The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-01 00:00:00

EVENING,:,
~,FE BR UARY 1,185 S.

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H. n. H. Labouchere, SecretarYof4itae toit‘he Colonies ;
Sir C. Wood, First Lord of the Admiralty-; Lord Stanley
of Alderley, Pr. sident of the Board of Trade ; the Right
Hon. R. V. Smith, President -of the Board of Control;
the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, Chancellor of the Duchy of
Laenneasteern;.aLt.erdrFoley,icoapuntat syinodfnteyhe, Hon. Corps of
Gentlemen-at-Arms Au2s ; v
Captain
Yeomen of the Guard ; Field-Marshal Viscount Comber
of the
Yeomen biere
mere Gold Stick in Waiting ; the Earl of Bessborough,
Master of the Buckhounds ; the Lord Chief Justice of
England ; the Bishop of Chester, Clerk of the Closet ;
Lord Monteagle, Controller-General of the Exchequer ;
the Speaker, Lord Justice Turner, the Master of the
Roils, the Right Hon. Lord Chief Justice Cockburn,
the Chancellor of the Dutchy of Cornwall, the Vice.
Chancellor, Sir Richd. T. Kindersley ; Vice-Chancellor.
Sir William Page Wood, the Ju !ge-Advocate-General,
the Lord Mayor and the Lady 11layoress, Lieut.. Col.
Tophaw, the Lieut. of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at.
Arms ; Major-Gen. Philipps, Lieut. of her Majesty's
Yeomen of the Guard ; the Attorney-General, the Soli-
citer-General, Mr. Horatio Waddington, Under-Secretary
of State, Horn. Department Mr. R. Ormsby Gore and
the Hon. M. Saekville West, Groom in Waiting to her
Majesty; Mr. Sheriff Lewrenee, Mr. Sheriff Allen, Major
Harrnar, Standard-bearer of the Hon. Corps of Gentle-
men at Arms ; Sir George Houlton, Ensign of the Yee-
men of the Guard ; Lieutenant-General Sir George
Wetherell, K.C.8., Adjutant-General ; Major-General
Sir Richard Airey, Quartermaster-General ; Sir Charles
Young (Garter), Admiral Sir William Parker, Principal
Naval Aide-de-Camp ; Colonel Begot, Her Majesty's
Assistant Master of the Ceremonies ; Lieutenant-Colonel
Howard Vyse,.2d Life Guards, Silver Stick in Waiting ;
Major-General Z.40,&1ey, Equerry to the Queeu ; Captain
do Rog, Eicieery. te1e..24.- Royal Higjarree, the Pripc
Consort ; Colenel Sir George Cooper, Bart., Fitrat
Equerry and Controller of the Household of Her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent; Colonel F. H. Seymour,
Groom of the Robes; Mr. Cargill, Adjutant of the Hon.
Corps of Gentlemen at Arms ; Sir Wm. Martins, Gentle.
man Usher to the Sword of State ; Hon, Spencer Pon-
sonby, Controller of the Lord Chamberlain's Department;
the Attorney-General to the Prince of Wales ; Mr.
Frederick Elliot, Assistant Under Secretary, Colonial
Department ; Col. Lord Dynevor ; Col, Bloomfield, Royal
Artillery; Colonel Napier, C. 8.; Capt. the Hon. James
Drummond, C.B. (Royal Navy); Colonel Foster (Royal
Engineer}) ; Hon. Capt. F. Pelhem, R.N. ; Col. Tait,
C.B ; Capt. Robb, R.N. ; Col. Montagu M'Murdo, and
Colonel Brooke (Scots Fusileer Guards), Aides-de-Camp
ti her Majesty the Queen; Sir Benjamin C. Brodie, Ser-
geant-Sargeou ; Sir H. Holland, Physician in Ordinary
to her Majesty; Mr. Fergusson, Surgeon Extraordinary
to the Queen ; Mr. Wm. Hampshire, Paymaster of the
Household; Colonol Lord Frederick Paulet, Coldstream
Guards, Field Officer in Brigade Waiting ; Chevalier
Hebler, his Prussian Majesty's Consul-General and Ma-
dame Heller, the Master of the Mint, the Accountant-
General; Mr. Sheffield Neave, Governor of the Bank of
England; Sir John Key, Bart.,Chamberlain; Mr. Siege-
rich Kreeft, Consul-General for his Royal Highness the
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; Mr. H.Greville,
Gentleman Usher to her Majesty ; Rear-Admiral Court-
enay Boyle, Groom of the Privy Chamber; Capt. Green,
Gentleman Usher to her Majesty ; Colonel Stephens,
Gentleman Usher to the Queen ; Major-General Sir F.
Smith, K.H., Gentleman Usher to the Privy Chamber;
Mr. W. Taylor,' Gentleman Usher to the Queen ; Mr.
A. Montgomery, Gentleman Usher to the Queen ; Mr.
C. Weneage, Gentleman Usher to the Privy Chamber ;
Commander R. T. Bedford, Gentleman Usher to her
Majesty in Waiting ; Dr. Lyon Playfair, C. 8., Gentle.
man Usher to his Royal Highness Prince Albert in
Waiting.

Her Majesty had a dinner party in the evening. The
company included —Tneir Royal Highnesses the Prince
of Wales, the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess and Princess
Mary of Cambridge, the Prince and Princess Frederick
William of Prussia, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, and the
Duke of Cambridge, their Serene Highnesses the Prince

of Leiningen, and Prince Victor of Hohenlohe. The
French Ambassador and the Countess Persigny, the
Prussian Minister, Lady Anea Maria Dawson, Lady
Get aldine Somerset, the Count and Countess Perpon-
cher, the Countess Wally von Hohenthal, the Countess
Marie zu Lynar, General von Schieckenstein, Majur-
General von Moltke, Capt. von Schweinitz, Lieut. von
Z%struw, Baron ErL.,st Stoekmar, C3pt. von Lindero,
Baron de Treskew, M. Sam wer, the Gentleman in Weit-
ing on the Duchess and the Duke of Cambridge, Dr.
Wegner, Lieut.-Gen. Sir F. Stovin, and Mr. Gibbs.

The band of the Grenadier Guards attended in the
Palace and performed during dinner.

Overture Mendelssobu.
Walzer, " Rose of Castille "
Selection, " Seciliaa Vespers "
Ballabile, "Casilda " 1 His Royal Highness the
- ,f Saxe Coburg.

Duke of
Pas Redouble Bender.
The Queen had afterwards an evening party, to which
the following had the honour of being invited :—Hie
Serene Highness Prince Henry VII. of Reuss, Count
Redern, Count Brandenburg, the Duke and Duchess of
Richmond, and Lady Cecilia Gordon Lennox, the Duke
of Newcastle and Lady Susan Pelbarn CliAnn, the Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Abercora and the Ladies
Louisa and Katherine. Hamilton, and the Countess of
Derby and Lady E. Stanley, the Earl and Countess of
Clarendon and Lady C. Villiers, the Countess of Gains-
borough and Lady V. Noel, the Countess of Dunmore
and the Ladies S. and C. Murray, the Countess of Sef-
ton and Lady C. Molysieux, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Breadalbane, Colonel P. Seymour, C. 8., Colonel the
Hon. C. B. and Miss Phipps, Lady C. and Miss Bar-
rington, General the Hon. C. and Mrs. Grey, the Hon.
Mrs. Biddulph and Mrss E. Seymour, Viscount and
Viscountess Sydney, and Lord and Lady Churchill.

THE .1 EGAO Y. TO °ANTI LLON AND THE
EXPEDITION TO BOULO9NE.

It is computed that, in the massacre of December
and nocturnal fusillades that followed it, two to three
thousand, of both sexes and of every age, were
slaughtered. It is also competed that in the proscrip-
tions which succeeded, sixty thousand persons, at the
least, were " interned," deported, or exiled. Belgium,
Holland, Switzerland, Sardinia, Germany, and England
were crowded with refugees, who were driven pell.inell
to whatever asylum chance or choice presented to them.
Of the wretched fugitives mercilessly doomed to rot
on a foreign soil, England, from her proximity, her
power, sad her freedom, naturally got the lion's share.
These victim', however, were not the first that Louis
Napoleon had sent her. When he bombarded Rome to
restore the Pope, and to win the aid of the priests, his
shells and bayonets chased from Italy thousands of
Italians'. If Italians and Frenchmen, then, met in
England, it was because he drove them tiiere ; and if,
when they mot, it was to curse and conspire, he I urniAed
the excuse and opportunity.
French despotism trembled while Frenchmen were free
in Brussels or in London. It accordingly bullied the Bol-
gian Government, and it intrigued with the British ono,
to proscribe ag.in the procArl bed. Leopold, terrified at
the Emperor's threats, has twice, to appease him, passed
penal laws against the freedom of the Press, and now
his cowardly Cabinet of " Liberals," is proposing a
third aggravation of them. Twice, too, Lord PAnier-
ston's Government has been "invite;" to introduce an
Alien Act, and intrigue having failed, insolence is tried,
and Great Britain is bullied like B-dgium.
What the Emperor of the French is aiming at is an
arbitrary law of extradition. It is not British justice
chat he wants, nor British judges nor juries, but the
power of denouncing to a Secretary of State the victims
that be hates or fears. He could extort from an alject
or collusive Minister what no public tribunal would give
him, and every art and threat are recklessly employed
to coax or foree the British people to sacrifice its noblest
Thy+ te.
The abloorreuce of men for assassination is eagerly
seized as a capital pretsxtfor this fresh and fierce assault
on freedom, An Italianconspiracy, and the destruction
by Italians of French life in the streets of Paris is fol-
lowed by the annihilation of the sham liberties of France
and an onslaught on the real ones of England ! The
horror of both is exploited in the interest of a Bonapartist
reign of terror, which rules with the cowl and the sabre
there, and threatens war and invasion here.
The tone of the Imperial teals in France and
England is not quite uniform, of course, menaces and
insults being covert here, and fierce and undisguised
abroad. Count Pereigny professes a hypecritical respect
for the laws he requires us to cancel; while De Moray
calls England " a lair of wild beasts," and colonels,
whose fury the Emperor fans by its insertion in the
Monileur, demand to be led by him against the country
where he plotted in safety himself

The cry of the Emperor, and of the Emperor's agents,
is that England does not prosecute conspirators, and
that she shelters assassins. M. de Morny styled her a
den of them, blustering praetorians shout the same thing,
and Count Persignyaffirms that assassination is "recom-
mended in our clubs, papers, and writings f"
Men who charge crimes on others should be free from
such charges themselves. It is the height of audacity for
conspira ors in England to assail her giving shelter to
them, and those who denounce assassination should never
have abetted it. Yet Count Pereigny has been charged
as an assassin, and Louis Napoleon as abetting one, and
both have conspired, under cover of our laws, against
the Crown, if not the life, of. " a foreign prince in
alliance to us." It was in the case of Cantillon that
Louis Napolean abetted an aseassin, and it was in
the expedition to Boulogne that Persigny was charged
one. Since the People of England is accws,-d by
both of complicity with assassination, that People
should know on what moral ground those who accuse it
stand.
As the Duke of Wellington was riding in his carriage
through the streets of Paris a French officer, named
Cantillon, fired a pistol point blank at him, but happily
missed his aim, Cantillon was arrested, tried, and
acquitted by a French jury, because the ball could ant
be found.

The attempt at assassination, and the assassin himself,
would, probably, both have been forgotten, but for the
appearance of the Emperor's will, which was executed by
him at St. Helena, and deposited in Doctors' Commons.
To the astonishment and disgust of any man possessed
of the slightest sense of decency, Napoleon not only left
Cantillon alegacy, but bequeathed it on the ground of his
attempt to murder, and formally justified assastinati-n
This immoral bequest and more infamous doctrine were!
contained in the filth legacy of the fourth codicil of the
testament, which was, verbatim, as follows :
"5. Idem (10,000) ten thousand francs to the sub-
officer Cantillon, who was tiled on the charge of having
wished to assassinate Lord Wellington, of whitah he was
declared innocent. Cantillon bad as much right to assas-
sinate this oligarch as he had to send me to perish on
the rock of St. Helena. Wellington. who proposed this
attentat, sought to justify it in the interest of Great
Cantillon, if he had really assassinated the lord,
would have been covered and justified by the
same motive, the interest of France, in ridding himself
of a general wbo had violated the capitulation of Paris,
and who, by that, had rendered himself .responsible fur
the blood of the martyrs Ney, Labi.loybre, &e., and for
the crime of having stripped the museum,, contrary to
the text of treaties.

"This present codicil is entirely written with our
hand, signed and sealed with ay arms.
(Signed) "NAPOLEON."
There does not exist in the historical recurda of any
civilised nation so daring a defiance of every moral law,
and so deliberate a justification of the right of private
murder. The audacity of the doctrine is only equalled
by the flimsiness of the pretexts for it. Cantillon had
the same right to assassinate Lord Wellington as Lord
Wellington to propose the banishment of the common
pest of Europe 1 Cantillon was jrstified in murdering
"the lord," because Ney was tried and shot for treason
by the French Chamber of Peers, and because Europe
reclaimed from French museums a portion of what it
had been plundered of! This sanguinary sophistry was
not born of misery, and prompted by the fury of despair,
but was the last and solemn act of a despot's life, be-
queathing a code of assassination to the world, and four
hundred pounds to an assassin 1
The assassin remained in inglorious obscurity till after
the coup d'etat. He pined unhonoured and unrewarded
whilst Louis Napoleon continued responsible to real
legislative control. But when he " saved society,"
e-tahlished " order and religion," and was Emperor of
the French, he made them pay his uncle's debts and
execute his uncle's will. Cantillon was sought in his
modest retreat in a grocer's shop in Brussels, and this
virtuous and long-neglected patriot got his four hundred
pounds, with interest

The charge of making this payment tr Cantillon has
been openly preferred again and again, and it has never
been rebutted ! If he made that payment Napoleon the
Third pail bhod-money to an asi.a.,-sin, by virtue of a
deed which justified assassination. Qui capit facit, he who
carries out an act becomts the accomplice of the actor.
If Napoleon the Third chose to make himself executor
of the will of Napoleon the First, he was bound to
repudiate any provision which involvLd immorality or
crime. If he did not he makes himself amenable to its
logical, or legal consequences, and if he paid CAntill on
for attempting to assassinate the greatest of English
generals, he is the last man who should dare to charge
England with abetting assassination.
Leaving Cantillon to enjoy his legacy, and his Majesty
his r. Lotions, let us turn to the expedition to Boulogne.
It was on the 4th or sth of August, 1840, that Louis
Napoleon having hired in London the City of Edin-
burgh steeamer, embarked in her with Count Mon-
tholon', General Voisin, fifty-three met, and an eagle.
He also put on board of her swords, pistols, muskets,
eagles (not live ones), and imperial proclamations. The
conspiracy was hatched, the men were levied, the arms
were provided, the live eagle was trained, the colours
and copper-gilt eagles were made, and the proclamations
were all drawn up and duly printed in Loudon. When
on deck the men were dramatically dressed in the iro
perial uniform, and Louis Napoleon came out en grand
tenue as the Commander-in-Chief The proclamations
were addressed to the French nation, declared that the
Bourbons had ceased to reign, and nominated the Coun-
cil of State of the nephew of the uncle.

At 5 a.m. of the 6,h of August, the invading army
landed at Whnereux in spite of two Custom.heu-ei
officer,. They tn.rched victoriously into Boulogne,
when everybody was in bed, bellowing Virel'Empercur I
Coming to a post of four men and a sergeant they made
a dating attempt, first to seduce, and next to overpower
them. Repulsed in both assaults, the grand army made
off, and arrived at the barracks, where they found two
companies of the 42d Regiment of the Line. Toese coni-
panies seemed to have joined them with shouts of Vive
Napoleon H. I At this triumphant crisis there appeared
a Captain Col-Puygellier, the officer in command. Louis
Napoleon cried to him, "Be one of us, and you shall have
whatever'you wish." Captaiu Col-Puygellit r who had been
disarmed, politely declined to be a traitor. M. de
Persigny then rm,hed up to "kill him," but was pre
vented by a Lieutenant Aladenize, who had previously
deserted to the "Emperor."
The rappel of the National Geerd was now heard, and
Captain Col-Puygellier cried lire le Roi, and told the
"Emperor" to retire. He was about to address the mer,i,
of the 42d, when, ilia back being turned, the " Emperor
fired a pistol at him! The precision of the aim was not
quite equal to the gallantry of the intention, for though
the "Emperor" shot at Captain Col-Puygellier, be :hot
a grenadier in the very mouth which bad bawled Vire
Napoleon 11.
Having thus proved himself his uncle's nephew, and
done more than enough for glory, the Emperor retreated
to his uncle's column, on which the live eagle 'leas to
have perched, and where he " plantedi his copper one.
But though " planted" it did not take root, for, however
valiant, the Emperor was aware that the better part of
valour is discretion ; and so he discreetly retreated to
the beach, where ho valiantly took to the tvriater, ~He
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was hauled into a boat, clapped into limbo, and
ended the expedition to Boulogne,
In due time the Chamber of Peers proe,eded to try
the invaders. Their preclawations, colours, arms, and
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Nap leon, who had been pardoned for his first invasion.
was lightly and mercifully punished for this Second one,
by condemnation to imprisonment at Ham.
It is a historical fact, then, proved by the archives of
the highest French Court of Justice, that Louis Nape.
icon, with his friend Persigny, actually levi,,d, whale a
refugee in England, an army of 53 teen 1 He chartered
an English steamer, which he turned to a ves,el of war.
He printed in England proclamations, declaring than.
the Bourbons had ceased to reign, anti thereby compassed
the dethr nrnrat, ard perhaps the death, of Louis
Philippe, our ally ! N..r were these guilty acts, which
constitute a misdemeanour by our laws, the whole of his
offence against those laws, and the laws of a friendly
Government ; for he invaded its coast, proclaimed him
self Emperor, tampered with its soldiers, and would have
shot its officer in the cxecurion of his duty. After doing
all this, he escaped from the prison in which he was so
leniently confined, fl-d again to England, and was again
protected I y her, and now, by his mouthpiece, denounces
the laws which both of them violated with impunity ! It'
is bard to say which is most revolting—their ingratitude
or insolence !
The most: disgraceful incident in the expedition to
Boulogne was-the, attempt on the life of Captain Col-
Pnygellier, by both Louis'Napoleon and Persigny. Capt
Col-Puygelder was disarmed, and his men had joined
the Bonapartists. Louis Napoleon offered him whatever
he wished if he would only declare for him, and Captain
Puygellier, having nobly ref used to desert his .flag and
King, Persigny endeavoured to bayonet him ! The
following exaeie. from the trial chows how this intention
was viewed by the Chamber of Peers :
‘• il, Persigny, having been next interrogated, ad.
mitttcl that he landed at Witnereux, being informed of
the Prince's ohj-ct, hilt not in detail. He was, he said,
at the barracks near the Prince, and when Captain Cel-
Puygellier came, would have killed him, had he not been
prevented by M. Aladenize I

" President—Killed him. It would have been murder
4,M. Persigny—l would have killed him, but it would
have been face to face.
" President—You went up with a mu,ket and fixed
bayonet Yon.anaulii.heme_rous,.dered him
" M. PersignyL-I have made my declaration : I have
nothing to add. I have brought my head here, let them
take it."

So this Ambassador, who reads us lectures on a-isaa,
nation, ard ,emands repressive laws against the freedom
of the press, clubs, private and public meetings, was
ready to bayonet an unarmed man because he would
not be a traitor, and was only prevented by a manly
traitor from being aco war ily assassin He was told
this twice to his face by the President of the'Court of
Peers, and be shamelessly repeated that, if he could,
" he would have been" a " murderer 1"

What Persigny, or Fialin (fcr his real name is Fittlin),
was not permitted to do, Louis Napoleon attempted.
He fired at Puygellier when his back was turned, and
only missed him, it teems, by his own account, because
his courage failed him ! The trial supplies us with the
authentic version of this great Napoleonian feat.
The following is the question put to the "Emperor,"
and tLe " Emperor's" reply
Question —"Did you not, finding that you c)uld not
wiu Captain Col Puygellier to your cause, fire a pistol at
that officer !

Answer.—" There are moments when we do that of
which we are unconscious. The pistol went off against
my will."

Such are tl.e men who insult England as "a den of
wild beasts" and "assassin,,” and such is their right to
arraign her laws, and to demand the abrogation of them.
Napoleon the First, ou his deathbed, deliberately jus-
tiged assassination, and Napoleon the Third adopted his
will, and paid his legacy to the assassin. His ambas.
sailor in Ei:gland at this moment was accused from the
highest judgment seat in France with being willing to
" murder ;" and, being so accused, he had the cynical
audacity to tell the Court that he was I Napoleon the
Third was hioiself within an ace of doing what Pereigny
" would" have dune; and his defence against the charge
uf murder was thu plea of cowardic., that "the pistol
went off against his will !"—.Correspondent of the Morn-
ing Advertiier,

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SATURDAY MORNING.
THE NEW IRISH REFORM BILL.

The Fraeman's Journal of this morning gives the
following account of the Irish Reform Bill
"In England 26 seats will be affected in the dis-
franchising direction. One portion of these seats
will be taken from boroughs having less than 300
electors, and the other from boroughs now return-
ing two members, with constituencies less than 500.
The latter class of boroughs will be properly limited
to one member. -In Ireland the disfranchising
principle will not be on so extensive a scale, but
sufficiently large to affect the borough representa-
tion very considerably. In England the minimum
is to be 300—in Ireland, 200 electors. According
to the latter scale, eight constituencies will be dis-
franchised—New/toss, Ennis, Enniskillen, Athlone,
Dungannon, Kinsale, Cashel, and Portarlington.
If the English scale we.e adopted, six other consti-
tuencies would share the fate of the former—Lis-
burn, with 217 constituents ; Carlow, 208 ' • Bandon,
205 ; Mallow, 243 ; Coleraine, 296 ; and Dundalk,
294. Some in tha second category will have a very
narrow escape. Bandon will exceed the statutable
minimum by only five, Carlow by eight, and Lis-
burn by 17. It is hard that Now Ross, for instance,
with 193 electors, should be disfranchised, while
Bandon, with only a dozen more, remains un-
touched. We thought the principle of the Scotch
district burghs would be applied to the smaller
class of boroughs where the constituency did not
amount to 500, and we think that a fairer principle
of representation than handing over the eight seats
of the disfranchised boroughs to be distributed
among the larger counties and boroughs. It is, no
doubt, absurd that such a place as Portarlington,
with its 86 voter s, should return one of the 658
members who represent the British empire, and
that Kinsale and Enniskillen, with their com-
bined 300 votes, should have the same
weight in the division list as the members for
the counties of Cork, Tipperary, or Down. The
M.nisterial sweep, at any rate, is not ene-sided.
With the stern impartiality of death it crushes
friend and foe. If Mr. Tottenham and Mr. Knox
be ejected from New Ross and Dungannon, Mr.
Ennis and Mr. Heard undergo the same fate in
Athlone and Kinsale. If the Attorney-General has
to seek a Parliamentary provision elsewhere than
in Ennis, so has his political adversary, Mr. White-
side, who takes his farewell of Enniskillen. If Sir
Timothy O'Brien bids adieu to Cashel, so does Col.
Damar to Portarlington. Thus the ruin is fairly
distributed—four Conservatives condoling with four
Liberals. What is to be done with Galway ? Shall
it retain two members, or be cut down to one, or
be altogether annihilated ? We should consider the
last unfair, for that would be to punish an upright 1
minority for the acts of a corrupt majority. The
remedy for the evils incident to Galway, Sligo, and
other towns not burdened with a public conscience
would be the enlargement of the constituencies,
not their extinction. Will any person pretend that
Carlow, Bandon, or Lisburn, which are to retain
their places in the representation, are purer than
Athlone, Kinsale, or Portarlington, or that the
last three should be disfranchised because they fall
below the constituencies of the first three by a dozen
vottrs I The line no doubt must be drawn some-
where, and the English limitation was inapplicable
to Ireland, for it would affect not only the eight
small boroughs, but also Lisburn, Carlow, Bandon,
Mallow, Youghal, Do wnpatrick, Coleraine, Dun-
dalk, or 16 out of the 41. borough seats. Any
intermediate number between 300 and 200 would
be considered arbitrary and intended to reach
Conservative constituencies. No such objection
could lie against the limitation adopted, because it
affects alike the supporters and opponents of the
Government, and we are bound to say appears to
have been selected without the slightest reference
to party results."
PROSECUTION OF THE MAYO PRIESTS.
The Lord Chief Justice has fixed Tuesday the
16th of February for the trial of the Rev. Mr. Con-
way. The Crown solicitor andtheattorn
weyfitohr thehe
defendant were furnished on Wednesday
list of 48 names of jurors drawn by ballot, and
yesterday the parties met in the Crown-office with
a view of reducing the list to 24. The first twelve
answering to their names will form the jury to try
the case. A defence fund for the priest
d is warmly
recommended by the Raw:
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Dublin, bas been undertaken by the Crown as a
recompense for the change of venue.

RIBAND LEGISLATION.
The following statement appears in the Leinster
Express of this day
" An investigation was held at Donadea Petty
Sessions, before his Grace the Duke of Leinster and
other magistrates, on Monday last, in reference to
a printed notice of a most atrocious character which
had been recently posted in that part of the county
of Kildare. The notice was addressed to Mr. Chris-
topher Rynd, the agent of the estate of Mr. Conway
R. Dobbs, requiring him to change certain arrange-
ments upon the property, or that he would he com-
pelled to quit ths: country, with sundry other
threats. The result of the inquiry has been the
committal upon very conclusive testimony of a
farmer who had been formerly a tenant upon the
estate, and whe upon his removal had been most
liberally treated, and paid a- mum excieeding the

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among the. peasant; yof K.ldare. O 4( Trfte4t,
the ourrAge th-4 tenantry Mr. Dobbs prom
met and passed a series of resolfitiOnt4 R
and denouncing the- cowardly and atrocidusAett
of the Notice, and subscribing nearly 3001. &
reward for the discovery of the concecture of-the
document.
COMMERCIAL FAILIIRILS.
Tlie Dublin Gazette of last 'night notifies the
bankruptcy of five banses—three trading in Dubin
and two in ..the Troviree-s. • Oue -of the Dublin
failures—Arthur M'Kenna, trading under the firm
of Arthur lelienna and Son, timber merchants,
has caused some surprise in mercantile circles, as
the house was long believed to be 0114 of the safest
in the city. NQ statement has yet appeared of the
liabilities.
FLOATING THE LEVIATHAN.
Yesterday afternoon the long-protracted process
of launching this vessel was happily brought to a
sucetssful termination, and the Leviathan was
fl,ated off her ways and -towed to her moorings in
:the river. The whole affair was effected with such
.perfect regularity, and with so much the appearance
of its being quit e a matter of course and everyday
occurrence, that it is almost difficult to eli.cover
any incident to distinguish it from other events of
the same kind which take place along
,the river's
bank .at each full tide. It was resolved on Friday
night that the attempt to haul her to her moorings
should be made on the following day, and to this
end all the necessary preparations and precautions
were duly arranged. But within a couple of hours
after this decision had been made every arrange-
ment was frustrated and all the plans overturned
by the sudden chance of wind. Friday afternoon's
high tide gave a depth of 18 feet 2 inches under her
stern ; the tide of Friday night should have been
some 4 or 5 inches higher, but the change of wind
kept it down to loss than 15 feet.

Towards Saturday morning the breeze steadily
inexeased, sweeping across the river full on to the

Nave driven her high and dry back again to her old
position in the yard had she once floated even for
five minutes. With the break of day, therefore,
Capt. Harrison, with whom alone rested the res-
ponsibility of taking her to her berth, decided
against floating her on Saturday, and. immediately
Kll the pumps and auxiliary engines were set to
work to pump back again the water ballast of
which, to the extent of some 3,000 tons, she had
been lightened during the night.
Saturday's weather justified all these precautions
to the fullest extent. The wind kept kick the tide,
so that, even empty of ballast, the Leviathan wonli
scarcely have floated ; while at the same time it
blew with a pressure of nearly 150 tons upon the
monster's broadside. Any one practically acquainted
with towing difficulties will see at once that an
attempt to haul her off 'under such circumstances
would have been absolute madness. Even under
the most favourable view of the case she must have
gone ashore at once, or, failing this, have swept
broadside up the stream, tugs and all, when she
would have entirely settled the question as to the
supremacy of the river, and put the Great Eastern
Steam Navigation Company into the Gazetts in half
an hour.

Nothing of this kind, however, was to be appre-
hended yesterday. The weather was fine, clear,
and calm, with scarcely any breeze, and what little
there was all in favour of the vessel and a high
tide. The public had been so often disappointed
as to the launch that, although it seemed generally
known that yesterday was the best and highest tide,
and that, if ever, she would float on that day; the
prospect of her floating at all seemed quite as ge-
nerally disbelieved. The presence of all the work-
men in the yard yesterday, therefore, was regarded
as a thing of no account, and not till the huge
monitor actually floated did the preparations for
hauling her off seem to excite much interest.

The tide ran up with unusual swiftness, and as
the flood relieved the weight upon the launching
ways some of the hydraulic machines were set to
work for the last time, t.) push the monster as far
as possible into the centre of the iver. She moved
easily, and with such a low rate of pressure that a
short time gave an advance of 80 inches, which
showed that more than half the cradles were quite
pushed off the ways and rested on the river bot-
tom. At half-past 1 the men in the row boats sta-
tioned alongside observed that she na longer rested
on the cradles—that' she' was, in fact, afloat, but, of
course, the transition was so gradual that few were
aware of it until the tugs began steaming ahead,
and showed that at last she was fairly under way.
Then the cheers which arose from the yard min
from the decks, from the boats in the river, and
the crews of the ships at anchor up and down the
stream, spread the great news far and wide, and
thus under the most favourable circumstances the
Leviathan commenced her first voyage on the
Thames.

Two powerful tugboats were at her bows apd two
wero fastened astern. Other steamers also were in
attendance and rendered their aid, but the efforts of
the four wo have mentioned were mainly instru-
mental in managing her. At first the efforts of
those ahead seemed to have little effect, and when at
length some way was made on her it was abruptly
checked by one of the paddlewheels fouling the
cradles. It took some time to clear her of this
obstacle, but at length it was accomplished; her
head was let swing partly round with the tide, and
the steamers began moving her slowly, but very
slowly, forward, clear of the cradles. These, as
our readers are aware, were composed of immense
balks of timber, on which the vessel's bottom rested,
and which her weight alone kept down. The
police, therefore, had to take unusual precaution
yesterday to keep all boats clear of her while the
wrecks of the cradles plunged up in tremendous
Rams as each was released by the onward move-
ment of the Leviathan.

It was curious to see these huge groups of beams
em e emerge
th
e freo m
waterthe river,rising
feet, w
rapidlyith afroslmo theh sur-
faceheavy
moment, and then falling over with a great crash
that churned the water into foam around them.
Some, broken and splintered by the violence with
which they were thrown against each other, formed
a loose tangle of timber work, and went slowly
drifting up the river in little islands, which rose
some four or five feet from the water. Others,
long after the great mass had floated up, came
plunging to the surface, falling about in a way that
showed the necessity of the precautions taken by
the police, and the certain destruction that would
have overwhelmed any boat within their reach.
Soon after the cradles wererm ow cleared,rhloyicnhu,std and
moored
occasion,
o
sur-
face of the river covered with their fragments, the
tt the
e pull with
her
downwards
woin ewn Leviathanadrodussf ocuhl:i fouled
towards the barges
ere fformerly
river.
to judge from the liberal proffers of advice from all
a
sides, everybody on deck seemed eminently skilled
in dealing with impracticable barges, and it was
quite refreshing to hear how the men in the barge
were desired to undo mooring chains and cast off
hawsers which it has been the business of the last
three months to fasten and rivet firmly; but at last
Captain Harrison got a hearing, and under his
directions, every remonstrance which sledge-
hammers and axes could urge on the refractory
tackle having been used in vain, it was decided to
scuttle the barge. This expedient was, of course,
decisive, and the Leviathan was again got under
way and brought slowly down to her moorings
opposite Deptiord. Here she was instantly made
fast stem and stern to the Government moorings in
the centre of the river, at a part where even at low
water she will have almost double the depth re-
quired to float her. By the time she was fairly
moored the news of her being afloat had spread up
and down the river, and the Thames was almost
covered with small boats, which rowed around her,
and some of which were laden to the water's edge
with men, women, and children. FortanatelY, no
accident took place, and the tiny fleet that followed
in the wake of the Leviathan, and
which Luqaduietn
e
banks re-echo their prolonged -cheering, tly
dispersed before nightfall.

ROYAL FREE HosrizsA GRAT's-INN-isOAD.—The
of patients relieved at this hospital daring the
number
inlaw
1 is 2,587, of which 418 wire
week endg Jan.. 6
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