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'- ir I•• . ~..___':';;;,.:,'_,•:,=' 7r- " :t't,,:i.• ,t, ' . Ift 1 ' ."' 'l;,.' ~.. ...,..• I -- 4.- „;:, 7 ..... \ , - 41 4- t. 4 ' • It ".M'' ' Wilik,,,, . wi, 10. LI r*----,.)•:,..- . • ~,- A - 4144,1 -1 , --• •• . I ' 6 0 ), Ex' ' I .."0 - t. 4 ), - 4. -........-- si, ... . .... -r ; , ~,....›,,,.. 38 , '' c t L L. • 14 E 1 1.7:4 .• '"'. ltif '' s ,, ‘„,- ,-- " . " 1 ' -Z - 4, 4 . ' +, _ '- , ?F,!, , f,e A---: \ '' ,-,;,..... • y- 4 ,-, ~ Aile,• N©. 16,967. LONDON, THURSDAY E 'sfr E N BROCKEDON'S PATENT PURE PLUM BAGO for ARTISTS, and ENGINEERS' BLACK LEAD I'ENCILS. The perfection to which this article is now brought, in Colour, firm ness, entire Purity from Grit, and ready Erasure, is fully sbown 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 ef evi denee, 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. These 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 havt but 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 Brockedon,—l have tried all the pencils which you hare sent me. I think I may safely say that I have never used any that work so well. Though perfectly free ftotn grit, the substance is compact, and the varieties of hardness and tint are as abuudan• as any artist can wish. A perfect lead pencil may be said to be at last produced. I am, dear Ilrockedon, very faithfully yours, W. Drockedon, Eiq. C. L. EASTLAKE. From Copley Fielding, Esq., President of the Water-Colour Society. Cuckfleld, Monday. My dear Sir.—lt is only very lately that I have been able to try the pencils which you were so kind as to scud ins. I have been sketching with them several tittles. lam delighted with the purity of the lead, which allows of so much 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 sincere wish of, My dear Sir, yours very truly, Brockedon, Esq. COPLEY FIELDING. From E. T, Parris, Esq. 17, Grafton-street, Bond-street, Dec. 150843, My dear Sir—l have tried your biacklead 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 sty, Nt:;!,' and without fear of the limes drawn with then, being checked by grit, or breaking. In every way 1 consider them most satisfactory and very superior to any pencils I have ever used, and shall take every opportunity of making their qnalities known to my friends and brother artists, that the same adva , dages 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., ILA, F./LS., F,S.A. Russell-square, Dec. 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, aad likely to be a great acquisition to artists.—l remain, my dear Sir, yours uery truly. PHILIP HARDWICK. 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. Fronde had given me. Yours very truly, William Brockedon, Esq. I. K. BRUNEL. From George Barnard, Esq., Landscape Drawing-Master, Rugby approach ; and this is without the risk of snapping off the point, which is the torment, of all others, the most vexatious ; this has never once happened tome with yours, and,l have used one of the 111111 nearly a mouth. There is no affectation in declaring that 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 the great qualities cf your pencils as popular as they deserve to be.— I ant, my dear Sir, yours always truly, W. Brockedon, Esq. WILLIAM HARVEY. From Professor Brands, F.R.S.. &c. &c. &c. Royal Mint, Feb. 13, 1846. lily dear Sir—My opinion respecting your Patent riambago amounts to this ; that by much ingenuity you have overcome nume rous diffieulties, in the way of compressing comminuted plurnbago into a solid mass of an extraordinary, 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, as far as my judgment enables me to determine, equal to those made of the best 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 h tnd, or pulverulent en the other.—Yours always,verysincerely,. Wm. Brockedon, Esq. WM. THOS. BiANDE. From Francis Ronalds, Esq., F.R.S., Scc., of the Kew Observatory. "Ken 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 making my drawings for the report con cerning this Observatory to the British Association. I may conscientously say that I never used a pencil—l speak of the Hit at this moment—with more satisfaction. 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 had 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 mole 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. Front Major-General Colby, ILE., F.R.S., Esc., &c., Ste., of the Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Map-office, Southampton, Jan 94, 184 G. My dear Sir,—lu reply to your letter of yesterday's date, I have much pleasure in being able to state tat the tpecimens of pencils which accompany it are of a very good quality and quite free front 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 me ; they are the best I have ever used, so very tree from grit ; they are just the thing for the use I am now making of them, viz., reducing. The MI is quite delightful to draw with, and a great relief alter the many gritty pencils I have been in the habit of using, and which break incessantly. I regret that I had non earner an opportunity of giving them a fair trial. Believe me, dear Sir, yours very falthfhlly, Wm. Brockedou, Esq. CHAS.G. LEWIS. From Mr. Roberson, Artists' Colourman, Long Acre. 51, Long Acre, Jan. 10, ISM 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 fur 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 Sir, yours very sincerely, CHARLES ROBERSON. W. Brockedon, Esq. From J. T. Willimore, Esq., A.E 23, Polygon, Jan. 1846. My dear Sir,—l have tried your pencils both for tracing and reduc ing, and find them every thing that can be required ; they work freely, and, what is very desirable, they seem quite from grit, a hick is not the case with pencils generally ; they also leave a clear and excellent transfer upon the etching ground.--I remain, dear sir, yours faithfully, JAS. T. WILLMORE. To W. Brockedon, Esq. From Mr. Edward Duncan. 2, Mornington-place, May 11, 184 t. My dear Sir,--I 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 artist can require. Believe me, my dear sir, yours very truly, To William llrockedon, Esq., F.R.S. E. DUNCAN. Extract from "Elements of Art," by J. D. Harding, Esq., p. 94. • Third Edition. "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 pluinbago. 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 difilailt, some times impossible, to efface their markings. By Mr. Brockedon's invention we obtain the pure black lead in all lts lustre and depth of colour, without a particle of grit, and of any degree of hardness or softness ; and the markings Nom are all easily effaced. So great is the improvementin all respects, even over the pure plumbago in its native state, thati t may truly be said that until now a perfect lead pencil has been unknown. Load pencils from Mr. Brockedon's Pure Plumbago are now manufactured by Messrs. Morden and Co , and by Messrs. Wiusor and Newton." Extract from an Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society of London, 1546, by Leonard Horner, 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 mast having a copchoidal fracture, and undistin guishable from the most compact native black lead, shows that pres sure alone may convert flee detrital matter into solid stone. " 29, Devonshire-street, Queen-square, Blootnsbury." SEWELL and CO., have purchased, by tender of the Assignees of Mr. Johnstone, Silk Mercer, &z., Lamb's Conduit-street, the whole of his valuable STOCK of SILKS, Linen drapery, Hosiery, and Fancy Goods, at the large discount of 3IN per cent. from the cost price. The goods, which are all new and in ex cellent condition, will be offered for SALE, on their premises, next MONDAY, Feb. 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The widow of an officer, an elderly lady, and near relative of mine, has used them--very rarely having recourse to other medicines for a long period of years ; she has recommended them extensively, and in one instances n which she induced a person to adoptthem, and supplied the first box herself, they have proved or extraordinary efficacy. I think that perhaps there is scarcely any Hier of the many patent medicines before the public of equal value a a " friend in need"—certainly none possessed of superior claims shall be hippy on all occasions to give them my individua recom mendation, and am, sir, " Your obedient servant, * +► # • " Sold by T. Front, 229, Strand. London, price Is. I%d. and 2s. 9d. per box ; also by the Vendors of Medicines generally throughout the Kingdom. Ask for FRAMPTON'S PILL 0 11EALTII, and observe the name and address of ' Thornlike Pro , 229, Strand, London," on the Government Stamp. IRELAND. REPEAL ASSOCIATION. DUBLIN, FEB. 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 eji , ctinents 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 followed answer :7_ "Ballinrobe, Jan. 28. " Dear3r ust got your letter of yesterday, and re gret to saythat I do not think I am 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 he rlild ohlicr , .. v'" stn writing to efietlohar this uay, anct suall have tt told to yom. ,n , riz- not to come hero for the purpose you had directed him.—Yours, very truly, " THOMAS GILDEA. " 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 —I came from Ballinrobe last night, after seeing Mr. Gildes. He told me that he wrote to you not to send me to Ballinrobe, as it was out of his power to give you the information you required, a b ou t t h e 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, "Y. KELLY. , 4 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 number of civil bills and civil bill ejectments entered and acted on at the recent sessions in Mayo. The result of these heartless proceedings was that upwards of 5,000 persons had been obliged to le,ive the eotuonat)v•olNidlatyh'oe, caonndseqsueeekncesanofastyhleuT de crees"inthat Mr. O'Flaherty should be Solicitor-General in Galway, the gen tlemanselected to oppose the selected by the Young Ireland party to contest the town having refused. En l g t l obtained t o u a r n i n a e : el:dienihu:sirnl elsewhere, to t them. decided Therent for the week was announced to be 271. 7s. 11d. Tile inee tnghe n [ADVERTISEMENT.] —TEAS AT WHOLESALE PRICES, No. 2, BUCHLERSBURY, CHEAPSIDE. — FamiIies whose consumption is large, and study economy, will derive considerable advantage at this establishment. One uni form price is affixed, by which the purchaser of a single pound can obtain it on the same terms as the trade. Black Tea 2s. Bd., 35., 3s. 4d, 3s. Bd., 45., 4s. 4d., ss. Green 3s. 4d., 3s. Bd., 45., 4s. 4d., 55., 65., 7s. Coffee. 9d., ]od., Is., Is. 2d., is. 4d., Is. 6 d. , Is. Bd. One pound sent free to any part of town. Orders from the country forwarded the same day; and when the quantity is for 61b. weight (tea only), the carriage is pe ad lle a , m on e paid to any p ar t o f E ng l an d.—MmisELL and Co. wholesale t ea d ea l ers, 2 , B uc kl ers b ur y, Ch e apside. Captain Al exan d er B oy d Hi gg i ns , o f the Forfar theMi Bishopl Otu ltimo, ha s been n l a itia, and fo rmer of the " RoyaLs," died at Aix .la i n -the6st drawingh ) e - exaereol his excellent hi age. Madame houses At Ikrerpool in ' Ballo a opera of The Maid qf Artois. 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. AULAIRE. Paris, Jan. 25, 1847. Monsieur le Comte,—Lord Normanby came and com municated to me, on the 10th instant, a new dispatch from Lord Palmerston, dated the Bth, 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 Nov. 22, an earnest desire for the termina tion of a controversy which was no longer necessary to throw a light upon facts, and which " might interfere with the restoration of that policy of good understand • ing and mutual good-will to 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 formably to the orders of the King 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 dispatch, which it has seemed to me impossible to leave entirely without correction. I trust that, by keeping within 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 be pro fessed of the engagements taken at the Chateau d'Eu, of which engagements, however, no official proof is pro duced, while at tba same the absence of official record is made the ground, for repudiating facts and documents which are found t' be inconvenient, and especially the memorandum of February the 27th, 1846, goes on to say, 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, until after 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 d'Ea, 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; that that memorandum was communi cated on the 4th of March to Lord Aberdeen, with whom th e conversa ti ons an d engagements of 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 morandum of the 27th of Feb.? It is the declaration that, in case the marriage of the Queen of Spain or the Infanta with any Prince not being a descendant 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 L lo fa n n tp ta. ensler the hand either of the Queen or of the Now, that same declaration was made and repeated more than once, in the most positive terms, to Lord n o f f or G ni re h at is ß G ri o ta v i e n rn a i t Co Paris,w Cowley, who at o t h certainlya t ment of it.* m d e id a z n io lb t a f s A s i a l ri to or 11. "But, if her Majesty's present Government," says Lord Palmerston (4th and sth paragraphs), "repo. diates the memorandum of the 27th of February, and 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 degrea 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 which, in principle, her Majesty's Government 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's 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 no 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 wade known to them. It was a manifestation 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 ,turit , ,tatlip,4l9., apcount e tg tbat aayariiilrt 1 1 141 ° l'Ae0:1/W4 ecuiduct. lean iirriou pe erl l ol9, .pi•et6nsiotts.fattiorwartl:ls Melt' lirtirtiy 13F ffecFsiiry for ar-4041411X3re4otEcitber,to ~repudititeAr lO'itiqiiieedAn ; it is merely a determination of the French Goverrithent, 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 P a l merston . I s that communication certain, incontrovertibl e ? t h at i s th e only question which can be raised, and w h en f acts sa y '`yes, no one can repudiate that ansr'er. 111. " If the F renc h G overnmen t," says Lord Palmer " ston (paragraph 6th), " meant to plead that memorandum as a justification for any steps which they intended to take, they ought su re ly to h ave made it known to t he British Govern men t b e f ore t h ose s t e ps were taken. But that memorandum c ou ld not h ave been produced with out raising a di scuss i on a b out t h e i n tended marriage of the Duke de Moutpensier, and it suited better the views of the French Government to keep that marriage i en tirely in the b ac k groun d , t ill t h e y could announce t as a settled arrangement." The King's Government have not in any way to evade a discussion about the intended marriage of the Duke de Montpensier; neither had they sny m m ean to to provoke such a discussion, as they did not which had alter in any way their former intentions, w been well been distinctly manifested, and must have sought known to the British Government. It duties of enerston's province, who was assuming the rsations and office, to provoke upon that subject conversations been under explanations, for it was he who must have tu us, and the necessity of making his views known • ours. Now, making himself thoroughly acquainted with the moment from the time of his coming into office to Lord Palmer when the two marriages were announced,wtts Lord Pal or address a stop did not put a single question to us, Countd de Jar P nac, he Had he mentioned the subject to and would have received from him all the explanations But wished for. he single word to us, on that of the Duke e n Mont Montpensier. informations which he might have motive of such a I have u n i silence.torm should not be laid to the charge of conduct, but the fact tho Frcnoh Cos.ornmwnt. etchte.th_e most absolute " says Lord IV. " Her Majesty's Government,..Pal merstonlYlmwaiilnitaninotedininqutihraet irnestop t the 27th of February, 1846, because they o (paragraph 7), " do not repudiate the memo randumiir opinion, justify them in ask ingfind it inconvenient. contingency which was specified in already shown, the the case whichwould release the that memorandum, as from not escended from Philip V.), venient. For, t o h n eir the contrary, as previous engagement Fanrdeuc.lhii.nh Governmentwould, r riinn et their u hand of the In anfa for the Duke de Montpen sier the an imminent danger that the Queen (that is to say, ge confusion. Al_might marry a an d, moreover, as I stated in my never happened ; . for mer when Count Bresson dispatch, such a contingency had actually become impossible at the time asked the hand of the Infanta for the Duke, because, at that time the marriage of the Queen with a descendant of Philip V. had already been settled." though the official and public demand, by Count Bres son, of the hand of the Infanta for the Duke de Mont pensier was posterior to the official and public decla ration Queen's marriage with the Duke of Cadiz, There is in that paragraph a strange of the it is notorious that both marriages had been settled at the same time, and were associated together in such a manner that, if the latter had not been agreed upon, neither would the former have been so. It is by the settlement of the marriage of the Duke de Montpensier with the Infanta that the contingency mentioned by Lord Palmerston —namely , the chance that the Queen might marry a Prince not d escended from Philip ) T. was removed. If, at th e tittl e when Count Bre,son asked publicly the hand of the Infants for the Duke de Montpensier, the Queen's marria ge w i th a descendant of Philip V. had already been settled, it is because the -- .--7----- * P.S. I have this moment received the " correspond ence relating to the marriages of the Queen and Infanta of Spain," printed by the British Government for com munication to Parliament, and I there and (page 8) an extract of a dispatch from Lord Cowley to Lord Pal merston, dated July 23, 1846, which runs thus : " The intelligence of a , proposal h av i ng b een made for an alliance with a Prince of the H ouse of Coburg occa sioned 'the greatest consternation h ere. M. Guizot told me that, if the project was persi s ted i n, he should re commend tee King to put forw ar d the Due de Mont folrt Queen's h an d . " h he July, Lord Palmer s to n did receive from the British amba ssa d or at Paris the posi tive declaration of the intentions o f t h e King's Govern- P T e h n u s s i e , r s o as late a candidate a s tthe3t ment in case the Coburg combination should be put for ward, and, on the 19. th of July, he .wrote leis dispatch tp Mr. Bulwer, which was putting forward the chance of Prime Leopold at Coburg. 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 tor a gross more of BB and 14.—Yours very sincerely, William Brockedon, Esq. GEORGE BABNARD. From Samuel Prout, Esq., F.S.A. 5, De Crespigny Terrace, Denmark 11111, Dec. 17, 1845. My dear lirockedon,—l have much pleasure la 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 13 the result of my having tested them separately, 111111 and 1111 are degrees of a clear tint, each sustaining the firmest pressure. F and Hit, 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 11, 81.1, 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 Brockelon, faithfully yours, SAMUEL PROUT. W. Brockedon, Esq , F.R.S. From David Roberts, Esq., R.A. Fitzroy-street, 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 Hg's, to go on with. Having Vied them on some of the architectural subjects of my forthcoming wt on Egypt and Nubia, and finding them so superior to everything or 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 tome 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. DAVID 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 It. But I most grate fully acknowledge an excellence in H, 1111, and F, which work freely without grit or scratching, are of good colour, and rub out cleats. Yours, very sincerely, RICHARD WESTMACOTT, Jcsc. From G. Wellwyn Shepherd, Esq. 34, Great James-street, December 23, 1845. Dear Sir,—l am very sorry that I have lost the opportunity, from being out when you ealled, of congratulating yon In viva voce on the pencils you so kindly sent to me. I have carefully tried there, and in truth, they aro 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 yours, W. Brockedon, Asti. 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 purpose', and by every artist. Their easy working without grit from their pure ',sad equable lead, and unifor mity •f colour in long use, render them so desirable that I beg to suggest that thinner pencils should be made of HRH and MI for the supply of compasses.—l ammy dear, air, yours ayes, ; I Pw W. Brockedon, Esq. - J. i.: T 4kmpwrii i John-Ny*4p AI I sop, t r a oft, Sevv,,re i ad,:,...l acinary t ict i rt Myßear' Brockendertg=4t affordS greist 4 sleaSurn mY unqualified .approhatien of your. , new .compressed lead pencils. I have now tried all the various qualities, both In 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 le, 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 11141. Dear Brockedon, faithfully yours, To William Brockedon. JAMES BRIDGES. From William Wyon, Esq., 11. A., Chief Engraver to her Majesty's Mint. Her Majesty's Mint, December 10, 1845. 3fy Dear Sir,—l feel extremely obliged for the specimen of black leach pencils you have sent me, of which the lead is manutactured 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, that can be required by an artist. The lead is perfectly tree from grit ; and I can point these pencils much more easily, and when pointed they do not break, as other pencils generally do. I am so entirely satisfied with these penolls, 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 ono re quiring the use of pencils, With many thanks lbr them, I remain, my dear Sir, yours faithfully - , WILLIAM WYON. William 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, THOS. L. DONALDSON. W. Brockedon, Esq. From Joseph Bonomi, Esq. Dear Sir,—lf you will allow me to bear teBtimony 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 r..-........ ..... on. cvtli IMILIIII.Lug ~...u.., W. Brooreaon, s-sq. JOSEPH noNomi. From Henry Warrens, Esq., Press 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 front th7lo to time that I might give myself the opportunity of trying fairly your preparation of plumbago. This I have now done, and can report with confi dence upen 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 iced 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 havetriedtritheelmheins provedlandsca th peald foliage, on several sorts of paper, and each satisfactorily.—Believe me, dear Sir, yours e H ver truly, ENRY WARREN. W. Brockedon, Esq. From Clarkson Stanfield, Esq., R.A. 48, Mornington•Place, Jan. 12, 1846. My dear Brockedon,—l have tried your pencils, and, as far as my experience goes in such matters, I think them excellent. I must particularise the 888, which, for the several purposes of drawing, I think admirable. It cuts without breaking, and it is free from grit, isptaestnisc pointfi Satisf ac t i on answer 1 wh ich, s e that abominable nuisance in sketching. I shall certainly lay in a stock of them.—l am, dear Brockedon, yours very truly, CLARKSON STANFIELD. From C. H. Wilson, Esq., Director of the Government School of Dear Sir,---I hasten to reply to your Som Design, Somerset House. you u d Titre . opinion of the been tuhs'te Feb.slovg would l d ldBl as g6iv to e on;theyhaveanadreitelypealirtelitetlilalrly gratifyingnever t used to le p a e b n l c e il t s e n p i well,l ike i . a e y n r y o d u 3 re rs 'e s i p w e a c i l admire the ingenious me to the lead.—l remain vePrry°" fiYthfbuyilwy W. BrockFerdeomn, Charles Esq. 13 It. ywboeuearrr description pressure marking without rto rfmtiliye .in ,bTraehnaeaky ilrtnshoggeer,eumelr,:eterlt greatly , E sqlyl which you F s u . c it c . e s e . d . e s ll c in . preparing g now had the • My dear Sir, —RavinC. H. WILSON. operta e,opportunity Westminster, . r Fe n b a . k 2 l. 7 g , 1 . 8 e 4 e 6 m . - w pl e e r te e trial agleeodf as tleeaedeemdaidee me y e ou sh r e prrtepimed ar sin Plce, umb Ih ago ave the plea which you titre - sere to announce to you that they are of excellent quality, and pos sess all the requisites for architecture as well as artisti c d raw i ngs.— I remain, my dear Sir, mo s t truly yours , CHARLES BARRY. From Thomas Creswick, Esq., ILI. Aril 2,184. My dear Sir,—l am quite asha me d that I have only in the last 6 few days had an opportunity of trying as I wished the pencils you were good enough to send me. 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 snaking a clearer and more distinct line than any pencils I have before used.—Believe me, my d ear Sir, ever truly yours, TH OMAS CRESWICK, W. Brockedon, Esti. From William a rvey, Esq., the Wood Eminent Draftsman and Eng raver on 29, Portland-terrace, Regent's Park, Feb. 12 1846 My dear Sir,To a man who lives as I do, with a pencil in tit-i hand, it is impossible to over - estimate the comfort of baying it of the best quality ; and no temptation of old friendship, low prices, or elo quot recommendation , can ever lead me to an acknowledgment of its virtue till I have fairly tested it by my own experience. your pencils calla to me at a period when my patience had been fairly exhausted by things which were getting daily worse, and I set to work en them at once: the restilt has been highly satisfactOry ; they are everything -I could wish them to be., The softer numberMle what I have not met with for years, apd the harder sorts carry with t 110132 4 Clopth of Colour which no Mgr pond% that I know of, can , y, ~ 4,;...-4- . . , FEBRUARY 4, 1847. - -1- : 7 marriago of the Duke de Montpensicr 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 pable 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 Infanta 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 Montpensicr to the Infanta of a political character ; add if her Majesty's 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 this sense, that whin the Queen of Spain should have been married, and should hare had children, the marriage of the Infanta would be divested of a political character. The phrase "should have 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 marriage, which was to divest, and which really divested, the marriage of the Infanta of its political character. If any idea of number had 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 direst the marriage of the In fanta 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 base 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 a ith the Duke de Mcntpensier was agreed upon and settled at the same time. VIL " 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 ; 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 Governmeni; 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 contingency. It might 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 for having taken such a course; but 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, I am 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 Queen with Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, and re proved him for having departed in that respect from the instructions which he had received. On the 12th of July, Lord Palmerston, giving his instructions to Mr. Bulwer, pointed out to him " Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg and the two sons of Don Francisco de as the only candidates for the hand of the Queen , add_ d.. ing, that " between those three candidates her ma -3 Paula," •esty's Government have only to express their sincere wish that the choice may fall upon the :one. who may 4.1.10i5e4;044 hiippincsi *).ti r ., 9r en, mos of . 06 .5p,i514...444..,ete • - - to. ptanote t • ingwerFtan instriiptions of La . o Aberdeen? Did they ,tioint kut ithrie but th the Infant Don En rique,And when one tingle candidate, l'd write,the Li e s- sf i c L E 'eandidateS?• The British 22d of June, ventured, although without any English Government English preference, to point out the Infant candidate or non Enrique as the prince who appeared to them most was mentioned, Lord Aberdeen on the people of Spain.' Now, what did Lord Palmerston, eligible, because the , likely to prove acceptable to in his turn, write to Lord Normaxiby as being the sub t.d'thl34'sl46::tl:Dttufill'tef6f Sotomayor ;—" 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 become the 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 ? VIII. "M. Guizot again reverts," says Lord Pal merston (paragraph 13), "to my despatch 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 thal 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 communicated 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 be 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 19th 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 the two paragraphs already quoted, and which I must quote again The candidates for 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 ch o i ce f a lli ng upon Prince Leopold of Coburg ; or else why should not Lord Palmerston have omitted him as well as Count Trapani and Count Montemolin ? After having himself thus established that there was a chance for the Prince of Coburg, Lord Palmerston adds : "As between the three candidates above-inentioned, her Majesty's Go vernment h ave on l y to express t h e i r 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 pelsonal 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 forgets that that dispatch does not mention any other carididate 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 1)on Era.ncisco de Paula, whom Lord Palmer . ston represents as equally eligible, and equally acceptable to the British Government. IX. "M. Guizot," says Lord Palmerston (paragraphs 15, /6, and 17) " points out that in a passage in my dispatch of the 31st of October, in which there is a quotation from Hs previous d:s,:atch of the sth of October, some words which were not in his dis patch have been placed between inverted commas.' This' re mark is perfectly correct. The passage in question in my dispatch of the 31st of October, begins with a PRICE SD. 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 inadvertantly 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- slig,Yhtest 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 effectee was by simply offer ing that different arrangement to the free choice and independent will of the very same Court." I would not insist upon the erroneous quotation al luded to in those paragraphs, and the error of which Lord Palnierston 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 cf 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 band, 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 confidential, he did not think himself 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 4e 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. Guizot denies." says Lord Palmerston (paragraph 19), " that the Marquis 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 my dispatch of the 22d 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 flores was sent to Paris in July for the above- mentioned purpose ; and though her Majesty's Government do not pretend to have a knowledge of all the communica tions which, durirg the two months which he spent at Paris, may have passed between him and those to whom he was sent, yet her Majesty's Government 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 Mojesty '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.- I do 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 l otiort vein to involve, in a greater degree, the question kionfusion and _crept.. _the. 22a -.or.S4tember, it was against the vkliinarrisike of the Duke de Montpensiar: -with thelitfaiiti` that Lord Painierstori 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 ease 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 marriage with princes or princesses issued from lines which had renounced their rights, lose their own per sonal rights, the rights of their own line, to the throne of Spain. 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 IL, 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 asked Lord Palmerston if he ever thought of disputing 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, es Lord Palmerston hypothetically suggests it, that the rights to both crowns should be united in one prince, I have no hesitation in 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 intermarriage between them cannot have that effect, that the private rights of one of those lines should be destroyed 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 ao not possess and cannot transmit to them, is a principle not to be admitted. Lord Palmer ston constantly overlooks that distinction between the royal lines and the rights belonging to each of them, and which remain always distinct. 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 his been founded by. it. XIII. "M. 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 3lat of October, •I introduced a name • which cugbt 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 atone."' It is impossible for me to allow this passage to pass without a reply.• And Lord Palmerston quotes three passages frond 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 : royal person ever could or ought to be pro nounced, in any way, in a diplomatic correspond:Awe. How could I have entertained such an idea, in contradiction with such frequent facts, when I bed, withoht making any remark on the subict, - met ;vith the King's name in Lord Palmerston's dispatch of the, 22d of September,—when I had inyself made use of it must ab - i -, - several times in my dispatch of the sth of October, as person i ' Lord Palmerston points out in quoting three extracts from that dispatch? Wha: I thouThit, arid lutely persist in thinking, is that the royal ought to be mentioned for (he purpose of le7(' ' with reference tie acts whcharecuantst:itteuk:iol ~ attack,The or 'al monarchy. can do no wrng," is, in Englund a s will as Kin` -4. the . fundamental prineple of in Fr,inco, Is is that principle whi c h I hi.ve app..ttit'd to w h en L or d Palmerston seemed to int; to ha ve f orgotten it, aLd he actually forgot it - on several occasioils. I will merely mention two Instances. Ist. In his dispatch of the 31st of Ocitober,,after. men tioning the engagementin, o taken t nat Eu, in S e ptember 1845, 'h " by h 6• King Majesty t he the French the and purpose of the says,that memorandum of th e • ' of 27 th February, 184 . 6, was " that the King of the F rew . I , would hold h imse lf free from the 'engageme nts lie 'had taken as to' the marriage of the Queen and of th e I nfanta, and would deem ldmstlf at liberty to ask the hand, either of the one or of the other, for the Duke de Montpensier, in a certain contingency." In the first place, that quotation is not correct.. The memorandum of the 27th of February does not once mention the King of the French, does 'not even- pro nounce 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 British Cabinet. It is Lord Palmerston who introduces in it the King's name ; and what is the consequence 1' 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 end usages. 2. L ,, rd Palmerston says again, is 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 tnicomtitutional such language is, or that I need adduce tiny Inure 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. Ti Lave to instruct you to communicate this dispatch to Lord Palmerston, and to give him a copy of it. It,ceive, Monsieur le Comte, the atzsurance 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. To employ a sum not exceeding 1,0004 in the purchase of books for the general purposes of the institution. To employ a further sum, not exceeding 100/. 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 " Professor of Modern European 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 holdin ,, tenets at variance with th e dcctrines 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 during the residence hereinafter required of him. DUTIES OF TILE 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. /~~~~~ ~ t LIBRARIAN. A librarian to be appointed by the curators. To be resident in the building, and to hare 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 throu g the building, and see that all lights,and fires have been extinguished. To receive an annual stipend of 1501. Not to be absent at any period of the year without leave of the curators. TEACHERS. Teachers to be appointed at first in German and French, and tor five years only, but to be re-eligible. To be removable at any time with the concurrence of at least five curators. DUTIES OF THE TEACIIERS. To be resident in the University 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 th e curators, but not withi n the Taylorßuilding. If British subjects by birth, to subscribe the Thirty-nine Articles. •,* 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 tbur or five years to come, it has been j udged 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. SURGICAL OPERATIONS AT THE MILITARY I iOSTITAL, CHATHAM. A series of surgical operations were performed at the Ge neral Hospital, Fort Pitt, Chatham, on Wednesday last, in presence of Dr. Fre nc h. P.M.0., and all the medical officers of the establishment, the patients, previous to operation, having, been each subjected to the influence of the vapour of sulphuric ether by inhalation, the effects of which were as satisfactory as they were surprising. The first operation was the extraction of a tooth from a soldier of the 52d Regiment, dexterously performed by Mr. Peck, dentist, of Chatham. The patient, on awakening about a minute after from the stupifying effects of the ether, declared that he had been totally unconscious of pain, and would hardly credit that he had been subjected to the ope ration at all. The next was an amputation of the left leg, for disease of the ankle joint, in a .c - ildier of the 37th Regiment. This pa tient, after inhaling the ether vapour for two or three mi• mites, was declared to be a fit state for the performance o the operation, and the leg was quickly removed below the knee. During the tying of the blood -vessels the limb was convulsed by strong spasms, and he moaned once or twice. but declared, on his return to consciousness, that he had had little or no pain throughout, though he had been "sensible see •lame fts - tva--4ht—itteiaietts -- Wit4 the knife, he statecktirat4letattlad . no - knowtedge or recollection 7 4 1 134teVer• - •'. " • :".."; ''• The last opetation . wan the remov ai of the last joint cot eitha great toe. The subject of this was a tall, spare Irishnian, private Patrick Foley. The ether took effect in less than two minutes, and he remained under its full influence for about four minutes. during a brief part of which time the 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 the air, gazed for 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. THE MARKETS, AND PROSPECTS FOR NEXT SEASON. The leading grain markets, in the United Kingdom, have been but to a trifling extent affected by the develop inent of. the Government measures. Had they been brought into operation three months since, before our Continental neighbours became so much alarmed about the state of their own supply of food, we would, un doubtedly, have received a very considerable accession to our supply ; but, now that they are beginning to experience the evil consequences of high prices them eelves, it becomes a question, whether they will not, as Great Britain becomes more anxious to im port, increase their export duties, if not prohibit the exportation of bread-stuffs altogether, as, should they run themselves too bare in, their supply of food, the consequences: would affect them even more seriously than ourselves. Barley is the otily article which has been seriously influenced by the mea sures ; but the demand for all sorts of meal still con tinues so extensive, that its value may probably advance again, the stock of that article being everywhere li mit, d. We regret to find that, notwithstanding every exertion of the millers, throughout the west and south of Ireland, they are unable to manufacture enough to meet the demand, although, in very many instances. they keep their mills at week on SundaYs. The crop of oats is much more deficient than was at first sup posed. From our information we fear that it cannot be considered more than half a crop. Up to the present moment, the tillage of the land is remarkably back ward, i❑ many parts of the country, the greater number of the labourers being employed on the improvement of the public roads, whereby intercourse is seriously im peded, and much treasure wasted, without any adequate benefit being likely to accrue. If exertions be not made immediately for preparing and sowing the laud, the pro bability is that we shall have another year of suffering and want, even more lamentable than the teresentoaoned In Limerick, Cork, and several other towns, w hea t induced, country supplies during the last few d y oats have receded in price, in consequen ce, Government mea perhaps, by fears, arising from the . o s f oc.reased ~ures ; it is to be feared that as is generally supposed, s.o heavy This increase 4)I supply is only temporary.—Northern but, as the stock in fariners! . bpds is by no means Whig. NEW WORK ON PORTUGAL- 7 A work has just o cu appeared, entitled " A Journey Overland t o Li s b on ; w i th a Picture of the Actual State of Spain and POrtugal," from ltheikelpyenfuol fully t t t o i e gratifyauthor thife "Rreivoseiltayti of 3 the . o public f Spaiii," r e w sp h e i c e t h i n i g s the present cri i s.s in the affairs of these nations. The author's journ..y was pilfuraied during the height of the ferment oce,.Taincal by ihe Alontpensier marriage, and he arrived at Lisbon on the very day of The outbreak of the late Re- it . . . . v•e u ion, of which he has given . the history in full, fofiowing the present civil war throegh all its incidents. .We have here, for the first time, authentic revelations of Portu gal by one who has a perfect knowledge of that country, derived fro:n a previous residence in it of six. years, during which ti me h e enjoyed the best position for securing correct irfinanation relative to all that took place at Ceurt, and for becoming acquainted with the movetnsnts of political men and parties. The whale history of the Montpensier ai.7ar riige, and the international law which it violates, is givei:, in the chapters on Madrid, where the question is mere ftrny discussed than it has hitherto been; and to a number of uriaus anecdotes, and mach secret history connected with both Courts, the author adds personal sketches of the Royal Families, and of every leading magi in Spain and Portugal, taken from the life. HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY, ,EDINBURGH.—The Court met on Monday to try Wm. Bayne, farmer, Elgin, ,who was libelled with seven charges of forgery by bills, to the amount of nearly 9001. The prisoner.pleaded not guilty, and azres number of witnesses were examined in support of the charges. Mr. Crauford having addras iecethe Jury for the Crown, and Mr. Inglis in behalf of the, prisoner,' the Lord Justice Clerk summed up, a n d the .Turf • returned a verdict of not guilty. The Court 11414Nrued at half-past live o'clock,—Edinburgh Advf,rttser. Guilt : ,405 ,010 TS row, Ken