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was required ! The directions of " the EMPEROR"
are, therefore, to be sought before the line of
policy is decided ou, or the PRINCE abandons the
pretensions he has put forward. The public pulse
is also to be felt, to ascertain whether any beat in
unison with that of Mr. THOMAS MULOCK, and
whether there would be any prospect of maintain-
ing a high hand over the stubborn islanders whom
the PRINCE condescended to govern.
The Times has, therefore, been authorised to
avoid committing itself to either side—to abstain
from all direct and positive assertion with respect
to the truth or falsehood, the accuracy or inaccu-
racy of these rumours. The letter of " C.", the
extract from the United Service Gazette, only de-
precated any notice being taken or question raised
on the point at present. These exactly suited the
" policy of abstention" practised by the Leviathan,
and were therefore published ; but the epistle of
Mr. THOMAS MULOCK, though penned in a congenial
spirit, was too distinct and unequivocal for
similar treatment. It justified, nay, more than
justified, the course said to have been followed by
the PRlNCE—insisted that it was his duty to do
so, in consequence of his marital headship,
and the singularly ' indiscreet reply, which
adopted these extravagant opinions, and thanked
the writer for his kind communication, would
have precipitated the issue which it was the
object of the party to procrastinate. There-
fore, MULOCK was let alone, and " the lead-
ing journal" wrapt itself up in a cloak of mys-
tery, not to be discarded until a suitable oppor-
tunity may arise !
Meanwhile another communication has appeared
which could not well have been rejected. Mr.
C. C. GREVILLE (Clerk of the Privy Council) has
written to say, that a special Act of Parliament
had been obtained authorising the Act of Na-
turalisation of Prince ALBERT to be brought in,
without the salutary clause that prohibited him
from taking a seat in the Privy Council, pursuant
to the Ist GEO. I. ; adding that the same principle
had been adopted in the case of the present King
of the BELGIANS, when, as Prince LEOPOLD, he
was about to marry the heiress Presumptive of
the British throne. We certainly cannot see the
benefit of the statutory prohibition adopted, no
doubt, on sufficient grounds, if it may on every
occasion be dispensed with. Mr. C. C. GREVILLE
has thus raised a very important constitutional
question for the consideration of the Imperial
Parliament. He has also disclosed another
matter of doubtful practice, and more than doubt-
ful policy. Members of the Royal Family, it
appears, are not " sworn in," but only intro-
duced to the Council. The PRINCE, then, though
a foreigner by birth and education, has, in op-
position to a fundamental law, been admitted as
a member, and, by the adoption of an unconstitu-
tional practice, has not been sworn to secresy.
The caution exercised with respect to the Dukes
of CUMBERLAND and S ussEx—English-born Princes
—has not been exercised with regard to Prince
ALBERT. These revelations alone would render
a Legislative inquiry indispensable. They come
from such a source as to place it beyond dispute,
that the Prince CONSORT has acted as an un-
pledged and unsworn Privy Councillor, and
therefore lend additional weight to the untoward
statements that have been generally circulated,
and, we regret to be obliged to say, as generally
credited for some time past with respect to the
conduct of his Royal Highness.

declared his intention to follow his example. The
trembling Rittmeister offered him his papers and
everything back, if he would but leave quietly—
but it was his turn now to play the inexorable,
and to diminish Austrian obstinacy. He certainly
went much farther than the Apostle of the Gen-
tiles, for he told the supplicating officer, that " the
matter was out of his hands, and must be settled
between the Austrian empire and his country !"
And thus, for the present, ends the affair between
the Rittmeister HERR VON FALKENHAYN, of Fele-
gyhaza, and the Rev. JAMES COOK, Anglo-Catholic
Presbyter, Richmond, U.S.
FRANCIS JOSEPH knows all about it by this
time. Oh, could he but get some fifty million
dollars to spare, and would be not bring Mr.
COOK and General PIERCE to their senses. His
first thought, no doubt, is of ROTHSCHILD. Unfor-
tunately ROTHSCHILD'S last thought is of bankrupt
exchequers. No ; nothing is left him but to im-
poverish his own subjects yet more, to augment
his present and destroy his future income, or to
make his amende honourable to the Great American
citizen. Could a HAPSBURG but open his eyes,
or find some one to open them, he might see in a
moment the utter rottenness and weakness of an
empire which trembles before a tourist clergyman
from the other side of the Atlantic. Well may
it alternately shake at the thought of a European
war, and cower before the CZAR, when it dreads
an American presbyter ; and rather " eat humble
pie" to the American President than receive a
visit from his navy at Trieste.
It occurred to us, too, that Mr. COOK might
carry home some useful lessons to his countrymen.
He proclaims that the Austrian Government must
learn that " there is an important difference be-
tween their subjects—exposed without remedy to
all their whims—and a freeman of the United
States." No doubt there is. But there is a still
more important difference between Austrian sub-
jects and the non-freeman of the United States.
One greatly, indeed, to the advantage of the for-
mer. Austria founds her distinctions on locality—
America, on the colour of the skin. The former
makes Italians and Hungarians politically slaves ;
the latter makes all but white men slaves, both
personally and politically. Austria compels her
subjects to submit to many governmental whims,
it is true, and to much worse than whims ; but
America compels millions of hers to submit to the
unrestrained tyranny, cruelty, lust, or avarice of
every individual who can afford a few hundred
dollars ; and to submit, as Mr. COOK says,
" without remedy." In Austria, there is no Fugi-
tive Slave Law. In America, the PRESIDENT
glories in one as the bulwark of the Union. In
Austria, gendarmes hunt suspected travellers ; in
America, Tom Lomas and bloodhounds hunt the
negro, who has the whim of preferring freedom to
slavery. As Mr. COOK observes, "there is a
difference."

Hapless house of Hapsburg ! Unlucky Austria!
Hard enough is it to be poor ; very hard to be
short some five millions annually, and to owe
twice as much ; but hardest of all to be bearded
in its poverty by the cubs of a purse-proud, mush-
room Republic, and its birthless, untitled Pre-
sident—

" Nil habot infelix pauportas durius in se,
Quam quod ridiculos homines facit."

But the other day one 'Via RTIN KOSSTA , though
his republican vestments indicated unquestionably
that he was still in his American teens, was de-
clared by the President to be " clothed with the
nationality of the United States." Even in his
Republican petticoats, with Captain INGRAHAM
for his AJAX, and. General PIERCE for his AGA-
MEMNON, he could. laugh at the poor Kaiser. If
the tailor makes the man, it is, alas 1 money that
makes the monarch. The President, with his
pocket full of dollars, snubs to his heart's content
the Emperor, with a Rocket empty of florins. The
imperial lackeys, too, indignant at the rival pre-
tensions of a democratic upstart, contrive to force
their master every now and then into a humbling
p.sition. There is something very undignified in
slippingup and falling backwards. A lord looks
rather silly before a shopkeeper as he rises, and,
after looking at the place, walks off ; but how
very awkward must an Emperor feel when his
officials throw him on the pavement before a Pre-
sident, and all the envious little potentates of
Europe, safe in their insignificance, are laughing
in their sleeves.

Maryport and Carlisle
North Staffordshire

Paris and Rouen..

It will be perceived that " A MAN OF THE
WORLD" has, through our columns of this even-
ing, given to the public a masterly analysis of
the character of NAPOLEON 111., in an elaborate
letter addressed with a certain graceful inference
to the gallant Marquis of LONDONDERRY. A
manifest value attaches to the opinions of the
writer, as any attentive observer cannot fail to
deduce from a careful and dispassionate perusal
of his argument, speaking as he does from a per-
sonal acquain lance with the eminent personage
whose genius he has undertaken to delineate.
Apart from which, it may here, we conceive, be
somewhat reasonably remarked, that the indivi-
dual who has traced these outlines of one of
the foremost men of this age, has evidenced
throughout the dexterity of a master hand in his
guidance of the pencil, the vigour won by prac-
tice, and that implicit confidence in the justness
of his own views, which is the fruit alone of
severe deliberation, and an extended experience.
Introduced to NAPOLEON 111. by his uncle, King
JOSEPH—" the good JOSEPH" of those memoirs
of the Duchesse D'ABRANTES, which are in fasci-
nation the "Arabian Nights" of modern autobio-
graphy—" A Man of the World" appears to have
estimated the depth, the resources, and the origi-
nality of that singular temperament not less
astutely or leas appreciatively than M. DE LA
GUERONNIERE. He recognised in the exiled.
Prince, a student " abstracted, yet vigi-
lant," a man " inquisitive in everything, but
studiously incommunicative," one who was "cold
and impassive, but full of latent energy," a
being " cautious in decision, but, once in action,
prompt, rapid, and impetuous," an adventurer,
in fine (using that word, of course, in its loftiest
signification), " improved by study, steeled by
adversity, disciplined by every vicissitude."
Nothing can be more admirably felicitous than
that limning of his personal aspect where
it is said of him, with a humorous paradox or
by a witty antithesis, that "frigidly affable and
repulsively polite, he avoided either offence or
familiarity, but seemed instinctively to coil up his
nature from observation." It will be observed on
an examination of this remarkable letter, that the
writer has passed in review, one by one, the prin-
cipal events in the career of the reigning EM-
PEROR. He weighs them in the balance with
impartiality. He utters not one syllable bearing
the semblance of special pleading. He calls things
by their right names. Our own opinions in regard
to the subject of his scrutiny are already, we be-
lieve, tolerably well known by this time to the
generality. They possess the advantage at least of
having been enunciated at a time when success
had not yet put a seal to the acts of the Admi-
nistrator—that seal by which they are consecrated
in the estimation of the multitude—bequeathed
to the admiration of posterity by the ap-
proval of the contemporary population.
Not inappropriately, therefore, we may ven-
ture to add, is this manly and dispassionate
analysis of NAPOLEON 111. given to the
world in our columns, and not inappropriately has
it been conveyed to the public in the form of a
letter, addressed to the intercessor successively
for the Prisoner of Ham, and for the Prisoner of
Amboise—the friend of NAPOLEON and the sym-
pathiser with ABD-EL-KADER—the veteran and
• chivalrous Marquis of LONDONDERRY.

A second time, however, these gentry have thus
compromised their Imperial master. Before, the
battle was between two captains ; this time be-
tween an American .Reverend and some military
Herr, rejoicing in the title of Rittmeister, or
Captain of the Horse. We may well ask our
German friends whether the rank of Esel-meister
would not be more appropriate. This worthy
HERR VON FAL/CENHAYN, of Felegyhaza (we hope
our orthography is correct, our readers have it'as
we had it), thinks he has found a quarry, not a
half American, half Hungarian in Smyrna, but a
living American in Hungary itself. The " hay on
his horn " unfortunately he did not see, but of
the wicked letters sewn up in his American
clothes lie had no doubt. What a bright thought !
Some score or half-dozen Briefe from expatriated
Magyars to those at home who had escaped the
bullet and the gallows—why, they will make his
fortune. At least, if his master has no specie to
spare for him, he will give him a six-foot title or
so, and a bill payable as soon as the
Jews will raise him another loan. Off, therefore,
a gendarme is posted from Felegyhaza, aforesaid,
to Kecskemet. Straightway, and withoutnotice, he
walks into the bedchamber of the American
Reverend, and, at four o'clock in the morning o
the 28th December, jolts him off in a waggon,
and amidst a violent storm of snow to the quarters
of his principal. Utterly exhausted, he hoped to
enjoy here a night's rest. Not so, however.
Three gendarmes split his bedroom door to pieces,
threatening to shoot him dead if he did not in-
stantly arise. The indignant believer in the
stars and stripes instantly pointed to the word
'AMERICA in his pas Tort, and told them that a
certain _Herr across the Atlantic had declared
" that the rights of an American citizen should
not be treated with impunity, but should be
reverenced throughout the world." Perhaps they
thought that Felegyhaza, was out of the world,
for in no way respecting the declaration of HERR VON
WASHINGTON, they told him " he had never fallen
into right hands before," searched him with
" coarse, brutal, and disgusting minuteness—
thrust their dirty hands into his bosom I—and
promised soon to diminish his obstinacy." One is
curious to know the Austrian recipe for Yankee
obstinacy. Here it is. First, he is declared under
arrest, then walked off at one a.m. in another
snow storm to the guard-room ; then pointed to a
dirty soldier's bed, and told that a good bed there
is at his disposal. Another examination for let-
ters sewn in his clothes—a soldier standing by
with his
gun cocked ; his paper money taken away
and miscounted, and his watch taken also—then
the dirty bed again, of course with his clothes on ;
gendarmes drinking, quarrelling, swearing, and
card- playing in the room all night ;—morning at
last arrives, and he asks for means to write or
telegraph to the American Ambassador at Vienna.
" Refused." Only think, gentle reader, of an
American, and " A Presbyter of the Anglo-Ca-
tholic Church at Richmond, -U.5.,"
unlearning ob-
stinacy in an Austrian guard-room.
But, now, the turn of his Reverence was come.
Even Rittmeisters feel, like other folk, somewhat
quaky when they've overdone it. No letters were
found. All visions of increased pay and honours
vanished. " What if I've got my superiors into
another diplomatic scrape after all 7 It looks in-
convenient ; I'll see the man and send him off
quietly." But the Successor of the Apostles was
not to be so dealt with. Re told his visitor to
his dismay the story of PAUL at PHILIPPI, and

The most remarkable point connected with the
sinister rumours recently circulated respecting the
undue interference of the Prince CONSORT in the
foreign policy of Great Britain, is -the total and
unbroken silence of the ABERDEEN organ in rela-
tion thereto. It is true that it has given a syco-
phantic and toadying letter from a tuft-hunter,
who uses the initial " C."—but it has totally
ignored the letter of Mr. THOMAS MULOCK. It
has also published an extract from a military
journal, virulently assailing the " scribes" who
dare to utter anything unsuited to the atmo-
sphere of Flunkeydom ; but it has not put forward
a single remark of its own on the subject—it has
left it without notice of any kind or description.
It is singular that any journal could so entirely
give the go-bye to a topic which has excited a
greater degree of interest, and, we may add, of
anxiety, than any that has been " ventilated"
for many years. The silence is indeed remark-
able, and may warrant grave suspicions as to the
true state of affairs. It looks exceedingly like
the prevalence of great doubt and uncertainty on
the part of those more immediately concerned in
those strange affairs, as if they had not
as yet made up their minds as to the course
to be adopted, when a solemn inquiry takes
place into the entire transactions, whether they
have yet made up their minds to
meet the serious
accusations, for they have already assumed
that
shape, with a direct "traverse," or
a " confession
and avoidance," justifying the course adopted,
and boldly insisting on its propriety. If the
PRINCE had resolved to abandon the objectionable
proceedings, there would be no difficulty or hesi-
tation. We might either have a total denial of
the authenticity of these statements, or a solemn
pledge that such unconstitutional interference
would be henceforward and for ever abandoned,
and that the Government of the country would
be suffered to remain in the hands of her MA-
JESTY'S responsible servants, who, by their oaths,
are bound to advise her MAJESTY without partiality,
affection, or dread, TO KEEP HER COUNCILS SE-
CRET (!), to avoid corruption, and to assist in the exe-
cution of what may be resolved at the Privy Council
Board. But Prince ALBERT is at present a trump
card, with the absolute powers. He can do much
to assist the views of Russia and Austria, and
they can hold out inducements to action by ele-
vating his family to higher consideration than
they enjoyed before they were selected as the
" stuck" from which consorts should be chosen for
the " family of monarchs" throughout Europe—a
position for which their felicitous latitude on the
subject of religion peculiarly qualified them—
Lutheran, Calvinistic, or Roman Catholic ten-
dencies
being apparently matters of the most
perfect indifference ; some eligible young man or
blooming maid of " COBURG extraction" being
always forthcoming, with opinions exactly suited
to those of the Royal personage for whom a spouse

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Hobart Town 85s to 100
Launceston ............ 99
Melbourne or Geelong
Wharves ....Ms to 120
Melbourne or Gee-
long 9os to 100
New Zealand Bss to 100
Portland Bay .......... /10
Port Fairy ............... 120
Swan River Ms to 80
SydneY • Bss to 100
Alexandretta . 35
Alexandria ................ 30
Algoa Bay .................. 65
Alicante ............ . ........ 50
Anc0na..................... 60
Antigua ..................... 30
Athens ..................... 30
Barbadoes .................. 30

THE COURT. —Lord Ernest Bruce, as Lord Cham-
berlain pro ton, during the absence of the Marquis of
Breadalbane in Scotland, by command of her Majesty,
has issued invitations for a select and distinguished circle
to assemble at Windsor Castle to-morrow, to remain
until Friday, to witness the fourth series of dramatic
performances on Thursday, to which the principal no-
bility and gentry in the vicinity and the officers of the
garrison will be invited.

Barcelona 4O
Batavia .................. . 6O
Berbico ................ 40
Bermuda
Beyrout 35
Bilboa 2O
Bombay
Boston
Buenos Ayres
Cadiz ...............30s to 35
Calcutta
Canton
Cape Town, Cape of
Good Hope ...... 05
Carthageno.
Ceylon
Constantinople
Danube (Galatz and
Ibrail 4O
Demerara
Genoa._
Gibraltar

The Marquis ani Marchioness of Salisbury are
entertaining a distinguished party at Hatfield House.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and
the Princess Mary are expected to arrive to-morrow
from Kew on a visit to his lordship. A grand ball and
supper will be given to the elite of the rank and fashion
of the county the same evening.
We regret to announce the severe indisposition of the
Marquis of Londonderry. His lordship, who has been
surrounded by a family party at Wynyard since Christ•
mas, has been suffering for some days from neuralgia,
in a very bad form. The latest accounts describe the
noble marquis to
be in a state of great exhaustion from
the continued pain consequent on his malady.
The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma
to the Marquis and
Stanley left St. James's-square yesterday, on a visit
Marchioness of Salisbury at Hat-
field House, Herts.

The Viscountess Canning will leave Grosvenor-square
to-day to relieve Lady Jocelyn,
the Queen. The noble lord will leave town to-morrow
on a visit to her Majesty,
as lady in waiting on
Lord and Lady Stanley (of Alderley) and the li ?n.
Miss Stanley have arrived in Dover-street from visiting
Lord and Lady Ashburton, at the Grange, Basingstoke,
Hants, where a large party have been participating in
the hospitalities of the noble lord and lady during the
last week.

The Right Hon. John Wynne is at present residing
in Edinburgh, and will not visit Sligo before the latter
end of April.

The Hon. C. S. Hardinge, M.P., for Downpatrick
has arrived at Montalto, county Down, the seat of D
S. Ker, Esq., from Great Stanhope-street, London.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Headfort are enter-
taininc, a numerous party at Headfort House, county
Meath.° The Earl and Countess of Bective, Mr. San-
dars, M.P., and Lady Virginia Sandars, Sir John
Young, M.P., and Lady Young have been amongst the
visitors. _ _ _

We aro sorry to announce the demise of the infant
son of Lord and Lady Saltoun, which took place on the
12th inst., at Philorth, the family seat in Aberdeenshire.
Lord Dudley Stuart met with a warm reception at
the hands of the Polish emigration in Constantinople.
He was continually seen in the company of Generals
Chrzanowsky and iVlisochy,

TILE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY E ENING, JANUARY 17, 1854.

MONEY MA RKE li

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday
were estimated at 6,000 bales, all to the trade.
The market closed firm at previous rates. The
sales comprised 4,000 American, 600 Pernam and
Maranham, at qd. to Pad. ; 100 Bahia, at 61d.;
300 Egyptian, at 6d. to 10d.; 800 Surat, at 31d.
to 44d., and 30 Sea Island, at is. to ls. 3d.
per lb. Railway shares were flat.
The railway meetings announced are the follow-
ing :

Company. Date. Place.
Llaneliy Railway and Dock Jan. 30, London

Tavern.

London, Brighton, and South Coast Jan. 26, Bridge-
house Hotel.
Jan. 18, Maryport.
Jan. 25, Stoke-

NAPOLEON THE THIRD.

TO THE MOST NOBLE THE MARQUIS OF
LONDONDERRY.
LORD,—Although personally a total stranger
to your Lordship, I take the liberty of addressing
this letter to you, in consequence of the high and
chivalrous character which you have ever displayed
in your intercourse with the subject of it. In
essaying to sketch the extraordinary personage who
now occupies the.throne of France, I hope to dispel
some of the prejudices respecting him which re-
peated misrepresentations not unnaturally produce.
It seems to me, at a moment such as this, the
paramount duty of every well-wisher to England
to bind closely the union between countries which
nature, when she made them neighbours, clearly
showed she meant to be friends. That the Em-
peror of the French should be the object of
much criticism, perhaps also the victim of some
obloquy, however undeserved, is so much in the
order of things that it is scarcely to be wondered at.
Perhaps, indeed, it would be strange if it were
otherwise.
If it be the lot of every one, elevated ever so
little above the multitude, to be pursued by envy
as it were by a shadow, how should he escape
whom such mighty combinations are interested in
depreciating ? Why should he look for an exemp-
tion who has transcended other men so signally ?
He, who, despite of persecution, imprisonment,
and exile, silencing the factions and baffling
the statesmanship of France, has seated him-
self on, our own alone excepted; the proudest
.and most powerful throne in Europe ! It is in-
deed, a stupendous and bewildering achievement,
recalling, if not rivalling, those which made his
mighty ancestor immortal, and yet—as your Lord-
ship must remember well—it was the fashion for a
time to consider this very man almost an imbecile !
It is positively a fact, and so established, too, that
I myself shared the appellation for presuming to
controvert it. Napoleon Louis an imbecile ! aye,
in the eyes of those who worship only success, and
can see no genius unless verified by events. They
are not, and they were not, my criterion. To me,
at this moment, Prosperity displays him not more
brightly than when at Strasburgh, demanding to
share the fate of his companions, or immured in
Ham, over his essay on pauperism, endeavouring
to mitigate the fate of the unfortunate. Times and
thing's, however, are altered now. The waiters on
events are all converted, and 'I no longer am alone.
There is an amusing incident illustrative of this.
During his abode in London, a lady of high ton
was somewhat fastidious respecting his presenta-
tion. Alas ! when had Fashion a smile for the un-
fortunate ? Being, however, lately reminded of
her mistake, she at once admitted it—" But (said
she), good heavens ! how was I to guess that he
ever could have risen to such greatness ?" Philo-
sophers tell us that extremes meet. Surely Al-
mack's and the Mob met here ! But such is the
world, high and low. The " stricken deer" is
doomed to solitude. However, even in solitude
and at the worst, Napoleon saw his future in the
perspective. I have written proof that in the alMost
hopelessness of captivity, even when the day was
darkest, he never doubted of his fortune.. Some as-
sert he is a fatalist, and believes in destiny—others
say a speech of his uncle stamped the presentiment
on his tender mind. As he was preparing
to depart for Waterloo, the boy in tears exclaimed
repeatedly —" Dear Uncle, don't go to the wars,
or if you must, take me along with you." " Em-
brace Louis (said Napoleon to a Marshal), embrace
Louis—he is, perhaps, the hope of my race." Was not
this a prophecy ? Be that as it may, however, it
sank deep into the soul, of its object. It inspired
sentiments worthy of his destiny. After the affair
of Strasburgh, when even hope seemed to have fled,
his only petition was, that he might be tried with
his associates. "As they shared my fortune (said
he) let me share their fate." It was otherwise de-
creed, and he was deported to America. Scarcely
had he landed when the intelligence of his mother's
illness reached him. "I am about (said her letter)
to undergo an operation absolutely necessary.
Should it not succeed, by this letter I send you my
blessing. We shall meet again—we shall meet in
a better world. Believe me, in quitting this, I
have nothing to regret except you and your tender
affection, which alone has given it any charms." He
lost not a moment. He retraced the Atlantic, and
his filial piety was mournfully but soothingly re-
warded. He was just in time to smooth the
death-bed and receive the blessing of the best of
mothers. There are few incidents in private life
more affecting than those which hallowed the last
moments of " the good Queen Hortense." Those
who deny a heart to Napoleon Louis can have none
themselves if they peruse the record of that scene
without a tear. The bereaved survivor was over-
whelmed at his loss. He lost sight of a world
where he saw all was vanity. Even ambi-
tion lay in.urned in . the tomb of her he
loved. In the Castle of Arenemberg he might
have passed his days, cultivating the litera-
, ture to which he was devoted. But a doomed
fatuity interposed. The Government of France
demanded his expulsion from Switzerland. Is there
not a fate in nations, as in individuals ? Thus, as
is said, Cromwell was refused a solitude in America
by those from whom he-wrung the protectorate of
England ! The Diet nobly spurned the demand.
They had witnessed the virtues and sufferings of
their guest. They revolted against such a violation
of the rights of hospitality. It is a striking fact, that
it was upon the son of the !first Napoleon's most
favoured and most faithful Marshal that the duty
of making this demand devolved. The Duke de
Montebello, the heir of the brave Lannes, was
the then ambassador to the Swiss confederation.
Such are the harlequinades of revolution. No
doubt the duty was distasteful ; but it was still a
duty, no doubt, also reluctantly Undertaken. The
generous mountaineers felt they had a duty too,
and they prepared for its performance. France
collected an army on the Jura—the Swiss had
20,000 men in arms. War was imminent. It was
averted by the voluntary self-sacrifice of Napoleon.
" Switzerland (he writes to the Government of
Thurgau) has done her duty as an independent
nation. I know how to do mine, and to remain
faithful to the voice of honour. They may perse-
cute, but never degrade me. The French Govern-
ment having declared that the refusal of the Diet
to yield to its demands would be the signal of a
convulsion of which Switzerland would become the
victim, I have no alternative but to quit a country
when my presence is made the cause of such unjust
pretensions, and would be the excuse for such great
misfortunes." Thus, influenced by a sense of hon-
our, he abandoned an asylum which never would
have surrendered him. But even this noble self-
ostracism was not sufficient. It was sedulously
circulated that he had given a pledge to remain in
America for ten years, and that he had broken it.
It was thus that slander essayed to neutralise an
act of heroism. Those who whispered it knew it
was not true. The pledge had been sought indeed
—sought from himself—sought again through the
intervention of his mother—but sought in vain
from both—a tardy truth at last admitted by the
law officer of the Crown, in 1840, in the Court of
Peers. After the affair of Strasburg, he made no de-.
mand save to be treated exactly like his comrades.
This was refused, and without choice or condition,
he was deported to America. The vile invention,
however, had its day, like many another as current
and as groundless. '
Forlorn, but self-sustained, Napoleon turned
from Switzerland to England—England, the exile's
universal refuge—the home of the unfortunate of
every rank and every country—of royalist and
republican—Bourbon and Bonaparte—Metternich
and Kossuth—Orleans and Louis Blanc !
It was during this visit in 1839 I formed an
acquaintance with the present Emperor—an event
in one's life not to be forgotten. I was introduced
to him by his uncle Joseph, the ex-king of Naples
and of Spain, a man of the kindliest nature the
world ever saw. Madame Junot calls him well and
truly, " the good Joseph," and he was wise and
gracious as well as good. With such an introduc-
tion, opportunities were not wanting for study-
ing the character of Napoleon Louis—a species
of study to which much of my time has been
necessarily devoted. The problem was difficult ;
for a long time its solution seemed impossible.
Frigidly affable and repulsively polite, he avoided
eithr offence or familiarity, but seemed instinc-
tively to coil up his nature from observation. In
phrase and demeanour, all that became his birth,
still the man was perfectly inaccessible. It was
scarcely to be wondered at. Even from his boy-
hood beset by espionnage, reserve became an
armour. Scarcely at home in the household
of his uncle, the object cf homage as much as
of respect, he stood isolated and original.
None presumed to interrupt his reveries, and to
few, if indeed to any, did he accord his confidence.
Yet even through that habitual reserve there would
at times gleam forth indications of a character re-
plete with kindness, and of a disposition generous
and noble. There was much of peculiarity—much
of contrast—abstracted yet vigilant—inquisitive in
every thing, but studiously incommunicative--dili-
gent in acquiring all men's knowledge, retentive
of his own—cold and impassive, but full of latent
energy--cautious in decision, but once in action,
prompt, rapid, and impetuous—almost intuitive
in grasping opportunity or detecting weak-
ness—improved by study, steeled by adversity,
disciplined for every vicissitude of fortune—he has
inestimable qualifications for his high position
Nor in private life is he at all deficient in command-
ing respect or captivating sympathy—of the most
winning manners when minded to assume them ;
perfectly munificent by nature and by habit ; chi-
valrous, sincere, constant—of him, my Lord,

upon-Trent.
Jan. 31, Paris.

At a meeting of the shareholders in Great Pol-
gooth Mine, held this day, the report of the com-
mittee of management was read and adopted. The
balance in favour of the mine was stated to be
4,0571. Os. sd. The captain's report was considered
satisfactory, and the remarks made by the purser,
who was present, showed the prospects of the mine
to be promising.
At the meeting of the Australian Consols Land
and Mining Company's proprietors to-day, Mr.
Guedalla in the chair, a committee of shareholders
has been formed to require a balance-sheet from
the Directors, and to ascertain more fully the exact
position of the company. Many shareholders ex-
pressed a high opinion of the property, but posses-
sion does not appear to have been yet obtained.
The St. Katharine Dock Company have declared
a dividend of 2 per cent, for the half year, carrying
over a good surplus.
The ship Maria, arrived from Port Philip, brings
dates of Oct. 14, which are not later than the pre-
vious accounts. She has 34,857 ounces of gold on
board.

Atev Geelong,le
a good deal of dissatisfaction has
prevailed
concerning
the non-delivery of the mails
r
prior to their being taken to Melbourne. As the
d
Melbourne mail would only be delayed 10 minutes,
while that for Geplong if not landed at Shortman's
Bluff is retarded two days, it is a matter of great
importance to the outport, as we may now term it.
The post-office authorities here have attended to
this matter, and orders have been sent out to con-
form to the wishes of the colonists. Two captains
of vessels had been fined for neglecting to land
their mails, and this may prove a useful hint to
those unacquainted with the port regulations and
about to leave England.
The New York advices notice greater animation
and buoyancy in the Stock market. This was in
part accounted for by the wish of most parties to
make up their accounts for the year then closing.
Money was in greater demand, and the rate charged
for discount was in many cases as much as 8 and
12 per cent, while loans on call were obtainable at
7 per cent. The aggregate deposits of gold at the
United States Mint, it appears from a statement
made up for December, amounted to four-and.-a-
half millions of dollars during that month, and the
total deposits for the year were fifty-three and-a-
half millions of dollars. The latest weekly return
of the City banks showed an increase in the amount
of loans, deposits, and circulation, but a falling off
of 2,086,328 dollars in the specie. The cotton
market was fluctuating, and the business doing was
limited. At New Orleans, also, the demand was
quiet, and the stock was estimated at 225,000 bales.
There was rather more inquiry for breadstuffs, and
prices were rather firmer.
BRITISH MlNES.—Sellers this day have been
more numerous than for some time past, and in
consequence of there being buyers to meet them, a
larger amount of business was transacted. The
shares mostly inquired for were :—Alfred Cons.,
25 to 26 ; Great Tregune Consols, 31- to 1; Mol-
land, to a ; Wheal Uny, 101 • Cwm Daren, 14
to 1 ; Gunnislake, lk to I ; Tremollett Downs,
to ; Hingston Downs, 9to 1 ; Devon Kopunda,
)1 to ; Great Hugo's, to par ; Castle Dinas,
to 1 ; Augusta, to ; Arundel, 2 ; Boringdon,
2/ ; Bell and Lanarth, 12k to 1 ; Britannia, ato
; Bedford United, 81 to 9 ; Caradon Wood, to i;
Cubert, a to 1 ; Dinas Gr. Copper, e to 1 ; West
Providence, 351 to 361 ; Wheal Jane, 22 ; East
Wheal Russell's, 61 to 1- ; Eaglebrook, 50 to 52 ;
Fatworth and heal Virtue, to 1 ; Great W.
Baddern, 255. to 27s . 6d. ; Gt. Sheba Cons, 14/. to 141;
Gt. Crinis,ll; Poltimores,l4 ; Wheal Speedwell,3
East Wheal Arthur, n ; Wheal Golden, 18 ;
Tavey Consols, 21 ; Wheal Trelawney, 40 41 ;
Sortridge Consols, 30s. 325. 6d. ; South Devon
Consols, 225. 6d. 255. ; New Linares, 4 1 ; Tamar
Marias, ; Trelaweth, 2 2 ; Tassau Lead, k k ;
Augarraek, I.
Shares in most demand were the Mollands, Tre-
mollet Downs, Wheal Goldens, East Wheal Rus-
sells, Great Tregunes, Alfred Cons., and Hingston
Downs.
Stocks are lower since the second editions ap-
peared. Consols which were 93k, are now 921 to
927-. The settlement of the account is in a fairer
train for to-morrow, but the Bears are probably
still " out." Tile New Three and-a-Quarter per
Cents. have been 941 to 4 and the Three per Cents.
93A- to Bank Stock is firmer at 2171 to 218.
Exchequer Bills are worth 7s. to 10s. prem.
A moderate business is doing in Foreign Stocks,
and prices are decidedly flatter. Mexican Bonds
are heavy at 23a, being about I lower. Peruvian
Bonds are an exception, being 491 to 50, or about
11 pr cent. higher, and Grenada Deferred Bonds
are also buoyant, being 7a. Danish Three per
Cents. are steady at 83. Russian Bonds are de-
pressed. The Five per Cents. are 1091. Sar-
dinian Bonds have been dealt in at 88 to 89.
Spanish Three per Cents. have declined to 42k to
to -1, and the New Deferred 208. Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents. are firm at 621 to 63, and
the Four per Cents. rather weaker at 94g. Bel-
gian 41 per Cents. are 911.
Gold Mines are very inactive, and prices are
nominal. Banks are neglected, and Land Com-
panies' lower. The Australian Agricultural are
1/. to 11. 10s. lower, and the South Australian are
down 11. --
Railway Shares are nearly 1 per cent. lower.
The French lines have also receded about 10s.
Northern are quoted ex dividend.
The current rates of freight in London by sailing
vessels and for fine measurement goods are thus
given in the Weekly Shipping List :
Per ton of
40 feet.

Per ton of
40 feet.

Gijon ........................ 35
Grenada ....••
Havannah ......... 30s to 40
Hong Kong 65s to 70
lonian Islands 4O
Jamaica 3os to 40
Leghorn 3O
Lima
Madeira 4O
Madras
Malta 3O
Malaga,
Marseilles
Matanzas
Mauritius
Messina
Monte Video 6O
Naples
New York 3O
Odessa
Oporto 20s to 30
Palermo 4O
Rio Janeiro
San Francisco ......75s to 100
San Sebastian
Santandar 3O
Shanghai
Seville
Sierra Leone 4os to 50
Smyrna
St. Vincent
St. Kitts and Nevis 3O
St. Lucia
Syra
Tarragona 5O
Tobago
Trieste
Trinidad
Valparaiso 4ss to 50
Valencia
Venice
Whampoa

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BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Business done.
Bank Stock .... ................. .... ..... .... 2l7i 18
i per Cent. Reduced Annuities 93i i i
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 93 * 21
New 3i per Cent. Annuities 941
1
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 -16
Ditto, 30 Years Expire 10th Oct., 1859 54 5
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 5
India Bonds, £lOOO ....••• ..... ••• ••• .......
Ditto, under £lOOO par
South Sea Stock
South Sea Old Annuities lOO4 i
Consols for Opening 18th Jan. 921 3i 24
Exchequer Bills, id.
£lOOO .................... -
£5OO 7 10 p
Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Danish Bonds, 1825, :3 per Cent B3
Dutch Exchange,
Cent. .... .........
Grenada Bonds, 2A per
Deferral
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Peruvian 3 per Cent.
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. X, Pt .•„• 1097.1
.
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent B9 8
panish Bonds, 3 per Cent
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent 2og
Dividends on the above payable i n London.
Austrian Bonds 5 per Cent. 10 Cu. 2.....,. 77
Belgian Bonds 4* per Cent. ex. 25 fr
Dutch Exchange, 2* per Cent. 12 Guil 621 3 x d
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .....
HALF-PAST TWO.
i Consols for Opening 18thtJanua,ry„,„ .... 92i ii a