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BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
1, Princes-street, Bank, London.
Established August 1, 1837.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament, 4 Vict., cap. 9.
Cueinstsx—Colonel 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 oily, but which may be kept up, if ne, es3ary, throughout
the whole term of life.
HALF-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 age, thus combining a provision for old age with an assurance
upon life.

ORPHAN'S ENDOWMENT BRANCH.
Established for the purpose of affording to parents and others the
means of having children educated and started in life, by securing
annuities, to commence at the parents' death, and to be paid until a
child, if a son, shall attain his 21st year, or, it a daughter, her 25th
year of age.
These annuities are at any time commutable for their full value, if
a ready money capital is required for a marriage portion, or on en-
tering into business or a profession.

BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION.
I, Princes-street, Bank, London.
Empowered by her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent.
Annual division of profits—applied in reduction of the current
year's premium.
Policy holders entitled to participate in the profits after payment
of five or seven annual premiums according to the table of rates se-
lected.
Premiums charged for every three months' difference of age—not,
as is usually the case, for every whole year only.
Half credit policies granted on terms unusually favourable to the
assured, the amount of half premiums for which credit is given,
being liquidated out of the profits.
At the Annual General Meeting on the 27th April last, a reduction
of 30 per cent. was made in the present year's premium on all policies
of five or seven years' standing.
A Board of Directors in attendance daily at Two o'clock.
Age of the assured in every case admitted in the policy.
Medical attendants remunerated in all CAWS for their reports.

(PROPRIETARY.) I
Extract from the Half
Credit Rat,:s of
Premium.

(PROPRIETARY.) (MUTUAL.)
Extract from the Half Extract from Table with Participation
Credit Rates of in Profits, after Seven Yearly
Premium. Payments
Half : Whole
premium (Annual) Half Quar -
during ;premium Age. Annual Yearly terly
..i First 1 for lte- premium Pre- Pre-
Seven =tinder mium. mium.
Years. 1 of Life.
£ s d. £ s. cl. ILF7us. Months £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
25 0197119 2i 30 0 273,14 2 0 12 3
30 1 1 9 2 3 6 3 2 7 61 1 4 4 012 4
35 1 4 11 2 9 10i 6 2 7 10! 1 4 6 012 5
40 1 9 2 2 18 4 9 2 8 21 1 4 8 0 12 6
45 1141039 81 40 0 330;112 3 0 16 5
50 2 2 6 4 5 0! 3 3 3 6' 1 12 6 0 16 7
55 212 9 5 5 61 6 3 4 11 112 10 016 9
GO 3 6 8 6 13 4' I 9 3 4 7, 1 13 1 016 10

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

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COI PANY,
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, Moorgate-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 11. 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. Ile 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 fall power to increase,
decrease, or draw oni the 101. 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. I'. Nelson,
Esq., may be obtained on application to any of the Company's
Agents ; or to
C. W. BEVAN, Actuary and Secretary.
Agents required in all parts of the Kingdom.

INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY
COMPANY.

TRUSTEES.
Richard Malin% Esq., Q.C., M.P. Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
I .P
J. Campbell Renton, Esq., M. James Fuller Maddox, Esq.

William Wilberforce, Esq.
COPIES of this year's ANNUAL RE PORT of the business of the
Company, and containing Observations by the Manager on the
present state of the practice 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, NV.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
Is. Alexander Robertson. Orr and Co. Price

PATRON-H. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT.

DEATH of WELLINGTON The National Song, by Macfarren,
.

will be sung byGeorgaucil and, Esq., itt the
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION,
in his Evening Lecture on Music, in which he will be assisted
by Miss Blanche Younge, R.A.M.

By J. H. Pepper, Es LECTURES.
.
Districts. q , on Testing Gold, and on the Australian Gold
By Dr. Bachhoffner on the Mode of Preserving Fresh Provis ions.
By Mr. Crispe, on Morrall's Patent Needles.
New Series of Dissolving Views, &c., &c.
A 51111331011, is.; Schools and Children under Ten years of age,
aalf_price. For Hours, see Programme.

FIT! FITTER!! FITTEST!!!
Verbs and Adjectives; sort them.
E. MOSES and SON'S Coats for Autumn Fit with exactness, ele-
gance, and comfort; they are Fitter for this season than any pre-
viously produced; they are the Fittest illustration of E. MOSES and
SON'S capabilities to design the most ingenious styles, to present
them in the most Varied Materials, the soundest and most artistic
workmanshp, at the lowest prices. E. MOSES and SON'S Sporting
Dress, from its Fit, is universally approved ; its materia is being
waterproof, render it Fitter for this season than any dress which
can be obtained elsewhere ; ant it is the Fittest duty we fian dis-
charge to tell the world's public that E. MOSES and SON'S Goods
of every description are better, and the prices far lower, than those
of any other 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. MOf3ES and
SON'S Establishment and its Branches undermentioned. •
Fall Lists of Outfits, and all information relative to a ailing 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 far 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, atinories, 83,
84, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating.
London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2,
and 7, Hart-street, all communicating.
Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19, Bridge-street.

Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate. -
Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers Furriers, Pant
and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlen ion.
The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on
Saturdays, when business is resumed till Twelve o'clock.
A new Book, entitled " The Library of Elegance," containing a
full list of prices, and directions for self-measurement, can be had,
gratis, on application, or forwarded, post-free, to any part of the
singdom.

A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1852 can be had, gratis,
on application,

Id I'on parle FrancaLs. Qui si parla Italian.l
liter spricht man Deutsch. Aqua se habla Espanol.

R. CIILVERWR LL'S NEW WORKS.
, -street; Mann, 39,
D
To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho,
147 rice pPloctOne Shilling each ; by Post, Is. 6d.
Cornhill ; or direct from the author ;
ENJOYMENT OF LIFE.
"Health, Recreation, and Rational Use of Time."
COrrrExrs :—Early Rising—Spring and Summer Mornings—Ex-
minions about the Environs of London—The rams, Lanes, Hills,
Foots, Fields, High-road; and other pleasant places—Country
Trips and Rambles—The Sea—London at Night—Evenings at Home
_Music-hittsio—The Draala—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing,
II
Occupation, &c., Ego. Air, Rest,EaSe,

FRAGMENTS FROM THE MOUN'TAnos
Vol. I. -- Two You.
VISIT TO THE LAKES
VoISKETCH OP EDINB/TRGu. Br 4,
. H.
TUE LAKES OF KILL LRNEY ; REBtimig_.`-'
DUBLIN, &o.
414-clus or
TH.
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID.
" That three score years and ten our course may rm..
A popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner-
vously-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that &Lame
the young, besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and tem-
bitters old age ; with tables and roles for the diet and physical regu.
.atlon of every-day life.

Iv.
THE PASSIONS.
"What passions hurt the body—what improve,
Truths as refined as Athens ever heard."
Suancx :—Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The ad'
vent of the passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casual.
ties oflicentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations graphic, nu-
r. dive, and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages.

THE MARRIAGE STATE.

To be or not to be, that is the question."

riOallaimg :—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and reli-
gion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and
choice, on both Bides, 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. CIILVERWELL, 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
Nine. 10, Argyll-place, Regent-street. ti

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

THE 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 Pros! cts.
John Murray,. Albemarle-street.

LAURENT'S GRANT) CA61.1,40,

NRGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
St. James's,
Lessee, Charles Emele Lauren t. Onslow Douse, Brompton-road,
Licensed pursuant to Act of PF.r:liament, 25th of King George IL,
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 eve Ty evening. Principal Cornet-a-
Piston, 31. lloulcourt.
Admission—O.' rE SHILLING.

Doors open at Half-past Eight c'n clock. Dancing to commence a'
Nine. and terminate at Half-past Eleven.

NAVAL 1N ELLIGEN U.

MALTA, SEPT. 24.—/.-esterlay the Triton arrived
from Corfu, bringing the Large amount of 73 invalids
from the lonian Islands, under command of Captain
Smith, 30th Regiment. E;he had also 12 prisoners,
seven of whom were mid( a. sentence of transportation,
and five to be dismissed wait h ignominy.
Sickness of a fatal na tare prevails, and numbers
die daily—principally of smallpox and malignant
fever, the latter carrying off its victim in 24 to 48
hours.

The lonian Assembly b a 3 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 bad left
Corfu for Constantinople, cal td 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 reache d Corfu from Athens, and,
with the Scourge steam-fri gate, was lying there when
the Triton left.

The Peninsula and Or Company's steamer
Madras arrived this mornit tic from the Levant.
The following diary of tl le movements of the fleet is
not generally known here : - -
9cn. The Tiger, from BI:t Re, joined the fleet.
14th. After a successio]a of calms, and when off
Falconera, the Britannia an d the Albion were taken
i❑ 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 immediat e ly sent off to Athens.
17th. Came to anchor in 'Voulah-bay, having been
towed about 300 miles. Foun id a Turkish frigate, yith
Admiral Slade's flag, two brigs, and a schooner. Sa-
lutes exchanged.

19:h. 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 21,11 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 Malta
received some attentions from those of Captain Om-
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 most agreeable manner.
Captain Brandling, Adjutant of the Royal Horse
Artillery, and Lieut. A. King are among the passen-
gers by the Resistance, having obtained sick leave of
absence.
SUNSET.—The Medina, with the India mails, has
not been 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 SPY 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.
ust mad® her
The Spitfire screw steam-ship has j
number. She is coming in from the west.

APPOINTMENTS.
WOOLWICH, OCT. 4.—Commander---Henry Need
(1848), to command the Linnet gun brig, commis-
sioned this day at Devonport.
Mate—Graham J. Eden (1850), to the Rodney, at
The Terrible steam-frigate,
Devonport.
Csh.Be Captain James Hope,
having her paddle
the river
,isisattoprbeesepnatiidnotffheatritvheirs, port on Saturday next.
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.
proceed with the
The Blazer steam-vessel WAS taken down
on Friday last from Deptford tow oolwich, and the
Napier for the
Monkey steam-vessel left Woolwich this afternoon
with the Blazer in tow for ,leSheerness here the
Blazer will be taken in charge of by Mr. Ay,
master-
attendant at that port, and he will
Cyclops steam-frigate and her to the Clyde, as the
engines
Duke
of of 780-horse
Wellington,O - ho re
Blazer is to receive on board the machinery of the
Pl4l,ers'crmeawdestbeyam-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,

REMOVAL OF NUISANCES.
The following circular has been issued by the Poor-
law Board :
" Sir,—The Poor-law Board are desirous of direct-
ing the attention of the guardians to the provisions
contained in the statutes for the removal of nuisances
and the prevention of disease (11th and 12th Victoria,
chap. 123, and 12th and 13th Victoria, chap. 111), so
far
guardians as
they
arnedlattheetior
offithe powers and duties of the
eers.
" The recurrence of the disease of Asiatic cholera
in an epidemic form in some parts of the continent,
though not sufficient to cause immediate alarm in this
country, is nevertheless calculated to require a rea-
tshonosaeblpenahmlieoufuntneotfiocnaareriteus to whom the law has id vigilance on the part of all
en-
trusted authority with reference to sanitary measures
for the prevention of disease.
" The guardians will remember the duties which
have been imposed upon them by the former statute
in respect to complaints made to them of nuisances
upon private premises. Under this statute they can
only act when complaints are made to them by indi-
vidual householders, and have no power to commence
any proceedings. By the latter Act (12th and 13th
Victoria, chap. 111), the guardians are enabled to
take measures for the removal of nuisances in private
houses or premises upon a certificate of their existence
from their medical or relieving officer.
" It therefore appears to the board to be advisable
that the guardians should communicate to those offi-
cers their desire that they should direct their imme-
diate attention to this subject, so that, when in the
discharge of the duties of their respective offices, they,
perceive that any nuisance exist, of the class and de-
scription to which these statutes relate, these officers
may certify the same to the guardians.
" The board, however, consider it most important
that
, the attention of these ffi o cers should not be di-
verted from the full d• hof th • lac arge their ordinary du-
ties, and they
them distinct- request the guardians to express to
conducted as in no respect to interfere
" To prevent unnecessary trouble and delay, the
guardians may, in some districts find it conveeient
to supply their officers with '
blank forms of certifi-
cates, to be filled ap where they find that •ma
exist, and to instruct them to leave copies nuisances
the
s
occupiers of the premises, so that the latter may re-
move , the nuisances without the necessity of legal
proceedings.

" 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 mesaures 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 excess
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 chapges in the diet of the in-
mates as occasion may render necessary.
" They beg, in conclusion, to assure the guardians
that, in carrying the" suggesticns of this circular into
effect, they may rely on receivitg 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 THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAL

TIMES.—The present situation of the Burmese
war, if war it can be called whore there ie 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 only be met by the ut-
most celerity and decision, mail after mail tells the
same invariable story—a large British force ander
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 bloelshed, 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, ond, therefore,
must be taken in time, or the opportunity is lest 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 an 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 hcok. 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
sad sound. To certify that we have really been to
Prome, 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-
e, ag, 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 tlast 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
climatb 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 et a titho of the cost, a tithe of the time, cud
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 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 as the true
one. From the date of the coup 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 head
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 President
himself, seem equally to point to the Empire as the
legitimate denouement of a melodrama more extrava-
gent than was ever conceived by the fertile brain
even of Alexandre Dumas. The official Ilioniteur
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 bas 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
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 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 cf 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-
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
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, 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
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 Empire is 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 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 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 had
had the
power
and the will to inflict much more evil upon us than
any equal number of foreigners could, have long en-
joyed a protection from the punishment due to their
iniquity as secure as that afforded by a wall 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 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

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debtors. On the 24th of October down goes the wall
of separation which kept the eager creditor from
pouncing upon the man who has been "in his hooka"
for years, and who intended to remain there for ever.
Boulogne fears something like partial depopulation,
now that one means of swindling are about to be
wrested from the hands of well-dressed English
scamps. Baden and Homburg may
rue-
fully upon bare tables no longer look
glittering with
the gold transferred from the pockets of honest
English tradesmen. The loungers at Boulogne,
the rattlers of dice at Baden and Homburg, are
waiting with dismay the arrival of the fatal day,
the 24th inst., which will let loose upon all of them
who have property in England the horrors of English
law. Their imagination 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 an un-
grateful country will no longer afford its protection
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 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 form, 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 lie ing 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 1
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 heart'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 bad 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.