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N°.18,733.] LONDON, TUESDAY E OCTOBER 5, 1852.
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BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
1, Princes-street, Bank, London.
Established August 1, 1837.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament, 4 Viet., cap. 9.
CHAIRMAN—CoIoneI ROBERT ALEXANDER, Blackheath Park.
ADVANTAGES OF THIS INSTITUTION.
INCREASING RATES OF PREMIUM.
A Table especially adapted to the securing of Loans or Debts, and
to all other cases where a Policy may be required for a temporary
purpose only, but which may be kept up, if tie esSary, throughout
the whole term of life.
lIALF•CREDIT RATES OF PREMIUM.
Credit given for half the amount of the first seven Annual Pre-
miums, the amount of the unpaid Half-Premiums being deducted
from the sum assured when the Policy becomes a claim.
SUM ASSURED PAYABLE DURING LIFE.
The amount payable at the death of the Assured, if he die before
attaining the age of sixty, but to the assured himself, if he attains
that ass, thus combining a provision for old age vfilth an assurance
upon life.

(PROPRIETARY.)
Extract from the IL
Credit Hates of
Premium.

Half
premium
during
First
Seven
Years.

X s d.
0 19 7
1 1 9
1 4 11i
1 9
1 14 10
2 2
2 12
3 6

Whole
(Annual)
premium
for Re-
mainder
of Life.

X s. d.
1 19 2
2 3 6
2 9 10
2 18 4
3 9 8
4 5 0
5 5 6
6 13 4

(MUTUAL.)
Extract from Table with Partici
in Profits, after Seven Yea
Payments

Years.
30

Months,

Annual
premium

£ 8. d.
2 7 3
2 7 6
2 7 10
2 8 2
3 3 0
3 3 6
3 4 1
3 4 7

Half
Yearly
Pre-
mium.

s. d.
1 4 2,
1 4 4
1 4I
1 4 8
1 12 3
1 12 6
1 12 10
1 13 1

[pa tion
rly

Quar. -
terly
Pre-
mium.

Z s. d.
0 12 3
0 12 4
0 12 5
0 12 6
0 16 5
o 16 7
0 16 9
0 16 10

E. R. FOSTER, Resident Director.
ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
Established by Act of Parliament in 1834.
No. 8, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, London.
The distinctive features of the Company embrace, amongst
others:
Tables of Premiums formed on the lowest scale compatible with
security, and constructed to meet the various wants of assurers,
and every risk to which protection by assurance can be extended.
One-half the Life Premium for the first Five years may remain on
credit.

Loans granted on approved Personal Security.
Assured not restricted in their limits of travel, as in most other
Companies, but may proceed from one part of Europe to another in
decked vessels, without License, and to British North America, and
many parts of the United States, without extra premium, by merely
giving the ordinary notice to the Office in London of the intended
visit.

Whole-world Policies granted at slightly increased rates of
Premium, thus rendering a Policy in money transactions a real
security.

Prospectuses, and every information, may be obtained upon appli-
cation to the Resident Director.

THE DEPOSIT and GENERAL LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY.

Chief Office, 22, 3foorgate-street, London.

The new and peculiar feature of this Company is the Deposit Sys-
tem of Assurance, combining the advantages of a Savings' Bank
with a Life Assurance Company. By this plan a person may invest
any sum, from 1/. upwards, and, without any further payment, at
once secure a Policy for a certain amount commensurate with the
age of the party and the amount deposited. Be may also increase
his payment, and thereby increase his assurance, decrease it by with-
drawing any sum at any time, or he may draw out all he has paid in.
For example :—A person, aged Twenty-five, depositing 101. with
the Company, will at once secure a Policy for 261. 12s. 3d., payable
at death, whenever it should happen, with full power to increase,
decrease, or draw out the 10/. he has deposited. The humblest indi-
vidual may, therefore, reap many of the advantages of ordinary Life
Assurance, and, at the same time, possess all the facilities of a bank-
ing account.

Detailed Prospectuses, in illustration of the peculiar features and
advantages of the Deposit System, with Tables by F. G. P. Neison,
Esq., may be obtained on application to any of the Company's
Agents ;or to . _ .

C. W. BEVAN, Actuary and Secretary.
N.B. Agents required in all parts of the Kingdom.

INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY
COM PANT.

TRUSTEES.

Richard Malin., Esq., Q.C., M.P. Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
IJ. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. James Fuller Maddox, Esq.

William Wilberforce, Esq.

COPIES of this year's ANNUAL REPORT of the business of the
Company, and containing Observations by the Manager on the
present state of the p, actice of Life Assurance, as to the validity
of Policies, may be had at the chief offices, or from any of the
agents.

ALEX. ROBERTSON. Manager.

DEFECTS in the PRACTICE of LIFE ASSURANCE, and Sug-
gestions for their Remedy. 6th thousand. By Alexander Robert-
son, W.S , A.I.A. Orr and Co. Price Is.

PERIODICAL SAVINGS applied to PROVIDENT PUR-
POSES, with Observations on Friendly and Odd Fellows' Societies.
Freehold and Building Societies, Life Assurance, and Self-Pro-
tecting Assurance. By Alexander Robertson. Orr and Co. Price
is. 6d.

PATRON-H. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT.

DEATH of WELLINGTON. The National Song, by Macfarren,

will be sung by George Buckland, Esq., itt the
OYAL POL YTECHN IC Tiq STITUTION,
a ik in his Evening Lecture on Music, in which he will be assisted
by Miss Blanche Younge, R.A.M.

LECTURES.
By J. H. Pepper, Esq., on Testing Gold, and on the Australian Gold
Districts.
By Dr. Bachhoffner on the Mode of Preserving Fresh Provisions.
By Mr. Crispe, on Morrail's Patent Needles.
New Series of Dissolving Views, &c., &c.
Admission, Is. ; Schools and Children ander Tan years of age,
Half-price. For Hours, see Programme.

F IT! FITTER!! FITTEST!!!
Verbs and Adjectives; sort them.
E. MOSES sad SON'S Coats for Autumn Fit with exactness, ele-
gance, and comfort ; they are Fitter for this season than any pre-
vinusly produced; they are the Fittest illustration of E. MOSES and
SON'S capabilities to design the most ingenions styles, to present
them in the most Varied Materials, the soundest and most artistic
workmanship, at the lowest prices. E. MOSES and SON'S Sporting
Dress, from its Fit, is universally approved ; its materials being
waterproof, render it Fitter for this season than any dress which
can be obtained elsewhere ; and it is the Fittest duty we can dis-
charge to tell the world's public that E. MOSES and SON'S Goods
of every description are better, aad the prices far lower, than those
of any ether house.
EMIGRATION AN IMPETUS TO TRADE.

Wherever gold has been discovered it has given a push to trade,
brought out capital, and called into requisition a greater amount of
the necessaries and elegancies of life. To supply these, no Outfitters
in the world could be so qualified as E. MOSES and SON; their
long established and magnificent business embraces every article
required by emigrants, and every class of Goads which they may
turn to the greatest advantage in any of our colonies. The magni-
tude and variety of their Stock, comprising the strong and sub-
stantial or the neat and elegant in everything the Emigrant may
desire for his passage or his station, offers advantages in Quality,
Suitability, and Price, to be found nowhere but at E. MOSES and
SON'S Establishment and its Branches undermentioned.

Fall Lists of Outfits, .XnclallTnfoination relative to sailing of
vessels and cost of passage may be had on application, or post free
to any part of the kingdom.
SPECIAL NOTICE.—E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments
will be closed on TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY next, Oct. 5 and 6,
reopening fer business as usual on THURSDAY morning, the 7th
instant, 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, efinories, 83,
84, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating.
London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2,
end 3, Hart-street, all communicating.
Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch. 19, Bridge-street.
Sheffield Branch, 36, Fugate.
Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers Purdue, Boot
and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters for Ladles and Gentlemen.
The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to suuset on
Saturdays, when bnsiness 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,
(mitts, on application, or forwarded, post-free, to any part of the
iingdom.

A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1852 can bo had, gratis,
on implication.

Ici I'on patio Francais.
llier surlcht man Deutsch.

I Qul si parla Itallano.
Aqua so babla Espanol.

Da' CIILVERWELL'S NEW WORKS.
147 F
To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; CarvalhO,
price
Fl To
Mann, 39, Cernhlll ; or direct from the author ;
One Shilling each; by post, Is. 6d.
ENJOYMENT OF LIFE.
"MART;
Recreation, and Rational Use of Time."
ComTmsrs :—Early Rising—Spring and Summer liornings—Ex-
carSions about the Environs of London—The eams, Lanes, Hills,
Forests, Fields, Ftlgh-roads, and other pleasant places—Country
Trips and Rambles—The Sea—London at Night—Evenings at Home
—Music—The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Bleeping, Bathing,
Air, Rest, Ease, Occupation, Esc. ar.e.

II
IFEAGMENTS FROM Tam MO
Vol. /.UNTAINEI. Two Vols.

VIRIT TO THE LAKES 4 sEi..--
Vol.n7Fl OF EDINSURQH, &c,
THE LAKES OF KILL ARNEY ; RE
MINISCENCES OF
DUBLIN, &c,
111,
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID,
" That three score years and ten our course may ran..
A popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) f
vously-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that noi, ner-
assee
the young, besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and
bitters old age ; with tables and roles for the diet and PhYale em-
bitters
-ation of every-day life.
IV.
THE PASSIONS.
"What passions hurt the body—what improve,
Truths as refined as Athens ever heard."
SCIISSOT : —Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old ago. The ad
vent of the passions. Chastity and its Infringements. The casual-
ties oflicentiousne,ss and dissipation, with illustrations graphic, nar-
rative, and remodiative. Advocacy of early marriages.

THE MARRIAGE STATE.
To be or not to be, that is the question."
Psociaamma :—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and reli-
gion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and
choice, on both sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and
figure, to• secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them.
Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion.
Cases, &c.

By R. J. CULVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A.
1824). Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in these
matters. Reception hours daily till Five. Evenings, Seven till
lilac. 10, Argyll-place, Regent-fitted.

THE COURTS OF FRANCE, RUSSIA, AND GERMANY.
Now ready, in 3 Vols., 31s. 6d. bound,
MEMOIRS OF THE
BARONESS D'OBERKIRCI-1,
Countess of Montbrison ;
Including 'Numerous Curious Particulars illustrative of the Secret
History of the Courts of France, Russia, and Germany.
Written by Herself,
Colburn and Co., Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

T" QUARTERLY REVIEW,
No. CLXXXII., will be published on Thursday next, Oct. 7

CONTENTS:
I. British Bards and Stonehenge.
11. lonian Islands..
111. Irish Salmon.
IV. Dr. Chalmers.
V. Sindh.
VI. Lord Langdale.
VII. Gold Discoveries.
VIII. Parliamentary Prospects.
John Murray, Albemarle-street.

LAURENT'S GRAND CASINO,

IRGYLL ROOMS, Great Windanill-street,
St. James's,
Lessee,' Charles Emele Laurent, Onslow House, Brompton-road,
Licensed pursuant to Act of Parliament, 25th of King George U.,

Are Re-opened for the Winter Season.
During the recess the Rooms have been entirely Re-decorated, by
G. S. Bryer, regardless of cost.
Laurent's Matchless Band every evening. Principal Cornet-a-
Piston, M. Boalcoart.
Admission—ONE SHILLING.
Doors open at Half-past Eight o'clock.. Dancing to commence at
Nine. and terminate at Half-past Eleven.

" 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.
Lion, as regards the ventilation, drainage, warmth, and
general repair of the building, that there is no excel=
inmates over the prescribed number, and that no
ward is 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 beg, in conclusion, to assure the guardians
that, in carrying the suggestions of this circular into
effect, they may rely on receiving from this board all
such advice and assistance as they may be able to
render.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" W. G. LUMLEY', Assistant Secretary.
" Poor-law Board, Whitehall, Sept. 30, 1852."

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM TILE 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
and the public opinion of India happen to be with us.
In a region where war is usually a succession of bold
strokes, and where the difficulties of the climate and
of the Asiatic character can oily be met by the ut-
most celerity sod decision,. mail after ,mail tells the
same invariable story;--a large4'..British force under
General Godwin, in the best possible position, with
abundance of material, with the largest fleet of
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
Ave, 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 oft' 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
Proms, 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 lest Burmese
war. In those days they had 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 an 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 has worn, from
the first, the aspect of a journey undertaken fur 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 d'etat, 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-
-1 perial crown is to be his next step. The tele-
graphic announcements made to the Minister

• of the Interior and the deportment of the President
himself, 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 Moniteur
tells us of the enthusiastic reception which has been
accorded to Louis Napoleon at every point of his
progress. It is true that less partial observers ques-
tion the unanimity and the sincerity of the demon-
, strations so pompously recorded ; but, be that as 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 called 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 system
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
President would feel the effects of the contemplated
iihange. Nor• is it yextviateriel to tberother 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 bears upon his
shoulders a mantle adorned with bees, is 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 despotisms, 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 neither philo-
sieopdiliffyerneoerees, tbuffereingprebeeaest
situationschooled
ni
et toe this
butpitch
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
dicers' 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, °there 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 begs t
a 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 unfavourably 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
ofFrance 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 bad
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 one 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 he 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 change is that the failure of the arch-con-
juror was no such great misfortune after all. Aa
point of much greater importance to us is,h that
power
portion of our countrymen, who have had t
have long en-
joyedand the will to inflict much more evil uponeus than
any equal number of foreigners could,h
a wall of brass
or nt due to their
the two
byren in
a protection from the punishment
iniquity as secure as that affoerddeiffe
or any other material. Th
cases is, that whereas the Friar
.intended
to wall
wall which we have
foreigners out, the metaphorical
"
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 fraudulent debtor, whose
property
would have been justly sacrificed to satisfy
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 he inclosed those foes,
his creditors, within an impassable barrier. An
agent might 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 alteration in the law will make
in the fates of various ingenious and interesting
swindlers. A fiat has gone forth which has produced
wailing and woe in the breasts of hundreds of bad

debtors. On the 94th of October down goes the wall
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.
Boulogne fears something like partial depopulation,
now tliat one means of swindling are abeuc to be
wrested from the 11911(13 of well-dressed English
scamps. Baden and Homburg may leok rue-
fully upon bare tabk•s no longer glittering with
the gold transferred from the pocket.; of hones.,
English tradesmen. The loungers at Boulogne,
the rattlers of dice at Baden and II onburg, are
waiting with dismay the arrive' of the fatal day.
the 24*-11 inst., which will let loose upon ail of them
who have property in England the horrors of English
law. Their irn.:gination must now he 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 corning when en un-
grateful country will no longer afford its preteclon
to swindling absentees; they watch mournfully the
sacrifice of their property to creditors who have no
shadow of title to the same except the justice of their
claims. The Act which is to affect 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," &a. ; 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 forts, 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 England
of the place where the defendant is residing; and 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 living 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 Isbell 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 he 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. The 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 hE art's con-
tent. His estate could be managed as well by an
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
punishment due to his misdeeds, the poorer man
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, as 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 on Wednesday 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 t
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 the 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 coadjutors, and a few courageous
friends. 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
from the battery not being of suffi-
the mine failed,
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 dm ant
d
thunder. Those on the boats in Lochfine
the explosion to much more advantage.. T ey savev
witnesse
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
smoke, the
rose, and
settled down in broken masses. Clouds of
pent-up refuse of 4,500 pounds of gunpowder, rushed
,
up from every disrupted crevice,
rand floated calmly
away on the bosom of Lochfine. 'Those close at Liana
heard the sound produced by the innumerable masses
of granite rock falling into the quarry below. The
blast, therefore, has been of the,most successful cha-
racter. It is computed that from 7,000 to 8,000 tons
of
fnsdownwards.—Glasgow granitehave been torn up, varying in size from five
herald.

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'
THE PALACE OF TIOLYROOD.—A memorial for the
restoration of the Palace of Holyrood to her Majesty's use
was dispatched on Saturday by the Lord Provost, ma-
giWostrates, and council, to the Treasury and the Board of
rks.