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

THEATRE ROYAL DlitritTlLA2tE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, Us. 17, 4 Will be presented PAULA. LAZARRO ; or, The Ladrone rA Dattigh '• ter. Characters by Messrs. G. Bennett, G. Wild, Les, B sh.oni and 4 T..htead ; and Miss Featherstone. To conclude with KING AUMMINGTOP or, Elarlegn Ia t and the _%and of Toys. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Vader the management of Mr. Buokstone. THIS EVENING, JAL 17, A Juvenile Night, On which occasion will be performed THE BOUGH 'D./ A. MOND. Characters by Messrs. Howe and Bnckstone ; Mrs. Fitzmedliam and Miss Ellen Grey. After which, the Grand CHESTMAS PANTOML:d E, called HARLEQUIN AND THE THREE BEARA ; or, Little Silverhair and the Fairies. Columbine, Miss M. Brown; Ilarlequtn, Mr. J• Marshall : Pantaloon, Mr. W. A. Barnes; Clown, Mr. LL. Marshall. To be followed by A PRETTY PIECE OF BIISLNFC8;8• ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STWEET. Under the Management of Mr. CaJamas SFAX. THIS EVENING, Jaw. 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. After which will be presented the new Grand CHRISTN: AS AND TOMIME, entitled HARLEQUIN ANL) THE MILGER HIS MEN; or, King Salamandar and the Fairy of the Azure Lake. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Huline ; :Pantalo, Mr. Paulo; and Columbine, Miss Desborough. LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestria. THIS EVENING, JAN. 17, Will be performed A BA.CHELOR OF ARTS. Characte by ONCE Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Baker ; Miss F. Hughe s - After which, the original Fairy Extravaganza, caned UPON A TIME THERE WERE TWO KINGS. Principal cha• ractera by Mr. Wright and Madame Veatris. To conclude with PATTER VERSUS CLATTER. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. propria t o r, Mr. B. Webeter.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, JAN. 17, iorm be presented the highly Popular New Nautical Melo-drama, tableaux, with new scenery, the Sea of Ice, &c., new r re . se s and appointments, called THE THIRST OF GOLD; or, T rig LOST SHIP AND THE WILD FLOWER OF MEXICO. principal characters by Messrs. B. Webster, 'Keeley, Paul Bedford, o. gelby, Fanelli), Marsden, &c. ;Madame Celeste, Mrs. Leigh M u rray, 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 BRED B. 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, Wlll be performed THE FIRBI NIGHT. Characters by Measrs. Alfred Wigan, Leslie, Lindon, Harwood Cooper, and Vincent ; Miss P. Horton, and Miss Wysdham. To be followed by THE CAMP AT THE OLYMPIC. Charac ters by Messrs. A. Wigan, F. Robaon, Morton, and Galli ; Mes dames A. Wigan, Stirling, P. Hortm, Chatterley, &c. Followed by THE WANDERING MINSTREL. STRAND THEATRE. Ante Lessee, Mr. F. W..lllcroft.—Dlrectress, MIS 3 lUbeCCa IsaaCs• THIS EVENING, JAN. 17, will be performed LA. SONNIMBULA. To. be followed by TILE IRISH TUTOR. Afte which, a new grand Comic Christmas Pantomime. entitled ARLEQUEN AND KING NUTCRACKER. ; or, The World of Toys. Clown, by .he inimitable Flexmore ; ilarlegnin, Mr. Bolog na ; Pantaloon, Mr. Griffiths; Columbine, Miss Cloward. - Stalls, 55.; Boxes, 35.; Pitt, Is.; Gallery, 6d.; Private BOxcs, J/. la., to bo bad of Mr. Micro% 15, New Bond-street. • . AST LE Y'S ROYAL A 51P HIT liE A.TR E Cooke. A and Manager, Mr. William k GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE on THURSDAY NEXT', 3 tn. 19. commencing at two o'clock. Gratuitous admission of the b ,ys of the Duke of York's School, who, by the permission of the Commandant, Cul. Clark, K.H., will attend with their band. crowded Houses nightly groet the Grand Spectacle, the Wondrous Performing Elephants, and the most gorgeous and successful Panto- Mime of the .eason. 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 Tra've'l Elephants appear. Followed by a linhe •che Routine of Scenes of Equestrianism in THE ARENA, supported by the Elite of Europe's Equestrian Artistes. Concluding with Mr. W. Cooks's immensely successfUl COMIC rANToIcIINIE, written expressly for this Theatre, by Mr. Nsi.sorr L. entitled BILLY BUT ros's JOURNEY TO BRENTFORD ; or, Harlequin and the Ladies' Favourite. New scenery, dreqies, decorations, and appointments, magnificent Car of Industry, &c. Harlequin, Mr. H. Hemmings ; Columbine, Mdlle. Christine; Pantaloon, Mr. Leh-rian ; and Two Clowns, Mr. C. Adams and Mr. Croneste ; Sprites, Masters Gee and Bradbury. R A-otilce open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. DAILY WEAVIER TABLE. TIIEBDAY, J.N. 17, 1P,54. :.fate of the wind and weather at each of the following I p sees at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations are arranged in order of latitude. FOLKESTONE—S., calm—overcast. Tti 14 Tat ID G E-E calm—overcast. GREENWlCH — Calm — overcast. STROOD—E., calm—overcast. SWINDON—E., light airs—foggy. CAMBRlDGECalm—cloudy. YARMOUTH — S., calm—overcast. The returns from the following places indicate the state Of the weather on Saturday morning at nine o'clock : FOLKESTONE—W., calm—cloudless. BIRMINGHAM—S.W., calm=foggy. HOLYHEAD—W., gentle breeze—fine. • LANCASTER—S., calm-r-cloudless. WHlTBY—Calm—foggy. DARLINGTON—S., strong wind—cloudy—light fails of snow—frost. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins :Der —Morning 50 min.after 3 I Evening 6 min t aft. 4 To-Mortow— Morning 24 min.after 4 Evening 4 min! aft. 10 THE WEATHER.—Sus OFFlcit, JAL 17. THERMOMETER, lii 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. '\~'' l h Alit LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1854. 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 a s 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 made up their minds to meet the serious accusa ti on s, for they have already assumed th a t shape, with a direct " tr a verse, " or a "confessi on and avoidance," justifying the course adopted, and boldly insisting on its propriety, i f 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 solemn 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- Jp,sT y s responsible servants, who, by their oaths, are bound to advise her MAJESTY without partiality, affection, or dread, TO KEEP HER COUNCILS SE CRET 0), 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 th e " stock" 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 qualified them-- Lutheran, Calvinistic, or Roman Catholic ten dencies being apparently matters of the most perfect indifference ; some eligible young man or blooming maid of " Coßur,a- extraction" being always forthcoming, with opinions exactly suited to those of the Royal personage for whom a spouse was required ! The directions of " the EMPEROR" are, therefore, to be sought before the line of policy is decided on, 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 MULOOK, 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 Berries 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 MULOCE, 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 PRINCE--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, MULOOK 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. GKEV/LLE (Clerk of the Privy Connell) 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. L ; 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 SUSSEX—English-born Princes —has not been exercised with regard to Prince ALBERT. These revelations alone would render a Legislative inquiry indispensable. 'They come froni such a'source as to place it beyond dispute, that the Prince CONSORT has acted as an un pledged and unsworn Privy Councilor, 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. 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 cul?s of a purse-proud, mush room Republic, and its birthless, untitled Pre sident-- " Nil habet infelix panpertas durins in se, Quam quod ridiculos homines facit." But the Other, day one MARTIN KossTA, though his republican vestments indictedunquestionably that he was still in his American teens, was de clared. by the President to lie;'" clothed with the nationality of the United "Stites .7 'Ram in his Republican petticoats, with -.Captain INGRAH A M for his AJAX; and General PIERCE for his AGA MPAWNON, he could laugh at the poor Kaiser. If the tailor, makes the man, it is, alas ! money that makes the monarch.. The President, with his pocket full of dollars, snub's to his heart's content the Emperor, with a pocket empty of florins, The imperial lackeys, too, indiaant at the rival pre tensions of a democratic upstart, contrive to force ' their master every now and then into a humbling position, There is something very undignified in slippinglup 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 fnust an Emperor feel when his officials throw him on, the pavement before a Pie sident, and all the epv ious little potentates of Europe, safe in their insignificance, are laughing in their sleeves. 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 FALKENHAYN, 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 he 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 of 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 passport, 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 I 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 soldier's bed, and told that a good bed there is at his disposal. Another examination for let ters sewn in his clothes—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 he asks for means to write or telegraph to the American Ambassador at Vienna. " Refused." Only think, gentle reader of an American, " A Presbyter of th e Anglo-Ca th olicClu;raclnid at Richmond, U. 5.," unlea rn i ng ob stinacy in an Austrian guard-room. But, now, the turn o f his Revere nce was come. Even Rittmeisters feel, lik e other fo lk , 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 ? It looks in convenient ; I'll see the man and send him off . quietly." But the Successor of the Apostles was not,t2 be so dealt with. He told his visitor to his dismay the story - of PAUL . at PHILIPPI, and THE SUN, LONDONI, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 18544 declared his intention to follow his example. !Ile trembling Rittmeister offered him his papers' .and everything back, if he would but leave quiet) I.. — but it was his %turn now to play the inexora 6131 e, and to diminish Austrian obstinacy. He certr daily went much farther than the Apostle of the 4 .en 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 beta re ten the Rittmeister HERR VON FALKENHAYN, of Pe le gyhaza; and the Rev. JAMES COOK, Anglo-Catlto lic Presbyter, Richmond, U.S. FRANCIS JOSEPH knows all about it by f his time. Oh, could he but get some fifty million dollars to spare, and would he not bring 11/. Er. COOK and General PIERCE to their senses. 11 fis first thought, no doubt, is of ROTHSCHILD. Unfc 'r tunately ROTHSCHILD'S last thought is of bankru pt exchequers. No ; nothing is left him but to ia poverish his own subjects yet more, to augrau nt his present and destroy his future income, or to make his amende honowrable to the Great America n citizen. Could a HA.PSEITR.G but open his eye s, or find some one to open them, he might see in a moment the utter rottenness and weakness of a m empire which trembles before a tourist clergyma en from the other side of the Atlantic. Well na; Iy it alternately shake at the thought of a Europe m war, and cower before the CZAR, when it drew .ds an American presbyter ; and rather " eat hum] )1e pie" to the American President than receive; a visit from his navy at Trieste. It occurred to us, too, 'that Mr. Coox mix carry home some useful lessons to his countrym e n. He proclaims that the Austrian Government ms tat learn that " there is an important difference I .e -tween their subjects--exposed without remedy to all their whims—and a freeman of the . Unit' 3sal States." • No doubt there is. But there is aat ill more important difference between Austrian an b jects and' the non-freeman of the United State s. One greatly, indeed, to the advantage of the ft T mer. Austria founds her distinctions on locality- America, on the colour of the skin. The form .er makes Italians and Hungarians politically slay( ; the latter makes all but white men slaves, b All personaily and politically. Austria compels her subjects to submit to many governmental whi ns, 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 hundi •ed dollars ; and to submit, as Mr. Coox s< a ys, " without remedy." In Austria, there is no F'a gi tive Slave Law. In America, the PRESID2 :NT glories in one as the bulwark of the Union. In Austria, gendarmes hunt suspected travellers in America, Tont LOK.F.RS and bloodhounds hunt the negro, who has the whim of preferring freedor 11 to slavery. As Mr. COOK observes, " there has a difference." - MONEY MARKEiI NAPOLEON THE THIRD. AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. TO THE MOST NOBLE THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY. MY 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 seine 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 I in deed, a stupendous and bewildering achievemant, recalling, if not rivalling, those which made his mighty ancestor immortal, and yet—as your Lord ship must remember well—it was the fashion fer 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 int), at this moment, Prosperity displays him not More brightly than when at Strasburgh, demanding to share the fate of his companions, or immures in Him, over his essay on pktuperisrn, endeavoqing to mitigate the fate of the unfortunate. Times p,nd things, however, are altered now. The waiter on events are all converted, and X no longer am alone. There is an amusing incident illustrative of this. During his abode in London, a lady of high I 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—ot iers 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, howeveT, 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. Scaccely 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 ionic) without a tear. The bereaved. survivor was s cene at his loss. He lost sight of a World where he saw all was vanity. Even ambi tion lay inurnod 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 Anierica by those from whom he wrung the protectorate of England I The Diet nobly spurned the derhand. They had witnessed the virtues and sufferings of their guest. They revolted against such a violation of the rights of hospitality. Iti a striking fact, that ,it was upon' the On of the fist Napoleon's! most favoured and most 'faithful Marshal that the duty of making this demand devolved. The Duke de Montebello, the heir of .the braie Lann.es, was the then ambassador to the - Swiss confederation. Such are the harlequinades of revolution.l 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 'void - 6' 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 ostraeism 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—.Eugand, the exile's universal refuge—sthe 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 fornied 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 thfi world ever saw. Madame Junot calls him well and truly, "the good Joseph," and be 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 avoided either 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 of homage as much as of rospect, 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, b u t 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, 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 comprkied 4,000 American, 600 Pernam and Maranham at 6d. to lid. ; 100 Bahia, at • 61d.; 300 Egyptian; at 6d. to 10d.; 800 Surat, at 3/d. to-41d., and 30 Sea Island, at is. lid. to ls. 3d.. per lb. Railway shares were fiat. • • , The railway meetings announced are the' follow ing Company. Date. Place. Llanelly Railway and Dock Jan. 30, London Tavern. London, Brighton, and South Coast Jan. 26, Bridge- house Hoiel. Maryport and Carlisle Jan. 18, Maryport. North Staffordshire Jan. 25, Stoke npon-Trent. Jan. 31, Paris. Paris and Rouen 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 Minin g 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 dividen'd'of 2 per cent, for the half year, carrying over a good surplus. At Geelong, a good deal . of dissatisfaction has prevailed concerning the non-delivery of the mails prior to their being taken to Melbourne. As the Melbourne mail would only be delayed 10 minutes, `while that for Geelong, if not landed at Shortman's Bluff is retarded two 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 Otdollars. 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. BarrisEr MMES.—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 /. ;Hol land, sto 4 ; Wheal Uny, 101 • Cwm Daren, 14 to ; Gunnislake, 11 to 1 ; Tremollett Downs, g to n Hingstan Downs, 9 to 4 ; Devon Kopunda, Ito 4 ; Great Hugo's, to par ; Castle Dinas,l to 5 ; Augusta, 1 to g ; Arundel, 2 ; Boringdon, 24 tol4 ; Bell and Lanarth, 12i to 5 ; Britannia, 4to ; Bedford United, 84 to 9 ; Car on Wood, Ito 3; Cubert, 3 to f ; Dinas Gr. Copper, to 1 ; West Providence, 351 to 365 ; Wheal Jane, 22 ; East Wheal Russell's, 6g to 4 • Eaglebrook, 50 to 52 ; Fatworth and 'heal Virtue, t to 4 ; Great W. Baddern, 255. to 2'7s. 6d. ; Gt. Sh eba Cons, 14/. to 141 ; Gt. 011121 S, - Li; Poltimores,l4 ; Wheal Speedwell, 3-5 ; East Wheal Arthur, 1 • Wheal Golden; 11 5 ; Tavey Consols, 25 ; Wheal Trelawney - , 40 41 ; Sortridge Consols, 30s. 325. 6d. ; South Devon Consols, 225. 6d. 255. ; New Linares, 1 ; Tamar Marias, 5 5 ; Trelaweth, 2 4; Tassau` Lead, k 5; Augarrack, 3 - Shares in roost demand were the Mollands ' Tre mollet Downs, Wheal Goldens, East Wheal Rus sells, Great Tregunes, Alfred Cons., and Hingston Dosvns. It will be perceived that " A MAN OF flrE WORLD" has, through our, columns of this e yen ing, given to the public a masterly analysi.s of the character of NAPOLEON 111., in an elabc ix ate letter addressed with a certain graceful infer •e nce 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 peir usal of his argument, speaking as he does from a tper sonal acquain ta'nce with the eminent person rage whose genius he has undertaken to donne ate. Apart from which, it may here, we conceive, be somewhat reasonably remarked, that the in dual who has traced these outlines of .on , e of the foremost men of this age, has evide need' throughout the dexterity of a master hand in. his guidance of the pencil, the vigour won by p rac tice, and that implicit confidence in the justness of his own views, - which is the fruit alone of severe deliberation, and an extended experkaice.. Introduced to NAPOLEON IL 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 tollaa.ve estimated the depth, the resources, and the o:ricri— nplity of that singular temperament not 1 less astutely or less appreciatively than M. nos: LA. GUERONNT EEE. He recognised in the 4)ciled 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 energ:r," a being " cautious in decision, but, .once in aiction, prompt, rapid, and impetuous," 'an adven Lurer, in fine (using that word, of course, in its 1( ftiest signification), " improved by study, steel by €11,41 adversity, disciplined by every vicissitsude." 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 a fable 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, thei prin; cipal events in the career of the reigning En- PERAK. He weighs them in the balanDS with impartiality. 'ie - titters not one syllable liea r i ng the semblance of special pleading. He calls ;things by their right names. Our own opinions in r egar d to the subject of his scrutiny are already, 'we be- Stocks are lower since the second editions ap peared. Consols which were 93k, are now 92/ to 92k. The settlement of the account is in a fairer train for to-morrow, but the Bears are probably still " out." The New Three•and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 94k to 4, and the Three per Cents. 93 to g. 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 23k, being about 4 lower. Peruvian Bonds are an exception, being 491 to 50, or about lj per cent. higher, and Grenada Deferred Bonds are also buoyant, being 71. Danish Three per Cents: are steady at 83. Russian Bonds are de .presspd.- The Five per Cents. are 1091. Sar dinian ,Bcincls have been dealt in at 88 to 89. Spanish Three per CentS. have declined to 42k to to I, and the New Deferred 20g. Dutch 'Two and-ad-Half-, per Cents. are firm at, 62i to 63, and. the 17our per Cents. rather weaker at 94/. Bel-. gian 4& 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 1/. 10s. lower, and the South Australian are down 1/. 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. lieve, tolerably well known by this time to the generality. They possess the advantage at least of having been enunciated at a time when k3uccess 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 a n d di spass i ona t e 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 Ambolse—the friend of NArorzox and the sym pathiser with ABD-EL-KADER—the veteran and chivalrous Marquis of LONDONDERRY. P©r ton of 40 feet. Australia— s. Adelaide .. Bss to 100 Hobart Town 85s to 100 Launceston . ........... 90 Melbourne or Geelong Wharves •...110s to 120 Melbourne or Gee long 9os to 100 New Zealand Bss to 100 Portland Bay .......... 110 Port Fairy ............... 120 Swan River to 80 Sydney B5B to 100 Alexandretta ...... . ...... 35 Alexandria ................ 30 Algoa Bay .................. 65 Alicante ..................... 50 Ancona ....... 60 1 Antigua 3O Athens Bath adoes Barcelona .. . Batavia Berbice ............. . .... 40 Bermuda ! , Beyrout , ..... . .. . . .. ..... 8i1bea............. . . : Bombay ...... . Gijon 35 30 Grenada..... . H avan nah ......... 30s to 40 Hong Kong ......... 65s to 70 lonian Islands 1 ............ 30s to 40 Jamaica Leghorn 33 Lima Madeira Madras Malta 3O Malaga 'M a rseilles 40 M a tanzas 4 M a uritius Messina Monte Video 46 06 Naples New York 3O Odessa Oporto 20s to 30 Palermo 4O Rio Janeiro San Francisco 7ss to 100 San Sebastian Sa,ntandar 3O Shanghai Seville Sierra Leone 4os to 50 Smyrna . .... 3O St. Vincent • St. Kitts and Nevis 3O , St. Lucia Syra Tarragona 5O Tobago Trieste Trinidad Valparaiso ' 45s to 53 Valencia Venice i Whampoa 65 THE COURT.—Lord Ernest Bruce, as Lord Cham berlain pro tern, 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. Boston ..; 35 Buenos Ayres Cadiz ... ............ 308 to 35 Calcutta Canton ...... . BO ood Cape To H wn, e Cape of i G Carthagena op . 35 Ceylon Constantinople. 4O Danube ( Galatz and Ibrail 4O Demerara Genoa 3O Gibyaltar The Marquis and 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 pain consequent on 'his malady. The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley left St. James's-square yesterday, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury at Hat field House, Herts. - BRITISH - FUNDS THIS DAY. Business done. .Bank Sto c k . . ...... ........ 2l7i 18 ••• .. • ... ••• ••• • .... 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 93} a i 3 21,- 3, 3 per Cent, Consols Annuities 93 A. 2$ a i New 34 per Cent. Annuities 94} 1 A i 3,1 4 , Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 Ditto 30 Years Expire 10th Oct., 1859 SA 5 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 5 India Bonds, £lOOO .•••••- • —'' " 3 4 Ditto, under £1000 South Sea Stock ............................... South Sea Old Annuities loos i Consols for Opening 18th Jan. 92; 38 21 a 1 Exchequer Bills, ld. £lOOO .............. , .......... • 7 10 p £5OO 7 10 p Small ' 7lO p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent Dutch Exchange' 21 per Cent. ••• •••••••••••• 62.1 Grenada Bo n ds, Deferred Mexican :3 per Cent. ... ........................ 233 Peruvian Bonds, 41 per Cent. Peruvian 3 per Cent. ... . Ituszian Ponds, 1822, 5 per Cent.., 5t..... 109 9 Ditto 41 per Cent Ditto Small ................................... 92 1 Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent... ..... .... . ..... 89 8 , Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 421 * Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent 2os 6 Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian Bonds 5 per Cent. 10 Cu. 2 77 Belgian 4 Bonds 4A p e r Cent, ex. 25 fr Dut:b Exchange, -21 per Cent. l 2 Gull__ G2l 3 x d Ditto 4 per Ceut. Certificates .... The Viscountess Canning will leave Grosvenor-square to-day to relieve Lady Jocelyn, as lady in waiting on the Queen. The, noble lord will leave town to-morrow on a visit to her Majesty. Lord and Lady Stanley (of Alderley) and the Hon. Miss Stanley have arrived, in Dover-street from visiting Lord and Lady Ashburton, at the Grange, Basingstoke, Hants, where a large party have been participating 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 not visit 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 taining n umerous party a t H ea df or t H o use, county Meath. ' The Earl and Countess of Bective, Mr. San dars, and Lady Virginia Sandars, Sir John Young, M.Y., and Lady Young have been amongst the visitors. We are 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 iu Aberdeenshire. Lord Dudley Stuart noit with a warm re , ,eption at the hands of the Polish emigration in Constantinople. He was continually seen in the company of Generals Chrianowsky and Misochy. -•- THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for Opening 18th January 92i x d rely on it, it never will be said that he forgot a kindness or abandoned a friend. 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. He 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--Anothing 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 t 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 daun doss 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. The 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 shewed 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, whetl on the eve of his embarkation —" It is quite untrue that I have ever been asked to mak6 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, he was a prisoner under sentence, bound by no parole of any kind. He 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, ho 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 " Yce victis." It is important to call to mind that none of the measures which I have pointed out r 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 prisciner of Ham was, in the most remote degree, indebted to the Government for having ceased to be so. Or did this alleged ingratitude consist in his accepting the sovereignty of France ? A strange 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 lie 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 au 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 au 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, and 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, but through the e 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 he 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. He 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 I 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 rarticle 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. " Oondamne le Prince Charles-Napoleon Bona parte a r imprisonment perpetuel dans line forte resse situee our 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 a I the Court of Peers. any doubt could possi bly, after this, remain upon the subject, it is set at rest by the protest of the Prince, heretofore alluded to. " With respect (it says) to my legal position, the Court of Peers h y. has created, in my case, an excep tional penalt By condemning me to perp etual in imprisonent it has only legalised. the decree of fate which ha s ' made me a prisoner of war. It has endeavoured to combine humanity with policy, by inflicting upon me the mildest punishment for the longest t possible time. In its ex ecution, however, e Government has fallen very far short of the h in tention which I am pleased to ascribe to my judges." So far from mercy being ex tended to his case, e alleges that the mercy reall y intended, had the neu tralised. Far indeed is it from im p the sentence been de ath, that it would h ave been commuted. The Citizen King would scarcely have forgotten that through the interference mother, of the " good Horten se," his own age do Bourbon , r eceived a p ension of 400,r0 Adelaide o deide francs la when she was in dire extremity. He might have remem b e red also, that to the same angelic influence, his aunt, the Duchess of Bourbon, was indebted for the relief she supplicated from it. The mother of Napole on Louis effected thisior both these Royal supplicants, and their letters of solicitation an d gratitude are extant. Neither perhaps would a monarch whose sagacity was never questioned, have dug a grave beside that of the brave Ney, for the sepulture of a more illustrious victim. The deed of 1848 might have been ante-dated had the Place de Greve been reddened with the blood of a Bonaparte. But the fact itself fails. 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 which 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 captiyity—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 least 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 esteetn 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 the calmness of mind you display in the place in which you now dwell ; you derive this power from your race." The gat 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 lie 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 some unlooked 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, he rose to address them ! He—what could he know on such a subject ? They thought of Strasburg, and they thought of Boulogne, and of cours3, 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 prin ciples of the science to be applied to it ! Such is the man, and such ho will be found, when an emergency demands him. Perhaps, indeed, there are few better informed, or more accomplished gentlemen in Europe. Six years of studious soli tude in Ham, and twenty of unwearied application in Switzerland have stored his mind with every variety of information. In the exact sciences he is profoundly skilled no ordinary linguist thorough engineer—equally apt with pen or pencil —and with an intellect prompt to apply, fitly 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 rarely to be met with. Examples enough of this tempe rament are at hand. Take a single and a striking instance. On the flight of the House of Orleans, at the solicitation of friends, he repaired at once to Paris. 0 ver-sanguine partizanship thought the crisis ripe. Not so Napoleon. With philosophic calmness he scanned the wondrous spectacle before him. The nation seemed upheaving from its foundations. A throne in ruins—a maniac population—the social compact in process of dissolution—the scum of society rising, as usual, in the revolutionary cauldron—adventurers, without helm or chart, or compass, or system, seeking to steer the State ! Such was the bewildering vision he encountered, and he turned from it in disgust. It was, to be sure, within the range of possibility that his name might have operated, as a talisman, on the multi tude. It was a tempting hazard and difficult of resistance, but the tempation was overcome. Once more in England, he pored over the past, studied the present, and carefully matured his preparations for the future: This was assuredly not the course of an enthusiast, ready to rush headlong into strife, even where some advantages might have augured victory. Alone and patiently he w atched his time—it came at last—and, with it—Tn o EMPIRE. There it is again —the gorgeous struc ture of the First Napoleon, with all its grandeur, all its might, and graced with all its glorious recollections ! There it is, despite of clubs, cabals, and coteries—despite of Faubourgs, Royal or Republican—of scowling generals and, sneering statesmen, and prophetic historians, and all the motley of a discomfited opposition. , There it stands—a fact accomplished, and a fact which has no parallel in history. There it is, and there he is, too, the necromancer of this mighty transfor mation. See him—the shunned, the life-long car tive—the lonely exile, hunted from land to land the homeless, the all but friendless, the entirely' fortuneless, on the throne of France ! ! " Alone ho did it." See him enrolled into the fraternity of kings, and what to him gives it a priceless value" enrolled there by the people. It is remarkable that, though by the senatus-consultum of 1804 and by the deaths of his father and his uncig Joseph, he stood in direct succession to the empire, he waved at once the hereditary claim, r; cognising no title but that of popular election. And under all the circumstances this was prudence' There is no muniment in Europe more valid than his sovereignty. " The people gave it and he re ceived it," and he will retain it so long as he keeps his compact with the people. All the foolish, if not wicked, rumours raised on his accession have long since evaporated. Your Lordship may remember some of them. He was to have steeped the world in war ! He was to have vaded England ! They know not the man. Neve t s . was announcement more sincere than that whiel; thrilled through Europe—" The Empire is Peace. , War ! Wh a t can a Bonaparte derive from war,.! All glory's gifts enrich that name already. It atana' alongside those of the Caesars, the Alexanders, the Hannibals, and all that history reveals of greatness' The Eagle which soared against the Sun of Austen litz has winged its way into the regions of immor tality. The invasion of England ! Had such WI hallucination ever crossed his brain, he would have banished it at once. He knows our nation, and he knows that the soil whose very touch gives freed oo to the slave would never brook the tread of an invader. The hazard of the waves evaded, bd would find a fortress in every hill, and, shoal need be, in every city in England, a Saguntunt If his march was one of victory, it would be throng': r uins. He know s a ll thi s, and accurate l y est i ma tes our spirit, our s t rengt h , and our resources. Donn' less he has heard the anecdote of old Soult upon 0 1 ' subject. Dining one day amongst some milital t friends, th e con t emp l ate d i nvas i on was discussed. .la. was during the Orleans reign, however. All agre e d that nothing could be easier. " Gentlemen (O A the veter an ), such is not my opinion. I have 1)10 in Birmingham, and I saw them make a m usket' , But rely on it, higher and nobler principles In, : fluence Napoleon. Why should he sigh after te4 ritory or conquest ? Does not the lovely realin governs demand all his energies and all his taleo and is not its compass abundant for any sane 0 . 1:6- 0 bition ? Willingly would he o blit er ate every trs e e of discord between two fair lands which Nst i l io has united by the ties of neighbourhood. Pi, every act, since he h a d p ower , h as p r oved ,1 30 Rivals he would hav e th em , b u t it wou ld be in' 0 , blessed rivalries of peace—their only co ntest friendly competitio n f or th e promo ti on o f the O, mon happiness. Th e h ear t , too has its memorl, w 0 Never would h e s t a i n th a t soil with blood, whieu' ld his need afforded him a refuge—never 'ff °ll t he he sadden that mild and gentle spirit, ito contentment of whose subjects beneath sway he witnessed. Never would he willinVa that pea ce i m p er il i n d e f enc e of whi c h he enrel„, ic o , himself amongst the very humblest of our citi z e:i le No, no, indeed, the exile is not forgotten in ' ro , Emperor, It was but the other day in bis P ~~ n~.f 1 tress through : I b4rst from 141 ierbglish` Cheer's paror desires pi vexed only by song of health 4ort which he for the desoh trembles on the vulture to of a different ( courage manuf increase the c , develop© the re amongst his de objects of a b] enduring troph leon, indeed, the Continent, triumph, when immortalised h rations which These were tb A inthe vicissif, us his succeswi r s his progresses, some improve spirit is natur and look aroul tectural, womb races ! There treetA of pal: The Rue de lenrope. Rot plea dedicated try ! Edifices useful. Surd, "These are give this sp: sears of peace, nation can best tropolis of Fro decorated enib 4 This, in the but, already a lesson of cha some of the we him ! While up the Bible a readers --nay, geance beyond their fellow-C1 of mankind, a request, a cern he forgotten, i due to the fee kis throne. I " Freed° She had a sv Napoleon. Fitru The glorieus Ignoble souls but Nr4p oleon son of the des . justifeed the c Daic what c the crime of I spot on which am'l with goc Which blasted and anarchy again. Anoti den in Paris N strous brood • the scaffold at courts of law, even still, the er ; and, on e and on The 'baffled ou crowehing for Pramce was tc Wit, the sta Waich devise e/ieetrified tre Prance, and Tose the c 'would have b( it, the evil 'sp - philosophy of lingers thong in continual n has scotched i though restle: blood of Loui lalsavinitteifie of o i a r ni o li n et e yn o t. f , th tlh e C tse h C • and its maw generated, w] and rescued braces. Fran the danger sh the demon of vonred its hu w i nile there is. L devour. The of the half cen in the blood ( the hereditary the other day pluneier their Say the descen sires Voltaire ~ Saint Just, L( It was the r of horror and zjurope. Let 'they will, the it—did not n deed! What d Prance has ex do so ? Wot rabble crowne tain clubbists guillotine fed the learned an dethroning ti Portents —ma: petition ! Ye leon Louis ei miscreants en , or scruple , pa of the scaffoll torch. Is it i 'that we are tc fuse to conten the Emperor lc of the people after the coi' by millions ot , is su re l y capa left to do so. costly experii France. Tw( nets re-erecte grav e . In tl money lie int , - monument of And now,n , sketched the us consider ( policy prescribe. "V convulse the • rea li s i ng the a universal el( ditated—is t. empire. The d a y when painted on a Under preten assailed—assn path to Indi dream of Rus a doubt by tl the First. 'I have lost In made bet we( furnished th thousand goo number of t •„, thousand 0 millions for other requisi troops were be joined b 3 and to have Sea, - where t baveproceed( Paul, as we project penis] In a few p stantinople, Greece. Tlu already take] flattery whit effect this obj most to be • natural emirs • , sia. The Brea Who, yeti ma pothesis that allied with si )3ow strange this moment tered upwan does exist, throne a ma to the whole our history • that alliance of Eng land. aid to Wash Liberty to 1;' utts, tion ! It ,1 4 • -hour aninN flow climensj