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London, England, 1851-12-12 00:00:00

DECEMBER
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1851.
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N° . 18,478 .]

ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN GOLD MINING
COMPANY.
(Incorporated pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet.)
Oakes—No. 11, Adam-street, Adelphi.
Capital, 50,0001.,
In 100,000 Shares of 10s. (fully paid up) each.
NO Shareholder will be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.
TRUSTEES.
Charles Herbert Cottrell, Esq., Hadley, Herts.
George Emmott Green, Esq., Emmott Hall, Lancashire.
James Harmer, Esq., Ingress Park, Greenhithe, Kent.
CHAIRMAN.
• GEORGE EDWARD COTTRELL, Esq., James-street, Buck-
ingham-gate ; and New-square, Lincoln's Inn.
VICE-CHAIRMAN.
FRANCIS DENNIS MASSY DAWSON; Esq., Victoria-
square; and Plowden-buildings, Temple.
DIRECTORS.
John Barker, M.D., Richmond, Surrey.
Symcon Taylor Bartlett, LL.D. Cambridge.
Jonathan Felder, Esq., Penrith.
Charles Hincks, Esq., Birmingham.
Joseph George Parker, Esq., Warminster.
Sir C. S. Runabold, Bart., Argyll-street, Regent-street.
RESIDENT DIRECTOR IN CALIFORNIA.
Captain Sir Henry Nero Huntley, R.N.
RANKERS.
London and County Bank, Lombard-Street.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Coombe and Nickell, Bridge-street, Westminster.
SUPERINTENDENTS IN CALIFORNIA.
James Maconochie, Esq. I William Godfrey Ilnet, Esq.
SECRETARY (ad interim).
Mr. George Frederick Goodman.
This Company being now completely registered, the Directors
take the earliest opportunity of laying before the Shareholders
statement of its progress ant prospects.
It may be confidently asserted that no Company was ever brought
before the public with equal prospect of speedy and successful
results.
The prompt assistance afforded by the Shareholders to the Direc-
tors, and the perfect confidence in the management displayed by
them, have enabled the Directors to take such steps as must ensure
an enormous dividend within a few months.
Sir Henry Huntley, the resident Director in California, has been
in that country five months, and the course adopted by the Directors
for carrying out this enterprise results from the experience obtained
him during that period. The instructions given to Sir Henry
Hunt ey were, in effect, that he should make every possible in
relative to the state of the country, the tenure of land, the com-
paratie merits of the different quartz veins in the several districts
of California, and after mature deliberation to advise the Directors
as to their best course of proceeding, and to take such measures as
would enable them to carry out his views as speedily as possible.
Following these instructions, he has secured tar the benefit of the
Company, sufficient lands for all mining purposes ; but he is clearly
of opinion, that for the present, at least, it is not desirable to under-
take mining operations, but to crush and amalgamate quartz to
be supplied by those who arc possesse I of mines, and have raised
the quartz. With the assistance of some gentlemen of great
experience in geology and mining matters, he has inspected and
tested a great variety of veins in the Mariposa, Nevada, Grass
Valley, and other districts, and has comeof Grass Valley to the conclus
and
upon soand reasons, that the vicinity
Nevada City, is that which affords the greatest advantages foragree-
car-
rying OR our enterprise. Ile has, therefore, entered into
ment with some American gentlemen, who have formed a company,
and have opened, and, to a considerable extent, worked a vein of
quartz, di.tant about three miles from Grass. Valley and Nevada
City, and about thirty miles from Sacramento City,
to crush and
amalgamate the quartz to be raised from the minalready e openecrud
hed by
them. By means of machinery, he has
and amalgamated considerable quantities of the quartz sup-
plied him from this mine; and the r,sult of his operations
has been to satisfy himself that the vein is of a full average
richness, and that the locality ofiers many important advantages in
the way of water, fuel, means of transit, &c., &c. He has,hi thre-
fore, entered into a formal agreement with that Co ny, the m
with
ie in
a few words, amounts to this : he is to be suppld by as
much quartz as his machinery shall be found capable of crushing;
the quartz is to be deposited at the mills free of expense ;
he is to crush and amalgamate it at his own expense, and
he gAd produced is to be divided equally between the owners
of the vein and our Company. Formal and legal agreements
for carrying out the above arransement fairly and honestly, and
without any copartnership, have been entered into. Steam-englnes
and machinery estimated to crush about thirty tons
been of quartz a dnderay,
with funds sufficient for putting it in motion, have placed u
the control of Sir Henry Huntley; and, unless w
some unexpected
delay has arisen, the machinery is now actually at ork, and a
return will be made about Christmas next.
For the satisfaction of the existing shareholders of thiS Company,
and without wishing, in any manner, to deteriorate from the merits
of other Companies, the Directors are desirous of calling atten
Ctiom-
on
to some of the more prominent advantages possessed by this
puny over others now in the field. Shareholders in other Companies
must mainly rely upon reports sent over by persons interested in
selling the mine ; we rely upon the reports of our own resident
Director and his practical assistants on the spot, whose only
interest is to give us facts. The Directors of other
Companies generally base the estimate of the value of
their mine upon calculations founded on experiments
upon a few pieces of specimen quartz, sent over to this country for
the express purpose of advertising the commodity offered for sale to
the British public; we found our calculations upon experiments
tried, during several weeks, on quartz raised from the mine, and
crushed and amalgamated by ur own Superintendent, and with our
own machinery and apparaotus. Other Companies propose to
incur the expense and risk of carrying out mining operations
spon their vein, before the quartz arrives at their mill, and, should
their labours prove successful, they must then pay out of their
profits large per-centages for obtsining their leases, and large royal
ties to their lessors ; whereas we have secured as much quartz as
our machinery is capable of crushing, the title to which iss as secure
or
as that of any other company, unfettered by any retge
royalty. The half of the produce to be paid by this Comb
pg
any to
the
parties who supply us, free of expense, with the quartz, befacenmerely equivalent to the dividend upon the outlay of capital ex-
pended in raising the quartz, and lodging it at the mill. All the
new companies, unlike this, must be a considerable time before
their arrangements and machinery can be ready for carrying out
their schemes—this Company alone is actually at work.
The paid-up capital of the Company will not exceed 20,0001. An
almost certain estimate of the produce of our machinery can be
formed, and, from the calculations made, the Directors confidently
anticipate being able even at the most moderate estimate, to afford
a dividend of 200 per cent., at the least, within the next twelve
months. According to the data furnished to us, the quartz which
we are now working yields upon an average 4d. per pound, or 1/.
17s. 4d. per cwt., or 371. Gs. Sd. per ton; and, as we can crush and
amalgamate at least 20 tons per diem, that would amount to 7461.
13s. 4d., or 3731. Gs. Bd. per diem as the share of this Company.
By the peculiar arrangements this Company has made, based
upon practical experience, the economy in working expenses must
necessarily be such as to render the current outlay most trifling.
In case circumstances should induce the Directors to alter the
system now adopted, and lead them to undertake mining operations
of their own, arrangements have been made securing four distinct
sit es, most carefully selected for their eligibility for mining pur-
poses, and Sir Henry Huntley has on the spot Cornish miners who
went out with him, and who have voluntarily retendered him their
services.
The gentlemen who formed the Provisional Committee of this
Company, have added to their number several gentlemen possebodyssing
the acquaintance and entire confidence of a very large of
Shareholders in the provincial districts. To add s men to t
Dire.; to ry was due to those Shareholders who kaveuch in
.fact estab-
he
lished and nobly supported this Company.
Measures will be taken
for further augmenting the Directory, and a Special General Meet-
ing of the Shareholders will be convened fur middle of
thanks to January.
In conclusion, the Directors beg to offer their best the
Shareholders for the uniform support they have received, and they
pledge themselves that the affairs of this Company
sole shall be c
fonro-
-
ducted with the most rigid economy, and with w of
warding the interest of the Shareholders.
The Directors beg to call the attention of Shahis 7holders
Company, it particular can-
ly
to the fact that, from the system adopted by
t
not be affected by the question now agitated
The district between the holders of
leases and Colonel Fremont or his agents. selected. for
the operations of this Company is far removed from the tract claimed
by Colonel Fremont. The difficulty arising out of the many points
now raised relative to the tenure of land under leases, hadh be
een long
known to and was maturely considered by thosecontrol
of the affairs of this Company, and was one of the reasons which
not
in-
duced them to persue for the present the course they
have, and
to incur certain heavy expenses with doubtful results.
The Directors trust that Shareholders will approve of the prudence
of the course they have adopted.
Prospectuses may be had upon application at the offices of the
Company.

LAURENT'S CASINO.
ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
St. James's, is OPEN every Evening for the Winter Season.
L turent's well-known and celebrated Band, principal Cornet-a-
Piston, M. Boulcourt.
During the recess the Rooms hive been re-decorated, and many
improvements made, under the sole direction of Mr. G F. Bryer.
Doors open at Half-Past Eight, to commence at Nine o'clock.
Admission—ONE SHILLING.

PARIS IN A STATE OF SIEGE.
THE ASSEMBLY DISMISSED.
General Officers, the Leaders of Party, arrested and sent to
Prison, the Council of State Dissolved, and Louis Napoleon is
Dictator. This astounding intelligence, transmitted from Paris in a
few minutes, nearly frightened London from its propriety on Tues-
day last, yo from all we can learn the President completely followed
the example set In she British metropolis years ago, even to the
close, for when he had effected the mighty change he appealed to
the people, whose support alone he craved. The change to which
we refer was that which in forty-eight hours was accomplished by
E. MOSES and SON. The monopolists were more formidable than
the General Assembly, and they were not without leaders, but
Messrs. E. MOSES and SONS crushed them at once by loering
the price of a man's clothes fifty per cent., and appealing two the
people. What was the result? The extortion and wrong doings of
those they displaced was apparent, and the people exulted in the
change. They gladly seized upon the benefits extended to them,
and supported the firm. Every man in the kingdom is now at
liberty to buy for himself and his family better clotnes than they
ever had before, and at less than half price ; let any one, if indeed
there be any, who doubts this, inspect the present unrivalled stock
of Winter Clothing at the Monarch Mart in Aldgato and the
Minories, or their Grand West-end Branch Establishment in New
Oxford-street, corner of Hart-street, where everything of the newest
arid neatest and best is marked with its prices, and they will doubt
no longer.
E. MOSES and SON,

London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Hinories' 88,
44, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating.
London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 568, New Oxford-street, 1,2,
and 3, Hart-street, all communicating.
Bradford Yorkshire Branch, 19, Bridge-street.
Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate.
Tailors, Clothiers, Batters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boat and Shoe-
makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen.
The Establishments aro closed from sunset Friday to sunset on
Sat r hen busine is resrmed till Twelve o'clock.
The New s w
Book, entitledss "
The Exhibition for All Nations," in
Three Lafigliflf.',CS, viz. :—English, French, and German, and contain-
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kingdom
the be had gratis, on appli-
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A handsome Almanac, for the year ending 1852, can be had gratis,
on application.
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IV.
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"To be or not to be, that is the question."
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NITANDLE WATER and SEWERAGE COM-
PANY (LIMITED RESPONSIBILITY).
A BILL for the INCORPORATION of the COMPANY was read a
second time in the last Session of Parliament, and was referred to a
Committee, at which stage (by special resolutions of both Houses)
it is a lowed to be proceeded with in the next session.
Capital 300,0001, in 30,0..0 Shares of 101. each. Deposit 12s. 6d.
per share, of which 7s. will be returned in the event of an Act not
being obtained in the ensuing session of Parliament.
At the termination of the last session the Shareholders were offered
the 7s. per share, but only one, holding four shares, availed himself
of this privilege.

TRUSTEES.
Joseph Somes, Esq , of Blackwall, shipowner.
George Stone, Esq , of Lombard-street, banker.
AUDITORS.

Samuel Gurney, jun., Esq., Lombard-street, banker.
Frederick Mildred, Esq., 35, Nichas-lane, banker.
DIRECTORS.
Chairman—JOHN MACGREGOR, Esq., M.P.
Deputy-Chairman—CHAßLES REYNOLDS, Esq.
Samuel Whitefleld Daukes, Esq , 14, Whitehall-place.
Edward Esdaile, Esq., City Saw-mills, Regent's Canal.
George D'Olicr Gowan, Esq , Dulwich; and 7, Copthall-court.
John Laurence, Esq , 11.C.5., 15, Regent-street:
John Macgregor, Esq., M.P., 1, Princes.terrace, Hyde-park.
Frederick Pollock, Esq., 11.C.5., Southlands, Battersea.
Charles Reynolds, Esq., Wallington Lodge, Carshalton, Surrey.
Thomas Robinson, Esq.. Bernard-street, Russell-square.
John Penrf Williams, Esq., Bury-street, St. James'-square; and
Abercamlais, Brecon.
Engineer and Surveyor—F. P. Thompson, Esq.
Consulting Engineers—Messrs. Easton and Amos.
Bankers—Messrs. Martin, Stone, and Martins, Lombard-street.
Brokers—Messrs. Sheppard and Sons, 28, Threadneedle-street, City.
Solicitors—Messrs. Mullins and ,Paddison.
The Company has for its object the supply of pure water at con-
stant and high service, and has received the most cordial support
from the proprietors, ratepayers, and inhabitants in general of this
large district, evidenced by their numerous petitions and by the re-
solutions of public bodies, such as the Quarter Sessions, the District
Board of Health, &c.
Application for the remaining shares to be made to Messrs.
Sheppard and Sons, 28, Threadneedle-street, City, and to the Secre-
tary, at the Temporary Offices, 15, TcrtrelffMae-yard, Lothbury,
where prospectuses and all other information may be obtained.
WILLIAM HOLLOWAY, Secretary.
November 14, 1851.

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TIMES.--We must not, it seems, grudge to
Louis Napoleon the suffrage—redeat quantum—of
Sir Francis Bond Head, and we publish in another
column a letter in which that very chivalrous and ec-
centric Baronet pronounces decidedly in the Dictator's
favour. It is not for us to inquire by what process
an English gentlema•o, who may be assumed to have
some preference for freedom and truth in his own
country, should have satisfied himself that France is
to be best governed by a system of open violence and
unblushing mendacity. All the facts—if so they can
be called—on which Sir F. B. Head affects to rely,
'ere notorious inventions of the new Government or its
supporters. We can hardly imagine that he still be-
lieves any " guilt " can be substantiated against
General Changarnier, or that any attempt will ever
be made to establish judicially the existence of the
conspiracy which served as the pretence for the
arrest of that officer and his colleagues. If any evidence
of such a conspiracy had existed, it is evident that
criminal proceedings would already have been com-
menced against these Generals. But the charge
seems to be dropped even by the organs of the Freuch
Government ; and, if any further proof ba needed, we
confidently adduce the testimony of the narrative we
published yesterday—a narrative which virtually con-
veys the opinions and declarations of at least 230 of
the first men in France. The statement that General
Changarnier once contemplated the invasion of Fang-
land, " for the purpose of forcing upon its inhabitants
a Republic," rests, we believe, on no better autho-
rity than a loose assertion of M. Emile de Gi-
rardin ; but if Sir Francis B. Head will favour us
with any further proof of this allegation, we shall be
indebted to him. To us it does not occasion the
smallest surprise that General Changarnier or any
other General or officer in the French army should
have speculated on the chances of invading this island ;
and, it we remember rightly, a certain book appeared
not many months ago in which Sir Francis B. Head
undertook to convince the young ladies and the old
ladies of England that the probabilities of such an in-
vasion is much greater than was commonly supposed
till that work was written. But we venture to affirm
that no bubble was ever blown by "an Old Man
from the Brunnen" of revolutions more flimsy and
noxious than this discovery that France has just ceased
to be formidable since she has passed into the hands of
a military Government. Before this revolution we had
the security derived from the character of a civil Go-
vernment which had respected its engagements and
which obeyed the laws. We knew that the Constitu-
tional or Republican Administrations of France could
not easily be plunged into hostilities or military ad-
ventures by the ambition or caprice of a single man.
She had her Joinvilles and her Lamoricieres, but
their fretful disposition was controlled by the sounder
influence of Parliamentary statesmen. Two impor-
tant changes have, however, now occurred in the
state of France with reference to foreign nations :
the whole power of her Government and her enormous
military resources have passed under the absolute
control of a single ruler, acting in concert with the
most daring and unscrupulous of the African generals
—men in comparison with whom Changarnier and
Cavaignac are models of forbearance and honour;
and, secondly, this extraordinary power has been
acquired by means which indicate a total absence
of moral principle, a reckless disregard of legal ob-
ligations, a skilful direction of sudden strokes in
war, and an ambition the more formidable because
it is slow in the pursuit of its objects, but rapid
in the final execution of them. Sir Francis B.
Head will hardly persuade the people of England
-hat these facts are additional guarantees of peace,
because it pleases him to tack to the name of Louis
Napoleen a string of ironical epithets. This " mild
and benevolent" ruler has just shed the blood of
hundreds, and probably thousands, of French citizens;
and the troops were ordered to select by preference as
their victims persons of the class least akin to Socialist
insurgents. 'This " just and bold" statesman stole
upon his Parliamentary opponents like a thief in the
night, and sent his soldiers, excited by gratuities, and
led by policemen, to attack the unarmed defenders of
the Constitution he had most solemnly sworn before
God and man to observe. This " honest and high-
minded" personage has established a Government
even more remarkable for its mendacity than for
its violence. We read, for instance, in the Patrie
of the 6th of December the following paragraph,
which deserves to be textually quoted :--
" Tons les journ aux Anglais sont d'accord pour
reconnaitre I'urgence des mesures prises par le
President de la Republique, et ils donnent la
plus entiere adhesion asa politique." Od the same
day the correspondents of two English journals were
threatened with expulsion from Paris. Hundreds o'
similar instances could be quoted ; and these are the
seeds of what Sir Francis B Head considers no
" honest and highminded" Government. For our-
selves, after the experience we have now had and the
certainty we have now acquired that Louis Napoleon
and his Government are sustrained in their course by
no earthly consideration of law and duty, we must
confess that our confidence in his future conduct is
extinct. As long as he remained within the bounds
of the law, far from offering him any opposition, we
were disposed to view his struggle against a factious
Assembly with favour, and we have only reason to
regret that he has acted with less integrity than we
then gave him credit for. We still hope that he will
consider it his interest to maintain amicable relations
with the British Government, and that he will not
add the horrors of foreign war to the evils which
already efilict his country. It is not improbable
that his natural jealousy of any brilliant military
achievements accomplished by other leaders of an
army not under his own command will deter him
from engaging in war; and it certainly is the duty
of the British Government and nation not to allow
the opinions they must entertain of his actions in
France to alter or impair the international relations
of the Western States of Europe. We have uni-
formly advocated the principle that our relations with
foreign States are not to be made dependent on the
i'sternal policy of their Governments, and the present
policy of the Government of France is no just cause
of animosity or interference on our part, any more
than the policy of the Governments of Austria, or
Frussia, or Naples, to which it is as nearly allied as
a state of illegal violence can be made to a state of
legalized oppression. But, though we acknowledge,
and shall respect these rules of international policy, and
we think that the Government is right in all cases to
adhere to them, we cannot modify opinions founded on
historical truth, and we cannot resuscitate a con-
fidence which has died so violent a death. Least of
all can we understand that an Englishman and an
officer, who blew the trumpet of alarm when the
aspect of France was comparatively pacific, should
derive confidence in the temper and good faith of the
French Government from what is now passing there,
and should lay aside his defensive armour, because
the absolute ruler of France is called Bonaparte and
the Minister of War St. Arnaud. If such language
be seriously used, it seems to us to indicate a degree
of credulity we should not have expected even in Sir
Francis B. Head, or an absence of fixed principles,
of which we should be still more unwilling to accuse
him. Mr. Burke once observed, in a comparison
between the French Republic of 1791 and the
Government of Algiers, that Algiers was weak,
and Algiers was far off, and therefore gave him
very little uneasiness ; but that if Algiers had
come to Calais he should think very differently of
the matter. This seems to be precisely the event
which has now occurred, and that in a more literal
sense than even the prophetic gifts of Mr. Burke
could have foretold. Algiers is at Calais ; and it
becomes us not to cherish vague illusions about the
virtues of a Government known as yet only by :its
violences, but to adopt a line of conduct towards it
conciliatory, though not confiding, being equally pre-
pared for any other issue. Sir Francis B. Head gives
Louis Napoleon credit for doing all in his power to
maintain amicable relations with Great Britain, and
we have cordially recognised the same disposition on
the part of the President whenever we could. It is
probably
to this consideration that his policy owes
whatever indulgence it has met with here ; and peo-
ple seem even to have forgotten that about 18 months
ago the French Ambassador was withdrawn, upon a
very slight and indirect provocation, by his orders
from London. We sincerely desire, however, the
continuance of such dispositions on his part, and we
shall then be ready to acquiesce in his foreign policy,
whatever we may think of the origin of his power.
But two general reflections force: themselves upon
the mind and cloud with doubt even the rose-
coloured "Bubbles" of Sir Francis B. Head. It can
hardly be questioned that the recent measures of the
President have met with entire approval in that
powerful combination of absolute Governments which
now extends from St. Petersburgh to the Rhine, the
Danube, and the kingdom of Naples. The destruc-
tion of constitutional law, the failure of Republican
government, and the ascendancy of military power,
are perfectly consistent with the doctrines which pre-
vail over that large portion of the continent. Hitherto
Lord Palmerston has not been considered an ardent
adherent of this system, and we have yet to learn that
the coup dtEtat of the 2(1 of December has, among other
wonders, effected his conversion. But, at any rate,
Lord Palmerston is too sagacious not to perceive that
a political combination, on the principles of common
repression, between France and all the other military

[PRICE SD,

Governments of the continents from which we are
unhappily estranged, is an evento jrr.egnant with evil.
to the influence and securityf
re-election of equal moment is,
Napoleon has accomplished histnissilloln of tiitiat Britain.
when . A second
Louis
d.,
~
tran-
quillizing France," two necessities
w
him,—to employ the energy and reward thperedsse 111:*)on
of enormous army, and ,to gratify the nationavloptiaosn-
s!ons of a people whom he has deprived of its national
rights. We abstain at present from enlarging,
might do, oa these topics, but we recommend at
s'
them
to the most serious consideration of the English
'
nation; and, above all, we conjure our
countrymen
not to allow a false confidence in a man whose cha-
racter ought now to be clearly known by them, either
to relax their adherence to principles which can
never be violated with impunity, or to lull their
vigilance for the protection of England against such
contingencies as may by possibility occur.
POST.—We have thought it due, not less to the
public than to the gentleman who is charged with
the very onerous duty of conducting our Paris cor-
respondence, to publish in a separate column so much
of his last communication as he has felt himself
bound to devote to his own vindication, and that of
his colleagues from the stupid and unwarrantable
calumnies of the Times. Having exhausted his own
large stock of foul inventions, our contemporary
condescended to borrow from au occasional contri-
butor to a weekly journal a statement libellous in the 1
extreme against all the correspondents of the daily I
press at Paris, not even excepting his own—a gen-
tleman whose letters have exhibited a candour and

ability which have merited a very different reward.
Of the wretched fabrication in question, we observed,
on Monday last, that it " contained a tissue of mis-
statements as to the facts of the struggle in Paris, so
plain and open to contradiction from all reliable evi-
dence, that its appearance in any respectable quarter
utterly surprised us. We say nothing of the writer's
opinions—if opinions they can be called—but against
his assertions, it is our right and duty
most strongly and indignantly to protest,
since they are calculated to give the most false
impressions of the manner in which the correspon-
dents of the daily press have discharged their
arduous task. As far as our own intelligence is
concerned, we can answer fur the absolute falsity of
the assertion, that ' the correspondents of most of the
Londo❑ papers were closeted at the Prefecture of Po-
lice,' or that a single dispatch has appeared in this
journal, for the truth of which the writer is not pre-
pared to vouch.' " We believe that, with one base
exception,' there is not a daily journal in London
which will not acknowledge the justice of our re-
marks. But the Times is willing to adopt as its
own, and in its leading columns, the unauthorised
allegations of an occasional correspondent of the Ob-
server—though our weekly contemporary had ex-
pressly declined all responsibility as to their accuracy
when he inserted them. Such is the stuff which
enters into the manufacture of Printing-house-square.
Shreds and patches—no matter whence stolen, or
where found—compose the motley garments in which
the clever harlequin moves, from day to day, the
wonder or the laughter of mankind. To the cor-
respondents of the London press in general, the
public, not only of England, but of Europe, is
largely indebted. Remarkable activity and ability
are evident in the results of their anxious toil. The
readers of the Morning Post have recognised, not
these characteristics only, in the letters of our
Paris correspondent, but a singular judgment and im-
partiality in the selection of such prominent facts as
have been best calculated to indicate the real nature
and progress of the great change which has taken
place in the Government of France. At a time when
the rapidity with which events crowded on each other,
and the confusion in which all was involved might
have bewildered the calmest observation, truth has
been winnowed from falsehood, and a faithful picture
of each day's history has, without one error, been
presented to the world. The facts thus diligently
and accurately recorded have not, indeed, told the
tale which the Times would have them speak. He,
therefore, pours out the vials of his malignant, though
impotent, indignation o❑ the heads of those who have
written, not according to his wishes, but to the dic-
tates of truth. Our correspondent has, as it will be
seen, disposed of the unworthy assertion, that those
who supplied the daily press with information as to
the course of recent events in Paris wrote under the
surveillance of the police. A pregnant instance, in
addition to those which he has cited, occurs to us as
we write. In the Times of yesterday, we find, pa-
raded with all the honours which place and type can
confer upon it, as a startling piece of news, the so-
called decree of 250 of the ex-representatives, by
which they declared that " Louis Napoleon Bona-
parte is deprived of all authority as " President of the
Republic. It is introduced in a letter addressed to
the editor by one of the said ex-representatives, whose
" name it is impossible to disclose." The signatures
of the 250 to the " decree" itself, are given with all
the emphasis of capitals. Why, amidst this crowd
of names that of the writer of the letter should
"of course" be suppressed, it is impossible to
divine. Bat any one who reads the Times alone
would suppose that this document, so hostile to the
President, supported as it is by names distinguished
in literature and i❑ politics—is precisely one of those
things which could not be furnished by those gentle-
men who wrote their letters in the Prefecture of Police,
and who could therefore communicate such intelli-
gence only as was favourable to the Government.
Such readers will further and firmly believe that the
Times was able to produce the document before us
yesterday for the first time, by special favour of the
anonymous ex-representative. Yet, so long ago as
the sth instant (just six days before), the "decree,"
with all the names appended, appeared in the Morning
Post as part of our Paris correspondent's letter,
dated the previous dsy. After this, what can be
thought of the early intelligence, and, above all,
what of the veracity of the Times? We would
willingly be relieved from the irksome task of
pointing out stains so foul on the columns of a
contemporary. Would that, by some slight regard to
decency, he would spare us the frequent discharge
of a duty so humiliating to the profession of journal-
ism. But, on the contrary, the number and magni-
tude of his mis-statements defy the most industrious
toil to name, much less to refute them. But one
instance more. On Saturday, the 6th inst., we find
the following :
" As another example of the character of this Govern-
ment, we notice the fact that, on Monday, the Ist of
I)cember, the Minister of Finance induced the Bank of
Fiance to lend him a million sterling, alleging that it
was a mere affair of temporary accommodation, to be
provided for by Treasnry bills. The use made of these
funds is now sufficiently apparent, for the coup d' eta t
took place next morning, and services were required
and performed, for which the most liberal donations to
the army and the police would hardly seem dispropor-
tioned.'
Now, had the French Government, the French army,
and the French police been guilty of the unexampled
dishonesty, and subjected themselves to the dreadful
disgrace here charged upon them, no language would
have been sufficiently strong to characterise their
baseness, except that which should worthily hold up
to the contempt of mankind the yet baser fabricator
of so enormous a calumny—if calumny it were. Yet,
in the correspondence of all the daily journals, the
I Times itself not excepted, there appears two letters,
both dated the 6th of December, one from M. de Ca-
sablanca, the Minister of Finance alluded to, ad-
dressed to M. d'Argout, Governor of the Bank of
France, and the other the reply of M. d'Argout, which
give the most unqualified contradiction to the allega-
tions thus impudently set forth. Well. The Times
dares not suppress the letter of his correspondent—but
never in any subsequent leader, does he attempt the
honourable reparation thus proved to be due to those
whom he has so vilely calumniated. We may safely
leave this fact to confirm and deepen the disgust with
which all honourable minds must read or hear the
word " Times."

TilE MIDLAND CATTLE SHOW.
BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY.--The attendance at Bing-
lcy-hall, to-day, was much more numerous than yester-
day, it was, indeed, greater than upon both the previona
days put together. Up to seven o'clock the visitors
amounted to between 15,000 and 16,000.
at Dee's
This evening the annual dinner was
helddLytteltoo,
Royal Hotel. The chair was occupied by L,.?aritho-rpo, the
who was supported by the Hon. Alr,:t:,
„,_. schole.
Mayor of Birmingham, Mr. SpoonerioAclai n"
I influence.
field, M.P., and other gentlemen of 1
that recent events in Paris and on
The Noble CHAIRMAN in introducing
ever that an heredi-
taryrope had convinced him morbetoasts said,Eu.
Monarchy, surrounded
man should wish to live. free
co nt
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onc tt
was the
forward
The after dinner pro
best form of governmentcueneddeyinrgwshwicehrehogaosinagn English-
when our report left.

RIOT AT GRANTIIAM.—For several days past a
large number of
.navvies employed under a contractor on the
t Northern Railway at this town have been on strike for I
Great
an advance of 3d. a day upon their present wages, 2s. 3d.
On Wednesday they became so outrageous, setting the
authorities at defiance, and threatening to blow the place up,
that a message was dispatched by the evening train to Not- \
tingham for a detachment of military. Two troops, under
the command of Major Jones, proceeded on march at half-
past five o'clock in the morning, and arrived in Grantham at
ten. They succeeded in dispersing the men, about 600 in%,
number, without having recourse to arms, and they have
since continued tractable.

AUTLIENTICITY OF OUR PARIS COR-
RESPONDENCE.
(FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, WEDNESDAY, Disc, le.
With reference to some false rumours and raise
statements, which I am ashamed to see circulated in
English journals, to the effect that the Paris coo -
spondence of the English press had been, since the
late coil]) d'etat, under the control of the French
police, allow me to make the following simple state-
ment of a few facts.
The Paris correspondence is sent in three ways-
-Ist, by post to London ; 211 y, by post to Calais or
Dover, and thence by electric telegraph to London ;
and, idly, by telegraph from, Paris.
Since the 2d of December the French Government
has exercised no more supervision over the Paris cor-
respondence than it assumed previously. Before, as
since that date, it has always reserved to itself the
right of refusing to transmit by telegraph from Paris
to London any intelligence which it may not deem
exact. But it never has ventured in the least to
tamper with or pervert any information forwarded
through its channel. My dispatches by electric
telegraph from Paris to London always, I find, ap-
peared in the Morning Post as I sent them from Paris
during the crisis.
For a day or two they were not permitted to be
iseeeai
an
sg ,
that
and I b a
theeg proofedwis ti sent without the initials of the Minister being affixed
to them, as
tnhcattly to
be had done his duty by
telegraph is not in
contradiction to truth.
I believe that nwhich is sent by a
there Government
is not a single fact which I
have omitted to forward by the quickest possible
n
State that in but one
instance •
did the Alinist t his pen through any
phrase in any dispatch
electricof
pu
I said in my mine.
telegraph dispatch of the 4th
December "Hombre de tu" barricades con-
siderable."ley
This Was stopped on the ground that no
one yet knew how many had been killed,
and that
the word "considerable" would probably excite too
great apprehensions. The very next morning, how•
ever, when, amongst other matters I stated in another
electric telegraph dispatch, that "'AI Gaston Dous-
soubs and fourteen men were shot *
01:1 one barricade,"
not the least objection was m d
a fact. a e to it because it was
False statements, or alarming conjectures,
are all
that the French Government refusesto
its telegraph. As far as my own experiteransmitn by
repeat, that as I have only sent absolute fa:te I
a goes'
I
have
never found the least difficulty in their transmission.
The Times states that the correspondents oftl
Morning Chronicle and Globe have been sent awaye
from Paris for having written the truth. It is not alio.
Both gentlemen are here, and have not received the
notice to quit with which they were threatened by
the Patric. The displeasure of the French Govern--
ment was excited against the Chronicle and Globe,
because those journals published what purported to be
an electric telegraphic dispatch from Paris, which
stated that Rheims, Strasbourg, and Rouen, had
risen—that General Nieumayer (who is quietly
living in Paris) was marching to attack Paris, as
was also General Castellane, the commander of the
Lyons division—that this was denied by Government
—that the fidelity of General Magnan, the commander-
in-chief of Paris, could not be depended on—and
that Paris itself was in a most terrible state. This
was enough to make any Government angry, who
was occupied in repressing an armed insurrection,
and who had placarded on the walls severe warnings
to bearers of false news, that they would be rogarded
as accomplices in the insurrection, and be liable to
the punishments inflicted on insurgents.
The Times, however, lauds the statement as being
the truth. Have events proved it ? or was it an in-
vention of the enemy ? Aye! of the enemy in Lowlon.
The French Government, finding that in such cri-
tical circumstances, English journals liable to the
imputation of being colporteurs defausses nauvelles,
and thus accomplices in the insurrection, stopped
them last Sunday in the Post-office. After examina-
tion they were delivered later than usual. But since
Sunday they have all been delivered as formealy.
Far from excluding papers that tell the truth, the
Government has not forbidden the Times to enter,
many of the statements of whose leaders are more
perniciously false than the statement inserted (may
we hope) by some error of judgment in the Chronicle
and the Globe.

I have the right to assert that the Times' speaks
falsely, for lam here on the spot ; and 1 do assert that
most of the statements of the Times' " leaders" are not
in accordance with facts, nor with the accounts of them
given in its own or any other dispatches of the Parisian
correspondents of the London papers.
But this journal, not content with distorting events
to suit its own purposes, dares to calumniate English-
m,.n, and actually countenances a statement that the
Paris correspondence is now conducted subject to the
control of the French police. The glaring absurdity
of this assertion I need not point out. But I merely
state, that the correspondents of the London papers
have been in no manner of way interfered with by the
police. Thus all the stories about our being carried
off to the Prefecture, writing our correspondence
thence, &c , &c., are a tissue of nonsense, and that
none but the Times would be so careless of the cha-.

racier of Englishmen as to pretend that any of us
would submit to the dictation of a foreign police.
I should also mention that it is absurd to state that
we have no means of knowing the real state of the
departments, except by means of Government papers.
Then, of what use is pen and ink? Does the Times
imagine that constituents never Ni rite to their repre-
sentatives, merchants to their connexions, friends to
friends ; and does it imagine that the Government
could, even if it would, keep the true state of the
departments from oosing out. No! However much
we may desire the re-establishment of the freedom of
the press, still we are by no means ignorant of all
that is going on in the departments, as well as in
Paris, though journalism b 3 for the present suppressed.
—Morning Post.

LOUIS NAPOLEON and his COUP D'ETAT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir—As in the leading article of the Times of yes-
terday (the Bth inst.) you Bay that the English press
(with one base exception) utters with i's united voice
abhorrence of the daring blow lately struck by Louis
Napoleon, I feel confidently that, with the impartial
justice which distinguishes your journal, you will
allow me, through its columns, to submit to the sober
judgment of the country, in his defence, a few words,
founded on observations I have lately had an oppor-
tunity of making in the French metropolis.
In quotations from other newspapers Prince Louis
Napoleon is described, in your paper of yesterday, as
"a thief in the night who has stolen the liberties of
the nation"—" an imposter who has played an atro-
cious game"—" a usurper who has outraged and in-
sulted the nation"--"a low-minded adventurer who
has perpetrated licgh treason in its grossest and most
criminal form."
Now, the result of my late inquiries andbe peen sonal
observation induce me to believe himmild,
f main-
taining taining the peace of the world, and of living and
•
benevolent, just, bold, honest, high-minded statesman,
animated,
tbhy, personal
glory
f
tar' al inbqi tui zt i?n g Prance,
win
furhimself,
dying in good fellowship with the British people.
From data I was enabled to collect, I am induced
to believe, and without hesitation I foretell, that the
bold steps be has lately taken will, by an overwhelm•
ing majority, be approved by the army in France,
by to army in Algeria, by the citizens in Paris, and
byte inhabitants of the whole of the French Republic.
I may be wrong in my opinion of the man, and in
my confident prediction of the verdict of the French
nation ; in the meanwhile, however, surely the
English press, in justice to its high character, ought
t a n aretiat
iinng possession
either
the
not to condemn General Changarnier, his fellowepri-
Boners at Ham, or Prince Louis Napoleon, until the
spublicubs
of
iuitlht eof the • isoned or the
imprisoner.
were I
It would be irrelevant to the case in dispute u
rt
wholeiroo
imprisoned
r the evidence
to presume to urge the English presls
_btoan
c gs ariTe r,
Prince Louis Napoleon against Grenthef:g in his power
because the former has done everything
Great Britain, and
to maintain friendly withrelation
lately volunteered, at
because General Changarnierwhich he named, to invade
the head of a French force which
forcing
upon its inhabi-
tants England for the purpose f
On the other hand, I submit to
a Republic.of the country that it is ungrateful,
the good sense
unjust for the press of England to pre-
judgeunnatural, and
taut
question in dispute, by blindly
the Important
ally, and by supporting the man Who
condemning our
con
proposed to invade us.
Before the teeth of the French army, Prince Louis
Napoleon has, by his solitary mandate, thrown into
prison its most popular Generals. Before the teeth of
the nation he has scattered to the winds or imprisoned
the whole of their representatives.
Primiz facie, it is to be inferred that an unmilitary
man would not have dared to take two such steps,
unless in his conscience he knew that, before God and
his country, he would he enabled to vindicate his
conduct. As bystanders let, therefore, the British
nation, with their accustomed dignity and justice,
await the production cf the evidence to be adduced
before, through the public press, they pronounce their
verdict.—l am, sir, your obedient servant,
Oxendon, Dec. 9. F. B. HEAD.

EXTRAORDINARY CAPTURE OF A BADGER.—A few
days ago, as Mr. Nix, landlord of the New Sun Inn, Spittle
Retford, was passing through a wood in the neighbour-
hood of Elksley, his dog, a true bred terrier, stood at a hole
in the ground. It was evident by the great anxiety shown
by the dog that vermin was not far off. A spade was pro-
cured, and when a large quantity of earth had been removed
in rushed the resolute terrier. A fierce and bloody fight en-
sued ; and the dog succeeded in bringing to light a fine bad-
ger, which was secured and carried home. The badger
weighed 201 b., and the dog, only a young one, 141 b. This
an extraordinary circumstance, not only with regard to the
. .
spirit and pluck of the terrier, but to the capture cf the badger
itself; for the breed, although numerous in bygotto ftat,,, tw
I now nearly exterminated'