The Sun. — London, England, 1835-02-16 00:00:00

THE YOUNG KING OF ROME. (From the Memoirs of Madame Junot.) What a beautiful child was the young king of - Rome I How lovely he appeared as be rode through the gardens of the Tuillories in his shell-shaped ta &che, drawn by two young deer, which had been trained by Franconi, and which were given him by his aunt, the Queen of Naples. He resembled one of those figures of Cupid which have been discovered in the ruins of Herculaneum. One day I had been visiting the young King, the I :mperor was also there, and he was playing with the child, as he always played_ with those he loved, that is to say, by tormenting him. The Emperor had been - iding, and he had in his baud a whip which attracted e child's notice. He held out his little hand, and when he seized the whip, burst into a fit ef laughter, at the same time embracing his father. " Is he not a fine boy, Madame Junot?" said the Emperor, " you must confess that he is." I could say so without flattery:for he was certainly lovely boy. * I have already mentioned the Emperor's fondness for his son. He used to take the King of Rome in nis arms, and toss him up in the air. The child would then laugh till the tears stood in his eyes ; sometimes the Emperor would take him before a look ing glass, and work his face into all sorts of grimaces ; and if the child was frightened and shed tears, Na poleon would say— " What, Sire, do You cry ? Shame!! shame !" The hours at which the young King was taken to the Emperor were not precisely fixed, nor could they be ; but his visits were most frequently at the time of de , ; leaner. On these occasions, the Emperor would give the child a little claret, or rather would dip his finger in the glass and make him suck it. Sometimes he would daub the young Prince's face with it. The child would laughed - heartily at seeing his father as much a child as he was himself, and only loved him the more for it. Children invariably love those who play with them. I recollect that once when Napoleon had daubed the young King's face, the c hild w as hio:hly amused, and r asked the Emperor to do the same to 'lranian Quiou, for so he called his governess, Madame de Montesquiou. A king, and cry ? One day at Trianon, when the young King was a year old, the Emperor was playing with him upon the grass plot before the pavilion. y He took off' his sword, girded it on the yonng Prince, and completed his mai; tary costume by placing his hat on his head. He then went himself to some distance, knelt upon the grass, and extended his hands to the child, who walked towards him, stumbling all the way, because of the sword getting between his legs, and the hat failing over his face. Perceiving this, the Emperor ran to him with all the nimbleness of a young man, and caught him in his arms to prevent his falling. One of the Ushers of the Chamber, with whom I was lately conversing, wept like a child at his recollec tions of the young Prince. This man told me that the king of Rome one morning run to the State apart ments, and reached the door of the Emperor's apart ment alone, for Madame de Montesquiou was unable to follow him. The child raised its beautiful face to the Usher and said— " Open the door for me ; I wish to see papa." " Sire," replied the man, " I cannot let your Ma jesty in." " Why not ? lam the little king 1" " But your Majesty is alone." The Emperor had given orders that his son should not be allowed to enter his cabinet unless accompanied by his governess. This order was issued for the pur pose of giving the young prince, whose disposition w as somewhat inclined to waywardness, a high idea of his governess's authority. On receiving this denial from the usher, the prince's eyes became suffused with tears, but he said not a word. He waited till Madame de Montesquiou came up, which was in less than a mi nute afterwards. Then he seized her hand, and look ing proudly at the usher, he said, " Open the door. The little king desires it." The usher then opened the door of the cabinet, and announced " His Majesty the King of Rome !" A great deal has been said of the young king's vio lent temper. It is true he was self-willed, and was easily excited to passion ; but this was one of the dis tinctive characteristics of his cousins ; they almost all partook of similar hastiness of temper. I have known Achille Murat so overcome with violent passion as to be thrown into convulsions, and this when he was of the same age as the King of Rome. Madame de Montesquiou once corrected the young king for these fits of passion. On one occasion, when he was very violent, she had all the shutters of the windows closed, though it was broad daylight. The child, astonished to find the light of day excluded, and the candles lighted up, inquired of his governess why the shutters were closed ? " In order that no one may hear you, Sire," replied she. " The French would never have you for their king, if they knew you to be so naughty." " Have I," said he, " cried very loud ?" " You have." " But did any one hear me ?" " I fear they have." Then he fell to weeping, but these were tears of repentance. He threw his little arms round his go verness's neck. " I will never do so again, Mama Quiou !" said he, " forgive me." It happened one day that the King of Rome en tered the Emperor's cabinet just as the council had finished their deliberations. He ran up to his father without taking notice of any one in the room. Napo leon, though happy to observe these marks of affection, so natural, and coming so directly from the heart, -stopped him and said : " You have not made your bow, Sire ! Come, make your obedience to these gentlemen." The child turned, and, bowing his head gently, kissed his little hand to the ministers. In the present state of the Church question, advow s,ms are scarcely saleable upon any terms. FlRE.—Last Saturday night, about eleven o'clock, the premises of Mr. Sweeting, printer, No. Bartlett's buildings, Holborn, stood a very narrow chance of being con sumed, in consequence of a fire breaking out amongst some waste paper in the warehouse. The engines were speedily brought :nto play, and after great exertions on the part of the watchmen and firemen the fire was got under, but a great loss of property was occasioned. The fire originated in conse quence of some person belonging to the establishment going into the warehouse with a lighted candle, a spark from which fell among a heap of waste paper. Mr. Sweeting is insured in the Sun Fire-office. Fortunately no person met with the slightest accident, and the office and materials have escaped without injury. A CLERGYMAN'S ANTICS.-A Kentish cont@m porary gives the following instances of meekness, decorum, and kindly feeling on the part of a clergyman (not named) belonging to the establishment :—" He dismissed the clerk, who, and whose Lther and grandfather had held the situation about, or above a century, to make room for a stranger, and non-parishioner. When the dismissed clerk's mother died, the singers requested to sing a particular psalm at her funeral, which the parson refused to allow. During the burial service he collared a by-stander for holding his hat partly over, and partly off his (the by-stander's) head. To another, who stood nearer to the grave, after the corpse was deposited, than the parson liked, the parson bellowed out to him loud enough to be heard a great distance." FATAL EXPLOSION IN A COAL PIT AT RUSIIEY PARK COLLIERY. NEAR-ST. HELENS.—On Monday the 2d. instant, six persons descended this pit, each provided with a Davy lamp to commence their daily labour, when from the carelesness of one of them, a young female, in the manage ment of herlamp, an explosion took place. She was blown to a considerable distance and killed. The others were scat tered about dreadfully burnt, but were found alive. Medical aid was promptly afforded, but without effect. All have since died.—Liverpool Mercury. COAL PIT EXPLOSION.—One of those calamitous accidents, now of such frequent and fatal occurrence in this county, took place at Mr. Curwen's colliery, near Workington, on Friday morning last. The explosion happened in the low bottom workings of the Isabella Pit, when several men were just entering on their work. The air of the pit had been foul (explosive), for some time, and the men had therefore re ceived strict injunctions to observe the greatest care with their lamps. By what means the air became ignited is not correctly known. Two men were taken out dead ; one has since died ; eleven remain alive, but severely burnt.— Whitehaven Herald. [Thirteen men were killed, and many severely injured, by a similar accident in this pit about twelve months before.] LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1135. The one great question that at present engrosses public attention, namely, that of the Speakership— cannot be too often—too seriously —or too energeti cally canvassed. On it hang the destinies of the Tories. If they succeed in the re-election of Sir C. M. SUT TON, they may possibly still continue to warm them selves in the sunshine of Court favour a few weeks longer. If they fail, the failure will be decisive. They will be extinguished as an influential party for ever. It is sheer nonsense—absurder than a sick man's dream—to suppose that they can survive the defeat of their fa vourite candidate. The success of Mr. ABERCROMBIE will ring their death-knell. We happen to know— whatever they may give out to the contrary—that they look on the question in this light ; and that, despite their bullying, and vehement protestations of confidence, they are ill prepared to abide the issue. None knows better than Sir ROBERT PEEL that the trial will go against him. None at this present mo ment is less prepared to struggle, or make head against such a contingency. What does the election of Mr. ABERCROMBY decide ? Why this, that the House of Commons will no longer be biassed by Tory influ ence. That it will have a Speaker who represents, not one who misrepresents, it. In a word, that it is resolved to have fair play at the hands of its President. Alas, for the Tories, when such is the determination of the Commons of England ! We speak with confidence. We are justified in so doing. To say nothing of pledges given at the bust tings—to say nothing of the determination of the people to exact justice at the hands of their representa tives—we have good reason to know that a majority, small, perhaps, but quite enough for the purpose, will declare Sir C. M. SUTTON incompetent, for ob vious reasons, to fill longer • the Speaker's Chair. This is a settled point. But do we wish the people to relax in consequence ? God forbid ! They must keep a more watchful eye than ever on their Repre sentatives. Waverers are abroad, and while this is the case, no man with two ideas in his head, will discontinue his energies, till he see his allies in un disputed possession of the battle-field. The election will take place on Thursday next, the 19th inst. People of England I look closely to the votes of f your Representatives. Representatives do not forget that your Constituents have all their eyes upon you. Much may be forgiven you. A wrong vote on this memorable day never will. It will be death to you, with 'out benefit of clergy. Though the question of the Speakership be not, perhaps the great battle, yet it `is the taking up of the vantage-ground, which goes far to decide it. Be at your posts; then. Be each Member betimes at his post, and tell these cross-grained Tories—these mere sweepings of the lumber-room of bigotry—that a Reformed House of Commons should, and will, be represented by a speaker favourable, not opposed to, Reform. From the first moment that the term " Conserva tive," was applied to that political body, whose prin ciples were significantly designated as Tory, it became evident that, some dexterous manoeuvre was meditated for the security of party advantage. In renouncing a title that distinctly dissociated them from other classes of politicians, and in adopting one that so felicitously implied a purely constitutional purpose, they hoped to delude persons of,all creeds that patriotism alone ani mated them, and that the errors of a false faith had become abandoned. As Conservatives they were no longer to embody the tenets and bias of a party, keep ing aloof in the State from all others, but stand ready to coalesce with either for the common safety of the country, by the preservation of its dearest - institutions. Well knowing that amid the diversified shades of political opinion extant, the great majority of the people were firmly attached to the English Constitu tion, and resolute in their desire to maintain it inviolate, they believed it possible yet to triumph in the general delusion, and by exciting alarms of a " Destructive" attempt upon it, to rally the nation round those who hoisted a " Conservative" flag, as the symbol of their righteous . vocation. No two political parties were ever more decidedly opposed to each other than the Whigs and Tories, or disputed with bitterer hostility ; and yet, without one conciliatory event to assuage the moral animosity, the Tories, in their Conservative disguise, seek to be guile their old enemies into an union for the resist ance of a common danger—the bugbear coined by their own conceit—a destructive assault upon the Constitution. Having, as Conservatives, intrigued themselves back again to power, which, as Tories, they forfeited by a long course of misrule, they now call upon the Whigs, (whose affection for the Coustitution is as lovingly conservative as that of the Tories, and a good deal more,) to support them in their arrogated elevation ; they supplicate the people for a fair trial, and would cajole the waverers into a belief that the Conservatives are the only real Reformers—because no longer Tories. Now, by what single act have they exhibited a diffe rence of political character ? There is not one, nor the skeleton of one, that could be taken as the outline of a change. Tories they have lived, and as such they will die, disguise themselves by what appell a ti on th e y may. Place and power is the soul and essence of their being—' the object of every aspiration. To involve their opponents, whatever be the va rieties of their political creeds, in one common odium, they seek to fix them with the name of Destructives ; and thus incensing the public mind by the magic of an ill name, the Tories artfully contrive their own perma nent establishment in power. They would deceive the nation that the only party, or rather faction, now ex isting, is the Destructives ; that every other is obli terated ; and that all the loyalty, wealth, intelligence, and character in the country have sunk into Conserva tism, of which they are now the governing leaders. This is an ingenious process of arguing, and it only wants truth to establish it into fact. But it is false, and the Tories know it to be so. Their political cha racter remains unchanged. Their principles are the same now as what they ever have been, and so will they continue to be to the end of (not time but) power. Look at the men whom the Tory Chief has chosen for colleagues : can such a muster-roll be regarded as the nominal representatives of a reforming government? Nominal enough, GOD knows, it may be, but little of reality is there., Contemplate one of the first official acts of the existing Ministry—the appointment of Lord LONDONDERRY to the Court of Russia—what kind of Reform is betokened by such a measure ? Combine what they have already done with their oppo sition out of office, and their deeds when in office as Tories, and can any reasonable man be stigmatised as factiously disposed, because he refuses them a fairer trial-than that which they have heretofore and up to this moment received ? The Whigs, Liberals, and Radicals are bound to unite for the ejection of the Tories, and not a stain will there be on the political honour of either for the association. We have received the whole of the Parish journals of Saturday, with intelligence from Bayonne to the 10th, and from Madrid to the sth inst. The Journal de Paris contradicts the statement which appeared in the Augsburg Gazette, to the effect that France would withdraw her support from the Swiss Government, unless the Vorort of Berne yielded to the suggestions of the Emperor of Austria. The Parisian journalist asserts that France never expressed herself opposed to the firmness displayed by the Vorort of Berne ; And. that the rumour circulated by Austria, of France hav ing dispatched orders for the recal of her official re presentative from Switzerland, was altogether a gross fabrication, the object of which was to frighten the Di rectory into a compliance with the conditions proposed by Austria, which it was presumed it would have the effect of doing, before the French Government could undeceive the Vorort with respect to the idleness of the rumour. The latest intelligence from Berne, which is givrm in these journals, would incline us to believe that in this instance the insidious policy of Austria has produced the desired consequences. The Vorort does not seem to have entertained the smallest doubt of the correctness of the statements put forth in the Augsburg Gazette. On the contrary, it would ap pear that the desertion of France was rather expected than otherwise ; so little confidence did the Swiss authorities place in any promises and protestations made by the present Government of France. This sentiment, which has been hitherto care fully concealed, is sufficiently manifest in. the fol lowing extract from the Helvetic de Porentruy of the 10th instant. Such a public avowal of a want of confidence in the integrity of France, must be gall and wormwood to the CITIZEN-KING, and his dislocated Cabinet : " The plan of Austria, with regard to Switzerland, is a re sult of those principles which have again placed Poland under the yoke, stifled the liberal movement of Italy, and enslaved the representation and the press in Germany. Austria will oppose its veto to any radical reform of Swiss institutions, and will not hesitate to accomplish its vork by military occupation, unless it should encounter a formidable opposition, whose con sequences to itself it may calculate. To combat these preten sions, Switzerland must also adopt a political system in ener tietic and presevering hostility to that Qf Austria. Neither will France see with pleasure the triumph of the party which I represent s regenera t e d S w i tzer l an d ; w hi c h p ar ty, b e ing ani mated by purely national sentiments, would reject the influence of the French Cabinet, in the same manner as it combats the Eastern coalition. In August 1833, France would have easily consented to an armed intervention, if the Diet had urged its legal authority with respect to the enterprises of the military Chief of the Sarnian faction, nor would it be more averse to such a measure at the present moment, if Switzerland were to undertake the radical reform of her institutions. France will always endeavour to keep alive two powerful bodies among us, in order to prevent the accession of that party to power which would proclaqn Switzerland independent of all influence, and even of that of France. This is the secret spring of French neutrality in the deluge of diplomatic notes which overwhelm us. It is on this account France flatters Prussia, notwith standing the attempts at intervention made by the latter Power in our relations with Neufchatel. This explains the non-intervention of its diplomacy eight months ago upon the Polish question. France will not have Switzerland neutral in the real acceptation of the term. It will have us in a condi tion to be turned to account, as a means of attack or accom modation with other Powers, as it may find it to its interest." We differ from the writer of the above extract in opinion, with respect to the secret intentions of France in her interference in the affairs of Switzerland. We do not believe that France ever wished to foment inter nal divisions in the Republic, and solely because it required the closest union among the Cantons to effect her purposes with respect to the Northern Powers. The maxim of " divide and rule," may be dispensed with, where power on one side preponderates to such a de gree, as to .bid defiance to all opposition. Now, where does there exist the shadow of a necessity—even of a prudential motive on the part of France, to create jea lousies between the Swiss Cantons ? France is pow erful enough to bid defiance to the united influence of Switzerland, provided the latter does not throw herself into the alms of Austria. Neitber can the jealousies of the confederated Cantons avail France a jot in case of a rupture with the Courts of Vienna or Berlin, for Switzerland, as a Government, has no diplomatic in fluence abroad, and at home she never can do' more than safely defend herself. The independence of Switzerland is, therefore, a ques tion of no importance to France, as far as respects herself. iwitzerland neither is, nor with her present extent of ter ritory, never can be an object of jealousy to the French nation. The real cause of the apparent apathy of France to the present proceedings of Austria to wards the Swiss Republic, originates in the recent change in the English Cabinet, and the various im portant questions which press upon the attention of the French Government. The several claims for in demnification put forth by the United States of Ame rica, and the Envoys of the Imperial Courts of St. Petersburg and Vienna, which may terminate in a war with one or more of these Powers ; and the uncer tainty of receiving succour or countenance from Eng land, now that the Tories have clutched the reins of Government, have filled France with too many serious apprehensions on her" own account, to allow her to take the most vigorous steps in support of her allies. The rumour that France had declared herself op- . posed to Switzerland and in favour of Austria, how ever unworthy of credence, produced considerable alarm in Berne. The following extract from a letter from the seat of the Government, detailing the effect produced by this report, is givens in the Paris Papers of Saturday : it bears date the 10th inst. : " The official revelations respecting the affairs of Switzer land made by the Augsburg Gazette, the open manner in which this Journal discloses the views of the Austrian Cabinet with regard to us, the certainty that the French Government, after having repeatedly upheld us in our differences with the Holy Alliance, has suddenly broken with us and made com mon cause with those who are even greater enemies to it than to us—all these circumstances have produced a feeling in Switzerland the consequences of which it is impossible to foretell. We arc absolutely left to ourselves in a con test of principles, abandoned by those who were our natural allies. We cannot yet say what part the Directory will take in order to avert the crisis with which we are threatened, but we are confident it will make every con cession consistent with the honour of the nation, though it will go no further. The convocation of an extraordinary Diet is inevitable, but the discussion on our foreign affairs will un fortunately reproduce the miserable dissensions which were occasioned by our internal affairs. It is said that one of the Members will propose that a camp of 50,000 men be imme diately formed in the canton of Tessin, and that the command be given to General Dufour. After the sudden change in the policy of France with regard to Switzerland, M. de Rumigny, who never ceased to affirm the benevolent intentions of his Government and promise us its effectual support, must neces sarily apply for his reclll. After the hostile attitude he has always maintained towards his colleagues he cannst possibly assume a totally opposite character. All Switzerland will no doubt regret his departure ; but we shall, at the same time, be glad to see an end to strong professions of attachment com pletely belied by the actions of the French Ministry." A telegraphic despatch, dated Brest, the 12th inst., appears iu Moniteur, in which the Royal Commis sary at Hayti informs the French Minister of Marine that the vessel La Creole, which sailed from Port-au- Prince on the the 20th ult., was charged with a letter of credit on London for the sum of 4,848,904 f. 66c. to.pay the principal of a draught of the French Trea sury on the Republic of Hayti. The Chamber of Deputies continues its sittings, but great complaints are made of the slow progress which it makes in discharging its legislative functions. Great numbers of the Members do not attend to their duties ; and the few who do rather retard than accele rate the necessary functions of the assembly. The Court of Peers has published a list of persons accused of riots, against whom no further proceedings will be taken, as the evidence against them is not sufficiently conclusive. Those whom it is intended shall be brought to trial will have notice given them fourteen days previously, in order that they may have -time to prepare their defence. The day for the com mencement of the trials is not yet fixed. We are happy to learn from the Brussels Papers that the reception which Lord BROUGHAM met with in that Capital, displayed an enthusiastic apprecia tion, on the part of the highest classes in Bel gium, of the distinguished talents and pre-emi nent public services of the late LORD CHAN CELLOR. The Noble Lord, accompanied by Sir ROBERT A DA IR, the British Minister at Brussels, attended the Chamber of Deputies, when the instant he was recognized, the whole assembly rose simultaneously and bowed to him—an honour as great_ as any which could be paid to the first Potentate in Europe. To his Lordship personally, this testimony of deep respect, coming from the representatives of a na tion to whom he could only be known by the fame attendant on the highest order of merit, must have been a brilliant compensation for all the pe tty annoyances which the intrigues of petticoat factions at home may have occasioned him. His Lord ship's reception at Court was equally flattering. He was most graciously received by the KING, and the nobility vied with each other in testifying their admiration of his talents, their respect for his opinions, and their c onfidence in his unsullied and incorruptible integrity. The arrival of Lord BROUGHAM in London before the opening of Parliament on Thursday, will add a new stimulus to the exertions of the Reformers. We look forward with unfeigned pleasure—with the fullest. confidence of complete success—to the re-appearance of Lord BROUGLIAM in the HottsC of Peers. His most able and efficient services in the pe'ople's cause were never more requisite than they will be in the ensuing Session of Parliament: DON MIGUEL is not yet lost to the world. On the 31st ult., he made his appearance quite unexpec tedly at Genoa, where he was waited upon by some French officers, who are reported recently to have be come partizans - to the party of the usurper. The arrivals from Madrid, with papers and letters to the sth inst., bring no intOigence of the slightest political i:nportance, In the Basque provinces all is ruin and devastation ; in the capital all uncertainty ; and throughout the kingdom all ignorance of, and in difference to, the causes of the many calamities that afflict the country. To all appearance, public affairs have stood still for the last fortnight. The cause of Lady HEWLEY'S Charity, which has excited an unusual degree of interest among the Dis senters, is fixed for hearing to-morrow, in the Court of. Chancery. It comes-on in the form of an appeal from the judgment of the VICE-CHANCELLOR, and was argued for three days last summer before Lord Chan cellor BRoUCISAat, assisted by two of the Common-law Judges ; but as it was not completed then, and as a new LORD CHANCELLOR has been appointed since, the proceedings in the appeal must begin de novo. The point at issue is whether the Presbyterians or the Independents are entitled to certhin funds bequeathed, for charitable purposes, by a Dissenter about 120 years ago. Lady HEWLEY was, it is admitted by both parties, a Presbyterian, and the • charity wlkich she founded has been ever since her death in the bands of the Presbyterians, having been administered by •Trus teeS duly elected in the manner prescribed in the trust deed executed by her. She directed that the funds should be distributed among " poor and godly preach ers, for the • time being, of CHRIST'S holy Gospel." The Trustees, not being fettered by any restrictions in the trust deed as to the doctrinal sentiments of those " Godly preachers" have, it seems, admitted among the recipients of Lady HEWLEY'S bounty sundry preachers tainted with heresy. This was conceived to be a mis application of the charity; the Trustees were charged with a violation of the trust deeds ; and an application was made to the Court of Chancery to remove them, and appoint others in their stead. The Vice-Chan cellor removed the Trustees, not on the ground that they had misapplied the funds—that would have been an in telligible reason—but because they did not hold the same religious opinions which Lady HEWLEY held, or rather was presumed to have held—,--thus laying down a principle which, if admitted and. acted upon, would mist the Protestant trustees of every Catholic foundation in the kingdom. From this decision the Trustees appealed, and the appeal ; as we have already stated, comes on to-morrow before the LORD CHAN, CELLOR, who, following the example of Lord BROUGHA as, has summoned two Common-law Judges to his assistance. We insert, in anothor part of The Sun, an able letter on what appears to us to be the only point to be de cided in this case, namely, who are to be considered Godly preachers e Christ's' Holy Gospel. Our Correspondent's legal argument seems to us conclusive on the subject. We have received Newfoundland papers to the 23d January, which contain the opening of the Legisla-. ture, the fifth session, (on Monday last.) with the fol- lowing speech : " Honourable Gentlemen,—l have assembled you at an early period, to enable you to devote sufficient time to the public business, without injuring your private pursuits. Our situation is a happy one of tranquility, and therefore your deli berations, unoccupied by matters of a temporary nature, may be directed to such as shall conduce to the permanent advantage of the Colony. The Road Bill passed in your second session of last Parliamentary year, though excellent in principle, and in much of its detail, nevertheless seems in some degree to fail in its intention, for want of a more efficient and concentrated superintendence. You will determine whether any alteration can he beneficially made in that particular. Another object of moment is the improvement of the Judicature, and this for various reasons becomes daily of greater importance. It will he for you also to consider what enactment may be re quisite in consequence of the Fishery Act having expired. Under more prosperous financial circumstances, I should have been induced to draw your attention to the support of general education, which, as highly essential to the best interests of society, will merit your protection ; especially as it might be fostered here in a spirit of perfect liberality, unfettered by invidious distinctions. " Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen—My predecessor when closing the last Session, expressed a hope that he should be able to defray the public charges without having recourse to the issue of Treasury-notes, until he could meet you again in this place : but I found the remaining funds totally inadequate to the existing claims, and was consequently compelled almost immediately after assuming the Government to avail myself of that resource. You will, I am confident, feel with me, that the sooner more notes can be called in the better, and that no subject so imperatively requires your present appplica tion in the establishment of a sound and wholesome system of finance ; and we may be said to have reached a crisis, but a crisis in which we are cheered by many encouraging conside rations connected with the fishery, agricultural produce, and general state of trade. I trust that the difficulties in your way will only operate as incentives to exertion, and that you will fix the revenue on a scale proportioned tp all such demands as shall consist with a spirited but national economy. I have directed an estimate for the ensuing financial year, and various other documents, to be prepared for your informa tion, and you may rest assured that I shall always be anxious to prevent unnecessary expenditure, and to enforce every due provision for that purpose." The paper of the 22d of January contains the address to His Excellency,,in answer to his gracious speech, which fully par ticipates in the feelings expressed by His Excellency. LORD BROUGHAM AT BRUSSELS.-It appears that Lord BROUGHAM was received with great honours at Brussels. After being closetted with the KING, he went to the Chamber of Representatives, accompanied by Sir ROBERT ADAIR ; and on being recognized in the Ambassador's Tribune, all the Mem bers lose simultaneously and bowed, as a compliment to, a man whose great and varied talents have rendered him celebrated all over Europe.—Sunday Times. JOSING PRICES. FUNDS. India Stock 259 Ditto ................ ..20 pm South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities Ex. Bills, 10.4./ 4l pm. Ditto 591)1 4l pm. Ditto 501'1 4l pm. Bank Stock for Art. 224Y4 India Stock for Opg. 259Ya Consols for Opg. 92% 'PRICES OF 3 - FMK. 'Pitts DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Rank Stuck 3 Der Cent. Bed. :t per Cent. Cons. 92 g 4 g It, Ditto Bonds 2'2 '2O pm. 31.4 per Cer , t 1e0"14% South Sea Stock — ‘)itto lied. - New 314 per Cent 'V% 100 1 ,0 4 , New Ditto — 4 per Cent. 3Assented — 3 per Cent. Ann u iti es , i 151... 00.'"i i Diesented Stank Long Atomiticstovxpire i Ditto 5cA , 511 41 pm. Jan. 3, !sm.. '. , et ;0, legit 17 3-16 '. Ditto Commercial .. inn. Jan. 5, MC .. 17 Ditto Advertised pm lan. 5, 1!50 — Bank Stock for'Account 22 4 14 April 5, ilk9o . India StOck for Account..... 259 1 ., Jan. 5, 1570 — Consitls for Accott • . t... . ...... 1/2%4%3E, PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. AnAtrian Bends 1 reruvian Bonds flelgian bonds Dtto Account iitto ccount Portugues Bonds R 5; Ditto Ac e count Br l ozilian A Bonds Ditto Account 81i74 5: I)itto New Bonds 024; Buenos Ayres Ayreii Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Account —l Prnssian Bonds — t hilltan Bon( 1 4 44%1A 4 , Ditto Itonds, 1 , 4'2 , — Ditto Act omit 44!, ; itlissian Ron'ts, 182 Co umbian Bonds --1 Ditto Accent — Pato Account Co'unThian Bentis,l623 2';7L 7!,.i 67L i Spanish ;;oral: ' 7 li:o l'oto Acrount ...... .. 37 (;•7fi '7% 7; Ditto Arnow' , - ,T.'4%4 ' 31 . 4N li:r.i,h Bonds IYI:t 0 ACCIUrat Greek Muni, —l French, 5 per cc0t........... —f. —c. Into Bones, I 4 - .25 Dmo Accnnot Me , 'lcati Bonds, 5 per cent.... —1 Fxchatice f. !Into Account . —I Dutch, 1 1 4 per rent vtio. ! .; Itto, t; perazent 4 2 1., I Ditto Account Dill , Account 42.3 i it N I Ditto, 5 per cent 1, 424 . 11 3 ,1 gertnolitan . —l Ditto Account 1 4 ,2:%% 3 Q,li PRICES (it THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK P.,41. Per Ilvere Anglo Mexican Mining Company (is s. at 5/. lan.) IN R'S Ditto Subscription Po'atios Mining Coninmy lAt . 1;',0 testa Bran a Mining Company Colombian Mining Comp any (issocd at 3/. pm. , 5.4!,:, 15 Reel del Motite Mining Co., Registered :11/. !O#. i6l. -- Ditto Unregistered tloitcd Moxiran (issues'. at *J. pm.) West Cork Mining Company 9.5 :1 2',: flt•,; pm, PRICES OF IRl.ii STOCKS. DUBLIN, FEB 13 per Cent. Conso'a PI% Grand Canal Deiu. r; per cent. 12 Ditto Reduced !V s i Ditto, 4 p-r rent 62 3!:; per Cent. Stork 99 11;beriiim it ink .. 22 Ditto New, lni .4 per Cent. Debentures 9l National lnsiiranct Company tEI nankStork ...2.8t4 City Debeffitiriat. 4 per cent... $2 Royal Canal Stock - ‘. (A ' Gro.od Canal Stock _?4 AU.S. Arrived. Due. Arrived. 1 )ite 0 Americas 0 ..! France 0 0 Ilrazi: CI Buenos Ayres 0 0 Hamburg 0 o Cartliagena 0 , 1 Holland o 2 Nblin 0 0 Jamaica 0 9 Flanders Hum ‘I,ATEiI AT LONDON MUDGE TO-MORROW. • Morning 46 minutes after 4. Evening 6 minutes after 5 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING will be performed the Dramed of THE BRIGAND. Allesandra Massaroni, Mr. Viallack ; Maria Graale, Mrs. Vining. After which, BLACK EY'D SUSAN. To conclude with the New Grand Chivalric E...:tertainment, tolled KIN* ARTHUR and the KNIGHTS of the ROUND TABLE. In which Mr. Ducrew's magnificent Stud of Horst•a will be introduced. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. rills EVENING will be performed the Opera of - DER FREISCHUTZ After which, MY NEIGHBOUR'S WIFE. Ta conclude with MANFRED. Neatly bound for the pocket, with gilt edges, THE PARLIAMENTARY TEST BOOK, For 1835. In which may be seen, in addition to the Names and Residences of the Members, the Pledges 'by which they bound themselves to their Constituents at the late General Election, their avowed Poli tical Principles, wi:h their manner of Voting upon every leading Question in the last Parliament. _ . London : Effingham Wilson, 83, Royal Exchange ; and all Bookselleis. HAMBURG, Nov. 26, 1834. EINE BROTHERS, Contractors for the GREAT LOTTERY, published and drawn by authority and under guarantee of the Hamburg Government, beg to inform the public, that the 65th Lottery of 10,000 Tickets will be drawn on the 18th of March next ; and Tickets are now selling at 103 marks banco, or 81. The prizes are lof 100,000, lof 50,000, lof 30,000, 1 of 20,000, 1 of 10,000, 2 of 5,000, 4 of 3,000, 7 of 2,000, 20 of 1,000, 40 of 500, and 1,500 of 10S marks, which 1,578 money prizes are altogether stated in marks banco, and payable without any , leduction whatever ; 4,000 tickets being delivered gratis to the holders of the 2,000 first-drawn tickets, as per scheme, those purchasing one ticket, at the trifling cost of 81., may obtain three prizes, and thus, if fortune proves favourable, gain 180,000 marks banco, at the present exchange, equal to 13,0001. sterling. Owing to the gratis-tickets, the number of tickets on sale is a very limited one, so that, • of course, they will be cleared off very rapidly, and a rise in price occur very soon. Those desirous to purchase at the present first price of Si., are requested to direct, by one of the first mails, but only for whole tickets, to the above-named Con tractors, Heins Brothers, in Hamburg. Those remitting a 10/. note will receive an order for the balance of 2/., together with the ticket, by return of mail ; on the other hand, those preferring to pay Heine Brothers' draft for the cost, are recommended to pay such draft immediately when presented. A full scheme, and every desirable information, being always sent with the tic,tcts, those giving orders will only have to writs a line, ordering the ticket or tickets, adding the money, or an order for the serve, or stating the mode of payment that may be more convenient to the orderer, and giving their full and plain directions, to secure the safe receipt of the communications. Those honouring Heine Brothers by pur chasing, may depend on the strictest secrecy, as to their taking a chat.ee or getting a prize ; such being the undeviating rule of the old-established and most lucky Office. NOTICE.—We shall give in The &az of To-morrow a complete List of the Members returned to Parliament from the London Gazette. Also another List showing in what manner all those Members of the late Parliament have voted on the following im portant questions :—the Corn Laws—Church Re form— Short Parliaments Ballot— Corporation Reform, &c., together with the denomination of each Member, whether Whig, Liberal, or Conser- vative. The new Members will also be distinguished. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutcs past 3 o'clock. Arrived. Due. I Lisbon • o Malra I) Mexico 0 o Ostend 0 0 Sweden a 2 Waterfiird...... 4 .. , •'. pr . s - -'z - A . .:Al., .. ~t_i • 1 ,, _,,,,,. 4an. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1835. THE FUNDS.-C BRrn SF Bank Stook 0 `21% 3 per Cent Red 93 3 per Cent. Cons 92% :Sy, per Cent. lOO3B 3 14 per Cent Red 100% New :314 per Cent 100 e 4 per Cent. Assented Dissented Long Annuities to expire an 1860 - '7 7-16 Oct 1F , 59 174 an. 1860 ... } °REIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent lO4 . Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent. 91 i Belgian, 5 per cent lO2 Ditto, New Ditto 92% Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent — i Ituss+an Bonds, 5 per cent..... Cli;lian, 6 per cent 44 1 Ditto. Metallic Columbian, 6 per cent - Spanish, 5 per cent :1714 Ditto, 1821 374 ' Ditto, 18'23 — Danish .... Grce. Bonds, 1625, 5 per cent — Exchange .. Mexican, 5 per cent., 165.... ' French, 3 per cent —f —c. Ditto, 1825, 6 per rent 42% Dutch, 2. per cent. 56% reruvian, ti per cent NEGRO DANDYISM.—Most persons have seen a series of humourous. but apparently exaggerated, sketches, representing negro life at New York. According to a recent traveller is America, none of those pictures at all exceed the truth. Speaking of the Castle Garden, the writer in question says—" On Sundays this public walk is filled with people of all classes, particularly those of the sable cast, making a pro fuse display of their finery. To the negroes this place of re sort is something like Hyde-park, a place for show. Their dress in general borders on extravagance. The women wear bonnets decorated with ribands,• plumes, and flowers of a thou sand different colours, - and their dresses are of the most showy description : the men 'are attired like real French petit-maz tres manques—the coat so open, that. the shirt sticks out under the armpits ; the waistcoats are of all colours of the rainbow ; the hat is carelessly put on one side ; the gloves ore yellow ; and every sable dandy carries a smart cane." The price of gold was raised on Saturday ; it is now 31. 17s. 103 d. the ounce. English Wool sold at an advance of 2d. per lb. at Warminster, on Saturday last.--Salisbury Herald. BRUSSELS PAPERS. BRUSSELS, FEB. 14.—The Courrier Beige publishes! letter from Berlin, of the llth February, to the followiDg effect : " Every thing here wears a pacific -appearance. I 'u t t ` c seen with astonishment that Foreign Journals do ubt news of the reduction of the Prussian army. It is ve i l certain that in the Rhenish. provinces, that is to say nllB l the Western Frontiers, the parks of Artillery are dissolvet. and the horses sold. The reserve of the Polish regime n stationed on the Rhine, have been disbanded. We l'w 3r : °f. l, new reductions of the effective force of the army, by viiPi e . /1 it is hoped that the expense of the war department lc,lo be diminished by six millions, (about one million sterling.) 'Pie _Mario di Rama of the 31st January announc e ' that by a note of the Secraary of State of the i2sth Ja nuary, Monseignmur Pasqual Gezzi, domestic Prelate to his Holiness, and a - present Charge d'Affaires of the O°IY See to the Court of Turin, has been appointed internuncio at Brussels. A new society of rich capitalists has just been forme under the title of Societe de Commerce de Brusselles. 'l'h' object of its operations will be the extension of the coo mere°, of Belgium, by facilitating on a great scale import"' Con, exportation, and consignments, and in general branches of the commercial business. Among the founders are several of the Directors of the Bank, and a great new ber cf persons of large property. Commercial transactions were very brisk at Antw er p last, week. The public sales the day before;yesterday am ounted to 1,000 bales of Coffee, 000 bales of Cotton, and 4( % ) chests of Sugar. In the sitting of the Senate yesterday, the debate on tbe Budget of the Minister of the Interior was con tinua,' ' The sum of 10,000 francs, proposed for the support of t 1 1! Anglican church, gave occasion to a long discussion , whic° was in the end agreed to by a majority of 18 to 13. Tr retrenching of this 10,000 francs had been proposed the Committee, to reduce the sum asked for by the .6°; vernment from 90,000 to 80,000 francs. Other articles 0` the Budget were adopted unanimously. The Chamber of Representatives continued the debate on the Commercial Law : - they have come to Art. 1'29. M. Brouckere asked the Minister whether he could Ye,t give the explanation he had promised, respecting the ar.r esv of the Rev. Canon de Judicibus The Minister of the Interior had asked the Governtnelit of Flanders for some information, but had not received OP The Minister of Justice had received some informa ti°9 ; but. thought it would be more agreeable to have a complete ,report at once.—Brussels Papers, Feb. 1.5. GERMAN PAPERS. VIENNA, FEB. 6.—The first number of the new 3 0 ..ur1 published at Trieste under the name of Giornale Gul Astriaeo, gives the following interesting particulars of trade between Austria and France :—" In the year 183 '" : the value of Austrian produce imported into France Or 34 millions of francs, and the exportation from France', Austria only 7,400,000 francs. Thus there was a ba lac , c e of 26 millions in favour of Austria, and in which it is te:, observed that the articles exported from Austria, wi t h s . very few exceptions, were its own produce or ma nufaete'f and above half the articles imported from France Ine r " : passed through Trieste to other countries." for The Austrian Observer says :—" The Temps has some time past contained articles dressed up in the forw letters from Vienna. Thus it related some time ago a 6°. fee-house anecdote, which is to be found_word for word 1 a work of M. Menzel, published many years ago , e. 4 which was related above 20 years ago in Cassel, as 11 01 , occurred there, under the Government of Jerome 1 3 °, parte. Such are the sources of the pretended corre s r -' dente of the Temps. Such articles do not merit refat°r: tion, for they bear so evidently the stamp of absurd fict i° J that every reader who has any knowledge of Austria its laws, or of the manners and customs of the capital , - e il t . smiles with pity at them. The same Journal, in its nue' , of Jan. 27, gives, under the head of " Chronique Politi '' e a letter which his Majesty the Emperor is stated to 113`r, written to the widow of Marshal Ney. To show our resdeti; what a stupid invention this is; we need only say that t'or letter is given as written at " Sehonbrunn, on the `2 oth te February." Such a Political Chronicle will not contrill much to enrich contemporary history, and may, at re most, one day serve to show what journalists could vcot" to present to their good-natured readers in 1835. VIENNA, FEE. B.—Five per Cent. Metallicives, 1 00 rt Four pe Cent., 93 9-10; Bank Shares, 1297 k 98.—F/14W Papers, Feb. 12. TRIESTE, JAN. 31.—The accounts from Athens brougo, by the last packet, are to Jan. 9. The affairs of the 6 0 ,, vernment were almost in a state of stagnation, and all ,f. pended on Count Armansperg, the President of Rege be li One of the Greek Journals speaks of M. Von 11 )1,j, as not yet initiated in the affairs of Government. ge,"; , besides, had an'apOplectie or paralytic stroke, a nd haa o , mained insensible for eight hours, but he had happily rec vered, to the great joy of his friends. d i g The same Journal says that General Heideck was Jr) ;0 posed, but the health of, the President seemed to be 4''' restored. r () Te At Athens there were still a great scarcity of P, ci' sions and want of lodgings. so that many persens haa, e , turned to Napoli, or other places from which they c e ' re d It is not expected that much will be done in the few e j maining months of the Regency, but a great deal is bePbo for afterwards. • A certain degree of uneasiness is n ot tf eci , denied, as it appears that nothing is prepared for tha t cl o t sive moment ; so that it is feared that the new Goveraoty Will be only a continuation of that which has b r ougllt te i country and the Throne into 'the situation in which t 9 now are.—Aggemeing Zeitung, Feb. 10. H THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY. TWELVE 0' CI. 0 Cl 6 t 1) , Quebec papers to the 15th January, Montreal t° , 18th January, and Newfoundland to the 2d January, l''dez. been received at the North and South American Con House. (From the Montreal Papers.) tIO By the provincial newspapers we are glad to find that , D 4 Constitutional Association at Quebec has been ex el. itself vigorously in ,attempting to rouse the syrnpath ic : of the Loyalists of Upper Canada and the other province' r British America. We trust that Montreal will soon 0 10 nize a similar .A..;:sociation, which, by acting in concert 'r ki o their brethren at Quebec, will at last enable the Br' population to speak its sentiments with one voice. the Yesterday at eight o'clock A.M. the mercury stood a :4 freezing point, and rose by noon to 35 ; towards ev e there seemed some promise of frost. COMMERCIAL—OFFICIAL COMMITTEE - PRIVY COUNCIL FOR TRADE. Whitehall, Nov. !, I4 ' 1 . 0 ( Sea—The Lords of the Committee of Privy Coun e "„ Trade, having considered the report (dated 4th inst.) t l c i t o question relating to the removal of tea from Newfound t c another British possession in America, and they have dir c ;i o l , me to state to you, for the information of the CorninTd b€ that in their opinion the whole of these possessions she° h' considered as one place, in the view of the law upon th c a ' f te' ject, and consequently that tea having been duly irnr to lc , into any part of that place, is virtually imported into the $ and is therefore free to be carried into any other part. f f J. D. 11°'ti et To-morrow the Parliament of Upper Canada will 'The time fixed for the meeting of the Provincial r' o .is meat is rapidly drawing near, and considerable an sie i ts , expressed as to what line of conduct the Governor an d l o of sembly will adopt in the trying situation in which the elver is placed. It has been currently reported that Lord , A2 fl icer is in possession , of dispatches from the Colonial t y authorizing him to adopt decisive measures, shouluverr Assembly still prefer its rancorous hostility to 0 %0 5 meat, instead of attending to the settlement of the 01 questions. be e° (From the Quebec Papers.)—The weather has eve r growing gradually milder since Saturday. YesterdaY ing some rain fell. ee ° The Newfoundland papers arc void of the least in t el (From the Baltimore Paper of Jan. 21.)—A lett er ," St. Thomas's, dated 16th ult., says—" We have ac e° or by the mail-boat, of an earthquake at St. Vincent's wards of 100 persons perished." THE FUNDS. bepil The British as well as the Foreign Funds were lo weri on Saturday, caused by the French prices coming t ,O l Consols left off on Saturday at 924 for the Accolor opened this morning, with an improvement, at 92it r ot e !, Account, and for money 92N, owing to the Frencuket corning higher by the express. At present the oa r f'y pears firm. Exchequer Bills are 39 41 ; India 1 3 ° e 22 ; India Stock 258, 259. „ Sp a In the Foreign market Spanish opened at 5 7 41 to nisi' Scrip, prem. Portuguese 9‘)li te o `' 4 • • 01 3 The express from Paris is not important---its c will be found in another column. / ISO i d HALF-PAST 7,i s h Since the early part of the morning b o th the 1 3 r"a Foreign Markets have improved. C onso l s h av e reaeh e for the account, but at present may b e quo t e d 921 i• r ,7t' In the Foreign Market Spanish h ave b ee n done 0 0 0 0 Scrip, 4 bUyers; Portuguese, 921- 4 ; Dutch, 5 6 i bian, 36 37. OCX. THREE 0' a - Consols for the Account 924- i• 1 1 t , f• DAYS OF GRA CE .—Diff eren t cus t o ms P r o,`, „,, d o n different countries, with regar d to t h e grace a llowed tlic e `. In the United States th ree d a y s are a ll owe d ; in Lon elf; days ; Turin fiv e ; A ms t er d am s i x ; C ope nhage n Ge e ;e' , Paris ten ; Hambu rg t we l ve ; M a d r id f ourtee n, an d Dee, thirty ; while in St. P e t ers b urg h, L eg h orn , 1 4 yons , and some other cities, no days of grace are allowed' eut c th en . Plait sec th e o e l yg( ' 4 °4 i l. 's ' so re a — PPe. _, ot%e m , It ; but F Nir 011 * til ajte °! (L au Z te g trade p_ ren t in ld be ha th eir child kr. co I" t becat e °4ld „ o h Pr he In ti c , k .k, • itk