The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-02-15

rent on the reelection of NJ. Dupin as president
and not content to be deprived of that large ma
Jorlty which had supported him in his very partisan
and arbitrary presidency, he declined to reaccept
the post. His one-sided insoence was unabated hut
not so the numerical strength that supported IT,
His party, however, rallied TO the rescue and re-
elected him--a result which had effect on the
Plata debate.
But the grossest display Of inefficient arrogance
| is that ascrbed TO the president. tcommuni
cated'' note, published in new journal snid 10
| be his organ, and conceived in the authoritative
style of an autograph manifesto, declares that min
listers not shaken in their place. and will not be
| shaken while they retain the confidence of the
| president; statement which implies that they are
wholly independent of the Assembly, and hold
their places by the absolute will of four years
monarch. His majesty Louis Napoleon outdoes his
predecessor constitutional soveregns, and
ves with George the Third at least. Yet this self
| relying Proclamation is made by man who can
not fulfil his declaration that the passport system
had been abolished.
| From the London Medical Journal.
| "WHAT ARE THE MErRopoLIrAN COMMISSION EMS
| OF SEWERS DoIsei'-So asks the Times and we
i wish that could answer it. The mysterious
pcrsonages in question have already evinced so OBJ
| stinate determination to keep the public in the
| dark to their proceedings, that suspect they
1 are not doing much good. Verify, we are pa
tient people; that is, we patient in all matters
| which come under our very eyes and noses. We
have abundance of indignation ready at mo-
ments notice, if any barbarity Is committed two
| or three thousand miles Off but things at which
our barbarous brethren would blush submitted
| to without murmur. Our burial grounds are
bordered by the spacious mansions of the rich, or
the crowded dwellings of the poor, and the reeking
soil is turned up daily and nightly; while in some
OF the most densely populated neighborhoods, the
| curious may sec how the ingenuity of parochial
officers can pack the bodies of twenty or thirty
paupers in hole. We not only allow noble
| river to be contaminated by all the filth which
| our metropolitan population can generate but we
pay, for the privilege of introducing the noxious
| fluid into houses, three times as much money
as ought to buy two fold supply of pure water
| Still, we have already intmated, we are capa-
1 bic of excitement. Our farmers clamor for pro-
lection, and our little boys cry for the moon. Let
| but the King of the Cannibal Islands come upon
Change a borrower, and straightway public
meeting will be held to frghten English merchants
| from doing what they like with their own money.
| Five thousand gentle creatures in sober -coored
| garments will weep the immoraties of the
Chickabiddy Indians, and club their halfcrowns
| for the devoted orator who has made Exeter hall
ring with his eloquence, and then go home in happy
unconsciousness, that within few yards of their
pretty villas there are many houses III which from
ten to thirty persons of and both Sexes
| nightly huddled together in one small room.
If we could but collect 1.-THE of the enthusiastic
zeal and earnest feeling which is now wasted and
thrown away, and set it TO work in the right di-
| rection, should not despair of shortly finding
| out even what the Metropolitan Commissioners of
Sewers about.
Marriages In every -day Life.
At about this period of the year the newspapers
aniuse their readers with occasional lists of mar
riages in high life, and do not see why as much
interest should not attach 10 the intended pairing
off of humber couples. We have, therefore, au-
thorized our "own correspondent to poke his nose
into private fe and worthy secretary for other
people affairs has favored with the following
The marriage between Young Howard, surnamed
| the Prince of the House of Coburg-he being
sistant in Coburg House-and the fair Matilda Jones
| Familiarity known AZ the heroine of Waterloo
sotlbriqtet she has gained by long engag cement on
the commercial field of Waterloo House-will take
place before the spring, the bride and bridegroom
! must both be in town for the commencement of the
season.
The nuptials of Orlando Smokey, the attorneys
clerk, with Miss Elizabeth Readytin, will be soem-
nized soon as the bridegroom has saved up the
money for a clandestine license MIR. Smokey will
be given away by a senior clerk, and Miss Ready
tin will throw herself away with the assistance of
| the clerk and pew opener.
The long -talked-of match between Mr. Jacob
Slowcoach Of the Long Room in the custom house,
and Miss Martha Mayday, of the Soho Bazaar, is
still upon the apts, the difficulty being to find the
necessary sum for fapsserie, for the newly welded
couple, should they mslead one another to the al
| tar Mr.. Slowcoach was understood 10 have stated
that he had furnished floor; but il seems he had
only furnished an excuse for not having done
earlier.
The wedding of the gallant, dashing Captain
Cutaway, with Madame Merveille, the fascinating
milliner-not millionaire, once stated by
mistake-will take place the habeas can
be obtained for the removal of the gallant BRIDE
groom elect from the queens prison, where he is
at present confined with severe indisposition TO
pay his creditors.
The above AR "A few specimens of the sort of do
mestic news furnished by some of our contempora-
ries, but we have taken intelligence from a
somewhat lower range OF society, whose every day
life TO TO possess quite much interest as
that of what are termed the upper circles. Punch
NAUTICAL SwEARIso-Itw was stated in the morn
| inn at xsneE In he Hail
"sir t. B. Martin took the oaths Admiral OF
the fleet
Taking oaths as an Admiral Of the fleet, il may
be thought, is much the same thing with swearing
like trooper; a practice which VIC hoped had
ceased in the British Navy. We trust that the gal
liant Admiral uttered no stronger expression
than the wish that his tmbcrs might be shivered;
imprecation, however, Of which we should
lament the fulflmcnt.- Punch
HotLASp.-Thc royal navy of the kingdom OF
the Netherlands on the lst Of January, 1880 was
composed OF two ships Of the line of 81 guns five of
"a; one fngate Of 90 guns, Of IS, two Of 81
and three of 2S four sloops of 20 guns and seven OF
22 three briggs of IL guns three Of I2 and one of 6;
and two raced frigates. Thirtyone vessels are at
the present moment in Dutch India, and nine in
the West Indies. The mercantile marine counts
492 vessels, with s29 galots, schooners, &c. Fifty
ships are in the course Of construction. In lS45,
,92i ses-going vessels entered the port Of Am
sterdam.
| WHERE ARE Our SEAMEN GoSEf-Wc understand
that the lndefatigabc, so, commanded by a smart
and popular captain (Smart,) lying in Barnpool.
Devonport, Is still number Of hands short Is IL
not disgrace TO the country that such noble fri.
gate as this should require months 20 collect crew
from all parts and Of all sorfsl But what is worse
we have TO believe that she taken out Of
Hamoaze some three weeks since 20 prevent a repe-
| ution of some 40 hands-and those probably not of
thc most worthless crption--iaking French
/ leave in one day. Very few Of these have been
caught-they have fled to America, TO which coun-
try all our best scamen dcsorting
/ Ndtltical Standard.