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PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. 7 , St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square, London. This day is published, in 3 vols., mRS. GORE'S NEW NO VE L ) THE DEAN'S DAUGHTER; SPIRIT OP TIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS• once. 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. Such 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. NOTICE OF DIVIDEND. NATION - AM ASSURANCE AND INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION. THE HALF-YEARLY INTEREST on the INVESTMENT STOCK of this ASSOCIATION, at the rate of per cent. per annum, to 31st December last, is now in course of Payment, and may be received at the office daily, between the hours of 11 and 3 o'clock. Or, The Days We Livo In. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers. successor to Henry Colinim, 13 Great Marlborough-street. To be had at all the Libraries. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. 7 , St. Martin'a•plaee, Trafalgar-square, 9th January, 1853. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN COPPER MINING COMPANY. The Committee of Management have to announce that they have accepted the resignation of S. U. 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 t be addressed to the Chairman. (signed) J. 1 I.IO3IPSON, Chairman. VALLANCE and VALLANCE. Solicitors to the Company. 17, Gracechurch Street, Jan. 21, 1853. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN' R&ILWAY. NOTICE 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 London Tavern, Bishopsgate street, London, on WEDNESDAY, the 16th day of February, 1853, at Twelve o'clock precisely, when the directors will submit a report on the affairs of the company during the preceding half-year, a divi dend wl,ll bo declared, and the general business of the company tran sacted. _ _ And Notice is hereby farther Given, that at this meeting an elec tion of directors will take place, and that there are four vacancies in the direction occaslemed by the resignation or the Right Hon. the Earl of Morley, and of Thomas Smith, Esq , and by the retirement, under the provisions of the " London and South-Western Railway Amendment Act, 1847," of John Lewis Count Eye and Matthew • Esq. The two retiring directors,. John Lewis Count Eyre and Matthew • 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, C a pt. J as. Gi l b ert 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, lo become candidates for election. And Notice is hereby further Given, that so soon as the business of the Half-yearly Meeting is concluded, a SPECIAL GENER IL 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 "Wednesday, the 2d day of February, and remain closed until Wednesday. the 16th day of February, 1853, both days inclusive. By Order of the Board of Director., A. BIIIKELEY, Sec. York -road Offices, 21st January, 1853. W S. WOODIN'S SOIREES • COMIQUES, or CARPET BA/ and SKETCH-BOOK. CROWDED HOUSES AND TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS 1 EVERY EVENING at Eight o'Clock, at the THEATRE ROYAL, Being an entirely ADELAIDE-STREET WEST, STRA N D. Novel and Original Vocal and Visual Instructo, Gro tesqnol, o Comico. Pictorio, Musico, Eccentri ss i mo , Characteristic., Leetui, IN TWO COMIC SECTIONS. A PART FIRST COMPRISES *Vocal Illustration, " Beginnings."—Full-length Portrait, Martha ... Miv ills.—lllustration, Carpet Bag.—Half-length Portrait, Major lu ster. —Vocal Illustration, "A Visit to the Great Metropolis.' .; - ..ru11-length Portrait, Sir Benjamin Bungle.—llalf-length Portrait "" 1 , r• Sampson Rusty.—Full-lenglit Portrait, Mr. Oliver Oldstyle with a Vocal Illustration of " Bygone Days ").—Evil-length Por trait, Ben Binnacle —Minitture Portrait, Mrs. Muddles (trom Manchester.) PAST SECOND. Fuld -length Portrait, Sandie M‘Whittle.—Full-length Portrait, A Wen -known Personage.—lllustration, Carpet Bag.—Felt-length P ortrait, A Yankee Clipper.—Vocal Illustration, " Metropolitan Me lodies."—Full-length Portrait, Mr. Cal:l.—illustration, Carpet lla g. -- Full.length Portraits, Mr. and Mrs. Lapsus Linger.—Vocal Ill ustration, " Pleasures of a Pic-nic Party."—lllustration, Sketch book (Daylight and Moonlight).—Finale, " The Lions of London." boot. several Pictorial Illustrations, furnished by " The Sketch- " In the course of the Evening Mr. C. Cormis will perform a variety of grand Piano Solos. Admission, is.; Reserved Seats, 25.; Dress Stalls, 35.; Private Hosea One Guinea. THE HOOD MEMORIAL. CLOSE Or THE SUBSCRIPTION. AT a GENERAL MEETING of the SUB SCRIBERS to the Fund for Erecting a Monument above t on Grave of THOMAS HOOD in Kensal-green Cemetery, held Dec. at the Whittington Club, it wai resolved that the Sabseription '.at be CLOSED on the let of February, 1853, and Miss ELIZA. COOK, MURDO YOUNG, and Ms. JOHN WATKINS, ►ere appointed Trustees to the Fund. The amounts subscribed are deposited at Interest in the London, and Commercial Bank. ~Contribations are received by Mr. William Strudwicke, at the whittington Club, Strand by Miss Eliza Cook, Treasurer, 54, goat Ormonde-str, et, Bloomsbury ; and by Mr. John Watkins, On. Sec., 34, Parliament-street. Among the subscribers are the following Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K.G.........£25 0 • Toe Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M.P. ...... 5 0 0 The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P •• 5 0 0 Th e Right Hon. T. B. Macaolay, 5 0 0 Rir Wilbam Frazer, 8art.......... ...... 4 0 0 James Harmer, Esq... ....•• •• • • ..... • ... s'o 0 John Macgregor. R. 1.. M.P...• •• ...... 0 o Arip c ocers, • Esq. ..... • .• •••• • • . • 5 5 0 Mrs. Robert Elliot •.......... ..... 5 0 0 'Richard Dawson, Esq., MAI Georgefeabody ~ ..._ E.g. '••• •• ------ •••... s o o • • • •• • • 5 5 Edward Moorman, Esq • . 5 0 0 David salomons, Esq.. ......... • ... • • .... a a o Messrs. Spalding and Hodge. •••• • • •• 5 5 0 Miss Eliza Cook. . .• 5 0 0 Miss Cushman.... • • ••• • . . • ... •• •• • • 5 0 0 Proceeds of an "Evening vrith Hood ' at the Whittington Club... 8 8 0 Murdo Young, Esq., and family 4 4 0 Samuel Rogers, E5q........., C. W. Dilke, Esq... ..... 3 3 0 Charles Lushington, E5q...... . Elias Davis, Esq. The Right Hon. the Earl of Ellesmere ... ..... 2 0 0 The Right Hon. Lord John Manners, M.P.." .. 2 0 0 Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P..... . 2 2 0 R. Monckton Milnes, Esq., 2 0 0 B. W. Procter, Esq., (Barry Cornwall) ........ 2 2 0 Douglas Jerrold, Esq.... T. K. Hervey, Esq. •••••••••• • • • • •• • ....... •• 2 2 0 Rowland Hill, Esq., General Post-offics 2 2 0 C. Mackay, Esq., LL.D. .... •• • • •..... „ 2 2 0 C. W. Dllke, jun., Esq.. •• •• •• •• Edward Moxon, E5q........ •• ••• • •• 2 2 0 James Coppock, Esq.•• •• •• Rev. Thos. Wilkinson, Durham ........ . 2 2 0 Collected by M. J. O'Conner, Esq , Morpeth, Northumberland .. •• •• •• •• •• •••• • • " " 2 9 Jas. Wyld, Esq., and family.... •.. 2 0 0 Mrs. Theodore M ar ti n (Mi ss H e l en Faudt) .... 2 2 0 A few Young Men at Simpkin and Marshall's— 1 5 6 Nine half crowns from Manchester-- 1 2 6 The Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle.-- „ „ 1 1 0 The Right Hon. the Earl of St. Germans...—. 1 1 0 The Right Hon. Lord 8r0ugham......... 1 0 0 The Right Hon. Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P. ~ 1 1.0 The Hon. and Rev. S. G. 05b0rne.............. 1 0 0 Alfred Tennyson, Esq. (Poet Laureate).... ..... 1 1 0 Lady 5andy5.................... ...... • . 1 1 0 W. M. Thackeray, Esq... „ 10 0 Charles Swain, Esq, . ..... •••• 1 0 0 W. C. Macready, E.q... .......• 1 1 0 J Westland Marston, Esq Ifr s• C. Hall ••••••• 1 1 0 Albert Smith, Esq. •• •• •• •• •• •••••• •• '• 1 1 0 Lady Morgan .......... •• . ........ .......,... 1 1 0 W. C. M. Kent, Esq. •.•••••••• • • • • . • .. • •. . 1 1 0 A lfred Crowuill E William Jerdan, Esq.... •• •• ..... ....... „•• ...,.. 11 ePworth Dixon, Esq 1 1 0 w. H. Gore Langton, Esq., °' Baring Wall, Esq. M.P. ••• •• •• •• ••• 11 0 Charles Gavan Duffy ' 1 1 0 , Esq M P • IL Swift, Er M.P ~ Esq., ........ • • ... • .... I 1 0 James Macgregor, Esq., M.P.... . .... . ........ 1 0 0 B. Oliveira, .Esq., ••• • • • .... 1 1 0 W. J. Fox, Ely M.P Sir John Kerte Haberfleld, Knt., Bristol 1 1 0 krs Milner Gibson • •• ••••••"••• • • • • • • • 1 0 0 Thomas Creswick, Esq. R.A..........• ••.••• • • 1 1 0 J. 13. Buckstone, Esq..• ••• •• •••••••• • • • • • •• 1 1 0 Sirs. Fitzwilliar .4M .. • • ...... •.••• • • •• Rev. Felix Palmer, Frierning .... ••• • • • •• • 1 1 0 Maraca Mayhew, Esti Sydney Yeridys &bell, Esq. .. C. Cowden Cl ar k e, Es urae J. E. Carpenter, Esq. .•• •••••••• • • • • • • • • ..... 1 1 0 Dr. Robert Elliot, fitratrord - Elocution Class, Walworth Literary Institution.. I I 0 Eight half crowns from Preston.. •• In pence from Bideford •• .. .. • • ... • • 018 8 In Half-crowns, from Bristol. -• • . • • ...... In Half- crowns and Shi ll ings......•• .... • 1 ... •. 011 6 0 To pence from Bristol. • •• •• •• • • 012 6 Miss Martineau .....•••• ••••.• • • • Miss Mltfo'd .. . ... • ......... Geo. Dawson, Esq., MA. ....• •••• .. • • •.•.•... 010 0 10 6 X. L. Blanchard, Esq. ..........• ••••..• • • • • • 010 6 W. C. 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'toe tribe of (Piet 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 manyhundreds would be saved much n ee dl ess suffering of body and mind, an d w h a t is of less importance, th oug h i t i s that which the quacks most prize— much money... ...This volume is well qualified to put an end to the kel y to p d n o amuch more gronotdi empirical uo system of treating Spe rma torrhcea, and to place the treat mentonal and physiological J b u n n s e 16, iLlBiss2.therefore, So. 11. Bvo., in cloth, price 38.., by po U st free, 40., THE CURE OF STRICTURE O F THE RETHRA, on Princi ples at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate rid apparently Intractable Forms. Y F. B. COLTTEAY, Member of the ß Royal College o R f Surgeons of England. Tn proof of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) he history of a great many cases successfully treated, as bad has given as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated. Such are eases ix., Xi., and xvili. No. Ix. had res,sted, tor a period of twelve yerrs, the treatment by dintation, and was finally removed in , as many weeks. But cases xvitt. and six. appear, both in duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet tho treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently successful." —Professor Llzars Oil the Treatment of Stricture. DiLAIR'S-GOUT AN D RHEUMATIC PILLS. 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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 Lambert (o - the Theatre du Palsis Royal), Madlle. Berlin (of the Theatre Francais), Madlle. Luther (of the Theatre du llymnase—her first appearance in England), Monsieur Lafout, Madile. Emma Fleury (Eleve du Conservatoire, Paris), Madlle. Page (ot the Theatre des Varietes—her first appearance in Enalan,f), Monsieur Adrien Fede, Mons cur Leonard, Madlle. Madeline I :raian (of the Theatre Franclais -her first appearance in England), and Monsieur Regnier (of the Theatre Frang4s). The eminent Trage dienne, Mantle. 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The favour of an early applcation 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. PATRON-H •R. H. PRINCE ALBERT. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. NEW EXHIBITION.—An OPTICAL and MUSICAL IL LUSTRA.TION of SHARSPEEE'S " MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM," with an ENTIRE CHANGE of MUSIC, introducing the ORIGINAL MUSIC by Sir Henry Bishop, Morning and Evening.— LECTURES by J. H. Pepper, Esq., on the endless AMUSEMENTS of CHEMISTRY, adapted to a Juvenile Audience; by Dr. Hachhoffner. on the PHILOSOPHY of SCIENTIFIC RECREA TION ; by Mr. Crispe, on BALLOONING. -DISSOLVING VIEWS, including Day and Night Views of WALMER CASTLE, WALMER CHURCH, &C., &c. Admission, Is. ; Schools and Children under ten years of age, half-price. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THIRD SALE. CUSTOMHOUSE, London, January, 1853. 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, cordiais: confectionery, crotchet cases, China silk, chess men, China ware, jars, vases, &c.; cambric embroidered handker chiefs, clocks, gilt, brass, marble, buhl, skeleton, inlaid, &c.; carriage, Dutch, Cologne water, currents, daguerreotype plates, frames, Br.c.; elastic webbing, earthenware, East India matting; embroidery, viz., screen and fancy pieces; -arniture, viz., carved cabinets, book cases, chests, &c.; blab!, bedsteads, tables (worked and carved), fasces, &c ; globes for 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 bantA, 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, ; lacquered ware, viz., cabinets, tables, &c., matting, E. I, ; meerscham, pipes, &c.; ; microscopes, &c.; musi cal instruments, viz., trombones, cornopeans, clarions, flutinas, accordians, concertina., &c. ; need'ework, 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, &c. ; porte-monneies, portfolios, &c. ; porcelain, coloured, Dre:ten, Sevres, &c. ; pomatutn ; pipes, bowls, tubes, stems, &c. ; purses, silk; prints ; platting for bon nets ; raisins ; ruin ; segars ; sugar cases ; shawls, silk, crape, barege; soap stone ornaments; straw cords • sla' e pencils ; shawls, wove, woollen, unprinted, &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, bends, broockes, 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; wino; webbing, elastic ; and various other goods. For Exportation, or for Home Consumption, on payment of the duties : —Book. Cologne water, spirits, silk manufactures, sugar , sa ccades, tamarinds, tea, wood, wine. &c., &c. For Exportation only :—Watches, books, prints, playing cards, wine and spirits, &C. For the benefit of the Crown:— Sugar, spirits, wine, boat, &c. ilea 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, Rotherbithe ; on Thursday, the 27th, Friday, the 28th, and Saturday, the 29th of January, 1853, from Ten o'Clock in the Morning until Thrca o'Clock in the Afternoon, and on the days of s.)le, from Ten o'Clock in the Morning until Twelve o'Clock at Noon. 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Every article there being the same in Style, Quality, and Price as at their gigantic Empo.:um, A 'dgate end Mlnories, at either place the public has the act. unmodation of the largest, most Varied, and appropriate stock of Goods. This is a convenience which has given the greatest satistaction, and it is the daily sins of E. MOSES & SON to unite convenience and profit at each Establish ment. On this account every as displays the most artistic Cut, the highest order of Workmanship, and the most fashionable and sex rieeable materials. This applies to the novelest styles of CAPES, WRAPPERS, AND OVERCOATS ever offered by any house hi the world, the Prices being very much Lover than those charg'd elsewhere. E. MOSES & SON'S JUVENILE ATTIRE, • ready made or to measure, surpasses al' others Elegance, Dura bility, Comfort, and Cheapness. HOSIERY, the.alegant and useft", HATS and CAPS, the newest shapes and most superb finish, Cheaper than at any other House. EMIGRANT, MORE GOLD YET I! 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All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, from which no abatement can be made. The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. . . A new Book, entitled "The World's Pharos," containing the Emigra.at's Assistant, full list of prices, and directions bar self-mea surement, may be had on application, or post-free, to any past of the kingdom. A handsome Almanac for the year ending 103 can be had gratis, on application. Ici Pon parle Francais. Hier skricht man Deutsch. Qnl al parla Aqua se liable Espanol 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 a 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 pool'election 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 consi bored entitled to priority, both on the ground of ae them latter for seniority, and a s h av i ng re ndered more important ser e ser vices to the popular ca use. The veteran free trader and reform er , C o l one l Th omson , wou ld h ave b een unques tionably en titl e d t o t h e pr i or i ty ; so wou ld th e h onour - Sheffield, f illll n l rn r is ß h o ed ebu a ck s . uffi T e h ie e nt reasonhealth of bl for his non -appointment; • may have ppointment ; and the unfortunate temporary exclusion led to from Parliame n tl o f th e f ormer ma y h ave pa r tly the preference of Sir W. Molesworth, though the circumstance is attributable wi mainly to the connection of Sir W. M o l es worth a certain weekly London news paper, which, th oug h with the P ee l partynominally Radical, formed an alli ancefore the announcement as far back as 1842, even be policy, and thus even the preponderance Sir Robert Pe e l' s c h ange o f 13 ence over Whig influence re)onderance of Peelite influ of a bias in the Radical has element been of the Cabi ne t. How ever, it may be hoped that teh ad justed by degrees, es 11 ' e equilibriu m w ill be peciay the public voice requires THE FRENCH EMPEROR'S MARRIAGE. (From the Times.) .4 . - The speech deli vere d b y Lem* IsTapoleon on Saturday last to th e principal political bodies of the Empire, and, in fact, to the Drench nation, for the purpose of announcing his retolutiOn on the subject of his marriage, has rather strengthened thau altered the favourable opinion we have already expressed of his choice. Indeed, we had antici pated on Friday several of the arguments by which the Emperor now recommends the selection 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 bends 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 solici 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 ; and, though the allusion to the marriage of the Duke of Orleans is not generous in the lips of one who has succeeded that family upon the throne, it can hardly be doubted, in spite of the personal merits of the Princess Helena of Mecklenburgh, that this alliance i i ras prejudicial to the Orleans dynasty. Whatever may be Louis Napoleon's other claims to the position he occupies, he is unquestionably the grandson of' Josephine ; and, although the name of that Einms§ in endeared to the people of Fran ce by compassien7for the un-. merited and cruel treatment she n with from Napoleon, as much as by her own qualities, the allusion to his ancestress comes th e more gracefully from the present Emperor, inasmuch as, in spite of all the provisions to the contrary, the Imperial suc cession has reverted to the line of her Offspring. Nothing, too, can be in better tone and temper than the phrase in which the Emperor adopts the title and position of a parvenu Sovereign, frankly bear , ing his origin in view, preserving his independent character, and asserting his entire freedom from the traditions of States in which the foundations of society have not been subverted or the institutions 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 character—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 acquai n ted w ith th e 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 formed 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 another column—including even the churches, religious houses, and colleges, of which she is the patroness —that of Palafox conspicuously occurs, for the heroic defender of Saragossa against the French invaders of Spain was, we believe, 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 Ma was created about 1492 by Ferdi nand and Isabella for his gallant conduct befpre 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 Montijo, to whose title and large 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 Kirkpatrick& was rather less illustrious than that of the defender of Tarifa, but the Scottish heralds set to wor k w ith 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 systematic policy of the Em peror, his uncle, which he has made on all other occasions the model and rule of 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 B onaparte, " 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 E mperor of the French lies under the influence of a m i lder pass i on. Yet there are expressions in this very speech the sting of which will be felt in several of the Courts that it ever " solicited th e al li ance o f of Europe. The House of Austria will not acknow ledgethe elected chief of the new Empire ;" and more than one princely family will feel the sneer not 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 necessary guard of his power, without whose assent the solem n it y o f th ese nuptials would be incomplete. But as for the rest er t s ' of th e of the world, and even the august b o di es to which this speech is addressed, they ar e t o l d without disguise that they will one day appreciate the th b e e Emperor's choice better than they d o at present. We have already observed that th e partisans of ftehuisndmaarrmieangge theare andoht,erfeonrtsthad the most par new Empire. But, in a case like this, wh ere every thingmodetievfe a p n re d ee a e d di v n en g t is ur a o t adventurous, new and unexpected least a s likely , to succeed as an old and inapplicable on e • and the isspecula ulterior consequences of this marriage will depend in great part on the disposition, the judg ment 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 somethin g i n 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 play a considerable p ar t i n 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 of the European public. Except at Pari s , where jealousy may r eco il an d vanity rebel, the fai r 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 courts. 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, those 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 th a t an y such -expectation was even then e n t er t a i ne d . To make that scale in which is placed Royal or Impe- rial consanguinity still lighter, we behold in our day 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 many in disdain 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 nicated Sovereigns from the pale of natural affec tion 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 ever interest. We appear to state a contradiction, and we, do, state a contradiction ; but it i s no t our own ; it is the ai: tradiction of those who, ever since men lived in community, have over-reached themselves the contradiction of reasoncrs 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 lie foregoes, for the sake of that tie, his own advantage. In the form er 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 which 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 advantage 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 hind, the wifii4 is s hot exHicted or supposed to have married her husband anything but ag grandisement. But what she would not do for a husband, her relativv cannot fail' to do Tor a connection ; the is, they will sacrifice interest to feelin, whore 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 behbld 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-4aschid of France has found a suitable bride. CHARL'ES 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. (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 andthe Frenchpeople, 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 clay, 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 accordance with th e t ra diti ons of ancient poicy, 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 back France within the pale 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. There can be no 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 first charge was that the privilege of admis sion given by theatrical managers, for the purpose of report and criticism, had been 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 " skimble-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 time ago, a nice respectable little boy 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. v u " r A e d t blength, these littlefinding b otyhsa thatt obliged to go without, he declared his intentio n of g ivin g them no more—the good little boys th us, as usual, suffering for the fault of the naughty ones. so the inan p y ubl ca ic kes was were actuadli; de voured w is sofhis shop were that broken, ''Nex a t nd m o o n rn t i h n e g bea all dle th o e w ofthe endorh remarkingpa perhaps the naughty little boys who had lost their pri vilege had done this mischief, the pastrycook, thinking that the beable ought to be a good judge of the misdeeds of naughty little boys, replied that he had no doubt of the truth of that public functionary's remark. " On this, one of the most respectable o f th e 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 anonymous little boys 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. 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 "In like manner do I, sir, say to you, give me a list of all the anonymous critics in London, and I may per- • ".1 -- . .44 .31). C.- • log .1.0.2 e.,„ will refirrn a verdict of felo de se. . e . 4• not any particular ecclesiastical bodk • u , , _• t„ tli 4% A priests of all denominations, who mistoft tigrr.o ';1; cation when they mingled in the strife+f 14: 4 If ever Minister deserved gratitude det of a people, it is Lord Aberdeen from th 0 He and his small band stood alone in resisting storm, the hurricane of bigotry, which accom r 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 domination 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 administration by opening a career of public usefulness to the very men in whose integrity and ability their countrymen manifested their greatest confidence; than th e C a th o li c clbrgy 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." Their friends 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 baud" 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 --- dictates. They catch a Tartar, who will neither 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 hnndretl 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 reckles s di sregar d o f 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 head of it ' • and Father Donoh ue i s t o h ave it in his power t o 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 at 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 %eubjects have a right to say to hv---" 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 asters—whether, wlen they vote in our divisions, their votes are their own or yours, and not the Pope's or John Tuam'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 littl e t o l era t e th e dictations of M'Hale 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 overbearing insolence of clerical officiousness, and that once for all you are determined to manage your own affairs your own way." (From 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, lo ! 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 mijillait'what to make of it ; but the Marquis and his party are in power, Stiggin's purse is plethoric, and before many months are over super ciliousness gives way to obsequiousness • there are receptions in Mayfair and Belgravia, hanquets in Tyburnia, and blow-outs beyond description in Baker-street. Louis Napoleon's wife, whoso she ' may be, a dame de la _Halle, a child of ? 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 Hymens !" The quondam 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 daught er 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 other. At the Opera, at Court, in the royal—no w th e i m p er ial—gardens, the deadliest eye from the North to the South Pole met the lightning flashes of the pride of Grenada, and was awakened from its visio& of reel-hairecl, Princesses, and paler dames bt,the north. At ochn peigiVoo, they met, amongst the beautiful forest scener , mingled in the exciting pleasures of the chase,, there the great hunter of the stag himself enveloped in the toils'ottlfelittle ilunter 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' eta t which raises Eugenie Fitzpatrick, Countess of Teba, to the imperial throne of France, and mingles the proud blood of Ossory with the new line of the Cmsars. 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 frighteni2g 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 idol, Mr. 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 o 2 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 under the 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 o? 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 o: the danger of her position. She provokes continual critic ism. Like the Israelites at the siege of Jerusalem, her faptions wrangle when the enemy of both isstorm ing their very ga t es ; an d w h en s h e reaches that fall to which she is hastening headlong, the inquest Ago.