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EAST INDIA HOUSE, TEL 3, 1847. 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 Bengal and Madras, will,from the present date, and until -thither notice, be Is. 10d. the Company's Rupee, and for Bißs on ' 2 btfl abaY, IS. 10%d. the Company's Rupee. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. REPRESENTATION OF WESTMINSTER. APUBLIC MEETING- of the ELECTORS will TAKE PLACE TO-MORROW (Friday Evening), February 4 th. at the Queen's Concert Room, Hanover-square, to afford eriARLES 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 O'Clock. By order, B. BATTAM, Secretary for St. George, 12, Maddox-street. H. REYNOLDS, Secretary for St. James, Great Pulteney-street. Tickets for the platform may be obtained from the Secretaries. 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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 PrincO Leopoldw 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 or the Uri November last, and which I here formally repeat. I have 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. No. 16,967. LONDON, THURSDAY E I N G BROCKEDON'S PATENT PURE PLUM BAGO for ARTISTS, and ENGINEERS' BLACK LEAD PE N CILS. The perfection to which this article is now brought, in Colour, firm ness, entire Purity from Grit, and 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. Nothiug is required to be added to this mass of evi denee, but to point out to rencil Manufacturers the peculiar advan tages presented by the form of the blocks of this Patent Plumbago, fer 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 ass, 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., ILA., Secretary of the Fine Arts Commission, &.c. 7, Fitzroy-square, December 4, 1845. My dear Brockodon,--I 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 las' produced. I am, dear Brockedon, very faithfully yours, W. Brockedon, Esq. C. L. EASTLAKE. From Copley Fielding, Esq., President of the Water•Colour Society Cuckfleld, Monday. _ . My dear Sir.—lt is only vary lately that I have been able to try the pencils which 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 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 sineere wish of, My dear Sir, yours very truly, William Brockedon, Esq. COPLEY FIELDING. From E. T, Parris, Esq. 17, Grafton-street,Bond-street, Dec. 15,0845._ 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 chee t ked by grit, or breaking. In every way 1 tonsidar 31esn Most astietestory and very superior to any pencils I have ever used, and shall take every opportunity of making their qualities known to my friends and brother artists, that the same advantages of your valuable production may be enjoyed Ay others, as by, my dear Sir, yours very truly, To W. Brockedon, Esq. EDMUND THOMAS PERRIS. From Philip Hardwick, Esq., R.A, F.R.S., 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, and 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, Brockedon, Esq. I. K. lIRTINEL. 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 for a gross more of BE and B.—Yours very sincerely, William Brockedon, Req. GEORGE BARNARD. From Samuel Prout, Esq., F.S.A. 5, De Crespigny Terrace, Denmark Hill, Dec. 17, 1845. .11,1 y 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, HHH and MI ere degrees of a clear tint, each sustaining the firmest pressure. F and HE, 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, BE, or BRB, the last especially, a drawing may be completed from a faint indication to the greatest Intensity of colour of which blackiead is capable.—l remain, my dear Brockedon, faithfully yours, SAMUEL PROUT. W. Breckedon, 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 BB'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 of 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. 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, sod, therefore, I have little occasion in any drawing for the extreme " Timis," or for the double or treble B. But I most grate fully acknowledge an excellence in B, 118, and F, which work freely without grit or scratching, are of good colour, and rub out clean. Yours, very sincerely, RICHARD WESTMACOTT, Jux. From G. Wellwyn Shepherd, Esq. 34, Great James-street, December 23, 1845. Dear am very sorry that I have lost the opportunity, from being oat when you ealled, of congratulating you in viva voce on the pencils you so kindly sent to me. I have carefully tried them, and in truth, they aro excellent ; for they are perfectly free from grit, and will resist pressure. I am deeply in'ereeted in the success of your valuable discovery.—Believe me, dear sir, truly yours, W. Brockedon, Beg. 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 thore 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 of colour in long use, render them so desirable that I beg to suggest that thinner pencils should be made of ILHH and RH for the supply of compasses.—l am my dear, sir, yours ever, W. Brockedon, Esq. J. B. PAPWORTH. From John Martin, FAN. 30, Ailsop-terrace, New-read, January 7, 1846. My dear Brockenden,—lt affords me groat pleasure to give my unqualified approbation 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. Brockeden, 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 me, Dear Brockedon, faithfully yours, To William Brockedon. JAMES BRIDGES. From William Wyon, Esq., 8.A., Chief Engraver to her Majesty's Mint. Her Majesty's Mint, December 10, 1845. My Dear 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, that can be required by an artist. The lead is perfectly free fern 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 pencils, 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 WYON. William BrocketlOn, 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 ells. Those which I have already tried are excellent, and I doubt not that your invention will prove a valuable one. Most faithfully yours, W. Brookedon, Esq. THOS. L. DONALDSON. From Joseph Bonomi, 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 BONOMI. From Henry Warrior, Esq., President 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 confl denim upen the pencils ; nor do I think there is anything wanting to their excellence. The chief beauty of them lies in the evenness ef quality in the lead 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 trial has proved them Satisfactorily.—Believe me, dear Sir, yours ever truly, W. Brockedon, Esq. HENRY WARREN. From Clarkson Stanfield, Esq., R.A. 48, Morningtoh place, Jan. 12. 1846. My dear Brockedon,--I have tried your pencils, and, as f a r as my experience goes in such matters, I think them excell',Tit, I m ust Particularise the 888, which, for the several Purno;,es of drawing, I think admirable. It cuts without breaking, and it is free from grit, that abominable nuisance in sketching. I shall certainly lay in a stock of them.—l am, dear Brockedon, you very truly, CLARKSON STANFIELD. Pr", C. Wilson, Esq. Director Of the Government School of you my opinion of the e Design, Somerset House. send me ; they are excgliceiciiis which Dear Sir,—l hasten to r satisfaction ; and it is Somerset House, Feb. 9, 1846. eply to your request that I w t elilarly gratif y ing would give pencil which, like yours n h g av to e b b e e a e b n le so to g par i t. I have never used pencils with more its point so well, and yei willall. bear pressure without breaking, keep o p o r d ocu m re t a o me to answer in every res tw of marking firmly. They seem to achrdre the ingenious pr pec your description of them, and I greatly the lead.—l remain very faitan y which you succeeded in preparing W. Broekedon, Esq. —3' yours, From Charles Barry, Es C. H. WILSON. cl., RA., F.R.A.. & c. My dear Sir, — Having now had the Westminster, F e b. 27, 1846 . pieta trial ef the l ea d made of your e o pportunity of making a com were so good as to s en d to me a short repared Plurnbago which you sure to announce to you that they are time since, I have the plea sew all the requisites for architecture o f excellent quality, and pos- I remain, my dear Sir, most truly yourr well as artistic drawings.— From Thomas Creewick, CH ARLES BARRY. Esq., R.A. Aril ,1846. My dear Sir,—l am quite ash amed that I have only in p the last few d ays had an opportunity of trying as I wished the pencils you were are especially suited fo r d rawing upon wood, the compact ood enough to send me. 1 thi n k them by far the best I have ever n used, e ss andthey q quality of the lead making a clearer and more distinct lino titan any pencils I have before used.—Belleve me, my dear Sir, ever truly yours, TIIO3IAS CRESWICK, W. Brockedon, Esq. Esq., the Eminent Draftsman and Engraver on Wood. . ...al a pencil in my From William narveYt 29, Portland-termce, Regent's Park, Fe , - - • My dear Sir,—To a man v no lives as I do. ‘''' ...-. 12,1846. it is impossible to estimate the ^..„; relyiptatton of. __ mfort of having It of the vid friendship, low prices, or do quelt recommet-J s el.._ , ~ ou eau rcr lead me to au acknowledgment of !ts virtu'? ...".., T • 1:1--,- flit, te , ted. it b.:- rry nvm .n.rut - i.tictt Your boat quality allty ; and nn ' il ' l '.., ef„ , lie 1` . .., I:.ti e•i 's. ,''',:!',l . .7 - i.,,, y •; , :tti.,:c h?:1 )..en f, t o ":iatisted by things which were getting daily worse, and I set to Work on thorn at once; the result has been highly satisfactory ; they are everything I could wish them to be. The softer numbers are what I have not met with for years, stud the harder sorts carry with them a depth of colour which no other pencils, that I know of, can approach ; and this is without the risk of mapping off the point, which is the torment, of all others, the most vexatious : this has never once happened tome with yours, and e l have us at one of the HHII nearlya month. There is no affectation in declaring that I ant deeply:grateful foryour discovery, and though latein mal thug this acknowledgment to you, I have lost no opportunity meanwi die in endeavouring to make the great qualities cf your pencils as popular as they deserve to be.— I am, my dear Sir, yours always truly, W. Brookedon, Esq. WILLIAM HARVEY. From Professor Brande, F.P;.S &c. Sto. &c. ltoyal Mint, Feb. 13, 1846. tify dear Sir—My opinion respecting your Patent Piambago amounts to this ; that by much ingenuity you have overcome nume rous diffieulties, in the way of compress 'rig comminuted plumbago into a solid mass of an extraordinary, N >m9geneOus, and uniform character ; that the fracture and texture tof that-which you have so consolidated se closely resembles the fib ti at natiVe specinsens as to render it extremely difficult, if not hill iiussible, todikinguish be tween your artificial product and that of ;the finest quality obtained from the mines ; that the pencils from yor, , r manufacture are, as far as my judgmcat enables me to determlnv , 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 then brittle on the one hand, or pulverulent en the other.—Yours alwa:ra _very sincerely, Wm. Brockedon, Esq. W M. THOS. BRANDE. From Francis Ronalds, Esq., F.R.S., &c. , , of the Kew Observatory, " Kew Observatory, Monday. _ _ . My dear beg your pardon for It:caving so long delayed to express my opinion of your patent lead it. pencils ; but I do not regret very much the omission, because It has given me time to test the specimens fairly whilst making my die wings for the report con cerning this Observatory to the British A sst)ciation. I may conscientously say that I never used a pencil—l speak of the HH at this moment—with more sat i9faction. It was smooth, equally bard throughout, and possessed a. quality which 'the harder sort of pencils hitherto used are deficient is., viz., blackness. Before I had tried them all, Baron de Walterhausen and Professor Kriel, of Prague, came here, and were fm enamoured of them that they not only took them per force, but almost abused me for not being able 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 IS future. 'Yours very sincerely, FRANCIS RONALDS. William Brockedon Esq. _ _ From Major-General Colby, RE., &c„ &c., &c., of the Ordnance Snrv®s Ordnance Map-office, Bette! iampton, Jan 24, 1846. My dear reply to your letter c 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 ckWelity and quite free from grit, —Yours very truly, - THOS. COLBY. Prom Charles O.Lewis, Zsq.,:Engraver. My dear Sir,—l have only just now core menced using the pencils you were so kind to send to me ; they are the s beet I have ever used, so very free from grit ; they are just the 'Wing for the use I am now making of them, viz., reducing. The Hll is quite delightful to draw with, and a great relief after the many gril.t y pencils I have been in the habit of using, and which break incesstst itly. I regret that I had non earlier an opportunity of giving them se fiiir trial. Believe me, dear Sir, yeedrs very faithfully, Wm. Brockedon, Esq. CHAS. G. LEWIS. From Mr. Roberson, Artists' Colourt nan, Long Acre. 51, Lon g Acre, Jan. 10, 1846. Dear Sir,—All who have had to contes d with the faultiness of genuine Cumberland lead for some years pai st, 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 fhlly warrant me in say ing that the Arts are now independent o the natural production, Cumberland lead.—l remain, my dear Kir„ yours very sincerely, CUIARLES ROBERSON. W. Brockedon, Esq From J. T. Willimort, A.E. 23, Polygon, Jan. 1846. My dear Sir,—l have tried your pencils bvtli 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, which is not the ease with pencils generally; they also leave a clear and excellent transfer upon the Melling groand.—l remain, dear Sir, yours faithfully, JAS. T. WILLMORE. To W. Brockedon, Esq. From Mr. Edward Dtmcan. 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 pal ent 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 ♦ery truly, To William Brockedon, Esq., F.R.B. E. DITNCAN. Extract from " Elements of Art," by 3. D. Harding, Esq., p. 94. TIIE BEST APERIENT AND ANTEEILIOUS MEDICINE FOR GENERAL USE Is FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH which effectually relieves the stmr.ach and bowels by gentle relaxa tion, without griping or prestra,tion of strength. They remove head -ache, sickness, dizziness, pains' in the chest, &e., are highly gratetul to the stomach, promote digestion, create appetite, relieve languor and depression of spirits ; while to those of a full habit, and free livers, who are continually suffering from drowsiness, heaviness, and singing in the head and ears, they offer advantages that will not to be appreciated. This Medicine has for many years received the approval of the most respectable classes of society, and in confirmation of its effi cacy, the following letter has been kindly forwarded to Mr. Prout, with permission to publish it, and, if requisite, to refer any respect able person to its author:— g H a e b a l v l e t t r o e e t , ear Exeter, m y stron April2a4n, and ill 0. " To Mr.yront, 229, Strand, London. " Srs,—l feel pleasure in belt: cited testimony to the excellence of your " Frampton's Pill of Health," which I consider a most safe, elilcacious, and very superior general medicine. The widow of an o ffi cer, 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 01 n which she ind uce d a person first box herself, they have p rove d of pi and and su p p in li e o d n t e h i e n s fi t extraordinary efficacy. I think, th a t per h aps there is scarcely any tteheamdo extensively, tt h e n they of the many patent me'. .aeines before the public of equal value s a " friend in need" — cer'atinly none possessed of superior claims shall be happy on all (.:elisions to give them my individua recom mendation, and am, Sir, " Your obedient servant, * * "si •., 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 OF HEALTH, and observe the name and address of ' Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," on the Government S tamp. 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 bo o k s f or th e 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 ejPctments 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 : " Ballinrobe, Jan. 28. " Deari:r ust got your letter of yesterday, and re gret to saythst 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 N 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, Mountjr,p.square, North, Dublin." The Learned Gentleman then rea,,,l the following letter from his clerk : . " Castlebar, Jan. 30, 1847. " Sir,—l came from Ba i . l itirobe last night, after seeing Mr. Glides. He told m P .• that ho wrote to you not to send me to Ballinrobe, information as was out of his power to give you the you Y about the number of civil bills and ejectinent:,, brought at the last sessions. No—not for a thousand guineas. He said he would not expose the land lords et: Mayo ; and what is more, be 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, "P. 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 t o t h e H ouse 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 leave the county Mayo, and seek an asylum in England or elsewhere, to avoid the consequences of the " de crees" obtained against them. l • decided that Mr. O'Flahe r ty s h ou l d be selected to oppose the Solicitor - General in Galway, th e gen tleman selected by the Young Ireland party to contest the town having refused. It was unanimously The meeting then adjourned. The rent for the week was announced to be 27/. 7s. Ild. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —TEAS AT WHOLESALIti RicF . No. 2, BUCKLEESBURY, CIIEAPSIDE.--Yainifi eg consumption is large, and study eeono-- 0 , 7 --1 • whore will d erive considerable advantage at this eo . ' , ~.,,,,,'" bn ' t o ne nni form price is affixed, by ,•-' . -16°118 ' ll "`" ---- ----- pound can obtain ;, ...del\ the pUrchaser of a single Black Tea _ _., oti tht3 talmh tOrins as the trade. Gm- - . -;;Ns. SI-, '?;s., 3s. 4d, 39. 8d , 49., 4s. 4d., ss. wholesale i t -.::;:s.. 4d. 1 68. Ad.. 4s.i 49: 4d., as., (-44 75. Conk* ..... .. % .9 d .%.§d. 10d 1 -ls 2d Is 4d is. 0., Is. Bd. One pound lint free 'to‘ any part of towli, Orders from the c ountry* forwarded' the same day; and when the quantity is . ; :fdr,6lls..teight (tea only), the carriage is paid wo e to i anyk. ' V a n of England.—MANsELL and Co. Oilers, 2, Bucklersbury, Cheapside. at Liver" . 1 , • of his age. C U ll i a l P tl e T i i t e: ai i d2 :l 6lerrP: ::. -t e i t r:iy 3 :o t i f n l -41 0 t ( ,1!e . : n i “ t i h l -I Z e o l fictlisrl:''' ear f e d i le t ' A r i ° x l i f i r' a r - Mae ni e .i> l3 root g i s sh ai o r p e,o h o u p s er b a e o e f n 7, d h ra e zi wi a o t.2 o , o‘ e r xle r. t i o lf .s u . t houses 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. AUL AIRE. 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 .1 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 bringiag at last this debate to an effective close. I. Lord Palmer6ton, 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 -1 duced, while at the same the absence of official record is made the ground for repudiating facts and documents which are found to' be iaconvenient, And'especially the L. memorandum of Februatrtge - Thh, 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. Geizot will only bring to mind the circumstances connected with the engagements of the Chateau d' En, he will easily see that her Majesty's Government might acquire a Itn Oh l C ge of those engagements without the aid of any record iu 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, 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 haw bc( n 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 G,tvern ment ; they are, in the same way as the affair,: tht m 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 Montpensier the hand either of the Queen or of the Infanta. Now, that same 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, 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 thorn 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 w hi c h, 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 made 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 turn take an account of that warning with regard to their own conduct. There are in such a proefectiug no pretensions put forward u hich it may be necessary for Lord Palmerston either to repudiate or to acquiesce in ; it is merely a determination of the French Government, made known at several time.: 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 wh en f acts sa y "yes," no one can repudiate that answer. 111. "If the French Government," says Lord P timer ston (paragraph 6th), " meant to plead that na , morandum as a justification for any steps w bich -they intended to take, they ought surely to have made it know n to the British Government before these steps were taken. But that memorandum could not have been produced with out raising a discussion about the intended marriage of the Duke de Montpeusier, and it suited better the views of the French Government to keep t h a t marriage en tirely in the back groun d, t ill t h ey could announce it as a settled arrangement." The King's Gov ernment h ave no t in any WILY sought to evade a discussion about the intended marrisge, of the Duke de Montpensier; neither had they any motive to to provoke such a discussion, as they did not mean been distinctly manifested, and must have alter in any way their former intentions, which had Lord Pal known to the British Government. It was . f duties o merston's province, who was assuming the and office, to provoke upon that subject conversationsben under explanations, for it was he who must have e n to us, and the necessity of making his views know Now, making himself thoroughly acquainted with ou r s. hemoment been ll from the time of his coming into o when the two marriages were annou address a stop did not put a single question to us, nor one cosier. single word to us, on that of the Duke de Di° p de Jarnac, be Had he mentioned the subject to Count tions and would have received from him all the explana B t h hed for. u e informations which he might have wishe most absolute uniformly maintained in that respect t motive of such a e ffi e c e e d, te Lo t rd Palmer silence. I will not inquire into t the French Government Government," says Lord Pal_ IV. " Her Majesty's 7), "do not repudiate the memo randummerston (paragraph that lontpen -1846, because they conduct, but the fact should not be la e id to the charge of of the 27th of February, I have contingency which was specified in already shown, the case which would release the that memorandum, as the . from their previous engagement French Government opinion, justify the • and which would, in their fthe Duke k de in in ask ingfind it inconvenient. For, on the contrary, as had actually ur danger e nger u e sier (that is to say, an imminent the Queen P r i nc e not descended from Philip V.), might marry a and, moreover, as I stated in my for mernever happened ; become impossible at the time when Count Bresson asked the the hand of the Infanta the Duke, because, at that time hand of the Infanta for of the Queen with a descendant of Philip the marriage V. had already been s ettled. There is in that paragrap h b a strange confusion. Al though the official and pulic demand, by Count Bees son, of the hand of the Infanta for the Duke do l'ont pensier was posterior to the official and p u bli c decla ration of the Queen's m arriage with the Duke of Cadiz, it is notorious that both marriages had been setticel 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 Palmerstone--natnelY, the chance that the Queen might marry a Prince not descended from Philip T.-- was removed. If, at the time when Connt Bre son asked publicly the hand of the Inlantt for the Duke de Montpensier, the Queen's marriage with a descendant of a" ) V, had akeacly been settled, it is because the momentßi received tis G o: t e h r n e in " e e l :: r f e o srponci-es of thct Queen and Int'anttt Ber, find (page 8) an * P.S. I haVe this ahrriag ence relating to the re wh. C TUIIS TIM :- of Spain," printed b3 ' t•• 43 dI th com munication to Parliament , 1 , ,, rd Cowley to L ,, r(l Pal extract of a dispatch from . ~; h " The intelligence of a proposai occa sioned been made for merston, dated July 23, 1646, sainonajer the e o g w r i e t a h te a s t consternation Princeof thellhoeurbe:: of Coburg M. Guizot told me that, if the project was persisted in, be should re .• Wilt commend tee King to put forward the Due (K. pensier as a candidate for the Queen's hand." Thus, to late as the 13th July, Lord Palmerston duo receive from the British ambassador at Paris the poei- tivp declaration of the intentionn of thp Ki r , , , G ,,,,, r „. mem, in case the C o burg („•tAu;)ittatiott bhouicthe pot iir ward, and, on the 19th of July, he wrote leis dispatch to Mr. Bulwer, which was putting forward the chance of Prince Leopold itt Coburg. Third Edition.. " Recently the quality of lead pencils, 'both for purposes of art and for general use, has been greatly improvelLin consequence of the dis covery, made by my friend Mr. Brockedon, of the mode of preparing pure plumbago. For years no fresh lead bas 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 difficult, some times impossible, to efface their markings. By Mr. Brockedon'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 improvernentln 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. Lead pencils frem 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 Horner, V.P.R.S., President of the Society. "Everyyear 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, acoempanied 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 conchiiidal fracture, and undistin guishable from the most compact nalive black lead, shows that pres sure alone may convert fine detrital matter into solid stone. ‘‘ 29, Devonshire-street, Queen-aquas, Bloom—sbut:y1;". QEWELL and CO., have purchased, by tender of ►0 the Assignees of Mr. Johnstone, Silk Mercer, &c., lamb's Conduit-street, the whole of his valuable STOCK of SILKS, Linen drapery, Hosiery, and Fancy Goods, at the large discount of 31 s 4 per cent. from the cost price. The. goods, which are all new and in ex cellent condition, will be offered for SALE, en their premises, next MONDAY, Feb. Bth, and ten following clays, when the public will have an opportunity of buying some really serviceable, as well as Fancy Goods, at little mere than hall the regular prices. Compton House, 44, 45, and 46, Old Corupton-street, and 46 and 47, Frith-street, Soho-square. . S 4r- FEBRUARY 4 ) 1847. 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 Augcist, 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 taka 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'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 when the Queen of Spain should have been married, and should have 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,- Jim 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 divest 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 tome. 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 ?" Luid Plltnerston here again forgets that if the mar riege of thi Queen of Spain with a descendant of Philip V. w•as decided upon on the 28th of August last, it is because the marriage of the Infanta with the Duke de Ntontpensier was agreed upon and settled at the same Lima. VII. " 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 j• sty'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 February 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." a t rhrey good de faith b t t toa d de claree The French Government never had th e p re t ens i on to sccoemnpdea b in e t f th o oe re f i Cl i P a a n he d ilein w p h Vo a f t . S it pß s au p int ol i i t c t : h - a w md ould 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 l2th 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 Paula," as the only candidates for the hand of the Queen ; add htahvoeseontlhyreteo c e a x n p d v i e d s a s t t e h s ei h r e s r ine lN e i v a e - Y an b d e fall h a p u p i p n o e n s s t h o e f o t n h e e w Q h n o e e m n a to promote tote welfare of the Spanish nation." ji m w ne i sg o s t s h y t t sh l h i aG k a t t e o l t l y ‘ h ‘e e rb t n o e c na h t s ; e' ei c nce u ten r e m t a h y e W ere those instructions of Lord Palmerston similar to the previolis instructions of Lord Aberdeen? Did they point out none but the same candidates? And when one single candidate , the Infant Don En rique,of June, was to mentioned, theD k L e o n r f d u Aberdeen did write, on the candidate or English preference, to point out the Infant Don Enrique as the prince who appeared to them most e li g ible, because the most likely to prove acceptable to the people of Spain." Now, what did Lord Palmerston, in bis turn, write to Lord Normanby as b e i ng t h e sub stance of his recent instructions to Ml. Bulwer ? It is the opinion of her Majesty's Government that " Don Enrique i 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 ? MIL "M. Guizot again reverts," says Lord Pal merston (paragraph 13), " to my despatch of the 19th of July to Mr. Buln•er, and states that, whatever may have been my intention, the mere order in which the name of the Prince of Coburg was mentioned in tl►al 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 choice falling upon Prince Leopold of Coburg , or else why should not Lord Pal►nerston have omitted him as well as Count Trapani and Count Montemolin ? After having himself thus established that there was a chance for the Priuco 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 went. 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 candidate for the hand of the Queen of Spain besides the Infant Don Enrique, who appears, says Lod 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 o tw sons of Don Franci sco de Paula, whom Lord Palmer ston represents as equally eligible, and equally acceptable to the British Government. IX. "M. Guizot," says Lord Palmerston (paragraphs 16, 16, and 17) " points out that in a passage in my ;spat , h of the 31st of October, in which there is a +ion 1,,a1 Lis previ-me d'a^ateb of the sth of Ivoids which were not in his dis -n placed between inverted commas. This correct. The passage in question in 31st of October, begins with a Toth. )otot , er, patch have be, remark is prfeet*., my dispatch of t'ga 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 e 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 pundtuation 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 *s6 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 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 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 giyen by Lord Palmerston, any more thati — l 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. ";ti. 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, lie did not think himself at liberty, without Lord Aberdeen's per mission, to say from whom it came. This might be a reason fur 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. 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 fibres 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 afte'r 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 misincormed 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 hai;e 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. Ile now acknowledges that the treaty of - Utrecht does not pro hibit such a marriage, but be 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 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 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 asked Lord Palmerston if he ever thought of disputing the title of Ferdinand VIL 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, as 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 do not po ssess an d cannot transm i t tu 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 Treats' of Utrecht, and which would materially affect that very treaty, and the balance of European power which has been founded by it. XIII. " M. Guiaot," 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 cught 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 royal person ever could or ought to be pro nounced, in any way, in a diplomatic correspondence. How 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 made use of it several times in my dispatch of the sth of October, 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. in "The France, lii n g can do no wrong," is, in England as well as the fundamental principle of constitutional monarchy. It is that principle which I have appealed to when Lord Palmerston seemed to me to have forgotten it, and he actually forgot it on several occasions. mention two instances. I will merely Ist. In his dispatch of the 31st of October, after men tioning the engagement taken at Eu, in September 1845, " by his Majesty the King of the French and by his Mi nister," Lord Palmerston says, that the purpose of the memortndum of the 27th of February, 1846, was " that the King of the French 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, (Signed) GUIZOT. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, FXB, 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. P. SYMONS, Vice-Chancellor. Delegates' Room, Feb. 1, 1847. DUTIES OF CURATORS, ADDITIONAL. To employ 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 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 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 during 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 is 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 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 for five years only, but to be re-eligible. To be removable at any time with the concurrence of at least five curators. OF TIIE TCHERS. To be resident in th DUTIES e University EA 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. *,* 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 be completed, 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 beep. 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 IiOSI'ITAL, CHATHAM. A series of surgical operations were performed at the Ge neral Hospital, Fort Pitt, Chatham, on Wednesday last, in presence of Dr. F renc h_ P.M . 0. , and all the medical officers of the establishment, the patients, previous to operation, having been each subject e d t o th e 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, declured 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 soldier of the 37th Regiment. This pa tient, after inhaling the ether vapour for two or three mi nutes, was declared to be in 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 of the sawing of 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 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 hie 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-Burgeon 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 ment 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 selves, 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 only 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 mited. 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 work 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, in 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 land, the pro bability is that we shall have another year of suffering and want, even more lamentable than the present one . , In Limerick, Cork, and several other towns, whet= oats have receded in price, in consequence of incr ea sed country supplies during the last e fe& v d e a rn yc ni , perhaps, by fears, arising from Go v ernm ent u mea suresinduced, mean: sou temporary.—Northern this increase of supply is bea;v heavy but, as fassgtehneesrtaolclyk supposed,i farmers' tihr s ha n ds fn is b e by fe n ar o e m d Whig. NEW' WORK ON PORTUGAL.--A work has just appeared, entitled " A Journey Overland to Lisbon ; with a Picture of the Actual State of Spain and Portugal," from the pen of the author of " Revelati;,;ll of Spain," which is likely fully to gratify the curiosity of the public respecting the present crisis in the affairs of these nations. The author's journey was performed during the height of the ferment occaed by the Montpensier marriage, and he arrived at Lliffoon on the very day of the outbreak of the late Revolution, of which he has given the history in full, following the resent civil war through 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 from a previous residence in it of six years, during which time he enjoyed the best position for securing correct information relative to all that took place at Court, and for becoming acquainted with the movements of political men and parties. The whole history of the Montpensier mar riage, and the international law which it violates, is given in tke chapters on Madrid, where the question is more fully discussed than it has hitherto been ; and to a number of curious anecdotes, and much secret history connected with both Courts, the author adds personal sketches of the Boyal Families, and of every leading man in Spain and Portugal, taken from the life. HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY, EDINBURGH.-The Court met on Monday to try Wm. Boyne, farmer, Elgin, who was libelled with seven charges of forgery by bills, to the amount of nearly 9001. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, and a great number of witnesses were examined in support of the charges. Mr. Cranford having addressed the Jur for the Crown, and Mr. Inglis in behalf of the prisoner, th Lord Justice Clerk summed up, and the Jury returned verdict of not guilty. The Court adjourned at half-put five o'clock—Edinburgh 4dvcrttser. ' v 'ence, must lence. 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