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requisite official facilities. As a mere compilation, it is probably the
moat wonderful on record.

ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Nov, 28, 1846.

This huge volume, the forty-eighth edition of the work, well sus-
tains the reputation enjoyed by the "Directory" of late years. In
the preface the proprietor maintains that the high character of the
work is not referable to its mere connexion with the Post-office ;
for an important change has been gradually introduced into the man-
ner of collecting the information ; and a larger portion of the work
than heretofore has been confided to selected agents entirely uncon-
nected with the Post-office, this being, in great part, the plan of
compiling the editions for 1845 and 1846. Nor has the proprietor
rested content with his past success, but has introduced many impor-
tant alterations in this volume for 1847, and added to its bulk with-
out any increase of price. The Postal Directory' is especially im-
proved, and there are numerous changes throughout tile volume, to
insure its completeness. The compilation must be a vast labour, to
be accomplished only by systematic subdivision and the most pains-
taking minuteness. The appearance of the volume has suggested a
'very lively effusion, to be seen in another column; and we trust the
enterprising proprietor of the " Directory" will find that his labours
are duly appreciated and remunerated. To a great commercial
country this indispensable volume.
RERALD, Nov. 21, 1846.
The new volume of the l'Oe^
in our hands, and we can only exi,Tesi our wonder that a work se
Once Directory for 1847 is already
laborious, extensive, and minute, could fie in any degree improved.
It would have been a sufficient merit to have maiiited its former
reputation ; it is a great merit to have surpassed itself. The pro-
duction of a work unequalled for accuracy and for cleanieiS
has
placed in the hands of the commercial public a most valuable and
indispensable aid in carrying enthe business of this vast metropolis,
which would indeed be subjected to the greatest inconvenience arid
expense if it were not for a work of this kind. In a short thaw our
readers will have an opportunity of judging for themselves en pur,
chasing the new volume, whether our anticipatory notice is in any
degree exaggerated.
_ lIERAPATH'S RAILWAY JOURNAL, Nov. 21, 1846.
The Post-office Directory for 1847 appears with additions and
improvements unon its valuable predecessor, but with no enlarge-
limit in the price. The continued enterprising spirit with which
this important, and it is not a misapplication of terms to say,
national work is conducted, merits the highest commendation. We
know net whether the same illiberal and unjustifiable attempt will
be made in the ensuing session as was done in the last, to wrest it
from the hinds of the present proprietary, and to place it by the
force of might over right in the possession of Government. But
should it he attempted, surely the following statement of its con-
ductors will go home to the consciences, if they have any, of the
parties seeking to draw down the grasping interforence of Govern-
ment. "It can only be necessary to refer to a copy of the work pub-
lished before the purchase of the copyright by its present proprietor,
to be convinced that the mere connexion of the Directory' with
the Post-office has little, if at all, contributed to its present high cha-
racter. That the improvements (the result of many years of un-
wearied toil and application on the part of those engaged in the com-
pilation of the work) are duly appreciated, is now happily beyond all
question ; prior to the Directory' passing to its present proprietor,
rival books contended successfully with this. They have disappeared."
Kelly and Co., 19 and 20, Old Boswell-ceurt, Temple Bar, and all
booksellers.

EMPLOYMENT.—Persons having a little time
to spare are apprised that AGENTS continue to be appointed
in London and country towns to the EAST INDIA TEA COM-
PANY for the SALE of their celebrated TEAS. Offices, 9, Great St.
Helen's Church-yard, Bishepsgate-street. They are packed in leaden
canisters, from an ounce to a pound, with the price and weight
marked on each paskot, and but little trouble is ccca.sioned by the
Tale. The only license required is Hs. per annum, And many during
the last 20 years have realised considerable incomes by the agency,
withaut 10. lot or loss.
Application to be made, If by letter, post paid, as above.

MTHITTINGTON CLUB and METROPO-
LITAN ATHENfEUM.—The COMMITTEE are happy
to inform the Members that they have taken Premises at No. 7,
Gresham-street, which are being adapted for the purposes of the
Club with the utmost rapidity.

WHITTINGTON CLUB and METRO-
POLITAN ATHENAMM.
The Entrance Fees for all Members of this Institution proposed
on and after the let of March, 1847, will be increased to One
Guinea for Town, and Half-a-Guinea for Country Members. All
persons who have been nominated as Members, and have not paid
their entrance fees are requested to do so immediately.

EXETER AND EXMOUTH RAILWAY
COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, that the HALF-YEARLY ORDINARY
GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of the EXETER and
EXMOUTH RAILWAY COMPANY, will be held at the Com-
pany's Offices, No. 13, Bedford-circus, Exeter, on SATURDAY, the
'27th day of February, at One o'clock in the Afternoon precisely.
EDW. WOOLMER, Chairman.

The Transfer Books will be Closed on the 20th day of February,
and will net be Opened until after the said Half-Yearly Ordinary
General Meeting.

JOHN CLENCH, Secretary.

Exeter, February 11th, 1547.

EAST and WEST INDIA DOCK
COMPANY.
The Directors hereby give notice, that it is intended (unless the
charges shall have been previously paid) to SELL, on the 10th day
of March next, such WINES, RUM, sad other Spirits, as from
length of deposit or depreciated quality are not considered to be
worth the charges thereon, and that sundry parcels for which
WARRANTS have been issued will be included In such Sale.
A List of all the Goods may be inspected at this House.
GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary.

East and West India Dock House,
Billitcr-square,Feb. 9, 1847.-,

NEW SHARE and MONEY MARKET,
ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
NEW
THOUSAND SHARES
WANTED, AT GOOD
PRIC,
Daily Share Lists are publicly exhibited at the TRANSFER-OFFICE,
facing Cornhill, and will be sent to any partof the Kingdom on appli-
cation. Detailed Lists may also be had at 114, Cheapside ; 25, Strand ;
32, Cockspur-street ; 53, Piccadilly; and 191 , Oxford•street.
Stevens, Hansard, and Co., Transfer-et:llu, 5, Royal Exchange,
London.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26 COENHILL, LONDON.
Capital 4500,000.
Empowered by Aot of Parliament,.
This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
itb respect to Life Assuranoes and Deferred Annuities. The assured
has, on all occasions, tke power to borrow, without expense or fbr-
eiture of the Polley, two-tkirds of the premiums paid (see Table) ;
leo the option of solecting benefits, aid the conversion of his in-
erests to meet other conveniences or necessity.
Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible
ates.

> '4 Bonus Bonus in 1i R Assured
t Premium. 2
g added. Cash. '''' D' may
N
N Borrow.
• g
---- - --
1837 £217 15 1:/100 011 £l6 0 4 /445 0 0
£ £s. 41. 1838 192 30, 87 1 4 13 II 2 395 11 1
4)1000 3 4 1839 165 11 10' 74 1 9 11 3 1 346 2 3
1840 116 7 8 84 010 718 10 296 13 4
.1841 111 6 81 49 10 0 710 4 247 4 8

The division of prate it annual, and the next ►ill be awls in
December of the present year.
F. FERGITSON CADIROUX, Secretary.

DISEASED AND HEALTHY LIVES ASSURED.
MEDICAL, INVALID, and GENERAL LIFE
OFFICE, 25, PALL-MALL, LONDON, and 22, NASSAU-
STREET, DUBLIN.
Subscribed Capital, 500,0001.
This office was established in 1841, and possesses tables formed on
a scientific basis for the assurance of diseased lives.
The urgent necessity for such an institution may be estimated by
the fact that two-thirds of the population are not assurable as
healthy lives, and that about one in five of the applicants to other
offices Is declined on examination.
And that during the period of five years, as shown at the Annual
General Meeting of Proprietors in November last, upwards of 2,000
proposals had been made to the Society, covering Assurances to
above One Million.
It is the only Company possessing tabulated rates of premium for
disease deduced from extensive data.
Increased annuities are granted en Unsound Lives.
HEALTHY LIVES, both at Home and in Foreign Climates, are
Assured with as much facility and at lower rates than at most other
offices; and a capital of Half-a-Million sterling fully subscribes
affords a complete guarantee for the fulfilment of the Company's
engagements.

FRANCIS G. P. NEISON, Actuary.
N.B. Applications for Agencies to be made to the Actuary.

CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL
LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETT,

No. 78, Great Russell-street, Bl•omobury.

The Annual General Meeting of Proprietors will be heti at the
Office of the Society on THITIODAY, the 4th day of March next, at
Ilalf.past One o'clock precisely. at which meeting Five Directors and
One Auditor (on the part of the Proprietors) will be elected.
Any Proprietor desirous of proposing a candidate for the office of
Director or Auditor must send the name of such candidate to the
Secretary, at least Fourteen days before the day of meeting. The
ballot will commence at Eleven and close at Two o'clock.
The election of an Auditor (on the part of the Assured) will also
take place Oil WEDNICSDAY, the 3d day of March, between the hours
of Eleven and Two o'clock. All persons assured for the whole term
of life, and qualified to Tote, are hereby referred to the conditions
endorsed on their policies, for information concerning the candidate
to be proposed.
Feb. 10, 1847. GEO. IL PINCKARD, Resident Secretary,

FOURTSE DIVISION OF PROFITS.
A detailed report (Just published) or the bonus declared, and the
state of the Seclety generally, can be obtained, free of expense, by
addressing a letter to the Seeretary,

as constructed by
„LE THERIAI,INI
Dr. BOOT and Mr. ROBINSON.
Mr. HOOPER has the greatest satisfaction in stating that at each
of the Metl opolitan and Provincial Institutions at whick this appa-
ratus has been used, it has succeeded ; Messrs. Lawrence, Feron,
Guthrie, Aston Key, Morgan, Thomson, M`Mordo, and many other
eminent Surgeons, have operated ou patients whilst under the In-
fluence of /Ether, by means of this instrument, with the most cow_
plete success, to whom Mr. Hooper begs to refer, and to the reports
in the recent Medical Journals. The success attending this Inhaler
is in great measure owing to the construction of the 'valves.
Orders addressed to Mr. Hooper will be executed on the day they
are received.

SALES BY AUCTION.

The lan MARQUIS OF AILSA'S noble and delightfully situated
TOWN MANSION IN WHITEHALL GARDENS, adjoining
itthsahtao,fidtshoemDeukanedorapl3pirtecoplreitiateeh,fuunuponturtheet
anbandkvarofitobuse Tvehryamvesaiuw,Liblthe
and ornamental Effects.
MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and 60N are
directed by the Executors to announce, that (unless an
acceptable offer shall be previously made by Private Contract) the
distinguished and splendid MANSION of the late Most Noble the
Marquis of Alissi, in Privy-gardens, Whitehall, will be SIN-
IIITTED to P LIC COMPETITION, at the Auction Mart, on
Friday, Frautraav 26, at Twelve. It is held by an eriginal
lease from the Crown for a term of ninety-nine years from
July, 1506, at a low ground rent. The mansion is admirably
arranged throughout for the accommodation and comlhrt of a large
establishment, is in most excellent repair, and immediate possession
nay be had, with its appropriate fittings, and witk or without its
superior furniture. It has a angularly handsome stone atairease,
the rooms are strikingly cheerful and airy, opening backward to a
lawn extending to the river, and are of fine dimensions, particularly
the saloon or ball-room (64 feet long), its walls adorned with rich
and beautiful tapestry in rare preservation. From its contiguity to
the Houses of Parliament, St. James's Park, the Palace, and Down-
ing-street, and from its peculiarly quiet and choice situation, it is
admirably suited for a Cabinet Minister, or any leading Mem-
ber of Parllaznent ; also for a first-class club-house. The purchaser
will have the refusal of the capital freehold stabling, Its., near Great
George-street.
No person can view the house without a eard of admission, which,
with every requisite information, may be had at their Offices in
Waterloo-place, Pall-mall ; also of Messrs. Ashfield and Clode, soli-
citor., jt Staple Inn.
Deacrip44. particulars may also be had of Mr. Cala. Reuse-
Agent, RiCiimOn4 ; and at the Auction Mart. -

EXTENSIVE FREEHOLD STABLING, with ENCLOSED PRI-
VATE YARD, near DOWNING-STREET, WESTMINSTER.

with possession.
MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will
SELL by AUCTION, at the Mart, on Friday, Fa-
eivsey 26, (uuleve previously disposed of by Private Treaty),
by direction Or the devisees in trust for sale, under the
will of the late Most Notble the Marquis of lllsa, some
EXTENSIVE and CAPITAL STABLING, at the west end of
Blue Boor-yard, bat completely enclosed within its own walls and
gates, comprising a nine and four-stall stable, three large coach•
houses, harness rooms, and several servants' rooms and lofts above,
with pumps of soft and spring water, and all in substantial repair.
The yard is entered both from King-street and Delahay-street, close
to Great George-street.
Particulars and orders to view may be had of Messrs Ashileld and
Clods. eolicit.one, 7. Staple Inn ; and et Messrs. Daniel Smith and Bon,
Waterloo place, P&U,m&l•

STAPLETON GROVE.
A delightfully affiliated and capital FREEHOLD RESIDENCE, with
rich and beautifully Timbered Grounds, within a short distance
of Bristol, with immediate possession; also TWO smaller
RESIDENCES.
MESSRS.
uSy.
Apt,
cAT NI INE,
the at SMITH
Aicti.n
Mart, and n SONFR
iDA T will
l the
S26th of February, at Twelve o'clock, by direction of the Executors
of a gentleman deceased, the above most desirable and complete
RESIDENCE, in perfect order, comprising a handsome substantial
modern stone mansion, containing rooms highly decorated and of
admirable size and proportion, with very superior domestic offices ;
capital stabling and outbuildings, most productive walled gardens,
vineries, and pine pits ; beautiful pleasure-grounds, in which is an
iry.boand tower, commanding a grand view of Bristol and the ad-
jacent country, surrounded by rich park like paddocks—in all about
thirty =rag, backed en the north side by a bold grove of lofty
Umber, and surrounded by the fine wooded domains of the Duke of
Beanfort, the Bishop of Bristol and Gloucester, and of Sir J. Smith.
The mansion is approached from the turnpike-road, through a rustle
lodge, and altogether forms one of tho most desirable retreats
of its size in the county ; every part of the premises and grounds
are most amply supplied with the finest water, and the house is
fully lilted with fixtures of the best description. Also a smaller
Residence, on the south side of the grounds, and in a separate lot, a
cottage residence, with lawn, garden, Sec., in the occupation of Mr.
Gee, as yearly tenant.
The estate may be viewed, and descriptive particulars, with plans,
had in due time en the premises ;of Mr. Brook Smith, solicitor,
Small-street; and of Messrs. Sturge, surveyors, Broad-street,
Bristol ; at the Auction Mart ; and of Messrs. Daniel Smith and
Son, land agents, Sec., Waterloo-place, London.

KENT.
The 'nor Valuable FREEHOLD ESTATES and Delightfully Healthy
SEAT and VA of CHARLTON, near Canterbury, the pic-
turesque parishes of Bishopsbourne, Kingstone, and Barham.
MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON are
commissioned to OFFER for SALE by AUCTION, at the
Mart, in Merck. next, in Lots (unless an acceptable offer shall be
previously made by private contract for the whole of the property),
the important and very desirable FREEHOLD ESTATE of CHAR L-
TON, about four miles from Canterbury, upon the high Dover-
Road, a remarkably healthy and favourite neighbourhood, compris-
ing the MANSION of Cad•ALTON, (of which immediate possession
may be had), with its beautiftil Pleasure-grounds, capital Stabling
and Gardens, keeper's and other Ledges, surrounded by a finely va
clad little Park of excellent sound Pasture Land, studded wills some
magnificent Timber and Ornamental Plantation, with Two very va-
luable Farms adjoining, interspersed with Woodlands, forming excel-
lent Preserves for Game, and some desirable Lands contiguous, with
a portion of the healthy Barham-down, comprising the race-course,
with important frontages upon the turnpike- road, parts opening fine
commanding sites for the erection of villas, overlooking the pictu-
resque vale of Bishopsbourne, Kingstone, and Barham. Also another
residence, now occupied by the Rev. J. Harrison, and a small farm
and detached lands, in and near the village and church of Barham.
altogether about 740 acres. All in a ring fence except a few lots in
Barham,

Descriptive praticulltrs may be had, when the day of sale is fixed,
of Mr. Dewsatt, at Bishopsboume ; at the chief inns at Canter-
bury, Dever, Maidstone, &c.; of Messrs. Delmar and Wynne,
solicitors, Lincoln's Inn-fields ; at the Auction Mart ; and of Messrs.
Daniel Smith and Son, land agents, in Water-100-place, Pall-mall.

CHESTU-lIILL ROUSE, amidst the romantic scenery of Woed-
cheater Perk, near Stroud and Nailsworth, in Gloucestershire,
with a first-cies. Itallway-station only three miles distant.
MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will
offer for SALE by AUCTION at the Mart, early in APRIL
NEST (unless an acceptable offer shall be previously made by Private
Contract),
The above desirable FREEHOLD RESIDENCE, with gardens.
pleasure groutida, and rich paddocks, together about eighteen acres.
The House contains siT airy bed-rooms, dressing-rooms, water-
closet, &c. three sitting-reotns, halls, and the usual domestic offices,
with stabling and various out-buildings, excellent gardens, lawn,
shrubberies, &c. ; delightfully situate on a healthy picturesque spot,
commanding scenery of great extent and surprising beaut, , and in
the newly established Alissien of the Pessimists, and early posses-
aim may be had.
Particulars may be had, when the day of sale is fixed, of Mr.
Peaks, the resident agent et Woodchester; at the chief hotels at
Stroud, Bristol, and Bath; at the Auction Mart; of Mr. Hodson,
solicitor, the Close, Lichfield ; and of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son,
Land Agents, Waterloo-place, London.

Freehold Villa and Grounds at Sunninghill, Berks, bordering on
Windsor Great Park, Virginia Water, and Ascot.
MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will
SELL by AUCTION, at the Mart, at the end of March, or
early in April next (unless an acceptable offer shall be previously
made by private contract), with possession, the FREEHOLD
VILLA, late the residence and property of Mrs. Churchill, deceased,
delightfully situated on an elevated and beautiful part of Sunning-
hill, seining Titnest-park, and close to all the romantic rides,
walks, and scenery of Virginia Water, and the Royal parks, through
which is the drive to Windsor of only six miles. It has just been
pat into thorough repair, and has all suitable offices and outbuildings
for a moderate establishment, sarrousded by highly dressed pleasure
grounds, gardens and paddocks.—More detailed particulars, with
plans,will be published when the day of sale is fixed, and may be
hadn the premises ; at the Auction Mart ; of Messrs. Pemberton,
Crawley, and Gardiner, solicitors, Whitehall-place ; and at Mr. Smith's
offices in Windsor, and Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

The famous TOWN MILLS, upon the KENNET, la the heart o
the town of NEWBURY ,

MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will
SELL by AUCTION, at the end of March, or early in
April next (unless an acceptable effer shall be previously made by
private contract), by direction of the Executrix of the late Richard
Basing, Esq., the above capital FLOUR MILLS, with the residence
attached, various outbuildings, paddock, &c., held by a renewable
Lease under the Dean and Canons of Windsor, most commandingly
situated in the town of Newbury, upon the Kennet and Avon canal.
The mills are in the occupation of Mr. Leonard (whose term ex-
pires at Midsummer next), when possession may be had ; offering a
fine opportunity for an active man of moderate capital to secure a
first-rate old-established business.

—... ...
The Mills may in Tiewed by application to Mr. James Tanner, of
Bagnor, near Newbupy ; and full particulars may be obtained when
the day of sale is fixed at the chief inns at Newbury, Reading, &c.
and at Messrs. Smith's oftlees in Windsor, and Waterloo-place,
Pall-mall.

Valuable Freehold Farm, in the rich parish of Walton-le-Soken
near the coast, Mow Colchester, a favourite and improving sea-
bathing place. _ _

ME'gSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will
SELL by AUCTION, early in the Spring, unless an accept-
able offer shall be previously made, in One or more Lots, a very
valuable FARM, in the occupation of Mr. Samuel Wilson, comprising
a highly respectable Farm Residence, within a walk of the beach
and public rooms, with about 270 acres of capital arable and grazing
land, in high condition, with a small wood, and superior buillings of
every description, in perfect repair.—Particulars may be known,
and a plan inspected, at their Offices in Waterloo-place, Pall-mall ;
also of Messrs. Pemberton, Crawley, and Gardiner, Whitehall-place,
London.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
CLIEMTCAL LECTURES y Pr. RYAN, with brilliant and
varied Experiments, daily, and on the Evening! of Mondays, Wed-
nesdays,' and Fridays. On the commencement of Lent, Dr. BACH-
HOFFNER will deliver a Series of Lectures on ASTRONOMY, ex-
hibiting the latest discoveries, en the Mornings and Evenings of
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, with new and appropriate
Music, by Dr. Wallis. On the alternate Mornings and Evenings ho
will Lecture on the EL ECTIGO-MAGNETIC TEL EGRA PH, including
the recent Patent of Messrs. Nott and Gamble. The Models and
etker Works in the Useful Arts are daily described. The beantifhl
Optical Effects include the NEW DISSOLVING VIEWS. Experi-
ments by the DIVER and DIVING-BELL, &c.
Admission Is. Schools, half-price.

HENRY RUSSELL et the STRAND
THEATRE.
HENRY RUSSELL, composer of "Woodman spare that Tree,"
" The Ivy Green," . The Old Arm-chair," "The Ship on Fire,"
" The Gambler's Wife," " The Maniac," " Some love to Roam."
" I'm Afloat," "A Life on the Ocean Wave," " The Newfouidland
Doe," &c. &c., will have the honour of giving his VOCAL EN-
TERTAIN3IENTS on MONDAY EvENING, Feb. 22, and following
evenings, interspersed with Anecdotes of Negro Life and Character.
Boxes,
as.; Stalls, 20. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Doors Open at
Half-past Seven; commence at Eight. Private Boxes, 1/. Is. Rum-
office open from One till Four.

CIIUBBS' LOCKS, FIRE-PROOF SAFES AND CASH BOXES.
(IHUBBS' NEW PATENT DETECTOR
`J LOCKS give perfect security from False Keys and Picklocks,
andes al
s and o det
for every purpose is which Locks are applied, and are
strong, secure, simple, and durable.
CHUBES' PATENT COMBINATION LATCH, for Front Doors,
Counting House Doors, &c., are simple in construction, low in price,
and quite secure ; the Keys are particularly neat and portable.
CRUMBS' PATENT FIRE-PROOF SAFES, BOOK-CASES,
CHESTS, &c., made entirely of strong wrought Iron, so as effectually
secure from the attacks of the moat skilfulto resist the falling of brick work, timbers, Ecc., in case of tire,
BS' CASH and DEED BOXES, fitted with the DETEC-
TOR LOCKS.
C. CHUBB and SON, 57, St. Paul's Churchyard, London; and C.
Chubb and Co., sweats,
28, Lord-street, Liverpool.
baundrgalarrse also.
CHUB BS
perfectly

SPENCS CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYE
ER'S
The thousands of individuals who for upwards of twenty
years have used this celebrated liquid, pronounce it to be the
y
article extant which effectually changes, in a few minutes, red or
grey hair, whiskers, moustaches, Poe., to a dark brown or black,
without trouble (by simply combing it through the hair), and
pro-
duces by one application a pleasing and permanent change ; and it
can be ineontestibly proved, that while massy dyes tend to destroy
the hair by their pernicious properties and, dangerous process of ap-
plication, that this article promotes the growth of hair, nourishing
the roots till the latest period of life. Price 3s. 6d., 65., and les
per bottle.
To be had of the Proprietors, 29, Nottingham-place, Pleldgate
street, Whiteehapel-road, London ; also of Mr. Joluistone, 68, Corn-
hill ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Front, 229, Strand; Sanger, lee, Oxford-
street ; Barclay, Farringdon-street ; Atkinson, 24, dßond-
street ; Hooper, 43, King William-street, London •bridge ; Finnigin,
Milsem-street, Bath; Elmore, Bull-street, Birmingham; and of mos
rerthners and Medicine Vendors in town and country. Sent to
any Part of the kingdom by receiving a remittance, post-paid.
Please to ask tbr " Spencer and Co.'s Chinese Liquid Hair Dye.'
Observe, the Proprietor's address is on the wrapper.

MUSICAL BOXES, of high quality, the
mechanism beautifully finished, playing upwards of 750
airs, overtures, &c. A Catalogue of the Music, with the price of
the boxes, is now published, and may be bad, gratis, on application,
or will be sent, post-paid, if applied fer by a paid letter.—T. COX
SAVORY and Co., Goldsmiths, &c., 47, Corn= (seron don from
Gracocimroh-otroot), London,

THE PATENT MILE-INDEX CARRIAGE
COMPANY.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital, 65,0001., in Shares of 101. each.
Deposit, Is. per Share, (amount limited by Statute).
Deposits will be returned without deduction, if the whole capital
R. Bartley Kennedy, Es be not subscribed.
TRUSTIES.
Wright,al
84milt10:ystarleEnget.
Richard Barker, Req., 14, Fitzroy-square.
q.,
R. Hartley Kennedy, Esq., Resington Lodge, Notting-hill.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
Assurance Company, and Deputy Chairman of the Oriental Bank,
Resington Lodge, Notting- hlll, —Chairman.
Lieutenantyv .
u . GieGr, re
Captain Tyndale, Director of the South Eastern Railway, 2), Alfred-
() , Chairman of the India and London Life
place, Brompton,—Deputy Chairman.
Si. James's-square.
J. E. B. Curtis, Esq., Lincoln's aid 24, Wellington-road, St.
Navy Club,
John's-wood. Dinorseeretss's:narye.and
Robert Faulder White, Esq., 24, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park.
(With power to increase the number to ten.)
MANAGING DIRIVFOR,
Henry Von Uster, Esq.
namonts.
Messrs, Sapte, Muspratt, Banbury, and Co., 77, Lombard-street.
SOLICITOR/.
Messrs. Wire a 30 Child, St. Swithin's-lane, City.
OncarrasT.
Mr. Lionel Curtis.
The features of the undertaking are as follow :
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Newcastle and
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Ditto, New Quarters (scrip). 11. 85.-Ditto, Fu art
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of India, 3s. 6d.-Great Southern of Madras, 3s, 6(1.-Great North
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Central, 415. 6/I.-Edinburgh and Perth . 595. 6d.-East Lothian
145.-Glasgow, Barrhead, and Nellston Direct,
535.-Ditto, Now,
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Dumfries, and and Carlisle, V. Is. 6d.--Glasgow, O. 2,9 t. I s.-Glasgow,
drossan, 6% -Great North of Scotland, as 4 gow, Kilmarnock, and Ar-
3s. 6c1.-Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 4525*-Great North of India,
South-
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(scrip), 275. 6d. -Scottish Central, 21 6d,-Ditto, New Quarters
220. 6d.-Wilsontown, Morningaide, Ta -Scottish Grand Junction,
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ENTRAORDINARY LITERARY
SQUABBLE.
(From Galignani's Messenger.)
Public interest has been much excited by a case be-
fore the Civil Tribunal of the Seine, in which the pro-
prietors of the Presse and Constitutionnel were plaintiffs,
and M. Alexandre Dumas, the celebrated romance
writer, defendant. The case itself, however, is nothing
more than an action brought against M. Dumas for the
breach of an engagement relative to the publication of
his romances. The hearing of the process commenced
oa the 22d of January, when M. Lacon and M. Langlais,
advocates of M. V‘ron gerant of the Constitutionnel, and
of M. de Girardin, gerant of the Presse, exposed the case
of their clients. From their statements it appeared that
in March, 1845, M. Veron and M. de Girardin con-
ceived the idea that it would be most advantageous to
their journals to secure the exclusive services of M.
Alexandre Dumas, and thereby to prevent him from
enriching other newspapers with his productions. M.
Dumas having complied with their views, treaties were
drawn up between the respective parties. These treaties,
dated March 28 and 30, 1845, set forth that Alexandre
Dumas bound himself not to write, during the ensuing
five years, more than 18 volumes of romance per annum,
of which nine were for the Presse and nine for
the Constitutionnel. M. V6con and M. de Girardin,
on their part, bound themselves to pay the price M.
Dumas thought fit to put upon his own works
which was, that each volume, forming about twenty-two
feuiletons, and consisting of lines (bits of lines being
counted as whole lines), should be paid 3,500 francs,
which made 63,000 francs per annum for the eighteen
volumes, or 315,000 francs for the five years. But as M.
Dumas, at the time of signing the treaties, was under
other engagements, it was stipulated that he should be
at liberty to fulfil them; and to prevent any misunder-
standing, they were stated to be as follow :—Five
volumes of the " Comte de Monte Christo," to be pub-
lished in the Debats ; "Le Fits de Milady, ou vingt ans
apri‘,s," in the course of publication in the Siecle ; six
volumes of " Le Vicomte de Bragelonne," to be deli-
vered in three months to the same newspaper ; the
"Chevalier de Maison-Rouge," published in the Journal
La Dimocratie Pacifigue, to be reprinted by M. Cadet,
publisher ; 6,000 lines of "La Fille du Rissent," to be
supplied to the same person ; a volume of the "S le
de Louis XV. ;" the " Histoire de la Peinture," for M.
Bethune, a publisher ; six volumes called "La Guerre
des Femmes," for M. Potter, publisher ; and lor M.
Bethune "Le Fils de Milady," and the remaining
volumes of Monte Christo," and "Le Sidle de Louis
XV." In the treaties in question it was also provided
that half of the eighteen volumes, or at least four to the
Constitutionnel and four to the Presse, should he
delivered by the Ist of July following, and the re-
mainder at the beginning of the month of Decem-
ber, or, at the latest, on the 15th. M Dutnes, moreover,
bound himself to protest publicly against any advertise-
ments that might be made in any newspapers, contrary
to the stipulations of the treaties with the Prffs€ and
the Constitutionnel. The two journals, imp;ediately on
their treaties being _signed, announced with great pomp
to their readers and the world the important news that
henceforth M. Dumas would write exclusively in their
columns. But their mortification was extreme to find
that in the month of August, 1845, the Specie annnune4d
the publication of a novel, palled "fie Trois Mousque•
taires," by the great romancer; that in September a
newspaper, called Le Soleil (now defunct), advertised
the "13Stard de Maul6sni" from his pen i that ia tha
same month, the Esprit Public adverstso work. called
"Andrea del Sarto,' of which he was the author; that
on the 29th September the Siecle published a tale
called the " Amaeone," and advertised ' wOrk in four
volumes, called " Vablen," both 117 him ; that the
Paine announced the publication of a romance in two
volumes, also by him; and that the Mode advertised
a work called " Elisabeth," of which he was to be the
parent. All this being in flagrant violation of the
treaties that bound him tp the Psesse and the Vau-
stitutionxel, and being moreover most injurious to the
interests of those journals, M. VAzon and N. de Girardin
called upon M. Dumas to disavow them. Ile
therefore wrote a letter to M. V6ront stating that the
publication of the " Anseeelle" by the tFieels was unau-
thorised by him, that be had sold it a year previously to
a publisher named Hetzel, who had resold it without
having any right so to do, and that he might prosecute
the Siecle in his name if he pleased hot he took no
steps to stop the publication, neither did he adopt any
measures to prevent the advertising of workt to he writ-
ten by him for other newspapers, Not was that all; for,
though he had undertaken that four volumes should be
delivered to the Constitutionnel on the lot of July, be
did not deliver a line on that day, and up to the month
of September following he bad only delivered one volume
of a romance called the 4. Dame de Montsoreau."
Neither was that given all at once, as it ought to have
been,* but bit by bit, day after day, `so as to cause
great inconvenience to the journal. At the end of Sep•
tember M. \lron sent a legal summons to M. Dumas to
deliver the end of the manuscript of that romance, where-
upon M. Dumas set to work, and, when he thought
he had written enough, killed off all his personages.
In 1845 he wrote nothing more, ao that instead of nine
volumes he had only delivered five. In 1846 some
communication took place between him and M. Veron,
the result of which was that M. Dumas undertook
to deliver a romance, called the " Qurante Cinq," by
the beginning of December ; but, instead of doing so,
he occupied himself in building a theatre, rehearsing
plays, travelling in Spain, Algeria, and Tunis. Thus,
in no respect had he acted up to this treaty, and M.
Wren felt called upon to demand his condemnation for
the damages he had occasioned, as also for the expense
to which he had been put in registering the treaty, so
as to be enabled to plead upon it. With respect to the
Presse, that journal ought to have received nine volumes
previous to April, 1846 ; but it had not received a single
line. In May, however, M. Dumas gave it the first
pages of a romance, called the " Meeneires d'un
Atidecin," and subsequently delivered four volumes of
that work. But that was all—not another line had he
written. And yet the Presse have paid him as if he had
faithfully executed the treaty—it had advanced him
23,695 f. The Presse, said its advocate, had no alterna-
tive but to proceed against M Dumas, but it had faith
in his honour. It could, however, have wished that he
had shown a little regard for it, instead of scampering
over Spain and Africa, and showing his audacity in kill-
ing lions.
The proprietors of the Patric and the Siecle were
cited to the tribunal in conjunction with M. Dumas, on
the ground that in publishing his romances after the
treaty had been entered into between him and the Presse
and the Constitutionnel, they bad inflicted au injury upon
the two newspapers for which they owed reparation in
damages. The advocate of the Patrie, however, alleged
that the romance by M. Dumas, which it had published,
was in virtue of a treaty previous to that which bound
him to the Presse and the Constitutionnel, and therefore
it called upon the tribunal to award it damages against
those two journals for the injury they had caused it in
asserting the contrary. The advocate of the Siecle ex
plained that it had purchased the tale called the " Ama-
zone," from M. Iletzel, who had bought it from M.
Dumas, and paid him for it. The Siecle had also pur-
chased from M. Dumas the romance called " Fabien,"
and had paid him 12,000 francs, though it had not yet
published it. This romance had been offered to the
Presse, but declined. As to the complaint made against
the Slick, of having infringed the treaty between M.
Dumas and the Constitutionnel and the Presse, the
Learned Gentleman contended that the Siecle was not
bound to know what treaties M. Dumas had made with
other journals; that when he offered his works it bought
them, as it had a right to do. Besides, the Siecle had
treaties with M. Dumas, dating from 1842, by which it
had purchased of him 500,000 lines.
In the sitting of the Court on the 30th of January
the case was resumed. It having been announced that
M. Alexandre Dumas intended to plead his own cause.
an immense multitude assembled in the Salle des Pas-
Perdus—such a multitude, it is said, as has rarely been
seen in the old hall since the middle ages, when it was
the custom to amuse the good people of Paris by the
representation of religious mysteries. As soon as the
court was opened it was crammed to excess, in spite of
the exertions of a strong body of the municipal guard.
The benches of the judges were even occupied by seve-
ral ladies.

M. Dumas commenced by saying, that he had desired
to speak in his own case, because it was not an ordinary
one. It was not a discussio between man and man, but
and
a sort of duel between honourhonour. He re-
gretted that he did not see either M. Veron or M. de
Girardin present for that obliged him to fire in the air,
and the ball, instead of traversing their bodies, would
fall at their feet. His treaty with them depended on the
annullation of a treaty with 11. Dujarrier, but the day
after it was signed they announced in the Conatitutionne/
and La Presse, that, as soon as the works then in
course of publication ii other newspapers should be com-
pleted, he could only write in their journals. That,
however, was not true. He had still eighty volumes to
give to other newspapers and other persons ; namely,
30,000 lines of " Monte Christo," 24.000 lines of
" Vingt ans Apres," 36,000 lines of the " Vicomte de
Bragelonne," 24,000 lines of the " Chevalier de la
Maison Rouge," 24,000 lines to the Commerce, and several
thousand lines to the Patrie, and to M. Cadot. In all
he had to give 225,000 lines, or eighty volumes ; and,"
cried M. Dumas, " to give eighty volumes within the
time that was assigned me was a task that I alone could
execute. I contend, that if the members of the French
Academy. had been called upon to supply these eighty
volumes in so short a time as was allowed me, they
could not have done it—and yet they are forty ! No;
they could not have done it—they would have become
bankrupt."—(Laughter.) M. Dumas than went on to
contend that his treaty with M. Veron was only ob-
ligatory upon the treaty with M. Duiarrier being for-
mally annulled, and that as such annullation only took
place at the end of January 1846, he was not bound to
deliver four volumes of romances to M. Vecon at the
beginning of July, 1845. He had been accused, he said,
of occupying his time in other things instead of writing
for the Constitutionnd. That was true, for he had
written in order to liberate himself with respect to the
other journals "criedi he had entered into engage-
ments. yes; he, " I have done what no other
man has done, nor can do." I have written at the same
time five different romances for five different journals.
I alone did it—every line was mine—every word was
written by my hand." He then continued, "Up to the
moment at which the action was commenced my rela-
, tic= with M. Yeron were always most friendly. lie

PRICE SD.

came to me one day and said, ' My dear Dumas, we
have the misfortune to be publishing at this moment a
romance so bad that we lose our subscribers. If you will
not write something for us—something amusing, in•
teresting, witty, such as you always write—we are lost.
And you must do that in eight days.' • Eight days,'
said I, ' is a long time when one has nothing to do, but
it is short when one has, as I have, five feuilletons to
write every day, and three horses, three servants, and
the railway continually waiting for copy.' Nevertheless,
as M. V6son was in great distress, as it was to him a
question of life and death, I said, • I will take the en-
gagement to give you in eight days a volume of 6,000
lines, and that you may be sure that I will do so, take
136 pages of paper, number them, sign them, and I will
bring them to you in eight days, filled with the matter
of a volume of 6,000 lines.' I did so, and the gratitude
of M. Veron was extreme." M. Dumas went on to
complain, that some delay having one day occurred in
the arrival of the copy of the romance that he wrote
for the Constitutionnel, M. Veron put a notice in the
paper, saying it was owing to the negligence of M.
Dumas, a proceeding anything but friendly. Shortly
after M. Veron began an action at law against M.
Dumas, and when the latter said to him that it would
be better to settle their disputes by arbitration, M.
Veron replied—" My dear Dumas, it will be better to
leave them to the Tribunal—it will be cheaper, and
will not derange you, for ycu need not appear unless
you like." As to the advertisements in the Con-
stitutionnel and the Presse of his being obliged
to write exclusively for them, M. Dumas said
it was not suprising that the Sits:de, the Coin-
fierce, the Journal des Debuts, the Democratique
Pacifiquc, and the Patrie, to all which he was
under engagements, should be annoyed at such a false-
hood being told to the public; and as they issued counter
advertisements, M. Veron and M. de Girardin became
angry. On the annulling of his treaty with M. Dnjarrier,
upon which he reminded the Tribunal his treaty with
Veron and Girardin only came into operation, he QV-red
24.000 lines to the Commerce. The romance called
" Fabien" had been given up to him by Pejarrier's trus-
tees, and he offered it to the Presse, which refused it as
not equal to his other woaks. He hen offered it to the
Constitutionnsi, bqt M. Veron also declined it, and re-
commended him to give it to the Coamoree to enable him
to get rid by so much of his treaties with that journal.
The Commerce at that period, however, was in a dying state,
and being without money had not the means to aeirchase
romances. It was then that " Fahsa'; was carried to
the Sick, with which newsaaaeaa ha had treaties secur-
ing him 190,000 faanaa in N years. I'he Sit'ele gave
him p,qp.w. far the wor4 i ‘i but,'' continued M.
Diu pas, ff i< felt tortnented tit its being described as
iaferier 0 ply other works. I read it, and I found
myspjf that it-was really not equal to my sae:ear pro-
ductions. I determined to burn it i 4ad i did burn
it in the fire of my coasaieeee. • Fabien' has dis-
appoared-4 will ha, never heard of again. Few men
seophf Gaye made such a sacrifice as that ! " .4s to
the, " Araaaone," it was, said M. Dm:pass, " a poor
little thing of 11,000 lines" that he has given a
year previously to M. Iletael 'for his " Diable a
Paris." lie had fesgotten it, and the Tribunal would
readily believe that a man who writes SN.lasata lines
*Light easily forget 11,000. Ire nem came to " An-
drea del Sarto," which ;:pp,c.c.red in the Esprit Pub-
lic. M. feasting, a gentleman connected with that
ioaraai, itai;.4 iii 6 a visit and offered him three francs a
line to write something for it. "I replied,'' said M. Du-
etas, " that the man who hap aleaued you to offer me
three francs a line is aiiitea acid, or has no money, for in
my work Caete 4s a great deal of dialogue, and the mul-
titede of lines occupied by such words ati oui, non,
3441flient, &e., and to pay three f-4,4nes for a oui or a
non would Lea folly," resa, said M. Castille, "we will
offer 12.000 f. to M, de lialsac for something of his." "M.
de Balsap,' replied I, " is a man of great talent, and you
pould not do better than apply to him if he will give you
something in the style of ' 1,0 ire Goriot, or Euglinie
Grandet.' It was after this conversation that the
Esprit Pu4ii published ' Andrea del Sarto,' which
is ea tracted from a great work called 'La Ga-
leria de Florence.' Gentlemen, I publish not only in
Preece but abroad.—(A laugh,) Here is a copy of the
' Galerie de Flerenoe ;' it is a magnificent work, but
being pablished abroad anybody could quote from it, and,
I repeat, the Esprit Public did so." 'With respect to the
romance called " Elizabeth " being advertised in the
Mode, M Dumas declare,d that he had given no authority
for it, and that the prom eding was perfectly unjustifiable.
" What'' he added, "it is supposed that I could write a
romance called • Elizabeth,' when I hate the name! I
ask pardon of any lady here present who may be
named Elizabeth, but I am forced to avow that the
name is one of my antipathies. I have published 300
volumes, I have written 25 dramas, and I will defy
tiny person to discover in any one of my romances,
or -'in any one Ye of my dramas, the word
'Elizabeth.' " He had -now arrived at the " batard de
Maulsisn," The Commerce, he hadesaid, was dying, but
one morning it wolelltup with new lifer and cue to him,
and said, " You owe us four volumes ; we were dead, it
is true, but we have come to life again, so pay us the four
volumes." In the treaty with M. de Girardin a reserve
had been made in favour of the Commove ; he had sold
the " Batard de Mauloion" to M. Cadot, the publisher,
who, with M. de Girardin'a consent, sold it to the
Commerce, receiving for it a price much higher than he
had expected, that he had offered M. Dumas, 7,000 f.
in addition to what he had paid him. M. Dumas
here entered into more lengthened details to prove what
he had asserted with respect to the romances entitled
" Fabien" and "Le Blitard de Mault.m." He had
undertaken to write a work called " Memoires d'un MC
decin," for the Press[, and had written to demand that
the division into jeuilletons and volumes should be left to
him, so as not to injure the interest of the work ; and the
gentleman charged with the superintendence of the
I euilleton department of the Presse had consented to his
application in a letter which terminate d by saying to
him, " Who dare assign a limit to genius ?"—(The
reading of this phrase by M. Dumas himself drew forth
marks of astonishment from the auditory.) He went on
to say that he received from the Presse a sum of 10,000 f.,
once paid, on condition that his volumes should consist
of 6,700 lines, instead of 6,000, as originally agreed ;
and that this made an economy of 30,000 f. to that
journal. The Presse hail advanced him 6,000 f., but he
had reason to believe that it would not be demanded
from him if the success of the " Misnoires d'un Medi-
ci*," which were then being published, should carry its
circulation up to 30,000 copies. In the account pre-
sented to him by the Presse, a sum of 3,500 f. was put
down against him, but that was for the registration of
the treaty. Excluding, then, the three sums of 10,000 f,
6,000 f., and 3,500 f., his account with the Presse stood :
Received from the Presse 16,772 f. 50c., deduct profits of
the " Memoires d'un Misdecin," 11,808 f., difference
4,964 f. 50c. against him. But as it had been arranged
that he should receive 3,500 f., the value of a volume in
advance, and as he had actually remitted copy worth
I,ooof, to the Presse, it followed that the Presse was
really in advance to him to the amount of only 464 f. 50c.
That was his account with the Presse. It would really
appear that it had been believed that the cause would
be pleaded in his absence when he was hunting lions,
but instead of that he was there hunting other
things.—(Laughter.)
M. Langlais, advocate to the Presse, here made some
observations.

The President desired him not to interrupt, but to
take notes.

M. Dumas, turning to the advocate, cried ‘‘ Take
your notes !—(Laughter.) Ali! it is M. Langlais who
interrupts me. I will just say a word to him. At the
last audience, Sir, you said that I had shown audacity
in hunting lions in Africa. I wish to tell you, Sir, that
you did not employ the proper word—you should have
said courage not audacity. I am not an academician, and
it is not a lesson of language that I give you; but I am
a man of the world, and I give you a lesson of polite-
ness."—(Sensation.) After this lesson to the Learned
Advocate, M. Dumas continued:—" In admitting that the
Presse had advanced me 6,000'. and 10,0001., it could
hardly be called an advance, for I (M. Dumas) did tot owe
money to the Presse, but merchandise Besides it
would not have been surprising that, in a running ac-
count of 80,000 lines, the Presse should be in advance
to me (M. Dumas) to the amount of 6,000 f. Yet, after
the detail I have laid before you, I persist in saying that
the Presse was only in advance 464 f., notwithstanding
M. de Girardin had to pay me 157,000 f. in five years."
After complaining of certain calumnies that had been
made upon him, and especially of that in which be
was represented as having given four volumes of
blank paper, under pretence that it was the manu-
script of a romance, in return for 12,0001., M. Dumas
proceeded :—" Gentlemen, I will now explain to you
the circumstance which led to my departure for Spain.
I had delivered 158,000 lines, that is forty-eight volumes
in eighteen months. I was worn out alter having
written so much. I write all my volumes myself. I have,
it is true, an assistant, who is very good, very intelligent,
very devoted; but my labour is still considerable. I am
_
reproached with going to hunt lions in Africa, insteado oiresf
continuing the adventures of' Balsamo' the
d'un 11163ecin.' Yet I had asked permission toenjonye,
little repose, for I was unwell. M. de Girardin k
w
absent myself he dined with. me
.at my villa that, for on the day on which. he gave me perilmlaissaitons'tto.
with Germain—he
m euntil pas3seod,ctiohcekes..iennintgbewmithorm.nien;
seos.tompupee.hd
did he amuse himself, and he then left in his
carriage, in company with Mdlle. Brohan, the actress of
the Tb‘iitre Franeais.—(lnterruption.) Gentlemen, I see
no harm in that. An actress may pass two or three
hours in a carriage with M. de Girardin, or with any
one else. I did not say that in order to cast the least
reflection in the world on the morality of M. de Girardin
or the honour of Mdlle. Brohan."—(Smiles.) M. Du-
mas here read the certificates of several eminent phy-
sicians, and among them that of his " physician in ordi-
nary ;" for, said he, "I, too, have a physician in
ordinary ;" and that of the King's physician ; in all of
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my labours to satisfy everybody, but I have not spoken
of my sacrifices of money to keep on, friendly terms with
my adversaries. The annullation of the Dujarrier
treaty cost me 12,000 f. ; I have no cashier, but I know
I paid that sum. I burnt Fabien,' for which I had re-
ceived altogether 26,000 f., which I was obliged to repay.
I am not a good hand at arithmetic, but the cashier of
M. de Girardin can tell how much that makes. I
owed two volumes to M. Dumont which I bought back

from him for 6,000 f. That makes altogether (M.
Dumas here attempted to add up the several sums, but
not succeeding),
The President said, 44,000 f.
M. Dumas—" Thank you, Sir—l never was able to
work a sum in addition. When I left these gentlemen
(M. Wren and M. de Girardin) out of 171,000 lines that
I owed to publishers I had paid 164,000. I had, more-
over, furnished 27,000 lines to M. Viiron, and 27,233
lines to M. de Girardin, and they paid me 26,0001. or
27,000 f. And now they demand 50,000 f. for damages.
If they get that sum, they will have had my volumes for
nothing, and will have obtained from me 31,500 f. be-
sides. It is easy to recognise in their manner of pro-
ceeding the lucky proprietor of the pate Reginault, anti
the clever founder of tie ' Muses des Families.' That,
gentlemen, is all I have to say—l leave the decision of
the case to you."
M. Lacan, in reply, said, that if a process could be
gained by witty phrases, M. Dumas would certainly be
victorious; but a law case was not a romance, and M.
Dumas was mistaken in supposing that in treating it like
one he would succeed. M. Dumas had violated engage-
ments into which he bad entered. He had not delivered
to the Constitutionnel all that he owed for 1846, and ii
the Tribunal did not decide against him he would not
fulfil his engagements for 1847,848, and 1849. He had:
not protested against the advertisements of other jour-
nals, as he was bound to do. He had written for the-
Siecle and the Patric. What he had said about "Fabien
being refused by the Constitutionnel and the Presse, was
not true; he had never offered it to them, but had taken
it at once to the Siecle, and got paid for it. He had sold
his exclusive services to the Constitutionnel and the Pressea
but had not even yet given the nine volumes to each that
he was bound to deliver in 1845. Since the publieatior
of the "Dame de Nlontsoreau," in the Constitutiesnel 4
had written nothing. He had promised a roman,- -, be
called the " Quarante Cinq," and wig had ;- -e, to be
vered it? He pretends that he was ill. - .4e not deli•
travel for the recovery of his health, - and obliged to
M. Dumas—l was intrusted w',"te
boyt other.
When no better tuthiassniotnhe
Minister of Public Instr,uction,.;
an by treaties, when he has en-
M. Lacan—That reason
wooorihntotnohtavtoo aiceepta.fmission.
When a man i.s‘dtsieidd,ed,?oe
e.egements to fulfil -
The Minister, b
'Acted ties of honour that given
nd
M. Dumas
it he had
known the
to
,rem.:..tn in France. But even that defence slipped
a'?:gy from him, for it was in October that he left France,
whereas it was in June that he had undertaken to write
a new romance for the Constitutionnel. What had he
emit. in the four months from June to October? Four
months for him was a long time, and in them he might
have written more than four volumes. But he preferred
to amuse himself in the delights of his villa at St. Ger.
main, of which marvellous tales are told, and in which ho
has endeavoured to realise the dreams of his " Monte
Christo;" he occupied himself with his theatres—he
caused to he recited his own pieces and those of
Shakspez,re; but he did nothing for his literary creditors.
And, in October, he accompanied the Princes to Spain,
apparently thinking that France would not be worthily
re resented if he were net there.
I. Dumas—Such, at least, was the opinion of the, Minister of Public Instruction!
M. LacnAtt----prom Spain he went to Africa, where, he
said, 141;1 had a mission to study a system of colonisation,
• and to make it popular in France. But he occupied
himself not with colonisation, but with files, with re-
joicings, with combats, with the release of prisoners,
with everything. From Algiers he went to Tunis,
where he pompously fraternised with the subjects of the
Bey, whilst the Bey was in France. He returned toFrance
in January, and wrote to M. Veron, " I arrive from
Spain and from Africa; I have seen everything, men and
things, beasts and people. I can, for my head is at
work, give you in a month (whilst waiting for the " Qua-
rante Cinq"), two of the most amusing volumes that
have ever been written. Giraud could illustrate them.
Veron, you may gain the sum of 20,000 f. with this trite
—it is two-thirds of another ' Rachel.'" But it was
impossible to place any reliance upon this proposition,
because there was an immense difference between the
promises of M. Dumas and his performances. The
learned advocate concluded by calling upon the Tribunal
to condemn M. Dumas, and even to insert the penalty of
imprisonment in their verdict, in case he should not act
up to his engagements. Imprisonment would certainly
be pronounced against any other person acting as he had
done, and it would teach M. Dumas that if there be
merit in writing good romances, there is also merit in
showing oneself a slave to one's word. The glory of the
latter, it was true, was not great—it was a glory with-
out emotion, without noise, without prestige, but in the
eye of justice, and for a man of honour, it was the
greatest of all glory.
M. Dumas.—l will only say a few words in reply to
the Learned Gentleman. He talks of the treaty, but
forgets all its most important previsions. From June to
October I remained idle in my charming villa at St.
Germain ; but I wrote eight volumes of " Balsamo (Me-
moires d'un Mtilecin,") and the eighth volume was only
finished a few days before my departure. It is said that
I caused to be rehearsed the pieces of Dumas and Shaks-
peare. That is true, but it was in the idle moments of
Dumas, and, besides, the time was not so lost to art that
people who are half ,artists should reproach me with it.
It is said thall solicited the mission with which the
Minister of Public Instruction intrusted me, but that is
a mistake. It was the Duke de Montpensier, who has
shown me some kindnesses, who proposed to me to go-,
to Spain. " I desire," said he, "in a circumstance so
solemn for me and for France, tlbsee you at my mar-
riage," (his brother had expressed a similar desire to arse
me at Versailles); " for," he added, " it is necessary that
you and Hugo should assist at a national/61e; his
Royal Highness asked the Minister of Public Instruction
to be allowed to take me with him. The Minister then
sent for me and said, "Can you go to Spain?" I said
that I could, for being ill I had need of travel. " You
will go to Spain, then," said he, "and from Spain 'you
will go to Algeria, the finest country in the world; a
country perfectly unknown to our deputies, who speak
of Africa without having seen it, and of colonisation
without understanding it; and to enlighten them and
France with respect to the subject, it is necessary
that a popular man like you should write about it. Those were the very words of the Minister--ner one
will deny it. I went. I accompanied the Duke de
Montpensier to Madrid. I was received there, not
merely as a simple author--as M. Alexandre Dumas I
I alone, of all the Frenchmen at Madrid, was invited to
the marriage of the Prince—l alone received the Grand
Cross of the Order of Charles 111.1 But all that respect
was shown to me, not, I repeat, as Alexandre Dumas,
but as the friend of the Duke de Montpensier, as the
Marquis Davy de la Pailleterie. After quitting Madrid I
went to Tunis. There 1 was received still better. There
reigns a Prince, who though Tunisian, is not a savage, and
who knows our worth. He gave me the Grand Cross of the
Order of Nichan. I have been asked what I went to do
in Africa. I went to save from the Arabs 12 lives that
were about to be sacrificed by the Arab executioners. It
was I who was charged to go and deliver Lieutenant-
Colonel Courly de Cognord, and his brave companions
in arms, the sublime heroes who escaped the massacre
of Sidi-Ibrahim. It was I who penetrated into the
interior of the country to save them. It was I who
rescued there 12 Frenchmen, the only remains of the
200 who were cruelly assassinated. It was 1 who had
under my orders the vessel destined to receive them. It
was I who conducted the vessel to Melilla, and it was I
who conveyed the prisoners to Djemrea-Gaza.ouat,
where I was received by 3,000 persons, who offered me
a banquet, the remembrance of which consoles me for
the insults I have this day received. And if the voyage
that I have made in Spain and Africa had post me
50,000 f., I should not regret it after having helped to
save our prisoners. I went to Tunis, for which a steam
frigate of 220 horsepower was placed at my disposal—a
vessel that had never been given but to me and to a Prince !
At Tunis I made notes for a work which I am ready to
deliver in four days if required. These notes were
destined for the Constitutionnel, which has placed itself at
the disposal of Marshal Bugeaud. In acting as I did I
believe I did a thing grand and useful to my country. In
Spain and Africa I displayed the grandeur with which I
represented France. I had with me six persons, repre-
senting painting and the drama, as I represented litera-
ture. I had received for try mission 10,000 f. But how
was it possible for seven persons to live fur months upon
10,000 f. ? What did I do ? Before leaving Paris I
caused to be sold railway shares of the value of 50,000 f.
and in so doing lost 7,000t'. But I was determined to
figure grandly at the marriage of the Duke de Mont-
pensier, as became a man accustomed to suchf so-
lemnities. I spent 26,0001. in Africa, and 11,000
thein
Spain, and on my return to France I compelled
Minister of Public Instruction to receive 1,0001. that I
had drawn above the 10,0001. allowed me. Such is the
only answer I have to make to the insults of these
gentlemen." _

- The case was then adjourned for a week. On quit-
ting the Ccurt, M. Dumas was surrounded by an im-
mense crowd, which escorted him to his carriage. He
frequently saluted the admiring multitude, and received
in return their enthusiastic plaudits.
The Court assembled again on Saturday to hear the
remainder of the pleadings.
Dumas. That gentleman,. he said,. had thought, with-
out.. and legal-
doubt, in the intoxication of his brilliant
M. Langlais, the counsel for the Presse, replied to M.
mate fame, that it would suffice•for him to. speak
.ot his
literary triumphs, lilte the romance of his victories, to
impose silence upon his adversaries.
.11. had,
.however,
deceived himself, and was already expiating his illusions.
M. Langlais then went through the statement of M.
Dumas point by point, bringing forward facts in refuta-
tion. He concluded by stating that M. Dumas had vio-
latedabdtovrantnoa
dtht
toe
bPinire,sasendtoforthwebianmbonunntbt
inogf
the treaty into which he had entered, and that he
hil3ad63besef'n,
furnished.
mwaosnedye
M. Nogent-Saint-Laurent then addressed the Court
for M. Dumas, who, he said, having
se-
riously the bitter attacks which h taken up too
him in that place, had resolved not to appear again per-
sonally; and had, therefor
M. No therefore, charged him with his cause.
gent-Saint-Laurent denied that his •
client had
committed. the infractions of the treaty
him, and in doing charged upon
so repeated, but
consecu-
tive manner, the statements of M. Duinmaas
maonrde
b
reservation of the rights of the heirs of M. Dujarrier,
and was not, therefore. conclusive. In terminating his
address, M. Nogent-Saint-Laurent alluded, in feel-
ing terms, to an incident which has excited some inte-
rest, and which has been made, he said, the subject of
comment unfavourable to M. Dumas, but which only
showed the goodness of heart of his client.
The Court then adjourned for a week, to hear the
requisitory of the Avocet du Roi.
The following is the incident alluded to by M. Nogent-
Saint-Laurent in the course of his pleading., The day
after M. Dumas had pleaded his cause, a placard ap-
peared, announcing that, " in consequence of a seizure
there would be publicly sold at Versailles, on the 25th,
a property situated at Port Marley, near St. Ger-
main-en-Laye, consisting of a plantation, a building
ornamented with turrets, and a pavillion surrounded
with water, called the Ile de Monte Claristo," such pro-