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8 1 01JTH AUSTRALIAN COPPER MINING COMPANY. The Committee of Management have to announce that they have accepted the resignation of S. H. Armitage, Esq , as a Member of the Committee and as Purser. They have the satisfaction of adding that Charles Barber, Esq., of Lloyd's, has been elected a Member of the Committee, in place of Mr. Armitage. All letters and communications to be addressed to the Chairman. (signed) J. THOMPSON, Chairman. VALLANCE and VALLANCE, Solicitors to the Company. 17, Gracechurch Street, Jan. 21, 1853. Just publitked, in 2 vols., 21s. bound, A TOUR OF INQUIRY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY, JL Illustrating their Present SOCIAL, POLITICAL, and RELIGIOUS CONDITION. By EDMUND SPENCER, Esq Author of " Travels in European Turkey," &c. "A valuable and interesting work, which we live no doubt will command an extended popularity. As a careful observer of the actual sorts!, political, and religious condition of France and Italy, the result of Mr. Spencer's inquiries cannot tail to be read wilts much interest and instruction."—Morning Post. Hurst and Blackett, publishers, successors to 'Henry Colburn, 1:3, Great Marlborough-street. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RA ILWAY. NOTIOE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the next HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the proprietors of the LONDON and SOUTH WESTERN RAIL WAY COMPANY will be held at the Lendqn Tavern, Bishopsgate street, London, on WEDNESDAY, the MN' day orabruary, 1853, at Twelve o'clock precisely, when the directors will submit a report on the affairs of the company during the precedi4 half-year, a divi dend will be declared, and ti/13 general businessAf the company tran sacted. And Notice la hereby further Given, that at this meeting an elec tion of directors will take place, and that there are four vacancies in the direction occasioned by the resignation of the Right Hon. the Earl of Morley, and of Thomas Smith, Esq , and by the retirement, under the provisions of the "London and South-West e r n R a il way Amendment Act, 1847," of John Lewis Count Eyf e and Matthew Uzielli, Esq. _ The two retiring directors, John Lewis Count Eyre and Matthew Uziellt, Esq., are re•eligible, and offer themselves for re-election ac cordingly; and George Best, Esq., Charles Castleman, Esq., Thomas "Williams Helps, Esq., Sir Raymond Jarvis, Capt. Jas. Gilbert Johnson (late of Madras Engineers), Alexander Kay. Esq., and William Philip Snell, Esq., have also severally declared their intention, accord ing to the provisions of the Acts of Parliament regulating the com pany to, become candidates for election. - And :Notice is hereby further tirew, ,, thitt so socievas the. beSinesis: of the Half-yearly - Meeting is concluded, a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING. of the Proprietors will be held, to con ider the propriety of resuming the suspended Works on the Basingstoke and Salisbury line, between Andover and Salisbury, and of applying to Parliament in the present session for an Act to sanction the completion by this Company of the entire line, as authorized by the Act of 1846. The books of the company for the transfer of shares will be closed os Wednesday, the 2d day of February, and remain closed until Wednesday, the 16th day of February, 1853, both days inclusive. MINERALOGY.-KING'S COLLEGE, London.—Professor T ENN AN T, F. G.S., will commence the SECOND PART of his COURSE, consisting of Ten Lectures on MINERALOGY, with a view to facilitate the study .of Geology, and of the application of mineral substances in the arts. The Lectures will be illustrated by an extensive collection of specimens, and will commence on WEDNESDAY Morning, Jan. 26, at Nine o'clock. They will be continued on each succeeding Wednesday, at the same hour. Fee, One Guinea. R. W. JELF., D.D., Principal. LE DOUZIEME GRAND BAL PARE ANNUEL DE LA SOCIETE ritANCAISE DE IldElY" . - ..k'A.IBANCE, A. LONDBES, sous.)e—LAtoeuage de Son Ex.oollllll. .P/Itiba,seur de Fiance, President de la secrete, aura Lieu, a HANOVER-SQUARE ROOMS, le LuNumass, 7 Fevaimt, 1853. L'Orchestre sera ditige par Slr. Cues. Boos., Chef d Orchestre des Grand, Dais de sa Majeste la Heine d'Angleterre. On putt se procurer des Billets chez les principaur Libraires et narehands de hiusique de LONDEES, ET AU BUREAU DE LA SOCIETE, 10 (A), DUKE -STREET, PORTLAND-PLACE. 14s. pour les Cavaliers, et 7s. pour les Dames, y compris les rafraichissemeots. THE HOOD MEMORIAL. CLOSE OF THE SUBSCRIPTION. AT a GENERAL MEETING of the SUB SCRIBERS to the Fund for E recting a Monument above the Grave of THOMAS HOOD In Kensa.l.-green Cemetery, held Dec. ... 241 . at the Whittington Club, it res• > ived that the Subscripti on List be CLOSED on the let of February, 1853, and Miss ELIZA COOK, Ma. MIIRDO 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; aad by Mr. John Watkins, Ron. Sec., 34, Parliament-street. Among the subscribers are Ithe following : His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, 0 The Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M.P....... 5 0 0 The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P - •• • • .... 5 0 0 The Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, •.. 5 0 0 Sir William Frazer, Bart.• • . .•• . • L 0 0 James Harmer, Esq.,.. •••••• • • • • • • ... 0 0 John Macgregor, Esq., M.P •••• •• • .. ••• • • • 5 0 0 Arnold Rogers, Esq... ••••• • • • • • •—• ••..•• • • • • 5 5 0 Mrs. Robert Elliot ... ••• • • • .... •••••••• • • • • .. b 0 0 Richard Dawson, Esq., M.D......... .. •• • ..... 5 0 0 George Peabody, E5q.......... •• ..... . 5 5 0 Edward Moorman, Esq David Salomons, E5q.............- b 5 0 Messrs. Spalding and Hodge..... • • .- •• •• • • Miss Eliza Cook 5 o 5 Miss Cu5hman............. ~...............„ g 0 6 Proceeds of an •' Evening with Mood ' at th; Whittington Club... 8 8 0 Murdo Young, Esq., and family . ..... 4 4 0 Samuel Rogers, E5q.......... ••• • ..... •. • 3 o 0 C. W. Dilke, Esq... . • •• • • 3 3 0 Charles Lushington, Esq.. ••..• • • • 3 0 0 Elias Davis, Esq.. •• • • ••••• • • • • • ••• • • ..... 3 3 0 The Right Hon. the Earl of Ellesm ere •• •• •• .. 2 0 0 The Right Hon. Lord John Manner s, M.P.. •• .. 2 0 0 Sir James Duke. Bart., M.P.•—• • 2 2 0 It. Monckton Milnes, Esq., M.P. • • ••••• • • • • , 2 0 0 B. W. Procter, Esq., (Barry Cornwall) . 2 2 0 Douglas Jerrold, Esq.—. •..... ......... • • 22 0 T. K. Hervey, Esq. . 2 2 0 Rowland Hill, Esq., General Post-offi es •.•• • • .. 2 2 0 C. Mackay, Esq., LL.D. C. W. Mike, jun., Esq... ••• " • ••••••• • • • • • • • 2 2 0 Edward Mozon, Esq.... ••••• • • • • • .......... 2 2 0 James Coppock, Esq. ..... ••••••••••-• • • • . • • • • • • 2 2 0 Rev. Thos. Wilkinson, Durham Collected by M. J. O'Conner, Morpeth, Northumberland ••••••••• • • • • • .. • . _ 2 2 9 Jas. 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Gore Langton, Esq., M.P. • 1 1 0 C. Baring Wall, Esq., M.P. Charles Gavan Duffy, Esq., M.P.. •.... •• • • 1 0 0 R. Swift, Esq., M.P.. • .... _.• ••• • - ••• • • . 1 1 0 James Macgregor, Esq., Isr r•• 1 0 0 B. Oliveira, Esq., M.P.. ••••••• • - • • • •• .......... 1 1 0 W. J. Fox, Esq., M.P •••••• • • • • • ••• • • • ..... 1 1 0 Sir Jots Kerle Haberfleld, Knt., Brist o l 1 1 0 1 0 0 Thomas Creswick, Esq. R.A , .1 1 0 J. B. Buckstone, Esq.. ••••• • • • • • 1 1 0 Mrs. Fitzwilliam Rev. Felix Palmer, Frierning 1 1 0 Horace Mayhew, Esq.. Sydney Yendys Dobell, Esq ...... 1 1 0 C. Cowden Clarke, Esq. •••• • • •• •••• •• • ... 1 0 0 J. E. Carpenter, Esq. • ••• • 1•••••• 1 0 Dr. Robert Elliot, Stratford .......... „ 1 1 0 Elocution Class, Walworth Literary Institution.. 1 1 0 Eight half crowns from Preston.... • • •„•,,,, 10 0 0 18 8 In pence from Bideford ............ • • ..... In Half-crowns, from Bristol.• ...... In Half-crowns and Shillings •••• .. • • ... ..... 12 6 In pence from Bristol. ...... ....... ........ 012 6 0 11 0 Miss Mitford „ 0 10 6 Geo. Dawson, Esq., M . A . „ . ••• . • 010 6 E. L. Blanchard, Esq. „ • 0 10 6 W. C. Bennett Esq. „ ......... 010 6 A few poor Needleworeen ..... .... ....... ... 0 10 6 In other sums 0 10 6 ...... • ..... „ „ 228 0 1 2416 3 0 Every subscriber's name will appear in Eliza Cook's Journal. JOHN WATICINs, Hon. Sec. NEW AND CHEAPER EDITION 01' AMY HERBERT. A New Edition, in One V o l ume , f o p. 8 vo ., pr i ce 6s. AMY HERBERT. By a LADY. Edited by the Rev. W. SEwsry, 8.D., Fellow of Exeter College, Ox ford. Seventh Edition. By the same THE EXPERIENCE OF LlFE. Author Fcp. , Svo., price 7s. 6d. GERTRUDE. New Edition, in 1 vol., fcp.Bvo., 6 s. MARGARET PERCIVAL. Now Edition. 2 vols., 12s. LANETON PARSONAGE. New Edition. 3 vols., 16s. THE EARL'S DAUGHTER. New Edition. 2 vols., 9s JOURNAL OF A SUMMER TOUR. Fcp. Bvo., price 7s. CHILD'S HISTORY OF ROME. Fcp. 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Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD - - - • - " "Dr. Plekford 's known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, 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 Po , wer to correct."—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851. "We promised in a former number that we should recur to this work, in order to exhibit its aim more clearly. The author lashes with great severity the impostors who make a livelihood by preying on the credulity of the public. The tribe of Quiet Symathisers,' and • Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed ; and if this book could find its way into the hands of those who suffer from th com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much money...... Thi s -volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, likely to do much g 0 0..., t_ Medical Circular, June 16, 1852. No. 11. Bvo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 45., THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Princi- Pics 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. "DI Proof of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has given be history of a great many cases successfully treated, as bad as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated. Such are cases ix., xi., ail., and xviii. No. ix. had resisted, for a period of twelve yesrs, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally removed in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and xix. appear, both In duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet the treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently successful." —Professor Lizare on the Treatment of Stricture. BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. The following testimonial is another proof of the, great effi cacy of this medicine : .. 157, New Bond-street, London, October 12, 1850. " Slr,---In acquainting you with the great benefit which I have ex perienced by taki ng BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, I feel that I am but who may be similarly affect Performing a duty t o th a t portion of the public " About twenty years since I was first attacked b ec y te rh d e t r ev ati ery e gout in my hands and feet. I had previously been sulk' va riety of climate, having served in Canada in the 19th Dragoons, and In Spain, under Sir John Moore. in the 18th Hussars. I always pro cured the best medical ald, wit hout obtainin g any essential relief, and my sufferings can be appreciated only by those who know some thing of this disease. " It was during one of those paroxysms, between twelve and thir teen years ago, that I was recommended to try BLAIR'S PILLS. I lost no time in procuring a box, and before I had taken that quantity the pain had entirely ceased, and in a few days I was in perfect health. " From that moment, whenever I feel any symptoms of the dis ease approaching, I have instant recourse to this medicine, which to ceased, sne I should isso valuable,oudcertainly that were attributetwereitn th ott e theliehraetrl obtain days of of magic have to that cause. Moreover, I rejoice to say that my health has not iu any degree suf fered, but on the contrary I believe the tendency of BLAIR'S P ILLS is towards its improvement. " I have beenrecom o m f t e h n e d m e d o the e gr a P t il i f l y s to in g e n h an ara y c fri ter e . " I am, Sir, yours respectfully,ndsp and the result has always "GARRET FOSTER GILL. " To Mr. Front, 229, Strand." For every description of Gout and Rheumatism , Sciatica, Tic-dolo relax, &c., &c., BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS are a sovereign remedy, contain neither mercury, opium, or any other dangerous drug, require no care whatever in their use, and ter ra pidity of cure and complete safety have not their equal in the world. Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and all respectable Medicine Vendors. ?rice 2s. 9d. per box. Ask for BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, and observe that "Thomas Prouty 229, Strand, London," is impressed upon the Gineranzent stow. ANTIGUA. —The PLANTATION, called the BIG DOERS ESTATE, situate in the Parish of St: Peter, la Antigua, with the Buildings, Live and Dead Stock, thereon, is offered for SALE, by Private Contract. Terms and particulars may be obtained on application to Messrs. Oliverson, Davie, and Peachey, Frederick•place, London. BANKS OF DEPOSITS AND SAVINGS BANKS, INVESTMENT OF CANTAL. DARTIES desirous of Investing Money are re quested to examine the plan of the National Assurance and Investment Association, by which a high rate of Interest may be Obtained; combined with perfect security. Prospectuses and full information may be had at the office, or sent `ost free on application. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. 7 , R. Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square, London. 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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 Fede, Mons cur Leonard, Madlle. Madeline Brohan (of the Theatre Frangais -her first appearance in England), and Monsieur Regnier (of the Theatre Fraligais). The eminent Trage dienne, Madlle. Rachel, is also engaged for Twelve Representations, and will appear in Monsieur Emile Angler's successful 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 Representations a week —on Monda y , Wed nesday, Friday, and Saturday Evenings — the Mond a y s and Frida y s being, as usual, nounced that, during the Easter week , from Monda y , March 28, S u bscription Nights.—lt is also respectfully an until Saturday, April 2, M. Robert Houdin will exhibit his extraor dinary Entertainment of Soirees Fantasiques, 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 Subscription will be arranged for Thirty Representations, on Mondays and Fridays, until the end of May. The favour of an early application for Season Subscriptions is respectfully solicited at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street , and at the principal libraries, as usual.-33, Old Bond-street, Jan. 22. ONE HUNDRED ANT) TWENTY-THIRD SALE. CUSTOM•HOTJSE, Loiaan, January, 1853. F OR SALE, by Order of the Honourable the Commissioners of her Majesty's Customs, at the Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane, on Monday, 31st January, Tuesday, Ist, Wednesday, 2d, Thursday, 3d, Friday, 4th, and on Monday, 7th February, 1853, at Twelve o'Clock at Noon precisely, the following Goods for Home Consumption, viz. : Artificial flowers, agate ornaments, baskets, fancy and plain, brandy, braces, brooches, bronze powder, braid, blankets, black lace, black-lead pencils, Berlin embroidery, beads of steel, bedsteads, Bombay work, books, boxes, snuff, match and glove, buttons, brushes, hair, clothes, tooth, and painters, carpets, drugget', rugs, &c.; camphor wood chests, carpet bags, cigar cases, &c., coffee pots, clay figures, cordials: confectionery, crotchet cases, China silk, chess men, China ware, jars, vases, &c.; cambric embroidered handker chiefs, clocks, gilt, brass, marble, bubl. skeleton, inlaid, Ste.; carriage, Dutch, Cologne water, currants, daguerreotype plate.., frames, &I.: elastic webbing, earthenware, East India matting; embroidery, viz , screen and fancy pieces; furniture, viz., carved cabinets, book cases, chests, &c.; buhl, bedsteads, tables (worked and carved), fasces, &c ; globes fur lamps, glove studs, grass clo h, Geneva; gold jewellery, viz., chains, brooches, &c., hand screens, inkstands, iron safes, ivory carved ornaments, jewellery, viz., (mock) bracelet slides, glove bands, brooches and brooch pins, studs, &c., buckles, chains, agate ornaments, stones, imitation. &c., Berlin, knitting cases, lamps metal and ornamental, lenses, lametta, lace, pillow, thread, &c. ; lacquered ware, viz., cabinets, tables, &c., matting, E. I, ; meerscham, pipes. &c. ; millinery ; microscopes, Stc. ' • musi cal instruments, viz.,' trombones, cornopeans , clarions, fintinas, accordlana, concertinas, &c. ; needlework, viz., jackets. skirts, Pellerines, sleeves, habits, collars, toilet covers, robes, &c. ; oil; ornaments, porcelain, bone, ivory, &c. ; opera glasses; pillow lace, silk and thread ; paper weights ; pencils of slate ; perfumed spirits ; , pocket-books ; paper, fancy gilt, Ike. ; porte-monnaies, portfolios, &c. ; porcelain, coloured, Dreseen, Sevres, &c. ; pomatum ; pipes, bowls, tubes, stems, &c. ; purses, silk ; prints ; platting for bon- nets ; raisins ; rum ; segars ; segar cases ; shawls, silk, crape, barege; soap stone ornaments; straw cords; slate pencils; shawls, wove, woollen, imprinted, &c. ; spirits, plain and mixed; silk manufac tures, viz., hand screens, barege shawls, frogs or ornaments, crape shawls, purses, waistcoat pieces, braid, &c.; steel fringes, slides, beads, brooches, bracelets, &c.; stereoscopes ; snuff; sugar; tea ; tobacco; Turkey carpets and rugs; toys, &c.; veneers, walnut; watches, gold and silver; watch springs ; watch chains of steel ; woollen blankets; wool combs; waistcoat pieces; wine; webbing, elastic ; and various other goods. For Exportation, or for Home Consumption, en payment of the duties :—Books, Cologne water, spirits, silk manufactures, sugar, succades, tamarinds, tea, wood, wine, &c., &c. For Exportation only:—Watches, books, prints, playing cards, wine and spirits, &e. For the benefit of the Crown Sugar, spirits, wine, boat, &c. The above Goods may be viewed at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-house, Thames-street; at the London, East and West India Docks; and Tobacco Ground, Rotherhithe ; on Thursday, the 27th, Friday, the 28th, and Saturday, the 29th of January, 1853, from Ten o'Clock in the Morning until Three o'Clock in the Afternoon, and on the days of sale, from Ten o'clock in the Morning until Twelve o'clock at Noon. Take Notice, that Goods sold at this Sale will not be delivered until after two clear days of the day on which they are sold, and that no lots can be paid for at the office of the Receiver of Fines, after Two o'Clock in the Afternoon, and that on the days of gale money will not be received by the Receiver of Fines after Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon. . . . Catalogues may be had at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-house, Thames•street, Is. each. THE YORKSHIRE SCHOOL. (From the Wakefield Journal.) The term Manchester school or Lancashire school is frequently made use of ; but it would seem that there is a Yorkshire school—Macaulay, Molesworth, and Baines, are three not unfavourable specimens of the Yorkshire school—all have been members for Leeds ; then Colonel Thompson and Mr. Roebuck are of the Yorkshire school—and even we find that my Lord John Russell has lately been down to Leeds as a finishing school— and that Mr. Cobden is still practising in the Yorkshire school, which would seem to indicate that Yorkshire is not in the rear of Lancashire. It is still understood and desired in influential and well-informed political circles, that Mr. Baines is to be the Speaker of the House of Commons, when the vacancy occurs, to the exclusion of the late Attorney-General, Thesiger, who is the pet man of the Derbyites. Both Lancashire and Yorkshire might have been more fully brought out under the recent appointments but for accidental circumstances.— Liverpool and Bradford, the, two great commercial and manufacturing emporiums, have lost the opportunity of being represented in the new Ministry, owing to the trickery and dishonesty at the late election, ,by which the electors were deprived of their real representatives. This circumstance has not operated to exclude Mr. Cardwell from office, though it has lost Liverpool the opportunity of having %Minister as member. A vacancy appears to have been found for Mr. Cardwell for the City of Oxford, without waiting for the decision of the Liver poollelection petition ; no such alternative, it would seem, has been offered to Colonel Thompson. The Tories and Whigs are more alive to these points than the Radicals. Perhaps, by-and-bye, the Radicals may see it right to press for a larger representation in the Cabinet, and ac quire the tact of putting forward their best man first. The selection of Sir W. Molesworth is matter for con gratulation. At the same time, he is certainly not the person whom the Radical party would themselves have selected to be the first put forward as their Ministerial representative. Not on the ground of any personal ob jection to him, but because there are others who are considered entitled to priority, both on the ground of seniority, and as having rendered more important ser vices to the popular cause. The veteran free trader and reformer, Colonel Thomson, would have been unques tionably entitled to the priority ; so would the honour able member for Sheffield, Mr. Roebuck. The ill health of the latter may have furnished a sufficient reason for his non-appointment; and the unfortunate temporary exclusion from Parliamentlof the former may have partly led to the preference of Sir W. Molesworth, though the p e as i nai r rpe c es u l rv m w: s iwt t a mhh n ietn c is ihhe e wr though ortenl attributable hgp hwa rittnominallyhy aacertainmf a a r i Rb l yaawcdtkeoi weekly aka t s h ll fBLo c 4r o o2m n : e n d de e e v ct nae n in of nn o eaws e be fore lie p f o o fe r la e io y the an nouncement of Sir Robert Peel ' s change of influ ence boi , va a esr n i d n thus n e a v d e i n ca t l h e e i pemreepnotnodfertahnecce Cabinet. f i P ne e t elite . Whig influence ha s b een exercised to the extent How ever, it may be hoped that the equilibrium will be ad justed by degrees, especially if the public voice requires this, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOUR.LVALS. THE FRENCH EMPEROR'S MARRIAGE. ( From the Times. ) The speech delivered by ,Louis Nap( ?lean on Saturday last to the principal p o litical 1 >odic& of the Empire, and, in fact,, to the French nation, for the purpose of announcing I,i - is resolutio a on. the subject of his marriage, has itther strer g-thelied than altered the favourable opinion we hay, ?. already expressed of his choice. Indeed, we had antici pated. on Friday several of the arguments b y - which the Emperor now recommends the selectio a of his Consort to the favour of the people. It. is true that a Government such as that which has .arisen in France, after a long series of revolutions, has nothing in common with the older monarchies of Europe ; and several attempts to connect them. with that country by the frail bonds of a matrimonial alliance have only ended' in the misery, the exile, or the death of princesses worthy at least of a more tranquil fate. It is true that the protracted. solioi tations of an unsuccessful suitor are not consistent. with the dignity of an elected Sovereign, 'or of the people who have raised him to that position faid, though the allusion to the marriage of the Duke of Orleans is not generous in t' ae . lips of one who has succeeded that family • upon the throne, it can hardly, be doubted, i n spite of the personal merits of the Princess H elena of Mecklenburgh, that this affiance was pre judicial to the Orleans dynasty. Whatever may 1 0e Louis Napoleon's other claims to the position he eccupies; he is unquestionably the grandson of J•osepliipe ; and, although the name of that Empress i'a endeared to the people of France by rcompassion for the un merited and cruel treatment she met with from. Napoleon, as much as by er own qualities, ti l e allusion to his ancestress . I-.4s ttife4ll9ll3 gr*efu,lly from the present Effiperor, inasmuch as, in spits of all the provisions to the contrary, the Impei ial suc cession has reverted to the line of her of fspring. Nothing, too, can be in better tone and temper than the phrase in which the Emperor adopts 4the title and position of a parvenu Sovereign, frankly bear ing his origin in view, preserving his indepe) adent character, and asserting his entire freedom from the traditions of States in which the foundations of society have not been subverted or the institi itions of monarchy overthrown. At the same time, these arguments and declarations would proceed with more weight from Louis Napoleon, if it were not well known that he had been engaged for eight months or more in the negotiation of divers Royal alliances which had proved abortive, and if this final determination had not happened to coincide - with a very strong personal predilection for a lady - whom he could only win by the offer of his hand. Of the future Empress of the French we wish to speak with the deference due to herself and to her position, for it is impossible to have remarked the attractions of her person, the distinction 'of her manners, and the vivacity of her charac to r —as many of us must have done in her visits. to this country, where she is no stranger—without feeling a more than common interest in her extraordinary destiny. To France, indeed, she has hitherto owed little beyond the graces of her education, though she is, of course, far better acquainted with the cha racter of the nation over which she is called to reign than a Princess summoned from the stiff nursery of a German principality. But she com bines by descent the energy of the Spanish and the Scottish races, and, if the opinion we have fed-rued of her be correct, she is, as Louis Napoleon says of her, fitted not only to adorn the throne,, but in the day of danger to defend it. Among the long catalogue of names and titles of this Castilian maiden, which we publish in a nother column—including even the churches, re ligious houses, and colleges, of which she is the patroness —that of Palafox conspicuously occur s, for the heroic defender of Saragossa againE3t the French invaders of Spain was, we belies re, her grandfather. To go much further back, we are assured by a high authority on Spanish genealo gies, that the true sangre azul of the great. Alonzo Perez de Guzman, who defended Tarifa in 1292, flows in her veins ; and undoubtedly the first Count de Teba was created about 1492 1)y Ferdi nand and Isabella for his gallant conduct before Granada. The Count de Teba, father of the future Empress, was a man of talent and science, but he was crippled in his person, and we suspect. the military exploits which are now attributed to him in the ranks of the French army are confounded with those of his brother, the Count de Mon.tijo, to whose title and largo estates he eventually suc ceeded. When the Count de Teba was about to marry Miss Kirkpatrick, the daughter of a Consul at Malaga, it was necessary as he was a grandee of Spain, to obtain the King's consent. The descent of the Kirkpatricks was rather less illustrious; than that of the defender of Tarifa, but the Scottish heralds set to work with such diligence that a suitable pedigree was produced, and Ferdinand. exclaimed, " Let the good man marry the daugh ter of Fingal." The issue of this marriage was the lady who now attracts so large a share of the at tention of Europe. In a significant passage of the speech delivered by Louis Napoleon on this occasion, he takes the opportunity of declaring his preference for an inde pendent position and a prospect of domestic happi ness to the prizes of dynastic ambition. The senti ment does him the more credit, inasmuch as it is wholly opposed to the systemati c policy of the Em peror, his uncle, whi c h h e h as made on all other occasions the model and ru l e o f his conduct. Dy nastic ambition was the mania of the Emperor Na poleon, and it became the chief cause of his ruin for, not content with repudiating " the good and modest wife of General Bonaparte," in order to marry into the family of the Caesars, it drove him to place his brothers and relatives on all the thrones of Western Europe. Probably it is for the benefit of the world that the present Emperor of the French lies under the influence of a milder passion. Yet there are expressions in this very speech the sting of which will be felt in several of the Courts of Europe. The House of Austria will not acknow ledge that it ever " solicited the alliance of than one princely family will feel the sneer not the elected chief of the new E mp i re ;" an d more undeservedly levelled at their antiquated pre tensions. Although Louis'Napoleon lays it down as a maxim that it is the duty of every wise govern ment to endeavour to restore France to her place within the pale of the elder monarchies, nothing would seem to be further from his own hopes or intentions at this very moment ; and it is easy to trace, even in these guarded expressions, a con sciousness of his own power over a new and formi dable element in the societies of Europe. The peo ple, the army, and the clergy are distinctly alluded to as the natural and necessa r y guar di ans o f hi s power, without whose assent th e solemn i ty of these nuptials would be incomplete. But as for the rest of the world, and even the august bodies to which this speech is addressed, they are told without disguise that they will one day appreciate the Emperor's choice better than they do at present. We have already observed that the partisans of c is b a l t e one ; an d the least as lik e ly ulterior consequences of this marria ge w i ll depend this marriage are not, for th e most part, to be found among the adherents and a d mirers of the new Empire. But, in a case like thi s , w h ere every thing is speculative and adventur ous a new and proceedingand unexpected succeed modeof old in great part on the disposition, the judgment, and the influence of the lady who is shortly to share with Louis Napoleon the highest position in France. We shall rejoice if any approach be made to a more just, clement, and liberal spirit in the conduct of public affairs. If the Court gains something in respectability and decorum, and if the country finds in its future Sovereign, not a wayward and headstrong foreigner, but an enlightened and cou rageous mistress, this much is certain, that the Countess de Teba, on whom this extraordinary lot has fallen, is likely to p l ay a considerable part in the coming events of these stirring times. (From the Morning Herald.) The character of the proposed marriage of the Emperor Napoleon 111. seems to , . have struck a . dormant chord in the imagination or th e h eart o f the European public. Except at Paris, where jealousy may recoil and vanity rebel, the fair sex will, we suspect, upon the whole, range themselves with considerable energy on the side of the romantic Monarch who prefers honour and true love to the maddest, yet most solemn and most accredited error in the matrimonial policy of court s . A conventional statesmanship had for centuries forbidden great potentates to dream of marrying for affection, or for any motive except " to strengthen their dynasties." Meantime, it is evident that dynasties were not always strengthened by the means thus taken ; and, indeed, it is a question whether ever, except by accident, th ose means effected their end. If in times very unlike those in which we live, any two monarchs might be ex pected to be led by the ties of kindred to promote each other's policy, it was at best only so long as their several interests were reconcileable that any such expectation was even then entertained. To make that scale in which is placed Royal or Lupe consanguinity still lighter, we behold in our (lay the opposite scale loaded, in addition to the interests of one mighty family, with the interests of some great, stirring, and inquiring people. But, without availing ourselves of the new and out-of-door considerations which have rendered family compacts of no avail in the comity of modern nations without alluding to the enor mous changes which have made statesmanship simple and straightforward, though vast and com prehensive, instead of being the reverse of all this, mysterious and tortuous, yet petty and mean, and narrow and selfish, cherishing the aggrandise ment of the few, and holding the man y in di s d a i n or forgetfulness without adducing arguments so conclusive and at the same time so obvious as those which this very altered age affords, it is quite evident that the old system which excommu nicrAted Sovereigns from the pale of natural affec ti,in was rotten at the core. It would be easy to `say what was lost, but hard is the proof and scanty is the evidence of what was ever gained by placing the prince's fireside under interdict and the ruler's best feelings under anathema. However strange it may appear, "doctrinaires" always mislead their disciples, and never yet were right themselves. It has been the same in all times. Let us glance at the logic of the 'solemn prigs of another age ; let us examine in a brief manner what their system was worth. The very basis of the system of mar riages of policy between princely houses was this— that the feeling must always be postponed to in terest ; and let us remember that the only possible fruit expected by politicians from the observance of this cold-blooded rule Was that they should, on the contrary, make feeling prevail over interest. We appear to state a contradiction, and we do state a contradiction ; but it is not our own ; it is the con tradiction of those. who, ever since men lived in community, have over-reached themselves the contradiction of reasosers who, luckily, are the blindest and most illogical, while they are the most ignoble—the contradiction of those politicians who would gladly allow a monarch all the debaucheries that reluctant history may have recorded, or cor rupt satire have conceived, in order to save him from the irredeemable atrocity of honourable love and the damning disaster of a peaceful home. These things may be blessings to the subject who aspires to them ; to the prince they are curses, if he stoops so low. But to unfold the logic of which we have spoken, suppose a prince connected with another prince by marriage, a marriage of policy, in which feeling has been duly and scientifically postponed to interest. Either the interests of the two princes remain always identical or they do not. If their interests remain alWays identical the marriage was superflu ous ; it can effect, at best, only what was already, by the very calculations which induced the con tract, secured without it ; as well, in that case, have consulted virtue, love, and nature ; the fine stroke of state-craft was not needed ; and, if there was any sacrifice of the heart in it, or of the vow, why it was a sacrifice wasted and thrown away. But what in the other alternative ? Suppose that the interests of the two princes cease to remain identical or coincident. Then, either the kins man-in-law seeks his own advantage in con tempt of the tie of affinity, or he foregoes, for the sake of that tie, his own advantage. In the former case the political marriage fails to effect the only purpose for which it was perpetrated (on this point we need not loiter) ; and, in the other supposition, if sentiment rather than policy prevail, there is a stultification of the very principle winch dictated the contract ; and that rule which was em braced as solid, wise, and unfailing, is proved to be fatuitous, worthless, infructuous, and vain. If the kinsman-in-law foregoes his own proper advintage for the sake of the tie of affinity, what is this but postponing interest to feeling ? And yet the mar riage itself was contracted on the principle of post poning feeling to interest. In other words the re flection of a fire is always hotter than the fire itself. The husband is not expected or believed to love the wife, or to prefer her to his interests ; but the hus band's relations must of course henceforth despise their interests for her sake. Or, on the other hand, the wife is not expected or supposed to have married her husband for anything but ag grandisement. But what she would not do for a husband, her relatives cannot fail to do for a connection ; that is, they will sacrifice interest to feelin, where feeling is naturally weak, while she wouid not and could not sacrifice interest to feel ing where feeling ought certainly to be strong. What mighty profit did the present Emperor's uncle derive from his marriage with Marie Louise, and his consequent connection with the house of Hapsburgh Lorraine ? It helped to send him to die a heart-broken captive at St. Helena. Yet his sacrifice at the shrine of policy was singularly com plete ; he was not a bachelor immolating the chances of domestic felicity, but a husband immolating that felicity itself. The salons may " gird at " the nephew ; the drawing-rooms of Paris may re-echo with the sallies of inane sarcasm, but he has made his appeal to the human heart and conscience at large. His people will not be estranged from him because they behold a beautiful, a gracious, and a spirited young Empress at his side, whom he has married for mo tives which all men secretly respect. The Haroun al-Ra,schid of France has found a suitable bride. (From the Morning Post. ) Our readers will find, in the letter of our Paris correspondent, the remarkable speech •of the Em peror of the French, communicating to the great bodies of the State his intended marriage. His words, like the act which they announce, are frank and manly, and of deep interest. We have already said that marriage would, no doubt, create a new bond between Louis Napoleon and the French people, and confer additional stability on his power. Such, we imagine, will be the case in France. To us, however, its European effect is of greater importance. We rejoice to recognise in it the complete independence of France and of her Emperor. Unshackled by the political ties in volved in an alliance with a princess, or even with a ninety-ninth cousin of Austria, Prussia, or any other Power—free from from foreign claims in the hour of prosperity, free from foreign support in a darker day, we shall see Napoleon 111. stand or fall, solely and purely, by the will of France. That is what we wish to see. If there be one thing more than another proven by modern history, it is this, that the French people can and do cast away from them that which suits them not. If the power of Napoleon be a vicious tyranny, as some pretend, it cannot last. If, on the other hand, it is a Government suitable to the French nation, nothing can overthrow it. This is a ques tion simply for the decision of our neighbours. We may risk a guess as to its probable solution, but it is no matter of ours, beyond the interest and the desire we have to see established on the other side of the Channel a lasting form of Government. The union which the Emperor now contracts " is not," he says, " in accordan ce w ith th e tra di t i ons of ancient policy, and that is its peculiar advan tage." This statement he fully supports in his cha racteristic speech, wherein he fully appreciates " the false security" arising from royal alliances, " which frequently substitute family interests for those of the nation." Such deceptive vanities he puts aside, and, boldly professing as his object " to bring b ac k France within the pae of the old monarchies," he firmly expresses his belief that the surest way to effect that is to pursue a straightforward and honest policy. The determination always to remember his ori gin, and to preserve his true character, " by frankly assuming in the face of Europe the position of Parvenu, the most glorious of titles, when attained by the suffrages of a free people," is one of those true and happy expressions which show that power has not turned the head of the ruler of France, and that he is capable of appreciating his own position and the feelings of the French people towards him with singular sagacity and temperate calculation. Therecan be n - o doubt but that had Louis Napo leon chosen to wait, he might have had his choice of German princesses, and we in England, who so much appreciate the privacy and sacredness of family ties, cannot but admire the sincerity and the generosity which places " independence, the qua lities of the heart, and domestic happiness, above dynastic prejudices, and the calculations of ambi tion." The tribute to Josephine, the "modest and good wife of General Bonaparte," is affecting from its evi dent heartfelt sincerity, and it is certainly in ac cordance with universal feeling that he mentions her virtues with so much respect. Few women have met with larger sympathy from all nations than the Empress Josephine, whose divorce was justly regarded as a blot equally on the heart and the career of Napoleon. Describing his future consort in terms equally affectionate and modest, Louis Napoleon expresses as his fondest hope with regard to her, that she May " revive the virtues of the Empress Jo sephine." We are heartily glad, then, of this marriage. If the power of Napoleon 111. stand, it cannot but add to its respectability, independence, and influ- [PRICt SD. ence.. Were it to fall, his matrimonial alliance would involve no other State in struggles or in trigues. To Europe this union cannot but be emi nently satisfactory ; and we hope with Louis Na poleon that he may have been inspired by that Providence which raises men from the dust to the throne, and chooses its own instruments to guide the destinies of empires. S ach a position as that of the great Napoleon, or that of his nephew, is attainable by no mortal prowess or wisdom ; and a man raised to such awful responsibilities must be regarded as a means to some great end. We pray it may be a good and happy one. (Front the Weekly News and Chronicle.) The news of all news is the marriage of the Em peror of the French with a Spanish countess ; the civil ceremony having been secured without delay, the religious one•to follow in due time—a consum mation of both to be devoutly wished, or the con trary, as the French people may be disposed to feel in the affair. The prestige of France is power —power with its right hand clenched very near your face ; and the impersonation of this power can do as he chooses, and ' who shall say him nay ?" Whilst ominous whisperings, loud enough to be understood or suspected, were passing between royal houses, repudiative of upstart pretensions to the hands of their daughters, to ! their royal con ventionalities are broken through—their traditions on the tenderest point are set at defiance ! The Marquis of Oaklands marries the pride of the vil lage, or Stiggins, the stockbroker, the flower of service -maids, and the ladies of their respective circles stand by their orders with a vengeance, talking of the mes-alliance most deplorably, whilst the men shrug their shOulders, not knowing for the moment what to make of it ; but the Marquis and his party are in power, Stiggin's purse is plethoric, and before many month are over Super= ciliousness gives way to obsequiousness ' • there are receptions in Mayfair and B e l grav i a , banquets in Tyburnia, and blow-outs beyond description in Baker-street. Louis Napoleon's wife, whoso she may be, a dame de la _Halle, a c hild o f ? the people, a hidalga of the sangre azul, lineally descended from Pelayo or the Cid, a daughter of the nobility in the golden book of a thousand years, or the pinchbeck roll of yesterday, is an empress, a real live empress—and, if all go well with her husband and herself for twelve months longer, if he do not turn out a black-leg or a Bluebeard, she will be an empress with all the honours the world over, 'even in the pettiest royal precincts where inward pride is in an inverse ratio with outward consideration. Then will the heart of humanity be consoled, and the pride of philosophy be gratified, at the blind folded boy Cupid jumping through the most dust honoured prescriptions, and kicking the most august prejudices of ages about like bladders on the most elevated platform of life, as harlequin tumbles through the paper windows and flourishes his meta morphosing wand in the pantomime of our mimic stage : " Hymen, 0 Hymen !" The quondani British Consul, at Malaga, "an alien in blood and l anguage ," as Lord Lyndhurst described the Irish in respect to the less westerly subjects of our Crown, but not " alien in religion" to the Spanish dwellers by the Mediterranean in 36 deg. 45 min. north latitude, and 4 deg. 30 min. west longitude, managed, two generations ago, to win and wed a native lady-of noble rank, of the first degree, and become naturalised to the country and its institutions. The fruit of all this good fortune was a beautiful daughter, who, in her turn, became the mother of the loveliest maiden that ever walked an alemeda, with mantilla put on as no other daughter of beauty can wear it, casting her death-looks from all sides of her magic fan. Our beautiful Iberian Celt went recently with all the world to Paris, to see the new order of things and the man of the epoch. She saw him ; he saw her • they saw each o th er . At t h e O pera, at Court, in the royal —now the imperial—gardens, the deadliest eye from the North . to the South Pole met the lightning flashes of the pride of G rena d a , and was awakene from its visions of red-haired Princesses, and paler dames of the north. At Com peigne too, they met, amongst the beautiful forest scenery, mingled in the exciting pleasures of the chase, there the great hunter of the stag himself enveloped in the toils of the little hunter of hearts, thought, with his favourite English poet, of another Spanish maid—for he reads Byron for his Napo leonic sympathies. "Her glance how wildly beautiful ! how much Hath Phcebus woo'd in vain to spoil her cheek, Which glows yet smoother from his amorous clutch !" And there Love accomplished his coup d'etat which raises Eugenie Fitzpatrick, Countess of T6ba, to the imperial throne of France, and mingles the proud blood of Ossory with the new line of the Caesars. THE IRISH BRIGADE. (From the Weekly Dispatch.) "In Servia," observes Lamartine, " the priest hood have no influence over the people, except in the concerns of religion." We believe it will be found that a very exact measure of the amount of ' liberty enjoyed in any country may be meted by the degree of social power commanded by. the clergy. Wherever sacerdotal ascendancy pene trates into the politics of society, there we may be certain there is neither freedom of opinion and action, nor anything like common sense or intelli-. , gence in the management of state affairs. The • rule of cardinals was the curse of France, and is the nightmare of Italy. In Spain, Portugal, : Naples, the Brazils, Mexico, Peru, the church sits like an incubus upon the chest of mankind, weighs down its inspirations, and crushes the free play of its breathings. There is a snivelling slavishness about our own Methodists which smacks of the Conference, and always renders them so equivocal at elections, that it is the habit of both parties to enter them in the " doubtfuls" of their canvas sing books. Your very high Churchmen are inva riably the enemies of enfranchisement, and the ad vocates of despotism. Even the Congregationalists and Baptists are only really independents and libe rals in spirit, when they keep their pulpiteers to their proper place, and ignore all their pretensions preferred from any other position than the reading desk —recognising their authority even there only so far as it approves itself to their understanding The fact is, that, in the great affairs of secular life, parsons of all denominations, are, as a general rule, consummate fools, or obfuscated blockheads. They are as destitute of business views as women—as jealous, vain, and irascible as scolds. Sagacious politicians dread the encumbrance of their help al most as much as they fear the momentum of their opposition. At the period of the Anti-Slavery movement, their " public appearances" were very alarming to the wise friends of emancipation. Their platform apparitions during the Anti-Corn law League movement, were often such as to keep the clear-headed lay members nervous and quaking during the whole currency of their respective effusions ; and with good reason, because it was generally out of clerical violence and execrable bad taste that the Post, _Herald, and Standard culled their choicest texts for frightening the old women of Belgravia at the revolutionary tendencies of the free trade movement. To go no further back than the events of the present week, look at the contest for the University of Oxford. Who but a wasp's nest of shovel-hats would ever have encountered the scrutiny of public opinion with an exhibition so deplorable of pointless imbe cility and impotent and wanton waywardness, as that which has equally made the " judicious grieve" and " the. unskilful laugh," over the bigotry of Bennett, and the capricious folly of Denison. These churchmen manage their business like no body else. They cannot be made to believe that there is " reason in the roasting of eggs." They cast down their id o l, M r. Gladstone, without any defined excuse —scarcely with the motive even which induced the celebrated objection to the great unknown " Dr. Fell"—because those who vote against the new Chancellor of the Exchequer are still profuse in their professions of personal attach ment to him. They are rash enough and blind enough to attempt the degradation of the chief of the few men who have either the ability or the in clination to maintain anything like a reasonable defence of the Church ; and that, too, on the ground of his acting und er th e only Minister who endea vours to reconcile the progress of society and en larged views of legislation and government, with a steady and consistent advocacy of the claims of the established ecclesiastical institutions. • The poll is wantonly kept open for weeks too, solely appa rently to show the impotence of the opposition who demand it, and the paltry ill-humour of the faction who perpetuate this stupid etourderie. Lay men cannot understand this envious, spiteful, piti ful spirit. Men who would so disturb a borough or a county—forcing expense without any end but annoyance, would be sent to Coventry by all par ties. The Church seems quite unconscious of the danger of her position. She provokes continualcritic ism. 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Aqua se habla Espanol "4 ' ~~ will return a verdict eo de se. liafil.`Ail was ; not any particular ecclesiastical dy, but the priests of all denominations, who mistook Weir vo cation when they mingled ;n the strife of 'palit.i.c4. \ i lf ever Minister deserved gratitude at the ban .ds /of a people, it is Lord Aberdeen from the Iris He and his small band stood alone in resisting th e storm, the hurricane of bigotry, which accom panied the progress of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. Neither the vista of office nor the blasts of popular fury could frighten or lure him from his sedate . and consistent course. He encountered the suspicions of the Protestant Dissenters—he braved, the fana tical jealousy of the State Church:--to do "justice , to Ireland"—and now from Ireland and Oxford alone come opposition to his Government. Priests again —what would they be at ? Their complaints were incessant of Saxon dbmination and Saxon as cendancy. They denounced the partiality which. excluded Irishmen from the sweets of office. Juster sentiments have inspired our rulers. The Premier, , , - resolved to obliterate the memory of that unhappy Lyndhurst folly which denounced Irishmen as . " aliens in language, in blood, and in religion," calls to his councils the very men whom the Irish people the most trusted, and who were ablest-to serve their country. No sooner has he afforded them the opportunity of office to use their power in behalf of their country, and given guarantees of the.impartiality of his adthinistration by opening a career of public usefulness to the very men in whose integrity and ability their countrymen manifested their greatest confidence, than the Catholic - clergy step forward to denounce him and them—the for mer as the corrupter of the patriotism of their friends, and the latter as the bribed tools of Go vernment, bought up to help Ministers to enslave the remnant of the tribes who yet prefer potato..., land to Illinois or the diggings. Dogs in the man ger, they will neither let Saxons govern them nor permit the rule of their. own Celtic leaders. Like the lawyers in the Scripture, they will "neither go in themselves nor let others enter." Thei r f r i ens discover that, when they seek to give the priests influence by calling them influential, they have but raised a devil, who will not be laid until he has received an equivalent of mischief for his services to those who seek his aid. The " Pope's brass band" discover that they are " hoist with their own petard." They fall back on the support of the clergy, and the price of their alliance is obsequious subserviency to their dictate. They catch a Tartar, who wiffneither come with' them nor let them go. In every election committee'there is an inner inquisition of parish priests who dictate the nomination and oversee the results. These gentry look upon members of Parliament but as puppets of the Pope and panders of the monkhood. If they can get but the Irish hundred members under their thumb, they think they may rule England from the Vatican, and supersede Temple-bar by the Flaminian gate. Fortunately there are two parties to be consulted in this bargain. The lead ing spirits among the Catholic laity cannot regard this tyranny with sincere favour. They secretly wince under it. They resist it as openly as they dare. Even the Irish taste for vociferation and exaggerated bombast sickens at the inflated rhodo montade and the vehement malignity of the priest hood. Their coercion and intimidation at the re cent elections have alarmed the reflective, and , disgusted all. There is little real sympathy in Ireland with ultramontane doctrines. The people do not believe the clergy to be more than men. They every day see their coarseness, their violence, their reckless disregard of truthfulness, their un scrupulous use of means, to compass their ends. The intelligent and independent among them be come gradually alienated from a Church that tole rates, and even advocates such a system. If they do not become professed Protestants, they at least divest themselves of the faith and sympathies of Romanism. We have often appealed to the convic tions of our Irish neighbours. We intreat them now to assert their independence. A case has been made out against the interference of the clergy in politics. We earnestly advise the laity to exclude them from their councils, and to remand and remit them to their sacerdotal duties. " Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's." Parsons have nothing to do with political platforms or hustings addresses. The people are quite competent to manage their own affairs. It is absurd toprate about a "Religious Equality Association," if Father Murphy is to be at the bead of it ; and Father Donohue is to have it in his power to threaten with ex-communication every minority that differs from him. Ireland has no right to justice, if she be not just to herself ; she is not fit to be trusted either with freedom or power, if she sells the one to the Church, and hands over the other to the clergy. Her Saxon fellow subjects have a right to say to her—" Before we recognise the equality of your 105 members with ours, we must know what use you make of them— whether they are their own masters—whether, when they vote in our divisions, their votes are their own or yours, and not the Pope's or John_ Team's. You must learn to keep your parish priests in their proper places. We have emancipated your religion, but not to let it loose upon our liberties ; we desire to give you equal rights, but not to ena ble your Church to acquire an ascendancy. We, say that no church has any concern with the secu lar affairs of man • and we will as little tolerate th e dictations of IVl‘lale as of Bloomfield. Irishmen! cast your fetters from you—be free men—not the the slaves of priests—shake your conscience loose from the chains of sacerdotal usurpation, and stand, shoulder to shoulder with us in achieving new con quests for the people. Tell these blustering pul piteers that you can distinguish betwixt ecclesiasti cal authority and the overbearin g insolence of clerical officiousness, and that on ce for all you are determined to manage your own affairs your own way." CHARLES MATHEWS AND THE PRESS. (From the Morning Post.) Mr. Charles Mathews, in several letters, distin guished more by what is called smartness than by truth or by good taste, has brought two serious accusations against the London newspapers gene rally. We should not have troubled our readers. with our personal vindication from either of them, or have publicly noticed the subject, had we not feared that our silence might be construed into acquiesence in slanders directed against a very de serving body of men. As it was, we felt that it was a duty both to the gentleman in question—to the public—and to our own position, to call on Mr. Charles Mathews either to substantiate or to retract his assertions. The first charge was that the privilege of admis sion given by theatrical managers, for the purpose of report and criti c i sm , h a d ben fraudulently ap plied to that of pecuniary profit, to the great loss and damage of Mr. C. Mathews. To this we con sidered simple denial of any such doings on our part, and entire renunciation of Mr. Mathews' tickets of admission, a sufficient reply. But this accusation was followed by a public declaration from the same source, that " many of the critics are the style of men to be cajoled into saying what they don't think, by a nightly order." We could not suppose that a gentleman and a man of honour had made such a sweeping charge of falsehood and dishonesty as this without some distinct ground in what he at least believed to be fact. We therefore called on him, in justice to ourselves and to those gentlemen to whom we and other journals entrust a difficult and responsible duty, to name the many guilty persons. Mr. Mathews answered that he had the authority of the Spectator for what he had said. We showed that his reply was insufficient and incorrect, and. pressed him further. The very singular result we subjoin, leaving our readers to judge whether such " skim ble-skamble stuff" as the inapplicable and inconsequent apologue of the pastrycook and the boys is a sufficient justification of libel, or whether, if Mr. Charles Mathews had possessed a single fact to support his assertion, he would not have pro duced it rather than have confessed his weakness by such ridiculous evasions : " TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST. " Lyceum, Jan. 22, 1853. " Sir,—Some ti me ago, a n i ce respec t a bl e littl e b oy was in the habit of stationing himself near the door of a pastry-cook's shop in one of our London thorough fares, and so recommended himself by his civility in di recting customers to the shop, that the pastrycook got into the way of giving him a few cakes daily for his attention. " Several other equally respectable little boys soon applied for and received cakes in the same way for the same kind service, till by degrees all the little boys in London, respectable and otherwise, claimed as a right the same advantage, and openly declared their determi nation not only to eat the cakes but to abuse the giver to all his customers. "At length, finding that so many cakes were de voured by these little boys that the public was actually obliged to go without, he declared his intention of g ivin g them no more—the good little boys thus, as usual, suffering for the fault of the naughty ones. "Next morning all the windows of his shop were broken, and on the beadle of the parish remarking that perhaps the naughty little boys who ham; lost their pri vilege had done this mischief, the pastrycook, thinking that the beal.le ought to be a good judge of the misdeeds the fntaruugthh of thatlittlety public boys,erfuepuleietdiouthaaryt .h e e re h m a a d rk. no doubt of " On this, one of the most respectable of the little boys started up in an indignant manner and insisted on the pastrycook giving the name of any little boy whom he thought could be base enough to throw stones and run away, for so paltry a reason as that of being deprived of a pennyworth of infamously bad cakes. The poor pastrycook was puzzled, The a nonymous littl e b o y s had all vanished, and he could only repeat, on the authority of the beadle, that although he did not know their names, he thought that many of them were likely to have done so. "In like manner do I, sir, say to you, give me a list of all the anonymous critics in London, and r may per- Age. ~~