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THE COURTS OF PRANCE, RUSSIA, AND GERMANY,
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MEMOIRS OF THE
BARONESS D'OBERKIRCII,
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Including _Numerous curious Particulars illustrative of the Secret
History of the Courts' of France, Russia, and Germany.
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T" QUARTERLY REVIEW,
No. CLXXXII., will be published on Thursday next, Oct. 7.

CONTENTS:
I. British Bards and Stonehenge.
11, lonian Aralands..
111. Irish Semon.
IV. Dr. Chakners.
V. Sindh.
VI. Lord Langd.tle.
VII. Gold Discoveries.
VIII. Parliamentary Prospects.
Min Murray, Albemarle-street.

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NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE.
MALTA, SEPT. 24.-Yesterday the Triton arrived
from Corfu, bringing the large amount of 73 invalids
from the lonian Islands, under command of Captain
Smith, 30th Regiment. She had also 12 prisoners,
seven of whom were under sentence of transportation,
and five to be, diamissed with ignominy.
Sickness of a fatal nature prevails, and numbers
die daily—principally of smallpox and malignant
fever, the latter carryidg off its victim in to 45.
hours.
The lonian .Assembly.had been dissolved, to meet
again in 1854. I inclose you the Lord High Com-
missioner's speech, by which you will gain a clear
insight into the cause. Sir H. Ward himself had left
Corfu for Constantinople, and would not return before
the 29th proximo.
Mr. Stafford had arrived at Corfu by the Fury on
the Bth, and on the 10th had left for England by
Trieste.
The Modesto had reached Corfu from Athens, and,
with the Scourge steam-frigate, was lying there when
the Triton left.
The Peninsula and Oriental Company's steamer
Madras arrived this morning from the Levant.
The following diary of the movements of the fleet is
not generally known here :-
9tn. The Tiger, from Malta, joined the fleet.
14th. After a succession of calms, and when off
Falconers, the Britannia and the Albion were taken
in tow by the Firebrand; the Bellerophon and the
Trafalgar by the Tiger ; the Vengeance and the
Phaeton were unassisted by steam.
15th. The Fury, detached on the 7th for Corfu,
rejoined, and was immediately sent off to Athens.
17th. Came to anchor in Voulah-bay, having been
towed about 300 miles. Found a Turkish frigate, with
Admiral Slade's flag, two brigs, and a schooner. Sa-
lutes exchanged.
19th. The Fury rejoined, from Athens, and shortly
after the Vengeance and the Phaeton.
20th. The Tiger has been detached to the Greek
islands, and will be absent three or four days.
Admiral Dundas and all the captains visited
Admiral Slade yesterday. His Turkish title is
Muchaver Pasha.
We shall remain till about the 27th, when we shall
leave for Athens, thence to Corfu, and about the
middle of November shall reach Malta.
A Russian brig, the Orpheus, from Athens, reached
port this morning.
The Sampson steam-frigate, last from Malaga,
arrived also this morning, and will proceed to-
morrow to join the Admiral, carrying dispatches.
The Resistance troop-ship, with Captain Good-
enough's Company of Royal Artillery, to relieve that
of Captain Ommanney here, also arrived yesterday.
A few days ago the non-commissioned officers of
Major Shone's company, who on their arrival in Maki
received some attentions from those of Captain Oal-
manney's company, entertained them to dinner as a
requital in some respects, and in proof of the cordi-
ality and good feeling that has existed between them.
The evening passed off with every demonstration of
kindly feeling and in the moat agreeable manner.
Capt,iin Branding, Adjutant of the loyal Horse
Artillery, and Lieut. A. King are among the passen'
gers by the Resistance, baying obtained sick leave o
absence.

SIINSET.—The Medina, with the India mails, has
not b-en signalised up to the moment of sunfire. She
is quits due.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 29.—The Medina, with Indian
Mail, expected since the 24th, only arrived at 4} A.M.
The only matter of interest since my last is an act
of high police exercised by the Governor, supposed
to have acted in this instance under the influence of
the Austrian and Naples Consuls ; it is no less than
the ordering Mr. A. Lemny, late secretary to Kos-
suth, to leave the island within fifteen days. The
Governor has refused to give any reason, so that be-
yond a surmise that it is owing to Lemny' having
published a book in which he has been reviewing the
state of the Continent as regards the elements of
revolution in Europe, nothing is known. The power
to send away foreigners, without assigning any mo-
tive, rests in Government by an Act of 1843, and
was largely availed of during the reign of More
O'Ferrall, but it is painful to see is resorted to by
Colonel Read.
The Spitfire screw steam-ship has just made her
number. She is coming in from the west.

APPOINTMENTS.

Woomvica, OCT. 4.—Commander—Henry Need
,1848), to command the Linnet gun brig, CantniS•
sioned this day at Devonport.
Mate—Graham J, Eden (1850), to the Rodney, at
Devonport.
The Terrible steam-frigate, Captain James Hope,
C.B , is to be paid off at this port on Saturday next.
She is at present in the river, having her paddle floats
and the outer rim of the paddle wheels taken off, pre-
vious to her being taken into the basin to have a
thorough refit before she again proceeds to sea.
The Blazer steam-vessel was taken down the river
on Friday last from Deptford to Woolwich, and the
Monkey steam-vessel left Woolwich this afternoon
with the Blazer in tow for Sheerness, where the
Blazer will be taken in charge of by Mr. AYlen• master-
attendant at that port, and be will proceed with the
Cyclops steam-frigate and her to the Clyde, as the
Blazer is to receive on board the machinery of the
engines of 780-horse power, made by Napier for the
Duke of Wellington, 140, screw steam-ship, late the
Windsor Castle. The Cyclops and Blazer will bring
the engines in pieces, and they will be put on board
the Duke of Wellington at Portsmouth,

" These steps will not involve the guardians in any
great outlay, and the board do not consider it neces-
sary that they should at present incur any additional
expense by adopting other measures than those sug-
gested in this circular.

" The board request the guardians to take especial
care that their workhouse is in due and proper condi•
tion, as regards the ventilation, drainage, warmth, and
general repair of the building, that there is no cxces#
inmates over the prescribed number, and that no
ward II improperly crowded. It appears also desir-
able that the guardians should bear in mind those
articles in the general consolidated order, which em-
power -them to make changes' in the diet of the in-
mates as occasion may render necessary.
" They heg, in' conclusion, to assure the guardians
that, in, carrying the suggestions of this circular into
effect, they may rely on receiviog,fram this board all
such advice and assistance as they may be able to
render.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" W. G. LUMpE; Assistant Secretary. •
" Poor-law Board, Whitehall, Sept. 30, 1852."

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—The present situation of the Burmese
war, if war it can be called where there is no resist-
ance on the one side and scarcely any fighting on the
other, is a paradox with which we might not venture
to interfere, were it not that the army itself engaged
tied the public opinion of India happen to be with us.
In & region where war is usually a succession of boll
strokes, and where the difficulties of the climate and
of the Asiatic character can only be met by the ut-
most celerity and decision, mail after mail tells the
same invariable. story—a large British force under
General Godwin, in the best possible position, with
abundance of material, with the largest fleet ofj
steamers ever collected in that hemisphere, with The
native population not merely unresisting but con-
spiring and assisting--yet that force doing nothing
at all. There is war, to be sure, for there are soldiers
and warlike apparatus, there are deaths by the climate,
and there is an expenditure of a quarter of a million
a month ; but there the war ends, for there is no
marching, no collision, no bloodshed, no conquest, no
satisfaction for injuries received, or anything, in fact,
for which the war has been undertaken. But the
absurdity does not end here. The Irrawaddy is
the Nile of the Burmese Empire, its whole and
sole thoroughfare, and commanding the whole
country. Like the Nile, it is navigable much
higher up during its annual flood, and, therefore,
must be taken in time, or the opportunity is lost till
another year. General Godwin literally stops the
way. He chokes up the passage. Every means have
been employed to push him, to draw him, to propel,
to attract, to set him in motion some way or other.
The Governor-General has steamed from Calcutta to
give him a shove from behind ; Captain Tarleton has
steamed up the Irrawaddy, passed strong batteries,
taken the city of Prome, and captured fifty cannon,
with only the loss of one man, in order to show the
General the way. Yet all is in vain. There are
people who will follow, and there are people who can
be driven. General Godwin belongs to neither class.
He is simply in the way. Really this expedition of
Captain Tarleton with his steam flotilla up to Prome
reduces the war—that is, General Godwin's share in
in—to the level of an Adelphi burlesque. The
gallant captain steams up the river half-way to
Ava, and only regrets that his instructions do not
allow him to go all the way and finish the war off
his own hook. However, he does a good deal of
work with most ridiculous facility. The enemy,
from either cowardice or sheer stupidity, pre-
pares to contest one arm of the stream, and the
captain steams up the other. He arrives at their
city, and finds them all gone on the above fool's
errand ; so in their absence he occupies the city at
his leisure. He destroys their iron cannon, and puts
the brass ones on board ; his crew take long walks
into the country without seeing a soldier; the popu-
lation welcome them, help them to destroy the can-
non, and wish them to stay. Time being up, the
Captain returns home, doing a little business on the
way with the so-called enemy—that is, putting an-
other lot of their cannon on board his steamers. It
reads, for all the world, like Baron Munchausen
storming a battery and coming off with a sixteen-
pounder under each arm; yet, strange as it reads, it
is all simple fact. Captain Tarleton returns to his
chief, and says, " Here you see, General, we have
gone up and down all the way, and come back safe
and sound. To certify that we have really been to
Prom., here is all the enemy's artillery. Can't you
do " the same?" The General is not to be
stirred. Though seeing, they say, is believ-
ing, he sees the passage of the river done,
but does not believe it. What can be the
principle, or motive, or rule of such conduct? The
truth is General Godwin was in the last Burmese
war, In those days they bad no steamers, and he
will have none now. In those days the army marched
cross country, and through swamps, forests, and all
sorts of impassable places. They shall do so now.
In those days more than half the army perished by
disease, famine and fatigue. It shall do so now.
Everything by precedent—marching, bush-fighting,
stockade-storming, starving, sickening, dying—all by
rule, according to the best received authorities. It
appears to be wholly forgotten that if experience has
its use within proper limits, it becomes worse than
useless when it rejects all the new means and appli-
ances of war because they are out of its sphere.
General Godwin may have a very lively recollec-
tion of the former Burmese war, but he is evi-
dently unaware of the revolution in river warfare
which steam has brought about. Oriental warfare
is a race against time, and we have already
suffered ourselves to be beaten by several months
in this instance. During that period, though
the deaths in battle have been few, yet,
there is the usual obituary of victims to the
climate, and by this time we have lost as many as if
we had fought a great battle, and only just won it.
But the worst remains. General Godwin is waiting
for the assemblage of a large force at Pegu, to consist
of more than 20,000 men—that is, six regiments of
European foot, twelve regiments of native infantry,
and a full complement of artillery, besides sappers and
miners. These are expected to be ready next month,
and in December the General thinks the soil and the
climate will be fit to commence the long march from
Rangoon to Ave, some 500 miles or more. Can any
reasonable person doubt that half of these will perish
on the way if the Burmese only take the ordinary
methods of retarding the advance of the invaders, and
so availing themselves of their best ally, their own
climate ? Does anybody doubt that a fifth of this
force will be more efficient if transported in steamers
than the whole of it toiling on foot? If Tarleton did
so well with five steamers, what might be done with
eleven, the amount of force under the commodore's
orders? The preference of the land route over that
which nature and art have combined to give us in a
fine navigable river and the possession of steamers is
about as rational as the humour of au old lady who
in 1852 should insist on posting up from Durham to
London in her old family coach and four, instead of
doing it at a tithe of the cost, a tithe of the time, and
ten times as much comfort by rail. But this really
is the most favourable estimate of the old General.
We trust there is nothing worse than prejudice in
this singular and, perhaps, fatal inaction. Unfortu-
nately, it admits of another interpretation. It is said
that General Godwin is rather over-anxious to monopo-
lize the glory of the approaching conquest, and desires
no river squadron, no steamer, no commodore, to di-
vide the prize. It is impossible to ascribe to him a
jealousy so discreditable and so insane ; but equally
impossible to account for his taking up his residence
at Rangoon from any rational reason. Is there no term
to such an error ? If the Governor-General is so con-
cerned at the spectacle as to have come from Calcutta
to ask the reason, why cannot he cut the knot alto-
gether ? He cannot. Though General Godwin is
his choice, it appears he must refer home for the set-
tlement of any difference that may arise. To all the
purposes of the present war it appears that the Gene-
ral is omnipotent. Indeed, we know not whether to
wish him to move by this time, for if he perseveres in
his plan of refusing the aid of the river, we all know
the continual decimation his army will suffer. General
Log at Rangoon will only be exchanged for General
Stork in his congenial forests and marshes.
CHRONICLE.—The progress of the Prince Pre-
sident through the south of France hes worn, from
the first, the aspect of a journey undertaken for the
sole purpose of canvassing the suffrages of the people.
Since he was already in possession of an authority
inferior only in name to that of the most absolute
monarchs, there is every ground for supposing that
the obvious explanation of his intentions is the true
one. From the date of the coup (Taut, Louis Napo-
leon has wielded uncontrolled power, and the Empire
alone remains to tempt his ambition. For the realiza-
tion of that object it may fairly be concluded that the
triumphal march through the provinces, and the
solemn entry into the southern cities, were designed.
From the language of functionaries who are vying
with each other in expressions of devotion to the bead
of the State, as well as from the ceremonial observed
by persons who may be presumed to act under
official prompting, it is difficult to draw any other
inference than that the assumption of the Im-
perial crown is to be his next step. The tele-
graphic announcements made to the Minister,

of the Interior and the deportment of the Presiden
hirnself, seem equally to point to the Empire as the
legitimate denouement of a melodrame more extrava.
gant than was ever conceived by the fertile brain
even of Alexandre Dumas. The official Moniteut
tells us of the enthusiastic reception which has beet
accorded to Louis Napoleon at every Point of his
progress. It is true that less partial obse-rvere ques-
tion the unanimity and .the sincerity of the demon-
strations so pompously recorded ; but, be that a it
may, there can be little mistake with regard to the
wishes of those who surround the President. They
have systematically set themselves to assure the world
that wherever their master has shown himself the
establishment of the Empire is the prevalent idea Of
the population ; and Europe is daily culled upon ,to
believe that, whilst the coup d'etat was necessary for
the interests of the "Party of Order" throughout the
Continent, the restoration of the Imperial dynasty is
no less essential to gratify the national feeling of the
French people. We may, perhaps, be reluctant to
admit the truth of either proposition. These asser-
tions are but the pretexts upon which it is hoped
that the further development of the existing systenl
of Government may be justified or palliated; but the
event can no longer be considered doubtful. Under
present circumstances, the mere assumption of the
Imperial purple is not perhaps, in itself, a matter of
very great importance. The power of the head of the
State cannot be enlarged—the degradation of France
cannot be made more complete. Louis Napoleon
cannot invent either a new pleasure or a new poli-
tical crime—his tyranny cannot be made more uni-
versally operative than it is. Neither France nor her
Pleeident would feel the effects of the contemplated
change. Nor is it very material to the other Powers
of Europe by what title the virtual Sovereign of
France may choose to be addressed. :Whether or
not-he wears the Imperial crown and beari-upon his
shoulders a mantle adorned with bees, Ili scarcely a
matter of vital moment. Such questions are, as Lord
John Russell would say, exclusively for the consi-
deration of the French nation. Foreign States are
not concerned either with the political forms or with
the Court etiquette of France. If thirty-six millions
of people, for some inscrutable reason, choose to
submit' to the most tyrannical of despotisins, their
neighbours have no right to feel themselves ag-
grieved, however deeply they may lament the retro-
gression of a country which has already tested by
experience the value of constitutional Government.
But whilst the particular form which the existing
tyranny may assume is a matter of secondary mo-
ment, both to the French people and to their neigh-
bours, the thing itself—the vast amount of power
lodged in the hands of an individual apparently un-
restrained by the most elementary obligations of mo-
rality—constitutes a source of danger which cannot
be too carefully watched. If we were to judge from
the present apathy of France, we might infer that she
was willing to submit for a time to certain evils,
rather than fly to others that she knows not of, and
again attempt the task of framing a free constitu-
tion. For minds, however, which neltherphilo-
sophy nor suffering has schooled to this pitch of
indifference, the present situation cannot but be
alarming. At this moment the whole mili-
tary and naval resources of a nation possessing
unequalled facilities for aggression, are at the sole
disposal of an individual whose religion is false-
hood, and whose most approved weapon is perjury.
Here is a man who violated the pledge which he gave
to Louis Philippe as the condition of receiving his
liberty—who threw to the winds the vows, false as
dicer? oaths, which be made before the Assembly—
and who calmly sanctioned the massacre of his fellow-
citizens to gratify his personal ambition. All who
have put their trust in him have been deceived. Some
believed in his integrity, others relied on his want of
ability; yet he has succeeded in making himself the
absolute master of France, and it only rests with him
to proclaim the Empire. Although a mere change
of official style is scarcely worth considering, and
though it signifies little whether Louis Napoleon be
designated President, First Consul, or Emperor, we
cannot disregard the vast resources which he wields ;
nor can we forget the hostility to England which ever
characterisod the Empire, and the recollection of
which the " heir of Napoleon" seems anxious to revive.
Ever since his accession to power there has been
increased activity in all those branches of the French
service which would be most available for attacking
England. Ship after ship is launched at Cherbourg
and Brest—an enormous naval force is kept on foot
by the Government—and all this without the most
shadowy pretence of danger, immediate or remote.
It is believed, and not without some foundation, that
the official accounts of the French navy have for
months past been studiously falsified, in order to beget
1 baseless sense of security on this side of the Channel.
Cause of quarrel between the two countries there is
none ; but under the present regime this matters little.
Large fleets are paraded before the President, and,
departing for a moment from his habitual reserve,
he descants on the necessity of making the Mediter-
ranean a French lake. In spite of his caution, he
cannot conceal either his own personal wishes, or
the objects to which he desires to direct the am-
bition of France. The files at Toulon, and the
splendid naval review, augur most unfavourable, for
the preservation of peace. Such signs cannot be disre-
garded. It is impossible to doubt that the ' heir of
Napoleon" and the claimant of the Empireis arming
for a naval conflict. The character of the man and
the nature of his preparations justify the worst anti-
cipations, and demand the most unceasing attention
on the part of our own Government. A few months
ago it was the fashion of British statesmen to take a
most lenient view of the President and his coup d'etat.
Lord John Russell, after bungling a good deal about
" the broad seal of England," declared his belief that
Louis Napoleon, in doing what he did, had acted ho-
nestly and sincerely for the good of France. After
having delivered himself—we hope not without diffi-
culty—of that most unworthy sentiment, his Lordship
proceeded to condemn the Press of this country for the
language which it had held with regard to the affairs
of France and the state of our national defences.
In the Upper House, the expectant Minister,
Lord Derby, and his sagacious coadjutor, Lord
Malmesbury, adopted the same strain, and severely
critcised those organs of public opinion which had
spoken freely and honestly on the two great topics of
the day. In spite, however, of that criticism, nothing
is more certain than that everything which has since
occurred, fully bears out the judgment of the London
press, and not that of our over-courteous statesmen.
The President has established a perfect despotism;
and, from what is taking place in the arsenals and
dockyards of France, it is high time that this country,
should be made aware of its defenceless state, and in-
sist on the immediate adoption of proper precautions.
Neither we nor any of our contemporaries are
anxious to suffer the fate of Cassandra, and
we trust that our efforts may prove successful in
warning even those who affect to sneer at
us, or who, like Lord Malmesbury, complain of our
want of information. We only wish that that noble-
man was duly qualified to judge cf the value of the
intelligence obtained by the English journals. If so,
he would be a more efficient, and, perhaps, a more
grammatical Minister. But in ono respect his repu-
tation is safe—no one will ever suspect of intrigue or
treachery a man who is so obviously unfitted to con-
duct the most ordinary business. We doubt not that
he is as honest as be is incompetent—and that is say-
ing a great deal. But we confess ourselves not a little
alarmed that the Foreign-office should be so feebly
administered at a time when European politics wear
an aspect of peculiar difficulty, and when England is
obviously threatened by the unscrupulous policy of
the French President.

DAILY NEWS.—The legend tells us that Friar
Bacon wished to surround Britain with a wall of
brass as a protection against intrusive foreigners. As
we have managed to do very well without the wall of
metal, the chance is that the failure of the arch-con-
' juror was no such great misfortune after all. A
point of much greater importance to us is, that a
portion of our countrymen, who have bad the power
us than
and the will to inflict much more evil upcnl
any equal number of foreigners could, have
otnge9-
joyed a protection from the punishment their
iniquity as secure as that afforded by a of brass
or any other material. The difference in the two
cases is, that whereas the. Friar intended. to wall
foreigners out, the metaphorical wall which we have
alluded to has served
the purpose of walling honest
Englishmen in, and preventing them from overstep-
ping a boundary
which separates them from foes of
their own blood. In plain English, the state of the
law has been such that a
justlyfraudulent debtor, whose
would have been sacrificed to
propertysatisfy
the demands of his creditors, if he remained in
England, had nothing to do but to evade the service
of a writ by crossing
the Channel, and his person
would become inviolable, and his property intact. By
stepping out of the kingdom be inclosed those foes,
his credi▪ tors, within an impassable barrier. Au
agent mi▪
ght transmit to him the proceeds of property
he possessed here, and he would be allowed the privi-
lege of spending, in elegant indolence, once again,
a fortune which, but for the protection afforded him
by the defect of the law, would have been in the
hands of rude, unrelenting creditors. Alas, for the
change that a slight ulteration in the law will make
in the fates of various ingenious and interesting
swindlers. A fiat bas gone forth which has produced
wailing and woe in the breasts of hundreds of bad

t debtors. On the 24th of October down goes the well
e 1 of separation which kept the eager creditor from
- pouncing upon the man who has been "in his books"
for years, and who intended to remain there for ever.
1 Boulogne fears something like partial depopuletiee,
now that ono means of swindling are about to t,,a
wrested from the hen& of well-dressed English
scamps. Baden and Homburg may look rue
fully upon bare tables no lodger glittering with
the gold transferred from the pockets of honest
English tradesmen. The loungers at 13eulugue,
the rattlers of dice at Baden and Homburg, are
waiting with dismay the arrival of the tAtai day,
the 24th inst., which will let loose upon all of them
who have property in England the horrors of English
law. Their irudgination must now be peopling the
shores of Albion with process-servers, all ready to
spring forward when the time shall arrive. They may
see with a prophetic eye the day coming when un un-
grateful country will no longer afford its protection
to swindling absentees; they watch mournfully the
sacrifice of their property to creditors whe'have no
shadow of title to the same except the justice of their
claims. The Act which is to effect this great change
in the circumstances of the truants is entitled "An Act
to amend the process, practice, and mode of pleading
in the superior courts of common law at Westmin-
ster," &c. ; and a clause which is to bear so hardly
upon the men who " can pay" but " won't pay," runs
as follows:_" In case any defendant, being a British
subject, is residing out of the jurisdiction of the said su-
perior courts, in any place except Scotland or Ireland,
it shall be lawful for the plaintiff to issue a writ of
summons in the form contained in the schedule (A),
which writ shall bear the endorsement contained in
the said forme purporting that such writ is for ser-
vice out of the jurisdiction of the said superior courts,
and the time for appearance by the defendant to such
writ shall be regulated by the distance from Erig,iand
of the place where the defiretlinfzis` residing; S:_id it
shall be lawful for the court or judge upon being sa-
tisfied by affidavit that there is a cause of action, &c.,
&c., and that the writ was personally served upon the
defendant, or that reasonable efforts were made to
effect personal service upon the defendant, and that it
came to his knowledge, and either that the defendant
wilfully neglects to appear to such writ, or that
he is lieing out of the jurisdiction of the said
courts, in order to defeat and delay his creditors, to
direct from time to time that the plaintiff shall be
at liberty to proceed in the action in such manner
and subject to such conditions as to such court or
judge shall seem fit." Here is a successful attempt
made to attack propertied swindlers in their strong-
holds. Heretofore a fraudulent debtor, by transfer-
ring his person beyond the boundary of the country,
in numberless cases, preserved his property. This
privilege exists no longer. A residence abroad after
the 24th of October will avail but to protect the per-
son. As the person, however, is of no possible use to
any one but the debtor himself—to whom even it is
often of questionable service—all that is necessary for
the protection of creditors is gained. A swindler
residing beyond the sea, receives at the hand of the
process-server a writ containing a message from the
Queen, desiring his presence in court, and ending
with the words " take notice that in default of your
so doing, the said A. B. may, by leave of the court or
a judge, proceed to judgment and execution." The
value of this change in the law, as a protection to cre-
ditors, is very great. Many a fair estate which is now
supplying a dissolute absentee with the means of con-
tinuing a course of extravagance abroad, similar to
that by which be has ruined confiding tradesmen at
home, will fall into the hands of its rightful posses-
sors—those who have supplied such present owner
with goods for which they have never received an
equivalent. The Act will operate, in a small way, as
an Incumbered Estates Bill—only always against the
will of the dishonest owners. They will now be
forced to do what all honest men do without forcing—
pay their debts. Tire Act is also another step in the
direction of removing an unfair advantage possessed
by the rich man over his poorer neighbour. Pro-
perty has so many natural privileges, that there is no
reason why we should go out of our way to endow it
with such as do not essentially belong to it. Under
the previous state of the law the proprietor of
land, if he chose to be dishonest, had nothing to do
but to change his place of habitation, and he might
indulge in his vicious propensities to his heart's con-
tent. His estate could be managed as well by en
agent as by himself, and his person was under the
protection of a foreign state, whilst cut of England
he could not be served with a writ. A tradesman, on
the contrary, is unable to leave the spot on which his
business is carried on. If he cheats his creditors, he
must pay and abide the brunt. His absence would
be ruin. While the rich man, therefore, escaped the
puni,hment due to his misdeeds, the poorer men
was obliged to stay and suffer the penalty he had in-
curred. Though we are far from holding that a poor
rogue should be allowed impunity because the rich
rogue can purchase it, we still maintain that a state
of the law which punishes roguery in rags, while it
lets roguery in superfine cloth and polished boots
strut free, is mischievous in the highest degree, us it
impairs that reverence due to law which is the foun-
dation of all social order.

GREAT GUNPOWDER BLAST.
A monster blast by gunpowder, fired by means of
a galvanic battery, took place onWednesday last at
Furness quarry, on Lochfine, near Inverary. The
quarry rises perpendicularly above the margin of
Lochfine to a height of about 80 feet, and presents a
surface to the sea of 100 feet in length. Near the
centre of this face, and 30 feet inward or back from
the front, a vertical shaft was driven down through
the granite mountain to a depth of 60 feet from the
surface. It was 3 feet 6 inches square. From the
bottom of this shaft two galleries or tunnels, of equal
capacity with the main shaft, ran each 17 feet in
length, in a line or parallel with the quarry face. A
the extremity of each of these little tunnels was
placed a box containing a ton and a half of the strongest
blasting powder, or, giving in separate divisions, a
total charge of three tons, or 4,500 pounds. The
great event on Lochfine was looked forward to
with various feelings by various groups—by some
with pleasurable excitement, and by others with sen-
timents of no small terror. The Condorrat band per-
ambulated the village to infuse a little pluck into the
hearts of the natives. But in the majority of cases
it failed ; for, about the hour mentioned, a very ex-
tensive emigration commenced from the district im-
mediately around Furness. The great mass of the
lower order of Highlanders had no faith in the great
blast which the big Sassenach was about to blow off
in the midst of their own country. In fact, not a few
of the old crones and gaffers conceived that tLe pros-
perity of Lochfine was to pass away with this mon-
strous explosion, and that the herrings would be seen
no more. Accordingly, the movement was extensive
—the young, the aged, and the bed-rid were carried
off. But the people were not content to carry away
their ancient kindred ; for not a few of them marched
off with as much of their goods and chattels as they
could carry. In fact, for miles around not a single
soul remained near Furness, with the exception of Mr.
Sim himself, his coadinters, Dud is few eoutreseous
triends. Some departed in boats ; but the great majo-
rity betook themselves to the tops of the distant hills,
where they stood in groups watching the outburst of
this Highland Vesuvius. But while the natives went
out, strangers poured in, and took up their stations in
the vicinity, some on the land and some on the loch.
When the signal gun was fired, nearly all took to the
boats, and went to a wary distance on the bosom of
the loch, while some of the extremely cautious sort
went right across the loch, and landed on the opposite
shore of Stratchur. About a quarter-past four
o'clock the last signal gun was fired, announcing the
charging of the battery. But this first attempt to fire
the mine failed, from the battery net being of suffi-
cient strength to carry the electric power along such
a length of wire. The line was then shortened, and
the battery carried to a spot within sixty feet of
the mouth of the shaft. From this point the
battery was charged, and the stroke or explosion
was most effectual. By those on shore the great Mass
was seen to rise suddenly, and then subside, accom-
panied with a dull noise like the growl of distant
thunder. Those on the boats in Lochfine witnessed
the explosion to much more advantage. They saw
the whole of the lower part of the rock, on a line
with the bottom of the shaft, belch forth a sheet of
flame, and instantaneously the mountain rose, and
settled down in broken masses. Clouds of smoke, the
pent-up refuse of 4,500 pounds of gunpowder, rushed
up from every disrupted crevice, and floated calmly
away on the bosom of Lochfine. Those close at hand
heard the sound produced by the innumerable masses
of granite rock falling
successfullow .
cThha The
blast, therefore, ias
-
It is computed that froetnralid,.ooo to 8,000 tons
ibeenintoof theth e,rno quarryst
racter.
of granite have been torn up, varying in size from five
tons downwards.—Glasgow E

A PROFESSIONAL DESCRIPTION OF A HORSE.—In
a horse case tried at Leicester, Sir B. Sutton's steward gave
the following evidence :—" The mare in question was a bad
goer altogether. He could make neither end or sides of her.
She had no sort of hind legs at all. She had very bad ones.
She never had a mouth fit for anybody to ride on '
TEE PALACE OF HOLYROOD.—A memorial for the
restoration of the Palace of Holyrood to her Majesty's use
was dispatched on Saturday by the Lord Provost, ma-
Vtes,and council, to the Treasury and the Board of
otrrkal

"I have the honour, See.,
" JAMES SHAW, Mayor."
" College of Arms, Tuesday, 7th January, 1806.
"My Lord,—l have the honour to inform your
Lordship, that I have this moment received a war-
rant, under his Majesty's Royal signet and sign
manual of yesterday's date, directing me, as Garter
Principal King of Arms, to marshal and place the
Lord Mayor of London in the procession to the in-
terment of the late Lord Viscount Nelson in the same
station wherever he would have been placed if the
King himself had been present, bearing the City
sword, provided, nevertheless that this declaration of
14his Majesty's pleasure be for this special occasion
only, and not construed into a precedent for the fu-
ture, to the prejudice of the rights of precedency of
any person or persons whatsoever.
" I shall, my Lord, render a cheerful obedience to
the commands of the S.wertign, and shell, ac-
cordingly, marshal and place your Lordship in the
procession to the interment of Lord Nelson, on the
arrival of the same within Temple-bar, between his
Royal Highness the Prince of %Vales and the herald
who precedes the great banner.
"It is understood that your Lordship will, on this
occasion, bear the City sword, unattended by your
officers, and that the place of the aldermen, sheriffs,
and City officers, will be the same as in the sketch of
the ceremonial which was transmitted to your Lord-
ship by the Under Secretary of State, on or about the
17th of last month.
" This arrangement I propose to announce by a
supplementary sheet to the ceremonial already printed.
" I have the honour to be, with great respect,
"My Lord, your Lordship's most obedient
humble servant,_
" ISAAC HEARD, Garter."
28th Jan.—" Resolved unanimously, that the
thanks of this Court be given to the Right Honour-
able the Lord Mayor, for his judicious arrangement
of this City's part of the public procession on the Bth
and 9th inst., in honour of the late Lord Viscount
Nelson, for that manly, temperate, and persevering
conduct which procured him a warrant under the
King's sign manual to hold in the procession of the
9th inst., within the City, the place due to the chiof
magistrate—viz., that of the first subject of the realm;
for the perfect concord in which he acted with the
committee of the other branch of the corporation ;
for his excellent disposal and brilliant display of the
military force of the City; for his polite attention to
all the members of this court, and to every other per-
son with whom he had intercourse on that solemn
occasion ; and for his liberal entertainments, particu-
larly that at the Mansion House on the 9th inst.,
when his hospitable table was attended by
dear
re
to
hs
muni-
cipal authorities of the City, and honoured by an as.
semblage iof eminent persons,
fellow, citizens by the great services they have per-
formed to their country in the honourable professions
of the navy and army.
The following has been abbreviated from the
journals of the Court of Common Council upon the
subject of the funeral
Common Council, 13th Nov., 1805.—The Lord
mayor acquainted the Court that he had convened
them together for the purpose of considering the late
glorious victory, obtained over the combined fleets of
France and Spain, off Cape Trafalgar, on the 21st
ult., when—
" The Court unanimously resolved to present an
address to bis Majesty upon the subject.
" 21st November, 1805.—The address presented! "
Nov. 26.—Resolved unanimously--Thatt his
theNelson.a lde
Court do cause a monument to be erected in the
GuildhallGuildhallis: City
to perpetuatC:tbe memory o f tn
late Vice-Admiral Horatio Lord Viscountsli aldermen
r Ande
ir
a committee appointed, consisting of
and a commoner out of each ward, to procure models
or designs for the said monument, and to lay before a
future court such models or designs as they shall deem
worthy, with the expense of erecting the same. They
the said r
theco
further resolved—That
gallant actions, splendid
insamidittmeeonubemen;
di-
rected to obtain an inscription
gtrheeatmannayval hero, and to prove to
victories,worthy
eminent services 'rendered to his
country by the a
of merit, as well as to stimulate others to-
future ages the very high sense the city of London
entertainede h
is bright example.
em
44 20th Dec., 1805.—The Lord Mayor reported he
had convened them together in consequence of a letter
be bad received from Lord Hawkesbury, one of his
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, in relation
to the funeral of the late Lord Nelson. Letter read.
The Lord Mayor also laid before the Court a subse-
quent letter from John King, Esq., Under Secretary
of State in relation thereto, together with a sketch of
the procession by water and land, at the funeral.
The Lord Mayor stated that by such arrangement
the Lord Mayor of London was placed in a situation
different to what had heretofore been observed, and
that he should feel it his duty, that the dignity find
rank of the chief magistrate of the City should not b.e
departed from, inasmuch as be conceived that with in
the city of London no subject could claim precedency
of him. The Court trail resolved unanimously,
That it is the duty of this Court to attend in St.
Paul's Cathedral on all great national ceremonies,
agreeably to precedents established on the late occa-
sion of his Majesty attending Divine service in that
cathedral;" and referred it to a committee, consist-
ing of the Lord Mayor, all the aldermen, and a com-
moner out of each ward, to arrange the attendance
of the corporation on the occasion of the funeral of
the late Lord Nelson. They also returned thanks to

the Lord Mayor for the handsome manner in which
he communicated Lord Hawkesbury's letter.
" 30th Jan., 1806.—The Lord Mayor stated to the
Court that in consequence of his representation in
respect of the right of precedency of the Lord Mayor
within the city of Loudon, he had the high satisfac-
tion to state that his Majet3ty had been pleased to
issue his Royal warrant for that purpose, which was