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

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1858,

lIER MAJESTY'S DRAWING-BOOM.

Her Majesty the Queen held a Drawing-room on
Saturday afternoon at St. James's Palace, for the pur-
pose of receiving congratulations on the 'happy event of
the Royal nuptials. The Court MU very numerously
attended.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince
Consort, attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in
Waiting, arrived from Buckingham Palace soon after 2
o'clock, escorted by a detachment of Life Guards. The
Great Officers of State Teueived the Queen, and conducted
her and the Prince 0 PO.-Rejqeejegictsct•
The Prince and Prineviii Frederick William of
Prussia arrived at a quarter paet.2 o'clock, attended by
Lady Churchill, Countess Perponcher, Countess Marie
zu Lynar, Countess Wally von Hobenthal, Sir Frederick
Stovin, Count Perponcher, Baider Ernest Stockmar,
General von Schreckenetein, Major-General von Moitke,
Captain %on Schweinitz, Lieutenant von Zastrow, Dr.
Wegner, and Captain von Lindern.
Their Royal Highnesses were escorted by a party of
Life Guards, and were received at St, James's Palace
by the Vice-Chamberlain, who conducted the Prince
and Princess to the Royal closet.
The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary,
the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Saxe-Coburg,
arrived, and were received by the Vice-Chamberlain.
Their Serene Highnesses Prince Edward of Saxe
Weimar, the Prince of Leiningen, and Prince Victor
of Hoheulobe, and his Highness the Maharajah Disuleep
Singh also attended the Drawing-room.
Her Majesty's body guard of the Hon. Corps of
Gentlemen-at-Arms was on duty in the State saloons,
under the command of the Lieutenant.
The sub-officers Lieut.-Colonels Nevill and Cooke
were on duty with the corps. The Yeomen of the
Guard were uuder the command of Capt. Sir John
Kincaid, the Exon in Waiting.
The Queen and the Prince Consort entered the
Throne-room, accompanied by the Prince and Princess
Frederick William of Prussia, the Duchess of Cambridge,
the Princess Mary, the Duke of Cambridge the Duke
of Saxe-Coburg, Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, the
Prince of Leiningeo, Prince Victor of ilohenlohe, and
the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh.
In attendance were the Duchess of Sutherland, Mis-
tress of the Robes ; the Countess of Desert (in Waiting);
the Duchess of Wellington, the Duchess of Athol!, the
Cenetess of Gainsborongh, and the Viscountess Jocelyn,
Ladies of the Bedchamber ; Hon. Eleanor Stanley On
Waiting), Hon. Miss Stopford (ea Waiting), Hon. Misses
Kerr, talteel, Cavendish, Macdonald, Byng, and Cath-
cart, Maids of Honour ; Viscountess Forbes, Lady
Charlotte Copley, Viscountess+ Chewton, Lady Caroline
Barrinaton, and Lady Gardiner, Women of the Bed-
chamber ; the Marquis of Breadalbane, K.T., Lord
Cnaniberlaie ; the Earl of St. Germains, G.C.8., Lord
Steward ; the Duke of Wellington, Master of the Horse;
the Marquis of Abercorn, K.G., Groom of the
Stole to the Prince ; Lord Ernest Bruce, Vice
Chamberlain ; Viscount Castlerosse, Controller of the
Household ; Lord de Tabley, Lord in Waiting ; Lord
George Lennox, Lord in Waiting to his Royal High
ness ; Colenel the Hon. Charles Phipps, Keeper of Her
Majesty's Privy Purse ; Major-General the Hon Clerics
Grey, Private Secretary to his Royal Highness ; Cul.
the Hon. A. N. Hood, Groom in Waiting ; Colonel
Francis Seymour, C. 8., Groom in Waiting to his Royal
Highness ; Lord Alfred Paget, Clerk Marshal ; Lieut..
Colonel Ponsonby, Equerry in Waiting to his Royal
Highness ; and Messrs. Farquharson and Macpherson,
Pages of Honour in waiting.
His Rye! Highness the Prince Consort was on the
right of the Queen, her Royal Highness the Princess
Frederick William was on her Majesty's left, with his
Royal Highness Prince Frederick William of Prussia
standing by her side.

Ttie Queen w ,re a train of cereeo and silver brocaded
silk, trimmed with silver blonde and bows of cerese satin
riband. The petticoat white satin, trimmed with bouil.
lonnee of silver blonde and branches of camel s. The
drers ornamented with diamonds.

Her liaj•3sty wore a diadem of diamon& and feathers.
The Pri❑cess Frederick William of Prussia wore a
dreli of white moire antique, trimmed with satin ruche.,
white roses, and jasmine. The petticoat, white moire
antique with deep flounces of Honiton lace, trimmed to
correspond with the train. The corsage was ornamented
with diamonds.
Her Royal Highness wore a diadem of diamonds and
a neck less of peach.

The Duchess of Cambridge wore a petticoat of mauve
silk with six flounces of white lace. The train, mauve
moire antique, trimmed to correspond with the dress.
A. diamond stomacher and a necklace of emeralds and
diamonds

Her Royal Highness wore a diamond tiara.
The Princess Mary of Cambridge wore a bine crepe
petticoat trimmed with flounces of Iloniton lace, looped

up wish bouquets of roses. A train of bine moire an-
tique trimmed with Honiton lace, to correspond with
the dress. A stomacher of diamonds and pearls.
Necklace and ear-rings of pearls and diamonds.
Her Royal Highness headdress was formed of a dia-
dem of diamonds, feathers, and Honiton lace lappets,
with diamond ornaments.

The Diplomatic Corps was introduced, when Baron de
Miltitz, Marechal de la Cour de Son Altesse l• Due de

Nassau, was presented to the Queen by the Netherlands

Minister.

The Diplomatic Corps was attended by the French
Ambassador and Countess de Pereigny, Count Georges
de La Bedoyere, Chambellan de l'Easperetir, Deputi au
Corps Legislatif, Gwneral Prince de la Moskowa, Count
do Jancourt, Baron de Damprerie, M, de Monicoult ;

the Turkish Ambassador and Madame Musurus, Princi
A. Yogarid es, Conseiller, Kbalib Effendi, First Secretary

Salih Pasha, General de Division ; the three Ambassa-
d( rs from the Kiege of Siam and suite ; Mr. Fowls,
Lieutenant Clavering, R.N., Dr. Tweedie ; the Belgian
Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, Mr. H. Solvyn,
(Coneeiller) and Madame Solvyn, Octave Delepierre
(Secretary), Madame, and Mademoiselle Delepierre ;
the Bavarian Minister and Baroness de Cetto ; Count
Kielmansegge, the Hanoverian Minister ; Marquis

d'Azeglio, Sardinian Minister ; the Greek Minister and
Madame Tricoupi, Mademoiselie Tricoupi, M. Charilaus
Tricoupi (Secretary of Legation) ; Baron Bentinck, the
Netherlands Minister ; the Portuguese Minister and
Countess de Lavradio, Chevalier d'Oliveira (Secretary),

Chevalier de Mendoca, and Chevalier de Santos, At-
taches ; Count Bernstorff, the Prussian Minister, Baron
Langan, Attache, M. Meyers Jauitchka, M. Ernest de
Bunsen (Conseiller), and Madame de Bunsen ; the Bra-
zilian Minister and Madame de Carvalho Moreira, Che-

valier Agniar de Andrada (Secretary) and Madame
Agniar de Andrada, Chevalier Pereia de Andrada,
Attache ; the Minister from the United States of
America and Mrs. Dallas, Miss Dalas, Mr. P. N.
Dallas (Secretary), Mr. Benjamin Moran, Assistant-
Secretary of Legation ; Count Apponyi, the Austrian
Minister, Count Karolyi and Count Chotek, Secre.
taries, Baron C. Franckenstein, Attache ; the Russian
Minister and Countess Cbreptowitch ; Count Iritz-
thorn, the tSaxon Minister ; the Minister from Sweden
and Norway, and Countess Platen, Mr. Collett, Secre-
tary of Legation; Admi►ral-Dockum, the Danish Mini-
ster, Count Reventlow Secretary, Count
Moltke, Attach 4, Count Melialat A.ttach4 ; Mr. Rucker,
the Hans Towns Minister Resident; the Tuscan Mini-
ster ; Baron Linstant de Pradine, Haytian Charge
d'Affaires, Mr. D. Lespinasse, Secretary to the Mission ;
M. Conte, Spanish Charge d'Affaires, and Madame
Conte ; Count Redern, Countess de la Bedoyere, M. de
hue!, Baron and Baroness de Nioolaij, Princesse Littman
de Beauvau-Craon, Count de Torre Diaz ; the Earl of
Clarendon, the Queen's Principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs ; the Countess of Clarendon, and Major-
General the Hon, Sir Edward Cast, K.C.H., her
Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies.

Madame Bernstorff, and the Mexican Minister and
Madame, Almonte were prevented by indisposition from
attending the Queen's Drawing-room. The Countess
Apponyi and the Minister from Guatemala were also
unavoidably prevented from being present.
After the Foreign Diplomatic Circle the general cow.
pany were introduced. The Bridesmaids of her Royal
Highness the Princess Frederick William of Prussia,
Lady Cecilia Gordon Lennox, Lady Susan Pelham Clin-
ton, Lady Katherine Hamilton, Lady Emma Stanley,
Lady Constance Villiers, Lady Susan Murray, Lady
Cecilia Molynenx, and Lady Victoria Noel assembled,
and entered the Throne Room together.

The General Circle was attecded by the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Lord
President ; the Marquis of Lansdowne ; the Marquis of
Clanricarde, Lord Privy Seal ; Viscount Palmerston,
First Lord of the Treasury : the Right Hon, Sir George
Grey, Secretary of State for the Home Department ;
Lord Paumure, Secretary of State for War ; the Right

Hcn. li. Labouchere, Secretary of State for the Colonies ;
Sir C. Wood, First Lord of the Admiralty; Lord Stanley
of Alderley, President of the Board of Trade ; the Right
Hon. R. V. Smith, President of the Board of Control ;
the Right Hoe, M. T. Baines, Chancellor of the Mislay of
Lancaster ; Lord Foley, Captain of the Hon. Corps of
Gentleman-at-Arms ; Viecennt Sydney, Captain of the
Yeomen of the Guard; Field-Marshal Viscount Comber
mere Gold Stick in Waiting ; the Earl of Beesborough,
Master of the Buckhounde ; 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
Rolls, the Right Hon, Lord Chief Justice Cockburn,
the Chancellor of the Dutchy of Cornwall, the Vice.
Chancellor, Sir Richd. T. Kindersley ; Tice-Chancellor
Sir William Page Wood, the JtOge.Advocate-General,
the Lord Mayor and 474-ady4layorees, Lieut.. Col,
Tepham, the Lieut. of the,,ti&i.;krirpe of Gentlemen-at.
Arms; Major-Gen. Phil'. 6,
~64,4114, of ler Majesty's
Yeomen of the Guard ; the A.4-torpfskGeperal, the Soli-
citor-General, Mr. Horatio WaddingbeneUieder-Secretary
of State, Home Department Mr. R. Ormsby Gore and
the Hon. M. Sackville West, Groom in Waiting to her
Majesty; Mr. Sheriff Lawrence, Mr. Sheriff Allen, Major
Rarmar, Standard.bearer of the Flom Corps of Gentle-
men at Arms ; Sir George Houlton, Ensign of the Yeo-
man 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
Nasal Aide-de-Camp ; Colonel Begot, Her Majesty's
Assistant Ma,ler of the Ceremonies ; Lieutenant-Colonel
Howard Vyee,2d Life Cnarrie,-Silver Stick in Waiting;
Major-General Buckley, Equerry to the Queen ; Captain
de Roe, Equerry to his Royal Highness the Prince
Consort ; Colonel Sir George Couper, Bart., First
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.
Caw of Gentlemen at Arms ; Sir Win. Martins, Gentle-
man Usher to the Sword of State ; Hon. Spencer Pen-
eunby, Controller of the Lord Cuamberlain's Department;
the Attorney-General to the Prince of Wales ; Mr,
Frederick Elliot, Assistant Under Secretary, Colonial
Department; Col. Lord Dyrievor ; Col. Bloomfield, Royal
Artillery; Colonel Napier, C. 8.; Cept. the Hon. James
Drummond, C.B. (Royal Navy); Colonel Foster (Royal
Engineer)) ; Hon. Capt. F. Pellrem, R.N. ; Col. Tait,
C.B ; Capt. Robb, R.N. ; Col. Montagu M‘Murdo, and
Colonel Brooke (Scots Fusileer Guards), Aides-de-Camp
to her Majesty the Queen; Sir Benjamin Q Brodie, Ser-
geant-Surgeon ; Sir IL Holland, Physician in Ordinary
to her Majesty; Mr. Fergusson, Surgeon ExA.aordisary
to the Queen ; Mr. Win. RainpeLire, 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 Hebler, 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 Delco of M eeklenburg-Sch werin; Mr. 11.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. Henenge, Genthonan Usher to the Privy Chamber;
Commander R. I'. Bedford, Gentleman Usher to her
mitiesgeher to his in
nWaiting
; Dr. Lyon Piayfair, C. 8., Gentle-
Royal Highness Prince Albert in
Waiting.

Her Majesty had a dinner party in the evening. The
company included —Their 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 liohenlobe. The

French Ambassador and the Countess Persigny, the
Prussian Minister, Lady Anna Maria DAWEeO73, Levy
Geraldine Smnerset, the Count and Countess Perpon-
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Cher, the Countess Wally von llohentlial, the Countess

Marie zu Lynar, General von b'chreckenstein, Major-

General von Moltke, Capt. von Sob weinitz, Lieut. von
Zsetrow, Baron Er..., et Stoekrkar, Capt. von Lindern,
-*rept diTivkiry,,,X.,Senzr.er,l4o cleni;eptan in Weit-
iug,o4 o....p'nefiese "
and the puke of Cambridge, Dr.
Wegner, Lieut.-Gen. Sir F. Stovin, and Mr. Gibbs.
The band of the Grenadier Guards attended in the
Palace and performed daring dinner.

Overture Meadclesohu.
Walser, " Rose of Castillo "
Selection, " Secilian Vespers "
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Ballabile, "Casilda "

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His Royal Highness the
****************** Duke of Saxe Coburg.
Pas Redoubli.i ........................... Bender.
The Queen had afterwards an evening party, to which
the following had the honour of being invited :—His
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 Pelhain Clitton, the Mar-
gals and Marchioness of Abe:cora and the Ladies
Louisa and Katherine Hamilton, and the Countess of
Derby and Lady E. Stanley, the Earl and Countess •f
Clarendon and Lady C. Villiers, the Countess of Gains-
boreugh and Lady V. Noel, the Countess of Dunmore
and the Ladies S. and C. Murray, the Countess of Sef-
ton and LadyC. Molyaeux, the Ylarquis and Marchioness
of Breadalbane, Colonel F. 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 Mule E. Seymour, Viscount and
Viscountess Sydney, and Lord and Lady Churchill.

THE LEGACY TO CANTILLON 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 computed 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-mell
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, and her freedom, naturally got the lion's share.
These victims, 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 there ; and if,
when they met, it was to curse and conspire, he furnished
the excuse and opportunity.
French despotism trembled whileFrencbmen were free
in Brussels or in London. It accordingly bullied the Bel-
gian Government, and it intrigued with the British one,
to proscribe ag.in the procsribed. 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 Palmer-
ston's Government has been "invited" to introduce an
Alien Act, and intrigue having failed, insolence is tried,
and Great Britain is lobllied like Belgium.
What the Emperor of the French is aiming at is an
arbitrary law of extradition. It is not British justice
that 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 abject
or Collusive Minister What no public tribunal would give
him, and every art and threat are reoldesely employed
to coax or force the British people to sacrifice its noblest
rights.
The abhorrence of men for assassination is esgerly
seized as a capital pretextfor this fresh and fierceassault
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 I 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 tools in France and
England is not quite uniform, of course, menaces and
insults being covert here, and fierce and undisguised
abroad. Count Persigny professes a hypocritical respect
for the laws he requires us to cancel; while De Morny
calls England "a lair of wild beasts," and colonels,
whose fury the Emperor fans by its insertion in th©
Moniteur, 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 prtorians shout the same thing,
and Count Persignyaffirms that assassination is "recom-
mended in our clubs, papers, and writings !"
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 Couat Persigny has been charged
as an assassin, and Louie Napoleon as abetting one, and
both have conspired, under cover of cur laws, against
the Crown, if not the life, of "a foreign prince in
alliance to us." It was in the case of Cantilion that
Louis Napolean abetted an assassin, and it was in
the expedition to Boulogne that Persigny was charged
one. Since the Peopls of England is acctsm,ql by
both of complicity with assassination, that People
should knew on what moral ground those who accuse it
stand.

As the Duke of Wellington was riding in hi 2 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 not
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 &legacy, but bequeathed it on the ground of his
attempt to murder, and formally jo,tified aesassinati n
This immoral bequest and more infamous dootrine werel
contained in the fifth legacy et the fourth codicil of the
testament, which was, verbatint, 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 which be was
declared innocent. Cantillon bad as much right to assas-
sinate this oligarch as he had to scud me to perish o❑
the rock of St. Helena. Wellington, who proposed this
attentati *ought to justify it in the interest of Great
Biitain. Cantillon, if he'had really assassinated the lord,
would hays been covered and justified by ' the
same motive, the interest of France, in ridding himself
of a general who had violated the capitulation of Paris,
and who, by that, had rendered himself responsible f,:r
the blood of the martyrs Ney, Labidoyhre, (te,, and for
the crime of having stripped the museums, contrary to
the text of treaties.

"This present codicil is entirely written with our
hand, signed and sealed with ray arms.
(Signed) "NAPOLEON."
There does not exist in the historical records 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. Cautillon had
the same right to assassinate Lord Wellington as Lord
Wellington to propose the banishment of the common
pest of Europe 1 Cantillon was justified i© 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 nnhonoured and unrewarded
whilst Louis Napoleon continued responsible to real
legislative control. But when he " saved society,"
established "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 to Cantillon has
been cpenly preferred again and again, and it has never
been rebutted ! If he made that payment Napoleoa the
Third paid blood-money to an assassin, by virtue of a
deed which justified assassination. Qui capit facit,he who
carries out an act becomes 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 involved immorality or
crime. If he did not he makes himself amenable to its
logical, or legal consequences, and if he paid Cantillon
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 reflections, 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 steearner, embarked in her with Count Mon-
tholon', General Voisin, fifty-three men 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-silt e .glee were made, and the proclamations
were all drawn up and duly printed in London. When
on deck the men were dramatically dressed in the im
perial uniform, and Louis Napoleon came out en grand
tenet as the Commander-in-Chief, The proclamations
were addressed to the French nation, declared that the
Bourbene had ceased to reign, and nominated the Coun-
cil of htate of the nephew of the uncle.
At 5 a.m. of the oth of August, the invading army
landed at Wimereux in spite of two Custom-house
officers. They marched victoriously into Boulogne,
when everybody was in bed, bellowing Vire l'Empereur I
Coming to a post of four men and a sergeant they made
a daring 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. These com-
panies seemed to have joined them with shouts of Vire
Napoleon 11. / At this triumphant crisis there appeared
a Captain Col-Pnygellier, the officer in command. Louis
Napoleon cried to him, "Be one of us, and you shall have
w hatever'you wish." Captain Col-Paygellier wbo had been
disarmed, politely declined to be a traitor. M. de
Persigny then rushed up to "kill him," but was pro
vented by a Lieutenant Aladenizs, who had previously
deserted to the "Emperor."
The rappel of the National Guard was now heard, an. (el
Captain Col-Puygellier cried Vire lc Roi, and told tt
" Emperor" to retire. He was about to address the men
of the 42d, when, his 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 h thoughe
the "Emperor" shot at Captain Col-Puygellier, that
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a grenadier in the very mouth which had bawled ice
Napoleon 11. .1
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 was to
have perched, and where be " planted" hie 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 be valiantly took to the water. Ho
was hauled into a boat, clapped into limbo, and thus
ended the expedition to Boulogne.
In due time the Chamber of Peers proceeded to try
the invaders. Their proclamations, colours, arms, and
accoutrements, as well as themselves, were produced.
Defence was difficult, denial was impossible, and Louis

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Napoleon, 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 Napo-
leon, with his friend Persigny, actually levied, while a
refugee in England, an army of 53 men I He chartered
an English steamer, which he turned to a vessel of war.
He printed in England proclamations, declaring that
the Bourbons had ceased to reign, and thereby compassed
the dethrtnsment, and perhaps the death, of Louis
Philippe, our ally 1 Nor 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 waist, proclaimed him-
self Emperor, tampered with its soldiers, and would have
shot its officer in the execution of his dutjr. After doing
all this, he escaped from the prison in which he was so
leniently confined, fled again to England anti .7vas again
protected by her, and now, by his' moutbp'ece, denounces
the laws•which both of them violatid with impunity ! It
is hard to say which is moat revolting--their ingratitude
Or insolence
The most disgraceful incident in the expedition to
Boulogne was the attempt on the 'life of Captain Col-
Puygellier, by both Louis Napoleon'and Persigny. Capt.
Col-Puygellier was disarmed, and ,hie men •had joined
the Bonapartist!. Louis Napoleon offered him whatever
be wished if he would only declare for him, and Captain
Puygellier, having nobly iefased to desert his flag and
King; Persigny endeavoured to; bayonet -him ! Ttie
following extract from the trial chows how this intention
was viewed by the Chamber of Peers : •
"M. Persigny, having been next interrogated, ad—
witted that he landed at Witnereux, being informed of
the Prince's object, but not in detail. He wee, he said,
at the barracks near the Prince, and when Captain Cl..t,
Puygellier came, would have killed him; had he not been I
prevented by M. Aladenize 1 -
rreslaest-4Pleckhita. 11 would have beim Aitir4er
-4‘lll. Pereigiay*l Weald,hase killed him) batit Woad
have been face to face.

" President—You went up with a musket and fixed
bayonet I You would have murdered him !
" M. Persigny—l have made my declaration : I have
nothing to add. I have brought my bead 'here, let them
biro it,"
So this Ambassador, who reads us lectures on Assn' !-
nation, and demands 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 a cowarily assassin ! He was told
this twice to his face by the President of the Court of
Peers, and he shamelessly repeated that, if be could,
" he would have been" a " murderer !"

What Persigny, or Fialin (for his real name is Fialin),
Teas not permitted to do, Louis Napoleoi attempted.
He fired at Puygellier when his back was turned, and
only missed him, it reems, by bis own account, because
his courage failed him ! The trial supplies us with the
authentic version of this great Napoleonian feat,
Tho following is the question put to the " Emperor,"
and the " Emperor's" reply :
Question.—" Did you not, finding that you amid not
win Captain Col Puygellier to your cause, fire a pistol at
that officer ?
Answer.-L-" There are moments when we do that of
which we are unconscious. The pistol went off against
my will."

Such are the men who insult England as "a den of
wild locaqs" and "n.ssaesim," and Snob is their light to
arraign her laws, and to demand the abrogation of them.
Napoleon the First, on his deathbed, deliberately jus-
tified assassination, and Napoleon the Third adopted his
will, and paid his legacy to the assassin. His amhas.
seder in England at tl-;i4 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 himself within an nce of doing what Persigcy
" would" have done; and his defence against the charge
cf murder was the plea of cowardie-, tbat "the pistol
went off against his will !"--Correspondent of the Morn-
ing Advertiicr,

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SATURDAY MORNING.
THE NEW IRISH REFORM BILL.

The Freeman's Journal of this moaning gives the
t3ll.ntving, account of the Ir sh Reform Bill :

"In England 26 seats will be affected in the dis-
franchising direction. One portion of these teats
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 later class of boroughs will be properly limited
to one member. In Ireland the disfranchising
principle will not be on co extensive a scale, but
sufficiently large to affect the borough representa-
tion very considerably. In England the minimum
is to be 3,QD—in Ireland, 2Q9 elect:ore. According
to the latter scale, eight constituencies will be dis-
t', anchised—Ne w Ross, Ennis, Enniskillen, Athlone,
Dungannon, Kinsale, Cashel, and Portarlington.
If th English scale were 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 the second category will have a very
narrow escape. Bandon will exc,eq the statutable
minimum by only five, Carlow by eight, and Lis-
burn by 17. It is hard that New 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 ptinciple
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 voters, should return one of the 658
members who represent the Brits empire, and
that Kinsale and Enniskillen, with their com-
bined 300 votes, should have the tame
weight in the division list as the members for
the counties of Cork, Tipperary, or Down. The
111'nisterial sweep, at any rate, is not one-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
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
voters 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, Downpatrick, 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.
solicitor Co-
n on w
andtheednatetsday
orneywfitiori thebe
defendant were furnished
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 is warmly
recommended by the Roman Catholic journals.
His expenses, however, will be limited to the pay-
ment of fees to counsel, as the heaviest item in the
bill, the cost of 50 or 60 witnesses from Mayo to
Dublin, has been undertaken by the Crown as a
recompense for the change of venue.

RIBAND LEGISLATION.
The following statement appears in the Lcinster
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 refer ence 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 be com-
pelled to quit the 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 who upon his removal had been most
liberally treated, and paid a emu exceeding the

NE' ER
value of any possible claim he grititate-wgot
interest in his holding."
taitlgpan.g. the, odious titlyeagiAl
-fii,tee]?tt.6 tneitiraYntr°f
y- of
met and passed a series of reaolitiiiinirasapnatit.
d.denouneing the coivardit'altd-atrtieions object
of the notice, and sithicribing nearly 3001._as a
reward_for the di,soovery of !Ur vo,nooptcgp-sA the
document.
comatangur, rATIM4R4 t
11
The Dublin Gazette of last night notitii,i the
bankruptcy of five hoaxes—time trading in.Pnblia
and two in , the provinces. One of -the4Dublia
failures--ArthurAVlCenna, trading unde. e fir=
of Arthur liglienna and Son, timber Meta:tants,
believed to -be;quitinfllia ASA
has caused some surprise in raerein-tifti?iitges, as
in the city. No statement has
liabilities.
the hour was long believed
yeb aevisickt
of
the

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I I I

FLOATING THE LEYIATISTiff.`:;,'

Yesterday afternoon the king-protracted 'process
of launching this vessel was happily7l?r:Oghtto
successful termination,: and the Leviathan was
floated off her ways and towed to her tn,UOr.i:nis in
the river. The whole affair.was dwia: Wjthf -puch
perfect xegularity„and with so much thA appearance
of its being quite. a ,nAtter of COMIB And everyday
occurrence, that it is.almost difficult to discover
any incident to distinguish it front .otla4 e've#.l of
the same kind which take place along .the aver's
bank at each full It war restilved'on.'Friday
night that the attempt to fiauT heitd her Moorings
should be made on the following day, and 'to this
end all the necessary preparations and-precautions
were duly arranged. But withina "c(uple of hours
after this decision had beeti made every arrange-
ment was frustrated 40-4 the 'Plans overturned
by the sudden c'hangebf wind,. Friday atm. oon'o
high tide gave a depthla'teet 2 iichisS7uCidii her
sterk; the tide of Friday night isheesit.
some 4 or 5 inches higher, lAA Abel ehitige "Onrind
kept it. down to.)ssa than 06'4
Toies,rAgi SritUAityf i4rirning.lite breeze steadily
increaied, sweeping across the river full' on to the
I broadside of the Leviathan with such force as would
have driven her. high jtind dry back again to her old
position in the yard had_,she_one_e Iloated_even for
fire 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
all the pumps and auxiliary engines were set to
work to pump back again the water balhist 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 back the tide,
so that, even empty of ballast, the Leviathan woull
scarcely have floated ; while at the same time it
blew with a pressure of nearly 150 tons Upon the
monster's broadsida. 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 mint have
gone ashore at oric,, or, failing this, have swept
broadside up the &ream, 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 Gazette in half
an hour.

Nothing of this kind, however, was to be appre-
hended yesterday. The weather was tine, 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 hunch that, although it seemed generally
known that yesterday was the best and highest tide,
and that, if over, she would 'float on that day, the
.prospect of her floating at all seemed quite-as ge-
nerally disbelieved. The presence of all the:tvork-
mcn in the yard yesterday, therefore, was regarded
as a thing of no account, and not till the huge
monster 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 r iver. Shetnoved
easily, and with such a low rate of pressure that a
short time gave an advance of 80 inches,which
showed that mere 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 no longer rested
ou 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 and
from, the docks, 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.

Turd powerful tugboats were at her bows and two
were fastened astern. Other steamers also were in
attendance and rendered their aid, but the efforts of
the four we have mentioned were mainly instru-
mental in managing her. At first the efforts of
those ahead seemed to have little effect, and whenat
length some way was wade on her it was abruptly
checked by one of the paddl2wheels 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 aro 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, bad to take unusual precaution
yesterday to keep all boats clear of her while the
wreaks of the cradles plunged up in tremendous
masses as each was released by the onward move-
ment of the Leviathan.

It was curious to see these bugs groups of beams
emerge from the river, rising rapidly from the sur-
face of the water 20 or 30 feet, with a slow, heavy
moment, and then falling over with a great,,crash
that churned the water into foam around them.
Some, broken and splintered by the viorence 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

rl
y ich,
usedfragments,m topull her
downwardsn
the police, and the certain destruction that would
or e ah
w theit
have overwhelmed any boat within their reach.
Soon after the cradles were cleared, and the sur-
face of the river coveredlwer© formerly
eg
erbaliretmhs theirew
h
tre
Leviathanedgde from thea rd b
ous chains,
h v
towards
teiri river.
On this occasion,
to proffers of advice from all
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 Deptford. Here.she was instantly made
fast stem and stern to the Government moorings in
the centre of the river, at a part where even A 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. Fortunately, no
accident took place, and the tiny fleet that followed
in the wake of the Leviathan, and which wade the
banks re-echo their prolonged cheering,
dispersed before nightfall. Wetly

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GsAYs.inal-ROAD.—Tie
number of patients relieve at tthis hospital during the
d
week ending Jail. 341 is 2,567, of which 518 were new
QUM