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BROCKEDON'S PATENT PURE PLUM-
BAGO for ARTISTS, and ENGINEERS' BLACK LEAD
I'ENCILS.

The perfection to which this article is now brought, in Colour, firm-
ness, entire Purity from Grit, and ready Erasure, is fully sbown in the
accompanying Testimonials from Painters and Engravers, Archi-
tects, Engineers, and other Draughtsmen, who are at once the most
competent judges, and men of the greatest eminence in their several
professions. Nothing is required to be added to this mass ef evi-
denee, but to point out to Pencil Manufacturers the peculiar advan-
tages presented by the form of the blocks of this Patent Plumbago,
for ready application and the avoidance of waste.

Each of the blocks weighs about seven ounces, and they are to be
used by the pencil-makers for such different qualities of pencils as
are known by the centre letters stamped on the blocks. These
blocks being already tempered for such degrees of hardness and
colour as the letters indicate, cannot be made harder, or treated in
any way to make them harder, without injury to their quality. The
blocks are thus ready for immediate use, of all degrees of colour and
hardness, and possess great advantages, in the uniform quality in
the letter, and in the size of the block, which, being two inches and a
quarter square., and about one inch thick, enables the maker to havt
but one joint in each pencil.

TESTIMONIALS.
From C. L. Eastlake, Esq., R.A., Secretary of the Fine Arts
Commission, &c.
7. Fitzroy-square, December 4, 1845.
My dear Brockedon,—l have tried all the pencils which you hare
sent me. I think I may safely say that I have never used any that
work so well. Though perfectly free ftotn grit, the substance is
compact, and the varieties of hardness and tint are as abuudan• as
any artist can wish. A perfect lead pencil may be said to be at last
produced.

I am, dear Ilrockedon, very faithfully yours,
W. Drockedon, Eiq. C. L. EASTLAKE.
From Copley Fielding, Esq., President of the Water-Colour Society.
Cuckfleld, Monday.
My dear Sir.—lt is only very lately that I have been able to try
the pencils which you were so kind as to scud ins. I have been
sketching with them several tittles. lam delighted with the purity
of the lead, which allows of so much freedom in handling. Your
invention seems perfect, and must insure you the thanks of the
public as soon as its great value is understood. That Its importance
may be speedily appreciated is the sincere wish of,
My dear Sir, yours very truly,
Brockedon, Esq. COPLEY FIELDING.
From E. T, Parris, Esq.

17, Grafton-street, Bond-street, Dec. 150843,

My dear Sir—l have tried your biacklead pencils, and find the
drawings made with them are of a beautiful colour, do not smudge,
by common friction, but are entirely removed by Indian rudder ;
they also work sty, Nt:;!,' and without fear of the limes drawn with
then, being checked by grit, or breaking. In every way 1 consider
them most satisfactory and very superior to any pencils I have ever
used, and shall take every opportunity of making their qnalities
known to my friends and brother artists, that the same adva,dages
of your valuable production may be enjoyed by others, as by, my
dear Sir, yours very truly,
To W. Brockedon, Esq. EDMUND THOMAS PERRIS.
From Philip Hardwick, Esq., ILA, F./LS., F,S.A.
Russell-square, Dec. 15, 1845.

My dear Sir—Having tried the pencils made with lead prepared
by your patent process, I have great pleasure in saying, they appear
to me very superior to any I have lately used, aad likely to be a
great acquisition to artists.—l remain, my dear Sir, yours uery truly.
PHILIP HARDWICK.
From I. K. Brunel, Esq., Civil Engineer, F.R.S.
December 15, 1845.

My dear Sir,—l am very much obliged to you for the case of pen-
cils. I had, however, already become their advocate, and ordered a
supply, from a specimen Mr. Fronde had given me.
Yours very truly,
William Brockedon, Esq. I. K. BRUNEL.
From George Barnard, Esq., Landscape Drawing-Master, Rugby

approach ; and this is without the risk of snapping off the point, which
is the torment, of all others, the most vexatious ; this has never once
happened tome with yours, and,l have used one of the 111111 nearly a
mouth. There is no affectation in declaring that I am deeply:grateful
for your discovery, and though late in making this acknowledgment to
you, I have lost no opportunity meanwhile in endeavouring to make
the great qualities cf your pencils as popular as they deserve to be.—
I ant, my dear Sir, yours always truly,
W. Brockedon, Esq. WILLIAM HARVEY.
From Professor Brands, F.R.S.. &c. &c. &c.
Royal Mint, Feb. 13, 1846.

lily dear Sir—My opinion respecting your Patent riambago
amounts to this ; that by much ingenuity you have overcome nume-
rous diffieulties, in the way of compressing comminuted plurnbago
into a solid mass of an extraordinary, homogeneous, and uniform
character ; that the fracture and texture of that which you have so
consolidated so closely resembles the finest native specimens as to
render it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish be-
tween your artificial product and that of the finest quality obtained
from the mines ; that the pencils from your manufacture are, as far
as my judgment enables me to determine, equal to those made of
the best Borrodale plumbago ; and, lastly, that you have succeeded
In giving to them those different degrees of hardness which are re-
quired by the artist, without rendering them brittle on the one h tnd,
or pulverulent en the other.—Yours always,verysincerely,.

Wm. Brockedon, Esq. WM. THOS. BiANDE.
From Francis Ronalds, Esq., F.R.S., Scc., of the Kew Observatory.
"Ken Observatory, Monday.

My dear Sir,—l beg your pardon for having so long delayed to
express my opinion of your patent lead in pencils ; but I do not
regret very much the omission, because it has given me time to test
the specimens fairly whilst making my drawings for the report con-
cerning this Observatory to the British Association.
I may conscientously say that I never used a pencil—l speak of
the Hit at this moment—with more satisfaction. It was smooth,
equally hard throughout, and possessed a quality which the harder
sort of pencils hitherto used are deficient in, viz., blackness.
Before I had tried them all, Baron de Walterhausen and Professor
Kriel, of Prague, came here, and were so enamoured of them that
they not only took them per force, but almost abused me for not
being mole to give them a nearer address than Cheapside or the City-
road, for procuring a stock to take home. I will thank you to put
me in the way of giving better directions in future.
Yours very sincerely, FRANCIS RONALDS.
William Brockedon, Esq.
Front Major-General Colby, ILE., F.R.S., Esc., &c., Ste., of the
Ordnance Survey.
Ordnance Map-office, Southampton, Jan 94, 184 G.
My dear Sir,—lu reply to your letter of yesterday's date, I have
much pleasure in being able to state tat the tpecimens of pencils
which accompany it are of a very good quality and quite free front
grit.—Yours very truly, THOS. COLBY.
Prom Charles G. Lewis, Esq., Engraver.
My dear Sir,—l have only just now commenced using the pencils
you were so kind to send to me ; they are the best I have ever used,
so very tree from grit ; they are just the thing for the use I am now
making of them, viz., reducing. The MI is quite delightful to draw
with, and a great relief alter the many gritty pencils I have been in
the habit of using, and which break incessantly. I regret that I had
non earner an opportunity of giving them a fair trial.
Believe me, dear Sir, yours very falthfhlly,
Wm. Brockedou, Esq. CHAS.G. LEWIS.
From Mr. Roberson, Artists' Colourman, Long Acre.
51, Long Acre, Jan. 10, ISM
Dear Sir,—All who have had to contend with the faultiness of
genuine Cumberland lead for some years past, in the manufacture of
lead pencils, ought, as well as the artist who uses them, to be obliged
to you fur the riddance of those faults by your new method of pre-
paring lead. The samples that I have tried fully warrant me in say-
ing that the Arts are now independent of the natural production,
Cumberland lead.—l remain, my dear Sir, yours very sincerely,
CHARLES ROBERSON.

W. Brockedon, Esq.
From J. T. Willimore, Esq., A.E
23, Polygon, Jan. 1846.
My dear Sir,—l have tried your pencils both for tracing and reduc-
ing, and find them every thing that can be required ; they work
freely, and, what is very desirable, they seem quite from grit, a hick
is not the case with pencils generally ; they also leave a clear and
excellent transfer upon the etching ground.--I remain, dear sir,
yours faithfully,
JAS. T. WILLMORE.

To W. Brockedon, Esq.
From Mr. Edward Duncan.
2, Mornington-place, May 11, 184 t.
My dear Sir,--I have great pleasure in adding mine to the many
favourable testimonials you have received of the great superiority of
the black lead manufactured by your patent process. I have tried
the specimens of pencils you were so kind as to send me, and I have
no hesitation in stating that, In my opinion, they possess every
quality, in a superior degree, that the artist can require.
Believe me, my dear sir, yours very truly,
To William llrockedon, Esq., F.R.S. E. DUNCAN.
Extract from "Elements of Art," by J. D. Harding, Esq., p. 94.
• Third Edition.
"Recently the quality of lead pencils, both for purposes of art and
for general use, has been greatly improved,in consequence of the dis-
covery, made by my friend Mr. Brockedon, of the mode of preparing
pure pluinbago. For years no fresh lead has been obtained from the
Cumberland mines, and the last having been exhausted long ago,
lead pencils were getting every day worse, and insufferable from grit.
To remedy this, composition pencils have been manufactured ; but
these possess no lustre or depth of colour, and it is difilailt, some-
times impossible, to efface their markings. By Mr. Brockedon's
invention we obtain the pure black lead in all lts lustre and depth of
colour, without a particle of grit, and of any degree of hardness or
softness ; and the markings Nom are all easily effaced. So great is
the improvementin all respects, even over the pure plumbago in its
native state, thati t may truly be said that until now a perfect lead
pencil has been unknown. Load pencils from Mr. Brockedon's
Pure Plumbago are now manufactured by Messrs. Morden and Co ,
and by Messrs. Wiusor and Newton."
Extract from an Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of
the Geological Society of London, 1546, by Leonard Horner,

President of the Society.
"Every year has disclosed new facts in confirmation of the theory,
that accumulations of detrital matter were transformed into their pre
sent condition mainly by the action of heat, accompanied by other che-
mical actions, and the powerful agency of steam and elastic forces
under enormous pressure. A very ingenious process, invented by
Mr. Brokedon, described in a short paper read before us last year,
by which he converts, under very powerful pressure, the powder of
graphite into a solid mast having a copchoidal fracture, and undistin-
guishable from the most compact native black lead, shows that pres-
sure alone may convert flee detrital matter into solid stone.
" 29, Devonshire-street, Queen-square, Blootnsbury."

SEWELL and CO., have purchased, by tender of
the Assignees of Mr. Johnstone, Silk Mercer, &z., Lamb's
Conduit-street, the whole of his valuable STOCK of SILKS, Linen-
drapery, Hosiery, and Fancy Goods, at the large discount of 3IN per
cent. from the cost price. The goods, which are all new and in ex-
cellent condition, will be offered for SALE, on their premises, next
MONDAY, Feb. Bth, and tan following days, when the public will
have an opportunity of buying some really serviceable, as well as
Fancy Goods, at little more than hah the regular prices. _ _

Compton House, 44, 45, and 46, Old Compton-street, and 46 and 47,
Frith-street, Soho-square.

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Ask for FRAMPTON'S PILL 0 11EALTII, and observe the
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Government Stamp.

IRELAND.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
DUBLIN, FEB. I.—The weekly meeting of the Repeal
Association was held this day, but the proceedings were
destitute of interest.

Mr. W. T. KELLY (the gentleman who, on the last day of
meeting, made the startling announcements with regard to
the oppressive conduct of certain landlords in the county
Mayo) reiterated those statements, and pledged himself to
their general accuracy.. Wishing to have official informa-
tion as to the facts, he wrote to the clerk of the peace to
allow a person in his (Mr. Kelly's) employment to have
access to his books for the purpose of ascertaining the exact
number of civil bills entered for trial, and how many of
those were at the suit of landlords, and likewise the number
of eji,ctinents that were adjudicated on, he (Mr. Kelly) un-
dertaking to pay any expense that might attend such search.
To that application the clerk of the peace of the county
Mayo returned the followed answer :7_

"Ballinrobe, Jan. 28.
" Dear3r ust got your letter of yesterday, and re-
gret to saythat I do not think I am justified in giving you
the information you require, or exposing to public view the
private transactions of any gentleman : in any other way I
should he rlild ohlicr,.. v'" stn writing to efietlohar this
uay, anct suall have tt told to yom. ,n,riz- not to come hero
for the purpose you had directed him.—Yours, very truly,
" THOMAS GILDEA.
" W. Thomas Kelly, Esq., 16, Mountjoy-square,
North, Dublin."
The Learned Gentleman then read the following letter from
his clerk : " Castlebar, Jan. 30, 1847.
" Sir —I came from Ballinrobe last night, after seeing
Mr. Gildes. He told me that he wrote to you not to send
me to Ballinrobe, as it was out of his power to give you the
information you required, about the number of civil bills
and ejectments brought at the last sessions. No—not for a
thousand guineas. He said he would not expose the land-
lords of. Mayo ; and what is more, he would not let you know
for what his situation is worth to him. . .
Indeed, he said it was a monstrous thing of you to ask such
information, and were he disposed to give you the informa•
tion, he thinks you would not like paying for 8,000 searchers.
It would certainly require a large sum of money.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant, "Y. KELLY.
,4 W. T. Kelly, Solicitor, Dublin."
Mr. Kelly (in continuation) observed that he was determined
that the inhumanity of those landlords to whom he had ad
verted should be exposed, and he was determined to have a
petition from himself individually presented to the House of
Commons, praying it would direct a return of the number
of civil bills and civil bill ejectments entered and acted on
at the recent sessions in Mayo. The result of these heartless
proceedings was that upwards of 5,000 persons had been
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de-
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tlemanselected to oppose the
selected by the Young Ireland party to contest the
town having refused.
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THE SPANISH MARRIAGES.

The following is a copy of M. Guizot's last dispatch
to the French Ambassador in London :
M. GUIZOT TO COUNT ST. AULAIRE.

Paris, Jan. 25, 1847.
Monsieur le Comte,—Lord Normanby came and com-
municated to me, on the 10th instant, a new dispatch
from Lord Palmerston, dated the Bth, in answer to that
which I addressed, on the 22d November last, to Count
de Jarnac, and which was by him communicated to Lord
Palmerston on the 26th. That answer has, then, reached
me forty-five days after mine had been communicated to
Lord Palmerston, and the very day before the opening
of our Chambers. I expressed, at the end of my
dispatch of Nov. 22, an earnest desire for the termina-
tion of a controversy which was no longer necessary to
throw a light upon facts, and which " might interfere
with the restoration of that policy of good understand •
ing and mutual good-will to which no one, I have some
right to say so, has been, or remains, more faithful than
I do." Animated now by the same feeling, and con-
formably to the orders of the King in Council, I abstain
from entering into a full and minute reply to the new
dispatch which Lord Normanby has communicated to
me, and shall confine myself to a few observations upon
certain passages in that dispatch, which it has seemed to
me impossible to leave entirely without correction. I
trust that, by keeping within those limits, I shall contri-
bute, as far as lies in my power, in bringing at last this
debate to an effective close.
I. Lord Palmerston, after adverting to my expressing
some surprise that so much knowledge should be pro-
fessed of the engagements taken at the Chateau d'Eu, of
which engagements, however, no official proof is pro-
duced, while at tba same the absence of official record
is made the ground, for repudiating facts and documents
which are found t' be inconvenient, and especially the
memorandum of February the 27th, 1846, goes on to
say, in the third paragraph of his new dispatch:—
" Now, in answer to this, it is sufficient to say that
the facts are such as were stated in my former dispatch;
that her Majesty's Government had a knowledge of the
engagements at Eu ; but had not, until after the mar-
riages were declared, any knowledge of the memoran-
dum of the 27th of February ; and if M. Guiaot will
only bring to mind the circumstances connected with the
engagements of the Chateau d'Ea, he will easily see that
her Majesty's Government might acquire a knowledge of
those engagements without the aid of any record in the
Foreign-office."

I am obliged to repeat that the engagements of the
Chateau d'Eu were not officially recorded in the Foreign-
office, any more than the memorandum of the 27th of
February, 1846; that that memorandum was communi-
cated on the 4th of March to Lord Aberdeen, with
whom the conversations and engagements of the
Chateau d'Eu had taken place ; and that, therefore,
Lord Palmerston, who declares himself to have been
acquainted with the engagements, may and must have
known in the same manner the memorandum. The
communications made to a preceding government are
not, upon every change, repeated to the new Govern-
ment ; they are, in the same way as the affairs them-
selves, transmitted from one Ministry to the next
Ministry. What is there, besides, essential in the me
morandum of the 27th of Feb.? It is the declaration
that, in case the marriage of the Queen of Spain or the
Infanta with any Prince not being a descendant of
Philip V., and especially with Prince Leopold of Co-
bourg, should become probable and imminent, the King's
Government would consider itself released from every
engagement, and at liberty to ask for the Duke de
Llofanntpta.ensler the hand either of the Queen or of the
Now, that same declaration was made and repeated
more than once, in the most positive terms, to Lord
nofforGnirehatisßGriotavienrnait
Co
Paris,w Cowley,
who
ato t h
certainlya
t
ment of it.* mdeidazniolbtafsAsial ritoor
11. "But, if her Majesty's present Government,"
says Lord Palmerston (4th and sth paragraphs), "repo.
diates the memorandum of the 27th of February, and
do not acknowledge it to be a document of which they
are bound to take any account, it is not, as M. Guizot
asserts, because that document is found by them to be
inconvenient.

" Her Majesty's Government repudiate that memo-
randum as in any degrea binding upon them, for two
reasons : first, because it assumes rights and puts for-
ward pretensions in which her Majesty's Government
could not have acquiesced, whatever might have been
the time at which that memorandum might have been
communicated to them; and secondly, because, even if
it, had contained nothing to which, in principle, her
Majesty's Government could have objected, it was
neither produced nor mentioned to them until after the
event had happened with respect to which it had pro-
fessed to be a warning; and I must observe that no jus-
tification is even attempted in M. Guizot's dispatch for
the endeavour which has been made to fasten. retrospec-
tively, upon her Majesty's present Government, an obli-
gation arising out of a memorandum of which no know-
ledge was given to them at the proper time by those who
had it in their possession."
The memorandum of the 27th of February assumes no
rights or pretensions of any sort. It declares plainly,
beforehand the conduct which the King's Govern-
ment will hold in a certain contingency. The right
of making such a declaration is most assuredly an
incontrovertible right, which requires nobody's as-
sent. We never maintained that that memo-
randum was binding upon the British Govern-
ment; we merely desired that it should be wade known
to them. It was a manifestation of our intentions,
made from a sense of good faith, in order that the
British Government, being aware of the course which
we meant to follow in that contingency, might in their
,turit,,tatlip,4l9., apcounte tg tbat aayariiilrt 11141°
l'Ae0:1/W4 ecuiduct. lean iirriou peerllol9,
.pi•et6nsiotts.fattiorwartl:ls Melt' lirtirtiy 13F ffecFsiiry for
ar-4041411X3re4otEcitber,to ~repudititeAr lO'itiqiiieedAn ;
it is merely a determination of the French Goverrithent,
made known at several times and through several chan-
nels, especially on the 4th of Match, 1846, to the British
Government, represented at that time by Lord Aberdeen
and now by Lord Palmerston. Is that communication
certain, incontrovertible? that is the only question which
can be raised, and when facts say
'`yes, no one can
repudiate that ansr'er.
111. " If the French Government," says Lord Palmer-
"
ston (paragraph 6th), " meant to plead that memorandum
as a justification for any steps which they
intended to
take, they ought surely to have made it known to the
British Government before those steps were taken. But
that memorandum could not have been produced with-
out raising a discussion about the intended marriage of
the Duke de Moutpensier, and it suited better the views
of the French Government to keep that marriage
i en-
tirely in the back ground, till they could announce t as
a settled arrangement."
The King's Government have not in any way
to evade a discussion about the intended marriage of
the Duke de Montpensier; neither had they
snymmean to
to provoke such a discussion, as they did
not
which had
alter in any way their former intentions,
wbeen well
been distinctly manifested, and must have sought
known to the British Government. It
duties of
enerston's province, who was assuming
the
rsations and
office, to provoke upon that subject
conversations
been under
explanations, for it was he who must have
tu
us,
and
the necessity of making his views known
• ours. Now,
making himself thoroughly acquainted with
the moment
from the time of his coming into office to
Lord Palmer-
when the two marriages were announced,wtts Lord Pal-
or address a
stop did not put a single question to us,
Countd de JarPnac, he
Had he mentioned the subject to and
would have received from him all the explanations
But
wished for. he
single word to us, on that of the Duke enMont Montpensier.
informations which he might have
motive of such a
I have
u n i
silence.torm
should not be laid to the charge of
conduct, but the fact
tho Frcnoh Cos.ornmwnt. etchte.th_e most absolute
" says Lord IV. " Her Majesty's Government,..Pal-
merstonlYlmwaiilnitaninotedininqutihraet irnestop
t the 27th of February, 1846, because they
o
(paragraph 7), " do not repudiate the memo-
randumiir opinion, justify them in ask-
ingfind it inconvenient.
contingency which was specified in
already shown, the
the
case whichwould release the
that memorandum, as
fromnot escended from Philip V.),
venient. For,
tohneirthe contrary, as
previous engagement
Fanrdeuc.lhii.nh Governmentwould,
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et
their
u
hand of the In anfa for the Duke de Montpen-
sier the
an imminent danger that the Queen
(that is to say,
ge confusion. Al_might marry a
and, moreover, as I stated in my never happened ; . for-
mer when Count Bresson
dispatch, such a contingency had actually become
impossible at the time asked the
hand of the Infanta for the Duke, because, at that time
the marriage of the Queen with a descendant of Philip
V. had already been settled."
though the official and public demand, by Count Bres-
son, of the hand of the Infanta for the Duke de Mont-
pensier was posterior to the official and public decla-
ration Queen's marriage with the Duke of Cadiz,
There is in that paragraph a strange
of the
it is notorious that both marriages had been settled at
the same time, and were associated together in such a
manner that, if the latter had not been agreed upon,
neither would the former have been so. It is by the
settlement of the marriage of the Duke de Montpensier
with the Infanta that the contingency mentioned by
Lord Palmerston—namely, the chance that the Queen
might marry a Prince not descended from Philip ) T.
was removed. If, at the tittle when Count Bre,son
asked publicly the hand of the Infants for the Duke de
Montpensier, the Queen's marriage with a descendant
of Philip V. had already been settled, it is because the

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* P.S. I have this moment received the " correspond-
ence relating to the marriages of the Queen and Infanta
of Spain," printed by the British Government for com-
munication to Parliament, and I there and (page 8) an
extract of a dispatch from Lord Cowley to Lord Pal-
merston, dated July 23, 1846, which runs thus :
" The intelligence of a,proposal having been made for
an alliance with a Prince of the House of Coburg occa-
sioned 'the greatest consternation here. M. Guizot told
me that, if the project was persisted in, he should re-
commend tee King to put forward the Due de Mont-
folrt Queen's hand."
hhe
July,
Lord Palmerston did
receive from the British ambassador at Paris the posi-
tive declaration of the intentions of the King's Govern-
PTehnu ssi e,
r s
o as
late a
candidate
a s tthe3t
ment in case the Coburg combination should be put for-
ward, and, on the 19. th of July, he .wrote leis dispatch tp
Mr. Bulwer, which was putting forward the chance of
Prime Leopold at Coburg.