The Sun.
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of union beyond a mutual Joked of England. and a
desire" to reduce her power and- influence in the four
quarters of the world. This is a-folly on the part of
France for which she will riot readily forgive herself
when she discovers that Russia is using her as a tool for
the attainment of her own purposes, and destroying her
influence as a great Power in Europe. We hope that
this Russia mania will speedily evaporate—that the
Government of France will see that its natural and
most powerfnl ally is England—that no grcund of na-
tional quarrel or separation has been given— and that
civilized States ought to unite together to prevent war
and to preserve peace, as the greatest encourager of the
arts and sciences which tend to the benefit of mankind.
Should the event be unfortunately otherwise than we
wish—should an unjustifiable and insane combination
take place between France and Russia to the prejudice
of our country—we have only to say that England will
again buckle on her armour as she did of old, and with
a world in arms against her, as she had in the times of
Chatham, give her assailants a remembrancer which
they will not speedily forget.
(From the Morning Herald.)
The letter which we published yerterday from our
correspondent in Paris, contained some curious illustra-
tions of the truth of those opinions, which the Herald
alone, of the daily press of London, has expressed in
reference to the recent " settlements" of the Eastern
question, as well as in reference to the really hostile
nateue of the desigas of our professing " ally," Russia.
In all things, Russia is, by the very necessities of her
position, and of that schemel of policy to which her posi-
tion has given rise, the " natural enemy" of England.
We state this circumstance, dispassionately, merely as
a fact that ought never to be lost sight of. It is a fact,
which warrants no dep hatred on our parts towards
Russia—and, certainly, warrants no violence of lan-
guage. Russia has her own system of political action ;
and that system, she advances with consummate energy
and skill. The present Emperor of Russia is a man
of extreme prudence and ability ; but he is
only carrying out designs that were formed
before be was born—designs that will be
prosecuted with an unflinching zeal, after he
shall be numbered n ith his predecessors. Russia is,
beyond all question, the most formidable of the.anta-
aonists with whom we can be called on to cope. Tne
executive Government of Russia is, for its objects, the
most effective in the world. The diplomatists of Rus-
sia far transcend all their competitors in aptitude for
business, and in tact. On the military and naval re-
sources of Russia, it is unnecessary to make many
observations. Her navy liss been absolutely creates
(so to speak) within twenty years. The next twenty
years, if thy shall be equally well employed by Rus-
sia, must witness her navy unquestioned mistress of
the ocean. At every point, the power of England
oterferes with the designs of ltussa ; and so long as
an intimate alliance subsists between England and
France—so long, inieed, as England shal be (rue to
herself—the progress of the great Northern Power
!aunt he necessarily slow. Still the mere slowness
of her progress never interferas with the settled pur-
pose of Russia. She is everwhere vigilant—everywhere
prepared to act, where action is txpedieut—every-
Acre prepared to rLfraia from action, wih:n action is
dot advi,able. The halence of liussia has beau

xerted against England in India—in Persia—in Canada
—in Turkey—and is France :—nay, some observers—
men, too, not devoid of acuteness--fancy that they ca:.
!race Russian inflacrice in some of our domestic disseri-
siens. An alliance with Frantic would, in a remarkable
.I!!gree, promote the &signs of Russia. England, by
:ketroy ing the Turkish Let nt Navarino, placed Turkey,
in fac,q, at the mercy of Russia. By our ope;-ations on
tile coast of Syria, we have ramov,d the possibility of
any interference on the part of Mchtmct Ali with the
sctaents of our northern "ally." la order to play
iharouzlily the g.trn) of 11-asia, we have, now, only
r;) provide f;r our;clres full occupation, by go-

!fig L. 7 war with Fraucc ; aucl Cleo, iu all prohability
11.,.usia will exhibit, lea of re,crre as to t•:c; ulti.

enite chjsets, than she has, hitherto, deenesi
ie pieef.n: to eayloy. Eneland is naturni:y a.t ohject
st envy ital disldee to a!insst :he stirs great nations
is the world. Tee wealth of Eeg'and—her vest co-
lonial possessioes—her commercilf. and trading enter-
prise, that is so apt to interfere with the domestic in-
dustry of fareien statss: —these are all reasons why
the other Powers shonht lung to witness the ariall.ila-
tiou of the sentrees of Fnieland's pioiperity. It is not
en the part of Fiance and Russia aleue, twat we hare
to fear demonstratioes of hostility. In Lelia, we have
many feraddahle enemies among the native Princes.
Persia is now decidedly hostile. Ceina we
:an! actually at war. Tau United Seat's of Atneiica
Aid reiza the first favourable opportunity of at-
tempting to wrest the Canadas from es. Rawls
rift_ never forego her ehs:gas on Turkey. Prince
ss not forgo!ten that she smce h d colonies nhich
now in:knowledge the sway of aeglaud. France,
moiaover, has not abjured her pass on far creating a
coLnial empire on a far mac extensive scale than sh.:
ias ever yet attempted. Now all these nations have
eemenua interest in epposieg Etiglard. With our
neighbours in India and etiina, we are already in-
voked in Tne lapse of a brief period may
u:ve us is war with Russia, Drano, and the
Ueited States. These Powers have, it is true, so bond
of union apart from their opposition in interest to
England ; but Mat may prove a hood of union quite
sfFective for its objects. A combined movement by
France, Russia, and the United States might deprive
England of the sovereignty of the seas, the navy of the
United States being manned almost exclusively by
English seamen. Any one disaster on a great scale
might prove, in fact, a prelude to the dismemberment
of the British empire—for 'unfortunately the means
of defence and of aggression now possessed by
England are far from being commensurate with the
necessities of her position. It is well that the rulers el
England should look calmly at all the dangers that
really threaten the country, whose destinies are com-
mitted to their hands. Much has, it is true, been re-
cently done towards placing our navy in an effective
condition ; but far mere requires to be done. Our
coasts are still nearly defenceless. Many of our ships
in commission—aye, some even of those vessels which
played so distinguished a part in the bombardment of
Acre—are very imperfectly manned and appointed.
These things require, assuredly, to be thoroughly
reformed. No economy can be so false, or so
costly, as that, which would withhold from a great
nation, in times of peril, the. most effective means
of repelling danger. Three mouths of a 'war, which
should be condeicted int fliciently on our part,
would cost us mere than the most expensive
navy would, in a quarter of a century. Our
beissted " settlement" of the Eastern question bids fair,
in short, at no distant time, to bring us into collision
with France, or Russia—perhaps with both, and, it
may be, with the United States simultaneously. It is
our business, at all events, to be prepared foreseeh—a•
contingency—to shun Russian " alliances"—to culti-
vate friendly relations with Prussia and Austria—to
add immediately, and on a large scale, to the efficiency
of our navy—to protect our domestic and colonial in•
dustry, and to ley'less store than we have been in the
habit of doing by our foreign trade. If Engia-ndsshall
adopt such a prudent course, she may smile at any
alliance which Russia may form with France :—if not,
England may find that there are in store for her days
of darkness and disaster, such as she has never hereto-
fore known.

(From the Times.)
The Parisian journals have not mitigated one particle
of their hostility to the British name and nation. The
provincial press rivals that of the metropolis in the spirit
of hatred and vengeance, of irrational hatred; and ven-
geance utterly unprovoked. If there were any justifi-
able cause for such animosity, however, we should suffer
not only in self-reproach, but in reputation, for those in-
juries to France by which it might have been occa-
sioned, still there would be some reasonable prospect
that a becoming acknowledgement and reparation on
our part might extinguish the unfriendly feeling. But
we have,• Artunately, no such ground of hope. We.
have offered France no injury. Her resentment is gra-
tuitous. It springs exclusively from the frustration of
her own intended wrong, and she clings to it as to
sentiment the public disavowal of which .would he a
self-conviction of her I revious injustice before the
whole world. What, then, remains for us ? What
concession eon be made by the individual or the na-
, dart which has neither committed nor meditated en-
cro ichruent on the rights of a neighbour ? In Wed-
neqlay's Tines we gave an outline of our opinion as to
the causes now in action for the overthrow of M. Guizot.
With the ignorant, prejudiced, and headlong multitude,
it is the passion for war at any price which he opposes,
and that is at least an honest and manly, though mis-
taken motive. But it is far otherwise with those who
look no otherwise at M. Guizot's policy than as it may
tend to the stability or abridgment of his own -power,
and who alllx no impor:ance to his unpopularity but as
it may facilitate-their efforts to undermine and super-
sede him. It is rumoured very generally that M.
'Triers is expected in certain quarters to promote so
much of the Paris-fortification project as will suit the
eonvenience and advance the schemes of Royalty. In
any community but that of France such indirect and sub-
t!o courses would scarcely be thought worthy of credit.
suers, it is well understood, has forfeited all chance of
being endured as a Minister by the head ofthe home of Or-
leans. Ilia attempt to precipitate Louis Philippe in to a war.
and his offensive and disreputable endeavour afterwards
to charge it as a crime against his Majesty that he had
checked the prep nations by which war moat have
stantly been provoked had Thiers remained in office, were
quite enough, in any other country, to have made the
late 'Minister of Foreign Affairs an outcast from the in-
tercourse of all honourable politicrans. if Louis Phi-
lippe now, therefore, steers_ so low as to employ
I:i9 personage, ails discarded, a 3 his agent in a
particular service where the - King had notoriously
an end to c wry which no true Mend of free Go-
verament would ever ddga to promote (we allude
d:stinetly to the erection ef detached forts rouadf
Pari3O„ either Thiers must exhibit a turpitutl
el-- Louis Philippe • svil littve committed a folly, for
neiLher of which can 0 prcced--nt !otad in the annals o
any neighbouring nation. A 3. for the chimera that M

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Mole, the anticipated successor of M. (luizot, would, by'
striking the earth with his staff of office, raise the Pande-
monium of a Russian alliance against England, we attach
no faith to it, and entertain no such fear. The Emperor
Nicholas knows his men. His Imperial Majesty is
familiar with the acute and career of M. Mole—he
knows Louis Philippe and France herself as intimately
es either is known to the other—and we mistake him
much if he will not pause for some time before he en-
gages himself against England by the solemn obligations
of a treaty with France for his only friend. That the
French rave incessantly of such a treaty is no proof that
it ever will take place. That Russia would gain by it any
advantage equal to the value of the paper on which it
was signed, is what we do not imagine. That Russia,
having but recently signed and executed engagements
with Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and the Porte,
for maintaining the integrity of the Turkish do-
minions, and for reducing the Egyptian Pacha to the
condition of his vassal, would or could now, in open
contempt of every principle on which she has just
affirmed the equilibrium and the peace of Europe
to repose, and in flagrant and disgraceful violation
of her own honour, form a league with France, in direct
hostility to the Allies with whom she has throughout
been co-operating, and for the defeat and ruin of ob-
jects whose importance she was, within these two
years, the foremost to proclaim, we hold to be mon-
strous and incredible. The French war party, through
those discreet mouthpieces, Messrs. Thiers and Jaubert,
has declared that France had in view three tangible and
legitimate pretensions to enforce, as against Europe ge-
nerally—l. The exclusive protectorship of Egypt, and
of all the other secondary powers in the Mediterranean,
by the ascendancy of the French flag. 2. The seizure
of the island of Minorca, to form a new link in the chain
between France and Algiers. 8. The extension of the
French frontier to the Rhine, and the defeazance of the
treaties of 1815, to which Russia was a prominent and
commandingparty. ,Now let us ask any man in hissenses, is
it rational to conceive that the Emperor Nicholas would,
on the proposal of M. Mole, a Bonapartist employe, or
out of complaisance to Louis Philippe, whom he re-
gards as an usurper of the lawful Bourbon crown, be-
come the member of a pettnership with that usurper
and his Minister for abandoning to France the sole do-
minion over Egypt, the possession of Minorca, or the
frontier of the Rhine—the last-mentioned prize to be
wrested by force from the German Powers, the ancient
friends of Russia—some of them endeared to her by
bonds of the most sacred family alliance, and none of
them more interested than she is herself to restrain
France rigorously within the limits assigned to ,her
by the grand European confederation of 1815 ? Who
but a Bedlatnite would believe such nonsense ? The
Paris papers are indeed quite edifying in their can-
struction of a certain despatch, which is alleged
to have come from S. Pctersburgh to M. Guizot,
wherein the French Government is courteously as-
sured of the regret with which the Court of St. Pe-
tersburgh perceived that France had isolated herself
frora the rest of Europe on the E astern question, and
the satisfaction with which his Imperial Majesty would
ace the French Government even now disc owed to
make itself' an approving party to the final settlement
of that important q terra. And this is boletered and
puffed up into the assumed groundwork of a league
between Russia and France, to the detriment of Great
Britain 1 Why, was there ever such trash imposed
upon the credulity of mankind ?

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The Herald is in agonies at the bare idea of the new
Poor-law's defects being shown to be adrinuistritive,
and not organic ; and Mr. Pewtress's observations,
thrown into the fora) of a Report to the Civic Authori-
ties, on the provisions aid administraion of the measure,
in which it is proved that the i►nputations upon the law
refer properly to the illegality of the mode in which its
enactments have been carried into eff,et by thasa en-
trusted with its administration, rir her than tot he obviiin s
intention of the Act, have drawn down ujAia that gentle-
min the feeble force of the Herald's garrulous capabili-
ties. A mare wretched gore go has seldom been printed,
even in the columns of the Herald, than that which as-
sumes to be a confutation of Mr. Pewtress's Report,
and a vindication of the policy which is set forth in its
own columns. The pu-niie subscription raised and dis-
tributed by the Inquests of the several City wards and,
we belLive, geacraliy in the p trilhes of the me:rop°rlis,
and also in the towns and villages of the country, at
this season of the year—and. which acts of benevo-
lence are urged upon the affluent by the necessarily great
amount of stiff2ring to which the poor are subjected
by the earliness and severity with which -
ter set in—these cxpressions of considerate sympiiiiiy,
which, if administered with discretion, bless the giv,rs
and the recipients, are appealed to
.as proots :it the

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to ar.d intolerance of the ne..v
though these were new and unheard-of .effirts iif
the richer prts of community to add to t:.e
inscffiJient resources of the poor, end thus enable
them to procure an addition to the scanty foo.l, fa,A,
.and clothing they aro. able to obtain, in order to
preserve them front the inclemency of the season. At
the Msasion House yestertLy, All-rman WCsou, who
sat for the Llril Mayer, alluding to Mr. Pewtra..si'...;
report, said—
" He acquir,ced in the propriety of many of the elyier.
vations with respect to the administration of the law. He
was qaite prepared to say that the relieving cffizer was
compellable to give shelter and covering, as well as
bread, to the destitute, and that all those things
were comprehended in the word " relief," which some
people frittered away into a very small and
Inade-
quate meaning indeed. IF, thecefore, the Civ Po.
lice Commissioner thought it right to give orders
to his men to take any destitute persons who should
be in the streets to the relieving officers, and to insist
that such destitute persons ehould be supplied with shelter,
39 well as what was called the necessaries of life, and if
the relieving cffi:crs should refuse to comply, he (Alder-
man Wilson), upon being applied to, would grant' sum-
monses to such relieving tfficers, and upon proof of their
non-compliance, levy the heavy penalties namcd in the
Act."

If the Magistrates were to be thus vigilant in watch-
ing the administration, anal firm in enforcing upon the
relieving officers the provisions of the Act, we feel per-
suaded that the poor would be vastly benefited by the
change of system, and the confessedly vast aggregate of
human wretchedness, which must, under any circum-
stances, be always large, would be greatly diminished.
(From the Courier.)
We are concerned to find Mr. Pewtress, a respect-
able •Co:nmon Councilman of this ancient metropolis,
stepping out of the particular line in which he had de-
servedly attained to some eminence, and to his vocation
of paper maker adding that of paper-stainer also. In
the courier of yesterday will be found the striking
proof and first sample, so far as we know, of his new
undertaking, consisting of a Report replete erith
laudation usque ad nauseant on the new Poor-law, as
presented Ltyshim to-suboaPo,lice Coromittop, said to be
in session and aggression upon the subject. at Guild-
hall. Now if Mr. Pewtress had limited his staining
paper process to the exhibition of the New Poor-
law excellences in his own ward or parish, and'
the specially stated facts of his own experience, we
should have nothing do but leave him to the quiet
enjoyment of his own Poor-law vagaries. But when,
on the contrary, he favours the world with a new year's
carmen triumpbale on the saving graces of the law,
whilst to his ward he-vouchsafes not one word of . evi-
dence in illustration of the fact, he wantonly presumes
to cross our path, and must therefore abide the conse-
quences. Mr. Pewtress sets out on his paper-staining
travels with a sample-bag of assertions,- which are re-
tailed, as truisms unquestioned, with an air as self-
satisfied and solemnly • -complacent as ever Mr. Clay
himself exhibits when rising with looks of mysterious
import in the Commons' House to enunciate his com-
mon-places. But here is the commencing batch, so
that of the whole sack the reader may be enabled to
judge for himself :
" Whatever may be the opinion entertained with re-
spect to various parts of the New Poor-law, the full and
complete system of relief provided for the destitute poor is
secured by the Legislation of this country. The ancient
mode of giving relict to the out-door poor (a right which
they so long possessed) is taken away, and the law rl.)w
enacts that no person in this country shall be left to perish
in a state of destitution. Ifa person under any circumstances
:s reduced to poverty, and has no money, to:id, or lodgin,,,
he is by law entitled to instant relief, and also to continued
support ; and -so remarkable is the prompt provision by
which it enforces relief,that it declares the applicant shall in
all cases of need be provided with food and inedicinair neces-
sary, before any investigation is instituted into his case, end
accumulated penalties of increasing severity are enacted,and
may be enforced against any relieving officer or master of the
workhouse who shall refuse instantly to relieve any appli-
cant in a state of destitution. Such is the comprehensive
nature of this law that it does not limit relief to natives,
but extends to foreigners; nor to the virtuous only, for it
does not regard character, but only destitution."
Now disclaiming any intention of offence to Mr.
Pewtress, whose testimony on a matter of fact we should
accept with faith as implicit as that of any honourable
man, we must take leave to deal with this sort of whole-
sale and unsupported averment or opinion, in the only
way in which it can be rue ; and therefore we are cons-
polled to say of this vague description of the Now Poor-
law, that in downright, however coarse language, almost
every line of allegation is a lie.
(From the Standard.)
We have said so much to justify our contentment
with the present state of the Government, that we have
little room to advert to the foreign policy of the
Administration during the last
year. It were unjust,
however, to deny that it has been generally (we hate
making exceptions in such a case) prudent, honour-
able,- and prosperous. Lord Palmerston (Cie merit
we believe to have been all, or at least priaci-
pally, his) has fallen hack upon 'old Conservative
principles and old Conservative alliances, and his success 1,
has corresponded to the improvement. -His Lordship has
shown himself within the last year the best Foreign Se-
cretary since the time of th,." late Marquis of London-
derry. This is an additional reason for our content-
ment with things as they are ; for a Ministry kept con-
sten tly in check at home by a powerful opposition, 1
and seowing no disposition to act ill abroad, but the
contrary, may very well be borne with for a sslae,
Show us, however, n ehar.ce for'a Conservative Ministry

Coming into office-upon sound, intelligible, and fixed
principles, and we- shall be as anxious for a change
as any on can be.,(who has not marked out an
office and salary for himself). Let us know that
we are to have Sir Robert Peel with a Cabinet
of his own making—not with one made for him before
he knew that he was in office ; let us know this, and we
Shall lend our hands as heartily as any to remove Lord
Melbourne, and even, though not without regret, Lord
Palmerston. But we see no prospect of anything of
the kind at the moment in which we write.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

Several complaints have been lately made to the
Lord Mayor relative to the want of water in Smith-
field, in the cattle pens. Communications have been
received at the Mansion House by letter, and personally
on the subject. They have stated that when cattle
arrive at Smithfield, after a long journey, there is not
a drop of water to be found for them, although they
exidently sutler from extreme thirst, and it has been
suggested that troughs be placed in different parts of the
market with water for the poor animals.
The Lord Mayor and Alderman Wilson referred the
matter of complaint to Deputy Hicks, the Chairman of
the Market Committee, whose improvements of
Smithfield have entitled him to the thanks of the com-
munity. la all probability that gentleman would im-
mediately see the evil, if it really existed, remedied.
A gentleman stated that he waited upon his
Lordship at the request of the drovers, to represent
the fact that the cattle which travelled up to market
:acre in such a deptorabie conditi;in from thirst, that
the blood oozed out of their hoofs, and that in fact, the
whole animal economy was effectually destroyed by the
want of water.

A collecting clerk in the house of Messrs. Wood-
bridge, brewers, was on Wednesday charged before
Alderman Wilson, with being so drunk on the pre-
ceding night, as to drive his horse and gig furiously en
the wrong side of the road, to intrude violently upon
the quietude of a cab stand, and at length to make
choice of the pavement for trying the pluck of a very
spirited horse.

George West, a bricklayer, stated that en Tuesday
night, he saw the horse and cart or gig, driving furi-
ously along the Minories, upon the wrong side of the
street. There were two gentlemen in the gig, both of
them appeared to be very drunk. horse in passing
a cab stand, twisted about a cab and then bore down
upon a man who was dragging a truck, but who luckily
upon being called to turned short out of the way. The
The,horse then took the pavement, and began to cut
capers there, but a policeman, to whom witness repre-
sented that if he did not interfere mischief must be done,
seized the reins ,and prevented it.
Policeman No. 511 described the condition of the
gentleman who drove, or pretended to drive, as very
closely bordering upon the last stage of drunkenness.
Witness took care of the cash-box which was in the
gig, and which contained, as he understood, a consider-
able sum of money, and was spoken to afterwards very
uncourteously by one of the gentlemen of the establish-
meat on account his.interferenee, it being the opinion of
those at the brewery, that if the defendant had been
let alone,he would have driven to his destination safely.
A gentleman from the brewhouse said that the de.
fendent had been in the employment of the Messrs.
Woodbridge and Co. for six years, and a more steady
man could not be found. Never bslo:e had there been
a shadow of complaint against him at any time, and he
was highly esteemed. " He is," said the gentleman,
" four days in the week in the'lshit of bringing in SUM
of money, sometimes 3001. or 4001. at all times, and if
he is exposed to this sort of interruption and annoyance,-
the inconvenience will be very great."
Alderman NVILsoN—And so you would have the
po.ice allow him to gallop over people, and smash every
thing before him to suit his convenience ?—The gentle•
man said he understood that the horse, which was a
very spirited one, became rather unin.mavatdo for a
short time, but that no doubt if the policeman had not
interfered all would have hzen right.

A person rho stacd that he was in the gig at the
time with the didendant, said he il;d not perceive that
the. &fel:dant was drunk, and the gig was not going
Last at afl.

Tue policeman and othLr witnesses declared that the
gig-was going at the rate of eleven or twelve miles an
hetu-, and that the per .on who sat with the defendant
was most decidedly drunk, and wholly incapable of ren-
dsriag assistance. The policeman stated that if it had
not been for the property in the cash-box he would have
taken the gig to the green-yard. There were insnua-
tiocs thrown out against' him at the brewery as to the
securi:y of the property, and he considered•himscif very
ill-used.

Alderman WILsoN was also of opinion that the po-
liceman was extremely ill-used. What would Mr.
Woodbiiilge say if tilt horse had dashed the gig to
pieces, and the cash•box had b...en lost, not to mention
other mischief that might have been done, if the police-
man bad not interfered? Iu his (Alderman Wilson's)
opinion) the establishment was much indebted to the
policeman for his activity and care, and, instead of a re-
proach, the men deserved some rvecnopence.
The gl:ntleman said be should mention the A:der-
man's suggestion to the house.
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AlderllM WILSON trusted that the defendant would
drink less in his travels in future, and fined him 10s.
for being drunk.
'The ALDERMAN subsequently observed that he
knew it was very hard for persons employed as the de-
fendant was, to go through their labourious day's
business without showing that they had very high
opinions of the article they vended,. by submitting to
the severe test of " tasting deeply," but he really
thought it would be prudent in their employers to give
them a hint not to " raise their elbows" so very often
even in " boxing time."
The policeman who acted upon this occasion, was
stated by his Inspector, to be a very steady and trust-
worthy man, and Alderman Wilson remembered the
man in ha Mayoralty, to bear and to deserve that
character.

THE MYsTEttIOUS AND ALARM-
ING OUTRAGE ON M. V. MILLION.

(FURTHER PARTICULARS.)
The Lyons journals and private accounts of the 22d
of us the following details of the treatment of M.
Million after he was carried off :--

" The boat in which he was placed, on reaching
Ternay, was run on shore. He was made to land, and
taken into a vineyard, where ha was compelled to write
to his wife, desiring her not to send the police in search
of him, ai his life depended on her remaining quiet.
Footmarks in the straw and a candle-end were left, and
indicated that a halt had been made at this spot, but
no further traces could he discovered. Between
eleven and twelve o'clock the same night the four
confederates arrived at a public-house in a lonely situ-
ation near Ternay, much frequented by smugglers and
other persons of bad repute. Here M. Million was
taken down into the cellar, and kept bound to a
stake, while the chief of the band, a dealer in wood at
Vais.i, named Poncet, stood over him with a hatchet,
another being near him, while the remaining two kept
watch upon the master of the house, who was not in the
secret. It was in this cellar, and under threats of in-
stant death, that M. Million wrote a letter to his wife,
desiring her to send 10,000 f. for his ransom. This
was to be transmitted by a man belonging to Vaise,
who was described, and who was to wait near the Pont
de Givors, when the obscurity of the night would ad-
mit, et the exchange of the prisoner for the money,
without discovery. In the meantime the master of
the public-house, having heard of the disappearance
of M. Million, and suspecting his guests, became alarmed,
and contrived to give information to the garde cham-
petre,
who immediately conveyed it to the gendarmerie
at Givors. The quartermaster immediately hastened
with his men to the house, and having completely
surrounded it, broke open the door of the cellar, and
found Poncet still standing over his prisoner with the
hatchet. -He was quickly disarmed and secured. M.
Million, who was lying bound hand and foot on a miser-
able bed, was of course released. Unfortunately the
three accomplices of Poncet contrived to effect their es-
cape. Madame Million was in the utmost anxiety as to
the means of transmitting the ransom, the man who
brought the letter having refused to undertake the charge
when a gendarme arrived full speed from Givors with
the news of the delivery of her husband. At nine in
the evening M. Million was in the arms of his family."
The Reparatcur of Lyons states that Poncet arrived
there in the morning of the 20th, and was immediately
forwarded to prison at Roanne. Poncet is the man
against whom M. Million, as Judge of the Tribunal -de
Commerce, delivered a decree, and for which he bore
him a grudge."
The Cormier de Lyon supplies us with the following
further details of the affair of M. Million :
" Vengeance and cupidity were the causes of the
attempt. Poncet the chief actor, who is a reputed
smuggler, some time ago formed a partnership with an-
other men named Robert, as timber dealers, at La
Guilloticrc, hut this connection was soon dissolved, and
was followed by an arrangement which reduced Pon-
cat to the situation of clerk to Robert, with a per
centage on the profits. This was also soon at an end,
snd Poncet left to his own resources. He then corn•
minced a suit against Robert before the Tribunal of
Commerce of Lyons, claiming a balance amounting to
no less than 100,0001. M. Million, who was one of the
.fudges of the Tribunal, was appointed reporter, and
after due investigation came to a conclusion totally
adverse to the laim of Ponca, and which conclusion
the Tribunal aoptcd, dismissing the claim. The Cour
Royale, to which Poncet appealed, coafirmed the
judgment. In consequence of this failure, a brother
f Poncet, who had advanced him a considerable sum
of money, was thrown into daspair, and hung him;eV'.
Poncet attributed the rejection of his suit to an Intl-
tnaey between his adversary Relart, who bad obtained
a contract for part of the we: ks of the fcrtifications at
L.aone with the Commandant of the Engineers, who is
a brother of M. Million, and through his influence Pon-
cet conceived that the Judge had decided in favour of
Robert. Poncet frequently indulged in violent invec-

tives against the three above-named persons, and had
laid several previous plans to seize on M. Million, but
was unable to put them into execution. The master
of the public-house to which M. Million was carried,
accustomed to receive suspicious characters, seemed
to take no notice of the victim, 'but assisted
in conveying him down into the cellar, and
fastening him to a girdler in the wall. Pon-
cet here made himself for the first time known to M.
Million, stood over with him with his hatchet, and, in
the most opprobrious and gross terms, threatened to
murder him, and throw him into the Rhone, or bury
him in the cellar, if he did not secure to him 50,000
francs—one half the sum which, as Poncet pretended,
he had been robbed of by unjust judgment. M. Mi!.
lion, however, firmly resisted, and fifteen hours after
his capture, that is, in the middle of the next day, he
was removed into an upper chamber, and offered some
nourishment, but he declined taking anything but a glass
of wine. Ponca then allowed him to lie down on a
bed, still remaining by his side, armed with the hatchet.
Notwithstanding all the terrors of his situation M.
Million, exhausted by bodily and mental fatigue, slept
for a short time. Poncet afterwards reduced his de-
mand to the 10,000 francs, for which M. Million con-
sented to send the order to his wife."

EDINBURGH CEMETERY •COM.

PANY.

We understand that a numerous and respectable
meeting of the subscribers to the new cemetery, was
held in the Merchants' Hall, on Monday, for the pur-
pose of receiving the Report of the interim Committee
regarding the state end prospects of the Company. A
proposal was considered to raise the number of shares
entitling a partner to a vote from 51. to 201. its order to
meet the wishes of on influential party who had, some
months ago, entertained a similar project, and who now
propose to unite with those by whom they have been
anticipated. The alteration was objected to as de-
stroying the'popular basis on which the undertaking
was commenced. At the same time the importance of
the union was admitted, and a general desire cx
pressed that an amicable arrangement might be effected.
Accordingly, it was agreed, after some discussion, that
the Committee should propose a 10/, suffrage—that is,
that each individualtholding ten shares at 11. per share,
should be entitled to a vote. This offer, to meet
the other party half-way, which was almost
unanimous, will, we trust, be accepted. An impression
has gone abroad that the cemetery is intended exclu-
sively for the poor ; and the co-operation of a number
of e-entlemerebelongine to the more opulent classes would
tend' to raise the ehancter and secure the success of
the undertaking, The object of the new cemetery is
to obtain a burying-ground beyond the control of Kirk-
Sessions or any other exclusive body, and in order
that it may be carried out with spirit acid success, it is
essential that men of all classes and parties should
unite. We have no. doubt that, if the arrangement
now pending be completed according to the wishes of
the shareholders, it will give a vast impetus to the
scheme, which is one of great public importance. A
new and ornamented burying-ground, established on a
popular footing, is obviously much wanted in Edin-
burgh.—Scotsman.

THE RIVER.

In consequence of the rapid thaw which commenced on
Wednesday night, and was succeeded by heavy showers of
rain, there was a general break-up of the ice on the river
yesterday, end the navigation of the shipping, steamers,
ned craft received very little interruption, and a number of
vessels of every description arrived and departed is the
course of the day. Several coasters and colliers, which
were kept out of the Pool by the ice, als) came pp in the
afternoon with the tide, which brought up•a considerable
quantity of drifting ice, which appeared soft, and offered
little obstruction to the passage of ships and Largess. At
low water there were vart masses of ice and large icebergs
on both shores, a good deal of which was taken up by the
flswinf. tide and dissolved- The change of the weather hap-
pened very opooi tunely ; for the navigatioa of the river
was almost entirely suspended on Tuesday. From Ha-
nover-ho'e-stairs to Rutberbite-platform there was a con-,
tinuous Ltd of ice, extending nearly one-third over, and
the watermen cut out a passage' through it to get their
boats in and out of King's•stairs, midway between the
Platform and Hanover-hole. The floating engine, lying
off Rotherhithe, was ice-lucked, and was cut out by a
steam-tug and taken to St. Katherine's, where there was
comparatively only a small quantity of ice. The engine was
encored in a place where it could be soon got afloat
in the event of its services being required. At high water
on Wednesday evening the quantity of ice in the river was
enormous, and from the Regent's Canal entrance, to the
Shadvre.ll Dock on the north shore, there was a comp?ete
block. The Dundee steam-ship, from Dundee, got under
weigh at three o'clock, and her passage through the Pool
was attended with considerable difficulty, as she encoun-
tered large icebergs and fields of ice flowing up with the
tide. The Vivid, Captain Agars, from Hull, arrived at
St. Katherine's at one on Wednesday afternoon, after a
2d hours' passage, with 35 passengers, and went through
the ice, which she met in large quantities in the lower part
of Gailion's Reach, in fine style. Captain Agars reported
that there was a large fleet of colliers in the tower part of
the river unable to get up, and passed 300 sail of vessels
in the Swin. Yesterday, many of the colliers were able
to get up into the Pool to die charge their cargoes. If the
frost bad continued 48 hours longer, the navigation of the
Thames would have been entirely suspended, and coals in-
creased to an enormous price. The thaw was proceeding
last night, and much of the ice seen drifting on the
Thames in the morning had disappeared. The Gravesend
steamers still continue to depart from Blackwall.

THE TERRITORY OF MIND.—I am not a land-
lord, but I have a territc.ry, one not entirely in the realms
of fancy. I have a territory which I have consecrated in
my heart, and pecpled beyond the reach of fortune and
fate ; there I meet with all that is manly and intrepid ;
there are the toms of liberty, whose necks never bowed
down beneath the yoke of oppression; there I meet scenes,
the very conezption of which exalts the lowliest to the
highest grade; there I have found sometimes a claim, if
not to the applause, at least to the affection and respect of
my fellow-countrymen.—Professor Wilson.

BouLOGNE.—The weather for the last few (lays
ha; been most delightful. On Christmas day nothing
, more cheering to the spirits.
could be more agreeable
With just sufficient of cold to prevent the rays of the sun
producing a moisture under foot, there was a dryness in
ttie atmosphere, a tranquillity, a slumbering of every breath
of air, that gave a stillness and repose to the whole animal
economy, which was visible in the countenances of all
greeting their friends with a merry and a happy Christmas.
We have caught the infection of the day, and wish our
readers and patrons many lisppy returns of the season.
This number closes our account for the year 18e0. In
looking back upon the past six months, in emsidering the
humble part that we have played, we trust our readers
have not found cause to upbraid us for departing from the
promises contained in our first number. Our objects have
been twofold, to defend the pullic, and in the disordered
state into which society has been flung, to glean for our
friends the most early intelligence. The support we have
received is the sure index of the satisfaction we have
given. For that support we return our thanks, and trust
that our efforts and conduct during the coming year will
enable us to repeat with the same pride that we do at pre-
sent, that vice has never sullied our rages, attacks upon
private character disgraced our columns, cr our Gazette
been made, at any time, subservient to any other purpose
than the general defence of English interests in Boulogne;
Our attention has been called by an English gentlemen
to the fact of five soldiers having been billetted upon him
in less than a month I In the Colonne of yesterday we see
it stated that they " hear between fifty and sixty beds,
that have been sent to the caserne have been very quietly
placed up in the granary of that establishment, instead of
being applied to their proper use in the barracks " We
call upon the Mayor to examine into this fact, and, itlit
he true, to have those punished who have so shamefully
neglected their duty. No doubt the soldier prefers being
billetted upon the town to being confined in his barracks;
but for ladies and gentlemen who never heard of such a
thing as soldiers being billetted on private familiea, the
act becomes a nuisance, laying aside the burdensome tax
it becomes. The five soldiers in m one month cost our
friend 57f. The town has been thinned of English, but
such burdens, we are afraid, will drive more away. —Bou-
logne Gazette.

BETTING ON THE PRESIDENT'S ELECTION.
—A decision has recently been given in Philadelphia, on a
case involving a bet upon the result of an election, which
is worthy of being recorded. While the Presidential
election was pending, Dr. C. P. Keichline and Mr. A. B.
Fithian made each other a promise of a gift upon these
terms ;—in the case of the re-election of Martin Van
Burin, Mr. Fithian was to present a suit of clothes
to Dr. Keichline, and in the event of the election of
General Harrison, Dr. Keichline was to make a like
present to Mr. Fithian. No money was put up, both
having been satisfied of the ability of each other to ful-
fil the promise when due. It appeared by a witness
present that Dr. Keichline had satisfied himself of the
ability of Mr. Fithian, by a personal inquiry of the wit-
ness. Matters remained in this way until the day of
the election. When Dr. Keichline went to the poll to
deposit his vote, he was challenged as a better: He as-
serted, however, that he had made no bet, but a
j simple pro-
mise, and related the circumstances. The tulge swore
him upon the troth of thi4 relation, and then accepted his
vote. As semi as the result of the Presidential contest had
been fail ly ascertained, Mr. Fithian demanded of Dr. Keich-
line the falfilment of the promise ; but the latter declined,
on the ground that Mr. Fithian had been the cause, or at
least ieStrumental in his being challenged. This asswr-
tion could not be proved at the hearing, whica was a
full investigation of the whole matter, and was
closed by the Alderman giving judgment for the
defendant. He expressed himself at length upon
the subject, coiwidering the promise, to all intents
and purrses, a bet in fact, and, as a matter of
comae, a violation of an express act cf A erribla.
The following singular preposition we find in a late St.
Louis Gazate :—A warm Hudsonian made the following
proposition to day, which, however, was not taken up_
that he would pay 200 dollars to any man who would ;Tree
to give one kernel of coffee for the that single vote
Harrison got over Van Buren's whole vote, two for the
swond, and so on in geometrical progression. There
;,ring some little curiosity to know r.hat the result might
be, sundry grains of coffee were weighed, and it was ascer-
tained that 2,560 grains of Java Coffee weiglied a pound.
Supposing, then, that Hairison ions a-head of Van i3ur6n
thirty votes, the amount of eufLe to be paid over would
exceed 332.000,0001 i)., worth, at s atceri cents, per paned.
the pleasant brgutelleof 53,000,000 dollars. The gentle-.
man aho declined the bet was Probably vet prudent._
Philadelphia Ledger.