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211 Is 6 95 16 9
163 8 4 75 15 10,
159 3 4 71 5 0
132 2 6 58 17 61
84 11 81 37 10 O.

74 3 4

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20 0 0
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14 17 7
1l 10 9
10 19 S
8 19 10
5 14 2

X s. d.
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494 S 10
445 0
395 11 1
346 2 3
296 13 4
247 4 5

60 1000

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ing the age Cash .. 82 10 0
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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS
TIMES.—The perplexity which we have felt in
saluting by his proper titles the new ruler of France is
not diminished by the reception which his fellow coun-
tr men have jest accorded him in his exalted capacity.
Few seemed to knew the terms in which their congratu-
lations should be couched. A popular organ of French
opinion suggested that silence was the best expedient in
such an embarravnent; arid that no one should venture
to specify his grounds of rejoicine lest the anticipations
of his neiehbour from the same feliciteue event should
be found to_ be exactly opposite. Fortueately, lio e ever,
au expression was discovered, on the day of the inaugu-
ral ceremony, in which the sentina nts of all might coin-
cide. It was not a Consul, or a General, or a-Prince, or
an Emperor, or a President, who was before them, but a
Bonaparte alone. " Vivo Napoleon" was the universal
cry, end it is the reiteration of an Imperial
family %%hid' we presume we are now to hail.
Those who recognise the theory of a cyclical
coarse of events will have been edified with the
illustrations of the doctrine which the lest week has con-
tributed. A twelvemonth ago the true Imperialists
formed a party among the French people but one step
advanced, in numbers or significance, above the true
Republicans. The Republicans had their day first—the
Imperialists' have it now. It argues but little to scruti-
nize the composition of that enormous majority by which
a Napoleon has been again placed at the head of the
French people. It may be the result, as 11. Odilon
Barrot alleges, of a " fusion of parties in one common
sentiment;" or it may indicate a less permanent or satis-
factory compromise. There it is, however—an accom-
plished fact. The French nation has declared its opi-
nion under circumstances more favourable to a deliberate
expression of sentiment than have often fallep to the
lot of any country. The result is sgetnifictint in more
points of view than one. That section of the popu-
lation which proclaimed itself emphatically " the
people," which arrogated to itself the absolute
sovereignty of France, which menaced with proscription
and plunder, with fire and sword, any opposition to its
most extravagant caprices, has been weighed and num-
bered, and has been found to comprise, in all its
varieties, not half a million heads out of seven millions
and a half. Even throwing into the scale of Ledru
Rollin and Raspail all the doubtful, blank, and uncon-
stitutional votes which were found in the ballot-boxes,
the total numbers polled for these champions of the so-
cial Republic will not reach 500,000 out of 7,449,741.
One in filteenl—a proportion exactly identical with that
disclosed in our own metropolis between the enemies and
the friends of public order. But fourteen short months
ago a solemnity of unusual occurrence even amongst the
multiform files of Paris aroused the sympathies and re-
collections of Frenchmen. A true and veritable Marshal
of the Empire was consigned to the vaults of the Inva-
lides. Amongst the mourners who followed the coffin
through the long ranks of veterans across the noble
court of the hospital were some relics of the Grand
Army. The red lancer with the Polish shako which has
since become common to his class, the chasseur of the
guard with his boots and pelisse, and the old grenadier
with his blue coat and bearskin cap, were there presented
in living reality to a wondering generation of their suc-
cessors. The Republic in the place of the Monarchy
was transformation strange enough, it is true; but who
then could have conceived that the characters and titles
of the Empire would within a year be resuscitated into
actual life, that a Napoleon would again take up his
abode in the royal palace and receive the salutes of thou-
sands on the Place Vendome, that one Bonaparte would
preside at the Invalides, that another would proceed as
Ambassador to London, that a Pajol and a Ney would
again figure on an Imperial staff, and that the
bourgeoisie of Pattie should fall back in reap( ct
and reverence before a trumpeter of the Imperial
Guard? It was on a bitterly cold winter morning nearly
half a century ago that the form of a Republic was
last superseded in Paris by the promotion of a Napoleon.
Out of 3,012,569 electors, 3,011,007 had acquiesced in
the substitution of a Bonaparte for the miserable mimic-
ries of a constitution. Atter some coquetry and some
precautions, the new chief of the people entered formally
upon the dignities of his office. Preceded by a glitter-
ing escort, he took possession of the ancient palace of
the Capets, and signalised his accession by the charac-
teristic solemnity of a gorgeous military review. On
every side the crowd pressed round to salute him with
cries and acclamations, to admire the style of his
horsemanship and the nobleness of his air. His
" grave and pensive beauty," says the historian,
attracted the eyes of all, and upon his life and safety
the destinies of Franco were unanimously admitted to
hinge. Almost might we have transferred this descrip
Gen of the great Napoleon to our columns of yester-
day which related the elevation of his nephew. There
were differences no doubt. Perhaps the noisy volunteers
of the banlieu might be thought an iediffsrent substitute
for the 96th and the 30th deini-brigades, with Lannes,
Murat, and Bessieres, at ale it heads 944 woukl hardly
be difficult to construct the aggregete of particulars into
a telerably faithful parody. But so analogous were the
great features of the ceremony, :and so wonderful were
the consequences of this resurrection of a name, that it
would be hard to say what scenes in the history of
France are now beyond hope of revival. We have no
desire to di-parage the new Napoleon. Whatever may
be the degeneracy of present polities, his debut was more
suuzzestive of the days of the real empire than that of
M. Louis Blanc was of the days of the real republic.
He will find at least as much work as awaited his
great namesake in the interior administration of
France. Credit was not worse, ptivate fortunes were
not more dilapidated, public fortune was not more
completely ruined in 1800 than it is in 1848. The
leading proposal of Napoleon I. vies peace. We trust
it may be equally so of Napoleon This part of his
work is done to his hands; he needs no campaign of
Marengo to secure his pacification of Amiens. But if he
can restore France to anything like even that prosperity
which she gratuitously suffered to perish in either care-
lessness or wantoness of spirit, it will be no longer pos-
sible to question the existence of virtue in a name. One
week has now elapsed since Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
took possession of his official residence, held his levee,
and retired to rest in the last chamber which his uncle
ever occupied in Paris. We will not speculate upon the
sentiments with which he may have rambled over the
abode so strangely recovered, but his great predecessor
was certainly at no loss to comprehend his position on
the analogous occasion to which we have referred. " Eli
bien, Bourienne," he remarked, turning to the secretary
at his side as soon as he gained a moment's privacy,
"Eh Men, nous voila done aux Tuileries I—Maintenant
it faut y rester !"
CHRONICLE.—The medical men who practise in the
city of London declare that cancerous and pulmonary
affections have been enormously incressed, of late years,
by the quantity of meat unfit for human food, which is
daily disposed of within the bills of mortality. The
obvious cause of this evil is, that in Smithfield and New-
gate markets, where inspectors are appointed, with full
power to seize and confiscate such carrion, the accom-
modation is so execrable that they cannot perform their
duties at all; whilst, in the other meat markets of Lon-
don, no such necessary supervision has been established.
Our ancestors appear, in sanitary matters, to have
been wiser than we are. There exists, amongst the
Rolls of Parliament of the year 1380, a petition from
the citizens of London, praying that, for the sake
of the public health, meat should not be slaugh-
tered nearer than " Knyghts-brigg," under penalty,
not only of forfeiting such animals as might be
killed in the " butcherie," but of a year's imprison-
ment. The prayer of this petition was granted, and its
penalties were enforced during several reigns. In 1848,
however, we are not so squeamish. In the course of a
year, 220,000 head of cattle, and 1,500,000 sheep, are
violently forced into an area of five acres, in the very
heart of London, through its narrowest and most crowded
thoroughfares; and are there sold, and there slaughtered,
in the dark and undrained cellars, stables, and out-
houses adjoining. The inhabitance and shopkeepers,
on the line of march taken by these herds and flocks,
are weekly frighted from their propriety by the transit
of 4,000 oxen and 30,000 sheep, that are hurried
along by reckless drovers, and maddened by savage
dogs. Scarcely a market-day passes without some
grave accident to man, beast, and property. A
letter from " An Inhabitant of West Smithfield,"
which will be found elsewhere in our columns, depicts,
with the graphic force of truth, the grievous inconve-
niences and outrages to which those who reside in the
neighbourhood of this intolerable nuisance are constantly
subjected. The environs of Smithfield are poisoned by
blood and garbage; the quality of the meat that we daily
eat is deteriorated by the ill-usage which animals un-
dergo whilst alive, and by the faulty accommodation for
cleansing and dressing it when dead. The graziers, who
send their stock to London, are fleeced, in consequence
of the monopoly which the Smithfield salesmen enjoy;
and the poor of the metropolis are sickened by the pesti-
lential trash which the crowded and undisciplined state
of the meat markets enables the lower classes of sales-.
men to foist upon them with impunity. The cruelties,
too, practised habitually on the wretched animals;
defy exaggeration. It will scarcely be credited that.
the foreign cattle and sheep, which are sold in Smith-
field, receive, during their transit from the port of their
embarkation to Blackwell—a period which mks from
two to six days—not one drop of water, nor one atom
of food. The deterioration of meat, from bruises and
over-driving, is calculated, by butchers themselves, to
amount, in Smithfield market alone, to above 100,0001.
a-year. The evidence before the various committees
abounds in disgusting details of eyes deliberately
knocked out, horns broken off, tongues torn, women and
children tossed, drovers killed and mutilated, and shop-
fronts forcibly dashed in. And yet these are but the
minor evils of Smithfield-market. That on which we
now wish most especially to dwell, is the facility which
the crowded and disorganized condition of this market
affords for the unlawful sale of diseased meat ; and,
unluckily, meat of that description, being the bossiest,
is precisely the sort selected, at the low butchers'
shops, by the peer, as being the most economical.
From the Ist day of January, 1848, to the 7th of
the fallowing August, the Inspector of Smithfield-
market confiscated, out of 120,000 cattle and 800,000
sheep, not one diseased beast, and but five diseased
sheep. We do not mean to censure that officer for not
doing his duty. We sty that he could not do it. It was
notorious, at the time, that, on every market-day, no
less than from 50 to 100 head of cattle, and several
hundred sheep, calves, pigs, &c., in a fearful morbid con-