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CANDLES SUPERIOR IN THEIR BURN-
ING QUALITIES TO THE FINEST WAX are now retailed
throughout the Country at One Shilling per lb.
Parties who are in the habit of burning two tallow moulds of four
to the lb , are respectfully requested to make the experiment
whether u single " PRICE'S PATENT CANDLE" of six to the lb.
will not give more light ; and whether, therefore, these Candles do
not afford a cheaper source of light than the commonest tallow
ones, notwithstainding the difference in price per lb.
Care must be taken to ask for them in the shops under the name
given above, as there are some imitations sold under the name" Com-
posite," by which Price's Patent Candles were originally made
public.
The trade may obtain them wholesale fl'ent Edward Price and Co ,
Belmont, Vauxhall ; or from Palmer and Co., Sutton-street, Cler-
kenwell.

CANDLE NOTORIETY.-W. S. 'TALE'S
Superb COMPOSITE, lOjd. per lb., requiring no snuffing,
on comparison and trial are allowed to surpass all others of the
present day for beauty and brilliancy of light. There is no patent
for Composite Candles, neither will those called patent burn so long a
time by hours as the fine waxed-wick tallow moulds, or Is the light
equal.
Sold fbr cash, at DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St.
Martin's-lane, opposite New Slaughter's Coffee-house.

CHWEPPE and Co,: Wine-merchants, are now
bottling PORTS of the highest character, at 305., 325., 345.,
and 365. p. r dozen, to which they respectfully invite the attention
of their friends and the public. Fine old crusted wines, from two to
eight years in bottle, at 425., 455., 485., 505., and 545. per dozen ; very
superior Sherries, pale, brown, and gold coloured, from 305., 345.,
365., 405., and upwards; also a curious Amontillado Sherry at 50s.
A large stock of all description of wines constantly on hand, in-
cluding a rare selection of Hocks and Moselles, received direct from
their own agent on the Rhine.
J. S. and Co. beg respectfully to observe that their principle of
business is not to sell a low priced article at the expense of quality,
but to supply their friends with the finest wines that are imported,
at aglow a price for cash as may be commensurate with a fair and mo-
derate profit.
_ .

Lists of wines and prices sent on application, and country orders
immediately attended to on' receiving a cash remittance or a re-
fereuee.—Oftice, 51, Berner's-street , cellars, 27, Marsnalt-atreet,
Regent-street.

PURSUANT to an ORDER of the HIGH
COURT of CHANCERY, made in certain causes, JAMES
against SMITH, JAMES against PRICE, and JAMES against
LUMLEY, all persons claiming to he Nephews and Nieces, and
Children of Nephews and Nieces of MARY KRANEN, late of Rich-
mond, in the county of Surrey, widow, who died in the month of Oc-
tober, 1791, living at the time of her death, and the personal Repre-
sentative, or Representatives, of any such Nephews, or Nieces, or
Children, as have since died, are, on or before the 21st day of
December next, to come in and make out their Claims and prove
their relationship before Sir GIFFIN WILSON, one of the Masters :of
the said Court, at his Chambers, in Southampton •buildings,
Chancery-lane, London ; or in default thereof they will peremptorilly
be excluded the benefit of the said Order. _

Mrs. Kranen was the widow of Lambert Kranen, who resided in
the parish of St. Mary, Islington, in the county of Middlesex, and
subsequently at Richmond, in the county of Surrey, and died, it is
believed, in or about the year 1761.
ODDIE, LUMLEY, NICIIOLL, and SMYTII,
18, Carey-street.

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MR. YEARSLEY on DEAFNESS, in a Series
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furtherance of a much neglected branch of medical art, and the
subversion of error in the professional and domestic treatment of
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We understand that the Lords of the Treasury
have, in accordance with the recommendation of the
Postmaster-General, sanctioned an increase of salary, to
the amount of ss. a week, to sixty of the letter carriers in
the Twopenny Port-office department. This gratuity
is already given to eighty letter carriers of the longest
standing, so that under the new arrangement it will be
extended to 140.—Observer.
PRICE OF GAS AT PRESTON.—The article of gas
not less than that of water, ought to be had upon econo-
mic terms. At present the cost of this useful article in
Preston is higher than in any other manufacturing
town in Lancashire, although there are few towns
where gas can be produced at a cheaper rate. At
Blackburn prices have been reduced from Bs. to
6s. per 1,000 feet, and in the following towns the
prices stand thus :—Sheffield, 4s. 2d. ; Bolton, 7s. ;
Leeds, 6s. Bd. ' • Liverpool, 6s. ; Glasgow and Brad-
ford, 7s. ; Paisley and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 78. 6d. ;
and at Manchester, where the gas-works are managed
by a public body, the highest price is 65., and in certain
quantities it is sold as low as ss. per thousand cubic feet
—while in this town, with equal facilities for produc-
tion, the general price is Bs. 4d. ! There is not the
slightest reason for supposing that similar advantages
might not be secured to the consumers of gas in Preston
by a change like that which has occurred at Manchester.
—Preston Guardian.

SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS.—The shipping tonnage in
these docks has increased during the last few months
from a few hundred to ten thousand per month inwards
and outwards.

LORD MAYOR'S DAY.
THE DINNER.

In the evening, the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs gave
the accustomed entertainment at Guildhall, on the
usual scale of splendour.
The arrival of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor
was hailed by those assembled within the Hall by
demonstrations of the greatest cordiality. Sir James
Graham was also loudly cheered. Mr. Justice Erle,
the newly-appointed Judge, was received with three
distinct rounds of applause.
The following is a list of the principal guests :
The late Lord Mayor and the late Lady Mayoress,
the Sheriffs and tivair Ladies, the French Ambas-
sador and the Marchioness de St. Aulaire, the Right
Hon. Sir James Graham, Bart., the Right Hon.
William E wart Gladstone, Lord Arthur Lennox,
M.P.; Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart, the Viscount
d'Abrantes, the Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Baron Parke,
Mr. Justice Coltman, Mr. Justice Wightman, Mr.
Justice Cresswell, Mr. Justice Erle, Mons. Pavia,
Mons. de Habbe, Count Stircleski, Right Hon. Sir
John Beckett, Bart., Sir Charles George Young
Gunter, Sir George Larpent, Bart., Sir Walter
Buchanan Riddale, Bart., John Masterman, Esq.,
M.P., George Lyall, Esq., M.P., Montague Gore,
Esq., M.P., Lieutenant-Colonel Wood, M.P., Benja-
min Hawes, Esq., M.P., Charles Hindley, Esq.,
M.P., Fitzroy Kelly, Esq., M.P., Thomas Platt,
Esq., Q. C., Benjamin Bond, Cabbell, Esq.,
W. H. Bodkin, Esq., Robert Hall, Esq.,
the Hon. and Rev. Henry Legge, the Rev. Dr.
Chapman, the Rev. Dr. M'Caul, the Rev. W. Russell,
the Rev. Dr. Major, the Rev. W. W. Ellis, IV. Cot-
ton, Esq., Governor, and John Benjamin Heath, Esq.,
Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England ; John
Sheppard, Esq., Chairman, and Sir Henry IVillock,
Deputy Chairman of the East Indit. Company ;
W. Henry Chicheley Plowden, Esq., Director of the
East India Company ; R. H. Pigeon, Esq , Treasurer
of Christ's Hospital ; James Bentley, Esq., Treasurer
of St. Bartholomew's Hospital ; Ralph Price, Esq.,
Treasurer of Bridewell and Bethlem Hospitals ; T.
B. Burbridge, Dal., Treasurer of St. Thomas's Hos-
pital ; Osgood Hanbury, jun., Esq.; Aldermen Sir
C. S. Hunter, Bart., Lucas, Sir John Key, Bart.,
Sir Peter Laurie, Farebrother, Copeland, Kelly,
Wilson, Sir John Pirie, Bart., Wood, Johnson, Sir
George Carroll, Hooper, Sir J. Duke, Farncomb,
Musgrove, Challis; the Hon. C. E. Law, Recorder ;
the Chamberlain; Town Clerk; E. Bullock, Esq.,
Judge of the Sheriffs' Courts ; Russell Gurney, Esq.
Archer Ryland, Esq., H. Randell, Esq., and Peter
Laurie, Esq., Common Pleaders ; the two Secondaries,
the Comptroller, the Remembrancer, and the Solicitor.
The Rev. M. GIBBS, chaplain to the Lord Mayor,
said grace before dinner.

After the cloth had been removed, Non Nobis
Doming was chanted with very good effect by the
vocalists engaged for the occasion, under the direction
of Mr. Ransford.

Mr. TOOLS, the prince of toastmasters, gave " The
Loving Cup" with great eclat. • •
The LORD MAYOR, on proposing the first toast,
said—My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen,—l have the
honour to propose to your acceptance the health of
an illustrious lady, deservedly dear to every lover of
his country, and to whom we, as citizens of London,
owe a debt of gratitude for the recent honour con-
ferred upon us in having attended the opening of a
celebrated building dedicated to the purposes of com-
merce. I have great pleasure in offering to your
notice " The health of our most gracious Sovereign
the Queen."--(Three times three, and one cheer
more, followed by the National Anthem.)
The LORD MAYOR—I have much pleasure in pro-
posing to you the health of a distinguished lady—the
munificent patron of every charitable institution and
object in the country—" Her Majesty the Queen
Dowager." (Drunk with all the honours, and fol-
lowed by a glee.)
The next toast was, " The health of his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, the consort of our beloved
Queen, whose estimable character and conduct, since
he came to this country, lave endeared him in the
estimation of every loyal subject of her Majesty."—
(Drunk with three times three.)
The LORD MAYOR—I trust a long period will
elapse before this day loses its principal distinction. I
have the honour of proposing, Many happy returns
of this
,clay to his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales,' whose birth on Lord Mayor's day will al-
ways make its recurrerLie an object of peculiar grati-
fication to the citizens of London.—(Loud cheers.)
I beg, in connexion with the health of his Royal
Highness, to conjoin that of the other members of the
Royal Family.— (Three times three,follo wed by a glee.)
The next toast by the LORD MAYOR was, "The
Army and Navy of the United Kingdom," two pro-
fessions that always united when the interests of the
country required.—(Drunk with all the honours.)
Colonel WOOD, M.P. for Middlesex, acknowledged
the compliment, and bore testimony to the numerous
gratifying acts of kindness and distinction conferred
by the City of London on the officers of both branches
of her Majesty's service.
The LORD MAYOR then gave the health of " Field-
Marshal his Grace the Duke of Wellington"—(Great
cheering, followed by " See the conquering hero
comes")—which was followed by." Prosperity to the
City of London."—(Great cheering, followed by a
glee.)
The LORD MAYOR said—The next toast which I
have the honour to propose is "The health of the late
Lord Mayor," whose laborious year of office has just
terminated. At its commencement he had the honour
to be called on to defend the rights of the corporation
on some most important subjects that were then in-
volved in discussion, and the close of his year had
been marked by events not more interesting to him-
self than honourable to the corporation—(Cheers)—
from the measures he thought it proper to pursue in
the maintenance of its honour at the opening of the
Royal Exchange. His conduct has been so fortunate
as to meet the approbation of his Sovereign and the
Government of this country, and of those whose feel-
ings and interests, as-members of the Corporation and
citizens of London, he had the distinguished honour
on that occasion to represent. The honours which he
has reaped I wish him long life to enjoy.—(Cheers.)
The toast was drunk amidst great applause, which,
having subsided—
Sir NVILLIAM MAGNAY, Bart., spoke as follows :
I return you my warmest thanks for the honour you
have done me in responding so kindly to the toast which
has just been given from the chair. It is gratifying
to me, after I have resigned the office which my
fellow-citizens entrusted to me, that I should receive
this mark of your regard. I can assure you that
when I entered on office I felt the responsibility of the
duties I had undertaken; I knew that my fellow-
citizens valued those privileges they had entrusted to
my keeping ; I knew also that they could only expect
to enjoy their franchise so long as they exercised it
for the public good, and so long as their officers dis-
charged their duties faithfully and honourably.—
(Cheers.) With these feelings I entered on my year
of office, and I have never ceased vigilantly to watch
over the rights and interests of my fellow-citizens. It
is, therefore, most gratifying to me that at the
termination of my year of office I should re-
ceive this mark of your respect and appro-
bation.—(Loud cheers.) The Lord Mayor has thought
proper to allude to circumstances of great interest to
the City of London which have occurred during my
year of office. Among those, it is impossible that I
should not particularly refer to the auspicious visit of
his Majesty the King of the French to this country,
giving, as it does, a pledge that those feelings which
have produced so long a peace are cementing the
bonds of amity between this country and our neigh-
bours on the other side of the Channel, which are
growing stronger and stronger every year, and will
continue, I trust, to do so for many years to come.—..
(Loud cheers.) I must also congratulate you that
the occasion of that visit gave you and my fellow-
citizens an opportunity of expressing their high ad-
miration of the principles which have animated his
Majesty's Government, in presenting to him a loyal
and dutiful address.—(Cheers.) The Lord Mayor
has been pleased to allude to another subject--
one of peculiar gratification to the citizens of London,
and a personal honour to myself—l allude to the
recent visit of her Majesty on the opening of the
Royal Exchange.—(Cheers.) The visit of her Ma-
jesty on that interesting occasion showed how much
her Majesty consulted the welfare of her people, and
the anxiety she always felt to evince her royal re-
spect and regard for the corporation of the City of
London.—(Loud cheers.) Thanking you most sin-
cerely for the honour you have done me, I assure you
my Lord Mayor, ladies, and gentleman, that I am
highly gratified to find, by the testimony of your ap-
probation, that I have conducted myself during my
year of ffice not unworthily of its responsibilities,
and transferred it unsullied to its present possessor.
The LORD MAYOR—FuIIy concurring with the late
Lord Mayor in his observations respecting the inte-
resting visit of his Majesty the King of the French to
our illustrious Sovereign, and the important conse-
quences which may result from it in the permanent
preservation of peace between the two nations, I have
. great pleasure in proposing the health of our illus-

trious guest, his Excellency the French Ambassador,
and the other Foreign Ministers.—(Loud cheers.)
The Count DE ST. AUL IIRE (who spoke in French)
returned thanks to the following effect :—My Lord,
Ladies, and Gentleman—ln the name of all my col-
leagues of the corps diplontatique, I thank you for the
honour you have done us, and I beg to convey to you
you the expression of our most sincere good wishes
for the prosperity of the City of London, and of the
whole British empire. These sentiments, gentlemen,
of which I am happy to be the organ, will find an
echo among all the nations of the world. Never have
sentiments of amity, of mutual good-will, and, above
all, of Christian charity, been more universally dis-
seminated than in the age in which we have the hap-
piness to live. Never have the benefits of peace been
so fully and so truly appreciated. Never has that
great truth been better understood, that individual
prosperity has no more sure guarantee than in the
prosperity of all ; and that the best mode of obtain •
ing advantages for one's-self, is to take care to pro-
cure them for one's neighbour. Thanks to this fortu-
nate disposition of the public mind, gentlemen, the
arts of peace obtain a favourable preference over the
arts of war, awl we see a daily increase in the wealth
of our cities and the productions of our soil. Three
years ago, when for the first time I came to London,
it seemed to me that this city had already reached
the highest point of splendour, so immense and so
magnificent did it even then 'appear. Yet at the
present hour I still see)t increasing in size, and adding
in every way to its beauty. Within the last few days
we have taken part in the ceremony of the inaugura-
tion of one of those monuments of art which seem to
spring from the earth as by enchantment. That
building is itself the temple of commerce, and in
asking the presence of the representatives of foreign
Sovereigns at the ceremony of its opening, you had
in some sort a right to do so, for the transactions of
the Exchange of Landon are important to all the
world. Your commerce, gentlemen, is one of the
most powerful instruments of the civilisation of the
universe. Its noble mission is to bear, even to
the extremities of the earth, the laws of a holy
religion, the discoveries of scientific intelligence,
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May it continue an evidence of your prosperity
even to the end of the world.—(Cheers.) The
Lord Mayor alluded in terms, for which I beg he
will accept my acknowledgments, to the recent visit
of the King of the French. Many among you heard
from the lips of my Sovereign the sentiments which
he entertains towards England, and those which your
reception inspired in him. It is in the name of all
my fellow-citizens that I thank you to-day,
gentlemen, for that reception. Yes, gentlemen, all
Frenchmen, whatever may be their opinions, or their
position in society, have felt deeply, and they will
long remember, the kind sentiments expressed qy you
towards the representative of the French nation.
With the people of antiquity hospitality was a reli-
gion. In our own days, its rights, its duties, and the
sentiments which it inspires, have lost nothing of their
potency. The people of England and France have
cause to rejoice in seeigg the Sovereigns of the two
most powerful nations in the world become the hosts
of each other. They may consider it as one guarantee
the more in favour of general peace. Again, gentle-
men, let me tender you my thanks for the kind atten-
tion with which you have listened to me, and for the
honour you have done me in drinking my health.
His Excellency was loudly cheered during the
course, and at the conclusion of, his speech.
The LORD MAYOR—Confident as I am that the
present company is composed of individuals entertaining
different sentiments on political subjects, it is, I assure
you, no part of my purpose to minister on such an
occasion to anything like party feeling ; but I am
convinced all will agree with me that those entrusted
with the government of this country are entitled to
due respect and gratitude for their public services—
(Cheers)—and however her Majesty's present G overn•
!tient, in some of the measures they have thought
it their duty to introduce, may have affected particular
interests, still I trust you will all agree with me that
their sole and undoubted intention has been, and is, to
promote the permanent prosperity of the country.—
(Cheers) I, therefore, call upon you, with confi-,
dence, to drink the health of " Sir James Graham and
her Majesty's Ministers."—(Loud cheering.)
Sir JAMBS GRAHAM—My Lord Mayor, Ladies,
and Gentlemen--In the unavoidable absence of the
head of her Majesty's Government, and in behalf of
my colleagues and myself, I rise with the greatest
pleasure to have the honour of returning thanks for
the compliment which you have been pleased to pay
to her Majesty's Ministers. From the earliest period
of the history of this free country, to deserve the appro-
bation of the citizens of London has ever been among
the highest objects of ambition with all men taking
part in public affairs ; and to obtain any mark of your
confidence and esteem has ever been regarded—and
justly regarded—an ample and honourable reward
for the most faithful and efficient services.—(Cheers.)
The Lord Mayor has truly told you, that in
such a great assembly as this there necessarily
must be a difference of political opinion ; it
would therefore be most improper and inexcusable on
my part if I uttered one word, or expressed one
opinion, which would create a division in this great
assembly. But I may be permitted to say, that to
promote the happiness, to sustain the honour, to
maintain the peace of this country, and to promote
the prosperity of all classes of its inhabitants, are in-
deed the constant aim and ardent desire of her Ma-
jesty's present advisers.—(Cheers.) You have heard
from her Majesty herself the expression of her own
sentiments on this subject. The mode of attaining
these great objects naturally gives rise to a difference
of opinion ; but her Majesty herself has declared what
is the keystone of her Government, which, among a
free people, can never be doubted as the most bene-
ficent and best adapted to secure its objects. Her
Majesty herself declared that " to promote the relief
of the indigent, to secure the advancement of science,
and to aid the extension of commerce, are the great ob-
jects of the policy of this country. To give effect to these
objects shall be the constant and sedulous endeavours
of her Majesty's Ministers, and, by the blessing of
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language of sincerity and truth; and I appeal to this
great assembly whether it be not just—whether it be
not generous, to anticipate that your Lordship, filling
the high office which you now hold by the voice of
your fellow-citizens, will emulate the example of your
predecessor, and honourably and faithfully fulfil the
high duties and important functions of that office to
which you have been elevated by the choice of the
Livery, by the approbation of the Court of Aldermen,
and by the full and entire approbation of your Sove-
reign.—(Loud cheers.) Feeling that he whom the
citizens of London have thought worthy cannot be
unworthy_(Loud cheers)—it is with great and
heartfelt satisfaction that, with your permission' I
have to propose as a bumper toast, " The health of
the Lord Mayor of the City of London."—(Three
times three and one cheer more.)
The LORD MAYOR, in returning thanks, said—
My Lords Ladies, and Gentlemen—l feel deeply
indebted for the very kind manner in which Si 4
Jamas Graham has done me the honour to propose
my name to your notice. I feel, on the present occa-
sion, that I ought to speak with deep humility. It
becomes not him who putteth on the harness to boast
like him who pulleth it off. All I can say is, that all
my anxiety shall be to endeavour firmly to discharge
the duties of Lord Mayor.—(Cheers.)
The FRENCH AMBASSADOR then proposed " The
health of the Lady Mayoress," which the Lord
Mayor, having acknowledged in appropriate terms,
his Lordship proposed "The health of the Lord Chief
Baron and the Judges," observing that the purity of
the administration of justice in this country was pro-
verbial, but, happily for us, it was not only a matter
of history, but of daily experience.—(Loud cheers.)
The LORD CHIEF BARON thanked the company
for the honour of proposing his health and that of
the Judges in connexion with the purity of the ad-
ministration of justice. He begged to say that so
long as the Judges were supported by the learning
and independence of the bar, and assisted by the en-
lightened intelligence and incorruptible integrity of
the citizens of London, the administration of justice
in that city would always be worthy of its history
down to the present hour.—(Cheers.)
The LORD MAYoß—Fully impressed with the pro-
priety of the sentiments uttered by the Lord Chief
Baron as to the independence of the bar, and speaking,
he was sure, the sentiments of every citizen of London,
he had great pleasure in proposing next" The health
of the Solicitor-General and the bar of England?'
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL returned thanks in a
speech of some length,
The Loan MAYOR then proposed the health of

" The representatives of the City of London," which
Mr. Masterman Vacknowledged ; after which the
healthy of the Aldermen who had passed the chair,
those who had not passed the chair, the Sheriffs, and
the Recorder were given, and duly honoured ; and
the company, which during- the whole proceedings
were more than usually good-natured and cordial in
their reception of every sentiment that fell from the
chair, separated before eleven.

YOUNG ENGLAND AND CRICKET.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Much has lately been written upon " Young
England," and upon their doctrine of the mutual
benefit derived, by persons in the higher ranks of
society, playing at cricket with the humbler classes,
and of the advantages obtained from the establishment
of cricket clubs.

It has long been the custom, in Kent, for all
classes of society to join in this healthy and manly
amusement ; and the late amiable Duchess of Bucking-
ham always promoted the innocent pastime of
cricket after service on Sunday amongst the labourers
on her estate. Unlike our very sombre and Reverend
Bishops, she thought the humbler classes should le
amused as well as instructed on Sunday; for we all
know that if some innocent amusement be not pro-
vided for them, they will resort to those dens of
disease and dissipation—the public-house or the gin-
palace.

In the upper parts of India, where the cold admits
of active exercise, the officers constantly join the
soldiers in a game of cricket, or in private theatricals ;
and I never heard that the union affected military dis-
cipline in the slightest degree, or had any other than
a beneficial effect, in promoting a mutual feeling of
good-will from one class towards the other. Human
nature is the same in all climates, " Co2lum non ani-
mum mutant," and that which is beneficial in India
will also be beneficial in England.
Your most obedient servant,
Nov., 1844. A MAN OF KENT.

SeIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
CHRONICI,E.—The English must be univer-
sally regared as a most unamiable people, if the lan-
guage of the chief organs of public opinion in all the
countries around us, or in contact with us, can at all
he taken as an expression of general feeling. Hated
in France, execrated in Spain, vilipended even in little
Greece , denounced by Dr. List as the commercial
prophet of the Germans, treated with every incivility
by brother Jonathan, and repudiated by sister Ire-
, land with the scowl of Neme,is—what has England
done to deserve nineteen-twentieths of such hate ?
We saved France from partition and spoliation, and
made her a present of constitutional freedom ; we
emptied our pockets of heaps of gold and our hearts
of our best sympathies and life's-blood for the
Peninsula ; Greece Canning created, from the love
he bore to Thucydides and Plutarch. Our Tories
certainly have done their best to hurt the American
and crush the Irishman ; but of late years
the Tories have begun to show fear, cover-
ing their hate both to Ireland and to America,
and even their effort is to be amiable, whilst our
Liberals have not ceased to be rationally so. The
phenomenon of our universal execration is, therefore,
a fact worth inquiring into, in order that, if it pro-
ceed from manner, we should learn to improve our
urbanity, if from matter, that we might seriously
set about removing the cause of the world's ill-
humour. When with this view- we seriously set to
examine the causes of complaint against us, and to
analyse the motives and the arguments of those who
chiefly, who almost solely, raise this cry, we univer-
sally find that it is not people's interests that the
English damage or threaten ; it is their sentiments
that we offend. The Spaniard, questioned respecting
his grievances, tells us we ruled the country under
the name of E3partero. The Greek has some com-
plaint as trivial. Dr. List reproaches us with the
dreadful
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to all the money scandalously sunk in his State bonds,
we have sent more to bribe both ways the electors
for the Presidential chair. The Irishman no longer
complains of the penal laws, or the wealth of the
Church Establishment, but says we have robbed him
of his nationalty. It seems to him as if there was no
such thing as collective glory, as if the Irish had no
part in the triumphs and the might of the united em-
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dependent isolation which prevailed when Brian
B)roihme repelled the Danes, than to have gone on in
the same historical career with England ; that is,
admitting strange races to superpose or interpose their
vigour and variety, in order for all to blend one day
into a race and an empire dominating the circum-
ference of the globe. There is no accounting for tastes,
and this is certainly a mere matter of taste and senti-
ment. And yet the anti-Anglican school in Ireland is
little more than this. Its politics are those not of interest
but of sentiment ; and sentiment is a thing that un-
fortunately you cannot argue with. If we once more
go the round of our abhorrers, we shall find that
their Anglo-phobia is an antagonism purely of senti-
ment. The French thunderers use precisely the same
language as the sentimental politicians of Ireland.
They say that we have impaired their nationality,
which they, with more reason than Pat, require to be
unbounded. To establish this very quality of un-
boundedness, they have founded a barren empire in
the Pacific, almost on the only spot where we had an
interest, though merely a co-religionist one ; and
they are quite mad that we should question the right
of unbounded nationality to tread down our mission-
aries. In the same way, the abuses of the right of
search are a mere matter of sentiment. Every French
statesman who talks of the matter, out of public
view, laughs at the sentiment of the mob on the sub-
ject. Thiers' cock-and-bull story of French consi-
deration being antoindri by the bombardment of
Acre, was sentiment, mere sentiment, and sentiment,
too, that no one more contemned or saw through the.r.
M. Thiers himself. But he was carried away by the
current, and the French Liberal party lost power on
a question of sentiment. If M. Guizot has kept it
since, it is that he has paid attention to realities, and
left sentiment to take care of itself.

TlMES.—There is a melancholy sort of justice in
the fate which appears to await Colonel Prim, unless
some accident should intervene to rescue him from
the vengeance of his judges, and prevent them from
making him the victim of that power which he con-
tributed to place in their hands. The part he took
in the revolution of last year was sufficiently con-
spicuous to have earned for him the very first honorary
distinctions bestowed by the Moderados on their re- ,
turn to Madrid. His present conduct, in opposition
to that Government, may have proceeded either from
disappointed ambition, or from the tardy discovery
that he had sacrificed the liberties of Spain to the
triumph of an arbitrary and sanguinary faction ; but
whatever may have been his intentions or motives,
they will, in all probability, earn for him the further
distinctiou of being shot as a traitor ; and, if the
statement which has been published as to his demea-
nour under examination be correct, we may perhaps
add that " nothing in his life became him like the
leaving it." That he was engaged in a conspiracy
against the present Spanish Administration is not
denied; and in a country where every political party
plots and conspires in turn, the present state of affairs
is sufficiently momentous to set on foot an army of
conspirators. But the specific charge of his having
taken a part in the plot for the assassination of Nar-
vaez appears to rest on very insufficient evidence; and
it is at least equally probable that Narvaez has allowed
this accusation to be preferred, aril will proceed to
extremities against Prim, on the strength of a prede-
termined conviction, in order to rid himself of a rival
whom he thinks dangerous, and to strike terror into
the hearts of the Opposition at this crisis. If General
Narvaez is not grievously belied, his character is
stained by the most atrocious crimes of
public and private life. The perilous sup-
port which he is giving at the present time
to what are termed the prerogatives of the
Crown rests upon no higher basis than the defence of
his own person and faction, and aims at no other end
than the destruction of his opponents. The work of
bloodshed has already commenced at Barcelona,
where four men have been executed with a horrible
mixture of religious pomp and political excitement ;
and if the dormant energies of the Spanish people are
again roused to resist these acts of oppression, des-
tined to divert public attention from the inroads made
upon the Constitution, the modes of attack and of
defence will, we have no doubt, be equally ferocious
on both sides, and equally fatal to the re-establish.
ment of public order and. freedom. Every day and
every event renders the progress of a re-action more
certain ; yet, however we may deprecate the policy of
the present Administration, and abhor the unscrupu-
lous revolutionary character of some of these pre-
tended loyalists, it cannot be denied that such a re-
action is likely to prove more formidable to the tran-.
quillity of Spain, and the existence of the Queen's
Government, than any of the changes which have
preceded it. Whatever may have been the part as-
sumed by the Court of France in these transactions, of
this much we entertain not the slightest doubt—that the
apparent and temporary prevalence or ascendancy of
the men and the measures supported by that Power,
lead not to the establishment of a serious and perma-
nent alliance and connexion between the two States,
but to a catastrophe from which France herself will
be the principal foreign sufferer. In reality, the
whole course of the French policy in Spain since the
fall of Espartero has been a series of miserable fai-
lures ; for having, as was supposed, acquired a pre-
ponderating influence at Madrid by the return of the
Moderados, that influence has been found totally in-
adequate even to protect its own chosen instruments
from destruction. The true question between the re-
spective influences of France and England in Spain,
is not which may have the largest share in the coun-
sels and the crimes of the faction of the hour ; but
which may be able most effectually to contribute to
uphold the independence and dignity of that nation
in time of danger. We have strenuously,
generously, perhaps imprudently, wished to see
Spain restored to her former power and pros-
perity by a system of government purged from the
vices of her absolute monarchy. But, had the expe-
riment been entirely successful, we have no guarantee
that this renovated power would not have been
turned against ourselves ; and we have laboured
enough for Spain to have learned the full amount of
her gratitude. Such, nevertheless, was the policy
suggested by a liberal interest in the freedom and
welfare of a people which is endeared to us chiefly by
the sacrifices we have at various times made for it.
But every succeeding year has shown that Spain is
less able to maintain free institutions and less
able to understand the first principles on which
her material prosperity depends. Some of our san-
guine Contemporaries go on to talk about a great
liberal party in the Peninsula. It is a delusion. That
party has died out, and therefore we conclude that it