The New York Herald Newspaper, December 18, 1852, Page 2

Ot ae . | ewe ——_ ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA. . "YHREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE, eer THE IMPERIAL PROGRESS IN FRANCE, The Second of December. SPEECH OF NAPOLEON THE THIRD. The Progress of English Annexa- tion in India. Whe Fears in Hurope of the United States. QUIETNESS IN THE MARKETS, Ben, Be, Ser ‘She Cunard steamzhip Africa, Captain Harrison, arrived at her wharf at three e’clock yesterday af- fterneen. She left Liverpool on Saturday noon, the tth instant. ‘The news is three days later, and quite interesting. ‘The Empire in France is wn fait accompli—the 2d of December. The speech of the Emperor, in ano- ‘ther column, is worth reading; also the English view of the same. Amongst the first acts of the new Emperor, were the appointments of Generals de St. Arnaud, Mag- man, and de Castellane to the dignity of Marshals of France; a tree pardon to all persons found guilty of offences of the press, to all members of the National Guard convicted by the Councils of Discipline, and 0 290 political convicts. The Paris Presse, in its weekly commercial bul- letin, seys: ‘There has been this week less activity im the manufac- tories of Paris, most of the orders for the new yoar, as re- garde the capital. having been completed ; but there bas deen no great falling off in the business for the depart- ments, and new and important orders have been reocived from abroad. The maxufacturers of articies of luxury and favey. eslled articles de Paris, and especially of jew- elry and bronzes, have sent large quantities to foreign | soantries, principally to the Brazils, Mexico, and the tla- India colonies. nue to execute orders of America, Every for England and the United Stat packet from New York brings fresh ordess for rich silks ‘and velvets, and aleo for the manufactures of Mulhouse, A public sale of 458 lots of fine Russian, Australian, and yh wools took place at Rouen on the 17th.” The Bidcings were very slack, owing principally t® the sys’em ®f public sales being little practiced in France. Only fifty-seven lots were sold. but the greater part of the Rus- tian wool was disposed of afterwards. by private coatract, at nerioe. exceeding the reserve atthe auction, Wires | are c eaper at Berey. the quality of the new vintage be- ing very bad, and the general opinion being that if in the early spring the vines should promise tolerably well for next year, present prices cannot be maintained. The Belgian Senate has unanimously adopted the Project of law for the conversion of the five per cent bonds into four and « half per esnts. ‘The Duteh funds are also to be reduced.” There have been more religious persecutions in Tuscany. Advices have been received from Mauritius to the 1th of October. A parcel of 200 casks American flour, first quality, had realized ¢9 50. The general | stock was diminishing, and the imports wore ex- tremely limited. The Liverpool cotton market was quiet, but | steady. Breadstuffs hed improved. The Indiaz commerercial intelligence is favorable. | Letters from Tunis of the 17th ult,, says a Vienna | |, prove that a report of the death of the Bey | of Tunis, given in the Italian papers, was un- founded. England. HE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER’S FINANCIAL STATEMENT ‘The financial statement b- Exchequer is the event of the week. Hia budget ‘was laid before the House of Commons late on F'ri- day night, and a full report had not come to hand at | when the steamer sailed. It is worth men- tioning, that on Wednesday afternoon very strong rumors were prevalent in the London Stock Ex- | ehange of a break-up ir_tho ministry, and it was positively asserted that Dimreli was out. In other ters the impressior 2 vailed that Lord Pal- merston, Sir James Grahem, and Mr. Gladstone, were about to join the government; and the reason assigned for the Chancellor’s secession was, that his budget had too great a leaning to free ts . After gome hours the rumor subsi‘ed, having depressed ‘the funds. but caused no actual decline. ‘The following is the summary of the Budget :— Bhipping to be relieved, ana only to pay for lights which benefit it. This relief will cost the country £160,030 ae Belect committee on pilotage and ballast- navy salvage abolished. Phare rym measures regarding manning the navy, and it serviee. Stamps used for shipping to be considered. No change in sugar duties. Colonies may refine rugar im bond Duties on rum and molasses used in breweries to be considered Measure of highway rates to bs introduced. No change in county rates or local taxes Malt duties reduced one haif from i0th of October next. Drawback upon malt spirits in Scotlandto be done eway with. ‘Tea duties reduced, First year reducticn of 4344, and five following years 24. per year until the duty reached ‘The hep dnty reduced ore-baif. Exemption on industrial incomes, to commence on £100 per sear. ‘On property, income exemption to commence at £50 per annum. Schedule A and B at 74.. Dand E would be 54d. In sobedule B profits wonld be estimated not at one-baif, but et one thiid of the rent. Property and inceme tax to extend to Ireland. Increase in estimate for army aud navy. £600 000. Burplus on the year would be about £1,400,060. The subject of adminis‘rative reform to be introduced. ‘The house tax to be extended and increas: In the House of Lords on the 2d inst. the Mar- of Claricarde brought forward a notice of mo- confirmatory of the PA ‘inciple of free trade, and similar to that recently debated in the Lower Hou Lord Derby, in reply, stated that be had no sbje: fions to have this matter, involving as it did the fa- ture policy of the country, settled by a resolution of the House. He, therefore, oe epg some verbal amendments merely, and handed to Lord Cianri- earde the following resolution, which that peor substituted for his own, and gave notice he would move on Monday, 6ih inst , namely:— ‘That this House thankfully acknewledgos the general prosperity, and, deeply sensible of the evils attendant wapon frequent changes in the financial policy of the coua , adheres to the commercial system recently estab- and would view with regret any attempt to dis- barb ite operations or impede its intentions. Itis expected the House will adopt the resolution without debate. 3 It is proposed to increase the land service of the artillery by 2,000 men, 1,000 horte, and 200 guas. An augwentation of 1,500 is spoken of for the ms. | zines. It ted that government will find diffioulty im enlisting the additional 5,000 men for the navy during the present demand for merchant seamen. Much alarm is at present caused among sailors the efforts of the shipowners to get rid of the “manning clause” of the Navigation act, which eompels them to employ three-fourths of their crews of British subjects. In @ memorial te the govern- mont, the seamen of the eastern ports of Hogland The anrestricted employment of foreign seamen will reduce by s competition the lowest in the world the condition of British seamen and their families, and strike « fatal blow at their very ox- istence; that thus they will be driven to seek employ- ment in another State, ‘king the same language god possessing similar laws, where seamen’s inter- ests and seamen’s ,rights are carefully attended to, and where thousands of British soamen have alresdy found protection, wer en Majesty’s empire and giving sddivional 5 ch toan already maritime competitor.” That this is no idle threat is evi- denced by the numbers of resmen who come out as parsengors from Liverpool to United States ports. [The new screw steamer Andes, the fret of the inard Oompany’s steamships between Liverpool and Chogres, via United States ports, was to ext! | from Liverpool on Wednesday, December 8, for Now York, and is expected to anticipate the mail usually received vin Southampton. We understand that the Andos wil! mike one or two trips bot ween Liverpool and New York be ore ceo, her ‘voy: to Ohagres. The Andes will be followed by the Alps, on the 5th of January. The secoud report of the Commissioners of the World’s Fair of 1851 has just been itsued, from which it appears that the Comwissioners have pur. chased the Gore house estate at Kensington, facing Hyde Park, twenty one and « half acres, for £00000, and forty-eight acres adjoining, for £153,500, on the xnderstanding that government will contribute a like sum towards erectiog thereon some institution of a national ct national gallery and a museum o! er contemplated Ata meeting of the Pastern Stram ?} Oompany held wt jloudvu oo ihe Lov ined, sb Was The | the Chancellor ot the | avigation | agineer, that he with his partner, Mr. Hen- @ conti for the pe ofa eanal through the Isthmus of Darien, <3, Mr. as Gisborne, OC E. The canal is to be # ent feet deep at low tide, one bundred and noe oe ieat at bottom, and ono hundred feet at low water service; the locks will be four hundred feet from metre to feet wide between the gate quoins, and each Jock will have a lift of thirty feet to over- weight the iron gates. Such @ cut as that was oon sidered equal to the trade of the world, as well as for permanent safety and rapidity of transit. The annual mactinnck the ‘* Association for Pro- moting the Repeal of Taxes on Knowledge” was held at Exeter Hall Ist, instant—Douglas Gerrold in the cbair. The only noticable feature of the meetiog ‘wasa comparison, by Mr. Cobden, of the free press of America with the taxed press of Britain, and an allusion to Mr. Greeley’s evidence, last year, before | the House of Commons committee. Mr ie! was present at the 187th anniversa- ry festival of St. Andrew's Scottish Hospital. cele brated at the London Tavern, and returned thanks for the toast to the health of the President of the United States. We have been unable to youre & report of his speech. The Morning Chronicle, however, says:—‘* Mr. Ingersoll observed that he hoped the people of England and America would, (ag the noble chairman aptly remarked,) live in perpetual amity, and that between the great western country and this, England, a single cloud might never be seen. (Cheers) The object of the present meeting was, to promote the cause of be- nevolence, and he was glad to bear testimony, that Ro country, in this rerpect, did so much as England, atthe same time that no people stood so little in need of the help of charity.” rd Panmure pro- posed the health of Hon. Abbott Lawrence, for which Mr. Davis roturned thanks. The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce have issued a report in favor of a decimal currency. Lieut. Gen. Wemyss, a distinguished officer of the Peninsular war, died 30th ult., at the age of 63. A notice, published by the minister of the Argen- tine republic, announced that after date six months, from 13th August last, no vessel will be allewed to enter the ports of the republic without a clearance bon the Argentine Consul at the port of her de jure. A Birmingham house has received an order to coin eeven hundred tons of copper into coi of the new French empire. Four thousand tons are re- quired in all, and the work will take four years to complete. The Limerick Chroni-le states that the number of | emigrants embarked at Limerick this year for the | United States and Canada, was 8,037. In 1851, the | nomber was 11,309, showing a dimunision in the | number this year of 3,272 souls Alderman Kinahan is elected Lord Mayor of Dublin. The Earl of Eglintoun was, on the 20th ult , ia- avgurated as rector (chancelior) of Glasgow Uni- | versity, The bistorians, Prorcott and Macaul elected honorary members of the dewy, which now numbers among its members all | | the most distinguished men of letters in Europe. | Inthe London Zimes of Dec. 2d, is published the | terms of the competition for the prize of £1,000 offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of Hog- Jand, for the best substitute for Peruvian guano. | The offer of this prize, it mey be remembered, grew | outofthe threatened difficulty on the Lobos Islands | question. | _ It was mentioned, at the monthly meeting (of the | Liverpool Free Library and Museum Trustees, this week, that application bas been made, on behalfof the Exhibition at New York, forthe loan of the Model of Liverpool; but the request was, for the present, at least, refused. : Lord Franklin, 8 young nobleman, has been sen- tenced to twelve months imprisonment, in the Honte of Correction, for & libel on Lord Henry | Lennox. metre, ninet; France. PROCLAMATION OF THE EMPIRE. On Wednesday, Ist, the Corps Legislatif met to gam up the votes for the Empire. Ine Assembly adjourned at seven o'clock, when the following was eae as the result of the plebisci ¢ B Majority for Louis Napoleon, Emperor. .7,547 | Immediately sfterwards the whole Corps Legista- tif went toSt. Cloud, en costume, to announce the result. Next day, Thursday, at one o’clock, P. M., Na poleon made his public ane as Emperor, iato Paris. C1 A brief telegraphic despatch in the Rondon papers | fays bis entry took place amid the acclamations of | thepeople, the National Guard, and the army. The formal proclamation of the Empire was made at the Hotel de Ville at 10 A. M. The following is ths spsech of M Billautt, the | President of the Legistate/ Corps, on presenting the number of yotes:— Sinr—We lsy before your Majesty the solemn expres of the wational will. Inthe midst of the ovations which | were decreed to you by the popular enthu-iasm, you | to you on all rides. but desired that France should hare time for reflection; you wished that the supreme deci- tion, by which a people, master of itself, disposes solemnly of its destiny, should only be tagen cooliy, and in coni- plete liberty. Your wich, Sire, is accomplished; a free ballot, secret, | and open to all, has been honestiy examined. under the | eyes cf all. rumming up 8660 000 of votes. It gives to the legitimacy of jour government the widest basis on | which any government in the world has ever been estab- | lished. From the day when 6,000,006 votes, collected for you by the government itself. which they called you to | replace, depo-ited in your hands the fate of the country, | Frarce, at each new ballot, has marked. by additionsl millions of votes, the continued increase of her confidence in you. Withcut a+ within her municipatities—in her | | faés as im her voues—everywhere her feelings bave | burst forth, from ome end of the country to the | other, flocking om your steps, hastening from all parts to salute the man of their hopes and of their faith. our people have sufficiently made known to the world that you are their emperor—the emperor chosen | by the people aud that ycu carry with you thet national spirit which om the dsy marked oat by Providence, | crowns new dypastien, and reats themin the place of | thore which it no longer animates. | Tading shelter uncer an imme nee recollection of glory— under what it holds most precious—its honor sbroad, its scourity at home, and those immorial priueiples of 1789, | the firm bosis of new French eostety, so powertally orge- nized by the emperor, your unclo—our natien again raises up. With prond love, that dypasty of the Bonaparte s which sprong from and wkich was not overchrown by | French boxds. while preserving a proud rem+m- brance of the great events of war, it bopes to find from | you the great Using: of prace. Haviogalready ecen you | at work, it expects from you a resolute. prompt, aud pros. perout government. In’ order to aid you ia ic. it sur. rounds you with all ite sympathies—it delivers iteelf whelly up to you Take, then, Sice—take from the hands of France ths’ glorious crown whieh she offers you; never bes 8 royal brow worn one more legitimate or more popu- eech the Emperor replied :— n—Lhe new reign which you this day in avgurate, derives not ite origin—as so many o.bers re- coréed in bistory bave dons—from violescs from con- | quest, or from fraud. Itis. you bave just declared it, as the legal result of the will of @ whole people. who cousolidate Im calm that which they had founded in the midst of agi- tations I sm penetrated with gratitude towards the nation which three times in four years, bas sustained me by tts svffreges and each time has only augmented ics majority to increase my power. But the more that power increases in extent and in vital force, the more does it need en. lightened men such as those who every day surround me—indeperdent men, such as those whom I address— | to guide me by their counsel, to bring back my authority | within just limits. it {t could ever quit them. I tab’, trem this day. with the crown, the mame of Na- | poleon IIL , because the logic of the prope has bestowed | Teupon me in their acclamstions; beosuse the Semute ha: lega'ly proposed it; and because the whole nation | has raufied ic Is it then, to be inferred that in secepting this title I | fall into the crror imputed to the Prince. who, returning | from exile, dectaved wull and void all that had been done in bis absence? Far from me be eush a wilt mi-take. Not cnly doT reoognie the governments which ba: ceded me. but I inherit in some mauner all toa‘ thsy have accompliched of good and ev; for governments | | which succeed one to another are, notwithstending dif ferent origin. Hable for their predecessors. Bus the more | completely that I nceept all that for fifty yenra history tranimits to ue with her tpflezible authority. the less it | Ss permitted tome to pass in sileace over the glorieus | reign of the beed of my family. and the regular, though | ephemeral. title of his son. whom the two Chambers | proclaimed in (elast burst of vanquished patriotism, Thus, then. the title of Napoleon IT, is wot one of | thore dynntticand rupersnuated pretensions which svom | tobe eninsult to good tepse and to truth It fa the | hemege of a government which was legitimate, emi to | which we owe the brightest peges of our motern history. | | My reign Coes not date from 1816—it dates rom this very when you have announced to 1 the suffcages tion. Receive, then, my thanks, Mesyicurs les Deputés, for at that you have given to the manifestation of the al will by renderizg it more evident by your super more imiposisg by your declaration. 1 thank you, aleo. Lfeesieurs les Senatews, for heving | been the firet to addrers congratolations to me. as you | were the firet to give expreseion to the popular wich.g Aid ane, ell of you, to ret firm in this land. upset by | | so meny revolutions, » stable goverpment, which ehall have for ite buses religion. probity. amd love for the suffer- | ing clases ceive here my onth, the’ no eacrifice ehall be want D my part to ineure the prorperity of my oonntry ; thet, Whil't I matntein pene f wil yleid in nothing which may touch the honor or the dignity of Prance. The city wae illuminated in the evening, but the greot fites put eff till the coronation. | The Emperor would be proclaimed in all the do- | | partments on Bu b inst. Generals Bt v0ud, ted Marsbals of F nan, and Castellaae, | sien Ambanador, just | Bt Peterebarg, bas brought an aur | greph letter from the Cuar to Ni Ie is now | | * | his cabinet. thowed no anxiety te arsame a crowa which was offered | | prerent Fraace renew her wars. ‘ o formation of te Goi be a. oe, eompany, hich pted to be: 4 Te Fould's new bank de credit fonci eo ment in favor of the Paris. a pea me ag tea the jeweller in and is nearly ready. the Place Vendome, whose stall at the London hibition Jast year contained the Queen of Spain’s jewels, is the artist. He is also preparing a easket of jewels for the Empress. Hiegaltn We het Menivenie eee lee 6 (on! were ad re ‘of the Bordeanx eold to M. Emile Pereire, ehairman and Cette railway. There were three competitors— Baron James de Rothschild, Baron do eres, tho banker, and M. Pereire. It fs understood that the estate of Chantilly has been sold at a private sale, to M Mallet, banker, Paris, on behalf of Coutts Co., of London, who are ramored to have made an arrangement with the Duo d’Aumsle, that he may reclaim the estate within ten years, on paying the yurchase price. Louis Mopeleen is eaid to have been eae ‘sappointed at this transaction, having in- tended bimeelf to become the purchaser. The French government has received the follow- Ing despatch from General Yusuff, who had been sent by General Coe Esa der here of Ai- ria, to su} an insurrection ot Lagheuate, trcited by Cheriff Ben Abdallah :-- \ After a forced march of twenty-four hours with my movesble column, T fell on the Cheriff’s men, encam| at El Keig. We killed two hundred and of two thousand camels and twenty . It was a magnificent coup. Our losses are ®. Belgium. REDUCTION OF THE BELGIAN FUNDS. The Belgian Chambers, in their sitting of the 29th November, discussed and voted the act rela- the reduction of the five per cent debts of 1840, 1842, and 1848, into four and-a-half per cents; aixt; Ce members voted for the reduction, and two at it. Ton the 30th ult., the Chamber of Representatives commenced the discussion of the budget of foreign affa’ It*appears that the sum of 220,500 francs has been economised im the diplomatio service sineo 1849. by the suppression of the Belgian Legatiens at Hamburg, S:ockholm, Athens, and T: » and yy reducing the salaries of the envoys in Turl zil, and the United States. The sum appor- ed for the thirteen Belgian embassi 000 fri with 52,600 francs for the con: The commit:ee’s report seys that, owing to the cent treaty between England and Belgium, the latter with India will be much bettered. Prussia, taken Jn connection with the proclamation of the empire in Fiance, have saused much agita- tion at Brussels. Ja the Senate, on the same day, M Brouchere gave his promised explanation, respeeting the policy of The ministry, he stated, was decidedly liberal, but would act with conotliation towards all parties, be Holl; le NOTICE TO REDUCE THE DUTCH FUNDS. On the Ist, the Minister of Finanee announced that he would immediately bring ferward @ prepo- sition for the conversion of the four per cents. Spat A royal decree was published Nov. 25, regulating the position and privileges of foreigners in Spain. The deerce isa mere modification of the old law. Unnaturalized foreigners are divided into two classes—** domiciled,” if thoy have resided three years, ‘ transitive,” if otherwise. The passports and other regulations are as strict as ever. No for- cigner shall be permitted to profess any other reli- | gion than the “Catholic Apostolic Roman,” and no scranger can naturalize in Spain, or Spaniard abroad, witbout the express consent of the govern- ment under which he was born. Italy, A German paper states that Signor and Madame Madiai will be liberated December 1, owing to the express interference of the king of Prussia. The London Morning Advertiser states that another | ease, similar to the Madiai,jhas occurred, the victim being a clerk in 9 banking house at Ilorence, whose sole crime is aid to be his Protestantism. His name is not stated. Prussia. _ OPENING OF THE CHAMBERS. The sersion of the Prussian Chambers was opened cn the 29th November, with an address frem the Minister President, of which the following are the essential points:— ‘The aiministration of the finances has been and will be ecnducted with economy, The September proposition reepectiag the customs question’ bas not, up to the present time, received a usa- nimous adhesion, but government feels assured of the grveral support of the country in the political negotia- tions it has pursued. Propositions to define the prerogatives of the various bodies of Btate will be introauced. No interference with ry will be meinteined independent of party. Three Days Later from Australia, Advices have been received from Adelaide, South Avetralia, to the 3d of September. They confirm the discovery of gold within the colony, but up to the above date the yield had been trifling. Many parties were, however, out Met! rigs ” and con- fident hopes were entertained that ultimately as rich gold fields as those of the neighboring colonies would be discovered. The government oscort to Mount Alexander continued to bring in large quan- tities of gold, and the deporits at the assay- office up to the 20th Avgust, amounted, at the rate of 71s. per oz , to the eum of £974,487 58. In consequence of great inconvenience det experienced from the want cf a sufficiency of gold coinage, it had been proposed to issue a number of gold tokens, of a greater fineners than the legal currency, for repre bre a value of £1 up to £5. A private escort was about to be established, to run once 8 week between the city and Mount Ajex- | ander, which was estimated to pennee ample re- turn, even at much lower rates than those charged by the government. Gold was selling at 69s. Gd. to 70s, forcssh. Burra Burra mining shares were quoted at £182, including the dividend. A new vein of ore had been cut at these mines, and somo moegnificent specimens of the metal were extracted. The rates of interest on money were 10 per cont for loans on freebold property, and 15 to 20 per cent for Giscounts, and on leeschold and other security. Wheat was relling at 7s. to 7s. 3d; flour, £22 10s. per ton; English barley, 4s. 9d to 5s. per bushel; bread, Gd. the 21b loef; and flour 34d. per ib Lotters and papers were received from Port Ade- laide to the 36th August, which confirm tho accounts | of the discovery of gold in that colony. India. |THE CAPTURE OF PROME. Tho Indian mail, of which a telegraphic despatch preparations making by England and | legal freedom will be permitted, but no weakening of the | yal power can be conceded. Uemerally the government | | | | Phe War in Barmah, ‘TEE PROGRESS OF ENGLISH ANNEXATION IN THE the Lomdon Chroniele, Deo. 2} “The a... says a Bo contem- lad Tee ub coke ‘quiatposmaion’ of Shaterer mB is rtion of these territories we desire to a ied.” we cannot, for own part, a ving xpressed a fear as to the ult ae issue ot the present contest, we eonfess have, hae tearched the summ r in whieh is jopeful announcement 3] to ver on which it rests. Far fom observing for inferring that the war is over, the 3 of the campaign, and the measures which are said to be in contemplation, appear to us almost to auggest a euspicion the speedy termination of hostili- ti y the humiliation of the Court of Ava, is not even desired by the Indian government. The troops and the fleet are kept in cheek; the capital, though within easy reach, is left unassailed; and an armament large enough for the conquest of Bur- wah permits @ eontemptible Somer remain un- eubdued, and—euch, at least, is the?ramor—halts definitively at Prome, te protect Pegu. These tac- tics per poesibly be only the It of excessive cxution in an general; but if they are more than this, what do they indicate? Is it apprehend- ed that the capture of Ava and the dispersion of the hostile forces would too effectually quell our unruly neighbors? Are we to infer that, while » province is ed sufficient compensation for our present grievance, fresh affronts, meriting and justifying the conquest of the Burmere em would not be unwelcome? If so, there is indeed reason for hold- ing back our strength—fer declaring our honor vin- dicated, almost withoqts victory, by the absorption of —for with an en iming peace Faroe bat not subdued—and for bi- ding our time (no very long ene) until the Golden- Footed monarch shall, once for all, court his fate. Such an armistice may certainly be at hand, but it will not be ‘the end of the war.” Looking at the actual occurrences announced by the present mail, the two facts which they most forcibly illustrate aro, first, the impatience of Gon- eral Godwin’s forces at the <arrow limits within which they are ordered to act, and secondly; the unabated arrogance of the enemy. Prome has fallen, indeed, as was anticipated, with scarecly a struggle, before the General’s overwhelming pre- tions; but the effect which this success has reduced upon the enemy seems to have beenslight. Bix thowsand Burmese are said to have stockaded themselves et afew miles distance from the town, and, though the British garrison was anxious to bo led against them, General Godwin head determined to wait for reinforcements. We further learn that the admiral who accompanied the expedition, and whose melancholy death by cholera is announced by the present advices, was for pushing on to the capital im iately, and that he offered to trans- pest six thousand men thither in a fortnight. Our ndian Fabius, however, rejected the proporal, and the Burmese are, consequently, as unconscious as ever of having been beaten. ‘The King of Ava,” says the Calcutta Englishman, <‘is represented as-taking matters very quietly. He will allow us to remain in his country till after the rains, whon he will take a run down from his capital, and kick us out!” Tho ene- my, in fact, were, insome places, actually recover- ing lost ome Pegu was fast filling with their troops. Within sight of Rangoon, stragglers from the town had been taken prisoners, and tho sappliss were constantly intercepted, while the brigadior in command was prohibited from reprisals. It is eon- eolatory, however, to reflect that, whatever advan- tages the Burmese may derive from the present state of things, it need not be continued one moment longer than the Governor General deems politic; for there can be no question that, compared with any powers of resistance possessed by the enemy, the British armament assembled in Burmah is over- whelming. Moreover, owing to the admirable sani- tary arrangements which have gbeen ‘adopted, the health of the troops continues excellent ; and Lord Dalhousie’s anticipated visit to Rangoon cannot fail to be of service. It seems to be expected by the Indian press that the Governor General’s arrival at the seat of war will be immediately followed by his proclaiming the annexation of Pegu, in satisfaction of the British government. No authority has, however, been assigned for these vaticinations. We have already suggested a few of the more obvious reasons for doubting whether the Court of Ava—even sup- posing that it would at the outset accept these | terme—has been sufficiently humbled for us to rel | | on the maintenance of a peace purchased at suc a price But Ps general presumptions on this head which are t6 be gathered from the history of the campaign, and from the temerity of the enemy, are infinitely strengthened when the particular cheracter of the country proposed to be annexed is taken into consideration. The territorial cossions which we enforced at tke end of the last war wero not extorted until tho near advance of our troops to the capital had thoroughly intimidated the nation; and they were limited to lands for tho most part contiguous to our own, and severed by high moun- tain barriors from Burmah proper. When we had fairly effected an entry, and had driven tho former occupants through the yasees to the astern side of the range, there was an end of all further communi- cation; and, in truth the value of our share in the epoil was not so great but that its lors might, even under less favorable circumstences, have been sus- tained with equanimity by the Burmese. But the case of Pegu is widely different. In acquiring Ran- goon, we should possers ourselves of the chief pot of Burmab; our command of the mouths of the Ira- waddy would place in our power the whole com- merce and navigation of the country; and along the banks of the river are situated the most fertile and ductive districts in the kingdom. Instead of ing separated by natural barriors from the people whom we should thus have stripped of their most precious possersions, we should be in close contact with them, and, on the waters of the Irawaddy, in constant communication It is absurd to believe that the Burmeso have been so far humbled by any | reverses yet inflicted upon them, that we might | was reeeived per Arctic. has come to hand, with de- | tails of the capture of Prome, in Burmah, by the British. It was mentioned, by the previous mail, that the British forces had advanced up the river, on the 21st and 22d September They ascended without interraptiom till the morning of the 9th Octobor, | when they reached Prome. The defences of the Burmere consisted of a long stockade on the edge of the hills on the right side, a breastwork of masonry onthe point, and guns planted on every position of advactage on both sides of the river. So soon as the squadron came within range, they were fired on from all the points by the evemy. This was roturn- od by the steamers Phlogethon and Mahanuddy, and by the rest of the equadron as they come within range. In two hours the fire of the cnemy wascom- | pletely silenced. As a sharp discharge of murke*s | was still kept up from behind the poserews pagedss which lay on the bank of tho rivor, aud the irreguler portions of the ground where markemen could be concealed, the steamers caro to anchor, end commenced, abou: noon, throwing ehella, which speedily cloared the neighborhood As the bea’ of the day diminished, preparations were made forlanding. At five P.M. one wing of the 20th regiment landed. They ex- | tiers 4 scarcely any opposition. shore, ey threw out skirmishers, and puche repidly up the kill, dislodging the enemy as they | advanced Tho Golden Pagoda, im front of thom, | A short cheek | efended by five hundred men here ensued; the enemy, after receiving two or three heavy volleys, broke and fled in al! direstions. 80 late an hour, it was not deemed expedient to attack the town. troops, in all amounting to about three thousand men, of whom five hundred were seamen, wero | Jande: Next morning they marched, withont op- porition, into Prome, which had been abandonsd by | Che total Jose of the British was but | | five or six, notwithstanding eo much firing. the Burmese. sxid that there are about six thourand Burmese, de- fended by strong stockades, wbout six miles from | Premo, end though the opinion was that they might | | have been dislocged without the slightest troubie, | by the prevent force, General Godwin hesitated to | | proceed farther without relpforsomenta. Weanwhile, wero honsed within ths town. Nothing was known of the future plans of the oampaign; but the troops rewaired in good hexlth and spirits The war wus considered to be nearly over. We have scarcely any news from avy other part of Inia. The heats of October have boon unoom- monly intense snd continued to an wouenally lato | period of tbe reason, the cold weatber only com- meneing as November approached. Phero has beon gre sickness amongat the troops in the upper pro- vincesot Bengal aod throughout the Panjanb and Lower Seinde. Io¢ia seems universally tranqail ob The seveon, though a most singular one, has forred out co the whole favoray: eulruriste. | The Dependence = En: | | On touching | At) 'P In the course of the night, tho | ft is | The troops, | rely on their respecting a peace concluded on these terms. To impose such a peace is simply to inau- gurate another war, and to prepare the way for the annexation of Barmah. Mr. Webster's weath in Rome, Upon the reception at Rome of the news of the | deaih of the Hon. Daniel Webster, a meoting of the | American residents and visiters was called at the rooms of the Amorican Club. The Hon. Lewis Cass, Jr., Charge d’ Affaires of the United Statos, briefly addressed the meeting, and, on his motion, the Hon. ex Governor Johnson, of Louisiana, was called to thechair. Judge Smith was chosen Vieo President, and Mr. Mezier Secretary. The Vice President made an sppropriate speech, after which a committee. consisting of the Hon. L Cass, Jr; W. W. Story, ta) of Massachusetts; and T. J. Smith, Eeq , of New York, was named to prepare resolu- tions. The following were reported and read by Mr. Story, and adopred unanimously:— Rerolved, That we deeply sympathise with cur fellow- citizens in the United States, in the great loss sustained by our country im the decease of Daniel Webster. Resolved, That by hia death we have been deprived of an able statesman, ® profound jurist, an accomplished feholar, a zealous definder of the constitution, and a patriot eminent for eycticn to his country, and for his services in her behalf. Recolved, That we tincerely condole with the family ard relations of the deceared, in their severe bereave- Pet and that a copy of these resolutions be transmitted em, After the passing of tho resolutions, Governor Jobreon addressed the meeting, and spoke of Mr. Webster's death, as being not only a loss to our own country, but a loss to the whole civilized world. nd on the United tate: [From the London Gazette, Dec. 3 } We have, on several occasions, endeavored to draw attention both to the danger and the inconvenience of having to rely almost. exclusively upon the United Btates of America for the supply of that staple upon which the industry and the means of support of a very considerable number of the porate have to depend. It isa very dangerous reliance; for although the commercial interests, and, indeed, tho general Lapel ea of both En; Tand and America, are inti- mately blended, and ought to deter both eountries from risking an interruption of their amicable rela- tions, nevertheless, it somehow happens that, from time to time, rerious misunderr' ings do arise be- tween them, which oocasionally threaten the worst sults, and are, at all events, caloulated to excite spprebensions. The Amerieans are » very peouliar people to deal with: from entertaining, peraaps, too high ® notion of their own power aud consequence as # great Btate, they are apt to be easily offended, and very Sapeeicns and intractable in their negotia- tions. ith such @ people, therefore, it is some- whet difficult to maintoin thore terms of amity which can_ inspire confidence, or to meet their do- mands und expectations, without yielding points which the national honor and the Totoreate of the country wonld forbid Hence we say it is extrewe- Jy dangerous to bein any way dependent upon a pecple with whom cur relations are so precarious, and who may, some day, bo incliaed to avait thor- telves of any edvantege they may porsers over us. Rat, even if there wers no denger of the amicable relations between the two countries boing inter- rupted, we esy it is very inconvenient that Kogland | thonld’ bave to depend'to much upm America for for tho agri erg. gid ja | wil be the ease eo long as Kogland is eon! the raw cotton she requires for her manu‘actaros One effect of it is to oceation a groat deal of ne tion in the artie'e, which frequently proves inja rions te the manufacturere. Every sexton tho inost unfounded reports are reieed of tho state and prox peete of the cotton erop~of short retarns, from blights and other carees— which aro the pure inven- tions of speculators, to raise the price in foreign moskots, so that, in fact, the cotton trade too often boeomes the mediom of a not very: creditable gam- ling, which is bighly prejadioial to thore who are be maoulavcture of the article This aed to bulk of the raw material that the mill owa- the evil. aie ‘month, we findéome appropriate remarks upon is subject: ce a of the last few years, says the writer, has sufficiently demonstrated, 80 lovg as we are de- pendent for our cotton supplies upon the Tarr of the ‘United States, we must be sul d to such disastrous interruptions of our industry as it should be the chief object of wise Cenigriepeee 4 to guard ageinst. It has neen shown, first, that the ity aud quantity of the cotton crops are influenced by a variety of ciroum- stances pregnant with the elements of discouregement, but over none of which cam the British purchaser exer- cise control; second, that besides the chances of the sea- sons, the amount sown and produced fluctuates according to varlous conflicting incidents into which individual ca- Joe and self-interest enter primarily; and thirdly, it ‘been made evident that the productive capscities of the American cotton distriets are by no means de- veloped in a ratio proportioned to increasing de- mands of the English, the American, and the European continental consumers. In short, the opinion of eminent ractical men—amonget whom Mr. M. P., has Been ene of the most careful and active—is, that unless some new sources of cotton supply are cultivated, there must occur, before many years, an absolute and perms- nent deficit in the amount procurable from America. Buch « deficit implies consequences iryng oy the very existence of the framework of society in country, and which the pbil ilo can hardly contem- plate without a shudder.” This is not # visionary apprehension ; there is, we fear, too h reality in it ; but, unfortunately, although we have seen same jetion for the last three or four years, no sufficient means have yet been adopted to overcome the difficulty. The great error which has been committed, and which has kept the question in doubt and uncer- tainty for many years past, hes arisen from the no- tioh that India is the only country to which we can look for a sufficient supply, should the United States fail us. Even the writer of the article before us falls sufficient of e must ree our ent repels of for euabling os to grepplo with every exigensy ‘cat oom for ena us pple every ex! ry can be created by the Serelation now going onin the maaw- facturing and producing balances abroad. Duriag the last twenty a neither industry nor expense has been 8; in the endeavor te pro- mote the cultivation of cotton in India, fit for the English market ; and wo will venture to say, that had the same exertions been made in our colonies as have been made in India, England might have lon, tince shaken off its dependence on the Unite States for the article. We are surprised that the writer in the magazine should entertain any doubt on the subject :— Is it not within the limits of possibility (he fans] | that among the rich and numerous and widely extended | regions subject to the far reaching rule of the British crown, there may be districts which possess the capa- bility of furnishing us with that which we so much need, and the continuous ecarcity of which would involve us in misfortunes from which no stroke of siatesmanship— no art of political conjuring— could extricate us? Itis not morely within the limits of possibility, but a matter of certainty, that the colonies of Eng- | land could supply her with all the cotton she could | ossibly require, without importing a single bale (Ses the United States. Nor is it on one colony alone that the country should rely for the supply of an article so eseential to her industry and the main- tenance of her people. Neither would we exclude India from sending its contribution; the Hast aud West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Natal, should each and all be in a condition to supply us. With such resources, we cannot but think that | apy difficulty which the country may experisnce | must be created through its own apathy and neglect. Our own West India colonies used, at one period, to send us a censiderable quantity of cotton, an this, too, before we possessed British Guiana; the; could do so again. The latter province alone, wit! its almost boundless range of fertile country and | virgin aoil, might, in a very fow years, be to us what the United States aro at precent. But Eng- | Jand must first get rid ofthe notion that the United | States and India are the only two cotton growing | countries in the universe. | The Cuban Question and the Election ef General Pierce, [From the London Chronicle, Deo. 1] é The last accounts from Cuba depict the foyal in- habitants of the island as thrown into a state of the utmost consternation by the success of General Pierce in the United States Public opinion has so long associated the policy of the American demo- crate with high-handed injustice, and has so uni- formly imputed to their whig antagonists an on- Jarged sense of international rights, that, on a view of the recent contest taken from such @ point as | Cuba, we can readily understand why all prospect of aay from periodical piracies was considered to be staked on the return of the whig candidate. But we Lave only too much reason to believe that this reasoning is, in one of its branches, fallacious; for it would be sinning against probabilities to sup- pore that the independence of Cuba, however menaced by General Pierce, would have been safe durirg the Presidency of General Scott. It is very long since any other aspirant to the chieftainshi| of the State, bas, even in America, called to hi aid so many popular passions as thore to each of which General Scott addressed a distinct appoal. There is still, in those portions of the federation which have been longest settled, a lingering inclina- | tion to claim the citizenship of the republic as an inherited right—and, therefore, at one point, Scott was a Native American. The greed of new territo- a well known vice of Ame: ve ee morality dso be preposed to annex C ja. The spirit of abolitionism, hitherto uncertain in its direction and straight westcoated by prejudice, has neverthe- legs an indefinite latent eapacity for enchaining the sympathies of the people—and se the last resouree of this unecrupulous pelitician was to coquette with the freescilers. He allied himself to each of these opinions in turn, and in turn denied them when the emergency required a variance in his professions. If the evidences of his character go for anything, Scott, as President, must have been either the mere tool of the eating White or the most reckless ef the po ad who have more than once occu; the White House. Cuba, Mexico, and, “no less thaa these, the great Anglo-Saxon Republie itself, would have been signally tortunate if he had suffered him- self to be managed by the able advisers whore ad- moniticns and guidance he might have commanded. But the bent of such a disposition is towards a | headstrong independence; and even had he proved more pliable than he was likely to be, we esnnot forget that, since its late irreparable loss, much of its elevated feeling, as wellas much of its political weight, has departed out of the whig party. © augur favorebly of Mr. Pieros, not eo much from the praises of his friends, which are worth- leas as the basis of an inference, but from the turn which has been taken by tho vituperation of his foos. They reproach him for his tameness and want of spirit, as a man of colorless bigger and wig aes ed courage. Making reasonable deduction from these imputations—which, in the form in which we see them, are no doudt calumnies—we imagine | him to be that Transatlantic rara avis, a moderate and cautious politician. A faverite libel of the i avers that he fainted in the crisis of one of | the Mexican battles. Translated into a different | lauguage from tha of political malevolence, this | statement is as much caleulated to reassure the neighbors and allies of the United States, as the grandiloquent rhetorie in whieh Scott's pett; skirmishes are described is fitted to rouse thei suspicions and to excite their fears. Moi r= etically do we hope that, in politics, Mr. Pierce is the reverre of a beau sabreur. Probably, the career and destinies of a free nation were never before 10 unreservedly confided to the direction of a single will. Tho great party which he commands is ready to monld iteelf to overy one of his purposes; for it bas no political views ef its own, and it is perfectly ready to adopt a creed with same unbounded confidence in the turns ef hazard which it has just jong, bad Me ed in the choice of @ President. It indeed, since any distinct meaning attached to tne * democracy” of the American democrats. Power- ful as that confederacy has always been, and intole- rant of opposition ag it has shown itself, it has nover seemed wedded to any Hotty principle, or bigoted toany definite pelicy. Free trade was ori- oy adopted as a condition of alliance with ¢ cotton interests in the South; and, except frea trade, the victory of which the recent election has eccured, it is scarcely possible to specify a tingle article of democratic faith. It is precisely the blanka in the oreed of this immenso party which place it at the completo disposal of its | temporary leaders. It appears to choose ite chiefs, not for the sake of their principles, but in the hops of getting principles of its own. Andrew Jackson enlisted the wholo of this vast mass of opinion in a | crusade against bank paper, and Mr. Polk em- berked the entire forco of democratic energy in a tavaia on Mexico; but we boliove that, had the former leaned to the views of Birmingham on cur- rency, and the Jatter to those of Manchester on peace, each might have mado his epscial dolusion | the rallying point of some millions of devotees. And now ail this force of popular allegianco—im mentely augmented in volume, and more therough- | ly ehorn than ever of all distinguishing cheracter- istice—is waiting to second any pet iniquity or fa- | vorite crotchet which Mr. Pieroe op? havo | cherished im eecret during the eee) is past obecurity. We do not believe that ho is intend- | ing a roid on Cuba, Canada, or Mexico; but. if he is, we axe sure that he will carry his party with | a tre ig not the smallest reagon for believing that the annexation of Cubs would bein wuison with the true sentiments of the American people. Tho ox- cilement on the subject is almoat entirely sustained by paid agents, whore rervions have been retaied | by the holders of the femous Cuban soript; and | their aetivity keops #live something like @ move- ment of opinion apd | the drogs of the popula- | tion in New York and Philadelphia, and among a relatively bigher class in the profligate city of New Orleans. But woe will set of “ Uuol'e | Tom's Cabin” agaiort any amoont of * indie: petion meetrgs” woich may oo held to de- | rounce the suthoritics of the Havana If Mr, | Pieree should attempt to the game of Texag with Ouba, my not break up bis own A on fede- ration which mot even a roan with Nev if the Preeident—deceived by the superficial which fills the columus of the newspapers, or wil- fully neglecting the probable consequences of licy in deference to some passion or fis own—should conwert some petty the Governor of Cuba into an occasion 2 should only deceive ourselves by supposing will be Cay te maaan in his Iago ney fo ent lack of popular sympathy. sheer bim on, though their own destruction will be involved in the iseue, and the whigs are) too The ony Sheek wil be admiastarea by the srong e oply check wi tered by remousirasions of foreign powers. On behalf of the country most interested in inaintaining the sacred- ness of public law against the latitudinarian tice of the United States, let us express a loos that, when the attack is preparing, the F’ office will eas suflicient sagacity to foresee and, when the intention is once-deelared, suffici skill te encounter the Pettifogging dexterity whic is the last resource of Ai statesmen when, they know thomselyes to be flagrantly in the wrong. The Anti-Slavery Movement of the Women of England. {From the London Times, Deo. 1.] In one point there is a very general apreemens among the nations of the earth. They all believe: that they understand their own difficulties better than their neighbors do for them. We have had, and still have, many social problems, which evente- and the spontancous chapges of society, rather than Neale are solving in one way or another. But whether it be the condition of the Irish peasantry, or the Irish church establishment, or English pau- perism, or factory labor, or the excess of our female. ulation, we have never attached much nce to the opinions of French or German Orie ay pare tional jealousy se strong in en we find this nation 80 ourselves, it is reasonable to expect mnelhing oe E the kind in our neighbors, and Proper lowance for it. Negro slav. as it existe in the United Srates, is just such and a} tly incurable sore, and such are the feelings it is regarded in the Union. We, the great British nation, having our own slave colonies some six or seven thousand miles off, and having, also, more money and better credit than any other nation in the world, indulged our benevolence and our pride in abolishing slavery and adding £20,000,000 to the figure of our national debt, with very little regard to the results either to the Vis or the slave. At tho present moment, indeed, if there is one thing im the world that the British public do not like to talk about, or even to think about, it is the condition of the race for whom thia great effort was made. We are net the less proud, however, of our _Bohieve- ment and its cost, and think that, having done #0 muck ourselves, wo may fairly impose the like sacrifice on our neighbors. But the precept, “Ge, and do thou likewise,” seldom comes wuch force when the spokesman is urging his own example; and, asit happens in this case, the ex- ample does not apply quite go closely as it migh do. In the United States tho evil is constitutional and incorporate. It is political and domestic. It is gigantic and household. It is a question that aflects families, institutions, States, and the whole Union. It affecrs slaves and freemen, both ef every possible shade. Confessedly, and on the showing of the lady whose work has so spellbound every heart and every mind in this country, there are two great negro difficulties to be- dealt with in the United Stater,—the difficulty of the colored slave and that of the colored freeman; and, of the two, the latter is the worse. But, when England inter- feres in this matter, what is to be the exact mantor and particular object of the interference ? Are wo to tell the Americans to love those whom they loathe, and to associate with those against whom they feel an actual ropulsion? If we do, we are este hard measures ; if we do not, we are not touching peck greater of the two difficulties to be dealt with, Of course, we are disposed to regard with every eeible indulgence the proceedings .in the select Fittle convention of ladies that met the other at Stafford Houee. Never did anything more defy criticism; and it would really be breaking a butter- fly on the wheel to remark on the affairas we should on the rough tustle of opinion in the House of Com- mons, or the tempestuous rhetoric of Exeter Hall. We way be permitted, however, to doubt whether women of the calibre that assembled the other day at Syracuse (U. 8.) will be able to appreciate the | satin paper and rosewater ot our female aristocracy; much more, whether the Haleys and Legrees, or even the Shelbyaand the St. Clares of the Union will take much heed ef so softly whispered a warning. Our Sie readers who are invited to enter on a crusade of a somewhat international character, will excure one little warving which we venture to make. We, of this free and happy country, aro just the most extensive employers, (indirect, but not less really,) of slave Isbor in the world. Negro slaves, working under the lash in the mid-day sun and ‘keeping their toe. well up to the mark,” as Mr. Legree would say, produce the material of our cravats, our s:ockings, and the simple and com- rehensive garment in which we take our repose. ‘hey supply the muslins and prints and nearly all the other fabrics of our female costume, from the dress of the sovereign to that of the poorest needle- woman. Slaves produceeur coffee and the sagar that sweetens it. By day and night, sil down and rising up, we are still encouraging slavery by eonsum- ing its juce. The prime agent who moves the wheels of eouchern slavery, we are told, is the northera capitalist, who has his mortgage on the slave estate, orholds a bill of sale, and who secures him- self, when necessary, by an order to his agent to sell cff everything on the estate, slaves and all, for what they will fetch atthe hammer. This man, Mrs Stowe tells us, is really a guilty partnor in tho traneaction, ifnot the most guilty—the most guilty, because he supplies the stron, stimulus of tl the rystem, and he compels the most violent mea- sures. But, if the Northern capitalist pulls the strings of the Southern planter, who pulls the strings of the Northern capitalist? Most assuredly the merchants and brokers at New York are mainly dependent on the British market. We usethe slave cstton. We supply the slave capital. Caer buys the negro—our money Le his work. It is’ an indissoluble union of interests and operations, of which the white slave of this country is at one end, and the black slave of America at the otherend of thechain. This ehould teach us a little more modesty than if wo were simply preaching to the people of Timbuctoo to burn their idols and desist from human sacrifices. Perhaps it may suggest, aleo, that, as a beginning, we bed better not insist on abolition, or even tal about it, which is all, indeed, that tho ladies of Englavd are invited to do, but rather suggest re- gulation. There are many who think that, with oper regulations, and particularly with a system hr the self enfranchisement of slaves, wo might have brought about the entire emancipation of t! Britich West Indies, with much legs injury to the property of the planter and to the eter of the negro, than have resulted from the abolition act. Perhaps the warniog will not be lost on the Americans, Who may sco the necessity of pu'ting things in train for the ultimate abolition of slavery, and thereby save the sudden shock which abolitionists may one day bring on all the instita- tions of the Union and the whole fabric of American society. The Em_ect in England ofthe Speech of the Emperor of France, [From the London Times, Dec. 3] Tho speech addressed by Louis Napoleon to the Senate und the Legislative body of France, upon the announcement of tho suffrages which have just raired him to the throne, may not be reg as the most cignificant and important of the State pa- pers which that event is likely to call forth. It wag designed for tho “enlightened and independent’ men who eurrounded him on this occasion, aud it might be unfair to construe it by the strict rales which would apply to a manifesto directly addrossod to the other powers of Europe. Yet we cannot but remark in this document the absence of those pa- cide and moderate declarations on which groat stress: was jaid on some former ns. The most ole- borate portion of the epecch is s vehement, but unfounded defence of the particalar title it has pleased the new Emperor to arsume. And alt! be professes to recognize and to inherit, insome s0: all tbat hae been sogomplished, both of good and: of evil, by the governments that have preceded him, he accomponies this declaration with no expression of deference to tho laws thoy have enacted, or te the ergsgements they have contracted. On the con- trary, the only passage in the history of the last ‘which Louis Napoleon pays unqualified Ae, he glorious reign of the hoad of his family, and the regular, though ephemeral title of hie con, whom the two Chambers proclaimed ia ths Jact burst of vanquished patriotism,” and on these grounda he styles the imporial government legiti- mate, and attributes to it the brightest pages of modern history. We regret that the ruler of the Freneh should on this ocoaston have thought fit to revive—and to revive in the mort expressive terms—a series of PN Pe aiee his ie ce ce oe over ftocd direotly opposed to tl +A co oy of Hurope. Hia pseition ts ta fMctently di alt! without enoum- bering it with asscoiatious drawn from dispates sak contents over which @ peace of thirty-seven yours bas happily passed. Bust since he has thought it hecerrary, in the very moment of accepting the fupreme power in France, to accompany that ars with the proclamation of a dynastic tradition un~ known to his‘ory and to Europe, it is impossible nob to protest sgainst £0 ¢xtravagant a pretonsion. Not content with proclaimi self Napoleon IIL, be distinotly avers that the title of Napoleon | 1L was legitimate and regalar, though ¢phemeral; oud be there world to 1ev0gnies, for the first time, in , the claims of his pre- valia his