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London, England, 1860-04-21 00:00:00

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and on comparing circn.mst ances, it is now Inorwn
atinemiPount Montemolin •visited London eight
B) before the outhrealc, and that he bad
long interviews with Lord. Palmerston. And as
neither Count Montemolin nor General Ortega is
rich enough to defray the expenses of an expcditicn
like that of -Valencia, peoille go so far as to
suppose that Bank-notes paid the cost. There is,
doubtless, exaggeration in all, this; perhaps there
is no sort of foundation ; and we only notice it to
show that the nation on whiclx such suspicions. re:A
is not one that could take the lead.in an European
movement."

On this passage I may make one remark. Count
Montemolin left Naples with a French passport,
but it is very possible that he N isited England, and.
that from England he went to, Marseilles and em-
barked for Spain. But the wrAer, whether he be
official or non-official, will admit that his doing so
does not prove that the English Government had
any mote cognizance of the fa et than it had of the
expedition to Boulogne in 1840 (and which the
Spailish Prinee—seems.tc.l have taken for his model),
merely because Prince Louis:Napoleon and his com-
panions set out from England and embarked on
ruined
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ieodi;
dela.
recover
see:lt)
rgvyaloai
eius,
valiant
years'
steamersinis,toti
eealinro. for the coast of France.
" !we are far from Waterloo," the writer
f
by 45 years of peace, wohmgniitegyehht:
Tv, y
far
d.:::::::drvicoceaeapi
have
Providence
:aunena
shrepasaruNogvsiiit
evedcanhe,
patrio-
tism. Our African wars hai re oceacnunpoinea.
Ityhheiclehiscuarne
teraarirnye dfairt
at on
a victory.accura ately, aNn,e,
sweep men off at three or fou r kilometres distant.
Our army is 600,000 strong; and, if, our frontiers
were menaced, France would have as many soldiers
as she has Frenchmen. We clan also struggle on
the sea. We have constructed gigantic vessels,
sheathed in steel, bristling witk a triple row of
guns ; we have solid gunboats ; in a word, a power-
ful navy and seamen—all which we were deficient
in other times. ' And then we...know the shame and.
the woe of invasion. A national historian has again
placed before our eyes the sad episodes of that fatal
period. We have not forgotten them. The terrible
lesson has remained in our heart, and Europe would
be dikmaycd if it knew of what heroic and passion.
ate resistance we are capable rather than undergo
new affronts."

And again--
"England only prevails by her navy. There are
in Europe three or four maritime Powers which, if
they know how to combine, can hold in check
every English fleet. Let France ally herself with
Russia and with Denmark, and the North SP,3 is
shut against the English. They are excluded from
the Black Sea. Let her summon to this allience
Spain and Portugal, and there is no longer an
ocean or Mediterranean for the English. Their
Malta and their Gibraltar will soon be but the
dream of baffled ambition, the ruined memory of a
proud domination."
The writer thus sketches the progress of Russia
in the East and that of France and Austria in the

spoils of the Sultan, the coalition of " European
interests" against English interests, Sze., and adds
that " in that day England will be vanquished, and
the force of the nations balanced in Europe."
The pamphlet concludes thus :

" Lei nations form their Holy Alliance ! It will
be done, and nothing on earth can prevent i t from
accomplishing its object. There are irresistibletendencies which are precipitating Europe to wards
a new organisation ; the wars which now bre; Lk out
proceed from an attempt to resist these tendencies.
But it must be remarked that the triumph rests
everywhere with the cause of the people, of -which
we have just seen a remarkable example in Italy.
That which consoles us and makes us glad is to see
Imperial France take the lead in this noble move-
ment. of which the phases and events will foz in the
history of the second half of the 19th century.
That part belongs of right to France and to the
Empire ; to France, because she first supported the
rights of the people alone against all, and lmeause
she succumbed gloriously in that struggle in 1814 ;
to the Empire, because the French Empire is the
ec ly monarchy now existing which has sprung
from the national will, and which truly represents
it. We repeat in conclusion that neither France
nor the. Empire has anything to fear from monar-
chical coalitions. The people are with. them."
A Paris letter, in the Nord, says :--" Mgr. Sac-
coni, the Papal Nuncio, has, it is said, Lad a long
conversation with the Emperor, on the subjects of
the Bull of excommunication, of General de Lamori-
ciere, of the events in Sicily, and of the projects of
France in the event of insurrectionary movements
breaking out in the other provinces of the Holy
See. The Pope thinks only of increasing his mili-
tary forces, and is about to negotiate for that pur-
pose a loan of 50 millions, to be raised by public
subscription, as already stated, in the Roman Catho-
lic States of Europe. It is not very probable that
the ofter of the ex-Duke of Modena to send his 3,000
troops will be accepted by the Pope, at least in the
fearform :on whichpr
ec ipi
tiat t he aas
cboene
fin
crat awd
jeo
t,
hftrh
eP
nig.X would
fear to precipitate a conflict with the King of Sar-
dinia, who would not fail to protest against the
incorporation of the troops of the ex-Duke• in the
Pontifical army. The Count de Bourbon-Chalus,
one of the principal members of the French aristo-
cracy, commands the corps of volunteers, under the
orders of General de Lamoriciere."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(April 20.)

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

Sittings in Banco.—(Before Lord Chief Justice
Erle, and Justices Willes, Byles, and Keating.)
LANE V. PEABSON.—A SQUABBLE IN A PUBLIC-

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HOUSE.
The plaintiff kept the Nell Gwynne, at Chelsea,
having taken that house of the defendant. On the
night of the 18th January last the defendant went
into the parlour of the plaintiff* house, and after
abusing a person named Smith, so as to provoke
the plaintiff's interference, turned nand upon the
plaintiff and accused him of having given false evi-
dence in a witness-box, and alleged that the motive
presentm Gitotdlee.na'a7c
was ion n
for his doing so was bribery. After remonstrance
the defendant persisted in what he had said, and
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brought- w
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beingny t
g for damages, but to vindicate the
added, 01 I ca n
character;
sent demanding a written apology,,
but no answer being given the present action was
brought—not for dama°es, but to vindicate the
plaintiff's charac eo e
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guilty.
Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Griffiths appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Hawkins for the defendant.
The plaintiff was called to prove his case, and
Mr. Smith was also sworn, and from his evidence
it appeared that on a previous night he had sung at
the Nell Gwynne a song called " Toby Brad, or
Funking the Cobbler." (Loud laughter.) At this
time he did not know that the defendant had ever
had anything to do with leather, thovich
wards appeared that he had been a cobbler or some-
thingitafter of that sort.
Mr. Hawkins asked the witness to let him hear
the first few lines of the song.
Witness—Yon do not mean me to sing it,. I sup.
pose ? (Laughter.)
Mr. Hawkins—Oh, no, repeat it.
Witness—
There was once a cobbler, by name Toby Brad,
Tho' he lived in his stall, he did not live bad.
With b4s fol de rol."—(Loud laughter.)
Mr. Hawkins—Well, go en.
Witness—
Now the leather was tough, and the awl would not pierce,
Which made Toby Brad look most devil'sh fierce."
(Renewed laughter.)
Mr. Hawkins—" With his fol de rol." (Laughter.)
Witness did not think that there was any allu-
sion in the song to a cobbler beating his wife, nor
that this had made the defendant angry. Witness, in
fact, did not recollect the song, and when he sung
it he had his memory refreshed by a manuscript.
Mr. Hawkins addressed the jury
damages, saying that there was no imputation at
all which could be made upon the plaintiff; and, in.
fact, the words had been idly spoken in a moment
of irritation, without any serious meaning being
attached to them. in mitigation of
Mr. Justice Williams told the jury that it was
their business to say what the amount of damages
was.
Verdict for the plaintiff for £5,

It transpired yesterday afternoon that the prin-
cipal cashier of the Union Bank of London has been charged
a defaulter to a considerable amount. He has been in
the establishment 21 years, and has held his present post
for five years, throughout the greater part of which latter
period his misappropriations are believed to have been car-
ried on.—Tunes.

SUICIDE OF A CLERGYMAN'S WIFE AT TIPTON.
—A
most distressing case of suicide has just occurred at.
Tipton, in South Staffordshire. The unfortunate victim of
self-destruction was the wife of the Rev. E. H. A. Gwynne,
M.A., incumbent of Tipton,
s and chaplain to a division of
the Staffordshire Rifle Corp. At the inquest it appeared
that deceased, on Monday last, sent for an ounce of essen-
tial oil of bitter almonds ; on Tuesday morning she was
taken very ill, and before medical assistance could be pro-
cured she expired. A bottle which had contained the oil of
almonds was found, and the mouth df the deceased smelt
strongly of the poison. A bottle which had contained lau-
danum was also found empty. The husband of deceased,
and other witnesses, stated that she frequently indulged in
excessive stimulants, and at such times she often threatened
to destroy herself. Mr. Underhill, surgeon, stated that the
deceased had been under his care several times whilst af-
fected by the use of stimulants ; and he believed that death
resulted frol WWI; tl4 .
vf bitter agwoo,