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EA* - • I , ?pa the js % WON TilE COATtI.4II'Y7t J rrn 22. 1847. fur LETTING the CITY'S LANDS will MEET at GU/LEIIALL on WEDNESDAY, the 057 of February ivxt, a One o'Cleck preisely, to receive' .t.Atirifts fer LETTING on t LEASE a HOUSE, c ' No. 19, on 'the' -a!orth Side or/lived-street Buildings, and a HOUSE, No. P, Windsor ",ts Stockwell -street, f9r 21 years„froni Lady.dAy next anti also . USE, No. 2, Beehive-passage, Lime-street , tur 13 years, from adY-day next. Eurtter particulars may be obtained, and Plans seen, by ap- I l Ythg at the Oflice'of Wotks, Guildhall. THOMAS SAUNDERS, Comptroller. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSI:ITUI'ION. PROFESSOR SCHCENBEIN'S GUN COTTON, and other ?plosive Compounds, with brilliant Experiments, LECTURED on 1 ): Dr. RYAN, daily at Half past Three o'clock; and on the Evening , of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. _ The principle of th e v arious ELFCTRO-MAGNETIC TELE !It-APIIS explained daily by Professor BACHHOFFNER, including the Patent of Messrs. Cook and Wheatstone, in use on the railways, and 3.fe more r ecen t P a t ent of M essrs . N o tt and Gamble ; the various 'Whited explained. Magnified Specimens of DISEASED POTATOES , 'Whited by the OXYIIYDROGEN MICROSCOPE, with the DE !trRUCTIVE INSECT. supposed by A. Smee, Esq , F.R.S., to be the cause of the disease. A beautiful Series‘ of NEW DISSOLVING VIEWS. The DIVING-BELL and DIVER, with Experiments. The PHYSIOSCOPE, new CHROMATROPE, 14c . Esc. Admission U. Schools, half-price. CONTRACT FOR WASTE PAPER.- Notice is hereby given that the Postmaster-General is pre mred to receive Tenders for the•purchase of the WASTE PAPER Of this Department. Every Tender must be addressed "to her MAJESTY'S POST AI...STEIL GENEitAL." and must be superscribed " TENDER. FOR WASTE PAPER," Aitd no Tender will be received after Twelve e'clock noon on the 2 2,1 of Feb, nary next. Full Particulars and information on the subject may be obtained at the Dead Letter Office of this Department. on application at that 4111 U, between the hours of Ten a. it., and Four r. Oeneral Post-office. Jan. 22, 1847. TO THE TEA-DRINKERS tbroug KINGDOM. ;pout the A 7l Much has been sald anCi;rlttenTuivocatisig a Itrdm present high rate of the Tea Duties, we will endeavour Present market value of- TEAS, which the public now wi all deseriptione, pay a duty of 2e. 2% it. upon every pour teflon of the to show the rell know, on Coat in China, with F,spensesl of Importation, Lc. belling price t "Number One." . BLACK. Congou— Neceil leaf kinds Blackish leaf .. Strong ditto.... Pekoe flavour • • Souchong • Flowery Pekoe Orange Pekoe .. s. d. s. d. 11 to 13 taels, or 0 911 to 0 11 14 .. 16 task, 0 11i.. 1 1 18 .. 21 taels, I 2.. 1 4 7/I 39 taxis, •• 1 b .. 2 2 16 .. 61 task, 110 3 4 31 .. 84 taels, 110.. 4 6, 18 •. 54 taels, .. 1 3 3 01 Twankay llyson.. ...... Young Ilyson • • Imperial •• •• Gunpowder ... 'l3 .. 23 tack, .. 0 11 • • 1 6! 2 2 1 4 20 .. 71 taeLs, .. 1 7 .. 3 10' 2 2 1 4 20 .. 54 tads, . 1 3 .• 3 0' 2 214 8.. 51 tacit, •.1 8 .. 3 W 2 2 1 4 35 . 85 taels, .• 2 0 .. 4 81 2 214 Now these teas are all good of their several kinds. some of them exceedingly fine, and of a qualtty very rarely to be met with. At one penny per pound profit they will be supplied to the trade and all large c o nsumers, in lots and quantities to suit the most extensive de =ands. As will ha noshed by the above list, se It is a well-known tact, that the original cost of finest Congou tea is over 39 tnels, or 23. 2d. per potind, whfeh, 'with duty added, makes 4s. 4 1 4 d. per Mound. We have, ever since we began selling teas at Number One, sold this description at 4s. 6d. per pound. Hundreds and thousands - Of people have, tried it. and can vouch fer its strength and richness of flavour. Nobody ever finds fault with it, and it pleases every body, because it is both good and cheap. When, Government falls the duty, we will fall the price of tea in the same ratio, at Number One, and publish it to the world. All purchasers will be allowed one Pound on every 30 pounds as overweight. DAKIN and Co.. Tea-merchants, Number One, St. Paul's Churchyard. fI°STUN, STAMFORD, and BIRMINGHAM RITLWAY.—(STAMFORD and WISBEACH LINE). Notice is hereby given, that the ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY SLEETING of the SLIAREIIOLDERS of this Company will be held, Pursuant to the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway Act, 111, (Stamford and Wisbeach Line), on WEDNESDAY, the 17th day of February next, at the Company's offices, 18, Abingdon-street, Westminster, at One o'clock in the afternoon precisely, for the pur pose of transecting such business as is required by the Act of Parlla. Silent to be performed. ti4od notice is hereby also given, that immediately on the terming or the said Ordinary Half-yearly Meeting, an EXTRA.ORDI U„ UY and SPECIAL MEETING of the Shareholders of this Corn- F.loy will be held at the Company's Offices aforesaid, for the purpose f confirming or otherwise an Agreement entered Into by the Direc tors of the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway Company with the Directors of the Great Northers Railway Company, for the galle and sale of the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway, and Its Ext ens i on, to the G rea t N or th er n Railway Compeny, upon the terms and conditions mentioned in such Agreement, and promul rod 10 the Shareholders in the report (resented to and adopted by _ e General Meeting of the Shareholders, held at the Company's to o s t tl a c tim e b son itt t g e 22d day of December last. And also for the purpose to and obtaining the confirmation of the Shareholders shoat to of the several Bills hereina ft er mentioned , which are to be introduced into Parliament in the present Sessions, viz. wA. Bill to empow er th e B os t on , Stamford. and Birmingham Rail- R.% C°mPany to make a Railway from the Syston and Peterborough i ,'"_•.l, at or near Peterborough, to tke Stamford and Wisbeach ""-• fo o the Boston, Stamford, and Blrmlagham Railway, in the h Thorny and Isla of Ely. ~,,,1 311 1 to empower the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Rail- Wh Company to make a Branch Railway from the Stamford and at l)!a eh Line of th e B os t on , St am f or d, an d Birmingham Railway, Wisbeach,, to Wisbeach Harbour, and to construct certain works •,ulbeach harbour. wa4tytlii to empower the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Rail- I b l u e n S ri P4 d 4 g Y o. M to make a Railway from Wisbeach to Sutton .bridge, t _Branch to Sutton.. Mary, and to improve the Harbour at THOMAS MACULAY, Chairman. GEORGE HUSSEY PACKE, Vice-Chairman. Comp .., GEORGE SAWARD, Secretary. an/ a Offices, 18, Abingdon. street, Westminster, Jan. 20, 1847. BUN, STAMFORD, and BIRMINGHAM lau, LINE . ~ AX COMPANY.—STAMFORD AND WISBECH I Cotice i g hare s .. I he rebY given, that the Sealed Certificates for the Reduced tam, • "nie Company will be ready for Delivery on and after Sa- Abi Y ' the 30th of January, the Office of the Company, 18, y, at ugdon-street. 18, Abi GEO. SAWARD, Secretary. n gdox-atreet, Jan. 26, 1847. __, LONDO N and NORTH-WESTERN I, ll)Trriss RAILWAY. bee HEREBY GIVEN, That all ARTICLES which have I.OLIFT in the CARRIAGS of the Company, or have been al Upon the RAILWAY, b e t een the Ist of January and the December, 1845, an d w hi c h are not CLAIMED w ithi n ONE TII &out the date hereof, will be SOLD to defray expenses. MARK Gbn eral Managers Office, E u st on St a ti on , London, IaULSIL 27th January, 1547. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ABSUR AWE SOCIETY. 26 CORNIIILL, LONDON. Capital .f.,500,000. Empowered by Act •f Parliament,. This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages :nth respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for elture of the Policy, two-thirds of the 'premiums paid (see Table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion •f his in erests to meet other conveniences or necessity. fetes As surances for terms of years are granted OR the lowest possible DIVISION OF PROFITS. The remarkable success and increasing prosperity of the Society AAA enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a fourth bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent, on the premiums paid an each Policy effeetud on the Profit scale. EXAMPLES. i s . ogp Bona! , Bonus in ~ g Assured u Premium. t added. Cash. n 6; may g y Borrow. 1837 £217 15 1 £lOO 011 £l6 0 4 ! £445 0 0 £ £s. d. 1338 192 3 87 1 4 13 10 2' 395 11 1 Di 1000 3 4 1839 165 11 10 74 1 9 11 3 1 346 2 3 1840 116 7 6 54 010 718 10 296 13 4 1841 111 6 S 49 10 0 710 4 247 4 5 The division of profits Is annual, and the next will be made in December of the present year. F. FERGUSON CAXItOUX. Secretary. COMMERCIAL and GENERAL LIFE AS SURANCE, ANNUITY, FAMILY ENDOWMENT, AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, 112, CREAPSIDE, LONDON. HENRY GEORGE WARD, Esq., M.P., Chairman. Assurances effected on every known system ; immediate and de erred annuities, endowments, &c.; 6 per cent interest !allowed on The paid-up eapital ; loans granted to policy holders upon real and 4Prored personal smutty; a liberal:commission allowed to solici tors and agents. JAMES DANIELL, Secretary. DISEASED AND HEALTHY LIVES ASSURED. MEDICAL, INVALID, and GENERAL LIFE OFFICE, 25, PALL-MALL, LONDON, and 22, NASSAU STREET, DUBLIN. Subscribed Caital, 0,0001. This office 'was established in 1841, and possesses tables formed on a scientific basis for the assurance of diseased lives. The urgent necessity for such an institution may be estimated by the fact that two-thirds of the population are not assurable as healthy lives, and that about one in five of the applicants to other offices is declined on examination. And that during the period of five years, as shown at the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors in November last, upwards of 2,000 PrePosals had been made to the Society, covering Assurances to above One Million. It is the only Company possessing tabulated rates of premiam for disease deduced from extensive data. Increased annuities are granted en Unsound Lives. HEALTHY LIVES, both at Home and in Foreign Climates, are Assured with as much facility and at lower rates than at most other offices; and a capital of Half-a-Million sterling fkilly subscribed affords a complete guarantee for the fulfilment of the Company's engagements. FRANCIS G. P. .NEISON, Actuary. N.D. Applicattona for Agencies to be made to the Actuary. IFENCER'S CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYE. The thousands of individuals who for upwards of twenty Tears have used this celebrated liquid, pronounce it to be the only article extant which effectually changes, in a few minutes, red or grey hair, whiskers, moustaches, &c., to a dark brown or black, Without trouble (by simply combing it through the hair), and pro duces by one application a pleasing and permanent change ; and it can be incontestibly proved, that while many dyes tend to destroy the hair by th6ir pernicious properties and dangerous process of ap- Plication, that this article promotes the growth of hair, nourishing the roots till the latest period of life. Price as. 6d., 65., and les Per kettle. TO tilted of the Proprietors, 25, Nottingham -place, Fioldgate street, Whiteehapel-road. London ; also of Mr. Johnstone, 68, Corn hill ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Prout, 229, Strand ; Sanger, 150, Oxford street ; Barclay, Parringdon-street ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond street; Hooper, 43, King William-street, London bridge ; Pinnigin, Id/hem-street, Bath ; Elmore, Bull-street, Birmingham ; and of mos Perfumers and Medicine Vendors in town and country. Sent to any part of the kingdom by receiving a remittance, pest-paid. Please to ask for " Spencer and Co.'s Chinese Liqaid Hair Dye." Obaarve. the Proprietor's address is on the wrapper. _---- - - ._ 1 F , RAM rroNis PILL OF HE A L'l II The manifold advantages to the heads of families from the Possession of a Medicine of known efficacy, that may be resorted to With confidence, and used with success in cases of temporary sick. nes*, occurring in families more or less every day, are so obvious to rel g e h r a t a n o t questionhe kingdom. n be raised of its importance to every ho use . From among numerous testmoulals, the 6110 Wing is respectfully submitted :- 12, 1642. a n rr R e h a : s r; e , r March icnos . " TO Itt. ,, T s ll , Ojt o e o s p Cooper -street, 1 - s ° t u r e r e ' t 2, 9 14 trials, of ~ FRAMPTON'S PILL Sir ,—I have much satisfaction in communicating to you the re- Stilt ef my experienee, after repeated edlcines, I have never found OP HEALTH, and I feel it but justice to state, that in the course of ~_lttacY Years' trial of various Aperient M e so salutary little inconvenience ; I am .sults at onc and efficient in the relief of the system —rn redundant bile, Scc Esc.. with so a meant therefore, warranted in declaring that they supply to me °,lB W anting, of being able to recommend to families, schools, and lel ' eel anY mercantile men, whether at the desk or on the road, a most 'cal lab le reeource I n a n occas i ona l me di c ine. And I shall take eredit to of making ,s m Yself if, in g i v i ng th i s testimony, I am t h e me ans ILM PTON'S PILLS more generally known and appreciated. " I Th am, Sir, respectfully yours," WILLIAM SMITH."e unprecedentd sale of these Pills, arising from the earn be est ue r fl e- t 'cotnntendations of the many thousands who have derivedt are tortNM their use, render any lengthened comment necessary ; liable, hey but ....Pti,,t, forth as a curefor .t.,„Pwoua and Liver Complaints, with their many well-known at. all diseases to which mankind is s h ,,„ -- " a cts, Bilious:and Sick Headache, Pain and Oppression after meals, -runes; Dizziness, Singing Noise in Head and Ears, Drowsiness, o_artaburn, Loss of Appetite, Wind, Spasms, km .. Tvg or three does will' convince . the afflicted of their salutary 'Z i c a l• 'Pike stomach will speedily regain its strength ; a heal st..d m a de Liver, Bowels, and Kidneys, vrill rapidly take place; ~,.. of listlessness, heat, pains, and jaundiced appearance, QII-tgth, activity, and renewed health, extending to good old age, ._ be the result of taking this Medicine, according to the directions w.o:"itripanyinhox. 15 t hY T. hut, 225, Strand, London. Price ls. 14d. and 2s. 9d. -4•'",„` Igdoni. , also by the Ventiors of Medicines generally throughout the ittk r i , , w__ r .317tilinows PILL OF HEALTII, and observe the 11 " —"'e an 4 "dr. " c't ! now rout 229 etrana, London," on the " i uncilUgiinp • _ _ British' Duty. 0. ti. 2 2M 2 2% 2 2% 2 2 1 4 2 2% 2 2% 2 2M d. e. d. 3 oto 3 2 3 3 .. 3 5 3 6 .. 3 3 3 9..4 6 3 4.. b 8 2..610 3 6..5 4 3 2..310 311..6 2 3 7..5 4 4 0..5 4 4 4..7 0 ~ - .. _. • . . - - .. • er Ut a 4.c/ 4. 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MIDDLESEX ELECTION The Committee for conducting the Election of Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR sit daily at the Central Committee Rooms, British Coffee House, Cockspur-street. S. C. WHITBREAD, Chairman. January 23, 1847. EAST INDIA HOUSE, JAN. 27, 1947. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby glie notice, Tbat the TRANSFER-BOOKS of the said COMPANY'S STOCK will be SHUT on THURSDAY, the 4th of March next, at Three o'clock, and OPENED AGAIN en THERSDAY, the 15th of April, following. That a GENERAL COURT of the said Company will be held at their House, in Leadenhall street, on WEDNESDAY, the 14th April, 1847, from Nine o'clock in the Morning until six o'clock in the Evening, for the ELECTION of Six DIRECTORS of the said Com pany for four years. That the Form of a Letter of Attorney and of a Declaration for enabling Proprietors of East India Stock to vote bysroxy on this occasion, may be obtained on application at the Treasury In this House. That the Lists of the Members of the said Company will be ready to be delivered on TUESDAY, the 30th March next. JAMES C. MELVILL Secretary. EAST INDIA HOUSE, .J.a.pr. 27, 1847. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of - the EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby ;eye notl.e, That a QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the said CO3l - will to held at their House, in Leadenball-street, on WED NESDAY, the 24th March, 1847, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon. JAMES C. MELVILL. Secretary. LIMBIRD'S MAGNUM BONUM PENS.- One dozen Pens and Holder for Sixpence, ss. the gross.— Stationery, Travelling Writing Desks, Envelope and Dressing Cases, Portfolios and Blotting-books, Inkstands, Gold and Silver ever pointed Pencil-cases, Pearl and 'vim) , Tablets, &c.; Bibles and Prayers, in plain and elegant bindings. Name plate engraved for 2s. 6d.; 100 beat cards, 2s. 6d. ; superfine letter-paper from 6s. the ream ; note-paper, from 3s. the ream; with every article of stationery, of the best quality and lowest prices. —At LIMBIRD's, 143, Strand, facing Catharine-street. Envelopes, 6d., 9d., and Is. the 100. PUBLICATIONS. NEW WORK BY MICHAEL ANGELO TITMARSH. On the 30th Instant will be published, to be continued in Monthly Parts, price Is. each, with numerous Illustrations on Steel and Wood, Part IL of VANIT Y F A IR: PEN AND PENCIL SKETCHES OF ENGLISH SOCIETY... By W. M. TRACKER. Y, Author of " Mrs. Perkins 's 8a11,7 " The Irish Sketch Rook ;" " Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo ;" of " Jeames's Diary ;" and the " Snob Papers" in Punch ; &c., &c. Bills and Advertisaments will be received at the Office, during the month. London :—Published at the " Punch" Office, 85, Fleet-street . J. Menzies, Edinburgh . J. 31.‘Leod, Glasgow ; J. M`Glashan, Dublin. NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF THE "NOVITIATE." On the 2d of February will be-published, in I vol. post Svo. V HE JESUIT in the FAMILY. 11 By ANDREW STEINMETZ. Author of "The Novitiate." London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill. ECRET POISONINGS. —The PEOPLE'S 1,7 PETITION' to Parliamen; for putting a step to the unre stricted sale of Prussic Acid, Arsenic, and other deadly chemical preparations, lies for signature at all the agents to the British Col lege of Health, New road, London. Copies of the Petition may be had on application. pERFECT FREEDOM. from COUGHS,7n Ten Minutes after use, Is ensured by DR. LOCOCK'S PUL3IONIC WAFERS. From Mr. W. H. Waterkouse, Chemist, George-street. Ashton. ender-Lyne. "Jan. 8, 1846. " Gentlemen,—One of our most respectable townsmen called upon me yesterday, and stated that he had , derived more benefit from Locock's Waters than from all the cough medicines he has used for the past five-and-twenty years. Several other cases equally remark able have been reported, so that the efficacy of the medicine in this district is new beyond dispute. (Signed) W. H. WATERHOUSE." Dr. LOCOCK'S WAFERS give instant relief, and a rapid cure of asthma, coughs, and all disorders of the breath and lungs. To SINGERS and PUBLIC SPEAKERS they are invaluable for clearing and , strengthening the voice ; they have a pleasant taste. Price Is. 1)4d., 2s. 9d., and I Is. per hex. Agents :—Da Silva and Co., 1, Bride-lane, Fleet-street, London. Sold by all medicine vendors. COUNTY RATES . AND THE MAIN- TENANCE OF PRISONERS. ------ The following letter from the Secretary of State bas been received by the Clerks of the Peace in the different counties of England relative to the removal from the county rates the charges for the maintenance of con• victed prisoners and placing it in future upon the Con solidated Fund : " Whitehall, Dec. 1846. "Sir,—l am directed by . Secretary Sir G. Grey to call the attention of the magistrates assembled at the general qaarter sessions of the peace to the provisions of an Act of the last session, c. 116; to apply certain moneys out of the Consolidated Fund, and moneys in the Exche quer, to the service of the year 1846, by which it is en acted that a sum of money' not exceeding 40,0001. may be applied to defray the expenses of waintaining pri• soners under sentence of felony or misdemeanour, and .other similar charges, for the half-year ending March 31st, 1847. " in preparing the estimate upon which this grant was made by. Parliament, it was considered that the sum of 40,00 W. would be sufficient to -relieve the several coun ties throughout the United Kingdom, and also such boroughs as have quarter sessions, and in which the cost of the maintenance of convicted prisoners is paid by a rate raised in the borough in the nature of a county rate,. for the charge of maintenance of the 'said halt year of all prisoners convicted at the assizes and quarter sessions of felony. or misdemeanour, • or other similar charges. "Por the purpose of obtaining information necessary for enabling her Majesty's Government to distribute and appropriate this money to the purpose for which it was granted, I request, on the part of her Majesty's Govern ment, that as soon as may be practicable after the 31st of March, 1847, you will transmit to the Lords Commis sioners of the Treasury a return of the amount paid during the half-year ending on that day, for the mainte nance of prisoners kept at the expense of the county, who have been sentenced at the assizes and quarter sessions for felony or misdemeanour, or any criminal charge tryable at the assizes and quarter sessions, show ing in such return the name of each person, the offence for which he was convicted, the period during which he was maintained, and the amount pail per week for such maintenance, as nearly as the same can be ascertained ; such return to be certified by the magistrates assembled in quarter session, or at a special meeting, and signed by the chairman for the time being. " I am further to request that you will half-yearly, after the 31st of March, 1 f 7, cause to be furnished similar returns, so that each return may embrace the amount paid for this purpose during the balf-year imme diately preceding the date of the return certified as before mentioned, and that the same may be forwarded to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury as soon after the close of the half-year embraced in the return as may be practicable. I have also to request that the name and address of the county treasurer may be stated at the foot of the return's furnished in pursuance of this letter. " I have the honour to be, Sir, " Your obedient servant, inm As the o s e i n m ehr i a l s a l f r t olyetethat the boards r be ending da a ri s nd g b s eoienfn sent March, uarar ht S i b ,i . s a • tn 3r t hs l h t : ‘e PHILLIPS." au ditors, schoolmasters, and part of the m i e c d ihto i ja c omr a rg l a-elt e ai X :l ; 7o e Cr n to s hni e a a t will be paid by Government instead of out of the poor! rates. [ADVERTISEMENT.]_ A NOVEL REMEDY FOR SUBDUING TCOTH ACHE. —The New Stopping Fluid, a little of which is placed in the cavity, when an indissoluble mass is formed, which instantly stops pain, and remains in for a length of time, preventing, of course, the air irritating the nerve, and a perfect cure is the usual result. It is sent by the proprietor, Mr. Mussel), dentist, Camberwell, on receiving fifteen postage stamps. Sold by Edwards, St. Paul's; and Barclay, Farringdon-street. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENC E.—OXFORD, JAN. 25. The Vice-Chancellor has issued the following notices :—" Mr. Browns, the inferior bedel of medicine and arts, having, on account of his impaired state of health, expressed a wish to be relieved from the duties of his office, it will be proposed in a convocation, to be holden on Thursday, the 28th instant, at two o'clock, that in consideration of his l ong an d act i ve service to the university, an annuity of 1001., to commence from the Ist day of January, 1847, be granted to him on the resigna tion of his office."—" In a convocation to be holden on Thurs day next, at two o'clock, it will be proposed to grant from the university chest the sum of 5001. for the relief of the prETailiDg distress in Ireland and Scotland." THE SPANISH MARRIAGES. No. 48.— MR. BULWER TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON. (Received January 10.) (Extract.) Madrid, Jan. 2,1847. As M. Guizot mentions my name in his note to Count Jarnac of the 22d of November last, and it might be thought, from the text of his remarks, that I had countenanced, at the time to which he alludes, a marriage of the Queen of Spain with Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, I think it as well to inclose to your Lordship the copy of a letter which I re ceived from Isturitz, to whom I wrote at that period, on learning that some such accusation had been made against me by the French Government to Lord Aberdeen. Inclosure (Translation). " Madrid ) June 5, 1846. My dear Friend,—l have received your letter of Yester day, in which you request me to tell you whether you have ever held to me upon the subject of the marriage of my Sc.- vereign any other language than this lily Government regards the marriage of the Queen of Spain as' a question purely Spanish ; it acknowledges the independence of Spain in this matter; but it would prefer a kfescendant of V., if such a husband were agreeable to the Queen of Spain and to her nation. It has no desire for a marriage with a Prince. of Sake-Coburg, no interest in such a marriage, which might even prove an embarrassment to it.' "-I am, happy to bear witness to the correctness of these words, and hasten to renew to you the assurance of my most friendly esteem. (Signed) " XAVIER DE ISTURITZ." VISCOUNT PALMERSTON TO THE MARQUIS OF NORMANBY. Foreign-office, Jan. 8, 1847. My Lord,—M. Guizot, towards the conclusion of his dis patch of the 22d of November, to Count Jarnac, on the ques tion of the Spanish marriages, says that that dispatch was intended to close the discussion between th• two Govern ments. .As far as regards the balance of argument upon the matters at issue. her Majesty's Government would willingly have consented that this should be, tor they find in that dispatch no answer to the statements which it professes to combat ; but, nevertheless, there are some passages in it which necessarily call for a few observations in reply. M. Guizot, in the beginning of his dispatch, while adverting to the engagements of the Chateau d'Eu, and to the memoran dum of the 27th of February, 1846, accuses her Majesty's Government of inconsistency, in appealing to those engage ments on the one hand, and in disclaiming any knowledge of that memorar*m on the other; and with reference to my assertion, that there is in the Foreign-office no trace of the memorandum of the 27th of February, he says that he might ask Whether there is in the Foreign•office any trace of the engagements taken at the Chateau d'Eu, and that he might express surprise that so much knowledge is professed of engagements of which no official proof is produced; while, at the same time, the absence of official record is made the ground for repudiating facts and documents which are found to be inconvenient. Now, in answer to this, it is sufficient to say, that the facts are such as were stated in my former dsipatch ; that her Majesty's government had a knowledge of the engagements at Eu ; but had not, until after the marriages were declared, any knowledge of the memorandum of the 27th of February and if M. Guizot will only bring to mind the circumstances connected with the engagements of the Chateau d'Eu, he will easily see, that her Majesty's present government might acquire a knowledge of these engagements without the aid of any record in the Foreign-office. But if her Majesty's present government repudiate the memorandum of the 27th of Febtusry, and do not acknow ledge 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 memorandum, as in any degree binding upon them, for two reasons. First, because it assumes rights, and puts forward pretensions, in which her Majesty's Government could not have acquiesced, whatever might have been the time at which that memo randum might have been communicated to them ; and se condly, because, even if it had contained nuthing 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 professed .to be a warning; and I must observe that no justification is even attempted 'in M. Guizot's dispatch, .for the endea vour which has been made to fasten retrospectively tpon her Majes y's present Government an obligation arising out of a memorandum, of which no knowledge Was given to them at the proper• time by those who had it in their possession. If the French Government meant to plead that memo randum as a justification for, any steps which they in tended to take, they ought surely to have made it known to the British Government before their steps were taken. But that mausaaAndum could not have been produced without raising a•discussion about the intended marriage of the Duke of Montpensier, and it suited bett©r the views of the Fr such Government to keep that marriage entirely in the b sckground till they could announce it as a settled arrangement. But her Majesty's Government do not repudiate the memorandum of the 27th of February, 1846, because they find it inconvenient. For on the contrary, as I have already shown, the contingercy which was specified in that memorandum, as the case which would release the French Government from their previous engage ments, and which would, in their opinion, justify them in asking the hand of the Infanta for the Duke of Mont pnsier (that is to say, an imminent danger that the Queen might marry a prince not descended from Philip the Filth), never happened; and, moreover, as I stated in my former dispatch, such a contingency had actually become impossible at the time when Count Bresson asked the hand of.the Infanta for the Duke; because at that - time the marriage of the Queen with a descendant of Pnilip the Fifth had already been settled. M. Guizot admits the fact of the engagement at the Chateau d'Eu, but he does not state its sub stance correctly. It was not that the marriage of the Duke of Montpensier 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 of Montpensier to the Infanta of a political character; and if her Majesty's Government are not much misinformed, even this as 'surance was not accepted as entirely satisfactory, but as calculated to render the projected marriage less objec tionable than it would otherwise have been. M. Guizot says, however, that the engagements of the Chateau d'Eu were conditional and mu.tual; but the con dition on which the marriage of the Duke of Mont pensier was tL be delayed as above-mentioned, was, that the Queen of Spain should marry a descendant of Philip V.;and that a reciprocal engagement was taken by the British Government, that it would co• operate as far as it was at liberty to do so, in bringing aV3out the marriage of the Queen to such a prince. But M. Guizot acknow ledges that the British Government reused to admit the principle, that the Queen of Spain ought to be confined in her choice of a consort to a descendant of Philip . V., and he acknowledges that the British Government re fused either to take the same ground upon that question, or to hold the same language, or to act upon the same line as the Government of France. The co-operation, therefore, between the two Governments was at any rate to be founded upon an entire difference of opinion between the co-operating parties as to the subject matter in qurstion. But, nevertheless, the I3eitish Government according to M. Guizot, promised to act in the same di rection as the French Government, and to aim at the same object; the meaning of which may be presumed to be, that the British Government was to recommend to the Queen of Spain to choose a husban4l from among the descendants of Philip V.; though fully and directly as serting the right of the Queen to choose a prince not so descended, if she chose to do so. Mjestv's press nt Government are unable either to admit or to deny that any such engre t leinent wa' 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 Frenchs Government his been fulfilled, and since the promise of the British Go vernment has been kept, why has the singagemeht of the Chateau d'Eu been broken? M. Guiz.)t 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 to the pretension put forward by the French Government to compel the Queen of Spain to marry none but a descendant of Philip V.; both Governments have been of opinion that it would be most prude et for the Queen to marry a Spanish prince, e.nd both e.greeel in their selection of the prince whom they ventured to recommend, while neither her Majesty's late nor her llajesty's present Government have at any time given any encouragement or support whatever t w o h ni at a e k v , e , r of t i o ,r t i h n e ce choice which the Spanish Court wished Therefore the I :lt t i to u Ih commu nicated f ef til e s nh no ro degree could justi fication for the departure the 27th of February ts to my dispatch of the loth r Guizot again reverts Leo pold Majesty'sC a t o e a f u iS n:GxEeouve.e propercr bn um time,r eg Government; t he anda f v r e o from afforded be engagements t h e slightest. been my intention, the mere order in which the name of the Prince of Coburg was mentioned in that dispatch, indirect recommendation must have had the efivet of an July to Mr. Bulwer, and states that, whatever may have in his favour. But M. Guizot forgets that that dispatch sonal instruction to Mr. Bulwer ;t tined to be communicated to the Spanish government, tgo veranent and that it never was communicated to of t h at dispatch, aptaittch vas was not a e per by pd-- by him ; a nd that, in the very outset referred M r . B u l wer to a communication which received fr om m y p re decessor, in which a Spatlih likely and the fact government to be the most eligible, and the most to prove acceptable to the people of Spain ; is, that the eff ec t s upposed by M. Guixot never was pro duced at Madrid. he hurl was mimed a s th e c andidate who appeared to the B ri tis h ' M. Ge . z)t points out, that, in a pa!sage iu my de spatch of th e Sl at of Oct ber,• in which there is a quota ' tion from hi s previous d-spatch of the sth of Octobe r, some words, which wer e n o t in his dispatch have been question,: in my plaCed• betwe en inverted commas. This remark is per fectly correct. Th e passage in of the 31 s t • o f O cto b er, begins with a ver b a l quo t a ti o n, but cont a i ns ' i n t h e middle a..-sentence, which is not a dispatch verbal quotation, but is the srhstanct; of a preceding pas sage in ill.. Guizot's dispatch from Which I was quoting; and the inverted commas; were inadvertently carried on,. so .as to include the middle sentence. The inverted commas ought - to stop at the words "state of thi n g s," and should - n o t 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 originaldispatch in the ar chives 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 correttion in the punctuation of the passage makes no diff erence whatever in the argumen t, and . does affect in the sli g ht est degre ct the contradiction which it waf. the obje c t o f th at passa g e i n niy despatch to point our. Toe c o n t ra di ct i on consists in this—that M. Gnizot's despatch of th e - st h of October sta t e s id one page.: that the Sp an i s h court was sohtnt noon one arrtlnge-- meet that, if not , opposed b y the B r i t f s h 'G o vernment, that arran gement was likely by a single act of laigser aller, to .h a V e i nev i ta b ly taken place ; an d th e n in an other pas-sage, it s ay s t h at t h e m anner in which a different arrangeme n t was effected was by simply offering that different arrangiment 'to the free choice and inde pendent will of that very same court. M. Guizot acknowledges that it was from Lord Aber deen that he received the first informatien of the over ture made in May last by the court of Madrid to the Duke of Saxe Coburg. But he states that, as . the communication from Lord Aberdeen was confidential, he did not think himself at liberty, without Lord Abereee.l's permission, :to say : from whom it came. This might be a reason for not mentioning the circum4.;nVie at'all. but surclrit was no reason for mentioning it in such a way, as to give to those who might be unacqnainted with the feet an erro neous impression as to the course of the transaction. M. Gitizot denies 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. He says, " According to Lord Palmerston, the Marquis of Miraflores was sent, last summer, on a mission to Paris by the Court of Spain, to obtain frorn the King and his Governm,mt that they should make no opposition to the marriage of the Queen Isabella with Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg. This assertion is devoid of all fonndation. During the two months that M. de Miraflores passed at Paris, he made no communication and no overture to the King's to the effect mentioned by is L n o la r t d tem P r, a u l :v i t n h e sie r t s illi t i o N n wpae .' s : Government, and he did not address to me a single word Notwithstanding this apparently positive contradic tassertion,ion 9 her l i i n ai ;e s g t Yi; Governme nt toth s c i o st nt i a n in th ed e in my former dispatch. Her Majesty's Government consider themselves to have good grounds for asserting, that the Marquis of Miraflores was sent to Paris in July for the above-mentioned purpose; and th.ugh her Ma jesty's Government do not pretend to have a knowledge of all the communications which, during the two months which he spent in Paris, may have passed between him and those to him he was sent, yet her Majesty's Govern ment do happen to know that on the evening of the 19th of July, a day or two after his arrival at Paris, he had an audience at Neuilly, and that at that audience he did, though inefftctually, endeavour to accomplish the pur pose of his mission. If the Marquis had succeeded in c o h i) j b e u c r t n e there t f o e l h t a v toe e g t o h n e e t le o N e L t r i o c o of l a n the t a o t on Government. Pl ii 3r o ai l nr ic ies i e t toh t fe he co operation of his Majesty's M. Gu'aqt, advet is to the treaty of Utrecht, and con tends that, alshnugh that treaty prevents the union of the crowns of France and Spain upon one head, it does not interdict marriages between the royal houses of France and Spain. And he again quotes certain cases of such marriages in the eighteenth century, in proof of his assertion. But M. Geigot does not deal at all with the position laid down by her Majesty's Government ; he assorts that which her Majesty's Government have never.denied, but he does not deny that which her Ma jesty's Government have asserted. He says that the treaty of Utrech t does not interdict certain marriages, bnt he does not deny that the descendants of the Duke of Orleans are excluded from the throne of Spain. The position laid down by her Majesty's Government is plain, simple, and incontrovertible. It is_this :7-The . . Duke of Orleans, of 1712, renounced for hitnWli and all-his descendants all claim or righr:to succeed to the throne of Spain, and declared hirnself•and his clef:and ante incapable of and excluded from such succession, whatever might be the way (and this includes the way of marriage), in which the succession might devolVe upon their line. That renunciation was embodied' in the treaty of Utrecht, and thereby was made binding ( n France, and became part of the public law of Europe, and it was, moreover, incorporated in the law both of. Franco P nd of Spain. The Duke of Srontpensier is, and his children will he, descendant' of the Duke of Or l eans of 1712 ; and the Duke of Montpensier and his children are therefore In capable of succeeding to the throne of Spain, " what ever may be the way in which that succession may de volve upon them." This is the position of her Majesty's Government. It is founded upon the plain and positive letter ef treaties and of laws: and it cannot be sheken by quoting mar riages which took place a century ago; none of these cases were similar to that which is the subject of the present discussion, for in none of them did a • French priace marry the heir presumptive to the cro wn of Spain. In all these cases the Salic law was in existence, both in ?Prance' and in Spain. and when the Infanta Maria Theresa married the Dauphin, in 1745, there were seve ral male heirs to the crown of ? Spain. But M. Guizet, between the doctrines which he has laid down, and the examples which he has quoted, seems to have involved himself in difficulties, from which it is not easy for him to escape. He admits that the treaty of Utrecht absolutely prevents the union of the crowns of France and Spain upon one and the same head; but he asserts, that in all the cases which he had quoted, the Spanish Infantas, when they married French princes brought with them an eventual, but a positive right to the crown of Spain: and he further says, that the Infanta Maria Theresa Antoinette, why, in 1745, married the Dauphin, son of Louis XV. was one of the heirs, to the Spanish crown. . Now, supposin g th a t t o h ave happened which might . have come to pass, namely t h a t all the pe rsons who stood before that I n f anta :in regard to their right of' succession to. the crown - Of Spain, had died during her. lifetime ; and supposi ng th a t her husband, the Dauphin , had succeeded to the crown cf France, could she have been at one and the same time Queen of both countries? And if, under both those circumstances, she had one only child, and that child a son, could that son have become King both, of France and Sp ain ? It is obvious that in such a case, ono .or other of Guizot's vi and a _ that either wa dieting doetrines must have given y the prohibition which the treaty of Utrec ht contains against the union of the two crowns on on© and the same head must have been broken through, or else the positive though eventual right of succession to the crown of Spain, which M. Guizot asserts that a Spanish Infanta brings with her in a marriage with a French prince, must have been given up. But it is obvious that in such a case the tre aty of pro hibition must have prevailed, and so, in the present case,, her Mejesty's Government contend that the stipti .lations and renunciations of the treaty of Utrecht are stronger and more powerful than any personal claims. But, as I have said, none of the . cases queted by M. Guinn were similar to that which thew under dis cession, and, even if it bad le en so, h _ould have been unavailing for the parp,,sa for , w i I they are quoted; because though precedents may serve for the lil terpretution of do ubtful and am biguouss etiaulations, th e y never can set aside etipulatious which, like those of ore clear, positive, and incapable the- treaty of Utrecht, and the omissions of Gevern of being misunderstood; meets in the last century cannot liar the treaty r igh ts o f Governments ia t h e -present day. But if th ere did pre vernal( nts of France and s' - i • wail _between the Go during the last century, a union . more close andtlinrimaaitne than was consistent with the spirit and intentions of the treaties of Utrecht, as recorded in article 2 of the treaty he marriages between England and Spain, may not that circumstance historical examples be, in a great degree , a y scri not th t o o se t quoted p o a f te th h e e s f ou th n e d soundness by M. Guizot; and therefore, a s fetal illustr m at v io d n i s s serve, of the principle uponwhich, in d that her Majesty's Government of September, I state as tending to affect protested against the marriage of the Duke of Nlont cstablishin too pensier to the Infanta, injuriously of g France and balance of power in Europe, b y timate a connexion between the Governments and Spain? And M. Guizot most assuredly does not forget that, in the hundred years w h i ch preceded the treaty of Utrecht , twice did it ha pp e n that a Spanish of Princess was marri ed to a From, prince and that on each cf these occa sions that principle balance was acknowledged by forma,,European 1 and publicly re corded acts. M. Guisot says, tha t b y the tre aty of Utrecht all par ties which s'*r, to which they had abated somewhat of the p re tensions insisted upon at the com mence ment of the that treaty put an end. This statement is no doub t i t has no bear true, but bear ing on the present discussion , ie - eh t; Her Majesty's Govern mentr er are now renewing the pretensions abandoned by Great Britain by "the t they are only claiming the benefit of the te s w f h u i c Utrecht were by France and by Spain. were given in those treaties securities which allies acknow ledged Guizot says that England m er ent of a branch 'edged by those treaties the establishment throne of Spain. of the house of Bourbon upon th e throne to revoke that Her Majesty's Government do not acknowledgment. But M. 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' ~.. 1 17 WR ''' 1 JAN U ARY 28 1 1847. says that he desires to bring back the controversy within its legitimate and constitutional limits ; that in my dis patch of the 31st of October I introduced a name which ought never to=have - appeared in this discussion ; 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 =mpossible for me to allow this passage to pass without a reply. I must beg, therefore, to remind M. Guizot that the same name was introduced into my former despatch of the 22i of September, with reference to the engage ment originally taken, that no son of the Ring of the French should marry the Queen of Spain; and that the introducion of that name, on that occasion, was not only not objected to by M. Guizot, in his despatch of the sth of October, but was even quoted by him in that despatch with a distinct expression of his acquiescence in the correctness of my statement. If, then, it wai allowable to introduce that name with refert•nce to the engagement taken in regard to the mar riage of a French prince to the Queen of Spain, why should it not be allowable to introduce the same name, with reference to the engagement taken in regard to the marriage of a French prince,to the Infanta? But it: was M, Guizot, and not I, who first introduced into this correspondence a discussion as to the engage ments entered into at the Chateau d'Eu. In my despatch of the 22d of September, there is not one word which relates to those engagements. Motives of delicacy, which might, I think, have been better appreciated, led me to abstain from even adverting to those transactions in that despatch. But M e Guizot, in his reply of the sth of October, founded his argument upon the memo randum of the 27th of February, 1846; which, he said, annulled previous engagements; and this course of ar gument compelled. me to discuss what those engagements were, and when, and by whom, they had been con tracted. Bat when M. Guizet asserts that the name to which he alludes ought never to have appeared in this corres pondence, I think that I might be justified in feeling a surprise as deep as that which, he says, his sense of duty has commanded him to express: for he himself fm-ely introduced that name into the discussion, in his dispatch of the sth of October, whenever it suited the course of his argument to do so. The following passages taken from that dispatch will show this; but I must mention, to prevent mistakes, that the weeds which I underline in the quotations are not underlined in the original. First passage:— " The Infante Don Enrique had not taken so proper a course to arrive at his object. "The King himself; when this Prince passed through Paris, had warned him paternally of this, reminding him where lay his proper place, his duty, his chances of success; and offering to exert himself at Madrid, in order to enable him, to recover them. The Infante did not follow the counsels of the King." Second passage:— " From the beginning of this question, the King, as Lord Palmerston states in his dispatch, spontaneously n:ade known that he did not pretend to the band of the Queen. of Spain for any of his sons. Be at the some time ex pressed his firm hope that the crown of Spain would not pass out of the house of Bourbon, and that the Quer a would choose her husband from among tie descendants of Philip V." Third passage : "No where, in no Court, in no family, are the rights of liberty in contracting marriage, and in domestic life, better known and more scrupulously respected than in the Court of the Tuileries, and in the bosom of our Royal Family. The sentiments which animate and direct the King at Paris in the midst of his children, animate and direct him equally in his relations with the Court at Madrid and his royal nieces." I think that, with reference to these quotations, I may agaia ad,,pt a phrase of M. G&sot's, and say, that in the reproof which he administ, rs to me at the conclu sion of his dispatch, " there is some want of memory or of justice." Having thus set right some "errors" is M. Guizot's last communication, I have only further to instruct your Excellency to read this dispatch to M. Guizot, and to send him officially a copy of it.—l am, &c., (Signed) PALMERSTON. MR. BULWER TO M. ISTURITZ. Madrid, October 3, 1846. Sir,—Your Excellency begins your note of the 29th ultimo b assuring me that the opinion cf her C a th o li c Majesty's Government was not influenced, and that the sleeision of the Cortes was not prejudiced by the idea that the notes I had addressed to you only contained my own personal sentiments. I certainly had reason to think that your Excellency must have been convinced from.the first that I had due authority 'for what I stated ; and while I was surprised to hear it asserted in the Congress by her Catholic Ma jesty's Ministers, that I had merely expressed notions of my own upon the important subject to which I am re ferring, I am still more surprised now at learning that this declaration was made without any object, and that it was neither expected nor intended that it should pro duce any c fEtct upon the vote of that assembly. Your Excellency, at the same time that you reject the right of her Majesty's Government to make any objec tions to the marriage of her Royal .Highness Donna Luisa with the Duke de Montpensier, states in friendly language that this marriage is not intended to grant any political influence to any foreign state, nor to further any political purpose ; and your Excellency also (while pointing out to me the great resources of the Spanish monarchy, in terms already used by her Majesty's Secretary for Foreign Affairs)asks me whether it can be supposed that such a monarchy is likely to fall into de pendence upon any other state, how great soever it might be ? Now the history of the past generally furnishes an example for the future, and I am not, I confess, aware that greater state now than she wa s in th e time Spain is a of Charles 111. or Charles IV., when her vast pos sessions in the New World still remained to her, and when a proud and valiant navy kept those splendid arse nals in busy occupation, which I have but lately seen mouldering in solitary decay. Yet Spain, at the periods of which I been speaking, was in dependence upon a foreign State, dragged unprofitably into its wars, and charged with the penalty of its defeats. Indeed, your Excellency furnishes me with a more eloquent :and ample reply to your question, than any words of mine could present. Great, indeed, was my surprise, on reading in a sentence alniost immediately subsequent to that in which you proclaim the impossibility of this country being fatally attached to the fortunes of another some remarkable words -to this effect : "The past and present centuries teach us lessons not. easily to be forgotten. The loss of our mighty colonial empire, the loss of Gibraltar, that almost im pregnable fortress, the more retent destruction of our navy during war, and the secession of Mexico and Peru from the mother state during peace, are all recollections" associated with what ? Why with that very foreign influence, that very preponderance of France in Spanish councils, which the wisest statesman of that time de plored, prophesying its consequences witk the same assurance, and unhappily with the saute ill success that I have intruded upon your Excellency my own equally earnest if less eloquent ;warnings. The alliance of families, the personal feelings of courts, then unfor tunately governed and misguided, the destinies of your great nation ; and with what security can the hope be now cherished, that this will not again occur ? At this moment I see the hand of a young princess of fourteen years of age, disposed of in a manner contrary to the earnest representations of at least one great European power, whose friendship towards Spain is well known in history : and whose amity might yet be worth cultivating. I see this marriage secretly prepared, abruptly announced, hurried with incon• tvable rapidity to its conclusion ; it revives the con flicting pretensions of dormant treaties ; it threatens Spain with the removal of her civil wars; it agitates and dissolves the present happy and peaceful relations of Europe. These considerations are disregarded. The delay of 12 months in the rnarrisge of a princess of this tender age is deemed too great a concession for compos ing these important interests. I ask, thy is this mea sure persevered in? Why are all weighty and opposing reasons pushed indignantly aside? What is the motive which decides, what is the cause which precipitates this apparently unpropitious union? I can see no other in view, I have heard no other alleged, than that the two courts of France and Spain have determined that it should 'take place on a particular day, at a particular hour, in a particular manner; and that, therefore, as the Spanish and French courts have thus decided, so it must be. now then can I, in reporting these facts to my Go vernment, tell it to be tranquil; that the influence of courts in this country is gone by; and that the alliances which bind and cement them together are of no national importance, and will never have a preponderating influ ence on grave questions of national interest ? I am aware that facts will now soon putanereelpe expressing targument; but in closing this discussion I cannot ) the conviction, that in spite of the rgrEeeeaxtln ability lee with which it has been conducted the little talent I have brought b to your el Britishlu' andges will consider that it has been-th 'o e iutm of lot i Minister to defend the true interests and the indepen donee of Spain against your Excellency, to whom as her Catholic Majesty's Minister, their defence would, as you 11. L. BULWER. justly observe, be more suitably entrusted.--1 avail, Szc., "On Thursday afternoon, the 21st instant, the children of the parish of Coniscliffe, near Darlington, were plentifully regaled with tea and spice cake, at the expense of R. H. Howard, Esq., M.P., of Corby Castle, Cumberland, the benevolent and respectful Lord of the Manor, in celebra tion of the joyful event of the christening of his first-born daughter. Tea was provided in a large granary belonging to Mr. D. Hetherington, beautifully decorated with ever greens, byMrs. Hetherington and Rickaby, of High Coniscliffe, whose excellent arrangements and inspiring presence, con tributed in no small degree to the enjoyment of their juvenile guests. Several young ladies presided at the tea tables, and among the visitors on the joyful occasion, were observed the worthy vicar of the parish, the Rev. J. Cundill, Miss Cundill, the Rev. Mr. Hogarth, of Darlington, the churchwardens, the schoolmaster, Ir. Tobling, and principal inhabitants of the parish, &c. The village bells rung many a merry peal during the evening. After partaking of the cup which cheers, but inebriates not, the young company sepa; rated, highly delighted with their entertainment, and many a Young bosom breathed its sincerest wishes for health and prosperity to the house of Howard. The farmers also plen tifully regaled their labourer* with ale on the occasion. • THE FATAL ACCIDEWT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. Sotrrn.u.s.; JAIL 27.--i-At half-past four o'clock to -dal an inquest was held by Mr. Wakley, M.P., coroner for the dis trict, assisted by the deputy coroner, Mr. Mills, on th e b o di es of Henry Halt and Henry Bishop, he unfortunate sufferers by the accident of Monday last at Southall. The investiga tion took place at the Bed Lion Inn, Southall, and the pro ceedings attracted a good deal of interest in the neighbour= hood. - Mr. Seymour Clarke, superintendent at Paddington ; Mr. Gooch, head of the locomotive department; and several other officials of the company, were present at the proceed ings. Mr. Brunel and Mr. Saunders visited the spot where the accident took place, but did not appear in the room where the inquest was held. The CORONER, in charging the jury, hoped that they would dismiss from their minds any rumours which they might have heard, and for which there might be no foundation. Some of the jury had expressed a desire to see the tire, and the wheel to which it was attached, by daylight, and there fore lie thought it advisable that the inquiry should not be closed that evening. A goo'd deal of clamour had been raised against railways, but it should be remembered that accidents had happened to coaches, carriages, gigs, and every kind of vehicles used on the roads, in which no blame could be at tached to any person. As, however, the iiNues,t w s 'cue to halt - tire into a very frightful occuryence,, and as they were bound to piotect human life, they would hrive to examine the cause of..this accident to show the public and the direc tors of the railway themselves what' the cause was. They would.have to do so, not for the purpose of punishing any party, unless gross negligence was proved, but to prevent any similar calamity in future. It, was necessary; therefore, that they should have, on a future day, some witnesses called be fore them who cauld give dispassionate testimony on the sub ject. He did not mean to say that the witnesses to be called. before them on the part of the company were not disinte rested, but it was better in all cases Of the kind to have the testimony of persons without . the suspicion of bias as to a matter in which the conduct of individuals might be incul pated. - • • The jury then proceeded to view the bodies, and on their , return.the following evidence was adduced : JOseph Bishop, poultry-dealer at Cowley, and father of one of the deceased, and Thomas Weadon, butchei• of Tooting, brother-in law of the other deceased, were called, and hav ing been sworn identified the bodies. Bishop was 20, and Halt 27 years of age. John Maydon, the next witness called, stated that he lived at Uxbridge, and was a dealer'in cattle. He was in the train at the time the accident happened, and sat beside llenry Bishop, one of the deceased; his father sitting beside Halt. Bishop sat with his back to the engine. Something came with a crush right through the top of the carriage, but he was so frightened, that he did not know anything that happened until he got out. There were live of tuem inside altogether ; and he saw blood, and that Henry halt was struck.. He did not know whether they were killed dead on the spot. He was not hurt, but greatly frightened; so much so, indeed, that he hardly knew what occurred until he got out. His father was much hurt about the thigh, and kept his bed in consequence. Mr. F. W. Austen, station-clerk at Southall, was then called, and said, that being in the station at the time, he ran down at once and opened the carriage in which the accident happened. Hilt was sitting, and Bishop had fallen forward into his lap. The carriage which was cut in the roof and much injured, was brought into the Socks shed; but both the men had been killed instantaneously, and their brains were scattered about. A juryman —The train was in motion at the time, and just about to stop. I was in it. Witness—A large fragment of the tire lay in the carriage, but the express train went cn to London with the damaged wheel, after appearing to stop a short time before it came to the bridgc%, Ile had never before known the tire of a wheel to break, thJugh he had been on the line for seven years. John Gauntlett, policeman on the Great Western line at the Southall station, said, that while on duty there about twenty-live minutia past four o'clock, he saw the express train, due at thirteen minutes past !bur o'clock, go past the station driven by the Queen engine. When past the station about 60 or 70 yards, he saw the tire, in two or three pieces, fly off the driving wheel, and one piece fell on one of the second-class carriages of the four o'clock down train. He 'at once went to the carriage. The door had been opened, and a lady who was hurt handed out. The two deceased men were in the carriage, dead ; and several of the passengers were slightly hurt. He saw nothing loose or wrong about the express train before the accident happened, and it was going at its usual speed, which was about 50 miles an hour. The engine had been in use for nearly twelve months. The exoress train was stopped as soon as possible. A juryman —I was in the next carriage to that in which the accident happened, but was aware of nothing till I got out. Wittness—The piece of tire which fell on the carriage was projected into the air to the height of 20 or 30 feet. Its weight had sicce been ascertained to be 2751 b. James Loxton, inspector of metropolitan police at Hanwell, stated that the bodies of tie deceased were removed from the carriage by him. James Almond, engine-driver of the Queen, which drew the expres?, said that he hid been engine-driver on the Great Western Railway for nine years, and about 24 or 25 years engineman for locomotive or stationary engines.. On Monday he left Swindon at 56 minutes past t -vo o'clock, three minutes late, with a train of six carriages. The time for arriving at Southall was-four hours sixteen minutes, and they were behind some Six minutes, which he attributed to the heaviness'of the road, and the high wind blowing at the time.. ColoNstat—Did you see the tire break ? Witness—l saw the tire fly from the tire and the splasher, which •is the brass cap to the wheel, and I put my back to the dome, and saw the other carriage broken on the down train. I )iid not sea the pieces of the tire fly from the wheel- I did not know exactly what it was that had happened, and could perceive no diffitrente in the running; but in about two minut,s, seeing that the tire was gone, I stopped. After wards we went up to London at a diminished speed of 15 or 20 miles an hour. I have seen the pieces of the tire, which are made partly of steel anti partly of iron. I have observed the fractures, and though the outside appeared good, the in side does not look sound. The tire is about 1% inches thick, increasing to two inches next the crease: it seems unsound for 1% inches, the rest sound. The bad parts look dull and dirty, and the sound quite bright. I should judge three inches broad, by 1 1 / 4 inches in depth, bad, out of five inches of breadth. There is no means that I know of besides that of sight for ascertaining how much of the tire is bad. No accident of the kind has ever happened before to that engine; but about seven months ago the whole tire of the liellona, an engine which came from Nasmyth and Gaskell's works at Manchester, broke off in five pieces. This occurred about two miles and a half below Slough. That case was similar to Oft present, and I reported it to the foreman at Swindon. -We were asked if we ran against anything, and we answered not. We always examine the engine ourselves in every part of it before starting, and on arriving at the end of our trip, and if there is anything wrong, we report it. I did so in the. pre sent case examine the wheels and the springs, as is my invariable custom. After a tire is once placed on the wheel, we have no means of ascertaining whether it is sound or not. The CORMia—Did you ever see a tire unsound before it was put on? Witness—Yes, I have; and it was condemned. The " weld " appeared unsound outside, and showed itself. Such accidents are not of frequent occurrence, and it never happened to more than one before. The tires of the other wheels are fixed on in the same way as that on the driving wheel. The ConmEn—Are the driving-wheels subject to more use than others? Witness—Yes, and by their size the tire is more apt to come off them. A juryman—Are they riveted on? WitnessNo; they are kept on by contraction. • A jurymau asked whether the tire of a w h ee l did no t fly oiliest Friday week between llanwell and the bridge ?—The fact was admitted by the officials of the company present. Mr. George Withe Daniel, surgecn, residing at Southall, and passenger in the four o'clock down train, proved that the deaths of the deceased were instantaneous, and had been caused by the injuries they had received from the immense, piece of iron which fell ou them. Mr. Daniel Gooch was then called, and said, I am superin tendent of the locomotive department of the Great Western Railway Company, and have held that position for nine The The Queen was built under my inspection at Swindon: 'l%e company bay all their tires at the Haigh Foundry, Wigan, Lancashire. I see all tires bought by the company. We have a smith, named John Faucett, living at Swindon, whose duty it is to "block" all tires, and to inspect them. He is an excellent tradesman, and is expressly used for the purpose. If we buy the tires in bars, we give an order for the length required; if in hoops, for the diameter. About four-fifths of the tire are of wrought iron, and one fifth of steel. I have examined that of the Queen which has given way, and found it unsoundly welded. The welding is a difficult task, requiring great care, anti the best workmen will sometimes fail in effecting a good weld. About two thirds of one of the ends in the carriage is bad, but the other fractures appear to be quite bright. We " block" the tires— via., make them a little less than the size required, and then subject them to a great strain by means of a screw. All tires are subjected to this process in order to test their sound ness. I cannot say hose many miles the Queen may have travelled without consulting the books, but probably about 25,000 mile. Tires suffer most in frosty weather, and tome-; times they break from that cause, though not in motion. Two instances of the kind occurred last year. The CORONER—Is there any step 'which you can take, in consequence of this accident, to prevent a recurrence of it? Witness—l can suggest ncne, except increased vigi lance on the part of our servants. This tire was bought in ' the hoop. The CortoNEß—Do the manufacturers from whom you buy submit to any penalty for selling badly welded tires? Wit ness —None, except the loss of credit, and the obligation to replace the tire. The ringing of a tire is no test of its un soundness, and I have heard them, when cracked, sound as clear as a bell under the stroke of the hammer. We have had a good many cases of tires coming off the driving wheel. It is not a common accident, but it is one which we are always prepared for in frosty weather. The Coacox SR—I tis not one which lam prepared ch for.— r— ' (Laughter.) Witness—lron crystallizes very n motion, but the fracture here is a good one, and much not crystal lized. Age has no bad effect upon our tires, and some of them have been in constant use since the opening of the line. The weld is the place most liable to give way, and the rate of speed has little to do wi:li such accident, for there is a re cent instance cf the wheel of a luggage train breaking, though it only travelled at 15 or 20 miles an hour. The CORONOR—You have given your evidence, Mr. Gooch, very frankly and fairly, and we are very mu c h obliged to you for it. Some conversation here ensued as to the scientific gentle, man to be selected as an unbiassed witness on the causes of this singular accident. In the course of it Mr. Gooch ex pressed his readiness to afford any one the coroner might select the fullest possible facilities for forming a fair and just opinion on the subject. No decision was come to on this point when the proceed ings of the evening closed, the Coroner adjourning the in quest to half-past ten o'clock on Mona lay teit. -----_--- PRESENT STATE OF PORTUGAL.--p new work on Portugal, entitled "An Overland Journey to Lisbon, with a Picture of the Present State of Spain and Portugal," is an nounced for immediate publication by the author of " Re velations of Spain." At a time when the attention of Europe, and, indeed, the whole civilized world is turned to the insur rectionary movements now going on in Portugal, and to the transactions connected with the marriage of the Queen of Spain, these volumes, from the pen of a gentleman, now re sident amid the scenes he describes, and enjoying peculiar facilities for correct observation, ,will doubtless be cordially welcomed by the public. , :r .; IRELAND. DUBLIN, JAN. 25 —Many, more deaths from *rya tion are reported in the accounts received to-day, and what is termed the •° starvation aver" is spreading in the western as well as the southern counties. The Sligo Champion contairs the following alarining statement : " Fever is still on the increase ; the deaths in the poor-house are most numerous, and almost rill theper sons whcs haie dial have been carried off either by ty phus fever or dysentery. There are at present :four hundred on the sick list in the poor-house, or one-third of all the inmates. This is really alarming, and from the great increase of fever in the town we fear a plague will ensue. " The coroners of Sligo are unable to attend to all the calls made upon them, and although indefatigable in the discharge of their duties, numbers of persons have been buried (who died of starvation) without inquests having bean held upon them." After giving details of inquests on five persons:who died from starvation, the Sligo Champion proceeds : " While the coroner was engaged yesterday with the in quests at Drumcliff, he received an official communi cation from Head Constable flay, of Riverstown, re questing his attendance to hold inquests on the bodies of a girl named Hodge, and a man named Brian Mat tenis, both of whom- died .of starvation, and he was informed by the messenger who brought the letter, that three or four orderlieS were at his .house, requiring his presence in different parts of the county." From such a district it is not surprising that emigra tion is still in progress, even in mid-winter. Two hundred persons left the port of Sligo on Thursday, for LiverpOol, with a -were maki ng t h e i r way to Amet i ca; but most of them were vtry poorly pkovided with sea stores, and •some were almost destitute of clothing or provisions. Many of those creatures, no doubtywill still further angmt-nt the pauperism in Liverpool. From all parts of the county of Galway the most harrowing accounts have been received, and deaths from starvation are increasing. The Tuam Herald states that five inquests.were held from the 16th to' the 21st instaat, and in each case the verdict was " died by statvation." GALWAY, JAN. 23.—MORE DEATHS BY STARVATION. —Our private letter§ from Connemara mention details of woe almost unparalleled. In Clifden, we are' in formed that the population are fast dying away for *ant of food—many are hurried to their early graves from utt.n tic stitution, without the ceremony of a funeral, and frequently without the covering of a coffin, and the clergy are incessantly employed in administering - , the consolations of religion to those who are falling victims to the ravages of famine. In the village of Winn, westward of Oughterard by about two miles, inone wretched cabin, ten human beings, constituting an.en tire family, lie dead in one heap of-rottenness 'and putrefaction. In the extensive county of Cen the most appalling sc:.nes are to be witnessed on all sides. In the city of Cork, on Saturday last, a crowd of labourers paraded through the streets, but some of the ringleaders having been arrested while endeavouring to force an entrance into a shop, the remainder dispersed without committing any outrage. , ' The Cork Reporter of Saturday contains a statement from its correspondent of the dreadful destitution in the district of Bantry. I have extracted the following pas sage :—" Mothers bearing dead children in their arms are everywhere to be seen, and those who follow them aro often compelled is eat grim to satisfy the cravings of the hunger that gnaws their vitals. As an example of the rapidity with which death stalks through the land, it may be stated that during the last ten days the Rev. Messrs. Freeman Begley visited and prepared for death no less than forty-two, thirty-five of whom were in the utmost state of destitution, and of that number twenty eight died, twenty-five of absolute starvation. That number did not include the deaths in the workhouse, which had been unprecedented in extent, notwithstand ing the exertions of the board of guardians. Scarcely 4.n hour elapses without some of the population dropping and sinking into the grave, and children, after suffering the pangs of hunger for four or five days. Many die on the mountains, uncared for and deserted. In the midst of all these horrors, it is gratifying to find that those who have been blessed with a reasonable share of this world's goods have nobly done their duty. Amongst the most prominent in endeavouring to allay a nd mitigate the misery which exists amongst the tenantry is Lord , Kenmare. ,Some instances have occurred in the barony where the landlord has demanded and distrained for rent, but those instances, it is happy to observe, are very few. The fact is, the tenantry have nothing to give; .for although I have,seen more fields prepared for the coming • crop in this neighbourhood than in most others I have visited, iu gent rat all their corn is gone, and but few have any seed." From the southern counties the reports are equally afflicting. From some of the counties of Ulster the accounts ore quite as bad as from the south or west. The Lord Bishop of Derry and Raphoe having recommended a grant of 240/. frcm the National Club in Landon, con vened a meeting of his clergy at the deanery house last week, to :assist him in allocating the money and obtain ieg local subscriptions. The reports submitted by the clergy exhibit a mass of utter destitution in their parishes. rho Rev. Mr. Maturin dewribed the parish of Gorton as containing • " one thousand individuals who have no mere than a week's provisions, and who are without means to obtain them." RE-APPEARANCE OF THE POTATO DISEASE. The Cork RepOrter of Saturday says:—" A gentleman residing in the neighbourhood of Kinsale planted in a hotbed, about' three months since, a quantity of sound potatoes of the quarry kind, and on examining the pro duce yesterday, which, by the forced growth, had far advanced to maturity, he found them black and dis eased." TtfSaMdliatftS,---REDIJCTWN OP N RUM. The project of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, re specting the use of sugar in breweries and distilleries, has been received with general approval here ; but ,the proposed arrangement for reducing the duty on rum in Ireland to about one-third of the present amount, has produced absolute consternation amongst the Irish dis tillers. A meeting of the Dublin distillers was held this day, at the Commercial-buildings, Sir John Power, Bart., presiding, when the following resolutions were adopted: " That the meeting have seen, with the greatest alarm, the proposition of the Chancellor of the Exche quer, made in the House of Commons on Friday last, to reduce the duties on West India rum imported into Ireland to 3s. 2d. per gallon —a measure which, if car ried into effect, will prove utterly ruinous to the Irish distillery trade, and most prejudicial to the landholders, farmers, and traders of this country, and to every inte rest connected therewith. " That any measure of a temporary nature, calculated to meet the exigencies of the present time, however in convenient it might prove to the trade, would be cheer fully received and submitted to by the Irish distilleri ; but that the measure now proposed does not contemplate any such effect, but is solely calculated permanently to injure, if not totally extinguish, the manufacture of spirits in this country. " That a general meeting of the trade be called by public advertisement, to assemble in Dublin, on Tues day, the 2d of February next, in the Corn Exchange, at one o'clock in the afternoon, to take the proposition of the Chancellor of the Exchequer into their consideration, and that these resolutions be published in the meantime in some of the morning and evening Dublin and London newspapers. By order of the meeting, " WILLIAM IV. JAMESON, Secretary." . Mr. O'Connell attended the meeting of the distillers. The honourable and learned gentleman has delayed his departure for London in cons: quence of the unfavourable state of the weather ; but has to leave town by the mail picket to-morrow evening. REPRESENTATION OF GALWAY TOWN. The Galway Vindicator contains an address from Sir Valentine Blake, Bart , to the electors of the town of Galway, intimating his retirement from the represental tion of the town, " it having pleased Providence to de . . prive me of the power to attend to your important inte rests in Parliament in future." The same journal cone tains a letter from l'. S. Comyn, Esq., dated " Upper Fitzwilliam-street, Dublin, Jan. 21," in which the writer sayse—" Either my brother (Francis Comyn, of Wood stock), or myself, will offer ourselves as candidates, and we will not support any Government not pled6ed to thii repeal of the ucion." It is generally believed that the Solicitor General, Mr. Monahan, who is a tetive of -the county of Galway, - will start for the representation of the vacant borough, with a fair prospect of succes Mr. O'Hare, the late recorder of the borough, is also spokfin of as a candidate. Oa Wednestisy a meeting of the trades and other re peal electors, presided over by the 'Rev. Mr. .Martyn, was ; held in the repeal reading-room, Galway, when a resolu tion was adopted, pledging the meeting to use every? exertion in the event of a vacancy for the return of a. repeal representative. _ - ' REPEAL ASSOCIATION.. held this At the weekly meeting of the Association. Z'• ... elly.. solicitor, detailed at considerable ' day, Alderman Butler in. the b c le h l a e i l r , , gt h Dir.certain yo against their cottier he named) in the county of • instituted by a large Wrl proceed ingslthe statement l tenantry. Fromlarge number theor l i a j n ra d r lo n r e . d ls (vhom . Gentle man, it appeare d recent sessions held at an incredible . number of civil . - bill that bill action'; had j3 b 3 e li e i n n 7b b r L o . 'uot li.r non-payment of rent, itt(;r: iO'Connell Igreatestornani:pdloirtion of which fell due in November last. moved that a special meeting of the com mittee should be summoned for next day, to consider the statement, and that a petition to Parliament, detailing the - f ac t s (if substantiated by the gentleman who announced them), should be prepared ; and he (Mr. O'Connell)!, would undertake to present it. How, asked Mr. O'Con--. nen, could the Irish members have the face to demand assistance from the British Government if it appeared that the landlords of Ireland were acting in the manner stated? The Hon. Gentleman subsequently announced , . that a Mr. Anthony OTlaharty, of Knoekbane, " having notified his conversion to repeal," was determined to seek the representation of Galway (town), vacant by the re signation of Sir Valentine Blake. At the conclusion of the proceedings (which were totally devoid of interest), the rent for the week was an nounced to be 151. 16 , . 9d. The meeting then adjourned. EXPERIENCES OP A GAOL CHAPLAIN."—A great deal of interest has of late been, and continues to be taken in the very important subject of prison discipline, and the re clamation of criminals, and several works have been written, which, to say the truth, have communicated mach general information touching this matter. But general treatises, however elaborate, have not half the effect, and consequently are not nearly so useful, as particular facts. It is for this easnu that we hail " The Experiences of a Gaol Chap lain," just bublished by Mr. Bentley. It is indeed a dark page,from life's volume, but which, whilst it is one of the most valuable disclosures ever made as to the economy of our prisons and the moral conditVn of their inmates, is one of the most interesting collections of narratives ever publiithed. A