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Ild Lamb ..... Veil ..... ...... 1s Btl to bs 4d Hay (per load), 42 its. to 24 5.. Clover, 23 Os. to 15 ba.— Straw, 41 10s. to 41 10a. C4)AL-RICHANGII., Dic. 110. Ships arrived during this month During the week Deg Walliend Coals (tiller sorts Ships at Market, 92. Til E EVENING STAR. LOS' DON. MONDAY. DECEMBER 20. Despatches are this day received at the Foreign Office from their Excellencies Lord STUART DE ROTHSAY, our Ambassador at Paris, and from Sir CHARLES BAGOT, our Ambassador at the Hague. This day despatches were received at the Colonial Office from Major-General Sir rimy TURNER, Governor of the Bermudas, dated the 9th of November ; and from Major-Gen. Sir P. MAITLAND, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, dated Halifax, 28th November. 'this afternoon the Prince TALLEYRAND and Count Butow had a long conference with Lord PALMERSTON, at the Foreign Office. At a late hour this afternoon, the highly important intel hgence has been received, from Antwerp, dated the 17th instant, to the effect, that upon 'Change it was announced, that the King of HOLLAND had fully acknowledged the Armistice. We have Hamburgh papers this day, which convey the momentous intelligence, that very serious disturbances bad occurred in St. Petersburgh. The details are imperfect; but so much has tianspired,as to have involved two persons of distinction. Prince GA LETZI N was imprisoned, and after wards banished to Archangel. At the date of the last ac counts, the disturbances had been suppressed by the Private advice. are in town this morning, from Switzer land, giving au account of the organization of a military force, of one hundred and twenty thousand men, to pro tect, and cause to be respected, the independence of the Helvetic Republic. ____ Letters from Bayonne, dated the 12th inst, are this day received, from which we learn, that for the present, Arra gen is tranquil. Preparations against contingencies are, at the same time, in active progress ; and among others, the garrison of St. Sebastian is reinforced, and provisioned, to a great extent. We are this day favoured with the perusal of several let ters from Flanders ; one of which mentions the appointment of an Inspector-General, who is forthwith to proceed along the whole of the frontiers, to examine the condition of the different fortresses, which are all immediately to be put in a state of defence : that of Valenciennes is .forthwith to have new cannon mounted on its ramparts . We have a Halifax mail this morning, which sailed on the 28th,November. By this conveyance, we have papers from St. John e, New Brunswick, to the 21st November, stating that great exertions aro about being made in Newfound land to obtain a Local Legislature, and a House of Assem bly. Public meetings have been held ; and great unanimity and zeal appear on the subject. It wiJi be seen by our extract* from the French Papers, received by Estatefte this morning, that the Polish revolu tion is becoming less ambiguous in character, and that its real object—the re-edification of Poland as an independent State—will, before long, in all probability, be publicly an nounced to the world, as the decision of the Diet, now, it way be supposed, in full convocation, on that import ant subject. The usual temporary arrangements to se cure unity and vigour, for the direction of those ever- ' _wee, by which alone the cause can prosper, have taken place. General CLOPICKJ, who had taken the command of dr.) Polish army, has been raised to the rank of Dictator, until the decision of the Diet appoint • more legitimate provisional authority. It will be seen, with great satisfaction, that the Polish troops, and the officers, with few exceptions, have rallied round the popular standard ; and as far as intelli gence has yet reached this country, nothing appears to check those hopes of ultimate success, in which all liberal minds must participate. It will be seen below, that some of the political writers of France, are assuming, on the part of their country, a tone of defiance, and almost menace, which many will think— as is said in that country,—ws peu trop fiirt ; but, perhaps, strictly speaking, if the observance of a per fect international policy, is alone to prevent war in Europe, it may be argued, that the compact of peace is broken be tween all, when any one of the Powers, whatever be their locality, shall cross with armies their own boundaries. The conduct of NAPOLEON towards Naples, and the Italian States, was argued by British politicians as an infraction of the Treaty of Amiens, between France and this country, quite adequate to occasion the recommencement of hos tilities ; and, therefore, if a cause for foreign war be an object with the French Government—if tl.ey should see, as they must sea, and as all civilized Europe must see— that the reduction of the Power of Russia, by tho re-eeta blishment of Poland, would be desirable, they need not be confined to sit in stubborn neutrality, for want of a legitimate pretext for war, whenever Austria or Prussia lend the co-operation of their armies,to crush the present re volutionary movement in Poland. If France be distant from Poland, so is Russia from Belgium ; and if the inter vention of France, in the affairs of the latter, would be considered adequate to vindicate the hostility of Rus sia towards France, why, we would ask, should not the intervention of Prussia or Austria, in the af fairs of Poland, be considered an equally valid cause, for the hostile interference of France in the same affair? Aro not Belgium and Poland precisely similar cases ? Is not Russia, in its relation to Poland, exactly analogous to Holland in its relations to Belgium ? If Prance were to sup port the patriots of Brussels, would it be an intervention to vindicate the hostility of Russia to France ? If so, we maintain, that an analogous intervention on the part of Austria or Prussia, against the patriots of Warsaw, would be quite adequate to vindicate, in the eyes of all impartial judges, the hostility of France towards those powers. The reasoning in the Times on this subject, we deem quite un sound. We have neither time nor space, to pursue, at any length this day, our remarks on the subject of Parliamentry Re form, as we had intended ;—but we are a little anxious to make a correction in one part of what we advanced on Sa turday. We stated that the present qualification fur electors of shires, had its date front the reign of Enwaaa I. and was obscure in its origin. We find on reference to authorities, that it originated by Act of Parliament, in the Bth of Hsu RY the Stxvn ; and that the preamble of the Act sufficiently explains its object ; for it states the reason for restraining the exercise of the elective franchise, to the proprietors of freeholds of forty shillings, clear in come, to be the inconvenience experienced at elections, from " the great, outrageous, and excessive number of dwellers in counties of small substance, and no value." It has been argued by PaYss a, that previously to this act, the franchise was universal; but a fair view of all that has been written en the subject, in our opinion, leaves the infer ence, that the franchise never extended beyond the heads of families, or housekeepers paying the taxes of those times, the scutage or land-tax, or the talliage or property-tax, paid by the residents in towns, cities, and burghs ; and, therefore, that still some degree of property or importance in the parochial community, as rate-payers, was essential. To attain definite views of this obscure part, in constitutional history, it is evident, that the enquirer must include, in his researches, a history of the people, in their gradual elevation from glebe bondage. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE-EXCLUSIVE. PARIS. Drc. 18. There would be too much of simplicity on our part not to profit by all the advantage of our position. The absolute governments of Europe seek in vain to throw division amongst us, with their old lumbered monarchies ; we shall be better listened to and more strong, in speaking to their people of constitutions and independence. We see the inquietude for thrones from the disinterested and liberal position of France ; we see that the cabinets would prefer making war to support despotism; but why then seek war :1 they expose themselves to the chances of invasion 1 If they forget the respect due to liberal policy—if they will meddle with the interior affairs of the people—the people are well prepared to meddle with the affairs of kings ; a day of reckoning commences, and where will it end ? Yes ! in spite of the grand exclamations of the Quotidiesne, the principle of intervention put in before by the cabinets drew the war into a popular circle ; we must use, as in the revo lution, all our advantages ; so much the worse for the crowns who wish to drive, when they have the power to lead." —Courrier Francais. The law upon the raising of 80,000 men found only two black balls; but how could it otherwise when upon all points of France the young men outstrip the call ? The voluntary enrolments are so numerous, that there are more soldiers for the defence of the country than is claimed. Noble and ge nerous rapture ! It is always the France of 1789, with its patriotism, its warlike instinct, its enthusiasm for glory and liberty ; it is the France of Marengo and Austerlitz refreshed by a long repose, ripened by misfortune, initiated by 15 years of apprenticeship, and of continued struggles in the cause of liberty.— Courrier Francais. The last accounts from Warsaw state the previous intel ligence true, u to a division of the Lithuanian army, about from 25,000 to 30,000 strong, having declared favourable to the Polish independence, and that the Lithuanian regiment of the Imperial Guard, which went with the Grand Duke Constantine in his retreat, had returned to Warsaw.—Mes sager des Chambres. The National of Saturday morning says—" The Russian Embassy received despatches yesterday, from which it ap pears, that the Emperor Nicholas is about to march with all his forces against Poland. His intention is said to be to raze Warsaw to the ground. to disperse the Polish nation, to transport the inhabitants into the interior of Russia, and colonize Poland with Russians and Germans. It is to be hoped that this menace will have the same result as that of the Duke of Brunswick, who, in 1792, threatened to level Paris with the ground."—Galignani. The following is an extract of a private letter of the Bth instant, tram Dresdia:-0 , We learn from WNW" dila the mmilmt which took play in that capital, in the night of the 29th tilt. was most murderous. The victims on both sides are computed at 6,000. Among the generals of the Grand Duke who lost their lives, are Messrs. Kooning and Gordon, the latter having been stabbed with a bayonet, which was evidently aimed at the Grand Duke Constantine himself. The body of the Minister of War, General Haucke, was dragged through the streets and cut into pieces. He was one of the slaves always most devoted to the tyrant. The Silesian regiments, which were on their march towards the Rhine, have received counter orders, and are hastening back. A rumour, proceeding from the Prussian Legation, has been afloat since yester day, of Moscow having been the theatre of a bloody revo lution, in which several general officers wore killed. It is not stated which party was finally victorious ; and, in short, it is difficult to say whether the report is true or false."— Galignani. A journal has announced, that after a very animated de bate in the Council of Ministers, couriers were depatched to our Ambassadors at Berlin, Vienna, and London, who were the bearers of instructions to declare to the three Courts, that in case Prussia and Austria should join Russia to sub due Poland, France would consider such interference as a declaration of war. We do not know on what ground this fact is stated, but it would be wholly conformable to the attitude which our diplomacy at length assumes. The Minister of Foreign Affairs has perceived, that he spoke in the naiue of a nation that feels its strength and dignity.— Consitu tionnel. They have been busy with a project for fortifying Paris We do not enter, on this subject, into technical discussion it would not be convenient for onr sheets; but, for Go D's sake ! no citadels. Montmartre had been crowned with cannon ; the ordonnanees of the 25th of July would have been executed, or Paris would have been a heap of ruins. The Prince who gives the order to hold firm, and to act against the multitude, would not hesitate to burn the capital. Let us not forget the example of Antwerp. Good kings pass away, but citadels remain."—Juurmul du Commerce. CITY, ONE O'CLOCK. Consols, which left off on Saturday at 81a for tho ac count, opened at 814, went up to 811; at present they are 8141. Little or nothing doing in the foreign market as yet. Accounts from Paris state, that a meeting took place at the Town-house, at Paris, to propose an establishment for a discount bank : its capital is to be 30 millions francs. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. Consols have been, during the mornin4., in a very figity state, continually fluctuating, from 811 down to 811; up again to Blel, and at present they are 8111 for tho account. As the King of Holland has at last agreed to an armistice, we may soon expect the affairs of Belgium to be settled. In the Foreign market little doing. THE ZING'S COURT. BRIGHTON, Dec. 18. Their MAs EST lEd arrived here this afternoon, at a quarter before fivo(by themselves), in a travelling chariot. Prince Grottos of Cambridge, accompanied by his pre ceptor, the Rev. Mr. Wool), followed immediately after wards in another carriage. The Duke of SUSS E K in another. Colonel F. and Lady AUGUSTA FITSCLARiNCI, and Ras FITZCLA RSNCE in another. The Marchioness of WSLLSSLET arrived, as Lady-in . . . Waiting. - Sir FRIIDIRICIS WATSON and Mr. BAaTow arrived yesterday. On their MAJESTIES arrival at the entrance of the town, the Royal Standard was hoisted on the tower of St. Peter's Church, and immediately after on the parish Church. A Royal salute was fired from the battery, where the Royal Standard was also hoisted. Notwithstanding the severity of the weather, an immense number of persons thronged ,to catch a view of their MAJESTIES, and most enthusias tically cheered them as the Royal carriage passed along the streets to the Palace. Immediately after their MAJESTIES' arrival, several dis tinguished persona called at the Palace and left their names; amongst them were—Lord and Lady CLINTON, Sir W. WALLER, Mr. E. A. WALLER, Mr. and Mrs. BARRLTT, Lady and Misses TROLLOPE, Captain and Mrs. FULLER, Major-General UPTON, Lady MARY SHEPPARD, Miss SHEPPARD, Sir R. and Lady OTTWAY, Captain Sir H. Salon, Lieut.-Colonel CLIVE, Rev. Dr. EVERARD, and Captain Sir J. BURGOYNE. The Dinner Party, in addition to the Royal Suite, yester day, consisted of Sir WATKINS WALLER and Mr. E. A. WALLER. SUND4Y,_DEc. 19. Their MAJESTIEs attended Divine Service this morning in the Chapel; in the pew with them ware the Duke of SUSSEX, Prince GioaGE of Cambridge, Lord and Lady CLINTON, the Bishop of CHICHESTER, and the Nlarchioneni of WEL , LESLRY. The Chapel was filled with Nobility : most of the Household were present. The Rev. Mr. Ev lIRARD read! , the prayers and officiated at the altar ; the Rev. Mr. WAG NER preached a very eloquent and impressive sermon, taking his text from let chapter of St. JOHN, 27th verse. Mr. Gu TTERIDO E presided Rt the organ. The Princess AUGUSTA attended Divine Service at the Chapel Royal, where a Charity Sermon was preached. The following Nobility and . Gentry left their cards of enquiry at the Pavilion : Sir M. Lady, and Mi.,. TIRRN EY, Countess HUNTING DON, Captain H. and Mrs. MURRAY, Mrs. DAWSON, Earl and Countess of BILAUCHAMP, Sir G. Lady, and Miss SIIITFN CR, the Hon. Mrs. A. and Miss COCHRANE, Lieut.-General and Mrs. EGRRTON, Lady HERON MAX WILL and Mill MAXWELL, Lady CARR and Misses PER.. CEVAL, Sir C. and Lady BLUNT, Sir WARREN PEA.- COCKZ, Lady and Miss FREILM•NTLE, Earl of BUBO ROUOII, Mr. and Lady BARBARA PONSON BY, Sir HENRY, Lady, and Miss CAMPBELL, Sir G. POWNELL, Countess of NEWBURY, and the Ladies EYRIE, Mrs. and the Misses COD RTNRY Boric, Sir GEORGE and Lady Po coca, Mr. and Lady SARAH BAYLEY, Lord SUSIBRX LINNOX, Mr. and Lady JANE PEEL, Lord and Lady RENDLESEIM, COL DOWNIE/LK, Mrs. Dowd m•x, Lord G. Lady and Missed Say movie, Lord Jonx Tow Hamann, Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES CRAVEN, M r . an d Mrs. Baum. lama., Mr. and Lady E. DICKENS, Sir S•NDFORD and Lady GRAHAM, Countess of CARHA hIPTON, Sir D. Lady and Miss SCOTT, Mr. and Miss KEMP, Lady Caroline and Misses DUNDAS, Lady LAMBERT, Mrs. an d MISS UP• TOWS, Captain and Lady S. HoTHAn, Captain and Mrs. FR•NKLAND. Sir W. BEECHEY. - - Their Majesties, accompanied by Prince George of Cam bridge, left their Palace, at St. James's, about 11 o'clock on Saturday morning, attended by their suite in four travelling carriages and four, with outriders, for the Palace at Brighton. The Marquis of Anglesea took leave of the King at an audience on Thursday, at the palace at St. James's. The noble Marquis left town the same afternoon for Ireland. Divine Service was performed by the Chaplain to the Duchess of Kent yesterday, in the private Chapel at the Kin's Palms, at Kensington, before the Duchess of Kent the Princess Victoria and their Royal Highnesses' house- bold. NOT lICLIIIIIVZ. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS. TRIAL. OF THE EX-MINISTERS.—(Fourre DAY.) PARIS, Dec. 18. Letters of yesterday will have acquainted you with the close of the evidence for the prosecution. The Commis sioners (Commissaires) appointed by the Chamber of Depu ties to ccnduct it, will this day address the Court in support of the charges, after which the evidence for the defence will be proceeded with. A report, which I inclose, will, however, more fully satisfy you on that head. The appearance of the neighbourhood of the Luxem bourg was this morning more tranquil than on that of /my day since the commencement of the trial, a consequenc e foreseen from the anticipated rigour of the season. The snow lay deep on the ground, which, aided by a sharp north west wind, deterred the people from assembling to indulge their curiosity. The tribunes (galleries) of the Court were, however, Le cupied as early as usual. Previously to the commencenieLt of the proceedings, an old gentleman entered the Chamhe , , and conversed a few moments with a member of the bar. In reply a person next me said' that is NI. &pier, president of the four Royale. He is now, you observe, on easy anti familiar terms with the Libiraux—but had we failed in chasing Charles X. and his myrmidons from Paris, and in effecting our Revolution, M. Seguier would be at this m, meat not an auditor and spectator of the trial of the Minis ters of the ex-King, but sitting in judgment on Lafitte, Gerard, Casimir Perrier, and Lobau, and would condemn them too." At a quarter put ten o'clock the prisoners entered in di.• usual order, preceded by two officers, and followed by soldiers of the Garde Municipale. The Peers entered im mediately after. The prisoners appeared this day to participate in the general belief of all who have attended to the evidenci. They seemed even cheerful, and saluted various persons the tribune near them. At half-past ten o'clock M. Persil rose, and addressed the Court in the followiug terms.— [We have received a verbatim report of the speech of the Learned Commissioner, for which, however, we have not room this day. W e shall, therefore, confine ourselves to a mere outline of it, furnished by one of our own Correspondents :---] M. Persil commenced by referring to the circumstances which preceded and provoked the revolution, dwelling with eulogy on the difference between the effects of the late and the former resolution. Instead of taking vengeance into their own hands, as did the revolutionists of 1789, the French peo pie of 1830 transferred those whom they deemed guilty of treason to tho country to the legal Tribunal. The restoration formed a leading feature in the speech of M. Persil. Ile described it as the result of a humi liating invasion, Louis XVIII. having been placed and maintained ou the throne only by the power of foreign bayonets. A Charter was, however, given to the natii n, which the people observed with good faith, for they were tired of revolutions. They did not approve it altogether, because they saw it founded on exceptionable principles but they conformed to it in preference to that perilous alter native, another revolution. Louis XVIII. remained faithfr.l to it—for he knew that to deviate from it would be the signal for the overthrow of the Bourbon dynasty. Not so Charles X. who foully violated it. Under the guise of Charles X. the people soon recognised the Count D'Artois. The steps of the throne were occupied by, and the Court of Charles X. was filled with, the former friends and intimates of the Count D' Artois. The task of preserving and administering tb , Charter, was in addition, or, perhaps, in consequence, cou fided to its most determined enemies. [Here M. Persil en tered into a detailed history of the ministries of MM. de Vil lele, Martignac, and the various ministerial changes which took place up to the period, when, on the Bth of August last year, the Prince de Polignac was placed at the head of the Ministry. After referring to the other individuals who formed the Polignac Cabinet he proceeded to descrih , the means by which they attempted to destroy the Charter]. Finding some of tbemembers of the government indisposed to go to such extremes, MM. Courvoisier and Chabrol were superseded by M. Chantelause and Guernon Renville. This perfected (continued M. Persil), the mini-try proceeded with their projected assaults on the Charter, be ginning by dissolving that Chamber of Deputies in which they had been defeated by those 221 patriotic members t whom France was not sufficiently grateful—(Hear.) II , then proceeded to describe the manner in which the ordi nances of 25th July were proposed and carried in Council. A voice from one whom he would not name, said " dissolve the Chamber—suspend the liberty of the press—subjugate France." From the 15th to the 25th July the ordinances,with these views, were discussed in Council. They were oppose d. but ineffectually, by MM. de Peyronnet and Guerrieri Ranville, for on the 25th they were signed by all the mem ber.; of the Cabinet. This act was hardly consummated. when the authors of it became aware of its stupendous importance. They remained for some time in stupor. The dangers they had exposed themselves to, and to which they had exposed France, flashed upon their minds, and they were paralysed with terror. But they wore soon roused from their torpor by the occurrence of that just resistance which they had provoked. So early as on the 26th July the people began to assemble, and e \ reed their sense of the wrongs sought to be inflicted on them. The crowds consisted in the beginning principally of the eurkim: classes, among whom the printers were particularly roan ment. [M. Persil then described the events of that day, the attack on the hotel of Prince Polignac, icc.] Up to that mo ment (asked M. Persil) how had the Ministers been occu pied ? " Having created chaos," said he, " it I may be al lowed to use the figure—they rested from their labour." (Hear.) He then described the first firing on and sabreing of the people by the gendarmerie and Garde Royale, and dwelt upon the circumstance of a young officer of a regi ment of the line having refused to fire on the citizen., al though ordered by a superior officer of gendarmerie, ar.aed with written authority. " Honour," said M. Persil, " to that young soldier who did not, as the Garde Royale had done, recognise and obey the prin c iple o f p ass i v e obedience! . —(hear, hear.) He then dwelt upon the culpable igno rance of the Ministers, who remained throughout the day and night of Tuesday, the 26th, unacquainted with the indignation of the people and the effervescence produced throughout Paris by the ordinances. Recalled, how ever, to a sense of danger by the events of Tuesday night land Wednesday morning, they determined ripen exertion—not to allay—but to increase the storm.—" May France perish," said they, " rather than that the or dinances be repealed !" (Hear, bear.) He then referred to the act of Council, by which Paris was declared in a state of siege. " The first city of France," said he, " was placed beyond the protection of the law for having revolted against ordinances, the produce of the perjury of those who had sworn to maintain her charter and her institutions ; and the citisens were hewed down in thousands by the parricidal hands of men armed for their protection." (Hear.) Having returned from St. Cloud with the ordinance for placing Paris in a state of siege, the Minister issued an ordinance for the ar rest of the forty-five editors of the Paris Journals, who had signed the resolution to disregard the attack on the liberty of the press; which order was not executed, certainly, but the omission was duo not to returning sense and compassion lo; , , of r ~~ , ~~~ •Y