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FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE

ADMIR NLTY, DEC, 27, 1844.

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have re-
ceived from Commodore Jones, the senior officer of her
Majesty's squadron on the west coast of Africa, a letter,
inclosing one from Commander Scott, of the Hyacinth,
of which the following is a copy :
" Her Alajesty's ship Hyacinth, Aug. 13, 1844.
" Sir,—l have the honour to request that you will be
pleased to bring under the favourable notice of the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the following
account of the gallant and dashing behaviour of the
officer belonging to the ship named in the margin,*
which will, I hope, obtain for him that promotion he is,
in every respect, most worthy of. On the 12th of
August, in or about lat. 15 south, longitude 11 deg.
30w. east, when off Fish Bay, I seat Mr. Tottenham, in
a four-oared gig with one spare hand, to communicate
with the Portuguese Governor.
The weather became thick, and he missed his port,
but, knowing that this ship was working along the coast,
anchored for the night, and pulled to the southward.
On the morning of the 13th he discovered a brig at
anchor, without colours, and saw 'her slip and make sail,
on which he gave chase, being to windward, and the
breeze light, he was enabled to approach her weather
beam, and fired a musket a head to induce her to heave
to, and show her colours ; this and a second was disre-
garded, but a port was open and a gun run out and
brought to bear on the boat, which caused the officer to 1
pull into her wake, when part of the crew of the brig
commenced firing musketry, while the others got the gun
on the poop, and pointed it ai; the boat. Mr. Tottenham
now commenced firing, as fast as the spare hand could
load for him, being just able to keep way with the
brig ; having hit four of the men on board, they
left tho gun, and after firing muskets for twenty minutes,
finding they were unable to weather the land or tack,
without being boarded by the boat, they ran the brig
on shore, and abandoned her, to the number of eighteen,
including three wounded men, bearing another mortally
wounded (since dead), on board.
In the coarse of the afternoon, the brig was dis-
covered on shore from the masthead of this ship,
which stood in, and anchored, and hove her off,
when she proved to be of two hundred tons, with-
out papers, a Brazilian ensign in the cabin, fully
equipped for conveying about one thousand slaves, two
guns of four pounds calibre loaded, a barrel of powder,
and a quantity of langridge shot, a number of muskets,
swords, and bayonets on the deck. Almost every bullet
expended in the gig was traced by me to the gun
arriftge, or its immediate vicinity on the poop; and I
trust that the coolness, decision, and gallantry displayed
by Mr. Tottenham, on this occasion, may obtain fur him
the rank of lieutenant, for which he passed in 1841.
I have the honour, &c.
(Signed) F. SCOTT, Commander.
To Captain Jones, Commander-in- Chief of her
Majesty's Ships and Vessels, West Coast of Africa.
And the Commodore has also informed them of the
capture of her Majesty's sloop Ferret, en the 28th Sep-
telobtx hist, of a se:moiler, without colours or papers, but

* Mr. John Francis Tottenham, mate.

supposed to be the Brazilian schooner Aventura, with
four hundred slaves on board ; of the destruction of the
Brazilian slave-brigantine Piedade, completely equipped
for the slave trade, by her Majesty's sloop Albatross ;
and of the capture of the Spanish slave-brigantine
Andaz, completely equipped fur the slave trade, on
the 25th September last, by her Majesty's steam-sloop
Prometheus; of the capture of the Spanish slave schooner
Concepcion, on the 23d September last, by her Majesty's
steam sloop Growler ; of the detention, on the 30th
August last, of a brigantine, name unknown, completely
fitted for the slave trade, by her Majesty's sloop Star ;
of the detention of a Brazilian felucca, called II Grande
Poder de Dios, bound to Bahia, with forty slaves on
board, by her Majesty's sloop Wasp ; of the capture of
a schooner, fully equipped for the slave trade, supposed
to be the Virginia or Alerto, but without papers of any
kind, by her Majesty's steam-ship Penelope, which ship
had also driven on shore and destroyed a smaller
schooner, of about forty tons, equipped for the slave
trade, and probably Brazilian.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have pro-
moted Mr. John Francis Tottenham, mate of the Hya-
cinth, to the rank of Lieutenant.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, DEC. 27.
The Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household
has appointed the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West to be
one of the Gentlemeu Ushers Quarterly Waiters in Or-
dinary to her Majesty, in the room of the lion. lieneage
LPgge, deceased.
DOWNING-STREET, DEc. 24.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Frederick
Sedley, Esq., . to bo Inspector of Police for the island of
Malta.

WHITEHALL. DEC. 26.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of
a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland unto Chevalier Robert Schomburgh, recently at
the head of the expedition for exploring the boundaries
of the colony of British Guiana.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 26. _

Corps of Royal Engineers —Second Captain A. Gordon
to be Captain vice Rutherford, retired on full-pay; First
Lieut. R. G. Hamilton to be Second Captain, vice Gordon ;
Second Lieutenant E. W. Ward, to be First Lieutenant
vice Hamilton, Dec. 18 ; First Lieutenant 11. W. Lu-
gard, to be Second Captain, vice Harness, seconded ;
Second Lieutenant W. H. Jesse to be First Lieutenant,
vice Lugard, Dec. 20.

Royal Regiment of Artillery—Gentleman Cadets to be
Second Lieutenants—J. F. E. Travers, vice Desborough,
promoted ; Hon. E. T. Gage, vice Russell, promoted ;
N. S. K. Bayly, ♦ice Shaw, promoted ; G. Barston, vice
Lennox, promoted ; G. Leslie, vice Henry, pro-
moted ; A. M. Archdall, vice Flint, promoted ; C.
Wright, vice Taylor, promoted ; J. E. Thring, vice E.
Swinton, promoted ; W. M. King, vice Pipun, promoted ;
IL L. F. Greville, vice Paterson promoted ; S. R. B.
Swinny, vice Lucas, promoted ; 11. Bent, ♦ice J. D.
Shakespeare, promoted ; F. R. Glanville, vice Hamley,
promoted; 11. J. W. Jervis, vice Field, promoted, Dec. 19.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Gentlemen Cadets to be
Lieutenants—J. G. Jervis, vice Galton, promoted ;
H. W. Tyler, vice Barlow, promoted ; J. C. B. De Butts,
vice Scott, promoted ; W. S. Stace, vice Ross, promoted;
G. S. Tilly, vice Tuglis, promoted ; E. Stanton, vice
Hope, deceased, Dec. 19.
ADMIRALTY, DEC. 21.

Corps of Royal Marines—Second Lieut. E. A. Wylde
to be First Lieutenant, vice J. L. Branner, to half-pay.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Clackmannan-

shire.

Stirling, Dumbarton, Clackmannan, and Kinross
Militia, commonly called the 90th Regiment of British
Militia—J. F. ErkliFie, Esq., to be Captain of a com-
pany for the shire of Clackmannan, vice Young, de-
ceased, Dec. 10.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

Joseph Craven and John Hardman, dyers, Wakefield,
Yorkshire.

BANKRUPTS.

Levi Israel Themans, tea dealer, Sidney-place, Com-
mercial-road, Middlesex, to surrender, Dec. 31, at one,
and Feb. 6, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane. Bevan,
Old Jewry.
Ann Seed, licensed victualler, Liverpool, Jan. 6, and
Feb. 6, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court.
Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Wilkin, Fur-
nival's- Inn. London ; Wardle, Liverpool.
Charles Strange and Robert Parsons, merchants,
Baglan, Glamorganshire, Jan. 14, and Feb. 4, at eleven,
at the Bristol District Court. Button, official assignee,
Bristol ; Weymouth and Co., Angel-court, City.
Christopher Watson, jun., tea-dealer, Darlington,
Jan. 10, at half-past one, and Feb. 12, at two, at the
Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official
assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; James and Hamilton,
or Richardson and Glover, Leeds.
Joseph Raymond King, druggist, Bath, Jan. 8, and
Feb. 7, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acra-
man, official assignee, Bristol; Mansford, Bath.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.

T. Sedgwick, grocer, Leeds—first and final div.
of 4s. in the pound, on any day on and after Dec. 30, at
the office of Mr. Young, Leeds.
B. Bell, wool-stapler, Keighley, Yorkshire—first and
final div. of Is. in the pound, on any day on and after
Dec. 30, at the office of Mr. Young, Leeds.
T. M. Monckmar, tobacconist, Bradford, Yorkshire—
first div. of 3s. in the pound, on any day on and after
Dec. 30, at the office of Mr. Young, Leeds.
J. Swallow, sen., J. Swallow, jun., and G. Swallow,
corn-millers, Halifax—second and final div. of sd. in the
pound, on any day on and after Dec. 30, at the office of
Mr. Young, Leeds.
J. Mallalieu, cotton-spinner, Halifax—first div. of
6s. Sd. in the pound, on any day on and after Dec. 30,
at the office of Mr. Young, Leeds.
J. Clark, colonial broker, Mincing-lane, :Fonchurch-
street—first div. of 6d. in the pound, on any Wednesday,
at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street, City.
S. E. Welldon, butcher, Cambridge—first dir. of 7s. 6d.
in the pound on new proofs, and second div. of 3d. in the
pound on all proofs, on any Wednesday, at the office of
Mr. Graham, Coleman-street, City.
W. Hill and W. K. Wackerbath, ship -Ind insurance
agents, Leadenhall-street—first and second div. of 2s. 4d.
on new proofs, and a third dir. of 7d. in the pound on
all proofs, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr.
Graham, Coleman-street, City.
J. H. Loup and G. Godber, cotton-factors, Cateaton-
qr. et—first div. of aid. in the pound, on Saturday,
Dec. 28, and the three following Saturdays, at the office
of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane, City.

DIVIDENDS-.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.

~
G. Rossiter, jeweller, Bridgewater, Sourer eetshire, Jan.
7, at half-past eleven—T. Marsh, miller, Canterbury,
Jan. 17, at twelve—T. G. Postan, auctioneer, Alders-
gate street, Jan. 17, at eleven—J. Lark, bootmaker,
Seymour-street, Euston-square, Jan. 17, at half-past
eleven—G. Purt, ale merchant, Upper Tkames-street,
Jan. 17, at half-past twelve—W. Chamberlain, linen-
draper, Peckham, Jan. 17, at twelve—J. Woollen), silk
throwster, St. Alban's, Jan. 17, at eleven--. 1. Holland,
draper, Buxted, Sussex, Jan. 17, at ene.
In the Country.
B.O'Beirne, wine merchant, Bath, Jan. 21, at twelve, at
the Bristol District Court—G. B. Orchard, upholsterer,
Bath, Jan. 16, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court—
H. Drake, attorney-at-law, Barnstable, .Devonshire,
Jan. 23, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court—
J. Row, chemist, Torrington, Devonshire, Jan. 24,
at one, at the Exeter District Court,—J. Goss,
draper, Devonport, Jan. 23, at eleven, at the
Exeter District Court---G. Alexander, innkeeper, Bea-
minster, Dorsetshire, Jan. 24, at one, at the Exeter
District Court—J. Cuttell, clothier, Holmfirth, York-
shire, Jan. 21, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—
J. Laycock, tallow chandler, Colne, Lancashire, Jan. 31,
at twelve, at the Manchester District Court--W. Taylor,
wool merchant, Saddleworth, Yorkshire, Jan. 24, at
eleven, at the Manchester District Court—T. Dickson,

linendraper,7Thirsk, Yorkshire, Jan. 23, at eleven, at
the Leeds District Court—T. Dobson, sen., J. Dobson,
and T. Dobson, jufi., carpet manufacturers, Kidder-
minster, Jan. 25, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court—W. S. Batson, J. Wilson, and J. Langhorn,
bankers, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Jan.2l, at eleven, at the
Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court--J. W. Harris,
wine merchant, Wolverhampton, Jan. 25, at twelve, at
the Birmingham District Court--W. Fletcher, maltster,
Sedgley, Staffordshire, Jan. 25, at twelve, at the Bir-
mingham District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown

to the contrary, on the day 'herein-mentioned.
W. Bailey, jun., currier, Whitecross-street, Jan. 17—
B. Bright, licensed victualler, Wiginore-street, Maryle-
bone, Jan. 17— W. Martin, clothier, Woodchester, Glou-
cestershire, Jan. 17.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

B. and J. Cutler, steam-boiler manufacturers, New
Gravel lane, Ratcliff—J. Fuller and W. Thornhill, sta-
tioners, Brewer-street, Golden-square—B. and M. Hiles
and S. Heald, Bolton—W. Snook and J. Taylor, dra-
pers, Portsmouth—H. Huges and A. Galt, lace rouche
manufacturers, Wood-street, Cheapside—J. and W.
Garrett, tailors, Welford, Northfunptonshire—W. and J.
Adams, farmers, Plaistow, Essex—l. Lloyd, sen., S. J.
Lloyd, L. Lloyd, jun., E. Lloyd, and C. W. Tabor, bankers,
London (so far as regards L. Lloyd, sen.)—J. Wood,
M. Lund, T. Shaw, jun., and 11. Shaw, cotton spinners,
Kildwick, Yorkshire—C. J. Samuels and S. H. Oughton,
coal merchants, Manchester—H. and G. Hawkes, iron-
mongers, Reading—J. M‘Naught and F. Alexander, coal
masters, Rainford, Lancashire—W. Hatfield and J. Hall,
silversmiths, Manchester.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

Alexander Melrose, merchant, Fort William, Jan. 4
and 24, at one, at the George Inn, Fort William.
James Mackenzie, spirit dealer, Beauly, Jan. 4 and
Feb. 1, at twelve, at the Sheriff Court-house, Inverness.
Robert Phillips Heastie, baker, Edinburgh, Jan. 2 and
23, at three, at Gray's chambers, Edinburgh.
George Sutherland, merchant, Grecnlaw, Jan. 2 and
23, at eleven, at Brooks's chambers, Greenlaw.
Archibald Thomson, merchant, Kelso, Jan. 4 and 25,
at twelve, at Brooks's chambers, Kelso.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
Us Mame Price of Brown Or BltteCOYeAle Sugar, for the

week ending Dec. (24, 1844, is 30s. Bid. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)

MANSION-HOUSE.

A man, named Benjamin Lambourn, was brought
before the Lord Mayor, charged by the Directors of
the Commercial and General Life Insurance Office
with having forged a bill of exchange for the pay-
ment of 1501., with intent to defraud the Company.
Mr. Humphreys, far the prosecution, stated that in
March, 1843, the prisoner applied at the Commercial
and General Life Insurance Company for cash for a
bill of 3001., and obtained it, upon the understanding
that the bill should be reduced by quarterly payments,
and that upon each reduction a new bill should be
given. Reductions had taken place, the quarterly
payments having been made until the amount of the
debt was 1501., when, upon failure of payinett of the
regular instalment, it was discovered thatethe last
bill was a forgery as to the acceptor and some of the
indorsers.

Mr. Frederick Lawrence, Secretary to the Com-
mercial and General Life Insurance Company, stated
that in the month of March, 1843, the Company re-
ceived from the prisoner a bill of exchange 3001.,
drawn by Richard Lambourn, and accepted by Thos.
Ratley, of No. 7, Iv terrace, Horton, and indorsed
"Benjamin Balls, d Lambourn, Samuel Long,
Joseph Donovan, a Benjamin Lambourn" (the
prisoner). That bill was renewed for the smaller
amounts as the instalments were paid, upon several
occasions, each bill hearing the same names as drawer,
acceptor, and indorsers. On or about the 7th of
September inst. the prisoner brought the present
bill for 1501., as a renewal of the preceding bill. It
purported to be drawn by Richard Lambourn, and
accepted by Thomas Ratley, payable to the drawer's
order three months' after date, and purporting to be
accepted and indorsed as the former bills had been.
That bill came to maturity on the 10th of Deeember
inst., and was dishonoured and noted. The full
amount of the bill was due to the Company, Henry
George Ward, the Member for Sheffield, and others.

The Loan 'Karon—Have an the bills the Com-
pany received from the prisoner bore the same in-
dorsements ? Witness—Yes, the same names.

here the prisoner, upon being asked whether he
wished to ask the witness any questions, replied in
the negative, but he wished for a remand.
Tho LORD MAYOR said he should be ruled by the
nature of the evidence whether or not to grant an-
other remand.

Thomas Ratley, of No. 7, Ivy-terrace, Hoxton,
head waiter to Messrs. King and Brymer, of Corn-
hill, stated that he had accepted bills fbr the prisoner,
but it was a long time ago. lie had not, to the best
of his belief, accepted a bill so lately for the prisoner
as two years ago. The acceptance to the bill pro-
duced was not in his handwriting, nor' had his name
been written by his authority.
The prisoner—About the middle of the year 1843
were you not confined by illness to your bed ? Wit-
ness—l was.

The prisoner—That's all the questions I wish to
ask you.
Samuel Long, of No, 93, high-street, Marylebone,
licensed victualler, stated that about March, 1843, he
indorsed a bill for 3001., at the request of the pri-
soner, at his own house. The prisoner subsequently
requested him to renew the bill, but he refused to do
so until he should see the old bill. lie accordingly
went to the Company's offices, where he saw the old
bill, erased his name, and accepted a bill for, he had
no doubt, 275/, for the prisoner. Witness never in-
dorsed any other bill for the prisoner. The indorse-
ment, " Samuel Long," upon the bill produced, was
not his handwriting, neither had he authorised any
one to write it.

Joseph Donovan, fishmonger, of 292, Oxford-
street, stated that at the prisoner's request he in-
dorsed in the beginning of the year, 1843, a bill for
300/. He afterwards went in company with Mr.
Long to the Company's offices, and saw the old bill,
from which he erased his name, and he indorsed a
bill for 27.51. Subsequently he cut his name out of
the bill for 2751., and he had never indorsed a bill
since that period for the prisoner. The signature,
"Joseph Donovan," to the bill produced, was not his,
nor had it been sanctioned by him.
Mr. Humphreys said that no doubt the signature
of the drawer was genuine.
The LORD MAYOR—The case is complete. I can
see no ground for granting a remand of the prisoner.
The prisoner—Mr. Balls, whose name is on the
back of the bill, my Lord, is not in the Court.
The LORD MAYOR—It is not necessary; here are
two of the indorsers, who swear that their names have
been forged. Besides, I am not trying the case. I
commit upon the evidence I have just heard.
The prisoner—l was told that if I would make up
a certain amount of money, the Company would
exonerate me from a prosecution.

The Secretary to the Company most positively
denied that any proposition of the kind had been
male upon the part of the Company, or that he had
made any such intimation to the prisoner.
The Loun MAYOR (to the prisoner)—You mean
that you were given to understand by somebody,
that if you did as you say, you would not be prose-
cuted P The prisoner—Yes, my Lord.
Mr. Goodman (the Chief Clerk)—Do you
wish to sign the statement you have just made ?
The prisoner—No ; I don't see any occasion for that.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.
The Lord Mayor received from A. 8., '2l. ; and
from T. Moore, Esq., W. ls., for the poor-box.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From Friday Night's Gazelle.)
Au Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Vic-
toria, cap. 32, for tho Week ending on Saturday, the
21st day of December, 1844.

There has been a continuance of animation in the
share market, and large profits have no doubt been
reaped this year ; this has had the effect of nearly
doubling the number of brokers to do the work, and
altogether this seems the most lucrative and improving
business of the day. There is no lack of money, and
all fears of a scarcity are long since dissipated.—
Liverpool Mercury.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
• FR9M THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
CIIRONICLE.—The sentences, with which a
French : ' . opens his Chambers require much more
choice a,
,:... ,spection on the part of his Ministers,
than those, e ich our English Queen addresses her
Parliament, &sip*, from the wisdom of Downing-
street. French'plii‘ties have been rendered so impa-
tient by a recess, that they are no sooner marshalled
in each others presence, than they rush to action, not
merely in masses, but in separate squads. And
amidst the diversity and multitude of ambitions, in-
terests, opinions, susceptibilities, during a struggle
which lasts three weeks, there is no knowing what
result an ill-chosen term, an intemperate expression,
or an insidious amendment may lead to. A debate on
the French address has, thus, much dramatic interest.
For, however well enabled one may be to count and
calculate the respective strength of Ministry and
Opposition, there remains still a large space to be
occupied by the chapter of accidents; and the
strongest champion often receives a wound in such
a melee, which sends him maimed and powerless
from the contest. Last year M. Guizot, dangerously
and fiercely menaced, met his enemies boldly, and
with something of defiance. The outcry against him
being his friendship with England, he, instead of de-
nying it, valiantly boasted of an entente cordiale be-
tween the Governments. Although these strong
expressi ins were replaced in the address by weaker
ones, the Ministerialists carried it by only 220 votes
against 190, a majority little calculated to excite
confidence in Ministerial strength. This year the
speech of the King of the French is more circumspect
and cautious, both in the announcement of, and in
the choice of terms announcing, the happy accord
between the two countries. But, independent of the
cavils of opposition, M. Guizot could not thisyear have
repeated the phrase uttered twelve months back. In
Dec., 1843, M. Guizot made his Sovereign declare his
hopes and expectations, that the entente cordiale
between France and England would lead to an issue
of events favourable to Spain and to Greece, in both
of which countries monarchy was to strengthen itself
by a respect for the public liberties. Now, really
had his Majesty Louis Philippe been endowed with
the clairvoyance of Alexis, or of the best of the Mes-
meric tribe, he could scarcely have, in 1843, hit upon
expressions so fully and exactly, yet so ironically pro-
phetic of the results, in 1844, of the entente cordiale in
Greece and in Spain. All Europe is by this time
pretty well aware that the triumph of the exclusively
French party, both in Madrid and in Athens, has led.
to a suspension of all liberty and all constitution, and
to the substitution of a purely military, despotic,
and sanguinary rule. We blushed for our Govern-
ment at the time, seeing that it allowed itself to be
bound up with French policy in Spain, against
which it should have protested, or from which it
should have at least held aloof. We feared, yet
could scarcely contemplate, the degree of infamy and
disgrace into which those Governments, set up by
French intrigue and guided by French councils, were
likely to fall. But now that this system has attained
its full development of horror and misrule, working
more harm to the cause of constitutional govern-
ment than ever was yet achieved by despot or demo-
crat, we do hope that the English Government will
shake off from itself the odium of being a sharer in
the policy of the French Government. It is too bad,
if, after having been deprived of influence in these
countries, and cheated, politically and commercially,
of po xer, we should at the same time be made to '
share in the odium of having joined in or even
silently sanctioned the liberticide and selfish
trickery of the French Government and its agents.
In 1843 M. Guizot boasted loudly of all that he •
had achieved in Spain, and contrasted the state of
that country in 1840, when French influence was
null, to its situation in 1844, when French influence was •
completely predominant. Most justly did M. Tillers,
even then reply to the Minister, that, as far as Spain
was concerned, he saw no room whatever for
congratulation. We must, however, do M. Guizot
the justice to admit, that he seems somewhat stricken
with remorse and shame for what he has done in
Spain. The royal speech, for the first time, makes
no mention of that country, nor of Greece. And the
good understanding between France and England,
which was to have insured the welfare of these young
constitutional countrit s, is declared to be limited to
their not quarrelling about Morocco or Otaheite. The
French Government, having got up those two causes
of strife for its own glorification, congratulates the
country, that England has not quarrelled with it on
those accounts. The King of the French and M.
Guizot must be allowed, indeed, to have sufficient
skill to push provocation and hostility towards this
country only to that certain point beyond which
they know it will not be borne. And Lord
Aberdeen is the most useful of Ministers to them,
because he stretches this point to the uttermost.
The four first and chief paragraphs of the speech
having been devoted to Morocco and to the relations
with England, it proceeds to dwell on the national
prosperity and the increase of the royal family. In-
deed, with a change of proper names, Sir Robert
Peel or Prosperity Robinson might have written the
last half of the King's speech, to put into our own
Queen's mouth. There is not a word of the right of
search, nor even of the law of public instruction, an-
nounced last year from the throne, though strangled
by faction. It is remarkable how accurately the
purport of the speech was known in the political
circles of Paris several days previous to its being
pronounced. In general the wording of the French
King's speech causes much discussion and difference
in the Cabinet, and excites prolonged debates even
to the very morning of the royal sitting. This
time all was quietly and definitively pre-arranged,
M. Guizot being, as he deserves, uncontrolled leader.
Our correspondent sent us, two days back, a most
correct report of the chief paragraphs of the
speech. The Times, which had not an inkling of it,
gets up a cavil, and, in its petty jealousy, accuses our
correspondent of saying what he did not say, and of
representing Louis Philippe as having interpolated the
word fletri into the royal speech of last year. Our
correspondent made no such assertion. The word
fletri was introduced into the address, it is well
known, at the royal injunction, which is all our cor-
respondent meant to convey. The said fietrisssure of
the Belgrave-square levee gave a spirit and life to the
commencement of the last French session, which is
apparently wanting in this. The war cry is evidently
on the wane. The Right of Search will probably
give rise to more length than vigour of speeches. Mo-
rocco is a fait accompli ; and Otaheite is a question so
inglorious to all parties to stir, that we do not see well
how it can be agitated. If M. Guizot is to be accused of
having sacrificed the influence and diminished the power
of France then certainly it will not require any great
effort of his oratory to show the contrary most tri-
umphantly. So that against the mere war party, the
mere anti-English cry, M. Guizot is invulnerable.
But if orators, unmaddened by Anglophobia, should
come forward to ask M. Guizot what use he has made
of the power and resources of the great country en-
trusted to him, and should point out the results of M.
Guizot's policy in Spain, and in Greece, and in the
"Pacific, we fear it would be but too apparent that the
French Minister, though he has succeeded in pre-
serving peace between great States, has at the same
time been most merciless to the small. No adminis-
-1 tration has been more destructive of liberty in other
1 countries under French influence than M. Guizot's.
I None have spilt more innocent blood, or caused it to
spilt. Nonr-have set on foot more intrigues, or prac-
tised more rivalry, or sent forth more petty expedi-
tions—all attended with more disgrace than profit, all
ovally narrow in their ends as in their aims. We
doubt if free discussion could ever endow M. Guizot
ltith Sir R. Peel's sole political virtue—that of being
a safe man. Certainly no effort of political rhetoric
could prove M. Guizot to be a great man.
TIMES.—It is not to a speech from the throne
that the world looks, except in times of great doubt
:and difficulty, for an announcement of political novel-
ties, or for the signals of party warfare. A consti-
tutional Sovereign, like the King of a tournament in
,older times, rides unarmed, except with his white
:truncheon, across the lists, and takes his state apart,
-whilst the real combatants in steel and mail are pre-
:paring for the encounter ; but, though he take no
1 ' part in the fray, he presides over the issues of the
; struggle, and at the most critical moment his wand
e• may turn the fate of the day. It will require all the
habitual ingenuity of our French neighbours to weave
. s all the usual topics, which may raise a party division
,or justify a party speech, into the reply to the neat
;end appropriate expression of the sentiments
' e if the Crown with which King Louis Phi-
li npe opened his Parliament on Thursday last. A
)
I ,-'rench address has many of the properties of an

Irish echo ; and it is more apt to soar into a
counter-harangue than to subside into the modesty
of a reply. But, in this instance, with the excep-
tion of the treaty with Morocco, which is very happily
disposed of by the words " Peace has been as prompt
as victory," the speech appears to contain no allusion
to the great questions of the session—the Education
Bill, the much-desired grant to the Duke de Nemours,
the state of Spain, or any present negotiations, or
future acts of legislative importance. We should be
ungrateful, however, if we did not acknowledge with
the greatest satisfaction the terms in which the King
speaks, not only of the marks of reciprocal friendship
which he has received from the Queen of England,
but of the manifestations in favour of the long dura-
tion of the general peace, which met his Majesty at
every turn in this country. The visits of a Queen of
England to France and of a King of France to
England, at a time when the malignity and intem-
perance of party warfare had fastened upon our in-
ternational relations, are memorable triumphs of the
personal dignity and good feeling of the two Sovereigns
over all petty causes of jealousy and strife ; and they
will not be without their just effect on the approaching
debate. We have often had occasion to point out the
vices of the system of political discussion practised
in the French assemblies, where the debate is alto-
gether artificial, and got up for the occasion, not
growing out of the importance of the subjects or the
pressure of events. The French Opposition have got
so nnich in the habit of speaking without any prac-
tical question at all before the Chambers, that their
annual parade of patriotic sentiments has lost all the
spirit and the power of a real political demonstration.
Nobody doubts the sincerity of their zeal to turn out
the Government; but it is unfortunate that they have
not hit upon a single specific measure of improve-
ment, or even of a popular character, to which they I
can attach their ettorts, and for which they may
claim the efficient support of the interests and opinions
of the country. Such an Opposition as this is has
all along been treated by the Government with far
more respect than it deserved. It has always proved
powerless, often insecure. If it had come into office,
it would have copied AI. Guizot, except in those par-
ticulars in which AL Guizot has so demeaned himself
as to copy the Opposition. Every concession he has
made to them, every modification of his own palicy and
genuine intentions which he has attempted to justify
by his inability to do better, has turned out ill. For
acts of this kind were acts which the Opposition itself,
if in power, would not have attempted. Their grand
object appears to have been to mislead him, like a tra-
veller in a fog, by false cries ; and, not infrequently,
he has thought it safer to trust to the good feeling of
his allies than to the good sense of France. Mut
these deviations from the wonted severity of his course
have always led to inconvenience, even more at home
than abroad ; and we are convinced that if he had
always shown a firmer determination to fulfil his
whole policy, especially towards this country, he
would have stood considerably higher than he does at
present; and he would not have left it to others, his
opponents, to boast that in their hands the alliance
with England would become more secure and more
productive than in his own. As far as the party com-
binations of the Chamber of Deputies are concerned,
the French Cabinet runs no risk. The old questions of
right of search and the like will be dressed up for the de-
bate ; but, like the painted forts and dragon-banners of
the Chinese, they were always unreal, and they are now
tattered and threadbare. Great questions gain by
successive discussions ; false ones expire. The
soundest part of the Liberal party which acts with
Al. de Tocqueville and M. Odillon Barrot have
severed themselves from AI. Thiers, and they will be
joined in their campaign by the knight-errantry of
AI. de Lamartine, whose ardour to attack the nominal
head of the Opposition exceeds even his desire to
overturn the head of the Administration. But, as
affecting the great practical questions of the distribu-
tion of power and the government of the country, all
these are outward feints, flourishes, and pretences.
The duration of the Administration turns, in reality,
on a much smaller point—a point so small, indeed,
that we know not in what corner of the reign
of George 111. or George 11. we can find an analo-
gous case. Whilst the political horseriders and
scaramouches are skirmishing round the ring, their
master has his place in the centre. The royal will
is fixed upon a Dingle object, with the tenacity and
with far more than the ingenuity of George 111.
It is a peculiarity of the mind and character of the
King of the French to make great questions ancillary,
to small ones. The peace of Europe and the pros-
perity of France are no doubt the honour of his
reign ; but one might imagine that the chief object
of that reign was to obtain a paltry grant for the
Duke de Nemours. Whoever can engage to carry
that grant may be Prime Minister of France to-mor-
row. Already, on the question of the choice of a
President for the Chamber of Deputies, the King and
the Journal des Delmar support AI. Dupin, whilst the
Ministry adheres, more from private regard than
public gratitude, to M. Sauzet. What can be the
reason ? A very slender one. AI. Dupin is said to
have dropped his resistance to the dotation project;
and, if that be true, his assistance will be invaluable
in carrying it through the Chamber. Louis Philippe
may say with Bishop Phillpotts on a recent occasion
—"Paradoxical as it may sound, I rejoiee; that the
battle is to be fought for these trifles.' The more
contemptible is the object in view, the more absolute
is that power, the more crafty is the skill, which can
accomplish it in the teeth of the whole nation.
At such times as these, with an attempt on
the one hand to exasperate and delude the public
mind against the best foreign ally of France, and a
preconceived resolution on the part of the Crown to
risk so much in order to gain so little, the path of a
French statesman is neither straight nor smooth.
But the more necessary it is for the man who stands
at the head of affairs in that country to defy calumny,
and to crush intrigue by the whole weight of his per-
sonal dignity, and a firm adherence to his political
principles. His antagonists may hope to clamber
into office by promising what he could not do ' • but
they would remain there only by completing what he
has left undone. For the real interests of our own
country and of our relations with France, it is now
of comparatively small importance who may hold
office there ; for almost all parties seem agreed that
our good will is more desirable than our enmity, and
Ithe politicians who have talked loudest of war in
`Opposition, would be equally strenuous partisans of
ipeace when in power. But a Government brought
in by such means would inspire no confidence at
home or respect abroad. It would owe its hybrid
existence to a popular delusion crossed by a royal
intrigue, and we confidently anticipate that the des-
tinies of France will not be transferred from the hands
of those who have now governed them for more than
four years.
POST.—The political " understanding" between
Great Britain and the Court of Rome, for ecclesiasti-
cal and general purposes, to which we alluded yester-
day, has already become a topic of no small alarm
among the fiercely radical body of the Maynooth
priesthood in Ireland. Hints are already muttered
of throwing off allegiance to the Pope, and to this
extremity we doubt not the Irish priests might come.
They could soon make a Pope of their own. Nay,
the mitred brawler of Tuam is almost ready-made
to their hand, and very much suited, in all respects,
to their taste. The organ of the Romish priests in
the metropolis of the south of Ireland, exclaims, in
alarm :—" It is more than a rumour that Rome and
England are now forming an alliance, by which the
former is to give into the hands of the latter power
over the Irish Church. On this subject we shall not
dwell. It is startling as painful, and reflects no
honour either on the policy of the Court of Rome, or
on the Government of England. It would be a base
betrayal of a faithful fold on the one hand ; and a
mean, underhand, pei fidious, but characteristic scheme
on the other. To be sure, the question—one full of
imminent peril to our beleaguered Church, and our
endangered liberties—would arise, whether the clergy
and people of Ireland would obey the delegated autho-
rity, or acknowledge the right of Rome to make ever
the spiritual obedience of the Catholic clergy and laity
of Ireland to the temporal power of a Protestant Go-
vernment. Should such a crisis wise, this question must
come on for future discussion, and is only adverted to
now to give the reader some notion of the many meshes
which the hostile Anti-Catholic and Anti-Irish spirit
of our hereditary and still-envenomed oppressor
is preparing to enfold our Church and enslave our
own people." There is nothing new in the doubt ex-
pressed in the above extract, whether the Romish
Church in Ireland would obey the see of Rome, if
that see should withdraw its countenance from the
dominating polici which the Maynooth clergy have
ever aimed at. that threat of separation has been
said to have operated more than once upon the policy
of the Vatican, and unless some new agent be at
work, of which Lord Aberdeen and the Pope know
more than we do, it may very possibly operate again.
Rome would not willingly lose such a province as
Ireland, and how she is to retain it, except by giving
way to the will of her Hibernian subjects, does not
very clearly appear. To yield, for the sake of go-
verning, has been her policy for the last twenty years