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THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice, That the RATE of EXCHANGE at which they will receive Cash for Bills on B, ngal and Madras, will,f tom the resent d. to, and until farther notice, be ls. 10d. the Company's Rupee, and for Bills on Bombay, ls. 1034 d. the Company's Rupee. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. -first :e of No. 16,967. LONDON, TIIUIt3DAY MORNING SUN, FEBRUARY 4, 1847. r. of loiv, REPRESENTATION OF WESTMINSTER. A. PUBLIC MEETING of the ELECTORS will TAKE PLACE TO-MORROW (Friday Evening), February am, at the Queen's Concert Room, Hanover -squore. to afford CHARLES COCHRANE, Esq., CANDIDATE for WESTMINSTER, the opportunity of addressing the Electors of St. George and St. James's, and stating his reasons for seeking the Suffrages of the Citi zens of Westminster. The Chair to be taken at Half-past Seven "Clock. By order, B. BATTAM, Secretary for St. George. 12, Maddox-street. H. REYNOLDS, Secretary for St. James, Great Pulteney-street. Tickets far the platform may be obtained from the Secretaries. treet b. 3, rur- PRICE SD. BROCKEDON'S PATENT PURE PLUM BAGO for ARTISTS, and ENGINEERS' BLACK LEAD PENCILS. approach ; and this is without the risk of snapping off the poit.t, which is the torment, of all °these, tho most vexatious : this has never once happened tome with yours, and J have used one of the HIM nearly a month. There is no affectation in declaringthat I am deeply grateful for your discovery, and though late in making this acknowledgment to you, I have lost no opportunity meanwhile in endeavouring to make tie great qualities cf your pencils as popular as they deserve to be.— I am, my dear Sir, yours always truly, W. Brockedon, Esq WILLIAM HARVEY. From Professor Brands, P.R.S.. &c. &c. &c. THE SPANISH MARRIAGES. The following is a copy of M. Guizot's last dispatch to the French Ambassador in London : M. GUIZOT TO COUNT ST. 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FIE FIELD,LD , has i,;en conjunction with th tio instructions Mr. from Mr. John Rhodes (who is about to retire) to submit to public corn- Petition, at Garraway's, on TVESDAY, February 16, at Twelve. (unless an acceptable offer be in the mean time made by private ~t _ reet,) the valuable LEASE, at a low rent, of the tar-famed HOLE 'TAVERN, Fountain-court, Strand. The very high chara cter which thi s esta bli shment has for many years maintained, renide CO account o f t h e magnitude and respectability of its trod evitai t; i s it one of the fi rst of its class in the metropolis, and must in- To be y ensure to a pu rc h aser an ample fortune In a few years. viewed (by cards only), which, with particulars, may be obtained of Mr. Winfield, 18, Gerrard-street, Soho ; also of J. Bird, Esq., 5, New Inn; and of the Auctioneer; Osnamirgh- place, Re gent's-park. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26 CORNHILL. LONDON. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. Thin Institution embraces important and substantial advantages With respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured has, ou all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for elture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premiums paid (see Table) ; glso the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in crests to meat other conveniences or necessity. Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The remarkable success and increasing prosperity of the Society a4B enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a iourth bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid a* each Policy effected on the Profit scale. EXAMPLES. 4 1 Bonus Bomis in Assurec Premium ' g added. Cash. =— g may cA Borrow. s ' d* 1837 £217 15 0 1 3 41:71 011 4116 1 0 11 3 1 9 1 : I? 0 01000 3 4 1839 165 11 10 74 1 9 11 3 1 346 2 3 1840 116 7 6 54 010 718 10 296 13 4 1841 111 6 8 49 10 0 710 4 247 4 is _The division of profits is amnia', and the next will be made in '' e cember of the present year. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX. Secretary. AirDISEASED AND HEALTHY LIVES ASSURED. EDICAL, INVALID, and GENERAL LIFE sTREET OFFICE, 25, PALL-MALL, LONDON, and 22, NASSAU , DUBLIN. Subscribed Caital, , Thu office was established in 184 p 1, an soo d posseooo/. sses tables formed on sci entific basis for the assurance of diseased lives. The urgent necessity for such an institution may be estimated by healt hy lives, the fact th a t two-thirds of the population are not assurable as and that about one in five of the applicants to other maces is declined on examination. ANI that during the period of five years, as shown at the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors in November last, upwards of 2,000 P r oPesals had been made to the Society, covering Assurances to above One Million. It is the only Company possessing tabulated rates of premium for n3sease deduced from extensive data. ' Increased annuities are granted on Unsound Lives. HEALTHY LIVES, both at Home and in Foreign Climates, are Assured with as much facility and at lower rates than at most other " l ees; and a capital of Half-a-Million sterling filly subseribei of a complete guarantee for the fulfilment of the Company's engsgeMents. FRANCIS G. P. NEISON, Actuary. N. 1.1 Applications for Agencies to be made to the Actuary. BRITISH INSTITUTION, PALL-MALL. The GALLERY for the EXHIBITION and SALE of /YOLKS of BRITISH ARTISTS, will be OPENED on MONDAY, the Bth instant, and continue open Daily, from Ten till Five. Admission, Is.; Catalogue, la. WILLIAM BARNARD. Keener. T HE LONDON HORSE, UAltitlAUE, and LIVERY COMPANY. (Provisional& Iteeigt;44.) Capital, 200,000'. in 20,000 shares of 101.eachl Deposit, I. per share. Managing Director—James Aiaxaouer Manning, Esq. Sellcitors—Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant. 34, Lime-street. Bankers—The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury, City, and 6, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden. The objects of this Company are to supply the nobility and gentry Of the metropolis with Horses and Carriages of all descriptions, on hire, for flied periods, or by the job, to receive Hones at Livery, and to transact all the other business usually falling within the province of Livery Stable-keepers, at a considerable redaction from the pre sent prices. for Pr ospectuses, and further information, with forms of application shares, may be o bt a i ne d a t th e Offi ce o f th e C om p an y, 52, Regent street, n ex t d oor to the County Fire Office; of the Solicitors, Messrs. !,(eddell, Baker, and Grant, 34, Li me - s t reet ; o f G eorge H um ph re y s , at t s( • 8 , Throgrnorton-street, City ; and of Mr. Whiney, Manager, the he Company's Stables, 28, Shepherd's -market, May -fair. L L O NDON A AND WESTMINSTER BANK. L ,Notice is hereby given, the ANNAL GENER ',! - ETING of the PROPRIETORS of that this Compa n y will be held at ate Blink in Lothbnry, on WEDNESDAY, the 3d day of March next, 0„ , 0 Clock precisely , to declare a Dividend, to submit for conflr- Inchon the Election of Joshua Walker, Esq., who has been nomi ntated g b 7 the Board of Drectors in the room of Patrick Maxwell ro !wart, E sq., xp., deceased; to appoint three Directors in the t oe ' r n of Thomas Farncomb, Esq., David Salomons, Esq., and Henry tb e an quet, Esq., who go out by rotation, but being eligible offer Z,._selve for Re-Election ; also to consider the propriety of ap for o `.'"C two additional Directors to proceed to such Election, and ted Purposes. The following two gentlemen being duly quail posZfre.FY Buckle, Esq., and John Garrett Cattley, Esq., have pro rtotie "'" ,, elves as such Directors, and have given the necessary el. By order of the Board, Rothbury; JAMES WILLIAM GILBART, General Manager. -rY;Vanuary 28, 1847. .ransfer Books will be closed from the 15th of F e bruary Next loth of March, to prepare for the Dividend. J 0 R N WALL RAILWAY; Notice HALF-YEARLY ORDINARY HEE 1 MG. AltE, T 4 l * hereby given that the HALF-YEARLY ORDINARY - ‘ lO ;of the Shareholders in the Cornwall Railway Company (1 5y 0; Feb at the Assembly Room, at Truro, on TUESDAY, the 23d Th e „,tlary next, at One o'clock precisely, text , "'ranger Books will be closed on the 9th day of February tan, ,7 4 c 1 Will not be opened until a ft er the said Half-yearly Ordi ' "'eeti Notie • Will - e Is hereby further given, that after the business of the said hm., - * / ' 4I IY ordinary meeting on the 23d day of February next shall rrie eth 7en transacted; the meeting will be made SPECIAL, at which app ro ',',g,ttore will be submitted to the Proprietors present, for their Parli a ' a i , a draft of a certain Bill proposed to be introduced into io th niett in this Session, with the title and for the purposes follow the enil er at is to say :—" A Bill to authorise an alteration in the Line of for , `"rall R a se ilway s and to amend the Act relating thereto, and t purpo." J. T. TREFFRY, Chairman, W. 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To show how these truthful Histories are appreciated, it may b e petitioned that 8,000 England, 5 , 000 Ireland , 5,000 Scotland, 6,000 'Th ee, and 4,000 Spain and Portugal, have been sold. CHARLES BUTLER'S EASY GUIDE TO cil v ,, GEOGRAPHY and USE of the GLOBES. With Seven V T :',ographic Maps, 2s. cloth. Auti;": GUIDE TO USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, by the same 44: Second Edition, enlarged, Is. 6d. cloth. . tabl ed, r_ ll : Dean and Co. Threadneedle-street ; and may be ob -1,....._ by order, of all Bo oksellers. __,........__......._. RE P --...---_,_______ „-.. RE ORIGINAL METALLIC STROP ( with T he - eur Sides) for BEE PING RAZORS in PERFECT t O h l e tD , E e ß ar . 18 )G, b METALLIC TABLET STROP was invented in teiv ed i George Saunders, of New York, and wa9 favourably cut?' the public as far Furpassing any other Razor , , r The and ... er 3 In Europe, after trial, have acknowledged its being much irner 4 - ;" 44 Y lire it in preference to the Hone, the effect *cite i°W erful, and requires neither oil or water. A keen smooth do l eAt 1.44r a4 ° 1 % Bo necessary to shave with comfort, is obtaine a, Th e `...Pilt having recourse to any other means. ILderat'w erican Institute for the Encouragement of Science, in con- S urer k cl i .: an tß a su ci p ip etr a y . alue and qualities, awarded the Inventor a t,. - DEPOT, 278, STRAND. PEIsTCER'S CHINESE LIQUID HANG DYE. articleYeat io i l ue thous an d s of individuals who for upwards of twenty 4.te Used thit celebrated liquid, pronounce it to be the only grey ~•-dant Whit effectually changes, in a few minutes, red or vntb:2:4, w hiskers, moustaches, &c., to a dark brown or black, deees"bt_ trouble (by simply combing landgh the hair), and pro can h e ;Y:.°ne application a pleasing permanent change ; and it the h„,".uolatestibly proved, that while many dyes tend to destroy DUe et r o t bY their pernicious properties and dangerous process of ap the root, 4 ?„,hat this article promotes the growth of hair, nourishing ' Per bob, the latest period of life. Price 3s. 6d., 65., and lOs To s treet,„nad of the Proprietors, 29, Nottingham-place, Fieldgate la ntee hapel-road i London ; also of Mr. Johnstone, 68, Corn- Str eet ; Utter, 4 Cheapslde • Prout, 229, Strand ; Sanger, 150, Oxford lii.strett; ii.L.arelaY, Farm ' don-street ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond 'use --v Pur. 43, King g William-street, London .bridge ; Finnigin, Nrol-e1 Medici ; Elmore, Bull-street, Birmingham Trios any rs and ne Vendors In town and country. Sent to pi e ''Z' s g of th e v, —..ngdom by receiving a remittance, pest-paid. 914/4: aak Spencer and Co.'s Chinese Liquid Hair Dye. " 119 Priet9i'l Addrell is an the IlTailer• The perfection to which this article is now brought, in Colour, firm ness, entire Purity from Grit, wed ready Erasure, is fully shown in the accompanying Testimonials from Painters and Engravers, Archi tects, Engineers, and other Draughtsmen, who are at once the most competent judges, and men of the greatest eminence in their several professions. Nothing is required to be added to this mass of evi decee, but to point out to Pencil Manufacturers the peculiar advan tages presented by the form of the blocks of this Patent Plumbago, for ready application and the avoidance of waste. Each of the blocks weighs about seven ounces, and they are to be used by the pencil-makers for such different qualities of pencils as are known by the centre letters stamped on the blocks. Ihese blocks being already tempered for such degrees of hardness and colour as the letters indicate, cannot be made harder,•or treated in any way to make them harder, without injury to their quality. The blocks are thus ready for immediate use, of all degrees of colour and hardness, and possess great advantages, in the uniform quality in the letter, and in the size of the block, which, being two inches and a quarter square, and about one inch thick, enables the maker to have bat one joint in each pencil. TESTIMONIALS. From C. L. Eastlake, Esq., R.A., Secretary of the Fine Arts Commission, &c. 7, Fitzroy-square, December 4, 1845. My dear Rrockedon,—l have tried all the pencils which you have sent me. I think I may safely say that I have never used any that work so well. Though perfectly free from grit, the substance is compact, and the varieties of hardness and tint are as abundan as any artist can wish. A perfect lead pencil may be said to be at last produced, I am, dear Brockedon, very faithfully yours, W. Brockedon, Esq. C. L. EASTLAKE. From Copley Fielding, Esq., President of the Water-Colour Society Cackfield, Monday. My dear Sir.—lt is only very lately that I have been able to try the pencils wnich you were so kind as to send me. I have been sketching with them several times. lam delighted with the purity of the lead, which allows of so mnch freedom in handling. Your invention seems perfect, and must insure you the thanks of the public as soon as its great value is understood. That Its importance may be speedily appreciated is the sineere wish of, My dear Sir, yours very truly, William Brockedon, Esq. COPLEY FIELDING. Fro:n E. T, Parris, Esq. 17, Grafton-street, Bond-street, Dec. 15, 1845. My dear Sir—l have tried your blacklead pencils, and find the drawings made with them are of a beautiful colour, do not smudge, by common friction, but are entirely removed by Indian rudder ; they also work smoothly and without fear of the limes drawn with them being checked by grit, or breaking. In every way I consider them most satiJactory and very superior to any peacils I have ever used, and shall take every opportunity of making their qualities known to my friends and brother artists, that the same adva tases of your valuable production may be enjoyed •by others, as by, my dear Sir, yours very truly, To W. Brockedon, Esq. EDMUND THOMAS PERRIS. , From Philip Hardwick, Esq., R.A, F,S.A. Russell-square, ➢ec. 15, 1845. My dear Sir—Having tried the pencils made with lead prepared by your patent process, I have great pleasure in saying, they appear to me very superior to any I have lately used, and likely to be a great acquisition to artists.—l remain, my dear Sir, yours uery truly. PHILIP HAIMWICK. From I. K. Brunel, Esq., Civil Engineer, F.R.S. December 15, 1845. My dear Sir,—l am very much obliged to you for the case of pen cils. I had, however, already become their advocate, and ordered a supply, from a specimen Mr. Froude had given me. Yours vary truly, William Brockedon, Esq. I. K. BRUNEL. From George Barnard, Esq., Landscape Drawing-Master, Rugby 'School, 85, Great Portland street, December 17, 1845. My dear Sir,—l have tried the pencils you sent me, manufactured from your patent purified lead, and find them excellent in every re• spect ; in fact, just the same as the best Cumberland lead used to be formerly, but which is no ,longer obtainable from the mines. The quality of ready erasure is very desirable at Rugby and elsewhere, as the principles we teach cannot all be put in force at once, and India rubber is still more in demand than I could wish. I shall send at once fcr a gross mere of BB and B.—Yours very sincerely, William Brockedon, Esq. GEORGE BARNARD. From Samuel Front, Esq., F.S.A. 5, TO Crespigny Terrace, Denmark Hill, Dec. 17, 1845. My dear Brockedon,—l have much pleasure in subscribing to the fact that you have perfected a material which will obtain the grateful acknowledgments of every artist. Indeed, Ido not hesi tate to pronounce the pencils made with your Patent Pure Plumbago perfect. They are remarkably even in trial, free from grit, or dust, firm in texture, and possess every degree of colour, from the archi tect's outline to the broad and deepest shadows of a finished pencil drawing. The following Is the result of my having tested them separately, HMI and HH are degrees of a clear tint, each sustaining the firmest pressure. F and 1111, a beautiful pencil for a free outline, capable of expressing the most delicate and minute forms, as well as broader and bolder features by yielding colour when required. With the B, 88, or 888, the last especially, a drawing may be completed from a faint Indication to the greatest intensity of colour of which blacklead is capable.—l remain, my dear Brockedon, faithflilly yours, SAMUEL PROUT. W. Brockedon, Esq , F.R.S. From David Roberts, Esq., R.A. Fitzroy-stret, December 22, 1845. My dear Brockedon,—l am so delighted with the blacklead pencils which yon sent to me for trial, that I shall feel obliged by your let ting me know, without delay, where I can get a few more of them, particularly the HB's, to go on with. Having tried them on some of the architectural subjects of my forthcoming work on Egypt and Nubia, and finding them so superior to everything to the kind I have hitherto been in the habit of using, I am convinced that whoever gives them a trial will immediately adopt them in preference to all others. The best wish I can offer to you is, that the inventor may come in for a fair share of the profit which must arise from their becoming universal. With my sincere thanks for this discovery, and best wishes for the success it so justly merits, believe me, Faithfully and truly yours, W. Brockedon, Esq. D aVID ROBERTS. From Richard Westmacott, Esq., F.R.S., A.R.A. Wilton-place, December 22, 1845. My dear Brockedon,—l am desirous to offer you my sincere ac knowledgments, in addition to the numerous compliments and thanks you doubtless have received, for the service you have done artists in producing such a perfect quality of lead pencil as is shown in the specimens you were so kind as to give me. My practice is confined, and, therefore. I have little occasion in any drawing for the extreme "herds," or for the double or treble B. But I most grate fully acknowledge an excellence in H, HB, and F, which work freely without grit or scratching, are of good colour, and rub out clean. Yours, very sincerely, RICHARD WESTMACOTT, Jure. From G. Weßwyn Shepherd, Esq. 34, Great James-street, December 23, 1845. Dear Sir,—l am very sorry that I have lost the opportunity, from being oat when you called, of congratulating you in viva voce on the pencils you so kin.lly sent to me. I have carefully tried them, and in truth, they are excellent ; for they are perfectly free from grit, and will resist pressure. I am deeply in crested in the success of your valuable discovery.— Believe me, dear sir, truly ours, W. Brockedon, Bsq. G. WELLWYN SHEPHERD. From J. B. Papworth, Esq., Vice-President Institute of British Architects. 10, Caroline-street, Bedford-square, January 6, 1840. My Dear Sir. Many thanks for the case of pencils, which possess exactly those qualities which have been so long required for archi tectural and engineering purposes, and by every artist. Their easy working without grit from their pure and equable lead, and unifor mity ef colour in long use, render them so desirable that I beg to suggest that thinner pencils should be made of HH H and HEI for the supply of compasses.—l am my dear, sir, yours ever, W. Btockedon, Esq. J. B. PAPWORTfI. From John Martin, Esq. 30, Allsop-terrace, New-road, January 7, 1846. My dear Brockenden,—lt affords me great pleasure to give my unqualified approbation of your new compressed lead pencils. I have now tried all the various qualities, both ir. architectural draw ing and sketching, and can confidently say that I have never had better, or, indeed, such good leads for my purpose. I remain, my dear Brockedon, ever faithfully yours, Wm. Brockedon, Esq. JOHN MARTIN. From James Bridges, Esq., First Master for Landscape-drawing Royal Military Academy Woolwich. Woolwich Common, January 10, 1846. Dear Mr. Brokedon.—l beg to apologise for not having earlier ac knowledged the receipt of the pencils prepared with your patent plumbago, which you were kind enough to forward to me ; but I was anxious to test them thoroughly before giving you any opinion. I have found them truly excellent, possessing all the best qualities of the finest plumbago in its native state without any of its defects, and the respective degrees of hardness are uniform in quality throughout. Wishing you all the success which the importance of your discovery deserves, believe me. Dear Brockedon, faithfully yours, To William Broekedon. JAMES BRIDGES. • From William Wyon, Esq., R.A., Chief Engraver to her Majesty's Mint. Her Majesty's Mint, December 10, 1845. My Dear Sir,—l feel extremely obliged for the specimen of black lead pencils you have sent me, of which the lead is manufactured by your patent process. I have tried them. and I have no hesitation in saying that they are the best pencils I ever used. They have all the degrees of hard ness, and every variety and shade of colour, thtt can be required by an artist. The lead is perfectly tree (rein grit ; and I can pant these pencils much more easily, and when pointed they do not break, as other pencils generally do. I am so entirely satisfied with these penoils, that I have pur- chased a supply of them for my own use; and I cannot but think them a valuable acquisition not only to artists, but to every one re quiring the use of pencils, With many thanks for them, I remain, my dear Sir, yours faithfully, WILLIAM WYOlg. Wllliam Brockedon, Esq„ &c. From T. L. Donaldson, Esq., Istitute of British Architects, Professor of Architecture to University College, London, &c. Dear Brockedon,—Many thanks for your elegant present of pen cils. Those which I have already tried are excellent, and I doubt not that your invention will prove a valuable one. Most faithfully yours, W. Brockedon, Esq. THOS. L. DONALDSON. • From Joseph P,onomi, Esq. Dear Sir,—lf you will allow me to bear testimony to the excel lence of a set of pencils you left at Mr. Martin's, I can do so with great truth and much pleasure. I remain, dear Sir, ever faithfully yours, W. Brockedon, Esq. JOSEPH BON OM I. From Henry Warren, Esq., Pres' lent of the New Water-Colour Society. 17, Robert-terrace Chelsea, Jan. 12, 1812. My dear Sir,—Pray forgive me for not having acknowledged your letter earlier. I have delayed writing from time to time that I might give myself the opportunity of trying fairly your preparation of plumbago. This I have new done, and can report with confi dence upon the pencils ; nor do I think there is anything wanting to their excellence. The chief beauty of them lies in the evenness of quality in the ;cad and absence of gritty particles. They are, in deed, most pleasant to draw with, and yield freely to that little accent in touch which the artist delights in. I have tried them in simple line on wood-block, and I have tried them in landscape and foliage, on several sorts of paper, and each trill , has proved them satisfactorily.—Belleve me, dear Sir, yours ever truly, W. Brock e d on, E sq. HENRY WARREN. From Clarkson Stanfield, Esq., R.A. go /71 1 ...... i have 48, t 3;l i o e r d n 1 n y g e t u o r n place, ,J andait . ,12;is far 181 l . My dear Bro c k e d on as my experience n such matters, I think them excellent. I must Particularise the B, which, for the several purposes of drawing, dear Brockedon, yours I think admi el ra e. It cuts without breaking, and it is free from grit, that abominable nuts stock o„hem.—l arn,aein sketching' et 0 r of C L t h A e l I KGS.O, Government Design, Somerset House. Somerset, House, F From C. H.: Wilson, r quest —sq., Dire • you my opinion of the pencils whiC 7 lr r re a ifying shal er l y c t e r r a t l a y lfly lay in a r never ev ]ramieusedbeel Dear Sir,—l hasten to ,- eply to sasentidsfameett;ortillieaynard haveeiteixscpeallretnictu.larllthat I would give pencil which, like yours, will bear to be able to procure a its point so well, and yet allow of pressure without breaking, keep marking me to answer in every respect your de firmly. 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I think them by far the best I have ever used, they are especially suited for drawing upon wood, the compact ness and quality of the lead making a clearer and more distinct line than any pencils I have before used.—Believe me, my dear Sir, ever truly yours, THOMAS CRESWICK, W. Brockedon, Esq. Esq., the Eminent Draftsman and Engraver From William Harvey, on Wood. 29, Portland-terrace, Regent's Park, Feb. 12,1846. My dear Sir,—To a man who lives as I do, with a pencil in my nand, it is impossible to over-estimate the comfort of having it of the best quality ; and no temptation of old friendship, low prices, or elo queit recommendation, can ever lead me to an acknowledgment of Its virtue till I have fairly tested it by my own expelence. Your pencils came to me at a period when my patience had been fairly exhausted by things which were getting daily worse, and I set to work on them at once: the resalt has been highly satisfactory ; they are everything I could wish them to be. 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I.—The weekly meeting of the Repeal Association was held this day, but the proceedings were destitute of interest. Mr. W. T. KELLY (the gentleman who, on the last day of meeting, made the startling announcements with regard to the oppressive conduct of certain landlords in the county Mayo) reiterated those statements, and pledged himself to their general accuracy. Wishing to have official informa tion as to the facts, he wrote to the clerk of the peace to allow a person in his (Mr. Kelly's) employment to have access to his books for the purpose of ascertaining the exact number of civil bills entered for trial, and how many of those were at the suit of landlords, and likewise the number of ej'ctments that were adjudicated on, he (Mr. Kelly) un dertaking to pay any expense that might attend such search. To that application the clerk of the peace of the county Mayo returned the followeclanswer " Ballinrobe, Jan. 28. " Dear 3:e ust got your letter of yesterday, and re gret to sayttut I do not think lam justified in giving you the information you require, or exposing to public view the private transactions of any gentleman : in any other way I should be glad to oblige you. lam writing to Castlebar this day, and I shall have it told to your clerk not to come here for the purpose you had directed him.—. Yours, very truly, "THOMAS GIL DEA. " W. Thomas Kelly, Esq, 16, Mountjoy-square, North, Dublin." The Learned Gentleman then read the following letter from his clerk:— " Castlebar, Jan. 30, 1847. " Sir,—l came from Ballinrobe last night, after seeing Mr. Gilde3. He told me that lie wrote to you not to send me to Ballinrobe, as it was out of his power to give you the information you required, about the number of civil bills and ejectments brought at the last sessions. No—not for a thousand guineas. He said he would not expose the land lords of Mayo ; and what is more, he would not let you know for what his situation is worth to him. . . . . Indeed, he said it was a monstrous thing of you to ask such information, and were he disposed to give you the informa• tion, he thinks you would not like paying for 8,000 searchers. It would certainly require a large sum of money. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, "F. KELLY. " W. T. Kelly, Solicitor, Dublin." Mr. Kelly (in continuation) observed that he was determined that the inhumanity of those landlords to whom he had ad• verted should be exposed, and he was determined to have a petition from himself individually presented to the House of Commons, praying it would direct a return of the umber of civil bills and civil bill ejectments entered and acted on at the recent sessions in Mayo. The result of these hearties. proceedings was that upwards of 5,000 persons had been obliged to leave the Bounty Mayo, and seek an asylum in England or elsewhere, to avoid the consequences of the " de crees"sly decided that Mr. O'Fl a h erty s h ould be selected to oppose t he Solicitor-General in Galway, the gen tleman selected by the Young Ireland party to contest the obtained unanim a e g u ainst them. , The rent for the week was announced to be 271 . 7 s. 11 d. The meeting then adjourned.towitn was having refused. PROVISIONS (IRELAND). --A return or the aggre cafe amount of provisions imported from Ireland into Eng land in the last three years, ending January, 1847, moved for by Mr. P. Scrope, shows that the quantity of corn (of Irish growth) so imported amounted, in 1844, to 2,801,206 quar ters; in 1845, to 3,251,901 quarters; and, in 1846, to 1,825 394 quarters. The quantity of wheat flour, and oat meal amounted respectively, in 1844, to 839,567 cw t ., and 1,150,976 cwt. ; in 1845, to 1,422,379 cwt., and 1,059,185 , cwt.; and in 1846, to 723,562 cwt. , ar,cl 553 : 14r civ:. The number of cattle exported from Ireland to Great Bri tsin, in the year 1846, was as follows:-186,483 oxen, ; e,363 calves; 259,257 sheep and lambs; and 480,827 swine. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —TEAS AT WHOLESALE PRICES, No. 2, BECRLERSBURY, CHEAPSIDE.—FamiIirs whose consumption is larg e , a nd study economy. will derive considerable adva n t age a t thi s establishment. One uni form price is affixed, by which the purchaser of a single Coffee. 3 9d s i pound can obtain it on the same terms as the trade. Black Tea 2s. Bd., 35., 3s. 4d, 3s. 8d , 4s. 4d., 55. Green , d 45. . s 4. d 471 4d., 3 s. " 1 5 43 2 One pound sent free to any part of town. Orders from the . country forwarded the same day; and when the . 5 , 1 1 " s . 6 6 s d " . , 7 1 8 5 . . Bd. quantity is for 61b. weight (tea only), the carriage is paid to any part of EngIand.—MANSELL and Co. wholesale tea dealers, 2, Bucklersbury, Cheapside. Captain Alexander Boyd Higgins, of the Forfar M litia, and formerly of the " Royals," died at Aix .la ,G lapelle, on the 10th ultimo, in the Gsth year of his age. Paris, Jan. 25, 1647. Monsieur le Comte,—Lord Normanby came and com municated to me, on the icth instant, a new dispatch from Lord Palmerston, dated the Sth, in answer - to that which I addressed, on the 22d November last, to Count de Jarnac, and which was by him communicated to Lord Palmerston on the 26th. That answer has, then, reached me forty:five days after mine had been communicated to Lord Palmerston, and the very day before the opening of our Chambers. I expressed, at the end of my dispatch of Nev. 22, an earnest desire for the termina tion throw .a light a ght controversy which was no longer necessary to upon restoration of , policytsiLsadwhioefh g " o m o d ig o h n t d i e n r t s e t r o f n e d re with the ing and mutual good-will La which no one, I have some right to say so, has been, or remains, more faithful than I do." Animated now by the same feeling, and con , formal:4y to the orders of thing in Council, I abstain from entering. into a full and minute reply to the new dispatch which. Lord Normanby has communicated to me, and shall confine myself 'to a few observations upon _certain passages in that W atch, which it has seemed to me impossible , to leaie` enlirely Without correction. I trust.that, by iteepittg withtel those limits, I shall contri bute, as far as lies in my power, in bringing at last this debate to an effective close. I. Lord Palmerston, after adverting to my expressing some surprise that so much knowledge should he pro fessed of the engagements taken at the Chateau d'Eu, of which engagements, however, no official proof is pro duced, while at the same the absence of official record is made the ground for repudiating facts and documents which are found to be inconvenient, and especially the memorandum of February the 27th, 1846, goes on to ray, in the third paragraph of his new dispatch:— ‘• Now, in answer to this, it is sufficient to say that the facts are such as were stated in my former dispatch; that her Majesty's Government had a knowledge of the engagements at Eu • but had not, un til a ft er the mar riages were declared, any knowledge of the memoran dum of the 27th of February ; and if M. Guiaot will only bring to mind the circumstances connected with the engagements of the Chateau Ina, he will easily see that her Majesty's Government might acquire a knowledge of those engagements without the aid of any record in the Foreign-office." I am obliged to repeat that the engagements of the Chateau d'Eu were not officially recorded in the Foreign office, any more than the memorandum of the 27th of February, 1846 ; th a t th a t memorandum was communi cated on the 4th of March to Lord Aberdeen, with whom th e conversat i ons and engagements o f: the Chateau d'Eu had taken place ; and that, therefore, Lord Palmerston, who declares himself to have been acquainted with the engagements, may and must have known in the same manner the memorandum. The communications made to a preceding government are not, upon every change, repeated to the new Govern ment ; they are, in the same way as the affairs them selves, transmitted from one Ministry to the next Ministry. What is there, besides, essential in the me the sp d o ec io la o ra r t t i h on e of Fe b t Queen rtis of Infanta with any Prince not being a descendant of that, odum case of the he 27th marriage of Philip V., and especially with Prince Leopold of Co bourg, should become probable and imminent , the King's Government would consider itself released from every engagement, and at liberty to ask for the Duke de Montpensier the hand either of the Queen or of the Infanta. Now, that sauce declaration was made and repeated more than once, in the most positive terms, to Lord Cowley, at that time ambassador of Great Britain at Paris, who certainly did not fail to inform his Govern ment of it.* 11. "But, if her Majesty's present Government," says Lord Palmerston (4th and sth paragraphs), " repu diates the memorandum of the 27th of February, an.' do not acknowledge it to be a document of which they are bound to take any account, it is not, as M. Guizot asserts, because that document is found by them to be inconvenient. " Her Majesty's Government repudiate that memo randum as in any degree binding upon them, for two reasons : first, because it assumes rights and puts for ward pretensions in which her Majesty's Government could not have acquiesced, whatever might have been the time at which that memorandum might have been communicated to them; and secondly, because, even if it had contained. nothing_to Leh, in, principle, her Majesty's Goveiiiment could have objected, it was neither produced nor mentioned to them until after the event had happened with respect to which it had pro fessed to be a warning; and I must observe that no jus tification is even attempted in M. Guizot'a dispatch for the endeavour which has been made to fasten, retrospec tively, upon her Majesty's present Government, an obli gation arising out of a memorandum of which no know ledge was given to them at the proper time by those who had it in their possession." The memorandum of the 27th of February assumes to rights or pretensions of any sort. It declares plainly beforehand the conduct which the King's Govern ment will hold in a certain contingency. The right of making such a declaration is most assuredly an incontrovertible right, which requires nobody's as sent. We never maintained that that memo randum was binding upon the British Govern ment; we merely desired that it should be made known to them. It was a tnanifestation of our intentions, made from a sense of good faith, in order that the British Government, being aware of the course which we meant to follow in that contingency, might in their turn take an account of that warning with regard to their own conduct. There are in such a proceeding no pretensions put forward a hich it may be necessary far L,rd Palmerston either to repudiate or to acquiesce in ; it is merely a determination of the French Government, made known at several times and through several chan nels, especially on the 4th of Match, 1846. to the British Government, represented at that time by Lord Aberdeen and now by Lord Palmerston. Is that communication certain, incontrovertible? that is the only question which can be raised, and when facts say "yea," no one can repudiate that answer. 111. .. If the French Government," says Lord Palmer ston (paragraph 6th), " meant to plead that memorandum as a justification for any steps which they intended to take, they ought surely to have made it known to the British Government before those steps were taken. B ut that memorandum could not h ave b e en produced with out_ raising a discussion a b ou t t h e i n tended marriage of the Duke de Montpensier, and it suited better the views of the French Government' to keep that marriage.ens tirely in the back ground, till th e y could announce it a a settled arrangement." s ought The King's Government h av e not in any way to evade a discussion about the intended ofmarriagee the Duke de Montpensier; neither had they any motivea to to provoke such a discussion, as they did alter in any way their former intention:, w b been well been distinctly manifested, and must have Lorde known to the British Government. It was duties of Pal merston's province, who was assuming the and office, to provoke upon that subject conversations under explanations, fn. it was he who must have been the necessity of making his views known and. toursu.s,Now: ot h nl ich had making himself thoroughly acquainted wit h theo moment from the time of his coming into o ffi ce nor address a ston did not put a single qucstie e n D to ok Duke . :a s Montpensier. single word to us, on that of th Count do Jarnac, ho Had be mentioned the subject to_, . 'm all the explanations and when the two marriages were announced, t Lord Palmer would have received froijahi But he uni:ormly maintained in that respec t absolute as I have inquire into t h e motive of such a silence. I will not not be laid to the conduct, but the fact shoul d the French GOVCTIIITIent. .6 d o not repudiate the memo randum which he mig h t havewitshheedmfoosrt. 7Government," says Lord IV. " Her Maest's ), F di rti a ry, justify i 6 f , y b e cause den as they k. time e moreov er , when fr om f, ) t h eir r h p aje r s e l v n i s o rte u as stseodnie n gag ement a,naked eyd the find it inconventen . F o r, on the contrar, which contingency w was specified in already shown, the the case which would release the Pal merston of (paragraph the 2.t ht that memorandum, as • and which would, in their op ini o n , a Prince not d esc en ded from Philip V.), hand of the Infanta D uke de Montpen _ ing the an imminent danger that the Qu et n Bier (that is to say, French Government . might marry and, i. d never happened ; for mer dispatch, such a contingenc y Count Lad actually become impossible at the ti ' hand of the Infants for the D u ke,because , a t t h at time the marriage of the Queen with a descendant of Philip V. had already been setdd." There is in that paragraph a strange confusion. Al though the official arid public demand, by Count Brt s son, of the hand of the Infanta for the Duke de 3lont pensier was posterior to the official and public decla ration of the Queen's marriage with the Duke of Cad z, it is notorious that both marriages had been settled at the same time, and were associat, d together in such a manner that, if the latter had nut been agreed upon, neither would the former have been so. It is by t h e settlement of the marriage of the Duke de Montpensier whir the Infanta that the contingency mentioned by Lord Palmerston—namely, the chance that the Queen might marry a Prince not descended from Philip T. was removed. If, at the time when Count Brevs°il asked publicly the hand of the Infanta for th e Duke de Montpensier, the Queen's marriage with a d escendant of Philip V. had already been settled, it is because the to the marriages of the Q ueen and Infaiita * P.S. I have this moment received the " corresplncl oenfeSPpraeilna,t" printed ing by the British Government for com munication to Parliament, and I there find (nage 8) an extract of a dispatch from Lord Cowl e y to Lord Pal merston, dated July 23, 1846, which runs thus The intelligence of a proposal having been made for an alliance with a Prince of the Hou se o f Coburg occa sioned the greatest consternation here. M . G u i zot told m e that, if the project was persisted in, he should re commend tte King to put forward the Duc de Mont pensier as a candidate for the Queen's hand." Thus, so late as the 13th July, Lord Palmerston did receive from the British ambassador at Paris the posi tive declaration of the intentions of the King's Govern ment in case the Coburg oomhination should be put for ward, and, on the 19th of July, he wrote his dispatch to Mr. Bulwer, which was putting forward the chance of Prince Leopold gt Coburg. marriage of the Duke de Montpensier with the Infanta had been settled at the same time. The engagement signed on that subject by M. Isturiz and M. Bresson, on the 28th of August, the very day when the Queen's mar riage with the Duke of Cadiz was announced, is a pal pahle proof of that intimate and necessary connexion of the two marriages, of which Lord Palmerston takes no account, though it was the determinative cause, and is the essential character of the event. V. " M. Guizot admits," says Lord Palmerston (para graph 8 and 9, "the fact of the engagement at the Chateau d'Eu, but he does not state its substance cor rectly. " It was not that the marriage of the Duke de Mont pensier to the Infer ta should be delayed until the Queen of Spain should have been married, and should have had a child ; it was, that that marriage should not take place until the Queen of Spain should have been married, and until the birth of children by her marriage should have so far secured-a direct succession to the throne of Spain, as to divest the marriage of the Duke de Montpensier to the Infanta of a political character ; add if her Majesty'i, Government are:not much misinformed, even this assur ance was (not accepted as entirely satisfactory, but as calculated to render the projected marriage less objet tionable than it would otherwise have been." The engagement taken at the Chateau d'Eu has been understood on both sides in thin sense, that when the Queen of Spain should have been married, and should have had children, the marriage of the Infant a wou ld be divested of a political character. The phrase "should hare had children," is a general expression, which being used beforehand, as it was in that case, contains no spe cification of number as to the children, and applies as well to one as to several children. It was the fact of the marriage of the Queen, and a posterity issued from that marrirge, which was to divest, and which really divested. the marriage of the Infanta of its political character. If any idea of number bad been attached to the word children, that number should have been specified ; it would have been necessary to determine how many children were requisite to divest the marriage of the In Tanta of its political character—a question which would. I think, be as embarrassing to Lord Palmerston as it would be to me. VI. " Her Majesty's present Government," says Lord Palmerston (paragraph 11), " are unable either to admit or to deny that any such engagement was taken by their predecessors ; but I will assume, for the sake of argument, that it was ; and then I would ask why, since the condition required by the French Government has been fulfilled, and since the promise of the British Government hase been kept, why has the engagement of the Chateau d'Eu been broken ?" Lord Palmerston here again forgets that if the mar riage of the Queen of Spain with a descendant of Philip V. was decided upon on the 28th of August last, it is because the marriage of the Infanta with the Duke de Ivlontpensier was agreed upon and settled at the same time. " M. Guizot," says Lord Palmerston (para graph 12), " endeavours to establish a contrast between the conduct of her Majesty's late and that of her Ma jesty's present Government in regard to this matter ; but there is no just ground for such a distinction, for both Governments have pursued in this matter the same course I both Governments have held exactly the same language as is the pretensions put forward by the French Government to compel the Queen of Spain to marry none but a descendant of Philip V.; both Govern. ments have been of opinion that it would be most prudent for the Queen to marry a Spanish Prince, and both agreed in their selection of the Prince whom they ventured to recommend; while neither her Majesty's late nor her Majesty's present Government have, at any time, given any encouragement or support whatever to the choice which the Spanish Court wished to make of Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg. Therefore the memorandum of the 27th of Febrnary is in no degree inconvenient to her Majesty's Government; and could not, even if com municated in proper time, have afforded the slightest justification for the departure from the engagements of the Chateau d'Eu." The French Government never had the pretension to compel the Queen of Spain to marry none but a de scendant of Philip V. But it had the good faith to de clare beforehand what its policy would be in such and such a coatingeney. It m►ght as well be said that the British Government had the pretension to compel the Queen of Spain not to marry a French Prince. We will make use of no such expressions, which are as contrary to the truth of facts as to propriety. Every Government has a right to follow that policy which is in accordance with the legitimate interests of its country. It is what we have done in this case, and the British Government has done the same. We make no reproach to them fur having taken such a course; bat we distinctly repudiate the reproach which they address to us on that same ground. As to the assertion, that her Britannic Majesty's late and her Britannic Majesty's present Government have pursued, in this matter, the same course, and held the same language, lam obliged again to bring in juxta position a few plain facts and passages which wiLl show if there is any ground for such an assertion. On the 28th of May, Lord Aberdeen blamed Mr. Bulwer for having approved of - the step taken by the • Spanish Government with a view to the marriage of the re Queen with Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, and - his instructions to Mr. Bulwer, pointed out to him F Prince Leopold of Saxe Don E e e rancisco de Paula," tphr re proved instructionshitn for w having h departed received.i of July, Lord Palmerston, giving Coburg and the two sons o ft h e h a ve only to express their sincere t Ma jesty's Government wish that the choice m ay fall upon the one who may be most likely to secure the happiness of the Queen, and i rSpanish nation. t o promote we l f ar e tNe for os e t et three ed candidatesof t eQu ee h n er ; it ere those i nstructions of Lord Palmerston s i m il ar i a i s ig t . he th o a n t ly " betweencandidates h d'd ? ates they point out none but the same candidates? And when one sing le candidate, the I n f an t D on En rique, was m entioned, Lord Aberd e en did wr i te, on the to the previous instructions of Lord Aberdeen? Did 22d of June, to the Duke of Sotomayor ;—" The British ventured,English preference, although t point withouto anyt the Infant English a DonGh th e people Government as the prince who a p peare d to them most eligible, t c vd dre Enrique namtbecause Spain."th mos t N N ow, wwhat likely didprove Lord acceptable Palmerston,to in his turn, write to Lord Normanby as being the sub stance of his recent instructions to Mr. Bulwer ? It is the opinion of her Majesty's Government that " Don Enrique is the only Spanish prince who is fit, by his personal qualities, to b ecome t h e husband of the Queen of Spain." Is that recommending the Infant Don Enrique, as Lord Aberdeen did recommend him, and holding, with regard to him, the same language ? V[II. "M. Guizot again reverts," says Lord Pal. merston (parag raph 13), "t o m y d espatch of the 19th of July to Mr. Bulwer, and states that, whatever may have been my intention, the mere order in which the name of the Prince of Coburg was mentioned in that dispatch must have had the effect of an indirect commu nication in his favour. But M. Guizot forgets that the dispatch was a personal instruction to Mr. Bulwer ; that it was not destined to be communicated to the Spanish Government; and that it never was conamunicated to that Government by him ; and that in the very outset of that dispatch. I referred Mr. Bulwer to a communi cation which he had received from my predecessor, in which a Spanish Prince was named as the candidate who appeared to the British Government to bs the most eli gible, and the most likely to prove acceptable to the people of Spain." It is not the mere order in which the name of the Prince of Coburg was mentioned in the dispatch of the lath of July which caused me to say that that dispatch must have had the effect of an indirect recommenda tion in his favour ; and it is the formal text of tho two paragraphs already quoted, and which I must quote again " The candidates fcr the hand of the Queen of Spain are reduced to three ; namely, the Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, and the two sons of Don Francisco de Paula. I omit Count Trapani and Count Montemolin, as there appears to be no chance of the choice falling upon either of them." There was a chance, then, of the choice falling upon Prince Leopold of Coburg or else why should not Lord Palmerston have omitted him as well as Count Trapani and Count Montemolin ? • A%r having himself thus established that there was a chance for the Prince of Coburg, Lord Palmerston adds : "As between the three candidates above-mentioned, her Majesty's Government have only to express their sincere wish that the choice may fall upon the one who may be most likely to secure the happiness of the Queen, and to promote the welfare of the Spanish nation." There is, assuredly, In these two paragraphs, some thing else besides the mere order in which the name of the Prince Leopold of Coburg is mentioned, although I do not consider this as an indifferent circumstance. It is of little consequence whether the dispatch of the 19th of July was a personal instruction to Mr. Bulwer, not destined to be communicated to the Spanish Govern ment. To that instruction Mr. Bulwer was, undoubtedly to conform his conduct and language. The views and intentions contained in the dispatch were to be mani fested through the acts and words of the Minister to whom it was addressed. We must have looked to the things themselves, and not merely to the form of the communications and influences. In reminding us that he referred Mr. Bulwer to an in struction which he had received from his predecessor, that is to say, to the dispatch addressed on the 22d of June, by Lord Aberdeen, to the Duke of Sotomayor, Lord Palmerston forget b that that dispatch does not mention any other ettAidate for the hand of the Queen of Spain besides the In'ant Don Enrique, who appears, says Lord Aberdeen, to be the most eligible ; whereas the dispatch of the 19th of July mentions three candi dates—the Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, and the two sons of Don Francisco de Paula, whom Lord Palmer. ston represents as equally eligible, and equally acceptable to the British Government. IX. M. Guizot," says Lord Palmerston (pat agraphs 15, 16, and 17) "points out that in a passage in my dispatch of the 31st of October, in which there is a quotation from his previous clik - atch of the sth of October, some words which were rt )t in his dis patch have been ph c NI between inverted commas. This remark is perfectly correct. The passage in question in my dispatch of the 31st of October, begins with a verbal quotation, and ends with a verbal quotation; but contains in the middle a sentence which is not a verbal quotation, but is the substance of a preceding passage in M. Guizot's despatch from which I was quoting ; and the inverted commas are ivadvertantly carried on so as to include that middle sentence. The inverted commas ought to stop at the words state of things,' and should not begin again till the words, 'consequently the French Government resorted at Madrid.' " I have to instruct your Excellency to correct this error of punctuation in the original dispatch in the archives of your embassy ; and perhaps M. Guizot will have the goodness to do the same by the copy which was delivered to him. " But this correction in the punctuation of the pas sage makes no difference whatever in the argument, and does not in the slightest degree affect the contradiction which it was the object of that passage in my dispatch to point out. The contradiction consists in this ; that M. Guizot's dispatch of the sth of October states, in one passage, that the Spanish Court was so bent upon one arrangement that, if not opposed by the British Govern ment that arrangement was likely, by a simple act of laisser-aller, to have inevitably taken place ; and then, in another passage, it says that the manner in which a different arrangement was effected was by simply offer ing that different arrangement to the free choice and .indepeacketitleilkofethe very same Court." -- - I would not insist upon the erroneous quotation al luded to in those paragraphs, and the error of which Lord Palmerston acknowledges, if he did not maintain that that error-is immaterial, and that the sentence which he quoted as being mine (though it was not mine) was " the substance of a preceding passage in my dispatch of the sth of October." I cannot recognise my ideas in the substance of them, as given by Lord Palmerston, any more than I recognised my words in his quotation of them. I never thought or said that " the Spanish court was so bent upon the Coburg alliance that, if not op posed by the British Government, that arrangement was likely, by a simple act of laisser-aller, to have inevitably taken place." I thought and said, that if, on the one hand, the King's Government had persisted in not ac ceding to the wishes of the Spanish Government for the marriage either of the Queen or of the Infanta with the Duke de Montpensier, while on the other hand the Bri tish Government accepted, were only by a simple act of laisser-aller, the Coburg combination, this latter combina tion would probably have taken place. I added that, such being the state of things, the King's Government had altered its course, and offered a different arrange ment to Queen Isabella and her Government. Such is the exact substance of what I said in that part of my dispatch of the sth of October, and that statement differs materially from that which Lord Palmerston persists in, while at the same time he acknowledges the error in his quotation. X. " M. Guizot acknowledges," says Lord Palmers ton (paragraph 18), " that it was from Lord Aberdeen that he received the first information of the overture made in May last by the Court of Madrid to the Duke of Saxe Coburg. But he states that, as the communi cation from Lord Aberdeen was confidenti4l, he did not think him ;elf at liberty, without Lord Aberdeen's per mission, to say from whom it came. This might be a reason for not mentioning the circumstances at all, but surely it was no reason for mentioning it in such a way as to give those who might be unacquainted with the facts an erroneous impression as to the course of the transaction " I never attempted to give an erroneous impression as to the first source of the information which I had re ceived on the subject of the overture made by the Court of Madrid to the Duke of Saxe Coburg. I merely ab stained from mentioning that source so long as I thought that it could not be done with a due regard to right and, propriety ; and the surprise which. I expressed was at the course which the British Minister at Madrid had adopted contrary to his instructions. XI. "M. Gt.izot denies," says Lord Palmerston (paragraph 19), "that the Matquis of Miraflores was sent to Paris in July last on a mission, on the subject of the marriage of the Queen of Spain." And after on that subject a passage from niN dispatch of the 22i of November last, he adds:—" NOtwithstanding this ap• parently positive contradiction, her Majesty's Govern ment must still persist in the assertion, in regard to this matter, which was contained in my former dispatch. Her Majesty's Government consider themselves to have good ground for asserting that the Marquis of Mira:- fibres was sent to Paris in July for the above-mentioned purpose pet pretend ; no f a Majesty's l Government thecominut ica do not_ tions which, durirg the two months which he spent at Paris, may have passed between him and those to who m rd a n t d o t :a7v u e g a h knowledge her he was sent, yet her Majesty's G- ivernment do happen to know that, on the evening of the 19th of July, a day or two after his arrival in Paris, he had an audience at, Neuilly, and that, at that audience, he did, though inef fectually, endeavour to accomplish the purpose of his mission. If the Marquis had succeeded in overcoming at Paris the objections there felt to the selection of the Prince of Coburg, he was to have gone on to London to solicit the co-operation of her Majesty's Government I persist in thinking that Lord Palmerston has been misinformed as to the mission with which the Marquis of Miraflores was, he says, intrusted in the month of July last, and as to what passed or was said on that occasion, either at Paris or even at Neuilly. XII. In the 22d and ten following paragraphs, Lord Palmerston resumes and discusses anew the question of the Treaty of Utrecht. I there find again the same ideas, the same mistakes with regard to the sense and consequences of that treaty, which I have already com batted. Ido not think it necessary to begin that discus sion over again, and I shall confine myself to a few short remarks upon those assertions of Lord Palmerston which seem to involve, in a greater degree, the question in confusion and error. In his despatch of the 22d of September, it was against the very marriage of the Duke de Montpensier with the Infanta that Lord Palmerston formally pro tested, on the ground of the treaty of Utrecht. He now acknowledges that the treaty of Utrecht does not pro hibit such a marriage, but he contends that the descend ants issuing from it would, by virtue of that treaty, be excluded from the throne of Spain ; an assertion which he says I have not denied. Now, I formally denied it. I admitted that, accord ing to the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht, and of the renunciations of 1712, the descendants of the Duke of Orleans could not, in case the posterity of Philip V. should become extinct, put forth, on their lineal right, any claim to the throne of Spain. But I maintained that the descendants of Philip V. could not, in consequence of marria g e with princes or p r i ncess a i ssued from lines which had renounced their rights, lose their own per sonal rights, the rights of their own line, to the throne of Spada. I showed that such were the primitive mean ing and the constant interpretation of the treaty of Utrecht. I quoted several instances in proof of that in terpretation, especially Ferdinand VII. and Isabella 11., King and Queen of Spain, as descendants from Philip V., though they were, through their mother and grand mother, direct descendants of Louis XV. I a-ked Lord Palmerston if he ever thought of di:poting the title of Ferdinand VII. or Isabella II.? To that example he gives no answer. The object of the Treaty of Utrecht was, as I said, to prevent the union of the two crowns of France and Spain upon one head. Should it happen, therefore, at any future time, GS Lord Palmerston hypothetically suggests it, that the rights to b9th crowns should be united in one prince, I have no hesitaiio n i n acknow ledging that he could not be invested with both those crowns. But, so long as the two lines of the Bourbons of France and the Bourbons of Spain remain in exist ence intirmarriage between them c:.nnot have that effect, that the private rights of one of those lines should be desttcyed by the renunciation which the other line has once made of its own rights. People may renounce for themselves and their descendants the rights which they possess and which they would transmit to them. But that they should renounce for their descendants rights which they do not possess and cannot transmit them, is a principle not to be admitted. Lord Palmer ston constantly overlooks that distinction between the royal lines and the rights belongin g to each of th e m, and which remain alw a y s di s ti nc t. Hence the erroneous inferences which he draws from the Treaty of Utrecht, .and which would materially affect that very treaty, and the balance of European power which has been founded by it. " Guizot," says Lord Palmerston (paragraph 33, and seq.), "in the concluding part of his dispatch, says that he desires to bring back the controversy within its legitimate and constitutional limits; that, in my dispatch of the 31st of October, I introduced a name which ought never to have appeared in this dis cussion; that his surprise at this was deep, that his sense of duty commanded him to express it strongly, and to remind me that the responsibility of the policy of the King's Government in this matter belongs entirely to himself alone." It is impossible for me to allow this passage to pass without a reply. And Lord Palmerston quotes three passages from my dispatch of the sth of October, in which the King's name is to be found. I was not prepared, I must own, for such an answer and recrimination. I never thought that the name of the ro y a l p erson ever could or ought to be prt; nonnce any .ay . in a diplomatic corre s p on d ence. i Hew could I have entertained such an idea, in contradiction with such frequent facts, when I had, without making any remark. on the subject, met with the King's name in Lord Palmerston's dispatch of the 22d of September,—when I had myself ma le use of it several times in my dispatch of the sth of Octob: , r, as Lord Palmerston points out in quoting three extracts from that dispatch? What I thought, and must abso lutely persist in thinking, is that the royal person never ought to be mentioned for the purpose of attack, or with reference no acts which are attacked. " The King can do no wrong," is, in England as well as in France, the fundamental principle of constitutional monarchy. It is that principle which I bare appealed to when Lord Palmerston seemed to me to have forgotten it, and he actually forgot it on several occasions. I will merely mention two instances. Ist. In his dispatch of the 31st of (Haber, after men tioning the engagement taken at Eu, in September 1845, " by his Majesty the King of the French and by his Mi ulster," Lord Palmerston says, that the purpose of the memorandum of the 27th of February, 1846, was " that the King of the Freneh would hold himself free from the engagements he had taken as to the marriage of the Queen and of the Infanta, and would deem himself at liberty to ask the hand, either of the one or of the other, for the Duke de Montpensier, in a eertkin'eontingeney." In the first place, that quotation is OA coTrec.tY_The-- memorandum of the 27th of Februaryillof oiot l oncp t mention the King of the French, does i nbt4vett pitA. " flounce his name. That memorandum is written in the name of the King's Government ; no mention is made in it except of the French Cabinet and the 13; itish Cabinet. It is Lord Palmerston r,ho introduces in it the King's name ; and what is the consequence P That when he afterwards inveighs against what he calls a violation of the engagements of Eu, his accusation falls upon the King personally. Thus, an incorrect quotation becomes the origin and pretext of a proceeding the most contrary to constitutional principles and usages. 2. Lord Palmerston says again, in his dispatch of the 31st of October, " The objections expressed by the King of the French to Prince Leopold, however unrea sonable, unjust, and in public law untenable they might be, might, nevertheless, in the event of that Prince be coming the consort of the Queen, injuriously affect the relations of Spain .with France.'.' I do not think that any comment is necessary to show how strange and unconstitutional such language is, or that I need adduce any more instances to justify the demand which I made at the conclusion of my dispatch of the 22d November last, and which I here formally repeat. I bare to instruct you to communicate this dispatch to Lord Palmerston, and to give him a copy of it. Receive, Monsieur le Comte, the assurance of my high consideration. (Signed) GUIZOT. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, FEB. 2.—ln a convocation to be holden on Thursday, the 4th of March, at two o'clock, the following further regulations for Sir Robert Taylor's foundation' will be submitted to the house. B. P. SYMONS, Vice-Chancellor. Delegates' Room, Feb. 1, 1847. DUTIES OF CURATORS, ADDITIONAL . Tevmploy - a-sum not exceeding 1,000/. in the purchase of books for the general purposes of the institution. To employ a further sum, not exceeding 1001. in each year, in the purchase of books, pamphlets, periodicals, and journals for the same general purposes. PROFESSOR. One professor to be appointed, and at first for five years only, with the title "Profes sor o f M o d ern E uropean Lan guages,but to be re-eligible. To be removable at any time with the concurrence of at least five curators for neglect of duty, or for immorality, or for teaching or holding tenets at variance with the doctrines or discipline of the Church of England. To be a member of the University at the time of his ad mission. To receive an annual stipend of 4001. If in holy orders, to have no parochial charge daring the residence hereinafter required of him. DUTIES OF THE PROFESSOR. To lecture ,on the philology or literature of some of the principal languages of Europe. To deliver a course of not less than eight lectures in each term—Easter and Act being accounted as one. The lectures to be gratis, and open to all the members of the University. To be resident in the University throughout each term, power being reserved to a majority of the curators to grant an occasional leave of absence. LIBRARIAN. A librarian to be appointed by the curators. To be resident in the building, and to have the charge and superintendence of it, subject to the direction and control of the curators. To be in constant attendance, and to deliver out and enter the books as delivered in a register. To go every evening through the building, and see that all lights and fires have been extinguished. To receive an annual stipend of 150/. Not to be absent at any period of the year without leave of the curators. Teachers to be appointed TEACHERS at first in German and French, and for five years only, but to be re-eligible. To be removable at any time with the concurrence of at least five curators. ES OF THE . To be resident DU in TI the University TEACHEßS throughout each term, and to be at the disposal of the curators for the purpose of teaching or lecturing in the Taylor Building four hours daily, power being reserved to a majority of the curators to grant an occasional leave of absence. Such teaching and lecturing to be gratis, and open to all members of the University. To be allowed to teach in private, with the consent of the curators, but not within the Taylor Building. If British subjects by birth, to subscribe the Thirty-nine Articles. i * * The proceeds of the Taylor Fund having been to a large amount anticipated in erecting the building, and the entire resources therefore not being available for four or five years to come, it has been judged most expedient to make a com mencement on a scale proportionate to its actual means. The present scheme has accordingly been framed so as to leave a balance annnually applicable to the liquidation of the debt. After five years the scheme is to becompleted, when there will have been some experience as to its working to aid in any revision that may be thought expedient. A further advantage will be, that the extent of the neces sary annual expenses of the establishment will have been ascertained, and consequently the amount of the fund appli cable to the direct purposes of the institution. At a convocation held this forenoon, Mr. Henry S. Harper was elected Inferior Bedel in Medicine and Arts. THE NAVY. FIRST LORD'S LEVEE.—The following officers attended the levee of the Earl of Auckland, at the Admiralty, yesterday: —Rear-Admiral Philip Brown ; Captains Alexander B. Branch, K.H. (of Greenwich Hospital), Sir John Ross, Chas. Bosanquet, L. J. Jones, Hon. G. A. Crofton, P. Halstead, and G. G. Burton ; Commanders J. A. Abbott, Edward Smith, H. Byng, W. C. Chamberlain, J. E. Raton, J. J. M'Donnell, W. B. Moneypenny, J. B. Marsh, J. L. R. Stoll, hji ol,pt ßichardals,DSpencer,r. JDoohu Jamesgn Lla Liddell fi T ue rn D . y. Paymaster : s al e ; r L a iiedu Croftont p en u; a r, s n le t n s rs, p t E h e c e dtw H o ar o r do n f . Griffin. Captain M. F. F. Berkeley, C. 8., has left the Admiralty for Leominster, for a few days. An inquest was held at Woolwich yesterday, on the body of the late Captain Fead, when a verdict was returned of " Died from disease of the heart." Commander Fead, nephew of the deceased, deposed to the good state of health of his gallant uncle the day preceding that of his sudden decease. Lieut. George Mason (1827), of the coast guard service, has been appointed to command the Stag, revenue cruiser, vice Clarke, promoted. -- NAVAL CADETs.—John P. J. Parry to the Sidon steam. frigate ; Motley PrAttent, to the Albatross, 16, sloop. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, FEB. 3. - Wind N.E. by N., light breeze and hazy. DEAL, FEB. N.E. to N.N.E., fresh and squally. —Arrd. Louisa Maria, Weuk, New York ; Anna Margaretha, Rumsden, New York; and both sailed for Antwerp; Mari ners, Mendez, Havannah, and sailed for Hamburg; Henry Skelton, Long, Baltimore. Sld. Sharp, Cape of Good Hope Arab, Cape Coast Ca s tl e; C a t o , S t . Vi ncent ' s; Osbert, Do minica; Planet, Jamaica; Caroline, Havannah; Circassian and Corsair, New Orleans; Zealous, Charleston. PooLz, FEB. 2. Wind W. —Arrd. Nymph, Thomer, Newfoundland. PLYMOUTH, FEE. B.—Wind N.N.E.—SId. John Oldham, Jamaica. FALMOUTH, FEB. 2.—Wind E.N.E.—Off port, Helen, of Glasgow, Moulmin, for London. Sld. Hindoo, Cape of Good Hope. PORT TALBOT, FEB. I.—Wind E N.E.—Arrd. Dominica, Storach, Quebec. GLoucEsTER, FEB. 2.—Arrd. Daniel-Webster, New York; Albion, Bowman, Quebec. BERWICK, FEB. I.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Margaret Hardy, Mann, Callao. EXMOUTH.—Arrd. Northumberland, New York. CORK, JAN. 31.—Arrd. a i American ship, with loss of foremast and bowsprit. The Richmond Lass, water-logged d abandoned, her w e r A pa rr s d sed ßr in itis l h on i g ,a . r l , l li W ar ., ris, by ß t eice the Susan Suaan Green, for Sid. Bartlett, New Y or k ; I nd i an Queen, ILFRACOMBE, Bar- FEB. I.—A po r ti on o f the quarterdeck of btahanedo Clyde. e s arrived a small vessel, the combings of the companion, painted green, has b= en towed in from the Seven Hills. COWES, Fan. 2.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. Emma, Honduras. SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 2.—Slel. Avon steamer, West Indies. GIUMBSY, FEB. 2.—Arrd. Olga, Morrison, Richebucto. OFF TORBAY, Fan. 2. —Wind E. N: E.—Woodside, Guthrie Grande; Adolph, Behrens, St. Thomas, for Hamburgh: LIVERPOOL, N.N.E.," moderate. -Sld. Isabella, -Demerara; Storm King, Vera Ci uz ; City of Koctfester, New Orleans; James Bonham, ditto; Elizabeth Ellen, ditto; R. D./ Shepperd, ditto; Medora, Charleston ; Venice, Philadelphia Off port, Joshua Waddington. Dispatches have been received at Lloyds from the Admi ralty reporting the damage sustained by shipping at Galway and Slign, in the gales there of the 24th ult., particulars of which have already appeared. SURGICAL OPERATIONS AT THE MILITARY lIOSPITAL, CHATHAM. - A series of surgical operations were performed at the Ge neral Hospital, Fort Pitt, Chatham, on Wednesday last, in -presence of Dr. Fren c h. P.M.0., and all the medical officers of the establishment, the patients, previous to operation , having been each subjected to th e i nfluence of the vapour of sulphuric ether by inhalation, the effects of which were as satisfactory as they were surprising . operationl4. as amputation the soldier of the 52d Regiment, dexterously performed by Mr. Peck, dentist, of Chatham. The patient, on awakening The ee next first w a a n about a minute after from the stupitying effects of the ether, declared that he had been totally unconscious of pain, and extraction t r t a h c e t i lefton o f leg, a tooth fo r diseasefrom ofa would hardly credit that he had been subjected to the ope ration at all. the ankle joint, in a soldier of the 37th Regiment. This pa tient, after inhaling the ether vapour for two or three ml. notes, was declared to be in a fit state for the perf ormance o the operation, and the leg wasquickly knee, During the tying of the blood -vessels the convulsed by strong spasm s , and h e limb was moaned once or twice. but declared, on his return t little or no pain to consciousness, th a t h e h a d h a d of the sawi ng of throughout, though he bad been "sensible the bone:" as to the incisions with the knife, he stated that he had had no knowledge or recollection whatever. The last operation was the removal of the last joint of the great toe. The subject of this was a tall, spare Irishman, private Patrick Foley. The ether took effect in less than two minutes, and he remained under its full influence foit , about four minutes. during a brief part c f w hi c h t i me t h e ' toe was amputated. On awaking from his short sleep he was asked if he would like to have his toe taken off? He re plied, in a drowsy voice, Oh, I'm very weak, but 'tis a great bother to me," and suddenly rousing up, he lifted his leg high into Vie air, gazed fur an instant at the foot in won der and delight, and exclaimed, " Oh, by the hokey, but the toe is gone; well, an' sure, I had the finest dream in the world, though in throth it was'nt the toe I was dreaming about at all. ' The two last operations were performed by Staff-surgeon Dartnell, of Fort Pitt. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF GOLD AND SILVER.— On Tuesday information was circulated that between ten and eleven o'clock on Monday night there was stolen from the house of Mr. James Clarke, New-street, Lambeth, a rose wood writing-desk, brass bound, containing 1851. in sove reigns and 100/. in Bank of England notes td 101. etch, the i numbers and dates unknown. The robbery s supposed to have been committed by a tall thin man in dark clothes, who was seen entering the parlour window, which had been left unfastened, and who must have gone up stairs and taken the writing-desk from the first floor Emit room, and left the home by the front door. . ' .- . vit My dear Sir—My opinion respecting your Patent Flambago amounts to this ; that by much ingenuity you have overcome nume rous difficulties, in the way of compressing comminuted plumbago into a solid mass of an extraorilnary, homogeneous, and uniform character ; that the fracture and texture of that which you have so consolidated so closely resembles the finest native specimens as to render it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish be tween your artificial product and that of the finest quality obtained from the mines ; that the pencils from your manufacture are, at far as my judgment enables Toe to deters:dine, equal to those made of the beg Borrodale plumbago ; and, lastly, that you have succeeded in giving to them those different degrees of hardness which are re quired by the artist, without rendering them brittle on the one hand, or puiverulent on the other.—Yours always, very sincerely, Wm. Brockedon, Esq. WM. TIIOS. BRLIIDE. From Francis Ronalds, Esq., F.R.S., &c., of the Kew Observatory. "Kew Observatory, Monday. My dear Sir,—l beg your pardon for having so long delayed to express my opinion of your patent lead in pencils ; but I do not regret very much the omission, because it has given me time to test the specimens fairly whilst makirig my drawings for the report con tenting this Observatory to the British Association. I may conscient'ousli say that I never used a pencil—l speak of the Hit at this moment—with more saisfaction. It was smooth, equally hard throughout, and possessed a quality which the harder sort of pencils hitherto used are deficient in, viz., blackness. Before I h id tried them all, Baron de Walterhausen and Professor Kriel, of Prague, came here, and were so enamoured of them that they not only took them per force, but almost abused me for not being ale to give them a nearer address than Cheapside or the City road, for procuring a stock to take home. I will thank you to put me in the way of giving better directions in future. Yours very sincerely, FRANCIS RONALDS. William Brockedon, Esq. From Mtkjor-General Colby. R.E., F.R.S., &c., &c., &c., of the Ordnance Survey. _ _ Ordnance Map-office, Southampton, Jan 24, 1846, . . . , My dear Sir,—lu reply to your letter of yesterday's date, I have much pleasure in being able to state that the specimens of pencils which accompany It are of a very good quality and quite free from grit. —Yours very truly, THOS. COLBY, Prom Charles G. Lewis, Esq., Engraver. My dear Sir,—l have only just now commenced using the pencils you were so kind to send to we ; they are the best I Lave ever used, so very free ftom grit ; they are just the thing for the use I am now making of them, viz., reducing. The HII is quite delightful to draw with, and a great relief after the many gritty pencils I have been in the habit of using, and which break incessantly. I regret that I had non earlier an opportunity of giving them a fair trial. Believe me, dear Sir, yours very faithfully, Wm. Brockedon, Esq. CHAS. G. LEWIS. From Mr. Roberson, Artists' Colourman, Long Acre. 51, Long Acre, Jan. 10, 1846. Dear Sir,—All who have had to contend with the faultiness of genuine Cumberland lead for some years past, in the manufacture of lead pencils, ought, as well as the artist who uses them. to be obliged to you for the riddance of those faults by your new method of pre paring lead. The samples that I have tried fully warrant me in say ing that the Arts are now independent of the natural production, Cumberland lead.—l remain, my dear SirCHAR, your LES ROs very sincerely, BERSON'. W. Brockedon, Esq. From J. T. Willimore, Esq., A.E. 23. Polygon, Jan. 1846. My dear Sir,—l have tried your pencils both for trac in g and reduc ing, and find them every thing that can be required; they work freely, and, what is very desirable, they seem quits from grit, A hich is not the case with pencils generally; they also leave a clear and excellent transfer upon the etehing ground.—l remain, dear Sir, yours faithfully, JAS. T. WILLKORE. To W. Brockedon, Esq. From Mr. Edward Duncan. 2, Mornington-place, May 11, 1846. My dear Sir,—l have great pleasure in adding mine to the many favourable testimonials you have received of the great superiority of the black lead manufactured by your patent process. I have tried the specimens of pencils you were so kind as to send me, and I have no hesitation in stating that, in my opinion, they possess every quality, in a superior degree, that the artiq can require. Believe me, my dear sir, yours very truly, To William Brockedon, Esq , F.R.S. E. DUNCAN. Extract from " Ele nents of Art," by J. D. Harding, Esq., p. 94. Third kdition. "Recently the quality of lead pencils, both for purposes of art and for general use, has been greatly improved,in consequence of the dis covery, made by my friend Mr. Brockedon, of the mode of preparing pure plumbago. For years no fresh lead has been obtained from the Cumberland mines, and the last having been exhausted long ago, lead pencils were getting every day worse, and insufferable from grit. To remedy this, composition pencils have been manufactured ; but these possess no lustre or depth of colour, and it is difll_ult, some times impossible, to efface their markings. By Mr. Brocketion's Invention we obtain the pure black lead in all its lustre and depth of colour, without a p article of grit, and of any degree of hardness or softness ; and the markings from are all easily effaced. So great is the Improvementin all respects, even over the pure plumbago in its native state, that t may truly be said that until now a perfect lead pencil has been unknown. Lead pencils from Mr. Brockedon's Pure Plumbago are now manufactured by Messrs. Morden and Co , and by Messrs. Winsor and Newton." Extract from an Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society of London, 1846, by Leonard Homer, V.P.R.S., President of the Society. "Every year has disclosed new facts in confirmation of the theory, that accumulations of detrital matter were transformed into their pre sent condition mainly by the action of heat, accompanied by other che mical actions, and the powerful agency of steam and elastic forces under enormous pressure. A very ingenious process, invented by Mr. Brokedon, described In a short paper read before us last year, by which he converts, under very powerful pressure, the powder of graphite into a solid mass having a conchoidal fracture, and undistin guishable from the most compact halve black lead, shows that pres sure alone may convert fine detrital matter into solid stone. 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