The Sun. — London, England, 1834-12-29 00:00:00

xtermination against those who should obstinately persevere, "nd in one day 1,500 of them were exterminated. Should you a experience the same fate, the fault will be your own. " FRANCISCO ESPOZ Y MINA, " Pampeluna, Dec. 16. " General in Chief." Pasts, DEC. 26.-M. de la Noue, belonging to the foreign department, arrived on the 21st at Strasburg, coming from Greece by way of Bavaria. He is said to have brought very interesting information respecting the situation of the new kingdom of Greece.-Messager, Dec 27. FRENCH FUNDs.-PAUS, CEC. 27. Five per Cents., 106 f. 40c. 45c. 40c. Four per Cents., 93f. -c. Three per Cents., 76f. disc 53c. 6:c. Bank Actions, 1,752 f. ri'c. ((elite de Naples, 93f. 10c. 20e. 15e. Roman Five per Cents., 94'444 I /z• Rente d'Espagne„ Five per Cents., 411. 9,"4;• Bente d'Espagne, Three per Cents. , 27% 27. Royal Spanish Loan, 4:14Z 3 A. RentePerpet.d'Esixigne, Five per Cent., 423 i 43 43!8. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents , 98!4. Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 6634. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 231. 321 X. ; money, -1. -c. Three months, paper, 25f. 17y,c.; money, -f. -c. Autheatigier. - FRENCH FUNDS.-Paßts, DEC. 27 Five per Cents., 10q. 45c. 55c. Vc. Four per Cents., 50c. sc, Thar per Cents., 76f. 55c. 40c. 33c. Lank Actions, 1,752 f. 50c. Remte de Naples, 9:11. 93f. 5c 15c. down' Five per ( ents., 9-1% R •me it,7.spngile, Five per Cents , 4 17Vi 42. Bente d'Esp,:o.nc, Three per Cents., :27 Fi• Royal Spanish Loan. L oan. 431$ !•!.•,•., Route Per; et. d'E.,:avie. t• ire pr, Cents , Belgian Loan, Five p‘ - .7 Cents, ckly4. Portuguese Loan. Five 9. - J Cent., Hitytian Loan. -c. EXCHANGE ON LaDo:st. One month, pap r, 251 ; mon;l`, -C - C. three months, paper, 951. 1714 c. ; mane; : -Corers rttlztotigge. HALF-PAST 3 O'CLOCK.-The French steck 'Continues to full. No political reason is assigned for this depression.- 5 per Cents. Rentes,lo6f. 40c. ; 3 per Cents. Rentes, 76f. 46C,!. 5 per Cent. Spanish, 431- ; 3 per Cent. ditto, 271 ; Royals. 43; Cortes, 42; Coupons, 24i; Differds , 13 1 ; Ducats , 93 15 ; Romans, 9.1 s ; Belgian, 98i ; Lutch, 54. 40. BELGIAN FUNDS.—ButTssaLs, Deo. 27. Actual Debt, 24per cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per cent ,,7 Loan of the City, ISA 4 per cent [IN —Brussels Papers, Dec. 2S. DUTCH FUNDS—AmsTeAmtm, Dcc. 24. Actu..l Debt, 2':, per Cent........... 54 to Mg A wort ,F.,nctic, 4 t,.., per cent... •• Ditto, ditto, 3 per cent. 73N, to id Loan (1, ,, :)(1) 5 per cent. Ditto (k 32 and ;E63) 5 percent. Dutch Papers, Dec. 27. VIENNA, DEC. 1 7.—Five per Cent. Metallipues, 92i; Four per Cent., 91-1- ; Bank Stores, I,2Bl.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Dec. 22. PRICES 01 gTOCKS TIIIS Kink Stock .......... ....---- -I 3 per Cent. lied. 3 per (':'nt. Cons . shut 3 , 4 per Cent...... Ditto lied. -NS o 874, t New 3!(,, per7Cen!. . fAssentod per Ce nt. 1 Dissented - )dank Long A nnuitiesto xpire 3, 1 4'41. Id 15 16 Jan. Oct. 10, 1A.".. 16 13-16 Jan. 5, !mil! - Jan. .), IMO -- ...--- ,April 5; ISSO Jan. 3, IB7' PRICES OF F011.24iN FUNDS tustrian Ronda • •••• telgian Bonds 97 Y a l)itto Account' Brazilian Bond' Ditto ocount Daenos re 3 Ronda Ditto A^COUtt Chillian Bowls Ditto Account Columbian Bonds. Ditto Account Columbian IS2I Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account Greek Bonds Ditto Bendy, 1923 Dal° Acconnt blexscan Bonds, 5 per cent Ditto Account Ditto, tt per cent DWI Account Weep°fltan DAY ATGNE O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent - India Stock.... shut Ditto Bombs l9 pm. South S'.:,a Stock - Old Annuities New Ditto.-- ............ 3;;s• Cent. Annuities, 1151... - Exch. Bills, ..El,OOO 37 3.ct piss. Ditto YJO. ..... ... :37 38 pin I)ittn Small 57 38 pm. . . Ditto Commercial - Ditto Advertised pm Bank Stock for Account India Stock for Account Consols for Opening 9l THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, reruvian Bonds DU .° Account — Portuguese Bonds. — Ditto Account — Ditto New Bonds 1, 5 7 /, 6W - 1; D,,,:::i Account 86 N0v 1, 4% Prussian ::9 11, Ditto Bondi., 18 ' 2.) Russian Bonds, 1t;2 .1 Ditto Account — Ditto 7.7etallic _ . Spanish ronds Ditto Account s:3mi % 40 , 4 Ditto Bonds, 1Q433 — Ditto Account — French, 5 per cent. f. —c. 4 per cent —f. —c. —. a per cent —f. —c. ---. Exchange ..... Dutch, ‘.21.;, per cent. .5-04N. Ditto Account 54!.,4% Ditto, 5 per cent. trN 'O4 Ditto Account: 94.4N PRICES OF' SHAKES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per !Share Alien Mining Company £9 9 1 4 Ifi Brazilian Imperial rilming Co. (i,ued at 5/, pm ) 20 Wm, Beal del Monte Mining Co., Registered Ditto Unregistered Canada Company 45 HIGH V. , ATEtt Al' LONDON BRIDGE TO-MOIOWW. Morning 9 minute after I Evening........ minutes after 1 HAMBURG, Nov. 26, 1834. HEINE, 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 108 marks banco, or 8/. 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 snn and 1,500 of 103 markl, _ prizes are altogether stateci , n marks leaflet", and payable without any deduction 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 prove favourable, gain 180,000 marks banco, at the present exchange, equal to 13,000 L sterling. Owing to the gratis tickets, the number of tickets en sale is a very limited one, so that, of course, they will be cleared off very ra pidly, and a rise in price occur very soon. Those desirous to pur chase at the present first price of 8/., are requested to direct, by one of the first mails, but only for whole tickets, to the above named contractors, Heine, Brothers, in Hamburg. Those remitting a 10/. note will receive an order for the balance of 21., together w►th the ticket, by return of mail ; on the other hand, those preferring to pay Heine Brothers' draft for the cot, are recommended to pay such draft immediately when presented. A full scheme, and every desirable information, being always sent with the tickets, those giving orders will only have to write a line, ordering the ticket or tickets, adding the money, or an order for the same, .tir stating the made of payment that may be more convenient to the orci:rer, and giving their full and plain directions, to secure the safe ree,:ipt of the communications. Those honouring Heine, Brothers, by purchasing, may depend on the strictest secrecy, as to their taking a chance or getting a prize ; such being the undeviating rule of the old-established and most lucky Office. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING will be presented PIZARRO. Aft& which the New Grand Chivalric Entertainment, called KING ARTHUR and the KNIGHTS of the ROUND TABLE. In which Mr. Ducrow's tnagnifiesnt Stud of Horses will be introduced. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING will be presented THE GRECIAN DAUGHTER. After which the New Grand Comic Pantomime, called HARLEQUIN AND QUEEN NAB ; OR, THE THREE GLASS DISTAFFS. Harlequin, Mr. Ellar ; Pantaloon, Mr. F. Sutton ; Clown, Mr. T. Matthews ; Whirligig, Mr. W. H. Payne. Columbine, Miss C. Reekie. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1834. The Cabinet Ministers went this morning to attend a Privy Council at Brighton. It is understood that Coe Proclamation for the Dissolution of Parliament will Is t ;• signed by the KING this afternoon. Th e E a rl of HADDINGTON went to Brighton this morning to be sworn in Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, as did also the Ea. -1 of CHESTERFIELD, and others, C ouncillor s . to be sworn in Privy Proclamation may be m lt is possible that the . pub lished this evening in an extra.4inary Gaz e tt e . If it be in time for the post, we, shall give, it in a second edition of The Sun. Why is the Parliament dissolved ? Some IN,Zem hers of the Administration may find it rather difficult to give a satisfactory answer to the question. Sir Ro- BERT PEEL has told us that the country is " tired of agitation," " tired of that state of continued excite ment the effect of which, in private life, is to with draw men from their proper business." How, then, comes it to pass, that he is the adviser of a measure which must give new life and tenfold energy to agita tion, before the words in which he pretends to depre cate such a course, are well out of his mouth. It can not be, as some suppose, that there is already a split in so united a Cabinet, and that the Premier has been outvoted on the very first question submitted to his compeers. That would really be " too bad." It would be too tough a morsel even for his by no means squeamish stomach to digest. No, it cannot be for a moment imagined that, with all his love of power and place, he would have submitted to such degra dation—merely to retain the name, when the reality was gone. In endeavouring to reconcile his dissolution of the Parliament with his hatred of agitation, we must suppose that, as he has a mental reservation when he talks of "proved abuses" and "judicious reforms," so he has here also some loop-hole to creep through,—that profiting . by his visit to 'Lome, he satisfies himself by some conscience stretching process of casuistry, that a general election has no tendency to " withdraw men from their proper business—is not in the least calculated to disturb the " calm and tranquillity," the prevalence of which he dwelt upon with so much self-complacency at the City Festival. But it may be said that if the dissolution is incon sistent with one part of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S man sion-House declaration, it perfectly accords with ano ther. This we do not deny. The public cannot fail to have remarked, with what disdain the Premier scouted the doctrine of " measures, not men," as ap plied by a renegade print to the New Ministry ; with what contempt he flung from him the equivocal com pliment offered to his political at the expence of his moral constitution—to his head at the expence of his heart. He could not brook to have his measures watched, and his steps dogged, by unceasing suspicion. No, he stood upon his character, and upon the charac ter of his colleagues. It was upon this that he founded his claim to public confidence and public support ; and it is by this that we are to interpret the measure which sends the representative body back to their con stituents. The present Cabinet consists of men, every one of whom has distinguished himself by his opposi tion to Reform. They have established their anti reforming character on the surest of all foundations — a uniformly consistent course of action. When, there fore they appeal to their past as an earnest of their future conduct, we need not ask why they have dis solved the Parliament. It is their last desperate chance. They have now got themselves into a si tuation from which they cannot retreat. To avoid being gored to death, they must take the bull by the horns The Reformers of the city of London must now take the field in real earnest—they must boldly place themselves at the head of the British people, if they would see England delivered from the deadly grasp of despotism and political apostacy. The dissolution of Parliament, which will take place this day, places a power in their hands of crushing the apostates who have wriggled themselves into office, which, if used rightly, will have the effect of ridding the country of a Government composed of all that is synonymous with tyranny, apostacy, and corruption in the land—ingre dients more baneful than any commingled in the witches' cauldron. 'With an honest, independent, liberal House of Commons, the country can afford to laugh a : the treachery, and trimming, and even the avowed determ; ;:pion of any Government to subvert the liber ties of the Brit; People, however firmly it may be supported by the countei;ZPce of the Sovereign, and the votes of the House of Peers. The choosing of such a House of Commons is now in hands of the electors. They it is who must determine the fate of the British Empire ; and in every part of the United Kingdom the electors will be influenced by the conduct of the Metropolis. It is not hole-and-corner Conservative meetings, and Mansion-house addresses of loyalty and attach- , ment to the Duke of WELLINGTON—but tile votes of the electors at the hustings that will deter mine the fate of England. Let the citizens of Lon don come boldly and manfully forward, and by return ing four tried Reformers for the City, eel; - c m ,example: to the whole Empire, which will be quickly followed by the overthrow of the Tory Administration. There is no want of Liberal candidates—men worthy of their best support, and most unbounded confidence. In an other part of The Sun we publish the address of a gentleman who comes forward on Reform principles as a candidate for the City, in opposition to Mr. LYALL, and most sincerely do we hope that the citi zens will elect him. The gentleman we allude to is Mr. PATTISON, the Bank Director—a person every way worthy of the trust which he solicits. The re turn of Mr. PATTISON would clench the cause of Reform ; for it would displace the only Conservative representative for the city, and set the example of completely ousting that faction to every constituency in the British Empire. The return of Messrs. WOOD, GROTE, and CrtAWFURD, the late Reform Members for the metropolis, is quite certain ; and all that is wanted to effect a most signal triumph is the return, in conjunction with them, of Mr. PATTISON, who entertains their principles, and will unite with them heart and hand in opposing a Tory Administra tion. Mr. PATTISON declares in his Address that he " shall always be found an unflinching Reformer ;" that he " cordially approved of the Reform Bill, and gave it all the support in his power ;"—that he " shall willingly support a wise and well digested measure of Munieipal Reform, founded on the principle of periodi cal election ;"—" zealously advocate civil and religious liberty ; " and among several other important declara tions,---that he is " determined" in his " opposition to the present Ministry." These sentiments are quite sufficient in the mouth of such a man as Mr. PATTISON, to obtain for him the support of the most zealous Reformers in the City ; and already have they come forward to tender him their best services. At a meeting of the Re formers of London, held this morning at the Guild hall Coffee-house—a brief report of which we have given in another column—it was resolved that the ad dress of Mr. PATTISON was highly satisfactory, — that the three tried Reform Candidates, Messrs. WOOD, GROTE, and CRAWFURD, should be re quested to allow his name to be put in nomination with theirs,—and that in the event of their agreeing thereto, the gantlemen present would form themselves into a committee, and elect him free of all expense. We cannot sufficiently thank those gentlemen w ;:o prepared, proposed, and carried such spirited re snintio2s. They are just the persons whose services ar e now anded by the country. Let London do its duty, and the :ountry is free from the grasp of the ory Apostates. It is a part of Tory warfare tk: spread consternation among the timid portion of the forces opr usedto them ; and it is of that portio n of the people of t. r;' . ngland which may be said to range under the term of political imbeciles, we have the greatest distrust. An unceasing outcry has been raised by the Tories against the " D e structives," and because that very in significant class happens to have an object in common with Constitutional Reformers—the downfall of the Tories—an alliance in every other design is artfully supposed between them, in order to frighten the imbe ciles into desertion from the Refor m rank s. To heed the execrations of the Tories, one might imagin e t h at the Destructives embodied all the numerical strength of the kingdom, and that nothing short of the highest moral effort is required to arrest their guilty career. This is a cunning device, but it will delude none but the timorous or the ignorant. We have yet to learn that any one measure of a destructive tendency has been hinted at by the popular voice. The utmost amount of its demand is for good and cheap government, and as the readiest means for effectuating this just want, three great agencies have been mentioned—triennial Parliaments, vote by ballot, and extension of the suffrage. To these means the Tories have an inextinguishable hatred—let us briefly enquire, for the benefit of waverers, what real cause of alarm can exist ? The people, by their representatives, are but one of the Three Estates which form the Constitution of this nation, and it is most natural that they should desire to maintain their prerogative as free from impurity as possible. If from accident or mis-choice they send to Parliament persons who are subsequently found to mis represent their sentiments, it is not very unfair that they should be possessed of the means of readily re pairing the error. So long as the House of Com mons does its duty to the satisfaction of the people, they will have no desire to change its composition ; witness their long continued favour to tried advocates, to those old members who have been again and again re-chosen by the public voice; whilst they continued to act faithfully and well, it had been of little moment to such members whether Parliaments had been 14 years or 14 months in nominal duration. Besides, the shortening or lengthening of Parliaments can have no positively injurious influence upon the other two Estates. The King and the Peers stand ever in the same con dition—if one individual dies, another supplies his place, and their privileges are untouched : good or bad—excepting in the last degree of badness—the people abide the chances. It is but just, therefore, that the electors should have a reasonably early oppor tunity of rectifying errors in a matter so essentially their own. Three years are a long period to submit to the mal-practices of a bad servant, but seven are un conscionable quite. As to the ballot, it must be taken as a means to end. If it promise no other advantages, it possesses one of prime importance, namely, the certain prevention of an act, as guilty to the receiver as the giver—bri bery. The great mass of the people is in that state of dependence upon the wealthy classes, that, if the affluent man choose to be a scoundrel, and buy an elector's conscience, or bully him out of it, by the threat of withdrawing the " custom" or the patronage of his party, the dependent elector has but the alterna tive of apostacy and bread, or conscience and starva- The two chief reasons that have been assigned against the ballot are of little value. One is the sills' clap-trap that it would denationalize the British cha racter for open dealing, which needs no serious refu tation ; the other that if it be conceded to the electors, the two Houses of Parliament will straightway adopt the same course. No such necessity exists. Members of Parliament are presumed to be upon a perfect equa lity of independence; and the humblest-fortuned Mem ber of the Lower House possesses the constitutional right of speaking his sentiments, with as unfettered a tongue as the heir presumptive to the throne, exercising that right as a Peer of Parliament. They have no business " custom "to lose. Men do not, or rather they ought not, to go into Parliament to better their fortunes by private trading. The only commodity they can vend is their own honour ; if they sell that, they are bankrupt for ever. Th. ent.,-,;•-•rt the suffrage can do no harm, whilst it must do good. If the people be - well governed, there will exist no cause for violent out-bursts of feeling ; nothing for factious demagogues to declaim against, which the preponderating sagacity of the country will not stifle in its birth. It will be productive also of another and an immense benefit the unthinking or the turbulent part of the commu nity will never be induced to meditate a recur rence to their physical power, while they possess one so immeasurably superior as that of their mental force. When once this frightful alternative becomes shadowed forth to an exasperated nation, all society for the time receives a shock from which it does not soon recover. Because of the deep moral feeling which pervades the people, from the highest to the lowest ranks of life, we see little of actual danger in even universal suffrage, though we are by no means prepared to advocate that extreme policy. That there arc fearful exceptions it is shocking to know ; but if we compare the extent of public wickedness with the extent of public propriety—the numerical extent of criminals with the numerical amount of right-minded citizens—how insignificant does the summation of the tion. former appear. These, then, are the terrors which alarm the Tories—is there any thing in them so fearfully destruc tive as they would have the waverers believe ? Is there any thing in the demand of a destructive ten dency ? Has there been any cry of down with the KING, the Constitution, or the Church, positive or implied? All that has been asked for is the correction of con stitutional abuses—manifest abuses—in whatever part of the institutions of the country they may be found, without violaCng these institutions ; and these are the agencies they seek, for most rapidily effectuating their good purposes. The voice 'of the people has been, and is, and will be, so long as British feeling exists, for good and cheap government, so far as is consis tent with sound wisdom. There may, nay must, be in all human governments, individual cases of hard ship, that square not with the desires of, or that press heavily upon, some portions of the people. For in stance : if there existed a law for the suppression of that accursed propensity—gin-tippling, the morals of many thousands would be saved from ruin ; yet the owners of gin-palaces would, no doubt, bitterly com plain of its oppressiveness, and the disastrous losses which it would occasion to themselves. Good and cheap government of the many, at the least possible sacrifice of the few, is all that has been sought—what, then, is there in the demand so very dreadful ? Three great means are required by the people for facilitating this righteous object—what is there about them that should create such alarm ? The hopes of the Tories are directed to keep them from the hands of the people ; and they have the best of all -Ins, doubtless, for desiring to withhold from them - , ents, vote by ballot, and the extension reno._ reasons are, WQ Surely triennial parna.._, of the suffrage. What tn..- need not enumerate. The Tories are at last beginning to open their eyes to the real situation of public affairs, and their minds to the true state of public opinion. When, by their underhand arts and back-stair intrigues, they contrived to get the late Ministers dismissed, they though they should have it all their own way. They vainly imagined they should have the corn plete ruling of the roast. The " leading journal" told them that there was a re-aztion in the country, that the quarrel which it had fomented between Lord BROUGHAM and Lord DURHAM was not confined to '',..411111111,..e-o,,it• 1 4 - t 2 ' . ,;1111ril*- - :Q. t--\ ,0 ,a4)t,+ THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1834. these two noble Lords, but had divided the Re- formers into two great classes, inveterately op posed to each other. All this, being in per fect accordance with their wishes, they readily believed, and, unfortunately for themselves, they acted on the belief. Now, however, when they find that the Reformers, well understanding the designs of their implacable enemies, have determined to de feat these designs, by all uniting, as one man, in defence of the Reform Act, (for let the Tories dis guise it as they may, that is the object of their vengeance); when they find their calculations so completely overturned, they resort to their old tricks of misrepresentation and calumny, in order to effect that disunion among the Reformers, which, could they ac complish it, would enable them to force back the cur rent of reform at home, and give a check to the rising spirit of liberty and amelioration abroad. Their new organ, in Blackfriars, it may be supposed, is not back ward in assisting them to play off the one party of Re formers against the other. That it should take this course can surprise nobody. It has identified itself with the Tory Government, and with that Government it must stand or fall. It sees, in the union of the Reformers, the certain destruction of its new friends and patrons, and therefore its most strenuous exertions are used to sow the seeds of dissension and animosity between the Whigs, and what (to serve its own pur poses) it pretends to call the Destructives—meaning, by this nick-name, all who advocate a shorter duration of Parliament, an extension of the suffrage, and vote by ballot. All who hold these opinions are held up to the public as solely actuated by a wish to " destroy the Constitution"—to " subvert the Mo narchy," that, in the succeeding scramble they may rise to wealth and power on the ruin of others. This is the string continually harped upon. How utterly groundless such an imputation is, we have proved in another article. We shall only remark here that the Tories ought to be the last persons in the world to represent short parliaments as subversive of the Monarchy, when they are themselves giving us the FOURTH parliament which we have seen in the space of FOUR YEARS. But the attempt of the Times to frighten the leaders of the Whigs into a dereliction of their principles will fail. They will neither lis ten to its precepts, nor follow its example. It has, we apprehend, made few converts hitherto. At all events the Governor of the Bank of England is not among them. That gentleman, a leading Whig, has started for the City of London, avowing himself an unflinching Reformer, and declaring his " de termined opposition to the present Ministry." This event may perhaps have fully as much weight with the discerning part of the public, as the publication of the names affixed to the Tory ad dress, which was hawked about the city all last week, and which every body but themselves had forgotten. The names thus collected, amount to about as many as tvere stated to have been signed before five o'clock on the day of the meeting. That many rich men have signed that address, we are well aware. Who ever doubted that there were wealthy Tories in London and its en virons? The only wonder is, that in a population of two millions, so few should have come forward when so much was at stake. The Times calls them "an of enlightened loyalists." The first seven names on the list are WILLIAM WARD, HENRY WINCHESTER, T. iNtLsort, VV. MATT. PRIME LUCAS, CHARLES FORBES, Bart., AARON CHAPMAN. This may serve as a fair sample of the addressers as to politics, and although some of them have had their hands in John Bull's pocket, we shall not follow the example set us at Blackfriars, and call them pickpockets. They made their fortunes when contracts and j )bs were the order of the day. Can any thing be more natural than that they should wish for the return of these golden times ? We have read with much pleasure Mr. TENNY SON'S Address to the electors of Lambeth, which is penned in a seasonable and energetic spirit. Mr. TENNYSON very properly contends that the Reformers are the real Conservatives, and observes of the Tories, that they would " leave every thing in the condition to which time, accident, violence, or intrigue, may have reduced it." The Address is well worth an attentive perusal, especially that portion of it wherein the writer exhorts the people to be firm and united at the ap proaching elections. We have received Paris papers of Saturday, with intelligence from Baycnne of the 23d instant. The Bayonne papers state that no fewer than three battles have been fought between the Royalists and the Car lists snce the 11th instant—namely, on the 12th, the 15th, and the 17th, in each of which the QUEEN'S troops gained a decisive victory. Both parties are reported to have lost several hundred men in each of these engagements ; the particulars of which, as far as they are known, will be found in the extracts from the French papers. The only domestic intelligence in the Paris papers has reference to the Ministry, the members of which are under the most dismal apprehensions of being again kicked out in consequence of their inability to conduct the affairs of the country, and obey LOUIS PHILIPPE at the same time. Marshal MORTIER has already resigned one of his offices, merely discharg ing the duties of Prime Minister till the KING can find a successor. The War department is yet unfilled, but it is expected that General De CAUX will accept of the appointment. We have not learned what are his qualifications for office, but we presume h e i s no stranger to the doctrine of passive obedience. Admiral DUPERRE is talked of as the only person likely to accept the Premiership. The Court of Peers is still engaged with the trial of the conspirators of April. Fourteen prisoners were discharged during the early part of the sittings, and fourteen others were liberated in tha sittings of last week. Several have been condemned to exile and im prisonment, but we have not heard that any of them are to suffer death. The French Journalists are taking the greatest interest in the present struggle between the Liberals and Conservatives in England. They all agree that a T or y Ad m i n i s t r ation cannot govern this CITY OF LONDON. REFORM MEETING.-(THIS DAY.) A meeting of the friends of Reform was held this day at the Guildhall Coffee-house, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best mode of securing the return of four Reformers to represent the City of London at the approaching election. John Travers, Esq., was in the chair, and after the preliminary business of appointing a treasurer, secretary, &e., had been gone through, the address of James Pattison, Esq., Governor of the Bank of England, was read, and received with loud cheering. It was then agreed that the Chairman, and two or three other gentlemen should wait upon Messrs. Wood, Grote, and Crawford, and obtain their sane- tion to unite the name of Mr. Pattison with their's; as a fourth Reform candidate for the City of London ; and in the event of their assent being obtained, to form a united Reform Committee, to secure the return of these four individuals free of expense. Several resolutions were prepared to be submitted to the general meeting to be held this even ing, and the greatest unanimity appeared to pervade the entire meeting. It was stated by some of the gentlemen present, and who appeared to be well acquainted with the facts, that at least one half of the persons whose signatures were attached to the Tory address, published in the Times of this morning, were not voters, and had no residence in the City of London. The following are the resolutions agreed to at the meeting :- 1. That the address of Mr. Pattison is highly satisfactory to this Committee. _ _ 2. That Matthew Wood, Esq., Alderman, George Grote, Esq., and William Crawford, Esq„ be immediately informed that this meeting entertains a strong conviction of the importance to the cause which they have so ably and efficiently served, of uniting with their names the name of a fourth Candidate friendly to the same principles, of the expediency of forming one Committee to canvass and act for those four Candidates jointly. And that their permission be therefore solicited to unite the name of James Pattison, Esq. with their's as the four Reform Candidates for the City of London. 3. That in the event of those gentlemen assenting thereto, we will immediately form ourselves into a Union Committee, and pro mote by every means in our power, and with the zeal and devotion befitting the exigency and importance of the occasion, their elec tion to represent the City of London in Parliament free of all expense. COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX MEETING.-(THIS DAY). A large and highly respectable Meeting of the Electors of the County of Middlesex was held to-day at one o'clock, at Lieut. Hall's Riding School, Albany -street, Regent's-park. ALEXANDER RAPHAEL, Esq., the senior Sheriff for the county in the Chair. Upon the hustings we observed, amongst many other highly and respectable persons, Mr. Hume, Sir J. S. Lillie, Colonel Evans, Sir Samuel Whalley, Mr. Weymouth, Mr. Nicholson, Alderman Harmer, Mr. Carpue, &c., &c. At half-past twelve, R. Pearson, Under Sheriff, appeared in front of the hustings, and stated that an error had occurred in the advertisements, calling together the meeting. It was intended to have called it at twelve for one, but he found that the advertisements had stated eleven for twelve. He was sorry this mistake had occurred, as it would occasion the meeting to exerciso a little patience until the Sheriffs arrived, which would be at one precisely. A. RAPHAEL, Esq., at one o'clock presented himself before the electors, and said—Gentlemen and Freeholders of the County of Middlesex, in virtue of the office which I hold con jointly with my colleague as the Sheriffs of Middlesex, and as the senior Sheriff of the city of London, the honour of ad dressing a few words to you devolves upon me, and which I avail myself of with feelings of pleasure and of pride, however feeble I may be for the task, and however incapable of ex pressing my own sentiments. Gentlemen, as this is the first time I have had the honour of presiding at a county meeting of the Metropolitan county of England, I appear before you with deference, and throw myself with humility upon you to claim that courtesy which I feel confident you will award to one not gifted with eloquence, and little accus tomed to public speaking.—( Cheers.) I trust not only you will support me with your confidence, but that you will attribute every little irregularity and informality in my:address not to any want of respect to you individually or collectively, or to any want of zeal in your cause, but to the inexperience of the humble person now before you. (Renewed cheers.) Gen tlemen, in compliance with a requisition now in my hand, I have thought proper to convene this meeting. " COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX. " TO THE SHERIFF of the COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX. " We, the undersigned FREEHOLDERS and ELECTORS of the COUNTY of MIDDLESEX, do request that you will convene a PUBLIC MEETING at some central and convenient place, for the purpose of taking into consideration the present po litical state of the country, and to come to such resolutions thereon as the Meeting may deem most expedient." (Numerously and respectably signed.) . " In compliance with the above requisition, and in conformity' with the request of the requisitionists, to name for the place of meeting some central situation, convenient for the great body of Freeholders and Electors of the County at large, we do hereby ap point a PUBLIC MEETING of the FREEHOLDERS and ELECTORS of the COUNTY of MIDDLESEX, to take place at Lieut. Hall's Riding-school, Albany-street, New-road, near the Diorama, THIS DAY, the 904-'h in.tant. nt Eleven for twelve o'ciock precisely. " ALEX. RAPHAEL,t, erlffi . s. , ' " JOHN ILLIDGE, m Gentlemen, hitherto the County meetings have cen held at the Mermaid, at Hackney, but the Reform Bill having created another constituency, and in deference to many respectable freeholders, we have thought proper on the present occasion to deviate from the usual place, and to convene the meeting at some more central spot. Owing to the little time that was allotted to us we could not find a better place than this. lam well aware that the freeholders of the County of Middlesex ought to meet in a better place than a riding-school, nor do I think the Mermaid at Hackney, or any other tavern, a fit place for them. I think there ought to be a County Hall for the purpose—( Loud cheers)—and I do hope that i may live to see the day when amongst the nr.`,ly stupendous buildings now erecting and embellishing the City of London, a building 'will be raised fit and worthy of the re ception of the Middlesex electors,—( Much cheering.) I do not care how soon that may be—l hope it may be during my shrievalty—if it should, I will most willingly contribute my li beral mite to it.—(Mueh cheering.) Gentlemen, you are now convened to exercise the proud privilege of freely expressing your opinions, but I do hope you will express them calmly, temperately, and deliberately, and I shall conclude the obser vations I have to make to you, by asking you to grant me one request ; that request being the first I have made of you, I have no doubt you will reaily grant it—it is that you will give every gentleman a fair and impartial hearing; because it is by listening to both lidos of the question, and by hearing a diversity of opinion, that we can come to just and right con clusions whereon to build our resolutions to be adopted by the meeting—( Much applause.) Before, however, I withdraw, with your permission I will read a letter which. I have received} from one of your representatives, Mr. Byng. I received it on the 26th December, 1834 ; it is addressed to myself and John Midge, Esq., sheriffs of the county of Middlesex, and I; in these words : " Gentlemen,—l understand that you have sur*:;,oned a meeting of the electors of Middlesex, to be held Monday the 29th inst., at Lieut. Hall's riding-school, "taie into consideration the pre sent political state of country. I shall feel obliged if you will express, on r_ly part, the deep regret I feel in not being able to at tend the meeting, owing to the present state of my eyes, which, however, from a recent operation, successfully performed, promise soon to be restored to the enjoyment of perfect sight. It would, nevertheless, be dangerous to expose them to the air for some weeks.—l have the honour to remain your faithful and humble servant, E. BYNG. " This letter is only signed by Mr. Byng, he being unable to write the whole of it himself ; but, Gentlemen, I am happy to say his very worthy colleague, Mr. Hume, is present.—( Cheers.) Sir JOHN SCOTT LILLIE then came forward, and was re ceived with loud cheers. Gentlemen,—l have been requested to move a resolution which has just been placed in my hands, and I do so with great satisfaction, disclaiming, at the same time, any intention to dictate to our Sovereign, or to interfere with the exercise of his Royal prerogative, which our enemies say we are endeavouring to do by meetings of this nature. It is our prerogative to meet and deliberate on our own affairs, more particularly at a crisis like the present, when the pros perity of the nation is at stake. The prerogative of the King is to choose his Ministers, the prerogative of the peo ple to choose their Parliament--( Loud cheers)—and of the two prerogatives, I fancy we have the least to complain ; at all events, the least to complain of so long as we can depend on the Parliament forming the laws of this country, and not being dictated to by any Ministerial manifesto on the part of the Crown.—( Cheers.) Gentlemen, it is much more likely that the voice of the people still reach the Royal car by meetings of this sort, than through the pri vate whispers of a Court, and so long as the people are true to themselves they have nothing to fear.—( Hear.) It depends on the electors whether they will give true effect to the Reform Bill, or whether they will fall back into that state of misery and degradation which they unhappily laboured under previous to the Reform Act.—( Hear, hear.) No Mi. nister, I apprehend, can govern the people any more than a Tory Lord Mayor—(Tremendous eheering)_ _c:lli govern the proceedings of the civic Parliament o f thz City of London— (Cries of " Bravo")—and we have a proof of this in the pre sent Lord Mayor, who has always been, I understand, up to the present time in the stationery line. _( Loud laughter.) It may be wished that he should Continuo stationary a Politi ca l p o i n t o f v i ew ; would not th en have t a h s e L ß or e d for ta o y rs or o o ff Loudthe y i n com pelled him to march at their head with an Anti-Tory Addfess ter),notwithstanding his poli to the King—(conti n u ed lau gh tieal feeling!, hike a criminal going to the place of execution— (deafening cheers) --and accompanied by those officers who usually accompany such proeemigns, nife werthy Sheriffs_ ( Orsat langhter,) I 40 Hip satisfaction, Gentlemen, of wit nessing that procession myself; with our worthy Sheriffs unrolling at the h.* hf it,—( continned eheering.) T A • - fts It has been with the first mum. Gentiemen , say trate 'of the city of London, so will it be with the first Minister of the Crown, if he attempts to roplAP cr gFerl,. a Reformed Parliament of the people of this eauntry, or It h e attempts to impede those advantageous results, those re forms in Church and State, which we have a right to ex pect as the fruits of the Reform Bill—(Loud and which I feel confident we should have obtained if our late Ministry had been allowed to remain in office, for they had, it is true, difficulties to contend with which we cannot be aware of. Gentlemen, I have had a much better opinion of them since they have been out of office than I had when they were in—(Laughter ar.d cheers)—for this mason, that we now know where the difficulties lay which they had to encounter. —( Cheers.) Every one who reads the speeches of Lord John Russell, of Lord Grey, and of the other late Ministers, will perceive the difficulties they had to combat with. They had not only to coatend with the House or Lords, bet they had to contend with the intrigues of a Court, which they were , while in office, unwilling to admit, but which now in their own defence they had manfully declared to the people ; and I do believe there were discussions in the Cabinet upon questions, and especially upon this, which was the rock on which they split —Church reform. The worthy Baronet proceeded to observe union generally created strength, but in this instance union was the cause of their dissolution.—( Cheers.) When it wig thought that that union was likely to carry into operation many of the best and most effective provisions of the Reform Bill, and to work an entire a:taration i i the Chum h, Oh, no, it was said it must not exist, and the consequence was its dissolution , and that of the Ministry.—( Great cheering.) The meeting at Edinburgh, where the people of Scotland met with opt" arms, Earl Grey, Lord Durham, Lard Brougham, and half a dozen other Members of the Cabinet--such meetings would not only be destructive to the Church in this coun try, but also in Scotland.—(Great cheering.) Now he would juat give the meeting the opinion of one of those Cabinet Ministers who attended the dinner at Edinburgh. "It uas that of Lord Brougham—(Cheers)—when he was only plain Mr. Brougham.---( Great cheering.) That Gentleman had stated that incredible as it might appear to those who were mere travellers through the country, yet such was the fact, that go from one end of Scotland to the other they would not see a Bishop or Dean, or even a rural Dean—( Great cheer ing)—nor would they hear any thing of tithes ; no, not even so much as a tithe pig, or any thing of the sort.--(Great cheering.) Such being the state of things in Scotland, it was no wonder that the advocates of the abuses of the Church should feel alarmed when they saw the members of a re formed Administration in Scotland.—(Great cheering.) There could be no surprise at the feeling o f e lan' in their breasts when it was remembered that they had grown and fattened upon the abuses which ha d existed, and which abuses were about to be set aside' --(Loud and continued cheers.) Having thus adverted to the state of the Scotch, he would now turn to the state of the Irish Church.—( Cheers.) In that unhappy country the Tory campaign had begun with the loss of blood.--( Cheers,. and disapprobation.) Lord Brougham hadbeen blamed for saying that if much had not beendone last year, less would be done in the present. That Noble Lord ought not to have been blamed until it was known whether he spoke as a prophet or a minister.—(Great cheering.) Be that, how' ever, as it might, he thought the prophecy and the e vents that had occurred, was likely to be most true.—( Great cheer ing.) Now, how was it that the late dissolution of the Mi• nistry was said to have been effected? Why, no sooner er as the death of a poor old nobleman made known, and the con sequent elevation of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer 10 the Peerage took place—no sooner was the tail of the coat ou t off and made a Spencer than the whole Ministry 33 , dismissed. Upon this occasion a great Conservative Meetle., took place in Kent, and what was it that that meeting v t anteo . Why, what every person wanted, the recognitirn by the Ki n g of the principles which placed hi tfamily on the throne< (Great cheering.) He would venture t o , say that no person', were more attached to those principles than those who attend ed that meeting.--( Cheers.) The Tories wanted to persn a 4 them that they were Revolutionists and Destructives. denied such a statement.—( Cheers.) Those only were it L e " volutionists and Destructives who we n t h an d i n h an d with tu n present Ministers.—(Cheering.) Now, what were the Pri n ; ciples which placed the present family on th e th rone ? that no persons who receive pensions were capable of holding a seat in Parliament.—( Cheers.) In the reign of l' in a f, I•Villiam the people pledged th e P ar li amen t o f that cl bo that it should be triennial.—( C o nti nue d c h eer i ng %) if t ~f Conservatives wish to keep our constitution as it irt t6 old, why then let them give us triennial Parliameuts . " - ( Cheers.) But I see no mention made of that ill the dela; ration of our Prime Minister. Now, l e t us see w hat se i rn ; of Sir Edward Deering's ancestors did, One of that i ' n ' n brought a bill into Parliament, in the 'year 1641, for the p ur P ls ,, of abolishing all archbishops-_Ch eers ) — bi s h ops , preben to ries, deans, canons, anrl every ot h er use l ess o ffi ce in ae a Church.—( Great e l aeering.) In describing it to the ~t " r t, Speaker he said he h a d th e h onour o f b r i ng i ng i n a v ery su n c a but a very sharp bill--(Laughter)--but it was one ren der necessary by the exigency of the times ; he brought it 1 lea' the nature of physic—for the purpose of pur g ing not for P ro , Sure, but for a pe r f ec t cure —(Ch eer i ng )--the last one use , tunately, and the only one, all other remedies having been rds less. The C ommons p asse d t h at bill, b ut t h e H ous e of Lord'' threw it out, and what was the consequence—why the t heir refused to allow the arc hbi s h o p s and bishops to lea ve h a d. House, and in a very sh or t ti me the House itself was ah°llsteat Cheers.) Let me only th en rem i n d t h e conserv ativess d the conduct and opinion s o f th e i r ancestors h a d b e en, h a ern for to them, "Go and do lik ew i se ." B ut w h at hope i!zrt-Rolaari us can we see any hope at a ll i n th e d ec l arat i on of 4.1C1 Peel that can lead u s t o su pp ose th a t t h e measure s and' r id of the late ministry will be followed out—(Loud etbst of " Hear, bear")—and there can be no doubt bu t tw it they would have brought f o rward good ones during tn e don e, Session. They might judge of what they would hav e • n d and would have been able to do, f rom th e san ity that repo in the Cabinet when they were so abruptly dismissed' c i r could discover any thing in the m an if es t o pu t f or th by P ot It Peel, by which one cou ld b e l e d t o su pp os e they TO o d carry to a good end any of those salutary and necessary- sums, they might bo induced to trust them—( nor, in plate u4 - any thing of t h at ki n d, Sir Robert had mos t fleetly stated that he wou ld h ave refused office, eseel it k ,, - el carry into practice all hi s f ormer op i n i ons. W hat had 'tag the first consequence of their accession to office ? n ot " tithes of Ireland had b een d ye d i n bl oo d , wh i c h w ouh ' aro a have been the case h a d th ey not b een put i nto places b l er d which he trusted so on t o see th em h ur l ed. He rem„,e w t , r e 0 that passage in the Script ures , w h ere i n i t i s sa id, " more joy over one sinner the nine good men." s: iv ries. N,ho he would partake in tha e could he see the Pat;i re of than over in t j a s, ghtestpe of the repentenee i. t h have ries.—(Ch' and laughing.) From what hotoyer; we I n derive our hope—in the manifesto of the 13 ,, rni i re lan a sister, we see that he refuses that Church Reform le r 11 8 which the late Ministry would have given.--( ace" ' ) sae sae refuses to admit the Dissenters to the Universities• Stun own determined to keep up the monopoly of learning ai n f st i a n own creed. Then he kindly says he will take the etw tila Corporation Reform into consideration.— (Laughter') o pt all know what the consideration of a Minister means, and t hat cially a Tory Ministry—from that the re ca n be no hop e , 0 0 4 , comes the declaration, that he would never accept hole on the condition of acting contrary to his formerly °, l / 1 pelf, opinions. We all know what they were, and we w e ' v o Ni that there is no chance of his being a Reformer. tha t° the guise of plausibility, be puts forth a declaration. e, nl igltl had become a Reformer in some deee • but that be meant for the Conservatives. The gr y, however, tl' e hel' formers, could read as well as them, aral must P l ' t hi' own construction upon what they saw. There was n t c'' l for Reform from Sir Robert Peel and his presen t bal leagues.—( Hear, hear.) A s t o our f ore ign r lin o Y s 'autl i i, is another question, upon which n o t on ly the pr at 0, of England deneucled upon the conduct of the peopie lit e ; approaching elections, but also that of Spain and ° (.l, for thousands of Englishmen had shed their W e a r, o a t millions of their money had been spent—that, how el oc -ab li e for the purpose of replacing despots upon the Thronieotild now when a better period had dawned upon them, r ein „4 people of England acted properly for themselves, thv be hol',,,, those countries was certain. In Portugal we had Ce' e t badly ; we sent an army for the purpose of supporting,' m i r , o stitution, and under its protection the Usurper i )°, ' a an had thrown and dismissed the two houses and s eized n t l on Crown. He would not trespass upon them longer ,„ 1 40 c reading the resolution, which embraced th e old sterlit pies of the Constitution. He then read the resolution : d a t tai l lst.—That the following principles having been asser t ,, e t o f period of the revolution of 1683, and having formed Pa' Thr t , ) o conditions upon which the House of Hanover obtained the ro ea' $ of these realms, we deem it incumbent upon us to r ecole dca sg o cur brother electors all over the kingdom, to make•their , condition with all candidates at the ensuing general electgl_ntly of the principles was , That Parliaments should be frequ t ' o . n et a ' O l in order to promote a happy union and good agreement be. King and people ;" we therefore require the restoration or e i e co t ro Parliaments. Another of those principles was " T hat it y °C A should be free;" we therefore require, for th e better see."oserter freedom of election, that voting be by b a ll o t. It was tai " That taxation without representation was tyranny ; 11 fore require that every householder who pays taxes, s'n,,g vote in the election of tho se w h oaro t o h ave t h e p o wer of taS„,weis n The opponents of the pe o pl e sa id i t was no use fortoel get a Ho use o f C ommons t o carry t h ese objetts , e d. • because the Lords would frust ra t e a ll t h e y atteloPl co ll . thought however that the Lords would not risk a with the people's Representative s . Th e Lords oug ht t, oli e s collect the fable of th e ear th en pot an d t h e i r on P n d n o r t, swam together in th e s t ream ; t h e eart h en pot fears o ll e r lision but its ob s ti nac y, an d t h e result should furnish 3 ev lesson ics the Upper House.—( Ha ar .) H e had heeepill th e vouring to 'get some brother Magistrates to bring a r dell, fore the Parliament for granting to the lower ° pc; 'lO free privil ege ,f exercising and amusing thenase.'ote music and Dan c i ng .—( Ch eers .) I n or d e r to co the to Loads', who had thrown out a former Bill having, nester, object in view, he recommended his brother magi' r oars, allow the Lords, in their present houseless state, 012; i ilbP or in the House of Correction, or the Penitentiary a I I ,isf Jf but he could not get his worthy colleagues to sup° rt t d position.—( Laughter.) He would conclude by saV or a the Lords do not have mercy on the people, the s' ,01 mercy upon them 1"—( Laughter and cheers.) Mr. KEPPEL seconded the Tesolution. It n''g free lo l ;o l unbecoming in hiro3—who was but a small t tir -- , ta come forward, on the present oc c that he felt that this was a time when every ni an f e as: n wealthy or not, ought t o un it e , for the purpose nta ti a d that which was in peril—namely, the real reprF.se,oncV the people in Parlia men t.—( Cheers.) He heartily, ' the ; ci l in the resolution, b ecause h a b e lie ve d the passing., laartiltr6ao) tennial Act, and th e con sequent prolongation (h u it ioil had been one of the most fruitful sources of hOrr i iv e mischief that had been passed since the Revolution' sod, rat He believed, also, that a wider extension of th r ; and ii; was one of the neatest proteetin s against b rlue 4, die ° ll', 1" 1 11tIolt, anal though he I . 2orikeszed that he loved to u p t .e s and anin:at;n- wit h w hich austings to vote, still the consideration in the bto his countrymen o t e t n e lr alca e T eri e idi , which some humble electors were placed by of their franchise, made him favourable to. opportushal t he b e ® his country would not be deprived of the , from t „ Nevertheless, the elector whose influence migl s ;t l ;,„ ca o l f u tl eP il l. : ing how he had voted.—( Hear.) He differe.? ha d fr o Baronet who preceded him in one point. . ' 4 the sP ir ta it on„ l3 e that Lord Brougham had spoken rather n less done in the ensuing Session of Perim former one. Now, he differed from him, tau phecy than as a Minister, when he said that.intehnetretbo;ooo; saw the respectable and numerous meeting he P country. A most valuable discovery has been made at Breslau, in Silesia—namely, that by pouring boiling water into the vaults of privies and other similar receptacles, they may be come disinfected, and may be safely entered by the workmen employed to clear or repair them. TILE STANDARD NOVELS AND ROMANCES. — The subscribers to the Standard Novels, and the public, are informed that the series of works published under the above title are in no manner connected with the collection called " Colburn's Modern Novelists," advertised to appear in Monthly Volumes. It may be necessary to state that the last work published in the " Standard Novels" was The Betrothed, by Manzoni, and that the next volume which will very shortly appear, will contain, complete with two engravings, " The Adventures of Hajji Baba in Ispahan," by James Morier, Esq. —B, New Burlington-street, Dec. 27, 1834. the tut gm eve • cei thE tba wil tho ovi nt an ......... to adi porta felt c large he cc moot pale the 1 cheer opin Eng shoo strat pert mon --( 1 re' of wi