The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-01 00:00:00

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WANTED, an ASSISTANT MASTER for the
EVERTON and KIRKDALE BOYS' SCHOOL. He
racist have a competent knowledge of Singing.
Apply for information to Rev. J. LAWRENCE, 14, Clarence-
Street, Everton-road

'0 MANAGERS OF CHURCH OP ENGLAND SCHOOLS
A SCHOOLMISTRESS, possessing a high Certifi.
cate of Merit, and other excellent testimonials. desires
an APPOINTMENT, in Liverpool or its immediats vicinity.
Address, X. Y., 310, Scotland-road, Liverpool.

TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS.
ANTED, as an APPRENTICE, a Gentlemanly
W Well-Educated YOUTH, who would have an opportu
nitY
House of acquiring a knowledge of Reporting and Counting.
Business.
Apply at the Office of this Paper.

TO LANDED PROPRIETORS.
TAE Advertiser desires a SITUATION as
STEWARD. He is well acquainted with the management
of Estates, and, having a small income, would accept a mode-
rate salary. Unexceptionable references can be riven.
Address M. E., Post-office, Leigh street, Burton Crescent,
London.

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Cxsar,

tantial

Brews.

TO GENERAL BROKERS AND
A YOUNG GENTLEMAN, Sixteen Years of Age,
Educated by a Protestant Clergyman, who has been two
years in an Office, the Principal having failed, understands
thoroughly the Custom,Rouse Business, Writes an excellent
Hand, quick at accounts, and with capital Testimonials, is
anxious for as ENGA.GEMENT, at a small progressive salary.
See Reference List at the Standard-office.

TO YO MEN.
SPECIAL arrssioN TO NG
ROMAN CATHOLICS IN
MISSI GREAT BRITAIN.
ONARIES are 'WANTED for the above
work. Young Men resident in Liverpool and Birkep-
beau, Who Can spare two or three hours a day for study, will
I=4. received into training. The necessary qualifications are
piety, Ability, aptness to teach and speak extemporaneously, a
flood temper, and bodily health. satisfactory references must
be given .

A.Pplyby letter) to L. L. D., STANDARD Office, Liverpo

Contracts.

PARISH OF LIVERPOOL.
TO .TOINERS.
THE SELECT VESTRY of this PARISH require a
number of TABLES for the PAUPERS' DINING-HALL
at the Workhouse, Brownlow-hill, and are ready to receive
TENDERS for the same, accordinz to Plan andiSpecifications
to be seen at Mr. IVEIGHTNIAN'S Office, Pemberton-buildings,
Fenwick-street, the Tenders to he delivered at the Office of the
undersigned, on or before SATURDAY. the sth of February.
CHARLES HART, Vestry-clerk.
°follow-hill, January 28th, 1853.

Pariah-offices, Erc

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
TO BUILDERS.
THE Directors are desirous of receiving TENDERS
t, for the Erection of an ADDITIONAL BUILDING, 140
bY 90 Feet, to the Repairing Shops of the Locomotive
--entirtment, and about ONE HUNDRED COTTAGES, at
Parties disposed to Tender may see the Drawings, Specifica-
tions, and "Conditions of Contract, and obt9 in other information,
by appticition at the Engineer's Office, Warrington.
,
_Sealed -Tenders to be sent to the undersigned, Lime-street
Station Liverpool, not later than February 10th, 1853. The
CoMpatty do not bind themselves to accept the lowest Tender.
Liverpool, 2611: January, 1853. H. BOOTH.

[DUTY FREE.
TO CONTRACT RS.
TWAFERTREP LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH.
rIE WAVERTREE LOCAL BOARD of HEALTH
are prepared to receive TENDERS for the DRAINAGE of theTILLAGE of WAVERTREE, according to the Plans and
Specifications prepared for that purpose.
The Tenders must be sent in, addressed to the Chairman of
the Viravertree Local Board of Health, Public-office, Wavertree,
near Liverpool, according to the forms, with a schedule of
Ices attached to each, on or before the sth day of February
next.

The Plans and SpecifiCations will lie for inspection al the
Tsublic-office, in Wavertree, from Friday, the 21st day
Ten of, Ja-
"Fuary instant, to Saturday, the sth dayof -February next, wnere
The orms
Board of der may be obtained on application. •
do not pledge themselves to accept the lowest or
any Tender, unless in all respects satisfactory.
ISAAC ATHERTON, Law Clerk.
26, North John-street, Liverpool,
17th January, 1853.

LIVERPOOL DOCKS.
THTO 0 WIVERS OF STEAM-PACKETS.
E COMMITTEE of the LIVERPOOL DOCKS
are willing to receive TENDERS for TOWING their MUD-
BARGES from the Docks to the place where they are to be dis-
charged, and back again to such of the Docks as may be
d.
The Contracts to be for a period of Twelve Months certain,
and at the expiration of that time subject to a termination
upon either side at any time upon Three Months' notice being
given.
Parties who are desirous to Contract for the same may see
the Specification on application at the Dock SURVEYOR'S
OFFICE, Dock-yard, south side of Coburg Dock, until FRIDAY,
the 4th of February next.
Sealed Tenders, endorsed " Tenders for Towing Mud-
barges,,,
. and Sealed, to be sent under cover to the SECRETARY
not Later than Ten, Q TURDIVT, the sth of February, a.m., on ...A 1853.

Doc k-office 29th January,
By order,
1833 order, MASON, Secretary
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/tionty.

LOAN FOR THE PURCHASE OF PROPERTY.
THE DIRECTORS of the HOUSEOWNERS' and
GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY are willing
to ADVANCE SUMS OF MONEY, not exceeding .500, for the
PURCHASE OF PROPERTY, repayable in Small Instalments, ill
Five or Seven Years, to •enable Rentpayers to become House-
nwners.

Apply to Mr. W. WEBB, 1, Church-lane, Liverpool.
MONEY LENT on PLATE, WATCHES, JEWEL-
LERY, SILKS, VELVETS, WOOLLENS, and every description of Manchester and Leeds Goods, at Half the Paws-
brokers' Rate of Interest.
Apply at 66, Seel-street, two tloorsfrom Back Colnuitt-street.
Private House

LOANS •OF MONEY.
BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL.
T TIE CORPORATION OF LIVERPOOL
are prepared to receive
LOANS OF MONEY,
For Periods of Three, Five, or 'Seven Years, at 43105.
Interest Gent. per Annum
payable on the Ist of Januar

and Ist July in ever

Year.
wiThe Security is the "Liverpool Water Account," composed
t the Rents, Rates, and Charges for the supply of Water
within the Borough of 'Liverpool and the Neighbourhood for
bernestic, Trading. Manufacturing, and other purposes, and for Shipping THE BOROUGH FUND BEING AN ADDITIONAL
OR
COLLATERAL SECURITY FOR THE INTEREST, AND THE
NDS TENEMENTS, HEREDITANIENTS, LND ESTATE OF
THE CORPORATION FOR THE PRINCIPAL.
_ Applications to be made to CAPES
thesq, Treasurer,
!Town-hall,
Liverpool; from either of whom further particulars
may be obtained. By order,
SHUTTLEWORTH, Town-clerk.
Town-hall, 22nd January, 1853.

HILHARMONIC-HALL.
LAST WEEK

THOMAS'S UNRIVALLED BAND
OF
FIFTY PERFORMERS.
Commencing at Halt-past Seven every Evening.
ADMISSION, ONE SHILLING ;
Stalls, 2s. ; Boxes, 2s. 6d.
See Programme offthe Day in the First Page.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

AMONG the many frauds practised by dishonest trades-
Men, perhaps the most deserving of severe punishment is
the practice of cheating the poorer classes by false weights
and measures. The subject was brought more promi-
nently to attention on Wednesday by a number of persons
being fined for offences of this description. The Mayor,
SAMUEL HOLME, Esq., took the opportunity of making
some remarks on the subject. He stated that, in order to
remove any objections to the expense of re-adjustment,
the Council had determined, after weights and measures
had been once stamped in Liverpool, to make no further
charge for adjusting, except for materials required to make
1113 deficient weights. This plan renders deficient weights
lees excusable ; and the law should be strictly enforced,
not only as a protection to the poor purchaser, but also in
iustice to the honest tradesman.

.GRANT - TRAPPE...RS IN LIVERPOOL.
At the Police-office, yesterday, a pair
looking creatures were brought up before of miserable-
retAlr.Nm of
icol,xolnoa.
charge of defrauding a poorlrishgirlof h
Ileir names were Andrew and Rosanna Dunn,esu apparently
husband and wife. They were both attired in the scantiest
raiment, and seemed to belong to the lowest grade of
socie'..7. The girl,
Dublin by the steamer on
who appeared
Years of age, came over from to be about eighteen
liiitesdzy last. She states that
were
in father America
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a motherand
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she
brothershias wneor
the `j'autrd exceedingly. to be with them
Dublin, abstracted
£lO th t-box of an uncle who rest es. inshe broke into
etetrorn and took a
YerPool, tc,4 '
on the
quay by the her arrival here she
was accosted
passage in the steamer for Li-
D who having
e serf prisoner, prisoner, Andrew Dunn, addressed a
she was an emi
.eries of questions to her, and learned that
lodgings. la the%
gra t, said he would take her to " daycint"
afternoon or evecing of
the same day, her eqflue 7(7 fhetrhet g.e him the money she
had, and he would takeS e Care of iot forlv her. She intimated
that she wished to
day they proceeded in corn Purelase some clothing; and next
sorters—to the shop of Mr. riscoe. Before setting out
pant—the girl and the out
he gave the girlher money back again ; but in the shop
he asked it from her once more, and, after they had pur-
chased some goode, went out with the professed purpose
Of procuring change. In the ln the shop had had their suspic meantime two young men
ions aroused as to the man
and the elder female ; and, on they elicited the circumstan questioning the girl aside,
es of the case. While this
neither she nor her husband came back again. The police
once acquainted with the case, and wrote off to
the Dublin police authorities relative to the robbery of the
girl's uncle. A reply was received on Sunday morning,
stating that no such man as the uncle could be found at
the address supplied. Subsequently fresh particulars re-
lative to the girl's uncle were transmitted to Dublin, but
Of course no answer had yet been received. The two sales-
Men in Mr. Briscoe's shop, and the girl herself, swore
Positively that the prisoner and his wife were the guilty
Parties ; but, in spite of this, Dunn asserted in the most
solemn manner that he had never seen the girl in his life
before atmorning—that he knew nothing of her—and
that, on the very day she had stated that she had given
him £lO to keep for her, he had not tasted food for the
long period of twenty-four hours. The female prisoner
stated that they could produce evidence to show that they
had been elsevvhere than at Mr. Briscoe's shop at the time
Mentioned ; and, in order that the culprits might have an
oPportunity of doing
y (Tuesday). 'the case was remanded till this (la
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-OUST itIELBOURNE, brother of Viscountess Pal-
naerston long in the diplomatic service of the State, and
better known as the Hon. Sir F. Lamb and Lord Beauvale,
died on Saturday morning, at Brockett Hall, Herts, after
a short ilium, He leaves no familY, and the title becomes
extinct.

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TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 1, 1853.

THE LATE BUDGET AND THE
QUARTERLY REVIEW.
THE last number of the Quarterly Review contains
a critique on Mr. DISRAELI'S financial statement.
It is ascribed to Mr. WILSON CROKER, and is said
to be written in revenge for Mr. DISRAELI having
caricatured that gentleman in his novel of " Co-
NINGSBY," under the name of " RIGBY." There

is little in the article itself to warrant such an accu-
sation; for though it contains an able exposure of
the faults of the Budget, the writer pays the follow-
ing just tribute to the merits of Mr. DISRAELI :
No one, of whatever political creed, can now
" affect to doubt or disparage the many high par-
" liamentary qualities of Mr. DISRAELI. His re-
" solute spirit has been conspicuously displayed
" under very extraordinary difficulties. He has
" combined an indomitable perseverance with great
" fertility of resource. In opposition he has been,
" and, if he does himself justice, he must again be,
" most formidably influential : he may yet acquire
" whatever he needs for the discharge of the high
" functions of a minister. He has shown himself
" at once a brilliant orator, and, what is still rarer,
" a powerful debater ; but he has not, as yet, we
" think, earned the reputation of a statesman."
The writer, however, condemns the bringing for-

ward of the Budget before Christmas, as an unne-
cessary and impolitic experiment, and stigmatises it
as a common-place Budget, of which the three main
features were halving two existing taxes, doubling
another, and extending a fourth. But slightly
passing over the proposed reduction of the Malt-
duty, which he condemns for reasons similar to
those which we advanced at the time, the chief part
of the article is devoted to those propositions of the
late CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER which
more immediately affect the Shipping Interests, and
these are dealt with seriatim. The statement of
Mr. DISRAELI, that the practice of the Shipping
Interest paying the interest for the purchase of
private lights is indefensible, the reviewer con-
demns, upon the ground that the private lights
were erected and subsequently purchased for the
benefit of the Shipping Interest that the purchase
money, which amounted altogether to £1,250,000,
has, by careful management, been reduced to
nOB,OOO, and will shortly be paid off altogether;
and that those who now pay for lighting our towns
ought not to be burthened with the additional ex-
pense of lighting the Channel and the North Sea.
Mr. DISRAELI'S proposal to relieve the Shipping
Interest from contributing to the charities of the
Trinity Corporation, the reviewer objects to, on the
' ground that they are bestowed exclusively on worn-
out merchant seamen, pilots, boatmen, and their
widows and orphans, in no case exceedings. per
month to a destitute master, 4s. 6d. to a mate, and
3s. to a seaman.

The next point is the alleged grievance of paying
passing tolls, which, the writer says, only applies
to the maintenance of four harbours of refuge—
two on each side of the mouth of the Thames, and
which have proved of inestimable value in the fre-
quent hour of danger, not only as shelter for ship-
ping, but also for assistance in anchors, cable, and
boat-help, which are not elsewhere within reach.
The writer does not, however, state—which is the
fact—that the passing toll is only a halfpenny a ton
upon the ship's registered burthen, and that the
master or owner has the right to charge the same
rate upon every ton of the cargo; so that the toll,
except in a very few cases, is no charge whatever
upon the shipowner.
The remarks of Mr. DISRAELI upon the alleged
anomaly in the system of Pilotage, the reviewer
equally condemns. The alleged hardship of a pilot
from the Thames to a Cinque port not being al-
lowed to take a vessel back, he says, is no hardship
at all, as the shipowner would in any case have to
pay for each service, and the advantage of the pre-
sent system is, that an efficient body of pilots is
kept up at the outports, which would not he the
case if pilots to vessels outwards were allowed to
return with vessels homewards.
The next item in the list of Shipping grievances
proposed to be remedied is that of Salvage, to which
the reviewer takes exception as founded on erro-
neous premises. The services of officers and sea-
men of the Royal Navy are often of the greatest
importance to merchant vessels in danger and dis-
tress ; but, so far from their being paid at the same
ratio as other salvors who risk their vessels as well
as themselves, those only who are actually engaged

are remunerated for their personal services, ivhidh
are altogether additional to duties they are paid to
perform. He further states, that, so far from its
being an Admiralty grievance, as asserted by Mr.
DISRAELI, the Admiralty has nothing to do with
Salvage. It is not collected under their authority,
nor in any way subject to their jurisdiction. It is
a branch not only of our own most ancient statute
law, but of the law of nations. And it is singular
enough that the only trace we find in the " Admi-
ralty Instructions for HER MAJESTY'S Service at
Sea," is a provision, not that the QUEEN'S ships
should receive salvage, but that they should pay it
to merchant ships in case of assistance.
Another of the alleged Admiralty grievances is
that of a seaman being allowed, when in a foreign
port, to enlist in a ship belonging to the Royal
Navy, and demand his wages • by which, says Mr.
DISRAELI, the captain of die merchant ship not
only loses one of his crew, but is called upon im-
mediately to pay wages which are not due till the
ship's arrival in port ; and, to remedy this, he pro-
poses that the seaman so enlisting shall not receive
his wages until-the rest of the crew are paid off.
The reviewer, quoting the authority of officers of
high rank and experience, defends the present sys-
tem, upon the ground of its being a measure of
police and protection for the men when in foreign
parts against ill-treatment; that in practice it has
been as far as possible discouraged ; and that, so
far from the wages being paid in cash, the more
ordinary mode is to accept an order on the owners
at home.

We come next to Mr. DISRAELI'S proposal to
relieve the Shipping Interest from the alleged
grievance of a merchant vessel being disturbed in
its anchorage by the superior claim of a ship be-
longing to the Royal Navy. The reviewer denies
the existence of the grievance in toto, and, to prove
his position, gives the following extract from the
Admiralty Instructions for the general conduct of
the Naval Service :
" Ch. v. § 39. Whenever the Captain of one
." of H. M. ships shall have occasion to anchor, he
"isto be extremely cart-fill to place the ship in a
" safe berth, and so as not to endanger any oTHEa.
"ship which may be already anchored."
The concluding remarks on this subject by Mr.
DISRAELI, with reference to the restrictions upon
manning the mercantile navy, the reviewer sup-
poses must allude to the regulation by which the
crew of a British ship must consist of at least two-
thirds British seamen. He argues, that, although
the abrogation of this law might be a relief to the
Ship-owners, by enabling them to man their ships
cheaper with Danes, Swedes, or Germans, it

would be the destruction of the merchant service
as a nursery of seamen for the Royal Navy, and
prove, in short, a burning of the candle at both
ends. He proceeds to comment upon Mr. ID's-
RAELI'S objection to the system upon which the
Royal Navy is manned, of which he enters into an
elaborate defence, and concludes with an apology
for the EX-CHANCELLOR, upon the ground that
he was addressing "the feelings" of what he signi-
ficantly termed " a modern House of Commons."
The writer says-:
" No doubt every Minister must consult the
" reason, and even the feelings of the House of
" Commons which he addresses, but we will venture
" to assert that the Old House of Commons showed
"a good deal more solicitude about the Shipping
" Interests than its ' modern' successors have done;
" nor can we help adding, in justice to modern
" Houses of Commons, our conviction that if any
" one of those alleged grievances had been real,
" they would not have been left for twenty years
" unredressed by the reformed Parliament."
We have thus given a necessarily brief sketch of
this able critique on that portion of the late Finan-
cial Statement which was put forward as a relief to
the Shipping Interests, and which will, of course,
excite public attention on the renewal of the session,
as it is not to be supposed that any Ministry can
leave so important a class of the community without
a more substantial remedy for their grievances than
that which has just been disposed of. The object
here has been to show that the proposals of Mr.
DISRAELI were illusory, and it will now be advi-
sable on the part of those who are most familiar
with the details to point out those particulars in
which the interference of Parliament would be be-
neficial. We cannot, however, anticipate any ad-
vantage from the present ill-assorted Coalition
Ministry, and we conclude by giving the reviewer's
regret at the resignation of the late Administration,
for reasons in which all our readers will concur :
" Our regret is, that the Government should
!!have gone (Age...-021 what principle ox even point

"we really know not—without having shown any
"sympathy with the feeling that was most pro-
" minent and decided at the late elections—the vin-
dication and maintenance of the PROTESTANT
" CONSTITUTION ; and that the ostentatious viola-
tion of the law by Dr. MACHALE and his fellows
"has been not only sanctioned by impunity, but
" crowned with the very triumph which his audacity
"foretold."

THE FRENCH EMPEROR'S MARRIAGE.
ON Sunday last, according to official announcement,
and for which the most elaborate preparations were
made, LOUIS NAPOLEON celebrated his union with
the Spanish beauty, whose charms are his consola-
tion for his rejected attempts to ally himself with
any of the royal families of Europe. If the ques-
tion were viewed simply as one on which a philoso-
pher might moralise, there seems something har-
monious in the Emperor, who prides himself on
being the elected of popular suffrage, allying him-
self—for better motives than those which usually
influence the matrimonial contracts of royalty—
with a lady, whose character is unquestionable,
whose position is at least as respectable as that of
her royal consort, and whose personal charms will
prove a centre of attraction in a capital more no-
torious for frivolity than solid worth. By this mar-
riage Loins NAPOLEON has cut the Gordian knot
of diplomatic difficulty, which might have hampered
the independence of his position, had he the family
interests of a wife to consult, and he is as free to
act as he was before his alliance. Of the new
Empress it may not be so easy to speak with con-
fidence. After all that has been said of her beauty
and fascinating manners, we can hardly believe her
to be inspired by any more tender sentiment than
the gratification of a not unnatural female ambition
to shine in the proud position of an Empress, for
however brief an interval, leaving every speculation
as to the future out of consideration. The chance
was open to her, and she accepted it ; and she pos-
sesses the advantage over her husband in having
attained her elevation by a less questionable path
than be reached his. But while the appropriateness
of the alliance may be admitted as more suited to
the antecedents of Louts NAPOLEON than an ad-
mission into any of the royal families of Europe,
the very isolation of his position renders him a more
dangerous neighbour. As yet his policy has been
peace, but his main, if not sole, object has been his
personal aggrandisement. From President to Dic-
tator, and thence to Emperor, the upper round of
the ladder was reached. The marriage is but the
legitimate mode of providing for the permanence
of the NAPOLEON dynasty, without resorting to the
collateral line of his uncle JEROME, which is most
distasteful to the French people. The progress
hitherto has been all action, and, so far, the French
love of excitement has been gratified; but where
are the guarantees for his maintaining his position,
when, like ALEXANDER, he can do nothing, unless
he can discover new worlds to conquer. Will
Frenchmen be content to see their new Emperor, the
ambitious nephew of his ambitious uncle, quietly
settling down with his new wife to play DARBY and
JOAN, when half a million of soldiers, and a fleet of
war steamers to match,have nothing else to do but to
look on in restless inaction ? The recent fall in the
French funds has alreadysupplied a significant warn-
ing that the name of NAPOLEON is ill-assorted with
the patient industry which can alone secure the
blessings of peace, and Algeria will no longer afford
the safety-valve for military ardour which served
Louts PHILIPPE so long, and shattered his Go-
vernment at last. The history of France during
the last sixty years has shown the utter inaptitude
of its institutions to permanent peace, and every
change of Government has been for the worse.
This has been prominently exemplified in the career
of Louis NAPOLEON, who has only been able to
preserve his position by a severity of despotism
unknown in modern history. Every man opposed
to him has been imprisoned or banished; political
discussion is altogether forbidden; the Press is the
mere organ of the Government; and throughout all
the provinces the creatures of the Emperor exercise
absolute sway. The only really efficient instrument
of popular strength, if it can be so termed, is the
army—won over by German sausages and cham-
pagne, and kept in hand by implied promises or
allowed hopes of military conquest. When Louis
NAPOLEON has nothing more to do for himself,
what plan more feasible to keep that he has got—
what project more popular with the majority of the
French nation, than an attempt to revive the glories
of the Empire with which the name of NAPOLEON
is alone identified There may be nothing to gain,
and much to lose, but the danger is to France and
not to the Emperor ; and when did Frenchmen
ever calculate consequences, when it interfered with
the gratification of the impulse of the moment ?
The French papers have lately taken to criticise the
comments upon their Emperor by the organs of
public opinion in England, as though anxious to
discover a cants Belli which may serve for want of
a better; and some of our pusillanimous contempo-
raries have treated the mushroom monarch with
honeyed phrases, as though they deprecated his
anger. But independent English journals, which
freely comment on their own rulers, will scorn
to truckle to a neighbouring potentate, because
he rides roughshod over his own apologies
for newspapers. He has attained a position
which it is far more difficult to keep than it
was to arrive at, and the only solution of the diffi-
culty can be found in his giving employment to
that vast materiel of war which he has been so care-
ful to collect. Time alone may serve to discover
where the blow will fall, but: wherever the
point at which the present position of the States of
Europe may be attempted to be disturbed, England
must be prepared, if she would preserve her own
integrity, to maintain the same high place in the
Councils of Europe which the skill of the illustrious
WELLINGTON won for her at the close of the last
war. The French Emperor, by his marriage, has
given not the slightest security for the preservation
of peace, but rather the contrary; and it is our
duty, while we may hope for the best, to be pre-
pared for the worst.