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f•r the Noble Lord against whom he understood it was directed, yet he could not possibly see how the flour could reject this Petition at first .i►;ht. Let i ► he received. and afterwards dealt with as it might d .As to the difficulty which might weer by a Committee of Privilege taking girt a rolij-et which more particularly belonged 11. an Election Committee, that could hr obviated h►• the Mime postponing receiving the Report I.lllle Cum•witlee ni Privilege, until after it WII4 sere whether any other Petition woul•l he presented to the Electi ('ommittee. The propi•soinn for re j,...,,„;: i h r ~,,, as it Wwi Slut , 111541fe, CfIIIIII ►.rat, lie lloonglile IreviVe Ittr coocUrrroet of the I louse.—// bur.) Lord Cu %RUE!, CHURCHILL, repeated his anxiety that the prayer or the Petitioners should Ise corn to clod& his Noble relative to remove the imnnt►tsons which were cast upon lulu. WvEN repeated his former observatinti. but said he c (odd not press the I to a division ou the •nhiect stow. • The Petition was then read. it set forth, that his Grace George Doke of rls►lhnronxh, its violation of the Standing Order of that Douse, had in the ht. Ott tion for Ml.•nthers to serve in Parlia ment fur the city of Oxford, openly and notori ously given a suns or 2,500/. or the greater part thereof, in procuring the return of General St. John. as one of the said Aletnhers, who was put in rumination at the express desire, and ny the con. rummer or hi. Grove, who during the election had ilterferesl to procure the return of the said Geue►al St. Jielsto, contrary to the Standing Order cf the noise. The Petitioners prayed that their Petition be velaired ton Committee of Privilege, to examine the matter thereof. 111-. C. W. WYNN raid, that now n 9 die Petition bred h«.ri reed, his opinion was more P trong that this was an Election Petition, and not one which enteit to Ire solimitted to a Committee of Ptivilege. Petition which stated facts. that, if proved true, re , •tb-r sit election null and void, was, he contended, strictly an Election Petition. The Pe. titinuer•, rim were frames, of Osford. Mated, that a l'eer bad interfered, by bribery, in their election, sod bad by that iuterfwpnce frellird the return of one of the piesent *Wit% Members. No doubt if this were proved the eletition meet be declared null and rni , l. Ile could nut at the instant recollect particular cousin point. but in the Petition of Mr. I 1-iriee Tooke the House postponed the considera. tool for a day, to reamh far precedents. Ile would .irotigly recommend a similar postponemeot on the peps'. nt occasion. 'I be Fressits "aid. that if the words in one rtrivinisli of the Petition were literally taken it was 1.1.-sots an Clection• Petition, and mast be laid en the t rl.le iii the way such Petitions were signally I:resented to the Ilona,. But if the flunae hail any doubt on the subject, twrliatts the better ensure v °old be to postpone the considerati 111 l of the Peti tion f.w a slay, with a view of aw.ertaining whether the bteral meaning of the particoler words; received ior filcher :planation from the context of the (/•t the 'notion of M. C. _.'YNN the further enusitlerstwto of this Petition was portisontil until Mondry ore. V ft l*l 4)1 1.1 S.l ro Mi h• H th /.11 WECT3IINCTER lIVSTMGS. Oa the motion of Alf. BRIJ PIETT, the Honss re solved itself iota a Committee on the Westinioster Ilustiog. WI, and the Report was ordered to be rev rived on Monday nest. COM), TT rEE OP SUPPLY —STATE OF THE SILVER CURRENCY. The (7itsxeritt.ol of the ExcMcQuaa moved, this' the Order of the Day be reed for the House v ino iiito re Committee of Supply. He made this 'notion for the purpose of pompouir.g 11w Commit ter until Iloitelay pry. Mr. CRES TSLL said, that on Wednesday evening lie had called the attention of the !louse to a subject al great importauer relative to the Silver Currenry if the country. He had then stated, that the standard price of silver ill, at the jot-sent moment, 5 7141. per ounce, being lid. iii the ounce above what ss fixed by the Mint regulations—null, at the time these regulations were made, in the year be fore last, silver ass from four to five per rent. above tile psier then quoted. NOW it must be evident to very Gentleman* who understands the subject, that, as soon as the standard pike of silver shall arrive at which will afford a temptation of profit, either by melting or exporting. from that moment the country would experience a gradual rlimi:rpearatice of the silver currency lately circulated, in the tame stay, mill owing to the same cause, to which the dis appearance of the gold coin may be attributed. Oil Thursday morning he went into the City fur the purpose of ascertaining with full precision the state • of the bullion market, :tool lie asceitained from the Hoot aceurate sources that the market price of bilVcr, tint of dollars, but of the silver such as was used iu the Mint coinage, was 51. I'd. (not ss. 71d ) pre ounce. The prawn! weight of silver was then at the rate of 675. The coutitry was at present ' placsil in this situation, that 66 Allot shillings were 1.1 be looked ninon as equal to 674. according to the market price of silver. That was precisely the situations of the present silver coittage ; a • that ibrongli di...estrum of the Cliatii•ellor of the Fische. quiet. errsuits were. ridiculous!; called upon to sal': ,sat Vie. were equal to 675. At the 'busted mar ket price a molter had only to put 665. of the Mint iiito bit cultl6le, in a sharp lite, as the welters t. ruled it, mid out rime, aft. r the process, re lump f .olvrr winch. when 1•Ikeil !till) the market, pro. ..•tl in a 111.11it1. 1 Of II slulhug ober the I I . 1 , rt !WV (slue.. Tilr tilt regulation price had! ',rally met his appr..bAion, hist slot so the sr. toohate suspension of the Bank paymetits in specie: The R, lit lion. Cientleniati (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) had said on a former bight thit this •ate of the silver curreory was not I.kely to be .f long duration. tie (11 r. Cretileli) had 110 ' ulb in the Right Honourable Gentletuali's .spectations ; he could not countenance his hopes nor his prophecies, connected with the resumption rif creek payments. Every heady rementhered the Hight prophecy before the Committee —that Bank cash payments mild soul, be resumed, and that in f.ct the public 11-Ida Mork note in the same estimation they slid guiriea. But before the tusk was dry which its Resolution was transcribed I his paper to the intoned. of the Ilmise.—iii the niaiket, where' tie II: glut Hots propliecics ceived little attention, that Book note for 20s. which was in inch estimation, that recording to the Right lion. Gentleman's declaration, a person had only to add a shilling to it and receive a guinea in ex eh:sage—to that very Rink note was obliged to he added lour or five shillings before one man could get a gonna in exchange for it. The Right lion. Gentleinais may say that it was illegal to melt the coin of the realm—no doubt it was ; but yet no thing was more absurd and sidiculnies than this law, which prevented any min from melting down the coin or bullion Pis lie pleased. This law was lint only impolitic, but founded upon the grossest and every writer store the days of Locke had so described it, and maintained that the coin ill hi he either exportable or meltable, at the option of the holder. Ile called this law absurd. because experience ',hewed it to he impracticable, and that no Act would prevent the exportation or the melting whenever it was the interest of the bolder to do either. Ile thought it right to call the attention of the House to this subject, for if the market price of silver continued at the present rate, the country would levee its silver coin joist MS it lost its gold, lie saw then nothing for the coons try but to take from the Chancellor of the Ex chtquer, after hit' paper pound, a paper shilling. Mr. 11'. W. Put.E. was glad to find that he had mistaken the first observation of the Ilmiourable Gentleman, and that he meant to east no attuned verstosi upon the system of the coinage. Ile cons ctirred to the Honourable Gentlenieses listrovish meta and regret, that the market price should he 675. which was certainly a shilling over the Mint regulation prier. When the great question former ly came before the (louse, the principle adopted wa s, to make one of the precious metals (gold) the standard value, and the other (silver) a sort of con venient medium, es counters fur change, to serve the general business of society. Every step was taken at the time to protein the two metals from clashing with each other. The Honourable Gen. !lemon had concurred in all these measures, and had even recommended it higher rate of iwigtiorage than that adopted at the Allot. losteud of six per cent. he had recommended ten. Mr. GRESTELI. raid, lie had no recollection of the pirticuler admission alluded to—but it had no thing to do with the point which he was at present endeavouring to impress upon the House. Mr. W. W. Pose resumed, and said that no previous regulation or anticipated measure mold prevent such an occurrence as that to which the I-In. mumble Gentleman at present alluded. It was in vain to fix any limit to regulate the market price— if even the seignorage was 10 per cent. the market price might becon,e at a particular period I I. Be sides, the silver coin was (oily a legal tender to the amount of 40a. anti it could not be well worth any person's while. fur the shilling iii the pound weight, to go about collecting, and then take the trouble of melting. He fully concurred in the opinion th it the lows restricting the export of the coin of the realm were had—they were indeed worse than futile. The laws as they now stood operated only as au incentive to crime. This subject lied been under the consideration of his Majesty'r Govern ment ; hut when it was considered that the laws complained of were its existence since the time of Qiieen Elizabeth, there was a dffficulty in at once repealing them. He had no doubt that the present high price of silver was inertly temporary. lie attributed it chiefly to the demand in the market for dollars, which though two-pence per ounce worse than the silver standard of the Mint, were yet worth two-pence more per ounce in the market. The dollars being thus removed from the market, the price, of course, operated upon every other sort of holism. If, however, this evil should be found to subsist for any time, and to assume any thing like a perm:went appearance, it might become ex 'militia to reconsider the rate of seiguorage. Hitherto the relative prices of gold lied silver bon went cm in their regular order, without clashing with each other its the market—they bore precisely the expected relative proportion to each oilier. The question of the coinage of the country was the most difficult of any other on which to obtain any thing like accurate information. Ile had spoken to able speculative men, and to commercial men of every dercriptiou, and no two of them ever agreed itp tile same principle. Ile had no doubt that the only course open would be to give the (little 'inflect a full and calm consideration before an extrusive and well-appointed Committee. Mr. WILSON (Member for the Citj) said, lie was aware that there was a considerable demean] fur some time for Spanish silver. Ile was of opi nion that the present system of Mint reculatfuns was a gond o n e, so far as it went—subject, of course, to such reservations as the Legislature might see it prudent still to adopt. The lion. Member made a variety of other observations, hot audible in the gallery. Lord A. 11Alltr.ToN said, that Some regulations were necessary for the purpose of preservirg the silver noun of the realm. lie would ask the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Pole), was it possible to se cure that currency spinet the Meas.* recierring ef fects of a paper circulation ? lie hugged that Right upon. Gentleman to revert tithe prowl when paper was so much depieciated, th.t twenty-live drillings of it were only equivalent to M guinea. If that state of things were to return. how would it be possible, lie would ask. to keep the silver coin in the country ? If the House weer to look for istfiniples of confusion and incousistency, they could not light upon stronger MR'S thin those fur. lushed by the opinions, at different tunes, of the Right I /on. Gentleman and his colleagues. on the prisent momentous subject. An instance of the perplexity and contradiction in the (tight Host. Gentleman's ideas, appeared its the late mile ut sovereigns. Did the Right !Inn. Geniltriniti, at the time of the issue, expect them to rename' hi the country? If he did not, he was certain!) guilty of a gross violation ut . his duty, in exposing Kaki coin to exportation ; and it' he did, how miserably had he been deceived ! But all the facts awl rea sonings on the subject incontestably established the conclusion, that there was one evil—a paper cur rency; situ one reined}'—a return loutish plasmas's. Mr. TtunN EV said, that the Right lion. I len tlemati had totally mistaken the otneet of los Hun. Friend (Mr. (irenfell). Ills I..riraill wish:ll to chew that the market price of solver lied ris e n above that established by the lliot regulation, and • that in consequence thieve was a danger of all our silver coin being carried out of the country. Its reply to that, the Right Iron. Gentleman had made a variety of statements and remarks no way contradicting his Ilan. Friend's assertion, and hearing no relation whatever to she subject.—/9 laugh.)—The Right lion. G •sitlemon expreitied„ as the only source of convailation fur the country, lila hope, that the great drainage of the silver cur. rency, which he nilinitted, would not continue. "I•he Right lion. Gentleman boasted ot• having studied the subject deeply ; of having given it every con. .ideratimi of which his mind had been cr i table ; but concluded with declaring that all reflection and investigation, could find sin renirdy but the appointment of a Committee of that flouse.—(A laugh./—The Right Hon. Gentleman said, he had read all the pamphlets that had ever been written on the subject ; he would advise him to read another lough/—which it appeared he had not seen, and which had come into his own hands only that morn. ing. He could assure the Night lion. Gentleman it would reward his pains. It was a letter to the Right Hon. Robert Peel, from one of hi• consti tuents, a Member of the University of Oxford. lie was very happy to see the Right Hon. Gentleman in his place; but lie would have been more happy had he seen him in it more frequently last year—because then, perhaps, he would have expressed that opi nion earlier which he always entertained, and which he hail just b►fore given, when he .aid, that the only remedy for the evils attending the state of mar currency was a Committee of the House, where eve►y Gentleman might come to the consideration of the question with whatever intellect„ it' he recul. leeted aright, that God had bestowed oil him,. lint it appeared that the Right Ilan. Gentleman had heen in a woful minority—for that Com iii i i tee whiuli he deemed indispensable, all his colleagues had frequently denied to be neeesaary.—(l.augh ler.' Mr. W. W. Po LE observes', that, by the alteration of • single word, the Right lion. Gentleman had totally ni•tatetl all that had fallen from him. He had said, that he was Ant of opinion that a Com mittee wog the only mode of getting nu• of the dif ficulties referred to; but the Right Hon. flentle man had made him say, that he hail always been of that opiutmt. The Right llon. Gentleman had thus •ncceeded in putting him in a ridtculons light—lA laud laugh.)-11e had for many years admired that talent of ridicule which the Right Hon. Gentleman had so easy at command, and he bad frequently ad mired the use of it, when the Right Hon. Gentle man had nothing else to direct against his adversa ries, and was in want of solid arguments. He would venture to say, that if ever the subject at present in debate came snore regularly before the House. lsu faculty would be more powerfully exerted by the Right Him. Gentleman dials that of ridicule— (A lasegh.)—But much us he admired that talent of the light Hon. Gentlmam, he was sorry the first shaft of it had been aimed against himself.— (A laugh/—lie should, however. endeavour to ward it oti as well as he could. The Right lion. Gentleman hail accused him of misunderstandiog his Honourable Friend, and of fl,ea king foreign to the subject. He did not know what other reply he could have given to a truism, namely, that silver was selling at 51. 7d. an ounce. Whenever a ques tion should arise, concerning the department to which he was attached, lie should make it a rule, unmoved by the opinion of ally Hon. Gentleman, to state whatever information occurred st the time, and to offer the best advice to the House lee might be capable of giving. Ile was obliged to the Right lion. Gentleman for a bit of advice, and he should follow it. He kid spoken of wl.at he had read, not to make a useless !made of learn ing, but to spew that lie had taken what pains he could, and he was not ashamed to confess it, to procure light and instruction on what struck him us a very difficult subject. Rut he had been tins (putted when made to say lie had read every p:nnph let on the subject. lie hoped the matter would be fully and deliberately discussed and investigated by a Co m mittee of that House, chosen by ballot. -(4 laugh)—ill which every Gentleman may pro pose the person whom he thinks heat qualified to examine and decide on so extensive a question. I lis object in stating what he had at first. was merely to give the best information he could. Mr. Ott:sirs:Lt. hoped that as the Home hail in dulged the (tight Hon. Gentleman with an long a reply, they would grant him a hew words in expla nation. His object iu what he had said was, to slew the danger of the country's losing :ill its silver currency, and to ascribe that operation to the coon nuance 1.1 the Bank Restriction Act. After a few words from the CitasicELt.oa of the EIi:IIi:QUER, the motion was then agreed to. CUTLERY TRADE. Mr. S'lt ART WonTLEY mantra leave to bring, in • Bill to regulate the Cutlery Trade iu Euglaiid. —Leave given. COALS. Mr. CunwEN moretl r hat there be laid be fore the [louse an Accuuut of all Coals corned coastwise ut Ettiglaied and Svotlsiol, aad expoited to other countr►es within the two last years."—Ur dered. COUNTRY BANKS. Sir M. WHITE ltaur.hv a►krd the Right lion. Gentle-nom uppionte (the Chancellor of the Exche quer) whether he had any intention of renewing this the mra►nres he had in entiteitiplatiosi dur ing the last, relative t.s the irgulatiou of Country Banks? The CHANCRI.Loa or the EIGHEQUES ►eplied, that lie considered the siihjeet of Country Banks and their i►sue a very proper one for the considera tion am Committee of that [louse. EXCHEQUER BILLS, GUINEAS, ice. Mr. Gaut+ Ft.i.t. 111111/Yli ••••• " That there be laid before the House an Account of all Exchequer hills outstanding and ',ripens/ideal for on the bilk of January, April, Jul), and October, of the tau last years."—Ordered. 2. " For as Account of all Guineas, Half-gnineas. and fieven-shilling Pieces, issued by the hank from the Ist of Jauuary, ISM, till the latest lime the Account cam he mate up; specifying the aerostat tinder each head, and l o w aggre. gate value." Mr. MANNING made some oluervations. tend ing (as well as or could undeistatid him) to sl.ew a two tun, difficulty in waking up the account, alter which it was ordered. ea' Prisoners in the Xing 's Bench, Maralsabsen4 atati Flee Prisons." —Agreed to. Mr. MANniNO mnved— a Thni there he 1 , 01 before the *ono., an arenant of the Namher of Prranns prosecuted by order of the Officers of the Mint, for counterfeiting the gold coil, of the realist, from the 10th of April, 10111, tv the 21111, of January, 1819." —Ordcrid. CLIMBING BOYS. Mr. BENNETT moved— " That an !imble Mare", he presented In hi• Royal flighne.* the Prince Regent, preying his Royal Highness to be greening's pleased to order to he laid before the House, e Copy of the Report of the Commissioners of the Board of Works, appointed to inquire how far the use of Climbing Boy nu& he superseded by the applicstiot► of machinery to the cleansing of Chimnies."—Agreed to. The flume then adjnurned. FOREIGN INTELLIGRNGE. PRISONS. Mr. I (ttI.MF. SIIMNCR ttttt wed—. " That an humble Address be presented from the Howe to ha itu)al Ilighu►►s the Prince Regret. praying that he would be pie:twat to Mee laid ►efore the Hotter, the Report of the entnittistiotters appointed to inquiry title teat stale of THE BMUS i.t PRESS. LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1819. The Bill for insuring the safety of his 501. arwries hereon was last evening read the third time. in the House of Lords, and ordered to be sent to the House of Commons. As the Bill refers to a Member of the Royal Family, it will be sent to the Lower House by two of the Pointe Judges ; whereas, if the Bill related to ordinary matters, it would be sent by two of the Masters in Chancery. This Bill has declared that the complete control of the Windsor Establishment. whatever may be its extent and patiousge, *hall be vested abso lutely in the Duke of You, as custos personas of his MAJIISTV• The extent of this power, howeve►, depends altogethe► upon a second Bill, which will commence in the (louse of Commons, for regale a-certiviniog that Ettsblishrocut, whereby it might happen, if the present 8.11 be putted, that the Duke may find himself invested with the disposed of a patronsge, equal to that which belongs to the PRINCE BEMENT, as depositary of the Regal au thority. la this measure Ministers seem to have committed themselves egregiously, for should larger establishment be granted to the KING thici they might thick exiserlierst, their contiousoce office might rest with the Duke of YORK, { w i ng once the guardian of ii. KING'S person, the Cont. mender-in-Chief of ti.e army, and the 5 e5 .,,,,t Prince of the blood. This matter involves the constitutional question, respecting the wisd..in o r investing other bands thou those of the Execirne with a patronage so extensive as to cause a posh. hility of the two powers coming in collision, and deranging the regularity of the system of govern ment. The only means of obviating this difficulty is, to effect a very considerable reduction in IL establishment at Windsor, which, without dimiii:s:.. ing the personal comforts of our Balloted sod ve nerable Sovereign, would remove the mockery i f State that seemed at present to surround him. In the Commons, a Petition was presented from Mr. HUNT, complaining of an enormous amounting to no less than 900/., made against by the. Dian BAILIFF of Westminster, fur hit share of the expenses us e Candidate at the hot tVestminster Election. We cannot presume tai express our opinion now, how justly this dernacd may have heels made; but it is tit least certain that the HIGH BAILIFF might, by some means, to Le defrayed the expenses of holding an election. A subject of far greater importance to the gene ral interests of the country was noticed in a subse quent part of the evening. Sir MatTitEw WHITE RIDLEY Bakrd the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE. OVER, whether it was intended, in the present Stvaion, to renew the measure proposed in the for. titer Session, respecting the regulation of Country Banks? To this it was replied, that the subject was considered fit to be investigated by a Committee of the Grouse. From this the country must sutra ipate an attempt on the part of the Government to take tile issues of the Country Banks altogether under its own control, and to make these valuable esta blishments tobservient to the Bank of England. It cannot fail to be remarked throughout the country, that the proceedings that are about to he undertaken in Parliament, !carving the paper curiency of the country, seem to insure a perm'. tieney of spient wholly iiiconsistent with the vogue st•suraticss occasionally thrown nut, of the anxiety of Nlnlisters and the Bank of England to return to cash payments. We are now, after a period or more than twenty years, beginning to revise our paper system—cot for the purposes of terminating it, but of concealing its errors, and rendeting it better calculated for a longer continuance. The following are extri.cts from German Pap:rs which arrived last night JANU*RT Id. The reigning Empress of Resole arrived heir at eleven o'clock last night. Her Majesty alighted at the sew Palace, where she was received by her Imperial Highness the Greed Duchess C.oostantine, who bad sd►aocd from Coburg iu the afternoon. All kind of ceremony was avoided, on at coned of the mournieg. Their Highuesses the reigning Prince mud Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, arrived here to day, and have dined with the Empress. Her Majesty de parts to-morrow, to return, by way of Leipzic and Frank fort ou the Oder, to St. Petershurgb. IMIUNITCII, JANUARY I. Some Mealier, of the Assembly of the Siatits have already arrived here. The preparations for the opening of the M. senility are carrying on with great activity the arrangement of the Hall is completed; the gallery of lb* Hall of the Deputies can contain above 250 spectators; tikes it is lei g.r than that of the House of Commons at London. A Ministerial Council is engaged in drawing op the plc grontrise of the solemnities •hick will take place on the occasion. JAN U ARV )1. Accounts from Spain speak of a plait foe SUUlli 41.111WEICP, but which is of such maitre, that it is rasher it, the mum. bee of impossibilities than even of probabilities. Thu plan is stated to be an idea of the new Minister, the Man quit d'lrojo, aid to be u follows:—To act deci►irely ia South America, 40,000 men are wanted, who meat be so de tributed as to operate at the same time, with energy and sm. ma, in all the revolted provinces. He would, thervfose, semi hat 10,090 men to VCIUZU(II4 and New Grenada; 0,000 to Mexico ; 14,000 to Buenos Ayres and the River Plata; end the rest to Chili. But as all t►is requires immense expense, the plan provides the means of meeting it. This soma cou►ists in ceding to Russia the islands of Majorca, Mi. macs, and Ivica; to Molitor' the Canaries; to Eaglaw!, Cuba; and to France, Porto Rico, also the flpastish part of St. Domingo and the Philippines. In return fur these cessions, Spain world receive their va lue iu transports, and every other requisite fur its eutrr• prise, the expenses of which would amount to 39,000,0n 0 dollars. These CCIIIIOI4II would be indeed of a greater value than this sum ; hut if Spain obtains its object is America, it will be amply indesnaified, for the piwsession of the abode• mentioned islands is of no great advantage to it, but that of au immense sod rich consistent, if it recovers it, ittv,,t..• able. The Minister, Irujo, calla this plan, it is true, itif.a lible ; but others deem it aboard, and say, "so precatwas is our situation, that we would have recourse to such des perate means Nobody believes the execution or the reality of the plan ; and if it has been proposed, we daily have the sad experience that chat is resolved on to•day is give• up to-morrow. We have received Paris Papers of Tuesday last. The Chamber of Deputies lithl a pubLe sitting on the preceding day, in which the Batou DELESSCIT reported from the Committee eh r;t had been appointed to consider the propobitioit made to the Chamber respecting the grant of 50,000 francs s- ear to the Duke of Rittictict , as a national recompense for his tmisiebt swim PARIS PAPERS. PARIS, JANUARY 26. Yesterday, at ten o'clock, the Duke of Angola leme p.iid a visit to his Serene Highness the Doke of Gloucester. At noon his Royal Highness, ac compamed by the Marshal Duke de Helium , . and the Margolis de Leitriston, inspected the mounting gnard. He maticeuvred the troops for an hoist. The Court of Naples having received the new. of the death of Marie Lonise, Qiiren'orSpain, on the 3,1 of Jsritiory, the celebration of the marriage between the Infant Don Francis de Paulo and the Princess Louisa Charlotte, of Myles, has been deferred. A Flame Paper, of the 22d, announces the Ame rican brig the ilexican, which esdered that harbour on the preceding day, burl picked up ut sea, crossing the bank of Nessfoinolland, 53 men belorigiog to the ship 7'ritun, from New Brunswick, which had founder, rl et sea. It promises more ample de tails of this event.. . The expenses of the journies made by the mem ber% of the Imperial family of Itimi.% bre said to amount to beveral millions of francs. DUTCH MAIL. sk:aLtm, JANU %RT 3. It appears that it will not be possible so soon to ;; ;ve us a Constitution. Several pleas have, it is true, been drawn up, but note of theta has beets approved. The King and Prioce Darcieisherg have H great aversion to all sodden changes. Besides, it is first necessary to draw up a Budget for the States Gersetal, and to state with prre.sion the amount of the tnitional debt ; but this is not possible, till the Minister of Finaisce has sego lated with the Provincial Assemblies the debts osi ginating in the war, and this is an operation ill which the Treasury must appear sometimes as co-debtor, sometimes as guarantee. Tim. Pro vincial Assemblies are necessary before the calling together of the States-General. It is believed that our new Minister of f' insure is engaged its the pre limititry operations which are indispensably neces sary for the formation of a budget. Meantime the fear of it political fermentation entirely vanishes ; the opposition party daily loses ground to an inter. mediate party, as it is called, which also desires a cosistitution. but no democracy. M. !lessens, professor at Breslau, a celebrated political writer, is one of the chief advocates of the moderate party. BRUSSELS. JANUARY 41. SITTINGS or THE STATES GENERAL. In the sitting of to-day a message from the King was rend, accompanying a project of law, to de trrinisie, s't that the fourth drawls ! of the deferred debt, which is to take place on tin I,t of March, shall be extended to the amonut of five millions of florins; and that before that time it {Mil of five no-lhotiss Merrell debt, with the tickets belonging to it, shall he redeemed by the Cultic d'9snortisse• meat, whirl, sum thus redeemed shell not be in cluded in the fourth and following drawings."— Holerrecl to the Sections. Several Addresses front the Chamber of Com merce are placed in the hands of the Committee of Petitions. These Addresses are fr Amster dam, Antwerp, Ghent, SChirduni, Drilt. &c. ; to gether with many Petitions frinii merchants, ma nufacturers, &v. of various towns in the northern and southern provinces of the kingdom, all relative to the newly-proposed duties of Customs and Ex cite, particularly the intended duties uu entire and sugar. Two petitions, however. oil the motion of Count flogendorp, were ordered to lie printed and distri butes' amongst the Members fur their use. in the debates in the Sections respe;:ting the proposed laws out the Customs. These petitions are lit, From the wint-merchatits, &c. of Atustettlani, who represent ilia method of levying duties 4/11 liquors as ruinous to their trade; and 2d, From inhabitants of the :rand Duchy of Luxemburg, requesting a revoca tion of the prohibition ro export charcoal. CIIMILLiII Is M AILTTILDOM .—Holiday at the Batik, Exche quer, Exalt ludic, sod South Sea Houses. t • C r ti • r- P • I. 111 1p L 1J hi lo• if a- Hl ue cs, of 110 41 . 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