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      The Drama Before Easter. In The Eatly Pa...

      NOTES AND EXTRACTS . _THIER _8 AND N _* riER .-The Napiers are always fight ing with sword or pen . The last passage of arms took place between the Major-General _Villifm and Adolphe Thiers apropos of the latter ' * mendacious pamphlet entitled _Hiatoire du Consulat et de V Empire . Napier , in a letter to the Times , pointed out a few of its falsifica- _tions-a somewhat superfluous task , since Thiers is in- eapable of truth , in such a matter . To this critique Thiers sends a reply through Jeffs , the foreign book- Belier , the substance of which is , that Adolphe Thiers disdains to attend to the attacks of one who wrote such , a book as the History of the Peninsular War , for which Napier ( according to Thiers ) had access to no official French document . Napier retorts ; proves that he had access to all the official documents ; and brands Thiers with deliberate falsification . The style of this corres- pondence is amusing : Thiers pointed and flexible as his pen , Napier trenchant and crushing as his sword ; the one with French levity and disregard of truth , but strict regard of the courtesies ; the other reckless of forms , but careful of the truth as a thing sacred ; in one word , the contrast is between the Adventurer and the Soldier . The Piunciple of Association . —In . the last num- ber of the " lievue des Deux Mondes , " there is a grave and careful article by Michel Chevalier on the Report made by Thiers of the Government Commission to in- quire into ' * L ' assistance et laprevoyance publiques , " in which he strongly condemns it for its decided rejection of the principle of association . " Ever since our poli- tical convulsions , " he says , " many of the most eminent minds have analysed society with a view of discovering that which above all things it needs for its stability and security ; and they have agreed that the principle of asso- ciation , under the myriad forms which it assumes , is the true means of dissipating a host of difficulties , of sup- plying very many wants , and of instituting powerful guarantees , len years ago M . Rossi strongly _insisted on the share it was indispensable to accord to association , the share which the Constituent Assembly , the Conven- tion , the Empire , and the succeeding governments , from different but fatal prejudices , had made the mistake of refusing it . M . Rossi thus expressed himself : 'It is necessary that the principle of association should be able to adapt itself to the diverse phases of the produc- tion and distribution of riches . . No one doubts but that the associations contemplated by M . llossi were very different from the social ateliers of Louis Blanc ; but we cannot donbt that the principle of association has before it a glorious future . —[ From so decided , and let us add , so important an antagonist of association , this remark is the more striking as it cannot be suspected . ] _OvBit-PopULATiON . —In these days any man with a _jrrain of sense in his composition can give a ready receipt for making a thinly peopled nation seem _over-populated , I am rather averse from Latin prescriptions ; I will , therefore , give one in the mother tongue : —1 . Take one- tenth of your population , and feed it at the expense or the rest of the community , either in union workhouses of by out-door relief . 2 . Take 22 , 000 , or thereabouts , and confine them , for offences against the laws , in prisons , built and supported also at the expense of the public , 3 . Take about the same number , tempt them to pass their lives in holding out their hands in the streets and _highways , ami fill them liberally with the wages of in- _dustry . . 4 . Take another five per cent ., at least , and smite them witli fever , smallpox , scrofula , and con- sumption , by poisoning God's pure gifts of air and water , shutting out his great _rcvouler of filth and choice purifier—the light of heaven , and withholding , or not insisting on , the use of that merciful physical re vela- tion— -the cowpox . 5 . Take from ten to twenty per cent , of the whole working population , and steep them to the lips in brutal ignorance . G . Take from the people as much money in the shape of taxes as you can squeeze out of them , and spend it very profusely and very care- _lossly . 7 . Take of the people ' s time as much as you can , rjml waste it by laws of settlement , tardy justice _trinl by jury , custom-houses , excise laws , and turnpikes . 8 . Take the liquid refuse of your farmsteads and drain it into ditches , and pour the offscourings of your towns into rivers , so as to waste the raw material of the people's food . Mix these ingredients well together with ample measures of beer and gin and you have a panacea which , _perscvenngly applied , will bring on that dropsical fulness known by the _scientific name of over-population , -The HoiU of England , Social and Economical . Navoi . kon , _timj Man ov the Would . —We cannot , in the universal imbecility , indecision , and indolence of men , _sulliciently congratulate ourselves on this _strong nnd ready actor , who took occasion by the beard , and showed us how much may be accomplished by the mere force of such virtues as all men possess in less decrees ; namely , by punctuality , by personal attention , by courage and thoroughness . " The _Austrians , " he skid , " do not know the value of time . " I should cite him , in his earlier vears as a model of mudeneo His _nnwor rlnp _* ? inV _™ i ? sist _^ riot consist 111 any » nu or exir « i _% _aslant lorco : 111 any Pnthunia . ni , like Mahomet's ; or singular power of per 7 suasion ; but in the exercise of common sense on each _t'liiergency , instead of abiding by rules and customs . The lesson he teaches is that which vi « our always _teaches _. -tlmt there is always room for it . To what ( traps of cowardly doubts is not that man _' _slife an answer , When he appeared , it was the belief of all military nun _; hat therocould be _nothing new in war ; as it . is the belief ) f men to-day , that nothing now can bo undertaken in arminir , or in our social manners and customs ; and as t is , at all timrs , the belief of society that the world is _isod up . Isut . Jjonaparte knew better than _souu'ty ; and , _nori'dver , know that lie knew better . 1 think all men enow better than they do ; know that the institutions we o volubly comniend arc go-carts and baubles ; but they , lari' not trust their _presentiments . Bonaparte relied on » _Ih own sense , and did not ear « a bean for other _peopled . -Emerson ' s _Jlrprcscntattve Men .

      The Drama Before Easter. In The Eatly Pa...

      The following promotions have taken place consequent _^ r _^ f dmirll of _^ _he Ted _Sr G _^ S ™ r C B ~ r _^ _' _^ l _Vil _fSrnW _. _fnf _thrive - _££ ? Admira l S _^? _' _^* 6 _^/^ T _™ _iU K _P H to bf Rear _^^ _T _^} te » . _f r Rp _^ . * £ : _*> _''Kd of the Blue B _& _2 ™ fds C B _^ d be _% _Jj _^ _Tmlcil of the _Whitef- ' _% * Z _* ol _* s T _^ V _?;^ * 0 ,, p -r _?" p w ? o hP 1 * 1- ? Admiral C _» pt . Si J . Marshall , C . B ., K . C . H ., to be Rear-Admiral l _ ne _> U \ * , ltetiredCapt . il . Jenkmson has also been promoted to be a Retired Rear-Admiral , on the terms proposed in the London Gazette of the 1 st of September , 18-16 , but Without increase of pay . On Monday and Tuesday next the judges chambers will be closed , according to notice given on Thursday last . The offices of the Court of Chancery reopen o n . Saturday next . The trustees of the British Museum have received information of a shipment from Boston , U . S ., of two cases containing casts of the head and lower jaw of the _| Mastodon . Emigration from Ireland is again amazingly on the increase , not , however , so much to Canada as to the j United States ; and the train from Limerick to Dublin is daily , crowded with intending emigrants , mostly all agri- cultural , and who embark for their destination at Liver- pool . The banks in Limerick are hourly paying out money upon the orders remitted by the friends of those people in America , who emigrated the last and preceding years . —Limerick Chronicle . The SLigo papers mention the occurrence of two agra- rian outrages in the county of Leitrim , attempts having been made to deter people from holding land from which the former tenants had been evicted . ¦

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      Mortality In The Metropolis. In The Week...

      MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS . In the week ending last Saturday the deaths registered in the metropolitan districts were 1026 . This return showg a furtuer increaae in the mortality , for since it b to rise the deaths duri the two _previous weeks w _£ e „ tne first 875 and in th | second 9 _£ 7 Iu the ten corre 8 ponding weeks of the years 1840-9 they fluctuated beUveen 770 and 1197 , the latter amount of mortality having occurred in the twelfth week of 1845 ; the average of the ten weeks corrGCted for increase of population is 1071 the preSent return is therefore only Jess than the avt . rage by 45 . The only classes of disease in which an j ncrease OI 1 the average is remarkable are those which affect respectively the organs of respiration _ai : d the orgaus of circulation . The only instances in which com- piaints , _- n the respiratory organs have been so fatal as in last week , at this season of the year , occur in 1845 and 1847 . From pneumonia there were 90 deaths ( of which 71 were amongst children ) ; the corrected average is 85 : from bronchitis there were 9 ( J ( of which more than two- thirds were _amonsr aduits ) ; the corrected average is only 47 . Both these diseases show a considerable increase when the deaths are compared with the numbers returned I in the two previous weeks . This excess , both on the ] weeks immediately preceding and on the corresponding j weeks of former years , is sufficiently explained by the ] fact that the mean temperature , which last week was only 373 _deg ., shows a great full on each week through- out the whole month of February and the half of March ; j and , taking the corresponding weeks of 1840-9 , it appears t _' . _i ; it it was never so low as at present , except in 1840 and 1815 , and that in six of those years it ranged from 40 to : 4 J > 7 _dei ? s . The deaths from consumption last week were ; 135 , a number less than the average . Amongst cpidc- mics , smallpox , scarlatina , hooping-cough , and typhus j arc not so fatal as usual ; but measles , from which there were 23 deaths , and diarrhoea , from which there were 20 , j are above the average . Children are returned almost j every week as accidentally suffocated in bed ; amongst \ other deaths registered last week from this cause are two which occurred in one house . Two men and a woman died from the intemperate use of strong drink . Two men and six women died between 90 and 100 years of age , Ill persons died in workhouses , 54 in hospitals , of whom , 18 were in naval and military establishments , and 6 in . lunatic asylums . The mean daiiy reading of the barometer at the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , was above 30 inches on Sunday , Monday , Wednesday , and Thursday ; the mean of thJ week was 291 ) 71 . The moan temperature ( 37 _' 8 deg ., as stated above ) was lower than the average of the same period in seven years , particularly on Sunday , Monday , and Saturday , when it was from 7 to 11 dogs , less than the averages of these days . ° Results of the Registrar-General ' s return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last , The first column of figures gives the aggregate number of deaths in the corresponding weeks of the ten previous- years :- T « n Weeks Week v f . M . of _irtjlu-w . of IH 50 . ; Zymotic Diseases It 2 i .... lbl _DropHy _. Cuncr _, ami other _diseased of uu- ccriiiii or variable _si-at r >' 0 "M _Tuberiu'Sr l " i « i _« ei .. " . ! " ' . I _wa "' .: l ? i ) Dis _^ _usi-a of _tliu Hrain , Spinal Marrow , _Nim-vos . and Senses 1213 .... _l-JO I >» s _« -msi _« s of tl > o Mi > iirt and _lUodil-vcsst-ls .. _US ( J .... -17 1 > 1 SI ? _S ? . r li" !> _hl _^ _, _? ml () t the olh _^ Ov " 1 ( m _DisJasi _.-s of the Stomuuh , _Liw _' r , ami other _Organs of _Di-iMinii _,-y . U .... r > : 5 Diseases of the Kidney * , Sec _„ HJ .... 15 _Childbirth , disease's of _tlu- Vtv \ mis , _&„ . ,. m .... 12 _itiu-iimunsin , _iiiseiisfbot tlio Hones , joints , i ) ist . _usp _* of the Skin t ' _cllul-n-Tissm _*' fee " * 11 "" j Malformations .. 15 r > l _' niiiature Dirth . ' . ' . " . ' . ' 2 : u ) . ' . ' . " . " 21 ) Atrophy l . _'U .... 18 A _tf l < [ ( i ! { s _^ v |' , '' l ' "„ i _'» :. ; vn , ;''„ rn \ . \ _«« . _j'into , » V >• , " ' 4 \ s "" H- _^ _>«»^ ce . Vmation . Cold , and _Intemporane _. * U .... _JU Xolul ( _including unspecified causes ) .. b & _ll 1 OS «

      Mortality In The Metropolis. In The Week...

      _yOSEPH CLAYTON , JUN ., PUBLISHER J ° f the LEADER ' _respectfully _inforzns the Nobility , Gentry , and Public ' that a " orders for that Journal addressed to himself . at the P _^ _lishing-office , will receive his early _andbest attention , , and be supplied at 2 Gs . per annum . I Country Agents wiU be supplied with the _LEADER for ready money on advantageous terms . Immediate appiications shouid be made > s 0 as to carry out an effective agency throughout the kingdom . When the List i 3 compiete it will be printed in the LEADER , so as to enable the inhabitants of every town to apply to the proper quarter for _^ Journal Publishing-office , 265 , Strand .

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      _« _« Trr > _tr T \ rTnrTTrir \ _rrm MONEY MARKii , l _AJNU _Lll x 1 JN _IJiLiL . _ltriLJNCJii . Friday . "We enter upon our duties , as chroniclers of monetary and commercial transactions in this great capital , with the money market in an extremely easy state , and commerce generally active and flourishing . There is abundance of money seeking employment , either in the way of advances on stock or commercial paper ; and the rates of interest anti of discount are most moderate . The half-yearly f dividend of 4 per cent , interest and profits , declared at [ the half-yearly court of the Bank of England last week , ] and unanimously confirmed by the ballot on "Wednesday , j affords satisfactory evidence of a healthy state of things , leaving , as it does , a rest of £ 3 , 000 , 000 , and having arisen under an advantageous employment of the capital of the Bank . The usual terms for money on call are from 1 £ to 2 per cent ., first class three months' bills of exchange _*>? ms done _«* 2 _* ? and six months' at 24 per cent discount The price of gold is steady , at about 0 10 _^ h u er thai L _™ Paris > t n _- d _? n a 5 ar W , lth _Hamburg _, _Exchequer Bills are much in demand , and an advance of about 5 s . has been realized within the last fortnight _, The operations in the English Funds have been but moderate throughout the week past , with the exception of yesterday , when considerable purchases were made in Consols , which caused an immediate improvement in price to the extent of about J , in some instances , i for money . There had been a _slight depreciation in Consols during the previous week , which was not until yesterday wholly recovered . On Tuesday there was suddenly a decline of from £ to { per cent ., occasioned by a panic on the Paris Bourse the day before ; but on Wednesday , on it being ascertained that the French panic was in a great measure groundless , Consols and the public securities generally improved considerably . Everything again looked quiescent , confidence remained firm , and money abundant , the opinion prevailing that , provided there is no political convulsion at home or abroad , the prices of Stock cannot fail to be maintained . The average quotations of the week have been , Consols , 95 _£ to 9 G for money , and 95 J to 95 $ for the account ; Three per Cents , of 172 G , 941 to 95 _|; Exchequer Bills , 42 to 4 G prem . ; India Stock for account , 264 to 2 G 7 ; ditto Bonds , 8 G to 89 prem . ; South Sea New Aunuites , 95 _j . There has been a slight improvement in the tone of the Foreign Stock Market . Prices , especially on Wednesday , were in some degree both firmer and higher _, This was particularly the case with Mexican Bonds , which arose from the receipts of remittances , to the amount of about 92 , 000 dollars , on account of the dividends . The dealings have ranged as follows . - —Mexican Bonds , 29 A to _£ ; Peruvian , 71 _.-J to 72 | ; ditto Deferred , 27 _. _J to 28 ; Brazilian , 89 ; ditto New ( 1 S _29-39 ) , 87 } to { $ 8 $ ; Granada , 1 G _^ ; ditto Deferred , 3 § to i ; Equador , 34 to g ; Venezuela Deferred , 12 } ' ; Danish Five per Cents ., 95 , and Scrip , 3 per cent . prem . ; Portuguese Five per Cents ., 31 } to 32 ; Spanish Three Cents , 35 } to $ ; ditto Five per Cents ., lGf to _i ; Dutch Four per Cents , 8 S 2 to 87 ; ditto Two-and-a-Ha " lf , 55 | ; Russian Scrip , li to U prem The _ninif on the _Piris _Knnr- _^ _nirporlv _q . 11 nrW to _,-, panic on tne lans _bourse already alluded to , _S £ ' _^ _inb _£ ra sl _^ n ° ts _^ _oTromeLvones _^ _lcu _' _alo _' rs ' _& WoJ _^ e 8 _aU _^ l _^ X _? Q * _* _$£ _^ apprehen _d ed withdrawal of the Pari _, and H 01 ° n , _iiJSS Bil It did not nrevail _however ± _xthTovrVml Yd _? v _, n 1 „ 1 ? ! i _X _£ r _£ _vpmpnt hn « , t « k / n Xc _\ _ievIr _^ ce it _beiLuBuiSa _^ L _,,,, n , . , b , , , i he _[ e h . a . s not . _bee" _™™\ to notice in our produce markets this week . Colonial produce has been rather depressed . If anything , there has been an improvement m . J xomc Pro _^ ce . This has been decidedly the case w t lt \ cor _, n ' _AJe / e were heavy arrivals of foreign gram at the close of last week , as many as forty-four vessels f _™ m various parts of continental Europe having arrived m one day ; but the supplies to market have not by any means been of corresponding abundance , and both m London and the leading provincial markets rather 1 1 1 1 1 « . 1 Ji'BJcr prices have been obtained . __ _Aa 0 accounts from the manufacturing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire this week represent a p light depression to have prevailed , which , however , is regarded as only temporary . There has been no material change in the market for railway shares , which , upon the whole , has been exccedingly quiet . Caledonians have fluctuated a shade or _^ aut i , _alonoj wit ' u South-Westerns and South-Easterns , at _length reached an advance of 10 s . per share . Great Westerns , Northern , and Eastern , have severally declined , while Lancashire and Yorkshire have improved . Wednesday was the fortnightly settling-day in foreign stocks and railway shares . The transactions in both _departments were , upon the whole , satisfactorily arranged . To . day ( being Good Friday ) is a blank day iu both the Stock and . _Sliajre Market *

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 30, 1850, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_30031850/page/20/