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ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE, AND THE SECRET
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By SAMUEL LA'MERT. M.D.
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THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA'S ALLIES IN

ENGLAND.

He who at this stage of the controversy throws a
doubt on the ground of quarrel is a traitor to his country.
We are pledged to the French—we are plighted to the
Turks-- we have committed ourselves to the Czar— we
have called upon Austria and Prussia to send their con-
tingent to the field—we have taken up the gauntlet
which the Autocrat has thrown down—we have drawn
on Omer Pacha and his brave cohorts to the banks of
the Danube, and at this point of the crisis there are
actually Englishmen among us who bawl out that we
should leave everybody in the lurch, fire a Royal salute
in honour of the Russian Emperor, as he passes through
the Dardanelles, and send an ambassador extraordinary
to congratulate him on his entry to Constantinople, and
to represent Queen Victoria at his coronation ! Here
there is undoubtedly a very large spare assortment of
moral courage, which ventures to brave the conscience,
the spirit, the common sense, and the good feeling of
the whole of the rest of mankind. But what are we to
say of that sneaking faction of dreary word-mongers who
nightly abuse the ears of hearers, and daily the eyes
of readers with the most elaborate sophistry to prove
that the Emperor of Russia is entirely justified in all
that he has done—that our Government is solely to
blame for the war, and that the war is totally un-
necessary ; while at the same time they are cowardly
enough to shelter themselves from the indignation
which the tendency of their fallacies is calculated to
excite by yet voting supplies, and declaring the war to
be just ! Conceive the Emperor of Russia reading an
elaborate justification of the position he has assumed, by
the late Prime Minister of England, still leader of a
majority in the Lords, and the largest single party in
the Commons. What is Prussia, what is Austria, to
think of the policy they should pursue, when they find
themselves advised by our late Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer that the quarrel is altogether a mistake of John
Bull—and that we have repeatedly approved of that very
protectorate by the Czar of the Greeks in Turkey, his
assumption of which we are now going to oppose at the
utmost cost of our blood and treasure? Are distracted
councils all that we can show in the hour of peril and in
' the din of strife ? Will Germany court alliance, or
Russia sue for peace, when they find that not even
among ourselves is there one heart and one arm ; but
that, on the contrary, Manchester desires the House of
Rotuanoff to be enthroned at Constantinople—and
Young England declal ea that Nicholas is rightfully
the Protector of the Greeks of Turkey ? Let us have
no more of this folly. If it will insist upon crying
aloud in the street let no man regard it. We have
done with the past. Wordy garble on that subject will
henceforth meet with no toleration from the public.
The utterers are only intolerable bores—and their
nonsense ought no longer to be reported. Look
ahead ! "See the front of battle lour." Our
work is cut out for us. What we have got to do is, not
to debate, but to fight. The function of Parliament is
no longer to stutter over protocols, or prose through
secret correspondence, but to encourage the heart of
the nation, to find the sinews of war, to develope our
resources, to put forth all our strength, to give it an
effective direction. "We are in for it now." We de-
mur even to the propriety of presenting to the nation a
lugubrious inventory of the taxes we shall have to pay,
the dangers we will have to encounter, the protracted
period over which the struggle will be spread. "You
should have spoken sooner," as the Irishman said when
the chirp of a chicken was heard from the egg he was
swallowing. Whatever the cost, it must be paid—what-
ever the peril, it must be faced—whatever the length of
the contest, it must be persevered in to the last. Let
us have no gloomy forebodings, or mere wiseacre cau-
tions. Better that we should shut our eyes 'to every-
thing but the enemy straight before us, burn our tran-
sports, and throw away our scabbards. Is not our
quarrel just ? If we cannot answer that with an un-
hesitating "Yes," then, at whatever cost of pride or
policy, let us confess our error, and seek peace. But if
our enemy is the wrong-doer—if our client is weak in
might, but strong in right—if we can lay our hands
on our hearts, and say sincerely that our honest
aim is to throw our strength around the innocent de-
fenceless, to vindicate the general rights common to
mankind against overbearing lust of power, and to main-
tain the public law of nations and of Europe against a
common brawler and peace disturber—then let us be as-
sured that there is a God above, and that He is with us,
and that t his world no less than the next is under a wise
moral government. An old theologian said truly of the
mystics of evangelical orthodoxy—" They cry out against
carnal reason, because reason cries out against them."
We can perfectly understand Mr. Bright's denunciations
of the press, and his newly discovered amiable view of
the character of the House of Commons, as being above
the popular clamours of the multitude, and removed into
the altitudes of his own serene intellectual atmosphere.
Let us give him this advice—either be a demagogue or
a Tory, not both, or either alternately. To despise
popularity is simply to despise the people. To ignore
the press, or, because it is unanimous in the sup-
port of a policy to which he is opposed, to endeavour
to destroy its influence by insinuations of its corrup-
tion, is to contemn the mighty engine by which
Toryism has been made to bite the dust. That the press,
at the latter portion of the late war, was unanimous
in its execration of the common pest and curse of Europe
who swept over it like a destroying angel, and who could
never rest from rapine and bloodshed, is a fact for which

it has no reason t.o be ashamed. And now it will be
most clearly in its duty, and best earn the gratitude of
posterity, by exposing to the contempt and indignation
of the country the craven counsels of those who venture
to abuse the patience and to degrade the moral sense of
the people by telling them to mind their calicoes and
save their taxes, while the common thief of Europe com-
mits his brazen burglaries, crushes the weak, and enslaves
the innocent ; and to stand by calmly look on, while a
miscreant whose kingdom is but a camp, and whose
whole people are the mere trained instruments of aggres-
sion and destruction, grows by fraud and force into uni-
versal empire— _

Bestriding the narrow world
Like a Colossus, while we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Rather than this should be, let the spirit which once " ful-
min'd over Greece," but al lto o late to save civilisation from
military despotism, again arouse Europe to the dangers of
the Philip of the North ; and, if need be, to harry the nest
of the pirate and the robber, to whose insolent pretensions
it is solely owing that we have to quit the plough-
share for the spear, to save our altars and our homes
from the curse of a second universal conqueror, unscru-
pulous and insatiable as Rome, but destitute either of
its politic humanity, or its wisdom in council and in the
science of government. You, Pease and Sturge, an-
swer us this. For what purpose does your idol keep
constantly on foot twelve hundred thousand armed men?
Is his Government so execrable that no smaller force
can keep his own subjects down ? Then what must be
the responsibility of those wbo advise us to invite him
to extend his sway over the fairest regions of the earth I
If it be to defend him from without, what sort of a
neighbour must he be ? If it be to feed the lust of con-
quest, and to extend a dominion already made up of
huge thefts from every surrounding country, what must
be the judicial blindness of those who dare to counsel
toleration of such a system ? Nothing is so easy—pro-
bably at an early period nothing will be so popular,
when the pinch of warlike taxation comes—as that "save-
your-bacon" morality which sneaks from public, duty,
and shirks the noblest obligations of humanity, to shelter
itself beneath the cant of cheap fanaticism and the crea-
ture comfort of thrifty hypocrisy. We have shown too
often that we can venture to deny ourselves either the
pleasures of popularity or the profits of self-interest, at
the dictates of conscience, to render it necessary for us
to repel with the scorn it merits the insinuation of wise-
acres that the press advocacy of war is a gainful enthu-
siasm. We resisted the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill almost
alone. We expose the Preston Strike now at a cost of
mere popularity, of which rivals have not failed to take
advantage. It is by chance, not by design, that we now
" pursue the triumph, and partake the gale," by re-
sistance to a tyrant and to the lust of conquest. We
rejoice that the country is with us. We say that he is
foraely of
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our
energies with
a traitor to the common cause who now seeks to distract
our counsels, to weaken the force of our unanimity, to
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to the plough, and can never look back.—Dispatd.

AMSTERDAM AND ROTTERDAM PRODUCE MARKETS.—
The weekly reviews from the Amsterdam and Rotter-
dam Produce Markets mention that business was rather
more active. In coffee the operations, although not ex-
tensive, were at a slight improvement, the better de-
scriptions especially commanding higher quotations.
Sugar, raw and refined, continued steady. The demand
for rice had increased, and rates were generally well sup-
ported. No material alteration had occured in indigo
since the termination of the late sales.

THE WAR PREPARATIONS

Lord Raglan and his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge left London last night by the half-past 8
mail train for Dover, en rouse for the East. Although
the exact time of their departure had not been made
public, upwards of 300 persons, including many ladies,
had assembled to see them off. The Royal carriage had
been prepared for their reception, and as the train moved
away from the platform they were loudly cheered. Lord
Raglan was accompanied to the station by the members
of his family, who there took an affectionate farewell.
The aides-de.canip, both of his Lordship and of his Royal
Highness, travel with them. The Vivid conveys them
across the Channel from Dover, and at Paris, to-morrow,
they will be present with the Emperor at a grand mili-
tary review. Lord Raglan and the Duke of Cambridge
paid their respects yesterday to her Majesty before leav-
ing, and they also visited thi4ritne Minister in Down-
.,
ing-street.

Yesterday a vast quantity of tents and other requi-
sites for the encampment of an army were taken out of
the stores in the Tower, and conveyed to the railway
station, to be forwarded to Portsmouth for shipment to
the Mediterranean.

The officers of Ordnance have contracted for the supply
of 1,000 tons of coals to be forwarded to Gallipoli for the
use of the army.
The Government have chartered the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steam-ship Euxine (in place of the
Ripon) to take out warlike stores, horses, and artillery,
which are to be embarked at Portsmouth on Thursday
or Friday next. The Euxine is being prepared for sea
in the Southampton docks with all despatch. The Penin-
sular and Oriental Company's screw-steamer Rajah will
leave Southampton at daylight on Wednesday for Con-
stantinople direct, with 800 tons of coals for the fleet.
The coals are being shipped in the docks.
The Gladiator, 6, paddle-frigate, Captain Broke,
steamed out of the factory basins at Portsmouth, yes-
terday morning, and went out of harbour to try her
engines along the measured mile at,Stokes-bay ; on her
return she made fast to the stream-buoy off the King's-
stairs to swing for compass observation. In going out
she met with a slight accident in her starting gear, but
which is of little consequence.

The Eurydice, 26, sailing-frigate, Captain Ommanney,
has hauled into No. 2 dock to have her bottom over-
hauled and scrubbed down.

The Conway, 26, sailing-frigate, Captain Fulford, flag
of Rear-Admiral Sir Fairbrother Carroll, of the Irish
station, hauled out of the fitting basin yesterday morn-
ing, and went alongside the hulk to receive her crew.
The Geyser, 6, paddle-sloop, has been removed from
the fitting basin alongside the shear jetty.
The Sprightly, steam-tender, Acting-Master Com-
mander Allen, went over to Cowes yesterday on troop
service.

The Duck lighter, arrived at Portsmouth from
Chatham, reports the St. George, 121, lying in the
Downs, and passed the Cumberland, 70, off Brighton,
on Saturday evening, in tow of the Black Eagle.
Rear-Admiral Martin, Superintendent of Portsmouth
Dockyard, having returned from London, re-hoisted his
flag on board the St. Vincent.
The Black Eagle steam-vessel, Master-Commander
John E. Petley, arrived at Woolwich yesterday, and
brought round from Portsmouth Rear-Admiral M. F. F.
Berkeley, C. 8., one of the Lords of the Admiralty, who
had paid a visit to the Cumberland, 70, on her return
from the North America and West Indies station. The
Black Eagle towed the Cumberland from Portsmouth
to the Downs. Rear-Admiral Berkeley on landing at
Woolwich went round the dockyard, accompanied by
Commodore John Shepherd, to witness the progress of

the works.
Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, Surveyor of
the Navy, paid an official visit to Woolwich Dockyard
yesterday.
The Rhadamanthus paddle-wheel steam-storeship,
Master Commander John Belam, has taken on board
bMters and a portion of the machinery for the Exmouth,
90, screw steam-ship, now ready for launching at Devon-
port.
A very fine brass spare screw-propeller, weighing 7
tons Bcwt. 3qrs., had been put on board of a barge for
conveyance to Sheerness, where it will be received by
the Majestic, 81, screw steam-ship, and be conveyed by
her to the Baltic, for the Royal George, 121, screw
steam-ship. A brass screw propeller, weighing 8 tons
3cwt. 2qrs. 201 b., has just been finished at Woolwich
Dockyard as a spare screw propeller for the James
Watt, 91, screw steam-ship. The workmen of the
foundry were occupied yesterday in taking out of the
mould a screw propeller for the Nile, 91, screw-steam-
ship. The quantity of metal required for casting the
screws of 91-gun war steamers is 101 tons, which is
generally reduced to about 8l tons when finished for
service.

The Lady Valiant, No. 16 horse transport-ship, Lieu-
tenant and agent Aldworth, R.N., was taken out of the
basin yesterday, and towed down the river, on her way
to the Mediterranean.

The following appointments have been made :
Chaplain William M. Wray (1854), to the Penelope,
16, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, for service with the
Baltic fleet.
Assistant-Surgeon Josiah Austen (1852), is confirmed
to the Cumberland (70), for service with the Baltic fleet.
Clerks.—George F. Grigor (1851), recently serving in
the Cumberland, 70, when on the North American and
West Indies station, to the Majestic, 81, screw steam-
ship, for service in the Baltic fleet; John H. Duffell
(1850), also recently serving in the Cumberland, to the
Excellent gunnery ship, at Portsmouth.
Clerk's Assistant Charles F. Hoskins, to the Cum-
berland.

HER MAJESTY'S SHIP CUMBERLANIL—The navy and
the public will be gratified at hearing that her Majesty's
ship Cumberland left the Downs yesterday afternoon,
shortly after three o'clock, for the Baltic, in as good a
state of discipline and order as any ship that has yet
sailed for the chance of winning honour and glory from
the Russians. The Black Eagle, Admiralty steam-yacht,
accompanied the Cumberland from Portsmouth, and
towed her to her anchorage in the Downs on Sunday.
It appears that as the noble ship left Portsmouth be-
hind, so did the refractory crew become more and
more sensible of their mad folly in giving way to
the evil passions that had been excited by the crimps
and their drugs, and by the insidious and damaging
sympathy of newspapers, pretending to represent the
navy, and to be upholders of order and discipline ; and
we are assured from our correspondent at Deal, that by
the time the ship arrived in the Downs, the " tigers"
were all turned into " lambs," and the ship has departed
on her service with a desire on the part of all on board
to "let bye-gones be bye-gones," and with a stern de-
termination to do their duty in whatever position they
may be called upon to act against the enemy.—Morning
Herald.

EXECUTION OP THE CORNWALL MURDERER.—HoIman,
the man who was executed a few days since for the
murder of his wife at Bodmin, made the following con-
fession shortly before his death :—" 'We first disagreed
about a bonnet. She had a bonnet at Miss Toy's, at
Camborne, to be cleaned, or something to that purpose,
which she was thinking to go for on the Saturday be.
fore this happened. As I had more work than I could
fitly do before the afternoon, and I should have to stop
in with the children while she was gone, I told her she
must go on Monday. On Monday morning I asked her
if she was going to Camborne. She said, Not on that
day.' I said, if she was not going, I would go and see
my brother, whom I had not seen for four years. I re-
turned home about nine o'clock in the evening, or there-
abouts. When I came in I asked her how she was, and
how she got on for the day, and the like of that ; and
she seemed to be very slow in speaking, and not to
answer me much. I said to her, I suppose you have
had a glass, as you have before ?' and asked her if she
was going to Camborne the next day. She replied, ' I
shall not go till I have some money age4.' So I asked
her what she had done with the money which she had
last week, and that we fell out about. All I did was to
give her a push ; she hitched her foot in the chair, and
fell against the jambstone of the chimney. No blows
were given, only she threw the fire-brush at me. I can
say no more. I went out to the cattle-sheds to see if
the bullocks had any meat, and returned in about ten
minutes, When I came back I found her in the chim-
ney." During the time the man was in prison, awaiting
his execution, he remained unmoved, eating, and drink-
ing, and sleeping as if nothing was going to happen.
Even on the morning of his execution he ate his break-
fast as usual. The execution was witnessed by about
18,000 persons.
THE FALKLAND ISLANDS,—The captain of the Great
Britain makes a very favourable report of' Stanley har-
bour as a place of call for steamers, He says—" The Go-
vernment charts are exceedingly correct ; the land, as
you approach it, is made out without any difficulty, and
we saw Pembroke Point and its beacon (now to be su-
perseded by a lighthouse) at the distance of about seven
miles. The harbour itself is like a large dock, secure from
all winds, and with an entrance sufficiently wide for a
good smart sailing vessel to beat through with ease. All
the dangerous points are distinctly marked by the sea-
weed. The anchorage is excellent, varying from 4to 5
fathoms at low water. The facility for watering ships is
good; a reservoir, holding about 200 tons of water, com-
municates by means of pipes with the end of a jetty,
where, even when the tide is out, there is always about 3
feet depth of water, which is sufficient for a flat-bottomed
boat to float off 10 tons at a time. The Governor pro-
mised that, should Stanley become a port of call for
steamers, a floating tank should be built, so that water
could be alongside the ship immediately on her arrival,
and pumped into the tanks or casks as the case may be.
There are considerable herds of cattle on the islands, and,
when up to feed, their beef is very good ; vegetables of
the more ordinary kind, such as potatoes, cabbages, and
turnips, can be had when in season; ship chandlery and
grocery stores can also be purchased to a limited extent.
Labour is scarce, as the population of Stanley (the only
settlement) is only about 400; but every year, as the
islands become better known, this want will, no doubt, be
less felt. I should add that the hulk for coaling the Great
Britain was placed in the most convenient situation."
ROUEN.—Letters from Rouen state that the market
for manufactures had experienced some recovery, the
favourable weather having caused an increased attend-
I aucu of buyers.

THE WAR AND ITS INFLUENCE ON
MONETARY SECURITIES.

(From the Unity Journal.)

Great Britain is at war. The effect of a condition of
affairs, so novel to the present generation, though some-
what problematical, is worthy of the most careful con-
sideration. It is very evident that the career of peace-
fulness we have so long enjoyed has been broken up for
an indefinite period, and the sooner we accommodate
ourselves to the altered state of things, the less severely
will it press upon us. The war is very different to any
previous war in' which England has been engaged.
Our quarrels, heretofore, have ben either with some
great naval power, or with nearly di the naval powers
in the world at once. Our present antagonist is not
strictly a great naval power. She cannot cripple our
merchant service, or materially interfere with our
commerce. With other maritime nations we have
a most friendly understanding. None of these are likely
to side with the enemy. They will not suffer their
merchant marine to commence a system of priva-
teering under the Russian letters of marque. Com-
mercial England has set a new example in the particular
of disallowing privateers, and she will be the first to
benefit by the humane resolution. As, therefore, the
seas of the whole world will be open to us, the only in-
convenience will be with regard to that commerce which
we have been accustomed to carry on with Russia her-
self. The determination of her Majesty's Government
that the bona fide properti of neutrals, whatever may
have been its origin, shall be respected, clears the way for
a continual commerce with Russia through the interven-
tion of neutral countries.

The effect on our trade in Russian produce, supposing
even that these countries were no longer to preserve
their neutrality, would not be disastrous. The Statis-
tical Returns just issued by the Board of Trade, furnish
us with figures determining, to a great extent, the value
of our commerce with various countries. From these
it would appear that our increasing and most valuable
trade is with our colonies, .and with the United States.
Over this Russia can have no power whatever. Our
direct trade with Russia does not amount to more than
two per cent, of our whole exports. In Russian tallow
there has been no increase for the last ten years ; palm
and cocoa-nut oil being found a profitable substitute.
For supplies of hemp and corn we have long been more
dependent on other countries than on Russia. While
the quantity of corn imported from Russia increased
between 1840 to 1852 more than four fold, that im-
ported of all kinds of corn from Egypt increased tenfold,
and of wheat thirtyfold : the quantity imported of all
kinds of corn also from the United States increased
sevenfold, and of wheat-flour more than sixfold. It
would, therefore, really appear certain that our increas-
ing supplies are from other countries—that those
countries are equal to a much larger supply—and that,
therefore, so far from the war diminishing our supplies,
or enhancing their price, its effect will be rather to drive
Russian produce from the market.
It is satisfactory thus to find that we have, as a sub-
stratum, a flourishing trade, which will not be interfered
with ; and such unlimited supplies as to preclude those
" war prices" which have been heretofore one of the
great penalties of battle.
While, therefore, as a nation, we are in such an im-
proved position, the real inconvenience and distress of
the war will fall upon individuals. Not alone must they
by taxation pay the expenses of prosecuting war, but
such as have money invested must bear the effect of that
vacillation in the value of such investments, which is
always, whether rationally or irrationally, attendant upon
a time of excitement. The object of all those who seek
investments of capital will naturally ;lead them to inquire
which are the healthiest=that is, which are least likely
to be affected by the vicissitudes of the war. The solid
condition of our commerce, to which we have previously
adverted, would serve to show that. all good securities
should be buoyant. But we do not usually find that they
are equally so. Government securi ties are always the
first to feel the war pressure. No t because they are
unsound, but because the peculiar d rain which war en-
forces is that of money. People n lust realise for com-
mercial or private purposes. The G overnrnent, wanting
money, becomes a seller rather than a buyer. Political
crises, misunderstandings, uncertain i etelligence, and false
reports, all have an immediate and m align influence. The
courage of the timid oozes out of the ;ir fingers' ends, and
they give the word to " sell." Easily realised securities,
then, are the first to suffer depression. Men frequently
buy into the funds for mere temporary purposes rather
than permanent investment. Stock is the first thing rea-
lised when a man wants money. In to an estimate of the
value of the funds also no other consideration enters.
It is the money alone which preduc es money. In other
investments, such as railway share s, and the shares of
life and fire insurance companies, :mother element ap-
pears, that of business transacted. But when men feel
a monetary pressure they will teas Ei from some opera-
tions, or deny themselves certain iradulgences to which
they have been accustomed. It is very evident that at a
time of monetary inconvenience or heavy taxatien, men
would cease travelling to some extent, in comparison
with times of great prosperity and freedom from pres-
sure. Undertakings, therefore, for the provision of
that which people can do without, will stand next in
the ladder of depressed securities. We now come to
the consideration of Insurance shares. The material
prosperity of the country is continually increasing, and
it is increasing precisely in that direction which in-
creases the insurable property. Periods of prosperity
also are not always the time that men become anxious
for the future. Increased uncertainty of life and of
future provision, render all prudent persons more desir-
ous of making such arrangements as she'll preserve those
who are dear to them from poverty. Those whowould
desist from travelling, or give up some particular indul-
gence, are the very men who would feel the more bound
to continue an existing policy on their lives, from the
increased necessity for certain provision. The increase
of insurable property, and the greater uncertainty of
human life and future provision, then, would both lead
to increased insurance. Shares in these undertakings
should, therefore, stand first in the class of profitable
and secure investments.

Let us see how these hypotheses are borne out by the
actual facts. The Stock Exchange Reports of April 1,
1853, and April 1, 1854, are before us. We give the
relative value of Securities at these two periods :