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London, England, 1849-07-21 00:00:00

TEM EG AL TITLE ASSURANCE tainly could not complain, because they would
COMPANY.
(Prop Isionally Registered, January 17, 1849.) practically receive as much as was paid for
Capital, 2,000,00 C., in 80,000 Shares, of 251. each. similar duties before the introduction of the
Preliminary D.rnatt, 2s. 6d. per Share
Prtglectuaes and Hill information may be obtained at ths Tempo- present monetary system, but it would afford but
vary Off cos of the Company, It A Cannon-row, Westminster, on ap-
satiation to trifling and most inadequate relief to the industrious
classes, whose labour, their only capital, would still
be taxed by 29.30ths more than it ought to be.
The true remedy would be either to reduce all
fixed payments as well of public officers as of
public creditors, of landowners, and all others
having claims under contracts entered into
previous to the enactment of the present monetary
code, or to return to the ancient system, under which
the nation enjoyed unparalleled prosperity, and was
enabled to sustain the enormous expenses of the war.
The former of these courses would be impracticable,
in consequence of the difficulty of adjusting the
various contracts to the scale of the period when they
were entered into, but it would be perfectly easy to
achieve the latter, and to return to a perfectly
equitable system, under which no class or individual
would be aggrieved, where the full justice would be
rendered to the entire community. That, then, is
the great object to be attained, and for that the in-
dustrious classes—for they are the chief sufferers—
should struggle with all their power. Every argu-
ment adduced in favour of Mr. HENLEY'S motion
would apply with tenfold force to the latter arrange-
ment. That, then, we should wish to see adopted,
but in the meantime we would accept the proposition
of Mr. HENLEY as an instalment of justice, an instal-
ment the granting of which would eventually insure
the full satisfaction of all the reasonable desires of
the people; And we would not refuse to accept it
because it was brought forward or supported on erro-
neous and mistaken principles.

G. F. HOWE, Hon. Sec., pro tern.

LEER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
MADAME SONTAG.
The Nobility, Patrons of the Opera, and the Public are respectfully
at:mixed that a GRAND EXTRA NIGHT will take place
On THURSDAY E VENING.
which occasion Madame SONTAG will have the honour to ap-
lin one of her favourite characters, with various Entertainments
ra the Ballet Department.
Applications tor Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the
lox-office of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained as
anal, price 10s. 6d. each.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
MADAME SONTAG,
THIS EVENING,
Will be presented,
LA SONNAMISCL A.
To conclude with
LES PLAISIRS DE L'iIIVER.
Application for Boxes, Stalls, and Ticke s to be made at the
Box-office of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained, as
asnal, price 10s, 6d. each.

h'.OYAL, 11 AYMAII.tEr,
Mr. B. Webster, .6.31 e Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton,
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Will be performed a new and original tragic Play, in Five Acts,
entitled STRATIIMORE. Prin:ipal characters by Messrs. C. Kean,
H. Vandenhoff, Buckstone, Howe, Stuart, Rogers ; Mrs. C. Kean,
Mrs. Fitzwilliam. and Miss Reynolds.
Atter which an entirely new Farce, called an ALARMING
SACRIFICE. Bob Ticket, Mr. Buckstone ; Susan Sweetapple, Mrs.
Fitywilliam.
To conclude with TWICE KILLED.

THEA ME ROYAL. ADELPIII.
Under the direction of Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,
Will he Presented a new piece, entitled WEBSTER'S ROYAL
RED BOOK.
To be followed by a novelty In the shape of A MOST UNWAR
RASTA [ILE INTRUSION, which will be committed by Mr. Wright
to the annoyance of Mr. Paul Bedford.
After which TILE KNIGIIT OF ARVA.
To conclude with th, Farce of SHOCKING EVENTS.

ROYAL Llcie.UM TtitlAT
Under the Management of Madame Vestlif,
Sole Lessee. Mr. Cherie, Mathes.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed THE WATER PARTY.
After which THE PRINTER'S DEVIL.
To be followed bo MY FATHER DID SO BEFORE ME, in which
M r. John Reeve will appear.
To conclude with AMATEURS AND ACTORS.

Profound interest will be felt by the reflective
portion of the community in the prolonged discus-
sion which commenced last evening in the House of
Lords on the foreign policy of the English Go-
vernment. With the skill or the eloquence of the
debaters we have nothing whatever to do, our
attention being wholly absorbed by the paramount
importance of the subject forming
nthedoverthemethe
of
their observations. That subject extended
lengandthebrgenadesthtinonf
ntihewEarurnor peace
nanCe obnettiwneeennt,oaunrd
involved .
selves and our neighbours. Speaking briefly to the pur.
pose, we may say, without exaggeration, the debate was
nothing less than a contest between the present and
the obsolete systems of diplomacy as represented by
those statesmen who sympathise in the cause of De-
mocracy and those who sympathise in the cause of
Absolutism. It was only the revival of a contention
witnessed at the commencement of the century; for
as CANNING endeavoured in former times to effect an
alliance between Great Britain and all other Consti-
tutional Powers, so does PALMERSTON now-a-days;
and as ABERDEEN strives to force the country into the
deadly embraces of the AUTOCRAT and his myr-
midons, so did CASTLEREAGFI of yore. The
latter project is essentially conducive to warfare, see-
ing that it necessitates a rupture with the powers of
Western Europe, those being the countries in our own
immediate neighbourhood ; whereas the former, for
an exactly contrary reason, is necessarily and inevit-
ably of a pacific tendency. Now, England has paid
too dearly for her insane subserviency to the Castle-
reagh school of diplomacy, to be very easily entrapped
again intc the pitfalls of pecuniary embarrassment.
A national debt of 800,000,0001. is to John Bull the
best of all Remembrancers as to the
temerity of the foreign policy advocated
by the apologists of despotism, and glorified
by the aristocratic panegyrists of the KAISER and the
AUTOCRAT. Every year since that malign policy was
first in the ascendant, as a nation, we have been
paying " through the nose" for the satisfaction of a
clique of absolutists. England has suffered too
bitterly from the effects of her former foolishness,
therefore, to be bamboozled by the cajoleries, the
sophisms, and the misrepresentations of those ultra-
conservative diplomatists whose interest it is to
render England pliable to the stubborn will of
a northern coalition, instead of allowing her to
assume her rightful and natural positicn as the
leader of all emancipated nationalities, as the arbiter
of the destinies of the world, as the avenger of injus-
tice, and as the mould or the prototype of every new-
born Constitutional Government.
The illustriou%statesman at the head of the Foreign
Department of the Administration has recognised
from the first the necessity of impelling the foreign
influence of Great Britain along the only channel ac-
cordant with our national dignity, congenial to our
insular interests, and obedient to our constitutional
destinies. He has recognised the advisability of making
the preservation of amity with the rest of the world
compatible with the retention of our political honour,
and with the enhancement of the historical glory of
our reputation. Witness this ! not only the records
of his long and brilliant career as Foreign Secretary,
but in a particular and paramount degree the course
of his policy during the anni mirabili 1848 and 1849,
years of appalling unexpectedness and tremendous
difficulty. Upon one or two points it would have
been well, doubtless, for the fame of Lord PALMER..
STON had be acted with more decision, and spoken
with less ambiguity, but reviewing the whole of the
tumultuous epoch across which he has conducted the
British-Government without any diminution of our
national dignity, and without rashly committing the
fortunes of the country to the hazard of battle—we
do conceive that be has displayed the most patriotic
integrity, the most vigilant circumspection, and the
most masterly capacities both in diplomacy and states

AsTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness
Prince Xlbert, &c.
M. Jean Stare in his extraordinary per.brmances on Le Globe
Roulant.
The following eminent artistes form the greatest amount of female
equestrian talent ever engaged in this or any other establishment at
one time :
Mdlles. Adelaide Hinnie, Valentine, Louise Touirnaire, La Jeane
Josephine; Miss Woolford, Barrand, Davidson, Avery, and La Petite
Jeanette.. .
In adation tq the above Mr. Batty has great pleasure in alnounc-
leg that he has engaged that peerless equestrian Marie Macarte,
whose brilliant triumphs on the Continent and in America have ac-
quired for her the appellation of the Equestrian Enchantress.
THIS EVENING,
The performance will commence with a Grand Military Equestrian
Spectacle, entitled
MOOLTAN and GOOJERAT ; or, the Conquest of the Seikhs.E
To be followed by an inimitable display of SCENES iW
CIRCLE. in which Marie Macarte still appear, supported by the first
Equestrian talent of the day.
To conclude with a favourite Melodrama, entitled THE SOLI-
TARY OF LAMBETH; or, The Murderi n St. George's-fields.
Rox-office open from Eleven till Four.
-4,14 e Manager, Mr. W. West.

ROYAL sURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Last Week of M. JULLIEN'S Engagement.
13.31F.N5:F. AND UNPARALLELED SUCCESS.
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under tn° patronage of her Mos: Gracious Majesty, he, Majesty the
Queen Dowager, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c.

The Public Press has unanimously pronounced the Storming of

Badajoz to be the most perfect and life-like exhibition,

The Nobility, Gentry, and the Public are respectfully informed
that this favourite place of fashionable resort is open every
MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY.
Danson's gigantic modelled Panorama of the TOWN AND
FORT OF BADAJOZ, pronounced by the voice of public
opinion to be the most perfect and life-like exhibition ever
presented—Splendid Menagerie—Ju;lien's unrivalled Band—Vo-
cal and Instrumental Concert—Several Favourite Songs and
Ballads by Miss Ellen Rowland and Mr. George Tedder—
Solos by licenlg, Richardson (Flute)—Violin and Violoncello by
Viotti and George Collins, varied alternately—and other at-
tractions, concluding with a vivid representation of the Storming of
Badajoz, pourtraying the advance of the British army—bombard-
ment and attack—gallant defence—rush to• the breach by real troops
—and final ta!ileaux in honour of the " Hero of a hundred fight'."
Doors open at Nine o'Clock, e. z. ; teedirg of the animals at Five ;
Pelicans and White Bears half-past +five ; Concert at Six ; iitorming
of Badajoz, at Dusk.—Admission One

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BAROMETER, 29.94.

WIND S.W.—cloudy, with occasional sunshine and
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manship.
Let us for a moment bear in remembrance the
awful catalogue of events which have transpired
in dizzy succession during the past eighteen
months of Lord PALM E RSTON'S labours at
the Foreign•office, those sudden and stupendous
calamities which have agonized Europe to her very
entrails, which would have been sufficient to bewilder
an ordinary amount of wisdom and a moderate share
of experience, calamities enumerated yesterday in the
admirable harangue of the Earl of CARLISLE. Dur-
ing that interval England has seen the disruption of
nearly all the nationalities of the Continent ; the
explosion of many consecutive revolutions ; the
expatriation of dynasties ; the overturning of thrones ;
the abrogation of treaties; the creation and the
annihilation of constitutions. She has seen the battle
for life and death between opposing classes. She

has seen liberty betrayed; the integrity of dominions
violated ; the freedom of races outraged. She has
seen kings perjured who had been annointed with

the chrism of popularity. She has seen the perfidy
of sovereigns to the people, and the ingratitude of

- -
,he people to their liberators. She has seen Paris

twice barricaded, twice swept with cannon, thrice
under military occupation ; Vienna twice in the

hands of the population, its EMPEROR twice corn

pelled to fly, its walls once battered down
by artillery ; Berlin in a continual state of
seige ; Denmark invaded ; Frankfort delivered up
to rapine and bloodshed ; Baden reduced to obe-
silence by the bayonet; Catalonia ravaged by civil
warfare, and the other Spanish provinces abandoned

to the miseries of internecine strife; Pesth and Prague
bombarded and stormed ; Milan lost and won ; Mes-
sina beaten down into ruins; Venice assaulted by
land and sea; Bologna attacked; Ancona occupied,
and Rome subjected to a siege on her old Aurelian
battlements! " During all these events," ex-
claimed the Earl of CARLISLE, after an enu-
meration of some of the most prominent
in the foregoing catalogue, " my Noble Friend was
giving his nights and days to negotiations with the
single view of averting the calamities of war, and
preserving so far as he could the peace of the world."
And, so far as England is concerned, has not that
peace been conserved ? Good GOD ! supposing the
fortunes of Britain had been committed to the care of

my Lord ABERDEEN, what might not have been the

position of the country at this present moment

Granted that Lord PALMERSTON, according to our
judgment, might have acted more judiciously and

more nobly for the cause of universal
freedom —had he demanded a guarantee
of moderation from the Neapolitan BOURBON prior to
the second sultjugation of Sicily—had he perempto-
rily required some explanation from France of her
ulterior designs before the departure of her expedi-
tionary army to Civita Vecchia—bad he insisted upon
some reference to the English Cabinet from the
Cabinet of Vienna before the Austrians dared to set
the whole of western Europe at defiance by calling in
the AuTocakr to her unholy assistance : yet upon