The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OC COBER 22, 1856

3d, That he should in future never incur, on behalf of the
association, any large expenditure, withouti the direct sanc-
tion of the board. 4th. That he should be required to
give an undertaking to the board that he will not, directly
or indirectly, mix himself up with or promote any new
companies or schemes, but sedulously address himself to
the reorganisation and further development of this asso-
ciation. sth, That his salary be MN. per annum, with a
commission at the rate of 3 per cent. on new annual pre-
miums, less 74 per cent., paid as commission to agents.
That this board, in thus tendering to Mr. T. H. Baylis
the terms which it considers fair and liberal, as between
him and the association, requests him to give them his
earnest and attentive consideration, and it trusts that, for
the interests of this association, he will, as promised in his
letter, be prepared to sacrifice all personal feelings for the
benefit of the institution, and assist this board in vigor-
ously carrying out its operations.
(Signed) " THOMAS VAUGHAN, Chairman."
To which Mr. BAYLIS returned the following reply:—
" Gentlemen,—l beg to acknowledge your letter of the
3d inst., and to say that I accept the terms therein cons
tained, and shall at once resume my place at the board.
Of course the whole transaction will be submitted to the
shareholders at the general meeting, for their opinion and
approval.—l remain, gentlemen, your obedt. servant,
(Signed) THOMAS H. BAYLIS "
After a few remarks from the CHAIRMAN,
Mr. JACKSON, one of the directors, then rose to move
the adoption of the report, and called attention to the
fact that Mr. Baylis had thought proper to absent him.
self to-day from the meeting, and had issued a circular
within the last few minutes to distract the attention of
the shareholders from the subject matter for which they
had met. He had to inform the shareholders that
from what had, taken place within the last few
days he begged to say, oa his own part, and also
on the part of the whole board of directors, that if
Mr. Baylis was elected manager this afternoon they
could not sit another day at the board. He attributed
the absence of Mr. Baylis to the fact that it was occasioned
by the directors refusing to agree to the report
which he (Mr. Baylis) had drawn up, and which
they, as directors, did not feel they would be jus-
tified in adopting. The directors', of course, would
be responsible for the repot t to be presented, and he felt
it was only right that the shareholders should know that
the report that was submitted to them to-day was that
of the directors, perfectly independent of Mr. Baylis.
The speaker then proceeded at great length to tomment
on the circular issued by Mr. Baylis, which he
characterised as unfair, and in many respects untrue.
Among other remarks, the speaker said the manager
(Mr Baylis) had taken advantage of his position to have
clauses placed on the back of a loan policy in
which he was interested, which was irregular and
at variance with the objects of the association.
(This remark was received with marks of disapproba-
tion.) In conclusion, Mr. Jackson declared that, in the
event of Mr. Baylis being returned manager, nothing
on earth would induce them to sit at the board with
him, and he thought that, as Mr. Baylis had withdrawn
from all interference in the management of the Unity
Bank, he ought also to withdraw from the Unity Life
Association. He begged to move the adoption of the
report that had been read by the Secretary.
Previous to the motion being adopted, Mr. PULLEN,
the accountant, read a long statement of the financial
position of the society, the result of an official inquiry
which had taken place with respect to the funds of the
association.

_ At the conclusion of the reading of the document,
.41e CHAIRMAN having put the adoption of the report
tn`the meeting,
Mr. HOPWOOD, one of the auditors, drew attention to
several items in the balance sheet. He thought that a
greater loss than ought to have occurred had taken
place on certain policies, especially from diseased lungs,
which, he thought, was so easily distinguishable. The
law darges of 9621., he thought, was excessive, as they
had had no law snits. He hoped that a greal deal of
:Mining in the expenses of the company would take
Once, and objected to such charges as 2501. for gag for
illumination, and paying Es. per hundred for quills,
which could be obtained at any shop in London for
3s. 6d.

Mr. VAUGHAN, a director, said he felt it his duty to
explain hOw the charge of 2501. for gas was incurred.
It was thought proper to illuminate their offices on the
occasion of the celebration of peace, and Mr. Baylis
arranged the whole affair. The directors were never
consulted—(Cries of " Then they should have been")
—and although so large a sum it had been paid for an
illumination that was only partially lighted. The iron
work, which cost the company 2051., was now rusting in
the cellars of Unity-buildings. The directors were never
consulted en the expenditure, and were therefore not
accountable for it.

Dr. LLOYD differed with Mr. Hopwood as to the large
sum paid as claims for deaths occasioned by consump-
tion. He begged to inform him that, taking the whole
of the deaths of the United Kingdom, those by diseased
lungs would be found to be the most numerous. Though
it was easy to discover actual diseased lungs, it was
impossible to discover whether the seeds of the disease
existed.

After a few other questions had been put,
The CHAIRMAN put the resolution for the adoption of
the report to the meeting, when it was carried unani•
mously.

On-the motion that the retiring directors he re-
elected,

Mr. Hun said the best way to secure the future pro-
sperity of the undertaking was to cut down the expenses,
and with this view begged to move a resolution to the
effect that the board ,of directors be reduced to seven,
whereby a saving of 5001. would be. effected, and that
the resolution, if adopted, be acted upon forrhwith.
The resolution having been seconded, it was put and
earned unanimously, The retiring directors were there-
fore not re-elected.

Mr. JACKSON (director) proposed a resolution to the
effect that Mr. T. H. Baylis be no longer an officer of
the association.

The motion having been seconded,
Mr. HIND thought that Mr. Baylis ought to have been
present. He maintained that directors who permitted
such pranks to be acted were more culpable than Mr.
Baylis. They had petted and fondled over Mr. Baylis,
and now that they bad found that they had spoiled the
child they were anxious to get rid of him. They had
allowed Mr. Baylis to mesmerise the board for six years,
but now they had put on their wide-awakes. (Hear,
hear, and laughter.) He thought Mr. Baylis ought to
have been present to-day to meet boldly any resolution
that might be proposed.
Mr. HOUSDEN said that all along be had been the ad-
vocate of Mr. Baylis, but the conviction was now forced
upon him, that as long as that gentleman continued
manager of the ; b ;ociation it must sink—nothing could
save it.

The resolution of Mr. Jackson, that Mr. Baylis be no
longer an officer of the association, was then put to the
meeting, and carried unanimously.
The auditors were then re-elected.
Mr. JACKSON then declared it was the intention of the
board to advertise for a gentleman to fill the vacant
office of manager—in fact, to throw the office open to
the best qualified person. It. was not the intention of
the board to have a general manager to take the busi-
❑ess out of the hands of the directors, but to have a
manager to look after the affairs of the institution.
A committee of shareholders was then appointed to
assist the direction in considering the means by which
the expenses of the association might be reduced.
The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to
the chairman.

THE POISONING CASE AT HACKNEY.—VERDICT OF
WILFUL MURDER.—Yesterday Mr. Baker, the coroner,
concluded au investigation at the Brunswick Arms Ta-
vern, Hackney, relative to the death of Elizabeth Gaylor,
30, who died from the effects of a large quantity of sul-
pl-late of potass, purchased for her by her husband, Win.
Gaylor, a j9urneyman carpenter, residing at 2, Camo-
mile-terrace, Wells-street, Hackney. The evidoice given
at the former investigation by the coroner was merely
a repetition of that taken at the Worship-street Police.
office on Friday last, and which has appeared in this
journal. Yesterday Dr. Letheby, to whom the stomach,
&c., of the deceased had been submitted for analysis,
completed the case, by deposing that deceased died from
the effects of a large dose of sulphate of potass, a drag
very little used in medicine in England, eseeet in the
composition of Dover's Powder, but very popular on the
Continent, where it had often formed the subject of legal
investigation. The coroner, in summing up, observed
that the case was clearly one of wilful murder against
the husband, whe had been engaged in a felonious act
whereby deceased had lost her life, and if a woman took
poison to produce miscarriage, and fatal consequences
ensued, she was guilty of self murder. The jury having
deliberated said that they had unauimeusly agreed to a
verdict of " Wilful Murder" against Was. Gaylor, and
also a verdict of " Felo-de•se" against Elizabeth Gaylor.
The coroner then issued a warrant for the committal of
the accused to Newgate ; and a similar document was
placed in the bands of the summoning officer of Hackney,
for the midnight burial of the deceased (Elizabeth Gay•
lor), whose body will be interred without the usual
funeral service.

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THE PACIFIC DIFFICULTY.

(Front the New York Remld, Oct. 4.)
It appears from our information from Panama and
the Isthmus that if a second bloody riot has not already
taken place there it may be expected any day. It seems
that parties are divided on the grounds of colour--that
the whites outnumber and consequently outvote the
blacks ; and that the latter, like the border ruffians of
Kansas, appeal from the ballot-box to the machote and
the revolver. On the 15th inst. there would have been
a riot and mir...h bloodshed but for the United States,
Marines, who pulled to the water line and lay there in
their boats, ready to interfere in case of a disturbance.
We have no positive account of any subsequent riot, but
at the time the steamer left Navy Bay a rumour was
current that blood bad began to flow at Panama. Our
information, which is derived from several trustworthy
sources, leads Rs to conclude that no reliance whatever
can be placed either in:the will or in the power of the
Government of Panama or of New Granada. Many of
the officers of Government live and discharge their func-
tions in a state of abject terror of the negroes, who are
always ready with the threat that they will murder any
one who opposes them. Others are only too well dis-
posed to abet their nefarious designs aaainst the people
of the United States ; and if all the officers of the Go-
vernment possessed the skill and the courage to keep the.
peace, they would still lack the physical force that alone
can impose it upon the populace of Panama.

We are satisfied, therefore, that the lives and property
of our fellow-countrymen who cross thelsthmus four times
a month are in the most imminent peril, and we believe
that no less measures are taken to inaugurate a new order of
things at Panama the trade of the world will receive a
notable check, and the interests of the whole Pacific be
seriously injured.

Our Government,. after the occurrences of April, sta-
tioned vessels at either end of the railway to overawe
the negro mob. At the time there was reason to believe
that this precaution would have sufficed. We are now
cn,nvinced that it will not. We have every reason to
believe that a settled purpose exists among the half-
breeds and negroes of Panama to inflict some severe
injury on our people in revenge for supposed wrongs,
and also to plunder the specie express on the first con
venient opportunity. There is no ground for hoping
that the deed will be attempted in an awkward or foolish
or helpless manner. On the contrary, it is likely that
it will be performed with cunning and executed with
bloodthirsty daring. The train will not be attacked
under the guns of the frigates ; but a few rails will be
torn up at some 20 miles from the sea, and in the con-
fusion created by the sudden stoppage of the train the
specie car ntay be robbed, an indiscriminate massacre at
least commenced. In such a case our vessels of war
would be utterly useless ; they would not know of the
mischief until it was past remedy, and we should have
no other consolation than a sterile vengeance.
Under the circumstances we revert to our original
sentiment—which concurs in some respects with Mr.
Corwine's report—that the Isthmus should for the pre-
sent be occupied by United States' troops in the interest
of the commerce of the world. When we last made
this suggestion it aroused quite a clamour among
various organs of opinion in Europe ; it was viewed
as a step towards the annexation of New Granada to
the United States. Rejection will probably convince
the English that we have no such foolish aim as
this—that we only seek to insure the safety of our
people and our property as well as theirs ; and that
national usage, no less than paramount necessity,
justifies the measure. There ought to be some men
in England who know enough of America to be sure
that the annexation of New Granada has not a
decent advocate in this country. But whether foreigners
like it or not, it seems that it will have to be
done. We cannot go on risking 500 valuable lives and
a million and a half of treasure every week, either to
satisfy the dignity of the imbecile Spaniards and ruffian
negroes of Panama, or to defer to the jealous alarm of
Europe. We have abundant precedent for the step.
England has never hesitated to garrison any territory in
the East when the rulers thereof appeared incapable of
preserving peace ; she has more than once forced her
troops upon her neighbours to help them to rile their
territory ; at the present momett she garrisons Greece
jointly with France. France garrisons gome, and has
garrisoned parts of Northern Africa, in the interest of
the commerce of the Mediterranean. Austria has gar-
risoned Lombardy for 40 years, and only ceased to gar-
rison the Principalities. It is pretended that in some of
these cases a sort of invitation passed between the Power
invaded and the invader, but this can delude no one, and
in many cases it has been wholly dispensed with.
We see no reason why the United States should not
garrison Panama, Aspinwall, and the line of road ; and
we:see many reasons why, if the precaution is neglected,
we may hereafter rue the neglect.

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Oar. 20.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Miguel
Castaneda as Consul-General in London for her Majesty
'he Qrkeen of Spain.
WHITIIIIA.LL, 00T. 20.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Rode-
rick Nicolson to the church and pariah of llig, in the pres-
bytery of Lewis and county of Ross, vacant by the death
of the Rev. David Watson, late minister thereof.
BOARD OF TR ADE,A.WHITERALL, 00T- 20.
The flight Honourable the Lords of the committee or
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations ha►e received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a Despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, en-
closing a copy of a French Imperial Decree, prolonging
until the 17th October, 1857, the regulations contained
in Article 2 of the Decree of the 17th October, 1855, with
reference to the nationalisation of foreign ships. A trans-
lation of the decree of the 17th October, 1855, appeared in
the London Gazette of the 6th November of that year.

Naval and Military intelligence.

Vice-Admiral of the Red the Hon. Joscelyn Percy,
C. 8., died en Monday, the 20th inst., at Scotsbridge,
Herts, a 3 notified in The Sun of yesterday. The gallant
deceased was Lieutenant of the Diadem at the reduction
of the Cape, i❑ 1806 ; Captain of the Hotspur, in action
with the French flotilla on the coast of Normandy, in
1811 ; he was Commander-in. Chief on the Cape of Good
Hope station for three years ending the middle of 1846,
and subsequently Commander-in-Chief at the Nore until
July, 1854. By his death the following promotions
take place on the active flag•list

Vice-Admiral of the White Sir James Whitley Deans
Dundas, G.C.8., to be Vice-Admiral of the Red.
Vice-Admiral of the Blue Edmund Harvey to be Vice-
Admiral of the Mite.

Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir John Gordon Sinclair,
Bart., to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue.
Rear-Admiral of the White George Frederick Rich to
be Rear-Admiral of the Red.

Rear Admiral of the Blue the Hon. F. W. Grey, C. 8.,
to be Rear Admiral of the White.
Capt. the Right Hon. Lord E. Russell, C. 8., to be
Rear Admiral of the Blue. By the promotion of this
officer the post of the Naval Aide-de-Camp to the Queen
is disposable.
Yesterday being the 51st anniversary of the battle of
Trafalgar, the time-honoured old ship which bore the
hero of that memorable action (the Victory, bearing the
flag of Sir G. Seymour, Commander-in-Chief in Ports-
mouth harbour) was at daylight garlanded at the mast•
heads and jack and ensign staffs with wreaths of laurels
and flowers in pursuance of annual custom - the poop
rail was dressed in flags entwined round it, and
supported staves from which flags and ensigns drooped
to the quarter deck ; the spot where Nelson fell
was encircled with a wreath of laurel ; on the mess
deck each mess table displayed a trophy in flowers,
evergreens, wreaths, and flags (made of paper), in-
scribed with such mottoes as "This is Trafalgar-day."
The mess kids were piled in threes, and polished brilli-
antly bright. All this was done by the boys of the ship,
which is in most admirable condition, externally and
internally, having been newly painted. The crew had a
leg of mutton, potatoes, and plum puddings each mess,
and a holiday for the rest of the day in honour of the an-
niversary. Visitors from the shore were very numerous.
Retired Rear-Admiral the Hon. George Frederick
Hotham died on the 19th inst. at 3,Royal-crescent,Bath,
aged 57. He had been much engaged in railway affairs
of late years. He entered the navy on the 16th Sept.,
1810, as a volunteer of the first class on board the
Northumberland, 74, commanded by his uncle, the Hon.
Henry Hotham, and served at the destruction of the
French 40-gun frigates l'Arienne and l'Andrornaque and
the 16-gun brig Mamelouck, off l'Orient, in 1812 ; mid-
shipman of the Ramillies, 74, during the operations on
the coast of America (including Moose Island, Balti-
more, and New Orleans), and of the Minden, 74, at
Algiers.

Her Majesty's steam-sloop Fury, 6, Commander Leckie,
exercised her crew at Spithead yesterday in practical
gunnery. She will be inspected officially to-day by the
Port Admiral preparatory to sailing, it is said, for the
East Indies, with the Bustard gunboat in charge. She
was paid advance yesterday morning.
The Dee steamvessel arrived at Spithead yesterday
from the eastward, with the gunboats Crocus, Savage,
Confounder, and Flamer.
The annual meeting of the Seamen's and Marines'
Orphan Schools and Female Orphan Home was held
yesterday at the institution; Vice-Admiral Sir George
Seymour, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth,
in the chair. The report of the committee was very
satisfactory. The Royal Commissioners of the Patriotic
Fund have placed an award of 2,500/. at the disposal of
the trustees, on condition that the committee take in
10 orphans of soldiers who fell in the late war. This
sum will not interfere with the usual revenues of the
charity, but will form a supplemental fund. The meeting
was addressed and the cause of the institution ably ad-
vocated by Mr. Montagu Gore and other gentlemen.
The funds still require aid in furtherance of the benevo-
lent objects of the foundation—the support of children
who are left helpless by those who fall in the service of
their country. 30 orphan girls are maintained in the
" Home" of the schools, which feature has lately been
added to them through the charitable contributions of
their supporters. The meeting was fully attended, and
very ably presided over by the Port Admiral. After the
meeting the children of the schools were regaled with
roast beef and plumpudding in honour of the day.
Her Majesty's screw steam-ship Caesar, 91, Capt. J.
Robb, from Portsmouth, arrived in Plymouth Sound on
Monday.

The crew of the paddlewheel steam sloop Inflexible, 6,
Commander John Corbett, were paid wages at Ply-
mouth on Monday.
The screw steam store ship Himalaya, William T.
Wheeler, master, was taken out of Keyham dock, and
the paddle-wheel steam-sloop Styx was put into dock at
Devonport on Monday to have defects made good.
The screw steam-ship St. Jean d'Acre, 101, Captain
George H. St. V. King, was appointed to leave Ply-
mouth Sound yesterday for Hamoaze.
The Turkish line-of-battle ship Payki Jaffer had her
mainmast taken out in Hamoaze on Monday, and was
appointed to go into Keyham dock yesterday to be fitted
with a screw.:

The Daring, 12, Commander G. J. Napier (1852), is
to he paid ofr at Chatham on Friday next.
The Trident was yesterday morning taken out of No.
3 dock at Woolwich, and admitted into the fitting basin
to be prepared for service.

The gu.nboati4 Parthian, Prompt, GrSwler, Quail,
Porpoise, and Ripple were yesterday morning removed
from the inner basin of Woolwich dockyard and placed in
the river, preparatory t• a trial of their steam power.
A garrison 'order has been issued by the Commandant
of Chatham garrison, giving directions to all the officers
quartered at Chatham barracks to attend the exercise of
the troops at the field-days of the men of the Provisional
Battalion held twice every week by Lieut.-Cul. R. N.
Phillips.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE

WEEK.

(From, the Report of the Registrar-General.)
October is usually a healthy month in London. The
summer heat, which, acting on certain local conditions,
affects the health of the young, has subsided ; and the
winter cold has not begun to excite those diseases to
which the old are specially subject. At the present time
the rate of mortality indicates a state of health even
better than usual. Last week the number of deaths re-
gistered was 974. In the correspcnding weeks of the
ten years 1846-55 the average number of deaths was
1,001 ; and out of the population, as it now stands, the
same rate of mortality which then prevailed would pro-
duce 1,100.
The total number of deaths in London from zymotic
diseases is 227 ; the corrected average of corresponding
weeks is 316, which, however, it should be stated, is in
some degree raised by cholera in 1854, which had not
quite subsided by the third week of October. Typhus
was more fatal this week than any other disease in this
class ; the deaths from it were 52, and from scarlatina,
which was almost as fatal, they were 49. Six deaths
from typhus or common fever occurred in Marylebone,
4 in Pancras, 4 in Shoreditch, 4 in Mile-end Old Town ;
4 from scarlatina in the sub-distcict of St. John, Maryle-
bone. Newington, Wandsworth, Camberwell, Greenwich,
and Lewisham are singularly free from fever, measles,
&c. ; or, if otherwise, the presence of those diseases is
not shown by their fatal results. The mortality from
small-pox has declined lately in London ; for in the last
12 weeks the weekly average of deaths from it has been
only 7.
The registrar of the Borough-road sub-district adds his
own experience in support of the conclusion above drawn
from the more ample registration of the metropolis. He
states that during the last seven years the average num-
ber of deaths registered by him on the first 18 days of
Oct. has been 30 ; the number this year has been only
3, which, "considering that the population of the sub-
district is about 17,000, is a proof of the good health
which they now enjoy."
One person died from carbuncle, two from lupus, two
from intemperance, four from delirium tremens, one
from want. The two oldest persons recorded were a
woman aged 90, and a man 91 years,
Last week the births of 798 boys and 787 girls, in all
1,535 children, were registered in London. In the ten
corresponding weeks of the years 1846-55 the average
number was 1,433.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.937 io. The mean
daily reading was 30 in. or more on four days ; and the
highest point reached was 30.23 in. on Friday. The
mean temperature of the week was 53.0 deg., which is
2.0 deg. above the average of tho same week in 38 years
(as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily read-
ing was above the average on each of the seven days.
The highest reading occurred on Sunday, and was 64
deg.; the lowest on Saturday, when it was 45 deg. ; the
whole range was, therefore, 19 deg. The mean dew-point
temperature was 5.5 deg., and the difference between this
and the mean temperature of the air was 2.5 deg. The
mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 55.7
deg. Rain fell to the amount of .36 in., nearly the whole
of which fell on Wednesday. The air was calm on seve-
ral days ; on Wednesday (when the motion of the air
was greatest) the wind was in the west.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM AI•L CAUSES REGISTERED

IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCT. 18.
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases . . 159
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Biood-vessels 44
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration .. l6i
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. .. 17'
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations ... 3
Premature Birth and Debility 24
Atrophy 37
Old Age
sudden .. 5
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance....... 27
Causes not specified

974

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES .
Population Deaths in corre- Deaths
Enumerated. eponding week in the

1851. - Of 1855. *eei
West Districts
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

Totals
Males 461
Females 513
BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males
Females •

798
787

Total

974

HEALTH OF LOUIS .NAPOLEON.-

THE EMPRESS.

The Paris correspondent of the Manchester Guar-
dian gives the following statement respecting the
health of Louis Napolean and the Empress of
France :

PARIS, OCT. 18, 1856.
The Times had, a few days back, a long article upon
the agitated state of Paris, upon the extreme pre-occu-
pation of the Emperor thereanent, and upon the fact of
that great pre-occupation having served as a pretext for
the reports circulated of Louis Napoleon's ill-health.
Now, upon the latter subject I am enabled to give you
some details, curious from their intimacy, and as authen-
tic as they are curious. Hit were possible for me to hint
even at the source whence I derive them, you would
easily see that they could be no other than precise. Such
as they are I can absolutely vouch for them.
During all last winter the conduct of his Imperial
Majesty had been anything but what can be termed
regular, and his health had been much the worse for his
excesses. The brain showed manifest signs of weakness,
and considerable alarm was felt by those around him.
One fair lady, in particular, had been the object of the
imperial attentions, but_ a coldness had ensued, when the
journey to Plombieres effected a reconciliation. At
Plombieres, unfortunately, more than one witness can
speak to the exceeding irregularities committed. Upon
his return those nearest the Emperor were painfully
affected by the often•repeated proofs he gave of cerebral
perturbation. Tue word "absences" was used to Ora.
racterise this state, but these "absences" were upon one
or two occasions so strong that, between those most im-
mediately called upon to watch and assist in guiding the
progress of circumstances, the near eventuality of a
regency was more than once seriously discussed. Toe
Emperor was most solemnly warned by his medical
attendants, but he left 'Paris for Biarritz undetermined
to stay at the seaside, and without giving up his project
of returning in a few days to Paris alone. However, at
Biarritz his resolution was at length taken to remain
during the whole time of the Empress's stay, and when
he returned to St. Cloud it was the positive opinion of
all his medical advisers that the crisis had been for the
moment entirely warded off, but that he absolutely must
resolve to lead a regular life, under pain of the gravest
possible consequences.
Now, as the chronicles of palaces are matters of his-
tory. I will enter into some tew other details that indi-
rectly bear upon all this. For the first eighteen months
or two years after his marriage, it is a matter of Euro-
pean notoriety how strictly the Empress was imprisoned
in an etiquette which it was one of Louis Napoleon's
vanities to render starched and stiff as that practised at
the Courts of what are termed the "legitimate" monarchs
of Eur Ope. Like all things affected. this was carried to
a perfectly ridiculous pitch; and the Empress, by a life so
contrary to all her antecedents and habits, was made pro-
portionably unhappy. This gave way, however, from the
moment when, by concessions in his own interior, the Em-
peror sought to secure indulgence for his behaviour out of
doors; and the result is, now,almost free permission for the
Empress to resume the habits which were familiar to her
as Mdlle. Montijo, and which, however innocent they
may appear to us, are regarded by public opinion in this
country as unpardonable eccentricities. For instance,
two little anecdotes will suffice to illustrate the position.
Very shortly after her marriage, the Empress declared
she would,go out and take a walk in the streets of Paris •
her grand mistress, the Princess d'Essling, appeared, self:
summoned, and said the proceeding was contrary to eti.
quette, but that, if her Majesty chose, she was willing to
follow her Majesty in a carriage, and go whither heir
Majesty thought fit. A scene ensue ; the Empress was
g
angry, and flew to the Emperor to be supported e ainst
Madame d'Essling ; but the Emperor, very gently, but
inflexibly, supported the grand mistress, and the Em-
press found that her liberty was lost. The other day,
when the Emperor had left for Plombieres, Madamed'Essling appeared ready to mount guard over the E-
mpress, to whom she very quietly observed, that the in-
stant the Emperor was absent, the duties of her office
called upon her not to leave the Eolosir thep lreess. " That is
what we shall see," was the iudignt y—and a tele-
graphic despatch to Plombieres upon
very instant
demanded whether it was intended to aoint a duenna
bilng
to watch over the actions of the Imperial
This time the reply was that the Empress princess
a s at libertymother
!
to do as she liked with Madame Es
re-
spent everything is altered, and In this
tbep.ony phaetons
driven by the Erhpress herself, her attendance at bull
fights dressed in the Spanish costume, and her shooting
at St. Cloud, attired in a sort or fancy dress, all these
seemingly-little incidents are signs to those who live in
the close intimacy of the Imperial Court. You must live
in the heart of French noctety to know how severely
these various fancies of the Empress are judged by high
and lcw, and by the Imperialists as much as by others ;
but Louis Napoleon has lost the right to gainsay his
he
wife's wishes, and
coulddimity, i now with great difficulty compel her to that, frigid to that perpetual ob•
servance of decorum which prejudice in all ranks
exacts from persons of exalted rank.
One of his oldest friends, speaking to me yesterday of
Louis Napoleon, said, "I think I see him now before me,
as he went one day with the Empress and all their suite
to inspect the works at the Elys6e. The Empress, with
a bound, nearly a jump, crossed some planks, when in
an' instant, the Emperor,s., telling her sharply to stop,
came to her side, took hold of her arm, and said tor her
in a loud tone of great displeasure, "Do walk as
fei
ought to do, Eugenie ; what will all these people think
of you ?" and my interlooutOr added, shaking his head,

"I am afraid he wot:ld not stop her now ; I am
afraid be has no longer t. `le right to make any obse -
vatior." . _

Yin will, perhaps, ,ay the, go are trifles ; but as h
are to the letter true, they art Perhaps, worthy of no-
tice. No cige of this king shonk 1, in such times as ours,
be left unuoted by the historian.

TRADE OF KURRAOL7IIBB.
stmistics from a
We extract the.following 'interesting •the last In-
recent number of the Sindian, received
dian mail. The proximity of the port of It urrachee to
Europe renders the development of its cap, I,billties of
vast importance to the mercantile world, and the more
especially when, by the introduction of railvioy s and
steam navigation on the Indus it bids fair, to rack at no
distant period with the first-class business centres of our
Indian empire :
" From the Kurrachee returns of trade for We imet
official year--viz , 1855-50, we learn that the impo.rta by
sea amounted to 62,98,134r5., and the exports to
60,44,403 re., being an increase in the former e f
5,46,107 re. or 2 per cent. over the previous year', I
trade, and in the latter of 25,75,466, or 72 per cent. ; or
31,21,633 re. increase on the whole trade.
" The principal articles of foreign production which
we imported during the year consist of—

Apparel and millinery
Books and stationery 1,33,000
Cotton goods, coloured.
~ „ plain
other kinds 76,000
P ,f
Twist and thread
.. ...... 2,03,000
Fruit
Grain .. . 2,32,000
Malt liquors ...... 3,20,000
Metals, raw iron 1,62,000
„ other kinds
Hardware 1507,000
Silk, raw
~ goods
Spices
Spirits and wines . 1,27,000
Sugars
Bullion and coin
" Our staple products exported during the year were :
Horses
Drugs 1,42,00)
Dyes, indigo 4,24,000
• other kinds
If 87,000
Grain, Badjree 1,36,000
„ wheat
.
„ other kinds
Ghee .. 2,34,000
Saltpetre
Seeds, linseed
~ jingely
„ sursee
, other kinds
Wool, sheeps' ... 22,13,000
" The value of our trade with the different countries
is exhibited below :

Imports. Exports.
Bombay
England
•
Persian Gulf
Mekran.q 11,065 35,895
Mauritius 1,894 17,568
Malabar Coast 97,632 1,69,154
Catch
Rattywar 1,29,322 1,21,485
Cowan 2,464
Guzerat
Goa and Demaun
"The total value of our trade in both branches, im-
port and export, amounts to rupees 12,342, 537, or very
nearly a million and a quarter pounds sterling. The
present traffic is not very large, but the improvement
which it has exhibited annually since the country fell
into our possession affords ground for anticipating a
much greater expansion than any it has as yet felt when
the facilities for traffic which have been promised shall
have been provided.
"A view of our articles of import and export shows
that the people of Sindh and adjacent countries belong
principally to the agricultural and pastoral classes. As
manufacturers we hold a very low position, and to make
up our deficiencies in this respect we import from other
countries. Of foreign productions our principal want
appears to be cotton piece goods, of which, according
to the return before us, we imported 27 lace worth ; and
of twist and thread we required 2 lace worth. Of malt
liquor, wines, and spirits, our consumption during the
year is valued at nearly 2 lace. Our importations of
sager and grain are in equal proportions.
" In exchange for our imports we gave sheep's wool
worth 22 lacs ; horses, 3 lace ; indigo, 4 lacs ; grain, 51
Ines; ghee, 2 lace; saltpetre, 2 lace; and oil seeds,
13i lace.
" Daring the past year we learn further from the Kur-
rachee trade returns, that 49 ships and steamers visited
ns, 15 of which came direct from England laden princi-
pally with malt liquors, about 21,000 hogsheads, for the
troops in the Punjaub, and during the current year we
have heard that a yet larger supply for the same desti-
nation is expected, accompanied by a large quantity of
Ordnance stores. We believe it to be the intention of
Government to make a yet greater use of the Indus
route for the transmission of the whole of the stores and
troops for the Punjaub and the north-western provinces.
" The large increase in our exports is attributable
partly to the influence of the war with Russia, which
afforded our Indian empire an opportunity of providing
some of those articles of trade for which England had for-
merly looked to the ports of the Baltic and the Black Sea.
India was not found incapable of responding to the call.
And among her provinces the Punjaub and Sindh contri-
buted their respective quotas. But, as the deputy collector
of Customs urges, to maintain this increase and to insure
yet higher and higher results, we must look homeward
and to our own exertions. The porta of Russia are no
longer blockaded, and any temporary stimulus which the
war may have afforded to our trade has ceased. It espe-
sially behoves us, therefore, to clear the way for a free and
unrestricted flow of commerce to and fro, and through this
province. With this view let us complete and maintain
our bridged line of roads. Let us endeavour to induce the
Khan of Kelat and all other chiefs through whose terri-
tories our trade may pass, to abolish absolutely and for
ever all transit dues as being directly injurious both to
their own interests and the interests of their neighbours.
Let us endeavour by all means and at any cost to create
an unimpeded water carriage by the shortest practicable
line from Moultan to this harbour, thereby securing a
permanent, sufficiently regular, and speedy transit for
bulky goods, thereby not superseding, but preparing the
province for the introduction of a railway, and thereby
bringing fresh from the Indus that sufficient supply of
sweat water without which no port ever yet fairly flou-
rished or can flourish. Above all, let us imp
establish our harbour, so that its improve sad
tag advantages
may avns
may be as great as nature may admit, andits dregulations
requirements
and appliances adequateat least to meet the
of the present trade, be this trade great or small, in-
creasing or decreasing.
" We are not among those who would see this port of
Kurrachee puffed into notoriety. And we are averse to
her receiving any artificial stimulus from Government.
Ports are not to be written into being and development,
neither is trade otherwise than distorted and retarded in
its growth when encumbered with the interfering charities
of those who are, in truth, its own pensioners. Let
nothing be recorded concerning this harbour but what
is contained in bold Lona fide statistical returns. These
are the indices to the present state of trade—the eloquent
harangues upon which merchants base their future trans-
actions. And so long as these are favourable we may
well remain content. Let Government,' again, confine
themselves to the exercise of their own legitimate func-
tions by removing all obstructions as well physical as
artificial. This done, the port and its trade must take
their chance. If by geographical position and its own
intrinsic advantages Kurrachee be the point to which a
given portion of the commerce of the world can converge
more profitably than at any other point, the portwill in
in.
crea-e to a size and degree of importance
precisely
cos•
responding to that trade. No Government, no reports,
can to any material degree either accelerate or retard
this result. So assured, and well knowing that
eternal
nthe l
alaw
upon which these conclusions are founded 4 is th
irresistible, it becomes those really interested in the wel-
fare of this port calmly to await the operation of this
law. They say that this is the harbour indicated by na-
ture for direct communication between Central Asia and
North-Western India on the one part, and England,
the
Egypt, and the Euphrates on
other part. It it be
so, there is no power among mento withstand the force
attracting us along nature's current. They say that the
Punjaub is dependent upon us fur the possibility of an
export trade, we would rather declare
ourselves aawait-
ing the orders of all our northern neighbours as their
natural carrier. But They say we are jealous of Bombay.
our unuccesdoubtedly we are
pnot so. For we are trusting
ss to the develoment of that same law which
has already secured hers ; and which we are well assured
must in developing our resources increase those of the
ports with which we may trade.
" But while we ask no direct assistance from Govern-
ment we cannot but deprecate the pretension unaccom-
panied by the reality of obstructions removed and appli-
ances applied. It should not be supposed in England
that the Kurrachee bar is removed ; that a pilot is at
hand ; that a steamer is ready ; and that only ships are
awaited ; when, in truth, as has been so repeatedly
proved, only vessels are at band, and all else are want-
ing. It should not be published to the world that the
steam fleet on the Indus is free and sufficient when hun-
dreds of bales lie mrshipped on the river bank, and when I
the wood stations are deserted by the peasantry. There
is a wide difference between leaving all free and unim-
peded in reality, or free and unimpaired and aided upon
paper only.
"Our acting commissioner will doubtless see that fair
play is given to our port, and we doubt not that, while
deprecating all artificial stimulus, ho will nevertheless ar-
range that those obstructions which are supposed to be
removed libel be removed; and that those means which
are asserted to have been applied shall be applied. Where
are our steam dredges, where our steamer, where our
pilot, where our pert officer, and where our damaged
ships? Looking inland—where it the promised comple-
tion of the Graud Trunk-road from ICurrachee to the
Bolan Pass ?—where is the remedy of that crying dis•
grace to this province, the road between Sukkur and Shia
karpoor ? Look at the map—enumerate those countries
stretching from the longitude of Herat to that of Delhi
—and then mark whither their great lines and arteries
of trade tend to converge. Do they not all lead down to
this port ? and if so, is it not desirable to complete the
lines of these communications ?"

MILFORD•HATEN AND WATERFORD—Since the re-
cent establishment of the steam transit between these
ports in connection with the South Wales Railway, the
importations of cattle, pigs, sheep, poultry, bacon, but-
ter, &c., have been very important, and now that Pa!'
sengers from London reach Ireland in one day by this
route, the amount of passenger traffic is largely extend-
ing, Additional steamers are at once to be put on, the
two already plying being quite inadequate to the de-
mands. The works at the Neyland terminus are rapidly
progressing, &nd the pier, completing with much de-
spatch,