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The powers of expansion exhibited by this most useful annual 70111 me appear realty unlimited. Publishe t during a series of f. rty eight years, in a metropolis whose dwellings increase in number by a yearly average of some fourteen thous:nil, and whose commerce expands in stlll larger measure, the " Post-office Directory" hr. s be come enormously enhanced in busk, as also in the complicated Variety of its indispensable contents The admirable success with Which the really enormous difficulties of his task have been overcome by the indefatigable publisher has been proved by the experience of many years ; and we need say little more than that the present volume presents the same tokens as its predecessors . , of intel igent Method and ingenuity of arrangement in packing into reasonable Compass, and producing in lucid order its milieus of facts and reference. Within two thousand pages every man may learn cYarythinglte ought to know about every one of his co-dwellers in the great metropolis, their businesses, as well as everything neces sary to facilitate him in his own. The very rapid extension of our railway system, and the new postal arrangements with some conti nental states, have rendered necessary some extensive additions to the sections appropriated to Conveyance and the Post-office. We End the information given under those heads not only as full and ac curate as it was well possible to make them, but more new and re cent than we should have thought attainable in a work of such mag nitude. Prefixed to the volume is about the best Map of London we JAPPen to have met with. • TIMES, Nov. 18, 1846. The forty-eighth annual publication of this work—the volume for 1847-1 a now issued. It is a wonderfully different affair from the old Directory, which used to consist of little or nothing more than the alphabetical list of tradesmen ; it comprises now, and has for some years, a " Street Directory," a " Trades' Directory," a " Court Directory." a " Postal Directory," a " Conveyance Directory," with a host of other little digests. The volume appears to have been very carefully revised, and supplies the latest information. Of course, the postal treaty with Prussia has not been overlooked ; and in minor Points the work seems to bear the test of search into matters in Which changes have been very recent. MORNING POS r, Nov. 19, 1846. The forty-eighth annual publication of this admirable work has Jost been issued. Any dissertation on the usendness of this volume, after Its well-proven service in almost every counting-house in the Inetropelie for so many years past, must be quite unneeessary. Suf fice it to say, the present edition possesses all the merit of its prede cessors, while the alterations and corrections in the various depart =eats have been carried down to the latest period. MORNING HERALD, Nov. 21, 1546, B u lky as the proportions of this indispensable work have hitherto been, the volume for 1847 comes forth under circumstances of still Bother enlargement. The experience of 47 years has obviously enabled the proprietor, Mr. Frederick Kelly, to produce a Directory of unrivalled completeness, 'wherein every species of fact likely to be wanted by the merchant and trader is placed within convenient access. The volume contains upwards of 2,000 closely-printed royal octavo pages, betokening a singular amount of industry as a matter of compilation, and awakening astonishment at the comprehensive ness of the machinery which could bring within a common liie.us So much varied and scattered intelligence—embracing, as it does, a Multiplicity of heads, and involving the services of a vast number Of contributors. We believe that the present volume is not to be Eat Wild in the Whole world, for such a mammoth aggregate of local and specific information is no less a typographical wonder than a Orodigioite monument of diligence and enterprise. Some dozen or so of separate Directors are included in this huge periodical—the only one, it seems, of the annual tribe destined to a permanent existence a veritable triumph, indeed, of the utilitarian prineiple over the ornamental. The " Official Directory" is a key to the whole of the _Government offices, and a record of official personages. This is fol lowed by a "Street Directory," exhibiting the tradesmen in every ththole ansuilantfhtanednathies ; w e Points at w e hich the streets are intersected by "Commercial and Professional Directory" is an alphabetical arrangement of the above. Then comes reec. peTrchadyees'c li athg ire e ct e. ory," in whi c h th e na mes are allocated under their Queen's counsel, serge Th an e ts, " b L ar a r w is ' te D rs irec arto ry me " is a list of judges, Queen's ISM Of the vario us Courts of Law, their officers, and their peculiari ties of Jurisdi ct i on. The "Court Directory" comprises the addresses Of the nobility and gentry ; and the " Parliamentary Directory" is a record of the Members of the Hoise of Lords and Commons, with an alphabetical list of the boroughs, cities, and counties returning Members to Parliament, the surnames and eldest sons of peers, &c. The " Postal Directory" contains the hour of receipt and delivery o every Post-office in the kingdom ; the cities and principal places throughout the world to which mails are dispatched itom London ; the rates of foreign postage ; the railway mails and the cross-road mails, eco. The " City Directory" registers the civic authorities. the pubic companies, the brokers, the incumbents and ministers of the churches and chapels, the newspapers, &c. ; and the " conveyance Directory' includes the railway tables, the coach and booking offices, the wharfs, &c. The volume closes with Banking and Assurance Directories. These various heads will serve to indicate the multi tudinous nature of the contents, for out of them come a variety of Subordinate directories, which meet every conceivable want, pre senting a curious analysis of the public and private institutions of the metropolis and of the commercial world. Every person is to be found under his proper section, from a prime minister down to a sheriff's officer—every establishment, from a palace to a lodging house. The editor, in his preface, takes occasion to congratulate himself on the many improvements he has 'this year introduced, principally flowing from the employment of " selected agents," instead of the ordinary carriers of the Post-office. Among the specific alterations, the sew postage treaty with Prussia, which came into Operation on the Ist of January, 1847, and disturbs to a considerable extent the rates of postage over a great part of the Continent, seems the Most important. MORNING ADVERTISER, Nov. 18, 1846, The " Post-office London Directory: 1847," is just delivered. Though it is apparently limited to London, it is in reality a national Work. None of the leading towns can well be without it ; it must be an essential to every counting-house in the kingdom, as well as to every place of business in and about the metropolis. It Is an invalu able work of its kind ; and the extent and minuteness of its useful de tails are truly wondei fill. Being prepared " under the immediate and Special patronage of her Majesty's Postmaster-General," the amplest and completest means were, of coarse, at the command of the pro prietor, Mr. Kelly, to secure the entire accuracy os the voluminous and crowded contents of the bulky work. The present is the forty eighth annual publication. Few commercial and trading, men can 'ow require particular description of the really important and useful information, to almost every party in any sort of business, occupying the two thousand closely but clearly printed octavo pages of this Di rectory. Preceded by au admirable and perspicuous Map of London, prepared expressly, it is declared, for the work, by Mr. B. R. Davies, there are divisions comprising, among other information, " Official," Street," " Commercial," " Trades," " Law," " Court," " Parlia mentary," " Postal," " City," " Conveyance," "Bankin;," and many ether Directories. The hope is expressed in the preface that this forty-eighth annual edition of the " Poet-office London Directory" may be found " in all respects to equal the best of its predecessors." From very consider able examination of the marvellously full and va r i e d contents an d aformation on matters which it must be so difficult, labori,,us, and expensive to collect, we hesitate not to say, that this unassuming wish is liberally realised. It not only equals the beet of its prede cessors, but in several particulars it surpasses all its predecessors. The information is not only fuller in many respects, but there are several important alterations and additions, largelyaddlngto all asettlness of the book. It Is intimated , and truly, that although competition has disappeared, the present volume is conspicuous proo f that there has been no relaxation in the multifarious labours to per fect the extraordinary work. In speaking of past success, it is observed that it has been, "even hi a pecuniary point of view, bone /Ida' to the public, is proved by the fact that important improve. meats and additions are annually made without any increase of 3trice "—a result that, it is declared, " could not have been the Cue, had the public patronage been divided." With reference to the price, we certainly must acknowledge that it is wonderful Ait can be profitable to provide such varied materials — and materials constantly changing and requiring so much and such ceaseless labour and cost to procure, and then to classify. Nothing but a tremendous sale could make the speculation answer. A_.mong the important alterations will be found those introduced into e " Foetid" Directory. It is, indeed, singularly full, useful, and complete ; and must much increase the daily, it might be more truly pronounced its hourly value, particularly to the merchant, the trader, or the professional man. As the new treaty with Prussia Caused very considerable changes in the rates of postage as effecting the Austrian dominions, Baden, Bavaria, Bremen, Denmark, the German States, Hamburg, Hanover, Lubeck, Mecklenburgh, Olden burgh, Poland, Prussia, Saxony, Sweden and Norway, Wurtemburg, ke. &c. &c., those changes are detailed " precisely as they arranged to come into operation on the Ist of January, 1847." The other changes are not only numerous, but all the intelligence is announced to be brought down to a period as late as was compatible with the Appearance of such a volume in sufficient time for general circulation, prior to the commencement of the year for which it is designed. The business merits of the work are of the highest order, and render it, of its kind, we imagine, a publication unexampled in the world for its completeness, fulness, and usefulness. SUN, Nov. 18,1846. The present is the forty-eighth annual edition of the " Post-office Mention Directory," and a truly marvellous effort of compilation it Is. The " Post-office Directory" has been for some years under the management of Mr. Kelly. Until he became the manager of this work, there were divers other Directories in the field. They have, however, all disappeared, and the " Post-office Directory" slow rules alone. This astonishing success, however, has not had the effect of making the proprietor of this gigantic work careless. He is too thorough a man of business not to be perfectly aware that the fruits of his success can only be reaped by a continuance of the same untiring energy by which the success was in the first instance achieved, and accordingly we find that the " Post -office Directory" for 1847, is even more highly finished in all its elaborate arrangements than any former edition of the book. The extent and minuteness of the details furnished, tender the work indispensable to every commercial and mercantile itstablishment. So ielinirably, however, is this multifarious information digested and arranged, that there is not the slightest difficulty experienced in referring to the articular page required to furnish the information—a marvellous Initance of clearness of arrangement in a vs ork consisting of upwards of two thousand closely but clearly printed octavo pages. This Directory is certainly the most complete work of the sort ever offered to the public. Of not only the usefulness, but the indispen sable necessity of such a work, no man of business can for a moment entertain a doubt ; and considering the completeness and fulness of the information furnished, and the enormous outlay of time and o capital that must have been made in order to acquire and digest the Information, the very reasonable price at which the work is published is really wonderful. , Nov. 21, 1846. Kelly's invaluable work, GLOBE the " Post-office Directory," has just 7Zade its appearance for the ensuing year. The vast mass of Juror 'nation which this book contains, makes it not only desirable but absolutely necessary as a part of the office furniture of every man of 'business ; and scarcely less necessary, indeed, for every one else, 'Who requires to know anything concerning the trades, professions, Sind localities of the great metropolis. In its present extended form, the book is an absolute curiosity; the labour and expense which it has cost to bring it to its present state of perfection must have beast Immense. In turning over its two thousand pages, one hardly knows which most to be struck with and admire—the excellent arrangement and utility of such a compilation, or the magnitude of the city which requires such a directory. The volume, moreover, contains as excellent map of London and the suburbs, corrected down to the latest strides of " bricks and mortar." WEEKLY DISPATCH, Nov. 15, 1846. The forty-eighth annual publication of this highly-important and itsethl work has just been issued ; and we must confess that its balky appearance has surprised us not a little ; and when we reflect that the price remains unaltered, although the expense of collecting the materials must have increased, we are pleased at the liberality of Mr, Kelly, the proprietor. In a commercial point of view, per haps, no book ever contained so much useful matter. Among other information, there is an " Official Directory," a " Street Directory," a" Commercial Directory," a " Trades' Directory," a " Law Direc tory," a" Court Directory," a" Parliamentary Directory," a "City Directory," a " Conveyance Directory," and a " Banking Direc tory,"—in fact, the volume contains much that is interesting and valuable to the tradesman, the merchant, the lawyer, and pers , ,ns in ordinary life, as well as to the gentleman who occasionally dabbles in trade. Every description of information has been corrected to the latest possible period, and that information Is arranged with a clearness and simplicity which must have involved great activity of mind and exertion of body. Sewed with the book is an excellently engraved Map of London, more extended and accurate as to the suburbs than any map we have seen ; and to make it as complete a reference as possible, an almanac is introduced. In the " Postal Directory" there are the new rates with various parts of the Con tinent which will come into operation on the Ist of January. Altogether this new issue surpasses any of its predecessors • and we are not surprised that other Di rec t or i es should have gone to the tomb of all the Captalets. BRITANNIA, Nov. 21, 1846 , The French people have done themselves some credit by their in itihtroeudgl with l in dustrial expositions. But it must be acknowledged that, though in genious and pretty, they appear quite insignificant c the industrial exposition presented to the mind by th volume. Keeping pace with the advancin g trade and population of nf . London it still increases in bulk, and keeping pace with th e mova Snout of society in a more important particular, it vigilantly seizes every opportunity of Improvement to insure more perfect accuracy and more complete classification. We find in this volume many in stances of superiorit7 to former issues, which, though comparatively trifling, show the intelligence and care exercised over every depart- Meat. It may be mentioned, that by the employment of private agents. the changes of residence are new brought down to a later Period than formerly, and the value of the " Directory" is conse quently enhanced. We have before spoken of it as indispensable to the proper management of business. Its authority is now so univer- S ally established, both at the post-Office and throughout the metro- P° ll3 , that any Ihrther recommendation of it is superfluous. JOAN BULL, Nov. 28, I 84G. This annual leviathan is alreuly completed and published ; but as a proof that the rapidity with which it must ha ve p assed throu g h the press has not operated against its careful accuracy, we may Mention that the changes rendered necessary by the very recent demise of Mr. Stewart, M.P. for Renfrewehire, are duly attended to (See pages 1669 and 1676). We have so frequently expressed our I t pprobation of this most vi.luable work, that we hardly know how !o r.!? our commendation. It contains every thing that can pos - Y . bli required in a directory—so full, so complete, so compro '4"iVe are all its details. And when to this we add the extreme ac curaeY whi h c ._ e c pervades every department, we know not what el:e D said in its praise. The machinery by which such volu minous information is obtained, to av arranged, and superintended, so as old errors, must of itself b li terature. e among the " curiosities" of modern ATLAS, Nov. 28, 18 46. A book of this kind. brought out even without much pretension, WOuld be indispensable to every gentleman's library, every merchant's co unting-house, and every trader's shop. But edited as this is, with the Utmost care—its materials being collected through the most au thentic channels, and embracing in its range every head of personal and commercial intelligence essential to the completeness of such a Work, we cannot suppose that any house, public or private, which can afford a book of reference, will be without this compendious volume. The arrangement is admirable. You can find any name You want in a moment. All the heads are clear mid complete—the Co t — trades—streets--oftlces—hotels, forming, upon the whole, a Miss of local infermation such as could not be brought together with °st tZtSitmUnary industry, assisted by an entire eSmunaial of all \) • , . . • ~, . . • . ......• , , 5 ,---,..,_ • . ..... _-4-. ,•.• ~ , . fo, 4 , ~ , A, 4e o . o .tri. • 7 ,,• ,.... : f, s . . ,i, ) A , , 1.. f//,/ , S. to r•.:- • . s ii i e.\ . • 4.AL ..,r. f f v .. . ~.APif o,‘ . , ~ ,,te. ,„ *Vott ow ‘ . 1, . \ • m. dtil . ~ • • „',.• (.' ! —)1 ~,,I,A, vrt , ..,,,,, -.•-- • , „,,,- i , ,),..-, , 1_ , Z''.",A,4 l, -. ''''' -.' ''' ' ' . 4 1. ',..`` l ' --- • •'-r ' , NV - ~ 4ofa ~ti ! • - ---......______: , • - - , . .. .. -'l-:.:4•5 24; I . , . I ,-;--: ',.%,... ',,' .•• ' .2 . ('.'1 - .....1...,••= , ..", ,- ^ - 413 1 ' 9 4' / - ';'' , 1 '. . 4. ' ----, ~...,-... ~,, 4C, -* _,. ilpl, k - , ~ t. t...,43-aft,._ NA .1;', - ' ' '\,. 0:., , : - ,_...... - . N ---- ' N 0.16,979. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING S Ny FEBRUARY 18, 1847. requisite official facilities. As a mere compilation, it is probably the moat wonderful on record. ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Nov, 28, 1846. This huge volume, the forty-eighth edition of the work, well sus tains the reputation enjoyed by the "Directory" of late years. In the preface the proprietor maintains that the high character of the work is not referable to its mere connexion with the Post-office ; for an important change has been gradually introduced into the man ner of collecting the information ; and a larger portion of the work than heretofore has been confided to selected agents entirely uncon nected with the Post-office, this being, in great part, the plan of compiling the editions for 1845 and 1846. Nor has the proprietor rested content with his past success, but has introduced many impor tant alterations in this volume for 1847, and added to its bulk with out any increase of price. The Postal Directory' is especially im proved, and there are numerous changes throughout tile volume, to insure its completeness. The compilation must be a vast labour, to be accomplished only by systematic subdivision and the most pains taking minuteness. The appearance of the volume has suggested a 'very lively effusion, to be seen in another column; and we trust the enterprising proprietor of the " Directory" will find that his labours are duly appreciated and remunerated. To a great commercial country this indispensable volume. RERALD, Nov. 21, 1846. The new volume of the l'Oe^ in our hands, and we can only e xi,Tesi our wonder that a work se Once Directory for 1847 is already laborious, extensive, and minute, could fie in any degree improved. It would have been a sufficient merit to have maiiited its former reputation ; it is a great merit to have surpassed itself. The pro duction of a work unequalled for accuracy and for cleanieiS has placed in the hands of the commercial public a most valuable and indispensable aid in carrying enthe business of this vast metropolis, which would indeed be subjected to the greatest inconvenience arid expense if it were not for a work of this kind. In a short thaw our readers will have an opportunity of judging for themselves en pur, chasing the new volume, whether our anticipatory notice is in any degree exaggerated. _ lIERAPATH'S RAILWAY JOURNAL, Nov. 21, 1846. The Post-office Directory for 1847 appears with additions and improvements unon its valuable predecessor, but with no enlarge limit in the price. The continued enterprising spirit with which this important, and it is not a misapplication of terms to say, national work is conducted, merits the highest commendation. We know net whether the same illiberal and unjustifiable attempt will be made in the ensuing session as was done in the last, to wrest it from the hinds of the present proprietary, and to place it by the force of might over right in the possession of Government. But should it he attempted, surely the following statement of its con ductors will go home to the consciences, if they have any, of the parties seeking to draw down the grasping interforence of Govern ment. "It can only be necessary to refer to a copy of the work pub lished before the purchase of the copyright by its present proprietor, to be convinced that the mere connexion of the Directory' with the Post-office has little, if at all, contributed to its present high cha racter. That the improvements (the result of many years of un wearied toil and application on the part of those engaged in the com pilation of the work) are duly appreciated, is now happily beyond all question ; prior to the Directory' passing to its present proprietor, rival books contended successfully with this. They have disappeared." Kelly and Co., 19 and 20, Old Boswell-ceurt, Temple Bar, and all booksellers. EMPLOYMENT. —Persons having a little time to spare are apprised that AGENTS continue to be appointed in London and country towns to the EAST INDIA TEA COM PANY for the SALE of their celebrated TEAS. Offices, 9, Great St. Helen's Church-yard, Bishepsgate-street. They are packed in leaden canisters, from an ounce to a pound, with the price and weight marked on each paskot, and but little trouble is ccca.sioned by the Tale. The only license required is Hs. per annum, And many during the last 20 years have realised considerable incomes by the agency, withaut 10. lot or loss. Application to be made, If by letter, post paid, as above. M T HITTINGTON CLUB and METROPO LITAN ATHENfEUM.—The COMMITTEE are happy to inform the Members that they have taken Premises at No. 7, Gresham-street, which are being adapted for the purposes of the Club with the utmost rapidity. WHITTINGTON CLUB and METRO POLITAN ATHENAMM. The Entrance Fees for all Members of this Institution proposed on and after the let of March, 1847, will be increased to One Guinea for Town, and Half-a-Guinea for Country Members. All persons who have been nominated as Members, and have not paid their entrance fees are requested to do so immediately. EXETER AND EXMOUTH RAILWAY COMPANY. Notice is hereby given, that the HALF-YEARLY ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of the EXETER and EXMOUTH RAILWAY COMPANY, will be held at the Com pany's Offices, No. 13, Bedford-circus, Exeter, on SATURDAY, the '27th day of February, at One o'clock in the Afternoon precisely. EDW. WOOLMER, Chairman. The Transfer Books will be Closed on the 20th day of February, and will net be Opened until after the said Half-Yearly Ordinary General Meeting. JOHN CLENCH, Secretary. Exeter, February 11th, 1547. EAST and WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY. The Directors hereby give notice, that it is intended (unless the charges shall have been previously paid) to SELL, on the 10th day of March next, such WINES, RUM, sad other Spirits, as from length of deposit or depreciated quality are not considered to be worth the charges thereon, and that sundry parcels for which WARRANTS have been issued will be included In such Sale. A List of all the Goods may be inspected at this House. GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary. East and West India Dock House, Billitcr-square,Feb. 9, 1847.-, N EW SHARE and MONEY MARKET, ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. N EW THOUSAND SHARES WANTED, AT GOOD PRIC, Daily Share Lists are publicly exhibited at the TRANSFER-OFFICE, facing Cornhill, and will be sent to any partof the Kingdom on appli cation. Detailed Lists may also be had at 114, Cheapside ; 25, Strand ; 32, Cockspur-street ; 53, Piccadilly; and 191 , Oxford•street. Stevens, Hansard, and Co., Transfer-et:llu, 5, Royal Exchange, London. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR- ANCE SOCIETY, 26 COENHILL, LONDON. Capital 4500,000. Empowered by Aot of Parliament,. This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages itb respect to Life Assuranoes and Deferred Annuities. The assured has, on all occasions, tke power to borrow, without expense or fbr eiture of the Polley, two-tkirds of the premiums paid (see Table) ; leo the option of solecting benefits, aid the conversion of his in erests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible ates. > ' 4 Bonus Bonus in 1i R Assured t Premium. 2 g added. Cash. '''' D' ma y N N Borrow. • g ---- - -- 1837 £217 15 1:/100 011 £ l6 0 4 / 445 0 0 £ £s. 41. 1838 192 30, 87 1 4 13 II 2 395 11 1 4)1000 3 4 1839 165 11 10' 74 1 9 11 3 1 346 2 3 1840 116 7 8 84 010 718 10 296 13 4 .1841 111 6 8 1 49 10 0 710 4 247 4 8 The division of prate it annual, and the next ►ill be awls in December of the present year. F. FERGITSON CADIROUX, Secretary. DISEASED AND HEALTHY LIVES ASSURED. MEDICAL, INVALID, and GENERAL LIFE OFFICE, 25, PALL-MALL, LONDON, and 22, NASSAU STREET, DUBLIN. Subscribed Capital, 500,0001. 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 proposals had been made to the Society, covering Assurances to above One Million. It is the only Company possessing tabulated rates of premium 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 fully subscribes affords a complete guarantee for the fulfilment of the Company's engagements. FRANCIS G. P. NEISON, Actuary. N.B. Applications for Agencies to be made to the Actuary. CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETT, No. 78, Great Russell-street, Bl•omobury. The Annual General Meeting of Proprietors will be heti at the Office of the Society on THITIODAY, the 4th day of March next, at Ilalf.past One o'clock precisely. at which meeting Five Directors and One Auditor (on the part of the Proprietors) will be elected. Any Proprietor desirous of proposing a candidate for the office of Director or Auditor must send the name of such candidate to the Secretary, at least Fourteen days before the day of meeting. The ballot will commence at Eleven and close at Two o'clock. The election of an Auditor (on the part of the Assured) will also take place Oil WEDNICSDAY, the 3d day of March, between the hours of Eleven and Two o'clock. All persons assured for the whole term of life, and qualified to Tote, are hereby referred to the conditions endorsed on their policies, for information concerning the candidate to be proposed. Feb. 10, 1847. GEO. IL PINCKARD, Resident Secretary, FOURTSE DIVISION OF PROFITS. A detailed report (Just published) or the bonus declared, and the state of the Seclety generally, can be obtained, free of expense, by addressing a letter to the Seeretary, as construct e d by „L E THERIAI,INI Dr. BOOT and Mr. ROBINSON. Mr. HOOPER has the greatest satisfaction in stating that at each of the Metl opolitan and Provincial Institutions at whick this appa ratus has been used, it has succeeded ; Messrs. Lawrence, Feron, Guthrie, Aston Key, Morgan, Thomson, M`Mordo, and many other eminent Surgeons, have operated ou patients whilst under the In fluence of /Ether, by means of this instrument, with the most cow_ plete success, to whom Mr. Hooper begs to refer, and to the reports in the recent Medical Journals. The success attending this Inhaler is in great measure owing to the construction of the 'valves. Orders addressed to Mr. Hooper will be executed on the day they are received. SALES BY AUCTION. The lan MARQUIS OF AILSA'S noble and delightfully situated TOWN MANSION IN WHITEHALL GARDENS, adjoining itthsahtao,fidtshoemDeukanedorapl3pirtecoplreitiateeh,fuunuponturtheet an ban d k var of i t o b us e T ve h ry am v es aiu w ,L i bl th e and ornamental Effects. MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and 60N are directed by the Executors to announce, that (unless an acceptable offer shall be previously made by Private Contract) the distinguished and splendid MANSION of the late Most Noble the Marquis of Alissi, in Privy-gardens, Whitehall, will be SIN IIITTED to P LIC COMPETITION, at the Auction Mart, on Friday, Frautraav 26, at Twelve. It is held by an eriginal lease from the Crown for a term of ninety-nine years from July, 1506, at a low ground rent. The mansion is admirably arranged throughout for the accommodation and comlhrt of a large establishment, is in most excellent repair, and immediate possession nay be had, with its appropriate fittings, and witk or without its superior furniture. It has a angularly handsome stone atairease, the rooms are strikingly cheerful and airy, opening backward to a lawn extending to the river, and are of fine dimensions, particularly the saloon or ball-room (64 feet long), its walls adorned with rich and beautiful tapestry in rare preservation. From its contiguity to the Houses of Parliament, St. James's Park, the Palace, and Down ing -street, and from its peculiarly quiet and choice situation, it is admirably suited for a Cabinet Minister, or any leading Mem ber of Parllaznent ; also for a first-class club-house. The purchaser will have the refusal of the capital freehold stabling, Its., near Great George-street. No person can view the house without a eard of admission, which, with every requisite information, may be had at their Offices in Waterloo -place, Pall-mall ; also of Messrs. Ashfield and Clode, soli citor., j t Staple Inn. Deacrip44. particulars may also be had of Mr. Cala. Reuse- Agent, RiCiimOn4 ; and at the Auction Mart. - EXTENSIVE FREEHOLD STABLING, with ENCLOSED PRI VATE YARD, near DOWNING-STREET, WESTMINSTER. with possession. MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will SELL by AUCTION, at the Mart, on Friday, Fa eivsey 26, (uuleve previously disposed of by Private Treaty), by direction Or the devisees in trust for sale, under the will of the late Most Notble the Marquis of lllsa, some EXTENSIVE and CAPITAL STABLING, at the west end of Blue Boor-yard, bat completely enclosed within its own walls and gates, comprising a nine and four-stall stable, three large coach• houses, harness rooms, and several servants' rooms and lofts above, with pumps of soft and spring water, and all in substantial repair. The yard is entered both from King-street and Delahay-street, close to Great George-street. Particulars and orders to view may be had of Messrs Ashileld and Clods. eolicit.one, 7. Staple Inn ; and et Messrs. Daniel Smith and Bon, Waterloo place, P&U,m&l• STAPLETON GROVE. A delightfully affiliated and capital FREEHOLD RESIDENCE, with rich and beautifully Timbered Grounds, within a short distance of Bristol, with immediate possession; also TWO smaller RESIDENCES. MESSRS. u S y . A p t, c A T N I INE, the at SMITH Aicti.n Mart, and n SON FR iDA T will l t h e S 26th of February, at Twelve o'clock, by direction of the Executors of a gentleman deceased, the above most desirable and complete RESIDENCE, in perfect order, comprising a handsome substantial modern stone mansion, containing rooms highly decorated and of admirable size and proportion, with very superior domestic offices ; capital stabling and outbuildings, most productive walled gardens, vineries, and pine pits ; beautiful pleasure-grounds, in which is an iry.boand tower, commanding a grand view of Bristol and the ad jacent country, surrounded by rich park like paddocks—in all about thirty =rag, backed en the north side by a bold grove of lofty Umber, and surrounded by the fine wooded domains of the Duke of Beanfort, the Bishop of Bristol and Gloucester, and of Sir J. Smith. The mansion is approached from the turnpike-road, through a rustle lodge, and altogether forms one of tho most desirable retreats of its size in the county ; every part of the premises and grounds are most amply supplied with the finest water, and the house is fully lilted with fixtures of the best description. Also a smaller Residence, on the south side of the grounds, and in a separate lot, a cottage residence, with lawn, garden, Sec., in the occupation of Mr. Gee, as yearly tenant. The estate may be viewed, and descriptive particulars, with plans, had in due time en the premises ;of Mr. Brook Smith, solicitor, Small-street; and of Messrs. Sturge, surveyors, Broad-street, Bristol ; at the Auction Mart ; and of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son, land agents, Sec., Waterloo-place, London. KENT. The 'nor Valuable FREEHOLD ESTATES and Delightfully Healthy SEAT and VA of CHARLTON, near Canterbury, the pic turesque parishes of Bishopsbourne, Kingstone, and Barham. MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON are commissioned to OFFER for SALE by AUCTION, at the Mart, in Merck . next, in Lots (unless an acceptable offer shall be previously made by private contract for the whole of the property), the important and very desirable FREEHOLD ESTATE of CHAR L TON, about four miles from Canterbury, upon the high Dover- Road, a remarkably healthy and favourite neighbourhood, compris ing the MANSION of Cad•ALTON, (of which immediate possession may be had), with its beautiftil Pleasure-grounds, capital Stabling and Gardens, keeper's and other Ledges, surrounded by a finely va clad little Park of excellent sound Pasture Land, studded wills some magnificent Timber and Ornamental Plantation, with Two very va luable Farms adjoining, interspersed with Woodlands, forming excel lent Preserves for Game, and some desirable Lands contiguous, with a portion of the healthy Barham-down, comprising the race-course, with important frontages upon the turnpike- road, parts opening fine commanding sites for the erection of villas, overlooking the pictu resque vale of Bishopsbourne, Kingstone, and Barham. Also another residence, now occupied by the Rev. J . Harrison, and a small farm and detached lands, in and near the village and church of Barham. altogether about 740 acres. All in a ring fence except a few lots in Barham, Descriptive praticulltrs may be had, when the day of sale is fixed, of Mr. Dewsatt, at Bishopsboume ; at the chief inns at Canter bury, Dever, Maidstone, &c.; of Messrs. Delmar and Wynne, solicitors, Lincoln's Inn-fields ; at the Auction Mart ; and of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son, land agents, in Water-100-place, Pall-mall. CHESTU-lIILL ROUSE, amidst the romantic scenery of Woed cheater Perk, near Stroud and Nailsworth, in Gloucestershire, with a first-cies. Itallway-station only three miles distant. MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will offer for SALE by AUCTION at the Mart, early in APRIL NEST (unless an acceptable offer shall be previously made by Private Contract), The above desirable FREEHOLD RESIDENCE, with gardens. pleasure groutida, and rich paddocks, together about eighteen acres. The House contains siT airy bed-rooms, dressing-rooms, water closet, &c. three sitting-reotns, halls, and the usual domestic offices, with stabling and various out-buildings, excellent gardens, lawn, shrubberies, &c. ; delightfully situate on a healthy picturesque spot, commanding scenery of great extent and surprising beaut, , and in the newly established Alissien of the Pessimists, and early posses aim may be had. Particulars may be had, when the day of sale is fixed, of Mr. Peaks, the resident agent et Woodchester; at the chief hotels at Stroud, Bristol, and Bath; at the Auction Mart; of Mr. Hodson, solicitor, the Close, Lichfield ; and of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son, Land Agents, Waterloo-place, London. Freehold Villa and Grounds at Sunninghill, Berks, bordering on Windsor Great Park, Virginia Water, and Ascot. MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will SELL by AUCTION, at the Mart, at the end of March, or early in April next (unless an acceptable offer shall be previously made by private contract), with possession, the FREEHOLD VILLA, late the residence and property of Mrs. Churchill, deceased, delightfully situated on an elevated and beautiful part of Sunning hill, seining Titnest-park, and close to all the romantic rides, walks, and scenery of Virginia Water, and the Royal parks, through which is the drive to Windsor of only six miles. It has just been pat into thorough repair, and has all suitable offices and outbuildings for a moderate establishment, sarrousded by highly dressed pleasure grounds, gardens and paddocks.—More detailed particulars, with plans,will be published when the day of sale is fixed, and may be hadn the premises ; at the Auction Mart ; of Messrs. Pemberton, Crawley, and Gardiner, solicitors, Whitehall-place ; and at Mr. Smith's offices in Windsor, and Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. The famous TOWN MILLS, upon the KENNET, la the heart o the town of NEWBURY , MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will SELL by AUCTION, at the end of March, or early in April next (unless an acceptable effer shall be previously made by private contract), by direction of the Executrix of the late Richard Basing, Esq., the above capital FLOUR MILLS, with the residence attached, various outbuildings, paddock, &c., held by a renewable Lease under the Dean and Canons of Windsor, most commandingly situated in the town of Newbury, upon the Kennet and Avon canal. The mills are in the occupation of Mr. Leonard (whose term ex pires at Midsummer next), when possession may be had ; offering a fine opportunity for an active man of moderate capital to secure a first-rate old-established business. —... ... The Mills may in Tiewed by application to Mr. James Tanner, of Bagnor, near Newbupy ; and full particulars may be obtained when the day of sale is fixed at the chief inns at Newbury, Reading, &c. and at Messrs. Smith's oftlees in Windsor, and Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. Valuable Freehold Farm, in the rich parish of Walton-le-Soken near the coast, Mow Colchester, a favourite and improving sea bathing place. _ _ ME'gSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will SELL by AUCTION, early in the Spring, unless an accept able offer shall be previously made, in One or more Lots, a very valuable FARM, in the occupation of Mr. Samuel Wilson, comprising a highly respectable Farm Residence, within a walk of the beach and public rooms, with about 270 acres of capital arable and grazing land, in high condition, with a small wood, and superior buillings of every description, in perfect repair.—Particulars may be known, and a plan inspected, at their Offices in Waterloo-place, Pall-mall ; also of Messrs. Pemberton, Crawley, and Gardiner, Whitehall-place, London. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. CLIEMTCAL LECTURES y Pr. RYAN, with brilliant and varied Experiments, daily, and on the Evening! of Mondays, Wed nesdays,' and Fridays. 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" I'm Afloat," "A Life on the Ocean Wave," " The Newfouidland Doe," &c. &c., will have the honour of giving his VOCAL EN TERTAIN3IENTS on MO NDAY EvENING , F e b. 22, an d following evenings, inter s p ersed with Anecdotes of Negro Life and Character. Boxes, as.; Stalls, 20. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Doors Open at Half-past Seven; commence at Eight. Private Boxes, 1/. Is. Rum office open from One till Four. CIIUBBS' LOCKS, FIRE-PROOF SAFES AND CASH BOXES. (IHUBBS' NEW PATENT DETECTOR `J LOCKS give perfect security from False Keys and Picklocks, and es al s and o det for every purpose is which Locks are applied, and are strong, secure, simple, and durable. CHUBES' PATENT COMBINATION LATCH, for Front Doors, Counting House Doors, &c., are simple in construction, low in price, and quite secure ; the Keys are particularly neat and portable. CRUMBS' PATENT FIRE-PROOF SAFES, BOOK-CASES, CHESTS, &c., made entirely of strong wrought Iron, so as effectually secure from the att ac k s of the moat skilfulto resist the falling of brick work, timbers, Ecc., in case o f t i re, BS' CASH and DEED BOXES, fitt e d with the DETEC TOR LOCKS. C. CHUBB an d SON, 57, St. Paul's Churchyard, L ondon; and C. Chubb and Co., sweats, 28, Lord-street, Liverpo o l. b a u nd rg a la r rs e also . CHUB BS perfectly SPENCS CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYE ER'S The thousands of individuals who for upwards of tw enty years have used this celebr ated li q uid, p ronounce it to be the y article extant which effectu all y chan g es, in a few min utes , red or grey hair, whiskers, moustaches, Poe., to a dark brown or black, without trouble (by simply co mbin g it through the hair), an d pro duces by one application a pleasing and permanent change ; and it can be ineontestibly proved, that while massy dyes tend to destroy the hair by their 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 3s. 6d., 65., and les per bottle. To be had of the Proprietors, 29, Nottingham-place, Pleldgate street, Whiteehapel-road, London ; also of Mr. Joluistone, 68, Corn hill ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Front, 229, Strand; Sanger, lee , Oxford street ; Barclay, Farringdon - stre et ; Atkinson, 24, dßond street ; Hooper, 43, King William-street, London •bridge ; Finnigin, Milsem-street, Bath; Elmore, Bull-street, Birmingham; and of mos rerthners and Medicine Vendors in to wn and country. Sent to any Part of the kingdom by receiving a re mittance, post-paid. Please to ask tbr " Spencer and Co.'s Chinese Liquid Hair Dye.' Observe, the Proprietor's address is on the wrapper. MUSICAL BOXES, of high quality, the mechanism beautifully finished, playing upwards of 750 airs, overtures, &c. A Catalogue of the Music, with the price of the boxes, is now published, and may be bad, gratis, on applica tion, or will be sent, post-paid, if applied fer by a paid letter.—T. COX SAVORY and Co., Goldsmiths, &c., 47, Corn= (seron don from Gracocimroh-otroot), London, THE PATENT MILE-INDEX CARRIAGE COMPANY. (Registered Provisionally.) Capital, 65,0001., in Shares of 101. each. Deposit, Is. per Share, (amount limited by Statute). Deposits will be returned without deduction, if the whole capital R. Bartley Kennedy, Es be not subscribed. TRUSTIES. Wright,al 84milt 1 0 :y st a r l e Eng et. Richard Barker, Req., 14, Fitzroy-square. q., R. Hartley Kennedy, Esq., Resington Lodge, Notting-hill. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Assurance Company, and Deputy Chairman of the Oriental Bank, Resington Lodge, Notting- hlll, —Chairman. Lieutenant yv . u . Gie G r , r e Captain Tyndale, Director of the South Eastern Railway, 2), Alfred () , Chairman of the India and London Life place, Brompton,—Deputy Chairman. Si. James's-square. J. E. B. Curtis, Esq., Lincoln's aid 24, Wellington-road, St. Navy Club, John's-wood. D in ors eer ets s' s: n ar y e. and Robert Faulder White, Esq., 24, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park. (With power to increase the number to ten.) MANAGING DIRIVFOR, Henry Von Uster, Esq. namonts. Messrs, Sapte, Muspratt, Banbury, and Co., 77, Lombard-street. SOLICITOR/. Messrs. Wire a 30 Child, St. Swithin's-lane, City. OncarrasT. Mr. Lionel Curtis. The features of the undertaking are as follow : I. Patent Mile-Index. '2. Mile Tickets, at 6d. per title. 3. Supe rior Cabs, with better class of drivers, under control and guarantee of a body of gentlemen. 4. Act of Incorporation. b. Detailed esti mates, showing five per cont. interest, and a dividend of ten per cent. and upwards, both clear of income-tax. 6. Abstract of deed for In formation of applicants, ocs.sics of deed given to subscribers. 7. De posits returned if capital AL t subscribed, unless subscribers decide on commencing business with :apital actually subscribed. 8. The re muneration to the promot^r and the directors postponed till share holders receive five per een: interest on capital, and then propor tioned to profits realised--11hus giving best proof of the accuracy of the calculations. The Subscription List will shortlybe closed. Prospectuses, Estimates, and Forms of Application for Shares, may bo obtained on application tc Messrs. Wire and Child, solicitors, St. Swithin's-lane, City; or to the Brenton'. By order of the Board, LIONEL CURTIS, Secretary. Temporary Offices, 32, Charing-cross, Feb- 9, 1847. The whole Prospectus was published In this paper cn Monday,Fob.B. NEW MONTHLY WORK, BY A LADY WHO HAS GONE THROUGH A GREAT DEAL. Dedicated to the Wivea and Mothers of England. Now ready, Part the First, to be completed in Six Numbers (price One Shilling each), of the GREATEST PLAGUE of LIFE ; or the AD VENTURES of a LADY in SEARCH of a GOOD SER VANT. By One who has been " Nearly Worried to Death." With Illustrations by George CrulkShank. D. Begue, Fleet-street; J. Menzies, Edinburgh ; Cumming and Ferguson, Dublin. J. D. HARDING'S WORKS ON ART. Now ready, price 425, bound in sl o th, ELEMENTARY ART; or, the Use of the Chalk and Black Lead Pencil advocated and explained. By J. D. HARDING. New Edition (the Third). ** In this edition the text has been throughly re-written and illustrated with wood-cuts, and an entirely new set of plates have been added. The extensive improvements in every department, in deed, render it not merely a new edition, but a new work. D. Bogue, 86, Fleet-street ; Of whom may be had, _ . _ HARDING'S DRAWING -BOOK for 18 . 47 : a New Series of tudies. 6 Nos. at Is. 6d. each ; or, bound in cloth, les. 6d. ZUROPEAN LIBRARY. Now ready, price 33. 6d. neatly bound, HISTORY OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC. By J. MICIIELET , Author of " Life of Luther," " Pests, Women, and Families," &c. With a fine Portrait of the Author. D. Bogue, 81, Fleet-street, and all Booksellers ; HONG SONG. THE ORDNANCE SURVEY of HONG KONG and ADJACENT ISLANDS, In Four Sheets, to a Scale of Four inches to the Mile, with Contoured Heights et Ground. Price Ten Shillings. Also, Tan Lithographed Outline Views of the Principal Parts of the Island, price Ten Shillings, are now published, and ready for sale, at the following Agents :—Messrs. Longman and Co., Paternoster-row; Mr. Arro cvsmith, 10, Soho-square; Mr. Saunders, 1, Charing-cross ; and Messrs. Letts and Son, Cornhill. By order of the Board, R. BICHAM, Secretary. Office of Ordnance, Bth Feb., 1847. DR. CITLYERWELL on HEALTH, HAPPINESS , and LONG LIFE. Ia poeket volumes Is. sash, by post (in stamps), Is. Gd. each. H OW " 'Yaounde Vlvere."--Cle. 2. WHAT to EAT, DRINIC, and AVOID. (With Diet-tables for all Complaints ) 3. MARRIAGE and its MYSTERIES. " To be, or mot to be, that is tho question."—Skakspeare. . _ 4. The PASSIONS—Their ADVENT and CONTROL. " Cura et velem." These publications are free from empyrieal rnYs adapted to the intelligence of the times. Mann, 39, Corn- To be had of Sherwood 23, Paternoster-row; hill ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-str ee t ; and all Boo ksellers, or direct f rom the Author, whose practice is exc lusively devoted to home consulta tion, Mornings till Three, and ii the Evenings from Seven till Nine, at 10, Argyle-place, Regent-street. tielsm, and are —............ REGISTRY of BIRTHS and DEATHS DURING THE WEEK ENDING FEB. 13. Deaths registered in the week. Births registered in the week. Males ... ... ... 592 Males ... ••• ••• 702 Females ... ... 555 Females ••• ••• 662 —........... Total ... 1,364 Total ... 1,147 RAILWAY J O :: Eastern .s4p.—G r J e u a n t e N ti o o rt n he l r e n . ( 3: 0 . 5. p 1 .— t0 81 i r: shire, SToc LIVERPOOL, Exasu.sztx 17. K Excuntoz.—The sales are —Ambergate, Nottinghatn, Bos- New. Scrip, ct an ion d , 1 ,0 ng 0074 P an : Junction, 95i —Chester and 'Birkenhead, 464 ex div.— nca- SHARE MARKEE:LS: Oxford 1% :P.—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Mulder field Canal and Railway, 4% p,—Ditto, Extension 14 p.—Leeds and Thirak, 2% dis.--Ditto, Preference. 1.% P•—Lon'don and North- Western, 189—Ditto, Quarters, 124 p.—Manchester and Leeds, Halves, New (late L. and B ), 5 p. --Manchester, Sheffield, areaLin colnshire Extensions (Great Grimsby and Sheffield), 201. Sh, 1)4 dia.—Manchester and Southampton, fis. 9d.ldio.—Midland, 121 ex dlr. —North British, New Quart er s ( scr ip) ii p.—Preston and Wyre, 34 % —Ditto, Halves (B), Bs. 9d. p.—Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 2 dig.—West Riding talon, 330. 9d. p.—Dublin and Drog heda, 11 4 die. Srocx Excaaxas.-The sales are-Ambargate, Nottingham, and Cheshire Junction, Boston, % p.-Birkenhead. Lancashire, and &c., 3-16 dis.-Eastern Counties, 131ackburn, Clitheroe. p.-Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 9% P. --- -.E as t MANCHESTER, FEBIIIIART 17. Lancashire, 2 p.-Ditto New (scrip). I% P'-Flee w Preston, anchester Railway and West Riding*, 9-16 p.-Iluddersfield and M Thirds, 1% p.-Lancaster and Canal, 33-Ditto , 4 9-16 p.-Ditto. ii -Manchester, Shef and Preston, Three-quarter Shares, 1 .7- 4 P• 1 C. dis.- fleld, and Lincolnshire (late Sheffield and Linco ln s h i re ) , hinds,2% 6 dis -North British, Manchester and Southampton, 1-1 • York Extension , % c. , p. (A), 4 p.-Ditto (B), 7-16 p.-South Yorkshire, Don caster , and Goole, 4 p. 17 LEEDS, FEBATJAST • p.-Oldham Alliance, % p.-Preston and Wyre, Halves 3 11 14 8.- - D D l i t o, STOCK Excisalmx.-The sales aro-Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, par n..-Birmingham and omora Junction, 9 p.-Eastern Counties, York Extension, 14s. 5. p.-East Lancashire. 2% n. p.- Ditto, Blackburn and Prestos, 2 n. p.-Ditto, New, 2% p.-Ditto, New Scrip, 265. 6d. p.- East and West Yorkshire, Is. 6d. p.-East p.-pitto Halves, 47. p.-Ditto, New Eaten- Lincolnshire, 2% C. p.-liuddereneld and Manchester, 4% p.-Leeds and Dewsbury, 8 n. 2 is. 6d. P• ' -Leeds and Thirsk, 2 are -North British, stone Scrip (pink), Preference, 1% P. - Leeds Waken 1,1 New, 155. die.-Ditto, . „ J u nction , , e, and Midland, 10s. dia.- n and Drimela 1% p.-Man chester2% P.-North Bri- Extension (s i tleh, Thirds, 525.6 d. p.-Dlll°4orth-Westent er p), 15' P.-Northern Counties Union, 245. dia. .. , 81. p. -West Riding Union, 335. 6d. P• _ wbsr fd a tk Junction, 10s. dis.-York and! North Midland, Preference, 10% 1 i p i L • L 1i........ , FKBRU AE Y 17. and Leeds, 32d. Shares (late E xt ensio n s ), . STOCK EXCHANGE.-- Th° salesat Lin Extensions (scrip), 155. p. - East .1. p Lincolnshire, 9 34 p,-South York shire, Doncaster, an d Goole , . r EDINBURGH, EanUaRY 16. STOCK EXCKANGE.--The sales are -Abredeen, 231.-Airdri e 41• la -Arbroath and Forfar, 281.-Ditto, and Bathgate. • • Half 21. 5e.-Caledonian , Shares. 151. 55.- A yr a nd Galloway, tan, 2 71.-Ditto N Is. Od. -Caledonian and Dumbarton, 21. 85 .-Clydesdale ' Ja w,e 21. 391. 5e.-Deoside, 31. 55 --Direct Northern, 21. 135 nction, i, 125. 6d.-Dundee .-Dnnblane Donne, and Callender , I No. ee and Arbroath, 441. 105. ' ex new-Ditto, New , 1, 58 321.-Ditto, No. 2, 2 91.-Ditto, New, 3, 51.-Dundee and Perth, 32 1. ~ New, in. 55..... E No. Fife, 21. 195.-East Lathiancr Glasgow, 21. Is. - Edinburgh and a ir ' " Bath gate, 51. 45.-Edinburgh an 44"w' 771.-Ditto, Half Sh ath -20/. 17s. 6d.-Ditto, QUaTtermShar es, 191. 2s. 61. -Edinburgh, * a!es, a p Leith, and Grantors, 191. 2s. 6d. t , reference, 201. 10s.-Edinburgh and Northern. 161. 7s. 6d. CI new-Ditto, N ew 6d.-Dltto, Newport, Shares , 31 ai, as. ex new-Ditto, ditt o , New • 12s. -Edinburgh and Perth ( Ol d ), 11. 183. 6 d.-Ditto (Ne , 21. Bs. 6d. Glasgow and Ayrshire, 651.-Ditto, New Stock, 3 „ ._ll ir t ), 21. 95,-. Shares, 161. 10s.-Ditto, lialves. No. 1, 71, -• to, Quarter Carlisle, 6 - 15 2 .-Ditto, No 2 9/ 1 -Glasgow, Dumfries, and /. Glasgow and G • ' * 1* -Glasgow General Terminus, 12/. 105 .-Glasgow and arnkirk, 391. --Ditto, Halves, 91.-Ditto, Preference, 8/. 5a .- Glasgow, Greenock, 191. Kilmar nock, and Ardrossan, 61. Gs, Gre a t North of Engla lasgow, North of Scotland, 2/. 03. 6d.-London and York, nd ' 2371.-Great Ditto, Extensions (scrip), 21 . 55 . - Manchester and 31. 12s. 6d.- Ditto, Sixteenths, 71. lbs.-Ditto, Extensions, 3/. 25,-Leeds, 105/.- Berwick, 321. 155.-North British, 351 . 25. 6d.-Ditto Newcastle and 17s. 6d.-Ditto, Thirds, 3/. 14s. 6 d.-Ditto, Q tto, Halves, 161. Ditto, New Quarters ( scrip). 11. 85 . - Ditto, Fu art 41. 65.- Scottish Central, 211. 120. 6c1.-Scottish Grand Ju fths, 71. 2s. 6d.- -Scottish Midland, 221. 10$. - Shrewsbury and Hereford,'teflon, 11. is. 6d. -Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheeter, 61. ss. - Ditto, I/. 71. 6d. 6d.-Stirling and Dunferailino, 31. 145.-Stirling - Ditto, New, 11 . Os' -Wishaw and Coltness, 481. 155.-York and di rd Midland, 2/. 10s. ex new-Ditto, Now, 111. 155--Ditto, pref ewcastl, 36/. 10s. Bombay and Madras, 35. 9d.-East Indian, Ba,eronce, 91.-Direct of India, 3s. 6d.-Great Southern of Madras, 3s, 6(1.-Great North lore, and Arcot, 2s. . -Madras, Nel- GLASGOW, FEB„Aity 16. STOCK Excrtaxoz. -The sales are-Ayr -Caledonian, New, 475. 6c1.- Caledonian an and Galloway, 475. 6d. -Dundee and Perth, 31%-East of Fife d Dumbartonshire, 50s. Central, 415. 6/I. -Edinburgh and Perth . 5 95. 6d.-East Lothian 145.-Glasgow , Barrhead, and Nellston Direct, 535.-Ditto, Now, marnock, and Ayr, 65/.-Ditto, Hai,. front, 26L-Glasgow, Dumfries, and and Carlisle, V. Is. 6d.--Glas gow, O. 2,9 t. I s.-Glasgow, drossan, 6% -Great North of Scotland, as 4 gow, Kilmarnock, and Ar 3s. 6c1.-Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 4525* -Great North of India, South ampton, 325.-North British, Thirds, 745,8* -Manchester and (scrip), 275. 6d. -Scottish Central, 21 6d,-Ditto, New Quarters 220. 6d.-Wilsontown, Morningaide, Ta -Scottish Grand Junction, liewcaitle, Preference, 8%. and Coltneae, 601.-York and ENTRAORDINARY LITERARY SQUABBLE. (From Galignani's Messenger.) Public interest has been much excited by a case be fore the Civil Tribunal of the Seine, in which the pro prietors of the Presse and Constitutionnel were plaintiffs, and M. Alexandre Dumas, the celebrated romance writer, defendant. The case itself, however, is nothing more than an action brought against M. Dumas for the breach of an engagement relative to the publication of his romances. The hearing of the process commenced oa the 22d of January, when M. Lacon and M. Langlais, advocates of M. V‘ron gerant of the Constitutionnel, and of M. de Girardin, gerant of the Presse, exposed the case of their clients. From their statements it appeared that in March, 1845, M. Veron and M. de Girardin con ceived the idea that it would be most advantageous to their journals to secure the exclusive services of M. Alexandre Dumas, and thereby to prevent him from enriching other newspapers with his productions. M. Dumas having complied with their views, treaties were drawn up between the respective parties. These treaties, dated March 28 and 30, 1845, set forth that Alexandre Dumas bound himself not to write, during the ensuing five years, more than 18 volumes of romance per annum, of which nine were for the Presse and nine for the Constitutionnel. M. V6con and M. de Girardin, on their part, bound themselves to pay the price M. Dumas thought fit to put upon his own works which was, that each volume, forming about twenty-two feuiletons, and consisting of lines (bits of lines being counted as whole lines), should be paid 3,500 francs, which made 63,000 francs per annum for the eighteen volumes, or 315,000 francs for the five years. But as M. Dumas, at the time of signing the treaties, was under other engagements, it was stipulated that he should be at liberty to fulfil them; and to prevent any misunder standing, they were stated to be as follow :—Five volumes of the " Comte de Monte Christo," to be pub lished in the Debats ; "Le Fits de Milady, ou vingt ans apri‘,s," in the course of publication in the Siecle ; six volumes of " Le Vicomte de Bragelonne," to be deli vered in three months to the same newspaper ; the "Chevalier de Maison-Rouge," published in the Journal La Dimocratie Pacifigue, to be reprinted by M. Cadet, publisher ; 6,000 lines of "La Fille du Rissent," to be supplied to the same person ; a volume of the "S le de Louis XV. ;" the " Histoire de la Peinture," for M. Bethune, a publisher ; six volumes called "La Guerre des Femmes," for M. Potter, publisher ; and lor M. Bethune "Le Fils de Milady," and the remaining volumes of Monte Christo," and "Le Sidle de Louis XV." In the treaties in question it was also provided that half of the eighteen volumes, or at least four to the Constitutionnel and four to the Presse, should he delivered by the Ist of July following, and the re mainder at the beginning of the month of Decem ber, or, at the latest, on the 15th. M Dutnes, moreover, bound himself to protest publicly against any advertise ments that might be made in any newspapers, contrary to the stipulations of the treaties with the Prffs€ and the Constitutionnel. The two journals, imp;ediately on their treaties being _signed, announced with grea t p om p to their readers and the world the important news that henceforth M. Dumas would write exclusively in their columns. But their mortification was extreme to find that in the month of August, 1845, the Specie annnune4d the publication of a novel, palled "f i e Trois Mousque• taires," by the great romancer; that in September a newspaper, called Le Soleil (now defunct), advertised the "13Stard de Maul6sni" from his pen i that ia tha same month, the Esprit Public adverstso work. called "Andrea del Sarto,' of which he was the author; that on the 29th September the Siecle published a tale called the " Amaeone," and advertised ' wOrk in four volumes, called " Vablen," both 117 him ; that the Paine announced the publication of a romance in two volumes, also by him; and that the Mode advertised a work called " Elisabeth," of which he was to be the parent. All this being in flagrant violation of the treaties that bound him tp the Psesse and the Vau stitutionxel, and being moreover most injurious to the interests of those journals, M. VAzon and N. de Girardin called upon M. Dumas to disavow them. Ile therefore wrote a letter to M. V6ron t stating that the publication of the " Anseeelle" by the tFieels was unau thorised by him, that be had sold it a year previously to a publisher named Hetzel, who had resold it without having any right so to do, and that he might prosecute the Siecle in his name if he pleased hot he took no steps to stop the publication, neither did he adopt any measures to prevent the advertising of workt to he writ ten by him for other newspapers, Not was that all; for, though he had undertaken that four volumes should be delivered to the Constitutionnel on the lot of July, be did not deliver a line on that day, and up to the month of September following he bad only delivered one volume of a romance called the 4. Dame de Montsoreau." Neither was that given all at once, as it ought to have been, * but bit by bit, day after day, `so as to cause great inconvenience to the journal. At the end of Sep• tember M. \lron sent a legal summons to M. Dumas to deliver the end of the manuscript of that romance, where upon M. Dumas set to work, and, when he thought he had written enough, killed off all his personages. In 1845 he wrote nothing more, ao that instead of nine volumes he had only delivered five. In 1846 some communication took place between him and M. Veron, the result of which was that M. Dumas undertook to deliver a romance, called the " Qurante Cinq," by the beginning of December ; but, instead of doing so, he occupied himself in building a theatre, rehearsing plays, travelling in Spain, Algeria, and Tunis. Thus, in no respect had he acted up to this treaty, and M. Wren felt called upon to demand his condemnation for the damages he had occasioned, as also for the expense to which he had been put in registering the treaty, so as to be enabled to plead upon it. With respect to the Presse, that journal ought to have received nine volumes previous to April, 1846 ; but it had not received a single line. In May, however, M. Dumas gave it the first pages of a romance, called the " Meeneires d'un Atidecin," and subsequently delivered four volumes of that work. But that was all—not another line had he written. And yet the Presse have paid him as if he had faithfully executed the treaty—it had advanced him 23,695 f. The Presse, said its advocate, had no alterna tive but to proceed against M Dumas, but it had faith in his honour. It could, however, have wished that he had shown a little regard for it, instead of scampering over Spain and Africa, and showing his audacity in kill ing lions. The proprietors of the Patric and the Siecle were cited to the tribunal in conjunction with M. Dumas, on the ground that in publishing his romances after the treaty had been entered into between him and the Presse and the Constitutionnel, they bad inflicted au injury upon the two newspapers for which they owed reparation in damages. The advocate of the Patrie, however, alleged that the romance by M. Dumas, which it had published, was in virtue of a treaty previous to that which bound him to the Presse and the Constitutionnel, and therefore it called upon the tribunal to award it damages against those two journals for the injury they had caused it in asserting the contrary. The advocate of the Siecle ex plained that it had purchased the tale called the " Ama zone," from M. Iletzel, who had bought it from M. Dumas, and paid him for it. The Siecle had also pur chased from M. Dumas the romance called " Fabien," and had paid him 12,000 francs, though it had not yet published it. This romance had been offered to the Presse, but declined. As to the complaint made against the Slick, of having infringed the treaty between M. Dumas and the Constitutionnel and the Presse, the Learned Gentleman contended that the Siecle was not bound to know what treaties M. Dumas had made with other journals; that when he offered his works it bought them, as it had a right to do. Besides, the Siecle had treaties with M. Dumas, dating from 1842, by which it had purchased of him 500,000 lines. In the sitting of the Court on the 30th of January the case was resumed. It having been announced that M. Alexandre Dumas intended to plead his own cause. an immense multitude assembled in the Salle des Pas- Perdus—such a multitude, it is said, as has rarely been seen in the old hall since the middle ages, when it was the custom to amuse the good people of Paris by the representation of religious mysteries. As soon as the court was opened it was crammed to excess, in spite of the exertions of a strong body of the municipal guard. The benches of the judges were even occupied by seve ral ladies. M. Dumas commenced by saying, that he had desired to speak in his ow n case, because it was not an ordinary one. It was not a discussio between man and man, but and a sort of du e l b e t ween honourhonour. He re gretted that he did not see either M. Veron or M. de Girardin present for that obliged him to fire in the air, and the ball, instead of traversing their bodies, would fall at their feet. His treaty with them depended on the annullation of a treaty with 11. Dujarrier, but the day after it was signed they announced in the Conatitutionne/ and La Presse, that, as soon as the works then in course of publication ii other newspapers should be com pleted, he could only write in their journals. That, however, was not true. He had still eighty volumes to give to other newspapers and other persons ; namely, 30,000 lines of " Monte Christo," 24.000 lines of " Vingt ans Apres," 36,000 lines of the " Vicomte de Bragelonne," 24,000 lines of the " Chevalier de la Maison Rouge," 24,000 lines to the Commerce, and several thousand lines to the Patrie, and to M. Cadot. In all he had to give 225,000 lines, or eighty volumes ; and," cried M. Dumas, " to give eighty volumes within the time that was assigned me was a task that I alone could execute. I contend, that if the members of the French Academy . had been called upon to supply these eighty volumes in so short a time as was allowed me, they could not have done it—and yet they are forty ! No; they could not have do ne it—the y would have become bankrupt."—(Laughter.) M. Dumas than went on to contend that his treaty with M. Veron was only ob ligatory upon the treaty with M. Duiarrier being for mally annulled, and that as such annullation only took place at the end of January 1846, he was not bound to deliver four volumes of romances to M. Vecon at the beginning of July, 1845. He had been accused, he said, of occupying his time in other things instead of writing for the Constitutionnd. That was true, for he had written in order to liberate himself with respect to the other journals "criedi he had entered into engage ments. yes; he, " I have done what no other man has done, nor can do." I have written at the same time five different romances for five different journals. I alone did it—every line was mine—every word was written by my hand." He then continued, "Up to the moment at which the action was commenced my rela , tic= with M. Yeron were always most friendly. lie PRICE SD. came to me one day and said, ' My dear Dumas, we have the misfortune to be publishing at this moment a romance so bad that we lose our subscribers. If you will not write something for us —something amusing, in• teresting, witty, such as you always write—we are lost. And you must do that in eight days.' • Eight days,' said I, ' is a long time when one has nothing to do, but it is short when one has, as I have, five feuilletons to write every day, and three horses, three servants, and the railway continually waiting for copy.' Nevertheless, as M. V6son was in great distress, as it was to him a question of life and death, I said, • I will take the en gagement to give you in eight days a volume of 6,000 lines, and that you may be sure that I will do so, take 136 pages of paper, number them, sign them, and I will bring them to you in eight days, filled with the matter of a volume of 6,000 lines.' I did so, and the gratitude of M. Veron was extreme." M. Dumas went on to complain, that some delay having one day occurred in the arrival of the copy of the romance that he wrote for the Constitutionnel, M. Veron put a notice in the paper, saying it was owing to the negligence of M. Dumas, a proceeding anything but friendly. Shortly after M. Veron began an action at law against M. Dumas, and when the latter said to him that it would be better to settle their disputes by arbitration, M. Veron replied—" My dear Dumas, it will be better to leave them to the Tribunal—it will be cheaper, and will not derange you, for ycu need not appear unless you like." As to the advertisements in the Con stitutionnel and the Presse of his being obliged to write exclusively for them, M. Dumas said it was not suprising that the Sits:de, the Coin fierce, the Journal des Debuts, the Democratique Pacifiquc, and the Patrie, to all which he was under engagements, should be annoyed at such a false hood being told to the public; and as they issued counter advertisements, M. Veron and M. de Girardin became angry. On the annulling of his treaty with M. Dnjarrier, upon which he reminded the Tribunal his treaty with Veron and Girardin only came into operation, he QV-red 24.000 lines to the Commerce. The romance called " Fabien" had been given up to him by Pejarrier's trus tees, and he offered it to the Presse , which refused it as not equal to his other woaks. He hen offered it to the Constitutionnsi, bqt M. Veron also declined it, and re commended him to give it to the Coamoree to enable him to get rid by so much of his treaties with that journal. The Commerce at that period, however, was in a dying state, and being without money had not the means to aeirchase romances. It was then that " Fahsa'; was carried to the Sick, with which newsaaaeaa ha had treaties secur ing him 190,000 faanaa in N years. I'he Sit'ele gave him p,qp.w. far the wor4 i ‘ i but,'' continued M. Diu pas, ff i< felt tortnented tit its being described as iaferier 0 ply other works. I read it, and I found myspjf that it - was really not equal to my sae:ear pro ductions. I determined to burn it i 4ad i did burn it in the fire of my coasaieeee. • Fabien' has dis appoared-4 will ha, never heard of again. Few men seophf Gaye made such a sacrifice as that ! " .4s to the, " Araaaone," it was, said M. Dm:pass, " a poor little thing of 11,000 lines" that he has given a year previously t o M. Iletael 'for his " Diable a Paris." lie had fesgotten it, and the Tribunal would readily believe that a man who writes SN.lasata lines *Light easily forget 11,000. Ire nem came to " An drea del Sarto," which ;:pp,c.c.red in the Esprit Pub lic. M. feastin g , a gentleman connected with that ioaraai, itai;.4 iii 6 a visit and offered him three francs a line to write something for it. "I replied,'' said M. Du etas, " that the man who hap aleaued you to offer me three francs a line is aiiitea acid, or has no money, for in my work Caete 4s a great deal of dialogue, and the mul titede of lines occupied by such words ati oui, non, 3441flient, &e., and to pay three f - 4,4nes for a oui or a non would Lea folly," resa, said M. Castille, "we will offer 12.000 f. to M, de lialsac for something of his." "M. de Balsap,' replied I, " is a man of great talent, and you pould not do better than apply to him if he will give you something in the style of ' 1,0 ire Goriot, or Euglinie Grandet.' It was after this conversation that the Esprit Pu4ii published ' Andrea del Sarto,' which is ea tracted from a great work called 'La Ga leria de Florence.' Gentlemen, I publish not only in Preece but abroad.—(A laugh,) Here is a copy of the ' Galerie de Flerenoe ;' it is a magnificent work, but being pablished abroad anybody could quote from it, and, I repeat, the Esprit Public did so." 'With respect to the romance called " Elizabeth " being advertised in the Mode, M Dumas declare,d that he had given no authority for it, and that the prom eding was perfectly unjustifiable. " What'' he added, "it is supposed that I could write a romance called • Elizabeth,' when I hate the name! I ask pardon of any lady here present who may be named Elizabeth, but I am forced to avow that the name is one of my antipathies. I have published 300 volumes, I have written 25 dramas, and I will defy tiny person to discover in any one of my romances, or - 'in any one Ye of my dramas, the word 'Elizabeth.' " He had - now arrived at the " batard de Maulsisn," The Commerce, he hadesaid, was dying, but one morning it wolelltup with new lifer and cue to him, and said, " You owe us four volumes ; we were dead, it is true, but we have come to life again, so pay us the four volumes." In the treaty with M. de Girardin a reserve had been made in favour of the Commove ; he had sold the " Batard de Mauloion" to M. Cadot, the publisher, who, with M. de Girardin'a consent, sold it to the Commerce, receiving for it a price much higher than he had expected, that he had offered M. Dumas, 7,000 f. in addition to what he had paid him. M. Dumas here entered into more lengthened details to prove what he had asserted with respect to the romances entitled " Fabien" and "Le Blitard de Mault.m." He had undertaken to write a work called " Memoires d'un MC decin," for the Press[, and had written to demand that the division into jeuilletons and volumes should be left to him, so as not to injure the interest of the work ; and the gentleman charged with the superintendence of the I euilleton department of the Presse had consented to his application in a letter which terminate d by saying to him, " Who dare assign a limit to genius ?"—(The reading of this phrase by M. Dumas himself drew forth marks of astonishment from the auditory.) He went on to say that he received from the Presse a sum of 10,000 f., once paid, on condition that his volumes should consist of 6,700 lines, instead of 6,000, as originally agreed ; and that this made an economy of 30,000 f. to that journal. The Presse hail advanced him 6,000 f., but he had reason to believe that it would not be demanded from him if the success of the " Misnoires d'un Medi ci*," which were then being published, should carry its circulation up to 30,000 copies. In the account pre sented to him by the Presse, a sum of 3,500 f. was put down against him, but that was for the registration of the treaty. Excluding, then, the three sums of 10,000 f, 6,000 f., and 3,500 f., his account with the Presse stood : Received from the Presse 16,772 f. 50c., deduct profits of the " Memoires d'un Misdecin," 11,808 f., difference 4,964 f. 50c. against him. But as it had been arranged that he should receive 3,500 f., the value of a volume in advance, and as he had actually remitted copy worth I,ooof, to the Presse, it followed that the Presse was really in advance to him to the amount of only 464 f. 50c. That was his account with the Presse. It would really appear that it had been believed that the cause would be pleaded in his absence when he was hunting lions, but instead of that he was there hunting other things.—(Laughter.) M. Langlais, advocate to the Presse, here made some observations. The President desired him not to interrupt, but to take notes. M. Dumas, turning to the advocate, cried ‘‘ Take your notes !—(Laughter.) Ali! it is M. Langlais who interrupts me. I will just say a word to him. At the last audience, Sir, you said that I had shown audacity in hunting lions in Africa. I wish to tell you, Sir, that you did not employ the proper word—you should have said courage not audacity. I am not an academician, and it is not a lesson of language that I give you; but I am a man of the world, and I give you a lesson of polite ness."—(Sensation.) After this lesson to the Learned Advocate, M. Dumas continued:—" In admitting that the Presse had advanced me 6,000'. and 10,0001., it could hardly be called an advance, for I (M. Dumas) did tot owe money to the Presse, but merchandise Besides it would not have been surprising that, in a running ac count of 80,000 lines, the Presse should be in advance to me (M. Dumas) to the amount of 6,000 f. Yet, after the detail I have laid before you, I persist in saying that the Presse was only in advance 464 f., notwithstanding M. de Girardin h a d t o p a y me 157,000 f. in five years." After complaining of certain calumnies that had been made upon him, and especially of that in which be was represented as having given four volumes of blank paper, under pretence that it was the manu script of a romance, in return for 12,0001., M. Dumas proceeded :—" Gentlemen, I will now explain to you the circumstance which led to my departure for Spain. I had delivered 158,000 lines, that is forty-eight volumes in eighteen months. I was worn ou t alter having written so much. I write all my volumes mys e lf. I have, it is true, an assistant, w h o i s ve ry g ood, very intelligent, very devoted; but my labour is still considerable. I am _ reproached with going to hunt lions in Africa, instead o o ires f continuing the adventures of' Balsamo' the d'un 11163ecin.' Yet I had asked permission toenjo n y e , little repose, for I was unwell. M. de Girardin k w absent myself he dined with . me . at my villa that, for on the day on which . he gave me per il m la iss a i t on s 't t o . with Germain—he m euntil pas 3 se o d ,c t io h c e k es.. i e n nin t g be w m ith or m .ni e n ; s e o s . to m p u p e e .h d did he amuse himself, and he then left in his carriage, in company with Mdlle. Brohan, the actress of the Tb‘iitre Franeais.—(lnterruption.) Gentlemen, I see no harm in that. An actress may pass two or thr ee hours in a carriage with M. de Girardin, or with any one else. I did not say that in order to cast the least reflection in the world on the morality of M. de Girardin or the honour of Mdlle. Brohan."—(Smiles.) M. Du mas here read the certificates of several eminent phy sicians, and among them that of his " physician in ordi nary ;" for, said he, "I, too, have a physician in ordinary ;" and that of the K ing ' s p h ysician ; in all of o w an h e c at h chceo h nu e n w et ca, of fe I s ua t d r c o e o n d m g 1 pa y ls a n e f ot e twmhse which _d t hh o ea vN‘ t e a . a k ss e po r k e po afflicted.s o e f , my labours to satisfy everybody, but I have not spoken of my sacrifices of money to keep on, friendly terms with my adversaries. The annullation of the Dujarrier treaty cost me 12,000 f. ; I have no cashier, but I know I paid that sum. I burnt Fabien,' for which I had re ceived altogether 2 6,000 f., which I was obliged to repay. I am not a good ha n d at arithmetic, but the cashier of M. de Girardin can tell how much that makes. I owed two volumes to M. Dumont which I bought back from him for 6,000 f. That makes altogether (M. Dumas here attempted to add up the several sums, but not succeeding), The President said, 44,000 f. M. Dumas—" Thank you, Sir—l never was able to work a sum in addition. When I left these gentlemen (M. Wren and M. de Girardin) out of 171,000 lines that I owed to publishers I had paid 164,000. I had, more over, furnished 27,000 lines to M. Viiron, and 27,233 lines to M. de Girardin, and they paid me 26,0001. or 27,000 f. And now they demand 50,000 f. for damages. If they get that sum, they will have had my volumes for nothing, and will have obtained from me 31,500 f. be sides. It is easy to recognise in their manner of pro ceeding the lucky proprietor of the pate Reginault, anti the clever founder of tie ' Muses des Families.' That, gentlemen, is all I have to say—l leave the decision of the case to you." M. Lacan, in reply, said, that if a process could be gained by witty phrases, M. Dumas would certainly be victorious ; but a law case was not a romance, and M. Dumas was mistaken in supposing that in treating it like one he would succeed. M. Dumas had violated engage ments into which he bad entered. He had not delivered to the Constitutionnel all that he owed for 1846, and ii the Tribunal did not decide against him h e wou ld no t fulfil his e ngagements for 1847,848, and 1849. He had: not protested against the advertisements of other jour nals, as he was bound to do. He had written for the- Siecle and the Patric. What he had said about "Fabien being refused by the Constitutionn e l and the Presse, was not true; he had never offered it to them, but had taken it at once to the Siecle, and got paid for it. He had sold his exclusive services to the Constitutionnel and the Pressea but had not even yet given the nine volumes to each that he was bound to deliver in 1845. Since the publieatior of the "Dame de Nlontsoreau," in the Constitutiesnel 4 had written nothing. He had promised a roman , - -, be called the " Quarante Cinq," and wig had ;- -e, to be vered it? He pretends that he was ill. - .4e not deli• travel for the recovery of his health, - and obliged to M. Dumas—l was intrusted w'," t e b o y t other. When no better tu th i a ss n io t n h e Minister of Public Instr,uction,.; an by treaties, when he has en- M. Lacan—That reason wooorihntotnohtavtoo aiceepta.fmission. When a man i . s ‘d t s ie id d ,e d ,? o e e . egements to fulfil - The Minister, b 'Acted ties of honour that given n d M. Dumas it he had known the to , rem.:..tn in Fr ance. B ut even that defence slipped a'?:gy from him, for it was in October that he left France, whereas it was in June that he had undertaken to write a new romance for the Constitutionnel. What had he emit. in the four months from June to October? Four months for him was a long time, and in them he might have written more than four volumes. But he preferred to amuse himself in the delights of his villa at St. Ger. main, of which marvellous tales are told, and in which ho has endeavoured to realise the dreams of his " Monte Christo;" he occupied himself with his theatres—he caused to he recited his own pieces and those of Shakspez,re ; but he did not hi ng for his literary creditors. And, in October, he accompanied the Princes to Spain, apparently thinking that France would not be worthily re resented if he were net there. I. Dumas—Such, at least, was the opinion of the , Minister of Public Instruction! M. LacnAtt----prom Spain he went to Africa, where, he said, 1 41;1 had a mission to study a system of colonisation, • and to make it popular in France. But he occupied himself not with colonisation, but with files, with re joicings, with combats, with the release of prisoners, with everything. From Algiers he went to Tunis, where he pompously fraternised with the subjects of the Bey, whilst the Bey was in France. He returned toFrance in January, and wrote to M. Veron, " I arrive from Spain and from Africa; I have seen everything, men and things, beasts and people. I can, for my head is at work, give you in a month (whilst waiting for the " Qua rante Cinq"), two of the most amusing volumes that have ever been written. Giraud could illustrate them. Veron, you may gain the sum of 20,000 f. with this trite —it is two-thirds of another ' Rachel.'" But it was impossible to place any reliance upon this proposition, because there was an immense difference between the promises of M. Dumas and his performances. The learned advocate concluded by calling upon the Tribunal to condemn M. Dumas, and even to insert the penalty of imprisonment in their verdict, in case he should not act up to his engagements. Imprisonment would certainly be pronounced against any other person acting as he had done, and it would teach M. Dumas that if there be merit in writing good romances, there is also merit in showing oneself a slave to one's word. The glory of the latter, it was true, was not great—it was a glory with out emotion, without noise, without prestige, but in the eye of justice, and for a man o f honour, it was the greatest of all glory. M. Dumas.—l will only say a few words in reply to the Learned Gentleman. He talks of the treaty, but forgets all its most important previsions. From June to October I remained idle in my charming villa at St. Germain ; but I wrote eight volumes of " Balsamo (Me moires d'un Mtilecin,") and the eighth volume was only finished a few days before my departure. It is said that I caused to be rehearsed the pieces of Dumas and Shaks peare. That is true, but it was in the idle moments of Dumas, and, besides, the time was not so lost to art that people who are half ,artists should reproach me with it. It is said thall solicited the mission with which the Minister of Public Instruction intrusted me, but that is a mistake. It was the Duke de Montpensier, who has shown me some kindnesses, who proposed to me to go - , to Spain. " I desire," said he, "in a circumstance so solemn for me and for France, tlbsee you at my mar riage," (his brother had expressed a similar desire to a r se me at Versailles); " for," he added, " it is necessary that you and Hugo should assist at a national/61e; his Royal Highness asked the Minister of Public Instruction to be allowed to take me with him. The Minister then sent for me and said, "Can you go to Spain?" I said that I could, for being ill I had need of travel. " You will go to Spain, then," said he, "and from Spain 'you will go to Algeria, the finest country in the world; a country perfectly unknown to our deputies, who speak of Africa without having seen it, and of colonisation without understanding it; and to enlighten them and France with respect to the subject, it is necessary that a popular man like you should write about it. Those were the very words of the Minister--ner one will deny it. I went. I accompanied the Duke de Montpensier to Madrid. I was received there, not merely as a simple author--as M. Alexandre Dumas I I alone, of all the Frenchmen at Madrid, was invited to the marriage of the Prince—l alone received the Grand Cross of the Order of Charles 111.1 But all that respect was shown to me, not, I repeat, as Alexandre Dumas, but as the friend of the Duke de Montpensier, as the Marquis Davy de la Pailleterie. After quitting Madrid I went to Tunis. There 1 was received still better. There reigns a Prince, who though Tunisian, is not a savage, and who knows our worth. He gave me the Grand Cross of the Order of Nichan. I have been asked what I went to do in Africa. I went to save from the Arabs 12 lives that were about to be sacrificed by the Arab executioners. It was I who was charged to go and deliver Lieutenant- Colonel Courly de Cognord, and his brave companions in arms, the sublime heroes who escaped the massacre of Sidi-Ibrahim. It was I who penetrated into the interior of the country to save them. It was I who rescued there 12 Frenchmen, the only remains of the 200 who were cruelly assassin a t e d. I t was 1 who had under my orders the vessel destined t o rece i ve t h em. It was I who conducted the vessel to Melilla, and it was I who conveyed the prisoners to Djemrea-Gaza.ouat, where I was received by 3,000 persons, who offered me a banquet, the remembrance of which consoles me for the insults I have this day received. And if the voyage that I have made in Spain and Africa had post me 50,000 f., I should not regret it after having helped to save our prisoners. I went to Tunis, for which a steam frigate of 220 horsepower was placed at my disposal — a vessel that had never been given but to me and to a Prince ! At Tunis I made notes for a work which I am ready to deliver in four days if required. These notes were destined for the Constitutionnel, which has placed itself at the disposal of Marshal Bugeaud. In acting as I did I believe I did a thing grand and useful to my country. In Spain and Africa I displayed the grandeur with which I represented France. I had with me six persons, repre senting painting and the drama, as I represented litera ture. I had received for try mission 10,000 f. But how was it possible for seven persons to live fur months upon 10,000 f. ? What did I do ? Before leaving Paris I caused to be sold railway shares of the value of 50,000 f. and in so doing lost 7,000t'. But I was determined to figure grandly at the marriage of the Duke de Mont pensier, as became a man accustomed to such f so lemnities. I sp e nt 26,0001. i n Af r i ca , an d 11,000 thein Spain, and on my return to France I compelled Minister of Public Instruction to receive 1,0001. that I had drawn above the 10,0001. allowed me. Such is th e only answer I have to make to the insults of these gentlemen." _ - The case was then adjourned for a week. On quit ting the Ccurt, M. Dumas was surrounded by an im mense crowd, which escorted him to his carriage. He frequently saluted the admiring multitude, and received in return their enthusiastic plaudits. The Court assembled again on Saturday to hear the remainder of the pleadings. Dumas. That gentleman,. he said,. had thought, with out.. and legal doubt, in the intoxication of his br i l l ian t M. Langlais , the counsel for the Presse, replied to M. mate fame, that it would suffice•for him to . speak . ot his literary triumphs, lilte the romance of his victories, to impose silence upon his adversaries. .11 . had, .however, deceived himself, and was already expiating his illusions. M. Langlais then went through the statement o f M . D u mas point by point, bringing forward facts in refuta tion. He concluded by stating that M. Dumas had vio latedabdtovrantnoa dtht toe b P ini re , s a se nd to for th w e bi a n m b o n u n n tb t in o g f the treaty into which he had entered, an d that he h il3 ad 63 be s e f' n , furnished. m wa o s ne d y e M. Nogent-Saint-Laurent then addressed the Court for M. Dumas, who, he said, having se riously the bitt e r attacks which h taken up too him in that pl ace , h ad resolved not to appear again per sonally; and had, therefor M. No therefore, charged him with his cause. gent-Saint-Laurent denied that his • client had committed . the infractions of the treaty him, and in doing charged upon so repeated, but consecu tive manner, the statements of M. Du in ma a s m a o n r d e b reservation of the rights of the heirs of M. Dujarrier, and was not, therefore. conclusive. In terminating his address, M. N ogent -S a i nt -L aurent a ll uded, in feel ing terms, to an incident which has excited some inte rest, and which has been made, he said, the subject of comment unfavourable to M. Dumas, b u t which only showed the goodness of heart of his client. The Court then adjourned for a week, to hear the requisitory of the Avocet du Roi. The following is the incident alluded to by M. Nogent- Saint-Laurent in the course of his pleading., The day after M. Dumas had pleaded his cause, a placard ap peared, announcing that, " in consequence of a seizure there would be publicly sold at Versailles, on the 25th, a property situated at Port Marley, near St. Ger main-en-Laye, consisting of a plantation, a building ornamented with turrets, and a pavillion surrounded with water, called the Ile de Monte Claristo," such pro- DIVISION OF PROFITS. 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