The Sun. — London, England, 1835-10-22 00:00:00

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Rtirel?,i; nd Thifkili at all acquainted with the history of any one of the great questions which public opinion has carried against Governments and Parliaments, can for a moment doubt the incalculable ad- Vantage Which this would have gained to the repeal. As to Ole argorae t ilt thqt c;a;;;;n7.77.! r ul4 114 " been hhaken by. a defeat, this is, in many cases, a sound reason for abstaining from a vote ; but if constantly used, it be comes one of the most fatal motives action which ca n swtt piiiillO RAM it IS had 10? the Midiflore; idt it Wakes theni absolute and heedless I it is destructive to the coun try ; for it places the fate of every question, not upon its oWli but upon ralsd and arbitrary issue. Since the Bession closed ; art indieatien has been given or a nature not to be mistaken i and !'tom hence we inspect that the fate if the tat hi question Is at length decreed, not, in_ deed, by the determination of the Government or the Par liament, but by the nature of the thing. Attempts were made during the summer to print unstamped daily papers, but these failed, as is said, from the want of due prcpara , . tions. The Government than put the laW in force against sonic of the other papers, which-had long been published without a stamp I and great complaints were made both in Parliament and out of doors, of this proceeding.. W e confess We cannot join in these complaints ; because, as long as the law exists which subjects papers to a stamp, those who print with the stamp have an undeniable right to all the protection which the Government can give them against those who carry on a contraband trade, and sell papers without paying the legal duty. But although no blame can be imputed to the Government fur attempting to act as they are by the law bound to act, every one must see that the attempt will fail. The contraband dealer will defeat the Government, exactly as. the smuggler of spirits, and many other articles of general consumption; has always done ) when OW articles were taxed beyond what {lig could bear. No sooner had a seizure been made of one printing press in London, than other presses were set to work elsewhere ; and immediately unstamped papers, of course without any printer's name, were found every where hi London, which had been printed in some of the great manufacturing towns, and sent for sale to the metropolis. Can the Government think of continuing this contest ? It is impossible—for the contest is hopeless. The people are determined to read newspapers and they will have them without the duty of two or three hundred per cent. which the Legislature has imposed. The duty on spirits was re duced, not because the revenue could be spared, or because any man wanted to make gin cheaper, but because the smuggler beat the Ofternment and undersold the fair dealer. The duty on political and all other knowledge Will be repealed (reducing it is out of the question), because the unstamped newsmonger is boating the Government, and underselling the dealer in stamped papers ; and because the people will no more go on without reading than Without drinking. Every man lamented the necessity of lowering the spirit tak---eVery man must agree in the necessity of tepealing the tax on knowledge. It is impossible to close an article upon the press without observing upon the almost counter-revolution which Prance has lately undergone in this branch of her policy,,-of all others the most important to a free state. We should ill discharge our duty as faithful journalists of Politics, as well a s Letters, were we to hesitate in expressing the deep feeling of indignation which fills our minds upon a survey of the late transactions. There was a foul, and, If you will, a diabolical plot, to assassinate the King ; and there were newspapers existing at the same time. This, this positively, and nothing more, is the connexion between this plot and the press—the pretext, the flimsy pretext, for chaining the press with chains of iron, abolishing trial by jury, extinguish ing all journals published by poor men, and, in fact, pl ac i ng th discussion of all subjects, except perhaps mathematics and antiquities, upon a more slippery and intolerable footing than they were, in the time of an open, avowed, and candid tyrant. Cherishing the highest respect for the able and enlightened Prince who now rules the French nation, and for his virtuous and accomplished Minister, we fervently hope that they will retrace their steps ere it be too late, and give back to France the freedom which they have, under the influence of a temporary panic, been enabled, by the tame acquiescence of the unreformed Cham bers, to suspend. The progress which Republican principles have made in England during the last twelve months has been remarked by all accurate observers of the signs of the times—and not a foreigner who hears our conversations now, and had left us for a year or two, is insensible of the change. We verily believe that an Englishman resorting to France next year will be struck still more with the like progress, shOuld the new laws be continued in force. We have spoken out as regards our own rulers, when they are plainly . misled. We cannot suppress the truth as to those of our neighbours. t es to he inciut omission-. L „i i n the rceeited sage; " To-morrow, and to-morrow, and which he speaks with an air of irritated impatience ; but we do not at all like his manner of appealing to the Physi cian, " Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased?" as if he *ere entreating him to use his utmost skill to accom plish d cum—this is Al tithe wag meant by the Poet to be #riditen hi at tone aljiprdalehid clefigidn di the inefficacy Of physic; w rich Macbeth tidi ld cc itifi4 td the dogs," knowing what would be the answer the K6iitire diet with a great deal of applause, and deserved it. Mrs. West rtiade a better Lady Macbeth than we expected, but in her sleep-walking she displayed. a little too much action and vehemence. She had tat dig nity of carriage for the banquet, but in the scene where she through the part ts,. creditably, though 4- 1 -.4 the daggers, she was very successful. Wallack ..•••__ w w en a : s ttirday: g iven out repetition on Sa cno'aasrgillelayc.diffacabnet(l {aekr e I :s. Ronti, Esq., and a full fetch of Magistrates.) any Aftt'e Leming- some appeal tnts, none of which p?sseistd s t 1:-phlie interest, the Cnrt proceeded to el.!. ("Over the ," 1 applic a ti ons f or music licences fry` tin ensuing year. complainedth a t 44W.; Clerk of the Peace, Mr. oti ces ea, had n ot inserted., the list of applicants, so m e oti which h a d been ttnt in within the l a st three 'or f our a Ys. There was nothing in the Act which made it neces sary to send in the notice a week previous to the sessions. se Mr• Iterrex sr;id th e regu l at i on, that not i ces should be erndetrilithat avrek previous to the s ess i ons , h a d b een ma d e i n tee Magistrates should be appris e d, bef ore h an d, wilat a Pptications w ere lik e l y to b e ma d e. d ecide CL AnKsoN—They t h oug h t every case s h ou ld b e i'„'eal as it aro se upon i ts own merits. t i ur• Allen, t h e Clerk of the Peace, read the order of 'e r Court, d ated Oct. 28, 1830. which required that a net's notice should be given. Ai r , 13. BEAUMONT was of opinion that the Maois but es sho u ld b e apprized beforehand of the applications, it th „, Ras a hardship upon the applicants that the order to 4 ,,! effect had not been made public. i 1t,12 answe r to a question from Sir C. Forbes, ojiday last, which he has sell% Allen said six notices liao. * been o sent to him since FORBES would ne'L included in the list. to en C. , k n into considerut3-0 su.gest that these. six should be tarou g h • n, after the last had been gone he 1 4tr r. strictly " 4d/. ILL/ AM thought the A c t o f P ar lia men t s h ou ld ~credto. that t h e ; 13 's ex said th a t th e o bj ec t o f th e wee k' s not i ce was, piyie Atagistrates should know who the parties were ap bad g', as it sometimes happened that objectionable persons ,get into possession of a house previously licensed. SCOTT itiotion of Sir C. FORBES was seconded by Sir J. LILLI E , but was negatived on a show of hands. 10: an swer to a ques ti on from Sir J. S. LILLIE, h?. All en sa i d one application which was not in the list Seen hea r d at t h e last Sessions. pr e S. LILLIE—Then we are acting unjustly in the ,!tlit ease. l e Ir. BOTCH There is another matter to which the at oanht).4 of the Magistrates should be directed—that parties or a ' t "!' s trg the applications for music licenses should give SirC. the Magistrates and the applicants. t o `-'• FORBES would move that the Court do refuse beteutertain any opposition of which due notice bad not given to th e ' part i es o bj ecte d to. k r . 13. BEAUMONT seconded the motion. g2l- tL r• TID D P RATT suggested, before they made any rule eoliti'itaiettint, to ascertain what was the practice in other Sir ac t to P. LAURIE thought it wou ld b e a very oppress i ve tr ate sh ut out all o pp os iti on, an d b e truste d the Magis zs would not make any regulation on that point incon it ith thei r f ormer proceedings. hen'question 'vas then put, and the motion negatived. tee" e e Court then proceeded to the list of applications for of 'music licenses. N ew r ''-ire 21 n e w a p p li cat i ons , among w hi c h are the thre atre ' r and Th ea t re ; t h e t h eatre i n Norton Folgate ;. the Theo in the Cial-road • the Royal Standard 1 t re in Shoredit ch ; ommerc and the Colosseum. igazttgla Review, No. CXXV.) JUST PUBLISHED. Among the most important of the great qUestione which it has been our duty tel. tiro% lipbh 4ie ititention of our readers is thla which the Age of dilr taitation inttrisOses to the dil t fuSiO iniYinirVedie: if ai3 where from tb is .4atccif province, 1, , e . The dit - d ;very . et Tem -11 ellque t ° edings , increase& irtieulars following entail t? .ate ica Svitl r r the de' rental, to it rose °. conclnct .crnemb et ye yea r . s l t Marto . Ifficers or occasions ion,judr I Esq. 4, one of the Vice-Presidents, was particularly men tioned. The lecture and evening meetings were alluded to with great satisfaction; grid it appeared that an increase of members, which, from the adi'antagee already experienced from the institution by the surrounding neighbourhood, might fairly be expected, was only required to secure the full cilleieney of the society. The Lady of Sir John Pechell, Bart., met with a Ithidtra accident on Monday last, in consequence of a fall froth 4 tifilschka, on the road to Richmond. She broke her right arm. How TO DISMI6S Aunigwoz , —A manager of a small theatre, not far from the' banks of the Liffey, perceiviag; shortly before the curtain drew up, that the audience consisted of only thece persons, found himself under the necessity of putting off ti performance to the following day ; so, advancing to the front of the stage with a theatrical air—" Ladies and Gentlemen," said Ni.".• O'Hig gins, for that was his name, " I perceive there is Mt; .:( I .Y here—l am forced, therefore, with the greatest regret, to send you all home ; it being understood that the entertain ments announced by the bill will not take place to-night ; however, I have the honour, Gentlemen and Ladies, to apprise you that the performances of this evening will take place to-morrow. Some weeks ago we gave an outline of a conversa tion held with an old shipmate of his Majesty, while on board the Prince George. Colonel Wemyss having ob served the paragraph, took an opportunity of directing his Majesty's attention to it ; when the , King stated that he recollected the circumstance alluded to as well as Miller, aid, as a mark of respect, graciously sent him five pounds. Miller, who is on the borders of 80, and who has been rather u n well for sometime, felt highly gratified. When he first heard of %15 Majesty's attention, he exclaimed with peculiar emphasis, );,^ll, I was sure the King, God bless him, would mind o' mei ",..—Fifeshire Journal. TRANQUIL STArri' O F IRELAND.—The Magis trates of the County of vi r ate ,or d are to meet at Dun garvan Quarter Sessions on the lo.h instant, to consider the propriety of dispensing with the servie. of a stipendiary Magistrate, in consequence of the tranquil crate of that County.—Dublin Register. Four gentlemen from Fermoy are summoned by Mr. Walker, the Deputy Advocate General, to give evidence at the General Court Martial on Captain Burslem, 94th Regiment, which commenced in Limerick yesterday. About ten o'clock on Thursday night, a boatman fell from his boat into the river, and immediately disap peared under the hulk opposite Mr. Ridgway's house ; but by the activity of one of the river-watch, named James Brown, he wes immediately dragged up with his crook, and thus saved from a watery gr ave.—Waterford Mail. For the sake of employing some of the many hands now out of employ at Eastbourne, two of the principal farmers have undertaken to try how far dibbling of wheat will answer on that soil, one of whom stated, in Hertford shire " I paid 6s. per acre, here I will offer Bs., the dibber finding three children to drop the corn."—Brighton Gazette. The ancient Corporation of Leeds, wishing to pass off the stage rejoicing, have issued circulars to their friends and retainers, signifying their intention of dining together, ' previous to their di,ssoluti?n," and soliciting the honour of their company on that occasion. " N.B. Each gentleman to pay his own expenses." Till; is a novelty in corporation dinners—but, as the Irishman says , " Death only occurs once in a man's life. TOWER MENAGERIE._ Th e whole of i:2e dens, fittings-up, &c. of this once-popular exhibition, which has now for some time been uninhabited, were sold off this day, by order of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests. The column which has recently been erected at St. Petersburgh, in memory of the Emperor Alexander, con sists of a solid block of granite, 85 feet in height, sur mounted by a bronze statue 20 feet high. The pedestal on which it rests is 25 feet in diameter. The material for this noble monument was brought from the coast of Fin land, in a vessel constructed expressly for the purpose, and the immense block was raised up an inclined plane of timber from the landing place, and lowered from its summit to its intended position ; 15.000 troops were assembled to cele brate its completion. Married at St. Martin's, R. Parrott, Esq., of St. Martin's-place, to Miss Fowle, of Camberwell. Says Dick, (that's the Parrot) "My wish who would mar it? I'm not such a very old owl. So as birds of a feather flock always together, I'll just try as mate a young Fowle." And here's luci to ye, Dick !—may many a chick And bantam be your's, jolly cock ! May it never be said you are hen-peck'd when wed, Or your broods a di*; ace to the stock. Poultry Compter. ,A FRIEND TO FOWL PLAT. On Friday, the 16th inst., the: trial of four females, and Donald Marshall , the bellman of Iju: oon, charged by the Procurator Fiscal of the count y with wan: and riotous nd driv mischief, by assembling in a tumultuous manner, ing down the walls in course of erection by Mr. Esvi..7 at Dunoon, in the month of August last, came on at Inverary • The whole pannels were found guilty, fined in a mitigated penalty, and failing payment, ordained to be imprisoned in Inverary gaol for a period not exceeding forty days.— Greenock Advertiser. A SCOT'S TllRlFT.—Yesterday, in one of the dissenting meeting-houses in town, a parsimonious wight unwittinily put a half-crown in the plate as he passed. After being in his seat about ten minutes he discovered his mistake, and in a characteristic spirit went down stairs with all haste, and, to the horror of the worthy elder, dived his unhallowed hand into the plate, tossed over a mountain of co pper, and on discovering his beloved half-crown, he seized it with a convulsive firasp, and replacing it with a bawbee, walked up stairs again to his seat, with great joy and con solation.—Greenock Advertiser. THE EFFECTS OF NATURAL CENERY.—Within rtunities of con the last two or three days we have had opce ctice and ex versing with various game-keepers, whose pre our hap perience are alike extensive , such as it never wa..l lass to enjoy before. As is the case of ever y other c‘,. of men, their intelligence as a body depends much on duality ; but if the whole conservators of our preserves and moors were formed to-morrow morning into a solid phalanx, It would be easy to select from the congress of wide pouches, leathern belts, shooting gear, and appurtenance generally, men who would do honour to any station. Mighty virtue resides in being constantly abroad, and surveying, under every varying aspect, a vast extent of champaign and al pine country, including all the wide extremes of grounds carefully parked, mountain recesses all but inaccessible, lonely moors, and melancholy morasses, fringed and bound ed by the far forest.—Dumfries Courier. EXTRAORDINARY. --A very large porpoise, mea suring about seven feet, has been found near the Garrison Point, on the beach at Sheerness. It appeared that it had swallowed an eel, which had forced its tail through one of " the blow holes," and thus produced suffocation. The eel was tultett out alive. In 1744 flame curious monuments were discovered at Monkton Farley, in Wiltshire, after having been buried for two centuries. It seems that a rabbit warren had been formed over the site of the priory church ; on the ground being levelled, the liveizient of the church appeared nearly complete, and several graND-stones and skeletons were discovered. The cod and herring. fisheries ot .Boulogne have this year been considerably increased. The ht:ring fishery has been completely successful , but the vessels enipL.ved in the cod fishery have not brought back quite so larg.: quantity, in proportion to their riumber, as in former sea sons.—Gatignani's Messenger. FATAL DUEL.—PARIS, OCT. 19.—The only sub ject of domestic interest to-day is a fatal duel, which took place at seven o'clock this evening in the Bois de Boulogne. The parties are understood to be connected with the well known establishment, No. 6, St. James's-square. One of them was a Mr. B—, the other the Count De Ruyter, or, according to other authorities, Mr. J. Rutter. The parties fired three times without effect, when the seconds interposed, but no attempt at reconciliation was listened to, and the parties then took their ground at ten paces — nearer, I believe, than they had been previously placed ; when both again fired, and the Count fell to rise no more, having received the ball of Mr. B-- near the heart. The nature of the dispute I am not acquainted with, but one of the parties is understood to have been recently subjected to law proceedings in London. CONSTANTINOPLE.—Another of the English work men in the employ of the Government, named George Scott, died a few days ago of the plague, and his wife is lying lit the hospital attacked by the same disorder. It is, how ever, expected she will recover. Their infant family was for a short time left in the street, but Captain Kellie, head of the steam-boat department, took care of the children, and they arc so far in perfect health. We bear of extremely little plague elsewhere, and the workmen must have taken it by frequentin g the house of a Maltese, from Alexandria , part of whose family was carried off by the malady. They were in the habit of meeting at this house to drink. The surviving men, one and all, declare that they will stay here no longer—and, if they go, I fancy the Turks will be glad to get rid of them, as most of them are too fond of their li quor, and frequently become unmanageable. The fact is, wine can be had at two-pence a bottle, whilst spirits are proportionably cheap, and, as few of them possess the virtue of abstinence, they are apt to indulge too freely in the use of these beverages. What is worse, intemperance in this country produces, in Englishmen at least, absolute mental derangement. Scott was both drunk and mad a few hours before his death ! Workmen who come out here should be faithful members of a Temperance Society. They would then succeed, and their pay is so handsome that, with ordi nary economy, each might save 1001. a-year, whereas, as it is, several of them arc in debt. The American ship builders, Ivho are water drinkers, succeed admirably. Lrn4 He o 0 ii advertiri% ely i n the' larnen t . s ' every 11- r of the c onsid& Iportance ,ll.knoW b u t Feet; ) the s' l , l ; to avoio rs, I vhich Alth, an' )r which and the 1, even hi .11 to tl s of them they " ill pity alit/ ,A.l o f offic , ing b et " lished to ng b eell lerto eb rgy lan ds ale, shal l at in fir le ester' a tart' a n f c o lie to colonies, be made ls o f the ‘rected t° . 2s. 6 d, to WS,Apr i rns 0 . , „er ales, r 345. VI. 335• 10,1' 'EUKS 345. J,014. .ISs. 54 .153. v"" 41A - those obitradtient hie id Aped lostility, surely it is in Editlanth—the inhabitants of which are all more or leZ.f, devoted to literary pursuits, We %%Tito % .iitaezet inidng generation which has hot *yet forgotten the Veiee et thelr old anal Venerated teacher, the leartke4, heneit, indefatigable Dr. Adam, than wlrdin th'ere never livel h More adniirahle pattern of a Schoolmaster, nor a More infletibly virtuous matt= a devoted friend of leatatlng, but not more of letters than of their conealal liberty, and a man tiom - ea with the rare renTage of standing up et alnst oppression in the werSt times ever known fit this part of the island since the tyranny of the tsi&table Lauderdale in the Ith century. His voice %till rings in the ears thf hTh scholars, when he was went to exclaim, ' A toe t)ion Paper is a tax upon ittiorei ledge.' What weedd he have said had he !Ned to hear it proved in Parliament by one of his old pupils, that in con ducting one of the most poplar works of the present day, the ' Penny Cyclopalialthe Society of Useful Knowledge pays as much in excise upon paper intO the Exchequer, as it does to the most eminent and. fitientific men in Europe, —the Aireys, the Babhars, the Brewsters, men fatuous as discoverers, but wo' also devoting their taletitt and learning to the instrakttion of all classes of their countrymen, Four thousand pounds a year paid in duty upon one work Four thousand panda a year tax—tributer----blirden—dis couragement--r- Aohibition—i m p ose d npOn the diffusion of knowledge among the people, through a single channel ! As the circulation of the " Penny Magazine. of the same Society must be three or foiir times M great as that of the Cyclopedia,' this book of the poor man must have to bear the burden of perlrap sixteen thousand a year in like manner. In after tics it will not be believed that in 1834 our policy coed have been barbarous to this extent% Stich a system will then be nearly as incredible at It now seems to us that thirty yea ago our laws should have encouraged the murder and rapine, known by the gentle nattin of Slave Trading, and to abolish Which crime, Wits but a few years earlier pronounced by a great and Z ealous Conservative, the late Mr. Boswell, to "shut fhe gates of mercy oot mankind." • But there is another tax on knowledge—directly and chiefly on political—but indirectly and substantially on every kind of knowledge, jest as objectionable, and the re peal of which we have shown to be as absolutely necessary. We mean the Newspaper Stamp. Since we last discussed this subject, some matters have happened which require to be considered, and to which we shall now advert, In the succinct manner above mentioned, without again going over the general argument. The public attention has ken roused to this meet im portant question, in spite of all the effertt Made by the greater part of the London newspapett, to stifle discussion upon it. That these journals a plainly combined againg the repeal, no person can effect to doubt, any nmre than he can justly blame them. They have much at stake, or they think they have : a monopoly, thong}', never intended by the authors of the tax, has trent% by its operation actilred to them, and they are apprehensive of injury from its being taken off. Our very clear opinion It, that they are wrong, and that they would gain MI as much as they could lose by the measure. Bat Otlr opinion is nothing ; they have a perfect right to contemn it and abide by their own. There fore, we do not blame them for the course Which they are pursuing, like any other dealer, in favour of their supposed interests. But in one respect they differ from other dealers ; they have the means of protecting themselves and injuring the public--the consumers, by suppressing all, or nearly all that is doing on the subject. When any other trade is at tacked by the legislature, or threatened by the efforts of the consumer to lower the price, or improve the quality of the article, the press is at hand to help the party which ap pears to be in the right, 'Here the press being one of the parties—the trader,—the other party—the consumer—has no such help. Thus, take the ekaetly parallel case of the brewers and publicans, The licensing of public-houses, though intended for an altogether different purpose, yet eventually and accidentally had given the publicans in cer tain houses, or rather the brewers who owned these houses, a monopoly. When that was abolished, millions were shown to have been wasted in leasehold property on the faith of the monopoly. All this was disregarded—meetings were held— petitions were presented—discussions took place every where—and in a few years the system and the consequential monopoly fell before the force of truth and reason. In this the newspapers aided exceedingly. But how would it have been if these papers bad all been—or nearly all been, like the public-houses, in the hands of the brewers ? Would they have done their duty to the public —or to the public houses ? Would the reform in question have had fair play ? Would it at this day have been carried ? It is due to some of the London papers to state, that they have taken a most disinterested part on the question of the Stamp. These, too, are among the best conducted and the most inflexibly honest. Their services to the cause of know ledge, and truth, and liberal opinion, have been invaluable. But the rest have taken another course ; and they have all endeavoured to suppress the agitation of the subject. So much so, indeed, that he who only reads these journals would never imagine how great and general an interest the subject had excited. As an instance : there were three of the greatest public meetings ever held in the metropolis— two of them attended by all, or nearly all, the Metropolitan Members ; and there was hardly any notice taken of their proceedings in some of the daily papers. Nay, none of these made any mention of two large meetings, one in South wark, and one at the Mechanics' Institution, farther than to state in a few lines that meetings had been held on, the subject. No one, to read such accounts, could ever have conjectured that near two thousand respectable persons had attended each of these meetings. This policy of the papers certainly has had one effect—it has misled Ministers and Members of Parliament, who necessarily take much of their information from such sources. The suppressive process has made the rulers of the State and lawgivers really be lieve that the public took little interest in the question ; and accordingly the tax has been'continued for another year, when a knowledge of the general eagerness for its repeal would inevitably have sealed its doom last Session. That the interest has been general and intense, the almost unanimous voice of the provincial press demonstrates. Its policy coin cides more nearly with its duty, and it has spoken freely and constantly out. The petitions presented to Parliament afford another test. These (as appears from the late Ta bular Returns to both Houses), have been more numerous, and signed by a greater number of persons, than the, peti tions upon any other , subjects whatever during the session— two only excepted—the Corporation Bill, and the case of the Dorchester labourers. Indeed, as one or two of the Corporation petitions were signed by twenty or thirty thou sand names, it ie manifest that the far g reater number of petitions must have been presented to Parliament for the repeal of the tax. That the Ministers should have taken, and most properly taken, into their attentive consideration the petitions in behalf of the Dorchester convicts, and granted a considerable mitigation of the sentence, without ever seriously attending to the Stamp petitions, seems very hard to be believed ; yet is true. __ Why should this Government, of all others, support a ' tax opposed to the diffusion of knowledge ? There never was any that owed so much of its strength to free discus sion. There are no friends any where of the existing Ministry, except among those who are most anxious for the spread of political information. A Ministry, too, more at tached to literary pursuits has not often existed. Many of its members are . themselres honourably known to the world as authors ; almost all of them are understood to be men of reading habits ; several of them, including both the Chan cellor of the Exchequer and the Leader of the House of Commons, are active members of the Society for the Diffu sion of Knowledge. Well may the public, therefore, won der at the deaf ear which this liberal and literary Govern ment seems to have turned to its representations. It can only be accounted for by supposing that the newspapers have misled them ; and chiefly by suppressing all mention of the subject, and of the anxiety felt upon it. It is pos sible that the active exertions of a few members of Parlia ment may have operated unfavourably. Let us hope that the support of the people will, in the interval before the next session, strengthen the hands of the Ministers, and enable them to resist all importunities, as well as encourage them to perform their duty. There is indeed a quarter of which, on this occasion, we have a right to complain, more than perhaps of the Minis ters—we mean the liberal members of the House of Com mons. What could possibly induce those who have uni formly supported all propositions in behalf of knowledge and against the stamp, to withdraw a motion when they had a majority in the House, and might have carried their reso lution ? This is, we confess, one of the most mortifying, and, to our minds, most inexplicable things which have hap pened in Parliament during the late session. The reasons which were assigned are, as it appears to us, unsatisfactory. We would be understood to speak with all possible respect and regard of men whose services are invaluable to the people ; but it is no mark of esteem to suppress our opinion upon an important subject. The carrying one vote against the stamp, even if it had been followed by nothing farther, would have been of infinite importance. We do not believe that the present Chancellor of the Exchequer would have imitated the worst parts of the old Pitt tactics, and tried to rescind that vote another day. Lord Althorp was com pelled, and most reluctantly compelled, to do so on the Malt Tax ; but that was a question of millions, and of an Income Tax ;—this was at the utmost one of two hundred * The excise on paper produces 800,0001., including all kinds of paper—that is, for packing, papering rooms, &c. Taking off one half of the duty for paper for printing, would be an immense relief to literature—especially cheap literature—and would rather be.a gain than a loss to the revenue ; whilst the increased publication of newspapers would augment still farther this income. F We had intended to offer some comments upon the conduct which several real Representatives of the People in Parliament have lately pursued in the contest with the London Press—Mem hers corning from various parts of the United Kingdom. If we abstain at present, it is not from any disposition to undervalue their services, but because we really consider that in the present times every thing is to be avoided which has a tendency to widen the breach between the press and the people's Representatives, and to help those who, for obvious reasons, are ever trying to sow dis sensions among the friends of liberal principles. I thousand pounds beyond the disposable surplus ; and even so much never could have been lost, for the advertisement SIIIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) (FROM LLOYD'S.) Pe 4 ,2 1 ", UCT. 21.—Wind W. S.W. Arrived the Catharine, From Bordeaux ; Unity, Peace , from Lynne; Lark, )3; 4 , frorn Bridport. Arrived from the river and sailed, the 4t riv . 'ley' Mann , for Grenada, and Zephyr, Speirs, for Exeter. li ki -ed from the rir,er and remain, the Thomas King, Wil 1, for Dernerp:ra • Larkins, Ingram, for Calcutta ; and Tthyst, Lacct-Jo, for Trinidad. 141;fiLssi.hlouTra, OCT. 21.—Wind W., light airs. °ul. ):i,Wind S. to N.N.W., moderate Arrived the Providence, Way, from Oporto, and Nvandersle, from Havannah. NOTICI.—A vesse l w ill b e prov id e d for the ,r„ "l 'to e 28th. Lisbon to-m orrow . L etters i n time in the evening 4deOWES,OCT. 21.--A r rived the Ja mes , B an k s , f rom B a ta v ia, Caroline, Read, f rom S t. Doming o . 4.lvERp OCT. A nti 00L, %J 21.—Arrived the Manly, r Wa_ls . h,from 111,i7gna ; Rhode Island, Schroder, from New lork, M ary, I,4\enzie, from Oporto ; and St. Harlampy, Krugu,. fro m 6 IS' il l s by• Arrived off port, the Race, —, from Antigua, a nd L pP° l e, , from Quebec. Er z ;, l4 As'r, Oct. 1 9.—Arrived the Ardent, Mackey, and bik l—ue th Anna, Bayne, from Pictou - Cornell, London, Mil pit-elltll, Arnold, ad Orie n t , - Aikenhead, from Quebec ; and Eu- L Ilackie, f rom Ali can t. ileb,?f t. RlCK, OCT. 19.—Arrived the Alarm, Harrington, and Harrington, from London. froti,vltoinsd, o o n. e'r. 19.—Ar r i ve d t h e Willi am Sk yrme, Gr i ffith) ' E aroan, OCT. 19. — A rr i ve d the Elizabeth Williams, N't"°rn London. ko nd /s "T, OCT. 19. -- A rr i ved the Resolution, Evans, from Co,* ' 1 5.—Arrived the Ja mes , B r i er , f rom G rena d a . o riclu ras. ,T. I J .— A rr ive d II sALE 0 • • d the Mariner, Grachie, from blLThe b “" anna Packet, Kl egg , b oun d t o Af r i ca , h as put back , tw ao lee % a ' g it r h o d u a n m d. age having been in contact with a yes •_ _ BRUSSELS PAPERS. , 1 4:111 1 , Iter 88E LS, OCT. 19.—Th e i r M a j es ti es w ill se t out this 4 10, 11 °.°n at 3 o ' c l oc k. G enera l L ec h er li cr set out last 110 * Lisb on , accompan i e d b y his Aide-de-Camp, Capt. r4driLeetham. The General will go from Lisbon to Il k , 'ler e " ss ELs, OCT. 9 0:—The Banker who has just failed Ye a ,,, w not a Belgian ; he had resided at Brussels many ti;el butb he was born in Holland. He was long employed u% 0 - "ark where he was Chief Clerk in the Discount ,Nr e "' j .lt is believed that he is gone to Naples. A n t°l.°Mary fact, of which, there is no previous example, t his b e , s e a remarked ;it that during the third quarter of t he was not, a single patient in the infirmaries of :, . 11 1es l e ni ar s °us of Bru-,sels, Louvain and Nevilles, in which e eneral or th 1y on on average, 300 prisoners. This or °veineat is ascribed to the constant care of the Direc -°se establishments. ILtY;,„arq assured th a t one o f th e richest heiresses in this 7 4 0 C tarried o ff yester d ay morn i ng b y a young stranger, 43 resided at Brussels for some months. Af.„ BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, OCT. 20. 55 itV i al WA, 24 per Cent ,_athschild's Loan, Five per Cent lOl% C e r_l , !if City, 183'2, Four per Cent lOO and Halfper Cent 139 A ".. Y of Commerce, Four a 109% ,r. of Belgium, Five per Cent A T , ek. Papers, Oct. 21. 14 1,1 ; 1 8, SEPT. IB.—The most conflicting reports con nlil"), spread . respecting the band of robbers, against . ,qast i -„ 2 la jor-GeneralGorden has taken the field. This '44 4 ace d the Minister of the Interior to publish the fol.- notice in to-day's Number of the Advertiser thoseral bands of robbers, the strongest of 4 which are N A) the Chi e f s Chosadas, Kalainat, Rupakias, o:nd Me 4t‘ , 1 ' a ppeared in the beginning of the summer, •in bodies t;80 men, i n th e c i rc l es o f Ph os i s and Lecris, Aca ,la „"l a nd Etoti ce , disturbed the tr anqu illit y ari d or d er of the c hles of those circles, and endangerefl the safety of his Nti kti :V's faithf u l su bj ects. To relieve the peaceable inha- Nt 4 from this scourge, the Goverrwt adopted the most thertic arm co measur es , confided the pursoit and destructi on o f measures to Major -General Gorden, and placed under his 1 .4 4( Ta11d th e light troops that w‘:..te on the frontiers, all the batt of those Eperchies, a division of one of the light 4 1):: °4 s, and of one of the battalions of the line. On the NrC r atlee of the King's troops, the robbers constantly ki n4 ld by them retreated beyond the frontiers of the WTso hi:h °4l . Some bands,, from five to ten men each, qo Tstill remained in Acamania, were pursued by Col. 's, who acts ufider the orders of Major-General i4s'bren Accordinp to the latest accounts, Col. Tsonkas lb eti e °lce° tho:-,e'bands, and they now implore the . de -1114 °I the G'.) cernment. Tranquillity and security are 1 , 4 e ex i b r n e j e .ste,red in those circles, and the commander of 1 1 11 ift e V'th" , m, General Gorden, is now engaged in placing f r ,„ e 2v. military force at the most convenient places on Tot.ters, to ensure the maintenance of order." Measur e is certainly necessary ; otherwise the bands 'he °oti recross the frontiers and begin their old game. 44;:ilitary tribunal in those provinces has already con 4RkiiieL4 Se veral of the captured robbers to death. W . e ! k''t ti,7ar °f reductions of the military establishment, which 4 ; i le made in consequence of orders from the King. It Ve e ° t - _Vlourn in what manner these reductions are to be A e i !-• The building of the militaryhospital is commenced. kii%:',°rotnission is appointed to deliberate on the best or -11,,,°11,0f superior seminaries, from which something Ora n °c expected; as it has among its members the 'arch G an d Professor Übricks.—illunich Gazette, DUTCH FUNDS—AMSTERDAM, 04r.19. ActnalDebt, Lean 214 per Cent. 554 55% k' 0 . 1 .0 5 per cent. Ditto s yndic, 44 per cent. 1 1514 06 • Cl).“.:, (Hit°, 3Y, per cent 794 8 I bi't nercial Company, it 11714 II) t° 0832 and 1833) 5 per c ent. ' 2 ---Dietch Papers, Oct, 20. PR USSIAN FUNDS.—Beau OCT., l5. Mney. pryhuld Sch per 4ce nt. lo ll l% 1 01 I.nglish Loan, 1R 4 per 10,rent. 9911-14 90 1-1. r4813a0 State Gazette, Oct. 16. t' i 1)4 'A fire broke out in a house at the top of A f,';`-1.11-street, on Thursday morning about three o'clock. 11 1 44 ~old man unable to escape was suffocated.. It was A 15',;311)4htt`eY e xtinguished without doing further injury. I , ° ' ti l i 4 little girl, and boy escaped by dropping from one "°, ti, - wit'ows • The an was severely hurt, but the 1'44 er gl . l b lind, e s caped . with but little injury.—Wpter ontc/e. COURT CIRCULAR. The King, attended by Sir Herbert Taylor, arrived in town at a quarter past one o'clock yesterday afternoon, from Windsor Castle. ------ His - Majesty gave audience at St. James's during the afternoon to Baron d'Ompteda, the Hanoverian Minister ; Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Glenel,g, Sir Hussey Vivian, and Sir Henry Bethuen. The Princess Sophia visited the King. His Majesty, attended by Sir Herbert Taylor, left town at. half-past six o'clock last evening, escorted by a party of dragoons on his return to Windsor Castle. _ Viscount Melbourne arrived in town yesterday from Panshanger, Herts, the seat of the Earl and Countess Cowper. Lord Glenclg visited his Lordship in the after noon, in Downing -street. The Belgic Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. DRURY.LANE THEATRE. In the tragedy of Othello, which was played at this the- 'etre last night, Mrs. Yates appeared for the first time in the character of Desdcmona. Her conception of the part was accurate, and her manner of executing it remarkably delicate and graceful. Her reputation, deservedly high, is greatly enhanced by this effort, which proves that she is able to sustain ably the most important parts. Emilia was filled by Miss Tree. It is something- to eleVate a part which has been considered subordinate, and in doing so, Miss Tree was eminently successful. The celebrated speech " The Moor's abused," and the whole of her portion of the last scene, were given with admirable effect. Mr. Macready played Othello, a part in which he has appeared on former occasions, but never with such eclat as last night. In the scene in which lago awakens his jealousy, and works it into. frenzy, he was particularly happy, and without at all depart ing from the true spirit of the character, struck out some novel features, among which the convulsive shudder at lago's hint at his becoming the witness of his dishonour, and the manner in which he fell upon one knee to add the solemnity of an oath to his threat of vengeance, were the most striking. In the last scene he was particularly happy. This scene has been' arranged somewhat differently _from, the mode in which it has hitherto been acted. The bed is placed in an alcove at the end of the chamber, with cur tains which draw so as to conceal it. The murder is committed within these curtains, and the appearance of the Moor after the horror is consummated, was well con trived, and the effect highly picturesque. In other res pects, too, this scene has been improved. Emilia, after she is stabbed, is removed from the stage,and Othello falls dead at the foot of the bed, Mr. Vandenhoff played lago , Warde Brabantio, and Mr C oo p er C ass i o . L ou d applause was bestowed by a full audience upon the whole of the performance, and the announcement of its repetition on Fri day was received with general satisfaCtion. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. C. Kemble played Macbeth last night. It is a highly finished and elaborate performance, on which long study and great pains have been bestowed, and we are not prepared to say that on the whole, and taken as a whole, it is not superior to the effort of the individual who in these days is alone to be considered as a rival tragedian. We have called C. Kembie's performance elaborate ; and in some scenes it was, perhaps, somewhat too highly wrought, and generally it is his fault to take too much trouble to give emphasis to every word : this renders his delivery always slow, and sometimes heavy. The passion of the "moment never seems to run away with his faculties : and of this he gave a remarkable instance where the soldier, brings tidings that Birnam Weed is moving toward Dunsinane : his denun ciation of the messiver, beginnin g . with the words, 6. If thy news be false--"c vas pronounced without any regard to the whirlwind of passion, that .ought at such a moment to urge his tongue to the m utmost, rapidity of distinct utter sae, We do nnt object to hi s " rieW reading" of the pas- V A - ViLiON THEATRE. The legitimate drama, suplidite'd by AO,. Cobham, Preer, W. M. Bland, Mrs. Wingrove, Miss Grove, and set eral other established favourites, bid fair to banish jug gling atki ilidlOctfattie froth the boards of this house: On Monday Mho eagSttr Wag played to a crowded audience, and went off with conAelerahle edidi. Freer was the Bru tus, and though his personatioti tt tire part !Maths not of unqualified praise, it would be an at 41f injustice not to state that his performance, taken as a whole, If4§ credita ble to his talents. Cobham sustained the part of the fiery Cassius with infinite (taro and spirit, and Elton's Antony, though not exactly the Antony of Shakspeare, exhibited two or three points of excellence that must add to his profes sional reputation. On the fall of the certain the audience were kind hi Their demands for the tragedy to be repeated, and it wad anrltiirdeec fdi repetition accordingly. Last night Richard the Third drew an eXdenent house—a proof, by the bye, that the efforts of Farrell to uphold the national drama are duly appreciated by the public. Cobham sus tained the crook-back tyrant with an energy which extorted repeated plaudits from all parts of the house. It was, how etari too vehement, and Mr. Cobham ought to know that Ilas4hiri May be powerfully displayed without recourse being had id ititokei Unlimited rant. W. H. Bland's Richmond Was a chaste and judicious performance ; Mrs. Wingrove's Queen is second to few upon the stage, and Miss Grove, as Lad.y Ann, supported and strengthened the claims she had previously advanced to public approbation. Butler will shortly return to his engagement here. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. DEPARTURES. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Warner s from Walsingham Abbey, Nor folk, for Tibertoti Cart, Herefordshire ; Mrs. Drake and Mr. F. Drake, ,from HavAiris's Hotel, Belgrave.street, Bel grate=square ; Sir Robert Vitt Wygram, D. C.L., from Christ Chuteh Oxford, for St. Alban / 9 House, Brighton; Lietifs-General the Hon, Sir A. Duff, Lady Duff, and family, from the lietttottiolt Hotel, Jermyn street, for Paris f General the Baron de Lepel, Sitiawie Lepel, and Colonel De Lepel, from ditto, for Essex • the MANui4 and Marchioness of Lothian, from Newbattle Abbey, N. B. ' for Lord Talbot's seat, ingestrle Hall, near Lichfield ; the Countess of Eaton, from Utistott Halli for the Continent; Sir W. and Lady Gee' , sett and family, fat' Cheltenham Baron Haber, from Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-sqoare, for the Continent ; Sir John and Lady Yarde Bailer, from aid, on a tour ; Clarke Jervoise, Esq., from ditto ; Lord and Lady Asbtown, for Dover; Mr. and Mrs, Wyndham Lewis, from Park. Jane, for the Continent ; Lady Frederick Bentinck, from Charles-street, Berkeley-square, for Cottesmore ; Sir James and Lady Fitz gerald, for the Continent ; the Hon. Mr. Clifford, for ditto. It was stated last night that the King would join the party at Strathfieldsaye , The Duke of Wellington, after entertaining her Majesty the Queen at Strathfieldsaye, fettirtis to Walmer to hold a Court as Lord Warden, and hunt with the East Kent harriers. The Duke of Buceleuch has left his hunting lodge in the forest of Athole, in retthshire, for Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries-shire, where Baron Gefsdnrff, the Saxon Minister, Earl Home, and Lord John Scott have been enjoying the sports of the field, especially of deer shooting. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury left Grafton-street yesterday morning, on a visit to the Duke of Wellington at Strathfieldsaye, where a party are invited to meet her Majesty to-day. The party will coaibt of the distinguished individuals who were previously engaged to assemble this week at Walmer Castle. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bristol are enter taining a select party of friends at their seat, Ickworth Lodge, near Bury St. Edmunds. EARL OF DERBY.—The ancient family mansion in Preston, which was wont to be the occasional residence of the Derby family when visiting that town, will shortly be razed to the ground, workmen having been for some time engaged in taking it down. The more valuable speciniens of carved work, both in wood and stone, have been removed to Knowsley. Earl Somers has undertaken the office of President of the Herefordshire Protestant Association. The money letters sent from England to Paris, which remain unclaimed, become at the absolute disposal of the French Post-office. Mr. Poulett Thomson's estimate of the annual loss thus incurred by British subjects is 10,0001. Sir Charles Richard Vaughan, the late Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary from this country to the United States, arrived on Tuesday evening at Portsmouth from New York, in the packet ship St. James. His Excellency landed yesterday, and proceeded with his suite to the George Hotel, which he left again for town in the course of the morning. The Hon. and Rev. Robert Liddell, son of Lord Ravensvrorth, it is said, is about to be united to the eldest daughter of the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Wellesley, and niece to the Duke of Wellington. • The Russian Ambassador, who is in indifferent health, will pay a visit to Brighton,on the arrival there of the King and Queen. The Duke and Duchess deCrillon are on a visit to his Excellency. Sir Edward Kerrison is putting in operation the " Allotment System" with, the greatest advantage to agri cultural labourers in the parish of Eye, and other parts ad joining his estate, Oakley-park, Suffolk. The whole of the labourers, with their wives and children, last week partook of a substantial dinner of roast beef and plum pudding, to the number of about 200 persons. O'CONNELL TRIBUTE-,DAY.—Sunday, the 15th of November, has been fixed upon as the " O'Connell Tri bute Day," for the year 1835. NEW LAMBETH BRIDGE.—A notice has been posted on the door of the Sessions House, Westminster and other places, that it is intended to apply next session of Parliament for a Bill to erect a bridge across the river, from the Horseferry-road to Church -street, Lambeth. — On Monday night the houses of George Mulqueen, Patrick M'M a hon, and James Mulqueen, tenants on the lands of Newtown, the estate of George Tuthill, of Paha, Esq., were attacked by a numerous armed party, who broke in the doors, struck and knocked down the inmates, and beat them most inhumanly, in particular the family of M'Mahon, who ably but ineffectually resisted their assail ants. A female in his house made a prisoner of one of the party, but he was released by his associates after a severe cut in the head from the heroine his antagonist. Having visited their vengeance on these unoffending cottagers, the midnight ruffians retired, leaving behind them two sledges and a pistol. Their object was to compel the Mulqueens and M‘Mahon to discharge some strange workmen in their employ.—Limerick Times. A public grammar-school is now building at Graves- ' end by the Corporation of the town. The architecture is purely Gothic, after the plan of Cobham Hall. The erect ing of the school and the expense of the establishment is to be defrayed out of the Corporation funds. We are rejoiced to report an improvement in the iron trade, which, from the extent of the orders, bids fair to continue for a considerable period. We have hoard that within a very few days an order for four hundred miles of rail-road for America was offered to the iron- masters of this district, who have however heavy orders to complete at the old prices, before they can participate in the recent ad vance. We congratulate both masters and men on the present encouraging prospect, and sincerely trust that many years of continued prosperity may make ample amends for the depression of the price of iron under which both classes have so long laboured.—llierthyr Guardian. THE LATE MAJOR CARTWRIGHT.—The mo nument erected in Finchley church-yard, over the remains of Major Cartwright, the well-known " Father of Reform," has recently been pulled down, and one of a much more splendid and imposing character substituted. It bears the following inscription, very neatly executed :—" In this place are deposited the remains of John Cartwright (the son of William and Anne Cartwright), Commander in the Royal Navy, and many years Major in the Nottingham Militia. He was the author of various works on legislation ; the earliest, most strenuous, and disinterested Reformer of his time ; the intrepid advocate of liberty, whose labours for the public good terminated only with his life, on the 23d of September, 1834. ; aged 84. Also the remains of his be loved Wife, Anne Catherine Cartwright, who died on the ttlst of December, 1834." BELGRAVE LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTI TUTIoN.The third half-yearly meeting of the members of this institution was held on the evening of the 19th instant, at their house in Sloane-street, Captain Bague, R.N., in the chair. The report stated that the number of members amounted to 197 ; that 260 volumes had been added to the library during the past. half year ; and that it now con sisted of upwards of 2,100. The loan of a considerable portießof ' r atify's Delpliin Classics by Ednwnti Haiswo!, FRENCH PAPERS: (From the Messager, Oct. 20.) PARIS, OCT. 20.—The Russian Ambassador a -as yes terday presented to his Majesty. We have received (by express) , n e w s f ro m Madrid o. the 12th of October. All the cities which had declared agai * 'lst the Toresio Administration, successively declare their ari sent to the programme of M. Mealizabal, and offer their' submission and their sincere suppo:t to the Government. The union of the provinces is also operating in the most happy manner—their reconciliation was the first work of M. Mendizabal, and hisinest triumph. He will now wholly devote himself to the annihilation of the Carlist faction, and great hopes are entertained from his energy and prodigious activity. • He has already asked and obtained from the British Government fifty thousand inlskets and accoutre ments for the corps which are organizing in the provinces, and a courier was dispatched to London on the. 12th, with orders for the immediate consignment of Oiese arms to ,Spain, by means of steam-boats, that they may t he sooner • their destination. As soon as the National forces being to the number necessary speedily to destroy the Carlist facticio, shall have attained this object, M. zabal will lay the foundation of a good financial system, which Spain needs more than any other country. In . this respect, full confid%ice may be placed in the knowledge and experience of the Minster, as well as his enlightened pa triotism. The Bon Sens says also, after letters of the 12th, " The administration of Mendizabal is ztanY becoming more popu lar. There seems to be a perfect wilco between the libe rals of all classes. The arming of the provincial troops pro ceeds with activity. Lastly, it was announced that Las Navas had preferred quitting Spain to submit tin g . The accounts from Madrid also of the 12th, in the Me morial Bordelais, are rather different. Its correspondent says :—" The anarchical state of things continues, nor is it possible to say when it will end, for we have different Go vernments, established independently of the Royal autho rity, which is obeyed only at Madrid. Mendizabal in vain flatters himself with hopes. It is in vain that he promises, and daily makes greater concessions to the violent party, which appears to have a wish in reserve. This is the re moval of Queen Ci,:istina ; the dissolution of the Council of Regency appointed b;' Ferdinand VII. ; and the imme diate extinction of the aristocratic Chamber of the Proceres. Till these wishes are acceded, no submission is possible." Lord Granville had yesterday another long conference with the Duke de Broglie at the Foreign Office. Count Sebastiani is not yet gone to England, as was stated. The return of M. de Werther, the Prussian Ambassador, is expected very shortly. (From the Constitutionncl.) Paris will this winter be unusually gay. There will be receptions at the Tuileries twice a week, but it is unneces sary to speak of the splendour of the Royal entertainments'. Besides these, there will be repeated diplomatic galas and • Min:fterial festivals. The saloons of the Legitimatists will be re-op,,zed with great eclat, in order to encourage their party in the Chamber of Deputies. ic..Count Pahlen has given orders to have the magnificent apartments of his hotel prepared, and the hoziours will, it is said, be done by the the Princess de Lieven. He will be rivalled by the Count d'Appony, and the diplomatic body in general will attempt a revival at Paris of the same experiment of luxury that was tried at London, but failed with the ephemeral Ministry of Sir Robert Peel, It will be recollected that, in order to sustain the Tory Ministry, the d.;plomatists received orders from their respective Courts to multiply their magni ficent entertainments. Do they wiAli to play the same game •,;ith pur Chamber of Deputies, in order to support the Doctrinaire Ministry ? The object of all this display is said to be." to show the difference which exists be t w e en the present period and the first years of the Revolu tion of Jul ,' . hey wish to dazzle and seduce the citizens by the ;. exhibition at aristocratic forms and manners. We, to be too far advanced, and to be deluded by the however, believe the cu suotrY the Chamber of Deputit.s too wise, sadors exert themselves to brilliancy of a few extra lus:res, or the quadrilles composed by Musard. Let the Amba , ' amuse us ; let them throw open their saloons, nothing can be better ; but if they attempt to to.rm a centre droit, and support the Ministerial majority , they may fail here as they did at London. the facts attend- The Refornzateur gives the following as at Les B a tig_ tng the arrest, on Saturday, of fifteen persons nolles, said to be engaged in, forming foreign s s leieties, the authenticity of which facts it guarantees The Govern ment having expressed its intention of suffering .the refu gees to follow without interruption their studies and their labours, provided they did not meddle with the affairs of France, the Polish emigrants formed an association within themselves, purely philosophical, in which they discussed social, political, and religious questions. Not only was this society not secret, since its statutes and the names Gf its members were made known to the Count d'Argout, who did not forbid it ; and the minutes of its proceedings were taken doiveand lithographed or printed, so that it was easy to obtain copies of them ; but one of its principal re , 6 -ulations was—that none of its members should be long ‘ `o any secret society : and they were expressly in terdietea from joining in any other society, or in any conspiracy. A section of this association met at Les Batignolles. ,'rot one of its members concealed his name. Letters announcii."= the meetings were sent to each by the post three days befo:e. They were engaged in their usual discussions when the forced its way in and arrested 15 Poles, all members of the democratic society, who imme diately delivered up all the papers in their possession. Our first impression was, that the police had been duped by the report of some miserable spies ; but upon reflection, we can see this action in no other light than „Is a new demonstra tion of courtesy towards the Emperor Nicholas. It has been stated that interesting letters and / ,-! - Ters relating to . different foreign a ssociations were seized , but !Ills assertion is positively false." The France Meridionale of Toulouse gives the following details relative to the arrest of the Count d'Espagne : " This man, so notorious for his cruelties while he com manded in Catalonia, and who recently, after escaping from . his residence at Tours , where he feig n e d mental derange m -. b. nt, fled to the head-quarters of Don Carlos, has just been reta k,-n on our territory. On the 15th inst., being closely pursues by the Queen's troops, be was forced to take re fuge in the commune of St. Laureent de Cerdens, at the head of 130 Carlists, including 13 officers. A detachment of the 17th, afte r makin g them la y down their arms, placed them at the disposal of the Prefect of the Eastern Py renees." Extract of a lei:ter, of the 15th inst., from Frankfort : Count Pahlen, the Russian Ambassador to the Court of " d b y the time you rece ve this France, has left Frank. et will probably have presen!'.o6. an his letters of credence. i The Count, after his appointment, remained several months at Carlsbad, and recently f orum { 6. -ie of the numerous suite of the Emperor Nicholas at 'Foplit:. where he had many interviews with his Sovereign , and CL stint Nesselrode, his Minister for Foreign Affairs, receiving, oo doubt, renewals and modifications of his instructions. We noderstand that, on the arrival of Count Pahlen at Paris, de Mcdem, who is his nephew, will, for a time, resume is is post of First Secretary of Embassy, but will at a future period receive an appointment as Minister Plenipotentiary to one of the Western Courts—probably Brussels. The other persons at present attached to the Embassy will in ge neral retain their places. Private letters from Vienna make no mention of the enthusiasm with which certain Journals state the Emperor of Russia was received on his arrival in that capital. Curiosi t y has been inflated into ent : , usinsm by persons who wish to catch some of those - 11 which the Emperor Nicholas strews his decorouslns with which -Li., path. Th.' people of Vienna arc not devoted to Russia, but bear an ld grudge towards her." FuNDs.—l'Antp. Ocroann 20. Flt . 104. 80c 75c 81. c IP,c Five per .ne' r Cents. 10 lf. Four and a Hah ‘r* Four per Cents., . !1. n. 8. " 'Dim.. per Cents., 8:'. National Loan, leer Bank Actions, 2,155 f. 2, '4:-• Rente de Naples, 001. 30.=. Roman Five per Cents., v.s' „ , Bente ,i'Espagne, Five per Cenio.. dA '74 Ns: Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., ItheN soanisti Loan, 35 3414 35. Rente Perpetuelle d'E,pagne, 34,4 Si Belgian Loan Five per Cents, 1102 Portuguese L:mn, Five per Cent., 8:N. Haytian Loan, 350 f 345 f. 35'f. sernLoNnort. Oae month, paper, money...lsr. 57 c. Teree months paper, -4 ; money, 251.40 c Ts Audentilue. BOPRSE TIMEX O'CLOCK.—There }nave been some fluctua tions in the prices of the French funds to -day, but to no met. rial extent. The transactions have bee," small and few. Spanish stock steady. QrAkTER TO Fora.—Five per Cents., IoBf. 95e.; Thresi per Cents., 81f. 80c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, 85 ; Three per Cents. Spanish, 21i • Cortes, 35A-; Coupons, 19i; Gueb. bards, 35 ; Differcs, 14 ros ; New Loan, 481; Actives, 4311 pc d, 89 ; Passives, 1*; Ducats, 99 40; Romans, 104; Belgians, 102; Dutch, --f. —c. ; Haytians, 350 f. ; Miguel*, ; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 10. SMUGGLING.—A few days ago one of the Coast Guard, belonging to the Scarborough station, fell in with two men on Ca3ton-Hill, each with a load-eofiNfliont --- 7 _ _ supposing them to be smugglers, lie ii4te.to'n krini,vm, . 04: • what they had got, when one of the men I,ngtantly drop , . i s : what at first seemed to be a bale of tobaKo, 'but proVed' • ° examination a side of bacon. The other\ First tried. - ttk. ~,,.1 " : : make his escape with his load, but being . Oktx-fgrspealhe-'P: s' 4. 9 . threw it down, when it turned out to be . I ...'4'alati ham, which, together with the side of bacon, tiwittstitliqr. from a neighbouring farm - house . The y both effected t 6' ' escape owing to the darkness of the night, leaving behind :. them a s mock-frock and a hat, the latter of which the • officer knocked off with his cutlass, as the man jumped ovt , r the hedge.--. 110 ()Wryer.