The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-24 00:00:00

IViORNING SUN

7777.`a THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
FREE-TRADE CONFERENCES.
to take advantage of your permission
,Contribute on alternate days to your columns,
aete:tjo iernsinto a further examination of the ob-
of the Times on the Derby and
mlttlehester Free-Trade Conferences ; and I
of.Lll to confine myself principally to one mode
th -9,1 y, which shall be by constantly supposing
tc,..°L'the' landowners had worked out their sen-
e-ZOT'it bounty on the importation of foreign
414-`„'',ol'.'five-and-twenty years as justice is de-
-I,l4",Quik, and were answering the same
mutalis mutandis, in our mouths against
of the bounty.
0,0%..5.p statements of the Derby sympathizers go to
111:: tnat in the manufactures of the midland districts
log,
been a downward progression, or rather retro-
itt,,,i°ll, for these five-and-twenty years. Does that
ie-the existing distress of those districts to be the
tie,t. of the present Corn-law ? We should rather
47,4 not, inasmuch as the present Corn-law is only of
p'" half that standing."—Times, Dec. 14, 1841.
tathaticY the change described, and " we should
en her think" they would tell us, that the differ-
-4%,, of time relied on was only a quibble, inas-
se;'" as the law, thopgh not in precisely its pre-
t form, had existed for five-and-twenty years
and more.
th:`A more rational inference, we suspect, would be,
f the cause of our diminished manufactures is to be
t)411,51 in the pacification of Europe, which, five and
libee"'Y years ago, set the nations of the continent at
the rtY to pursue the arts of peace, the developement of
ewn
resources, and the employment of their native
rt aIICY the landowners groaning under a bounty
fur 'o- corn, as they will be, and told to
refe •
it
r all to the pacification of Europe.
' Shen, overlooking or neglecting these circum-
o"ces; our manufacturers continued to increase their
trZProduction, and by invitations of fresh operatives
kW' the country to multiply the numbers dependent on
Vogt trade, then, however we may feel for the
Vor artisans, however we may regret even the disap-
ceittntitnnients and losses of the masters themselves, yet
, dein :---y we cannot submit our understandings to the
rely now attempted by those masters, nor lend our-
es to the iniquitous project for making up their un-
-sneenlations at the expense of their neighbours."
their neighbours being us the supporters of
.! uOunty. But let us remember, when the
-
s,;_,;utnes, that " we cannot submit our under-
zsmings.,l
ok,.:rile plaint uttered at Derby by the midland mill-
itre3,4_ has made itself heard among their northern
etirren at Leeds and at Manchester, and they have re-
thaNd the cry with a shrillness which strikes very
deptlY on the ear, however little it may move the un•
,P
i,ancling."— Times, 18th Dec. 1841.
eiriernber this, when duke calls upon squire
telia responsive moan, on the tribulations of a
4,,!tY on imported corn.
off.Xe art of the whole is to make truth serve the purpose
trkZ:ehood. h is true now, and unhappily it has oft en been
before, and is likely to be often true again, that
itiil3,allufacturing districts are in a state of suffering; but
14 n'alse that their suffering is exclusively the result of
tkerrn-laws, and equally false that any material re-
of ti" of that suffering would be effected by the repeal
eln."—/b
think •
to Ilk how magnanimously we will say all this
there landlords, when they tell us that they and
bouts should be the better for the removal of the
Thy on imported corn.
tlet'aueporyphwus of the meeting at Leeds was a gen-
,13,11411; of that ilk,' named T. Flint. The Plintian
1410'841 is a little incomplete, being simply this—Corn-
eziat—distress exists—therefore the distress has
'v used by the Corn-laws."—lb.
Alit will parody the argument, and say, " The
t:,,tiPg-House-Square syllogism is as follows :-
4.,1;ty exists—less English corn exists—there-
totlnt'Lle„ diminution has been caused by the
`.!rbY •
tho.
,ke gentlemen who followed Mr. Plint were &c.—
NZ".ole of their argument, as disposed of by the two
4otteitions which &c.—first, that the modification, if
et.,,,e total abolition, of the Corn-laws is requisite, in
enable the mill-owners, by a reduction of wages,
r,"rsell their foreign competitors, which has been
617 of the manufacturers;"—A.
Gorki this point the landowners have hoaxed the
Ing classes and the classes have,
a working
4ri-great extent, swallowed the bait. The land-
the .`r doubles the price of bread; which obliges
kie:laster manufacturer to advance the double
and the operative carries it in his hand to the
AtitirPer, who is the receiverfor the landlord.
!!ttpe. Is, says the landlord, is your wages ; take
not to diininish your wages! The falsehood
to nut-shell ; it is not your wages, it is the
1411. e landlord. And the working man that
41 tot see this when he is told, is fit stuff to
e cushions .that tyranny rests its back parts
•
.44
4°41144 secondly, that the Ministerial measure would
allA„,,e had the -flint of lowering the price of bread at
1144134 h has been the doctrine of the political ecoro-
nisOe shall leave the Leaguers to reconcile these
k legations as they may."—lb.
k•-•
:AINI shall not let the landlords off the
) because they-Vrove- •that some of the
the= Cal economists have made simpletons of
Niseives. Perhaps they. were. n ~he enemy's
4434".,'0Y. But Without insisting.. _that, there
thOtideniably been too much done to coax the
tltif.tes to come out and be hanged, on the plea
44it would not hurt them much. Which will
j,eC no reason, why the thieves should go on.
ihalY next shall be noticed the observations
kit,"e,Nlanclic 'ter conference, and if room per-
lli.e-I;trie attention of your readers directed to
1/IterTossibility of a Government's going on,
4.64'et, cause has come to be rested on such
Wii4"eiS of the common-sense and justice by
the the world, badly as it is, is governed, as
80144 ones produces. To which shall be added
thatfurther circumstances leading to the belief,
1/hiehtile. question of Free Trade is the point on
41.4 in the Cromwellian phrase, our enemies
Glace livered into our hand, and that here is the
4411 grid time for the Liberals to sound the Rally
Re-form,
Yours sincerely,
1314 T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
!i.se,_lleath, Dec. 23, 1841.
have just seen the letter of Mr. Cob-
'ast-: the Morning Chronicle of yesterday.
to the
c! claims the twenty millions a-year as due
hve of Late upon the present rental, and irrespec-
tf„,, the Corn-law, is a new light. Let us then
, at th ,that, and the Compensation Bounty too.
e last is the best to drive. The other neu-
tlt lapelralit the 1- • for commiseration on the score
C
ta)C.
104
-'4I.INTREE CHURCH-RATE.
vhtizt.THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
li'taiku,„alay of the readers of The Sun will have heard
tbm,411141071,11`18e, and perhaps with alarm also, that Mr.
Iv. has been paid with costs, and that t the pro-
eofereeagainst him in the Consistory Court. of Londonf
l'esttkiii&P.,aYtnent of a rate made by the minorty.o
Urilitrztiing, have thus terminated by his submission.
LH! -°lllrder's own sake, and for the good name of
Elle'lliiii'sBenters, it is to be deeply regretted that our
-'`'lti• ltif.;llE9ll has not had moral courage to hold. on an
'ell.ktio" course, in unshrinking consistency with his
tlvti„wa Principles of religious freedom, but has been
3e- Consenting to the payment of the rate by the
0,_',1%,°1;a near relative on his behalf—a tacit arrange-
atie','"eii in itself but further illustrates that " one
1,4 Canting"—mora/ courage to suffer, or to act.
tofr,tys public character as the champion of a principle,
ii,pipPorted in this position: by a public fund, Mr.
Ittldirs conduct is amenable to public animadversion,
1#• 3,,4, very wholesome that it should be so.
~.• `"c circumstances of his position, Mr. Burder was
,l'igll6-`"e for the public cause, in the struggle for the
lolliti-„uif the majority in vestry meetings, and in aban-
lie has betrayed his trust in this matter. He
ttitieftuainently, one of the representatives of dissenting
",on -ran and leaders of dissenting action upon the ques-
,lAry%.`httrch-rates, and although protected from pecu-
'itteeLtifices by the intervention of the Braintree Corn-
:lPleeamhas shrunk from the assertion of those prin-
'..jaqu^ by his bad example greatly discouraged that
.fn.rTme;was one
.of the depositaries of public confi-
q:s Bum,' unswerving advocacy of a great public ques-
IvNaar-rted by the confiding subscriptions of those
sOk n°. personal knowledge of Mr. Burder, but_
del ti in him was their faith in man, and he has
b:ftAthat confidence, and put his associates upon their
Latesrbfere the country. He has made it necessary to
"ee en, the subscribers and the public, that the Brain-
„se,,tePtit tee numbers men " good and true" to the
,Pty .'7.have espoused and the trust they have ac-
' and • that, as a Committee, they have not aban-
-0•
10,71,,s will not abandon their post, nor fail to dis-
-rio--"dlestly, and boldly, the duties incident to their
Ong tely after it became known that the late pend-
,„' at4e,y—a had been quashed by the payment of Mr.
▪ 4t4t4t di.s8'
ate. the Committee met, and directed the
vibution of the following circular :
4044:0 the "Braintree, Nov. 27, 1841.
of rate-payers of Braintree, opposed to the exac-
iltke, b -urch-rate by AN ARBITRARY MINORITY, in the
'41h6,111,t against iirs will, of the parish, in vestry as-
4. 14:
°111• ki hltmler's rate having been paid by a near relative
:( or elf, and the trial of the great question of the
t° in a moral or constitutional sense it were ab-
Pity of talk of the right) of any, even the smallest, mino-
hara;te-Payers, to tax the whole parish by Church-
llti..6vi`ng thus been evaded in this case—the Braintree
”41110, atth-rate Committee request that any pa-
Iviiecir against whom proceedings may next be taken,
wiitinly in sincerity and truth deterinine to resist
„4 Dar. then forthwith apply to the said Committee,
i,"cr een-dPureetPared, as in Mr. Burder's case, to undertake
eke. of the cause, and to meet the expenses of its
" SAMUEL COURTAULD, Chairman."
misseli,rate will now be forthwith demanded of other
ant rs ; and as' it may be reasonably hoped we are
No4ll, blessed with such friends as Mr. Burder, nor
Ito tio•YLPassive and plastic in their hands, there can be
but that '
,the
will
some honest Noncon-
kt anun2,'Ettfsine name.
and speedily,be
blltti4i6aue and case
w again,
ti el
i);u. e u ic may sti 1 con en y r
.y
sfs In& ee Committee,that to the extent of their
94,74,,i,i,a.present they are ample) the question now
wi the validity of a rate made by a minority 111

vestry, shall be as vigorously prosecuted, and as fully and
conclusively tried, as the question previously depending
in the Braintree case has been, viz. that of the validity
of a rate made by a minority (the Churchwardens) out
of vestry—equally the sequel to the refusal of a rate by a
majority in public meeting.
SAMUEL COURTAULD.
Braintree, Nov. 29, 1841.

SABBATH OBSERVANCE.
TO THE EDITOR OF TRE SUN,

Stn,—lt is only this moment that I have re-
ceived your paper of the 20th, or "J. S. (Bays-
water)" would have had an earlier notice of his ;
Sabbath letter, at least, with your permission.
I add such notice underneath. 11. PRICE.
Needwood Parsonage, Burton-on-Trent, Dec. 22.

" J. S. (Bayswater)" seems, by his remarks on
my letter, to forget as fast as ie reads, and before
he can take up his pen to reply. His observa-
tions, also, on the Sabbath question, are alike
inconclusive.
He is astonished I cannot find a Christian Sab-
bath in the words—" At evening, being the first
day of the week, when the doors were shut for
fear of the Jews, came Jesus, and stood in the
midst of them." And I am equally astonished
that any one should think he can and does find a
Sabbath in such words! But J. S.'s aptitude for
finding a Sabbath is, indeed, wonderful ! He
can pick one up (Luke xxiv.) under the feet of
the two disciples returning from Emmaus, them-
selves never dreaming of a Sabbath-day being so
near them on the first day of the week—return-
ing from Emmaus, to which they had gone from
Jerusalem that very morning. How is it that
these two disciples were breaking the very first
Christian Sabbath, if it was one, almost betbre
our Lord was well-risen from the dead ? From
Acts i., 12, we learn that a Sabbath-day's journey
was about a mile ; and here we find two dis-
ciples, on the very first supposed Christian Sab-
bath, on the very day of our Lord's rising from
the dead, taking a walk of nearly sixteen miles,
being, according to St. Luke, three-score fur-
longs distant, which Josephus thus confirms :
" yco:4 Dwv lEfoo-6Aulkwv o-ra3touc
Eriy_ov7a," about 7 English miles ! But what
makes it certain that these two disciples were not
dreaming of that first day of the week being a
Sabbath, is the ilia that they did not at that mo-
ment believe that their Lord was risen from the
dead! ! ! J. S. is alike inconclusive in every
other part of his quotations and reasonings. A
feebler opponent no one could desire ! But I
have no desire for one of any kind. My object
is not polemical. A great, and generally very
ill-understood, subject is now afloat. It has been
set afloat to oppose arbitrary and tyrannical pro-
ceedings, attempted to be founded on THAT SA-
CRED WORD which, rightly interpreted, will be
found, of all writings in the world, to present
the most powerful barrier against tyranny and
oppression of -any kind, whether civil, eccle-
siastical, or spiritual.
As my aged opponent seems to be, from his
own account, between ten and twenty years
older than myself, now, also, an old man, I
gladly sheathe my sword, tenderly throw my
shield over him, and carry him with only one
wound, which could not possibly be avoided,
to Sir Andrew Agnew, who, perhaps, may be
glad of so experienced a warrior, and who may
sedulously nurse the healing of his wound, pre-
paratory to fixture combat. But J. S. may as
well be told (as old age, though timid, is some-
times obstinate) that if he be again met with in
the same field, he must not expect to be again so
tenderly handled.

MEETING OF BRITISH RESI-
DENTS AT HAMBURGH.

HAMBURGH, DEC. 17.—0 n Monday last, about a
hundred of the most distinguished English residents of
this city met at the Old City of London Tavern, to
celebrate, by a public dinner, the late auspicious event of
the birth of an heir-apparent to the British throne.
The dinner was decided upon at a public meeting of
the British residents, held immediately after the arrival
in Hamburgh of the intelligence that a Prince had been
born. At the same meeting addresses of congratulation
to her Majesty and to Prince Albert were adopted, and
these were subsequently transmitted by the Chairman
(Cfolonel Hodges) to England. It was determined at
the same time that the dinner should be got up with a
degree of splendour hitherto unknown in Hamburgh,
and that invitations should be sent to a deputation of
the Senate, to the whole of the diplomatic body, to
Count Blucher-Altona, the President of the sister
city, and to Colonels Stephani and Stockfleth, the two
commanding officers of the regular troops and of the
burgher guard of Hamburgh.
No pains were spared by the Committee of Manage-
ment. The room was handsomely decorated with flags
and fine exotic plants, the place of honour being assigned
to a bust of the Queen. Colonel Hodges, the British
Charge d'Affaires, presided, in full uniform, supported
on the right and left by Syndic Sieveking, Syndic Banks,
Senators Dammert and Jcnisch, and the remainder of
the guests who bad been invited. Of the diplomatic
body there were present the Prussian and Austrian
Envoys, and the Ministers and Charges d'Affaires of
Hanover, Denmark, Sweden, France, Russia, and Meck-
lenburg-Schwerin. Those of Belgium and 11:11and
would no doubt- have also been present, had they not
been absent from Hamburgh. All these distinguished
guests appeared either in uniform or in lull Court costume.
EMIGRATION.—The subject of emigration is exciting
great interest throughout Germany at present. I wrote
to you some time ago to say that an indirect application
had been made to Lord J. Russell, with a view to obtain
some advantages for German emigrants in our Australian
colonies, and that it was likely that the application
would be renewed in a more formal manner in the name
of the German Diet sitting at Frankfort. In my opi-
nion, the acquisition annually of some thousands of
German colonists, well acquainted with the cultiva-
tion of the vine and the tending of sheep, would be
of inestimable value to Australia, nor do I think there
would be the most remote danger of the formation of
an imperium in imperio, a genuine British character,
such as no partial immigration of Germans could now
effect, having already been stamped upon those colonies.
The public men in Germany who have taken the matter
into their hands are sanguine in their expectations that
the British Government will come into their views, and
have already made a beginning, having entered
into a contract with the New Zealand Company for
the purchase of a large tract of land and the concession
of some important advantages. 'The Diet will not lose
sight of the matter. It will form a subject of discus-
sion at their next meetings, and will soon be put into a
tangible shave. Indeed something they must do. It
is heartrending to read the accounts that reach us,
mostly through private channels, of the treatment
experienced by the unfortunate German emigrants that
fall into the hands of unprincipled crimps in the
Dutch, French, and Belgian ports. The poor people
are generally stripped of Every thing they possess,
half starved, and otherwise ill treated during the voyage,
and landed in a state of utter destitution in America.
Yet emigration goes on, and will continue to go on, from
the more densely peopled parts of Germany, and it be-
comes the duty of the Governments of Germany, as
they cannot prevent emigration, to organise some plan
by which provision may be made for the protection of a
class of men who a:e not in a condition to protect
themselves.

[With reference to the above statement that a
purchase has been made by a German agent from the
New Zealand Company, we find an article of some length
in the Allyenieine Zeitung of the 10th inst., where it is
said that M. Sieveking, of Hamburg, has bought the Cha-
tham Islands, containing an area of about 750,0.00 acres.
The purchase money is to be 10,000/., and 50,000 acres
are to be reserved for the natives. The contract is to
be ratified on the 12th of March, 1842, and the first in-
stalment of 1,0001. is to be paid within two months of that
date. The purchasers are then to have two years to send
agents to examine the land, and at the expiration of that
time they are to be at liberty to complete the purchase,
by paying the remainder of the money; or, if not sa-
tisfied with their bargain, they may rescind it, by
abandoning the deposit of 1,0001. Mr. Sieveking, it
seems, proposes to establish the colony according
to the Wakefield system. The land is to be sold at a
minimum price of 21. per acre ; one-half to form an emi-
gration fund, for the conveyance of poor German la-
bourers to Chatham Island ; and the other half to be
applied to the liquidation of the purchase-money, and to
the expenses that must necessarily be incurred in the
first establishment of the colony. The New Zealand
Company, it appears, have pledged themselves to use
their interest with the British Government to Otain the
necessary sanction to the arrangement 4

CITY OF LONDON GENERAL PENSION SO.
CIETY.--LIBERALITY OF THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR.—
Mr. H. F. Richardson, the indefatigable Secretary of
this praiseworthy Institution, has had the honour to re-
ceive from his Excellency Baron Brunow a letter, of
which the following is a copy, containing expressions
highly honourable to that distinguished
" Ashburnham House, Dec. 20, 1841.

" Baron de Brunow presents his compliments to Mr.
H. F. Richardson, and begs to say that he feels much
flattered by the kind attention paid to him by the Trea-
surer and Directors of the City of London General Pen-
sion Society. He is particularly pleased to know that
his friendly feelings for the suffering poor are appre-
ciated in this country, but not being certain of the per-
manence of his sojourn in England, he would hardly
venture upon accepting the title of Vice-President, so
kindly offered to him. Ho therefore begs to return his
best thanks to the Directors of the Society, and begs to
inclose a cheque for 10 guineas as a donation, which he
feels much gratified to offer to the Secretary of the City
of London General Pension Society.
" To IL F. Richardson, Esq., &c.,
20, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street."
The Correctional Tribunal of Gap, in the
Hautes Alpes, has been employed three days on the trial
of several persons, arrested as participators in the dis-
turbances at St. Bonnet, in the beginning of September,
in opposition to the census. Sixteen prisoners were
brought to the bar, and all were sentenced to short periods
of imprisonment, from five to twenty days, or else to
31401 Aries,

BRIGHTON AND CROYDON
RAILWAY,
No trace has yet been obtained of gr. Wood, the late
Secretary to the London and Brighton Railway Com-
pany, although some old and experienced officers are
on the look-out for him. His defalcations to the Com-
pany are, as already stated, small ; but we regret to say
that several individuals, of whom he borrowed money
on the very eve of his flight, are among the sufferers by
his conduct.

The unfavourable state of the weather ht,s retarded
greatly the operations of the Croydon Railway Company
in clearing the slip at New Cross ; but we are glad to
learn that the line will be again open throughout this day.
The Brighton Railway shares have experienced a great
and rapid rise this week, having advanced no less than
1 per cent. in a single day. After being as low as 35,
they were quoted on Saturday at 39 ; and yesterday at
half-past one o'clock they were 37-,1.
Notwithstanding the delay occasioned by the slip on
the Croydon Railway, the Brighton trains now perform
the whole distance from Brighton to London in two hours
and a half.—Brighton Gazette of yesterday.

REMINISCENCES OF THE EM-
PEROR NAPOLEON.
(Extracted from the French of Tinion.)
Napoleon devoted a great deal of personal attention
to the celebrated code which bears his name. Several
clauses of it emanated from his pen.
He made some speeches in reference to the punish.
ment of transportation which were full of sensibility.
" If," said he, " you prevent the wife of a transported
convict from following him you had much better kill
the condemned man at once. His wife would then be
able at least to raise a tomb to him in her garden, and
there go and weep."
It was he who fixed the age of marrying, and who
made the wife swear obedience to her husband in the
nuptial ceremony. He added jokingly—" This oath of
obedience is very necessary in Paris, where the women
imagine they have a right to do whatever they wish."
Napoleon desired that none of his subjects should be
at liberty to open a school just as they might an old
clothes shop : he desired that the despotic unity of the
Government should be introduced into the lyceums ;
that a body of lay Jesuits should be intrusted with the
moral and political education of the people, and should
report all their proceedings to the Emperor ; that the
feet of this great body should rest on the benches of
the College and its head in the Senate ; that the teach-
ing of the " Napoleon religion" should commence at
the cradle ; that the history of ancient Gaul should be
universally studied, and that the professors should " take
up their vows" by espousing the university in the same
manner as the monks were formerly accustomed to es-
pouse the cause of the Church.
He only looked upon the annual deaths, from 15,000
to 20,000 persons in Paris alone, as "a splendid battle."
He only ezteemed military fanaticism. "It is ne-
cessary to possess it," he used to say, " in order to get
one's-self killed."
He never liked, unless when seized by a temporary
caprice, to interfere in religious matters.
He was very indignant against the clergy, who wished
to reserve all moral influence to themselves, and to
leave him merely a physical influence, and exclaimed,
" They keep the soul to themselves and leave me
nothing but the carcase."
He looked upon religion, as upon everything else, in
a political light. " Religion," said he, "connects with
Heaven an idea of equality which prevents the poor
from assassinating the rich." He converted missionaries
into so many diplomatic agents for the accomplishment
of his distant designs.
He used to remark, " Everything in religion ought
to be gratuitous, and for the people. The obligation
of paying at the doors of churches, or of paying for
seats, is revolting ! It is not right to deprive the poor,
merely because they are poor, of that which consoles
them in their poverty."
He sacrificed, without the least remorse, private in-
terests to those of the State ; but he, nevertheless, ma-
nifested on several occasions a lively sympathy for pri-
vate rights.
He used to complain that be had nothing to do but
to sign decrees, and he organized, of his own accord, the
fine institution called the Commission du Contentieux.
" Can you believe," be once said, " that my uphol-
sterer has dared to charge me 100,000 f. for a badly-
made throne and six arm-chairs ?" This was the only
cause of the jurisdiction over the provisions of the civil
list with which the Council of State was invested.
The following are some of his maxims relative to tax-
.

ation :
" It is better to let money remain in the hands of the
citizens than to keep it locked up in a cellar.
"6 We must know how to give in order to receive.
" A revenue of 600,000,000 f. ought to be sufficient
for France in times of peace.
" The us must n )t be laden on every side.
" One ought to k we space and water for nothing ;
it is quite cuougn to have to pay -for salt."
The' following is another of his maxims, immoral
even in its morality :
" Monied men must be managed by means of money."
He always entertained a warm sympathy for the emi-
grants. He restored them all of their property that
had not. butt sold, and his policy inclined him to grant
them .an indemnity.
He wished, for the sake of the people, to reduce the
prices of admission to the theatre.
He used, to observe—.
" There is seldom any government more tyrannical
than that which professes to be a paterr al one."
The above were his opinions and axioms when Con-
sul. When, however, Napoleon became Emperor he
was much more reserved and guarded in his conversa-
tion, and more anxious regarding his destiny, of the close
of which he seemed to entertain a presentiment.
But in the bosom of his Council of State the thoughts
of Napoleon often escaped through his lips, and his
ideas then sought to find an echo in the minds of those
who surrounded him.
On the return of Napoleon-from his great victories,
he had scarcely time to take off his spurs before a
noise of arms was heard at the door of the Council-
chamber, and the drums were sounded three times.
The folding-doors were then thrown wide open, and
the usher cried out, " Gentlemen, make way for the
Emperor !" Napoleon walked at a quick pace to his
arm-chair, and, having saluted the members, he sat down
and put on his het ; whilst his officers, and occasionally
foreign Princes, ranged themselves behind him with
their heads uncovered, and kept a profound silence.
I was present at the famous sitting which took place
after his return from the battle of Henan.
The Emperor, pale and pensive, and not yet re-
covered from the fatigues of his journey, made us enter
his cabinet. He then, without sitting down or making
any preparation, called loudly for M. Jaubert, the Go-
vernor of the Bankr of France, who had been so impru-
dent (observed the Emperor) as to discount bills with
too great a degree of precipitation. Napoleon unrolled
the regulations of the Bank, and explained their nature
with the clearness of a censor or of a professor. It was
a strange thing to hear a soldier discoursing on the or-
ganisation of banks, and upon the theories of discount.
M. Jaubert, who was a mild and timid man, lisped
forth a few words in excuse, which we were unable to
hear. The doors of the grand hall were re-opened; every
one sat down, and the Council proceeded to business.
The Emperor made a long pause. He appeared ab-
sorbed by his reflections ; his head involuntarily fell
upon his bosom, and he mechanically cut to pieces with
his penknife pens, paper, and tablecloth. At length
he exclaimed, as if waking from a dream, " The Bava-
rians ! the Bavarians ! I have passed over their bodies.
I have killed Wrede.* Invasion threatens ! Time pres-
ses ! Well,gentlernen, what will you do ; what have you
got to say
" Sire," replied Regnault de St. Jean d'Angley, " rely
upon the valour of the Dutch."
" The Dutch! It is not blood that runs in their
veins, it is only coloured water."
" But, Sire, addresses are already pouring in from all
parts of the empire„ and all the various bodies in the
state are making protestations of their fidelity and devo-
tion.°
" DO not. talk to me in this way, Monsieur Renault.
Do you think that I am ignorant of the manner in which
these addresses are got up? What do they amount to?
Can I believe in their sincerity ? It is money and men
that we want, and not empty phrases : and you, gen.
tlernen, who are all eminent citizens, fathers of families,
and fathers of the State us well, it is 5 our duty to re-ani-
mate the public mind by the eloquence of your exhorta-
tions. Proclaim at once the shame and the miseries of
the invasion with which the empire is menaced."
But these words were spoken to late. The empire
hourly approached its downfal and ultimate ruin !
Napoleon thought as much.

BREAD IN PARIS AND LONDON.--The as-
size, or fixed price of bread of the first quality in Paris,
as regulated by the municipal authorities of that city
for the second fortnight of the current month of De-
cember, is 34 centimes for the loaf weighing one kilo-
gramme, which-at ,the present course of Exchange in
Paris on London, for. bills at one month's date of 25f.
35c. "money" per pound sterling, corresponds with five-
pence three farthings and rather more than one-third
(thirty-niiie 'hundreds) of a farthing, for the English
four-pound loaf; and the price at which the hest, or
" full-priced," as it is called,-bread, is iioiv gert&allysell-
ing in London, being ten-pence—forilie-four- pound loaf,
(although in some quarters of ihe-toWntaligher rate is
demanded), shows that bread of the first quality is dearer
in London than,in,Paria_by_ fourpence and sixteenths of
a farthing :for, or rather on the four•pound loaf, being
at the rate of seventy-one per cent., within a very mi-
nute fraction unworthy of notice ; and that for the same
amount of money,, 'namely, ten-pence as above, which
can purchase in.. London no more than four pounds of the
best bread, there may be obtained, in Paris, six pounds
thirteen ounces, and exceeding seven drachms, English
weight, of bread of the first quality, both the quality
and the weight being guaranteed by law ; and this re-
markable difference, it may be observed, exists at a dis-
tance of less than thirty hours' journey, by post, from
London.
The first instance of newspapers giving prints
occurred in 1723, when portraits of King Cieorge the
First, George Prince ,of Wales, and Prince Frederick
were presented to the public in thf, nimlber of the
Protestant Intelliyencer„