The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-18 00:00:00

13i5tritt Rtlus.

A terrible fire broke out at Mrs. Hardman's foundry,
Bolton, on Thursday, when £5OOO worth of property was
destroyed.

The Manchester " specials," designated the Volunteers,
or Town-hall Guard," 600 in number, are attaining great
perfection at drill. Each company of fifty is officered by
an elective captain and two lieutenants.
A Mr. Richard Shaw, law clerk to the Burnley Improve-
ment Commissioners, has inserted an advertisement in
the Preston Guardian, which states "that thefortnight/y
cattle fair heretofore held on Mondays, will in future be
held weekly on Thursdays !"
The North Lancashire Agricultural Protective Asso-
ciation, formed during the anti-corn-law agitation, was
formally dissolved, at a meeting of its members at Pres-
ton, a few days since. The League itself is still virtually
in existence.

CHRISTENING.—On Wednesday, the infant son of Sir
T. G. Hesketh, Bart., was christened at Rufford Church.
The ceremony was attended by, among others, the Right
Hon. Lord Skelmersdale, and the Hon. Mrs. Bootle
Wilbraham, &c., &c. The day previous, the children of
the boys' and girls' schools were treated to a liberal
allowance of buns and tea, &c., in honour of the event.
The directors of the Manchester Athenaeum have de-
clined to comply with a requption from five hundred of
its members, that it should-engage Mr. George Daw-
son for a series of lectures, on the ground of having
received a contrary requisition, stating that, if persevered
in, the lecturer's engagement would lead to the break up
of the institution. It will be remembered that the Bishop,
of Oxford declin7r attending the last soiree, in conse-
quence of Mr. Dawson having lectured for the institu-
tion. . -

DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT.—A number of colliers, em-
ployed at Standish, recently turned out, and some of them
went to an engineer, named Stopforth, who had not turned
owt; and threatened him if lie continued working. On
Thursday morning, at one o'clock, he and his wife were
roused by the sound of footsteps near the house, and soon
after a terrific explosion took place in the house, which
was shaken to its foundation. It was afterwards disco-
vered that a ginger beer bottle, filled with gunpowder, had
been introduced through a window, and ignited in the
very room in which Stopforth and his wife lay. The fur-
niture, &c., in the house was broken to pieces. A reward
of £2O has been offered for the discovery of the offenders,
who are supposed to be the turnouts.
EMPLOYMENT AT MANCHESTER.—A comparison of
last weeks return with that of the previous week gives the
following results :—Of the cotton mills, three are now
working full time (with a portion of their hands) which
were previously working short time. Of the total num-
ber of hands in the cotton mills, 53 more are employed
on full time ; and 259, previously working short time, are
now thrown out of employment altogether. Of the total
works included in the table, there are two more working
full time, one of which was previously working short time,
and the other was stopped altogether. There are 81 more

hands employed
ployment alto

I time, and 184 more hands out of em.
Upon the whole, the return is of

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ASSOCIATION FOR FOUNDING THE SETTLE-
MENT OF CANTERBURY, IN NEW ZEALAND.

In our paper of last week, we stated the pleasing fact
that an association had been formed. under the auspices
of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London,
and other members of our church, lay as well as clerical,
to found a settlement or colony in New Zealand, in which
proper provision will be made for the moral and religious
welfare of the settlers—an object, almost to the culpable
neglect of the Christian community, too long neglected.
It is hoped that such a settlement will not only greatly
improve the natives and settlers, but remove the chief
obstacle that now deters the higher classes of this country
from taking part in the work of colonization, and further,
that the example to be shewn through the New Zealand
Association will eventually lead to a redeeming and inva-
luable moral and religious reform in all our other colonies.
The announcement of this commencement of the good
work has already excited much interest in the public
mind, and caused inquiry from many parties, who are
anxious to obtain details. We have ourselves received a
number of communications from different gentlemen on
the subject, and, in reply to their inquiries, may refer
them to H. M. Lefroy, Esq., at the office of the associa-
tion, 41, Charing-cross, London. 'We may add, that a
London contemporary thus approvingly refers to the in-
tended new settlement :—" The Association is composed
of some of the most eminent members of the Church of
England, lay and clerical, with the Archbishop of Can-
terbury at their head ; and their object is to contribute
towards making colonization what it ought to be—the
business and profession of persons belonging to all classes
of the parent state. It is very hopeful and satisfactory,
particularly at such a time as this, to see a subject of such
great and pressing importance taken up in this spirit by
men of weight and influence. %leads us to hope that
we may not remain subject to the disgrace which now
justly attaches to the management of our colonies, and
that they may be made, at no distant period, fully availa-
ble, not only as fields of employment for our population,
but also as the means (which they are not now) of per-
petuating the habits and institutions of Englishmen over
regions yet unpeopled, and, among nations yet unborn."
Among the pramoters of the Association, we find the
Earls of Ellesmere and Lincoln, the Bishops of London,
Winchester, Ripon, &c., Lords Lyttelton, Ashley, and
J. Manners, H. Goulburn, M.P., Ven. Archdeacon Hare,
Dr. Hook, &c., &c.
The following is the published prospectus of the So-

April 18, 1848.

THE SECRET PORTFOLIOS OF LOUIS PHILIP.

Some documents have been published in the second
number of the Revue Rlt'ospective, which were found, in
two portfolios, left by Louis-Philip at the Tuileries,
were said to he lost, but which are now deposited in the
office of the Attorney-General of the Court of Appeal of
Paris. A letter from the ex-King to his daughter the
Queen of the Belgians, is the most important. It is
dated September 14, 1846, and contains the King's Oil
account of the Spanish marriages, intended to be loll'
before the Queen of England. The letter is far too IA;
for insertion, though that is not its only objection, but as
the interest in such intrigues is much gone by, we in .4,
the opening paragraphs more to show the tone of 14+
writing, than for any information they convey :
" Neuilly, September 14, 1846.
"My dearest Louise,—The queen has just received
letter, or railer a reply, from Queen Victoria, to the one
you know she had written to her, and that reply grea
grieves me. lam inclined to believe that our good littlel
Queen was as sorry to write such a letter as I was to read
it. But she now only sees things through the spectacle
of. Lord Palmerston, and those spectacles distort and dis-
figure them too often. This is quite natural. The great
difference between the spectacles of the excellent Aber-
deen and those of Lord Palmerston proceeds from WI
difference of their dispositions. Lord Aberdeen wished'
to be well with his friends ; Lord Palmerston, I fear'
wishes to quarrel with them. This is, my dear Louise,
that which caused my alarm respecting the maintenance
of our cordial understanding, when Lord Palmerstona
resumed theori direction of the Office. Our gnned
Queen Victoria sought to dispel those alarms, and assured
me that there would only -.)e a change of men. But re,./
old experience induced me to apprehend that, through tail
influence of the disposition of Lord Palmerston, mu
more perhaps than his intentions, the political systen:
England would undergo a modification, gradual or sun
i
den, and, unfortunately, the affairs of Spain have affordeu
an opportunity.
let‘ter of Queen In the
ufieresnt
ymiocroerniat,tlhawtafsolltoewmepdtetd to hepewruristael
toof
heal:
directly, and even began a letter to appeal to her hear&
and recollections. and demanded to he judged by her
equitably, and, above all, more affectionately • but the
fear of embarrassing her stopped me, and I prefer writ;
ing to you, to whom I can say everything, to give you all
the explanations necessary to replace the things in their
true light,' and to preserve us from the odious suspicion'
which, I may say, with the utmost sincerity, should not
be visited on us."

The writer then begins the history, and goes back
the origin of the Spanish marriages. _

The following paragraph is at once curious and Orli
ning :—" I will now speak to you of the marriage °
Montpensier with the Infanta. There was not the slight"
est reference to it, either when Queen Victoria came :
7
En, in 1843, or when I was at Windsor in 1844. It 1
only in the year 1845 that Lord m ° Aberdeen spoke to G
and me with regard to it for the first time. Our I'Bl
was the same. I told Lord Aberdeen that I much wished
that Montpensier should marry the Infanta Louisa Fer,:
dinanda, but I no more desired that he should wed Que. en
Louisa than Queen Isabella, and that he might even o-
assured that my son should not espouse the Infanta until
the Queen was married. Lord Aberdeen added, an
i
when she shall have borne a child." Be it so,' I replied
I do not desire better; for if the Queen were to rotor
sterile the Infanta would become the necessary or
table heiress, and that would not suit m e an y more than Ynu'l;
but, however, there must be some reciprocity in t'.o
affair, and if I give you your securities it is just that t
return you should give me mine. Now mine are, 10
you will do all in your power that Queen Isabella all f
choose her husband from amongst the descendants 0f
Philip V., and that Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg
set aside." Be it so,' replied Lord Aberdeen. '
of the same opinion with you, that the best which can
done is that the Queen should select her husband fro;
amongst the descendants of Louis V. We cannot
the initiative on this question as we have done, bilt,l/4
will suffer you to act ; we shall merely follow you, and
all events we will not act in opposition to you. -5-6 sis
Prince Leopold, you may be tranquil with respect to Pet
pretensions. I answer for it that he shall be neithbs
acknowledged nor supported by England, and that se
shall not interfere with you.' Guizot, to whom I h°,:s
just read this recital, admits its accuracy, and I am eertls
of the same testimony on the part of Lord Aberdeen if 0
could read it to him. Nevertheless, however ansi°o
Lord Aberdeen might be that his agents should act at
honourably as he has done, their proceedings did no
answer his or our expectations. They had recourse to
expedients to malign Count Trapani, because they We 0
e
aware that he had the best chance of success with Qu's
ii o
si
Christiana and the Queen her daughter, who repeat
constantly to her ministers Quiero Trapani.' (I 1/ a
have Trapani.) This young prince was represented agsa
dwarf, which he is not, for he is of a lofty stature 8;
handsome features. He rides admirably, and he has"l 0
~
gained several prizes in the tournaments of Naples. s,
then objected to his having been born in Italy, in ortnip
obliterate the recollection that he is grandson of Pin
V. and Charles 111., and to his having been educated .0
a convent of Jesuits at Rome, in orde to represent 4,5
as bigoted superstitions, and fanatic. These isanoltha
directed by the journals of the Progressist party, .fish
unfortunately have ever enjoyed the favour of the 13r' ith
agents in Spain, succeeded in covering poor Trepan' .011
real unpopularity. It was then that by an extraoratil the
manoeuvre, which originated,, it was imagineds,L,
of
Palace of Madrid in order to cover the transl""fsbe
Queen Christiana in favour of the pretensions of
Prince of Coburg—to cast on me the unpopular! and
Trapani's pretensions, by making the journals res who
with the astonishing absurdity that I, Louis who
wished to impose Trapani on the Queen of Spain-1 _ for
had not, nor could not, have any other predilectipiAhe
him than that which resulted from my knowledge tisl`e two
was one of the descendants of Philip V. to whom bre
Queens accorded their preference—l, well known
bat roY
say for the constant care with which I watched
go
vi as in
in toehredni
internaloilie stih toahuf
rel
ad: abstainministry
noi
fs
totherry ofrfo
M. 1 countries—inni
et ersrf enl sse eva}nn finer
3i.
Belgium, as in Switzerland, as everywhere—,9 17, pre'
w 6
vent the imminent invasion by the French armies of sr g,y
It is truly surprising that in the presence of so
facts, of so many proofs of my respect for the incleSueesa
ence of all states and of all governments, I have sr
exposed to see this accusation directed against me Pees,
nally, in the article recently published in the the 7-tvtlsa
under the title (in large characters) of French Dicta
in Spaikingn.' " from the
The admits that he did make a deviation. fn`
understanding, and says, " it (the deviatlaii) cone
of
sists in my arranging and bringing about the Mar of the
the Duke of Montpensier, not before the inarriaksake of
Queen of Spain, for she will be married to the
hot be"
Cadiz at the same time as my son to the Infanta, .tioa--*
fore the Queen has a child. This is my only devia,houlit
nothing more or nothing less. This fact I desire hick
be appreciated as it merits by entering into details `,Ely
you will lay before Queen Victoria, as best Yon, ras coal'
able ; for I really consider them as essential to tu'oie cter
plete elucidation of the affair, and it is no petty e°,•k rap
ations ought to be a hindrance, after a whole life a job
own, when for the first time one is exposed to a sun'
or even an accusation, of having broken one's word..so pre',
ds t
heranc es
The document concludes as follows :—" Under t' queen
the steps they intend to take, and the line of condtlue
Victoriasentci
mean to pursue. On our side this double marriage son'
effect to us no other change, than such as we rnaY
ministersm y
weegh Louise,the
coi tn isse
gfoure
n7ctetsvol
strained to adopt by the new line which the English asoal
vernment may think fit to take up. There is 110%,,i5s °
fear any interference on our part in the internal tr sfee
Spain. We have no interest in interference; and Ale
most decidedly determined to abstain from anis io toe
shall continue to respect its independence, and
care, as far as depends upon ourselves, that it is e?,.iteresr
s
respected by the other powers. We can see n° 1'
and no motive either on the part of England or on, tl et,
for a rupture of our entente cordiale; and we ,see,:i 1./.1;
contrary, the strongest for its maintenance. Sit t 'S
desire, such is that of my government. That sc'nis
quest you to express on my behalf to Queen Victor their
Prince Albert is, that they should preserve me in :Ls been
heart that friendship and confidence to which it °l.st re;
ever so agreeable to me to respond with the since -iiefe
.d which I have the anxious convictioa
.sed to merit on their part."
reel° I of
.possible to read, without disgust, the sotto
S
the inquiries which Louis Philippe adMits he pit o
sa s
wh
to make a, to the condition of the unhappy pair' jog t'
_gether for the sole purpose of open" gailt.
crown of Spain to the more probable issue of the
pensier marriage.

ciprocity, an
to have CE
It is im

brought t

11,011'
D'AUBIGNE'S IMPRESSIONS OP LoNno----ryic v, ei
proaching the capital, (on the Dover Railway,)
dering eyes looked down' from the carriage intgierall'jecl
rable narrow streets of small houses, all of 01 broll'eo
mean appearance, blackened with coal-dust and 5 oeo.o
by a smoky atmosphere. Such is the gloorn3rotis, /5,
which leads to the delightful parks ,of the noetrol3
superb squares, magnificent bazaars, and rielitPherrYto"
What crowds in the streets. what bustle, whit woellei
These carriages, public and private almost as l'of cs",eot
as the foot-passengers; that dazzling di'l497,,At
production of British industry and of the in
lands; those forests of ships,inotionless ia their, old.
docks; the steam-boats, which, like a sveage;rnsPee;
incessantly ply up and down the Thames with rbe'
ble rapidity, taking up and setting down a eve you 0,
hfurloeelsr(hic
itcaearri,
ooyrool
u(fl
tbhraletfa tythohl
uee s
aresc pe
now in ar
thman ees .uv peor yn capitalt bt
hi
orji taspeaeayie;tbri itie;
practical is the characteristic of Great Britain; poicsl4
tain, because most of what I say of Englandt‘is slf*lfeli
to Scotland also. Rcality, action, business,:rei svilketea•
the politics, the industry, the commerce, nn"' dies' iolit
say, in the religion of the
England yet this pr:l, it$111,1)16
dency which characterises is not selfic;the
have been expected. The large scale on vvlii:l;, int4iol43
work gives a certain scope and grandeur to "roing fitV
tion. The habit which the English have of li°s °pt.'
parties, and of looking constantly at themsdll elorertioll
firm, is opposed to a narrow. selfishness ; an arge eve •
vated sentiment struggles with this vice ill 3,lilat Stql
of the people. Perhaps one of the things e,
energy, their
.quickness, their skill, their. e„.' their,. ge,
stranger the most on his arrival in London
above all, their calmness and silence durtat, thee
nobility; but the common. people : their strf_inifittisrt'f 51.5:
ceasing activity. They are all alive 10 9„.% this I be
about, and they are clever at it : you call
earriage3, the ships, and especially the r _ ‘,OO t
stiTlreaash.res
Nit
skill with which an English coachman? drLiejes!
the streets'of London, among thousands 01. v
out over jostling you, is inconcei."o.WS,