The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAR,CII
TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH possibly be done to urge the Ministry into some popular approbation at the present day; nor will the I THE SHARE MARKETS. 1 1VIINISS•
AND PARISH OF LEOMINSTER. desperate venture in behalf of their agricultural sup- recollection that the corn-laws, under which the ---eca,--..
Paid. Nominal Prices. business ears
Gentlemen,
BRITISH EILTLIPTILTS. to-day.
Understanding that the only Candidate who asked for your sup- porters was endeavoured to be accomplished by the nation groaned for thirty years, might probably
Agua Fria ..., 1 - laip 2%
port on Liberal Principles has withdrawn, I lose no time in soliciting
your Suffrages. distinguished orators, experienced debaters, adroit be attributed to the existence of what was, at
Railway& Paid. Nominal Prices. Ensisess done
to-day. Anglo Californian ...... 10s.• 36 - 7.1 P Vou are aware that on a former occasion I gave way, rather than tacticians, or daring experimentalists who last night the time of their enactment, the real property
Australian .... ... ... b % - `ii
expose the Liberal cause to danger, by dividing its adherents, and
Asturian - -
_a -
banded themselves for a while together with a view to qualification, and the consequent ascendancy of the Aberdeen.. -. •• • ••• all 11% to 12% 12 % )6:% Australian Freehold .... all %- 34 dis•
therefore I trust that you will not ascribe my present conduct to
Ave Marla ......, ..., I %di. - par
any selfish motives, or to any views of merely personal ambition.
my supporters unsettle the affairs of administration. Fortunately territorial aristocracy, render the cause:of that monster
Boston, &E. janeion g% nx _6%
Ambergate, Nottingham,
6% 6 Blaenarvon Iron & Coal all .. - -
My claims are each as, whether I succeed or fail,
British Australian Gold
cannot be ashamed of. for the country, the statesmen selected to the more grievance more popular. Under all the circumstances miming., Wolverhanip.,l 4 die - par 34
and Steer Valley " all 9% -10 British Iron .... ... ••• • • 131. ss. .. -..
Early convinced that the principles of Free Trade were fo usrdeeedd .
Brazilian Imp. (is. 51. p.) 24% 1% - 2
Birkenh., Lane & Cheek
on truth and reason, I incorporated them with my political important departments of Government were men of the case, then, we trust that Mr. TUFNELL may
Juac., late et; els, ...hsed... as 11% -11 % cl•
the Legislature i
_and at
:die --
34%
p
De. Cocaes and Cuiaba all 1 -1%
lag befbre they received the sanction of
Do. St. John del Rey..
present, when they are attested ay the most conelasive evidence, I capable of acting with a courage worthy of the be permitted to carry his exceedingly beneficial
Do. Chest. & er e , 15 23% - 24% ASS
own that to call upon the country to retrace its steps-to. tax the emergency.
They were resolved, as the Paz- measure through all its stages without opposition or see. &He Consolidated au 16 -17 4: 30
poor for the rich-and to create artificial stereos in this over- '
Do., d0.,201. • • •• •• 17% .. -.. db. Copiapo .- ••••• - • • • 14 4 -
himself candidly acknowledged, at ell obstruction. It will be a graceful concession to the Bristol and Exeter.. •• 190 89 - 905 Sa
peopled country for the imagimed interest of a panic class, does mum
appear to me an infatuation that the blindest isregard to the most
hazards to preserve their authority until such popular feeling, which will, we have no doubt, be Caledonian ••• • • • 50 184 - 1836 15% lA% %NJ General ••••••- . • • • • • all 936 -1034
obvious facts can account for, but not at all excuse.
Chester and Holyhead .. an
204 - 20% 20% Gold Mountain - - - • • 1 par -
PP % p
Any attempt, under whatever pretext, to impose a tax on cern, time as the annual supplies have been voted, and the duly appreciated throughout the entire country. Dublin and Belfast Jun
45 17 '-15 d. °°Enbgr.e:AoptisPetrralia. :.. Copper.
• Great Polgooth ........ all sea -1% p 4% %
shall therefore meet my determined and inflexible oosition.
Dundalk and Enniskillen an
.. _
.. Mexican& 6. American 9 a% _ 4
The hideous and disgusting scenes of
.corruption which recent in- more essential business of the Country satisfactorily __am,
Dundee, Perth, and Aber-•
Nouveau Monde.... -• • 1 " li -% P
We • ' rejoice to find that J. G. PIIILLIMORE, Esq., leen Junction .. .. an oin _ 6,, Santiago de Cuba ...... 10% 6 _ 7
fairies have disclosed furnish, in my opinion, the supporters of the
accomplished. The assurance of this determination
Tin Croft .. • • • • • • • • • • • • ',
all 12 -it
Ballot with an argument that is unanswerable. What can be mere
spark of Probity and Q.C., is again a candidate for the representation of Do., New .• •• .. au ..'" _
.."'
shocking to every man in whose soul every
was altogether so resolute in tone, that there can no East Anglian (251. L. & United Mexican ••••. • • • i 2tll 24 -
Wiest, than the means which it appears are re- Leominster, on the most liberal principles. The E. and L. & D.) ••• .. au 3% _4% 4 West Mariposa .. 1 %dis. - par
honour is not extingu
ed in many places to obtain a seat in the great council longer remain any doubt of the postponement of the Do, (181. E. & H.) .. ~,, „n
___
Carson's Creek, 1% es
gularly employ
Honourable and Learned Gentleman has promptly E0,,,ti., Counties .. „ ;(7 ;;;; _ 7%"
of the nation ?
dissolution until the requisite labours of the session 7% 8 JOINT STOCK SAMNA,
I never will have recourse-if the consequence be don, class
To such means
responded to the urgent invitation presented to him Eastern Ul A, Aastralasla .....• ••• • • • all 38 - 89%
a perpetual exclusion from the House of Commons-to that each'. have been deliberately performed, and when an late E. U. shares .. s„ 5,,
..... s
British /fort h America 5O 47% -49
siert I will submit, for I was early taught to prefer the consciousness by a numerous and influential body of electors, Do. do. do. .. -6'
..74 _7..
Colonial .... ••.. •• - 12% of Integrity to the most dazzling prospects of ambition. Bat to the appeal to the country would no longer be perilous to Do. do., B& C shares all 3% -4% 4 Commercial of London 2O 24 -95 Ni
liberal and independent Electors of Leominster I offer an theopportu-
As
Community. far as the estimates are con- and he has done so on grounds that should, and we East Lancashire •. ~ all 16% -17 17 London Joint Stock - 17% is
nity of assorting their right, and of returning to Parliament a faith-
hope will, command Mr. P REwho 111°' New quarters " ad •• - -
success. aeL.Lixo , London and Westminster 20 29% -10
fin and fairly chosen Representative. cerned, this must be admitted to be in the highest de-East & West Ladle Docks
National Provincial Eng. 35 .. -..
As i hope on Tuesday or Wednesday to have an opportunity of has long occupied a high position in the honourable and Birm. June. ~ all 49 -50 Do. Now
..
National of Ireland - - 22% 17% -17
statement of them. I was the advocate of Law Reform, and asps- profession of which he is a distinguished member, Edinburgh and Glasgow so 2834 - 2914 Oriental Bank Corporal. all 30 - 314 xal
'away of Reform in the Court of Chancery, long before such opinions
• • unrestricted commerce is concerned, we
Edin., Perth, and Dundee 25 4% -4% has been favourably known as a legal Provincial of Ireland - - 25 4236 -43 43
were as popular as they arena present lam as anxious for the re- cannot view the matter •
as, in any re- long Glasgow and Sonth-Weet. 100
....... . all 15%
moval of Ecclesiastical Abuses, and for a better distribution of theand Parliamentary reformer and an uncompromising Great Northern ..
..
an 19% - 19% 19% 34 x.d Union of Australia -• • all 35 - 36%
Revenues of the Church, as I was when I last addressed you. Upon Spect, reason for either anxiety or laments- Dot rA, deferred l 6% -6% 5% % % Do. New ........•• • • 2% 3- 3%
the question of Mayaooth my opinions have undergone a consider- free-trader. Many years since we had the gratifica- Do. halves, ia, 6 per et. all 14% -14% 14 % Union of London ..•• - 1534
able alteration. No man clings more tenaciously than Ido to the lion. Our reliance upon the indestructibility .. :Southern
Great
n_ and
lion of directing the public attention to several able Union of Madrid -. • - an •• -..
Western,
ireisad •• ail 34% -35
great principles of toleration ; no man would more shrink from - e
or the 1. po icy of Free Trade, the policy suggested by
MISCELLANEOUS.
speaking with disrespect of the creed of the Roman Catholics. To
pamphlets pointing out the evils of special pleading, Great Wasters - •• 100 86 - 86), ,86 % % )4% Canada -% 48 - 4
make the Roman Catholic citizens, those to whom I most look up ADAM SMITH, advocated by HuseeezeoN, propounded Lancaster and Carnan, n au 74 -77
have sacrificed all that could tempt human ambition ; I trust I , as and indicating most valuable ameliorations in the Doi thirds ~ n .
11 13 4 7 - 8 P Eastern Steam
Gen. Steam Navigation - 284
should imitate their example. But I do not wish to see them by VILLIERS, eulogized by COBDEN, and established
administration don an practice of the law. We Lancashire and! inkles& 100 "
...... 72 P• 7n.,
.7, ,
ti w
•"" ' ' ''22'S., Penin. & Oriental Steam. all SO -81
more than citizens-and recent events have satisfied me that CI•
quarter al s
DO. at: „. au .. _..
ir ROBERT PEEL, is of a character so profound
i- • Ditto ditto 10 26 -28
to contribute to the support of Maynooth is to contri- by 0
the now earnestly invite attention to his liberal, De. fifths -• .. la 6% -N a. eye % Royal Mail Steam - 80%
bate te the dissemination of ignorance, and t° the "P" and implicit that we look with indifference to toe Do. West Riding Union 11% 4% - 4 d.
port of a tyranny over the minds of the simple and illiterate, exer- manly, and straightforward address to the electors Leeds Northern , LI 15 -, 16 16 %)6 )4 rWe cannot be answerable for the errors; of the Official Lists, an,
cised by those who have obstinately and passionately resisted every moment when the question of its Of
main-
veepool, Cresb •
Li -
_, y. and
17 will not he influenced by interested correspondents.]
of Leominster, a copy whereof will be found in ono- nentlapon.
attempt made by Government to enlighten and improve the people. tenance shall be submitted
to the consideration of the
I will only add that lam for the Abolition of Church Rates ; thethey part of this day's impression. There is no con- Landon and Blackwell - 111 7 •-• 7% 734 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
present state of our law upon that subject is
then('scdalous to a civi- people. Whether the appeal be made to-day or to- London, Brighton and
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
lised people. In my opinion the Revenues of hh-properly cealment, everything is clear and above board-free south Coast -1
.. .. 100 95 -96 95% %Si
distributed-are abundantly sufficient to repair and maintain our morrow appears to our thinking to be matter of ex- London and •N.,. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated
L Western leo ii6x -1174 117% la %
b ballot
trade, vote y, abolition of church-rates, and
sacred edifices, without a tax which irritates a large and valuable
Do. do• quartersat from 6,000 to 7,000 bales, of which 500 American were
ceedingly subordinate importance. That no doubt .. 22 334 -.. 3% p. 25% 34
portion of the community. legal and other reforms, are distinctly and explicitly Do• fifths •• .. 12 2% -a p. 14% Ye taken for export and 1,000 on speculation. The market was
JOHN GEORGE PHILI,ImORE. can be entertained as to the consequences of such an De. ioe sh., eds& is (.•; 1
1% -I%p. quiet but closed firmly. The sales comprised 1,000 Pernam
Stafford, March li, 1882. referred to, and in a manner that must t. `"
prove Sit 15- London and b.-Western . 100 85)6 -86 36 85% 304% and Maranham at 5% cl. to 634 d., 400 Bahia at 57i d. to 61,, d.,
appeal, be it made either this year or next,
DO. now 501,
..
factory to every honest reformer. .. 42% 7% -7% dig. 200 Egyptian at 614 d. to BLA d., 500 Surat at 314 d. to 4d.
ROYAL
MARIONETTE THEATRE, either with Lord JoaN RUSSELL at the head of the . Do. new 401,
.. u 6% -5% dia.
,We cannot refrain from adding that it was owing Manchester, Ruato.,;. and and 150 Sea Island at Is. 11)4,d. to Is. 6d. per lb.-The Share
ADELAIDE-STREET, WEST STRAND. Government, or with the Earl of DERBY as the
Matlock .
an 2% -2% Market was good for Lancashire and Yorkshire, Midland and
THIS; EVENING, and every evening during the week, to the courage and h 1
humanity of Mr. PHILLIMORE and Manchester, en, • • "
effield, & Caledonian Stocks, but in ether Stocks not much doin
Introductory ADDRESS, by Mr. Albany Brown, leader of the Adnainistration, we are to the full and , . , . ~
g•
Lincolnshire . lOO 31% - 3234 33 32% %
After which, a new scene of Apropos, entitled the MANAGER'S Dll3 Mena lily. FRY, that poor JANE WILBRED was The Cambria steamer is telegraphed as having arrived at
most earnestly satisfied. The financial condition ofPo,. ,e• 1J ii eaa
ROOM.
from the '
rescued
.. 4 2 0 3% -9% dig. [69% % Liverpool, but no letters are expected until bite in the day.
With THE SWISS
To be followed by the Neapolitan grotesque Divertissement of was placed, and that her torturers, Mr. and Mrs. De. Elm ** •• 31 There are advices in town from Australia by way of the
ARLECHINO FOTNAO, with the Frolics of Saltarello and would be enough of itself to insure for the champions se & Derby 100 29 - -
Pierrot.
u_ of monopoly the strongest antagonism on the part of SLOANE, were brought to justice. The Learned Newcastle and Carlisle.. all .• -• • Brazils dated as late as Dec. 15 from • -S3 dney. They were
received at Bahia per ship Hannah, and fully bear out all
To conclude with the Musical Burlesque of BOMBASTES F
Gentlemen at that time acquired golden De. quarters are.
RIOSO. what for that subject must be allowed to be a suffi- Newmarket .h -- ** an" • • -• •
7% - 8 that has previously been stated. The rainy season was
In the course of each Representation, a selection of Music will
,be
opinions from all classes for their admirable Newport, Abe• **
**
over, and a large number of persons were expected at
performed, including the Roy marionette Quadrilles, by M. Bosisio, c-
ie 1 enlightened nt y population. The mercantile rgaveray,
and Herefords - 434 dim. once to proceed to the "diggings." In four weeks
and the Royal Marionette P a, by Mr. T. Browne, composed ex-
erit of
prosp y the empire during that same remarkable conduct, we are sure that the transaction will Norfolk ~ .. .. 10 _
29
.. ~ ~ 100 27 27% 28), % gold to the amount of 330,0001. had been exported from
pressly for this Theatre.
Eight o'clock. not be forgotten by the electors of Leominster when 00- New 201. haree.. la 12 -11 Sydney, and in the week ending Dec. 6, about 400,000/.
Doors open at Half-past Seven, and commence at interval yields •
and Saturday next. Doorssimultaneously corroborative evidence Northern Cenau u 1 ' 3% IN - 3 dis.
A at Performance To-morrow
worth arrived at that town from the interior. The samples
hree o'clock.• ' the fitting time shall arrive of recording their appro- North Britt " aon 6%
to open at Half-past Two, and commence at T Ufa similar sh.. .. .. 25 6% - 7
of the Grand description. The knowledge that since North Devon ... 11 8- 7 Cs. were very fine selling at 31. 45. to 31. 6s. 9d. per ounce, and
In active preparation, an entirely new version .
bation of the generous protection accorded to a friend- North •• ' Staffordshire .. 17% 8% -8% dig. 8% at the Louisa Creek mines a lump weighing 271bs. 9oz. had
nastern Spectacle of ALADDIN ; or, The Wonderful Lamp, which the abolition of the corn-laws, in 1846, no less than
will shortly be produced with all the vast resources of this small
50 000 000 less orphan in the hour of need. weeta-western .. .. 19 • • - L.' 'lts' been picked up, while several lumps of 22 ounces downwards
) , quarters of wheat beyond the average North IltSth.-West•Jane. 3% par -" P 376 had been obtained at Ophir. The gold was visible to the eve
establishment.
Private Boxes and Stalls to be had at the Box-office Of the have b '
ve been imported and consumed in these islands THE FRENCH REPUBLIC Oxford, Worcester and in most of the specimens, and some were pronounced to be
Theatre, and of all the principal Librarians.
Wolverhampton •. all 15% - 15% 154 %
must be regarded as a fact so forcible of its kind, that • Scottish Central .. 25 15 -15% 1636 half pure metal. The quantity of gold received at Mel-
THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. • _us._ Scottish midland
.. :: au 9% -9% bourne and Geelong, Port Philip, in the last week of Nov.
Mr. 13 Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brampton. if it stood alone it would of itself be enough to de- We have received the Paris • lof terday-
journa s es DO. new
..
.. all 934 -9% was 13,000 ounces, and there would have been still more but
£lll5 EVENLNG,Shrews &Birrn„ Class A all 8,6 - .
6% 6% % for the deficiency of conveyance. The accounts, altogether,
monstrate the humanity and wisdom of that great act The principal topic on which the dwellsthe con- D •
y 0. Class 8.. .. .. all 4% -4% 434
will be performed wOmAN'S HEART. The Marquis of Albritsai, are as extraordinary as any yet received, though necessarily
Mr. Vandenhoff; Angiolo, Mr. Barry Sulivan ; the Lady Giulia, of legislative reorganization. Therefore, we rely v&rsion of the Five per Cents. The Constitutionnel Shrews, & Hereford., ola 7 4- 3 die. scanty at present.
Mites A. Vining; Isolina, Miss Vandenhoff. Shrewsbury and Chester without hesitation upon the devotion of the people of gives its warm adhesion to this final measure. "We (Nor. W, l2 -14 From the continent we have no news of particular interest.
To be followed by the admired Comedy of THE LADIES' BAT- or. , =in) ,„ „ au
TLE ; or. Un Duel en Amour. Le Baron de Montrichard, Mr• the United Kingdom to the cause which some amon applaud," says the Constitutionnel, " Louts NAro- Do. Halves .. .. .. an 6 - 7 The contemplated conversion of the Five per Cent. French
Howe ; Henri de Flavigneul, Mr. Parselle ; Gustage de Grigno , g LEON and his Government for having secured a prompt, Do. Oswestry .. - all 934 - 1036 Debt, is necessarily the absorbing topic, and to render it
mr. Leigh Murray; Countess de Autreval, 3lrs. Stirling ; Leoinne its mistaken and timorous supporters seem just nowShrOpahire Union .. .. 634 334 -3 d• 3% palatable, the 18,000,000 francs saved will contribute to the
de la vineeontier, Miss A. Vining.d h
prudent, an honest solution to a question which has Do., A' B'
, ,C,& D, fully reduction of taxation.
With A dISS IN THE DARK. to deem seriously jeopardised. Abolish Free Trade ? l d •
• onge weighed heavily on public credit. The decree
_Paid up at per cent .. - - - - The meeting of Equador Bondholders went off well
is -16
Turn the river Exe back upon its own current, of Louts NAPOLEON on the conversion guarantees the South Devon .. .. .. all „ on, „„ yesterday, and it was resolved-That from the facts and
THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. SouttnEastern .. .. 30 20% a- an )e tot( % sed
Lessee, Mr. B. Webster ; Directress, Meditate Celeste. as elm suggested by Lord PA.I.MERSTON ! Restore new stock against any fresh reimbursement for the setae wake , . . .. all 30% - 30% 30% si x,d statements laid before the meeting, confirmed as they are by
!III:, EV:-INtsfl,
fear 00th Yorksh and We the declarations made for sevefal years past by the Govern-
Will be performed THE WRECK ASHORE. the corn-lave ? You might as well dream term of ten years. I', besides, puts an end to all,. . sr „ _ _sr
15 2 u"• v ment of Equador, it appears that the application of British
After which, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO elm- of witnessing the speedyet any income-tax, of which, however, the Govern- nilucir R • ..! ..
~ cake, and Goole, energy and enterprise to the development of the mineral and
BERWELL ? completion of the men
t never entertained any idea. Let it be remem- boutle Divisiom .. .. 6 • • -••
other natural resources of that country affords reasonable
le conclude with a nese and original Christmas Tale, called LIT- NELSON monument of discover ing architectural bored that the Five t before the 2d of December e ve per ahrling and Danfemiline all • • -• •
, -.. prospects of aiding the Government to make satisfactory
liE RED RIDING ROO!, Wolfram, Baron of Burliburg (our- Stockton and Hartlepool 16 2-3 • named the Wolf of Miser:Lis , Mr. Paul Bedford; Scraggenheirn, 'lr, beauty in the National Gallery, of hearing a final de- Cents. were quoted at 91f. It is Louis NAPOLEON Taff Vale .. .. .. -. 126 150 - 151 arrangements with the foreign creditors of the State, and
Butter ; Trudchen (commonly called Little Red Riding Hood), Miss eision in the great Chancery suit of Jarnd yce ant.
1 who, by the fair d slat f the 2d of December,
y coup 0 Thames Haven Dock and that it is therefore highly expedient and for the in-
Katnlean Vitzwilliann.
8 • • - db. terest of the bondholders that an association be
Jartlyce, or of extorting cash payments for the raised the rente above par. On Saturday, on the eve -Railway - - - 1
V ale of :Clean .. .. 17 7- 6 104 formed in order to secure the necessary grants or
o 141, eaINCESeee AIIEA task, 12,2i.70ri1i-6 riti:::;': of the promulgation of the decree, the Five per Cents. Waterford and Kilkenny all 3N, -4%
Tender the Management of Mr. C. Kam& bondholders of Pennsylvania ! Recal the power of 1634 - 17% concessions from the Government of Equador, making
and Limerick all
rats F:Vt,:N LNG,
their ancient monopoly to the
-Agriculturists ? As only exceeded par by 3f. 50e. The reimbursement Waterford
1 Waterford, Wei., Wick.' provision that the revenues accruing therefrom to the State
Will be performed the CORSICAN BROTHERS. rrineipalif demanded, will only cause the stockholder a very and Dublin .. .. 3 •• - • be preferentially applied to the discharge of the bondholders'
characters by Messrs. C. Kean Everett,gan, Ryder, J. Chester, well attempt to call spirits from. the vasty deep, to trifling loss, and there is every reason to believe that West Cornwall .. .. 13 54 -4% Zs. 834 claims, with a privilege to the association of prospectively
J. Vining, Meadows, F. Cooke, and Wheatleigh ; Misses - .
Phillips, Murray, Robertson, Viensh, Daly, and C. Leclereq. discover perpetual motion, or the d ftif the 43. r Cent. stock will soon
qua rature o the le price o e new , per West London .. .. all •• I", ~, redeeming any such revenues or charges, at an
go York, Newc., & Berwick 25 17% - A It% % % equitable price, payable to the State, on the bonds and
After which, OUR CLERKS ; or, No. 3, Fig Tree-court, Temple, • likewise beyond par." The Pays .
it supports the sea- Ditto and Newcastle in which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley and Mr. Wigan will appear. circle-to string pearls on a sunbeam,or detect the ,
Extension - 20 7% - .7„44 d.
a 12% % % arrears of interest which the association shall possess. A
To conclude with the Farce of BETSY BAKER, in which Mr. and interior meaning of Abracadabra l SatisfiedF that Free The Deb 3it as did the
sure. Debuts oppose • ,proposition Ditto G.N.E.purchase. 9
3ii - °„79 '''' 5% 34 subscription was entered into to defray the expense of send-
Mrs. Keeley will appear.
for a similar conversion under the reign of Loms York and North' midland, so 2514 --1834 22% % ing out a commissioner, and a committee was formed to pro-
Trade has been incorporated as a, principle itOnAis netSEUX ilitATien. once and for PHILIPPE. The Asserublie Nationale does not ques- mote the objects in view.
Under the Management of Madame Vestris. ever with the fundamental laws ,af the Constitution, we tion the right of the Government, but doubts whether LINES LEASED AT FIZZID
24131.2.4-111/* The English Funds have been very buoyant, and the
THIA EVENING, •
speech of Lord Derby has given pretty general satisfaction,
will be performed can peruse with a calmer and more dispassionate ap- the moment for the exercise of it is well chosen. Railways. Leasing pea, Notatnal Prices. Business though a dissolution of Parliament is fully expected after the
THE GAME OF SPECULATION. Principal characters by preciation those speeches which last evening in the The Duchess of DALSIATIA, widow of Marshal
......._ --..---............. done to-da7. routine business is got through. Consols have been 97%
Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, R. Rozby, in Baker ; Sire. C.
SOULT, died at Soultberg on the 12th inst., aged 81. Bedf. & Bletch- -
to 981,4 for Transfer, and 98% to for Account. Ex-
Bora, and Miss M. Oliver. Lords and Commons revealed ariew the masterly elo-
To conciade with There was an immense crowd at the Bourse, anxious to ley •• - Lon. & N.W. au •• -•• chequer-bills have been 655. to 685., and India Bonds 735. to
A new and original Fairy Extravaganza, by J. R. Planche, Esq., quencePßlME MINIST • of the int and the consummate see the effect produced by the conversion of the Five per Binning.: & Ox- 765. premium.
entitled THE PRINCE OF HAPPY LAND ; or, The Fawn in the l
c everness of the CHANCELLOR of the E As Cents. The Five per Cents. opened at 101 f., fell to 100 f. find Janctiom In Foreign Securities the settlement has been in progress,
Forest. Characters by Madame Vestris, Miss St. George, Miss XCHEQUER. guaranteed .. Gt. Western all 29 -30 80c., rose subsequently to 101 f. 50c., and closed at 10If. Do., without a and prices have been influenced mainly thereby. Equador
Lan2sa, Miss Martindale, Miss Grove, Miss Ellis, Miss Rosina Wright, debaters, the Earl of DERBY and... Mr. DisRABLI al lone; F. Matthews, B. Baker, Suter, Horncastle, Butler, and one; '2sc. for the end of the month •; the Three per Cents. closed at guarantee .. De .. •• all 28 -29 are worse, being Os to %. Buenos Ayres have risen ' again,
Vernon. as usual, conspicuously during 'the course of ester- 691. 90c. ; and Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 1001. ktirm., Wolver., having touched 67 and 68. This is ten per cent. better than
-
.
ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. day's discussion, the oratorical honours being shared 20c., being a rise of 10f. 15c. since Friday last. Orleans & Dudle 7, fru the price a week or ten days since. Brazilian Old Stock
a-
:,.. 1
yi
Lessee and manager, Mr. W. Ferreeßailroad Shares, 1,170 f. • Rouen, 707 f. 50c. • Havre, 280 f. ; ranteed .. Do .. all 29 -30 has been at 99%. Grenada Deferred Bonds are 10 ;
Tiffs EVENING, by them with two of the most illustrious statesmen Great Northern, Do., without a
642 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 262 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, arantee .Du - all 28 -29 and Mexican 3214 to %, being much the same. Venezuela
Will be performed THE ADVOCATE AND HIS DAUGHTER, of the age, Sir JAMES GRAIIAm (who made the 16°f• '
, Basle, 232 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 533 f. 75c. •; Paris and Buekinghanash.• Lon. &•N• .W. all 174 - 17% are firm at 42% to 43. Spanish Five per Cents. have
Principal characters by Messrs. Farren, Hoskins, W. Farren, jun.
touched 251 h, and the New Deferred 19% %. Dutch
Diddear ; Mesdames Sarah Lyons, Durand, and Bartlett. speech of the night in the HolL'ie of Commons) and Strasburg, 555 f. ; Tours and Nantes, 336 f. 25c. ; Paris and ClvdeadaleJunc Caledonian all 48 -47 Two-
After which AN ORGANIC AFFECTION. Lyons, 610 f. E. Lin., Guar. 6 and-a-Half per Cents. have been supported at 6114.
To be followed by THE LAST OF Tllll FAIRIES. Lord PALMERSTON. Apart front the interest of the BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE per Cent. •• G. Northern all 35 -36 35% % Railway Shares have been in fair demand. They are
Gloucester and
To conclude with MATRIMONIAL, &c., &c., in which Messrs. subject under investigation, the prone d'of last LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAIRcu 15. quoted now ex dividend, where such is declared.
e ings - 4 p Gold Mines are firm.
Compton, Bhaiders, 61. Cooke, Mesdames Phillips and Bartlett willßoulogne and Amiens, 12 -Central of France (Orleans Hartlepl Dock Yak, Newel
appear. night were of an interest such as must render them and •
Vterzon), 2214-Namur and Liege, 6 %-Northern of and Railway / and Ber. i an •• - - QUARTER TO THREE.
ITNCLI'S PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND THEATRE for ever memorable in the annals. of the Legislature. France, 21%-Orleans and Bordeaux, 11-Paris and Lyons, Hull and Selby Yk. 14N. M. all 197 - 109 Consols ... „. ... .„98 it
..._. Lessee. Mr. W. R. COPELAND. Liverpool 2 n P..... 4,. .....1 /I-I-- ,1 1,1....,- __ A rs

tstainests uarp
to-day,

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The principal topic on which they dwell is the con-
version of the Five per Cents. The Constitutionnel
gives its warm adhesion to this final measure. "We
applaud," says the Constitutionnel, " LOUIS NAPO-
LEON and his Government for having secured a prompt,
prudent, and honest solution to a question which has
longed weighed heavily on public credit. The decree
of Louis NAPOLEON on the conversion guarantees the
new stock against any fresh reimbursement for the
term of ten years. besides, puts an end to all fear
of any income-tax, of which, however, the Govern-
ment never entertained any idea. Let it be remem-
bered that before the 2d of December the Five per
Cents. were quoted at 91f. It is LOUIS NAPOLEON
who, by the fairy coup d slat of the 2d of December,
raised the rente above par. On Saturday, on the eve
of the promulgation of the decree, the Five per Cents.
only exceeded par by 3f. 50c. The reimbursement,
if demanded, will only cause the stockholder a very
trifling loss, and there is every reason to believe that
the price of the new 4} per Cent. stock will soon go
beyond par." The Pays likewise supports the mea-
sure. The Debats opposes it, as it did the proposition
for a similar conversion under the reign of Louis
PHILIPPE. The Assemblie Nationale does not ques-
tion the right of the Government, but doubts whether
the moment for the exercise of it is well chosen.
The Duchess of DALIJATIA, widow of Marshal
SOUL; died at Soultberg on the 12th inst., aged 81.
There was an immense crowd at the Bourse, anxious to
see the effect produced by the conversion of the Five per
Cents. The Five per Cents. opened at 1011., fell to 100 f.
80c., rose subsequently to 10If. 50c., and closed at 10If.
25c. for the end of the month ; the Three per Cents. closed at
691. 90c.; and Fonr-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 100 f.
25c., being a rise of 10f. 15c. since Friday last. Orleans
Railroad Shares, 1,170 f. ; Rouen, 707 f. 50c. ' • Havre, 280 f. ;
Great Northern, 642 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 262 f. 50c. ; Vierzon,
160 f. ; Basle, 232 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 533 f. 75c.; Paris and
Strasburg, 555 f.; Tours and Nantes, 3361. 25c. ; Paris and
Lyons, 610 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DlAuciz 15.
Boulogne and Amiens, 123—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 2214—Namur and Liege, 6%—Northern of
France, 21A—Orleans and Bordeaux, 11—Paris and Lyons,
10—Paris and Orleans, 46—Paris and Rouen, 271,4—Paris
and Strasbourg, 21%—Sambre and Meuse, 37,—Tours and
Nantes, 10N,.

Will be performed THE ADVOCATE END HIS DAUGHTER
Principal characters by Messrs. Farren, Hoskins, W. Farren, jun.
Diddear ; Mesdames Sarah Lyons, Durand, and Bartlett.
After which AN ORGANIC AFFECTION.
To be followed by THE LAST OF THE FAIRIES.

To conclude with MATRIMONIAL, &c., &c., in which Messrs.
Compton, Shaiders, G. Cooke, .Mesdamca Phillips and Bartlett will
appear.

Dean Forest Gt. Western 223{ 3 4 p
Hartlepl Dock S' Yak, New.,,
and Railway and Bar.
Hull aid Selby Yk. &N. M. all 107 109
Do. 34 Shares Do .. • • 51134 3434
Do. % Shares Do •• •• all 25 —27
Leeds and Brad. Midland .. all 10034 10134 101
Lon. and Green. S. Eastern all 12% 1234 12%
Do., Pref. .. Do 2434 2534
Lowestoft, Gd. 4
. Norfolk . all ,16 —l7
De.. 6 per cent Do all
Middlesbro' and
.
per Cent.
Redear, 6p.ct z tooktas Dar au
.6. E. Counties . all Np.er&CenELast'
Do., 5 per oent. Do. ..•
•all 59
61
Do. New •• Do • • • • all
Preston ands L. &N. W.l
lyre „„ ..Z h La.& Y. s a 44 —46
Do. 34 likaresA Do .. u 534
934 p
Acad., Guild.,
and Reigate •• S. ...,t614222'• all 21% —22 22% 22
Roy. & Hit,e2du G. Dortnern34 834 -
5%
Do. Shep. Ex. •Do • • • • all 834
6hef., Both. and
Goole, 5 per ct. Lan°. &York 1611 6
South Staffords. Mr. 11'Clesn 934 —1- CI%
Wear Val. 6 per
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Do. do. •• •• 21 29 -
30 23%
Do. do. •• DO all ,„
Wilts &SOmers• url• Western 100 34 —9b

• UNCH'S PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. W. R. COPELAND, Liverpool.
New Plese, A Ra;ged School—Revival of Behind the Scenes.
Roars of Laughter at Matrimonial Prospectises, and My Lover the
Captain.
nus b:VENING.
Will be performed MATRIMONIAL PROSPECTUSES.
After which, THE RAGGED SCHOOL. Characters by Messrs.
Walter Lacy, Rows, Attwood ; Misses Sanders, Maskell, and Mrs.
Selby.
To be followed by MT LOSER TUB CAPTAIN.
To eonelude with BEHIND TIE SCENES.
Boxes, 33.; Pit, 2s. • Amphitheatre, Is.
Private Boxes One Guinea and a Hatt each.
Stage Manager, Mr. E.

QUARTER TO THREE.
.•. 98 i
... 98i i
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISU FUNDS O'CLOCK PRICES!
8 par Cent. Consols Annuities.. 9B 97% 98% 98
India Bonds, 1,000/..-- .... ...... 73 p
73 p
Ditto under 1,000/........ ........ 76 p 76 p
Consols for Account .. 98% i 4
981 A
Exchequer Bills. 14c.
1,0001.
5001.
Small, ..
ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
BuenosAyres Bonds, 6 per Cent....,,, 68
Ditto, Account ..................... 66 65 68 67
Equador Bonds ........... 43/4%%
Grenada Bonds, I% per Cent.......
Do. Ex Dec., 1849 Coupons
Ditto, Deferred ................
mexican, 3 per Cent , 1846
Peruvian Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto, Deferred
Russian Bonds — 11314
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ...... 92%% 93
Ditto. Account
Spanish .5 per Cont. 1840
Ditto, Passive 5%
Ditto. 3 per Cent
Ditto. New Deferred
Spanish Com. Cert. Coup. not funded 23/4 per cent.
Venezuela Bonds, 3!4 per Cent 43 4214 43
Ditto, Account ..... ..., ..... _
Ditto Deferred
171 i 17%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21,4 per Cent. 12 Guild.... 6114
Ditto 4 per L'en'. Clrtitioates ... 95

Consols ...
Ditto Account, April 13 ...

Although the so-called Reform.n. Bill has been with.
drawn for the present session, and the appeal to the
country must take place without; any extension of the
franchise or improvement in the system of represen-
tation, we rejoice to find that there is a reasonable
prospect of one, and by no means. the least important
feature of the measure, being carried in a distinct
and separate form even by the present Parliament.
The Right Hon. Gentleman the .Member for Devon-
port last night gave notice that hs) would on Wednes-
day next (to-morrow) move for leave to bring in
a Bill for abolishing the property qualification
for Members of Parliament. There is so general a
concurrence among men of all crassos and parties on
the propriety and expediency of removing every im-
pediment to the full and perfect; freedom of choice
that should be accorded to every constituency, that
we cannot suppose that any objection will be made
or obstruction raised to the passing of this judicious
proposition, a proposition which would have received
the Legislative sanction last year, but for the ex-
pression by the then PREMIER of his entire approval
of its principle, and a pledge that he would bring it
forward as part of the Ministerial Bill
which was then under consideration. It was only
withdrawn in consequence of that pledge, and it is
due to the Honourable Gentlemen by whom it was
introduced, and to its numerous supporters, that it
should be disposed of previous to 'the dissolution.
The law on the subject has lixog been practically
inoperative. It is a matter of -perfect notoriety that
the required qualifications can, at any moment be
manufactured to order, and that; for a stipulated price,
varying from 50/. to 1001.,, the veriest pauper,
even a person over whelmed with debt,
would be rendered eligible to represent either a bo-
rough or county. Every law that can be so easily
evaded must be worse than useless. It might possi-
bly exclude high-minded and conscientious men, who,
though in the er,joyment of handsome incomes, de-
rived from the practice of professions or other indus-
trial occupatisens, and perfectly independent, were not
in the poseersion of realized property of the nature
required, and would not avail themselves of any sub•
terfuge to defeat the provisions of a solemn Act of
_Parlismeene, however impolitic and injudicious
they might be. Such persons would clearly
be most desirable representatives. They would
'ever probably be required to pay as large a tax on
their incomes as if in the enjoyment of the best cir-
cumstanced real estates. But the3t would derive no
political
Privilege from their liability to that impost,
and they eeLdd be , .
constituene
be to the electors, yi
howevern returned to Parliament by any
persona, whom it might be ad
laugh
but ar, the puny obstacles,
several Acts" without difficuilty
expressive phrase, edrive
desirable tEeir services might
On the other :hand, objectionable
varetageous to exclude,
2' and to use the vulgar
coee;hes and six through
the
regulations in ever
oter
re spect
the regulations
uncl:elestionably be re-
a law vellich
for the above reasons, for
should
nothing "
is
pedeasiVerdaebrlee,
wants sanction,
than
in' violated with impu-
re other ttrigent
pity. But there a grounds
for the
immediate removal of these unjustifiable restraints
oniro,rien oinithper"wtiocrds, which can
on the freedom of election. The best and highest
qualification which any ma's can have to a seat in
the popular branch of the 'Legislature is the honest
choice of an independent, constituency. The privi-
lege belongs to the elect's s, not to the elected, and no
unnecessary clog or restriction should be suffered to
exist. It is
the right of the constituents, not of the
candidates, that are improperly interfered
with, and it is for their sakes that the
required changes should be forthwith carried
into effect before the next general election.
If we look to the objects for which these restrictive
laws were first enacted, or the effects thereby pro-
duced, we shall see equal reason to rejoice at their
removal. At first, the qualifications should ne-
cessarily consist of real estate, and they were
required for the purpose of Promoting the Jacobite
cause, and opposing the interests of the house of
meet with I
Brunswick. These objects will soaeoe33,

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LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G-(THIS DAY.)
LoNDoN, BlancLk 16. -- Wind this day at noon, N. dull.
Rio JANEIRO, FEB. 13.—The Bouthsook, French barque,
hence to the River Plate, was lost on the English bank on
the night of 14th January.
DUNGENESS ROADS, MARCH 15.—Acrd. Kong Sverre,
Odessa ; Oloff Kyre, Lasyata.
ANTWERP, MARCH 14.—The Esperance, bound to Bor-
deaux, sank in the Gironde Bth inst.
BOULOGNE, MARCH 9. —The Themis, from Adra to Dun-
kirk, on shore near this port, has been got afloat, and brought
into the harbour, cargo landed.
PARIS, MARCH 15.—. The Courier de la liter Noire, arrived
at Nantes from Marseilles, was in contact with an English
vessel, 18th Feb., in lat. 41 N., long. 16 E. ; the former re-
ceived considerable damage in hull, sails, and rigging.
CAMARIiT, MARCH 6.—The Petit Martial, from Lannion
to Brest, was lost on Toulinquet, on the night of March 4.
9th. The Ver Huell, from Libourne to Nantes, capsized at
sea, off Croisie, 6th inst. ; crew saved.
POOLE, MARCH 15.—The Glide, of Poole, from Hartle-
pool, in coming into harbour yesterday struck on the bar, and
is very leaky.
YARMOUTH, MARCH I3.—The Rival sloop, of this port,
from Gainsborough for London, was abandoned off the Dud-
geon, having sprung a leak; crew saved.
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BRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY)
VIOLENT ASSAULT ON A LICENSED VICTUALLER.—
Charles Jansen and Francois Quaensein were brought be-
fore Mr. Hardwick, charged with violently assaulting Mr,
George William Salisbury, proprietor of Webb's Hotel, Pic
cad

2% -3 p.
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Mr: Salisbury deposed that about a quarter-past ten on the
previous night the defendants and three other men came into
his house, and as soon as they entered commenced creating
a great disturbance in front of the bar, and upset a glass of
gin and water which a gentleman had just paid for. The
three men who were with the defendants ran out,'and on wit-
ness requesting the latter to pay for the liquor they had up-
set, they commenced abusing him in the foulest language
This they followed up by seizing him by the collar,
him
throw-
ing him down, and while on the floor kicking
on the lower part of his body with greatfohrcaed.itCohme-t
Com-
plainant's barman came to his assistance: and
been for that circumstance, and the appeeardaentich, we
etoftheeldpohlaicee,
who at that moment came in, witness, n
been seriously injured. They were, however, secured andv
taken to the station.
James Pope, prosecutors barman, conprdrroebtpeolnreadatdeededdhtoishmaaysetenro's
evidence.
she defendants, who are Germdansa,
that they
of this country h •
knowledge of what bad
Y,
thoeccluawrrse
were totally ignorant of , wring only
. said, had it not been forlitheattheeinrccuarnutsitoarnjecde
just arrived.
I;el;nished them severely.
thheegmshr.oauisildtlih'trieir future conduct, and directed them to find I
baif to keep the peace for the next three months.

MARCH l6, 1852.

Board of Health, at their offices, Whitehall. The deputation
(which was introduced by Mr. William R. C. Stansfield, M.P.
for Hudderfieid) consisted of Mr. Joseph Brook and Joshua
Hobson.
Dispatches were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday to
the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.

-
ALBERT SMITH ON MONT BLANC.
Does anyone wish to pass a thoroughly delightful and ex-
hilarating evening ? Let him attend the lecture spoken at the
Egyptian-hall by Albert Smith, descriptive of his already
celebrated ascent of Mont Blanc. Yesterday it was our good
fortune to be present on the occasion of its first delivery, and
very seldom have two hours and a half slipt away more
pleasantly than those occupied by the account of the Alpine
adventures of the novelist-traveller. Aided as the narrative
was by the exquisite pictorial illustrations famished by the
hand of William Beverley, even those who have scarcely
stirred a hundred miles beyond the lines radiating from the
central point of their fireside could follow in imagination
with all conceivable facility the movements of the adventurer.
His introductory description of the migratory movements of
the world of London at the close of the season, when
managers were announcing positively the last performances
of opera or melodrama, and when "midnight monies" were
being voted at the tail of the session iu the lower House of
Parliament, gave ample promise of amusement—promise
such as was to the full and very speedily realised.
Away started the audience under the guidance
of the lecturer in his capacity as guide,
courier, or dragoman, yid the Sonth-Eastern Railway,
OstendOlalines, the Rhine, Basle, Berne, and. Geneva,
into the midst of the beautiful and romantic scenery
of Switzerland : with all the chequered vicissitudes of the
journey summoned up to their fancy or their recollection, the
cries of the porters, the rattle of the train, the pitching of
the steamboat, " creaking like a great shoe," the babel
noise of the touters to the foreign hotels, and the blast of the
horn blown by the conductsur. Hew the people laughed at
the leaf culled by Albert Smith from the Hotel Police Liens
des Voyageurs, the leaf filled up by the facetious contributor
—and no wonder ! Every item was the signal for a roar—
Surname, " Robinson ;" Christian-name, "Jack;" profession,
" swell ;" age, " 213 ;" born at " Tirnbuctoo ;" from "Ken-
tucky" to " Bath I" After mentioning the departure of the
steamer at the end of the Lake of Geneva, there were al-
I usions to the associations of that lovely locality with Vol-
taire, with Byron, with De Steel, with Kemble, and with
" the self-torturing sophist," Rousseau; not forgetting the
fat historian, Gibbon, and his flame, Agnes, and George
Colman'sj mention of their very ludicrous flirtation. Arrived
at Chillon, we were introduced, in its dungeon, to a group of
cockney and other tourists, such as Albert Smith alone could,
with equal humour, have delineated. There was Mrs.
Seymour, poor old lady, everlastingly troubled with
anxieties as to a black box missing from amongst
her luggage at the very outset of her journey,
and carrying desolation to its every pleasure as
effectually as Susan Nipper ever did to the toast of Mother
Pipchin. There was her enthusiastic niece, her painfully
enthusiastic niece, Miss Effingham, who admired everything,
liked Byron so much, loved poetry to smch an extent, and
thought Tennyson's " Locksley Hall," or something else,
" stunning." Her definitions of " mild" and " fast" can't
soon, we conjecture, be forgotten. Mild, a young man un-
able to dance the valtz a deux temps, and fast losing your
chaperon at a horticultural fate. There was Mr. Peabody
Taylor, the gentleman from New York, who lamented the
long' incarceration of Lord Byron in the castle of Chillon,
until told that the poet had only sung of, and was not the
memorable prisoner, when he immediately accepts the cor-
rection as just, alluding to Byron as one who had met with
an untimely end by being tied to the back of a wild horse,
from an equally insane comparison of the Lord of Newstead
with the Asiatic Mazeppa. Then, again, there was Mr. Hart-
ley, of the Foreign-office, who described his particular views
through the medium of a capital song bight, "The Young
English Traveller." Journeying on to Martigny, in the
Vallais, by means of the char-a-bane, for the construction of
which most agonizing vehicle an extravagant recipe was fur-
nished by the lecturer, we were there intro-
duced to other travellers scarcely less amusing than
their predecessors, though one, the enthusiast who
traverses the continent collecting the noses of various statues,
we recollect having been familiar with, already, thanks to
Douglas Jerrold, in one of his sketches, known as " Men of
Character." Miss Bunion, the well-remembered poetess,
described by Makepeace Thackeray, was well enough in her
way as a fanciful delineation, but Miss Bunion dwindles into
insignificance by the side of Albert Smith's Miss Pottlee,
described by him as "an elderly young lady," who shaves
her forehead to bring out the intellect, and talks in a baritone
voice of the verses contributed by her to the Crochet magazine,
complaining bitterly of being stared at, in consequence, wher-
ever she moves through society, as though, within a single
week she had penned, off-hand, " Pickwick," and" Eotlien.,,
and the " Scarlet Letter," and five or six volumes of Punch.
Among other things, it must not be forgotten, how the
Yankee Peabody Taylor calculates that the "Corsair"
wasn't, equal to " Evangeline," and that Byron would have
been "chewed up" in no time by Longfellow; or his mode
of securing to himself the attention of the most careless of
London waiters by throwing a wine glass in the air, so that
it smashes on the floor, when he is at once surrounded by half
a dozen I The Legend of the Tower of Martigny, is a story
to hear from the lips of Albert Smith—front the Baron of the
olden times, who stamps his russet boots so frightfully that
he becomes invisible in a cloud of brickdust, and who not
only suspends his cash payments, but those who come in
hopes of receiving them, down to the inundation of the
valley by the bursting of a reservoir as disastrous as the re-
cent catastrophe at Holmefirth. Leaving Martigny, we were
next conducted to the convent of the Great St. Bernard,
being admitted even into the ghastly interior of the dead-
house provided for the remains of persons perishing by the
avalanches. Anecdotes were here told, of course, of the win-
ter dangers of the pass, of the active humanity of the monks
(canons of Saint Benedict), and of the " real" services of the
dogs, not their imaginary sagacity. At the valley of
Chamouni we were made acquainted with several of the
roadside harpies and unmusical mountain melodies—the boys
vending fossils, who, if you don't buy their specimens, pelt
you with them I the old woman who jangles a tune to a terri-
ble nightmare of a broken-down harpsichord, ending all her
ineffectual musical appeals to charity with a " face" and a
howfl together with other equal delectable eccentricities.
The rencontre with Mr. Pringle elicited shouts of laughter,
eliminating as it did from his knapsack the articles affec •
tionately crammed into it to the sum total of half a hundred-
weight, by:hie sisters—articles such as a stone bottle for hot
water, and flasks of elder wine, and an interminable cabinet
in the way of amateur studies of mineralogy. Thereupon the
audience heard of the rush of all the tourists simultaneously
on the Paris post when they reached the picturesque town of
Chamouni—the first part of the lecture closing with a glorious
song about Galignani's Messenger. After an interval of ten
minutes' duration the entertainment (accurately so termed)
was resumed with an account of tie original discovery of the
valley of Chamouni, of the yearly influx of visitors since
then,, and of the English absurdities in the Livre des Voy-
ageurs—one of the most preposterous entries in which was
ludicrously said to have been copied out by a motley crowd
of admirers, including the names of his Grace the Duke, of
Thomas Babington Macaulay, of Louis Napoleon, and of
Moses and Son. Subsequently to this Albert Smith entered
into a detailed and enthralling narrative of the ascent of
Mont Blanc, not failing to allude especially to the circum-
stance of its having during the last thirty years
been one of his day-dreams, recently and happily
realised. As we presume, however, that the
vast majority of those interested in these adventurous pro-
ceedings have already devoured the lecturer's masterly paper
description of the whole ascent published in the February
number of Blaclacood;we shall merely observe that the oral
was comparable to the written narrative in point of graphic
vividness. The wonderful cascade spouting out from its fall
like a gigantic feather, the chalet des Pelerins—illustrated
by the delightful incident of kissing the prettiest girl in
Switzerland—the Pierre Pointue, the Pierre a I'Eschelle,
the approach to the Glacier des Bossons, the Glaciers of the
Dead Chamois, and the Vulture of the Alps, the dangerous
crevice in the Glacier des Tacenay, the Grande Mulets,
rocks by sunset—being the scene of the night bivouac—the
grand plateau by moonlight, the hazardous ascent of the Mur
de la Cote, and the approach to the summit of Mont Blanc—
were each and all wonderfully represented to the eye (both
physical and mental) of the auditors, respectively by the
novelist and the painter, the lecturer and the illustrator.
The whole description terminated with the return of the party
into the court-yard of Tiarraz'e Hotel de Londres, at Cha-
mouni : agreeably followed by a record of the scenes occa-
sionally witnessed in a Paris café and a Paris theatre. The
manner in which all this is told, and sung, and mimicked,
and played, and chattered (literally), and joked—it would
be idle to attempt depicting. Those who have never heard
Albert Smith as a lecturer should do so, if it were only to know
the meaning of the most delightful of " fast men,"—one who
is not a bore, but a boon companion. In his present lecture
he performs a variety of eccentric movements, such as would
have puzzled the imitative adroitness of the admirable
Crichton—now blowing a blast on a horn ; now rattling his
fingers over the piano, accompanying it at intervals with a
pedal movement of bells; now grinding the dismalist or the
drollest of airs on a hurdygnrdy ; now jangling the keys of
a harpsichord ; now breathing a pensive melody on the fl-
geolet. Withal, his manner is so agreeable, his
self-possession so complete and unaffected,
h
so genial and unforced, his sense of absurdity m
rhdhisituyvecrusyor
an keen and contagious, his bonhonie so apparent,
voice, face, and manner so truly and perfectly conversation-
able, that it must be next to an impossibility not
etnoebrneydoer-
lighted with him—unless one happens to boure an
(what is more probable) a curmudgeon.
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Parker—was
screaming
egi
delight
,introduced to us
f the old
aryfr icernodw anddd
audience assembled to honourhisiidnelAinlebaetintrssmriet-happuepaornanhcies.
Cordially do we congratulate
triumphant return home from an enterprise so singularly in-
teresting and adventurous. •