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London, England, 1846-07-01 00:00:00

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CALIFORNIA. ir7,..,__,-1
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War has now indeed broken out, and w. ito'±ti,tni9l-: ,_,,..-.-..,' .
degree -tend to hasten the dissolution o isclVOC*lo,i;;;.; ';--i-i.-- ~ ''
union. Texas has broken her col tnexion faier-Cwii.:l;.CZ_i
hand ; for a few years she formed :an inde ' fitkiste-bme.----,...._;=•/:::Y'
but now the "lone star" has be en added o the' "r4_77-77-qi tv.
spangled banner of the Union, and standls bri" "":..."
brethren in the American firmament. Calitse Ailit.:'
its luxurious pa.ttures and magnificent harbour; hangs
but loosely on Me'zieo, from whose hands it is, as it were,
gliding away. Year after year stream shoals' of
adventurers into this neighbour land of Oregon i
and on the shores of the Pacific are now being repeat.edt
exactly the same scenes anti events that took place two.
and twenty years ago in the Gulf of Mexico amid
the rolling Savannahs of Texas. The appearance
of Graham and the German adventurer Sutter has st,.
striking resemblance to that of Stephen Austin and
David Crockett in Texas, and the conseipences are
declaring themselves in California the same ai in Texas.
In order to attract continually fresh streams of immi-
grants into, tha- mg-Autry, the Americans already settled
in California are sending the most alluring deso•riptiom
to the States. Andl„ indeed, Upper California (the op-
posite peninsula is a desert, woodless, and watorless
place) is one of the most splendid tracts of laud in the
world. Its situation on the Pacific Ocean will the mere
hasten the future prosperity of this American conquest,
inasmuch as the magniOcent arb hour of San Francisco
scarcely has its equal. The people that understand
how to avail themselves of the advantage of the
coast between there and the no less important Puget'&
Sound will be the masters of this great ocean, and
give laws to the Chinese as the English now
do., The climate is mild and everywhere healthy,
the soil of as yet virgin fertility, and where unfit
for arable, possesses such luxurious pastures;. that
alread.7.the inhabitants, in order to prevent the in-uno-
derate i.ncrease of the herds of wild cattle, have bt'teiv.
compelled to slaughter many thousand head of stee.ra,
and cows eh'. masse. California possessing far more con-
ditions of ex,fensive development within itself than the
relatively poorer Oregon, is therefore much more im-
portant than this latter * * * Continuous.
or determined resistance on the part of the Mexican Go-
vernment is not to be apprehended by these new con-
quistadores; in no case will they fear it. The native
. whites are few, they certainly do not exceed fifty or sixty
thoraand ; the Mexican President resides several hun-.
need ralies from Monterey ; California owes gratitude.
neither t.-_,hito nor any one else ; not a small portion
chezishes the same wishes as the Americans ; foreign
interference is not, however, to be accepted ; and thus
in this state- of affairs, we see nothing to oppose the
formation of a- free and independent " Republic of Cali- -
fornia."

THE STAGE PRINCE.
(From the " Quizziology of the British Drama.")
Royalty, on the stags, is usually very unfortunate,
and the treatment it% receives is, under even the most
favourable circumstances, anything but what it ought
to be. If the stage monarch is in the height and ple-
nitude of his power, there is very little respect shown
to him. He has to march about in processions with a
pasteboard crown on his head, while the ro val ermine
is nothing better than flannel with tufts of win sited fast-
ened on to it. As to his palace, though the w alls are
fiaely wanted, there is scarcely one room that h e can
comfortably sit down in, for the apartments are usoally
as barren Of furniture as if a distress for rent had re-
cently cleared them. If he gives a banquet, there is no-
thing to eat ,but a quantity of artificial flowers in vases,
and some imitation fruit, moulded all in one piece on a
papier mochi pl,Ateau ; so that, if the fruit were eatable,
the plate of which it forms a part, would have to be.
devoured with it. The stage monarch has generally veryr
little to say, and perches himself quietly on a very uncom-
fortable throne raised on a ricketty platform, with
scarcely room for his feet ; while some individuals, turn-
ing their backs upon his Majesty, amuse themselves
with dancing. He is frequently sworn at, and impera-
tively ordered by the stage-manager, who is a viceroy
over him, to get down from his throne, that it may be
dragged off at the wing by the scene-sNfters just before
thefito concludes, when the monarch sneaio in among the
crowd of supernumeraries who constitute his "people."
His snubbed Majesty feels that he shall interfere with
some Terpsichorean grouping, or destroy the flax!.
tableau of a pas de deux, if he does not get out of the,
way ; and he keeps backing and backing, nntik
some of his court, irritated perhaps by tile pres-
sure of the royal heels on their plebeian corns, check-
his further retreat with—" Now then, stupid I where
are you coming to ?" But the stage Monarch is nut
always a mere nonentity, for he sometimes takes a very
active part, and develops some very remarkable traits of
character. If he happens to be a king, after the pattern
of him known familiarly as the " merry monarch,"
though in reality a very sad dog, he gets into tavern
rows, flirts with the barmaid, cheats the landlord, insults,
the guests, awl is on the point of being subjected to me-
rited cbastisement, when some tradesman of the court—
perhaps the milkman or the butcher—recognises the
king, from which .t must be inferred that his majesty is
in the habit of personally taking in the milk, or ordering
the meat for dinner. If the dramatists can take liber-
ties even with royalty moulded on the model of an En;-.
lisp sovereign, it may be supposed that they will rin
into considerable rampancy when picturing one of t: le
monarchs in miniature that are supposed to swarm on toe
continent.
A foreign princedom, standing like a suburban
in its own grounds, with cavalry barrack for six hors, s,
a large rooms, outhouse for infantry, and the use of a.
paddock for an occasional review, may admit of con-
siderable latitude in the way of dramatic treatment, for
no one knows whether it is right or wrong ; and it may
be, tn" zsrefore, perfectly en regle for the small fry of so-
vereigns :9 do the sort of things that on the stage we
find in Thus it may be very natural for an
Italian prince to go away from his dominions, leaving
oharnigdhs;uflabyeoiru,n,gmerigbhrottsheettlroer t
ha le
the government in the
uncle, who spreads * report of the death of the " right-
" 1."-"knnrgeftlfeirshsenieralibulg.. sairopuity theminont
ful heir, when tile
business with the
trusty retainer," and forward. He, however,
skirts of a forest, with some' "
fall-
ing in love with the daughta.'r of some dealer in fire-
wood, who comes home every evening to talk sentiment
about his child, after having been en:ployed all day ift
felling timber that does not belong to kire-
The Stage Prince, when he does make up his mind to
claim his rights, issues no proclamation ; but muffles.
himself up in an enormous cloak that he may not be,
known, and arrives in his own territories dus'ing some.
fete that is being given by the " wrongful heir" to cele—
brate the feast of the grottos (qucere, oyster day ?) or-
anything else which makes a line in the play-bill anti
admits of an iileidental ballet. The " rightful heir"
keeps judiciously in the background during the dancing,.
and the "wrongful eyes him without knowing
why ; and in the intervals t:f the festivities comes mys.-
teriously forward to tell the orches:ra that " he don't know-
how it is, but something seems to ;yeigiz at his heart,"'
and he will occasionally inquire politely Of consience•
when, it will allow peace to enter the guilty brblast, from.
which it has hitherto been a prohibited articlo He
will ever and anon eye the " rightful heir" with a sus-
picion for which he—or any one else—cannot account;
and ultimately he will make some observation Wont
which the stranger in the cloak will dissent; And higle%
words will ensue, in which the "rightful heir" win be.
addressed as " Caitiff! " and asked by what right lie;
interrupts the festival. Every one will gather round,-
but no one will know the " rightful heir" until, throwing
off his cloak, he developer a blaze of orders, including a
terrific freemason's star and a quantity of ornaments in
paste, that he has purchased from having seen them
ticketed up " cheap" at a pawnbroker's.
The discovery of the orders, accompanied by a sudden
throwing off of the hat, will cause all to go down on their
knees, the courtiers exclaiming " Sire !" the female
peasants murmuring out " The prince," and turning
round to each other with " My gracious!" " Only think!"
" Did you ever I" &c., in a series of facetious asides ;
while the male peatants shout " Our long-lost lord 1"
The supernumeraries, who can only be intrusted with a;
single word, cry simply "Sire I" and the discomfited:
" wrongful heir," covering his face in shame, and, leav-
ing the blushes to mantle under his cloak, mutters out.
" My liege!" while the chorus singers burst into a con-
cluding strain of joy, love, and loyalty.

ASTURIAN MINING ASSOCIATION.—At OLIO O'clock
on Monday the second annual meeting of the proprietors of the
above association took place at the company's office, No. 9,
Austinfriars. The chair was taken by N. Colquhoun, Esq.
The report stated, that through unavoidable circumstances
the furnace and rolling mill had not yet been got into opera-
tion in the " Valley of Mieres," but by September next the
directors were in expectation of having all their hopes real-
ised as to the success of the undertaking; and that since the
gentlemen,
to, run fron.a their soal
Royal North of Spain Railway had been defunct, the
directors, with some influential Spanish
pro-
jected a railway which is purposs4
of 13isca3 , which is well calcu-
mines to Aviles, on the Bad
FraFce. The balance-sheet was as fol-
paeilsdo-uilip capital was 61,7251. 7s. ld. The ex-
penses, to extend the deinan for ore and coal to porta in the
Atlantic, as
railway. survey, purchase of Santo Firm 6
collieries, works, machinery, &c., &c., amounted to the above
sum, 2,2191. ss. 9d., which remains with the bankers..
A unanimous vote of thanks having beenpassed to the chair-
man, the meeting separated.
:—The
ding
SUSPICIOUS CASE.—On Monday, an inquest was held:
by adjournment before Mr. W. Baker, jun., at the Mulberry
Tree, Mile-end Old Town, on the body of James Perryman,
aged 42, late foreman to a fish salesman in Billingsgate-
market. The wife of the deceased was a very profligate
woman, and on several occasions, when the deceased re-
turned home, he found some strange man sitting there.
About two years ago she was tried at the Old Bailey for
robbing a man of eight sovereigns, and on that occasion a
quantity of arsenic was found in a cup in her house. She
had been heard to wish that her husband was dead, and to
say that a fortune-teller had told her he was to die in the
course of next year. Various alarming rumours had gone abroad
that the deceased had been poisoned, and suspicion was directed
against the wife. The deceased's relatives applied to the
Coroner to hold an inquest, and a post mortem examination
was ordered to be made. Evidence was given as to the bad
character of the wife. The suspicion which rested on the
wife was, however, cleared away by the evidence of Dr.
Leatheby, lecturer on chemistry to the London Hospital,
who deposed that he analysed the contents of the stomach,
and found that the abdomen contained fluid indicating a
previous state of inflammation. The liver was very much
decayed, and a very large abscess had formed. Witness also
said that he had carefully analysed the stomach, but could
not detect any trace of poison, and he was of opinion that
death was caused by the bursting of the abscess. The jury,
after a short consultation, returned a verdict in accordance
with the medical testimony.
TELEGRAPHIC JOHE.—The Washington corres-
pondent of the Penesyivanian Inquirer says that a few
evenings since, in Baltimore, the people were anxiously
waiting for news from the army, and there being none to
send, the operator on the Washington line sent on letter by
letter—" T-h-e-r-e a-r-e a g-r-e-a-t
c-a-n-s"—here there was a full stop, and the Baltimore
; operator made signs to proceed. The Washington operator
soon did so, and ended the sentence with the words i-n
M-e-x-i-c-o." A great rattling followed from the end of
l the Baltimore line, as much as to say—" When I come on I
will Pita into you like a thousand of bricks."