The Sun. — London, England, 1834-12-04 00:00:00

NT H DAY.) 's Inn Hall, ansit.i inmamts. next for hearing Irerious to hearing t E.-LADY lIEWLEY' I to his Lordship t° )f this appeal. -ould be desirable that re the same Coreoun t with his predeeeec, !s cr : tern upon the subj know the result. lie ;sible that the matter •T•—(THIS DAl'') is the whole moraillf. )f the Tabernacle, 1' made to restrain tb,ne 'r of the chape l ' r° : , iccess to the pulp r t una t e disputes th3t )rtion of the eogre: the former assert* was in them, andi the #, st anxiety s ee d ration, which b3d Pcit leaving, his floneur with hearing the e'l•s/ [-(THIS DAY) OTHERS. iracy brougbt by gr. ge l s ned Thos. tro iodic; o , ratton. Tbe uclid ery having fra i W illiao to deprive Pitt, his ion old mt case, of p er Mr. PITT ill Pl' be defendants. ,/ by the prosecuto, yr id cun t ra dicto r Y LY public interot., no necessity, on t", s for the de-fendot,, Lble waste of 0 11° , much to be lainelvit fore that Court °J uch evidencedt He regrette IP", so little caution ; Kl for in the 00 p. In his oP i lo dente to justify the defendants. !rdict of acquittal' s an ac tion for 51111; the city, og in 3.111 1. he slanderous wort) fe , an d all tbatfj! f the words all*" ~ad e pt e d the offer , . '- 'd wa s withdrawn tOUNG. Hope transpOtti orning(l° l . with Arti for Woolwich 'ortuguese Cor:etstl, having 00 or Lichtenbtolotte: 31 Portugal, 00 li'ilt )°P of war, CaPtl 'a, which islau d F ite Fit e a ll was qu iet ; arl !count . The Pe of fe ver, oolf France, garslial stature, ~ xtraormnary st, te ill. A s usaSl, 1 of the hotel o f 0 'ernises was caPabl;e' y Marshal. fl e 1 night it a poiatrtoi' ' he passed sere . he ebFrench bedste° -t- his-knees to hi patienee--he rose, returned to big o'lo [onour, of Which y 1 an upholsterer ill would seen Olt )rt, because, $5 greatest roes 0 no great opiaioliA a book whtch Stu— nplish bis repo"' he was pigs gr , 1 Emperor, " ' I ° Srs ris. Is l ore Y, ,7 , Wio9 WA S 1 , Ying his tradeSOOP! of his svig_e:l3; 7 he wore his ' 1 of l e on the , i e p i a hlar ; ) ung lady hol ad , shop wit h ;tating that file , roily Dort Joao' in iature 5319Pilei: nown in Earirip , that Mr. 7•61,0 ir sale thrc,g iribco ng fir tree, A ' D c• t o. d o ' cot he nto ra 50 iisa C, t he 0, t , ed h • ave ' ta ke: k J , to ?,rican s, at at J 3 aranliare s, S l4 Too d ' 0 11 r an d J r ,i n g singo„ a t of , to sera - cc oie l be r, avian t ° k ith h ot oana le ,loor! i i t ted !cl th e " a fftig"ig )re the rF inl; y,d rf Ov e his h A plaCinv.A soeio the I ri n to s ce : t n tein co P o t ce• Ih° A 5 de' 5 n attlre', c , tO, it is u nab. ,o ' ic eu entlY ra te l' a ; desp e. e sta t ' c c irca : 14 nio e i:t , la ce oa P au d the v e t 1 ' S a b° e l° ; ars th at re of , t g lets e dio a rid ia trt ' i che ° f frog' ar ty ° I , ;re, w ith a I; r ice! P • e a ir cog ar bio oacbin, G r cio' be nam ed h t is 11 ltl l ° ° ,i g 6r e ' ; se vere g un I. a a a afte r o sse ssl r • his P 30 0., ' n The Francl L. 0 of aett, 11 " 0 11 , Lind upon and it Is araiaa,a. ster fler o i(0 , . da y sell Pr, en by r• the ost er e a i nen nain Ile s liarrig' a to trivet fon°ide .40 Wit, same s fle d to C riP otie ° d that thefie p ofi ro , ga te. . 1 10 man IP Or, w c ° e - d i n the re aat 13ray, ievon, 11 " nu fac er been 11,,cer Hale P asse fo n ' na , h led bY Al Id be ibre o t i t b e Ile Jur).ria t d W as,. a sc hic! r Vprise tiyl po claae ul ti to , SO fo! ted l United 05.1 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) D IA (FROM LLOYD'S.) 1., DEC. 3.—Wind W. N.W.—Arrived the Ruby, from Milford, f or L on d on ; an d J ane and Margaret, f r ,:al. n ld, for Charente. Arrived and sailed the Sylph, Fox, IQ ' D ahl; for Hamburg. His Majesty's ship Vernon has 1 ,...ed to the westward. The Highbury all well at noon per - 6, 5 4 4 . Arrived an d rema i n t h e Mi nerva , A n d erson , f rom p enb urg, to Mogadore. tu 011TSMOUTH, DEC. 3.—Wind N. W.—Arrived his Majesty's Pearl, from Jamaica—sailed October 29. eLIMOUTII, DEC. 2.—Wind W.—Arrived the Relief, e o til ! in lina, and Triton, Clark, from Miramicl - i ; John, Sandu re, from Corunna ; and Henrietta, Good, from Lisbon. fly"—Arrived Ileum DEC. 2.—Wind W. N. W. strong breezes and 17tC,Y - -Arrived the Goldfinch packet, from Halifax—sailed 25th ; his Majesty's ship Scorpion, from Lisbon—sailed 1 1110 114 ' Off port the Pyramus, Weller, from Canton -27,0 the 3d May, from Java 3d July, and from St. Helena Se e qic he' , L A • d the Viatic, Allen, from t...ett). PTON, DEC. 2. rrive FOG EY,Ri o DEC. 2.—Ar r i v ed th e Hartford, Robson, from ,u rande. g ° Le, DEC 2.—Arrived the Venus, Gilbert, from Lisbon. tiI_ISTOL, D EC . 2.—Arrived th e C oncor di a , Bl ac k a ll e r, from ',Cape of Good Hope. 04IS TOLI DE.C. 3.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Poppewell, 'yip Quebe c . troh'lslt t ßPOOL, DEC. 2.--Arrived the William Turner, Leith, f ro ;. Bombay gaited the sth July ; Britannia, Hollowell, ; Thalia, Wolverton, from Marseilles ; and Il a -11 ' Wakeman, from Oporto. Off port the Arethusa, from Lhadoes ; and Eliza, from Honduras. 41 GHTo N , DEC. 3.—Arrived off port the Alfred, Tapley, '1;1 Madras. ItIeo. LT HEAD, DEC. I.—Arrived the Ann, Stephens, from 6-111 a ; and Olive Branch, Leader, from Seville. fI. O POC K DEC. I.—Arrived the St. Vincent, Brown, fi D emerara ; Adelaide, —, and Alexander, M' Arthur, t e n i slann; and James, ook, from Oporto. L b °4 k, DEC. I.—Arrived the Veader, Musquiter, St. Übes. tt e ' 411 4 DEC. 2.-Arrived the Traveller, Bell, from Que p4 and Sovereign, Fergusson, from St. Petersburgh. Off t he Charles and William, Trotter, from St. Petersbnrgh. it i' t h e Emerald, Todd, from Restigouche to Hull, was totally 00 Hasborough. Sand the 2d instant—crew saved. k t 'e Wellington, Forster, and St. Joseph, of Sunderland, °ll shore on Scroby Sand. 'SELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUSTOM HOUSE, DEC. 3. lil e e Lack, Huinphreys, from Seville; Britannia, Bilen, Se ti_Racer Arlis Denia and Xabia ; Mary Ann, Dugdall, and Xabia; Perseverance, Margoll, Calais ; William C' N ,,,,,‘"lemming, Petersburg; David Thompson, Petersburg. K I ERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, DEC. 3. .IZ-"e Harmony, B ro wn, for Malta; Attwood, Morfee, Ant ,; Britannia, Fox, Ostend ; Demerara Packet, Brigden, ; William Barras, Smith, Calcutta. EARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, DEc. 3. Mandingo, Bargin, for Jamaica; Waterloo, Jones, Ant (C; Vrowe Elizabeth, Van Lowe, Ostend, Bruges, and ` 11 t; Lord B roug h am , Forbes, Lisbon; Prince Frederick, 4 e t, Rotterdam ; Henry, Flynn, Oporto. 'ti:E u ARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, DEc. 3. Desere, Tisson, Honfleur ; Vier Gebrudes, Tokkinin, reum, VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. th e Swiftsure, from London to the Cape of Good Hope, It (it h Oct in lat. 5. N. long. 22. W. ; the George Wash the" ",", of G ottenburg, from Rio Janeiro for Cape de Verds, toi a l st Oct., in lat. 10. N. long. 21 ; a ship, with Dutch 1%t,-t2' No. 280, bound to Batavia, the 28th Oct., in lat. 14. ; the Nymph, of Whitby, bound to Cape de Verds, ult., in lat. 20. long. 27., by the Concordia, arrived ki r ultol. Th e Samuel Winter, from Liverpool to Valpa- O e ti" , the 27th Sept., in lat. 29. S. long. 38. W., by the Cor ed at Liverpool. A RRIVALS AND DEPARTURES AT THE SCOTCH WHARFS. !A RR's W HARF , DEC. 3.—Arrived at 1 P. M., the Hero, VD Scott, Master, from Berwick-upon-Tweed, with a large c 1 grain. Advice.—The Union, Daniel Smith, Master, 1),'," 111 Banff, for London, on the 29th ult. L "E's WHARF, DEC. 3.—Sailed at 4 A.M., the Montrose I, kr l 'Von Shipping Company's smack Vigilant, John Stra aster, for Montrose, with an excellent cargo. At t e4,' t he Perth steam-ship, for Dundee, with goods and pas b 't1 1 , 4 1 0 N m . n ., WHARF, DEC. 3.—Arrived the Totness, John tali c ' Master, from Axmouth, with a general cargo, princi- N I Provisions, &c. te tt ' L LEß's WHARF, DEC. 3.—Arrived at 4 P.M. the Aber liota'6lld London Shipping Company's smack Superior, John hipster, from Aberdeen, with a general cargo. A,,1),,i -41 EENT STEAM-PACKET WHARF, DEC. 3.—Arrived the tkii ( ;% ll and London Steam Navigation Company's ship 11. itli - h o l Wellington, Commander Walker, from Aberdeen , L '",assengers and an exc ellent general cargo. k • 11 AND GLASGOW WHARF, DEC. 3.—Arrived at 4 P.M., . 4 11j, c 'edon, L e ith, Edinburgh, and Glasgow Sh i pp in g Co m • `4t,trlack E a gle, George Todd, Master , from Le ith, with 1: 41 Cargo . d t " AND BERWICK WHARF, DEC. 3.—Arrived the Leith o i4 mltito n Old. Shipping Company's smack Ocean, Henry , T gtou, Master, from Leith, with a general cargo. Advice. R' m e Berwick and London Shipping Company's smack Ann, th„ 9 th ult Stevensop, Master, arrived at Berwick-upon-Tweed on FAST INDIA. ORRIvALs AT THE CAPE.—The Africanus, from St. Helena, 'September; the Lord Hungerford, from Portsmouth, and G 6 larle s Carter, from London, lath ; the Briton, from Cork, and from ° Plymouth, 15th ; the Howard, from the 4" s, 1 6th ; the Maria, from St. Helena, 17th ; the James, ui London ; Marys, London, 17th; the Favourite, 11th, and Mary Ann, Ist, r 1„. kit Hastings, from Portsmouth ; Cer es, from Liverpool ; James, from London. tti ta lath IVALS AT BATAVIA.—The Commerce, from China, July ; the Jane Brown, from the Clyde, and Jean, from ; the Orissa, from the Clyde, 23d ; the Madras, Al,c Of Aberdeen, and Elizabeth Moore, from Liverpoo l ; th e Othl ti der, Robertson, from Cowes; the Fairlie, Planter , and b e " o , from Sydne y : the Beatrice, from Liverpool. 4A ltTtrkES.—The Emily Taylor. for China , 16 th July ; ,e l Fa vourite, 20th ; th e Beatrice, 26th ; and Jane, 31st, for aPore. !cif,, 4l vALs AT ANJER.---The Colosseum, 7th June; the 11 ,20th, from London ; the Pyramus, frum Canton, 2d ; ork, from London, 27th July. It • h I s said of Garrick that no one ever saw a card in °4B e. or a brother actor at his table. 4 0 , • •,2EY MARKET.—Further accounts have been irons Madrid one % day later than those quoted on kit4lY, which confirm the determination of the loan, as then kti A ' 10 the li s t o f M. A r douin, but it is understood that the t de ' s jo London intimately connected with that gentleman in t e°Titract have not yet received any official notice of it. As hsgetiable security, they are not therefore in a state to in 16cre it i nto t h e London market. Besides the loan of L s iltr at '?" 4 , M. Toreno is said to have entered into another intended for the especial bcnefit of the Cortes' • 4 ' • 4 . d ere and at the same time to raise a further supply of • , s ` o r ipain ; which is, as described, to give 100/. of the ~mipo , t'tr cent. stock for 201. in money, and 80/. in dividend 2 1, e ~- o s of th e Cortes' bonds, which, assuming the contract i'Ll t he new stock to be its marketable value, makes the ,: ) /Ve v - A 8 worth los. in the pound. There is some reason,. for doubting this part of the intelligence, as it is not s 'ihir °4e d by the late financial law, and all such transactions tf the e the express concurrence, under the new constitution, B Panish Legislature. —Morning Paper. 11,Nr L`Q * ''ox was exceedingly fond of shooting, and, tt th n 'A oth er sportsmen, always found bad farmers better te ll lands, ' s of game than good ones. Going over soe very 'tll 4 : Fox exclaimed, " This is the farmer for me l t Don't ?f cor n ! thistles 1" gtre tressing accident occurred a few da y s since at school to the second son of Ambrose Goddard, Esq., lt edq A i tl ,, ° ll , Hilts. Whilst playing with a schoolfellow in his 11 0 ha w " Some .• powder the gunpowder flask exploded in serer n wrelyounding both his left hand and eye. 04. , sur gical aid was speedily procured, and the hand, it is 11 1 ,..' Will be save d ; but, there is much reason to fear , the is Permanently injured. The other boy escaped unhurt. ACCIDENT AT A GAS MANUFAC esterday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, a i ks k g, awned Timothy Frawley, employed at the Phoen ix ufactcry, at Bankside, Southwark, was in the act o f ' h ,hth:g a reto r t, w hen the adjoining one burst the cap off its 0 6 t, th, s4l a vast b&ly of flame gushed out so suddenly , th at Poor fellow was burnt in a most dreadful m anner from , tP',Tit A l -8 w °Pwards. He wag instantly carried t o St. o St. Th He has omas s kon,here he lies without aDY hope of y. 1 )1 'ueri ess ch i ldren. 44 Y1 e mail coach from Lyons to Marseilles, a few Ito lio r , 4 1 : 1 11 upset over a precipice, near St. Symphorien l 'tt e • • The coach was broken to pieces, ax,,i one of the th t 've t t e ti ; the postilion was wounded, and three passengers t 4 t eni severe contusions. The accident was occasione d . Qi th ess of a stallion, and the postilion having neglected 'rag-chain for descending a hill.—French paper. Vitt t - "tt k CASTLE OTWAY.—ARREST OF MR. ep o3, t he We stated last week that a warrant had been issued 4potY orrf Tipperary, of a gentleman moving in a high circle in the t k) ,."Ley t iipperary, charged with being concerned in a con ° ,F,et fire t o th e mansion of Mr. Otway Cave, in that 4 .4 ur the m er it s o f the case we know nothing whatever , k ht raerely stated the fact that such a warrant had been 1) 4 1i1i 4 7 11 „.. , with th e sanction of Mr. Blackburne. The o affected to disbelieve our statement, and a Ip . j ,ll4l °ll 'espond en t o f t h e H era ld, who appears to care but t'i'med • tll e about th e t rut h or acc uracy of what he writes, in er e readers of that j our nal that " the story of the li?- 1 1 :',41d o r? k'd into m oon shine." This Tory gatherer of go ssi p b k t ho w b:' so totally reckless in the way of assertio n. We announcethat the gentleman referred to is t'ha t il 4 rr est s q , son of Sir Amyrald Dancer, Bart., who has i Nt edy e ‘ ,(,l on the aforesaid warrant. Mr. Dancer is now in C.,!8 the Bridewell, and it is stated that the mae tett Lle district, wit!! the stipendiary magistrate, Major AerßA:SittLel to assemble to-morrow, to consider the propriety th e g e t iLo accused to give bail for his appearance, to h 'rge at the usizes,—Dublin Morning Register. COURT CIRCULAR. The King, attended by Sir George Seymour, left St. James's Palace at 11 o'clock yesterday morning for Bagshot-park, to pay a visit of condolence to the Duchess of Gloucester. His Majesty returned to town at a quarter before 6 o'clock. The interment of the late Duke of Gloucester will, it is ex pected, take place next Thursday. Mr. Mash, of the Lord Chamberlain's office, went to Windsor yesterday to make ar rangements for the funeral. Mr. Banting attended at Bag shot-park yesterday, making the necessary preparations. The Marquis Camden and Earl Grey visited the Duke of Wellington yesterday. Despatches were sent off yesterday from the Colonial-office for Major-General Bourke, Governor of New South. Wales. The Duke of Wellington had a dinner party on Tuesday evening at Apsley House. Mr. Hunt had an interview yesterday with the Duke of Wellington at the Home-office. TO THE PROTESTANTS OF GREAT BRITAIN. (Prom the Standard.) The crisis in which we stand will, I trust, excuse me for once more addressing my countrymen. In political questions I never interfere. On the question of Reform I held my peace. This crisis, however, is a religious crisis—it is one of equal interest to all Protestants, that is, to all those who are Protestants (whether Churchmen or Dissenters) from religious principles, and not as political partisans. To those who make religion or dissent a political engine, I say nothing ; for of all created beings hypocrites, and especially religious hypocrites, are the most hateful. To all true religious Protestants I wish to offer a few observations in this awful crisis. The time is now come to declare for real vital Christianity, or to let infidelity sweep away all moral restraints, every social tie, every domestic comfort. The battle is to be fought in and for Ireland. Is Protestantism to remain there or not ? Is Popery to extirpate it ? Are Protestants to be forced either to abjure their religion at home from terror, to emi g rate to save their lives, or to be massacred by Popish fury? Read the speech, my Protestant brethren, of Mr. O'Sullivan, and judge for yourselves whether the law will be able to preserve the lives of Protestants in Ireland if you who are electors do not exert yourselves to give them protection in Parliament. Judge on reading that impressive, that over powering, speech delivered at the Lancashire Conservative Meeting at Liverpool if you think it possible that Protest antism can continue to exist in Ireland, if a Government fa vourable to its support is not established in England. What are you told of the conduct of our gracious King ? What but this, that on its being asked of him whether he would sanction a partial extinction of Protestantism in Ireland, he replied, like his sainted father, " I WILL DIE FIRST ?" And will any, who call themselves by the name of Protestants—l appeal not to the denyers of our blessed Lord's Divinity, but to Christian Protestants—will any such yield to any other motive, or ad mit of any other sense of duty, than that of maintaining our Protestant brethren in Ireland? The question is not orb between the Church and the Irish Romanists. It is between the Romanists and Protestantism in Ireland. Who has been more religiously, more holily zealous in the cause than Dr. Cooke, of Ulster, the bead of the old Presby terians of the north of Ireland? Who has proclaimed more loudly than that pious man that the preservation of the Pro testant Church in Ireland is of vital importance to Protestant ism ? Shall the head of the Presbyterians of Ireland bear witness in vain? Shall your King, like his sainted father, determined to maintain what he considers his bond under his sacred obliga tions, be abandoned by those who claim the honoured, the Christian distinction of Protestants, when he, even in his Royal graciousness, has wished to make all possible concessions to the wishes and desires of his people, stopping short of yielding the pure Protestant faith ? Shall your Kiag, I ask, be deserted when he so makes his stand ? If Britons deserve to be called Christians the nation's cry will be—NEVER I WE WILL STAND BY OUR KING. We will not desert our God. Now is the time for Protestants to awake from their dreams and show that, deluded as they may be for a time—that, biassed as they may be by the name liberty, or anxious, as not unnaturally they may be, for political power, yet that they prize that liberty, they value that power, chiefly from it enabling them to maintain that Protestant cause, that pure profession of Christianity, which has mainly given to Britain a character above all other nations, and for which we may humbly believe it has pleased God in his mercy to vouchsafe to us, in addi tion to that his first blessing, all other high blessings by which we are distinguished. Now, my Protestant brethren,_ is the time for action. Not to protect abuses—no man, no Govern ment, can wish to preserve any such—not to prevent any reforms which can be shown or felt to be reforms indeed ; but it is the time to prove to our consciences and to our God that, wishing as we must wish, to be distinguished among the nations of the world as that country in which pure Chris tianity flourishes the most, and is the most highly valued, we will not tempt God in his wrath to remove that light and bless ing from us by abandoning our King, when he calls on us gra ciously for our help in its support. In all confidence that this call will not be made in vain, I am your respectful servant and brother Protestant, KENYON. Gradington, Dec. 1, 1834. ORDER OF THE GARTER.-It is a singular a fact that at this moment there are four vacancies in this illustrious Order, occasioned by the death of his Royal highness the Duke of Gloucester, and Earls Bathurst,' Spencer, and Hardwicke. Consequently his Majesty has, at this important " Crisis," four ribands and badges at his disposal. ;. Lord Brougham was received by the King.of . the French on Saturday evening, and remained nearly an hour with • his Majesty.- REPRESENTATION OF TRURO • :pr. til4 Vi vian commenced a canvass here yesterf,lay, n the prospect of a speedy dissolution of Parliament.— West Briton. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 3.—Mr. Fleming and Mr.- Compton, the Tory candidates for South Hants, have been actively canvassing yesterday and to-day, they say with much success ; but the real fact is that they stand not one jot better. than they did when Mr. Fleming was defeated in 1832. Lord Palmerston meets his committee this evening, and his Lord ship, with Sir George Staunton, will commence an active canvass to-morrow morning. With respect to the borough, Carter and Baring are certain of their return. Admiral, or Captain, or Mr. Napier, meets his friends this evening ; but as ha is a man of no principles, or of any convenient principles, he will have no success. The Tories assert a flag officer of, the thick-and-thin sort, will be down by the mail to-morrow to solicit the suffrages of the Portsmouthians. Of Sir James Cockburn we have heard nothing, and therefore the Marines, it is concluded, have given up as a bad job, their right to nomi nate a representative. At a meeting of the National Society for the Edu cation of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church, Iteid at the Central School, Westminster, 3d Dec. 1834, there were present—His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Bishop of London, Right Hon. Sir J. Nicholl, Rev. H. H. Norris, Rey. Dr. almsley, James Tournier, Esq., An thony Hammond Esq., and Rev. J. C. Wigram. We are pleased to find that Sir J. Scott Lillie has replied to a deputation of the Middlesex electors, who have recently waited on him, that he will certainly stand for the county, in the event of a new election. It is understood that Mr. Byng will retire, assuredly to the great regret of his con stituents, who may justly boast of having had in his person one of the most upright and consistent representatives ever re turned to Parliament. Among the curiosities which are shown to persons who visit the earthly habitation of the " Great Unknown," at Abbotsford, is the identical door to the prison, the besieging of which is so finely described in the beautiful novel of the " Heart of Mid-Lothian." It is let into a recess, and dis plays the marks caused by the heavy blows which were vainly directed against it by the assailants of the prison. The resi dence is entirely deserted, except by one domestic. On Tuesday last, Charles X. was 77 years, 1 month, and 22 days of age. This makes him a few weeks older than Louis XIV., who hitherto had been the oldest of the French Kings. This latter's age, at his death, was 77 years, less 16 days. Louis Philip has reached his 61st year, less by one month and 25 days ; but he has already passed the fatal age of the Dukes of Orleans. The oldest of them all, the father of the Regent, died at the age of 60 years, 8 months, and 19 days.--. French Paper. The Duchess of Berri is about to resume her ope rations, according to the Mercure de Souabe. In that paper, of the date of the 23d of November, it is stated that the report prevails that the Duchess of Berri passed through Munich, about eight days before, on her way into Italy. Some persons consider this report as arising from the change of Ministry in England and the plans of Don Miguel. INTERESTING DISCOVERIES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—We already noticed the excavations that have been made in the original marble floor, four feet below the present one ; we have since examined this floor, and find it is of Purbeck marble, checkered in squares of ten inches ; two openings of what must have been splendid windows have also been discovered, and a few feet outside the northermost of these is now to be seen the ancient well, where King John was christened, and which well is evidently of , Roman con struction. Almost every day brings to light some further evi dence of the sound judgment, good taste, and superior skill of the English architects, at least 500 years before the " school. master" was heard of ; yet, not one of those truly great men in arts and sciences had the honour of Knighthood conferred on them.. This practice is a modern device, contrived to dazzle the uninitiated, and often to hide the flaws of patronized, but gross incapacity, and thus, instead of being the reward of high merit, it turns out to bo only a cloak for ignorant pretension. ' There has been a quantity of lime rubbish spread over the floor of St. Stephen's Chapel, as a defence against the rains and snows of %water ; but this is a very poor defence indeed ; whilst for those parts of the beautiful cloisters, where the roof has been burned, there is no protection whatever, and really if this gross neglect of expensive and indeed matchless public edifices of "the olden time," proceeds from the Woods and Forests we should think that "the Duke" would do an accep table service to the public by sending Magnus Sylvanus, and all the other sylvan deities, to the left about. In the mean time the Speaker's house, in which furniture, books, pictures, plate, porcelain, &c., were commingled in one universal chaos, most curious to look upon, and all but hopeless as to the pos sibility of being arranged for a long time, has been, to our surprise, restored to the same g ood order an d tasteful arrange !Pent which characterised it before the late conflagration. There muss certainly have been unemnff!Pn exertions, directed I pictures have nroduce this agreeable effect. All the by good judgment, to --•%, fine Kilns ar L been saved, but ma,. 7- ? i • FRENCH PAPERS OF TUESDAY. A letter of the 25th ult. from Madrid, received by ex press, contains the followit g :—" The contract for the loan was decided last night. It was awarded to Messrs. Ricardo and Ardouin, at tle rate of 60 per cent., and 3 per cent, commission. One-half of the loan is to be carried to 66 per cent., in case there shall be a certain rise in the public funds. The news of the accession of the Duke of Wellington, which reached Madrid on the 23d, has stimulated the ardour of the friends to the government. The Procuradores, who were engaged on the bill regulating the Urban Militia, hastened to close the discussion in order that they might the sooner enter upon that relating to the recruiting for the army. This event has produced a very different effect-upon the public funds from that which might have been expected ; they fell at first, but when it was on the same day found that the government had taken more energetic measures to destroythe rebellion in Navarre before the ellington Ministry, supposinc , it should entertain hos tile intentions, could have any influence, they rose again. It is important that the world should know that the Spa niards are convinced that neither resources nor forces are wanting to reduce the rebels, and that hitherto it has been the Ministers who have been wanting in energy. Troops are about to move from all parts to reinforce the army under General Mina, to whom no succour will be refused that he may require. At present the universal cry is, " Union with the Ministry." It is said that the Minister of War has received despatches from Mina, which, though they do not announce any decisive movement, prove that he is at least ma'ting every exertion to render his position more favour able. - This despatch from General Mina, the martial ardour of the Procuradores, the new disposition of the Government, the efforts made by Zumalacarregui, the irri tation and insurrectionary movements in certain provinces —in short, every thing indicates that the crisis is approach ing, and that neither of the parties neglect any thing to ac celerate the catastrophe. . I have seen some letters from Navarre, which are full of enthusiasm and confidence : they praise Mina as an extraordinary genius, and declare that his name alone inspires every one with valour and decision, and that he himself proceeds as by enchantment. I have like wise heard that he has written to one of the Ministers, who is his intimate friend, in which he states that the rebels are decreasing, and that every day Carlist officers and soldiers come and join his standard, that the public spirit is improv ing, and that the courage and conduct of his army is above all praise. He hopes very shortly to restore the provinces which have been desolated by civil war to their former tran quillity. The accounts from the provinces in general are not satisfactory. All the letters from Catalonia.concur in stat ing that this province, which Llauder alone has been able to keep quiet, already begins to be agitated. Three well known bandit chiefs, Curogol, Ros des Eroles, and Elma chaco, have already made their appearance. They are kept in check by the presence of Llauder ; but all will be lost when he removes to Madrid to assume his post, for already the tocsin has been sounded in some of the villages of Up per Catalonia. Letters from Malaga state that the African Presidio of Penon has given itself up to the Barbary Powers, after an insurrection in which the authorities were massacred. Don Marino Montalvo has been appointed Charge d'Affaires to King Otho of Greece." The Notizie del Giorno of Rome announces that Sir R. Peel arrived in that capital on the 20th ult. The German Courier gives the following of the 22d ult. from Berlin :—" The arrival of Prince Esterbazy has caused general surprise. Some, however, say he has come merely to congratulate the Emperor of Russia in the name of his Sovereign, while others maintain that his journey is connected with important political objects, as the Prince is the Austrian Ambassador to London, a member of the Conference, and an intimate friend of the Duke of Wellington. It is believed that the affair between Holland and Belgium will be discussed by the two Sovereigns of Prussia and Russia, the Princes immediateli , interested in that subject, as well as the Austrian Ambassador, being at Berlin, and the Second Chamber of the States-General having urged a settlement of the differences with Belgium, King William has probably instructed the Prince of Orange to request the three northern Powers to send their envoys to London with all possible expedition, in order to continue their labours, or recommence them on a new principle, for the dearest wish of Holland is gratified—the Duke of Wel lington, the approved friend of the House of Orange, has gained the reins of power." The Prussian State Gazette of the 26th ult. has the fol lowing :—" The Emperor of Russia quitted Berlin on the night of the 24th to return to St. Petersburgh, via Breslaw and Moscow. M. de Lutzerode, Saxon Ambassador at the Court of Russia, has also quitted Berlin for Dresden." Our funds yesterday were, 4 per Cents., cash 99i, paper 101 i. The Augsburg Gazette of the 28th ult. has the following from Rome, of the 18th :—" The Marquis los Llanos has arrived here on a mission from the Queen of Spain, in order to procure the acknowledgment of her Govern ment by the different Italian Courts. The first object of his journey is Naples, but, up to the present time, he has not been able to obtain passports, because in the Neapolitan Court no Ambassador can be received whose Grvernment - has not been acknowledged by the King. In the mean time - the Marquis will remain hero, in order to regulate some affairs of the Spanish clergy. It should be remarked that the Marquis To ledo, who was sent on a similar mission by Don Carlos, has been obliged to remain here a long time, and will pro long his stay until he receives permission from Naples ; yet the Marquis travelled as a private agent. The recognition of Don Carlos as King of Spain is not very near at hand, uuless some fortunate occurrence should better the position of the Prince. Our Government has expressed its firm de termination to conform in every respect with the measures of the Great Powers, but will take care not to suffer the affairs of the Church to be in any way injured. Count Ru dolf de Lutzow has resumed his functions of Austrian Am bassador to the Papal See. The Count de Bourmont i s arrived here, and has purchased a considerable estate at Farnese. Spinola, the Cardinal Legate of Bologna, has sent in his resignation, in consequence of his objection to the formation of the corps of Centurioni, a sort of police volun teer force, armed with dirks and pistols, which is now ge nerally spread over the States of the Church. They have the right to arrest all suspected persons, which right is easily abused by those who are taken from the lower classes of the people. The Austrian troops have everywhere gained the affections of the people by their admirable con duct and discipline. On a recent occasion, when a detach . - ment quitted a town of Bologna, the inhabitants accompa nied them three miles on the road, with continued acclama tions of Long live the German troops." ( From the Courier Francais.) PRELIMINARIES OF THE GRAND PARLIAMPN TARY BATTLE. _ There was a great crowd in the passages of the Chatn lper. The grand combat between the Doctrinnaires and the tiers parti had been announced by blast of trum pet for more than a month past, and every one was anxious to get as near as possible to the lists, to witness the blows which might pass between such rough champions. For a long time public attention was kept in suspense. In the interval between the two sessions the Ministers had stored up a multitude of law projects, which they deposited in a mass in the bureau of the President. M. Persil was the first to empty his portefeuille, and though he developed the motives of a new project of law, concerning time responsibility of Ministers, he did not succeed in at tracting attention for one instant, except when he wandered from his subject. A few common-places about the neces sity of a perfect and avowed harmony between the Minis try and the Chambers appeared to be the first skirmish directed against the enemy. Then followed the law projects respecting bankruptcies, the regulation of the ac counts of 1832, and the tobacco monopoly. M. Humann, let it be observed in passing, proposes to maintain for ten years longer this monopoly, the abolition of which be for merly demanded, whilst M. Duchatel submits for legislative sanction, in pursuance of the engagement made at the last session, the ordinances by which the tariff of customs has been modified, and insists upon the urgency of new modifications. Thus it will be seen that each is working laboriously for his bread. Still the expected signal had not been given, and the Ministry, as if on purpose to display its courage and to satisfy the impatient public, pnoceeded to give it on two casions, first in the preamble of the law relative to the con struction of a hall of audience at the Palais of Luxemburg ; and secondly in a timidly provoking address of M. de Rigny. Each of these proceedings had its peculiar character, though they both equally tended to the same end. It is worth while in the outset to notice a little ruse from which great results are no doubt expected. The estimate for the ex penses of the process of April ought to be increased to 100,000. They cannot fail to reach pretty nearly that amount if the affair is allowed to take its course. But a consideration of the parsimonious spirit of the Chamber made it greatly to be apprehended that the question of money would get the better of the question of politics. The estimate was therefore reduced to 360,000 francs, the set tlement with the architects being reserved to a subsequent period. Putting aside this act of finesse, which reveals the experience of a man accustomed to calculations, the pro ject of law, such as it has been expounded, cannot be charged with a want of clearness. M. Thiers declared that in the opinion of the Government the amnesty desired by so many persons is impossible. In other circumstances, and before this question had been envenomed by the press, it might have been thought of ; at present it is positively re fused. It is for the purpose of facilitating the judgment, and hastening the punishment of the guilty, that a vote of 360,000 francs is asked for. Behold what would be plain speaking, and would give an opportunity for explanation. Are you for the pitiless policy ? Would you drive parties to madness and despair, for the satisfaction of again crush ing them, amidst the blood of our citizens and the ruin of our towns? Do you rally round the Ministry? Do you think On the motor, that this refine, m I for reverie THE SUN, LONDON, TITURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1834. and reprisals, has its dangers, and that it would be more safe, and at the same time more honourable, to make a way to conciliation by clemency ? Speak and vote against the law which has been submitted to you, and you will drive out the Ministry. It is well said the project has but one article : its consideration, it is to be hoped, will not last long ; and we shall learn by the division whether the Chamber is able to comprehend the wishes of the coun 'try, and to make them respected. The defiance, given in these terms, might appear sufficiently formal. The Ministry did not think it proper to take this course. After M. Thiers, M. de Rigny mounted the tribune, and informed the majority, in the name of all Ms colleagues, that it was their intention to provoke them to categorical ex planations. " The Crown," he observed, has not ad dressed the Chamber, because, in making it depart from the accustomed usages, we should have feared to en gage it more than was proper in our quarrel. We present ourselves to our adversaries alone, but united, and ready to accept the mode of discussion which shall suit you." It is unfortunate for the hero who spoke these words of defiance from the tribune, that his defective me mory and his trembling voice betrayed his hesitation and alarm. While proclaiming the unanimity of the Ministry, he ought to have avoided displaying the constraint to which he had himself submitted. M. de Rigny has made an en gagement of which he already regrets. This was the ob servation of every one who heard him. But by what right does M. de Rigny speak in the name of the Council ? Is it for the purpose of rendering more mournfully comic the position of the Duke de Treviso, who, although present, was thus despoiled of his right and his functions ? Is it for the purpose of honouring the highest dignitary of the army, that a point is always made of having a Marshal at the head of the Cabinet ? The army would indeed be proud if it could see the fine part at the present moment performed by the actual President in the sight of the Chambers ! Who then, has had the cruelty to tear the old invalid soldier from his sinecure, which is so dear to him, to expose him to such affronts ? It would have been something if he had been charitably advised to remain in the Chamber of Peers, or if the supposition might be en tertained, that he abstained from speaking because he, a new comer into the Cabinet, had nothing to answer for with respect to a system pursued for the last two years. But no. M. de Rigny took pains to say, and to repeat, that he spoke in the names of all his colleagues. Strange per tinacity, when nobody was ignorant that he did not express even his own opinions! What! it is in the name of Ad miral Duperre, whose refusal was with so much difficulty overcome, that an act of adhesion to the system of the llth of October is demanded ! It is in the name of this poor Duke de Treviso, who sighs for his sinecure, and trembles to see it taken from him. Speak for M. Thiers and M. Guizot if you will, since the pensee inzmu able finds it convenient to conceal itself at the present mo ment behind their responsibility ; but do not think of doing so for the rest. We should be curious to know what M. de Persil himself will be able to say, when he is asked why he, who belongs body and soul to the system, separated himself from his colleagues, and took place in the Ministry of the three days ? Were the indissoluble bonds only formed since that period, or rather, was M. Persil still the man of the Doctrinaires in the Ministry of the tiers parti We call on him to explain in an honourable manner his presence in these two camps. It is very easy to per ceive that the pretended unanimity of the Ministry is quite a recent invention, by the aid of which it is hoped to in crease the embarrassments of the majority. They all hold together by the hand because none of them feel strong in the heart. They are like unskilful soldiers, who would be drowned on passing a river if they did not in a body break the current of the water. Let the Chamber be as little intelligent as it is thought, it will, we believe, resent the outrage which has been offered it. It will understand that the little Ministerial league wishes to force it to capitulate. " You demand a change of system," they are told ; " it is your right, doubtless, but among the whole of you, such as you are, find eight men • like us." We admit that there would be great difficulty in finding Ministers equal in capa city to M. le Duc de Treviso, in political consistency to M. de Rigny and M. Thiers, in popularity to M. Persil and M. Guizot! When the Chamber and the tiers parti shall have made this avowal of impotency, nothing more will remain for us but to sing over their remains the De Pro fundis. Still there is no symptom yet that the tiers parti will fail before its adversaries. The Ministry has acted the bully's part, and summoned the Chambei to make known its sentiments. Yet, when M. Etienne referred to the fanious address, the known expression of the wishes of the majority, he was met by mere hollow assertions from the organ of M. Guizot. " You call on us to explain our selves," said M. Etienne ; " accept the address—yes or no ; according to your answer we will reply." " Yes and no," replied the chief of the Doctrine, and thus the grand battle was adjourned. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.—SITTING OF DEC. 1 (Continued from The Sun of yesterday.) The Minister for Foreign Affairs said, that in every ses sion the 'speech from the throne and the address naturally furnished- aza opportunity for the discussion of the princi ples and views of Government. This opportunity was at present wanting, the Crown having declared itself on the 31st of July. It would have been perhaps advantageous, and certainly constitutional, had the voice so respected by by the Chamber been again heard. The answer of the Chamber to a second speech from the throne would have produced explanations as ardently desired by Ministers as by the Chamber. Ministers would not call to the aid of their responsibility the august authority which had invested them with power. They alone were responsible for the acts of Government. They were ready to accept the mode of discussion, the adoption of which was desired. A number of bills had been submitted to the Chamber, and their discussion would in its progress furnish a simple me thod of deciding on them ; but the moment for opening that discussion was not immediately at hand, as a certain time must elapse for the preparatory examination of the communications made to the Chamber. If the Chamber thought proper to enter upon the solemn discussion of the general affairs of the country—if any Deputy wished to put questions to the Administration—the Minister in his own name, and in that of his colleagues, would agree to that me thod. If the Chamber was not desirous of employing that mode, Ministers would wait, and the discussion of the bills would furnish the opportunity of a clear and categorical ex planation on every point. The Chamber had a right to de mand what were the Ministerial system and views ; but Mi nisters, on their side, had a right to tell the Chamber and the country at the price of what system it was possible for them to accept the heavy charge imposed on them.—(Great agitation amongst the left centre.) The President said that as no proposition had been made, he had nothing to put to the vote.—( Various murmurs.) M. Etienne (from his place, and amidst cries of " Silence, silence, hear, hear,") observed that the Chamber had made an unequivocal, frank, and loyal answer to the speech from the Throne—(a laugh on the extreme right), and he would ask Ministers whether they accepted the address or not ? (Murmurs from several parts of the Chamber, and laughter from the left.) Berryer thought that when the Minister for Foreign Affairs commenced his observations, he would at once enter into explanations on the political system of government ; be, however, seemed disposed to urge the Chamber to com mence this political discussion. This proceeding seemed strange to the Hon. Deputy, and he could not believe that the Chamber would sanction it, as it was for the members of the Chamber to put questions when they might deem it fitting to do so, without waiting for the opinion of Ministers on the subject. The Minister of Public Instruction said, that the Minister for Foreign Affairs spoke in the name of all his colleagues, and addressed advice or demand to none. Undoubtedly every member of the Chamber had aright to make propositions and to put questions. Ministers, on their side had a right to de clare that explanations appeared to them desirable, and that they were ready to give them when demanded. The words of the Minister for Foreign Affoirs had no other meaning. In answer to M. Etienne, he could only say that it did not belong to Ministers to accept or reject the addresses of the Chamber. All addresses were accepted by the King, and the duty of Government was not to interpret such or such acts, but frankly to declare its opinion, and to claim that support and that harmony, without which it could not sa tisfy the wants of the country.—(Murmurs.) The President—lt results from all this, that every de puty has a right to speak when he thinks proper. No de puty at present claiming that right, the sitting is adjourned. —( Marks of astonishment among the deputies on the left. Laughter from the centre.) M. Lemercier demanded that the standing committees should be organized immediately.--(Hear, hear, from the centre.) It is was accordingly decided that the Chamber should immediately form standing committees, and name the pre sidenr.s and secretaries of those committees. Adjourned at half-past three. SITTING OF DECEMBER 2. At two o'clock M. Dupin took the chair. The minutes of the sitting of yesterday were read and adopted. The Chamber proceeded to verify the qualifications of several deputies ; a number were admitted, and some ad journed. M. Bcrryer having been named by the three. Electoral Colleges of Toulon, Toulouse, and Marseilles, declared his option for Marseilles. Such of the Deputies as had been admitted and were present took the oath. The Pre & i ( l o . 4 4 observed, that as the Committee on the Pacitions had nothing ready, and that as nothing was noted for the order of the dap he would a.diourn the sitting ; and that notice should be sent to the Deputies as soon as the next public sitting was fixed. M. Fulcheron—And the standing Committees ? The President replied, that the standing Committee would meet daily till the termination of their labours, and till reporters had been named for all the Bills before the Chamber. As the President was about to adjourn the sitting— M. Janvier hastened to the Tribune.—(Movement of at tention in the Chamber.) The Hon. Deputy said, that on the preceding day Ministers had professed their readiness to give every explanation that might be demanded. The Hon. Deputy entered with precision into the questions which he wished to be addressed to Members, both with regard to principles and person, and called upon the Chamber to give a categorical explanation on the sense of the address voted by it four months since. Gen. Bugeaud supported the observations of M. Janvier, on the necessity of categorical explanations, and declared that for his part he considered the address faulty on every point, the object of which was to throw discredit on the sys tem of Ministers. The Minister of the Interior was ready to accept and even to demand the explanations referred to, but in order that a greater number of deputies might take part in the discus sion, he proposed an adjournment of some days. M. Etienne insisted on the necessity of an immediate dis cussion. It was for the Chamber to decide whether recent circumstances gave to the Government such a character of stability, grandeur, and dignity, as could induce it to lend to the Ministerial system the complete support which had been refused some months previously. The Chamber decided that the political discussion called for should take place next Friday.—Adjourned at three. PARIS, DEC. I.—There was no news on 'Change to-day. We must, however, mention that a courier was spoken of, said to have been despatched from Berlin by Mr. Bresson, to announce that the affair of Luxemburg was under serious discussion in that city, and that it would be decided against Belgium, with a threat of intervention if it did not submit to evacuate the Grand Duchy with a good grace. What will our Cabinet do if this news, which comes to us from all quarters, should prove correct ? PARIS, DEC. 2.—The Emperor of Russia left Berlin on the 25th of November, to return to St. Petersburg. He will pass through Warsaw. Sir Robert Peel, who, it was thought, would be over taken at Florence, was at Rome on the 20th, and the Augsburg Gazette (Allgenzeine Zeitung) says that he was shortly to set out for Naples. It is calculated that the courier sent after him may have been able to overtake him before his departure (from Rome), but his answer will be delayed, and it can no longer be expected to see Sir Robert Peel at London this week. Lord Brougham was at the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies yesterday. The diplomatic gallery was complete. A copy of the address had been laid on the desk of each of the members. Letters from Berlin speak of the projected marriage of the Grand Duchess Maria Nicolajuona, born August 18, 1819, daughter of the Emperor Nicholas, to Charles Alex ander, third son of the Grand Duke of Saxe Wiemar born June, 1818. This news would probably put an end to the plans of foreign powers, who have designed as a husband for this Princess a son of Charles V., or Henry V., or even the Duke of Orleans. The resort of so great a number of Princes to Berlin has probably no ground but a desire to pay their respects to the Emperor of Russia. In spite of what the French and English journals say and the pains they take to represent this assemblage of the princes as a congress in favour of absolutism, in order to in flame the public mind, they do not obtain their object, and nobody is deceived by their declarations. It is probable that the King of Prussia may again take on him the office (as he did before, through Gen. Muffling) of mediator in the East. Nobody here (at Berlin) knows anything of the treaty between England and France to maintain officers in Stalugen, of which the journals have spoken. It is only known that the Russian Cabinet is resolved not to suffer the Anglo-French principles which Mahomet Ali turns to such good account, to predominate in the East. (From the Augsburg Gazette. ) Letters from Malaga say that the prisoners in the pre sidio of Pegnon, on the African coast, have rebelled, and that the place is given up to the Moors.-Messager, Dec. 4. BOURSE, TUESDAY, DEC. 2.-The sitting yesterday of the Chamber has had a favourable influence on the French securities. The Spanish are also better. The Three per Cents. have been done at 78f. and 25c., for the end of this month. They have, however, receded to 78f. sc. buyers. HALF-PAST 3 O'CLOCK.-Five per Cents., 106 f. 30c.; Three per Cents., 78f. 10c. ; Perpetuelles, 43+. ; Guebhard, 441; Cortes, 41/3-; Three per Cents., 27ki ; Coupons, 26k ; Dif feres, 15+ • Ducats, 98, 50 ; oman, 94i; Belgium, 978 ; Pedros, 84. FRENCH FUNDS.-Psats ' DEc. 2. Five per Cents., 106f.1051 83c. 95c. Four per Cents., 92f. I9c. 92f. Three per Cents., 77f. 75c. 90c. Bank Actions, 1,790 f. Heide de Naples, 95f. 75c. 50c. 60c. • Roman Five per Cents., 91 94 3 .4%. liente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 41 41U 5 / Hente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 275. Roy. Spanish Loan, 45 44%1. Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 44 43N%. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 9734. llaytian Loan. 980 f. -c. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 151. 52y,c. ; money, 251'. 32%c. three months, paper, 251. 17%c.; money, -1. -c. -(,ours iluthentique. GERMAN PAPERS. BERLIN, Nov. 24.—The Russians and Poles who are prosecuting their studies here, have been several times as sembled (on the 16th and 19th) by the Ambassador, M. de Ribeaupierre, by the Emperor's command, who exhorted them to study diligently, and to fulfil all their duties, inti mating that he had great hopes of them, and had strictly enjoined his Ambassador to give him an account of each of them. He then turned to the students from the king dom of Poland, and perceiving one of them who wore mus tachios, he asked him why he wore them ? Observe, said his Majesty to the young man, who was silent, that it is forbidden in Russia for civilians to wear mustachios, and remember that you are a Russian, and have to comply with the laws of the country. This anecdote is in general circu lation here, and affirmed to be certainly authentic.—Frank fort Papers, Nov. 30. BRUSSELS PAPERS. Nov. 30.—The Minister of the Interior has just in formed the governors of the provinces that the funds allotted to the budget of his department in 1831, for the relief of the most unfortunate of the victims of the war, being ex hausted, it is impossible for him at this moment to comply with applications of that kind, and that persons claiming in demnities for the losses which they have sustained in conse quence of the events of the revolution, must wait for the decision of the legislature on the project of law on the sub ject, which has been presented to the Chamber of Repre sentatives by his predecessor. In the sitting of the Chamber of Representatives yester day, the debate on the commercial law being the order of the day, the following article, proposed by the Minister of the Interior, was read : " The police of the theatres belongs to the burgomaster and the aldermen (Echerrins). They take care that no theatrical performance shall take place that is contrary to morals and public order. They may even, on extraordinary occasions, prohibit any performance, to preserve public .rder." M. Jullien and M. Gendebien spoke with some vehe mence against the proposed article, declaring it to be un constitutional, a violation of the rights of literary property, a re-establishment of the censorship, &c. The Minister of Justice and M. Feber de Merode de fended the article. M. A. Rodenbach thought it would be better that the superintendance of the theatres should be under the Mu nicipal Authorities than under the Government Police ; the proposal he thought would introduce an improvement in the legislation. It is fitting, said he, that there should be a preventive measure which may hinder the performance of immoral pieces, the subjects of which are incest and adul tery ; the Revue Britannique, which assuredly is not edited by men of ordinary knowledge, stigmatises such obscenities. After some discussion the article was adopted by a ma jority of 45 to 15. BRUSSELS, DEC. I.—The Courrier Beige says :—" We can affirm, as having heard it from the most respectable authority, and without there being any possibility of contra dicting us with good ground, that the first act of Foreign policy of the Duke of Wellington after taking the oaths as Minister, was a note sent by a Carlist messenger to the King of Holland, to inform him that the formal intention of the new English Cabinet, was to make no change in the line of Foreign policy adopted by the preceding Ministry. We can also affirm that a note of the same tenor has been sent to Paris, Madrid, Frankfort, Berlin, Vienna, and Constantinople." M. de Broke (the Engineer) has completed the survey of the ground at Ostend, on which a pavillion is to be built at the King's expense, where their Majesties will pass w- mo time during the bathing season. Forage is so scarce in France that the arflr f contractors have made large purchases at high prises , i n the neigh bouring countries. Almost all tk- e f orage for the cavalry and field artillery i n th e 16 ifiitary divisions (head-quarters Lille), has becp has capsca a, l'ull' / '"ased in Flanders and Hainault, which 'feat rise in the prices there, so that it has Leto aNnssary to calla C ouncil of Ministers to authorize C- I, eneral Evan, in contracting for the forage for our army, to accept the lowest terms offered, which exceeded the sum that had been fixed, and will require an augmentation of the budget of the War Department. The Chamber has come to article 104 of the Commer cial Law. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Though Church-rates are condemned by public opinion, the blind and head-strong devotees of the Hierarchy are not alive to the " signs of the times." The High Church bigots would seem to think the present moment favourable for giving battle, and they have chosen for the scene of action the town of Bir mingham. In that enlightened town, abounding and growing in Dissent, the popular insurrection against Church-rates first commenced in 1832, whence it spread like wild-fire through all the large towns of England and Wales. In 1831-2, a great majority of the rate-payers of Birmingham, in open vestry as sembled, rejected the proposition of a fourpenny rate, and instead of the imposition, almost unanimously passed the following resolutions :- 1. " That every, religious association ought to depend on the voluntary contributions of its members for its support ; that it is unjust in principle, vexatious and oppressive in prac tice, and, moreover, utterly repugnant to the genius of Chris tianity, to tax men for the support of a system of religion they do not approve." 2. " That what is called ' the Established Church of Eng land,' is partly supported by the forced contributions of min who dissent either from its doctrines or its discipline ; and that, therefore, (for the reasons given in the foregoing resolu tion) this meeting feels it incumbent upon it to resist, by every legal and peaceable means, so outrageous a violation of every principle of religion and justice." From this memorable decision to the present period, the communicants of the Church Establishment in Birmingham have handsomely defrayed the expenditure (formerly provided in Church-rate levy) by voluntary contribution. A clique of political Churchmen, how ever, are determined again to involve the Church of England in a deplorable contest with the Protestant sects dissenting from the Establishment, with the " Society of Friends," and two numerous congrega tions of Catholics. Cui bond 2we would say to these mistaken zealots of the Hierarchy. What possible good can result from this agitation of the religious community ? What charity will spring from such " re ligious" contentions ? If the High Churchmen are defeated, where will be the gain, pecuniary or in good will, to the Establishment? If the Church be success ful, will not the Dissenters groan under the injustice, and never rest till the humiliation is removed? In fatuated indeed must those Tory Churchmen be who can for a moment believe that the country will submit to this pillage of one class of religionists in support cf the ecclesiastical forms and peculiar tenets of another. What would the burning zealots for church-rates say if a tax was imposed upon them to repair the Vatican of the Pope of Rome, to plaster the mosques of Constantinople, or to provide red and yellow caps for the Grand Lama priests of the Western Tartars ? Are the theological Tories of Birmingham aware that Episcopacy and church-rates are not neces sarily connected ? The Episcopal Church of Scotland is kept up by its own adherents--church-cess is abo lished in Ireland—and we may add, that church-rates are practically abolished in England. Could the late Ministry, in the next session of Parliament, have. avoided the entire abolition of the rate ? Can Welling ton or Peel refuse to relieve the Dissenters from this odious tax ? Why, then, should the Torified Church men of Birmingham thus immolate the Church, and render a sacred institution odious in the eyes of the Dissenting sects in hostile array around her ? Nor is this a question of Dissent. It is simply one of justice and policy. The injustice of the imposition is a settled principle with all but the blindest bigots ; the policy of it may be calculated from the fact, that the two parties in Birmingham have been long preparing for an active and deadly fight—that Com mittees are organized—that the Pulpits have sounded the note of crusade, and that mad Churchmen dream that they shall gain by such un-Christian and bit ter social commotions ! The Liberal Members of the Establishment are scandalised by these disgraceful and suicidal follies of their bigoted brethren. Are there no wise friends--no enlightened Clergy, of the Church, in Birmingham, to step forth on Friday next, when the rate-payers in angry attitude will meet to debate the question of a church -rate, or to save the Establish ment from her false and destructive friends ? Who are the real friends of Hierarchy ?—the fanatic writers who in the Tory journals urge on these strifes and contentions— or the conscientious Churchmen who desire to terminate injustice and to rescue the establishment from the folly of indiscreet par tisans ? Sincerely do we hope that by the timely intervention of the more liberal and far-seeing mem bers of the Church of England, this threatened politi cal movement (for we are sure that the rate-proposers, at such a time, in such a town, and under present cir cumstances, must have a political object in view) will be stopped, and a public subscription substituted. In what religion can gain we are at a loss to imagine ; what will befall the Church of England by the repeti tion of i.uch follies it requires not the gift of prophecy to foretell. The old English adage is pertinent-- " Save me from my friends, and I will take care of my enemies."—Morning Chronicle. The Church•and-King wen are taking the field. Lord Kenyon has published an Address " to t' ne Pro testants of Great Britain" in the Standard (w e must postpone this precious document till to-morrow), in which, alluding to our gracious King, his Lordship says, 'son its being asked of him whether he would sanction a partial extinction of Pr testanism in Ireland ? he re plied, like his sainted father, I will die first ;' " and then his Lordship exclaims, " Shall your Kirg be deserted when he so makes his stand ? If Britons deserve to be called Christians, the nation's cry will be —NEVER !—WE WILL STAND BY OUR KING. We will not desert our God." The Standard is be yond measure gratified by this letter. The Sinecure Church must not be touched. No matter whether we have flocks or not —we must keep up the number of Bishops—we must keep up the number of Protestant pastors without flocks--they must still shear the Ca tholic flocks. Their cause is the cause of GOD. Like the " Famine, Fire, and Slaughter," of Coleridge, the Winchilseas and Kenyons " will cling to the Duke everlastingly." We are obliged also to postpone an account of " a great Conservative dinner at Ipswich" (for everything is great now—even the meeting of Lairds and Farmers at Kelso is " a great Agricultural Meeting.") Upwards of 300 Conservatives of East Suffolk dined at Ipswich on Tuesday, and yet up wards of 100 could not obtain admission. Suffolk is " the Parson county" par excellence, and Parsons abounded. Dr. Etough contended that the con nection between Church and State was ordered by God himself, to be a precedent for all future time. The Chairman, Sir C. Brooke Vere, called on the in habitants of Suffolk "to strengthen the Conservative interest." " The Duke" was received with frantic ex ultation, " Sir Robert Peel" cordially ; but it is evi dent that the High Churchmen are somewhat suspici ous that Sir Robert will not "go the whole hog:" Lord John Russell was termed " the inveterate And uncompromising enemy of the Established Church." " Those," said Dr. Etough, " of the late Whig Mi nistry who were foremost in the robbery of the Church of Ireland, and were the most desirous to have the same robbery perpetrated on the Church of England, were the descendants of the men who had reaped the greatest benefit from the spoliation of Church pro perty." Lord Henniker rejoiced that " the reign of misrule was at an end." In short, one and .Vj seemed to exult that Reform was at end, and t. l ;iat abuses in Church and State would remain as ' ;uxuriant as ever. —Morning Chronicle. . -I dere is no agitation--there There is no excitement-4 in the public mind, in con is no alarm, say the Tori , s, 7uption of all b u t the Sovereig n ty sequence of the assn of the State by '.tie Duke of Wellington ; and, truly, for once, th`4 . are in the ri g ht. Th ere w a s agitation— there tr p as alarm—there was excitement, when the news of the extraordinary, unprecedented, and uncalled-for dismissal of his Majesty's Ministers, burst, along with the appointment of the Duke of Wellington as their successor, like a thunderbolt, upon the ears of the people ; but these feelings have now vanished—the people have had time to reflect, and as they have reflected, they have ceased to entertain alarm, or to be frightened by the accession of even a Tory Cabinet to manage the affairs of the coun try. They feel that they have the power in their own hands of putting an end to it, when, and in whatever manner, they please. The Reform Act is in their hands, and they rest on its power to accomplish, not only a reform in Church and State, but such a change of Administration as shall in every respect meet their