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LAMERT ON DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS, ANL* ALL
DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, &c.
" He who in pleasure's downy arms
Ne'er lost his health or youthfu lcharms,
A hero lives, and justly can
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HAMBURGH MAIL.
WARSAW, JAN. 6.—There is no foundation what-
ever for the announcement that it is intended to build
a new fortress at Kalirch. The Russian Govern-
ment has never thought of such a work ; nor, after
the completion of the works at Warsaw, Demblin,
and Medlin, can it be necessary for the defence of the
country. Napoleon, and with him the most eminent
tacticians, judged the three above-mentioned points to
be fully sufficient for the protection of Poland against
invasions from the West.

The accounts given in other papers of troubles hav-
ing taken place are equally groundless. Poland was
never more tranquil than it is now, and it is the in-
terest of all Poles to resist to the utmost all excite-
ments to further disturbances, if the time shall at
length come when the wounds which have been in-
flicted on the kingdom shall be healed. This time
may, perhaps, not be distant, if the Propaganda of
Paris and London does not revive its impracticable
schemes, which have already been so fatal to Poland.
HANOVER, JAN. 12.—The Bishop of Heldershein
has published a new edition of the Catechism of Father
Canisrus, and recommended it to the clergy. It is
an old book of ultramonfane-tendency, full of hetero-
dox diictrines, on which account the use of it wag
abolished. The majority of the Roman Catholics of
Heldershein have decidedly declared against the direc-
tion which Dr. Bandt seems inclined to give to his
diocese, and several teachers have refused to intro-
duce this catechism into their schools ; on this occa-
sion many a Roman Catholic manifests the laudable
desire not to be oppressed by the yoke of Rome, but
to follow the efforts of their brethren for free, pure
Christianity.
LEIPSIC, Jaw. 12.—The Sachsischen Naterlands-
Blatter publishes to-day the letter of Dr. Reginbrecht,
Professor in Breslow, to Dr. Latussek, the suffragan,
and adds, in a postscript of a Roman Catholic at Bres-
low, " A report is just spread here that in conse-
quence of Dr. Reginbrecht 's protest, an extraordinary
meeting of the chapters of this city has been held to-
day, the 4th, at which Professor Reginbrecht at-
tended ; it is said that he was urged by the Bishop to
withdraw the said letter for two months, because in
that time instructions would b e received from Rome.
Dr. R. is said to have been still more decided by this
reference to Rome of a purely German affair not to
retract a syllable. We cannot tell how far these re-
ports may be true."—Hamburgh Papers, Jan. 17.

FLANDERS MAIL.
BRUSSELS, JAN. 19.—We find the following passage
in the Echo Tournaission :—" Petitions, with the signa-
tures of a great number of cultivators and workmen of
several communes of this arrondissement, whose subsis-
tence depends on the production and sale of indigenous
(i.e., beet-root) sugar, will be shortly presented to the
Chamber of Representatives, praying that the interest of
the manufacturer of indigenous sugar may not be sacri-
ficed to the interest of the refiners of foreign sugar. It
is scarcely a Tear and a half since the Chamber passed
the law relative to sugar, and already they think of mo-
difving it."—Brussels papers, Jan. 20.
the Cologne Gazette says that the Cofemittee of the
Austrian Lloyd, which has been to Vienna, has pur-
chased six large steamers belonging to the Danube Steam
Navigation Company, which are employed in the Lower
Danube and the Black Sea, by which the number of
steamers belonging to the Austrian Lloyd is increased
to 20.

On Tuesday last Richard Gordon, Esq., was enter-
tained at a public dinner in the Town-hall, by the mer-
chants of Enniskillen, and resident gentry of the neigh-
bourhood, on the occasion of his removal to Limerick,
when upwards of SO persons assembled to evince the
respect and esteem which his conduct has gained for him
during a residence among them of upwards of eight
years. The chair was occupied by Paul Dane, Esq., of
J.P. ; the vice-chair by Thomas Kernaghan,
Esq.—Fermanagh Reporter, Jan.

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REPEAL OF THE WINDOW-TAX.
(Abridged from the Bath Journal.)
A public meeting was held on Thursday, in the
banquetting-room of the Guildhall, to petition Par-
liament for a repeal of the window-tax. The at-
tendance was very numerous. The platform was
crowded by several of the town council and other
gentlemen. Lord Duncan and Mr. Roebuck, the re-
presentatives of the city, were enthusiastically cheered
upon making their appearance.
Oa the motion of W. HUNT, Esq., the Mayor was
called upon to preside.
The MAYOR introduced the business of the meeting.
W. HUNT, Esq., moved the first resolution, which
condemned the window-tax as unjust in principle,
unequal in its pressure, and in its operation injurious
to the moral and sanitary condition of the commu-
nity, particularly the poorer classes, and maintained
that it ought, therefore, to be abolished. The repeal
of the window-tax was seen to be practi-
cable. It was a tax pressing heavily on the
poor. It was a true principle of taxation,
that all people should pay taxes in accordance with
the extensiveness of their property. He who pos-
sessed no property ought not to pay taxes for the pro-
tection of property.—(Cheers.) Some taxes they
were able to remove. If a man had horses and dogs,
and did not choose to pay the tax, he could dispose of
them and the tax together. If he wished to free him-
self from the malt-tax he had only to abstain from
drinking beer. Or if he desired to evade the sugar
duty he could abstain from the use of it. But let a
man be ever so much ground down by any calamity,
or his family huddled together in a garret, this tax
pursued him, nor could he free himself from it until
he took refuge in a union workhouse. He would not
enter into the sanitary part of the question, but called
upon them to petition with all their hearts, for the
sake of justice and sound policy.—(Great cheering.)
Mr. T. FULLER seconded the resolution, which was
unanimously carried.
J. EDRIDGE, Esq., moved the second resolution,
proposing the adoption of a petition to the House of
Commons, embodying the first resolution, and request-
ing the Members of the city to present and support
Mr. G. EDWARDS having seconded the motion, the
resolution and petition were passed unanimously,
amidst much cheering.
Lord Dusicasi was received with enthusiastic
cheers, which having subsided, he said, before he en-
tered upon the question fosr which the meeting was
called, he would touch loon what had been done in
the House of Commons Alice he was last before them.
Great changes bad taken place in that time. In
1842 he attended a meeting in that room to petition
against some of the clauses in Sir James Graham's
Education Bill. The opposition to that Bill was by
the Dissenters. Their opposition had triumphed.—
(Cheers.) He honoured them because of that tri-
umphant opposition ; and he honoured the Minister
for giving way on that occasion to public opinion.—
(Continued cheers.) They had a Minister who was
ushered into office by the shouts of the ultra-Orange
party in Ireland; and yet that Minister had had the
courage, in the recent benefices commission, to
place the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland in
a juxta-position with their high-church fellow-
subjects.—(Loud cheers.) They had triumphed then ;
but this was not the only triumph of public opinion.
He saw the same Tory Minister, in spite of the
threats of his friends, sweeping away commercial
restrictions.—(Cheers.) The timber duties had been
considerably lowered ; and he believed the odious
corn-laws of England would soon be removed.—
(Cheers.) When the Minister first came into power
he (Lord Duncan) should as soon have thought of
his bringing forward such liberal measures with
respect to trade and civil and religious liberty, as he
should of heretical opinions being first broached in
Conservative Oxford. When he (Lord Duncan) first
came amongst them he was a free trader, and he was
a free trader now.—(Cheers.) The Finance Minister
had at the present time a surplus. How had this
surplus been derived? Let them look at the returns,
and they would find that it was principally owing to
the removal of commercial restrictions.—(Cheers.)
The surplus in the hands of the Minister was 400,0001.
on the quarter, and 1,300,0001. on the year, exclusive
of the reduction on the Three-and-a-Half per Cents.
Thus a surplus of three millions was expected to be at
the disposal of the Government; and he came there
that day to ask them as their representative if they did
not think there were some taxes pressing extremely
hard upon this particular community—to know
their opinions as to the window-tax, and if they did
desire the repeal of such an obnoxious impost, which,
amounting to 1,600,0001., was, under present circum-
stances, so practicable.—(Cheers.) In Bath 22,0001.
per annum was extracted from their pockets by this
tax, which ought to be left to be spent in the city—
(Cheers)—making, in fact, a difference of 44,0001. a
year to the people of Bath. When he read these
returns, the was led to consider how this tax origi-
nated. With considerable trouble he had ferreted it
out. It was first passed in 1762, when Sir Francis
Dashwood was Chancellor of the Exchequer; and in
a work recently published an anecdote is recorded,
in which it is stated that he was afraid to go through
the streets, because the children cried out after him
as he passed—" There goes the worst Chancellor of
the Exchequer England ever had !"—(Laughter.)
But the act was not so much that of Sir F. Dashwood
as of another person. It was the invention of a more
clever man. He (Sir Francis) was but the tool of
George Grenville, whose love of taxation imposed the
stamp-tax, by which they lost America.—(Cheers.)
That was the man to whom they were really
indebted for this obnoxious tax.--(Hear, hear.)
This was a breeches-pocket question ; and, as such,
was well understood by those who paid it directly—
the upper and middle classes ; but was not so well
understood by those who paid it indirectly. But he
would now proceed to show them a little more. In
1792 they were blessed with a war—(Laughter)----
and Mr. Pitt clapped on ten per cent. This was a
small amount, a mere fraction, for, in 1796, he trebled
the assessed taxes. His esteemed friend, the Rev. W.
Jay, had told him that he recollected walking about
the streets of Bath at the time, and seeing people
boarding up their windows, with the following on the
--
outside in chalk :" Lighten our darkness, we be-
seech thee, 0 Pitt t"—(Cheers and laughter.) His
Lordship continued to go through the history of this
tax down to the present time. On the sinews of her
workmen depended the commercial prosperity of
England ; and yet those laws on light and air were
proved to be in every way working a deterioration in
that valuable class of society.—(Cheers.) He had
never made a pledge he had not kept, or a promise
that he had broken ; and he would now pledge him-
self to bring forward the subject of the window-tax
in the House of Commons ; and whenever anything
touching the interests of the working classes was in-
troduced in that House he would be found ready
to stand up and defend them.—(Cheers.) He was
called one of the aristocracy, but he never forget that
the working classes were the means of placing his
family in the high position they held, and he was
therefore determined that what little ability he pos-
sessed should be faithfully used in their service. He
would not stand patiently by and see them wronged.
—(The Noble Lord sat down amidst long-continued
cheers.)

Mr. ROEBUCK then rose, and was received with
enthusiastic applause. His noble colleague had said
that he had never yet given a pledge which he had
ever broken. He (Mr. Roebuck) could proudly say
the same.—(Cheers.) He had .a charge from them
on this subject, and as his Noble Friend had expressed
his intention of introducing it in the House of Com-
mons, he should be happy to follow in his wake when-
ever the matter was brought forward. Justice, from
time out of mind, clearly proved, demanded that this
tax should be repealed.—(Cheers.) The Noble Lord
had said this was a breeches-pocket question. But he
would go higher—it was a moral question. The
question was not that this or that class would have to
pay a little more or a little less by its repeal ; but it
was a tax weighing most heavily on the lower classes,
and did mischief to the health and morals of the
people. If that were so, what was there to prevent its
repeal ? The Finance Minister had at present a large
surplus ; and there was a general scramble as to what
particular tax should be repealed. Who were the
parties always listened to in these matters ? Was it
the poor ? No. His colleague had told them it was
the agricultural tenants. Why ? Because the agri-
cultural landlord would be benefited. Those who
paid less in taxes would be able to pay more in rent.
—(Cheers.) It was with them, down with every-
thing, up with rent.—(Continued cheers.) The book
the Noble Lord had quoted from was an instructive
document at the present time, when such a feeling of
sympathy was pretended among the higher classes
for the poor. They had meetings of these people
for
raising subscriptions for their relief. Meetings for
wash• houses and f'
washing-tubs.—(Laughter.) But
had they meetings to put the people, not in possession
of alms, but in a position in which they could maintain
their own independence'. He desired not that they
should give the people alms, but that they should be
allowed the free exercise of those abilities which the
God of nature had given them. They could then use


them in the best vaay for their own subsistence, and
owe no obligation to a second party.—(Cheers.) He
wished not to give them charity, but power.—
(Cheers.) If they possessed their just power, they
would not desire elemosynary aid. He would raise
the moral condition of his fellow men. Nothing so
effectually promoted this as the health and comfort
of the people. The people could not be healthy
without cleanliness, and cleanliness depended on
nothing so much as the free circulation of air and
light. Dependent on cleanliness were morals.—
(Cheers.) If the people lived in hovels they could
not be a moral people, and that was a pernicious sys-
tem which needed from the morals of the people the
support of the Government. He could really and truly
assert that the feeling of party was not now the pre-
dominant feeling amongst the leading men in the
political world. They had broken down party.—
(Cheers.) And every future Minister would not
consider so much the majority of the House of Com-
mons as the strong public opinion existing out of doors.
This was the result of their having a Tory Govern-
ment. Not that it was the wish of the Tories, or
their work, but of the strong opposition that had been
raised against them.—(Cheers.) They had forced
those who rode into power upon all the old Tory and
Orange cries to adopt those liberal measures they for-
merly opposed.—(Cheers.) This would go on. The
greatest opponents of the Minister were not those of
the Opposition, but those who sat close at his back,
and, as Cobbett observed, were thrusting their knees
into his shoulders.—(Cheers.) His colleague had
spoken of the Canada Corn Bill. Did they think
the Minister had acted upon the wish of the Tory
majority ? No such thing. It was the public opi-
nion of the people, aided by the strong opposition of
the minority in the House of Commons, that
influenced the Minister.—(Cheers.) The landed
aristocracy would be glad to repeal this law, but
public opinion will be too strong for them, and the
next thing that would follow would be the repeal of
the corn-laws. Such would be the importation of
corn from America, that the landlords will be first
in the cry for the total repeal of the corn-laws.—
(Cheers.) Now, he would show them another thing.
Corn was the first great element of subsistence. Next
to corn came sugar. Now what had the Minister
done here ? Mr. Gladstone had brought into the
House of Commons his Sugar Bill ; not to do di-
rectly what they had demanded—he could not think
of such a thing—interests were at stake. But in that
Bill he had introduced some circumbendibus clauses
which effected just the same purpose.—(Cheers.)
The Queen, by an order of council, had directed
sugar to be imported from America and other places;
and, before twelve months, they should have free trade
in sugar. How had this been accomplished ? Had it
been done by the Tory majority ? No ; this also had
been effected by the public opinion abroad, and the
powerful opposition within doors. He bad told them of
these things before, and now they saw his prophecy
come true.—(Cheers.) They should go on, step by
step, with these reforms.—(Cheers.) They had
liberal measures because the people understood their
own interests. What had been done was the result
of public opinion,'and much more would be done from
the same cause.—(Cheers.) But gentlemen were
wise in their generation ; they were trying to gain
the sympathies of the working classes. But his ques-
tion to them always was—will you give the working
classes power ?—(Cheers.) " Oh, no," said they,
" we will give them wash-houses and a game of
cricket, and so on—(Laughter)—we wish to unite
all classes, but don't say a word about power."—
(Cheers.) They had seen how essential the repeal of
the window-tax was to the welfare of the poor. Now,
if they asked those gentlemen to repeal that law, did
they think, with all their sympathy, they would
do it ? No; their desire was to make the people
dependent. 'l'hey had given himself and his col-
league a charge as to this law, and they would
impress on the Minister what was the people's
feeling on the subject. He liked that word ; the
people's feeling.—(Cheers.) Yes, he would impress
it upon the Minister.—(Cheers.) It was the interest
of the whole that this iniquitous tax should be re-
pealed. He really did not think that if this question
were fairly stated in the House of Commons, the
Members could for very shame refuse to repeal this
oppressive tax. He had spoken in obedience to a
strong feeling of the injustice of this tax, and he
hoped there was nothing in his past conduct which
could lead any of his constituents to think he had
broken any pledge, or that any opinion he had given,
which was essential to their interest, had received
aught of change. If his opinions changed he should
feel it his duty to come and deliver back to them the
charge he had received from them thinking he held
such and such particular opinions. If they then
gave him back that charge he would accept it, but it
would be with their knowledge of the opinions he
entertained. This was the duty of every honest
man—(Cheers)—and he dared any man to show a
change in his opinions, expressions, and conduct.
What he had pledged he had performed. He had not
changed. He wanted the same reforms now as when
they first carried him in triumph to the hustings.—
(Cheers.) He held the same opinions now ; he en-
tertained them with additional experience, and, he
hoped, not diminished influence.—(Great cheering.)
It would be strange, however, if a man who had been
twelve years in public life should not see reasons to
modify any opinions. Were they to shut up their
minds from that light which was more essential than
the solar light—the light of wisdom ? Were they to
bind their minds down to remain always in the same
state ? Certainly not. He should be always
ready to change his opinions when his judgment
was convinced of his former error.—(Cheers, and a
Voice, " How about the rate-paying clause on Mr.
Duncombe's motion ?") I'lr. Roebuck asked the
person to state clearly what he meant, after which,
he continued. Had he not always voted against the
rate-paying clause ? He had voted twenty times
against it—(Cheers)—and he dared any man to say
he had ever voted in its favour. Let Mr. Duncombe
bring forward his motion on the 4th or sth of Febru-
ary, or any other time, and he would be found to vote
for it. (The Voice—" lam satisfied.") He (Mr.
Roebuck) was glad the party was satisfied. A great
deal of misrepresentation had been going on.
It was not possible for him to be always look-
ing after his reputation, and answering every
calumny. Public men, it was said, lived in
glass houses. He had lived in a glass house,
and it was his pride and glory that his acts should
be scanned.—(Cheers.) They would recollect how he
was sifted in 1832. And there were many since that
time who, not having power to injure him by the
truth, employed calumny and backbiting to effect
their purpose. How often had his friends said to him,
" Why, Sir, they are saying everywhere that you are
changed—that you have turned a Tory." Did they
suppose the Tories thought so ? He would appeal to
his noble colleague whether he was thought a Tory
in the House of Commons ?—(Cheers.) No. It was
calumny that was afraid to mine and charge him to
his face, but went behind his back to injure him.
He dared any man to point out to him then the
change. Was there any one who wished to ask him
a question, let them do so then ; let them put it in
writing, and send it him a week or a month hence,
and they should have his answer.—(Loud cheers.)
He was bound to say this now. He came
to ask them this question. lie could not always be
with them. Parliament would soon meet, and he
should have to do their work there.—(Cheers.) He
therefore asked any man to point out one act of his
which ran counter to his pledge. He would then
give a reply; but he should not always, he repeated,
be noticing these attacks. He made this statement
once for all ; and let him be understood, until some
definite charge was brought against him, all back-
biting, all calumny, would in future be obliged to
hide itself from the light of day; and he thus con-
cluded, not inaptly, he thought, a discussion forofr.
let-
ting light into the dwellings of thed
Roebuck sat down amidst repeated an
cheering.)
thanks 0 the Mayor,
peonothu—siastic
Lord-DUNCAN moved a vote of than
cfarorrietdh
after which the meeting gave which was seconded by Mr. Re ott.euecac,h
and
ds
gallant chief magistrate. •

p following
o on
TB.—Mr. James Waterhouse
MUNIFICENT BEOUBS
the sthth,
inhsot. di wedhas
bayt hhiiss housewill
b eicinu
et
ah
teh letde g
the
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sums (in the Three per Cent. Consols), to the under-
mentioned charities:—To the British and Foreign Bible
Society, 2,0001. ; to the Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge, 2,0001. ; to the Metropolis Church Building
Fund, 2,0001.; to the Middlesex Hospital, 2,000/. ; to the
National Society for Promoting the Education of the
Poor in the Principles of the Establithed Church, 1,0001.;
to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 2,000/.;
and has directed the whole to be paid, free of duty,
within three months after his decease.
SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 20.—The Oriental Company's
steam-ship, the Great' Liverpool, Captain Macleod, left
the Docks at nine, a.m., this day, for Alexandria, and
proceeded down the river about three miles, and there
awaited the arrival of .her passengers, above eighty in
number, as also the East India and China mails. The
East India mails will in future be dispatched twice a
month.

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The performances of the
length been brought to a close.- Mr. Macreu y p F ------"E-1-1
y-e
at the Opera Comique last night (gratuitously Of course),
in his celebrated scene from Henry IV., for the benefit
! of the Socield des Auteurs Dramatiques.
A press of political matter 'precluded the possibility of
my noticing hitherto the performance of Hamlet at the
Chateau of the Tuileries on Thursday night—an oc-
currence, nevertheless, that will figure among the most-
remarkable flutes dramatiques of our epoch.
1 The theatre of the Chateau is precisely the Hall of
the National Convention. It is beautifully fitted up, and,
lam told, capable of containing 1,000 spectators. This,
however, appears doubtful, for there were present on
Thursday night only 650 or 660 persons, and it was
lit?rally crammed,
The hour fixed for the commencement of the perform-
ance was eight o'clock. Accustomed as you are in Eng-
land to punctuallity in this respect, you would still admire
ithe clockwork regularity of the Ding of the French. Pre-
cisely at the moment indicated his Majesty and the
Queen ,followed by the whole of the Royal Family, with
the exception of the Queen of the Belgians and the
Duchess Auguste of Saxe-Coburg, entered the theatre
and took their places. There were present at their entry
Lord and Lady Cowley, and ~indeed the whole of the
members of the Corps Diplomatiog and their ladies, to-
gether with—it is hardly necossary to say—the elite of
French society, and a considerable numbk.z of foreigners
of distinction. The pit was filled by officers in uniform,
among whom were some three or four scarlet.' In short,

a more gorgeous spectacle than the audience part of the
, house presented has been rarely witnessed.
The performance commenced immediately, and pro.-
, ceeded to the close unbroken, by applause—an indication'
of a desire to reward Macready's fine delivery of thy
first soliloquy having been at once repressed upon re-
' collecting that the etiquette de rigeur prohibited in the
' royal presence such manifestations. Macready lost
nothing, however, by the delay, as you shall see pre-
sently.
There is nothing to be said in the way of criticisn! on
the performance of Hamlet on this occasion that I couitl
think of obtruding on you. It was occasionally percep-
tible to the English present, that in those parts where
the dialogue had been cut up to shorten the duration of
the play, the force of habit was near involving more than
one of the performers in speeches ordered to be omitted,
but nothing occurred to mar the effect of the 'Perform-
ance, which was, generally speaking, admirable.
The performance was not yet over when Mr. Mitchell
received, through M. Delavigne (Conservateur du Mo-
bilier de is Couronne), an intimation that his Majesty
would speak to him on leaving the Theatre for his apart-
ments. This intimation was moreover, accompanied by
a splendid gold snuff-box, in a case, with the royal
cipher beautifully chased upon the lid. Mr. Mitchell
accordingly repaired to the point intimated by M.
Delavigne (brother of the late celebrated Casimir Dela •
vigne). Immediately upon the King's approach, his
Majesty was made aware of Mr. Mitchell's presence, and
addressed him with affability in French, but checking him-
self; resumed in choice English, thanking him for the
pleasure he (Mr. Mitchell) had insured to him, to the
Queen and Royal Family, and indeed to the people of
Paris, by the admirable performances of the theatrical
company he had brought over. " I have seen Hamlet
played frequently," said the King, "and never saw the
character so well supported as on this night. Among
other Hamlets that I have seen was Mr. Bennett. Pray
who is Mr. Bennett ?" Mr. Mitchell made a reply which
I could not catch. "I have been delighted by Mr.
Macready," continued the King, "and foktnd Miss
Faucit chaomante." The Queen then addressed Mr.
Mitchell, and with equal condescension and kindness
similarly expressed herself ; and bowing graciously, the
royal party moved on.
The munificence of his Majesty did not end here, how-
ever; for Mr. Mitchell was accompanied to Mr.Macready's
dressing-room by M. Delavigne, who presented to the
tragedian, on the part of the King, his Majesty's
and the Queen's thanks for the great gratification he
had afforded them, and requested his acceptance of a
most splendid poniard, in a still more magnificent case-.
The blade, a real Damascus one, having upon it an in-
scription in Arabic, is set in gold; the hilt enriched with
diamonds and other precious stones. The case is still
more costly, being of pure gold, exquisitely chiselled,
and set in rubies, sapphires, emeralds, and diamonds.
Nor did the King's kindness and bounty end even
here. On Friday Mr. Mitchell received, by command
of the King, a message, expressing his regret that the
enterprise had not been so successful as it deserved, ac-
companied by three bank notes, of a thousand franca
each, towards covering his outlay.
Thus worthily terminates an tuadertaking that will
long be remembered. Mr. Mitchell left last night for
London ; Mr. Macready leaves in 'a few days, bearing
with him gratifying proofs of the favour ntovhich he was
held here, among which the least is not tlis6, thanks of
the Commission des Auteurs Dramatique&—nmes.

PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO

MR. BRUNEL.

On Friday last a sumptuous entertainment took place
at the Albion Tavern on the occasion of presenting to
Mr. I. K. Brunel, the engineer to the Great Western,
Bristol, and Exeter, Bristol and Gloucester Railways,
and other great public works, a testimonial of the high
appreciation of his services. The chair was taken by
Mr. Charles Russell, IMP., the chairman of the Great
Western Railway, and nearly a hundred of the sub-
scribers sat down to dinner. The testimonial, which, prior
to the entertainment, was exhibited in an adjoining room,
is of very beautiful workmanship, and consists of a
centre-piece and four accompanying ornamental
dishes for fruit or flowers, with six salt cellars, all of
silver gilt, in the style of Louis XIV. The value of
the testimonial is upwards of 2,000 guineas, and the sub-
scriptions were limited to the sum of ten guineas
from each subscriber. The centre-piece consists of
a magnificent candelabrum, surmounted by a beautifully
designed group of figures representing, on the base or
plinth rising from the pediment between the brackets,
Science. Genius, and Invention aiding Commerce ; whilst
around the base are groups representing the four Sea-
sons. Elaborately wrought scrolls spring from the
curved sides, supporting the candelabra for containing
twelve lights. This costly and chastely-designed orna-
ment, which was executed by Mr. B. Smith, of Duke-
street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, measures 34 incheein height,
is 30 inches square, and the weight of it is about 1,500
ounces. The flower and fruit dishes are of a triangular
form, each being 12 inches in height, and 14 inches in
diameter. They have very rich scrolls, with groups of
figures round the pillars supporting baskets, exquisitely
designed, and weigh together about 750 ounces. The
six salt cellars are of a massive and highlynvrought cha-
racter, circular in form, with very rich feet, cOnsposed of
figures riding on dolphins, the weight of the six being
about 100 ounces.

Immediately on the cloth being removed, a table bear-
ing the testimonial was exhibited to the company
amidst deafening cheers. And the usual loyal toasts
having been given and responded to, the Chairman pro-
posed, " The health of their distinguished guest, Mr.
Brunel," and in doing so paid a high and well-merited
tribute of praise to the ability and energy displayed by
him, as well in the execution of the Great Western
Railroad, as in the other important works in which he
has been successfully engaged.
The toast was drunk with three times three and one
cheer more, reiterated again and again. •
Mr. BRUNEL, who was evidently affected by the very
warm manner in which the toast had been responded to,
briefly returned thanks, and adverted with much feeling
to the difficulty under which he laboured in returning
thanks, surrounded as he was by many of those with
whom he had become acquainted in the course of his
railway experience, but whose professional connection
with him had ripened into a hearty and lasting friend-
ship. It was indeed a source of deep gratification to re-
ceive a testimonial from and amidst such friends, and
they would believe him when he said that his gratitude
to those who had manifested so much kindly feeling to-
wards him amounted almost to a feeling of pain from
his inability to express all that he desired to give utte-
rance to.—(Loud cheers.) They would permit him to
repeat that his feelings overpowered him, and that he
would only say the kindness he bad this day experienced
would never be effaced from his memory.—(Cheers.) In
his heart it would dwell for ever.—(Cheers.)
The next toast was that of" Sir 'Bernhard Brunel,"
which was also drunk with three times three.
Among the toasts that followed were those of " The
Chairman," " Mrs. Brunel," and " Mr. C. A. Saunders,
the Secretary of the Great Western Railway."
Mr. Saunders, to whose able negotiations the present
high standing of the Great Western Railway may be
truly said to be mainly ascribed, in returning thanks,
made t the
between
e important
threai IGwraeya,
t announcement,Western
and thatthe the dif-
ferences
South-
Western Railways had been amicably settled.
The dinner was admirably provided by Messrs.
Staples, and indeed it partook rather of the comfort,
quiet, and elegance of a private party than the bustle
and inconvenience almost inseparable from a public en-
tertainment.
The inscription, which we have omitted to mention in
describing the candelabrum on which it is engraved, is
as follows :

Presented to

ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL? EsQ.,
tho Engineer in Chief of the Great Western, the Bristol
and Exeter, the Cheltenham and Great Western Union,
and the Bristol and Gloucester Railways,
By 257 Subscribers,
to commemorate the completion of those great national
works, and to record their admiration of the science,
skill, and energy manifested in the design and execution
of them, their gratitude for the advantages conferred on
themselves and the public ; and their esteem for the
integrity and worth of his personal character.