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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

the Administration of Lord Melbourne will be in its '
tomb. The Ministers of religion admonish dying sin .
ners that, in proportfon to the shortness of their Om.
on ettrth, ought to be their diligence in improving th,
little that remains. We would tender a similar exhor-
tation to the Ministers of her Majesty. We would
earnestly beseech them to improve the short remainim
span of their existence in expiating the guilt of theh
previous conduct. They have been transgressors of nf
ordinary magnitude Their turpitude many- in
stances has been only of a die less chief) than tha
t 0.
their Tory opponents.' If they had not grievously
sinned against their own professed principles, aric
practised deception on the nation, they would no
have brought themselves into the melancholy anc.,
mortifying position in which they are now placed.
Happily, there is yet time, limited though tilt
period be, for repentance and reformation. And if they
only turn the remaining fraction of their official existent:,
to its proper account, they may yet, in a great measure.
atone for past offendes, and, to a certain extent, right
themselves in public estimation before they draws their
expiring breath. In what way this may be done we hart
already shown. It is only by the introduction into het
• Majesty's speech, on the opening of the approaching
Parliament, of an earnest recommendation of certain re-
forms in the legislative representation of the country,
which are loudly and universally called for by the pub-
lic voice. These reforms we specified on Monday, and,
consequently, do not mean to recur to them now. Om
present object is to impress on the Melbourne Admi-
nistration this important fact, that should they listen
to our counsel, and adopt one or all of the sug-
gestions we have thrown out as to the measures of re-
form which they ought to enunciate in her Majesty's
speech, it will be essential that their recommendation of
these measures in the 'royal address be followed uP by s,
decided and evidently sincere identification of themselves
with the measures so propounded, in the speeches which
they will make in the course of the discussion to which
the usual Address in answer to her Majesty's speech
will necessarily give rise. As independent journalists
fold faithful monitors, we warn Ministers that- it will re-
quire much on their part to remove the unfavourable
impression created in the public mind by their past mis-
conduct. The nation cannot forget the flagrant breach
of faith which they committed in the case of the Irish
Church appropriation clause.

VAO3I THE MORNING I'ArERS OF THIS HAT.
'LIMES.—In approaching the important subject of
the relations which may be expected and ought to sub-
sist between the Church of England and a Conservative
Government, we feel that we touch more closely upon
the vital principle of Conservatism than we have ever
done before. If the Whigs had not attacked the Church,
their tenure of office might have been secure at this
moment ; and if the Conservatives do not faithfully,
steadily, and courageously adhere to the Church, vindi-
cate her rights, and assert her liberties„they will soon
have reason to regret that th6Y have assumed office at all.
They may depend upon- it, that the confidence of the
Church is the real secret of their power, and that the
reaction by which they live been borne back to as-
cendancy has been essentia y her work. It will, there-
fore, be as much their i terest as it is their duty to
show themselves worthy o 'this confidence, and to cling,
as to the very rock upon which the. State of England is
built, to those fundamental institutions which connect
our Civil Government with the Church. In strengthen-
ing her, they will infallibly strengthen themselves, will
satisfy the expectations of their most valuable supporters,
and will confer the greatest possible benefit upon the
people. In discharging this duty, however, there are
two considerations which they ought chiefly to bear in
mind—on the one hand, the inviolable obligation under
which they lie to maintain and respect the religious li-
' berty of every British citizen, Dissenter as well as Church-
man, and Churchman as well as Dissenter—and on the
other, the sacred and spiritual character of the Church
herself, and the infinitely greater importance of her as-
cendancy over the hearts and consciences of men, than
of any outward show of extension which a secular in-
fluence might be able to confer uppn her. The only
test of expediency, when measures consistent with tolera-
tion are proposed for the ostensible purpose of benefit-
ing the Church, should be the question whether they
are conducive to her real, or only to her apparent,
strength. !The living source of the Church's strength
is, undoubtedly, ...the - frith which she professes and'
the Divine authori..*',:e which_ .she claims. ' These . are
matters with which it does not become secular politi-
cians to meddle ; it is not their calling or their craft ;
no statesman has ever attempted it without, sooner
or later, discovering his mistake. If -there are cir-
cumstances in the aspect of the present times which
may seem to impair the full development of this
essential and inherent power of the Church (and who can
deny that such circumstances exist in the theological
differences which now unhappily distract her commu-
nion ?), this is a knot which must be untied, but which
cannot be cut asunder. Where there are differences,
there must be error ; and error cannot be got rid of
without controversy, however painful and embarrassing
controversy may be. Magna est veritas, et prcevalebit,
if its triumph is not da.maged or retarded by the inter-
ference of incompetent arbitrators. A statesman who
should attempt, in the present state of the Church
of England, to silence controversy by persecution, or
by throwing the weight of political favour or prefer-
ment exclusively into either scale, would only irri-
tate the wounds which it ought •to be his wish to
heal. The spiritual rulers of the Church must be left to
regulate such matters as these for themselves. We say
this, not that we have any fear of an attempt, on the
part of Sir Robert Peel's Government, to transgress the
bounds within which the influence of the State upon the
Church ought to be limited, but because of the precarious
and unsatisfactory nature of the defences by which the
Church is protected against the insult of theological
legislation in Parliament. We know there are hot-
headed partisans, who would as willingly invoke the aid
of Parliament to settle religious questions in their
favour, as Lord 'Ponsonby did that of the Turkish
Sultan to depose two Christian Bishops who successively
filled the office of Patriarch of Constantinople. Con-
stituted as the Legislature now is, it has no more Com-
petency or right to interpose in any matter affecting the.
faith or doctrine of the Church of England, than of the
Wesleyan body, or of the society of Quakers..
CHRONICLE.—Lord Ashley has been visiting the
manufacturing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire,
and holding meetings which have generally resulted in
the adoption of the following resolutions :
" 1. That it is the opinion of this meeting that a Ten-
hour Factory Bill would be advantageous to both the em-
ployer and the employed. 2. That no child under twelve
years of age ought to be admitted into any factory. 3.
That no woman ought to be employed in any factory
after marriage. And 4. That all dangerous machinery
should be boxed off to prevent the misfortunes which
so frequently occur from its unguarded state."
We fear that these resolutions smack of that one-sided
and purblind philanthropy which usually blunders into
an accumulation of mischief. If the first be sound, it
supersedes all occasion for legislating, and will execute
itself. No compulsion is requisite for enforcing the par-
ties to consult their own advantage. The second resolu-
tion, if legalised, would be evaded as the existing regula-
tions are. When parents and masters conspire to cheat
the law, as to the age of a child, the restriction is no'
easily maintained. The same pressure that renders the 1
labour of a child needful for its parents, will continue to
tempt them to falsify its age. The third resolution is •
an interference with a family which is most likely to be
cruel unless it beinoperativeeefi,tends to the encourage-
ment of coneubinaree amongst the poor instead of mar-
riage. • The lawful wife is disqualified from adding
to earnings which may, without her aid, be inade-
quate to the support of the family. And Lord Ash-
ley's generous interference, under the existing laws,
by which he obtained damages of 1001. for a poor
girl who had suffered from
unguarded machinery,
and practically mulcted the mill-owner of 6001. for
his carlessness, shows that the object of the fourth
resolution may be attained without adding to the pile
of penal statutes. We cannot, therefore, anticipate a
great amount of good ' frOm - any legislative measure
founded on these resolutions., The great extension of
child labour and female labour is owing to the taxes on
food. While the man's wages will earn the family's
bread, only the man works. The monopolist cuts a slice
off the operative's loaf ; that sends the wife into the
factory. He comes again for a larger slice; that takes
the children from school or play, and then they go
into the factory. Such is the first sacrifice of natural
affections, and - abuses are sure to follow. Parents
learn, when they have the opportunity, to live a
wretched life of indolence and gin-drinking upon
their children's earnings. v The horrible result only
marks the progress of bread4ax demoralization. Latid-
lords''Parliaments and Landlords' Laws have brought on
this unnatural condition. Triumphing over patriotism
`and justice, in the first instance, their influence stops not
short till it has also triumphed over the elementary
feelings and deepest emotions of man's moral
being. To see the Landlords' Parliament and
the Monopolist Ministry, the one elected and the
other installed, to uphold the Corn-laws, perpetra-
ting the hypocrisy of entertaining a Ten-hours' Fac-
tory Bill, and similar affectations of philanthropy,
will be a spectacle to make hell. laugh. Will Lord
Ashley himself again
patronize the poor, by re-
fusing to give them their bread, while he offers to
give them his Bill ? What have the enactments against
child-labour already done in the manufacturing dis-
tricts ? Diminished the number of children employed
in cotton, flax, and woollen factories, to the amount (if
40,000. This is probably equivalent to the reduction
of the incomes of the poor and large families by a
sum of a quarter of a million sterling per annum.
And so the poor pay for the philanthropy of
their
the reduction, a resource has indeed been found.
And what a resource I The coal pit is open to them.
A stimulus has been given, by the factory restric-
tions, to the employment of young children in mines,
where they sit and wither in the .dark for hours to gain
such wages as are paid for opening and shutting the
doors when the coal trucks pass and repass. Accidents
happen here as well as in factories. When the water
burst in upon one of the Silkston collieries there were
forty-four children in the, mine, of whom eighteen es-
caped, and twenty-six were drowned, including eleven
girls, and nine children under ten years of age. None
of the men were drowned. The kindly spirit which corn-
oines with the erring intellect of Lord Ashley, may
lead hiM to take the mines also under his regulating
care. But he cannot regulate the children of the fa-
mishing out of all eMPloyment. -, More wages they must
I have, or More bread, for their. wages. We shOuld have
imagined that philanthropy wouldhesitate a little at such
an alternative.
POST.—The journal which Lord John Russell uses
as his organ of communication with the public, an-
nounces that Sir Robert Peel will " soon find that he
has to encounter powers much more formidable than the
combatants of party interests," As to the "formidable"
powers which the Conservative leader will have to en-
,:ounter, we must own that we have to look to the future
for their development. As yet we have seen nothing of
them. But if spleen, disappointment, and malice, car-
ried almost to insane hatred, could be considered " for-
midable powers," there were no need of waiting. Such
things as these he has to encounter every day. We can
remember the hissing spleen of malignant Whiggery
in . days of old • but never do we recollect such a
sputtering of malignant venom—such a pouring out of
rage and falsehood, as the Whig-Radical party has ex-
hibited ever since it was beaten by the people in the late
elections. It is positively a disgrace to human nature.
fhey who have seen a swarm of wild wasps attacked in
their nest, and witnessing its destruction, can alone ha 7;
agine to themselves such an exposure of venomous fury
:fs that which the Whig-Radicals have made for the last
three weeks in their attacks upon Sir R. Peel. And what
. is all this far ? Simply because, by steady perseverance,
he has beaten the party in what used to be called " their
own reformed House of Commnns." Is it Sir R. Peel's fault
that the electors of Great Bri'tain prefer his politics, and
his management of public affairs, to the politics and
management of the Whig-lladheal leaders ? All this
fury against Sir Robert Peel and his party is, in fact,
fury against the judgment of the people of England, who
have given to him and his party their confidence after
having withdrawn it from the Whig-Radicals. These
wasps have not the reasonable courage to attack the
people of England for their votes—they are afraid of
any such exploit as that, but they cast their calumnieA,
their falsehoods, their rancorous abuse at the libad of
Sir Robert Peel, merely because he is in that triumphant
position in which the people have placed him through
the privileges derived from the old legislative constitu-
tion, and enlarged by the Reform
Act of 1832.
ADVERTISER.—The last official pulsation of Minis.
tors is about to bc4t. In tigeo weeps from this date

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vote for himself, and that vote was protected from inti-
midation by the ballot, if he will examine the list of
voters, which may be seen at the house of any overseer
at all reasonable hours, any day before the 15th of
August, and make a note of the name and address of
any Tory that appears on the resister and is rot in
every way qualified. He should immediately forwaid
the information, with ground of objection, to_ some active
Reformer or Registratton Committee, who will object to
him ; and if he is unable to prove himself qualified, will
be excluded from the register, the onus of proof lying
entirely with the person objected to.
'1 hus the Tory vote struck off will be one gained to
the cause of Reform, and given as secretly, if not more
so, than a vote given by the informant under the protec-
tion of the ballot.
Surely the thousands in the metropolis excluded from
the franchise, and those who have been compelled to
sacrifice their consciences, and submit to the most shame-
ful as well as shameless intimidation, will avenge them-
selves upon their intimidators, and thus regain the vote
their private interest compelled them to give against
their own honest conviction.

EXPORTS OF B
RITISH COTTONS
FOB 4,

(From the Liverpool Times.)
We have been favoured with the following official table
of Cotton Exports of the United Kingdom last year,
with the countries to which those exports took place ;
the table has not been previously printed :
COTTON EXPORTS FOR 1840.

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PRICE 5d

gentleman well versed ..in the financial affairs of his
!ountry, as also by the respectable agent .in the busi-
less here, Mr. Isaac Lyon Goldsmid ; and it is perhaps
I)y the dogged determination evinced to withhold justice
from the parties compromised until thcocase shall be ab-
iolutely dragged before a British Jury, that M. Zulueta

influenced in the course he has taken.
SUN.—We had but a ,small business doing to-day in
he Funds, and money bargains were at* per cent. reduc
;ion on yesterday's rates. There seems at present to be
nore demand for discount accommodations, the increase
ir diminution of .which must materially depend upon
he extent to which speculation in foreign corn may be
•arried; Consols were not quoted higher, 39* for im-
mediate transfer, and 89t tog for account. Bank
Stock was dull at 169 ; and Exchequer Bills continued at
to 16s. premium ; the New Three-and-a-Half per
'ents. were at 98i to .f ; and the Three per Cents. at
90 to g.
bargains in the Foreign Market extended to a
(cry limited compass, being confined to the following
Stocks :—Active Spanish Bonds receded to 20 and 19*
to ; the Deferred Stock of 1838 was 16.1, and that of
1841 at 131; Dutch Two-and•a-Half per Cents. were
steady at 52 tog ; the Five per Cents. at 1028 ; and
Russian at 114..
The Railway Shares were in some instances lower.
Gtieat Western at 18 to 181, the New at 711, the Fifths
:it 5 to 51, the London and Birmingham at 70 to 71,
And the South Western at 13* to 138 premium. Brighton
were '6l, Manchester and Leeds, New, 9, and South
Eastern 201 discount. London Joint Stock Bank Shares
were 21 premium.
There was an appearance of bea-riness in the Foreign
Exchanges this afternoon. There seems to be still a de-
mand for bills. .At Ilamburgh, on Friday last, the ex-
change on London was 13 4, and the price of gold 4291.
The rates most, current here this afternoon were these :
Paris, 251. 55r. to 60e. ; Amsterdam, 12 3A- to 4 ; Ant-
werp, 12 31 to 1; Hamburgh, 13 9 to t ; Frankfort.,
1-195 to ; and Trieste, 950t0 9 52.
The following are the official returns of the exports of
bullion for the week ending' Thursday last :
Silver Coin .to Hamburgh` 34,000 oz.
Rotterdam
Mauritius

TRIAL OF 'MADAME LAFFARGE
FOR TliE ROBBERY OF THE DIAMONDS.

'3IONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. ... . i 1.,.
. . .
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. TRIBUNAL OF TULLE.—SITTING OF AUGUST 5.
CHRONICLE.—Prices in the Share Market were Madame Laffarge appeared dressed in deep mourning,
nominally the same as yesterday, with the exception of and seemed to enjoy good health. The Judge opened
Brightons, which gave way about 10s. per share. the proceedings by recapitulating what had passed on
The business transacted in the Foreign House was previous trials.
principally confined to Spanish Actives, which expo- Marie Capelle, an orphan and poor, though of a good
rienced a slight decline. family, and educated so as to develope her brilliant natti-
We have received Hobart Town papers of. the 9th ral qualities, became intimate in 1823 with Mdlle. Cle-
April. The first half-yearly meeting of the proprietors mence• de Nicolai, then fifteen years of age, now Ma-
of the Colonial Bank had been held at the Company's dame de. Monbreton. Madame de Monbreton loved and
Banking-house, when the accounts were audited, and a spoke highly of her ;so that when Marie Capelle, in
general statement of the affairs of the shareholder's laid 1836, came to live with Madame 'Valence, mother-
before the meeting. The members present expressed in-law of Marshal Gerard, who• lived near the
themselves highly gratified at the general statement and Nicolais, she became intimate with them, and
flattering prospects of the Company. A dividend at the especially with •the youngest daughter, Marie, who
rate of 10 per cent. per annum had been declared on the became Madame de Leotaud in 1838.. Her mar-
paid-up capital. riage did not destroy her intimacy with Mademoiselle
A new banking establishment had been opened a Capelle. She saw her , five or six times in the year, and
few days under the management of Mr. Burke ; it gave her a brooch as a token of friendship. In the month
was called the New Colonial Bank. It was under- of May, 1839, Mademoiselle Capelle proposed to visit
stood to be essentially a Joint-stock Company, although Madame de Nicolai a: her chateau of Busaquy. The
the names of the shareholders had not gene- proposal was accepted, especially as Marie Capelle's
rally transpired. Ilis Excellency the Lieutenant- health was said to be bad. She arrived at Busaquy on
Governor had been to Green Ponds for the purpose the Ist of June. On the Gth of that month,. apropos of
of communicating to the Canadian prisoners the sub- the marriage between M. de ouy and Mdlle. de Beavoir,
stance of a despatch which he had received from the Se- diamonds were spoken of ; lladame Leotaud produced
cretary of State, in answer to a recommendation for a hers, and left them on the table when she went out, on an
mitigation of their sentences, which he had forwarded ecrin; she locked up this ecrin on her return. Seven
home soon after their arrival in the colony. They were days after, diamonds being again the subject of
to receive tickets-of-leave in February next,. which will conversation, Madame Leotaud brought down her
be two years from the time of their landing. His Excel- ecrin; Mdlle. Capelle left the room, and on opening the I
lency's interference in their behalf had given much satis- ecrin, he diamonds, were gone. Search was made. M.
faction in the colony. Wheat was finding its way freely Leotaud went to the police of Paris, and on mentioning
to market, and the demand was steady ; and it was not Marie Capelle as the niece of sladame Garet' recalled
anticipated that prices would rise much. Wheat was 6s. the circumstances of divers robberies which had taken
to 6s. 6d. per bushel. Her Majesty's discovery ships place at Madame Garat'Sa M. Leotaud ceased to push his
Erebus and Terror, Captains Ross and Crozier, arrived inquiries in consequence ; and no more was heard until the
at Hobart Town, after a voyage of six months to the police examining Glandier, the residence of Madame
antarctic pole. • The expedition,'"it is stated, had been Laffarge, alter the death of her husband, discovered the
crowned with the most complete success. diamonds\ in a box belonging to Marie Capelle, since
TlMES.—There was a fair amount of business doing Madame Laffarge. When first questioned on the subject,
to-day in the foreign exchanges. The rate upon Paris Maclaine Laffarge answered that they were given her by
remained the same as last post. Amsterdam and Ham- a gentleman whom she did not know. Since then Madame
burgh were a trifle lower. Owing to the great demand Laffarge tells another story. She says that she and
'for Vienna and Trieste, bills upon those places were ne- Mademoiselle. Nicolai became acquainted with a young
gotiated at remarkably low ,prices, man of the name of Clavet, son of a schoolmaster intthe
A Trinidad paper, which has been received in the Faubourg de Houle. having met him at church and in
City' (dated the 24th of June), contains an account the street ; that letters passed between them, and at
of a very important meeting held at Port of length M. Claret left for Africa ; but that after her mar-
Spain on the proposed modification of the sugar riage, wishing to burn her letters and buy up the silence
duties by the Ministers. It seems that when the meet- of Clavet, she employed Madame Laffarge to dispose of
ing was convened intelligence had not been received the jewels, in order to give the money to Clavet.
of the defeat of the measure; but, although this result .M. Lachaud, for Madame Laffarge, then pleaded that
had transpired before the appointed time, still . the the trial ()tight to be put off. The Judges. who had already
position of the colony was considered to be so caitieal adjourned it, did so on the ground that Madame Laffarge
that thes-meeting was deemed necessary. , The reso- should have at least three months to prepare her d-
lutions passed were to the effect, that it was absurd for fence. ; and it was then but forty days since the Court
sa Goveentnenta to expend thousands in. repressing the of Cassetion had Contirmedthe decree of the Court fixing
traffic in slaves while opening the English market to the trial. Madame Laffarge only received notice of the
the produce of slave labour, thus •enhancing the slave- present trial on the 23d of June. The appearance of M.
holder's profit, while professing, to exterminate his Felix Claret, as witness, was indispensable to establish
trade, and that Trinidad alone, with a sufficient labour- the innocence of Madame Laffarg,e. The cross-question-
ing population, would be capable of producing more ing of that witness, and the confronting him with the
sugar than Britain could consume, ami at a cheaper two Marks, could alone throw light on the case. It was
rate than it can he raised in Cuba. The tendency of now some months since M. Claret must have learned of
the arguments used at this meeting, in which the chair- the trial on which his name was called, why did he not
man, Mr. H. Burnley, took the lead, was to show that return to speak the truth ? M. Lachaud then said, he
all restrictions on the increase of labour were inconsist- would read sonic letters which threw light on Clavet's
eat with a lowering of the protection. At the same non-appearance.
time the Chairman took pains to inculcate the opinion M. Coralli objected to the reading of these letters.
that at some time or other a reduction of the diffe- The Judge overruled the arguments for delaying the
rential duties must take place until protection should trial. M. Clavet was not necessary to the elucidation of
reach its minimum point, as indeed he said the great the facts. •
experiment of free labour was to raise produce M. Lachaud said that M. Claret was a wretch if he
cheaper than could be done by slave labour, which once did not come forward.
effected, all differential duties must expire. Trinidad M. Coralli, for • Madame Leotaud, deprecated delay.
alone, according to the estimate of one of the speakers, Why was M. Claret's presence so necessary. He was
can supply Great Britain with 300,000 tons of sugar, not here, but his sister was, and she was the depository
and.there are in the island 1,000,000 acres of land fit fur of his confidence.
cultivating the cane, without the means of cultivating M. (Milton Barret said then an important testimony
themS • At present the labouring population of Trinidad was wanting in M. Claret; an objection might be made
does not, it seems, exceed 12,000, and during slavery did in the course of the evidence, though it was too soon to
not exceed 8,000, when in one year it produced 30,000 make it yet; the trial should first go on.
hogsheads of sugar, while Barbadoes, with 80,000 slaves, M. Paillet, the eloquent advocate of Madame Laffarge
produced no more. This difference of result is produced in her other trial, declared that the presence of M. Clavet
by difference in fertility of soil, and Trinidad stands in was indispensable.
every other respect in a worse position than Barbadoes; Madame Laffarge's Counsel then said that she would
for, according to a statement made at this Assembly, the retire, and faire defeat, that is, make no defence, not being
planter in the former island pays nine times as much for allowed the means.
labour as the planter in the latter. The inference to be Madame Laffarge having withdrawn about twelve
drawn from the, statements is, that the quantity of sugar o'clock, the trial was resumed in an hour by the Procu-
produced is no proper basis on which to calculate the reur-General, who declared that Claret had been sum-
productiveness of our colonies. . , moiled at Algiers, in June, 1841. He was at Oran, how-
HERALD.—Money, it is complained, is getting more ever' and was lately on the expedition to Mascara, so
" tight" in discounts, although in the Stock Exchange it that he could not app'ear.
appears to be easy enough. 'The funds remain heavy but Mdlle. Delvaux, the fermcr governess of Mdlle. de
without improvement in prices; although a large pair- Nicolai, was then called and asked to give her testimony.
chase of 100,000/. Consols was effected towards the close When Marie Capelle visited us, towards the end of Lent,
of the market, which however was understood to be only 1836, we often went together to the church of St. Phi-
to close a bear speculation to the same amount previously lippe-du -Route. Among those who attended the
sold out. . church was a young man, whose assiduity made me
Hobart Town ,rapers to the 10th of April have been believe that he camp there for the purpose of
received. They notice the return to the colony of the being remarked by Mdlle. de Nicolai. I acquainted:
exploring expedition under Captains Ross and Crozier, her mother with my suspicious ; but having examined
after a voyage of six months towards the antarctic Mdlle. de Nicolai more closely, I saw that I was wrong,
pole, that, is from - Hobart Town, which they left and told Madame de Nicolai so. Meantime Mdlle.
in the beginning of last November. It is stated Capelle had succeeded in finding out the name and ad-
that
they penetrated to within one hundred miles dis- dress of this young man ; she said
lie had a fine voice,
tance of the pole, when their farther progress was blocked and artfully persuaded Mdlle. de Nicolai to let her write
by immense barriers of ice, traced for several hundred to M. Clavet. We went to the country, and I observed
miles. Trade was still in a depressed state in the that Mademoiselle de Nicolai was not so gay as usual.
colony, with but a remote prospect of material improve- I took her apart, and asked her to confide to me the
anent in respect of goods imported. The markets there cause of her grief. She told me that she and Marie
were overloaded with all sorts of goods on venture or Capelle had remarked the young man Clavet, and lie
consignment, and the enormous amount actually in Marc, bad become the subject of their attention anddfiencrut•
lines.
estimated at half a million sterling, exclusive of cargoes Mdlle. Capelle proposed to write to this young man, iltilo osridteyr.
not then landed,
.of which there was a consignmesit to to mystify him, and she wrote a few insignificant
one house alone of the value of 7,0001., may be accepted, Several letters were afterwards exchanged.
as additional evidence, were such wanting, of the Mad again consented to write, and expressed to M. diaNveictl3hleali•
tt alsocould bggi
norng
extent to which over-man 'ufacturing has been carried in regret for havinr, involuntarily hurt him,
b
this country, and consequent over-trading to a colony so him to write to no longer, for sheeef
neither
.t
small and of such limited powers of consumptions would receive his letters. At h
'The following letter is recommended to the perusal of she danced with him ; this was the de of Tivoli
first and last
the Portuguese financial agency, and all whom it may time that Mdlle. de Nicolai spoke
concern. The whole affair of the Portuguese Conversion this recital, it was not difficult to
him. In all
June t° appreciate
has been so discreditable that the continuance of unfair the small share in it that Mdlle. deNiepopeclariliasaitle
play may not unreasonably be suspected. Some inquiry I judged the cond
thisuctof afraMdlle.
_Capelle more severely,
may probably elicit hereafter further information on the and from the first impulse thouir riteghtithe at an
dange,rons, as
points referred to : a serpent. Ithought
an end, when
PORTUGUESE CONVERSION. in the first days of Mdlle. de Nicolai received a
- " Brighton, Aug. 6, 1841. parcel, of which the address was written by Mdlle. Ca-
" Sir,—Having made several applications through my pelle. . It contained a volume of poetry, of
the
which the
broker in London to procure for me a list of Portuguese name of the author was scratched out, and the
d
stock, concerted subsequent to April last, and which the name of Sire de • Coucy substituted, also
agents advertised nearly two months ago 'as , being in handwriting of Marie Ca
the course of preparation, and to be published as soon as a letter from AL Claret, wPelle. This book contained
which Mdlle. de Nicolai imme-
possible,' and not being able to obtain any other answer diately gave me. This letter expressed the certainty of his
than that ' the lists are not yet ready, nor can the agents having been the object of a mystification, and complained
state when they will be,' I think it right to call the at- of a cruel jest being played at his own expense. The aim
'His reputes
to Mdlle. Capelle, and which
tention of the public, and the Committee in particular to of this letter was "toreassure Diddle Nicolai on the sub-
let ex fears
e r i expressed
sub-
the subject. It appears to me to imply a doubt as to the, jaectitmoifd the
correctness of the amount published as being converted
Ni-
and in any case should be seen into without further de- tien was pun!? auedncunt:ttackable." I advised bldlle. Ni-
lay.—Begging you will excuse this liberty, I remain, Sir, colai to ask to have her letters back. She asked several
ecould alone suggest.
your obliged and obedient servant,
"D. 0." times without result, and as I learned that ISldlle.
POST.—The circumstance of Mr. P. J. Zulueta hay- Capelle wayl intit I'ari in the month of August, I went
ing declined to act as agent for the Three per Cent. Gain- and forl-1-edthem She answered that they were in a
boa Conversion of the arrears of interest on the Ativ cu b‘:i'.(l‘ of hich them. Garet had the key; but that
Bonds of Spaim foe the refusal seems now to be rotorl 13 1:
' '
s le would hare them ready
on the morrow. When I
rious, has led to a, good deal of discussion among the went to receive them , 1 Ives told that Marie Capelle had
bondholders as to the probable cause. We think we Have left that with Madame Garet, her aunt. I
ourselves already afforded a fair solution of the princi- thotueht it hard that Mdlle Capelle should not know the
pal object. M. Zulueta has Isis reputation as a merchant day b efore, at four o'clock, that she wasgoing at six the next
to look after, and he sees great inconvenience in having ' insrn* . acrd I thought II bad perceived some lies in the
his counting-house besieged by the holders of the con-- recitals made to Mdlle. Nicolai. M. Claret was no
verted stuck, calling for payment agreeable topublic longer thought of, when Mdlle. Nicolai came back from
notification on a specific day, without having inpha id the one night in the month of March, and told me
the requisite funds to answer their demands. b M. Zulu-1 she had seen him on the stage, after having remarked
eta is but too cognisant of the fact, that the embassy
I 'his name amongst the list of singers. I went to see the
which took • upon itself the execution of the Tee e I Huguenots to make sure of the fact, but found not the
Bond Decrees of 1836 was placed precisely in this asur;
least resemblance between the two persons, and even ral-
bumf-
liatingyesitkm, s and that it has
affairto the present moment lied her on her facility of finding the strangest likenesses.
the staid attaching to that base to wipeout. Unfortunately, in the month of October,lB37, Mdlle.Capele
We have reason to know that M. Zulueta hes remon- 1 and Mdlle. Nicolai met at Madame de Menbreton's.
&trate(' withh,i,s Governmente, in the most positive man- 1 The former said she was very ill ; the doctors, from
tier at the "4"e disposition evinced by it to redeem its I what she said, thought ill of her case. In the month of
sacred pledges of 183 G. In these remonstrances he was I June, 1838, she asked to come to Busaquy ; we did not
warmly supported by the late Senor Xebrer at Madrid, i dare to refuse her demand, in spite of all the reports