The Sun. — London, England, 1833-12-25 00:00:00

• L , •, scribed by tne law and by th eir Mil, wnicn imposes on them the obligation of expressing themselves with decency and moderation ; Considering, that so far from acting according to law, the above named Counsel, in a cause in which so much irritation has been shown, have set an ex ample to their clients of anger and outrage. Lastly, considering that repression is here so much the more necessary, inasmuch as these violent at tacks are directed against a Magistrate exposed to the hatred of parties, in consequence of the cou rage di , played by him in the performance of his ar duous duties, The Court prohibits M. Dupont, M. Pinart, and M. A. Michel, the exercise of their profession of Counsel. That is to say, M. Dupont for one year, and MM. Pinart and Michel for six months. THE FRENCH REPUBLICANS. SCENE IN A COURT OF LATV. The proceedings against the 27 members of the society of the " Rights of Man" were resumed on Thursday. It was the turn of the Crown lawyers to sum up the evidence which bad been produced in support of the prosecution. The Advocate-General accordingly, after having examined the nature and the tendency of the " So cietie," declared that in this society there were two parties—the one party was for dividing the pro perty of others, and for taking from others their pos sessions. At this moment a witness, named Vignerte, a member and even officer of the society in question, started up and exclaimed with great force and vio lence, addressing himself to the Advocate-General, " You lie, you miserable fellow ! " President—(His voice being drowned in the tu mult of cries and hisses, bravo and tumult)—" Let the person who has said this be conducted out of Court immediately." Vignerte—lt was I who said so—l, Vignerte ; and I repeat it—he lies. Many of the 27 accused cried out, " Bravo Vignerte ! He is right ! We think as he thinks! Accuse us if you will, but do not calumniate us. We do not want your property I Keep your pro perty." These declarations were received with three rounds of applause on the part of the witnesses and many individuals in Court. The members of the bar and the Jury stood on their benches. All sorts of cries and vociferation' were heard. The 27 ac- cused all stood up likewise on their forms, and the tumult was at its highest. The President for some time could not be heard At length, turning to the spot where Vignerte stood, he directed the officers to bring Vignerte the witness to the foot of the bench of Magistrates. Petit Jean cried out, " Let me also be taken there; I think as Vignerte does, and am proud to be an accomplice with him in such expressions." Vignerte and Petit Jean were then seized by the municipal guards and gens-d'armes, and brought before the bench of Magistrates. The President to Vignerte—ls it you who pro. nounced the words I have just heard ? Vignerte—Yes. Ile President—Your name and profession ? Vignerte—My name is John James Vignerte. I .;iFa barrister before the Government ruined me by its persecution?. President—Do you acknowledge that you inter rupted M. l'Avocat-General, saying to him, in a loud tone of voice, and addressing yourself to him, " It is a lie?" " Vignerte—l said, " You lie, mi.seruble fellow." President—What have you to say in your justi fication ? Vignerte—ldo not mean to justify myself. I belong to the Society of the Rights of and I am a member of the present committee. I was not bound to suffer that, to our faces, they should treat us as thieves. These calumnies revolted me. We know all of us how to work, and we do not desire to rob, or take the property of others. I defy them to cite one of our writings in which we profess the doctrines of the agrarian law. To say that we wish to divide property, is to lie to the noun try. The Court was again thrown imto a state of pro longed agitation, and nothing but cries of various sorts, all revolutionary in their character, could be heard. The Advocate-General then rose—He said that it was most sad for hint to have to explain views relative to this subject. But whilst his own feelings would induce him to be silent, his duty as a Magis trate and functionary imposed on him the necessity for speaking. He therefore rfquired that the penalty inflicted by the 223 d article of the penal code, on those who insulted the Judge or public officers, should be inflicted on Vignerte. Raspail—l demand to be allowed to defend Vignerte. Vignerte—l do not wish to be defended. I protest against making any defence. President—Allow Raspail to speak. Vignerte—No; I will not allow them to defend me beore you. You are not the judges of the country. You are nothing more than valets! a mere handful of salaried mercenaries, paid by a King who is the usurper of the rights of the people. Many of the accused shouted, " That's true ! that's true! Vignerte is right--we ought riot to acknowledge such men as you for our Judges." Parfait, the Republican poet, and one of the ac cused, exclaimed from the highest part of the tri bune, " Vignerte has told the truth. I declare that think as he does." M. Ra/spail—We pray the Court to have regard to the situation of Yignerte. For some days past he has been arrested. The expression of his senti ments has, it is true, violated the rules of Courts of Justice; but the insult addressed by the Advocate- General to the fraction of the Society of the Rights of Man to which he belongs, could not be listened to by him, as a man of honour, with sangfroid. Far from condemning Vignerte to any punishment, we demand of the Court that it will admonish the' Advocate• General to be more circumspect,and only to speak 'after or upon documentary evidence. M. Dupont—l do not rise to defend M. Vignerte, because be will not allow any one to defend him ; but I demand that no judgment be pronounced until after the pleadings shall be terminated, because it is our intention to prove that all those charges brought against the accused of ambition, love of pillage, Ike., are nothing but odious calumnies, and that in all the sections of the Society of the Rights of Man the agrarian law has been rejected. M. Raspail added, that if the Court should persist in pronouncing judgment immediately, all the 27 accused demanded to be condemned also, as fully partaking the sentiments of Vignerte. M. Vignerte—Quite the contrary. This affmir concerns me alone, and it ought not to fall on the prisoners. I declare that they knew nothing of this. The Judges then rose to deliberate what course they should take. M. Raspail—M. the President, I pray you to wait. I entreat you to delay the sentence. The President—Parfait, do you acknowledge that', you said just now " Vignerte is right. I think as he does?" Parfait --Yes. M. Michel (a Barrister)—Such a confession is of no importance. Perire volens non credilur. Before the Judges left the Court they again ap. peered to deliberate. Al. Dupont—l ls'tll anot h er e ff ort. I pray the Court to defer its deliberations until after the pleadings shall be terminated. At the end of five minutes the Court decided -Ist. That Vignette had insulted the Court. 2d. That Petit Jean had not insulted the Court publicly. 3d. That Parfait, as one of the accused, should not now be judged. And 4th. That Vignette should be imprisoned three years. All the twenty-seven accused rose up, and apos trophised the Court in a loud tone of voice. Most of them demanded that they might be allowed to share,.the fate of Vignerte. Hisses, hurrahs, wgtstlings, and all sorts of 'sounds, istere then heard The peace officers endeavoured to'restore silence, but in vain. At last, • Vignerte exclaimed, " Adieu, 11l le President ! You will be highly applauded this evening. They will shake you by the hand for this I" Vignette has since been sent to the " Force," and if a statement in the ntiona/ of this morning be true, he is now the associate of thieves and mur derers in that receptacle of the most vile and most abandoned. PRICES OF IRISH STOC' Bank Stock 2IIN, Consols, 3 oer cent Goy. Stock, 3% per cent 9 5 ,4 I . Ditto, New ........... „ 9N l per Cent Gov. Deb. 3; percent Sfi% Royal ( anal Stock Grand Canal Stock City Deb. 4 per cent. Ballast Office Deb. 4 D. c. - I 'ES, DUBLIN, DEC. 21. St. Patrick Insur.(perShare Royal Irish Ditto !National Ditto Patriotic Ditto Hibernian Bank 234, Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine Mining Co. of Ireland Commercial Buildings IiGE YESTERDAY. COURSE OF EXCH.& Amsterdam C.f.' 12 4 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam n U 12 4 Antwerp 12 6 Hamburg M.B. 13 12 Altona 13 19 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 55 Ditto 2 U. 25 80 Bordeaux °5 85 Berlin Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 151; Petersburgh, ruble, 3 Us. 10 Vienna, effective fl. 2 51. 9 56 Trieste do 9 57 Madrid 36!6 Cadiz 3711 Bilboa Barcelona 36 Seville 0, 6 Gibraltar 47 Leghorn 4B Genoa 2i 65 Milan 3l Venice 47 Naples . 4OM Palermo per oz. 122 Lisbon 'Oporto 5114 Rio Janeiro Bahia 3l Buenos Avres I)ublin 21 days' sight — Cork - BULLION, PER OZ. X. s. d. Portugal Gold, coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars Silvprbars. standard 0 4 1 HIGH WATEK AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Mornirw .. 34 minute. after 0. f Eveniniz... 3 minutes after 2. f-tw cAtttl LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECENIBER 25, 1833 We have received the Paris Papers of Monday, and a copy of the speech of the French King on the opening of the Chambers. Kings' speeches are generally mysterious docu ments, and we did not expect to receive any great enlightenment from that of the French King : we were not, however, prepared for any thing so mystifying as this production of the Ministers of LOUIS PHILIP. It is more than mystifying—it is false, and common tact has not been used to colour the falsehood. The speech commences by stating that " France is in the possession of the blessings of order and peace"—that " the effects of industry and labour every where obtain their reward," and that " the population, employed and tranquil, rely upon the stability of the institutions." The very next paragraph, however, states that " assiduous vigilance is still necessary," and that " insensate passions and criminal manoeuvres are striving to shake social order," Which of these averments is true ? If peace and order reign throughout France, where are the insensate passions and criminal manoeuvres? But supposing that the two facts can be reconciled, and that the state ment in the first paragraph of the speech be true, what must we think of the folly of the French Government in instituting the prosecution at one time of twenty-seven persons for a conspiracy to overturn that social order which Louts PHILIP declares to be firmly established throughout the country. If there are " insensate passions and criminal manoeuvres," why not let them (lie a natural death, seeing that they could do no harm if left to themselves. Why maintain the perse cuting spirit which must excite sympathy for the objects of the persecution, and at length make the situation of the persecutors as dangerous as it is odious ? We answer the question for Louis PHILIP. Like many men in other grades of society who have risen unexpectedly, he is ashamed of the honest causes which led to his elevation, and he endeavours, by turning his back upon former principles, to make the crowned aristocracy believe that although he owes his crown to the people, he is resolved to wear it as if it were his own property. After alluding with great brevity to the in creasing commercial prosperity of France, which, to our astonishment, the French King does not, as on a former occasion, ascribe solely to his own protecting influence, and expressing a hope that the new customs laws, into the spirit or character of which he gives us no insight, will prove agreeable, and then, proceeding in the hackneyed phrase to announce that he receives assurances of friendship from all foreign powers, Louts PHILIP favours us with the following mysterious paragraph : " The Ottoman Empire has been menaced by great perils. I have applied myself to press a pacification, which was called for at once by the interests of France and the general stability of order in Europe. I shall con tinue my efforts to insure their maintenance." To what perils does the King allude ? To the rebellious manifestations of the Pacha of EGYPT,:Or to the intrigues of Russia ? And what is the paccatioyt to which he alludes ? We are lost in admiration of the mystery. We did not expect an announcement of an armament against Russia, for that would have been un wise and premature ; but a paragraph so am biguous, so equivocal, as this we did not expect to meet with in a King's speech, notwith standing all our experience of the skill with which, in such :documents, attempts are made to appear very communicative, and, at the same time, to say nothing. The Speech alludes to the union with Great Britain and France in brief but proper terms. We sincerely hope that this union will continue; but in order that it may do so for the be- nefit of the two nations, Louis PHILIP must abandon his hostility to the Press, and his mad attempts to put down public opinion. The Peopl e of this country will hold no union with the French Government, whatever it may do with the people, it is to be conducted on arbitrary ;principles. For the union to be per feet therefore between the Governments, - there must either be an approach to the French system of persecution by our own Ministry, which they are too enlightened to attempt, or the French Ministry must govern more in ac cordance with English notions of political integrity. In another part of the Speech we find the following : " I have reason to hope that the promises contained in the Charter will be fulfilled in the course of the Session." What does this mean ? After three years of preparation, the KING says he has reason to hope that the promises contained in the Charter will be fulfilled in the present Session. To what promises does he allude ? There is Some thing, we believe, about the Press. New regula tions for that important organ are promised, and a projet of law is said to be already prepared for gagging it. We fear this is one of the promises to which the KING makes allusion He is quite willing to think of the Charter when it affords him a pretext for gratifying his hostility to the Press and his hatred of public liberty. To the last paragraph of the speech we invite particular attention. It says— it Let us complete our task, Gentlemen, that order, powerful and respected, be for the future preserved from every attack—let the efficacious protection of the national interests dissipate the last hopes of faction--and France, happy and free under the tutelary shelter of the GoTiern ment which it has founded, follow at length the course of her prosperity. Such is the wish the most dear to me. You will assist me in assuring its entire accomplishment." The tutelary Governmeni, ! What effrontery ! The Government which attempted to surround the capital with Bastiles—which has suborned evidence in State prosecutions—which has per secuted the press to an extent which will scarcely be credited in the future history of France— which, in spite of its declarations that order and tranquillity reigned in France, has just attempted to bring to the block twenty-seven persons, accused of being the chiefs of an extensive con spiracy to overturn social order—which has with unprecedented boldness and infamy demanded and obtained the suspension of three advocates, for having honestly and zealously defended these intended victims . .of power—a tutelary Govern ment !—We cannot find words to express our indignation at such audacity. No ! The Government of France is not a tutelary Government. If left to itself, it would destroy all that has the semblance of freedom. It would exceed in power, as it has done in intention, the acts of the bigotted and besotted Monarch who is now in exile. But, thank God, it has not the power to inflict vital injury. The persecuting spirit which characterizes it recoils upon itself. It may prosecute and pro secute, but there are juries to acquit, and a population to console and sympathize with those who are exposed to prosecution. In future no Ministry in France can trample on the rights of Frenchmen, for although they may- wear the external symbols of power, the real attributes of authority are in public opinion. Brussels Papers to the 22d, and Frankfort Papers to the 191 h inst., arrived this morning. The latter do not contain a paragraph worth noticing. The Brussels Papers, alluding to the fact of the Duke of NASSAU, one of the collaterals to whom the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg would come, if the family of Orange were extinct, having protested in the Diet at Frankfort against the cession of part of that province to Belgium, says, we now learn that France and our Government are making the most earnest efforts, with the most tempting offers, to the Prince, to induce him to withdraw his protest, but that he firmly refuses to desist. If any man were asked who is the public writer upon whose statements the least reliance is to be placed, and whose arguments, when he advances any, are most certain of meeting with a refutation from himself, the answer would at once be—Mr. COBBETT, the Member for Old. ham. We should, therefore, think it super fluous seriously to notice any position he might ;kink proper to advance, had we not, somewhat to our astonishment, found him taken up as an ally by some respectable portions of the Tory press. Truly misfortune makes us acquainted with strange bed-fellows, but to find the Tories absolutely taking up with COBBETT iS a sink ing of which we did not think them capable. AP, however, they have thought proper to adopt his arguments, upon a question of all others most interesting to them, because they fancy it touches their pockets, let us see what may be the value of those arguments. We allude to some speculations on the Corn Laws, in which Mr. COBBETT has lately been engaged, we presume, in anticipation of the assault which the people are, in all parts of the country, preparing to make upon them. The following notice by him of some of the arguments advanced by Mr. MORRISON, of Fife, contain an assertion which he has made more than once, and which seems mightily to have tickled the dunderheads in the country, who have been bold enough to say a word upon this, to them, dangerous subject " There is one point which has wholly escaped the attention of Mr. Morrison, and that is, the striking fact so often mentioned by me; namely, that though wheat 19 now as cheap as it was in 1792, the four pounds of best bread, which then sold for fivepence-h a lf penny , non, sells for eightpence•halfpenny. I should lik e to hear some one attempt to give an answer to this. These advocates for a repral of the Corn Bill seem to care nothing at all about that public•spi r it e d p ersons the price of bread. So that the wheat is l ow p r i ce d, so seemt t h o e oa landlords suffer, i about themselv es . O ne wou ld these and they never d tb ; e loaf. Now, it t t r h o i n o k ble th t b a e t i r t h h e o y ada ea a t bo w o ' t he t a b t o , n p o ri t oe br o e f a appears t o m e , that the rational course would he, to in quire how it comes to pass that the bread is so dear, when the wheat is so cheap?" To use some of the flowers of language dear to the Honourable Member for Oldham, this is all one big, bouncing lie. We do no mean to say that bread was not to be got in 1792 at 51d. the four-pound loaf, or that ,it s not now sold in parts of London at 8-1-d.; but what we do mean to say is, that it is not true that there is a difference of threepence in the general price of bread now and the gene ral price in 1792. That is Mr. COBBETT . S position, and he wishes by its means to turn at tention from the main object of throwing open the trade in food, to a fancied rise in the baker's profits, occasioned by increase of taxation. The assessed and other taxes have no more increased the rates of the baker's profits than they have the ratio of the tailor's, the haberdasher's, the iron monger's, or any other tradesman's. If such were the effect of taxation it would be difficult to point out the manner in which it is hurtful ; but, unfortunately, such is not its effect, as any shopkeeper he may condescend to consult will tell Mr. COBBETT. The deception of which Mr. COBBETT has been guilty consists in having taken an extremely low price at which, in one particular part of the country, or by some parti cular baker, bread was sold at flid. the four pound loaf in 1792, and comparing it with the highest, or almost the highest, London price of 1833. Now how do the facts, fairly viewed, stand ? A Scotch paper, referring to the high price at which bread was sold by the bakers of a particular district (Elgin), took the pains to make the following collection of the prices of bread in different parts of the kingdom. Price of bread per quartern loaf of 4 lint:— In London Edinburgh.. 7ll. Glasgow 7(1. Aberdeen 7d. Paisley 741. Perth 741. Taunton sid. Several other places in England, Elgin 9d. According to Mr. COBBETT, the baker at Elgin charges nine-pence because of the taxes he has to pay ! Now, even taking the above list as it stands, Mr. COBBETT will see that even his low price in 1792 is met by one equally low in 1833, but we will add that any one who will take the trouble to look about him as he walks through many of the streets of London ,we do not mean Pall-mall, or St. James's Street, for we suppose the baker's charges are there in proportion to the tailor's, or as any other tradesman's must be who wants such situations) will perceive numerous bakers sell ing the best bread at 6d., 6-id. and 7d. the four pound loaf. The average price of wheat for the week ending 6th of December, 1833, was according to the returns of the inspectors in the different cities and towns in England and Wales, 495. 8(1. per quarter. Taking the aggre gate average of the six preceding weeks, the price was more than a shilling higher, but that would be still more against COBBETT'S argu ment. Such is the state of facts in December, 1833. Let us now turn to December, 1792 We find, upon reference to the market lists of that year, that the average price of wheat for England and Wales was found on the 21st of December to be 495. 2d., within a trifle_ of the price we have quoted above. But what was the price of bread by this same list ? Fivepence halfpenny, as Mr. COBBETT unblushingly asserts ? Not at all, but seven pence one farthing the quartern loaf, in other words, as near to the average price at present as can be- So much for Mr. COBBETT'S facts, which " he should like to hear some one give an answer to.'' The argument he founds upon his assertions is quite beside the question, and need not, there fore, be noticed ; but the facts we have adduced will, it is to be hoped, be sufficient to remind those inclined to quote his writings, that every word he puts down is not to be taken fur absolute gospel. The trial of the 27 conspirators, as they are called, has terminated, as we were sure it would, in an acquittal. The French Govern ment, in the rage of disappointment, gave in structions to the Advocate-General to apply for the suspension of three of the advocates—M. DUPONT, M. PINART, and M. MicHEL— on the ground of their having exceeded the la- titude allowed to the counsel of the accused. The Court, to its infinite discredit, complied with the application. We refer to a report of the trial in another part of this day's Sun for the particulars. ILA another column will be found a report o the proceedings of a meeting at Glasgow to esta blish an Anti-Corn Law Society in that town. The LORD PROVOST presided at it, and Mr. OSWALD, one of the Members for the borough, took the lead in moving the necessary resolu- tions. This is as it should be. The Glasgow people have dune themselves honour, and set an example which, we trust, will be followed -throughout the kingdom. They and their re presentatives see clearly, and feel strongly, the enormous evils of a restricted commerce in food and resolve, like men of sense, to make an exer tion which shall rid themselves and their posterity of a law which nothing but the most ignorant selfishness, the most grinding tyranny, could have devised. The Glasgow Argus, from which we take the account of the proceedings, in the com ments it makes upon them, suggests that there is no need to fix a maximum to the contribu tions. We quite agree in this suggestion. There can be no reason for placing a limit to a man' s desire to forward a good object. The one commonly assigned, that the subscription of large sums prevents small subscribers coming forward, cannot, we should think, apply in the present case, for if the matter be properly con ducted, the vast mass of the subscribers will certainly be among the labouring classes, who, every time they want work, feel that were it not for the landlord's law to prevent them, they migh t be making something which could be exchanged abroad for food. We are glad, however, to see a beginning made in a town of such wealth and importance as Glasgow. Any mistakes in the details of management can be easily corrected as they proceed. FRENCH PAPERS. OPENING OF THE SESSION. The extremely unfavourable state of the weather this morning rendered the crowd assem bled to witness the royal procession from the Tuileries to the Chamber of Deputies, on the occasion of the opening of the legislative session, much less numerous than upon former occasions, but the spectators in the windows and other places which afforded a shelter to the curious, and commanded a view of the cortege, were in consequence more crowded than we recollect to have seen them. The passage for the procession was, as usual, lined by detachments of National Guards and troops of the line. Her Majesty and the Princesses, with their suites, and escorted as on similar occasions, left the palace in the royal carriages a short time previous to the departure of the King, who quitted the Tuileries at one o'clock, surrounded by a numerous staff. His Majesty, owing to the inclemency of the weather, went in a carriage. He was received with cries of " Vive le Roi !" which were fre quently repeated by the crowds during his pas sage to the Chamber. The appearance of the interior of the Chamber was similar to that of last year. The place on ordinary occasions occupied by the President's chair and the orators' tribune was converted into a raised platform, upon which were placed an arm-chair and three pliants richly ornamented with crimson velvet and gold lace, destined for the King and the Dukes of Orleans, Nemours, and J oinville. In front of the platform were ranged on a flight of steps several benches covered with common velvet, for the Ministers, the Marshals, and Admirals of France, and the members of the Council of State. The only addition to the decorations of the Chamber made since last session consists in two bas-reliefs, inserted in the wall behind the place occupied by the President's chair, and two statutes, one representing Liberty, and the other Public Order, fixed in niches'over the bas-reliefs; one of the latter represents Louis Philip con fiding the tricoloured standard to the National Guard. The other (still only a cast in plaster) exhibits the Duke of Orleans receiving at the Palais Royal, in August, 1830, a commission of the Chamber of Deputies with the new charter. The tribunes to which the public are ad mitted were chiefly filled by ladies in elegant morning costume. At one o'clock the cannon of the Invalides being heard, announcing the King's departure from the Tuileries, the corps diplomatique entered the tribune reserved for them, and in a few minutes after, the Queen, accompanied by 'Madame Adelaide and the younger branches of the Royal Family, made their appearance. All the Ministers, in grand costume, several Marshals and Admirals, and a deputation of twelve Members of the Council of State, were present. The attendance of Peers and Deputies was numerous, there being about 100 of the former, and 300 of the latter, pre sent. At 25 minutes past 1 o'clock the King, accompanied by the Dukes of Orleans and Nemours, and the Prince de Joinville, entered the Chamber, and took his seat on the royal estrade, amidst repeated cries of " Vice le Roi." When these had ceased the King read the fol lowing speech in a firm and distinct voice : THE KING'S SPEECH. Peers and Deputies—Gentlemen. " The tranquillity of France has not been disturbed since your last session. It is in the enjoyment of the blessings of order and peace. Throughout the country industry and labour meet with their reward. The population, occupied and peaceful, feels assured of the stability of our institutions, of my fidelity in watching over them, and the public security is the pledge of national prosperity. " It was by guaranteeing our rights, protecting our interests, and by the equity and moderation of our policy, that we have obtained these happy re sults. " In order to render them lasting, we shall per severe with energy and patience in the same sys tem. An unceasing vigilance is still necessary; insensate passions and culpable manoeuvres are at work to undermine the foundations of social order. We will oppose to them your loyal concurrence, the firmness of the magistrates, the activity of the admi nistration, the courage and patriotism of the National Guard and of the army; the wisdom of the nation, enlightened as to the danger of the allusions which those who ettack liberty, in pretending to defend it, seek still to propogate,and weshall insure the triumo of constitutional order and our progress in civi lization. It is thus, gentlemen, that we shall at length put an end to revolution, and that we shall fulfil the wishes of France. I thank her for the support she has given me; I thank her for the tokens of confidence and affection with which she has surrounded me. I received them with emotion in such of the provinces as I have been able to visit, and I render thanks to Providence for the blessings which our country already enjoys, and for those which the future promises. " You will also second me, gentlemen, in my en• deavours to protect the increase of our nationa ..... wealth, in opening to our commerce and industry new sources of prosperity, and in spreading comfort, combined with labour, throughout all classes of the population. I hope that the new law of customs, while it evinces the progress of our industry, will reconcile the protection which is due to it with those prin ciples of prudent freedom which enlightened go vernments are disposed to admit. " Popular instruction has received, thanks to your concurrence, a salutary impulse. " The finance laws, and these which the execu tion of treaties requires, will be speedily presented to you. The public revenue improves, and every thing promises that it will continue to follow the ascending movement of our prosperity. " Several projects of law, some of which have been already presented to you, will be submitted to your deliberation again. I have reason to hope that the promises of the Charter will be accomplished in the course of this session. t ionslvia'im happy thall the to Powers, announce d to t he you as s u t hat ra nce our s ela that r I receive from them as to their dispositions, leave no doubt as to the maintenance of the general peace. " The Peninsula has become the theatre of im portant thetablisheG m d o i v n et L m isb e o n n t , olf renewed Queen wedour M d po ip a‘r l rt o ajAa m ntsl a l t e i vs c oew r on e art l ss a . tions with Portugal. " In Spain, the death of the King, Ferdinand VII., has called the Princess, his daughter, to the throne. I hastened to acknowledge the Queen Isabella 11., hoping that such prompt acknowledgment, and the relations it established between my Government and the Queen Regent, would contribute to pre serve Spain from the convulsions with which she was threatened. Already tranquillity is beginning to be restored to the provinces in which rebellion has broken out. The corps d'arnzec which I have ordered to be formed at all events protects our frontiers. " Continuing to be intimately united with Great Britain, we have every reason to hope that the dif ficulties which still retard the conclusion of a defini- tive treaty between the King of the Belgians and the King of the Netherlands will compromise nei ther the great interests of Belgium nor the tian quillity of Europe. . _ " Switzeilana has been momentarily disturbed by dissensions, which the prudent firmness of her Go vernment in a short time put down. I hastened to lender the ;ervices that she had a right to el from a faithful and disinterested ally. " The Ottoman empire has been threateued great perils. I was anxious to hasten a pacific ic o l , at once called for by the interests of France , tr the stability o f E uropean or d er. I s h a ll colit' l. my efforts to insure its preservation. d p " The events w hi c h I h ave j ust mentiove especially the situation of the Peninsula, hall ,j ) tiered it my duty to maintain the army up° footing required by the safety of the state: ,ii " Let us cons ummate our wor k , gentlenie9'4 order, pow er f u l an d respecte d , b e hencefortbfro tered from all att ac k ; —l et the efficacious pre ,v el t of the nation a l i n t erests di ss i pate t h e last 10,Pth the factious, an d F rance , h appy an d free un(le'llt' tutelary shield of the Government which sh e founded, will a t l engt h pursue, without obgt , course of prosperity. This is my most wish, and you will assist in securing its entire complishment." We have not room to-day for extracts, ll the Paris p a p ers o f M on d ay , b ut their ear are not important. JOILIRNALC) The Monileur contains a Royal Ordonnanc ili t plating th e G overnment l ianas or stu d s, and 0101 ing annual premiums for stallions, mares, and of a race and quality which are likely to improvt breed of horses in France. The Temps contains the following :—" A schism has arisen among the exiles At Pragil e the subject of the education of the Duke of ' Ol deaux. In thi s sma ll C ourt t h ere are two di°t4 parties —one, compose d o f Ch ar l es X., the D o c 1 of Angouleme, and M. de Blacas; and the othe r 'i the agents of the Duchess of Berry. The flu Angouleme, though belonging to the first paetY l ; 4 mains mute. The party of Charles X.,,thoogil l torious in th e di sm i ssal of M. de Barande, feated in re-pect of the appointment of two revel Jesuits. M. de Damas has retired, leaving, pupil in the hands of M. de Fraysinous and GO,' Hautpoul. Th e party of Charles X. h a d n o r repugnance to accepting M. de Fraysinous, why known to be no very violent enemy. to the Jemi l and General Hautpoul, a man of mediocre, fibre, is th e h um bl e servant o f the Duke Y Duchess of Angouleme. But there was a not: personage with the young Prince, an soldier, full of frankness and honour, who latif at the mass and ridicules the Jesuits, lq.„ Lavillate, w h om t h e party o f Charles X. der should be sent away, and that if the Duchene Berry had not sufficient influence to retain, sod , has be e n o bli ge d to qu i t P rague. Immediately Cr' of rage rose in every corner of France occupied legitimatists, and AI. de Blacas, who is said to b i been the advi ser o f t hi s measure, i s outlawed. ‘i hope, however, remains, and that is derived if ° the approaching residence of the Duchess of P! at Prague. I n t h e mean t i me the Duchess " hired a mansion at Gratz for six months." We extract the following from the Men: o Bordelais of the 20th :—" Our accounts from I frontier are nearly a nullity. They mention e,.,° 1 slight and un i m p ortant s ki rm i s h es b etween the ti,i! lists of Guipusco a an d t h e co l umns o f General LI tagnon and El P astor . G enera l Valdez, hao matured his plans, is on the point of setting 0 1 , 1 pursuit of th ese b an d s , reso l v i ng to act wit h : utmost vigour. The entrance of General S a ar§ l4 into Pampel t m a w i t h 3 , 000 men i s announced, ,1 The A;tgsburg Gazette of the 19th instant following extract of a private letter from Frl' h i i fort, dated the 15 t h :—" O ur Legislative Assell' 4 ", / held two sitti ngs yester d ay, t h e fi rst lasted Po' hours; the second, which began at live o'clock t; the afternoon, was p ro l onge d f ar i nto the the Assembly is anxious to get through the plicity of affairs submitted to it this year before 1 4, recess, that it may have full time afterwards deliberate on the Bills proposed by the Senate' 4 This paper cont a i ns a l so t h e f o ll ow i ng from Vier 1111( dated the 12 t h i nstant :—" C our i ers are constaelt) going and coming from St. Petersburgh, Paris,a p: Constantinopl e . Th e a ff a i rs o f t h e E ast.d i v id e t to . attention of our Cabinet with those of Spain. anothtr week most of the Envoys to the Congo': will have arrived, and it will then be opened imni` diately. The publi c i s natura ll y much at variati.JP resp ect i ng i ts resu l ts. T he funds are toleraP'4 high, as they are regu l ate d by the French fun° In Paris there must be sanguine hopes of rid' minating the present complicated affairs 4, Europe by p ac ifi c arrangements. The rre mail between this c ity an d C onstant i nop l e st ud on the 16th, and will continue to do so four tired a month. It s eems now pos i t i ve l y i ntende d 1 , improve the roads in Turkey ; a company of wealth/ individuals have formed a plan for making a ne,, °' road from Bel g r a d e t o C onstant i nop l e. T h i s m ur be attended with m an y difficulties in a c oun t r y 1 ; want of the first elements of cultivation, and whet' the localities are so little calculated for such an 11 6 : dertaking." The Gazette contains the following from Samos, dated the 11th ult.:—" The Freno,, ship, Ville d e M arse ill e sa il e d h ence to-day, veil', the three Commiss ar i es o f t h e Alli e d Powers, 004) Vigoridis, sou of the Commander of Samos, 0 board. The Samians, now governed by L ogo tbetio and the other chieftains, have rejected all the pro' positions made to them. The party that wishes fat peace and order is, still in majority, but dare not avow it, for fear of those by whom they are a t pre' sent governed." This Journal quotes the Funds at Vienna on the 14. h, :‘le:alliques, Five per Cents., 94 31,32; auo, Four per Cents., 85 ; Bank Actions, 1,22 1 The Berlin State Gazelle of the 17th instant,ae' flounces the arrival in that city of Count Portale6 President of the Council at Neufchatel. Under the date of St. Petersburgh, December 7, it has lb. following : " The Turkish Ambassador to our Court, Achmed Pacha, has arrived here with $ numerous suite. Ice began to float on the Never, in the ni g ht o f th e 30 t h u l t ., an d the b r i dge o r boats was driven to the banks; for a few days, communications between the two parts of the cAI were interrupted. They were renewed the (14 before yesterday by means of a passage over the ice." The Gazette quotes Prussian Four per Cents., 97. i 964; ditto Five per Cents. (1822)i English Loan, 103 i. RFENCH FUNDS.—Pmus, DEC. 23. Five per Cents., 103 f. 75c. 66e."85c. Four and a Half per Cents, 99f. 90c. Four per Cents., 90f. 50c. Three per Cents., 75f. sc. 75f. National Loan, 103 f. Me. Bank Actions, 1,737 f 59e. Bente de Naples, 91f. 90f. 80c. 8.5 C. Roman Five per Cents., 9171 3 , ltente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., Re Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 44 1 4 %X. Royal Spanish Loan, El 6. Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., al 69}. Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cent., 96%. Haytian Loan, 280 f. 290 f. 295 f. ExcuamiE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 30c. ' • money, —f. —c. Three months, paper, '2sf. 20c.; money, —f. —fours Authentiauc. Note.—The Advocate-General had previously made sons• remarks on an expression of M. Dupont to this effect, in r."' ference to the supposed falsification of the act of accusation Formerly the Laubardemonts merely interpreted documents, but they did not falsify them." Some decline took pl ace thi s a f terno on in the rate of the foreign exch anges , not i n it se lf o f any mom en t, but a further fall s e ems t o b e an ti c i pate d by those who ar e considered judges of these matters. The prognostic may fail, as it has done heretofore, or it may only prove true to an extent perfectly immaterial; but as a symptom of the state of the money-market, as well as of the state of tride generally, the subject is always worthy of attention. By the last regular advices from Hamburg Mint price of Si. 17s. 101 - Per oun ce f or stan d a rd the price of gold i s 432 per mark, which, at the English go!d, gives an exchange 01 13 8, 2 and the exchange at Hamburg on London at abort being 13 7i, it fol lows that gold is 11-32 per cent. dearer at Hamburg t hin in London. Th e p re mium on gold at Paris is 101- per mine, winch, at the English Mint price 034 17a. Wid. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 41, and the exchange at Paris on 1, ,, nd0n at short being 5 SO, it follows that gold is 11-2 k per cent. dearer at patio than in London. +e .1#0?L , Althou in the Ci gentlemer Houses. to be paci operates Quebec to the as South Ar The ar the last I vessels ; October ft comps 117 arril this port the prey 2,714, a has resu cessantly, was bra After tinned yt ttind is a The I news. ' last. Letter Russia is paratium Repor trotinded trate int 13urioit him onl) persons Then for that 1. order an the ince The 1 from Ba Royal Admi tht Han terday. Sir N with tin It mt Princes. her Ro) trious r Theis Duke o deley, t Lichten Mitchel suite it nine til Nam jesties Leach, Pringle Hie for the to the Hon. C ditto; ditto; from ( from d lion. 1 the Do Colone ton Pal from C Mr. at St. Jai Bymnu cashirt street, seat, it Dover, from I tiorfol shall vey an Messri burgh Esq., Thus just price Their I place the nUM Up N hunj was by Mac revo strit chaff . Beni Cap Mac Esq env rner ell mos marl