been conveyed to the public in the form of a letter, addressed to the intercessor successively for the Prisoner of Ham, and for the Prisoner of Amboise—the friend of NAPOLEON and the sym pathiser with ABD-EL-KADER—the veteran and • chivalrous Marquis of LONDONDERRY. A second time, however, these gentry have thus compromised their Imperial master. Before, the battle was between two captains ; this time be tween an American .Reverend and some military Herr, rejoicing in the title of Rittmeister, or Captain of the Horse. We may well ask our German friends whether the rank of Esel-meister would not be more appropriate. This worthy HERR VON FAL/CENHAYN, of Felegyhaza (we hope our orthography is correct, our readers have it'as we had it), thinks he has found a quarry, not a half American, half Hungarian in Smyrna, but a living American in Hungary itself. The " hay on his horn " unfortunately he did not see, but of the wicked letters sewn up in his American clothes lie had no doubt. What a bright thought ! Some score or half-dozen Briefe from expatriated Magyars to those at home who had escaped the bullet and the gallows—why, they will make his fortune. At least, if his master has no specie to spare for him, he will give him a six-foot title or so, and a bill payable as soon as the Jews will raise him another loan. Off, therefore, a gendarme is posted from Felegyhaza, aforesaid, to Kecskemet. Straightway, and withoutnotice, he walks into the bedchamber of the American Reverend, and, at four o'clock in the morning o the 28th December, jolts him off in a waggon, and amidst a violent storm of snow to the quarters of his principal. Utterly exhausted, he hoped to enjoy here a night's rest. Not so, however. Three gendarmes split his bedroom door to pieces, threatening to shoot him dead if he did not in stantly arise. The indignant believer in the stars and stripes instantly pointed to the word ' AMERICA in his pas Tort, and told them that a certain _Herr across the Atlantic had declared " that the rights of an American citizen should not be treated with impunity, but should be reverenced throughout the world." Perhaps they thought that Felegyhaza, was out of the world, for in no way respecting the declaration of HERR VON WASHINGTON, they told him " he had never fallen into right hands before," searched him with " coarse, brutal, and disgusting minuteness— thrust their dirty hands into his bosom I—and promised soon to diminish his obstinacy." One is curious to know the Austrian recipe for Yankee obstinacy. Here it is. First, he is declared under arrest, then walked off at one a.m. in another snow storm to the guard-room ; then pointed to a dirty s o ldi er ' s b e d, an d told that a good bed there is at his disposal. Another examination for let ters sewn i n hi s c l o th es — a soldier standing by with his gun cocked ; his paper money taken away and miscounted, and his watch taken also—then the dirty bed again, of course with his clothes on ; gendarmes drinking, quarrelling, swearing, and card- playing in the room all night ;—morning at last arrives, and h e as k s for means to write or telegraph to the American Ambassador at Vienna. " Refused." Only think, gentle reader, of an American, and " A Presbyter of the Anglo-Ca tholic Church at Richmond, - U.5.," unlearning ob stinacy in an Austrian guard-room. But, now, the turn of his Reverence was come. Even Rittmeisters feel, like other folk, somewhat quaky when they've overdone it. No letters were found. All visions of increased pay and honours vanished. " What if I've got my superiors into another diplomatic scrape after all 7 It looks in convenient ; I'll see the man and send him off quietly." But the Successor of the Apostles was not to be so dealt with. Re told his visitor to his dismay the story of PAUL at PHILIPPI, and The most remarkable point connected with the sinister rumours recently circulated respecting the undue interference of the Prince CONSORT in the foreign policy of Great Britain, is - the total and unbroken silence of the ABERDEEN organ in rela tion thereto. It is true that it has given a syco phantic and toadying letter from a tuft-hunter, who uses the initial " C."—but it has totally ignored the letter of Mr. THOMAS MULOCK. It has also published an extract from a military journal, virulently assailing the " scribes" who dare to utter anything unsuited to the atmo sphere of Flunkeydom ; but it has not put forward a single remark of its own on the subject—it has left it without notice of any kind or description. It is singular that any journal could so entirely give the go-bye to a topic which has excited a greater degree of interest, and, we may add, of anxiety, than any that has been " ventilated" for many years. The silence is indeed remark able, and may warrant grave suspicions as to the true state of affairs. It looks exceedingly like the prevalence of great doubt and uncertainty on the part of those more immediately concerned in those strange affairs, as if they had not as yet made up their minds as to the course to be adopted, when a solemn inquiry takes place into the entire transactions, whether they have yet m a d e up their minds to meet the serious accusations, for they have already assumed that shape, with a direct "t raverse, " or a " confession and avoidance," justifying the course adopted, and boldly insisting on its propriety. If the PRINCE had resolved to abandon the objectionable proceedings, there would be no difficulty or hesi tation. We might either have a total denial of the authenticity of these statements, or a solem n pledge that such unconstitutional interference would be henceforward and for ever abandoned, and that the Government of the country would be suffered to remain in the hands of her MA JESTY'S responsible servants, who, by their oaths, are bound to advise her MAJESTY without partiality, a f fection, or dread, TO KEEP HER COUNCILS SE CRET (!), to avoid corruption, and to assist in the exe cution of what may be resolved at the Privy Council Board. But Prince ALBERT is at present a trump card, with the absolute powers. He can do much to assist the views of Russia and Austria, and they can hold out inducements to action by ele vating his family to higher consideration than they enjoyed before they were selected as the " stuck" from which consorts should be chosen for the " family of monarchs" throughout Europe—a position for which their felicitous latitude on the subject of religion peculiarly qualifi e d th em— Lutheran, Calvinistic, or Roman Catholic ten dencies being apparently matters of the most perfect indifference ; some eligible young man or blooming maid of " COBURG extraction" being always forthcoming, with opinions exactly suited to those of the Royal personage for whom a spouse Australia— s . Adelaide to 100 Hobart Town 85s to 100 Launceston ............ 99 Melbourne or Geelong Wharves ....Ms to 120 Melbourne or Gee long 9os to 100 New Zealand Bss to 100 Portland Bay .......... /10 Port Fairy ............... 120 Swan River M s to 80 SydneY • Bss to 100 Alexandretta . 35 Alexandria ................ 30 Algoa Bay .................. 65 Alicante ............ . ........ 50 Anc0na..................... 60 Antigua ..................... 30 Athens ..................... 30 Barbadoes .................. 30 THE COURT. —Lord Ernest Bruce, as Lord Cham berlain pro ton, during the absence of the Marquis of Breadalbane in Scotland, by command of her Majesty, has issued invitations for a select and distinguished circle to assemble at Windsor Castle to-morrow, to remain until Friday, to witness the fourth series of dramatic performances on Thursday, to which the principal no bility and gentry in the vicinity and the officers of the garrison will be invited. Barcelona 4O Batavia .................. . 6O Berbico ................ 40 Bermuda Beyrout 35 Bilboa 2O Bombay Boston Buenos Ayre s Cadiz ...............30s to 35 Calcutta Canton Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope ...... 0 5 Carthageno. Ceylon Constantinople Danube (Galatz and Ibrail 4O Demerara Genoa._ Gibraltar The Marquis ani Marchioness of Salisbury are entertaining a distinguished party at Hatfield House. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary are expected to arrive to-morrow from Kew on a visit to his lordship. A grand ball and supper will be given to the elite of the rank and fashion of the county the same evening. We regret to announce the severe indisposition of the Marquis of Londonderry. His lordship, who has been surrounded by a family party at Wynyard since Christ• mas, has been suffering for some days from neuralgia, in a very bad form. The latest accounts describe the noble marquis to be in a state of great exhaustion from the continued pai n consequent on hi s ma l a dy. The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma to the Marquis and Stanley left St. J ames ' s - square yes t er d a y, on a visit Marchioness of Salisbury at Hat field House, Herts. The Viscountess C ann i ng w ill l eave Grosvenor-square to-day to relieve L a d y J ocelyn, the Queen. The n o bl e l or d w ill l eave town to-morrow on a visit to her M a j es t y , a s lady in waiting on Lord and Lady Stanley (of Alderley) and the li ?n. Miss Stanley have arr i ve d i n D over - s t ree t from visiting Lord and Lady Ashburton, at the Grange, Basingstoke, Hants, where a la rge party h ave b een p a rticipating in the hospitalities of the noble lord and lady during the last week. The Right Hon. John Wynne is at present residing in Edinburgh, and will no t v i si t Sligo before the latter end of April. The Hon. C. S. Hardinge, M.P., for Downpatrick has arrived at Montalto, county Down, the seat of D S. Ker, Esq., from Great Stanhope-street, London. The Marquis and Marchioness of Headfort are enter taininc, a numerous p ar t y at H ea df o rt House, county Meath. ° The Earl and Countess of Bective, Mr. San dars, M.P., and Lady Virginia Sandars, Sir John Young, M.P., and Lady Young have been amongst the visitors. _ _ _ We aro sorry to announce the demise of the infant son of Lord and Lady Saltoun, which took place on the 12th inst., at Philorth, the family seat in Aberdeenshire. Lord Dudley Stuart met with a warm reception at the hands of the Polish emigration in Constantinople. He was continually seen in th e com p a ny of Generals Ch rzanow sky and iVlisochy, TILE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY E ENING, JANUARY 17, 1854. MONEY MA RKE li AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 6,000 bales, all to the trade. The market closed firm at previous rates. The sales comprised 4,000 American, 600 Pernam and Maranham, at qd. to Pad. ; 100 Bahia, at 61d.; 300 Egyptian, at 6d. to 10d.; 800 Surat, at 31d. to 44d., and 30 Sea Island, at is. to ls. 3d. per lb. Railway shares were flat. The railway meetings announced are the follow ing : Company. Date. Place. Llaneliy Railway and Dock Jan. 30, London Tavern. London, Brighton, and South Coast Jan. 26, Bridge house Hotel. Jan. 18, Maryport. Jan. 25, Stoke- NAPOLEON THE THIRD. TO THE MOST NOBLE THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY. LORD, —Although personally a total stranger to your Lordship, I take the liberty of addressing this letter to you, in consequence of the high and chivalrous character which you have ever displayed in your intercourse with the subject of it. In essaying to sketch the extraordinary personage who now occupies the.throne of France, I hope to dispel some of the prejudices respecting him which re peated misrepresentations not unnaturally produce. It seems to me, at a moment such as this, the paramount duty of every well-wisher to England to bind closely the union between countries which nature, when she made them neighbours, clearly showed she meant to be friends. That the Em peror of the French should be the object of much criticism, perhaps also the victim of some obloquy, however undeserved, is so much in the order of things that it is scarcely to be wondered at. Perhaps, indeed, it would be strange if it were otherwise. If it be the lot of every one, elevated ever so little above the multitude, to be pursued by envy as it were by a shadow, how should he escape whom such mighty combinations are interested in depreciating ? Why should he look for an exemp tion who has transcended other men so signally ? He, who, despite of persecution, imprisonment, and exile, silencing the factions and baffling the statesmanship of France, has seated him self on, our own alone excepted; the proudest .and most powerful throne in Europe ! It is in deed, a stupendous and bewildering achievement, recalling, if not rivalling, those which made his mighty ancestor immortal, and yet—as your Lord ship must remember well—it was the fashion for a time to consider this very man almost an imbecile ! It is positively a fact, and so established, too, that I myself shared the appellation for presuming to controvert it. Napoleon Louis an imbecile ! aye, in the eyes of those who worship only success, and can see no genius unless verified by events. They are not, and they were not, my criterion. To me, at this moment, Prosperity displays him not more brightly than when at Strasburgh, demanding to share the fate of his companions, or immured in Ham, over his essay on pauperism, endeavouring to mitigate the fate of the unfortunate. Times and thing's, however, are altered now. The waiters on events are all converted, and 'I no longer am alone. There is an amusing incident illustrative of this. During his abode in London, a lady of high ton was somewhat fastidious respecting his presenta tion. Alas ! when had Fashion a smile for the un fortunate ? Being, however, lately reminded of her mistake, she at once admitted it—" But (said she), good heavens ! how was I to guess that he ever could have risen to such greatness ?" Philo sophers tell us that extremes meet. Surely Al mack's and the Mob met here ! But such is the world, high and low. The " stricken deer" is doomed to solitude. However, even in solitude and at the worst, Napoleon saw his future in the perspective. I have written proof that in the alMost hopelessness of captivity, even when the day was darkest, he never doubted of his fortune.. Some as sert he is a fatalist, and believes in destiny—others say a speech of his uncle stamped the presentiment on his tender mind. As he was preparing to depart for Waterloo, the boy in tears exclaimed repeatedly —" Dear Uncle, don't go to the wars, or if you must, take me along with you." " Em brace Louis (said Napoleon to a Marshal), embrace Louis—he is, perhaps, the hope of my race." Was not this a prophecy ? Be that as it may, however, it sank deep into the soul, of its object. It inspired sentiments worthy of his destiny. After the affair of Strasburgh, when even hope seemed to have fled, his only petition was, that he might be tried with his associates. "As they shared my fortune (said he) let me share their fate." It was otherwise de creed, and he was deported to America. Scarcely had he landed when the intelligence of his mother's illness reached him. "I am about (said her letter) to undergo an operation absolutely necessary. Should it not succeed, by this letter I send you my blessing. We shall meet again—we shall meet in a better world. Believe me, in quitting this, I have nothing to regret except you and your tender affection, which alone has given it any charms." He lost not a moment. He retraced the Atlantic, and his filial piety was mournfully but soothingly re warded. He was just in time to smooth the death-bed and receive the blessing of the best of mothers. There are few incidents in private life more affecting than those which hallowed the last moments of " the good Queen Hortense." Those who deny a heart to Napoleon Louis can have none themselves if they peruse the record of that scene without a tear. The bereaved survivor was over whelmed at his loss. He lost sight of a world where he saw all was vanity. Even ambi tion lay in.urned in . the tomb of her he loved. In the Castle of Arenemberg he might have passed his days, cultivating the litera , ture to which he was devoted. But a doomed fatuity interposed. The Government of France demanded his expulsion from Switzerland. Is there not a fate in nations, as in individuals ? Thus, as is said, Cromwell was refused a solitude in America by those from whom he-wrung the protectorate of England ! The Diet nobly spurned the demand. They had witnessed the virtues and sufferings of their guest. They revolted against such a violation of the rights of hospitality. It is a striking fact, that it was upon the son of the !first Napoleon's most favoured and most faithful Marshal that the duty of making this demand devolved. The Duke de Montebello, the heir of the brave Lannes, was the then ambassador to the Swiss confederation. Such are the harlequinades of revolution. No doubt the duty was distasteful ; but it was still a duty, no doubt, also reluctantly Undertaken. The generous mountaineers felt they had a duty too, and they prepared for its performance. France collected an army on the Jura—the Swiss had 20,000 men in arms. War was imminent. It was averted by the voluntary self-sacrifice of Napoleon. " Switzerland (he writes to the Government of Thurgau) has done her duty as an independent nation. I know how to do mine, and to remain faithful to the voice of honour. They may perse cute, but never degrade me. The French Govern ment having declared that the refusal of the Diet to yield to its demands would be the signal of a convulsion of which Switzerland would become the victim, I have no alternative but to quit a country when my presence is made the cause of such unjust pretensions, and would be the excuse for such great misfortunes." Thus, influenced by a sense of hon our, he abandoned an asylum which never would have surrendered him. But even this noble self ostracism was not sufficient. It was sedulously circulated that he had given a pledge to remain in America for ten years, and that he had broken it. It was thus that slander essayed to neutralise an act of heroism. Those who whispered it knew it was not true. The pledge had been sought indeed —sought from himself—sought again through the intervention of his mother—but sought in vain from both—a tardy truth at last admitted by the law officer of the Crown, in 1840, in the Court of Peers. After the affair of Strasburg, he made no de-. mand save to be treated exactly like his comrades. This was refused, and without choice or condition, he was deported to America. The vile invention, however, had its day, like many another as current and as groundless. ' Forlorn, but self-sustained, Napoleon turned from Switzerland to England—England, the exile's universal refuge—the home of the unfortunate of every rank and every country—of royalist and republican—Bourbon and Bonaparte—Metternich and Kossuth—Orleans and Louis Blanc ! It was during this visit in 1839 I formed an acquaintance with the present Emperor—an event in one's life not to be forgotten. I was introduced to him by his uncle Joseph, the ex-king of Naples and of Spain, a man of the kindliest nature the world ever saw. Madame Junot calls him well and truly, " the good Joseph," and he was wise and gracious as well as good. With such an introduc tion, opportunities were not wanting for study ing the character of Napoleon Louis—a species of study to which much of my time has been necessarily devoted. The problem was difficult ; for a long time its solution seemed impossible. Frigidly affable and repulsively polite, he avo ided eithr offence or familiarity, but seemed instinc tively to coil up his nature from observation. In phrase and demeanour, all that became his birth , still the man was perfectly inaccessible. It was scarcely to be wondered at. Even from his boy hood beset by espionnage, reserve became an armour. Scarcely at home in the household of his uncle, the object cf homage as much as of respect, he stood isolated and original. None presumed to interrupt his reveries, and to few, if indeed to any, did he accord his confidence. Yet even through that habitual reserve there would at times gleam forth indications of a character re plete with kindness, and of a disposition generous and noble. There was much of peculiarity—much of contrast—abstracted yet vigilant—inquisitive in every thing, but studiously incommunicative--dili gent in acquiring all men's knowledge, retentive of his own—cold and impassive, but full of latent energy--cautious in decision, but once in action, prompt, rapid, and impetuous—almost intuitive in grasping opportunity or detecting weak ness—improved by study, steeled by adversity, disciplined for every vicissitude of fortune—he has inestimable qualifications for his high position Nor in private life is he at all deficient in command ing respect or captivating sympathy—of the most winning manners when minded to assume them ; perfectly munificent by nature and by habit ; chi valrous, sincere, constant—of him, my Lord, upon-Trent. Jan. 31, Paris. At a meeting of the shareholders in Great Pol gooth Mine, held this day, the report of the com mittee of management was read and adopted. The balance in favour of the mine was stated to be 4,0571. Os. sd. The captain's report was considered satisfactory, and the remarks made by the purser, who was present, showed the prospects of the mine to be promising. At the meeting of the Australian Consols Land and Mining Company's proprietors to-day, Mr. Guedalla in the chair, a committee of shareholders has been formed to require a balance-sheet from the Directors, and to ascertain more fully the exact position of the company. Many shareholders ex pressed a high opinion of the property, but posses sion does not appear to have been yet obtained. The St. Katharine Dock Company have declared a dividend of 2 per cent, for the half year, carrying over a good surplus. The ship Maria, arrived from Port Philip, brings dates of Oct. 14, which are not later than the pre vious accounts. She has 34,857 ounces of gold on board. Atev Geelong,le a good deal of dissatisfaction has prevailed concerning the non-delivery of the mails r prior to their bein g taken to Melbourne. As the d Melbourne mail would only be delayed 10 minutes, while that for Geplong if not landed at Shortman's Bluff is retarded tw o days, it is a matter of great importance to the outport, as we may now term it. The post-office authorities here have attended to this matter, and orders have been sent out to con form to the wishes of the colonists. Two captains of vessels had been fined for neglecting to land their mails, and this may prove a useful hint to those unacquainted with the port regulations and about to leave England. The New York advices notice greater animation and buoyancy in the Stock market. This was in part accounted for by the wish of most parties to make up their accounts for the year then closing. Money was in greater demand, and the rate charged for discount was in many cases as much as 8 and 12 per cent, while loans on call were obtainable at 7 per cent. The aggregate deposits of gold at the United States Mint, it appears from a statement made up for December, amounted to four-and.-a half millions of dollars during that month, and the total deposits for the year were fifty-three and-a half millions of dollars. The latest weekly return of the City banks showed an increase in the amount of loans, deposits, and circulation, but a falling off of 2,086,328 dollars in the specie. The cotton market was fluctuating, and the business doing was limited. At New Orleans, also, the demand was quiet, and the stock was estimated at 225,000 bales. There was rather more inquiry for breadstuffs, and prices were rather firmer. BRITISH MlNES.—Sellers this day have been more numerous than for some time past, and in consequence of there being buyers to meet them, a larger amount of business was transacted. The shares mostly inquired for were :—Alfred Cons., 25 to 26 ; Great Tregune Consols, 31- to 1; Mol land, to a ; Wheal Uny, 101 • Cwm Daren, 14 to 1 ; Gunnislake, lk to I ; Tremollett Downs, to ; Hingston Downs, 9to 1 ; Devon Kopunda, )1 to ; Great Hugo's, to par ; Castle Dinas, to 1 ; Augusta, to ; Arundel, 2 ; Boringdon, 2/ ; Bell and Lanarth, 12k to 1 ; Britannia, ato ; Bedford United, 81 to 9 ; Caradon Wood, to i; Cubert, a to 1 ; Dinas Gr. Copper, e to 1 ; West Providence, 351 to 361 ; Wheal Jane, 22 ; East Wheal Russell's, 61 to 1- ; Eaglebrook, 50 to 52 ; Fatworth and heal Virtue, to 1 ; Great W. Baddern, 255. to 27s . 6d. ; Gt. Sheba Cons, 14/. to 141; Gt. Crinis,ll; Poltimores,l4 ; Wheal Speedwell,3 East Wheal Arthur, n ; Wheal Golden, 18 ; Tavey Consols, 21 ; Wheal Trelawney, 40 41 ; Sortridge Consols, 30s. 325. 6d. ; South Devon Consols, 225. 6d. 255. ; New Linares, 4 1 ; Tamar Marias, ; Trelaweth, 2 2 ; Tassau Lead, k k ; Augarraek, I. Shares in most demand were the Mollands, Tre mollet Downs, Wheal Goldens, East Wheal Rus sells, Great Tregunes, Alfred Cons., and Hingston Downs. Stocks are lower since the second editions ap peared. Consols which were 93k, are now 921 to 927-. The settlement of the account is in a fairer train for to-morrow, but the Bears are probably still " out." Tile New Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 941 to 4 and the Three per Cents. 93A- to Bank Stock is firmer at 2171 to 218. Exchequer Bills are worth 7s. to 10s. prem. A moderate business is doing in Foreign Stocks, and prices are decidedly flatter. Mexican Bonds are heavy at 23a, being about I lower. Peruvian Bonds are an exception, being 491 to 50, or about 11 pr cent. higher, and Grenada Deferred Bonds are also buoyant, being 7a. Danish Three per Cents. are steady at 83. Russian Bonds are de pressed. The Five per Cents. are 1091. Sar dinian Bonds have been dealt in at 88 to 89. Spanish Three per Cents. have declined to 42k to to -1, and the New Deferred 208. Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. are firm at 621 to 63, and the Four per Cents. rather weaker at 94g. Bel gian 41 per Cents. are 911. Gold Mines are very inactive, and prices are nominal. Banks are neglected, and Land Com panies' lower. The Australian Agricultural are 1/. to 11. 10s. lower, and the South Australian are down 11. -- Railway Shares are nearly 1 per cent. lower. The French lines have also receded about 10s. Northern are quoted ex dividend. The current rates of freight in London by sailing vessels and for fine measurement goods are thus given in the Weekly Shipping List : Per ton of 40 feet. Per ton of 40 feet. Gijon ........................ 35 Grenada ....•• Havannah ......... 30s to 40 H on g Kong 65s to 70 lonian Islands 4O J am aica 3os to 40 Leghorn 3O Lima Madeira 4O Madras Malta 3O Malaga , Marseilles Matanzas Mauritius Messina Monte Video 6O Naples New York 3O Odessa Oporto 20s to 30 Palermo 4O Rio Janeiro San Francisco ......75s to 100 San Sebastian Santandar 3O Shanghai Seville Sierra Leone 4os to 50 Smyrna St. Vincent St. Kitts and Nevis 3O St. Lucia Syra Tarragona 5O Tobago Trieste Trinidad Valparaiso 4ss to 50 Valencia Venice Whampoa --- BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Business done. Bank Stock .... ................. .... ..... .... 2l7i 18 i per Ce n t. R e d uce d Annuities 93 i i i 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 93 * 21 New 3i per Cent. Annuities 941 1 Long An nu iti es , Expire sth Jan., 1860 -16 Ditto, 30 Years Expire 10th Oct., 1859 54 5 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 5 India Bonds, £lOOO ....••• ..... ••• ••• ....... Ditto, under £lOOO par South Sea Stock South Sea Old Annuities lOO4 i Consols for Opening 18th Jan. 921 3i 24 Exchequer Bills, id. £lOOO .................... - £5OO 7 10 p Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Danish Bonds, 1825, :3 per Cent B3 Dutch Exchange, Cent. .... ......... Grenada Bonds, 2A per Deferral Mexican 3 per Cent. Peruvian 3 per Cent. Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. X, Pt .•„• 109 7 .1 . Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent B9 8 panish Bonds, 3 per Cent Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent 2og Dividends on the above payable i n London. Austrian Bonds 5 per Cent. 10 Cu. 2.....,. 77 Belgian Bonds 4* per Cent. ex. 25 fr Dutch Exchange, 2* per Cent. 12 Guil 621 3 x d Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... HALF-PAST TWO. i Consols for Opening 18thtJanua,ry„,„ .... 92i i i a rely on it, it never will be said that- he forgo k t a kindness or abandoned a f r i e nd. The sharers in his sorrows are associated with his prosperity, and the claims alike of Ham and St. Helena found no tardy welcome in the palace of the Elysee. The companion of his prison is now the first physician of his Court, and the legatees of his uncle were amongst the objects of his earliest solicitude. Let ignorance Mistake, and pre judice misconstrue and animosity misrepresent him, his life has been, and will be, their re futation. While strangers paint him, fashioning the portrait from rumour or from impulse, my ap pliances are more authentic. He sat for the pic ture. To those who have studied him and known him best, I appeal, as to your lordship, for the fidelity of the likeness. It was in London, and at this time, that he organised the so much derided and so little under stood expedition to Boulogne. Ho failed, but it was a failure against which no wisdom could have guarded. He trusted and was betrayed. There is the whole secret. Let it be remembered that of the sixty persons composing that expedition, from Montholon downward, not one repined at it. Those who gained by the failure laughed at it, of course. Alas, they laugh no longer. Was it, indeed, really so ridiculous ? Was it a futile confidence which reposed so trustfully in the magic of a name ? See ing what we see, have we a right to say so ? Wash ington and Cromwell both succeeded, and accord ingly history calls them heroes ; but had they failed, one would have been a rebel—nothing more ; the other, merely a crazy fanatic, or a derided Roundhead.: So true it is success stamps upon everything a character. Had that project pros pered—in favour of which, except for treachery, there was every calculation—Napoleon would have been, what he now is, a few years earlier, and then how different would have been the commentary ! We know what it would have been because we have it before our eyes. We see it in the abject and despicable homage with which the high-born rabble bend before the fortunate. Well and truly did Napoleon's advocate expose this baseness before the Peers of 1840—the loyal Peers who at first refused the Prince even his title—the grateful Peers across many of whose shoulders his uncle had flung their robes ! " Speaking on your conscience and before God (exclaimed the eloquent and dauntless Berryer), and in the presence of us, who know you, say, if he had succeeded—if he had triumphed, I would have ,denied him ; him will I acknowledge as a compe tent judge." This was in the year 1840. The prudent Peers postponed their answer till 1852. The world heard, and history has recorded it. Tho result of this trial has been made matter of accusation against the Emperor. Indeed, what incident of his life has not. Louis Philippe, it seems, saved his life—twice spared it—after Strasburgh and Boulogne, and he repaid him with ingratitude ! This is simply falsehood. Ingrati tude is alien to his nature. Let any Englishman who ever chewed him the slightest civility say whether he has forgotten it. Where, however, was the ingratitude ? Was it in revisiting Swit zerland from America ? The answer to that is, in the Prince's own words, in a letter to the deputy for La Manche, when on the eve of his embarkation —" It is quite untrue that I have ever been asked to make the least promise not to return to Europe." The Procureur-General formally admitted this in 1840 in the Court of Peers. Or was it in his sub sequent escape from Ham ? The answer to that is, ho was a prisoner under sentence, bound by no parole of any kind. Ho refused to bind himself— he refused his liberty offered on the sole condition that he would so bind himself. He had no cause for gratitude during that captivity. Indeed, at first, he had reason rather to complain. On the 22d. of May, 1841, he appealed to Europe against the way in which he was treated, in a solemn pro test. " During the nine months (it says) which I have now been in the hands of the French Govern ment, I have submitted patiently to indignities of every description. Ido not, however, wish longer to be silent, or to authorise oppression by my silence." "By an infinity of details too long to enumerate, it appears that pains are taken, at every instant of the day, to make me sensible of my captivity, and hear the incessant cry of " Vce victis." It is important to call to mind that none of the measures which I have pointed out were put in force against the Ministers of Charles the Tenth, whose dilapidated chambers I now oc cupy, and yet these Ministers were not " born on the steps of a throne." "Ifit be supposed that such measures will subdue me, it is a mistake ; it is not outrage but marks of kindness which sub due the hearts of those who suffer." Though this did not fail altogether of its effect, still there was no pledge whatever, written or oral, positive or implied, that he would endure imprisonment for one moment after it was possible to evade it ; and he did not ; and it is as well here distinctly to con tradict the very current rumour that the prisoner of Ham was, in the most remote degree, indebted to the Government for hailing ceased to be so. Or did this alleged ingratitude consist in his accepting the sovereignty of France ? A strane charge from the friends of Louis Philippe, the cousin of Charles the Tenth. What does the Count de Chambord say to it ? Is memory " fused" also in the amal gamation of Frodshroff ? Napoleon Louis has, to say the least of it, as good a title to the throne he occupies, as either of the branches of the house of Bourbon. Do they claim from royal ancestry ?So can he, and mate his ancestor with the proudest of their dynasty—he, the son of a king, the nephew of kings, the heir to an emperor, and such an emperor ! Do they claim from their ap pointment by the people? The people can celled it in 1792, and Philip Egalite blotted it out with blood ; or do they claim from the restoration of 1815, carried at the point of fo reign bayonets, and shattered again by France in the person of Charles the Tenth ? Or do they claim from the accident of an emeute which superseded one Royal cousin for another—thus annihilating "right divine" without the substitute of a national election? If so, the nation negatived it in 1848, an d Europe taught wisdom by mournful experience, at last dis covered that the right of choosing a governor lay in those who were to be governed. Louis Philippe lost his throne, not through the plot of any one, bat through the general disgust at a system of cor ruption which even Guizot could not control by his power or counteract by his integrity. So far for the accusation of ingratitude. But no cause for gratitude ever has arisen. Your lordship, at least, has not to learn that the busy slander which has so long found a " local habitation" in the breast of many is, after all, merely an " airy nothing." The fact is, Louis Philippe never spared the prince's life, the prince never having been condemned to lose it. For the Strasburg affair ho was never tried at all. A trial, however, he demanded—loudly demanded, in order that by his testimony he might endeavour to mitigate the fate of his associates. Ho was refused a trial—who will say it was not a wise refusal—it seems to me to have sprung from the profoundest policy. But, it is not the fact that the refusal of a trial necessarily saved the life of Napoleon. It is not credible that under the circumstances any French tribunal would have decreed his death. He was tried by the Court of Peers for the self same offence charged against him at Strasburg—" the exciting of a civil war, seeking to change the order of succession to the throne, and inducing the citi zens to arm against the royal authority," an offence unquestionably punishable with death by the 87th and 91st articles of the penal code. But what was the sentence of the Court of Peers ? Not death, but perpetual imprisonment. Here are the very words of the decree. I need not say that the offence charged - was the landing at Boulogne : "Le complot ayant pour but l'un des crimes prevus au present article, et la proposition de former un complot, seront punis des peines portees en l'article 89 suivant les distinctions qui y sont etabli. Vu pareillement les art. 57 et 60 du code penal ; attendu que les peines doivent etre gra duees selon la nature et la gravite de la participa tion de chacun des coupables aux crimes commis. " Condamne le Prince Charles-Napoleon Bona parte a l'imprisonment perpetual dans line forte resse situee sur le territoire continental du roy aume." The others were sentenced, one, to deportation, and the rest to various terms of captivity. The hand of Louis no where f appears in the decree of I the Court of Peers. any doubt could possi bly, after this, remain u rest by the protest of p p on ri t u h c e e, subject, it is set at to. " With respe c t (it thesoys) to my l l i e e g re a t l o p f o o s r i e ti a o l u lu , d th ed e t C io ou ta rt l r o e f n P a e lt e u r . s has ß created, in my case, an excep it condemning me to perpetual imprisonment, ad ios only legalised the decree of fate which has m me endeavoured to combine a hu p ra riso n n. policy, by t er wofirrp. It inflicting upon The the mildest a pluynishment for the longest possible time. In its execution, however, the Government has fallen very far short of the in tention which I am pleased to ascribe to myjudges." So far from mercy being extended to his case, he alleges that the mercy really intended, was neu tralised. Far indeed is it from impossible, had the sentence been death, that it would have been commuted. The Citizen King would scarcely h ave forgotten that throug h the interference of the " good Hortense," his own aged mother, Adelaide de Bourbon, received a, pension of 400,000 francs when she was in dire extremity. lie might have remembered also, that to the same angelic influence, his aunt, the Duchess of Bourbon, wag indebted for the relief she supplicated from it. The mother of Napoleon Louis effected this for both these Royal supplicants, and their letters of solicitation and gratitude are extant. Neither perhaps would a m onarch whose sagacity was never questioned, have dug a grave beside that of the brave Ney, for the sepulture of a more illustrious victim. Thi deed of 1848 might have been ante-dated had the Place de Greve been reddened with the blood of a Bonaparte. But the fac t its ellfails. No life was spared because no life was declared forfeit. In 1845, in deed, after five years of suffering, an offer was made to restore the Prince to freedom, but upon condi tions to winch he could not accede. He might have exchanged his dungeon-fortress for liberty— he might have received the blessing of his dying father—could he have stooped to make a faithless promise. The alternative was a life-long captivity linked to a sacrifice inappreciably painful and he preferred it. When the time came, that noble self denial had its reward. His prison gates opened upon a throne. The people remembered to what good account he had turned his captivity—how mid his own sorrows he had pondered upon theirs, and with what affection in his essay for their relief he so feelingly and finely said—" In misfortune it is natural to think of those who suffer." Yes, to a generous and noble mind ; mere vulgar sorrow is absorbed in selfishness. This was not forgotten during the presidential contest. The streets of Paris were placarded with proof, that the poor remembered the philanthropy of the prison. Me morials of his thoughtful Essay on Pauperism' were everywhere to be found. It was the fortress of Ham which first taught France the true charac ter of its captive. Within the walls which had witnessed the fruitless repinings of the Royal ist ministers, Napoleon meditated on the wants of the poor, the interests of the army, and the improvement of manufactures. His► works on these subjects soon challenged universal attention. The committee of manufacturers dis- tributed three thousand copies of his treatise on the sugar question, and his general labours pro cured for him the notice of Arago, the counsel of Sismondi, the eulogium of Beranger, and a pre cious tribute from a quarter whence, perhaps, it was l east to be expected. In 1841 the royalist Chateaubriand, thus addresses—not the possessor of a throne who had any thing to give, but the inmate of a prison who had every thing to suffer. " Your love for public liberty, your courage and your troubles would in my eyes put all rights on your side, if to deserve your esteem I did not feel it my duty to remain faithful to Henry the Fifth, as lam faithful to the glory of Napoleon. I can not sufficiently express my admiration of tlr3 calmness of mind you display in the place in which you now dwell ; you derive this power from your race." The gat2s of Ham lay open to him at last but not by Royal clemency, or as has been absurdly rumoured, by Royal connivance either. After six years of captivity, of heroic suffering and chivalrous self-sacrifice, he returned to England, under the assumed title of Count D'Alembert. There exist proofs of many a kind and generous act performed by Napoleon even during his detention. For him, indeed, it may be truly said— " Stone walls did not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage." at least so far as the heart was concerned. His spirit was free, and its noblest impulses had ample scope. The reserve, however, in which he habitu ally shrouds himself may not now be violated, though that very reserve has made him the victim of the grossest misconception. Few can see in the taciturn recluse, the talents, attainments, and ac complishments, which he undoubtedly possesses. They are only revealed by s ome un l o ok e d for acci dent, such as occurred at this time, during his residence in London. A great meeting happened to be held. concerning some projected scientific operation in Central America. All the principal engineers in the metropolis were present, and to their surprise, they found the Prince in the midst of them. To their still greater astonishment, be rose to address them ! He—what could he know on such a subject ? They thought of Strasburg, and they thought of Boulogne, and of course, very little did they think of Napoleon Louis. A change however, was soon to come "over the spirit of their dream." What was their amazement when they found. him a perfect master of the subject versed in its details—familiar with all its bearings, and manifestly a proficient in the abstrusest ciples of the science to be applied to it ! Such is the man, and such he will be found, when an emergency demands him. Perhaps, indeed, there are few better informed, or more acc omplished gentlemen in Europe. Si x y ears o f s t u di ou s s9h tude in Ham, and twenty of unwearied application in Switzerland have stored his mind with every variety of information. In the exact sciences be is profoundly skilled no ordinary linguist thorough engineer—equally apt with pen or pencil —and with an intellect prompt to apply, WY and usefully, the knowledge it has treasured. Amongst other charges, a fashion has prevailed of attributing rashness to the Emperor ! It is an ignorant mistake. A more cautious man is rare l y be met with. Examples enough of this temPo rament are at hand. Take a single and a striking instance. On the flight of the House o Orleans , at the solicitation of friends, he repaired at Once t° . . Paris. Over-sanguine partizanship th oug ht th e cr isi" ripe. Not so Napoleon. With philosophic calmnes s he scanned the wondrous spectacle before bin' The nation seemed upheaving from its foundationt A throne in ruins—a maniac population—the socini, compact in process of dissolution—the scum °I society rising, as usual, in the revolutionad cauldron—adventurers, without helm or chart, 0 ; compass, or system, seeking to steer the State . Such was the bewildering vision he encountereat and he turned from it in disgust. It was, to be sure, within the range of possibility that his name migt have operated, as a talisman, on the multi; tude. It was a tempting hazard and difficult 01 resistance, but the tempation was overcome. Once more in England, he pored over the past, studie d the present, and carefully matured his preparatiouo for the future. This was assuredly not the cour se of an enthusiast, ready to rush headlong into strife, even where some advantages might have augured victory. Alone and patiently he watche d his time—it came at last—and, with it--T' EMPIRE. There it is again —the gorgeous strut ' ture of the First Napoleon, with all it ° grandeur, all its might, and graced with all glorious, recollections ! There it i s , d es pite ° clubs, cabals, and coteries—despite of F a ubourgl Royal or Republican—of scowling generals an d sneering statesmen, and prophetic historians,_ an all the motley of a discomfited opposition. Ther e it stands—a fact accomplished, and a fact wilic t, ; has no parallel in history. There it is, and the re he is, too, the necromancer of this mighty tra,nsfa' mation. See him—the shunned, the life-long 01 3 : tive—the lonely exile, hunted from land to land the homeless, the all but friendless, the entire fortuneless, on the throne of France 44 Alon e he did it." See him enrolled into the fraternity ° kings, and what to him gives it a priceless va lue d enrolled there by the people. It is remarkabl e that, though by the senatus-consultum of 1- 8 1 and by the deaths o f hi s f a th er an d hi s 10 ° , 0 Joseph, he stood in di rec t success i on to t' e , empire, he waved a t once th e h ere dit ary c l a im, rd cognising no title but that of popular election. Al l a , under all the ci rcums t ances thi s wan prudenc," There is no munim en t i n E uro p e more va lid thw' his sovereignty. " The people gave it and he ,„ ceived it," and he will retain it so loncr as 0 keeps his compact with the people. All the foolish, if not wicked, rumours raised tit his accession have lon g s i nce evaporated. --°/0 Lordship may remember some of them. He - 0 4 . 0 .. have steeped the world i n war ! H e was t o h a ve l e s vaded England ! They know not the man. s,ef e b was announcement more sincere than that vom thrilled through Europe—" The Empire is Peac e ; War ! What can a Bonaparte derive from Wnag All glory's gifts enrich that name already. It 0 13 430 alongside those of the Caesars, the Alexanders, 11 d4 , Hannibals, and all that history reveals of greator The Eagle which soared against the Sun of Aus' e v litz has winged its way into the regions of imin ° , l tality. The invasion of England Had such 4e hallucination ever crossed his brain, he would h a lv e banished it at once. He knows our nation, an d 0 knows that the soil whose very touch gives, freed° o to the slave would never brook the tread' of be invader. The hazard of the waves evaded , i d wou ld find a fortress in every hill, an d, alif,,"o , need be, in every city in England, a Sag,l ll " - ll If his march was one of victory, it would be throntro ruins. He knows all this, and accurate: l ,y estitunbp our spirit, our strength, and our resouro es. n °ll + oo l es s he has heard the anecdote of old Sot dt upou subject. Dining one day amongst m ) me friends, the contemplated invasion was idiscussen'eeil was during the Orleans reign, howevor . All aW that nothing cou ld be easier. " G eritlemen Lei! the veteran), such is not my opinion . I have Lt: in Birmingham, and I saw them m,z3ce a munte But rely on it, higher and nobler -principles of fluence Napoleon. Why should he tsigh after lie ritory or conquest ? Does not the lo vely real stir governs demand all his energies and a ll his to and is not its compass abundant for any sant:l o co bition ? Willingly would he obliters to eyed' l' o f o of discord between two f a i r l an d s .vhich 5 11 0° has united by the ties of neighbo urhood. sf every act, since ho had power, h.; is prove,u the Rivals lie would have them, but it Ag - ould be 113 5 t blessed rivalries of pe ace —their cen te cc , friendly competition f or th e promo tion of the r ieo' mon happiness. The h e a r t, too ha s its mein ° . Never would he st a i n th a t soil with lhl'ood, cil 0 1 ' his need afforded hi m a re f uge - --never el e ho sadden that mild and gentle , spirit', iv contentment of whose subjects beneatl4glll sway he witne sse d. N e ver would .he wil l that pea c e imperil in defence of which he enlyeist himself amongst the very humblest of e‘ur i. No, no, indeed, the exile is not forgotten ple Emperor. It was but the other clay in Ill" ~~,,'. greys through burst from h English Cheer peror desires vexed only b 3 song of heal on which h( for the desc trembles on the vulture t( of a different courage man increase the develope the amongst his ( objects of a enduring trot leon, indeed ; the Contiuen triumph, wh( immortalised rations wide( These were ti in the vicissib his successor his progresses some impro' spirit is natu and look aroi tectural wont races ! The] streets of pa The Rue dE Europe. R pies dedicate try ! Edifice useful. Sure "These a Give this $. sears of peac Ration can bE tropolis of F decorated eu This, in but, already a lesson of cl some of the him ! Whil up the Bible read ers--naj geance beyce their fellow . -1 of mankind, request, a ce he forgotten, due to the f( his throne. " Free She had a sv Napoleon sti The glorious Ignoble soul: but Napoleo: son of the d€ justified the