The Sun. — London, England, 1834-12-19 00:00:00

BRUSSELS PAPERS. BRUSSELS, DEC. 15.--His Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans left the Palace of Laeken this morning at eight o'clock to return to Paris. The Chamber of Representatives has adopted its budget for 1835. The total amount is 412,555 francs. The indemnities are fixed as for the present year at 324,000 francs for nine months' session. Since the Revolution the War Department has absorbed more than the half of the receipts of the Treasury. The expenses were for the first fifteen months, viz.,— Francs. From Ist Oct., 1830, to 31st Dec., 1831 86,553,350 For 1832 1833 1834 . 42,118,000 Total 251,376,744 BRUSSELS, DEC. 16.—The Journal des Flandres says that Messrs. Francs Claes have succeeded in their application to . his Majesty to remedy the injury done to the society of cotton Manufacturers by the decree of the King of H " - jitand of the 10th of July last. The GOvernment in fact, which had already granted to the Society a sum of 35 ',,000 francs as a bou n ty upon a value of 2,585,000 fran ,- .4 in cotton manufactures, to be exported to Batavia, has Just added the assurance that it will make good the loss - ;;nick may result from the above decree on the consiplimer:. s already made, amounting t o 1,700,000 f rancs . The dr,ditutionnel des Flandres doubts the correctness of the abu'et statement—=Brussels, Dec. 17. On the first of the above days the Minister of War intro duced a project of law, one of the articles of which fixed the amount of the army for 1835 at 110,000 men, not including the civic guard. This is the same amount that was fixed for 1834, and the Government sees no reason to modify under .present circumstances. This does not include the whole burden that the State will have to bear, but indicates only the force which the Government will be able immediately to have on foot, if political events should oblige it to make use of all its military resources. With 110,000 men at its immediat e disposal, the Government is confident that it would be suffi ciently prepared against any event which should make it ne cessary to raise our army to the full war establishment. The Minister proposed farther, that 12,000 militia of the cla ss o f 1835 should he placed at the disposal of the Government. The project of law was referred to the Central Section. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaussaLs, DEC. 17. Actual Debt, 2% per cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per cent. 1' 6 74 Loan of the City. 11332, 4 per cent lOO - -Brussels Papers, Dec. 18. BERLIN, DEC. B.—The Leipsiq Journal says—lt is re- Ported, that at the beginning of the spring a new Ministerial Congress will assemble here to take into consideration the state of Europe, and the means of preventing the diffusion of the political evil which desolates the west of Europe. VIENNA, DEC. 9.—(By express. )—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 99 i; Four per cent., 91 5-32; Bank Shar es , 1,272, 1,2724. -Frankfort Papers, Dec. 15. PRUSSIAN FUNDS—BEALIN, Dire. 12. St. Schuld. Sch. 4 per cent.....,, 410 99 Prtmian English Loan, IFI - ..,0, 4 per cent 91 95 ,4 FOREPaN EXCHANGES On Amsterdam,. 250 florins, 2 months I4ON Hamburg 152% Londo" .....300 francs, 2 months 11 3 months 6 254. Lei :,,sic C days —Frankfort 2 months 103% 103 --. Petersburgh...loo rubles, 3 weeks]. 3O 1-12 .--Prussian State Gazette, Dec. 13. FRENCH PAPERS. DEC. 16.-After a Council of Ministers, held yesterday evening, the first division of the Polytechnic School was dis charged. The pupils composing that division, to the number of 145, quitted that establishment this morning. 17.-The ordinance, dismissing the first division of the Polytechnic School has been carried into execution, but it is not published in the Moniteur of this morning. We should be gle.d to see in this delay ground to hope that this disastrous Mos-sure will be revoked. It was at the moment that the Professor was expected at the lecture-room that the General, accompanied by the director of the studies and the officers of the school, came to announce their dismissal to the pupils of the first division ; he exhorted them to receive this news with calmness and resignation. The General was greatly affected ; he was answered by a unani cry o f " Vive le General I" " Vives M. Dulong I" " Vivent cos Capitaines !" A letter from Madrid of the Bth, says :-" Gen. Llauder, the new Minister of War, who was expected yesterday, was stopped at Saragossa. It seems that he has desired to have on interview with Mina. Their conferences will have a very beneficial result, and remove beforehand the difficulties that Might arise in a correspondence. Notwithstanding some par tial checks which will be much talked of, not so much on ac count of their importance as of the atrocious conduct of the troops of the Pretender, it is certain that the Queen's army has recovered the organization which it had lost under Mina's predecessor. Discipline is restored, and marches without any object are succeeded by more scientific operations. We must not, however, deceive ourselves. The task of Mina is difficult. Re fully understands the importance of his mission."-Mes sager, Dec, 17. FRENCH FUNDS.-Faais, Disc. 16. Five per Cents., 10' , E 45c 50c. 5 - le. Four per Cents., 551'. SOc. Three per Cents., 76f. 55c 70c. 63c. Bank Actions, 1,79: f. 1,790 f. Rente de Naples ' 93f. 25c. 40c. 35c. Roman Five per Cents., 95. Rente trEspagne, Five per Cents , 3Ry43414. Bente d'Esl.agne, Three per Cents., 2(1 26q, 26. Royal Spanish Loan, 43 4?. ItentePerpet. d'Espagne. Five per Cent., 41 47% 41. Relgian Loan, rive per Cents., 9314. Portuguese Limn, Five per Cents 84%. Ditto, Six per Cents, 94ii. Hastian Loan, 275 f. -c. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. 0 iernonth, paper, 2511 ; money. -E -c. Three months, paper, 25t, 17y. c. ; money, -f. -c. Authenrique. Bo - b eim 7E' WEDNEsnAv, 3 o'CLoca.-The names of the mem the B • • Marketßritish Cabinet having arrived this morning, the from the beginning, a gloomy aspect : the Thre e . assumed,perCents. French have declined to 76f. 40c., with a str ong tend to a further fall. The Spanish Stock, as be fd°orien ellcy ' g. ra therabandoned, and in consequence very little business HALF- PAST 3 o'CLocK.-5 per Cents., 106 f. 30c. ; 3 per Cents., 76f. 35c • 5 per Cent. Spanish, 40/ ; 3 per Cent. ditto, 26t ' • ; Cortes, 38± ; Royals, 414 ; Coupons, 231 ; Dif fercs, 141; Ducats, 93 15 ; Romans, 94/ ; Belgians, 98; Pedros, 844-; Dutch, 54 75. FRENCH FUND 3.-Paats, DEC. 17. Five per Cents., 106 E :30c. 25c. 20c. Four per Cents., 92f. 70c. Three per Cents., 76 f. 3 5c 20 c. 30 c- Rank Actions. 1,790 E Rente de Naples, 93f. 10:•. 93f. Roman Five per Cents., 95:94N. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., agN Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 26 213 - A Royal Spanish Loan, 41% 41 41%. Rente Perpet. d'Espaene, Five per Cents., 40% %}4. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, l;8 1 4, 98. Portuguese Loan, Five per Cent., 85 81%. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f 32},c. ; money, -E --e. three months, p".per, 25E 17}4c.; money, --c. -Coors Authentim. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) (FROM LLOYD'S.) DEAL, Dldc. 18.—Wind N. E., strong breezes.—Tbe Hero, h o r anAl Butler, from St. Domingo for Antwerp, has weighed her an gone to leeward. Arrived and remain for the river t he„William Fawcett (S.) from Ireland, and the Sesostris. rowrsmount, DEC. 18. —Wind N.E., blowing hard. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 17.—Wind N. N. E.—Arrived the Sylph, Lamming, from Lisbon. FALMOUTH. DEC. 17.—Wind N. to N.E., strong breezes lind squally. Arrived the Rosalind, Sinclair, from London, for St. Helena. BELFAST,ISsc. 16.—Arrived the Orient, Ebenhead, from St. John's, New Brunswick; Thomas Kennion, Lamb, from Pugwash ; John Thomas, Patterson, from Quebec; Susan, Courtney, from Messina; and Courier, Smith, from London. STANOATE CREEK, DEC. 17.—Arrived the Achilles, Ingle- Ilia. from Zagouroy. DOVER, DEC 17.—Arrived the Baron de Rosello, from Surinam ; Highflyer, Newton, from Lisbon, with damage, having been in contact with the John, of Sunderland ; Ann, Coutts, from Cork ; and Britannia, from Lisbon. Off port the Co rrib, Corling, from St. Petersburgh, with loss of boats, bulwarks, &c. DARTMOUTH, DEC. 17.—Arrived the Tyre, from Villa Nova. PENZANCE, DEC. 17.—Arrived off Port the Erasmus, from Batavia; and Prince Eugene, Cook, from Newfoundland. BRISTOL, DEC. 18.—Arrived the Pearl, Sanders, from Mauritius. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 17.—Arrived the Mary, Deaves, from Quebec. Sailed the Courier, Davidson, from the Cape of Good Hope. LIMERICK, DEc. 16.—Arrived the Joshua Carroll, Mop- Pett, from London. MIZZEN HEAD, Dsc. 17.—Arrived off Port the Clansman, Geale, from Demerara. HILL, DEC. 19.—Arrived the Welton, Reimers; Moscow, Donaldson ; and Elizabeth and Sarah, Simpson, from St. P etersburgh ; and Scotsman, Reid, from Riga. BRIDLINGTON, DEC. 17.—Arrived the Henry, from Mira fiichi ; Harriet, Boston, from Gottenburg ; and Mary,Waites, 40 10 Carlscrona. EMDEN, DEC. I2.—A chest, containing silk dresses, &c., With the name of E. Louchav, on a brass plate, also marked C . G. S., was picked up on the 12th ult. on the coast. THE FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICES. BRITISI Bank Stook , 8 Per Cent. R e d. " Per Cent Cons :1 2 v,, per Cent. Kj 2 Per Cent ;'" 3 54 per Cent. —loo% Per Cent. A,sented Dissented I ' l, g Annuities to expire Ja.s IF6O 17 1-16 Oct 1550 167 13 Jan. 1860 I'OllElOl FUNDS. India Stock Ditto Bonds 22 pm South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities Ex. Bills, 10004. - 40 on. Ditto 510/ 4O pm. Ditto 50'1 4l pm. Bank Stock for Act. ___ India Stock for Opg. 0 67 Consols for Opg. 92% Atistrlan, 5 per cent 5 Belgian, per cent 8 Bra zilian Bonds Buenos Ayres. 6 per cent — Chilian 6 per cent Columbian 6 er cent Ditto, 18:24 , — p Danish . 76 Greek Bonds, 1825,5 per cent. 'Mexican, 5 per cent , 1825. I)itto, 18:25, 6 per rent. — Perurian. 6 per cent FUNDS. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent. 84% Ditto. New Ditto 85% Prussian. 5 per cent. Russian Bonds. 5 per cent Ditto, Metallic 5 per cent. 53 ►,! Ditto, 1823 5l yp French, S per cent Exchange —L —c French, 3 per cent. Dutch, 2. percent '4% Ditto, T per cent 9978 --------'' ig w hat he n ' " .--(chee rs a i was then 1 ch it Was put' )ropose, ' chich i; approbation is meeting P 1 s among the sato, ,ccuring the rnduct and 1 16 , firmly resist A•eve, faction to P r 0 and the e ste° e address of, o • ufficient ciD pe ofl [lee expositioron_,, found to pro • tbst states in ver have beeP fr o be e xpect themselves ne,L, ieses or tbe Tties or in o ,• d never done aw, If ever therepo, t was th e bv ]eir illemb e , r g d c 1 heir votes ad, indeed. .0; ttisfy the on• 4„ 3e qu estion Lsot pr;l :se men, les, or by 11 ' ) 1'1 1 11 , Hear. / v 7 0,14 se, and b e it the e, but sub wusly. • t b n passed %I', 5 , r , yen for ) 1e ratod. {THIS 1 ) indicted for James l *ble ;ft e sth instant, rg , es his prod oti [ice' constabieor ro secutor's d ice did not peg, took son et ' o d e away, and ba d 11 0 i e been ta"%iite'l passing , 85 " y of stealing, r an assault, ;),,,I ars, Strat )f which if° v g, !ed out at T o I who livel'rope( as of an jell ) hoe !asionallY tc ' t doe t a odge „ e lf h e girl r ie Jury acq .d 16, wel l p oor le lad w as i, fit ° ryation, and for tc`;l3l)lf uccd to d ° co te nd r ° lleoce jg9e al on the if ' Et sess';cl• A Y.) th ! lentil' i, - , a ri-: re r° l4 l e y 3 (t , . 0$ Bar ,„ .• tered- t d , as last 00' 4 ;4' 6 3 ' rs°' was o.': : •. 5 rt . o ••". 5 4 .; itto. ••• 4 :1 1 5 lerS ~°. re j ....... 5 ..... each, 8 R KO ' 6 ' 6 to o J o ..... ••• 99 7, 1 9 ........ 6 5 9 ........ , 0 ........ ; DA Y 11 t" t his vice tr )11$ o 0 )0 bag s %co ( tion a r ` i Yin thi ,- IJO O 4. of b r° ' „ dv re ut py r-° CO' n er mta o tiort 6 d, i fe 13'' 10W er. es. Joa n ,er c wt. fir lo _,.. O P' Pepp y ' ov ,ption io Acf peva if flop; Sp t 5 Goa for subs e ma' P o t• t ya r O d burg h ' ap ti The o rc° ) yOC I I;c 4 bon f o r er lea ° re s bre :13°e 03. ,zoie „ tO p eg oet i ba g ll° sb - ; pat°,s 4b oa werv, 1 1 cv o g ;ogl e ale ind td to be s tate_ t o f ()s pec OO trut h ° l ob to _ f o r rec eis :f th f t:, ° ,loA e ed. Oi te tw° to re orAlc o f e g e l3/50 o e t he .ei o P re be reSCO 21.!, o daPp o rt" i3l et r o?u1 I vor' t oto We Eye ° s Pr efe ° i d the ro c, tetha 5 e 7, L 0 °it' ire red a ,I l e ; u ,° n 111(15 , fri c 111 , rti" e be i rV COURT CIRCULAR. His Majesty went yesterday to the new Palace in St. James's Park, attended by Sir Herbert Taylor, Sir Henry Wheatley, and Sir Andrew Barnard, and inspected many of the rooms, remaining an hour and a half in the Palace. The King gave audiences yesterday to Baron d'Ompteda, the Hanoverian Minister, Earl Jersey; and ttie Earl of Errol. His Majesty had a ditinei party last evening at St. James's Palace. Tilde Were present to meet their Majesties—Prince George or Cambridge, the Duke of Wellington, the Marchio ness of Wellesley, the Marquis of Winchester, Earl Jersey, G. C. H. ' Earls Howe, Denbigh, and Mayo ; Countesses of Denbigh and Mayo; Lords Hill, Fitzroy Somerset, and Byron; Sir John Macdonald, Sir Charles Rowley, Rev. Mr. Wood, Col. Sharpe, Mdle D'Estc, &c. The Cabinet Ministers dined with the Lord Chancellor on Wednesday evening at his residence in Hyde Park-terrace. A Ca.l,inet Council was afterwards held at which nearly all the members of the Cabinet were present. The Council were some hours in deliberation. The Earl of Aberdeen had an interview yesterday with Sir Robert Peel. The Noble Earl attended at the Colonial office in the afternoon. Mr. Colquhoun, Agent and Consul-General for the Hanse Towns, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. Sir Charles Manners Sutton and the Right Hon. Alex ander Baring had interviews yesterday with Mr. Secretary Goulburn at the Home Office. The Lord Chancellor and Sir Henry Hardinge visited Sir Robert Peel yesterday. Letters for Sir Robert from the Marquis of Londonderry was received on Wednesday evening. Viscount, Melbourne arrived yesterday at his residence in South-street. The Noble Viscount leaves town this day on a visit to the Duke of Richmond at Goodwood. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. DEPARTURES. Sir Charles and Lady Coote, from Connaught. place, for St. Leonards ; Earl of Beverley, from Portman-square, on a tour; Lord and Lady William Somerset, on a tour ; Lord and Lady Hood, for Cheltenham ; Hon. W. Coventry, for ditto ; Col. Clive, for ditto ; Colonel Bowyer, for ditto ; Capt. Graham, for ditto ; Hon. C. C. Cavendish, on a visit to the Hon. Gen. Trevor, at Glynde Luss ; Lord Dudley Stuart, from Wilton crescent, for Arundel ; Colonel Smith, for Chichester ; Rev. Mr. Peel, from Hatfield, for Brighton ; Lord de Roos, from Park-place, for ditto Lord and Lady John Thynne, for ditto; Lady and Miss Knightley, for ditto; Mr. and Mrs. Yates, for ditto ; IL B. Curteis, Esq , M. P., for ditto ; Hon. Edmund Phipps, on a visit to the Hon. General Phipps, at the Norfolk Hotel, Surrey-street, Strand ; Colonel and Mrs. John Grey, for Brighton ; Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Raikes Currie, for ditto ; Lady A. and Miss Cotton, for ditto ; Sir William and Lady Joliffe, for ditto ; Admiral Sir James and Lady Whit shed, for ditto ; Hon. H. Howard, on a visit to Lord and Lady Howard of Effingham ; Hon. Mrs. Cuthbert, for Worthing ; Mr. and Mrs. Dorington, for ditto ; Rev. Mr. Booth, for ditto ; Sir Charles Price, for ditto ; Hon. Mrs. Singleton, for ditto; Lord John Russell, from the Earl of Morley's seat, La tham, for Endsleigh, Devon. OLYMPIC THEATRE. At this theatre, so fertile in agreeable novelties, a new and lively petit piece was produced last night, under the title of St. Mark's Eve. The fun begins with the matrimonial quar rels and mutual disgusts of Mr. Tobias Patch (Keeley) and Mrs. Patch (Mrs. Orger), and is prolonged into what the author, if he were an ambitious man (which we are sure he is not, or he could not have written so pleasant a farce), would probably call the morale of his drama. The discordant and embittered man and wife are reconciled, by severally seeing what they believe to be each other's fetch, on St. Mark's Eve a sure sign, as they each believe, that within the year the plague of their life will be removed by death. In this persua sion the plague of course becomes much less intolerable than before, and by the good-tatured intervention of Margaret (Miss Goward), the wife's neice, a perfect and permanent re conciliation is effected. The incidents are amusing, though extravagant, and the dialogue abounds in puns of various qua lity, but none of them too bad or too good to provoke laughter. The acting of Keeley was as droll, that of Mrs. Orger as piquante, as usual. THE HEAD OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT IN DANGER.—As the Duke of Wellington, on Monday morning, was riding one of his favourite horses at a quick pace through St. James's Park, on his way to the Foreign-office, on reach ing the parade by the Horse-guards, his steed suddenly fell and rolled over him. By the aid of some of the soldiers and officers on duty his feet were disentangled from the stirrups, and he was conveyed to his official residence in Downing street without sustaining any material injury. \Ve are sorry to announce that the Queen is indis posed, arising from a severe cold. GRAND DINNER TO HIS MAJESTY'S MINIS TERS AT THE MANSION-HousE.—On Tuesday next a grand entertainment will be given by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor to his Majesty's Ministers. His Lordship has invited some of the most eminent merchants upon the occasion, as the interests of that body are likely to be affected in a very high degree by the measures which are to be pursued by the new Administration ; and it is expected there will take place a most explicit declaration of the course intended for adoption. It is unnecessary to say that the public are looking with an xiety to the day. The company, which it is believed will in clude all the members of the new Administration, will consist of about two hundred; and the dinner will be given in the Egyptian Hall, which will be splendidly fitted up for the oc casion. ST. LEONARD'S-ON- SEA .-Their Royal High nesses have not appeared in public during the last week. They have generally walked on the beach towards Bexhill. The Duchess attended divine service at the church here on Tuesday. The Princess had a slight cold, and did not accompany her Royal parent. The period has not been yet fixed on for the departure of their Royal Highnesses, but it will be probably in the middle of February. Mr. Wigram, the late M.P., and an East India Director, will, it is expected, offer himself as a Conservative candidate for the city of Wexford ; Sir Robert Fitz Wygram, Bart., having declined a requisition from that Borough. Lord Loftus, it is stated, will offer himself for the county of Wexford. It is rumoured, and we believe on good grounds, that Sir Charles Wetherall is dissatisfied. Sir Charles was Attorney-General before Sir James Scarlett, and a more con sistent political character does not exist.—Morning Advertiser. On Friday last Mr. Hedworth Lambton arrived at Lambton Castle, where Lord Durham is entertaining a select party of friends.— Tyne Mercury. On Wednesday last a memorial was presented to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests from several inha bitants of the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, represent ing the great inconvenience and the injury to trade occasioned in the neighbourhood of York -street, Tavistock-street, Charles street, &c., from the building of the new street leading from the Strand being so very long delayed. Some of the railing was yesterday removed, preparatory, it is supposed, to open ing the passage. Shot at Porlock Weir, on Friday last, by the Rev, R. F. Gould, jun., a wild swan, which weighed 151b5., and measured from the beak to the tail five feet and six inches, and from each wing when extended from tip to tip, eight feet and sight inches. SIR JOIIN BA.YLEY.--A recent traveller acrosst he Alps, writing to his friend, says, " I merely mention my trip to Chamouni for the sake of stating that at St. Martin, where all regular travelling terminates, we found Sir John Bayley, the ex-Judge, who, at the age of 74, had just been up the mountain in a car. He seemed delighted with every thing, and begged us to tell his legal friends that he was as well and as happy as they could wish. He had been two days at the inn, where the ancien Magistrat (as they called him) had become a universal favourite, by the kindness of his manners, and the facility with which he accommodated himself to the unavoidable inconveniences of such an expedition." THE ARMY.—Lord Hill's Levee yesterday at the Horse Guards, as Commanding-in-Chief, was attended by— Lieutenant-General Sir F. Wetherall, Lieutenant-General Sir H. Cumming, Lieutenant-General Sir F. R. Macleane, Major-General Bruce, Colonel Gurwood, Colonel Cooke, General Sir Charles Pratt, General Maitland, Major-General Sir T. Kribzler, Colonel Dixon, Sir John Hamilton, Colonel Storey, Major Leslie, Major St. John, Major Macpherson, and about 30 other distinguished Officers. REMARKABLE OAK.—Most persons who have wandered on a summer's day amongst the green glades and leafy avenues of Greenwich Park, have probably observed a massy and aged oak in the garden attached to the keeper's house ; few, however, are aware of its real magnitude. The trunk is hollow, and there is sufficient room within it for a table, round which twelve persons may sit. At three feet from the ground it measures 31 feet in girth. The circum ference of the interior is 22 feet. The doorway was origin ally a cleft, which is now five feet five inches high, and up wards of two broad. The present height of the trunk is about 40 feet, and its age is unknown. The old tree has been more than once honoured with the presence of royalty, and is now used as a place of temporary confinement for juvenile depre dators in the chesnut season. Greenwich Guardian. LOUIS PHILIP AND THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS. —A Paris correspondent says that when the news of the Em peror of Russia's journey reached the ears of Louis Philip, the idea struck him of sending the Duke of Orleans to Berlin to compliment the Autocrat. Prince Talleyrand, however, did not approve of the plan. Nevertheless, Pozzo di Borgo was sounded upon the business, but he stated that the Emperor's stay in the Prussian capital depended upon the health of the Empress, and that if it should prove satisfactory he would speedily leave ; consequently the Prince Royal run the risk of undertaking a useless journey. This excuse was made in the most polite and respectful manner, but the anecdote may serve to show the extent of the sincerity of the alliance between France, Austria, and Russia.—Augsburg Gazette. The religious persecution in Tonquin and Cochin China still goes on increasing to a most dreadful degree. M. Gazelin and a country priest were recently condemned to death and strangled for having preached the Christian reli gion ; two neophytes also shared the same fate. M. Jaccard has likewise been condemned to death, and waits in chains the execution of his sentence. The other missionaries are dis persed and wandering about the country in distress, sometimes taking refuge in the woods, mountains, or caverns. The churches of their religion have been destroyed, and its profes sors pursued and imprisoned, and scaffolds are raised in all directions for the execution of these persecuted men. THE SUN, LONDON S FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1834. LITERATURE. Q UEEN ANNE B 0 LEY N. Smith, Elder and Co, London, 1834. Mr. Smith, who is the author of this Historical Tragedy, has executed a difficult task with considerable ability. There are few dramatic subjects more hack nied than that of Anne Boleyn, and to impart to it an air of freshness and novelty requires talent of no mean order. The plot of this tragedy is remarkable for its continuousness and simplicity ; there are no di vergings or abrupt transitions, it is regular and unbroken throughout. The language of the play is easy and unembarrassed by tawdry metaphor ; though it occa sionally halts from a too frequent habit of moralizing, on the part of some of the subordinate characters. When Mr. Smith has acquired a little more dramatic experience, he will no doubt see fit to remedy this slight blemish. Meantime, we may congratulate him on the poetic spirit he has displayed in Anne Boleyn. We subjoin one of his songs, which is simply and feelingly written : " Let the lover have the spring, When the flowers their sweetness bring; Let the summer sheen employ All the family of joy, But let waning autumn be Still for melancholy me ; When the season, like my hopes, Smiles—and straight to rain slopes. When the redbreast from my bower Wakes the quiet evening hour, .And no other voice on high Floats along the vacant sky ; When the sun upon the sea Full in solitude, like me, Beams his brighest, ere night's gloom Wraps the spirit in the tomb— I would set me with the sun Ere the light of love was gone, And waste with the wasting year, • While still music sounded near ; I would feel life's current fail, • Yet a manly exit hail ; And, with vigour on my brow, Die alone—'twere best I trow." NORTHCROFT'S PARLIAMENTARY CHRO-` NICLE. Voi. ll. Northcroft, London. 1834. This volume, which consists of two separate divi sions, comprises impartial anj authentic reports of all the speeches delivered in both Houses, together with the various petitions presented, and the divisions on all the important questions brought forward during the last session of Parliament. Considering its cornpre ; hensive character, and the time and difficulty requisite to get it up in any creditable style, the book is re markably cheap, and what is nearly as great a recom mendation, of a most convenient and portable size. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE THIS EVENING. WHITEHALL, DEC. 18, 1834. The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, granting unto Li eu t en ant-General the Ilfght lion. Sir George Murr a y, G.C.8., the office of Master-General of his Majesty's Ordnance of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The King has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, constituting and appointing the Right Hon. Edward Lord Ellenborough ; the Right Hon. John Sullivan ; Joseph Planta, Esq. ; and Sir Alex ander Cray Grant, Bart. his Majesty's Commissioners for the Affairs of India. The King has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, granting the office and place of Advocate-General, or Judge-Martial of his Ma jesty's Forces, to the Bight Hon. Sir John Beckett, Bart. [Substituted for the Notice which appeared in the Gazette of the 12th of December instant.] ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Nov. 27. The King has been pleased, on the nomination of Lord Foley, to appoint Edward - Clarke, Esq., one of his Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, vice Knapman, resigned. FINE ARTS. We have just been favoured with a sight of the 'forthcoming illustrations of the " Court Magazine," which consist of a view of EastnOr Castle, Hereford shire, the residence of Earl Somers ; and a portrait of Lady Erskine. l3oth are well engraved, particularly the latter, the features of which are brought out in a very masterly manner. GENERAL ELECTION BERKSHIRR.-Mr. Walter has published a long address, the burthen of which is, that in his principles there is no change. He says " a Reformer I entered Parliament, a Reformer I am at present, and a Reformer I shall continue to be till those amendments shall have been effected by which, as I appre hend, the constitution will have been brought back to its ori ginal purity, have been cleared of the abuses which time has introduced, and be enabled to afford protection to all classes of the people." Towards the conclusion of his address he ex presses his conviction, that " the new Ministers are less likely, from the habits of business possessed by their chief (query, Peel or Wellington?) to be obstructed by unnecessary delays in the dispatch of public affairs, and by impediments springing up in the House of Commons itself, than most others." If this be not going over to the new men, what, we should like to know, is ? CUMBERLAND (East.)—Sir James Graham has addressed the electors. Sir James says, that in the short but eventful period of six years, during which he sat in Parliament for this county— " 'the Test and Corporation Acts have been repealed— Catholic Emancipation has been carried—Negro Slavery has been abolished—the trade to China has been opened—the public expenditure has been effectually reduced—the taxes most affecting the great body of the people have been re mitted—peace of an unexampled duration has been preserved —and a full, free, and fair representation of the peopl e i n Parliament has been obtained, and fixed on the basis of that measure of Reform which is, in my humble judgment, an ample security for future good government, and which we, who supported it, ought never to forget, excited by its extent the incredulous ridicule of our opponents, and more than re alized the most sanguine expectations of our friends." Sir James adds, that he is anxious to reform every abuse and to remove every grievance. IRELAND-DUBLIN, DEC. 16. THE ELECTIONS. This day the Dublin Club met at the Corn Exchange (John Martin in the chair), and a warm debate took place re specting the propriety of returning Mr. Evans for the county in consequence of the part he took on the repeal question. Some of the Members were in favour of Lord Brabazon, but Mr. O'Connell appeared in the room and decided the point in favour of Mr. Evans, as a sufficient anti-Tory. ANTI-TORY ASSOCIATION. Mr. EVANS, M. P., was then called to the chai r , an d t h e meeting changed per saltum into the Anti-Tory Asso c i a ti on . . In consequence of the absence and of Mr. Edward Dwyer ( Secretary), his son, Mr. Francis Dwyer, was em ployedto act in his place. The CHAIRMAN proposed that Henry Arabi n , E sq., a nd Sir Charles Morgan, M. D., be admitted members. Mr. O'CONNELL proposed T. O'Meara, Esq. ; P. p ower , of Belview, county of Waterford, a new candidate for the re presentation of that county; Nicholas Joseph F renc h , o f t h e county of Roscommon ; Macauley, barrister ; Hewitt Bridge man, county of Clare ; two tithe-sufferers, as honorary mem bers—viz., Dominick P. Ronayne, of Youghal, popularly known in former years as " The Tollman's Terror," in Cork, Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford, and Kilkenny; also Jeremiah O'Romazny, both of whom were imprisoned on account of tithe resistance ; Sir R. Keane, M. P. for the county of Water ford, and James Talbot, M. P. for Athlone, whose signature to his letter was not sufficiently recognized on the last day. Mr. DOMINICK RONAYNE proposed Nicholas Mayer, of Tip perary. Mr. PRENDERGAST, editor of the Freeman's Journal, pro posed Ebenezer Shackleton, of Moone (a Quaker). All admitted of course. EENRY GRATTAN, M. P., contradicted the report that he was about to decline a contest for Meath, and stand for Longford. Mr. O'CoNNELL declared his belief that two-thirds of the Constituency of the county of Meath were embedied in the liberal club of that county, and that the British Treasury could not purchase their votes. Mr. D. RONAYNE, M.P., stated that no Candidate had yet appeared in Youghal against Mr. John O'Connell, though several were solicited. Mr. O'CONNELL could announce, that in Kerry the Liberal interest was combined for the support of Mr. Mullins and Mr. Morgan O'Connell. In Clare he heard threats of opposition to the present Members, but he was convinced that nothing would be attempted. FRANCIS MACNAMARA, M. P., retires from the borough of Ennis, and Mr. Hewitt Bridgeman will stand for it. There could be no doubt of his success if the Liberal constituency would vote honestly. He was grieved to say, that notwith standing the splendid and magnanimous example set by the Clare men in 1829, the venality in Ennis was frightful. In the county of Roscommon a contest was likely to arise. A Mr. Barton, (of the house of Sneyd, French, and Barton), had gone thither to organize an opposition to the sitting Members, O'Connor Don and Fitzstephcn French, whose anti-Tory prin ciples were :well known, and entitled them to the sympathy and support of this Association. The Liberal constituency had a decided majority in the county of Mayo, and he looked on the return► of Sir William Brabazon as certain. If Mr. Blake, of Ballinafad, would offer himself he was sure of being returned also; but Mr. Blake was a timid politician, and therefore the chalice of a second Anti- Tory being returned for this county was rather doubtful. Mr. CASSERLEY'S motion for the recall of Tom Steele to political life and agitation was referred to the standing Com mittee. Mr. O'CoNNELL spoke at length on the necessity of esta blishing the Anti-Tory rent, but forbore to explain the details, which were referred to the Committee. Colonel Hodges was then called to the chair, and the association adjourned to Saturday ; its next day of meeting being forestalled by the aggregate meeting, to take place in the Royal Exchange on Thursday. The following characteristic correspondence has lately taken place between M. Jules Janin, the well-known Paris theatrical writer, and M. de Chateaubriand. The former literateur was collecting charity for some most deserving ob jects, and amongst others to whom he applied in further ance of his purpose, was Chateaubriand, which be did as follows Have you got five francs remaining for a charitable object ?---Jules Janin." The reply was, " I have not more than five francs, but I have borrowed 15 of my porter, and I send it all to you, that the unhappy objects of your benevo lence may remember me in their prayers, and you in your pages.—Chateaubriand." WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 10. Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieut. H. M. Turner, from the 29th Regiment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Cosby, who ex changes, Dec. 19. 4th Dragoon Guards—Lieut. E. C. Hodge to be Captain, by purchase, vice Hope, who retires ; Cornet J. Macartney to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dodge; S. F. Dickson, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Macartney, Dec. 19. 10th Regiment of Light Dragoons--Lieut. Hon. P. Moreton to be Captain, by purchase, vice Molesworth, who retires, Dec. 19. Ist Regiment of Foot—Ens inn W. C. Sheppard to be Lieu tenant, without purchase, vice Hastings, deceased, Nov. 10. To be Ensigns—Ensign 11. J. Collins, from the half-pay of the sth Regiment of Foot, vice Byers, deceased, Dee. 18 ; Gentleman Cadet J. R. Heaton, from the Royal Military College, vice Kerr, deceased, Dec. 19. 3d Foot—Ensign B. Saver, from the half-pay of the 31st Regi ment of Foot, to be Ensign without purchase, vice Montgomery, cashiered by the sentence of a General Court-martial, Dec. 19. Bth Foot—Lieut. C. P. Trapaud, from the 71st Regiment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Cheney, who exchanges, Dec. 19. 9th Foot—Lieut. J. Donnelly to be Adjutant, vice Creagh, who resigns the Adjutantey only, July 1. 10th Foot—Gentlemen Cadet G. H. D'Oyly, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign without purchase, Dec. 19. I3th Foot—Paymaster H. Carew, from the l7thßegiment of Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Grimes, appointed to a Recruiting District, Dec. 19. 17th Foon—Lieut. J. barley to be Captain, by purchase, vice Moffatt, who retires; Ensign J. Erskine to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice barley ; S. H. Corry, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Erskine, Dec. 19. 23th Foot _Major C. French to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by pur chase, vice Hales, who retires ; Captain G. Browne to be Major, by purchase, vice French ; Lieutenant J. A. Whittaker to be Captain, by purchase, vice Browne ; Ensign S. J. C. Irving to be Lieutenant, by pnrchase, vice Whittaker ; C. H. Nicholetts, Gen tleman, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Irving, Dec. 19. 29th Foot—Lieut. H. Cosby, from the Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Turner, who exchanges, Doc. 19. 30th*Foot—Lieut. R. T. Forlong to be Captain, ty purchase, vice Atkinson, who retires, Dec. 9; Ensign A. J. H. Lumsden to be Lieuterass`, by purchase, vice Forlorg ; P. C. Cavan, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Lumsden, Dec. 12. 64,315 t Foot—Ensign C. Forest, from the 35th Regiment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Beatty, deceased, Dec. 19. 35th Foot—Gentleman Cadet the Hon. W. P. M. Talbot, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Forest, promoted in the 31st Regiment of Foot, Dec. 19. 40th Foot—Staff-Assistant-Surgeon H. Hadley, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Archibald, deceased, Dec. 19. 45th Foot.—Ensign G. E. Darby to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Rose, deceased; Gentleman Cadet T. R. Crawley, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Darby, Dec. 19. 49th Foot—Ensign G. F. Bartley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice J. R. Hart, who retires ; A. R. Shakespear, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bartley, Dec. 19. 59th Foot—Lieut. R. Beadle, from the half-pay of the 81st Re giment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Burn, promoted, Dec. 19. 69th Foot—Ensign C. J. Coote to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice French, who retires ; H. W. K. Gore, Gentleman, to be En sign, by purchase, vice Coote, Dec. 19. 71st Foot—Lieut. R. Cheney, from the Bth Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Trapaud, who exchanges, Dec. 19. 77th Foot—Captain L. Fyler, from the half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice G. F- Paschal, who exchanges, receiving the dif ference, Dec. 19. _ _ 84th . Foot—Lieut. J. Darcy, from the half-pay of the 88th Re giment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, ♦ice Plunkett, promoted, Dec. 19 86th Foot—Lieut. J. Holland to be Captain, without purchase. vice Bemworth, deceased, Oct. 31 ; Ensign J. Gilchrist to be Lieutenant, vice Holland, Oct. 31; R. F. Middlemore, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Gilchrist, Dec. 19. 93d Foot—Ensign R. E. Campbell to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Freestun, who retires ; R. M. Banner, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Campbell, Dec. 19. UNATTACHED. To be Captains, without purchase.—Lieutenant P. Plunkett, from the 84th Regiment of Foot; Lieutenant J. Burn, from the 59th Regiment of Foot, Dec_ 19._ HOSPITAL STAwF. To be Assistant-Surgeons to the Forces—Assistant-Surgeon E. APlver, from the 23d Regtiment of Foot, vice Tregance pro moted in the 30th Regiment of Foot; F. Bennett, 111. D., vice Hunt, deceased ; J. F. Murray, M.D. vice Hadley, appointed to the 40th Regiment of Foot, Dec. 19._ BREVET. Captain A. Hook, of the 41st Regiment of Foot, to be Major in the Army, July 22 ; Garrison Serjcant-Major G. Gladstone, Act ing Adjutant to the Cavalry Depot at Maidstone, to have the rank of Cornet while so employed, Dec. 19. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. WILE lAM BROWN, carpenter, Camberwell, Storey. HENRY WHEELER KING, attorney-at-law, Bristol. CHARLES CLARK, chemist, Stowey, Somersetshire. JAMES HARVEY, timber-merchant, Dartford, Kent. BANKRUPTS. THOMAS LANE, seedsman, Herefore, to surrender Dec. 31, and Jan. 30, at eleven, at the Sun Tavern, Hereford. Robinson, Queen-street -place, Upper Thamcs-street, London ; Pritchard, Hereford. — WILLIAM CASEY, victualler, Cow Cross-street, Dec. 30, at eleven, at two, Jar.. 30„ at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Gibson, Basinghall-strcet, official assignee; Spyer, Broad-street. JOSOPII WHITTEN, merchant, Liverpool, Jan. 2 and 30, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Chester, Staple-Inn, London ; Morecroft, Liverpool. THOMAS JOHNSON, surgeon, Petworth, Sussex, Jan. 2, at one, and Jan. 30, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bolden, Southampton-street, Bloomsbury; Green, King's Arms-yard, of ficial assignee. JOHN BUSBY CLARK, grocer, High-street, Shadwell, Jan. 5, at one, and Jan. 30, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bishop, Serjeants'-inn, Chancery-lane ; Bannan, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street, official assignee. JOHN KENDRICK, printseller, Sidney-alley, Leicester-square Dec. 23, at one, and Jan. 30, at eleven, at the Court of Bankrupt cy. Newbon, Great Carter-lade, Doctors' Commons ; Whitmore, Basinghall-rtreet, official assignee. GEORGE BEALE BROWN, EDMOND ROWE DAN SON, and CHARLES DUNCAN, merchants, New Broad-street, Dec. 29, and Jan. 30, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Willis, Watson, and Co., Tokenhouse-yard; Waithman, official assignee. JOSEPH CROSER, GEORGE WALKER, and JOHN CGCKRAM WALKER, ship-brokers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Jan. 9, at eleven, and Jan. 30, at one, a, the Bankrupt Commiss sion Room, Newcastle. SAMUEL TOMLINSON, corn-merchant, Liverpool, Dec. s, and Jan. 31, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Taylor, Roscoe, and Turner, Bedford-row ; Loundes and Robin son, Liverpool. STEPHEN JONES, booksellers, New Sarum, Wiltshire, Dec. 29, and Jan. 30 , at eleven, at the Ant e l o p e I nn , New Sarum. Sodding and Everett, Salisbury ; Hillier and Co., Raymond buildings, Gray's Inn. BANK OF An ACCOUNT of the LIABILI of ENOLA N I), on the Average of berg to the pith December, 18:4, h LIABILITIES. Circulation £18,3f14,000 curitics £1.'6,362,000 Dep7siti , ,NGLAND. LIES and ASSETS of the BANK if the Quarter, from the 23d Septem nclusive. ASSETS. £30,560,000 Bank of England, Dec. 18, 1834.: £33,082,000 THE ADMINISTRATION. The rumours to-day are, that the Duke of Buc cLEucll goes to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant, and that Lord LONDONDERRY will go to St. Petersburgh as Ambassador to Russia. The further Ministerial arrangements, we believe, are as follow : Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET is appointed Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests. The India Board is now complete. Lord ELLENBOROUGH, First Commissioner. The lion. Mr. SULLIVAN, Second Commissioner. Sir ALEX. GRANT, Third Commissioner. Mr. PLANTA, Fourth Commissioner. Sir JOHN BECKETT, Judge Advocate-General. Earl of HADDINGTON, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Mr. STUART WORTLEY, Under Secretary of State for the Colonies. Sir WM. RAE, Bart., Judge Advocate for Scot land. Lord EDWARD SOMERSET, Surveyor-General of Ordnance. Colonel PERCEVAL, Treasurer of Ordnance. Sir JAMES SCARLETT will probably be raised to the Peerage. A SAILOR'S WEDDING.—A tar, just returned from sea, met one of his female acquaintances. He was so overjoyed that he determined to marry her; 'out at the altar the parson demurred, as there was not cash enough between hem to pay the fees, upon which Jack offraed a few shillings, staying, " Never mind, brother, marry us as far as it will go. j SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Sir Robert Peel having ruined his Cabinet by the selection of its Members, and the dubious appearance of its policy, has published a manifesto in the form of an address "to the electors of the Borough of Tam worth ;" the Right Hon. Baronet having vacated his seat by the acceptance of the Premiership. This sin gular document, received by the Times at half-past three o'clock yesterday morning, before break of day, is the palpable production of a Diplomatist, " one veiled in affairs of state." A more despicable or con temptible effusion of party-cunning never met the pub lic eye. The Election Squib is precisely like Peel. It closely resembles his speeches and " Parliamentary Logic. This gesticulation and oratorical deception of his oral mode of imposition are well imitated in the specious and crafty sentences and subject-matter of his election address. In three words, it is a "Book of Fallacies." The political manifesto bears upon its face the character of political fraud. It is ad dressed to the electors of Tamworth ; it is intended for, and to deceive, the Constituencies of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Sir Robert Peel well knows that the half of Tamworth is " a family bo rough," the representation of which was as substan tially bequeathed to him by his father as the houses of his tenants in that town----that Tamworth, under an equitable and perfect system of Elective Rights, is no more entitled to send one member to Parliament than Gatton or Old Sarum of old—that in a few short years it will cease to enjoy such a gross monopoly of legisla tive power as the return and exclusive choice of two representatives—that Tory, Whig, or Radical, his chameleon changes of political colour would never affect his re-election at any hour or day in the year. Sir Robert Peel, therefore, has, in fact, addressed the Nation, in the disguise of an Elec tion Epistle to his Constituents of Tamworth. The great departed Jurist and detector of political counterfeits defines a fallacy as a term " to de signate any argument employed, or topic suggested for the purpose, or with a probability, of producing the eject of deception—of causing sonic erroneous opinion to be entertained by any person to whose mind such argument may have been presented." We will first call to the minds of our countrymen the cir cumstance under which this document, mean and dis graceful beyond all precedent, has been published. Sir robert Peel, endowed by nature with respectable powers of niLill, born in affluence, improved by aca demical education, and introduced by the purse of his father into political a d aristocratic society, was early advanced to office. His i'Cjislative infancy was cradled in rotten boroughs ; his origlial Tory preju dices were confirmed in the office of Irisii Secretary. Steeped in all the party-spirit of the Orange action of that distracted and cruelly governed country, Sr Robert Peel was, to the last moment, the ring-leader of the bigoted and destructive opposition to the Catho lic Question. In 1822, he succeeded Lord Sidmouth in the office of Secretary of State for the Home De partment, the duties of which he continued respect ably to discharge till 1827, when he quitted office on the advent of Mr. Canning to the Premiership. On the formation of the Duke of Wellington's Adminis tration he returned to the Home Department, and con tinued there till the accession of Earl Grey to power in 1830. During his long period of official career, he served under the worst Governments which ever disgraced the history of England. Sir Robert Peel, as a Minister, a Representative, and a Legislator, voted through " thick and thin" with those Ministries —lie naturally became an expert " Debater," uniting with great address much rhetorical skill and command of language. But. we defy his most devoted admirers to point out to us a single display which betrays any grasp of mind, any extensive acquaintance with any one important subject of legislation, or, in short, any powers beyond those of dexterous speech-making. We need not advert to the memorable circum stances of his ultimate abandonment of op position to the Catholic Claims. The relief of the Catholics from civil disabilities was forced on the Duke of Wellington ; and we admit tiiP merit, such as it is, to Sir Robert Peel, of yielding to the same imperative necessity of " pressure from without" —nay, we admired the spirit of his full surrender. The Tory party accuse him of the ruin of their cause by that remarkable defection from his principles ; but it was his obstinate opposition to, not his concession of, the Catholic claims, which destroyed his party. Failing to discern the growing power of the people— their invincible opposition to abuses in Church and State—and the inevitable triumph of Parliamentary Reform, the Duke of Wellington's Ministry, with Sir Robert Peel in its train, were hurled from power ; and it was reserved for the honour of the Whigs to ac complish the long-desired destruction of the borough system, and to substitute for it a much more amended, though still imperfect, Representation. We proved on Monday, by the citation of Sir R. Peel's own speeches on the English Reform Bill, that the Right Honourable Baronet clearly discerned the downfall of Toryism as consequent on Parliamentary Reform. If honest, he was the ignorant and bigoted opponent of the rights of the people ; if insincere in his opposition to the great measures of national regeneration in 1831-2, we cannot find words to characterize his culpability ; in either case he was equally the bitter enemy of the in• strument and objects of Parliamentary Reform. But we concede the sincerity of his opposition—that his objections to popular representation are still equally unsatisfied ; and we contend that his political prin ciples are—to use the language of his own address— " a sort of moral disqualification," which should and must ultimately preclude him, and all who think with him, " both now and for ever from entering into the official service of the Crown." Now, what are the circumstances under which the Right Honourable Baronet accepts office at this moment ? A House of Commons exists, elected under the new representa tive system, including more property, intelligence, and popular principle than was possessed by any legislative assembly in the history of this country. A Whig Ministry had enjoyed the confidence of the King—a Cabinet existed professing moderate, though popular, principles of policy in Church and State—the Commons had, by unprecedented majorities, approved that policy, and the only unpopularity of the Execu tive and Legislative Government arose from the mo deration and slowness of their acts of reformation of our social institutions. The Tory Peers, nevertheless, opposed themselves to the Ministers and the Com mons; the King has chosen, in the exercise of his Prerogative, to break up the Cabinet of Lord Mel bourne, and to nominate as Ministers the heads of the old Tory party. Is the Prerogative a trust—a respon sible authority in the King for the good of his people ; or is it a despotic and irresponsible power, to be exer cised in reference only to his personal opinions, or the prejudices of an hereditary aristocracy? In brief, are we to be ruled by the hereditary or representative principle of Government ? Such are the extraordinary cir cumstances, and such the crisis, of our present political situation. Sir Robert Peel, long reluctant to adventure on office—admitting indeed by his Address his almost utter exclusion from it—has been at last prevailed upon to pass the " wide gulf" between him self and Downing-street. How to work the present House of Commons, how to obtain a new one suitable to the purposes of the moment, is the puzzle to Sir Robert Peel and his clique of official Tories. He would fain make the trial, for the sake of his own per sonal character and his relief, with the present Parlia ment. He would be called upon to do nothing incon sistent, and after satisfying his sovereign and his party in the failure, he might then return to Italy. The spectre of " inconsistency" haunts his mind. He knows, if he is to govern by any Parliament, that he must wear the garb of a reformer, however inconvenient and profligate to adopt the principles and policy of the Liberals. Urged by his co-adjutors in office, he has at length put forth a declaration of opinions. If a reformer, he will be deserted by the honest Tories—if a half-and-half reformer, lie will be rejected by all parties—if an anti-Reformer, he well knows that he will fall a sacrifice to public opinion. For the temporary purpose, therefore, of deceiving and cajoling the electors of the United Kingdom, he as sumes the mask of a Conformer. Such is the specious countenance of his Address : what is its reality ? We denounce the imposition. To-day, we will only gene rally expose the fallacies of the Right Honourable, ariooth-faced, silver-tongued Baronet. We will here after consider his Address in detail, and show by hi former senatorial acts, why the Right Honourable Ba rone, and his Cabinet cannot and will not be the Re formers which they now speciously desire to be con „at...red throughout the country, previous to a general d ect i o ,;. First, Sir Robert Peel plumes himself on his rep v,± - ,ation as a Reformer, during the long political life of twenty years ; and he rests his claim on three grounds l s t , the active part he took in the question of the Currency ; 2dly, his labours for the consolidation and amendment of the Crimi nal law ; 3dly, the revisal of Jury system, and his " opinions professed and unifortKly acted on with regard to other branches of the jurisprudence of the country." Are these, indeed, all the proofs of his le gislative and ministerial merit ? Is Sir Robert Peel forgetful of the distinguished men who so long demon strated the evils of an incontrovertible currency ? Has he not been a mere surface Reformer of our jurispru dence ? 'We are ready to do full justice' to the merit of adopting and carrying salutary reforms, when the pub lic mind has been long prepared for them, and even has loudly demanded them ; and we could wish to in stitute no comparison between the great men, to whose ingenuity and devotion to the cause of humanity the - victory over prejudice and error is attributable, and the Statesman who steps forward at the twelfth hour to give effect to their views. It is not wise to deter public men from proposing reforms, by unduly de preciating their labours. But then the Judicial Re forms of Sir Robert Peel were trifling, compared with the extent of the admitted abuses. In his Crimi nal Law Reforms, the intention was more to be praised than the execution. The most beneficial of his Reforms—the improvement of the Jury system — had been a regular common-place for generations with all public writers ; and this Reform, like Catholic Emancipation, was only conceded, when public indig nation could no longer be restrained. To these few and miserable claims to eminence and confidence as a Statesman, does Sir Robert Peel, in 1834, gravely and ludicrously appeal as " a proof that he has not been disposed to acquiesce in acknowledged evils, either from the mere superstitious reverence to ancient usages, or from the dread of labour or responsibility in the application of a remedy." If such was his "dispo sition," what is the Hon. Baronet's condemnation for 20 years of bad votes on almost every important question, save only then: three Reforms ; what is the culpability of his °cations in specious de fence of every abuse of Church and State which the Reformers sought to reroedy ? And yet Sir Robert Peel impudently states that he never will admit that he has been " either before or after the Worm Bill, the defender of abuses, or the enemy of judicious reforms." What an exquisite idea of Reform. What a hopeful Reformer I We pass over, for the present, all the remaining preamble of his address, which is only so much " paper and pn az-thread," wherewith to wrap up his bad goods. Gravely - the Right Hon. Baronet assures the people that he wiii not attempt to repeal or injure the Reform Bills ! \Thal: must be his own appreciation of per sonal character with the country to render necessary such an extraordinary and ridiculous declaration ? Has he then associates! himself with men who imagine that they could reatijr effect such a revolutionary de sign ? We are then treated with some general hints, for the satisfaction of the Tories, such as respect for ancient rights, a• d dsfereiw! to prescriptiveauthority. But as " such declarations of general principle are necessarily vague," quoth the new .Premier, " I will en deavour to apply them practically to some of those questions which have, of late, attracted the greatest share of public interest and ,attention." Sir Robert Peel then comes to close quarters with the Reformers, and commences his most difficult but cun ningly-devised declarations of the pretended policy of his Cabinet. First, he says, that it is not his inten tion to revoke the Corporation Commiss.on ; nor to transfer the conduct of it from those to whom the late Government committed the inquiry. The Right Hon. Baronet would have the country suppose, for at time, that he is a Corporation Reformer ; he speciously di rects public attention to the fact that he was a Mem ber of the Common's Municipal Committee, in 1833, which originated the appointment of the Commission; he, however, cautiously limits his merit to the proof, implied, d belonging to this Committee, that "he was not unfrie;:dly to inquiry," a negative sort of ap probation of f n euiry, but no proof of his zeal . . or anxiety for Muntoyal Reform. He then ex pressly states, that 'he • will make no " pledge '" on this great subject ; btix simply undertakes to give the future Report of the Commis sioners, and the evidence on which it is founded, " a full and unprejudiced consideration." Does the new Premier really fancy that the country will suspect him of any sincere intention of reforming the corrupt and notorious Corporate Institutions of Eng land and Ireland ? Does he flatter himself that our generation has forgotten his many speeches in favour of rotten and nomination boroughs, the political ma chinery of which was worked in these Corporations? Has he himself forgotten his speeches on the subject of the Leicester Corporation and Mr. Otway Cave ? Is he not toasted and eulogized by the self-elected and Tory Corporators throughout the kingdom, as their last hope and political saviour ? If Sir Robert Peel intends to reform the Corporations, how will he satisfy the conscience of the Duke of 'Wellington ; by what sort of reformation will he cajole his Grace, who has so recently and gallantly declared its Parliament, " One observation it was desirable to utter. I doubt, much doubt, whether it would be expedient to establish a new municipal constitu tion on the Ten Pound Franchise. I consider such to be IMPRACTICABLE I" Thirdly, Sir Robert Peel, in the grossest ignorance of the principles and real grievances of the Dissenters, nevertheless attempts to cast " a tub to the whale" by promising them relief. He offers them the Church-rate Bill of Lord Grey's Cabinet—a measure repudiated with scorn and indig nation by the Dissenters, and withdrawn by Lord Althorp after the accession of Lord Melbourne to the Premiership. The equally unfortunate " Marriage. Bill" of Lord John Russell—which met with an un tirssely end—Sir Robert Peel calmly re-offers to the consideration of the Dissenters I He denies, in toto, the " e faim of right" of the Dissenters to admission in the E n glish Universities ; but with a saving clause, as though it applied to the University question, craftily intiissates that the regulations of oilier institutions, sush, we presume, as Inns of Court and Medical Corporations, so far as concerns de grees in Medicioe and Law, ought to undergo "modification;" he generally denies his " tin willingness to consic. 7 ..7 fairly the redress of any real grievances" of ties Dissenters. Was there ever a more expert phras.l-monger than the Right Honourable Baronet ? and 3oes he imagine that he can catch with such a bait that active and influential body ? The play of words will met succeed ; the Dis senting Deputies denounced the intended Ministry, while Sir R. Peel was on his road from Rome ; as men who understood not the principles of civil rights, and who had invariably opposed the concession of their demands. Jesuitism will not taLe them in. Fourthly, On Church Reform he says he will make "no new professions ;" and we arc sure that the country despises his old ones. The Premier dis tinctly asserts, that he will consent to no " alienation of Church Property in any part of the United King dom from strictly ecclesiastical purposes." He ad heres rigidly to his ancient opinions on the Church. Establishment in Ireland, and will limit his reforms simply to " an improved distribution of the reve nues' of that Church. On the subject of the much-hated and much-feared revelations of the MAI I Church Commission, the cautious Baronet is silent ; he may, or he may not, suppress that Inquiry. We ask Sir Robert Peel, " How is Ireland to be governed ?" Fifthly, On the Pension Lists he conveniently perches himself on the form of Lord Al thorp ; how long he can keep his footing on that sub ject, time will show. These constitute the sum total of the professions of the new Prime Minister, made after the peculiar manner of an experienced Diploma tist. It is mixed up with much conserve, to reconcile the pill to the swallow of the Tories. The Address, in short, means nothing ; or something ; or every thing ; just as it may serve the various versions of Candidates at the Hustings. It will be received with contempt by the Reformers ; we know that it is ridiculed at the Carlton Club. The Right Hon. Baronet craves " a