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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. INVASION OF SPAIN. Pants, OCT. 23. The friends of Gen. Mina received last night en ...xpress from Bayonne, bringing, together with the account of his entry into Spain, already known by a telegraphic despatch, the Proclamations issued by him and 1( Pastor. Mina was accompanied by a detachment of cavalry, almost composed of superior officers, amounting to a hondred, and followed by about live hundred well armed men. It is known by Telegraph that up to the .21st. none of the Chiefs had re-entered France. Valdes has bad serious engagements with the Royal troops, and though the latter were timely re. inforded, 'Valdez had kept his station. Some of his men approached the French frontiers to -secure two pieces of cannon, which encumbered their movements, but Anding themselves on the point of being disarmed hy the. French Authorities, they re-entered Spain, and joined coldly. We are anxiously waiting for the telegraphic despatch of today. The Ministers behave themselves exceedingly bad in Spanish affairs. TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH FROM BAYONNE. Afternoon of the 211 d Oct. Yesterday General Mina entered Vcra at the head of 400 men, and without experiencing the alighest opposilion advanced beyond Loam. some carabineers joined his party ; and it is liclicrtd that he Is on his march to Tolosa. PERPIGNAN. 20.—A body of Spanish Constitutionali4ts have been repulsed upon our territories. They haven enuredlas and Mantelllas. From the Messages des Chassbres, Sunday, Oct. 24. AFFAIRS OF THE PYRENEES. The news spread yesterday, and the day before, respecting the former operations announced by the Spanish tefugees, have been very much at variance with each other, and have become to-day a subject of contra easy between the Journals. The following seems to us to be the true state of affairs up to the 111th :—but first of all, we must say • few words on the policy of France, with regard to the Spanish refugees. The Spanish Govemntent had been demanding for a fortnight, by repeated notes, the dispersion of the refugees, who were organizing themselves on the frontier, incontestibly for the purpose of hostility and invasion. It asked Whether it was to be at peace or war with France, and whether, in tecognising the new French (iovernment, it entered into relations with a hostile or triendly, or, at least, a neutral Cabinet. It is evident that our Government, after the neutrality which it observed in the affairs of Belgium, and in view of the interests of the frontiers, of the pail. cal advantages and national sympathies that might lead France to risk the chances of war, would nut have acted comfortably to its honour. able principles of nonintervention, if it permitted under its eye, and nailer its auspices, the formation of an wmy destined to interfere in the internal affairs of Spain. Grant that the Government of that country is vicious, despotic, tergiversating, and despised, on account of Its sys. tern of constantly wavering betweenitwo parties that are breconcileable, it is for Spain herself to modify or change it, as has been done in France and Belgium; but France could not embark in a war in which its interest is not concerned, and justice and the principles of national law, relative to the conduct of one Government to another, would not permit France to lend its territory to an invading corps, unless Spain had on her side maintained on our frontiers a corps of emigrated Carl. ists, destined to bring civil war into ,our southern departments. It will therefore be evident to every politician, as well u every im partial mind, that the keepintt and maintaining an army of Spanish emigrants in the midst of the I. rench authorities, placed us in a state of war with a neighbouring government which had done nothing to provoke us to it. The permission granted to the Spanish refugees to go to the southern department was that they might be nearer at hand to receive assistance from their families, or to return singly into their own coun. try ; but not to authorise them to form themselves into regiments, or an invading army. In conformity with these principles, orders having been sent to the French authorities on the frontiers to make the Spaniards return into the interior. the insurgent leaders Valdes, Vigo, Pablo, and Guerres, took a step which might at first appear hazardous, and calcu lated to endanger their cause, but it was the only one they could take under the circumstances. They left the French villages to proceed to the village on the Spanish line. There they will not be any more molested by the French authorities; they will continue to obtain provisions in France ; they will complete their organization, and if they experience any check they will have a safe retreat. Such is the true ezplanatiou of the movements effected from the 16th to the 19th. The refugees took up some cantonments in some villages of the Pyrenees, but they have not gone farther, and have not even penetrated to bun. Valdes was on the 14th at Urdu, arid on the 15th at Zugarramardi. Mists was on the 19th at Vera, with WO or SOU men. Other chiefs had occupied various other points with their detachments. It seems certain that Val de s had a sanguinary conflict at Zugarramardi with the Royal troops of the Brigadier Juannito, and that part of his troops repassed the frontier in confusion, but that Valdes coming up in time, succeeded In maintain ing himself on the Spanish territory. The movement of the refugees is:generally from Bayonne to Perpignan. They wait in the inaccessible positions which the summits of the Py. suers afford, till the desertion of the royal troops or insurrections *the interior shall enable them to act on a great scale. The chief obstacle to the success of the refugees is their intestine dissensions, their jealousies, and their unbridled pretensions to rank and honours. The proclama. tion of Valdes represents them less as deliverers than as the conquerors id their countrymen. After having said that he will consider as ene mies only those who shall appear in arms against the refugees, he adds the following phrase, which is not maculated to inspire confidence . 6, The axe of the law alone must strike the other criminals." We think that deliverers ought to hold a more conciliatory language. We make the most sincere wishes for the noble cause of constitutional liberty in the Peninsula. We know how worthy the energetic Spanish nation Is of participating in the advance of modern civilisations we should, therefore, deeply regret to see the implacable passions, the de structive hatted, of faction, endanger the doctrines of a great people, by furnishing its oppressors with arguments against liberty. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE FROM SPAIN. MADRID. OCT. 14.—You would have been struck with the affecting spectacle which we witnessed on the day of the Queen's eeteuebeetent. For months the hopes and wishes of the country had been buoyed up to the highest pitch of expectancy. On the firing of the first gun the whole of the population of the town and suburbs moved towards the Palace; and; besides the front square, the whole of thenpew intervening between the battlements on the other side and the river 111 eat was thronged by persons whose eyes were stedfastly fixed upon the flag-staff, where it had ben notified that a corresponding signal would be inede,vis. by hoist. ing the Royal Standard of Spain if a boy, and a white flag in case it wasa daughter. Joy and hope were imprinted on every countenance, and the scene was rendered infinitely more interesting by every one being clad in his Sunday clothes. About half.past tour a daughter was announced : a feeling of disappointment thrilled throughout the assembled concourse which spoke more impressively the regard in which the King is held than volumes could unfold: All the calamities and enmities to which he has been exposed, from the very period of his accession, seemed to rush on the minds of the spectators, as it were, by a sympathetic im. pulse, so anxious were they for the issue of a day that promised at once to gild their future prospects. I could have wished that his political enemies could only have witnessed this scene. It would have disarmed them of all their rancour. The King, at the moment, is said to have participated in this feeling, and his courageous spouse, noticing, per. haps, a flitting change of countenance, cheeringly observed to him " Well, the next time it will bets son." In the evening the following Rival notice was lamed t— "ln the afternoon of today, at half-past four, the Queen, my august spouse, was safely delivered of a tine Infanta. Heaven has blessed our happy union, and crowned the ardent wishes of all my beloved subjects, anxious for the direct succession of the crown. You will give informa tion thereof to the Authorities and Corporation of the whole Monarchy, io due manner, for their satisfaction, and in order that they may r e turn thanks to the Most High for this inestimable benefit, beseeching him at the same time to grant health to the Queen, and to aid by his Divine Omnipotence this first fruit of our matrimony.—Palace, Ott. 10, 18.10. " To D. Francisco Tides de Colomarde." On the following day, at twelve, in the Royal Chapel, the sacrament of Baptism was administered to the infant,fin presence of the corps Apt.- ?native., Ministers, Grandees, Re. the Infante D. Francisco de Paula and Spouse acting as Sponsors for their Neapolitan Majesties. The in. fain was named Maria Isabel Luisa, when the King, according to cus tom, immediately after the ceremony, invested the little stranger with the insignia of the Royal Order of Maria Luisa. The capital has been illuminated thre e nights successively. The Queen was so well one he eve of her delivery, that she wrote a letter with her own hand to hoe Royal Parents. EXPRESS FROM PARIS THIS MORNING. Freak the hfessager des Chseibres tJ Monday. At eleven o'clock yesterday the King p -resided at a Council of the Ministers. At one his Majesty received his Excellency the Spanish Ambassador, who had the honour of presenting his credentials. lie was introduced by the Ministerfor Foreign Affairs. At the pressing so. licitation of the Miniiter fovForeign Affairs, the =Wow* GallW'ul , bun just been given up to the French Government. The Commission kturged with the distribution of the thirty millions in aid of commerce sestinas' its labours. It is but justice to state that it neglects no wmas of obtaining every advantage from so delicate . sneemue, and 'Poo the utility of which some wise heads still entertain doubts. Aber having relieved several large establishments involved to a great 'vent, we understand that the efforts of the Commission are directed at 11 4 present moment to the assistance of what is termed die miunrcominer. 4.6,1 interest Of petit eatemeros,) and that it is devising the means of 4 hicounting a certain number of bills of small amount. We have no uuubt but these exertions will have a good result, the persons who mealy employ their capital in discounting will_regaia coafidenes, when 11.0 SW the doss alt their interests. The Commission having examined the wants of these two branches of commerce, will then extend its attention to an intermediate quar ter. Letters fom Toulon of the 16th of October, bring Intel ligeoce that the brig is Surprise had arrived from Navarino. The i State frigate (La Constance) from Alexandria, and the schooner (Ls Lamproi) from Marseilles. The affair of M. Kergorlay has been sub mitted to M. Portal's, the Juge d'lnstructioo. The loyalty and inde pendence of this magistrate afford that guarantee which we ought to re quite from all other magistrates. The Duchess of Ooutaut. the go vetoes' of the Duchess de Berri's children, returned to Paris yester day. It is the general opinion that, as soon as she has arranged some private affairs here, she will set oat for Edinburgh to join the family of the ex-monarch, Charles X. FRANCE. The news mpecting the state of France do not vary in the slightest degree. The tumults have been subdued, but the spirit which gave birth to them remains alive. The King, according to all accounts, continues to be popular. From the Cossfilutionnel of Saadi,. The subject of a modification of the Ministry, to a considerable extent, is now spoken of more than ever. This modification is every where believed to be indispensable, men by the two fractions of the Cabinet itself. Nothing, however is yet resolved on. The deter mination is, in fact. most delicate aid most important. With the Ca binet the system also must be changed. The problem to he solved is to find men at once popular and able to be placed at the head of affairs. Fifteen years of counter-revolutionary administration hare made the solution sufficiently difficult. That capacity, which is seldom found in the absence of experience, has bees too much abandoned to the sys tem which is overthrown, and shares the reprobation it has incurred so deservedly. There are, doubtless, able men who are also true patriots : but their administrative talent has had no means of showing itself. This is what is repeated and believed in more than one salsa of the capital. it appears to us, that in this embarrassment the best remedy is to be guided by public opinion. First of all, it is necessary to obtain and secure public confidence. We have no want of honest and active citi zens. Such are the men which the country needs. Under the impulse and the guarantee of these great names, men of action may be assembled, versed in the knowledge of all the details of business. In either class we are not so poor as has been pretended. Although nearly fixed as to the necessity of some change in the Ca binet, but uncertain as to the choice of the members, there appears to be something like unanimity as to certain individuals. The names of Dupont de Mune and Lafitte continue to be mentioned in preference to every other. The latter decidedly the portfolio of the finance depart ment; on the other hand, Louis declares that he will not remain in the ministry on any terms. We shall wait for the designation of in dividuals a little more positively than they bate yet been named, before presenting our readers with one of those lists which are prepared to-clay to be destroyed to-morrow. The only point which is I not doubtful is that of a new choice on the part of the Crown from the opinions of the cote gauche. It reinains to be seen 'whether it will be taken from the centre, or nearer the extreme. In the finance 'department the committee appointed to distribute the 30,0100,000 has decided unanimously that the printing and bookselling trades shall receive the necessary funds for restoring their credit, and a productive activity to their labours. In the department of Foreign Affairs, Galotti has been reclaimed, and the recall of Al. Castelcicala will doubtless be obtained. The ministry is zealously occupied with the recognition of South America. several frigates have been required from the Department of the Marine, to support the claims of French con. mace at Chili, Mexico, &c. Re. There Is even a project on the tapis for the diminution of the budget. We are not ungrateful for good when it comes, although it should be something of the latest. As to the interior, a single point seems to predominate. It is the abominable conduct of the Prefect of the Seine ! Compared with his offence, the accusation of the ex-Ministers is a mere bagatelle ! He has scarcely thought of inquiring where the great capitalist resides who supplies the civil list of the Cubit regency, and who distributes fund s to the disturbers of the public peace. Nor does he seem to attach any importance to the discovery of the conspiracy by which the Palate Royal was to be carried by a coup.de-main, nor to the finding out with due accuracy why the valet of a certain dignitary is so taken with the travelling mania that he does nothing but run between Germany and France, and France and Germany. Your true ors in the eyes of a certain class are at the Hotel de Yule , Z l not at all at the Chancery ! Peals, Sunday Evening.—The Council of the Kim, composedlaf• ter the revolution of the month of July, and sines thatso strongly shaken, as you are aware, by two events—the project of the law upon popular societies, and the inopportune question of the abolition of the punishment of death,—finds itself at length called upon to decide in a Council to be held this evening, in the Palate Royal, upon the advice necessary to execute its re-composition, without further delay. 1 be lieve that you will find the particulars of this re-composition in to.mor. row's Moniieur. There is no doubt that the new ministry will be no more than a modification towards the left side of the Chamber. Nei. thee the men, nor the circumstances, are at this moment strong enough to lead to a total ch of administrations. It is probable we shall also have a President of until, and that the Ministry without portfolios will disappear. The Minister of the Interior has just addressed the following circular to the Prefects of the Departments 14 Pawn, 0a.22. " It is possible, Sir, that incorrect or exaggerated accounts may make a false impression in the departments upon what passed at Paris on the evens ng of the 18th inst. It is my wish that you should be prepared for, and take are to remove unfounded disquietude, if it sho u ld ar i se . What is of importance to France and its Government is, that on every occasion the whole truth should be known. The greatest publicity and the utmost candour will henceforth be the best guarantees for giving confidence to the public mind. However afflicting the scenes which have taken place may have been to well-disposed citizens, their final issue ought to inspire confidence in the future, and prove that public order cannot be long and seriously disturbed. If, in. deed, criminal manoeuvres have been able to take advantage of the core. motion which always exists after even a pure and glorious revolution— if blind pretensions and disorderly passions have attempted to obtain their ends—lf the partisans of the fallen dynasty have flattered them selves with the hope of turning this occasion to the account of their evil designs; on the other hand, the agitators of every class must have been convinced of their weakness, and the vanity of their hopes. They were thwarted at the first outset by the ardour and firmness of the Na. clonal Guard. They found it vigilant and courageous in the defence of public order, inaccessible to their suggestions, proud of and worthy of the confidence of the King and the country. Its ac. tion surmounted without difficulty all idea of resistance. Nut a drop of blood was shed, not a blow was struck. The brotherly love which should unite all classes of society did not cease to prevail among them. The National Guard displayed its strength and is only the more popular on that account. Thus disappointed, si milar attempts rally and unite more closely all well-disposed persons, both those who possess property, and those who work. They always readily agree in measures to repel dangerous counsels, ambitious in. trigua, or hostile plots. They rally from all sides round the King, to whom this event has afforded fresh opportunity of displaying the steadi. nem of his character, and the sincerity of his patriotic sentiments. His presence and his words were received with the most lively trans.. ports of affection and confidence. A new bond has been formed between him and the people. Tranquillise, therefore. the minds of all, Sir, if they have been alarmed. Nothing menaces either the King or the Charter: nothing threatens either the course of justice or the public peace. The disturbers have already been prosecuted, and will be punished in conformity to the laws they have transgress. ed. Those who thus agitate the country, and compromise the national character, must be checked with firomese. The elections which are taking place at this moment in almost all parts of France. will be a new expression of the national will,—that wise and enlightened will, which must sears the progress of our liberties by the maintenance 0 rood order. The Chambers will shortly resume their labours ; they will im mediately proceed to the discussion of the important laws promised by the Charter, which are to complete our institutions. !Prance wishes to be free under a firm and protecting Government. She will nor suffer herself to be led astray by those who seek to torn her aside from this aim, in order to favour their own schemes or personal interests. " Believe me, &c. " GUIZOT." PAIN STOCK Excuaxer, OCT. 23.—Five per Cents. 96f 2k SOc 2k 20c 10e be 96f 114 f 96c 96f 94f Obe 90c 9k.—Three per cents. 64f lific 3k 30c 20c 10c.— Rates de Naples, SU Cif 10c 30e 3k We 63f 30e 26c 20c. Hence. d'Espagne, 170 l&—Ernprunt Royal d'Espegne, O.—Her:tea Papetnelles d'Espagae, 30 381 ii 38 38* Exchange on London.—One Mouth, paper, 26f 30e ; Money 26f 26e. Three Months, paper, 25f ; Money, 25f 16c. THE NETHERLANDS. DMZ HAGUE, OcT.• 19.—1 n the sluing of the Second Chamber to day, there were fony-three members preseet. After examining the validity of the election, of the new members, the (Umber peoceeded to ballot for three candidates, to be proposed to the King for the dice of President. The three members so cheers were Messrs. Van Toulon, Sypkens, and Clifford, the firm of whom was subsequently approved by the King. The Chamber thew adjourned sine dk. Of all the members for the Soothes Provinces, N. &delft alone was present. Accounts from all parts of the Southern Provinces speak of the seal with which, since the publeadon of the royal proclamation, the inhabitants came forward to ether chefs services as volunteers. The latest accounts from Brands represent the situation of that city as vsey melancholy. The Offsimmment edits merely in appearance; the mob and the club me unease.. De Potter and d'Hoogvarst, whoa tew days ago were Mabry essesmsd by tbe pm , pie, seem to have lost much of their intone& Of the hot we beet nothing ; the other has thought It to take wp his abide with the Phd sant, who is so often meowed, when be lbflib Idmeeltibe met eats. Tbe Club exhibits the most extravapat seems. Very vision debases, If they may be as WWI, Aso own. The whole Is meetly Ike die dubs in she Freneh revolution. All business in Brussels is at a stand ; shops are open, but nothing is sold. Only the lowest people are seen in the streets, and these eonattit all sorts of excesses. The voluntary gifts for the national mow are the produce of extortion from the more wealthy inbabitaws both in the city and the country. Meantime, the armed bands which chiefly commit these excesses grow more and mote nu nietous They are estimated at needy 30,4100 men. consisting of all sorts of rogues, vagabonds, and strangers. At Liege the state of things is equally melancholy. HAGUE, OC r• 21.—A Congress Is spoken of, which is to meet in this town, end where tho albino of the Netherlands will be discussed. lt appears that the greet Powers begin to take into more serious con. sideration the events a hich take place in this kingdom. FLUSHING, OCT. 19. —Our fortress is declared to be ia a state of war, and nobody is allowed to enter it without a pals issued by the Police. TOR HAGUE. OCT. 22.—The second Chamber met this morning to proceed in the usual form to draw up an address in answer to the King's Speech. Last night the Belgic officers, subalterns, and pri vates of the lit battalion of 'lagers, in garrison here, to the number of about two hundred, left this place tor Breda, where it is said they are to he disamted and sent to Belgium. It was late in the evening when they received the necessary orders. ROTTERDAOCT. From all quartets we receive accounts of the proofs of attachment to the Prince and the country, which are given by our countrymen in these troublesome times. At Amsterdam a corps of 1,800 men has been formed, who are ready to march at the first sig. nal. Ar.other corps is forming, far which there are already men sufficient. ANISTIRDAN, OCT. 22.—Aetual Debt, two and a half per Cent. 40, 401. — Detected Debt, i 15.16 —mAntort Syndic, four and a half per Cent. 64 651.—Amon $y misc., three and a half per Cent. 52, U. EXCHANGE ON LONDON.— 11„ 73-2 M. 11, 70.—Date a Papers, Wolter 23. SPIRIT OP TilE JOURNALS Texts.—A Norfolk county meeting took place on Saturday last,' and others are in progress elsewhere. for the purpose of petitioning Par. liament to take off the inalt.duty. This, upon the heels of the septet of the beet-duty, will not, we apprehend. be thought by the public at large very modest. The unanimity of the meeting for it was one of landowners and landholders against the rest of the community—was spoiled by the intrusion of a set of log icians equally unreasonable, who called out for a free trade in corn, and against the use of machinery in their manufactutes We say. that the object of the meeting was one in)urious to the interests of the community, for it was simply to enable landlords and their tenants to receive the whole of the money arising from the sale of their barleys, without suffering the government to par ticipate at all : and thus an increased taxation wonld be thrown upon all other branches of industry. The speech of Mr. Salmon. at tuts meeting, is, in truth, the only one deserving attention. POST.—Of all the subjects which will demand the attention of the Legislature on its approaching deliberations, the state of Ireland is that which appears to us to be most urgent and important. The condition in which, from the combined operation of numerous causes, society re mains in Ireland—in a country distinguished above most others by the bounty of Nature, rich in all the means of physical enjoyment, con. taining within itself in unmeasured abundance the element. of national prosperity and wealth—intimates, no doubt, a singular intractability and perverseness on the pan of a large proportion of its inhabitants, but intimates also, we fear, in a manner equally expressive , that the duty of Government toward; the Irish people has for sUCCISSire ages been very imperfectly fulfilled. The relation In which the rich and the poor bland towards each other in that country is, we are persuaded, the fertile source of many of the social ca lamities which Ireland has so long endured ; and, however excusable it may be, it is not the less a subject of regret that this relation has been comparatively disregarded, in consequence of the intense and unremit ted attention which the Government has been compelled to pay to the Irish nation in reference to its religious division into Catholics and Pro. tenants. For the purpose of obliterating this latter distinction, or of softening the asperities which it was found to produce, the British Go vernment has adopted the policy of placing the two parties on a foot. ing of social and political equality. This experiment. demanded by the fashionable liberality of the present day, is already seen to be a total failure. The Catholic question, which it was pro. posed for ever to extinguish, has again appeared under another name, but in a hem mere dangerous, and clothed in a cha racter of more inveterate hostility to the institutions uf the / tote, sad to the public welfare and tranquillity. The question of the Swede, Union, which now agitates Ireland, is the Catholic genii= let • etegs more advanced towards maturity, more formidable in he Nom" oil more epode in its dimensions. The former Catholic Chime vassal, that an admixture of Roman Catholics should be and Me the Pro testaat Government and Legislature el the United Ziagdwess. The present claim is, that a separate Legislature and Goestmeime shall be established in Ireland, then effect of which, la *Ades sham stances, would be to render the Government and Legislature el that country exclusively Catholic. The history of the ad Catholic Ques tion has, we rejoice to find, taught the British Govoutnent how to deal with the new one. Tux Csitoxichs.—The order of Lord Grey is unquestionably the mainstay of the English Constitution. The English Constitution, as if fa, gives the property of the House ofTommons to the House of Lords. The whole hinges on the property of boroughs being chit* in the House of Lords. This was dearly and explicitly stated by Mr. Burke, in his letter to the Duke of Portland ;—" They (the blew Whip) know," he says, " that the House of Lords is supported only by , Its cosan;ctioits with the Crown and with the House of Commons; and that without this double connection, the Lords could not exist a single year." Were there a representation of the people, based on a plan which should Identify the electors in interest with the people, we do not hesitate to say, the House of Peers could not exist. The Aristocracy would not be allowed to put their hands into the public purse were there a real and not a virtual representation, and an Arist ocracy cannot exist without a ready access to the public purse. This is a truth which we may be assured the Aristocracy have constantly present to their mind; and no man, however clever and ingenious, can ever render reform in any shape worth talking of at ell palatable to them. The great body of the Whigs are necessarily as averee to reform as the Tories. In short, the Reformers in Parliament must always be a very small body—a sort of outcast from their order, if they belong to the Aristocracy. Mr. Brougham must always be respected for his ta lents; but, he has on many occasions gone farther in his advocacy of popular rights than is acceptable to the Aristocracy, by whom he is necessarily mote feared than loved. It is, indeed, no easy task to define the limits in the cultivation of popularity which may not be overstepped. But however this may be, it is clear that the Aristocracy can never be brought to relish any plans by which their ascendancy may be curtailed. Again, the people are far more hostile to those who do not go all lengths with them than to their avowed enemies. In this way • member who seeks popularity is not always so sure of obtaining it as the hatred of the Aristocracy. We have from the first seen that this instinct of preservation would prevent anything like a cordial opposition to Ministers. The Aristocracy, we may be assured, dread nothing so much as change in the Constitution ; and they will never push Ministers so far as to render change probable. This is cunningly put forth by Mr. Croker towards the conclusion of the pmrphlet. The hanging back of the Aristocracy after the late French Revolution was a sign which he who runs may read. II x am.to.--Kinf's Speeches, which were formerly looked to as State documents of the highest authority and interest, have, of late years, sunk into a kind of milk-and-water nothingness, which has both de. graded the Regal character and the talents of the Statesman from whom thly have emanated. A new reign opens to the country a new era, and sds to the Statesmen of the present time an opportunity of rescuing both the Ring and the country from the degradation into which the eon. Lenient insipidity of these modern Parliamentary sepses have fallen ; and not only does the circumstance of a new reign call fur this shera. tion,lbut the new and interiiiiing situation in which both ourown country and Europe are plated demand from die Monarch, on his first address to a new Parliament, such a declaration of the views and policy of his Ministers, as may leave no doubts in the minds of rcsarnable men but that they are feelingly alive to the awful duties of their situation, and such a statement of their policy as the world at large, and their own po pulation in particular, may clearly understand. Of the composition of the King's Speech the country does not care so much as tUr the matter. A practised writer, like Mr. Canning, could have penned, had he been permiued, a 5 which would have der.ct•nded to posterity as a model in its way. (If the present Adniinistrati )))) , if we except the Noble Premier's own despatches from the field of battle, there is nut, we be lieve, a single individual who can be accused of the vulgarity of evet having written a line for the Press; and the forthcoming Speech, there fore, will possess all the freshness of a writer unhackneycd in the ways of type; but, whatever may be the nature of its eistenta, the insipidness displayed of late years will, we trust, be laid aside. The sorry at [tempt ,to propitiate all parties by satisfying nose will not, we hope, be resorted to, bat that the expectation of Europe and the country will be gratified, by an open, explicit, and mealy avowal of the views and policy which 'the greatest of its Monarchs designs fa r the greatest of Its kiagdeme. We do not wish to see out King's Speeches diverging into the interminable " lengthiness" it an American Presi dent's dissertation. At present the one mumbles the turbid, narrow wagon of nest Ditch, as compared to the wide-tread rapids of the Ilisshaippi: If our Statesmen would take a middle 001111 e, and give re aentething worthy of the stately and unajnetio Thames in he = to the ocean, the national vanity would be lettered, and the ehreasere better mouthed. 'rug d•y being the opeaiag of the new Parliament, • con manse et di c e: th E r t. u s heii by the Archbishop et Claisebory, attsotiol by the B sod Alphas's% sad the Pumas sad Civilises , et sic Paul's The lonia vas teed is leuto by the jotter Bixby t ibe.ipaa4 re Demo a•d as sadism was pseknood by the shoir, loathe whole wen ceseleisi with a LaUs sums. HIS 1114JESTIPS SPEECH AT LEWES. • On Friday lam their M --- " -.lP— ajesties sad suite honoured Lewes with a visit. They were received by the town suthocities and the inhabitants with every deinonstration of loyalty. and affection. Their Majesties partook of a luncheon prepared fqr them by Sir John Shelley and - Mr. Kamp, both of whom addressed their Majesties, to whoa the King replied in the fol lowing speech, which we extract from the Sussex Advertiser: In returning an astalrir to that which you, Sir, have just spolum.4 cannot help noticing, in ths dint place, that expression which you have just made use of, that you dim* me for the bestowment of my time upon the present occasion. In looking back upon the blessings which this country possesses. and is hells( grateful for them, it is always to beee membered that our time is to be devoted to those duties which belong to us in our several stations of life, in oder that we may enjoy all those blessings entire whilst we live, and hand them down. unimpaired. to those by whom we shall be anecoeded. I can assure you that 1 feel always, and it is a principle firmly fixed upon my mind, that the time of the Sovereign is due to the station over which he is called to reign— and that my time is always well bestowed in furthering the happiness and interests of the people. It certainly is a circumstance well worthy of remark, that so long a period as 600 years should have elapsed since lasts King of this COllO - has been present in this ancient and loyal borough. My lamented brother, his late Majesty, who, where he was most known, was always best beloved, having, from the state of his health, been unable to see so much of his subjects in this neighbourhood as he otherwise un doubtedly would have done, it is gratifying to me, in that steel= it. which Providence has now placed me, to have an opportunity of so doing. By a late arrangement, it has been provided that whatever pro perty any monarch of this country may purchase, at his decease shall, if not otherwise disposed of by will, become the property of his ',w eeper. In this way, the Palace at Brighton, the property of his late Majesty. has come into the possession of his Crown; and it is path cularly gratifyitg to me, connected and conversant as I hive been from myearly youth with naval affairs, that this. which may be called a na sal palace, should at my accession have first become the property of the Crown. " I have been so frequently in this neighbourhood * and,in the Cornier part of my life, spent so much time in this county, that I can never, at any time, consider myself a stranger in it, but as residing in a county to which I have long and happily been accustomed. Intend. ing annually to live some considerable portion of time in It, I have commanded that the tailitis of the county shall bear in future the tame of the }toys! Sussex Militia--a name which I have great pleasure in bestowing, and which, I believe, is usual where a Royal residence is for any length of time established. "I have always been attached to agricultural pursuits; and I need scarcely say to you, Gentle•en of SUIJCZ, that this county is highly in teresting to every lover of agriculture—not only from its productive soil, but from that excellent breed of sheep, which may perhaps be con sidered as the best which England anywhere produces. I consider the county of Sussex as one also of the best-conducted, most loyal, and exemplary counties in the kingdom. " I feel great gratification, Gentlemen, in the visit which I am paying to this town. I accept, with pleasure, the manifestations of loyalty and which have been made to me; and I conclude by wishes fur the I tZ a f: l e of the inhabitants, and by thanking you, and by drinking to your continuance in good health." The King, after a short pause, again spoke, and added as follows : " There is, Gentlemen, one point which I have passed over, but of which it was my intention to have taken notice. You have drunk health of her Majesty the Queen, and, in returning you my thanks, I meant to have done the same on her part also. " Among the many favourable circumstances under which Paov t- DUNCE has called me to ascend the Throne of this country, there is none for which I feel more grateful, or on which I set a higher value, than that it had previously been my happy fortune to he married to au 1 individual so excellent in every amiable and good feeling—ln dila country character finds its way forth into the world, and is always know!, ; I have no doubt, therefore, that you are already well aware of what would say; but I must take the opportunity of speaking what I most sincerely am convinced of—that her Alajesty, who bits before you, pos senses every estimable quality calculated to give worth and lustre to her exalted station. Of this lam satisfied also, that a great share of that good and kind feeling which has been so largely manifested towards me since 1 have occupied the Throne, has not only been due to her estinutb:e qualities, but has strictly and truly been exhibited and paid on account of that sense which is entertained of them." This gracious speech was listened to with the deepest at tention. His Majesty spoke in the kindest and most bene volent manner, and appeared to feel most sincerely every good sentiment which he uttered. Her Majesty the Queen appeared anxiously interested from the commencement of his Majesty's speech ; and, when be so jnstly spoke of her self, was considerably affected by the strength of his Ma jesty's language in her praise. His Majesty was heard to say, while at table, that his re ception on that day formed a most agreeable rehearsal of the Lord Mayor's day, which he will attend on the 9th of No vember. RADII /LOGGING IN Tat MINT AND NAVY. Yesterday evening, •t eight o'clock, a very numerous assemblage took place at the Rotunda. Blackfriars-road, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of petitioning the King on the subject. of the torture which was inflicted both in the army and navy by means of flogging. Mr. HZNIIT HUNT, on taking the Chair, stated that lie was happy to announce to the Muting the revival of the Radical Reform Asso ciation, the members of which bad thought fit to call the present Meet ing. That night they had met for the first time to discuss a subject of considerable importance and interest, viz. the bru tal punishment inflicted in the Army and Nary—Aeggiag.— People might a•y, on hearing of the meeting, that he (Air. Hunt wished to court the favour of the soldiers. This was no such thing. Although be had sympathy for them for being placed under such punishment, still be detested them as a standing any, and inimical to the liberties of the country. He hoped that be should live to see the time when • standing army would be abolished, and the country have such a guard ,t France had—a National Guard.—(Loud applause, and cries of Crave !) Mr. Hunt here described, in a way that has often been dente better, the sufferings experienced by a "poor devil " when tied up to tl c halberts, and the circumstance of the surgeon standing by for the purpose of see ing to what length the torture could be carried vu. He alluded to the late punishment of a soldier in the Tower for having been found asleep when on duty. In the time of war, such an ect as this wax punishable by death ; but in peace the humane legislators had thought proper to limit it to Buggies a punishment which was, perhaps, ten times more horrible to a man than death. He was glad to see that the prevent Ministry never attacked the peo ple, as was the case in the days of Castlereagh aid Canning, and that they appeared to have a desire to relieve their distresses. The Beer Dill was next introduced by Mr. Hunt. lie thought that sac one instance of their desire, although it was not a very great boon to the people. He said that he had a share in the introduction or that Bill. it was not any measure of the Whig., but the production of himself and the Duke of Wellington. A eorrespondeore had passed between them, in which be had given his plan. When the Vf.MUTII ss brought into the House, he was surprised to ITe that some cf his leo moms, besides great part of his plan. von contained in it. D►. A. Tsoursow followed Mr. Hurt, sad stated, After ducaing the honors of flogging, that it never prr.duetd the effect which it 16AA intended to do; men who were II ggid ormercifully for an (Keret. hesitated to commit it again, in she same way es boys robbed orchards and henroosts, although frelutatly punished for so doing. I f they were to be punished, let them be deprit.d of their rations and salaries. Mr. ('smug, LA seconding pc muted that he had been met in the Navy, and metabolised Dr. Thompson as to the inelleity of the ati. nishment. Men who were logged never held up their beads dm. but in general tumid out drunkards and 'agate& Mr. Cleave stated that lads under 21, or unrated seamen, were tied to a gun and Ikea's!. in the indecent way of boys at some schools. He himee9 had sit nessed an instance of this in • brave yoang fellow, who, slier be ng severely dogged for a trifling offs:4e, was completely cue-rat:tin and never had that jocular 'exvrtseion which be hal previcuely. He had knows) him as a brae and excellent seaman in three boat actions, but he of erlrartiq beeline a vagabond, brought his 0 1 4 mother to the grave, and was drowsed in the inlet of some wrongful action. Plugging' were ordered to be given an account of in the sh p's log-book, but this was generally tvgdid by logging the sus with their clothes on.—• punishment which, although as severe as on their bare becks, was not called flogging. He mentioned with great praise Capt. Hercules &Masan, of the K. N. with whom be had sailed 9 months, and who never /ogged--eay. log be never would revenge errors of the bead by panishing - the she. Mr. HUT then read the ittelotion, and pat it to the assembly. . ' Mr. Watson thee moved the following &solstice, which was sc. need and agreed to:— "That it is notteition that the teeniest to which inctividiuggie the Army and Navy are exposed, I. ialtuntan s cruel, and inelisseisse, and ought to be abolished, and that a Pewit* be new enbetitted to the Meeting be adoption, and be wonted to ids Majesty. peeging fee the ininsediate abolition of that Amid and towobbi paetiee." Mr. °Barr. at • late brat, in an sereaing and able speech apair.st the Whigs, mains and usiodere4 owed dial% ' praying ette thew of -the Swift specs Asia& be alsplsand ' presented en the Iltey Mr. Hunt. . . petition prayed that W Majesty won* ellidialt the penlabinene from die Assay sad Navy, NA was staid by the Minds of LAW Rehm ;;,1 ! o • i ;