The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-18 00:00:00

THE PACIFIC

RIO DE JANEIRO AND BUENOS AYRES.
The brig Firm, Capt. Sands, has arrived from Rio Janeiro,
bringing us later accounts from that city and from Buenos
Ayres.

Occasion had been taken on the event of the Emperor
ascending the throne to enter into a parley with the rebel
chief Bento Gonsalvez, in the province of Rio Grande, with
a view of restoring tranquillity to that fine province, but it
appears without success.

-A general impression seemed to prevail that the difficul-
ties between France and Bueno's Ayres were on the point of
adjustment, although at the last accounts from the river Plate
the blockade still existed. This impression was so strong
that it had affected many mercantile operations at Rio.

NAPOLEON'S REMAINS

(From the Morning Herald of yesterday.)
ST. GERMAINS, MONDAY, DEC. 14,
ONE O'CLOCK.

The near neighbourhood to Paris of the bridge of Pede,
built across the Seine, immediately beneath the town of St.
Germains, brought immense crowds from the capital, to wit-
ness the passage of the funeral flotilla. From seven o'clock
in the morning to this moment, the railway trains from
Paris have continued to pour forth their thousands. The
roads from all parts of the country, as from Paris, are still
incumbered with foot passengers and every description of
vehicle, all verging to one common centre. Very many,
however, are the disappointed, and loud are their lamenta-
tions, " at having gone so far for nothing"—the relics of St.
Helena, conveyed by La Dorade, and convoyed by eight other
steamers, having glided by it at eleven this morning.
A dense mass of people were collected on each side of the
river, and on that of the town of St. Germains the lofty
heights were covered with persons at every opening left by
the houses and villas, the windows of these being also occu-
pied. Tapestry and the national colours were appended to
the walls of many of these, The bridge was ornamented with
flags and pennants, the municipal authorities and troops lin-
ing it, as indeed the banks of the river. Infantry and ca-
valry of the regular troops, and of the civic guard from St.
Germains, Versailles, and other places, were present to
about 8000 men : the artillery of the national guard fired
minute guns. The flotilla proceeded in much the same order
as when it quitted Rouen. but this time attended by a bril-
liant band, 200 of the best performers of the metrojpolis, un-
der the leadership of the chief of the orchestra at the Opera,
being in attendance on board one of the vessels, and playing
funeral symphonies and military music. A cry of " Vive
l'Empereur I ' burst forth on the approach of La Dorade,
which was saluted by the national flag as she passed under
the bridge.

From the flotilla's departure from Rouen, as before its ar-
rival there, the preparations above and below the river covered
its banks, and were no villages or even insignificant hamlets
were in sight, a salute fired from some small cannon, a dis-
charge of fire-arms, or the waving of a flag, attested the pre-
sence of detached groups of peasantry and others who had
quitted their avocations not alone to gaze fora few moments
on the cercueil, but to signify their participation, in the nati-
onal feeling. The few small towns through whichit passed,
each according to its means bore its share in adding to the
warmth of the general welcome, but no incident occurred
worthy of mention at these beyond what has already been
described in this and my former letters. Thus to Courbe-
voie and Paris, I must look to give you such further details
as may prove interesting. I leave this immediately for the
former place, at which I am secured the first arrival from the
windings of the river, but the character of the localities will
prevent my personally witnessing the reception at. St. Denis,
the burial place of the Bourbon dynasty, through which the
cortege must at this moment be proceeding.

COtaBEVOIE, 6 o'clock, Evening.—At Annieres, a small
village two miles below this, lay the massive and gorgeous
vessel which had been built to convey Napoleon's remains
from Val-de-la-Haie. A receptacle for these had been raised
on its deck, in the form of an Egyptian temple, oblong in
build, open at the sides, with plain square columns, support-
ing a flat roof, but supported in front by four statues, on the
heads of which it appeared to rest, the entrance to this tem-
ple being by several steps. The vessel had an immense eagle
(gilded) as a figure head, and bronze shields suspended all
round with the names of victories, trophies of arms, flags
surmounted by the imperial eagle, and laurels at its bulkhead.
This magnificent and expensive piece of craftmanship was
not used for the purpose it was destined for, from its great
weight rendering it impossible it could be towed up by any
steamer on the river in time for the translation to take place
on the 15th instant, (to-morrow). This vessel was made to
form part of the convoy for the last two miles.
The masses which still crowded this place an hour ago are
now fast dispersing, as the departure of the Prince of Join-
♦ille and suite for the Tuileries, in two of the royal carriages,
which have just crossed the bridge of Neuilly, clearly evidence
that Napoleon's remains will not touch Frenchground for the
first time to-night. The cortege arrived here at four o'clock,
and were received without any pomp or display, the usual
military salutes alone excepted. There was just sufficient of
troops and gendarmerie to preserve order, every thing being
reserved for the morrow. Marshal Soult, M. Guizot, and
Admiral Duperre, Minister of Marine, were on the spot.
A small temple, with open columns, is erected on the left
bank of the river, and there the coffin will be deposited on its
first landing, when some funeral service will be performed
prior to its being placed on board the splendid car prepared
for its reception. In front of this temple are two handsome
trophies of arms bronzed over. A half-finished column,
intended for a figure of Victory, is at the entrance of the
bridge.

PARIS, MONDAY NIGHT, NINE O'CLOCK.
The whole way, as I just came along thefavenue de Neuilly,
the barriere de l'Etoile, and through the Champs Elysees,
was thickly studded with people, and on each side workmen
busied in preparations.
There is much anxiety felt by government relative to the
events of to-morrow. Napoleon-le-Grand, as he is now in-
variably named by the opposition and anti-dynastic press, is
also pronounced the personification of the glory of France,
of its greatness, and of its national honour • all of which they
indignantly cry have been lowered to the dust within the last
few months. What a period, they exclaim, and what men
(referring to the ministry termed that r e'trangere to receive
these glorious relics. The feeling against England as the
instrument of that humiliation is most intense among that
portion of the press, and those very people who have been
the partisans and stanchest defenders, for the last ten years,
of an English alliance—a betrayed friend becomes the more
bitter as an enemy ! This is not the moment to enter into
the region of politics, but the effect of Lord Palmerston's
policy (so to call it)) to give, because it is the representative
of a state of feeling which will operate actively on the conduct
of the masses, if any serious disturbances should take place,
as apprehended. But while this feeling so widely prevails
among politicians and with the people at large, the more
sober and mere bourgeois portion of the population show a
disposition to separate the English nation from its govern-
ment, while, in reference to the last, they praise its readiness
to restore the Emperor's remains and its manner of doing so.
heagain call to mind the period when Napoleon was
twice scouted from this very capital, in 1814 and 1815, and
rail at '
trs their own leOrete ; these, in their further comments
on the haters of the ruling dynasty, and of Louis Philip, in
especial, as its chief, point to the anxiety to overthrow him
now and prophecy its success, would be followed in a few
years by an entirely other appreciation of him, by these very
people as being one of the ablest sovereigns of France, and
certainly the ablest at this moment in Europe.
A few words in conclusion as to the conduct pursued by
the king in this transference to Europe of the ashes of Na-
poleon, and the subsequent ceremonial. His readiness to
give effect to so national a desire among the French, is
everywhere lauded, but his sending one of his sons to fetch
them is severely criticised. The king is known to. have used
strong language of opprobrium against the " Corsican
usurper" in 1815 ; he, has styled him the assassin of the
Duke d'Enghein, his relative, and yet, he sends his son to
bring back the remains of the author of a crime against his
own blood—of one who ever hated his race and name! He
should have sent some distinguished admiral, but not one of
his own family. He acts from mean motives in this, and is
a hypocrite in this manifestation, as he has been in most
others. Such are the remarks which are somewhat preva-
lent among the higher classes, as well as others here; it may
be conceived then the disgust which has spread among them,
first, on learning the king's intention personally to meet the
procession at the Hotel des Invalides, and receive charge of
the remains of Napoleon from the hands of his son, the
Prince de Joinville, then to head the procession himse_
convey them to their resting place. Certainly the king has
a difficult task to attempt to please all. Ido not venture on
any opinion as to how far his conduct may be properly con-
sistent with good taste, but surely Louis Philip may fairly,
on such an occasion as this, separate his individual from his
kingly character.
The Prince de Joinville, the king's commissioners, the
officers and sailors of La Belle Poule, are in charge of the
remains, which they brought from St. Helena, till relieved
on the reception of them by the king, who will attend, sur-
rounded by his own staff, the clergy, and those dignitaries
who have been especially appointed for this,portion of the
ceremonial.

(From the Times of yesterday.)
PARIS, TUESDAY.—After a brilliant reception at St. Ger-
mains yesterday, the cortege proceeded slowly to Courbevoie,
where it arrived about half-past three in the afternoon. The
day was bitter cold, yet scores of thousands of Parisians of all
but the lower classes repaired to St. Germain, Chateau St.
Denis, and Asnieres, to witness its passage. During ten
days, and up to yesterday morning, Paris and its vicinity were
enveloped in a fog that would have done credit to Fleet-st. ;
but as if on purpose to oblige the foreign sight-seers now in
Paris, and the adorers, real or pretended, of the memory of
Napoleon, the sun made bis appearance yesterday morning,
and shone thruukhout the day.
Thßotilla arrived at Courbevoie at half-past three o'clock
on Monday, and the same honours as those decreed at Peeq,
Chatou, Epivai, St. Denis, &c, were there paid the remains
of the Emperor.
At five o'clock Marshal Soult, Admiral Duperre, and M.
Duchatel arrived at Courbevoie, and repaired on board the
Dorade steamer, to pay their homage to the Prince de Join-
• ville. Shortly afterwards the Duke de Nemours joined them,
and spent part of the night with his brother. All the
steamers were illuminated, and the tripods of the tumular
boat threw out flames during the whole night.

We learn from Mr.W7ii:dreerVof the United States
navy, who came passenger in the brig America, from Chagres,
that he left Guayaquil on the 6th of October, that he passed
the Isthmus of Darien on the 26th and 27th in 21 hours.
That Gamaro had been re-elected President of Lima, and
that business was very dull both at that place and Guayaquil.
Considerable excitement existed at Lima about the Ist of
September, in consequence of an affair between the French
charge and the Peruvian Minister of Finance. The charge
called on the minister in relation to the claims of certain
French citizens, and was treated with rudeness. He chal-
lenged the minister, but the fight was prevented by Presi-
dent Gamarra, who arrested the minister, and placed a guard
before the door of the French charge. The latter then made
the subject the matter of an official communication, and de-
manded his passports. It was rumoured that the French ad-
miral had required the Peruvian Government to dismiss the
minister and apologise for his conduct within 10 days, and
that the penalty of a refusal would he a blockade of the port.
The frigate Thetis was the only French man of war in port.

•This rooming, long before day, the population was seen
proceeding in the direction of the Barriere de l'Entoile, by
which the cortege was to enter Paris. The greatest number,
however, did not stop there but pushed on to Neuiliy, the
the avenue of which was in the course of a short time occu-
pied by at least 400,000 or 500,000 persons. The troops of
the line and the National Guards soon afterwards arrived,
and drew up on the ground allotted to each corps on both
sides of the avenue.

The troops and National Guards of Courbevoie, Rueil, and
other neighbouring districts lined the quays, and the artillery
was drawn up close to the river side. The funereal triumphal
car shortly afterwards was seen parsing the bridge, and on
reaching Courbevoie, was stationed under the portice of the
Grecian Temple.

This car, which was truly magnificent, consisted of five
distinct parts-1, the base ;2, the pedestal ;3, the caryatides
4, the shield ; 5, the cenotaph.
The base rests on four massive gilt wheels ; it was 25 feet
long and 6 high, and presented the form of a parallelogram,
with a semi-circular platform in front. On this last stood a
group of four genii, supporting the crown of Charlemagne;
at the four angles were four other genii, in relievo, who held
garlands with one hand, and with the other the trumpet of
Fame ; above were fasces ; in the middle eagles, and the cipher
of the Emperor surrounded with crowns. The base and its
ornaments were covered with burnished gold.
The pedestal placed on this base was 18 feet in length by
7 in height, and entirely covered with gold and purple cloth,
with the cipher and arms of the Emperor. On both sides
hung two velvet imperial mantles, sprinkled with bees.
Behind was a profusion of flags.

On this pedestal stood 14 caryatides, somewhat larger than
life, entirely gilt over, and supporting with their heads and
hands an immense shield. Thcse caryatides were placed,
six on one side, and six on the other, back to back, and two
others at the extremities.

The shield was in gold, of an elongated oval form, and
loaded with fasces of javelins.
The sarcophagus, of an antique form, was raised above the
shield. In the centre, on a rich cushion, lay the sceptre, the
hand of justice, and the Imperial crown, studded with
• '

jewels

- This monument of gold and velvet, about 50 feet high,
was drawn by 16 black horses, yoked by fours, and so
caparisoned as only to show the extremity of the feet. The
caparisons were cut in the shape of those of the tournament
horses of the middle ages. and in gold cloth.
At half-past nine o'clock the clergy of Courbevoie were
seen descending the quay, and when it had reached the
Dorade, prayers were read over the body. The Prince de
Joinville then gave orders to land, when all the assistants,
preceded by the clergy, went on shore, and the 21. seamen
having raised the coffin on their shoulders followed the pro-
cession.

It was 11 o'clock before the hearse left Courbevoie. It
paused awhile near the statue of Josephine, after which the
procession commenced its march, amidst the roaring of
artillery.

The National Guards and troops of the line, infantry,
cavalry, and artillery, stationed along the course of the pro-
cession, formed into line after the passage of the car, and
closed the procession.
THE CHAMPS ELYSEES.
So early as eight o'clock on Tuesday morning the Champs
Elysees presented an animated appearance; numerous bodies
of pedestrians kept moving forward in the direction of Cour-
bevoie. The National Guard began to arrive at nine o'clock,
and the battalions were observed to be more complete than
on any occasion of their assembling since the revolution of
1830.

About a quarter past twelve o'clock the procession, which
was opened by a squadron of Curiassiers, made its appear-
' ante in the Champs Elysees, and moved slowly forward,
halting at intervals.
PLACE DE LA CONCORDE.
This position, perhaps one of the most prominent, and
certainly the most magnificent in the whole line of proces-
sion, presented an animated appearance at an early hour.
At an early hour all the terraces of the Tuileries facing the
Place de la Concorde were thronged by those who had been
fortunate enough to obtain tickets and sum up sufficient
patience to sit or stand out several hours of intense cold. In
the first instance it was expected and confidently asserted,
that the procession would reach the Place de Concorde by
ten o'clock, as his Majesty Louis Philippe (according to the
official announcement) was to arrive at the Invalides pre-
cisely at 11. It was, however, a quarter past one before it
made its appearance at the former.
At last the long wished-for moment arrived, and the ap-
proach of the head of the procession was announced by the
beating of drums, and the solemn funeral music, and the ap-
pearance of a detachment of Cuirassiers at the entrance to
the Place de la Concorde.
The programme of the grand ceremonies of the day had
announced that Messieurs the Peers and Deputies, &c. were
expected to be in their places in the interior of the Invalides
by 11 o'clock, and that private personages munificently sup-
plied with tickets were not to be later than 10. It was near
noon when the crowd was still waiting to be admitted at the
great gate of the Invalides.
The archbishop and his magnificent train of clergy again
started, after delay, to 'met the coffin and perform the rites
of absolution at the entrance of the church ; and after a de-
lay of impatient but silent expectation, the funeral proces-
sion entered, headed by the train of priests.
[We shall give the conclusion of the ceremonies on this
occasion in our next.]

THE INSANE WOMAN AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE

FURTHER PARTICULARS

(From the Morning Herald of Yesterday.)
No doubt can be entertained that the woman examined at
the Home-office yesterday is insane. We understand that
her husband is a colonel in the German service, from whom
she is separated, but it is not clear whether she is legally di-
vorced or not. It is said she has also two sons, lieutenants
in the same service. In person she is about five feet three
inches, slender figure, and of prepossessing countenance.
Her manners are very mild and lady-like, and she assumes
the name of the Countess Rosterlitx. Her principal delusion
(which is supposed to have been brought or. by the separa-
tion from her husband) appears to be, that she imagines
Prince Albert is indebted to her in a considerable sum of
money, and that the palace at Hampton Court is her here-
ditary property, as she insists that it belonged to her untie.
The sword or dagger with which she attempted to wound the
sentinel on duty at Buckingham Palace is of straight form,
and about the size of a common bayonet. It was broke in
the scuffle which ensued. When asked what her object was
for applying for admission into the palace, she replied that
she had important business with Prince Albert, and must
see him without delay. Since she left the Burlington Hotel,
she has been for a day or two at several other hotels at the
west-end of the town, the last of which, we have heard, was
Fenton's. The unfortunate woman also asserts that she is
entitled to large estates in the county of Essex.
The examination yesterday at the Home-office was con-
ducted by Mr. Hall, chief magistrate of Bow-street police-
office; no other magistrate or public functionary was present.
It commenced shortly after ten o clock, and occupied nearly
three hours, during which a number of witnesses were exa-
mined, consisting of the waiters and landlords of hotels where
the prisoner bad lodged; and we were inf irmed, on what we
consider good authority (but as in the boy Jones's case, the
evidence being taken in private, it is impossible to give de-
tails) that the protracted inquiry was evidently for the pur-
pose of ascertaining whether any individuals were in the
habit of calling on the prisoner, and if it was supposed she
had any connections in this country, as from the first mo-
ment she was taken into custody no doubt existed as to her
labouring under some mental delusion. The female servant
that she engaged after leaving the Burlington Hotel, was in
attendance at the Home-office all the morning, but was not
examined as a witness.

On the arrival of Mr. Phillips, one of the under secretaries
of the home-office, Mr. Hall communicated to that gentle-
man the nature of the evidence which had been adduced, and
some time afterwards he left for a short time. On his return
a warrant was made out, committing the prisoner to Bethle-
hem Hospital, till such time as her Majesty's pleasure was
known. The worthy magistrate appeared to feel great sym-
pathy for the unfortunate female, and stated, as we under-
stand, that in his opinion she was an object of pity and commi-
seration, and that no doubt could exist but she was labouring
under an aberration of intellect, probably arising from mis-
fortunes of a domestic nature.

Despatches were sent, in the course of the day, from the
home-office, to apprise the Marquis of Normanby, who is at
Brighton, of the circumstances of the case, and until an an-
swer is received from the noble marquis it cannot be ascer-
tained whether it will be deemed necessary to enter into any
further investigation or not ; but the general opinion is, that
the unfortunate woman will be detained in Bedlam until in-
quiries are made as to the truth of her statement respecting
her relations in Germany.
The prisoner inquired several times what she,had done to
be kept in custody all last night, and when ske was about to
be conveyed in a cab to Bedlam, she asked Inspector Pearse
where she was going to, when some one replied that she was
going to meet gentlemen who would arrange her business.
She was particularly anxious about some keys which had
been taken from her, but was satisfied on being informed
that they were safe.

The unfortunate woman, at the time she was conveyed from
the home-office, was not aware of the place to which she was
going.

(From the Globe of Wednuday evening•)
The unfortunate woman, an account of whose attack on
the sentry at Buckingham Palace is given in our Bow street
police report, is unquestionably insane. It has been ascer-
tained that in the latter end of November she arrived in a
carriage, attended by her maid at the Burlington Hotel,
ordered the best suite of apartments to be prepared for her
reception, stating that she would be visited by Lord Mel-
bourne and other personages of distinction. The arrange-
ments were made, and met her approbation ; and her diffe-
rent meals were supplied of the choicest delicacies. No sus-
picion was entertained of her being what she appeared, a
foreign lady of distinction, and any peculiarity of manner was
referred to her foreign habits. At length the waiter appointed
to attend upon her, intimated to the proprietor of the hotel
that he thought from her peculiar manner that their distin-
guished inmate was insane. It was arranged that the pro-
prietor should present the account in person, and determine
by the lady's manner the course he should pursue. At the
interview for this purpose, which was on the 4th inst., the
lady became highly excited, and attempted to leave the house,
but was prevented from doing so. She threatened to jump
from the window, but was prevented, and the proprietor re-
mained sitting np with her all night. In the morning she
contrived to evade the vigilance of those appointed to watch
her movements, and left the hotel with a small bundle, leav-
ing herboxes behind her. Hence she was traced to the house,
No. 17, Little Pulteney-street, where she resided for a few
days in one room on the second floor, and while there en-
gaged a young woman at the Servants' Institution, Regent-
street, to whom she addressed the letter given at the close of
this account.

The poor creature, with the strange infatuation of lunatics,
entertains a notion that she has a rightful claim to the throne.
She maintains that the palaces are hers, and has actually ap-
plied to the Lord Chancellor to give her possession of Hamp-
ton Court.
Her person is v'ell known at the palace by the attendants,
to whom she has applied for admission ; but as her manner
on those occasions was harmless, she was merely sent away.
Of her violence yesterday, the account in our police report is
a correct detail.
She underwent an examination this day at the home-
office, before Mr. Hall, the Bow-street magistrate, when her
insanity was so mznifest that she excited no feeling but of
commiseration. We understand that the result of the in-
quiry was a determination to obtain her admission into Beth-
lehem Hospital as a patient.

_ ....
By what means she obtained the carriage, or what her
luggage left at the Burlington Hotel consists of, we have not
been able to learn.

After leaving the Burlington Hotel she applied for admis-
sion as a guest at Christie's, St. James's-street, and at other
hotels in the neighbourhood; but her manner was evidently
so wild, and her expressions so incoherent, that she was
hastily dismissed.

" Susan,—Send the wash what you have received from the
landress to Mrs. Henry, 17, Little Pulteney-street, and the
bill wh t you have paid for it with the money will be paid
through Mrs. Putnam. Tell me in
miffing if Madame Vic-
torine has finished the dresses ; •irshe has delivered the same
at the Burlington hotel? If the corsage from the gre silk
dress is finished the same? and let me know in a resitting
what answer you have received at the Russian Ambassador's
Hotel about my diamond ring? You will remember that I
have ordered you to go there on Friday next; are no letters
at Burlington Hotel for rne? How many servants was there
?
to engage herself. After having wrote this lettre, bring my
eiron and umbrella to Mrs. Putnam.

" Countess of RESTERLITZ.
"Great Windmill-street, Thursday, Dec. 8."
Mrs. Putnam is the wife of a tailor, and lives in the house,
17, Pulteney-street, second floor.

!ft Etbrrpoot gptanbatt.

FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 18, 1840,

We are glad to find that the spirit of rational reform
is beginning to make its way into the Dock Committee,
and that, in future, instead of monopolising the func-
tions of stonemasons, ironsmiths, carpenters, quarry-
men, &c., all new works, alterations, and repairs, will
be submitted by that body to a system of competition
by open contracts. This is just as it should be. 'The
Dock Committee might with equal propriety become
their own stationers and newspaper publishers, as con-
tinue any longer to exercise the functions of the nume-
rous classes of tradesmen to which we have alluded.
The thanks of the public are principally due to Mr.
Chapman for introducing the reforms which have al-
ready been determined upon. But, in making this
acknowledgment, we must not forget the obligations
under which the public have been placed by the
spirited exertions of Mr. Robertson Gladstone, in pro-
curing the admission of reporters to the sanctorum of
the Dock Committee. The salutary effects of that step
are already becoming more and more visible. We
trust that the resolutions to which the committee
arrived last week will be followed up by others
which will prove equally acceptable in a public point
of view. The abandonment of one monopoly may,
possibly, prove the prelude to the surrender of many
more. We do not see with what consistency the Dock
Committee can adhere to their resolution, to become
wholesale warehouse owners and warehousemen, while
they consent to relinquish the trade of dock builders
and shed manufacturers. Let the building of ware-
houses on the dock quays be thrown open to public
competition. Perhaps Alderman Evans may think it
worth his while to add to his laurels by taking the
initiative in so desirable a reform. It is a pity that the
torus, in their attacks upon monopolies, should become
the monopolisers of every useful reform hitherto intro-
duced into the Dock Committee.

By the bye, while upon this subject, we may as well
ask why the river wall at Clarence Dock was built out
so far into the river, thus destroying the straight line ?
Why, again, were the gates pulled down at Clarence
Dock ? These questions naturally arise out of the pro-
ceedings of last week.

It is now becoming almost an admitted fact that the
ministry of Lord Melbourne cannot last above a few
weeks after the meeting of Parliament ; and there are
not a few, even amongst the whig party, who are ready
to exclaim " Why should it ?" Twice within the last
fortnight we have read amongst the announcements in
the Court Gazette, the departure of Lord Melbourne
from town to his seat in Hertfordshire ! His lordship
has at length, it seems, received intimation of the ne-
cessity of putting his house in order, and providing his
knife and fork at his own expense and in his own de-
lightful companionship. The Court, we are told, is to
leave Buckingham Palace during this month, and to
rusticate at Windsor until April or May. The snug
family party is to be broken up, along with the Cabi-
net ; and Sir Robert, and the conservative members of
the ministry which will succeed it, must be content to
pick up the lost meshes which whig negligence and
inefficiency have left in the national policy, uncheeied
by the smiles of gratitude which Royalty ought in jus-
tice to beam upon those who undertake so onerous and
disagreeable a task.

There are some, indeed, who doubt whether minis-
ters will meet Parliament at all on the 26th of Janu-
ary, and who are inclined to believe that they will ten-
der their resignations some day or two after the sth of
that month, which we believe is quarter-clay ! The
prospects of the various "little wars" in which we are
engaged are not so flattering as they were a week ago;
and it is thought that not a few of the whig party are
disposed to " shirk" the disagreeable necessity, which
is known to exist, of asking for a large vote of money
to repair the dilapidated state of the finances of the
country, and to place our army and navy upon a full
war establishment. It has often before fallen to the
lot of the conservative party to have to carry on wars
which their opponents have commenced, and to bear
the onus and unpopularity of measures which they
have rendered necessary. The next arrivals from the
East will probably decide whether the impending re-
signation will be immediate or not. A few trifling ex-

`eesses in China may perhaps embolden Lord

bourne to perform the disagreeable necegwity of

Our French neighbours have a strange fashion of
turning every subject which they approach into some-
thing fanaastic and ridiculous. The most ordinary
action of a Frenchman's life cannot be performed with-
out a due regard to effect; and yet, strange to say,
this very striving to invest himself and his movements
with importance seldom attains any other result than
to render him absurd, if not absolutely contemptible.
This national propensity or failing was perhaps
never so conspicuously shown as in the ceremony
which has, during the present week, excited the atten-
tion of France, and of Europe. Napoleon, her Em-
peror, " slept well" in his far off grave. The barren
rock of Saint Helena—a speck amidst a boundless
ocean—was a fitting prison for one whose vast ambi-
tion had deluged Europe with blood, and carried deso-
tion and death to the hearths of millions of the human
race. The same small spot was his fittest grave; the
unbroken murmur of its expanse of waters his fitting
and never dying requiem. Few who had loved that
man—except a Frenchman—few who cherised his
glory and revered his memory, would have chosen to
disturb his repose. The place in which he slept held
him alone. His ashes needed no proud monument—
no pompous record there. The bare, seaheaten cliffs
of that desolate place told alike, to the passing mariner,
the fame and the fate of him, whom the world had
been compelled to chain down within its narrow
limits—like Prometheus of old—until the vultures,
remorse and disappointed ambition, gnawed away his
heart.

But this was not in accordance with the frivolity of
French taste. The people of that land of fiddling,
dancing, and piping, could not erase from the page of
history the record of that last victorious effort which
beat back their armed myriads from the battle fields of
Europe, and tore from amongst them the chief, whose
genius alone it was which for a time had led them on
to conquest. They could not wipe out the lines which
recorded the damning tale of their own desertion of
that chief, and of the zeal with which they flew to
worship another star, when his was obscured by the
coming darkness. They could not do this ; but they
.could farcify the tragedy of history ! They could
substitute for the romantic interest which hung around
the eclipsed image of Napoleon, and in which the con-
temptible fickleness of their nature had stamped them
as unworthy to share, the temporary eclat of a fete—a
show !—a melodrame in which they might take part,
and grin and grimace before the eyes of applauding
thousands of tailors, petits maitres, and chefs de cuisine,

and amidst the suppressed laughter of all the world

besides !

In this laudable undertaking, accordingly, they have
been engaged for the last few days. The earth has
given up its dead ; the ocean has resigned her trust,
to provide Paris with a spectacle and a holiday—to
furnish to the yearnings of republicanism, amongst
her unprincipled: journalists, and her sans culottes
mobocracy, an opportunity of spurting forth their long
pent up venom against that people, whose armed heel
trampled them upon the field of Waterloo, and whose
hand tore down the tricolour from the towers of the
Louvre. Under a plea of sickly sentimentality, such
as might befit the hero or heroine of a tenth-rate
novel, the insensate bones and decaying flesh of the
spirit which has gone to his eternal reward or his eter-
nal doom, have been made the object of an unmeaning
pageant, have passed through triumphal arches, amidst
artificial evergreens, pasteboard columns, and claptrap
scenery of all imaginery devices—to furnish which
half the theatres of France must have been denuded
of their stage decorations; and the end of all this
blowing of trumpets, and heating of cymbals and
kettle drums—is what ? Napoleon's ashes now rest
beneath the dome of the Hotel d'lnvalides, " in the
bosom of the people that he loved !" All that is grand
and ennobling in his memory still clings to that rifled
grave in the midst of the vast Pacific. The ashes
only of the great man, and the lead which encloses
them, are in the keeping of a fickle and frivolous na-
tion, which deceived and deserted him in life, and
would disinter him again a month hence to gain
another fete, and another holiday

It is greatly to be feared that we have been giving
ourselves credit for a far greater measure of success in
our Syrian warfare than we have any just reason to
calculate upon. The treaty which has been entered
into between Mehemet Ali and Admiral Napier, if
taken as conclusive of the question in dispute, would
undoubtedly entitle us to believe that the question, as
between the Pacha and the allies, was terminated by
the unconditional submission of the former to the
terms imposed upon him. The army of Ibrahim was
to be withdrawn from Syria, and the Turkish fleet
given up, upon condition that Egypt was to be guaran-
teed to him as an hereditary possession. It has
transpired, however, now—and, although openly as-
serted by the London Times of Wednesday, the fact
has not been attempted to be impugned by the mi-
nisterial organs—that the Sultan is by no means a
consenting party to the granting of these favourable
terms to his refractory vassal. Lord Palmerston, it is
added, has guaranteed that England will not attempt
to use coercive means to prevail upon the Sultan to re-
cognise the possession of Egypt by Mehemet; and it
is plain, that in case of an obstinate perseverance on
the part of Turkey in her present views, the question
in dispute is still almost as far off settlement as ever.
It cannot, we think, have escaped the notice of our
readers, that throughout the whole of this Syrian
affair, Russia has, very unaccountably, abstained from
taking a prominent position. England, Austria, and
Turkey have each made themselves conspicuous during
the progress of hostilities ; but Russia has through-
out kept in the background, as if waiting her time.
This apparent incongruity can be solved by the sup-
position that Russia has been previously acquainted
with the fact that the Porte would ultimately, by her
obstinacy, neutralize the efforts of the other powers to
bring about a settlement; and whilst it is difficult to
account for this backwardness upon any other suppo-
sition, it is equally difficult to understand how the
Sultan could do other than readily accede to the terms
proposed and guaranteed by the allies, unless he had
been insidiously led on by Russia to persist in his
present course of obstinacy.

It must be evident then that in the event of a per-
' severance on the part of Turkey in her present under-
stood policy, and her absolute refusal to recognize
Mehemet Ali any longer as the sovereign of Egypt,
the whole quarrel must take a different aspect, and the
.war, if persisted in, become, on the part of the allies,
a war of aggression upon Egypt. In such a war,
England, as we have already stated, is pledged by Lord
Palmerston to take no share---at least as against Tur-
key. We cannot now turn round and compel that
power to accept, what must be considered the favour-
able terms which it is in her power to make ; nor can
we safely withdraw altogether from the contest, and
leave her to the tender mercies of a Russian army of
occupation. In such a case it is not difficult to foresee
that, whatever be the policy of England, the right of
France to take a part in the quarrel, and to espouse
the interests of the Pacha, would become clear; and,
from the present temper of that people, notwithstand-
ing the temporary defeat of the Thiers party, we need
not doubt how readily the opportunity would he seized
upon.

The effect of such an embroilment—for to what
could it lead except a general European war ?—cannot
be contemplated, without serious misgivings. Under
any circumstances we fear that such a contingency can-
not he avoided. France evidently burns to plunge
once more into hostilities, and with England especially;
and although we have little cause to fear her worst
efforts if directed against England individually, we
regard her hostile interference in such a quarrel as this
as pregnant withxtensive danger to the best interests
of our country.. ln such a struggle we could not
calculate upon the honest co-operation of Russia for
an hour. Her- interest would prompt her to stand

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senting himself, "in forma pauperis," before the coun-
try; but there is little doubt that a contrary result will
induce the whole pack to raise the cry of "sauce qni
pad," and leave it to other hands to unravel the
tangled web to which they have reduced alike the fo-
reign and domestic affairs of the nation. Under any
circumstances, and the sooner the better, we shall be
well rid of them. Incapable we always thought them,
and incapable and dishonest the country has found
them.

aloof, and to seize upon the moment of our weakness
to carry into execution her own views of aggrandize-
ment, which are unhappily too well understood. With
Turkey in her hands as a submissive tool, it would
become, we fear, a difficult task for England, pledged
as she is, and even with Austria to aid her efforts, to
emerge from so hopeless an entanglement of warring
interests without sustaining a serious loss of expense
and blood, if not of honour.

Our attention has been directed to a letter which
has been copied from the Albion into another journal,
in which the Rev. Fielding Ould, of this town, is
charged, upon the authority of an obscure dissenting
review, with having borrowed largely, in his late ser-
mon on the Unitarian controversy, from Fuller's well-
known work on the Calvinistic and Socinian systems,
without acknowledgment of any kind. Upon perusal of
this letter we turned to the sermon in question, and
before we had gone further than the first page of the
preface, we were satisfied that a more unjust or uncan-
did charge was never brought against the literary re-
putation of any author. The reviewer must have
known, and the correspondent of the Albion, so kindly
patronised by a contemporary, should have known, that
the writer of the sermon expressly disclaimed, in the
very first page of his work, any pretension to originality,
and freely and fully acknowledged his obligation to
former controversialists not only for the matter of his
reasoning but frequently for the very words in which
the arguments were clothed; and this in order to guard
himself against any advantage which might be taken
of a less carefully measured phraseology :
" It is scarcely to be expected that, on such a subject,
much original matter should now be elicited. The praise of
originality was not, however, the author's object, but rather
usefulness and edification. He has accordingly availed him-
self freely of the labours of those who have gone before him
in the controversy, not only in the adoption of their argu-
ments, but frequently of their words; and being aware how
eagerly advantage is taken of definitions and forms of ex-
pression by those whose tenets are here impugned, he has
preferred rather to clothe himself in the verbal armour of
the tried veterans in this contest, than trust himself in the
weaker panoply of his own providing."—The Practical Im-
portance of the Controversy with Unitarians—Preface, p. v.
It is only necessary to add, further, that in the ap-
pendix there is more than one express reference to
Fuller, and to authorities quoted from him; while in a
note at the conclusion of the sermon, the reader is
apprised that " The necessary haste with which this
lecture has been sent to the press, has prevented the
author from verifying some of the quotations which
have been taken from other works, by a reference to the

)riginals."

How far the reviewer's charge of " plagiarism with-
)ut acknowledgment of any kind" has been borne out
)y the facts of the case, we leave an impartial public

determine

We have been induced to notice the charge tran-
scribed from the Eclectic Review, in order to show the
mean shifts resorted to, for the purpose of bringing
the clergy of the established church into disrepute.
Whenever such attacks are made, we shall deem it our
duty to repel them. After the explanation we have
offered, we trust that the journals above alluded to
will recognise the justice of withdrawing the uncandid
charge of plagiarism.