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nand_ a every time he had the opportunity, and was the fi.
al `—ea Buda to Debreczin. They think that the,
,
e and honest democrat; but he was a mili-
,et sary despot in Hungary, a red republican at Marseilles,
if i and a milk-and-water monarchist in England ; and will
Aof .-orld's industry, co,. mei-, e, be anything convenient in the United States,— an aboli-
. IF Majesty roamed through this tionist in the north, and a defender of slavery in the south.
.ently ,niched and amused with the They hurrah for him as a humane and generous ChriStian :
.veloped er, and her eve met no object but the names of the murdered Ziehy and Lemberg,
unscathed by the demo ition that had fallen on the place, and of the infamously slandered Madame Beck rise up
until it rested on the grim figure of the Bavarian lion, and deny his claim to anything like either humanity
who
all he a-e semed to 4 stand ,:here alone, the savage monarch of or generosity. They bellow for him as the peace-
-3 :,id
maker of the world, yet he came here with the hope of
.:iid that the lion will turn and flee
From the maid in the pride of her purity." fomenting war, and of exasperating the people of En-
The Bavarian lion did not fly at the approach of her Ma- gland against foreign nations,—with the sole object of
jesty, but was dumb, and moved not a muscle of his large setting Europe in a blaze. But the good sense of the
frame. He stood as if petrified at, the ruin that sue-
intelligent and reflecting in this country has foiled his
rounded him, and reminded one of Cilium Marius contem-
designs. He may go to—glory, as soon as he pleases;
plating the desolation of Carthage, although the noble
and I am happy to say that we shall see the back seams
beast was not competent to play the Roman part But& of his stockings next Thursday, when he will decamp for
ciently to pronounce the memorable words uttered by the America. He goes by the Humboldt, a most appropri-
fallen despot. The Queen having gazed upon the debris
ately named vessel for such a purpose, for a completer
of the once magnificently furnished temple of commerce, hum never did bolt from the old to the new world.
and alternately smiled and looked sad at the spectacle she
beheld, turned to depart with her illustrious Prince Con-

COMMERCML AND MONETARY NEWS,

The sun sent down it

at the mornPnt on th

Crystal Palace, and never did the building itself shine so MONDAY NIGHT.
brilliantly as at the instant when her Majesty took her Notwithstanding the oft-repeated boasts of the advo-
• Last, longing, lingering look behind." cates of " free trade," business affairs are far fram being
How curiously it will appear, in after times, that a gentle- in an active and satisfactory state, nor do present appear-
man was be-knighted for having raised a structure of ances indicate that much improvement is ae.- hand. We
light ! Sir Joseph Paxton, the inventor of a new order of have not entirely got rid of the effeets of the late " cora-
architecture ! The inventor of a new order of fiddlesticks! mercial disasters," and there is a want of confidence
A big glass house is all well enough ; but to talk of an among the trading classes, which greatly restricts their
order of glass architecture, which it is the fashion now to movements, and otherwise acts injuriously.
do, is ridiculous. This is, however, a superficial, brittle, The last published returns of the Bank of England con-
transparent age, and so, perhaps, an order of glass archi- tain the announcement that the stock of bullion had
Lecture is the most appropriate for it. Vies la bagatelle! suffered a decrease to the extent of £30,240, which is
The St. Alban's bucket of corruption has been at length accounted for by the exports by the Brazil mail, comnris-
fully emptied, and a pretty accumulation of abominations 'mg £186,000 to Rio Janeiro, and £46,000 to the River
it was; and yet it appears that even than this lowest deep Plate, together with several small sums to various near
a lower deep of liberal profligacy exists, if we are to be- ports of the continent. Notwithstanding this fact, capital
lieve Mr. Coppock, the gentleman who " manages" the is abundant, and the banks continue to discount upon
election business of the Government. This great authority moderate terms, present rates being from 3to 31 per cent.
OD such matters has declared that if he were to go through for good names, on short dates. Some attention is now being
the list of British boroughs returning members of Par- turned to the present mode of publishing the Bank of
'lament, beginning with Abingdon and ending with Staf- England returns weekly. It is argued, and with some
ford, and if he came to put opposite the names of the show of justice, that any comparison of items from simply
respective members, " bought his seat," he should make one single week to another, in a country where the com-
a more extraordinary disclosure than did even Mr. mercial and fiscal transactions are so large and so com-
Edwards, the St. Alban's manager himself. What a plicated, is pointless, and deductions drawn from such a
glorious idea of the immaculate purity of electors and of comparison must be "a delusion and a farce." On this
members this declaration suggests. Sligo, the nice pocket topic, the city article of the Morning Post of Saturday
borough of Lord Palmerston, seems ambitious to put last contains the following :—" Great harm has been done
forward its claim to a foremost station in the list of by a contraction of the period for making the returns in
corrupt places, and an authority there has declared that question. The Bank of England has been coerced into
the £3OOO spent by Bell at St. Alban's is nothing to what the adoption of a silly and useless rule, applicable to a
Mr. Townlev expended in purchasing the sweet voices of weekly system, by which the public are deprived of a
the beautiful electors of Sligo. Some people and some really valuable means of comparison and calculation,
towns have odd notions of ambition, and Sligo is ambitious such as existed under the former one, by which the bank
to stand in the first rank of villanously corrupt towns. was regulated. The return made on this occasion, for
De !Insigia non est dieputandum• instance, involves the absurdity that it has no national
Justice should decidedly be done to Ireland, and therefore bearing whatever, but that it exhibits a mere exposition
by all means let Sligo figure side by side with St. Alban's. of banking arrangements, for which the public care not a
Talking of very nice little convenient vendable boroughs, farthing. We have week to week to submit to the humi-
there will soon be one more in the market, and open to a liation of having to look into the particulars published,
liberal offer. Although Mr. Ben. Hawes does not neces- since the duty has been imposed upon us'
eerily create a vacs'

new office, he will take an
him-

if the inu.
Cl.) and their will supporters."
With an abundant supply of money, the market for
lie securities has been active; prices advanced, and
speculators, so long dormant, have been operating with

ly the puerilities
,h, Cobden, and

desire to res

fled retirement

continen

for till

pendent e
brought to

advices, particularly from France,
character, we would, ere this, have
in the English funds. The
passed of well on Wednesday last.
from Lojdon states that consols el

are of a discouraging

had a further advance
settlement of the account
Our telegraphic report
)sed at 98i to 5-Bths.

man. Who that new n
Edmund Auchmutv G
and has put fo
somely down v
and fortunate i
It is reported that

It may not be out of place to mention that it is currently
reported that the North Western and Great Western
Companies are about to effect an amicable settlement of
their differences ; whilst another report states, that in
order to outdo the Great Wester*. the Nr 'h

Corkonian

reward of

ship in In
he has no
does, he will doubties

t,ompany, . .ort.
Western have been induced to consent to make up the
North Staffordshire dividend to half that of the North

Westerc

The transactions going forward in foreign and colonial
produce are limited, and holders are quite unable to main-
tain prices. This remark is partico?arly applicable to

Sugar, Tea, and Coffee, with which the market has stocks
far in excess of present requirements. Advices from the
chief continental markets state that there is not much

s going on t

Jove articles.
hly statement " of the stocks, and
supply of sugar, &c., the Economist of Saturday says :
"In this country, cheapness has again evidently in-

sumption ; on

effect has not been the same

n cont
h prot

the comp

ition of cane

inding the re-

accommodate 1
is O'Connor !

Sly very

be able

and makes 1

accust

bined gal

and the Pot

also come off,

customed propri

remark abl

eononlica

chief mag

council ` won't stand r
constitutional feeding.
have to put his h.n

likes it or not:Thi
was " slow"; but tl

that the

ntlemen

ather I