The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-21 00:00:00

THE SUN,

first expressed some sympathy for .the wretched
family, although in the true magisterial spirit he
ieclared that "her distress was no palliation or justi-
fication in law for making away with other people's
property." He was yet unvriliing to send the
miserable creature to prison, and to deprive her un-
employed husband and helpless children of their only
support. He accordingly adjourned the case for a
week, in order that the husband might try
to make up the sum borrowed, Bs. 6d. It
was undoubtedly a work of some difficulty
to maintain a family and put by Bs. 6d. out of
2s. 9d., requiring the skill of that celebrated military
financier,
" Who spent half-a-crown out of sixpence a day."
But it was possible he might obtain employment
in the interval, and thus be enabled to save the wife
of his bosom, to whcm he was so deeply indebted,
who had so patiently laboured on his behalf, from
the degradation of a prison. He might, also, obtain
assistance from his neighbours, for even in the very
humblest breasts there is a fund of charity that might
put some of our wealthiests aristocrats, our most im-
maculate justices to the blush. At all events the ad-
journment was hailed as a boon, and RosINA HER-
BERT was liberated on her own recognizinces, and
returned to her miserable room—to
" Stitch, stitch, stitch,
In poverty, hunger, and dirt,
And still in a voice of dolorous pitch,
To sing the song of a shirt."
There was, however, assistance coming from other
quarters which she had not ventured to. anticipate.
The story of tha_unhappy sempstress was wafted on
the wings' of "The- throughout_ the length and
breadth of the land, and the public sympathy was
;painfully excited on betbalfpc 4 a rclloseluusmeftsyjng
toil' and bitter 15itiatiOnkl;g4civen tn.pl43-4ewover the
• entry of wbiph,"
.;he, , Tecor,cling awgelumisbtihivreit
diopped,a tot, biotted,it oat.for eriexr-*that is
sfsy,.if he had no i.magisterial It.mperietice, ; und• had
nntipresidei-on'tisi bench 'of JustleVit the Ttikaiiis
Ndice-court.
'But the-iciVie cbeii'evedetiCe".ofl. A
. ..„ „,.„ 4g.ip
,(Go 'pie ,itt?Prp).of grigljAhrionleil Itt,salsign3,l4nited.:
:to barteu sympathy, when they. cam ,affqld, more sib-'
istaritidi aksis4ancet..4t the Bitting of4theCourfolitl34
followingituoining PolicOrgAnt Wilted oh fTie:
sitting' 'engistrate' And' '` Infol'nied " fig
'been altecteFlby 4genitleinan:,pitma,g4L9,s,T, resign
'yi.cifniky of tIA court,, to pay,tbq simourit ;advanced
by , the pawnbroker .on, .theheevenp. -Mr.."
YARDLEY, the; absence of his- ceTteligne; pie:
lided,•lleclatect that 'llibe'lntd. lead' tilt: 'r'epor't
being aisUred`piat no
jeption_to,xec.l;;ef*VßS, 4na,OPPi9 tP-,the use;
.intehded by Mr. FirosT.": ~Various other sums •spee-
dily flowed in, and Mr. YARDLEY became virtuously
Indignant at the large amount obtained for the person
who " bad yielded to temptation." On Monday a
gentleman tendered ten Shillings for. the, poor woman,
but Mr. YARDLEY, having made a long oration, to
the effect that more than enough had been already
received to relieve the woman of her' difficulties," and
that "'the honest and virtuous; who did not yield to
temptation, should be encouraged and rewarded, and
not those who coinmitted'offences," tkc.,.:the be-.
nevolent donor was induced to change its destination,
and bestow the money on the poor-box. `,

'lt was manifest that his Worship thought
his •observation?, which were duty' published,
would have arrested the charitable stream
that was flowing" tOWUCTS ROSINA HERBERT.

It would have been well . for ,her, poor miser-
able creature, -had it done so ; for then, possibly, she
might have received the sums previously paid for her
use, which, in the aggregate, amounted to upwards of
201., and she might have been discharged on payment
of a nominal fine. But the mighty man was for once
mistaken ; he found to his astonishment that he was
not infallible, and she, poor creature, was the sufferer.
An antidote appeared in the shape of a letter from a
humane individual who had visited her wretched ha-
bitation, and who described plainly and forcibly the
miserable condition of the distressed family. Despite
the awful censure, various contributions were still
forwarded, which were received by the Justice, with
an ominous intimation that " that they would be re-
served for the disposal of his colleague."
At length the day pregnant with the fate of RosINA
HERBERT arrived. On Friday last the trembling
woman appeared to receive her sentence, to endure
the terrors of the magisterial frown and the thunders
of the magisterial elcquence ; she was to suffer for
the contumacy of her sympathisers, who dared still
to forward money fur her use despite the warnings of
the impeccable YARDLEY. On being placed in the
dock, Mr. RUTHTEN, who described himself as fore-
man to Messrs. FAVELL and &INFIELD, wholesale
slopsellers and outfitters, in Houndsditch and St.
Mary Axe, deposed that the prisoner had formerly
been employed by the firm as a trousersmaker until.
August, 1849, when she was given into custody on a
charge of illegally pawning three coatees, convicted by
Hr. YARDLEY, and in default of pa3ing a fine, sen-
tenced to fourteen days imprisonment. Mr. RUTH'
YEN, who declared that he had been directed by
his employers to " disabuse the public mind
respecting the prisoner," added that "she was paid a
fair price for the work she executed for Messrs.
FAVELL and BOUSPIELD, and obtained a good living
until she pawned the property entrusted to her ;
that. since then no slopseller would employ her,
and she obtained needlework through the hands of
second or third persons, as in this case." It is much
to be regretted that the volunteer witness, who made
a lively statement respecting shirts belonging to his
employers, which had been pawned by another wo-
man totally unconnected with the prisoner, and which,
therefore, had nothing whatsoever to say to the case,
and should not have been listened to by the judge,
did not condesc end to say what was the amount paid
by his employers, or how much the prisoner had
usually earned. The public could then have
judged for itself as to whether she had
received "a fair price for the work she
executed for Messrs. FAVELL and BOUSPIELD,"
or " obtained a good living." Opinions may differ
widely on these points, and we should be sorry to pin
our faith on the conclusions arrived at by a slop-
seller's foreman as to the proper remuneration of a
starving sempstress, or what was a "good living" for
four persons.
Mr. INGHAM was, however, contented. He launched
out into a diatribe expressive of his horror at the
offence, daring which the prisoner, who "carried a

sickly child in her arms, and was sobbing loudly, fe,

down in hysterics," and the proceedings were neces-
sarily suspended for some time. This painful scene
did not, however, influence the decision. On her
recovery she was again placed in the dock, and the
sentence was completed. We have neither time nor
inclination to notice the admirable lecture delivered
by the magistrate on the enormity of the
crime. Suffice it to say, that she was or-
dered to pay Bs. 6i., the value of the goods,
and a fine of 10s., or in default to suffer twenty-one
days' imprisonment in the House of Correction ; that
the wils also informed that more than 431. had been
sent " with a request that the magistrate should apply
it for her benefit, and for her relief," but that he
would not apply " one single farthing of it for any
such purpose." Mr. INGHAM also declared that
" that money sent for her relief would be applied to
other purposes, but if the persons who had sent the
various donations wished to reclaim it they could do
so ; but if not demanded within a month it would
be put in the poor- box, and applied to the relief of
any distressed persons not guilty of any crime whom
the magistrates may select." He announced at the
same time the joint determination of Mr. YARDLEY
and himself that they would "never receive a single
farthing for 'the relief of any particular individual, in
futoic, unless. it was stipUlaivd that the donation
s:Iould be applied at their discretion to deserving

persons:' - -
• , •
• It is right. that this, determinatiun should be gene-
IversousabOnt. to forward 'money t 9
the Thames Paliccourt should be. clearly in4;rtn.td.
tf the .conditions on.uhich.they.s6nd..it.:, We doubt
ir,--when,the decision • in Rosins. Renninte's case is-
annov.tited;utnei 'almoners may not-be selected; *ha-
miy: errors greater'ind(ulgencel
th?n ths aennagistrais. know E not, liowthose.s.
w4O regarded with.solnuai sev.exity.the haCkslidiog
of .ROSINA lIERBERT, misapplying property .en,l
trusted' to her chtrgei, cart reconcile. their .owif,
consciences-the 'application of ,the-flutskiby they. latir-e"
received o a purppse dlferent(forn"ll4tt inl!cate.;l by
the donors. Mr. i ARDLaY expressly Cleclaiia that
" he would apply the money sent by Mr. FBOST to

LONDON,

the use intended by him," what judgment would be
pronounced on himself if adjudicating on the case.
The "mote in the eye of the sempstress" was clearly
discerned, but we suppose " no beam" obstructed the
magisterial vision.

We cannot conclude our observations on this
deeply distressing case without imploring those who
sent in contributions not to be diverted from their
original intentions. Let them reclaim their money
within the time specified and hand it over for the use
of ROSINA HERBERT, her unfortunate husband, and
sickly children. Let them render the wretched
woman independent of slopsellers' work, no longer
compelled to make shirts at seven farthings each, re-
ceiving them from second or third persons. They
will find no difficulty in procuring competent
persons to undertake the due distribution
their benefactions according to their own desires and
wishes. Although less scrupulous than the Thames
Police magistrates, they may not consider " a yield-
ing to temptation," under the most trying and heart-
rending circumstances, as for ever placing the sinner
beyond the pale of hope. Let those who consider
themselves spotless, and without fault, hurl stones
at the miserable woman who worked patiently and
onrepiningly at making shirts at seven farthings each,
until driven by the cries of her sickly and famishing
children, one aged six years, the other fifteen
months, she unfortunately pawned the articles she
had just completed. But let those who feel that they
themselves have need of forgiveness, that they must
trust to the compassion of an all-merciful REDEEMER,
never indifferent to the cries of the poor and needy,
regard with a lenient eye the errors, and endeavour
to alleviate the sufferings, of ROiINA HERBERT, the
modern illustration to the thrilling and pathetic " Song
of the Shirt."

To those who may wish to judge for themselves the
condition of the wretched family, and their general
chartisv and conduct, against which nothing has
been except the illegal pawning of articles on
iteVrek eecaeioss, st:an interval of fourteen months, we
l'annotinee-that%their residence is at No. 9, Foster-

ktriet;l36llii3alpii.. We trust that the intimation
ma' r no 14:4'd a i;;;}y.

,;. CZ ••• :1/ I I,
Wght' have' teen-ithagined that an individual
who shiOrif 'teach oir!iVesirt Indian planters, with
`eVen the, scanty stiPAy:o? free ;labour at present at
:t1ie1.t";493:9m#4511:, competeoadvantageously in the
prodpgtiota oftaugar with thirslavet owners of Cuba,
Louisiana,.andahe,Braailg;, and not drily to"tdtripete,'
but to:, drive then' out bf and '
ovetthioli-slavery bitheOnlY b:ietins(b.t. 4ich it can
ever be oiferthrown, ,by milkipg it ,unprofit#e,
motildihave been hailed, as a benefactor to his species,
by the Anti-Slavery party ; and by all connected with
the colonies as their best friend and deliverer from
impending. ruin. At least it might have been imagined
that he would have obtained a patient hearing for his
proposals, and that when he should have demonstrated
their practicability, the authorities of the State
would have afforded him every facility for carrying
them out, or at all events have secured to him a fair
field by abstaining from everything like active oppo-
sition. Such, no doubt, were the ideas of Dr.
SCOFFERN, when he, in 1847, propounded his dis-
covery With regard to the refining of sugar by che-
miCal,means, by which he enabled the sugar manu-
facturer to obtain 3 cwt. of sugar from the same
quantity of material from which under the old pro-
cess he obtained but one ; and he would have been
perfectly justified in entertaining these ideas had the
seals of the Colonial-office been held by any other
Minister save Earl GREY, who seems, since the mo-
ment he entered the Colonial-office, to have endea-
voured to "leave undone those things which he ought
to 'have done, and to have done those things which he
ought not to have done"—witness New Zealand, Cey-
lon, Vancouver's Island, &c., &c. Dr. SCOFFERN having
patented his process, and made his discovery known
to several sugar refiners, who practised it on a large
scale, and found it to answer most satisfactorily, pro-
ceeded to send agents to the West Indies to explain
theaprocess to the planters ; but, to his great surprise,
instead of being hailed as a benefactor, he was de-
nounced as a poisoner, and his agents were pretty
generally refused even a hearing. On making in-
quiry into the cause of this strange state of affairs, he
discovered that Earl GREY bad, without inquiry,
without giving the inventor any intimation of his in
tention, sent out dispatches to the various colonial
Governments, desiring them to warn the planters
against the use of the process as highly dangerous,
because the sugar produced contained lead—a not-
able discovery, seeing that all sugar manufactured
under the old process contains lead, of which fact
probably our learned and chemical Colonial Secre-
tary was not aware at the time he entered the field
againit the new process.

—Complaints were made to the Government, and,
after a lapse of ten months, a chemical inquiry was
set on foot, and the result was, as stated by our cor•
respondent HUMANITAS, is another column of our
journal, " that no more lead was found in the
samples by the new process than in those of the
1)1 d . The experimenters add, moreover," continues
fiuma.mrAs, " that in no case, in any quantity
that they could pronounce dangerous. But an-
other body of medical men, adjudicating on this
very report, considered that the consumption of sugar
with lead in it was dangerous. This applies, how-
ever, with equal force to both processes, since both,
according to the chemical investigators, contain lead.
Dr. COFFERN replies, and subsequent,investigations by
chemists of great eminence go to establish his state-
ment, that assuming the existence of lead in the pro-
duce of both processes, that his is the safer; aince the
lead therein is in an insoluble and innocuous form,
whilst that in the sugar by the old process is and
must be poisonous. But he maintains, and a number
of chemical certificates substantiate the position, that
the sugar manufactured and refined by perfect ma-
chinery under his process, and sold in large quan-

ities, is destitute of any, even the slightesttrace cf

lead, so that the most delicate tests of the laboratory
have failed to discover it. It is a fact that the sugar
has been used to the exclusion of all other at the
tables of many familes for two years past without any
evil result." It surely would have been advisable
that all these experiments should have been instituted
and all these inquiries made before the issuing of the
denunciation of the Colonial Secretary, rather than
after it, which they would have been had Earl GREY
condescended to intimate his intention to Dr. SCOF..
FERN ; and had such been the case in all probability

the denunciation would never have been issued at all.

The whole history is succinctly told by our corre-
spondent HUMANITAS, to whose letter we refer our
readers, as furnishing a characteristic additional
chapter to the history of the colonial administration
of Earl GEY.

ROYAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.— (THIS
DAY.)—The quarterly general court of this society, estab-
lished 1739, for affording relief to the officers of the royal
navy, and to their widows and families, was held this day,
at the Thatched House Tavern, St James's-street; Sir
John Malcolm, vice-president, occupying the chair. After
the disposal of some preliminary business, Commander
Dickson, the secretary, proceeded with the balance-sheet,
from which it appeared that the total receipts during the
quarter had been, including the previous balance, 1,532/.
13s. 5d., and the expenditure 4931., leaving a balance of
1,3371. Bs. Bd. The subscriptions had decreased by
the deaths of the members, but, on the other
hand, the donations had been more numerous than
for many previous quarters. ilThe report being una-
nimously received, a long discussion ensued upon a
motion, which was to the effect that under no circumstances
whatever should the widow, orphan, or family expect relief
at the death of any member, unless such member's subscrip-
tion be paid up from the commencement till the death. The
resolution was carried by a large majority; and after the
transaction of some routine matters, the meeting separated
in passing a vote of thanks to the hon. and gallant chairman.
MONETARY REFORM.—At a meeting of the IV4I-
- Agricultural Society, held on Friday at Leicester, Mr.
Harrison, of Bagworth, Leicestershire, responded to a toast,
and took the opportunity of saying that in his part of the
country they looked upon protection as dead, and that they
must bury it —(A Voice, " Good," and murmurs.) He did
not deny that the agriculturists had a right to be protected,
but he believed that they would never regain the protection
'which they had lost ; and the only remedy he could devise
was an alteration of the monetary system.
FREE NATIONAL AND VIM-
N.Dl(f.:4!,LERies. - The public generally and the lovers of the
Mine arts will 1,0 pleased to hear that these exhibitions of
pictures :tie opened this day.
ALtrnErvr.— On Friday morning a serious
accident occutiod to Mr. J. P. Oliver, son of Mr. Oliver, of
the firm of .Mears. . Grieve and Oliver, hat-merchants,
• Prince's-street. it. appears that while ri ing a horse along
Clerk-street,, the, animal,. suddenly shied, and set off at a
foririgs lode. pasliing down,Preston-street, it ran with great
force against the wail at The 'corner of East Sciennes-street,
by wEict it wi.4 killed oh ;flit; spot, and Mr. Oliver flung with
considerable -rolenbe upon,the.ground. Mr. Oliver was itn-
. mediately_ conveyed. to the: Royal. Infirmary, when it was
ascertained.that be,) had received a slight concussion of the
brain. We understand that coilidefit hopes are entertained
of his recovery.—Scotsman.

1111 E FRENCH_ REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
The Constitutionnel of Saturday contains the long-
promised article on General CHANDARNIER from the
pen of Dr. VERON, the acknowledged mouthpiece of
the Elysee. It is an attempt at cajolery, and at the
same time the evidence of a fear which the writer
awkwardly enough endeavours to conceal. The
General, like Captain DUDLEY SMOOTH in the comedy,
contents himself with ejaculating "Hem ! ha!" and
Dr. VERON, like the tailor, would give the world to
know what he means by his "Hem ! ha!" One
thing only is certain, and that is that the Elysee is
prepared to sacrifice General D'Hawrroun, which,
after the enormous quantity of dirt that gallant
officer has eaten in " his ardour to do well," is tent soit
pets ungrateful. The following is the conclusion of
the article in the Constitutionnel:—
" The General takes no part in the movement of which
be is the occasion. He remsies immoveable, and it is
the parties who move and turn around him. In the
point of view of the interests of society and of the grave
difficulties of the present moment, why should we not
compl••tely examine the situation of General Changer-
nier? Why should we not study beforehand all the de-
viations which the intrigues of parties might attempt to
impress on him? Why should we not here say loudly,
what in groups, very rare and very timid it is true, is
whispered softly? There are people who, being neither
Socialists, nor Republicans, nor Urleanists, nor Legiti-
mists, but who, shelving themselves unjust and ungrate-
ful towards Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, would endeavour
to seek a rivality to him. These dangerous friends of
the General forget the remark of Napoleon—' Why am
not my gradson?' They forget that Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte enjoys a privilege of birth which no one CaO
overcome; he bears a name which, fur more than fifty
years, resounded throughout all the universe, and re-
mains the glory of France. All this noise that is made,
all these remarks which take place around General
Changarnier, and without his hearing and listening to
them, are not, however, made without occasion and with-
out a pretext. Everything is now known; it is publicly
notorious that a disagreement has arisen between Gene-
ral Changarnier and the Minister of War. Some are
pleased to attribute this fact to puerile causes, but, in
our opinion, it has a very serious cause. General d'Haut-
poul, in his ardour to do well, appears to study anew
all our military institutions, like certain savans, who
entertain the lofty ambition of remodelling science.
It appears to us that the General-in-Chiet of the army
•f Paris does not, on the contrary, occupy himself, in
the difficult times through which we pass, but with
the spirit of discipline, the welfare and the efficiency of
our regiments. General Changarnier wishes to pre-
serve and maintain; the Minister of War only thinks
of' remaking and innovating. It is not two enemies
who are in presence, but two systems which oppose
each other. This struggle between two convictions has
its inconveniences and its dangers, and, while showing
itself grateful for the zeal and good offices of General
d'Hautpoul, the Executive Power may, withoht its ap-
pearOg its, a disgrace, deplare itself ,against the ;one of
these twee eyiteres which appears to ',it teele the letqt in
'herierey With the preetical wisdom and the 'pru-
dence, of hiS-GOvernment. To sum up, General Cean-
garnier hold 4 from Louis Napoleon Bonaparte the great
,command he possesses. Ws honour is the guarantee for
toe use he will make of it. Between the President of
the Republic and General Changarnier there is a mutu-
ality of feeling and of danger. It is for that reason that
we do not fear to say that General Changarnier, who
already counts more than one service rendereJ, will
powerfully assist the President of the Republic in saving
France, society, and civilization."
The National of yesterday thus comments on this
remarkable revelation of the " hopes and fears" of the
Elysee :
" It was necessary," says the National, " to insinuate
to the General what it was wished he should do, and to
dissuade him from persistence in an attitude which was
giving,uneasiness, to intimate to him, as delicately as pos-
sible, that he should play the part of an auxiliary, and
to interdict no less delicately the part of a rival, to com-
plain of certain acts, and to encourage him in others—to
flatter him without feeding his pride, and to admonish
without exciting irritatiun—to make him feel the secret
,ting rf a bleme under the form of a caress—to mingle,
according to :he precept which holds as good with regard
to diplomacy as to poetry le grave au doux, obsequious-
ness with distrust, and to put a menance under the form
of an adulation. It was necessary, in fact, to gild the
pill, and who so capable as the doctor of the Constitu-
tionnel, who is an old hand at the business?" •
Going to the heart of the question, the National
puts the following questions and answers :
" What is feared? The hostility of the general.
What is, as it were, taken for granted? His concur-
rence. What is the truth? Hostility. What are the
sentiments affected towards the general? Those of con-
fidence. What are the real sentiments? Distrust. Such
is the situation which the Constitutionnel endeavours to
conceal, while its efforts to show an intente cordiale only
prove dissensions'. In his eyes the sword of liemocles
is no metaphor, but exists really, the name alone being
changed."
The Siècle has the following :
"There was yesterday a talk of a fact of a certain
importance, which is said to have occurred the day before.
M. Guizot, who since his retutn to France has lived out
of the pale of politics, is said to have written to M. de
Horny to beg him to call on him; M. do Morny is said to
have hastened to wait on the ex-Minister, and the latter is
represented to have said, It is believed in public that the
President of the Republic is of a firm and obstinate
character: you know as well as I du that that is not so.
have nut, I confess, a very great confidence in the
Government of M. Louis Bonaparte; but, such as it is,
hie Government is better than the unknown, and we
must therefore support it. Tell the President not to
yield; say to him that my friends and I will support
nim, and ask him if he would accept a plan of conduct,
which I should wish to submit to him.' M. de Moray
hastened to the Elyse', and returned to tell M. Guizet
that the plan of conduct would be received with grati-
tude and respect. M. Guizot is' then, it seems, in ac-
cord with M. Berryer and M. Thiers. It only remains
to the President to conquer M. Dual:el and his few
friends to have in his service all the relays of the Go-
vernment of July."
The Debats announces two new works from the
pen of M. Gutzon, to be published at the end of this
menth. The first is intituled " Monk ; Fall of the
Republic, and Re-establishment of the Monarchy in
England in 1660. Tee second is " Washington ;
Foundation of the Republic of the United States of
America."

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conspiracy to frighten the timid gets up a Socialist
intoh submission,
whenever symptoms of opposition El see are
manifested by the Legitirnatists oornot
data:
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following canard, signed AMEDEE DE CESENA :
't A fortuitous circumstance has recently brought under
our eyes a secret document, which makes serious revels-
dons as to the dark and criminal d •of
designs the party of
anarchy. This document emanates from'one of the Ger-
mansurfacethe
partyhoworderguiltyin
embassies, and we guaraettee the authenticity of it.
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rashness of a too blind confidence in the calm which
areaidgnd
such a threateniug state of things. It is in this point
of view that it has appeared useful to us to extract from
it the most significant and the most important pas-
sages. It is good to throw light into minds which
sleep in the midst of a disastrous security. Socialism
sanogrierotuhse
pretends to be expiring, but from this document we see
that it- is not the less agitating in the depths of
Europe. The Communist element, which up to this
day had formed the nucleus of the secret societies and
political conspiracies, has recently chosen .as the perma-
nent and principal seats of its revolutionary action, the
cities of Leipsie, Konigsbargh, Berlin, Prague, Milan,
London, Geneva, and Paris. It may be remembered
that the chiefs of the party of anarchy had resolved to
hold a secret congress at London in the early part of
June last. The document of which we speak confirms
this circardstance.! It adds that twenty of them had
already arrived in that city, when it was decided that the
meeting should be adjourned. The order sent to the
principal adherents of Socialism to come there were
countermanded on the 30th May. This counter-order
had no other object than to deceive the surveillance of the
Governments. In virtue of fresh convocations, a less nume-
rous meeting than that which was to have been held in
London took place on the 2d June in a retired quarter of
Paris. We abstain from mentioning the street and the
house. We shall not name the personages which at-
tended this meeting, nor those, more important from
their situation and their notoriety, who, without being
ritetent. have since adhered to the plans of general over-
throw and of universal war decided on in common by the
German, French, and Italian conspirators, grouped at
this meeting. It will suffice for us to say that amongst
the latter personages, there are names on seeing which
the public would be pitifully surprised. The rami-
fications of this vast conspiracy, which takes in
the whole of Europe, extends to England, and
almost into the very heart of Russia, where
it threatens to produce a t:Trible • explosion.
The same document qualifies this conspiracy as
essentially Red. Its motto is ' SANS PITIE NI
NlEncir The leaders of the movement have decided that
the chiefs of states shall be every where assassinated,
and the association has adopted measures to provide for
the wives and children of such of its members as may
tall in this i
-nrip',ous struggle against society. In one of
the numerous secondary and secret meetings held under
the presidency of the principal
agents an oath was taken
in the midst of the most violent clamour to destroy the
P • • '
p..truits, adding that their massacre should be the
aicnst of the destruction of all the 13,,ut bone and of their
friends and supporters. At this same meeting one of
the members of the association, raising his glass, pro-
nounced a horrible threat against the widow of the Duke
of Orleans, and expressed his pride in being a Red
of the first quality. Such are the frightful details
given by this document. This fact is characteristic,
but what is still more so are the execrable
threats of hatred and vengeance, which proceeded
from the mouth of one of the German chiefs of
the conspiracy. ' On the field of battle we will spare
1•110 one, and we will strike our most intimate friends, if
they are not unconditional Communists.' In these words
we find the spirit of their motto—' Sans pit* ni merci."
After.
pointing out the detists of arms formed by this
Communist conspiracy in all the capitals, after enume-
rating the means to be employed to draw the ambitious

into their tete, the document states the object of this
conspiracy is to attain:by a general confusion and a san-
guinary combat the extermination of all those who pos-
sess a foot of ground or a coupon of rente, and that it
has taken the oath of Hannibal against all the monar-
chies of Europe. Robbery and murder form the basis
of this Machiavelic plan. The weeds are to be torn up
to promote the growth of good plants. Such is the ex-
pression of the document, which concluiei as follows:
The soil of Europe is mined in such a manner as to
render a fright! ul catastrophe imminent."'

The concocter of this hoax upon M DE CESENA, is
but an awkward hand, compared with the first-
rate artistes In ho, in the time of Louis PHILIPPE,
were employed by the police to create an alarm by
scattering votes ambiguas; a master of his craft
would never have committed himself by stating that
the document emanated from one of the German Em-
bassies, seeing that in the Austrian Chancery there is,
and since the commencement of the reign of MET..
TERNICH always has been, a department for forgery,
charged with the concoction of sham revelations, of
sham conspiracies, and with the forgery and falsification
of official documents, in which said Chancery. by the
bye, even the treaty of Vienna itself was falsified.
This allusion to a German Embassy is alone sufficient
to prove that M. DE CESENA has been the dupe of a
most transparent fraud, even if the impossible absur-
dities of the narration itself did not at once stamp it
as a not over ingenious fabrication.
Letters from the department of the Pyrenees state
that snow has fallen in large quantities, and though
the days are fine, yet during the night the frost is
severe.

The Mt onileur contains the following " communi-
cation :"

The President of the Republic received during his
late journeys a great number of demands for the Legion
of Honour, formed by old soldiers of the Republic and
the Empire. These demands have been referred either
to the Grande Chancellerie or to the Commission
charged to appreciate them. The peculiar examination
to which they were subject shows that most of the pe-
titioners hope, in obtaining the distinction, to enjoy the
pension which is atta hed thereto. It is, consequently,
useful to remind them, or make known to them that this
pension can only be allowed to non-commissioned
officers, soldiers, and sailors, in active service at the mo-
ment of their nomination in the Order,' and that in every
other case the decoration of the Legion of Honour is
purely honorary, and cannot, consequently, give rise to
any pension or remuneration."
The Five per Cents. were done at the Passage de
l'Opera at 93f. 37ic., being an advance of 12ic. on the
closing price of the previous day.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Ocr. 19.

Boulogne and Amiens, 814 —Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), MlA—Luxembourg, 11/4—Namur and Liege,
71/2—Paris and Rouen, 2434 Paris and Strasburg, 7%—
Rouen and Havre, 10 Tours and Nantes, 3%.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 14th have arrived.
Their contents are unimportant.
MADRID BOMA, OCT. 14.—Threes .were done at
33i:to 33 15-16. -- •

GER3IA.N Y.
The Cologne Gazette, under date of Wilhelmsbad
(Electoral Besse) 16th inst.,says :—" The; Ministerial
crisis is at an end. The propositions made by M.
ELYERi have been rejected. We believe that the
abandonment of the Austrian policy was the basis of
these propositions, and that M. ELVERS had demanded
that a new Minister of Foreign Affairs should be
named; but Count Itsc EIBERG arrived from Bregentz,
and the Austrian influence caused the momentary
failure of all the plans conceived in the interest of the
pacification of the country."
The German Journal of Frankfort has the follow-
ing from Mannheim, 12th instant :---" The Prince of
Prussia, when passing through our town, addressed
the following speech to a deputation of the inhabi-
tants, on the political situation of the town :
' Prussia has arrived at the very limit of what is
possible, patience is exhausted. Perhaps the King
of Prussia has done more than his responsibility be-
fore the Chamber and public opinion permitted him.'
The Prince afterwards blamed the intrigues of M.
DE ilassefsrreuc. "At Cassel," he said, " injustice
has proceeded from a high source."
The German Reform of Berlin, of the lath, says :
" The journals have published some erroneous infor-
mations as to the propositions recently made by
Prussia to the Provisional College of Princes. We
think it our duty to remark that there is no idea at
present of making any change in what has been
hitherto done to realise the federal state. The organs
of the union will remain in full activity. The Col-
lege of Princes and the Tribunal of the Union will be
maintained."
We read in the Cologne Gazette of the
18th :—" The representatives of the bourgeoisie
of Schwerin and Rostock had convoked for
the day 'after to-morrow the representatives of
that class in all the towns of the country,
to deliberate on the resolutions to be come to in
common for the interest of the constitution. The
Government, however, has thought proper to interdict
this assemblage, and threatened to inflict a fine, and
even imprisonment, on any one who should attend.
It is not known what resolutions the bourgeoisie will
come to on this subject."
A letter from Hanover of the 14th, in the Cologne
Gazette,statea that on the previous day a new Ministry
had been composed as follows :—M. de Munchauaen,
President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs; M. Lindemann, Interior; M. Jaubi, War;
M. de lice:sing, Justice ; M. de Bolow, Finance ;
and M. Meyer, Public Worship ; but that some
difficulties had since arisen which rendered it
probable that the Struve Ministry would remain in
office.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The Independence of Brussels says—" The struggle
in the duchies threatens to recommence more fiercely,
and to become more sanguinary than ever. On both
sides preparations are making for a general resumption
of hostilities. The Danish army is being continually,
reinforced, to make up the lopes it sustained, notwith-
standing its success in the recent engagements, and it
receives from Copenhagen a host of encouragements. At
the same time its chief, General KROGII, causes to be
carried on without interruption the works of the for-
tifications in Schleswig, and the isles which depend
on it. The whole of this duchy will soon resemble
an immense fortress. On its part the lieutenancy-
general is redoubling its efforts to repair the losses of
the Holstein army. Our Hamburgh correspondent
states that strong inducements will be held out to the
officers of the Hessian army who have resigned to go
to Holstein, and to take with them as many soldiers
as possible. "•