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tages presented by the form of the blocks of this Patent Plumbago,
for ready application and the avoidance of waste.
Each of the blocks weighs about seven ounces, and they are to be
used by the pencil-makers for such different qualities of pencils as
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TESTIMONIALS.
From C. L. Eastlake, Esq., R.A., Secretary of the Fine Arts
Commission, &c.
7, Fitzroy-square, December 4, 1845.
My dear Rrockedon,—l have tried all the pencils which you have
sent me. I think I may safely say that I have never used any that
work so well. Though perfectly free from grit, the substance is
compact, and the varieties of hardness and tint are as abundan
as
any artist can wish. A perfect lead pencil may be said to be at last
produced,

I am, dear Brockedon, very faithfully yours,
W. Brockedon, Esq. C. L. EASTLAKE.
From Copley Fielding, Esq., President of the Water-Colour Society
Cackfield, Monday.

My dear Sir.—lt is only very lately that I have been able to try
the pencils wnich you were so kind as to send me. I have been
sketching with them several times. lam delighted with the purity
of the lead, which allows of so mnch freedom in handling. Your
invention seems perfect, and must insure you the thanks of the
public as soon as its great value is understood. That Its importance
may be speedily appreciated is the sineere wish of,
My dear Sir, yours very truly,
William Brockedon, Esq. COPLEY FIELDING.
Fro:n E. T, Parris, Esq.
17, Grafton-street, Bond-street, Dec. 15, 1845.
My dear Sir—l have tried your blacklead pencils, and find the
drawings made with them are of a beautiful colour, do not smudge,
by common friction, but are entirely removed by Indian rudder ;
they also work smoothly and without fear of the limes drawn with
them being checked by grit, or breaking. In every way I consider
them most satiJactory and very superior to any peacils I have ever
used, and shall take every opportunity of making their qualities
known to my friends and brother artists, that the same adva tases
of your valuable production may be enjoyed •by others, as by, my
dear Sir, yours very truly,
To W. Brockedon, Esq. EDMUND THOMAS PERRIS. ,
From Philip Hardwick, Esq., R.A, F,S.A.
Russell-square, ➢ec. 15, 1845.

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

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

'School,

85, Great Portland street, December 17, 1845.
My dear Sir,—l have tried the pencils you sent me, manufactured
from your patent purified lead, and find them excellent in every re•
spect ; in fact, just the same as the best Cumberland lead used to be
formerly, but which is no ,longer obtainable from the mines. The
quality of ready erasure is very desirable at Rugby and elsewhere, as
the principles we teach cannot all be put in force at once, and India
rubber is still more in demand than I could wish. I shall send at
once fcr a gross mere of BB and B.—Yours very sincerely,
William Brockedon, Esq. GEORGE BARNARD.
From Samuel Front, Esq., F.S.A.

5, TO Crespigny Terrace, Denmark Hill, Dec. 17, 1845.
My dear Brockedon,—l have much pleasure in subscribing to
the fact that you have perfected a material which will obtain the
grateful acknowledgments of every artist. Indeed, Ido not hesi-
tate to pronounce the pencils made with your Patent Pure Plumbago
perfect. They are remarkably even in trial, free from grit, or dust,
firm in texture, and possess every degree of colour, from the archi-
tect's outline to the broad and deepest shadows of a finished pencil
drawing.
The following Is the result of my having tested them separately,
HMI and HH are degrees of a clear tint, each sustaining the firmest
pressure. F and 1111, a beautiful pencil for a free outline, capable of
expressing the most delicate and minute forms, as well as broader and
bolder features by yielding colour when required. With the B, 88,
or 888, the last especially, a drawing may be completed from a
faint Indication to the greatest intensity of colour of which blacklead
is capable.—l remain, my dear Brockedon, faithflilly yours,
SAMUEL PROUT.

W. Brockedon, Esq , F.R.S.
From David Roberts, Esq., R.A.
Fitzroy-stret, December 22, 1845.
My dear Brockedon,—l am so delighted with the blacklead pencils
which yon sent to me for trial, that I shall feel obliged by your let-
ting me know, without delay, where I can get a few more of them,
particularly the HB's, to go on with.
Having tried them on some of the architectural subjects of my
forthcoming work on Egypt and Nubia, and finding them so superior
to everything to the kind I have hitherto been in the habit of using,
I am convinced that whoever gives them a trial will immediately
adopt them in preference to all others. The best wish I can offer to
you is, that the inventor may come in for a fair share of the profit
which must arise from their becoming universal.
With my sincere thanks for this discovery, and best wishes for the
success it so justly merits, believe me,
Faithfully and truly yours,
W. Brockedon, Esq. D aVID ROBERTS.
From Richard Westmacott, Esq., F.R.S., A.R.A.
Wilton-place, December 22, 1845.
My dear Brockedon,—l am desirous to offer you my sincere ac-
knowledgments, in addition to the numerous compliments and
thanks you doubtless have received, for the service you have done
artists in producing such a perfect quality of lead pencil as is shown
in the specimens you were so kind as to give me. My practice is
confined, and, therefore. I have little occasion in any drawing for the
extreme "herds," or for the double or treble B. But I most grate-
fully acknowledge an excellence in H, HB, and F, which work freely
without grit or scratching, are of good colour, and rub out clean.
Yours, very sincerely,
RICHARD WESTMACOTT, Jure.
From G. Weßwyn Shepherd, Esq.
34, Great James-street, December 23, 1845.
Dear Sir,—l am very sorry that I have lost the opportunity, from
being oat when you called, of congratulating you in viva voce on the
pencils you so kin.lly sent to me. I have carefully tried them, and
in truth, they are excellent ; for they are perfectly free from grit,
and will resist pressure. I am deeply in crested in the success of
your valuable discovery.— Believe me, dear sir, truly ours,
W. Brockedon, Bsq. G. WELLWYN SHEPHERD.
From J. B. Papworth, Esq., Vice-President Institute of British
Architects.
10, Caroline-street, Bedford-square, January 6, 1840.
My Dear Sir. Many thanks for the case of pencils, which possess
exactly those qualities which have been so long required for archi-
tectural and engineering purposes, and by every artist. Their easy
working without grit from their pure and equable lead, and unifor-
mity ef colour in long use, render them so desirable that I beg to
suggest that thinner pencils should be made of HH H and HEI for the
supply of compasses.—l am my dear, sir, yours ever,
W. Btockedon, Esq. J. B. PAPWORTfI.
From John Martin, Esq.
30, Allsop-terrace, New-road, January 7, 1846.
My dear Brockenden,—lt affords me great pleasure to give my
unqualified approbation of your new compressed lead pencils. I
have now tried all the various qualities, both ir. architectural draw-
ing and sketching, and can confidently say that I have never had
better, or, indeed, such good leads for my purpose.
I remain, my dear Brockedon, ever faithfully yours,
Wm. Brockedon, Esq. JOHN MARTIN.
From James Bridges, Esq., First Master for Landscape-drawing
Royal Military Academy Woolwich.
Woolwich Common, January 10, 1846.
Dear Mr. Brokedon.—l beg to apologise for not having earlier ac-
knowledged the receipt of the pencils prepared with your patent
plumbago, which you were kind enough to forward to me ; but I
was anxious to test them thoroughly before giving you any opinion.
I have found them truly excellent, possessing all the best qualities
of the finest plumbago in its native state without any of its defects,
and the respective degrees of hardness are uniform in quality
throughout. Wishing you all the success which the importance of
your discovery deserves, believe me.
Dear Brockedon, faithfully yours,
To William Broekedon. JAMES BRIDGES. •
From William Wyon, Esq., R.A., Chief Engraver to her Majesty's
Mint.
Her Majesty's Mint, December 10, 1845.
My Dear Sir,—l feel extremely obliged for the specimen of black-
lead pencils you have sent me, of which the lead is manufactured by
your patent process.
I have tried them. and I have no hesitation in saying that they
are the best pencils I ever used. They have all the degrees of hard-
ness, and every variety and shade of colour, thtt can be required by
an artist. The lead is perfectly tree (rein grit ; and I can pant these
pencils much more easily, and when pointed they do not break, as
other pencils generally do.
I am so entirely satisfied with these penoils, that I have pur-
chased a supply of them for my own use; and I cannot but think
them a valuable acquisition not only to artists, but to every one re-
quiring the use of pencils, With many thanks for them, I remain,
my dear Sir, yours faithfully,

WILLIAM WYOlg.

Wllliam Brockedon, Esq„ &c.
From T. L. Donaldson, Esq., Istitute of British Architects, Professor
of Architecture to University College, London, &c.
Dear Brockedon,—Many thanks for your elegant present of pen-
cils. Those which I have already tried are excellent, and I
doubt not that your invention will prove a valuable one. Most
faithfully yours,

W. Brockedon, Esq.

THOS. L. DONALDSON.

•
From Joseph P,onomi, Esq.
Dear Sir,—lf you will allow me to bear testimony to the excel-
lence of a set of pencils you left at Mr. Martin's, I can do so with
great truth and much pleasure.
I remain, dear Sir, ever faithfully yours,
W. Brockedon, Esq. JOSEPH BON OM I.
From Henry Warren, Esq., Pres' lent of the New Water-Colour
Society.
17, Robert-terrace Chelsea, Jan. 12, 1812.
My dear Sir,—Pray forgive me for not having acknowledged your
letter earlier. I have delayed writing from time to time that I
might give myself the opportunity of trying fairly your preparation
of plumbago. This I have new done, and can report with confi-
dence upon the pencils ; nor do I think there is anything wanting to
their excellence. The chief beauty of them lies in the evenness of
quality in the ;cad and absence of gritty particles. They are, in
deed, most pleasant to draw with, and yield freely to that little
accent in touch which the artist delights in. I have tried them in
simple line on wood-block, and I have tried them in landscape and
foliage, on several sorts of paper, and each trill, has proved them
satisfactorily.—Belleve me, dear Sir, yours ever truly,
W. Brockedon, Esq.
HENRY WARREN.
From Clarkson Stanfield, Esq., R.A.
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My dear Brockedonas
my experience
n such matters, I think them excellent. I must
Particularise the
B, which, for the several purposes of drawing,
dear Brockedon, yours I think admi
el
ra e. It cuts without breaking, and it is free from grit,
that abominable nuts
stock o„hem.—l arn,aein sketching'
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of C Lt
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Government
Design, Somerset House.
Somerset, House, F
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quest
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•
you my opinion of the pencils whiC7lrr re
a ifyingshalerly cterratlaylfly lay in a
r never
ev
]ramieusedbeel
Dear Sir,—l hasten to ,-eply to
sasentidsfameett;ortillieaynard haveeiteixscpeallretnictu.larllthat I would give
pencil which, like yours, will bear to be able to procure a
its point so well, and yet allow of pressure without breaking, keep
marking
me to answer in every respect your de firmly. They seem to
admire the ingenious process by which
hcrlption of them, and I greatly
the lead.—l 'remain very faithfully yours,
succeeded in preparing
pencilss
eo biTgw9oßii,oct EldhlisoLinolaD6lsor
trooet •
W. Brockedon, Esq. urs'
From Charles Barry, Esq R C. 11. WILSON.
•, .."A
.., Fats.. &c.
Westminster,
My dear Sir, Having now had the opportunity Feb. 27, 1846.
com-
plete trial of the lead made of your prepared of making a Plumbago
were so good as to send to me a short time since,
which you
sure to announce to you that they are of excellent t have the plea-
sees all the requisites for architecture as well as artistic drawings.—
and pot-
drawings.—
I remain, my dear Sir, most truly yours, CHARLES
BA.RRy.
From Thomas Creswick, Esq., RA,

April 2,1846.
My dear Sir,—l am quite ashamed that I have only in the last few
days had an opportunity of trying as I wished the pencils you were
good enough to send me. I think them by far the best I have ever
used, they are especially suited for drawing upon wood, the compact-
ness and quality of the lead making a clearer and more distinct line
than any pencils I have before used.—Believe me, my dear Sir, ever
truly yours, THOMAS CRESWICK,
W. Brockedon, Esq.
Esq., the Eminent Draftsman and Engraver
From William Harvey,
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IRELAND.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.

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

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

" Ballinrobe, Jan. 28.
" Dear 3:e ust got your letter of yesterday, and re-
gret to sayttut I do not think lam justified in giving you
the information you require, or exposing to public view the
private transactions of any gentleman : in any other way I
should be glad to oblige you. lam writing to Castlebar this
day, and I shall have it told to your clerk not to come here
for the purpose you had directed him.—. Yours, very truly,
"THOMAS GIL DEA.
" W. Thomas Kelly, Esq, 16, Mountjoy-square,
North, Dublin."
The Learned Gentleman then read the following letter from
his clerk:— " Castlebar, Jan. 30, 1847.
" Sir,—l came from Ballinrobe last night, after seeing
Mr. Gilde3. He told me that lie wrote to you not to send
me to Ballinrobe, as it was out of his power to give you the
information you required, about the number of civil bills
and ejectments brought at the last sessions. No—not for a
thousand guineas. He said he would not expose the land-
lords of Mayo ; and what is more, he would not let you know
for what his situation is worth to him. . . . .
Indeed, he said it was a monstrous thing of you to ask such
information, and were he disposed to give you the informa•
tion, he thinks you would not like paying for 8,000 searchers.
It would certainly require a large sum of money.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant, "F. KELLY.
" W. T. Kelly, Solicitor, Dublin."
Mr. Kelly (in continuation) observed that he was determined
that the inhumanity of those landlords to whom he had ad•
verted should be exposed, and he was determined to have a
petition from himself individually presented to the House of
Commons, praying it would direct a return of the umber
of civil bills and civil bill ejectments entered and acted on
at the recent sessions in Mayo. The result of these hearties.
proceedings was that upwards of 5,000 persons had been
obliged to leave the Bounty Mayo, and seek an asylum in
England or elsewhere, to avoid the consequences of the " de-
crees"sly decided that Mr. O'Flaherty should be
selected to oppose the Solicitor-General in Galway, the gen-
tleman selected by the Young Ireland party to contest the
obtainedunanimaeguainst them.
,
The rent for the week was announced to be 271. 7s. 11d.
The meeting then adjourned.towitn was
having refused.

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1,825 394 quarters. The quantity of wheat flour, and oat-
meal amounted respectively, in 1844, to 839,567 cwt., and
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cwt.; and in 1846, to 723,562 cwt., ar,cl 553:14r civ:.
The number of cattle exported from Ireland to Great Bri-
tsin, in the year 1846, was as follows:-186,483 oxen, ;
e,363 calves; 259,257 sheep and lambs; and 480,827 swine.
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Paris, Jan. 25, 1647.
Monsieur le Comte,—Lord Normanby came and com-
municated to me, on the icth instant, a new dispatch
from Lord Palmerston, dated the Sth, in answer- to that
which I addressed, on the 22d November last, to Count
de Jarnac, and which was by him communicated to Lord
Palmerston on the 26th. That answer has, then, reached
me forty:five days after mine had been communicated to
Lord Palmerston, and the very day before the opening
of our Chambers. I expressed, at the end of my
dispatch of Nev. 22, an earnest desire for the termina-
tion
throw .a
light a
ght controversy which was no longer necessary to
uponrestoration of ,policytsiLsadwhioefh g"omo
digohnt
dienrtsetrofnedre
with the
ing and mutual good-will La which no one, I have some
right to say so, has been, or remains, more faithful than
I do." Animated now by the same feeling, and con,
formal:4y to the orders of thing in Council, I abstain
from entering. into a full and minute reply to the new
dispatch which. Lord Normanby has communicated to
me, and shall confine myself 'to a few observations upon
_certain passages in that Watch, which it has seemed to
me impossible, to leaie` enlirely Without correction. I
trust.that, by iteepittg withtel those limits, I shall contri-
bute, as far as lies in my power, in bringing at last this
debate to an effective close.
I. Lord Palmerston, after adverting to my expressing
some surprise that so much knowledge should he pro-
fessed of the engagements taken at the Chateau d'Eu, of
which engagements, however, no official proof is pro-
duced, while at the same the absence of official record
is made the ground for repudiating facts and documents
which are found to be inconvenient, and especially the
memorandum of February the 27th, 1846, goes on to
ray, in the third paragraph of his new dispatch:—
‘• Now, in answer to this, it is sufficient to say that
the facts are such as were stated in my former dispatch;
that her Majesty's Government had a knowledge of the
engagements at Eu • but had not, until after the mar-
riages were declared, any knowledge of the memoran-
dum of the 27th of February ; and if M. Guiaot will
only bring to mind the circumstances connected with the
engagements of the Chateau Ina, he will easily see that
her Majesty's Government might acquire a knowledge of
those engagements without the aid of any record in the
Foreign-office."
I am obliged to repeat that the engagements of the
Chateau d'Eu were not officially recorded in the Foreign-
office, any more than the memorandum of the 27th of
February, 1846; that that memorandum was communi-
cated on the 4th of March to Lord Aberdeen, with
whom the conversations and engagements of: the
Chateau d'Eu had taken place ; and that, therefore,
Lord Palmerston, who declares himself to have been
acquainted with the engagements, may and must have
known in the same manner the memorandum. The
communications made to a preceding government are
not, upon every change, repeated to the new Govern-
ment ; they are, in the same way as the affairs them-
selves, transmitted from one Ministry to the next
Ministry. What is there, besides, essential in the me
thespdoeciolaorarttihone
ofFe bt
Queenrtis
of
Infanta with any Prince not being a descendant of
that,
odum case of the he 27th
marriage of
Philip V., and especially with Prince Leopold of Co-
bourg, should become probable and imminent, the King's
Government would consider itself released from every
engagement, and at liberty to ask for the Duke de
Montpensier the hand either of the Queen or of the
Infanta.
Now, that sauce declaration was made and repeated
more than once, in the most positive terms, to Lord
Cowley, at that time ambassador of Great Britain at
Paris, who certainly did not fail to inform his Govern-
ment of it.*

11. "But, if her Majesty's present Government,"
says Lord Palmerston (4th and sth paragraphs), " repu-
diates the memorandum of the 27th of February, an.'
do not acknowledge it to be a document of which they
are bound to take any account, it is not, as M. Guizot
asserts, because that document is found by them to be
inconvenient.

" Her Majesty's Government repudiate that memo-
randum as in any degree binding upon them, for two
reasons : first, because it assumes rights and puts for-
ward pretensions in which her Majesty's Government
could not have acquiesced, whatever might have been
the time at which that memorandum might have been
communicated to them; and secondly, because, even if
it had contained. nothing_to Leh, in, principle, her
Majesty's Goveiiiment could have objected, it was
neither produced nor mentioned to them until after the
event had happened with respect to which it had pro-
fessed to be a warning; and I must observe that no jus-
tification is even attempted in M. Guizot'a dispatch for
the endeavour which has been made to fasten, retrospec-
tively, upon her Majesty's present Government, an obli-
gation arising out of a memorandum of which no know-
ledge was given to them at the proper time by those who
had it in their possession."
The memorandum of the 27th of February assumes to
rights or pretensions of any sort. It declares plainly
beforehand the conduct which the King's Govern-
ment will hold in a certain contingency. The right
of making such a declaration is most assuredly an
incontrovertible right, which requires nobody's as-
sent. We never maintained that that memo-
randum was binding upon the British Govern-
ment; we merely desired that it should be made known
to them. It was a tnanifestation of our intentions,
made from a sense of good faith, in order that the
British Government, being aware of the course which
we meant to follow in that contingency, might in their
turn take an account of that warning with regard to
their own conduct. There are in such a proceeding no
pretensions put forward a hich it may be necessary far
L,rd Palmerston either to repudiate or to acquiesce in ;
it is merely a determination of the French Government,
made known at several times and through several chan-
nels, especially on the 4th of Match, 1846. to the British
Government, represented at that time by Lord Aberdeen
and now by Lord Palmerston. Is that communication
certain, incontrovertible? that is the only question which
can be raised, and when facts say "yea," no one can
repudiate that answer.
111. .. If the French Government," says Lord Palmer-
ston (paragraph 6th), " meant to plead that memorandum
as a justification for any steps which they intended to
take, they ought surely to have made it known to the
British Government before those steps were taken. But
that memorandum could not have been produced with-
out_
raising a discussion about the intended marriage of
the Duke de Montpensier, and it suited better the views
of the French Government' to keep that marriage.ens-
tirely in the back ground, till they could announce it a
a settled arrangement."
sought
The King's Government have not in any way
to evade a discussion about the intended ofmarriagee
the Duke de Montpensier; neither had they
any
motivea to
to provoke such a discussion, as they did
alter in any way their former intention:,
wb
been well
been distinctly manifested, and must have
Lorde
known to the British Government. It was
duties of
Pal-
merston's province, who was assuming the
and
office, to provoke upon that subject conversations
under
explanations, fn. it was he who must have been
the necessity of making his views known and.toursu.s,Now:
ot
hnlich had
making himself thoroughly acquainted with
theo moment
from the time of his coming into office
nor address a
ston did not put a single qucstieenD to
ok
Duke
.
:as Montpensier.
single word to us, on that of th
Count do Jarnac, ho
Had be mentioned the subject to_, .
'm all the explanations and
when the two marriages were announced,t Lord Palmer-
would have received froijahi
But he
uni:ormly maintained in that respect absolute
as I have
inquire into the motive of such a
silence. I will not
not be laid tothe
conduct, but the fact should
the French GOVCTIIITIent.
.6 do not repudiate the memo-
randum which he might havewitshheedmfoosrt.
7Government," says Lord
IV. " Her Maest's
),
F di rti a ry,
justify
i6f,y becauseden
as theyk.
time
e moreover,
when from
f, ) their
r hpajerselvnisorteuasstseodniengagement
a,naked
eyd the
find it inconventen . For, on the contrar,
which
contingency w was specified in
already shown, the
the case which would release the
Pal-
merston
of (paragraph
the
2.t
ht
that memorandum, as •
and which would, in their opinion,
a Prince not descended from Philip V.),
hand of the Infanta Duke de Montpen_
ing the
an imminent danger that the Quet n
Bier (that is to say,
French Government.
might marry
and, i. d
never happened ;
for-
mer dispatch, such a contingency
Count Lad actually become
impossible at the ti
'
hand of the Infants for the Duke,because, at that time
the marriage of the Queen with a descendant of Philip
V. had already been setdd."
There is in that paragraph a strange confusion. Al-
though the official arid public demand, by Count Brt s-
son, of the hand of the Infanta for the Duke de 3lont-
pensier was posterior to the official and public decla
ration of the Queen's marriage with the Duke of Cad z,
it is notorious that both marriages had been settled at
the same time, and were associat, d together in such a
manner that, if the latter had nut been agreed upon,
neither would the former have been so. It is by the
settlement of the marriage of the Duke de Montpensier
whir the Infanta that the contingency mentioned by
Lord Palmerston—namely, the chance that the Queen
might marry a Prince not descended from Philip T.
was removed. If, at the time when Count Brevs°il
asked publicly the hand of the Infanta for the Duke de
Montpensier, the Queen's marriage with a descendant
of Philip V. had already been settled, it is because the

to the marriages of the Queen and Infaiita
* P.S. I have this moment received the " corresplncl-
oenfeSPpraeilna,t" printed
ing
by the British Government for com-
munication to Parliament, and I there find (nage 8) an
extract of a dispatch from Lord Cowley to Lord Pal-
merston, dated July 23, 1846, which runs thus
The intelligence of a proposal having been made for
an alliance with a Prince of the House of Coburg occa-
sioned the greatest consternation here. M. Guizot told
me that, if the project was persisted in, he should re-
commend tte King to put forward the Duc de Mont-
pensier as a candidate for the Queen's hand."
Thus, so late as the 13th July, Lord Palmerston did
receive from the British ambassador at Paris the posi-
tive declaration of the intentions of the King's Govern-
ment in case the Coburg oomhination should be put for-
ward, and, on the 19th of July, he wrote his dispatch to
Mr. Bulwer, which was putting forward the chance of
Prince Leopold gt Coburg.

marriage of the Duke de Montpensier with the Infanta
had been settled at the same time. The engagement
signed on that subject by M. Isturiz and M. Bresson, on
the 28th of August, the very day when the Queen's mar-
riage with the Duke of Cadiz was announced, is a pal
pahle proof of that intimate and necessary connexion of
the two marriages, of which Lord Palmerston takes no
account, though it was the determinative cause, and is
the essential character of the event.
V. " M. Guizot admits," says Lord Palmerston (para-
graph 8 and 9, "the fact of the engagement at the
Chateau d'Eu, but he does not state its substance cor-
rectly.
" It was not that the marriage of the Duke de Mont-
pensier to the Infer ta should be delayed until the Queen
of Spain should have been married, and should have had
a child ; it was, that that marriage should not take place
until the Queen of Spain should have been married, and
until the birth of children by her marriage should have
so far secured-a direct succession to the throne of Spain,
as to divest the marriage of the Duke de Montpensier to
the Infanta of a political character ; add if her Majesty'i,
Government are:not much misinformed, even this assur-
ance was (not accepted as entirely satisfactory, but as
calculated to render the projected marriage less objet
tionable than it would otherwise have been."
The engagement taken at the Chateau d'Eu has been
understood on both sides in thin sense, that when the
Queen of Spain should have been married, and should
have had children, the marriage of the Infanta would
be divested of a political character. The phrase "should
hare had children," is a general expression, which being
used beforehand, as it was in that case, contains no spe-
cification of number as to the children, and applies as
well to one as to several children. It was the fact of the
marriage of the Queen, and a posterity issued from that
marrirge, which was to divest, and which really divested.
the marriage of the Infanta of its political character. If
any idea of number bad been attached to the word
children, that number should have been specified ; it
would have been necessary to determine how many
children were requisite to divest the marriage of the In
Tanta of its political character—a question which would.
I think, be as embarrassing to Lord Palmerston as it
would be to me.
VI. " Her Majesty's present Government," says
Lord Palmerston (paragraph 11), " are unable either to
admit or to deny that any such engagement was taken
by their predecessors ; but I will assume, for the sake of
argument, that it was ; and then I would ask why,
since the condition required by the French Government
has been fulfilled, and since the promise of the British
Government hase been kept, why has the engagement of
the Chateau d'Eu been broken ?"

Lord Palmerston here again forgets that if the mar-
riage of the Queen of Spain with a descendant of Philip
V. was decided upon on the 28th of August last, it is
because the marriage of the Infanta with the Duke de
Ivlontpensier was agreed upon and settled at the same
time.
" M. Guizot," says Lord Palmerston (para-
graph 12), " endeavours to establish a contrast between
the conduct of her Majesty's late and that of her Ma-
jesty's present Government in regard to this matter ;
but there is no just ground for such a distinction, for
both Governments have pursued in this matter the
same course I both Governments have held exactly the
same language as is the pretensions put forward by the
French Government to compel the Queen of Spain to
marry none but a descendant of Philip V.; both Govern.
ments have been of opinion that it would be most
prudent for the Queen to marry a Spanish Prince, and
both agreed in their selection of the Prince whom they
ventured to recommend; while neither her Majesty's late
nor her Majesty's present Government have, at any time,
given any encouragement or support whatever to the
choice which the Spanish Court wished to make of Prince
Leopold of Saxe Coburg. Therefore the memorandum
of the 27th of Febrnary is in no degree inconvenient to
her Majesty's Government; and could not, even if com-
municated in proper time, have afforded the slightest
justification for the departure from the engagements of
the Chateau d'Eu."

The French Government never had the pretension to
compel the Queen of Spain to marry none but a de-
scendant of Philip V. But it had the good faith to de-
clare beforehand what its policy would be in such and
such a coatingeney. It m►ght as well be said that the
British Government had the pretension to compel the
Queen of Spain not to marry a French Prince. We will
make use of no such expressions, which are as contrary
to the truth of facts as to propriety. Every Government
has a right to follow that policy which is in accordance
with the legitimate interests of its country. It is what
we have done in this case, and the British Government
has done the same. We make no reproach to them fur
having taken such a course; bat we distinctly repudiate
the reproach which they address to us on that same
ground.

As to the assertion, that her Britannic Majesty's late
and her Britannic Majesty's present Government have
pursued, in this matter, the same course, and held the
same language, lam obliged again to bring in juxta-
position a few plain facts and passages which wiLl show
if there is any ground for such an assertion.
On the 28th of May, Lord Aberdeen blamed Mr.
Bulwer for having approved of-the step taken by the
• Spanish Government with a view to the marriage of there
Queen with Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, and -
his instructions to Mr.
Bulwer, pointed out to him F
Prince Leopold of Saxe
Don E
e
e
rancisco de Paula,"
tphr re-
proved
instructionshitn for
whaving h departed
received.i
of
July, Lord Palmerston, giving
Coburg and the two sons ofthe
have only to express their sincere
t
Ma-
jesty's Government
wish that the choice may fall upon the one who may be
most likely to secure the happiness of the Queen, and
i rSpanish nation.
to promote welfaretNe for
os
et et
three
ed
candidatesof t eQu eehner;
it ere those instructions of Lord Palmerston similar
iaisigt.hethoantly
" betweencandidates h
d'd ?
ates
they point out none but the same candidates?
And when one single candidate, the Infant Don En-
rique, was mentioned, Lord Aberdeen did write, on the
to the previous instructions of Lord Aberdeen? Did
22d of June, to the Duke of Sotomayor ;—" The British
ventured,English
preference,
although t
point
withouto
anyt
the
Infant English
a
DonGh the
people
Government
as the prince who appeared to them most
eligible,tc vd
dre
Enrique
namtbecause
Spain."th most
N Now,
wwhat likely
didprove Lord
acceptable
Palmerston,to
in his turn, write to Lord Normanby as being the sub-
stance of his recent instructions to Mr. Bulwer ? It is
the opinion of her Majesty's Government that " Don
Enrique is the only Spanish prince who is fit, by his
personal qualities, to become the husband of the Queen
of Spain."
Is that recommending the Infant Don Enrique, as
Lord Aberdeen did recommend him, and holding, with
regard to him, the same language ?
V[II. "M. Guizot again reverts," says Lord Pal.
merston (paragraph 13), "to my despatch of the 19th
of July to Mr. Bulwer, and states that, whatever may
have been my intention, the mere order in which the
name of the Prince of Coburg was mentioned in that
dispatch must have had the effect of an indirect commu-
nication in his favour. But M. Guizot forgets that the
dispatch was a personal instruction to Mr. Bulwer ; that
it was not destined to be communicated to the Spanish
Government; and that it never was conamunicated to
that Government by him ; and that in the very outset
of that dispatch. I referred Mr. Bulwer to a communi-
cation which he had received from my predecessor, in
which a Spanish Prince was named as the candidate who
appeared to the British Government to bs the most eli-
gible, and the most likely to prove acceptable to the
people of Spain."
It is not the mere order in which the name of the
Prince of Coburg was mentioned in the dispatch of the
lath of July which caused me to say that that dispatch
must have had the effect of an indirect recommenda-
tion in his favour ; and it is the formal text of tho
two paragraphs already quoted, and which I must quote
again

" The candidates fcr the hand of the Queen of Spain
are reduced to three ; namely, the Prince Leopold of
Saxe Coburg, and the two sons of Don Francisco de
Paula. I omit Count Trapani and Count Montemolin,
as there appears to be no chance of the choice falling
upon either of them."
There was a chance, then, of the choice falling upon
Prince Leopold of Coburg or else why should not Lord
Palmerston have omitted him as well as Count Trapani
and Count Montemolin ? •
A%r having himself thus established that there was
a chance for the Prince of Coburg, Lord Palmerston
adds :

"As between the three candidates above-mentioned,
her Majesty's Government have only to express their
sincere wish that the choice may fall upon the one who
may be most likely to secure the happiness of the
Queen, and to promote the welfare of the Spanish
nation."

There is, assuredly, In these two paragraphs, some-
thing else besides the mere order in which the name
of the Prince Leopold of Coburg is mentioned, although
I do not consider this as an indifferent circumstance.
It is of little consequence whether the dispatch of the
19th of July was a personal instruction to Mr. Bulwer,
not destined to be communicated to the Spanish Govern-
ment. To that instruction Mr. Bulwer was, undoubtedly
to conform his conduct and language. The views and
intentions contained in the dispatch were to be mani-
fested through the acts and words of the Minister to
whom it was addressed. We must have looked to the
things themselves, and not merely to the form of the
communications and influences.
In reminding us that he referred Mr. Bulwer to an in-
struction which he had received from his predecessor,
that is to say, to the dispatch addressed on the 22d of
June, by Lord Aberdeen, to the Duke of Sotomayor,
Lord Palmerston forget b that that dispatch does not
mention any other ettAidate for the hand of the Queen
of Spain besides the In'ant Don Enrique, who appears,
says Lord Aberdeen, to be the most eligible ; whereas
the dispatch of the 19th of July mentions three candi-
dates—the Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, and the two
sons of Don Francisco de Paula, whom Lord Palmer.
ston represents as equally eligible, and equally acceptable
to the British Government.
IX. M. Guizot," says Lord Palmerston (pat agraphs
15, 16, and 17) "points out that in a passage in my
dispatch of the 31st of October, in which there is a
quotation from his previous clik-atch of the sth of
October, some words which were rt )t in his dis-
patch have been ph c NI between inverted commas. This
remark is perfectly correct. The passage in question in
my dispatch of the 31st of October, begins with a

verbal quotation, and ends with a verbal quotation; but
contains in the middle a sentence which is not a verbal
quotation, but is the substance of a preceding passage in
M. Guizot's despatch from which I was quoting ; and
the inverted commas are ivadvertantly carried on so as
to include that middle sentence. The inverted commas
ought to stop at the words state of things,' and should
not begin again till the words, 'consequently the French
Government resorted at Madrid.'
" I have to instruct your Excellency to correct this
error of punctuation in the original dispatch in
the archives of your embassy ; and perhaps
M. Guizot will have the goodness to do the
same by the copy which was delivered to him.
" But this correction in the punctuation of the pas-
sage makes no difference whatever in the argument, and
does not in the slightest degree affect the contradiction
which it was the object of that passage in my dispatch to
point out. The contradiction consists in this ; that M.
Guizot's dispatch of the sth of October states, in one
passage, that the Spanish Court was so bent upon one
arrangement that, if not opposed by the British Govern-
ment that arrangement was likely, by a simple act of
laisser-aller, to have inevitably taken place ; and then,
in another passage, it says that the manner in which a
different arrangement was effected was by simply offer-
ing that different arrangement to the free choice and
.indepeacketitleilkofethe very same Court." -- -
I would not insist upon the erroneous quotation al-
luded to in those paragraphs, and the error of which Lord
Palmerston acknowledges, if he did not maintain that
that error-is immaterial, and that the sentence which he
quoted as being mine (though it was not mine) was " the
substance of a preceding passage in my dispatch of the
sth of October." I cannot recognise my ideas in the
substance of them, as given by Lord Palmerston, any
more than I recognised my words in his quotation of
them. I never thought or said that " the Spanish court
was so bent upon the Coburg alliance that, if not op-
posed by the British Government, that arrangement was
likely, by a simple act of laisser-aller, to have inevitably
taken place." I thought and said, that if, on the one
hand, the King's Government had persisted in not ac
ceding to the wishes of the Spanish Government for the
marriage either of the Queen or of the Infanta with the
Duke de Montpensier, while on the other hand the Bri-
tish Government accepted, were only by a simple act of
laisser-aller, the Coburg combination, this latter combina-
tion would probably have taken place. I added that,
such being the state of things, the King's Government
had altered its course, and offered a different arrange-
ment to Queen Isabella and her Government. Such is
the exact substance of what I said in that part of my
dispatch of the sth of October, and that statement differs
materially from that which Lord Palmerston persists in,
while at the same time he acknowledges the error in his
quotation.
X. " M. Guizot acknowledges," says Lord Palmers-
ton (paragraph 18), " that it was from Lord Aberdeen
that he received the first information of the overture
made in May last by the Court of Madrid to the Duke
of Saxe Coburg. But he states that, as the communi-
cation from Lord Aberdeen was confidenti4l, he did not
think him ;elf at liberty, without Lord Aberdeen's per-
mission, to say from whom it came. This might be a
reason for not mentioning the circumstances at all, but
surely it was no reason for mentioning it in such a way
as to give those who might be unacquainted with the
facts an erroneous impression as to the course of the
transaction "

I never attempted to give an erroneous impression as
to the first source of the information which I had re-
ceived on the subject of the overture made by the Court
of Madrid to the Duke of Saxe Coburg. I merely ab-
stained from mentioning that source so long as I thought
that it could not be done with a due regard to right and,
propriety ; and the surprise which. I expressed was at
the course which the British Minister at Madrid had
adopted contrary to his instructions.
XI. "M. Gt.izot denies," says Lord Palmerston
(paragraph 19), "that the Matquis of Miraflores was
sent to Paris in July last on a mission, on the subject of
the marriage of the Queen of Spain." And after
on that subject a passage from niN dispatch of the 22i of
November last, he adds:—" NOtwithstanding this ap•
parently positive contradiction, her Majesty's Govern-
ment must still persist in the assertion, in regard to
this matter, which was contained in my former dispatch.
Her Majesty's Government consider themselves to have
good ground for asserting that the Marquis of Mira:-
fibres was sent to Paris in July for the above-mentioned
purpose
pet pretend
;no f a
Majesty'sl Governmentthecominut icado
not_
tions which, durirg the two months which he spent at
Paris, may have passed between him and those to whom
rda n tdo t:a7vueg a h knowledgeher
he was sent, yet her Majesty's G- ivernment do happen
to know that, on the evening of the 19th of July, a day
or two after his arrival in Paris, he had an audience at,
Neuilly, and that, at that audience, he did, though inef-
fectually, endeavour to accomplish the purpose of his
mission. If the Marquis had succeeded in overcoming
at Paris the objections there felt to the selection of the
Prince of Coburg, he was to have gone on to London to
solicit the co-operation of her Majesty's Government
I persist in thinking that Lord Palmerston has been
misinformed as to the mission with which the Marquis
of Miraflores was, he says, intrusted in the month of
July last, and as to what passed or was said on that
occasion, either at Paris or even at Neuilly.
XII. In the 22d and ten following paragraphs, Lord
Palmerston resumes and discusses anew the question of
the Treaty of Utrecht. I there find again the same
ideas, the same mistakes with regard to the sense and
consequences of that treaty, which I have already com-
batted. Ido not think it necessary to begin that discus-
sion over again, and I shall confine myself to a few
short remarks upon those assertions of Lord Palmerston
which seem to involve, in a greater degree, the question
in confusion and error.
In his despatch of the 22d of September, it was
against the very marriage of the Duke de Montpensier
with the Infanta that Lord Palmerston formally pro-
tested, on the ground of the treaty of Utrecht. He now
acknowledges that the treaty of Utrecht does not pro-
hibit such a marriage, but he contends that the descend-
ants issuing from it would, by virtue of that treaty, be
excluded from the throne of Spain ; an assertion which
he says I have not denied.
Now, I formally denied it. I admitted that, accord-
ing to the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht, and of the
renunciations of 1712, the descendants of the Duke of
Orleans could not, in case the posterity of Philip V.
should become extinct, put forth, on their lineal right,
any claim to the throne of Spain. But I maintained that
the descendants of Philip V. could not, in consequence
of marriage with princes or princess a issued from lines
which had renounced their rights, lose their own per-
sonal rights, the rights of their own line, to the throne
of Spada. I showed that such were the primitive mean-
ing and the constant interpretation of the treaty of
Utrecht. I quoted several instances in proof of that in-
terpretation, especially Ferdinand VII. and Isabella 11.,
King and Queen of Spain, as descendants from Philip
V., though they were, through their mother and grand-
mother, direct descendants of Louis XV. I a-ked Lord
Palmerston if he ever thought of di:poting the title of
Ferdinand VII. or Isabella II.? To that example he
gives no answer.

The object of the Treaty of Utrecht was, as I said, to
prevent the union of the two crowns of France and
Spain upon one head. Should it happen, therefore, at
any future time, GS Lord Palmerston hypothetically
suggests it, that the rights to b9th crowns should be
united in one prince, I have no hesitaiion in acknow-
ledging that he could not be invested with both those
crowns. But, so long as the two lines of the Bourbons
of France and the Bourbons of Spain remain in exist-
ence intirmarriage between them c:.nnot have that
effect, that the private rights of one of those lines should
be desttcyed by the renunciation which the other line
has once made of its own rights. People may renounce
for themselves and their descendants the rights which
they possess and which they would transmit to them.
But that they should renounce for their descendants
rights which they do not possess and cannot transmit
them, is a principle not to be admitted. Lord Palmer-
ston constantly overlooks that distinction between the
royal lines and the rights belonging to each of them,
and which remain always distinct. Hence the erroneous
inferences which he draws from the Treaty of Utrecht,
.and which would materially affect that very treaty, and
the balance of European power which has been founded
by it.

" Guizot," says Lord Palmerston (paragraph
33, and seq.), "in the concluding part of his dispatch,
says that he desires to bring back the controversy
within its legitimate and constitutional limits; that, in
my dispatch of the 31st of October, I introduced a
name which ought never to have appeared in this dis-
cussion; that his surprise at this was deep, that his sense
of duty commanded him to express it strongly, and to
remind me that the responsibility of the policy of the
King's Government in this matter belongs entirely to
himself alone."

It is impossible for me to allow this passage to pass
without a reply. And Lord Palmerston quotes three
passages from my dispatch of the sth of October, in
which the King's name is to be found.
I was not prepared, I must own, for such an answer
and recrimination. I never thought that the name of

the royal person ever could or ought to be prt;
nonnce any .ay .
in a diplomatic correspondence. i
Hew could I have entertained such an idea, in
contradiction with such frequent facts, when I had,
without making any remark. on the subject, met with
the King's name in Lord Palmerston's dispatch of the
22d of September,—when I had myself ma le use of it
several times in my dispatch of the sth of Octob:,r, as
Lord Palmerston points out in quoting three extracts
from that dispatch? What I thought, and must abso-
lutely persist in thinking, is that the royal person never
ought to be mentioned for the purpose of attack, or
with reference no acts which are attacked. " The King
can do no wrong," is, in England as well as in France,
the fundamental principle of constitutional monarchy.
It is that principle which I bare appealed to when Lord
Palmerston seemed to me to have forgotten it, and he
actually forgot it on several occasions. I will merely
mention two instances.
Ist. In his dispatch of the 31st of (Haber, after men-
tioning the engagement taken at Eu, in September 1845,
" by his Majesty the King of the French and by his Mi
ulster," Lord Palmerston says, that the purpose of the
memorandum of the 27th of February, 1846, was " that
the King of the Freneh would hold himself free from the
engagements he had taken as to the marriage of the
Queen and of the Infanta, and would deem himself at
liberty to ask the hand, either of the one or of the other,

for the Duke de Montpensier, in a eertkin'eontingeney."
In the first place, that quotation is OA coTrec.tY_The--
memorandum of the 27th of Februaryillof oiotloncpt
mention the King of the French, does inbt4vett pitA. "
flounce his name. That memorandum is written in the
name of the King's Government ; no mention is made in
it except of the French Cabinet and the 13; itish Cabinet.
It is Lord Palmerston r,ho introduces in it the King's
name ; and what is the consequence P That when he
afterwards inveighs against what he calls a violation of
the engagements of Eu, his accusation falls upon the
King personally. Thus, an incorrect quotation becomes
the origin and pretext of a proceeding the most contrary
to constitutional principles and usages.
2. Lord Palmerston says again, in his dispatch of the
31st of October, " The objections expressed by the
King of the French to Prince Leopold, however unrea-
sonable, unjust, and in public law untenable they might
be, might, nevertheless, in the event of that Prince be-
coming the consort of the Queen, injuriously affect the
relations of Spain .with France.'.'
I do not think that any comment is necessary to show
how strange and unconstitutional such language is, or
that I need adduce any more instances to justify the
demand which I made at the conclusion of my dispatch
of the 22d November last, and which I here formally
repeat.
I bare to instruct you to communicate this dispatch
to Lord Palmerston, and to give him a copy of it.
Receive, Monsieur le Comte, the assurance of my
high consideration.

(Signed)

GUIZOT.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, FEB. 2.—ln a convocation to be holden on
Thursday, the 4th of March, at two o'clock, the following
further regulations for Sir Robert Taylor's foundation' will
be submitted to the house.

B. P. SYMONS, Vice-Chancellor.
Delegates' Room, Feb. 1, 1847.
DUTIES OF CURATORS, ADDITIONAL.
Tevmploy -a-sum not exceeding 1,000/. in the purchase of
books for the general purposes of the institution.
To employ a further sum, not exceeding 1001. in each year,
in the purchase of books, pamphlets, periodicals, and journals
for the same general purposes.

PROFESSOR.
One professor to be appointed, and at first for five years
only, with the title "Professor of Modern European Lan-
guages,but to be re-eligible.
To be removable at any time with the concurrence of at
least five curators for neglect of duty, or for immorality, or
for teaching or holding tenets at variance with the doctrines
or discipline of the Church of England.
To be a member of the University at the time of his ad-
mission.
To receive an annual stipend of 4001. If in holy orders,
to have no parochial charge daring the residence hereinafter
required of him.

DUTIES OF THE PROFESSOR.
To lecture ,on the philology or literature of some of the
principal languages of Europe.
To deliver a course of not less than eight lectures in
each term—Easter and Act being accounted as one. The
lectures to be gratis, and open to all the members of the
University.
To be resident in the University throughout each term,
power being reserved to a majority of the curators to grant
an occasional leave of absence.

LIBRARIAN.

A librarian to be appointed by the curators.
To be resident in the building, and to have the charge and
superintendence of it, subject to the direction and control of
the curators.

To be in constant attendance, and to deliver out and enter
the books as delivered in a register.
To go every evening through the building, and see that all
lights and fires have been extinguished.
To receive an annual stipend of 150/.
Not to be absent at any period of the year without leave
of the curators.

Teachers to be appointedTEACHERS at first in German and French,
and for five years only, but to be re-eligible.
To be removable at any time with the concurrence of at
least five curators.

ES OF THE .
To be residentDU
in TI
the UniversityTEACHEßS
throughout each term,
and to be at the disposal of the curators for the purpose of
teaching or lecturing in the Taylor Building four hours
daily, power being reserved to a majority of the curators to
grant an occasional leave of absence. Such teaching and
lecturing to be gratis, and open to all members of the
University.
To be allowed to teach in private, with the consent of the
curators, but not within the Taylor Building.
If British subjects by birth, to subscribe the Thirty-nine
Articles.

i** The proceeds of the Taylor Fund having been to a
large amount anticipated in erecting the building, and the
entire resources therefore not being available for four or five
years to come, it has been judged most expedient to make a com-
mencement on a scale proportionate to its actual means. The
present scheme has accordingly been framed so as to leave a
balance annnually applicable to the liquidation of the debt.
After five years the scheme is to becompleted, when there will
have been some experience as to its working to aid in any
revision that may be thought expedient.
A further advantage will be, that the extent of the neces-
sary annual expenses of the establishment will have been
ascertained, and consequently the amount of the fund appli-
cable to the direct purposes of the institution.
At a convocation held this forenoon, Mr. Henry S. Harper
was elected Inferior Bedel in Medicine and Arts.

THE NAVY.
FIRST LORD'S LEVEE.—The following officers attended the
levee of the Earl of Auckland, at the Admiralty, yesterday:
—Rear-Admiral Philip Brown ; Captains Alexander B.
Branch, K.H. (of Greenwich Hospital), Sir John Ross, Chas.
Bosanquet, L. J. Jones, Hon. G. A. Crofton, P. Halstead,
and G. G. Burton ; Commanders J. A. Abbott, Edward
Smith, H. Byng, W. C. Chamberlain, J. E. Raton, J. J.
M'Donnell, W. B. Moneypenny, J. B. Marsh, J. L. R.
Stoll,hji
ol,ptßichardals,DSpencer,r.
JDoohu Jamesgn
Lla
Liddell
fiTue
rn D.
y.
Paymaster
:sale;
rLa iiedu
Croftont
penu;ar,
snletnsrs,
pt
Ehe
cedtwHo
aror
don
f.
Griffin.
Captain M. F. F. Berkeley, C. 8., has left the Admiralty
for Leominster, for a few days.
An inquest was held at Woolwich yesterday, on the body
of the late Captain Fead, when a verdict was returned of
" Died from disease of the heart." Commander Fead,
nephew of the deceased, deposed to the good state of health
of his gallant uncle the day preceding that of his sudden
decease.
Lieut. George Mason (1827), of the coast guard service,
has been appointed to command the Stag, revenue cruiser,
vice Clarke, promoted. --
NAVAL CADETs.—John P. J. Parry to the Sidon steam.
frigate ; Motley PrAttent, to the Albatross, 16, sloop.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
LONDON, FEB. 3. - Wind N.E. by N., light breeze and
hazy.

DEAL, FEB. N.E. to N.N.E., fresh and squally.
—Arrd. Louisa Maria, Weuk, New York ; Anna Margaretha,
Rumsden, New York; and both sailed for Antwerp; Mari-
ners, Mendez, Havannah, and sailed for Hamburg; Henry
Skelton, Long, Baltimore. Sld. Sharp, Cape of Good Hope
Arab, Cape Coast Castle; Cato, St. Vincent's; Osbert, Do-
minica; Planet, Jamaica; Caroline, Havannah; Circassian
and Corsair, New Orleans; Zealous, Charleston.
PooLz, FEB. 2. Wind W. —Arrd. Nymph, Thomer,
Newfoundland.
PLYMOUTH, FEE. B.—Wind N.N.E.—SId. John Oldham,
Jamaica.
FALMOUTH, FEB. 2.—Wind E.N.E.—Off port, Helen, of
Glasgow, Moulmin, for London. Sld. Hindoo, Cape of
Good Hope.
PORT TALBOT, FEB. I.—Wind E N.E.—Arrd. Dominica,
Storach, Quebec.

GLoucEsTER, FEB. 2.—Arrd. Daniel-Webster, New York;
Albion, Bowman, Quebec.
BERWICK, FEB. I.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Margaret Hardy,
Mann, Callao.

EXMOUTH.—Arrd. Northumberland, New York.
CORK, JAN. 31.—Arrd. a i American ship, with loss of
foremast and bowsprit. The Richmond Lass, water-logged
d abandoned,herwer
Aparrsdsedßrinitislhonig,a.rl,lliWar.,ris,byßteice
the Susan
Suaan
Green, for
Sid. Bartlett, New York; Indian Queen,
ILFRACOMBE,Bar-
FEB. I.—A portion of the quarterdeck of
btahanedo Clyde.
e s arrived
a small vessel, the combings of the companion, painted green,
has b= en towed in from the Seven Hills.
COWES, Fan. 2.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. Emma, Honduras.
SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 2.—Slel. Avon steamer, West Indies.
GIUMBSY, FEB. 2.—Arrd. Olga, Morrison, Richebucto.
OFF TORBAY, Fan. 2. —Wind E. N: E.—Woodside, Guthrie

Grande; Adolph, Behrens, St. Thomas, for Hamburgh:

LIVERPOOL, N.N.E.," moderate. -Sld.
Isabella, -Demerara; Storm King, Vera Ci uz ; City of
Koctfester, New Orleans; James Bonham, ditto; Elizabeth
Ellen, ditto; R. D./ Shepperd, ditto; Medora, Charleston ;
Venice, Philadelphia Off port, Joshua Waddington.
Dispatches have been received at Lloyds from the Admi-
ralty reporting the damage sustained by shipping at Galway
and Slign, in the gales there of the 24th ult., particulars of
which have already appeared.

SURGICAL OPERATIONS AT THE

MILITARY lIOSPITAL, CHATHAM. -
A series of surgical operations were performed at the Ge-
neral Hospital, Fort Pitt, Chatham, on Wednesday last, in
-presence of Dr. French. P.M.0., and all the medical officers
of the establishment, the patients, previous to operation,
having been each subjected to the influence of the vapour of
sulphuric ether by inhalation, the effects of which were as
satisfactory as they were surprising .
operationl4.
as
amputation the
soldier of the 52d Regiment, dexterously performed by Mr.
Peck, dentist, of Chatham. The patient, on awakening
The
ee
next first
w a a
n
about a minute after from the stupitying effects of the ether,
declared that he had been totally unconscious of pain, and
extraction t rtahcet i
lefton o f
leg, a tooth
fo r
diseasefrom
ofa
would hardly credit that he had been subjected to the ope-
ration at all.
the ankle joint, in a soldier of the 37th
Regiment.
This pa-
tient, after inhaling the ether vapour for
two or three ml.
notes, was declared to be in a fit state for the performance o
the operation, and the leg wasquickly
knee, During the tying of
the blood-vessels the convulsed by strong spasms, and he limb was
moaned once or twice.
but declared, on his return t
little or no pain to consciousness, that he had had
of the sawing of throughout, though he bad been "sensible
the bone:" as to the incisions with the
knife, he stated that he had had no knowledge or recollection
whatever.

The last operation was the removal of the last joint of the
great toe. The subject of this was a tall, spare Irishman,
private Patrick Foley. The ether took effect in less than
two minutes, and he remained under its full influence foit,
about four minutes. during a brief part cf which time the'
toe was amputated. On awaking from his short sleep he
was asked if he would like to have his toe taken off? He re-
plied, in a drowsy voice, Oh, I'm very weak, but 'tis a
great bother to me," and suddenly rousing up, he lifted his
leg high into Vie air, gazed fur an instant at the foot in won-
der and delight, and exclaimed, " Oh, by the hokey, but
the toe is gone; well, an' sure, I had the finest dream in the
world, though in throth it was'nt the toe I was dreaming
about at all. '

The two last operations were performed by Staff-surgeon
Dartnell, of Fort Pitt.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF GOLD AND SILVER.—
On Tuesday information was circulated that between ten and
eleven o'clock on Monday night there was stolen from the
house of Mr. James Clarke, New-street, Lambeth, a rose-
wood writing-desk, brass bound, containing 1851. in sove-
reigns and 100/. in Bank of England notes td 101. etch, the
i
numbers and dates unknown. The robbery s supposed to
have been committed by a tall thin man in dark clothes, who
was seen entering the parlour window, which had been left
unfastened, and who must have gone up stairs and taken the
writing-desk from the first floor Emit room, and left the
home by the front door.

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ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed THE GUNSMITH OF ORLEANS; or, The
Dead Woman's Secret. In which Messrs. Hicks, Forman, Searle,
Bird, Howard, Miss Vincent, Mrs. Hicks, Mrs. Lee, and Miss
Pearce will appear,
After which, THE DUKE OF SHOREDITCH, Supported by the
entire Comic strength of the Company.
To conclude with the grand Christmas Pantomime, en-
1, !TI ITIRTLI OF TIIE STEAM ENGINE ; or, Harlequin
'lead." and Joe Miller and his Men. Clown. Mr. T. Barry.

THE .tl-7--------.,.., ..___.
ATION AL DEBT.—The annual account of
the sums received
the reduction of theadPended by the Commiasioners for
national Debt in the year ended the sth
ofJanuary, 1847, has be
en prepared and presented. The cre-
ditor side of the account exhibits a sum total of 3,578,7')1/,
arising fr.tn cash received
,atsundry times from the Exche-
quer, and interest on stock
fAlowing items :—viz., a ,m, &c.
o,Trhoe,7Lebitorr,asiTefosrhollov.slt;ohle.
Reduced /km1;1441.9; 263,1091. -it
for 718,353. Reduced ; 46,915(;:rf2.73,819/Consols ; 689.7.97/.
°S:ttoickSo;u3tl,lBoB2el.
Stock ; 149.609/. for 157,900/. NewrS'f,4ni'llt)sli„a
f,r 4,0001. Three per Cent. Annuitle.s_.(l7sl); 1-1,8491. for
13,6441. Three per Cent. Annuities (1726); and 2,400,000/.
for xeque7-bills.
SURGICAL OPERATIONS UNDER TILE INFLUENCE 0
ETHEIL—Tues were .lay afternoon two more operations r
ceFsfully performed in the large theatre of the Charing-crB'l:-
Hospital, on patients while under the influence of ether
• The lirst operation was performed by Mr. Avery vapour, ,
and con •isted in the removal of the large toe nail of the left
foot—a very painful process; and in the second case, Mr.
Stegliall, the house surgeon, extracted several teeth from a
young man who had inhaled the ether. In both cases the
patients acknowledged that they had not felt the slightest
pain during the operation.
THE DISTRESSED IRISH AND SCOTCH..—Mr. Bunn,
of Drury-lane Theatre, has, in the handsomest manner ap-
propriated the receipts of Monday next for the benefit of the
Irish and Scotch. The committee of the theatre have agreed
to allow the use of the theatre free of rent, and every artiste
and employe of the establishment have consented togive their
services gratuitously on this occasion.