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c.' EAST INDIA DOUSE, J. 26, 1853. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice, That a QUAR TERLY GENERAL COURT of the said Company will be held at their House, in Leadenhall-street, on 'WEDNESDAY, the 23d March, 1863, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. EAST INDIA HOUSE, JAIL 26, 1853. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That the • ransfer Books of the said Company's Stock will be shut on THURSDAY, the 3d March next, at Three o'clock, and opened again on THURSDAY, the 14th April following. That a General Court of the sold Con_pany will he held at their House, in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY, the 13th April, 1853, from Nine o'clock in the morning until Six o'clocki in the evening, for the Election of Six Directors of the said Company, for Four Years. That the form of a Letter of Attorney, and of a Declaration for en abling Proprietors of East India Stock to vote by Proxy on this occasion, may be obtained on application at the Treasury in this House. That the Lists of the Members of the said Company will be ready to be delivered on Thuralay, 31st March, 1853. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secrettvy. PARIS. -MARRIAGE of the EMPEROR. — On SATURDAY, the 29th instant, the TID +L Tit tIN for PARIS, via Folkestone and Boulogne, will start front the SOUTH ASTERN RAILWAY TERMINUS, London-bridg,, at 10 50 a.m. Arrival. in Paris, 10 45 p.m. the same day. Sea passage, twe boars. G S. HERBERT, Secretary. London bridge Terminus, 25th January, 1853. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. TO CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. The DIRECTORS are desirous of Receiving TENDERS rer the ERECTION of ADDITIONS to the EXISTING ENGINE HOU -E at the RUGBY STATION, and ,or the ERECTION of an ENGINE HOUSE at NORT HA M PTO N. Parties desirous of Tendering may see the Drawings and Speci fications, aad obtain Bills of Quantities, at the Engineer's Office, Euston-station, on Thursday, February 3d, 1833, between the hours of 10 and 4. than Tendlo o'clock on ers, addressWednesday,d t eol to the unershe 9t ign h Februaryb, l ed, should e 853 sent In not later , CLIAS. E. STEWART, Secretary. Secretary's Office, Eturton-staton, 25th January, 1853. THE HOOD MEMORIAL CLOSE OF THE SUBSCRIPTION. AT a GENERAL MEETING of the SUB SCRIBERS to the Fund for Erecting a Monument above the Grave of THOMAS HOOD in Kensal-green Cemetery, held Dec. 2d. at the Whittington Club, it was resolved that the Subscription List be CLOSED on the let of February, 1853, and Miss ELIZA COOK, Ma. MITRDO YOUNG, and Ma. JOHN WATKINS, were appointed Trustees to the Fund. The amounts subscribed are deposited at interest in the London and Commercial Bank. Contributions are received by Mr. William Strudwicke, at the Whittington Club, Strand ; by Miss Eliza Cook, Treasurer, 54, Great Ormonde-street, Bloomsbury; and by Mr. John Watkins, Hon. Sec., 34, Parliament-street. Among the subscribers are the following :7 Eta Grace the Duke of Devonshire, £25 0 0 The Right Hon. Lord John Russell, 31.1'....... 5 0 0 The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P ••..•••• •• •• .. 5 0 0 The Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, M.P............ 5 0 0 Sir William Frazer, Bart.• ..... •• •••••• • • •• •• 5 0 0 James Harmer, Esq.... •••••• •• • ........ 5 0 0 John Macgregor, Esq., M.P.. ........ ...• 5 0 0 Arnold Rogers, Esq... ••••• • • • • ...... ••••• • • 3 5 0 Mrs. Robert Elliot ... •• •• • • .... •••••••• • • • • .. 5 0 () Richard Dawson, Esq., M.D..... George Peabody, Esq...• •••••• • • •• •• •• 5 5 0 Edward Moorman, Esq..• •••••••••• • • • • • •• •• 5 0 0 David Salomons, Esq.. ..... • .... • • •. „ „ 6 5 0 Messrs. Spalding and Hodge..... •• •• .• 6 5 0 Miss Eliza C00k...... Miss Cushman.... • ..... .• • •• ~ •• •• •• • • 5 0 0 Proceeds of an "Evening with Hood at the • Whittington Club... ........ •. • • .... ...... 8 8 0 Murdo Young, Esq., and family 4 4 0 Samuel Rogers, Esq.—. • ...... .... .. • 3 0 0 C. W. Dilke, Esq... ••• ......., •• •• •• 3 3 0 Charles Lushington, 3 0 0 Elias Davis, Esq. • • •• • •••• • •• 3 3 0 The Right Hon. the Earl of Ellesmere .. 2 0 0 The Right lion. Lord John Manners, M.P...... 2 0 0 Sir James Duke. Bart., „ 2 2 0 R. Monckton Milnes, Esq., 2 0 0 B. W. Procter, Esq., (Barry Cornwall) 2 2 0 Douglas Jerrold, Esq.... T. R. Hervey, Esq. 2 2 0 Rowland Hill, Esq., General Post-office ...... 2 2 0 C. Mackay, Esq., LL.D. ••.. •• ...............„ 2 2 0 C. W. Dilke. jun., Esq.. •• •• •• . Edward Moxon, E5q..... ..... James Coppock, E5q..... • • Rev. Thos. Wilkinson, Durham.... • ......• •• . 2 2 0 Collected by M. J. O'Conner, Esq., Morpeth, Northumberland 2 2 9 Jas. Wyld, Esq., and family.... ......• 2 0 Mrs. Theodore Martin (Miss Helen Faucit) •• 2 2 0 A few Young Men at Simpkin and Marshall's.. 1 5 6 Nine half crowns from Manchester.... • . I 2 6 The Right Hon. the. Earl of Carlisle- ••• 1 I 0 The Right Hon. the Earl of St. Germans• • .... 1 1 0 The Right Hon Lord Brougham.• .... 1 0 0 The Right Hon. Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P. . 1 1 0 The Hon. and Rev. S. G. Osborne ••••• • • • •• 1 0 0 Alfred Tennyson, Esq. (Poet Laureate)......... 1 1 0 Lady Sandys.. •• •• •• •• • W. M. Thackeray, E5q....... • .. 1 0 0 Charles Swain, Esq, . . •. . W. C. Macready, •• •........... 1 1 0 J. Westland Marston, Esq Mrs. S. C. Hall • Albert Smith, Esq. •• •• .......• • • ...... 1 1 0 Lady Morgan. . • W. C. M. Kent, Esq. • . Alfred Crowquill, Esq • .•• • . William Jerdan, E5q.... Hepworth Dixon, Esq•• ...• ••.••• •• • • • • I 1 0 W. H. Gore Langton, Esq.. M.P. C. Baring Wall, Esq., M.P. ....... I 1 0 Charles Gavan Duffy, Esq., P... • .... ••. • • I 0 0 R. Swift, Esq., •• • • ...... 1 1 0 James Macgregor, Esq., M.P 1 0 0 B. Oliveira, Esq.. 31. P.. •• • 1 1 0 W. J. For, Esq., M.P.... ..... SirJohnKerle Haberfield, Ent. Bristol •• •• Mrs Milner Gibson ...... •• ••• • • ..• 1 0 0 Thomas Creswick, Esq. R.A........... ..... • ~. •`. J. B. Backstone, E5q,,...... • • .... •• . •• 1 1 0 • Mrs. Fithwilliam ... ........., „ 1 1 0 - . Felix Palmer, Friers 1 1 0 1 0 "race m ayhew, E • "ft ndys Boon, .1 1 0 ••• owden Clarke, Esq J. E. Carpenter, Esq. • - • • . Dr. Robert Elliot, Stratford • ••• : • • • • •••••. 1 1 g Elocution Ms., Walworth Literary Institution.. 1 1 0 Eight half crowns from Preston. In pence from Bideford . In Half-crowns, from 8ri5t01...." .......... 1 2 6 In Half-crowns and Shillings •• ••.•• • • , 11 0 In pence from Bristol .• . 12 6 Miss Martineau ...... ............... •• •, ,„ 10 6 Mies Milford • • „ „ „ •• ••• 10 6 Geo. Dawson, Esq., M.A. 10 6 E. L. Blanchard, Esq. •• •• .. ••• • . 10 6 W. C. 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ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAG E , INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH A ND AND MATURITY. THE SECRET WITH FIFTY COLOURED ENGRAY LNHS ON STEEL. In French, English German, Dutch, S Sealed Envelope , 2s. 6d., or post-free, P 4 lab rn, and Italian, in a Forty-two Stamps, QELF-PRESERV A T d Functions of P.... 7 Analytical Investigation of the Physiology I ON; an i ts and Impe diments, in all the bearings in which that important en subject affects the health and happine.s of Man. with its Disci habits, di mwits, tracing their origin to the effects of juvenile solita ry a by prac putbnal excess, tropical climates, or close study ; follo th we ualiticat m treatment t_learalremarks, tounded on twenty years' experience in , t em. Il ri, pu i s s ance, Nervous Debility, Local Weakness, :Verematorrhcea, "'Penis, and ail diseases of the Urinary and Generative 53's lnsthicturtted by s‘o coloured Engravings on the Anatomy ve Organs and their relative conditions in Health and Disease. D at:, of mitedEld:fly SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D. of the Repro- DPO RD-SQIJARE, LONDON, mber of the London Hos bur g h, non s. Matriculated Member of the University of Edin- The esaential Licentiate :Jr me Pz.fitecaries' Ilan, London, aec., &c. pita] Medical Society, consequences reseitZt of this treatise is to point out the fearful at all stages of life, have produced mor e demis"Y in Youth, degradation in Man ado class Of di, than, perhaps, any pted is founded flex ,l to modern pathologists. The treatment schools of medicine both e t t h i i e uee gained in the most celebrated The results of the knowledge thus country and in continental Europe. the personal supervision of Dr°3 aeclalrea are here condeased under egally qualified physicians wb. La•Mert, himself one of the few divided studies to this important°have devoted their whole and un every peculiarity relating to the branch of medical science. in short, to the generative system, end treatmentth of the diseases incidental ultimate cure are described t e means of immediate relief and of Dr. La'Mcrt, who has ta k ee th The professional reputation sma academic honours at hom e a .. C! most distinguished medical guarantee that those who m ay ik : d e eread. is in itself a sufficient will, in every inotance, meet with' . It themselves under his care inviolable secrecy which are ao requi a t delicate consideration and CAM. te in the treatment of these Published by the Author, and may b e had nos ter-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford -street ;n of J. Gilbert, 49, Pater. Haymarket; Mann, 23, Cornhill ; o r 11 . ° e iar ie• Titchborno-street, Stamps, from the author, who may b e co e by post for forty-two ettOr Minh from Tea tat Tyro, awl from B lz a:Milted personally, or by a tilkEight, IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS, Just published, by H. Bernier's, 219, Regent-street, Londoa. No I. Bvo., in cloth, price ss. by post free, ss. 6d., ON TRUER FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, with the Viewt o the Correction of wide-spread Errors in relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the Generative System, or Sexual Rypocholldriasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD "Dr. Pickford 91 known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first ime, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, If he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be In his sower to correct."—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851. oW e promised in a former number that we should recur to this work, in order to exhibit its rain more clearly. The author lashes w ith great severity the impostors who make a livelihood by preying on the credulity of the public. The tribe of ' Quiet Symathlsers,' and ' Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed ; aitd if this book could find its way into the hands of those who saffer from th com plaint of which it, trelts, we are satisfied that twily hundreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and a Ind. and what is of though it is that which the quacks most prize— less importance, This volume is well qualified,jistelosip6;Balsn32,e.tnhderteoibtrhee, much Trolley emp irical system of treating Spermatorrhoca, and to place the treat ment upon a more v r o a o t d io . Lal l a f n eci di oa h .i y u t ir :l c o u g i l a c r a , l likely to do much Bvo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 0., THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Princi ples at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate and apparently Intractable Forms. BY F. B. COURTENAY, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. " In -- proof of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has given he history of a great many cases successfully treated, as bad as any which Mr. Sy - me adduced, and on which ho had operated. Such are cases ix., ii., xii., and xviii. No. ix. had resisted, for a period of twelve years, the treatment by dilltation, and was finally removed in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and xis. appear, both In duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag gravated character than any detailed by Mr- Srme, and yet the tsaatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently guecegsful... Lie ere on the TfitAtMellt of BtriOure. „ - *;4. No. 18,828.] V New Work by the Author of "Jane Eyre," "Shirley," &c. This (lay is published, and may be hal at all the Libraries. VILLETT B. By. CURRER BELL, In three Tols., post tivo: London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Coraliiil. ITATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTITUTION .11 for lUTILIL LIFE ASSURANCE, ANNUITIES, &c., 48, Gracechurch-street, London. • _SAMUEL HAYHURST LUCAS, Esq., Chairman. CHARLES LUSHINGTON, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. CONSULTING ACTUARY—CharIes Ansell, Esq., F.R.S. Extracts from the Report for 1852. "In the year ending the 20th No7ember last, 1,127 Policies have been issued : the Annual Premiums on which amount to 17,7261. 4s. hi. " Since the establishment of the Institution in 1 14,556 Polic'es have been effected, and the Annual 206,7001. 1 Is. fid " The balance of receipts over the disbursemei 137,1931. 7s. 3d. ; making the Capital 875,61461. ss. 7i " The fol owing shows the progress of the Institu the three divisions of Profit:— December, 1835, Income is now tnts in 1852 18 Ltion at each of Amount of C.lpitaf. X 8. From 1835 to 18'2, being 7 years .. •• •• •• From 1842 to 18 ,1 1, being 5 years .. •• •• •• From 1847 to 1852, being 5 years 139,806 1 227,366 14 5 508,513 9 7 Total on Nov. 20, 1852 14,856 £206,700 11 5 £i75,686 5 7 By a recent Act of Parliament the Directors are empowered to grant Loans to Members on the security of their Policies to the ex tent of their value. Members whose premiums fall due on the Ist January, are re minded that the same must be paid within thirty days from that date. The Directors' Report presented to the Annual Meeting of Mem bers on the 22d instant is now ready, and may be had on application at the Office, or of the Agents in the country. December 24, 1852. JOSEPH lIARSII, Secretary. E XETER -HALL, THURSDAY EVENING, 3d February, 1853. CHARLES 3IACKAY, Esq., L.L.D., in the Chalr. AN EXPOSITION OF THE GENIUS AND WRITINGS OF THOMAS HOOD, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS, Under the auspices of the HOOI► MEMORIAL COMMITTEE, for the Benefit of the Fund. Will be given by Mr. WILLIAM PARSONS. The Chair will be taken at Eight o'clock. Doors open at Half--past Seven. Introductory Remarks.—Definition of true Poetry; its various manifestations.—Orginal bent of Hood's genius, as evinced in his earlier poems ; their comparative neglect —Wit and Humour; Hood's genial and kindly spirit as a humourist ; exuberance of his comic vein; more chastened development of his hum , tir when freed from uncurbed conceits.-Effects of higher aims upon his powers, as shown in his later poems.—Combination of Humour and Pathos ; Hood's earnest and large-hearted sympathy with want and suffer ing.—His purpose of assisting to redress the social wrongs or the age, and the eminent success of his first efforts.— His enthusiasm in the cause unsubdued by ill health, and arrested only by his death. Reserved Seats, 2s. ; Body of Hall, Is. Tickets may be bad of Mr. J. Watkins, Hon. Sec. to the Hood Memorial Committee, 36, Parliament-street; Mr. W. Strudwicke, Whittington Club, Strand; Messrs. Chapman and Hall, 193, Picca dilly; Mr. David Posue, Fleet-street; Messrs. D'Almalpo and Co., 20, Soho-square, and 714, Upper Charleton-street, Fitzroy-square; Mr. Fenton, 78, Strand ; Mons. Jullien, 214, Regent-street ; Messrs. Keith, Prowse, and Co., Cheapside ; Mr. Mitchell, Bond-street ; Mr. Novello, 69, Dean•street, Soho; Mr. Peachy, 108, Bishopsgate street ; Mr. T. E. Purdav, St. Paurs•churchyard ; Mr. Tolkein, 27, King William-street ; Mr. J. A. Turner, 19. Poultry, City ; Messrs. Wessel and Co,, 229, Regent-street; Mr. Moore, 104, Bishopssate street ; Mr. F. Ross, 81, Great Portland-street; Mr. Mayhew, 27, Little Guildford-street, Russell-square; Mr. W. Theobalds, 314, Oxford-street; and of the Hall-keeper, Exeter-Haq. F RENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—SEASON 1853. Mr. MITCHELL respectfully announces that the SEASON of FRENCH PLAYS will be COMMENCED on MONDAY next, Jan. 31, by the engagement of M. nsieur Ravel (of the Theatre du Palais Royal —his first appearance since the year 184 w). The first performance will consist of two new and amusing Vaudevilles, entitled UN MONSIEUR QUI SUIT LES FEMMES, and YORK; ou, Une Recompense Honette, in both of which Mons. Ravel will ap pear. Mr. Mitchell has the satisfaction to submit the following List of Artistes, engaged to appear during the season :—Monsieur Ravel, Madame La•nbert (or the Theatre the Paisis Royal), Madlle. Bertin (of the Theatre Francais), Madlle. Luther (of the Theatre du Gymnase—her first appearance in England), Monsieur Lafont, Madlle. Emma Fleury (Eleve du Conservatoire, Paris), Madlle. Page (of the Theatre des Varietes—her first appearance in England), Monsieur Adrien Fed e, Monsieur Leonard, Madlle. Madeline Brohan (of the Theatre Francais -her first appearance in Eng'and), and Monsieur Regnier (of the Theatre Frk,gsis). The eminent Trage dienne, Madlle. Rachel, is also engaged for Twelve Representations, and will appear in Monsieur Emile Angler's successrul Play of DIANA, at the commencement of her engagement.—During the en gagement of Monsieur Ravel, at the beginning of the season, it is intended to give Four Representatioas a week—on Monday, Wed nesday, Friday, and Saturday Evenings—the Mondays and Fridays being, as usual, Subscription Nights.—lt is also respectfully an nounced that. during the Easter week, front Monday, March 28, until Saturday, April 2, M. Robert Houdin will exhibit his extraor dinary Entertainment of Soirees Fantasigues, being his last appear ance in England. previous to his final retirement from his profession —The French Plays will be resumed after Easter, on Monday, April 4. The Sulwriptton will be arranged for Thirty Representations, on Mondays aad Fridays, until the end of May. The favour of an early application for Season Subscriptions is respectfully solicited at Mr. MLcliell'a Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street, and at the principal libraries, as usual.-33, Old Bond-street, Jau.22. . . , • - LAURENT'S .CULAND CAIN(. RGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill -street, St. James's, Lessee, Charles Emile Laurent, Onslow HOUST, Brompton-road, Licensed pursuant to Act of Parliament, of 25th George 11. Open My.sry evening with Laurent's Celebrated Band. rrmeipel ornet-d-Viston, M. Boulcour. Adm keion —ONE RIIILLINa. Door,' open at Half-pnst Eight o'c , ock, nanoing to commence at Nine. enO te - mtnate at Half-past Eleven precisely. VRAMPTON'S PILL of HEALTH. X.' The following testimonial is another proof of the great efficacy of this medicine : " Winchmore Hill, Middlesex, April 16, 1851. " Slr,—ln considerati m of the great benefit I have derived from taking Frampton's Pill of Health, I feel it a duty that I owe to you and the public to send you the following statement. 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SUBJECT :—Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The ad vent of the passions. Chastity and its infringement. The casualties oflicentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narra tive, and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages. THE MARRIAGE STATE. To be or not to be, that is the question." PROGRAMME :—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and reli gion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and choice, on both sides, as to age temperament, complexion, and figure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them. Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion. Cases, &c. By H. J. CULVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827). (1824), Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in these matters. Price Is. each; by post, Is. 6d. . . To be bad of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or of M. R. 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The measure had received the direct testimony of approbation of the press and the public, and it was not, he trusted, an unworthy feeling of regret he felt when he looked down upon the promised land un folded as it were at his feet, and found he was not to be permitted to lead his fellow-labourers into progression. He, however, would not dwell upon the subject, except to correct two misapprehensions which appeared to exist upon the subject. In the first place, Mr. Deputy Lott had by a letter in the newspapers charged him with hav ing said that the corporation were clearing the ground in Victoria-street for the reception of the railroad, when they were clearing it for a totally different purpose. Mr. Lott ought to have gathered from the contents of the report from which he drew this statement that, so far from having made such a declaration, he had expressly stated that the corporation were clearing the ground not for the railroad but for the new street. The other mis apprehension of a member of the Common Council was that he had originally proposed that the project should extend into Farringdon-street, whereas he had now withdrawn that plan, intending that it should be limited to the north of Haborn Valley. This was the last op portunity he should ever have of appearing before them. He should, therefore, avail himself of it to express, in plain and unmistakeable language, his reasons for be lieving that the traffi c resu l t i ng from the short li ne wou ld be prouctive of a large dividend at a very early period, and that within a very few years, by means of cheap, speedy, punctual, and frequent trains, an enormous revenue would be produced, sufficient to remunerate the capital required, and yield a large sum for the enlarge ment of the streets in 'the adjoining locality. (Hear, hear.) He desired no credit for the details of the plan, either in its construction or arrangement. Except as an important auxiliary of street improvements, it was of little moment whether it advanced a few yards in one direction or in another. The principle upon which he advocated the measure was plainly this. The citizens of London, paying high rates and taxes, both for their places of residence and their places of business in the City, had a better right to railroads to carry them backwardrand forwards every' day than' the inhabit ants of districts occupied by a scattered population, who did not quit their homes half a dozen times in as, many years. The laws which governed commerce and manufactures ruled more completely in regard to railroads than in any description of commercial under taking. (Hear.) Where no raw material was used and the working charges were so small as in passengee trains, it was manifest that quantity ought to rule both as to the quality and price of railway travelling. It was a well-known fact that the lowest priced goods were made by the most costly machinery. (Hear.) If an old woman wanted a cheap machine for making a pair of stockings she would provide herself with a pair knitting needles, at the cost of one halfpenny; or if she wanted a cheap instrument of manufacture, his great grandmother's spinning -wheel, value five shillings, would meet her wishes. But if you wanted cheap hose and shirts the aid of the power-loom and the tall-chimnied manufactory must be called in aid at a cost of ten, twenty, 'fifty; or a hundred thousand pounds. (Hear, hear.) - Railroads and railroad travel ling formed no exception to this general law of commercial mechanics. Except in a few cases which might be easily accounted for by circumstances not affecting tha general principle, it would be found that the most costly lines, though running frequent trains at low charges, produces larger profits and paid better dividends than those lines where the opposite ; conditions prevailed. (Hear , hear.) The Blackwall and Green wich and South-Western Extension Railways might be supposed, upon a superficial observation, to be standing evidences that this proposition was not well founded in their case. But they were all clearly exceptional cases, from the peculiarity of their position. It was true, they were all costly—very costly, and paid poor , very poor dividends ; but they were all r i ver board lilies. The Thames both starved and robbed them. Having a river boundary on one side they had only half a country to feed them, instead of having the population on both sides to pour in its tributary streams. (Hear, hear.) This was a serious drawback upon their prosperity ; but, it was not all, for the river robbed as well as starved them. It ran cheap penny and halfpenny boats in competition, particularly during the spring and summer and autumn months, when railroads are expected to make play, and compensate for the deficiencies of other seasons. (Hear.) The Blackwall and the Green wich lines were parallel, and if it were not for the river between them, either line would have sufficed for the district ; but they were parted by the river, and thus two capitals had become necessary to perform the functions of one line. (Hear.) The South-Western extension was placed under equal disadvantag es as far as loc a l t ra ffi c was concerned. If it were not for the separation of the river, this railway might have sufficed to carry the Pimlico, and Chelsea, and Fulham traffic, as well as the Vaux hall, Wandsworth, and Putney passengers. The rail way promoted by this company, however, was sub jected to none of these disadvantages. It opened up or led to a magnificent country, where they had no river to separate them from your passengers, or to deprive you of your summer traffic. Omnibuses w ere their only opponents, and of course they could not stand in competition with the cheap and expeditious tra velling which it was the privilege of railroads to confer. (Mr. Pearson then exhibited a tabulated paper, containing statistics of the cost, takings, and diVidends of the cheapest, the dearest, and the average railways of the kingdom, showing the general correspondence bet ween costly lines, populous districts, low fares, and large divi dends.) They would observe by the table that the Dub lin Railway, which had the lowest fares, and cost the most money, paid the largest dividend. When that line was first proposed, its spirited projector was deemed insane for suggesting that a line from Dublin to Kingstown could ever pay. The elements of prosperity which attended the Dublin line existed to a far g reater extent in connecti on with this undertaking. Th e population of the English metropolis was much larger and richer, and more loco motive, than the inhabitants of the Irish capital • and he believed the revenue available for dividend would be far, very far, beyond the 10 per cent. which that com pany paid. Mr. Pearson then entered into various ex planations as to the number of persons who daily en tered the city by omnibusses, cabs, railways, and steam boats, to show that the 15,000 he had assumed as the number of daily passengers to the City, was much below the number upon which they had a right to rely. The raising of the Holborn Valley was an object of deep importance to the interests of this great city, and a grand new street intersecting the metropolis from north to south, would be an object worthy of the greatest sacri fices, but when coupled with the benefits and blessings which the railway would confer on all classes, rich and poor, upon the trade and commerce of the City, upon the health of the City, and the convenience of the City, the project in his judgment challenged the support of all well wishers to its best interests. If the Government and the corporation would give their countenance to the project in the manner suggested by the railway commis sioners, it might be promptly and efficiently executed with honour to the citizens, with advantage to the share holders, and without inflicting injustice or injury on any portion of the community. On the motion of Mr. Krug, the retiring directors were re-elected. Mr. B. J. ARMSTRONG, in a complimentary speech moved, — "That this meeting sincerely regrets the retirement of Mr. Charles Pearson from its direction, and sincerely hopes that circumstances will speedily enable him to re join it." (Cheers.) Mr. Deputy PEWTRESS seconded the resolution. He could not help thinking that Mr. Pearson had not been fairly treated, and that his scheme had not received the consideration it deserved. He had know Mr. Pearson a long time, and he had rarely, if ever, known any of his plans turn out ill. (Cheers.) He remembered his ex ertions when the cholera first broke out. Mr. Pearson had, in fact, laid the foundation of the Board of Health, and all those sanitary improvements to which they owed their health, and perhaps their lives. He (Mr. Pearson) never held a railway share in his life till the formation of this company, and then he had bought 100 shares out of pure self-defence. The ward in which he lived (Grace church-street) was so overloaded with traffic that it was absolutely necessary for something to be done. They , had been obliged to put on foer additional policemen for the sole purpose of keeping the streets clear • but in spite of all their efforts, s t oppages frequently took place by the half hour at a time. He himself had been de tained 35 minutes on London-bridge, and the traffic ap peared to be increasing every week. (Hear, hear.) The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. PEARSON returned thanks. He was as sorrow ful as any man could be at being compelled to retire from the board ; but he could not agree with the gentleman who seemed to think that it had been caused by any jealousy of him on the part of the Common Council. There might, it was true, be some gentleman - who thought that, as he had received so much solid pudding, he had no right to ex pect any empty fame ; but such persons were very few. As a general principle it was quite true that no gentle man receiving a considerable salary for his official duties ought to embark in an extensive private un dertaking and it was quite true that the work and t he sleepless nights which this scheme had cost him , had in some manner exhausted those energies. This, the Commonis, he believed , was the true reason why gentlemen of Council objected to his retention of hisesenlatai y a o t li t t he b of oa t r h cl e . (Hear.) If he had believed that te h alousy or envy, or Common Council were actuated by f r om his office as any bad feeling, he would ha t r a fe as i City Solicitor. He had said . aedgeneral rule it was improper for a person i n. ti ruttohebheacdosnone:otned. with a private undertaking e h l is ike sit th request of the Common netted himself with Nevertheless if he had at the C o uncil, and therefore le lleaadr.t)hot that this was an excep t ion al case. (Ere' r i ' an able successor in Mr. Ayrton, he shou no t known that biehwaayse leaving n nin much doubt which mas ter to serve ; a ndl at all events he would not have left his project to time chance of becoming a wreck for want o f proper care and watchfulness. (Cheers.) Though e had left the board, nothing should prevent him from often talking to Mr. Ayrton on the subject ; though, of cour se, if he had to be a party to any negotiation on the pa rt of the corporation, he should certainly do his best to make the best bargain he could for the City. (Hear, hear.) He begged now to move a vote of thanks to the directors. (Carried unanimously.) Mr. Sheriff CROLL returned thanks. Mr. PEARSON then moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Ayrton, which was carried unanimously. Mr. AYRTON briefly acknowledged the com pliment, and the meeting b ro k e up. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1853. CONSOLIDATED LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Life assurance, endowments, and annuities, on the most equitable terms. Persons in doubtfel health, or whose proposals for assurance has been declined at other offices, aisured at premiums carefully adjusted to the increased risk. Loans granted upon every real security, and also upon approved personal security, from 501. to 500/. All claims payable within one month after satisfactory proof o death. NOAII COLLIER, Secretary. 45, Chcapside. PATRON-II R. 11. PRINCE ALBERT. j OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. NEW EXHIBITION.—An OPTICAL and MUSICAL IT.- LUsTRATION of SHAKSPEEE'S " MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM," with an ENTIRE CHANGE of MUSIC, Introdirtag the ORIGINAL MUSIC by Sir Henry Bishop, Morning and Evening.— LECTURES by J. H. Pepper, Esq., on the endless AMUSE \LENTS of CHEMISTRY, adapted to a Juvenile Audience; by Dr. Bachhoffner, on the PHILOSOPHY o' SCIENTIEW RECREA TION; by Mr. Crlspe, on BA LLOONING.— TH:,SOLVING VIEWS, Including Day and Night Views of WALMER CASTLE, WALMER CHURCiI, &c., &c. Admission, Is. ; Schools and Children tinder ten years of age, half-price. fortunate matches, each bringing their contingent to her territory? Is she ambitious of resembling Aus trja, to whom Hymen has been more munificent than war or policy? Or does she suppose that if such has been the result in former days, it must be the result now, and that kingdoms are to be won and worn like a lady's trousseau; as if there were no greater Disposer of their destinies, or as if history even within a very late period had not proved the futility of all such fond imagination s ? Thi s i s th e s h a ll o west of all views. If the F renc h monarc h y has grown to its present extent of ter r it ory f rom s uch alliances ; if, from the time wh en it scarce l y ex t e nded south of the Seine until the accession of the Valais or the Bourbons, it has been indebted to the marriages of its princes for its gradual incorporation into one great empire, does it follow that such incorpora tion would not have taken place without the inter vention of such causes, or that such results will happen again by again putting such causes into operation ? Generally speaking, what has a foreign alliance done for nations on either side of the Chan nel ? It has driven them off from the pursuit of their true and direct interests to the. pursuit of a shadow ; instead of developing their real strength; it has wasted that strength by attempting, through force or cajolery, to preserve a union unnatural and impolitic. There are certain limits to all kingdoms which they cannot transgress, attempt it as often as they may ; war, marriage, policy, fail alike, and defeat their purposes. All countries furnish instances enough of this truth. What have we gained, in the time of Henry. ,11 by the uribn of the South. of France with England ? What still later by the marriage of Henry V. to the heiress of that kingdom What has France gained by the Austrian or Spanish affiance in the most brilliant periods Of her monarchy May not both king doms trace a vast amount of their misfortunes to this phantom of aggrandisement ? Have not th 6 hopes of uniting kingdoms, by language, by insti tutions; by geographical limits intended to remain distinct, been fraught with consequences most fatal to those kings and that people who ventured to entertain them ? We need not, therefore, this laboured justifica tion of the marria g e of the Empe ror N a p o l eon 111. with a lady who has no kingdom for her dowry, either in reversion or even in expectation. So painful a demonstration rather argues a doubt in those who attempt it. For ourselves, we look upon it as a strange hankering in the writers that use it, not altogether unworthy of notice. A species of judgment is fallen upon them for the ridicule which they have heretofore thrown upon the older Governments of Europe, and 'upon that spirit of feudalism which not long since they scouted as gross and unworthy. They have returned to that which they professed to reject.' What is this appeal to the ancient line of their Monarchs, and this attempt to derive from the actions of those monarchs, but a justification of the marriage of the Emperor, and a wish to identify him with them ? They compare him, who is the newly-elected of the people, with their ancient and hereditary sove reigns ; they:inscribe him in the list ; they appeal to those times of the ancient monarchy as authorita tive, thus acknowledging that those times carry with them a dignity and a sanction which they would gladly derive to their present ruler. If so, what a strange testimony is here to the value of an established line of princes, and to the excellence of hereditary descent ! They prophesy undesignedly; and the men who were once the foremost in con demning royalty, with all its forms, are now among ' the unconscious, unsuspected, and foremost adhe rents to its necessity and its use. Whether in this matter they speak only for them selves, or express the sentiments of others—of those perhaps who are higher than themselves, is of little use to determine. Whether they wish to find a sanction for this marriage, as if they enter tained any doubt about it, or wished to remove the doubts of others, is of little consequence either way. The mode of justification adopted by them is not the Wisest. It is neither so frank as that which the Emperor has himself put forward, nor by any means so convincing. Why should they not at once affirm, as he does, that he is a parvenu—a royal one, it is true, and the ruler of many millions of active, industrious, and intelligent subjects ? Why not at once take the bull by the horns, and declare that the novelty of his position is aAtliiiikt de ote to asha oNgEipd; to be proud of, An partur*frolif ancient rules and ancient policy ; and that he who is not prepared to break through such trammels according to the necessities and demands of his position is unfit to hold it. No acces sion of dignity, nor of legitimacy, nor of strength, can accrue to Napoleon 111. by following the maxims of the ancient monarchy. No one would respect him the more for attempting to blind the world to the real origin of his exaltation, and _placing his bust, alive or dead, with the crowd of the ancient Legitimates. This was the one great weakness of his uncle. Emperor of the French he might have been, and he was ; but, not content with this, he would be an Emperor of old tradi tions and of the ancient stamp : he Ivould adopt some worn-out image w hi c h men had read of in books ; as if he dreaded the reality of his power and his title, or as if men would be blinded into the belief that a gentleman from Corsica was the descendant and heir of the Holy Roman empire. Really great, he aspired to be greater, after a theory, and lost the reality for the shadow. Into the same weakness do the French journalists now run, of themselves, we suspect, and not because they are interpreters o f th e m i n d o f N apo l eon 111 . Such language can certainly gain them no credit in this country. England, at least, is indifferent whether the descendants of Merovig carried them selves in such delicate matters " With an eye to the main chance ;" whether they followed in their con nubial designs " the impulsion of their hearts or their personal interests ; and if they were guided solely by such motives, we cannot see that they are to be exempted from'the rebuke which' attaches to private peOple, as well as to kings, who violate the sanctity of marriage for selfish and unworthy pur poses. But we are interested in the question whether all this research into history is intended to exculpate what these writers condemn, or secretly feel liable to co ndemnation—whether they are at tempting to glorify an act in their Sovereign of which they .feel secretly ashamed—whether, pro fessing to stand in a position in which no kingdom ever as yet stood, and boasting of that position, they are in heart disowning it ? The language of their Emperor is plain and intelligible enough. We can respect it, whether we agree in it or not. He claims the inalienable right of all men to marry where he has fixed his affections, and where the in terests of his own people, and the past and present life of the lady herself offer no obstacle to the just fulfilment of his wishe s . Wh at other kings may have for L hereafter con cerns no t hi m, ion in which no' o th er Ki ng o may do before. Wh en hi s apolo gists Monarchs r of th e same genus, t h en rEh canme done tear n findo stands o r s e v in ea may they refer to precedents to countenance the marriage of their Emperor. Till then he stands and rules alone, himself the only precedent and the only law to himself. Maiims of ancient dy nasties cannot reach him, and perhaps it is well they should not. He has a great and mighty work to accomplish, only possible to him who can rise te superiorwho can discern what position require, a n d emergencieso f formalisms,hs has energy and resolution enough t o accomp li s h it . to POSITION OF THE PLANETS DURING TILE PAST AUTUMN QUARTER. TO THE TlißSuic Sin,—lnreferenc e long -prevailing gales DI t T o OR OF the blowing from the Equator, with heavy fall s o f ra in in November, the planet Venus was passing through the equinoctial Libra, on the Equator —Mercury, Mars, and Jupiter, all of them in the southern he misphere, causing a pressure from the south of a strong current of air, and at times accompanied with an electrical discharge rather unusual at that period of the year. The late hurricane which swept over the British Isles from the S.S.W., causing immense damage and loss of life on various parts of the coast, the Moon being at the full, and the Sun in perigee with the Earth, the former in the tropic of Cancer, the latter in Capricorn, when the Moon is on the Equator, whether in Aries or Libra ; she will be in Aries on the 15th and 16th of January, and Libra 29th and 30th ; in Aries on the 11th and 12th of February, and Libra 25th and 26th • in Aries on the 10 th and 11 th 'of March, and Libra 24th and 25th. During those days strong winds will prevail, with rain or snow, according to the temperature. From observations for many years past, I do not expect a permanent change of wind until the 2d of February, when a hyperborean w i n d, with showers of snow at times, the air acting with inclement action for some nights following, the Lent winds being from the north-east. I hope I shall not be intruding on your columns for the in sertion of this, for the benefit of our English sailors and others.—l am, (h., W. SALTER. Lowestoft, Jan. 3, 1853. [This conununication was omitted, by accident, or it would have appeared ear]ier.--ED, Sukt.i AMERICA. By the Royal mail steam-ship Asia, Lott com mander, we have advices from New York to the 14th inst. She has 200,000 dollars in specie on freight. The Asia sailed from her dock shortly after noon on the 12th, but afterwards came to anchor, and remained till the 14th, at 8 a.m., when she pro ceeded on her voyage. She has brought papers to the latter date. The steam-ship America, with the mails of the 25th .ult., from Liverpool, arrived at Boston on the 10th inst. The United States mail-steamer Baltic, which left Liverpool on the 29th ult., arrived at New York on the 11th instant. The new Cunard steamer Arabia, which sailed from Liverpool on the Ist, put into Halifax on the 13th inst., short of coals. The United States mail-steamer Humboldt, which sailed from Cowes on the 25th ult., arrived at New York on the 10th inst. Her Majesty's sloop-of-war Amphitrite was at Acapulco on the 30th of December, andas to sail immdiately with 800,000 dollars f .id'specie for England. The caloric ship Ericsson had had another trial trip, with a large party of scientific gentlemen on board. The trip was m every way satisfactory. She went a distance of 18 miles, with and against the tide, in two hours and a half, the engines only "working at half speeck, , ‘,..—__ New'rOrk, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and a large section of the United States, had been visited by very severe snowstorms, and, in some places,. snow had fallen to the depth of several feet. The de tention of the mails and steamers was vbry general, many of which were considerably overdue at the Idifferent ports. The United States Senate had been occupied with the discussion of the Clayton and Bulwer treaty. The President was requested to transmit all correspondence between Mr. Lawrence, late Minister at the Court of St. James's, and the British Government in regard to Central America, and particularly any correspondence relating to the claims of Great Britain to the Mosquito Coast, or arty portion of the territory of Honduras or Yucatan. The Kaine extradition case had again been before the United States Supreme Court. Attorney ' General Crittenden stated that he had examined the law applicable to the case, and had come to the conclusion to take no active part in it, con sidering that the duty of the Executive only com menced when the criminality of the accused was legally established and the warrant issued. Mr. Busteed appeared for Kaine, and, no counsel ap pearing for the defence, he asked the advice of the Court what course to pursue. Chief Justice Taney said the Court would leave it to the discretion of counsel to take such course as they deemed proper. Mr. Busteed said that, in order that the Court might have the case fairly before theni, in the absence of counsel for the defence, he would put the Court in possession of all the arguments which had been adduced on the opposite side, which he did, and then proceeded with his argument for Kaine. Mr.. Brady followed, concluding the case for Kaine. The Panama Herald of December 25 contains the following interesting information relative to one of the expeditions sent in search of Sir John Frank lin, for the safety of which considerable anxiety was beginning to be felt, as no intelligence had been received of it for a considerable time : " The friends of Captain Collinson, of her Britannic Majesty's ship Enterprise, will be delighted to hear that he has been seen by some American whalers. This offi cer, it will be recollected, went in search of Sir John Franklin and his party, and was supposed to have been lost, as he had not been heard of for nearly two years." There were 100 whalers at Honolulu, of which only one was English. A telegraphic dispatch from Baltimore states that New Orleans papers were received there on the 13th, containing the details of the news received from Tampico to the 27th ult. : " Among the leading officers of the regular Mexican army who had pronounced in favour of the revolutionists, were Colonels Casanova, Cruz, and Tenorio. " The papers are filled with accounts of pronuncia miatos, and El Tantaulipeco confidently pronounces the Government of Arista doomed. “Junn Jose de la Garza, Provisional Governor of Tamaulipas, publishes an address in which he justifies the revolution. " Colonels Mejia and Vega had joined the revolution ists, and within a few days a force of 1,500 men would be organised under the command of those chiefs, which would march to occupy San. Luis and other States of the interior." The New York Herald contains the following, in relation to the island of Cuba and the flourishing condition of the slave trade there : "In the district of Cienfuegos, in the island of Cuba, the sugar crop of 1846 was 12,673 tons, with 1,667,000 gallons of molasses. The crop of 1852 has been 27,243 tons, with 2,300,000 gallons of molasses. Will it be said that there was no increase to the slave population of the district during the intervening seven years ? If there was, whence was it derived, as we are well assured it was not from natural increase ? The actual net rea lised profits •of one estate in Cienfuegos, owned by an American (absentee) gentleman, last year (crop of 1852), was upwards of 116,000 dole., about 24,0001. sterling, drawn from the labour of 420 people, young and old. Will any man show us how to make free labour as pro •ductive ?" From Kingston, Jamaica, we have advices to the 7th inst. There is no news of importance to com municate. The House of Assembly was to meet on the 26th. The news received from England, to the 4th of _December, has been very discouraging, especially about the budget of the British Governmerit and the sugar duties. The Jamaica markets were in active, consequent upon the Christmas holidays. From Ecuador we learn that the ship of war Seis de Marzo, with 14 political offenders under sentence of transportation, was lost on the Bank of Guas c,ama, which projects about six miles from ale coast, and 68 persons altogether are supposed to have perished. Among the number are two officers— Valverde and 011arvide. The steamers Northern Light and Illinois had arrived at New York from California, with dates to the 16th of December, and 2,015,543 dols. in gold dust on freight. The news from California is interesting. Pro visions were very scarce and dear generally through out California. The roads between the mines and the river towns, where supplies are generally pro cured, were in a wretched condition, and transit necessarily slow. The consequence is that freight has risen, and with it the price of provisions in the mines. Common articles of subsistence are nearly as high as in the winter of '49, though the chances of rich returns to the miner are not so general as then. A person writing from Moquelumne-hill says that provisions are very high, and the stocks in the stores of the traders not sufficient to supply the wants of the town a fortnight. Flour was selling at Sonora at 65 dols. to 70 dols. a barrel. He also states that, owing to the rains, the yield of gold in Calaveras county will be immense this winter. The mining interest in and around Jamestown, at Kin caid Flats, French Gulch, Sullivan's Creek, and generally around Columbia, is in a prosperous con dition. The miners about Nevada begin to come plain of too much water ; the streams and ditches are surfeited, and all they now desire is fair wea ther, when they expect a rich gold harvest. In Tuolumne county the miners are all doing well. The late rains have, in fact, given an impetus to the workmen in dry diggings all over the country. Miss Catherine Hayes was singing in San Fran cisco. Her concerts wore giving great satisfaction, and she was nightly realising large sums of money. The auction system was adopted for the disposal of tickets. The first choice of a seat at her third con cert in San Francisco was bid off at 1,100 dols., by Empire Engine Company No. 1, and was occupied by the foreman of the company. The second choice was knocked down to California Engine Company, for 25 dols. A diamond cross, valued at 1,300 dols., which was to be raffled for in San Francisco, it was designed should be given by the winner to Miss Catherine Hayes. A Spaniard, named Jose Forner y Brugada, had been hung in San Francisco for a murder a short .time previous. After admitting that he killed the man, but only in self-defence, he made the following confession : " I was born in Valencia, Spain, in the month of May, 1820, of highly respectable parents. My uncle is Alcalde of Valencia ; and all my family, with but few exceptions, hold office under the Spanish Government. I am worth, in Valencia, from 4,000 to 5,000 dols. in real estate. At the age of 16 years I went to learn the trade of confec tioner with my uncle ; served with him five years. From there I went to Barcelona • was three years in the sr vice,of Don Juan Cost a , Thence I went w ith letterseof introduction to the brother of my last employer, D on Juan Costa, a t H avanna h , C u b a ; worked there two years ; then went to my native place, a Valen • ; from there to Madrid ; th ence t o B arcelona ; then again to Havannah ; was there three or four months, in the house of Dominican ; thence to Vera Cruz, Meiico ; thence to SPIRIT.D.F THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE FRENCH EMPEROR'S MARRIAGE. ( From tile Times.) The immediate effect of the announcement of Louis Napoleon's marriage ;with Mademoiselle Eugenie Montijo upon public opinion has been rather favourable than otherwise in this country, questionable in the French provinces, decidedly unfavourable in Paris, and unwelcome to the greater part of Europe. It is easy to account for this difference of opinion by the difference of the position or point of view from which we judge the same event ; and there is nothing inconsistent in the opposite conclusions at which our neighbours and ourselves may have arrived. The, speech of Louis Napoleon has been read in this country as a blunt but true statement of his real position, and we therefore prefer it to the hollow or unmeaning style of more diplomatic language. We never supposed or believed that the establishment of the French Empire was an event at all similar to the restoration of the French monarchy, for it has neither its dignity, its liberties, nor its rights. The Imperial declaration that " France has, by her successive revolutions, always abruptly severed herself from the rest of Europe," describes exactly the principle on which foreign States have con tinued to act towards the Empire in a spirit of ' precaution and mutual forbearance. We entirely agree that it adds nothing to the dignity of a Go vernment of popular origin, and alters nothing of its true character, to contract a forced affiance ' with some royal house ; for, in fact, there is nothing in common between an elective Empire based on universal suffrage and the traditional rights of hereditary monarchy, as they are recognised and established in the rest of Europe. Although all past experience has shown that the elective and popular principle affords far less stability and se curity to the government of great States than the law of hereditary monarchy, a man representing the former principle only may take a pride in tell ing the elder Governments of Europe, on any suit able occasion, that he considers his rights as incon testable and his position as exalted as theirs. But, though this is the language adopted by Louis Napoleon in announcing his matrimonial decision, and though we may not care to take exception to it, the French themselves are struck by the inconsistency of this attitude with much of the • former and recent language of the Impe rial Government. The assumption of the title of " Napoleon III." was as clear an intima tion as circumstances would permit of an here ditary claim to the throne, ratified by another po pular election. The enormous grants of money to the Court—the revival of etiquette under everyform, even to the usages which hardly escape ridicule in countries where they have never been discontinued —the triumphant restoration eet andpa it dh of e t bo pretensionu a c k s h o o v u e r n e d s i knee breeches, a highest marks o t f r a r i e n s s p , g n ' to k n,theaeree certainly not things to be expected of ." a Govern ment always mindful of its origin, preserving its own characteristics, and boasting of the title of parvenu." The principal object of the Imperial marriage is to give Louis Naaoleon a direct heir, who may succeed by hereditary right to all this greatness ; and public opinion has been instinctively a 1 .9 0 1- - the persiiniik ', i„,. : 4olitical position assumel by tip chief personae in the State and the matrimo nial connexion he thinks fit to form. Nor can we imagine any greater outrage on the regulations of the army and the democratic habits of the coun try, than the arbitrary promotion of Napoleon Jerome Bonaparte to the rank of General of Division, ho being now in his 31st year, utterly destitute of military qualifications, and justly dis qualified by his violent political opinions. It was not so that the princes of the Orleans family won their military rank, and no imperial or royal decree abridged for them the path of honour by placing them over tho heads of all the deserving officers in the army. On this, as on some former occasions, we notice strong indications of a change which has happily come over the French national character—we mean the extreme aversion and alarm manifested by the bulk of the people at any occurrence which seems to augment the danger of war. France has been so long considered the most warlike country in Europe, that some time must elapse before foreign nations form a correct estimate of her present re pugnance to any sort of enterprise which may embroil her in hostilities ; but we are inclined to believe that nothing short of violent and direct provocation would render war popular or even endurable by. the French ; and certainly the hold of the.present Government on the nation is in a direct ratio to the confidence placed in its assur ances of peace. The peasantry, on whom falls the weight of the military conscription, and the middle classes, which live by the interests of trade, are as little disposed in France to find themselves en gaged in war as we are ourselves. As far as the effect of this marriage, and the speech announcing it, can already be ascertained, it has been the less favourable on this account. Such a connexion affords no ground for anticipating an improvement in 'the relations of the empire with the rest of Europe. On the contrary, it explictly severs France from the institutions of other countries, and it even alludes in language by no means cour teous to the former matrimonial connexion of French Princes with the Courts of Germany. It unnecessarily and unhandsomely stigmatises the marriage of the late Duke of Orleans with the niece of the late King of Prussia as an alliance of secondary rank, and it applies to the conduct of Austria, on the marriage of Maria Louisa, a term which is both inaccurate and offensive. The French word briguer signifies "to manoeuvre in order to obtain a thing ;" and, although the house of Austria was reduced by ter rible defeats to the painful necessity of surrender ing an archduchess to be the consort of a man who had another wife still alive, the Emperor Francis certainly never coveted or aspired to that connection as an honour, nor did the advances come from the side of his daughter. It remains to be seen how these expressions will be received at Vienna and Berlin ; but explanations have already been required of M. Drouyn de Lhuys, and an evasive answer given. The diplomatic formalities of the recognition of the Empire are scarcely ter minated, not without difficulty, when fresh embar rassments of a similar nature may possibly occur, which will not be diminished by the allusion to " dynastic prejudices." In the meantime the preparations for the solem nity are continued with incredible rapidity and splendour, and i n a single week the ancient Cathedral of Notre Dame, which has witnessed so t p h a is ssa n g e e cas s oinfnhwiumthanunhiesxtaoinryp,lwedillniabge nfogTrehe ladies of the household of the Em mndeifiacnoneyrnasteteerd.a have been designated, and, though they will comprise any of the first names of France, some Odier and Madame Th&yer, have accepted posts in p o n f roe t ts h s e nobility of the former Empire, with Madame it. Nothing, therefore, is wanting to fulfil the wishes of the Emperor ; and even the impending ministerial changes are suspended until after the solemnisation of the nuptials. But at no distant period, in spite of the contradiction of the Moniteur, we have strong reason to believe that M. Drouyn de Lhuys, M. de Persigny, and Marshal St. Arnaud will vacate their present offices, partly in consequence of the !opinions they have forcibly expressed in opposition to this marriage. (From the .?lerald.) The French journalists aro undertaking a great deal of trouble for very little purpose. In their anxiety to justify the marriage of the Emperor with one whose progenitors never wore a crown, they have ransacked the annals of their nation from Me rovig to Louis , Philippe. To prove a proposition which no one feels inclined to deny, they produce a number of testimonies far more questionable than the conclusion they wish to establish.; thus veiling in a cloud of literary dust and lumber what of itself is plain and obvious, and acceptable to common sense. What i s it t o Franco whether her empire has been consolidated or aggregated by a ntuuber of [PRICE SD. ' Puebla ; thence to the city of Mexico ; thence to Aca pulco ; from there to the city of San Francisco, where I have been working five or six months. I had about 75 dols. when I arrived here. I worked for the proprietors of the Jackson House, the Hotel Nu eva M on d o, and the Laguna. This is the first time I ever was in prison, and never wronged any man of one. dime. The money found on me was my own." _ _ _ A San Francisco paper of the 15th of December contains the following in relation to the fertility o the soil in that country "The opinion is quite prevalent in the States that the resources of California consist almost entirely in her mineral wealth, and that but a small portion of the State is adapted to cultivation. There is no greater error than this. So far from the soil being as barren and sterile as it has been represented to be, nearly the whole State possesses a wonderful fertility and adaptation to easy cultivation. To be sure, much of the country in . the latter part of the dry season appears to be incapable of producing anything, yet this very same soil, if sowed with wheat or barley soon after the rains set in, yields the most wonderful crops." Very little business has been transacted in the San Francisco markets since last advices. The money and stock markets were easy, without change. By an arrival at New York we have dates from Valparaiso to the Ist, Callao to the 12th, Payta to the 15th, and Lobos Islands to the 16th December. It is stated that Flores was again engaged in get ting up an expedition against Escuador, and that his army this time .is to consist of Americans only, large numbers of whom had already enrolled themselves in the ranks. Two steamers had. also been purchased for the expedition. A decree had been published in the Valparaiso papers, ordering the new law relative to the duties on the exporta tion of silver and copper ores to come into operation on the 15th January. The duty is 5 per cent. on silver and copper in bar or ingots, and 5 per cent. on silver ores, called " frios," and crushed ores in proportion to the per centage of metal contained. The following is a summary of the trade between Liverpool and South America during the first nine months of the present year : Valparaiso - Lima.. £627,339 or $3,136,695 545,911 „ 2,729,555 Arica and Islay A few slight shocks of earthquake had been felt in different parts of Chili. The expected animation in business for the supply of goods to the Argentine provinces had only partially been realised, but a more lively trade was anticipated as the season ad vanced. Freights had improved, and were gene rally quoted at from 3/. 10s. to V. to England. In the New York Stock market a good business had been transacted in Government and State Stocks, and prices were very firm. There had also been a slight improvement in the money market. Exchange was again lower :-Bills on London (60 days), 1091 to 109- ; Paris, 5 13 to 5 121 1 ; Ams terdam, 41# to 414 ; Bremen, 79#. to 791 ; Ham burg, 361 to 36k. The cotton market was active, with sales of about 1,200 bales daily, Prices since the sailing of the Atlantic had advanced ic. per lb. on the lower, and Ac. per lb. on the better descrip tions. Flour was more freely offered, but the de mand had abated, and prices tended downwards. Sour was selling at 4 dols. 85Ac. to 5 dols ; super fine, No. 2, at 4 dols. 93i c. to 5 dols. 61c.; ordin ary to choice State, 5 dols. 432 c. to 5 dols. 621 c. ; mixed to fancy Western, and common to good Southern, at 6 dots. 562 c to 5 dols. 75c.; com mon to good Ohio, at 5 dols. 62Ac . to 5 dols. 75c.; fancy Genessee and Ohio, at 5 dols. 75 . C. ; to 5 dols. 87ic. ; extra Western, at 5 dots. 871 r to 6 dots. 37 c.; and extra Genessee, at 5 dols. 87i to 6 d o ls. 50 c . per b arre l. Wh ea t in fair demand, at good prices. Indian corn was brisk, and prices firmer. Pork quiet, at firm prices. New mess, 192 dols. to 184 p dols., and prime at 101 dols.; rumps, 154 dols.; lard steady at 11c. to 111 c., and 12c. for prime ; pickled hams, 104 c. to Ile. ; shoulders, 7/c. to Bc.; sides, in salt, 9c. to 91c., smoked, 104 c.; barrelledbeef firm at 12 dots. to 14 dols. for mess, and 6 dols. to 7 dols. for prime ; beef hams, 141 dols. to 15 dols. for 2201 b.; cured beef, 184 dols. to 22 dols. for fair to best brands ; butter and cheese dull, without changes in quota tions. Freights.-To London-Flour, 3s. 6d. to 3s. 9d.; resin, 45.; other naval stores, 3s. 6d. per 2001 b.; oil, 325. 6d.; tallow, 355., beef, per tierce, Gs. Gd. to 75., barrels, 4s. Gd.; potatoes, 355. To Havre-There is little going, but rates are main tained at 10. for cotton, 8 dots. for potash, 10 dole. pearls, and rice 10 dots. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE, Arrived at Ne* York—The Yorkshire and Yorktown, from London ; Boreas, from New Ross, Ireland ; En terprise, Western World, and Baltic steamer, from Liverpool ; Humboldt steamer, from Havre. Arrived at Boston—The Plymouth Rock, from Liver pool ; America steamer, from Liverpool. Arrived at Charleston—The Corea, from Liverpool. Arrived at Mobile—The Lord Maidstone, from Liver pool. Arrived at Savannah—The Adrian, from London. Arrived at St. John's, New Brunswick—The Miles Barton and Golden Age, from Liverpool. Arrived at New Orleans—The Blanche and Planta genet, from Liverpool; Nathaniel Thompson and York, from Liverpool ; Stephen Glover, from Newport, Wales. Arrived at San Francisco, Dec. 15.—The John Mit chell, from London, via the Falkland Islands. The propeller South Carolina, built originally for the Charleston and Liverpool trade, is having her machinery taken out to be altered into a sailing vessel. The ship Gondar, Barstow, at Charleston from Lon don, reports November 25, just before daylight, Ushant bearing south about 25 miles, fell in with two small boats, containing the captain, two mates, and 11 sea men belonging to the British barque Platina (of Lon don) from Cardiff, with a cargo of coal, bound to Ports mouth, England, they have abandoned the Platina the day previous, she having lost her sails and being in a leaky condition ; soon after taking them on board it came on to blow heavily with thick weather and a heavy sea, and had they not been providentially fallen in with they would, no doubt, have all perished. Three days after, fell in with the ship John and Lucy (of Thomaston) from London for New Orleans ; the Gondar being short of provisions for so large a number, the captain of the John and Lucy very ki n dly t oo k six of the wrecked men ; the captain, mates, and remainder of the crew remained on board the Gondar, and have been brought to Charleston. The British bark Sophia, from Liverpool, with a cargo of salt, went ashore near Charleston on Monday last, and after getting off, sunk in seven fathoms of water. The vessel and cargo proved a total loss, but the passengers and crew were saved. THE CITY TERMINUS. Yesterday, a meeting of the shareholders in the com pany which had been formed to carry out the plan of Mr. Charles Pearson, the City Solicitor, was held at their offices, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, to receive a report from the Board of Directors. On the motion of Mr. PEARSON, the chair was taken by Mr. ACTON AYRTON, who, after apologising for the absence of the secretary, from a domestic affliction, pro ceeded to read the following report : " In consequence of the very short time which elapsed between the first announcement of this project and the meeting of Parliament, the directors were led to entertain doubts whether it would have been possible to comply with the standing orders, which required a subscription contract to be signed, and a deposit to be made of three fourths of the capital, whilst the public were scarcely informed of the precise nature or the undertaking ; but most responsible contractors having been anxious to avail themselves of the opportunity offered by the reso lution passed at the last meeting, tite directors were enabled to make a very satisfactory arrangement, by which, without any sacrifice of capital, the subscrip tion contract was completed, and the deposit of 45,000/. made in due time. The directors have since allotted shares to persons anxious to support the compa n y . and with the exception of those which are specially reserved until after the act is obtained, to meet pend ing their negotiations, only 2,500 shares remain at dis posal, and for which they have received an application but have postponed complying with it until the share holders had had an opportunity of expressing their wishes on the subject. A numerous and respectable body of shareholders being, however, constituted, the directors feel called upon t o re d eem the pl edge contained ace ff rt a ain ord the number of their b o dy iwnouthlde resign their officesatrth to shareholders d reet an on opportunity of effecti ng whatever change inthe they might desir e . The directors having since acquired aauldaragteter attention nke to on its the affairs, company,a h indn have devoted much time siumgpgoets•tta to ot e r t b a e k e i o n m g e ; m a n o d r e h c a o v n i v n e g r s n a o n w embarked i n t with the me r it s of the negotiations t o further its objects, they theshareholders to o f h bringingth a v t i it would e w : l d be expedi en t that ' the responsibility pro ject to m a t ur i ty should beentrusted it originated ; the undermentioned gentlemen t N who retire e by lot, the re f ore offer themselves for re-election —M r . B urcheli, Mr. Dakin, Mr. HaY ne, Mr. Laurence, „ Mr. Virtue, M r . Whi te. The directors are informed by_the solicitors of the company, that the standing orders of the Houses of Parliament have been complied with in all respects, and they have every reason to hope that the bill will pass through Parliament this session." The .CHAIRMAN then addressed the meeting at _ deb consi derable length in favour of the projec t, and concluded moving the adoption of the report, w hich was accordi n g l y agreed to unanimously. g Mr. CHARLES PEARSON said that resigned his havin g seat as an honorary member of the board,' he felt it his Date. No. of Policies issued. 3,215 4,575 7,(166 Amount of Income. £ s. d 39,360 9 7 71,753 3 5 95,586 18 5 _ '., , •.• t .: '. 'l. _ * 41414 ,