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SEPTEMBER 30, 1852.
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CHIRIQUI ROAD COMPANY.
NOTIC J.
The Directors of the Chiriqui Road Company have the satisfaction
to state to their shareholders and the public, that in reference to the
light and title of territory through which the road is to run, and of
which goy never had and never could have the slightest doubt, a
file of the Official Gazette of New Granada, extending from the Ist
of January to the 3d of August last, has come to this country by the
last West Indian Mail (these Gazettes nsay be seen at Lloyd's Mer-
chants' Room), which sets the disputed point completely at rest.
These Gazettes, throughout the period mentioned, abound with
official orders and decrees, civil, military, financial, and commercial,
in reference to that portion of New Granada in which the Veraguas,
Chiriqui. and Rocas del Toro are situated. In these we find returns
of all descriptions : local and customs revenues and expenditure, or-
dered by the Supreme Government, and furnished by the local au-
thorities and proper officers of these provinces and districts, advert-
ing to many years that are past. Especially we find the returns
from the Custom-house of Bocas del Toro (see Gazette, July 17th)
for 1840-1841, the year wherein the Costa Rica advocates have told
us that the New Granadian Government had no establishments or
authority of any kind there.

THE NEW NOVEL.
IVA NN Y DENNIS ON,
1.1 IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES, in 3 Vole.
Also. Just Published, in 3 Vols.,
•
HELEN TALBOT, A NOVEL.
By Miss PENNEFATII E R.
" Helen Talbot is a beautiful incarnation of womanly feeling,
dignity, and grace. The fashionable circle in which the principal
personage of the story moves, is drawn with a bold and graphic
pencil, and we have no doubt that in many of the leading figures,
those conversant with Irish fashionable life will recognise living ac-
quaintances."—Globe. •
Colburn and Co., 13, Great Marlborough-street, London.

JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES.
THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
for OCTOnER, price 2s. 6d.; or by post, 35., contains :—A
Basket of Autumnal Fruit—Clough Fionn ; or the Stone of Destiny.
By the O'Hara Family. Chapters 7, B.—October, by Mortimer Col.
Tins.—Heroes, Ancient and Modern. No. 2. Scipio Africanus the
Elder, and Arthur Duke of Wellington. With Plans.—Our Portrait
Callery..No. 68. James Sheridan Knowles. With an Etching.—A
Flying Shot at the United States. By Fitzgunne. Second Round.—
Sir Jasper Carew, Ent. Chapter X.—The New Edition of Miss
Strickland's " Livs of the Queens of England." —A Night in the
Fine Arts' Court of our National Exhibition. —Euthanasia.--Critics
in Councl. By Anthony Poplar.—The Duke of Wellington.
Dublin: James M`Glashan, 50, Upper Sackville-street. Wm, S.
Orr and Co., 2, Amen-corner, London, and Liverpool. Xohn Men-
zies, Edinburgh. • •

• But still more decisive are the contents of the Gazette of April
6th, which in a Supplement gives us the Official Census of the Popu-
lation of the Republic of New Granada for 1851. It is dated Bogota,
January 20th, 1852, In this census, which shows the total popula-
tion to be 2,243,73 I, we find discriminated every province, canton,
district, parish, and hamlet, with the population of each, the number
of electors, and the number and the names of the Senators and Re-'
presentatives appropriated for each Province, and now representing
these in the Legislature assembled at, and which holds its sittings in
Bogota. From this curious and important document the Directors
place before their Shareholders and the public the following account
of the population, &c., of Veragnas and of the Province of Chiriqui,
formerly part of Veraguas, and the Western portion thereof:—
Population. Senator: Representative. Electors.
Province Chiriqui.. 17,279 1 1 16
Designated and divided thus—

r 111 HE BITTER BEER CONTROVERSY.
jL Fora full account of this gigantic BEER PUFF, seethe next
Number of the MEDICAL CIRCULAR, with Critical Rdnarks by
the Editor on the conduct of Mr. Allsopp and Baren Liebig.
Published on Wednesday next, price 3d. ; by post, 4d.
Advertisements received at the Oilice, 4, Adam-street, Adelphi, up
to Tuesday, Twelve o'clock.
The trade supplied by Gilbert and Co., Paternoster-row.

CANTON OF ALONIE.

District.—David
Alanje
Bocachica A ..
Boqueron
Bugaba A
Caldera A
Dolega
Gualaca
. Remediot
San Felix
San Lorenzo ..
San Pablo ..

.. 4,625
.. 3,149
.. 104
.. 845
.. 331
.. 137

(IRE MORNE GARDENS.
On the Banks of the Thames, King's-road, Chelsea.
Waterside Entrance close to Battersea-bridge Pier.
Fare by Stearn-boat from London-bridge or any of the interrne-
dlate,Bridges orayharf 'Piers, 3d. Strangers should request to be
4abiled4t liatterses ridge for Cremorne. Fare by Omnibus from
Charing-cross, 3d.; from the City and remotest parts of the East-
end, 6d.

• 1,506
• 1,351
1,5 W-•
515
.. 1,777

16,654
547

Proprietor. Mr. T. B. SIMPSON.
Last Week of the Season.
The Italian Brothers on the Trapeze, daily.
Grand Globe Ascent, by Mr. James Pascal.
THIS DAY, a grand Balloon Ascent, with the Italian Brothers on
their Double Trapeze, under the management of Stephen Cham-
bers, R.N.
The Pyrotechnic Displays ley the Chevalier Mortram.
A new Grand Spanish Comic Ballet, entitled Le Barbier de Cadiz,
every Evening, at Half-past Seven o'clock.
An uninterrupted succession of Entertainments from Three o'clock
until near Midnight.
Open at Three o'clock.
Admission, Is.; Children, Half-price.
On Sundays, after Four o'clock, by Refreshment Card, price 6d.
Table d'Hote at Six o'clock, 2s. 6d.
Private Room for Dinners and Coffee.

Beeas del Toro ..
Boca del Draco ..
San Miguel ..

Total .. .. .. 17,279
The name of the Senator is Antonio Villaros ; the Representative,
Nicolas Lopez. The number of Deputies sent to the Provincial Le-
gislature is eleven.

Besides this, the Directors can state from official authority that the
Vice-President of the Republic of New Granada has large estates in
the Bocas del Toro ; that his wife is a native of that district, and
their family and connexions highly respectable. When not on duty
elsewhere, the Vice-President and his family reside at David. Next,
let us look at the Province of Veragnas
Population. Senator. Representative. Electors.
Veraguas . .
Designated and divided thus :

CANTON SANTIAGO.

Santiago .. .
Atal aya .
Culebra .
Callum .. •
Mesa .. •
Mineral .. •
Montejo .
Palmas .. .
Ponuga A .
Rio de Jesus
San Francisco .
St. Juan de Costa .
Santafe A .. .
Sena .. .
Tole ..
Tranquillas A

.. 6,121
.. 1,059
.. 2,111
.. 4,245
.. 2,542

.. 282
.. 2,009
.. 3,004

.. 694
.. 1,615
.. 4,05

.. 1,076
.. 2,652
.. 1,138
.. 368

Total .. .. 33,864
Principal Senator, Jose de Fabrega ; Representative, Jose Antonio
Chunez.

Besides these particulars, they have (see Gazettes) mentioned, the
enumeration of the quotas of men that these Provinces are bound to
furnish for the defence of the country, thus :—Chiri int, for internal
disturbances, 191, foreign invasion, 771; and Veraguas, for internal
disturbances, 380, and for foreign invasion, 1,520. The Gazette of
January 33 contains, moreover, an official and important Decree
from the Supreme Government regarding Grants and Privileges to
Emigrants settling in the Province of Cniriqui and Bocas del Toro.
To add one word more on the subject would be to insult common
sense and the understanding of the public.
By order of the Court of Directors,
JAMES MACQUEEN, Secretary.
London, September 29, 1852.

H E BANK OF INDIA.
11 Capital 100 Lacs of Rupees, or 1,000,000/. sterling, in 50,000
Shares of 200 Rupees, or 20/. sterling each (with power to increase
the Capital to 2,000,000/ sterling). Deposit 57. sterling per share.
Application will be made to her Majesty's Government and the
Government of India for Charters of Incorporation, to limit the ha_
bility of shareholders. _ _

Soitcnotts,—Messrs. Hughes, Kearsey, and Mastennan, London.

BaoaEas.-111e-ssrs.. Foster and Braithwaite.

The Bank of India is established for the purpose of carrying on the
general business of banking and exchange in India, China, the
Mauritius, Ceylon, Singapore, and other eastern possessions of the
British empire ; for receiving deposits and making remittances ; for
granting cash credits and making advances upon approved securi-
ties ; for issuing circular notes payable in Europe, Egypt, the prin-
cipal stations on the Overland routes to India, and at the different
establishments of the bank ; for granting local drafts and credits ;
and for all other legitmate banking business: .

The large capital of the Bank of India will render it a safe medium
of deposits and investment for the Indian community, whilst the
sources of profit to be derived from the extended operations of the
bank, by means of its different agencies, and the high rate of in-
terest obtainable in India, will ensure a large and profitable return
upon the capital invested, and will, it is confidently expected; justify
the allowance of a moderate rate of interest to the depositors.

The greatittecess whlelahae atteydecLUAnnetationsiviea.,
anklng thtsalintrY', connected 'the East
Indies, and of the,,well•coriducted 1 !ellimalcadisrithe d ate.
sidenciec, and the encouragement given to theemploymerit of capital'
in similar undertakings by the extension of commerce and railways,
has led to the formation of the Bank of India. .

The extension of banking facilities necessary to meet the growing
requirements of the mercantile community and of the large civil and
military establishments of India, and the development of the sources
of wealth of that country which must arise from its improved internal
communication by the railways projected and now in progress there,
will open an extensive and profitable field for the operations of the
Bank at its different branches.

The objections which were formerly entertained to the manage-
ment in England of banking establishments connected with countries
so distant as India have been removed, by the rapid means of inter-
course now existing between these two countries.
The certainty and rapidity of this communication will be further
increased by the new lines of railway now in progress on the conti-
nent of Europe and in Egypt, and by the agency of the electric and
sub-marine telegraphs about to be established by powerful companies
already in operation.

Arrs'ingements are in progress to secure to this Company the co-
operation and support of some of the largest native merchants of
India, which wilt extend the operations of the Bank amongst that
class of the Indian community.

Application will be made to her Majesty's Government and to the
Government of India for charters of incorporation to limit the lia-
bility of the Shareholders, and power will be taken to increase the
capital of the Company to 2,000,0004 sterling, in which event the
new shares will, in the first instance, be offered for distribution
amongst the existing Shareholders, and such other parties as, from
their local connexions and other circumstances, may be considered
likely to extend the business of the Bank.
The arrangements for the constitution of this Company are now
nearly completed, and full prospectuses, with the names of the Board
of Directors, will be pablished in a few days.
In the mean,ime, further information may be obtained at the
temporary Offices of the Company, Ni. 4, Adam's-court, Old Broad-
street, City.

IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS,
Just published, by Bailliere, 219, Regent-street, Londoii.
No I.
Second Edition, with Additions,
Bvo., in cloth, price 55., by post free, hs. 6d.,
ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA. ;
with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors
n relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the
Generative System, or Sexual Ilypochondriasis.
Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD.
"Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi-
cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first
mime, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi-
cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall
detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his
power to correct."—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851.
—" The editor has conferred a great boon on the sufferers from this
distressing malady by translating this little book, and by laying bare
the scandalous practices of unqualified adventurers, who profess to
cure a disease of which they know nothing, with no other object
than to fill their own purses. The difference between true Sperma-
torrhcea and the various forms of disease which resemble it are
accurately described, and thus a safe guide is offered for the
treatment of the malady."—Medical Circular, May 5, 1852.
—" We have delayed so long upon the contents of the preliminary
chapter, that we have scarcely left ourselves space for any notice of
the subject specially treated of by Dr. Pickord ; but the moderate
price at which the ' brochure' is sold, places it within the reach of
every one Interested in the mattu."—Publin Medical Press, April
18,1852.

No. 11.
rfivo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 4s.
TIIE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URF,TIIRA, on Princi-
ples at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate
and apparently Intractable Forms. To which is added, PRACTICAL
OBSERVATIONS ON TIIE TREATMENT OF SPERMATORR-
IKEA BY CAUTERIZATI9N ; its Inefficiency and Danger.

BY F. B. COURTENAY,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
"Those who complain most loudly are those only who know not
how to use, the common instruments
geons has been meted with all kinds of violence, an indifference
about the simple cure of diseases, and a passion for operations and
all the excesses and horrors of surgery."—John Bell's Surgical
Observations.—" In proof of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has
given the history of a great many cases successfußy treated, as bad
as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated.
Such are cases ix., xi., xii.. and xvili. No. ix. had resisted, for a
period of twelve years, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally
removed in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and xix. appear, both
In duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag.
gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet the
treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently saccessflil."
—Proiess(r Lizars on the Treatment of Stricture.

ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE, AND THE SECRET
INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY.
WITH FIFTY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL.
In French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian, in a
Sealed Envelope, 2e. 6d., or post-free, for Forty-two Stamps,
SELF-PRESERVATION; an
Analytical Investigation of the Physiology and Functions of
Marriage, in all the bearings in which that important subject affects
the health and happiness of Man, with its Disqualifications and Impe-
diments, tracing their origin to the effects of juvenile solitary habits,
youthful excess, tropical climates, or dose study ; followed by prac-
tical remarks, founded on twenty years' experience in the treatment
of Impuissance, Nervous Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrhcea,
Syphilis, and all diseases of the Urinary and Generative System. Il-
lustrated by 50 coloured Engravings, on the Anatomy of the Repro-
ductive Organs and their relative conditions in Health and Disease.

By SAMUEL LA'MEET, M.D.,
la, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Dun.
burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society,
Licentiate of Apothecaries Hall, London, &c., &c.

The essential objctoffrothims
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and
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exounetstshea, the fearfulwniah
consequences resulting
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lidfee,gtrhaadnat,iopnerhianpaM,
aanny-
hood, and premature all stYa
]mown to modern pathologists. The treatment
other class of disease
erleace gained in the most celebrated
have produced moredemcaisyerayt
adopted is founded on
acquired are here condensed under
The results of the knowledge thus
schools of medicine both in this country' and in continental Europe.
and
the personal supervision of Dr. La')fert, himself one of the few
legally qualified hysicians who have devoted their whole
un-
divided studies to this important branch of medical science. In short,
every peculiarity relating to the treatment of the diseases incidental
to the generative system, and the means of immediate relief and
ultimate cure are described in detail. The professional reputation
of Dr. La'Alert, who has taken the most distinguished medical
and academic honours at home and abroad, is in itself a sufficient
steheartecythwosheiewilho
are msowaryeciptlua.sciete themselves under his care
will, in every instance, meet ith that delicate consideration and
inviolableguarantee I ties treatment of these
• Starts, Titchborne-street,
cases.
Published by the Author, and may be had of J. Gilbert, 49, Pater-
noster-row ;
Haymarket ; Hannay, 63, oxford-street
Mann, 23, Cornhill : tree by post for forty-two
stamps, from the author, who maybe consulted personally, Or by
letters daltyi item Ten t . aud ill Two, or
from SI4 till Eight,

pUBLIC 0 PINION.
Conspiracy against it would be malignity, and argument
Insult, recoil!ng vituperation on the assailant. To public opinion,
as an impartial judge, E. MOSES and SON have always appealed,
and have received its caresses. They again invite public inspection
to a, magnificent stock of Overcoats, Paleto's, and new designs in
every description of Dress for Autumn and Winter. E. MOSES
and SON can justly calculate on the manner in which their splendid
preparations for the ensuing seas na will be regarded by public
opinion ; and they have the greatest satisfaction in stating that
their superlative stock of new materials, and the triumphant display
of talent in the cut and workmanship of every article of Dress, and
the great reduction in price, will still further confirm them in favour
and public opinion.
The inimitable style of Sporting Dress is that of E. MOSES and
SON.

The unrivalled Designs for Juvenile Clothing are those of E.
MOSES and SON.

EMIGRANTS.—The change in the season requires a change in
the management of your outfit ; the articles suitable for your pas-
sage a few months back will not be sa now; and possibly inex-
perienced Outfitters arid minor houses may conceal from you this
fact. Application to E. MOSES and SON secures to you everything
appropriate for your journey and your future occupation—Rot only
better in quality and more suitable for your purposes, but at con-
siderably lower charges than at any other house in the world.
Your voyage may be rendered comfortable by procuring the warm
and substantial Clothing, Hosiery, &c., &c., prepared with the most
exact acquaintance with the passage at this time of the year. Your
convenience is every way considered by E. MOSES and SON, and
a separate department is kept for Outfitting.

Ftill Lists of Outfits, and all information relative to sailing of
vessels and cost of passage may be had on application, or post free
to any part of the kingdom.

The Establishments will be closed on TUESDAY and WED-
NESDAY next, September 28 and 29, re-opening on THURSDAY
morning, September 30, at Seven o'clock.

CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the
public against imposition, having learned that the untradesmanlike
falsehood of " Being connected with their Establishment," or it's
the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for
obvious reasons. They beg to state that they have
No CONNEXION WITH ANY OTHER HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON,
except their own Establishments, as follows :
London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, 51inories, 83,
34, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating.
London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2,
ind a, Hart-street, all communicating.
Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19, Bridge•->strelt,
Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate.

Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers Farriers, Boot
and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen.
The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to Intilst on
Saturdays, when business is resumed till Twelve o'clock.
A new Book, entitled " The Library of Elegance," containing a
fall list of prices, and directions for self-measurement, can be had,
gratis, on application, or forwarded, post-free, to any part of the
Lingdom.
A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1852 can be had, gratis,
on application.
Ici l'on parle Francais. Qat si paria Italian.
INK ,r„pe-lit fl*s Deutsch.- - I_...ik4ua se habla Espaaol.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. 4-
NEWMARKET.
A special meeting of this company was held yea-
terday at the London Tavern to consider the pro-
priety of confirming the forfeiture of certain shares
in the Bury St. Edmund's Extension line, and autho-
rizing them to be sold or otherwise disposed of; Mr.
C. Fane in the chair.

The CHAIRMAN stated that the directors had been
obliged to call the proprietors together to confirm the
forfeiture of certain shares. The shares were held by
persons who had every opportunity given them of
paying the call made in December 1851, and he
believed that two notices since that period had been
issued to the shareholders in arrear, and the direc-
tors had no alternative but to declare the shares for-
feited.
Mr. BROWNE, the secretary, read the resolution
confirming the forfeiture of certain shares, which were
specified, and authorizing the directors to sell or
otherwise dispose of them, in such way and at such
times as they may deem expedient.
Mr. FRITH wished to know how many shares were
forfeited, and the amount of them.
The CHAIRMAN said the number of shares for-
feited was between 5.000 and 6,000. Some of the
shares bad 3/. paid on them, and others had nothing
paid, having, it appeared,
.been subscribed for no-
minally. _

A NOFRIETOR, wished to know whether the hol-
ders could not be proceeded against for the recovery of
the calls due.
The CEIAIRMAN explained that the directors had
done the best they could to cover the arrears, and they
had no doubt they would be able to dispose of the
whole of them at par.
The resolution confirming the forfeiture of the
shares was then carried unanimously, as was also one
forfeiting and merging certain shares in the capital of
the company.
In reply to a question, it was stated that there were
27,000, shares in the company, and that the company
had power to issue other shares, in lieu of the merged
shares, at par.
The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks
to the chairman.

WATERFORD AND TRAMORE.—It appears that
the works on this line are progressing under Mr.
Dargan, the contractor, and that he has engaged to
open it for traffic on the Ist of May, 1850.
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN AND CHESTER
AND BIRKENHEAD.—The terms upon which the
Chester and Birkenhead line is—Parliament assenting
thereto—to pass into the possession of the London
and North-Western Company have been finally set-
tled. It is stated that the guarantee is to be four per
cent.—Herald.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.-(Miles in work! 2850
Return of Traffic for the Week ending Sept. 19, 1852:
Passengers, parcels, carriages,
horses, dogs, and mails —.X10,666 2 5
Merchandise and minerals ... 4,951 5 5
Cattle ... 445 18 8

Total £16,063 1 6
Corresponding week, 1851 (241 i miles):—
Passengers, parcels, &c. ... £lO,OOO 210
Merchandise, Cattle, &c. 4,260 14 7

Total ... ... _-----
....£14,261 17 5
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. -- (260 miles
open.)—Traffic for week ending Sept. 26, .C 15,223 8 9
Corresponding week in last year (260
miles open) .. ... ... ..,617,389 0 0
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAnwAy.--Trafflo for the
week ending Sept. 26:

RAILWAY.
Passengers, parcels, &c.
Goods ... ... ...

.., 43,218 0 8
... 867 18 7

Total

•• ... ... £4,085 19 3
STEAM-BOAT•

Passengers

... £474 8 8

TOTAL.
Passengers, parcels, &c.
Goods

... £3,692 9 4
... ... 867 18 7

Total .. ... £4,560 711
Corresponding week last year ... 4,157 6 6

BOILER ExmosroN.--On Tuesday morning a
violent boiler explosion took place at Walker-mill, by the
side of the Newcastle ani Shields Railway, and about three
miles from the former town. The mill was working double
shifts, and at six o'clock on Tuesday mornhig the engine
was stopped to allow the fire to be cleared. The fireman,
James Robinson, had cleared out the. " searles," and the
miller was just about setting the engine away again, when
the boiler exploded with great violence. The boiler-house,
warehouse, and engine-house are totally destroyed ; the fire-
man and one-half of the boiler were thrown over a hedge
into an adjoining meadow, and three other men were more
or less injured. The fireman was much scalded, and was
removed to Newcastle Infirmary, where he lies in a precari-
ous state, and the destruction of property is considerable. The
boiler was an old one, but there is nothing to indicate how
the explosion originated.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS, before us. But Lord John Russell does not repeat it.
FROM THD MORNING ‘p.AFERs OF THIS DAY. Nay, he rather negatives the whole proposal. And
TIMES:—It is somewhat remarkable that the his own journalist makes no secret of the reason why.
first attempt to,renew lust t 6). improve our diplomatic It is frankly confessed that " any such opposition as
relations with Rome sbn
ulkproceed from the very was waged against Sir Robert Peel in 1835,"—
men whose injudicious alteration of the Bill for that " would involve a certainty of failure." And the
purpose converted it into a stumbling-block and a reason assigned is, "the rivalries of various Liberal
and character should have and could dislodge even the great Sir Robert Peel.
nullity; and we learn with some surprise that a Mi- leaders." Now this is a signal confession of failure.
nistry which lays claim to high Protestant principles In 1835 Lord John could unite " the Liberal party,"
is so liable to be misconstrued by the Papal Court. In 1852 Lord John, it is confessed, cannot dislodge
nobody who can help authorised a measure which
Without pretending to be in
even the Pope retires to the Alban party" will no longer unite under his banner. A
it
aptphreoaseehcerest
that
tSicritHjannrdy even "the ineetpables who infest
Bulwer's late excursion to Rome, at a season when under Lord Darby e and this,
because " the Liberal
anne.r.
D owning- street,"
Albtin hills,suspect plainer confession of failure in p •
we a rime Minister
that the account of this mission which has appeared could hardly be made. And what, then, is tee re-
in some foreign journals is not far wide of the truth, suit ? What is the valorous resolve of this (confess-
and that an attempt has made, by order of the edly) disunited "Liberal party ?" It is called " the
British Government, to beenPttee our relations with the wiser course—the course reccmmended by Lord J.
Romish See on a better footing—an attempt in Russell at Perth—the course of giving Mr. Disraeli
which even Sir Henry Bulwer's well-known rope enough, and trusting that the discussion of his
abilities have not been successful. It ought to have measures will allow every Opposition chief abundant
been foreseen that the Cabinet of the Vatican opportunity of evincing his own claims." This is
would only regard this conciliatory step as a sign of capital. And yet we cannot help thinking that Shake-
weakness or a recantation of those sentiments which pere has phrased it better. In his racy style it runs
strongly animate the great majority of the British ' thus :
nation. It is strange that within two years of the " Why, since he has some evil practices, if thou
appearance of_ the Papal bull dividing England into couldst find them out, thou hadat better let him con-
new dioceses oforeign authority, and appointing tinue, till thou discoverest what they are."
the delegates of foreign Power to the government " There ! thou naughty varlet, thou hearest what
of these ecclesiastical divisions, an English Minister is come upon thee ! Thou art to continue ! thou
should have made his appearance at Rome unsolicited, naughty varlet, thou art to continue !"
uninvitede,ands with'"no Previous explanation or with- So much for the general prospects of the session. The
drawal of. a measureewhicli at ticbeen universally re- Peelite organ of yesterday entirely agrees with the
garded and denounced in this country as an outrage Whig journal, that the present Ministry must be left
on the Sovereign and the nation which that Minister where it is, for the best of all possible reasons—that
represents. What can be thought by the Cardinal it cannot be turned out. We happen also to know,
Secretary of State of the real disposition of the that two well-known Whig Baronets, representing
British Government towards the metropolitan constituencies, have expressed the same
Papal See, when he
finds that for the first time conviction within the last two or three days. On a
since the mission
of Lord Castlemaine under James II single point, however, mischief is threatened. An
,
a British Envoy Plenipotentiary to a
neighbour- idea is openly mooted, of a revival of " the Lichfield
ing Court waiting for an audience in his ante- House compact." The first leader in the Whig jour-
chamber ? Instead of the dignified coolness and nal of last evening commenced with these ominous
unbending demeanour which tae late acts of words—" Don't be so sure that you have heard the
the Papal Government towards this last of the appropriation clause." And then follows
country ought to
have imposed on our Ministers, th appear in an this candid confession of the lengths to which the
attitude which the arrogance of Rome Will readily political morality of Whigs and Liberals may be
convert into that of a courtier and a sup liant. The stretched :
Court of Rome resembles nothing 80 much-p as one of
"It is not likely that more than an insignificant mi-
those Asiatic durbars with which wenority could be mustered in favour of even the most
are accustomed
to deal in a very different manner in modest application of national property for the purposes
i our Eastern
of the Roman priesthood; and it is quite certain that
possessions. It is inflated with an extravagant con- no Minister in his senses would throw such a firebrand
caption of its own dignity, surrounded
, by monuments among the constituencies. Bat we cannot doubt that a
of former grandeur, and deceived oy its own impene- large number of Liberals will willingly co-operate in
treble ignorance. While it owes its miserable and attackthe Irish Church, the
it.de dependent existence l3 to the presence
of a foreign army, whatever we may think of its prudence—that their sub-
expects all mankind to approach the seat of its sequent defection will be sufficient to arrest the move-
mysterious power in a posture of humility;and it ment before it passes from the stage of demolition to that
mistakes the common language of court and re- of reconstruction."
spect for an expression of awe and obed!" The In a word,—in order to annoy and perhaps defeat the
only art practised in it with success is thaitencfe.
_Dees.
Ministry,—a large number of Whigs, Radicals, and
sant intrigue; the only power before whicho*t 1 ails Peelites would unite,—so says the Whig journalist,
is that of vigorous action, stern independence
i quails Peelites would unite,—so says the Whig journalist,
is that of vigorous action, stern independence and a
—with the Irish Brigade in an attack on the Irish
manly contempt of its own artifices; and •nfeethanmte Church. And they would do this, it is confessed,
mater of a Protestant Crown is to t without meaning to carry the measure which they
appear inl Romee
all, we are satisfied that he will hardly obtain the :- would thus support. They would do it on " the
cognition of his just rights unless he instructed
erte
speculation, that their subsequent defection would
be
speak in the tone of a Government prepared t
o
suffice to arrest the movement." We are not alarmed
them. The time is, as we well rememberenforcef
at such threats as these; nor do we at all mean that
distant when we saw reason to hope, iti
common,not very
with any
any serious consequences would follow from such a
the Ministers and Legislature of this country,thatwit
manoeuvre. But while we feel no fear, we may not
more conciliatory policy towards the h
s a
the less freely advert to the well-known fact, that it
would not be without a beneficial effect on r rela-ee was just in this way—by helping a movement at
tions with the Papal States, and with th oliß
first, which they meant to arrest afterwards—that the
Catholic subjects of the Crown. We still tehinkntmhaant French Liberals in 1789, and various other Liberals
if at that time—namely, in 1846 and 1847—this in other places, brought on results of a kind which
policy had been judiciously acted upon, and if the they were the first to lament, when it was too late to
Diplomatic Relations Bill had not been rendered undo them.
abortive by Lord Egl
-inton'a absurd and mischievous CHRONICLE.—We have already called attention
amendment, it would have been possible to avoid to Lord Hardinge's more eminent qualifications for
much of the evil which has since occurred. The policy the distinguished and highly responsible post of
of the British Government towards the Irish people, Commander-in-Chief. His well-won honours in the
and in the matter of Irish education, would have been field, his services in India as well as in Europe, his
less misrepresented ; the influence of fanatics and tried abilities as an administrator, and, above all, the
rebels would not have been left uncontroverted ; proud place which he held in the affection and esteem
Lord Minto's roving mission would not have been of the Duke of Wellington, combine to constitute a
associated with the revolutionary outbreak that fol- claim which it was impossible to deny. But there
lowed it; and the Pope would have been told at a are less obvious considerations which render his
proper time that Dr. Wiseman and John of Tuam appointment peculiarly judicious, or singularly fortu-
were blowing the embers of a deadly quarrel to nate, at the present period. We allude to the imper-
gratify their passions and their ambition at the cost fact state of our national dgeoces, and to the growirg
of religion and tolerance. Such hopes might be spirit of hostility which "178 ms" in the distance, in
entertaintelesseue_hllawkyoAteght Terhapp-turreAbeen 'ti direction of our wrest and !Bost formidable
se
neighbour. The founders and oracles of the Universal
~,s a4_••-e at ''. -cOnerliericement of the reign of
rms .t2L., or at least it seemed to be so ; but, in corn- Peace Association may be right when they point to the
mon with many other aspirations of that sanguine commercial ties which now connect the leading corn-
period, they have now utterly vanished. In place of munities of both hemispheres, as imposing a strong
a wise and tolerant Pontiff, we have to deal with a curb on the ambition of rulers and on the restlessness
bigot, bewildered by the dangers he has encountered, of glory-loving nations. No doubt, the consciousness
and circumscribed by the humiliating position in of the serious losses to be incurred, and of the
which he is placed. We find at Rome a Government galling privations to be endured, by the most indus-
not only not prepared to meet us half way in the trious portion of the people which rashly provokes or
measures which a more enlightened and liberal policy is suddenly hurried into war, will form a strong
would suggest, but closely allied to the most arbi- check on the most bellicose rulers, wherever reason
trary Powers, favouring the most odious forms of su- and justice can make themselves heard, or wherever
perstition, encouraging the revival of persecution some representative form of government faithfully
itself, and raising its pretensions to spiritual omnipo- reflects the intelligence and well-understood interests
tence in proportion to the depth of its temporal of the country. In France, for example, any vigilant
abasement. From such a Power we are satisfied observer may have remarked from time to time, idu-
th at nothing is to be obtained for the cause of ring the past twenty years, an occasional outburst of
justice, freedom, or humanity ; and we serve those the *roe feeling of ill-will towards England, to which
sacred objects far more by standing aloof alto- two or three of the leading Paris journals have given
gether in the light of our independence than by renewed and bitter expression within the last fort-
attempting to throw a beam across that abyss of night. But whilst the Chamber of Deputies or the
oppression and corruption. It is not the fault of National Assembly was in existence, and in the
Protestant Powers, or of the policy of any Protes- enjoyment of its lawful privileges, we felt safe; be-
tent State, if those Pacific and harmonious rela- cause we knew that the whole influence of the trad-
tions which seemed at one time possible between ing classes would be thrown into the scale of good
the two great divisions of the Christian Church sense and humanity, and because the limited powers
have given way to more unfriendly and acrimonious and strict responsibility of the Executive offered
sentiments. But in every part of Europe Catholics insuperable obstacles to a sudden disruption of
have turned the liberty they enjoyed into a weapon amicable relations, with the view to a coup de
of offence against their neighbour., and of attack on main. The important change which has taken place
the civil power to which they owed allegiance. In in this respect appears to have altogether escaped the
every part of Europe pretensions have been revived notice of those members of the British Legislature,
on the part of the Romish Church which were sup• who, " greatly daring," dined at the Elysee, and
posed to have been finally annihilated two centuries danced at the Tuileries, to celebrate the Prince Pre-
ago; and, although these ultramontane principles sident's temporary triumph over the institutions
have manifested themselves in Ireland, and even in which he had solemnly sworn to maintain. It has
England, in the forms which the free institutions of obviously never occurred to them that those noisy
this country tolerate—that is, with more uncontrolled and disorderly sittings of the National Assembly
violence than elsewhere yet the same movement may which are foolishly cited as decisive against Parlia-
be traced in every part of the world with the same mentary Government, werenot only the safety-valves
revolting consequences. To treat with Rome under of French turbulence, but the guarantees of Euro-
such circumstances and conditions is only to pay peen tranquillity. Threats, mutterings, and other
what she will regard as home
ge to the ascendancy we indications of peril, on which we laid little stress
repudiate and deny. If we have reason to complain so long as France enjoyed a constitution, have pos-
of her interference with the political and social state sessed far more significance since her army, her fleet,
of the Queen's dominions by the agency of her inde- and her revenues have been placed at the disposal
fatigable priesthood, it is to our own institutions, to of one man, who may at no very distant period
our own_laws, to our power, and to our faith that conceive an English raid or invasion to be the best
we must alone look for redress. Against our mode of confirming and consolidating his authority.
church, our liberties, and our independence the It is notorious that the expediency of inaugu-
Church of Rome will probably not cease to do its rating the new Empire by a military exploit of more
worst, as it has done in former ages, with unremite than ordinary daring is the constant topic of dis-
ting hostility, though, thank God! with indifferent cussion amongst Louis Napoleon's partisans, and
success. But to treat with such a power at this very that London, with its untold treasures in bullion
time, when she has thrown aside disguise and openly and merchandise, or one of our most valuable naval
preaches treason under every form, setting up the arsenals, is familiarly proposed as the ready and
spurious allegiance of the conscience to her mandates appropriate mark and reward of Gallic valour and
against the allegiance due to the law and to public vindictiveness. All the workmen that can be use-
duty, is a blunder and a weakness which we should fully congregated have been set to work, night and
hardly have supposed that even Lord Derby's Foreign day, to complete the railway at Cherbourg; and the
Secretary would have committed. The result of such President will soon be able, at a few hours' notice,
a mission appears to have been commensurate to the to embark a number of troops sufficient, if once
sagacity of the conception. A few civil speeches landed on the coast of Devonshire, Hampshire, or
were exchanged between Sir Henry Bulwer and Car- Sussex, to inflict a vast amount of injury, if not
dinal Antorielli, and the British Envoy probably exactly to imperil our national existence. More-
brought away with him nothing but the conviction over, it is confidently believed, in quarters not likely
that in the present state of the Papal Government it to be misinformed on such a subject, that the
is idle to sacrifice the dignity of this country by an French navy list has been purposely falsified, so as
attempt to conciliate a Power irreconcileably hostile to render it a most inadequate index to the actual
to our dearest rights and our most sacred institutions. maritime force available on a sudden emergency.
It would have been more creditable to the British Let us not be misunderstood. It may be probable
Government if no such overture had been made. that Louis Napoleon is not personally d* ill- isposed
HERALD.—There are some occasions when a towards the English people, and that an unpro-
retreat is best effected in silence, and in the dead of yoked attack on us would not be hazarded, except
night. There are others, however, in which the as the last throw of the dice. Nor have we the
general prefers to cover a retrograde movement by a slightest doubt that any expedition which he could
great show of fight. Trumpets are sounded, drums lead or direct against the British isles would meet
beat to arms, and the troops march hither and thither; with the most signal discomfiture, and would simply
but just when you expect that the battle is about to end by precipitating his fall. But the consequences,
begin, you discover that the whole was a feint, and to a commercial country like England, even of an
that the bird is flown. The only Whig journal that unsuccessful attempt at invasion, would be gravely, if
is now left, of all the daily press, conceived it to be a not permanently, injurious. The French boaster
plain duty to make the best it could of Lord John who recently spoke of a new war-steamer as an arch
Russell's late display at Perth. But we humbly sug- of a projected bridge over the Channel, forgot that,
gent that it was a great mistake to turn the public for every ten steamers which could be collected at
attention on the weakest point of the whole case— Cherbourg, twenty might easily be concentrated
namely, what is described as Lord John Russell's at Plymouth or Spithead, and that to be
courage. For if ever there was an instance in which independent of the winds is at least as
" the better pert of valour" was declared to be ,sdis. great an advantage to a watching squadron as to an
cretion" it is this. The meeting of Parliament is now attacking one. Nothing short of the grossest and
rapidly drawing near, and the leader of the Opposition most criminal neglect
on the part of the British
appears at a public dinner, and delivers himself of a Government for the time being, could give the
great speech. This is the usual plan when a battle is semblance of feasibility to a scheme of invasion on
approaching. We can all remember the proceed. a large scale. But there exists a general, and,
ings of this kind which took place just before the we fear, a well-founded suspicion, that we are by
meeting of Sir R. Peel I
's House of Commons in no means so secure as we might and ought to be
1835, and how Lord John Russell then reviewed against that description of warfare which was espe-
his troops, and declared the plan of the compaign, cially recommended by the Prince de Joinville in his
Mr. Roebuck has already given us some notice before- fatuous pamphlet. Many worthy people, whom it
hand. He told us at Sheffield in July, that within would be inaccurate to class with " old women," are
a week after the meeting of Parliament the Ministry haunted by visions of a French Paul Jones off Brigh- '
would be expelled by a vote of want of confidence, ton, Weymouth, or Torquay ; and they already see,
We only wanted, now, to hear the same prediction in their
mind's eye, a compact body of ten or fifteen
repeated by Lord John Russell, and we should have thousand French troops quietly landed somewhere on
had, in a moment, the whole plan of the campaign , the west or south-west coast, and advancing into the

heart of the country—destroying, burning, and levy-
ing contributions on the way. Admitting such fears
to be exaggerated, it is not the less true that they
derive strength from the incomplete state of our naval
and military preparations; and the rank and influence
of a nation are invariably lowered and impaired by
the consciousness of its liability to insult. It
is notorious that the numerical inferiority of
our land armaments and the deserted condition
of our ports, in December and January last, had
a good deal to do with the unworthy tone in
which Lord John Russell and his colleagues defended
Louis Napoleon against the well-founded censures of
the press. It is because Lord Hardinge possesses re-
markable qualifications for preventing the recurrence
of such a state of things, so far as the Horse Guards
are concerned, that we rejoice at his appointment. No
mere soldier would be equal to the task, for within
living memory the art of war has been revolutionised
by scientific invention. But the new Commander-in-
Chief is very far indeed from being a mere soldier.
He has filled a variety of civil offices with high credit.
'He has been successively Secretary for Ireland,
Secretary at War, Governor-General of India, and
Master- General of the Ordnance. He was also, as a
correspondent has reminded us, specially charged with
the defence of Ireland in the memorable spring of 1848
—so that, in one capacity or another, he has had the
benefit of a larger amount of instructive and available
experience
than perhaps ever fell to the lot of any one
of his predecessors, with the single exception of the
illustrious captain whom he immediately succeeds.
No man living is more impressed with the paramount
importance of placing. the British army in a condition
to uphold its well-earned reputation under all
imaginable circumstances, whether as
regards arms,
equipment, discipline, numbers, or general efficiency;
and we hope that no ill-timed diffidence
nor any un-
due wish to save the Premier from '
embarrassment or
to spare the Chancellor of the Exchequer's surplus,
will prevent Lord Hardinge from doing all that in
him lies to carry out his carefully matured schemes
of military improvement. It were a libel on the
nation to suppose that, because it very properly insists
on having money's worth for its money, it would
shrink from any amount of strictly needful expen-
diture, when its honour or its safety is at stake ; and
if mistaken notions of economy have left our national
defences disgracefully incomplete, this is mainly
owing to short-sighted or selfish politicians who have
been over-anxious to curry popular favour.