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ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN GOLD MINING
COMPANY.
(Incorporated pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet.)
Offices—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-CRAIRSIAN.
FRANCIS DENNIS MASSY DAWSON, Esq., Victoria-
square; and Plowden-buildings, Temple.
DIRECTORS.
John Barker, M.D., Richmond, Surrey.
Symeon Taylor Bartlett, LL.D. Cambridge.
Jonathan Falder, Esq.. Penrith.
Charles Hincks, Esq., Birmingham.
Joseph George Parker, Esq., Warminster.
Sir C. S. Runsbold, Bart., Argyll-street, Regent-street.
RESIDENT DIRECTOR IN CALIFORNIA.
Captain Sir Henry Vere Huntley, R.N.
BANKERS.
London and County Bank, Lombard-street.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Coombe and Nickell, Bridge-street, Westminster.
SITPBRINTENDENTS IN CALIFORNIA.
James Maconoehie, Esq. I William Godfrey Lluet, 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 a
statement of its progress and 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
by him during that period. The instructions given to Sir Henry
Hunt ey were, in effect, that he should make every possible inquiry
relative to the state of the country, the tenure of land, the com-
parative merite of the different quartz veins in the several districts
of California, and after mature deliberation to advise the Directors
as to their beat course ofpruceeeling, and to take such measures as
would enable them to carry out his views as speedily as possible,
Following these instructions, he has secured for 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 are possessed 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 reins in the Mariposa, Nevada, Grass
Valley, and other districts, and has come to the conclusion,
upon sound reasons, that the vicinity of Crass Valley and
Nevada City, is that which affords the greatest advantages for car-
rying OR our enterprise. He has, therefore, entered into an agree-
ment with sonic American gentlemen, who have formed a company,
and have opened, and, to a ecnsiderable 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 mine opened by
them. By means of machinery, he has already crushed
and amalgamated considerable quantities of the quartz sup-
plied him from this mine; and the result of his operations
has been to satisfy himself that the vein is of a full average
richness, and that the locality offers many important advantages in
the way of water, fuel, means of transit, &c., &c. He has, there-
fore, entered into a formal agreement with that Company, which, in
a few words, amounts to this : he Is to be supplied by them with as
much quartz as his machinery shall be fbund 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
the gold produced is to be divided equally between the owners
of the vein and our Company. Formal and legal agreements
for carrying out the above arrangement fairly and honestly, and
without any copartnership, have been entered into. Steam-engines
and machinery estimated to crush about thirty tons of quartz a day,
with funds sufficient for putting it in motion, have-been placed under
the control of Sir Henry Huntley; and, unless some unexpected
delay has arisen, the machinery is now actually at work, and a
return will be made about Christmas next.
Far 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 attention
to some of the more prominent advantages possessed by this Com-
pany 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 our of own resident
Director and his practical assistants on the !pot, 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 quarts, sent over to this country for
the express purpose of advertising the commodity offered for sale to
the British public; we found our calculations apes experiments
tried, during several weeks, on quartz raised from the mine, and
crushed and amalgamated by our own Superintendent, and with our
own machinery and apparatus. Other Companies propose to
incur the expense and risk of carrying out mining operations
xpon 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 obtaining 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 is as secure
as that of any other company, unfettered by any per-tentage or
royalty. The half of the produce to be paid by this Company to the
parties who supply us, free of expense, wills the quartz, being in fact
merely 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 whleh
we are now working yields upon an average 4d. per pound, or 11.
17s. 4d. per cwt., or 371. 6s. Bd. per ton; and, as we can crush and
amalgamate at least 20 tons per diem, that would amount to 7461.
13s. 4d., or 3731. is. Bd. per diem as the share of this Company.
By the peculiar arrangements this Company has made, based
upon milt:4lCW 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
sites, 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
cervices.
The gentlemen whe formed the Provisional Committee of this
Company, have added to their number several gentlemen possessing
the acquaintance and entire confidence of a very large body of
Shareholders in the provincial districts. To add such men to the
Dire tort' was due to those Shareholders who have in fact estab-
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 for the middle of January. 1
In conclusion, the Directors beg to offer their best thanks to the
Shareholders for the uniform support they have received, and they
pledge themselves that the affairs of this Company shall be co
forn-
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ducted with the most rigid economy, and with the sole view of
warding the interest of the Shareholders.
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not be affected by the question now agitated between the holders of
leases and Colonel Fremont or his agents. The district 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 underr leases, had
been long
known to and was maturely considered by se having d the control
of the affairs of this Company, and was one of the reasons which in-
duced them to pursue for the present the course they have, and not
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.

THE LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE
POLICY COMPANY,
No. 72, Lombard-street and 24, Connaught-terrace.
TRUSTEES.
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P. •
J. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. 'I
James Fuller Madox, Esq.
Richard Malin% Esq., Q.C. William Wilberforce, Esq.
The POLICIES are INDISPUTABLE, in terms of the Deed of
Settlement of the Company, duly registered, and are not, therefore,
dependent for their validity- on the construction to be put upon pre-
vious statements or the official papers which preceded them, or upon
reports, prospectuses, or other varying documents. They are thus
rendered CERTAIN FAMILY PROVISIONS, AND NEGOTIABLE
DOCUMENTS OF SECURITY.
Owing to this important improvement in the practice of life
assurance, the progress of this company has been rapid from the
commencement of its business, and is steadily advancing.
ALEXANDER ROBERTSON. Manager._

THE DETERMINED ATTACK ON LOUIS
NAPOLEON.—There is no question but that a crisis is norr
near at hand, and that one of three important parties will shortly be
settled as dominant in France—the Red Republicans, the Legitima-
tists, or the friends of the present Government. The attacks made
in the Assembly on the Government of Louts Napoleon have been all
but successful, and yet have signally failed ; but the last and worst
attack was when the majority sought, by a Bill which has been
sleeping nearly two years, to enpower the Assembly to impeach the
President, the Ministry, and whoever else should favour the re-
election of Louis Napoleon. While, however, the French people are
at loggerheads about clothing the Assembly or the Government with
power, we on this side of the Channel are thinking about clothing
ourselves ; and the best opportunity in the world presents itself, for
the unique stock of Messrs. E. MOSES and SON is more novel,
more extensive, and more elegant than at any former season. Each
morning their extensive warehouses are crammed with new and
elegant costume, however reduced the quantity may be by night.
Their Winter Clothing supasses everything of the kind to be found in
Europe, and Messrs. E. 1103E5 and BON are only anxious that the
public may visit their display at the Monarch Mart in Aldgate and
the Mineries, or their magnificently fitted-up West-end Branch
Establishment in New Oxford-street, corner of Hart-street, fir
nothing but seeing will give anybody an idea of the elegance,
quality, style, durability, and the
eapand ness of every article they make.
E. MOSES BON,
London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83,
44, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, al; 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, Hatters, 'Jesters, Furriers, Rost and Shoe-
makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen.
The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset Sa-
:nrday, when business is resumed till Twelve o'clock.

THE SILENT FRIEND.
IN SIX LANGUAGES—FORTIETH EDITION.
CONTAINING THE REMEDY FOR PREVENTION OF DISEASE.
Illustrated by One Hundred Anatomical Coloured Engravings.
ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE MCA"
PAHITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO . AGE.
from
A New Edition, enlarged to 196 pages, price 2s. ed. by post,
the Establishment, as. 6d. in stamps.
*THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
the exhaustion and physical decay of the system, produced by
ex cessi v a indulgence, the consequences of infection, or the abuse of
mercury, with directions for the use of the preventive lotion, fol-
lowed by observations en Marriage, and the disqualifications which
6stzeatn,aLrangerdon..
ISsool.doxibyordg_strtangrees,t :
prevent it. Illustrated by 100 Coloured Engravings. By R. and L.
PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Oxford-
Barclay, 95, Farringdon-street ;W. Sutton, 10, Bow Church-yard ;
146, Leadenhall-street;
JorhiAsisoya,f.6tlB,eCatiornhilor
thel 2010,rdPosn,ternoster-rew ; Hannay,
W. Edwards. 67. St. Paul's Church-yard ; Butler, 4, CheaPside ; It.
organs, and is illustrated by 28 Coloured Fair
PART 11. treats of the
aannadtosmitaypankind,pf3htsysitloonlogyers' Hall-court.
avingsof th.e re-productive
dalgenee, and their consequenceslamentableeffetsresuenlitihnge ystem, producing
mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative
forom excessive in-
incapacity. Illustrated by 10 Explanatory Engravings'
tthh:frpreaartLenortseAdandariectifoorma
PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in
Engrav-
ings. by 62
form, and contains explicit directions for
illustrated Coloured

PAST IT. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a
simple application, by which the danger of infection is obviated.
PAST V. 13 devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its du-
ties. The causes of unproductive anion are also considered, and the
whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into.
Tzs Connuz Balm os Bnitaeux is exclusively employed in
renting nervous and sexual debility, impotence, tr,c., 1 ls. and 335.
par bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syrtic
remedy, for purifying the blood in cues of iniection, secondezy
symptom, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, 11a, and 335. per
bottle. Terry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2e. 9d,, , 4g. sd,, And 115.
per box, , a certain -remedy for gonorrhoia, gicet, stricture, And
chronic inflammation of the bladder. Coniudtation fee, if br /Atter,
11. A minute detail of the case is required: age, habits, aird posi-
tion in society. 51. Packets, with advice, to be had at Vas Esta-
blishment only, by whlct the fee, IL. la saved. VelF,fs. Perry,
Surgeons, are in attendance, daily, at 19, Berners-strat, Oxford-
'tweet, London, front Elan% till Two, and llye to Eight; on apn-
daytitera EATS;

FIRST WORK OF A NEW NOVELIST.
Just published, and may be had at all the Libraries.
II E ,F AII4 C AR E W
Or, lIITSBANDSAND WIVES.

PARABLES OF OUIt LORD.
Now ready, in Imperial Co., handsomely bound, price Two Guineas,
PARABLES OF OUR LORD, Illlustrated, in
Twelve Designs, by John Franklin, and Engraved in Line by.
P. Lightfoot, W. H. Watt, A. Blanchard, F. Jonberti- T. Smyth. E.
Goodall, and 11. Nusser (of Dusseldorf). The Words of the Parables
and the Title-page, engraved in Ancient Church Text, by Becker.
Fifty First-proof Copies upon half-sheet Imperial India paper, in a
Portfolio, price Five Guineas.
London : J. Mitchell, Bookseller and Publisher to the Queen,
Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street.

MR. DIGBY SEYMOUR'S WORK ON WESTERN IRELAND
Just published, the Third Edition, greatly enlarged, price
Half-a-Crown.
Dedicated, by express permission, to his Excellency the
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland,
HOW to EMPLOY CAPITAL in WESTERN
IRELAND : being Answers to a few Practical Questions
upon the Manufacture of Beet Sugar, Flax, and Chicory, in con-
nexion with a Land Investment in the West of Ireland.
By WILLIAM DIGBY SEYMOUR, Esq.,
of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law.
London: Johnilearne, 81, Strand ; James Ridgway, 169, Picca-
dilly; and Effingham Wilson, 11, Royal Exchange. Dublin: Hodges
and Smith, Grafton-street.

A NEW MONTHLY JOURNAL.
On the Ist of January, 1852, will appear, price Bd.,
r §IEfE ANNALS of PHARMACY and PRAC-
TICALff_ CHEMISTRY: being a Monthly Record of British
and Foreign Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Chemistry, Theoretical
and Technical. Edited by WM. BASTICK sinl WM. DICKINSON,
Members of the Pharmaceutical Society.
London : Wm. Jones Cleaver, Publisher, 46, Piccadilly.
May be ordered of any Bookseller.

TO TAlLORS—Extraordinary and Unprecedented Novelties are
published in the DECEMBER
GENTLEMAN'S HERALD OF FASHION,
Price One Shilling.
A splendid Colourel Giant Plate, two feet long, for Windows, and
large and small Patterns of thirty Great Coats, Paletots, Paletot
Cloaks, Dress, Frock, and Riding Coats, Waistcoats, Trousers,
Youths Jackets, Re., with full Descriptions and Directions for making.
Post free, six stamps extra.
G. Berger, Holywell-street, Strand, and all Booksellers.

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

DAVIES'S BOTANIC WAX CANDLES, lid.
per lb.; sperm, 2s. and 2s. 2d.; patent sperm, I Id.; British
wax or sperm, Is. 4d. ; German wax, is. 2d.; fine wax, Is. 5d.;
transpsigent wax, Is. 4d. and 2s. 4d.; best wax, 2s. 3d. ; composite,
6%d., Nd., 9d., and 9)4d.; Palmer's 6%d.; magnums, Bd.; mid
size, 7%d.; store candles, 4%c1. and sd. ; wax-wick moulds, 6d. ;
Yellow soap, 445., 505., and 545. per 112 lbs. ; mottled, 565.
Windsor soap, Is. 4d. per packet; brown Windsor, Is 9d. ; rose,
2s. ; almond, is. 6d. Sealing wax, 4s. 6d. per lb. Argand, vege-
table, carcel, or colza oil, 45. 6d. per gallon; sperm oil. 7s. 6d.;
solar, 3s. 6d. ; seal, 45., for cash, at DAVIES'S old established
warehouse, 63, St. Martin's-lane, opposite the Westminster County
Court.

FOR STOPPING DECAYED TEETH.
Price 2s. 6d.
Patronised by her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albret.
anR. HOWARD'S WHITE SUCCEDANEUM
for stopping Decayed Teeth, howeVer large the cavity. It
is placed in the tooth in a soft state, without any pressure er pain,
and Immediately HARDENS INTO A WHITE ENAMEL, it will
remain in the tooth many years, rendering extraction unnecessary,
and arresting the further progress of decay, and is far superior
to any thing ever before used, as it will NEVER BECOME DISCO-
LOURED in the Tooth. All persons use it themselves with ease, as
full directions are inclosed.
Prepared only by Mr. Howard, Surgeon Dentist, 17, George-street,
Hanover-square, who will send it into the country free by Post.
Sold by Savory, 220, Regent-street, Sanger, 150, and Hannay, 63,
Oxford-street ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Johnston. 68, Cornhill ; and all
Medicine Venders in the kingdom. Price 2s. 6d.
Mr. Howard continues to supply the Loss of Teeth on his NEW
SYSTEM OF SELF ADHESION without springs or wires. This
method does not require the Extraction of any Teeth or Roots, or
any painful operation whatever.
17, George-street, Hanover-square.
At home from Ten till Four.

4 YAM and _CO.'S WINTER
OVERCOATS.
43 superiority of these admirable winter articles has secured for
lIYAM and Co. the most distinguished patronage since the com-
mencement of the present season. Beauty and solidity of texture
elegance of style, ease and exactness of fit, and neatness of work-
manship, are strikingly apparent in IIYAM and Co.'s Winter Wrap-
pers, the prices of which are quoted on the most economical scale.
The variety of styles in which they are displayed will enable gentle-
men to make a ready and satisfactory choice from the extensive as-
sortment at HYAM and Co.'s, 86, Oxford-street, West-end; and 36,
Gracechurch-street. City.

.H YA Al and CO.'S " COBURG
JACJLET."
Without making any parade of • " Registers" or " Patents,"
lIICAI4I and Co. can confidently recommend the above articles as
original emanations from their own establishment, possessing a
grace and novely altogether peculiar to the present season. Besides
being an elegant and serviceable " Undress," they are so designed
as to answer the purposes of other attire. To be approved they have
only to be seen at RYAM and Co.'s, 86, Oxford•street, West-end
and 36, Gracechurch-street, City.

MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF
POUT Ei AND MATURITY.
With Plain Directions for their Prevention and Cure.
FIFTY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS. ON STEEL.
Just published, in French, English, German, Data, Spanish, and
Italian, in a Sealed Envelope, ts. 6d., or post-free from the Author
for Forty-two Stamps,
SE,LF-PRESERVATION; a
medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, and on the
secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity, usually an-
quired at an early period ,of life, which destroy the physical and
mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural feelings, and ex-
haust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical Observations on
the certain Prevention and successful Treatment of Nervous Debi-
lity, Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, Stricture, and all
Diseases and derangements resulting from Indiscretion, as adopted
by Lallemand. Ricord, and other eminent members of the faculty of
France. With Fifty coloured Engravings, illustrating the Anatomy,
Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, explaining
their structures, uses, and functions, and the various injuries that
are produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and infection.
By SAMUEL LAWERT, M.D.,
37, RADFORD-SQUARE, LONDON.
Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society,
Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Member of the Hunterian
medical Society of Edinburgh, &c., &c.

This work contains a plain and complete description of the ana-
tomy and physiology of the reproductive organs, and of their relative
conditions in health and disease. Dr. La'Mert, who has taken the
highest medical honours, as evidenced by the diplomas and testimo-
nials inserted in the work, is the only legally qualified medical man
who has exclasively, and for many years, devoted his studies to the
treatment of these complaints. He may be consulted with advan-
tage by all those whose constitutions may have become debilitated
through secret practices acquired in youth, or by the excesses of
later years, whereby the pleasures of life are marred, the ebjects of
marriage frustrated, and existence itself rendered a term of unceas-
ing misery and regret.
Published by the Author. and may be had of J. Gilbert, 49, Pater-
nester-row ; Ilannely, 63, Oxford-street ; Starie, Titchborne-street,
Haymarket ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; Mann, 23, Cornbill ;
or free by post for forty-two stamps, from the author's residence,
who may be consulted on these disorders personally, or by letter,
daily, from Ten till Two. and from Six till Eight.

UNIVERSITY, OP -NAHA RIPIGH -.-CIIRMISTRY PRIZES.
—Two prizes, founded by the late Professor Hope, one of 501.
value and the other of 301., are to be awarded at the com-
mencement of the session next winter, for the best essays on
any chemical subject. The competition is open to all students
who have attended the chemistry lectures in the UniTersity
ainalioyember, 108.
,

RAILWAY SHARE =MARKETS.

BRISTOL, DEC. 1.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The stare market has been active
to-day, and prices firm, but more business Wbuld have been
done had holders given way but in a slight degree. Thu
transactions were- as - follow :—Great Western, 8734—Taff
Vale, 150.

LIVERPOOL, DEC. L
STOCK EXCHANGE. —There was an improved feeling ex-
hibited in the share market to-day, and a good business
has been done at advanced prices. The transactions were as
follow :—Ambergate and East Junction, 2% dis. —Birken-
head, Lancashire, and. Cheshire, 10% dis —Caledonian, 163
—Ditto, Preference, B—Eastern Counties, 7 3-16—Great
Northern (A), 534—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 58 —Ditto,
Fifths, 7% dis.—Leeds and Bradford, 101— London and
North-Western, 11814—Ditto, New Quarters, 4 p.—Ditto,
Fifths, p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 3
—Midland, 56%—North British, 7 15-16—North Stafford-
shire, 7 13-16 dis.—North-Western, 12% dis.—South-Eastern
and Dover, 21% —York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 19%—
York and North Midland, 23%—Dutch Rhenish, 4% dis.

MANCHESTER, DEC. 1.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —We have bad another active
market to-day, and prices had an upward tendency. The
transactions were as follow :—Eastern Counties, 714—South-
Eastern and Dover, 21 1546—West Ridings, 5 9-16 n. d.—
Leeds, Fifths. 7% dis.—Cheshire Junction, 10% dis.—
London and North-Western, 11814 Manchester, Sheffield,
and Linconshire, 31Z4—Bristol and Exeter, 791/2—East Lan •
cashire,ls%—Manchester and Birmingham (C), 2 p.
' BIRMINGHAM, Dac. 1.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—A fair amount of business has been
done in the share market .to-day, and prices generally were
pretty well supported, although Midlands somewhat declined.
London and North-Western were better, and were quoted at
11834. The following were the transactions reported :—South
Staffordshire, 174 dis.—Shropshire Unions, 31. Bs. 9d. dis.—
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 7.

THE COUNTRY MAR4ETS.
The following is the official statemirikelf . the Anontities
corn, &c. ,reeeived in the port of London from the ports in •
Essex, from the 24th Nov., 1851, to the 29th Nov., 1851,
both inclusive :

1 •
1l f 14 ti
0 4 A 8 4 4 f!.''
1 ,
Colchester — 115 20
Harwich
Leigh 221 106 43 37
Malden 761 224 300 . 30 223 912

CHELMSFORD, Nov. 28.—Prices to-day were as follow:
Wheat, white, 4ls to 473; red, 355 to 40s ; barley, 25s to 28s ;
chevalier 28s to 32s ; grinding 22s to 26s ; malt 53s to 55s ;
chevalier 54s to 56s ; oats 18s to 25s ; peas, partridge, 27s
to 30s ; white, 28s to 30s ; dun, new, 26s to 28s ; beans, tick,
26s to 29s ; harrow ticks, 27s to 30s ; mazagan, 24s to 265.
COLCHESTER, Nov. 29.—Wheat, white 42, to 46s ; red 36s
to 408; oats, 19s to 21s; beans, mazagan 26s to 28s; middle
and small 26s to 30s ; peas, white 30s to 325, grey, new 28s to
30s ; barley, 26s to 32s per qr.
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for grain:—
. Wheat. Barley.
First 453 Od 26s ed
Second 403 Od 23s Od
Third 3ss Od 20s 6d
Oatmeal, per bag of 2801 b:
114.nniwaTox, Nov. 28.—T.
grain at our market to-day

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17s 6d 17s Od 32s Od
market 677 qrs., 649 sold
do. 523 qrs., 471 sold
do. 377 qrs., 356 sold
do. 50 qrs., 50 sold

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Buddle's W. Hartley 155 Od
Chester Main l7s Od
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Belmont l9s Od
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Ships at market,

DEATH OF MARSHAL SOULT.
Marshal Soult, one of the most distinguished, of
French soldiers, and one of the most exalted of French
statesmen, died on the night of the 26th ult. at St.
Armand.
Marshal Soult had been in complete retirement from
the political world for about ten years, and had there-
fore lived long enough, as it were, with posterity to test
the results of that appeal which is decisive of the just
estimate of historical character. As a politician, active
during more than twenty years of peace, he lived to en-
joy the fame which ho had acquired as a great general
in the eventful era of the wars of the revolution and of
Napoleon; and, lastly, in the seclusion to which his
years called him, concurrently with circumstances
which had baffled his undying ambition, he has been
enabled, among his serene honours, to observe and ap-
preciate the consequences of that contest in which he
was a conspicuous aotor, and by the results of which
he, with his royal master, and his contemporaries have
been judged. The eighty-two years of his life have
been those years in which France has seen many
mighty revolutions—and the life completing a circle,
ends where it commenced, in a pericd of social disorder
and political .distraction. lie entered on his career
under a Republic; he sustained the empire; he strug-
gled through the Restoration; he was the soldier ot
Louis Philippe; and he has seen a Republic again.
Throughout that wonderful age, he was always a fare-
most man; and a more marvellous biography is not to
be found in history. This biography, always of interest
to Englishmen, because Soult was once a dreaded foe
to England, is as familiar as the story of the times.
Custcm requires, however, that we should reproduce on
this occasion the heads of the strange chapter.
Soult was born in the year fruitful of great men.-
1769. His origin was obscure, and, like most of Int
generals of the empire, be was of the people, and a poor
man's son. His birth-place was St. Auran's, in the de-
partment of the Tarn. He was a soldier from the first.
In his sixteenth year, he entered a regiment of artil-
lery; and passing soon under the commands of Roche

and Jourdan, the generals of the new Republic, 1;1o;
with the rapidity peculiar to the time, when there was
too much to risk to allow of etiquette or routine to in-
terfere with the search of the men fitted for the work.

His character was not only that of a brave officer, but
of a brave officer who was brave at the right time : and
his merits attracted attention and secured promotion.
The first occasion on which he forced himself on the
notice of the whole army was at the battle of Fleurus;
and the anecdote, taken from the historian of the " Vic-
toires et Conquetes des Francais" has long been current
Soult was chief of the staff to General Lefebre, who
headed the advanced guard of the army of the Moselle.
When the right wing under Marceau was routed, and
the general himself forced to fall back on Lefebre'a di•
vision, he entreated, in an agony of despair, a succour of
four battalions, that he might seek to recover his lost po-
sition. " Give these battalions to me," said Marceau to
Lefebre, "or I will blow out my brains." Lefebre hesitated
and consulted Soult. Soult remonstrated, and repre-
sented that to lend these battalions would endanger the
safety of the whole division. Marceau was indignant
that an obscure Aide should venture to have any opinion
on such a subject. " Who are you?" cried Marceau.
Soult responded, " Whoever I am I am calm, which you
are not." The indignation of Marceau was extreme. He
threatened, and then challenged Soult to a fight on the
following day. " Tres bien," said Soult, " I will not
treat you with disrespect. But I must speak the truth.
Do not kill yourself, General; lead on your mon to the
charge again, and you shall have our battalions as soon
as we can spare them." The result justified Soult's
presumption. Lefebre's division was almost instantly
afterwards assailed by the enemy. In the middle of the
battle, when the French, as Lefebre thought, were
being beaten, Soult's advice was again asked. Lefebre
wanted to retreat, Soult pointed out signs on the
enemy's side which indicated that they were
themselves giving way. An order from Jourdan
arrived to charge; and Soult was right, the enemy was
retreating. When the battle was over Marceau con-
fessed the superiority of Soult; and the two officers
embraced, Marceau protesting that Soult had won the
battle. These and similar incidents spread the fame of
the young soldier. He gained the confidence of his men;
and his genius, supported by that confidence, accom-
plished wonders. We need not follow him through the
career in which he was only a subordinate. He reached
the rank of General of Brigade so early as 1794, and in
four years more he was General of Division. Napo-
leon's eagle glance was ever on the look out for worthy
lieutenants, and he inquired of Massena, who the most
unequal of men, was at least invariably honest, whether
Soult was a man to be trusted? Massena's emphatic report
was, " Soult has no superior." This led to Soult being
brought into activity within the personal observation of
the First Consul; and from tho first Napoleon placed
implicit faith in him. Soult was one of the first general,
to whom, in 1804, was handed the baton of a Marshal ot
France.

Soult was probably the more trusted the ho would
never sacrifice his individuality. Ile was an intensely
obstinate man, and would seldom submit to the superior
genius of his leader after he had received and acted upon
the general instructions. Soult was given the command,
in camp, of the " army of England." Ho here became
remarkable for the rigid and remorseless discipline he
enforced on the troops. They complained, and the First
Consul interfered. Soult replied, " Such as cannot
withstand the fatigue which I support myself will remain
in the depots. Such as do stand it will be fit for the
conquest of England and of the world." Soult was with
Napoleon at Marengo, at Austerlitz, and at Eylau. At
Austerlitz Napoleon said, when ho had assigned Soult's
position, " The only instruction I have to give, Marshal,
is this: Act as you always do." Soult did act as he
always did—acted for himself. In the heat of the
battle orders came from the Emperor, who had waited
a long time for Scull to move, to attack with-
out delay and gain the heights of Pratzen. The
aide-de-camp returned to the Emperor with the Mar.
shal's reply, " It is not time yet." The Emperor,
enraged, and fearing a fatal blunder, sent a second order.
It was unnecessary—Soult had put his columns in mo-
del]. The Marshal had been watching the Russians,
who were extending their line to the left, and so weak-
ening their centre, which rested on the heights, and he
had waited fur the right moment. Napoleon saw the
brilliancy of the movement. He galloped to the ground
where Soult stood, and in the gladness of the assured
conqueror, he said, " Marshal, you are the ablest tacti-
tian in the army." " I believe it, Sire," responded the
Marshal, " since your Majesty tells me so." At Eylau,
again, the French army was in a critical situation. Au-
gereau had been routed; Demist had been impeded.
Ney and Bernadotte were still at a distance. The Em-
peror, discouraged and disappointed, desired to fall back,
for the purpose of effecting a junction with the other
corps. Soul recommended keeping the field, promising
that the enemy would retreat in the night. This they
old; and the French had the honour of a conceded vic-
tory. Napoleon was as generous in his acknowledg-
ments as Marceau had been years before.
In 1808 Soult was sent to Spain—to crush the Eng-
lish. His career in Spain, against Moore, Beresford,
and Wellington, is a thrice-told tale. His battles have
been contested in books as well as on the field. French-
men innsist that he was invariably victorious. Eng-
lishmen insist that he was invariably beaten. The
French military authorities state that he drove Sir John
Moore to the sea, that Wellington fled before him if he
had fled before Wellington, that he conquered at
Albuera, and remained the victor at Toulouse, The
English, if Southey be a representative, relate, as mat-
ters of course that Soult was beaten at Lugo and at
Corunna by Sir John Moore ; that the passage of the
Douro by the English was disgraceful to the French
Marshal ; that the battle of Albuera was discreditable
to him ; aud that at Toulouse he never had a
! chance against !Wellington ; and they enhance
all this by picturing Soult as a demon of
cruelty, who upheld plunder and rapine as duties
to his officers, and who marked all his marches in Spain
and Portugal by gibbets in lieu of milestones. The
first English histories of the Peninsular war were trium-
phantlaudations of Wellington and insolent denial of all
genius to his competitors: and even so late as 1837, when
Soult was a guest of England, he was given to under-
stand by Quarterly Review and "leading journal" that
he could only be welcomed on the understanding that he
had been soundly beaten at Toulouse. The military
technical controversies in respect to great battles rage
without any reference to the civil results; and English
professional critics are just as absurd in insisting that
Corunna was gained by the English as Frenchmen are
in pointing out why Napoleon won at Waterloo. Fortu-
nately for Soult's fame in England, the English judg-
ment of him has, of late years, been entirely guided, first,
by the Duke of Wellington's own dispatches, and nest by
the impartial summing up of Sir William Napier. In the
groat work of Napier full justice ie done to Soult; and the
Marshal stands out in the picture of the war as a superb
General, less than Wellington only because less fa-
voured by fortune. Soult was a generous soldier, and
should be spoken of generously by a soldier. He could
see the merits of Sir John Moore, testifying to them by
erecting a monument at Corunna to the unfortunate
Scotchman ; and Napier, in all the defeats of Soult,
whether defeated when the terms were equal, or when
political circumstances, as at Toulouse, made a drawn
battle a defeat, can perceive nothing which ought to
deprive the vanquished of a glory less than that of the
conqueror. In his first Spanish campaigns Soult had
enormous difficulties to deal with. Ho was only one of
many generals, of equal power; he was in the midst of
a country hostile to him ; and he was never properly
backed. lie was in a perpetual quarrel with Ney, Mar-
mout, Suchet, and King Joseph; and as they would not
do what he wanted, ho was the last man to be guided by
them. In his second campaign against the English, in
1813.14, he fought on the lost aide, knowing it to be
hopeless: the enemy triumphant, flushed with a se 'rlef
well-earned victories, the country dispirited or inimical;s°
and his own army beginning to doubt if the Emperor al-
ways won. Yet upon taking the command of
the army
in July, 1813, as the " lieutenant" of the Emperor,
his proclamation to the troops breathed the haughtiest
confidence in his cause and in his chances;
worthy of notice that while declaring and it is
had been well commanded at Vitto. that if the
have French
beaten the English, he is just and niloabltehey woihildt
ay
the highest compliments to Lord Wellington.enouTlhe I)Pulte
in his dispatches charges Soult with cruelty: and
praises, when he has to praise, with terrible coldness.
That Snit no careless of means in ottainiDg his ends

is very apparent; but this is a fault common to all gene-
rals. Of the results Napier speaks. In writing of the
rout of Bsya, in 1811, he says-4,
to refrain from admiring Soult's vigour andability.
At
fit
At Albuera he
that lost
one of the erces
battles upon human record, and
a moment when
taking the offensive, obliged the allies to the King, by abandoning his, throne, at
embarrassment. Nevertheless, holdinghad doubled every
Estre-
madure, ho still maintained thestruggle, fast to
the utmost it must be considered that
Guadiana. If he did not thenraenpda sas
g theain
push Here it,t
?s is
fortune impossible
to
mand was divided, that his troops wereh
at
cin.
pressed with the recollection of Albuera, and hil-
tLiill
genius of his adversary had worked out new
tou
r at
the
for him in Andalusia. With how much resoluti
°l bles
activity be repressed those troubles I have just shown;land
but, above all things, he is to bo commended for the
prudent vigour of his administration, which, in isdespite
o
of the opposition of Joseph's Spanish counsellors, had
impressed the Andalusians with such a notion of his
power and resources that no revolt of any real cense-
quenco took place, and none of his civic guards or Es-
copeteros failed him in the hour of need. Let any man
observe the wide extent of country he had to maintain,
the frontiers fringed, as it were, with hostile armies, the
i lterior suffering under war requisitions, the people
secretly hating the French, a constant insurrection in the
Ronda, and a national government and a powerful army
in the Isla de Leon, innumerable English and Spanish
agents, prodigal of money and of arms, continually insti-
gating the people of Andalusia to revolt, the coast co-
vered with hostile vessels, Gibraltar sheltering beaten ar-
mies on one side, Cadiz on another, Portugal on a third,
Murcia on a fourth, the communication with FraFediffi.

cult, two battles lost, few reinforcements, and all the
material means to bo created in the country—let any
man, I say, consider this and he will be convinced that
it was no common genius that could remain unshaken
amidst such difficulties. Yet Soult not only sustained _
himself, but contemplated the most gigantic offensive
enterprises, and was at all times an adversary to be
treaded. What though his skill in actual combat was
not so remarkable as in some of his contemporaries, who
can deny him firmness, activity, vigour, foresight, grand
perception,and admirable:arrangement? It is this combi-
nation of high qualities that forms a great captain." Soult,
beyond all question, was something very much more
than a great general. A "great captain" is a man who
havehat cEamutpioeruosrly,
who,
was
ommed
can govern as well as fight. Soult was capable of
ul
oft
heroically grand resolutions. His determination to act
on the offensive when sent by Napoleon to keep the
English from crossing the Pyrenees, and when any
otherworth
worthy
general
viod
lieutenant
disasters of Russia, was ready to face all i after the
Europe, and
faced it by advancing on the allies. Soult was essen-
tially a soldier of heroin proportions. His silent re-
serve, his taciturn firmness, his inexorable resolution,
awed his army into adequate instruments for his pur-
poses. He never knew when he was beaten, and never
allowed his troops to think defeat possible. When he
issued his proclamation in 1813 he addressed soldiers
who had been routed at Talavera, at Ciudad Rodrigo, at
Salamanca, at Vittoria, and at Albuera; and he knew
that whatever might bo his successes ultimate destruc-
tion was inevitable. Yet he spoke in the same tone as
when, in 1809, after driving Moore to his ships, he was
marching into Portugal in the belief that at the end of
his march he would find a throne.

Soult was absent from Spain during the time Lord
Wellington was most successful. It may be that had he
been at Vittoria ho would have fared as badly as
Niarmont; but it is a fact that Spain was lost to the
Emperor while Soult was with the Emperor. Soult
was withdrawn in consequence of the complaints made
by King Joseph. Joseph had written to his bro-
ther to say that either he (Joseph) or Soult must
quit Spain. Soult, ho said, was a man not to be trusted:
" restless, intriguing, ambitious, ho would sacrifice
everything to his own advancement, and possessed just
that sort of talent which would lead him to mount a
scaffold when he thought he was ascending a throne."
This was the representation, in reference to one of his
greatest commanders, which greeted Napoleon just as
he reached Paris from Moscow. " In the most calm
and prosperous state of affairs," says Napier, " coming
from this source, the charges might well have excited
the jealous wrath of the strongest mind; but in the ac-
tual crisis, when the Emperor had just lost his great
army, and found the smothering embers of a suppressed
conspiracy at his very palace gates—when his friends
were failing and his enemies accumulating, it seems
scarcely possible,' that these accusations should not
have proved the ruin of Soult. Yet they did not even
ruffle the temper of Napoleon. Magnanimous as he
was sagacious, he smiled at the weakness of Joseph,
and though he removed Soult from Spain because
the feud between him and the King would not
permit them to serve beneficially together, it was
only to make him the commander of the
Imperial Guard." The withdrawal was only for a time.
Soult was with Napoleon, serving him faithfully at
Bautzen, and at Dresden. But there came the news of
Vittoria. Southern France was uncovered to Welling-
ton. Only two men were fit, in Napoleon's estimate, to
meet Wellington—Napoleon and Soult. lie could not go
himself: he sent Soult. It was a great mission and a
high trust, and Soult was worthy of the confidence re-
posed iu his genius and in his honour. He lost at San
Sebastian, at Orthea, and at Toulouse. Then there
reached him the news that the Emperor had abdicated,
He did not oven then submit. There was a truce and he
paused. None knew which course he would take. At
last he submitted. Perhaps not because he despaired of
Napoleon. With a rugged outward indifference to all
changes he now became a loyalist. Like other mar-
shals he consented to be courted by Louis the
Eighteenth. The most formidable of them he was
courted more than the others; and ho became Minister of
War to the restored Bourbon. The Imperialists called
this treachery to the Emperor—and so it was. But
Soult, as far as ho can be comprehended at all, in his po-
litical actions had only one rule to steer by—to assist
the strongest. Ho had no " principles," in our accep-
tation of " principles," was neither a republican, a
royalist, nor an imperialist. Ho found himself, in 1814, in a
dilemma. Immediate retirement was hardly possible:
and the temptations to maintain his position, for per-
manent good government ,under the Bourbons, if that
were possible, or for the purpose of afterwards aiding
Napoleon, if that were possible, were very great. He
was too sagacious to believe that the Bourbons could
maintain themselves; and ho was not of that class of
men who disclaim expediencies inpursuit of their objects,
or even to confess their objects. He had a faith in and
a love for Napoleon, there is no doubt; and if ho did
not become Minister at War to Louis XVIII. fur the
very purpose of betraying Louis XVIII., it is very
certain that ho did not hesitate to desert his
former chief the moment the news arrived
that Napoleon had landed from Elba. He preferred,
like all soldiers, the winning side: and on Napoleon's
side ho saw not only the best chance, but the side on
which his natural leanings placed him. Ho had, how-
ever, ceased to be Minister, or connected with the Go-
vernment at all, when he rejoined Napoleon; and hence
his escape from the dangers of which Ney was the
victim. He was with Napoleon, his " right hand,"
throughout the last struggle. He fought at Waterloo;
and he it was whom Napoleon only would believe when
told that all was lost. There is no need to particularise
this portion of the history.
After Waterloo Soult was, perforce, patient. There
could be no second return of the Emperor; and the Bour-
bons were not disposed to trust him again, had he been dis-
posed to trust them. He fled from France, taking shelter
in Berg, and there he -remained three years, it is said,
writing his military memoirs, and probably little ex-
pecting that only half his career had been accomplished.
Daring this time he appears to have conciliated the new
powers in France. He had friends at Paris, and he was
still too powerful, if only as a name, for his friendship
to be forgotten. In 1819 he obtained the royal 'permis-
sion to return to France, and in 1821, so far had he suc-
ceeded in disarming resentments, his Marshal's baton
was returned to him. He was now again on the scene—
a political personage—potent for good or evil. lie, how-
ever, maintained a wary reserve. At this period there
were no alternatives in France. The empire was gone,
the Duke of Reichstadt was a child, the Duke of Orleans
dwelt in decencies, and no man dreamed of another Re-
public. France was humbled, passive, broken down;
and, so far, the restored Princes were without enemies,
and without fears. It was a time of transitions; and so
much, without seeing the result, every man could see.
Marshal Soult held aloof, reposing on his laurels, and
enjoying the homage of society. But events marched;
there was still vitality in wounded and suffering France.
A new reign, in 1825, commenced a neweerrTa
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pushed supposinggo ,/ ern
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bars resisted. Charles the Tenth exclaimed," I
will not
suffer my crown to be thrown into the mire." But the
chambers resisted. M. de Polignac
Martignac. M pushed M. de Polignac ffid.culTtyh beyond
its limits. The Chambers were dissolvethe di succeeded to M. de
of Orleans gave a ball to the King of Naples; °and ulg.
de Salvandy said that the ball was genuinely Neapolitan,
for that the guests danced on a
volcano. The volcano
was met by a coup d'etat—
a still fashionable expedient
in those days. The ordinances came: the Constitution
was suspended. The editors signed aprotest. Marshal
Nlarmont took nommand of the King's troops. Marshal
Marmont was beaten, more soundly than at Vittorio,
and Louis Philippe became King. Then Marshal Soult
ceases his reserve. The transition was passed. There
was a strong Governmentfor Franco at last, "a
ndM Marshalnarcb
surrounded by republican institutions;" a
Soult determined to make it stronger by lending to it
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"Englishi
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alli-
ance," and the boldest opponent of a war policy. The
Marshal joined the first Ministry of Casimir Perier,
succeeding, in that post, to Marshal GC:rard, and being
somewhat awkwardly held responsible for the blunders
of his predecessor in sanctioning the famous Gisquet
peculations—" un fusil Gisquet" being a nickname for
the Marshal thereafter. As Minister of War at this
time Marshal Soult had a terrible post to sustain. The
earlier part of the reign of Louis Philippe was a Noe".