The Sun. — London, England, 1830-12-25 00:00:00

i l thritY, 'We may say, by crying " Order ! " " Li " and thus obliged both the detachments of As National Guards and the workmen themselves Ilefollow them. The Ecole Polytechnique, the me it eiti students, as also those studying the law, tut feud the populous quarters of Paris which were oat agitated, calming and fortifying the National L tieord on the one hand, and on the other endeavour eg to excite feelings of generosity and respect for the Si ti . The effect of this youthful interruption was teally miraculous. The people followed the young :men, repeating with them the cries of " Liberty !" ;"Public order!" And after thus promenading Idering two or three hours, the crowd retired, as itenished at finding that its sanguinary dispositions Iliad entirely subsided. In the course of the evening the King left the iPslais Royal, and accompanied a detachment of the Notional Guard on horseback. He was everywhere gieeted by the cries of " Vire le Roi We may now affirm that the glorious and power- N population of Paris are closely united by the !Wide of mutual affection. The sentence of the Peers has been ratified by the people. The revolu- I don of - July has shown itself' to be indulgent after *tory, and nobody can say that it has been forced ladulgences, for not a single drop of blood has beets spilled toxnure, respect to the laws ; and the 'Notional Guard, which guaranteed the liberty of the tribunal--our young men who have intervened in a so highly honourable to themselves,—and, in people, who have listened so easily to per leasiatt) are all entitled to a share in this great act hational moderation. We no not think, that it is the sentence itself Welt was defended by the National Guards ; and, Weed, when two hours before it was pronounced, a tumour prevailed that two of the Ex-Ministers itera condemed to death, it was evident that a ireerer sentence would have been more agreeable to _the public in general. But, in our opinion, the Court of Peers would have been dishonoured by !Petlerening theEx-Ministers to death ; and we es teem our sentiment with the same candour which ggi‘i ahvays guided us during the course of the trial. The E x - Ministers certainly deserved that p enalt y . quite as much us those who suffered under the res ,loMtion—victime of pretended conspiracies; but as tht members of the noble tribunal were almost all Political friends of the Ex-Ministers, they could not PRl4eitn them to death without going against every principle of their consciences,--National. (From a Correspondent of the Times.) -' -.' ' -PRIVATE. CORRESPONDENCE. P*azs, TIIVItSDAY, 'MID-DAY.—llaving in my iwe'previous letters described to you the state of katit - this week, and conveyed to you the serious .Ipprefiensions of the great bulk of the inhabitants 4or the preiervation of public tranquillity, I now hasten to inform you, by express, that these fears ' have been dissipated ; and that the view which I had taken myself that these tumults would yield before any prompt movement of the authorities, has been realized. Last night, soon after candle-light, the streets * avers, as usual, thronged, the populace noisy, anti is bad humour, the National Guards and regiments of the . line every where strongly posted, and the ut most apprehensions expressed by the public for the peace of the metropolis through the night. The King, however, put an end to all these ap prehensioniby a coup d'ciat of his own. Ile went forth instantly from his Palace, accompanied by his second son, the Duke de Nemours, and threw him :1111f at once in the crowded streets among the , ilieopli;ind' this appeal to their amour propre had 'it once the desired effect, and his enthusiastic re `teeption equalled the poet's description of that of sour Duke of Monmouth in:Devonshire ; but with Snore chances, I trust, of a successful result. „ ' At l night-fall, as I have already mentioned, the ~crowds rather increased, as was expected, and the :I§lstionel Guards had difliculties which, amongst •.,,, !ells disciplined men, might have led to serious con :: mlnetties, ' in keeping the streets clear in the neigh :`,.bourhood of the Wahl Royal and the Tuileries. :The Rue St. -11onore, at five o'clock, contained a ' dense ' snaso : , ;,.:. Of , people,, crying " Death to : ',Poligtrao 1" •••iind at-0m0....t.ime it looked as if the Quayle must have charged bayonets to tlpen a corn -1 Aunication. Through the extreme self-possession l'. of the officer in command, this extremity was not a.. resorted to, and a passage for the corps was found without more violence than the upsetting of a few persons who evinced a refractory spirit. In the whole line of streets from the place Ven .dome to the Place des Victoires, the instant night set in, the houses were, up to the third floor in some of them, illuminated, so that no advantage could have been derived by rioters from the destruction of the • lamps, and, in this direction, I did not see one iliMp broken. An hour later in the evening, the appearance of the city was singularly picturesque, the ballustrades of the Tuileries, Louvre, and Palais Royal were closed, and each of these strong posts was filled by I.; regiments of the line, and National Guards of all Corp‘; the night was wet, cold, and tempestuous, '; and the troops early and every where lighted their ivouack fires upon the damp ground. The smo thering volumes of smoke which arose from piles Of cradling wood; the showers of spaiks con : itantly emitted, as they stirred the burning embers with their bayonets ; the reflection of the fl ames upon th e bristling arms, and contrasted uniforms of the many regiments, cavalry and infantry, enclosed lit squares and circles to imbibe the warmth of these Wittehfites, and the light thus shed upon the sur roueding houses, tinder the opaque and dense canopy • of a dark sky, presented the most extraordinary spectacle I ever witnessed ; it was not that of a town actually taken by storm, but it looked not un [ ' like that of ono so taken when the pillage was over. 1 • In the Palms Royal, as usual, at eight o ' clock, the I regiments of th e line commenced chatinting the I ' Parisian hymn, with, of course, the dissonant chorus i ° f the mob, who were pent up in the side walks lrithout th e iron railings. In the midst of the se k . Vocal performances, around some of the biveua ck i :: fi res in the %yet court of the Palais R o y al, the ~ Soldiers dispersed themselves in dancing circles, and thus they went on, singing and prancing like Indians Itt.a festival of the desert. While this strange exhibition of military pastimes WWI relieving the incommoding pressure of a wet ~, night, shout s of 4 ‘ Long live sit e King," were at nine o'clock heard from the soldiers immediately under the wi n d ows o f th e R o yal apartments. The King and his sons appeared then on the balcony ',. with 4 train of servants anti flambeaus, and bowed to the noisy throng of his subjects, who had been ~. Mlles v e l afening di him just before with their gambols. His :-. Y et' descended into the front and rear tourts of his Palace, and conversed and mingled With the people. The shouts of " Viva le Roi" were now tr e m en d ous , an d i f t h e population of the alal! Roy a l fairly represent the opinion of France, h , . ° king in Entope has a more devoted race of sub- Jetts then Philip the First. ~ Allu re d, I Presume, by this enthusiastic recep tbr, or perhaps impelled by his own frank and off . , of ° l demeanour, the King called for the cavalry oa ' ur ~:Nati onal Guard, who were in atteedance, . what were certainly as fine a body of teen as I ' 4 e v er itn. 'LW, and placing himself at their head, accom panied te4 bY his younger son, the Duke of Nemours, it . rode forth into the streets of Paris, to execute w,n_ l4 •l have called his own coup if dal. The trum kts sounde4 a Royal flourish, and the officers in o r* among whom were several of the Marshals of eromney* as they rude into the rue des Petits Champs, 0 la. the rue Valois, in clearing the Palais Royal, lim e d "red. `.' The King is behind us, in the cloak ' w i th Tth"lit his hat;. the Duke of Nemours rides th e ~,,/ , ,e , ' , The people who lined the streets, cheered i — i,"' wilily, with enthusiasm. " Long live the 1 J " Lon g live the National Guard, " was the the : 1 "1"! crY, and the burst of enthusiasm along -- " 3 'clitie of the streets through which the King pissertfo ' 4114 ist.,,, r.= OW ' *. . 4 wo lours was' tre mendously decisive of ' 'I A s Y 8 personal i nfluence. the ItreB L B were every what strongly picketed by the different corps of the National Guard, the drums beat up at all corners as the King passed; the Polytechnic scholars, and the students of the different universities of Paris, each class wearing in their hats the cards of their respective classes, joined the parading corps of the National Guards, and determined, by a demonstration which could not be mistaken, to wipe off the scandalous imputation some malcontents had been for the last two days passing upon them,—that they were leagued with counter-revolutionary bands. These young men every where shouted, " Long live the King; liberty and public order." The King seemed, as indeed well he might, to be delighted at his reception. In the willow streets he was closely pent by the people, with many of whom he shook hands, and familiarly conversed, and from all of whom, as far as I observed, he received proofs of warm attachment. If Paris be, as some will tell you, the focus of conspiracies at this mo ment against the dynasty of Philip 1,, the passage of the King through every street, and in the dead of night, afforded abundant opportunities to these con spirators to execute their purpose, and veil the new throne in mourning; but no hand was raised except to pay him homage; no voice was beard except in his applause. '1 he night, us I have mentioned, was wet and tempestuous. The King, though wrapped in a loose cloak, held his hat in his hand through this street of perambulation for two hours, and in no single instance was an obnoxious phrase ever heard by the royal ear, although an hour before the ear resounded with phrases, which insulted the kingly authority. The moment this procession was over, the people everywhere exclaimed, " The counter movement is now over; tranquillity is restored." The extracts which ,I subjoin from this day's Paris papers will convey to you further particulars of the state 'of opinions and occurrences in this great city. I ought th tell'yetrat once, from information upon which I can rely, that Paris was, in point of fact, for the last week the great centre of conspiracies. There have been always, for the last 30 years, in this city, hosts of people, police•agents, gam- blers, young men of broken fortunes, who have used every passing grievance to create a tumult. Such a revolution as the last—such a process so bungled and mismanaged throughout as that of the late trial, could not fail to furnish the elements of combustion to all fire-worshippers ; they, as is ever the case, con trived to mix up with their classes the young, the giddy, and the impatiently well-principled people, ' who look at the work of politics, like that of anchor forging, and expect that metal, once in the furnace, must be hammered into shape and form at the first heat. It may be also stated, now that the great mis chief is over, that there was great danger in bringing the National Guards into collision with the people. Several corps were formed in the faux lining of small shopkeepers, dependent a good deal upon the workmen for their trade; the disbanded society of the friends of the people were also ade quately represented in the National Guard, and it is well known to General Lafayette that great bodies of his soldiers had declared they would protect the prisoners if they could, " but that for such culprits, they would not spill blood, or provoke the extremity of a counter revolution." These expressions were even conveyed in writing, and by officers too, ac companied with most threatening and dangerous comments both to the King and the General-in- Chief. I have heard of letters of this kind written both to the highest civil and military authorities, which in any ocher country (and I think they ought in this) would have brought the writers of them at once to a drum-head court.martial, and, on proof of the identity of the hand-writing, have caused their execution on the spot. Napoleon would have been a very ugly customer for the venders of such com modities; but these are, happily, different times. The circumstances attendant upon the explosion of the late conspiracy are rather singular, and as I have them from indisputable authority, they are worth recording. The Government had, since the revolution of July, been harassed with communi cations of counter efforts, on the part of the adhe rents of the exiled family, anti of the extreme old Church or Jesuit party. Upon the agitation of these co-acting parties, was engrafted a compound element of a most extraordinary character; the broken gen'darmes, the disbanded military, and rest less half-pay officers, with two or three Generals of well-known intrigue, all whispered together the chance of a push in the name of young Napoleon; with these for the moment acted the republican party, who hoped, us the storm gathered, to grow stronger, and then— " Ride o'er the whirlmiNtl, and direct the Atom." The latter had, undoubtedly, from the nature of the late Revolution, the strongest party of all, if they had good address, and promptitude of action ; but they lost their cause (happily, for it would have at once embroiled all Europe in war), and then became, like the other, a scattered faction. All the ingre dients, however, remained of the worst part of these political clubs and factions, and as the real work of the Revolution had been done by the workmen of Paris, they availed themselves of the pampered tri butes of praise of which they were long the objects, and endeavoured by means of their own to extend a system of organization not exactly consistent with the integrity of good municipal rule. The means they employed were those of your benefit socities, each class had its own club, time and place of meeting, and fund ; ull, however, under the name Of trade purposes. It was not easy to know how the pay-chest was furnished, the employment of these people being indifferent, but supplied it was; and it struck the Government as a singular peculiarity, that immedi ately after the late revolution, although a reward was offered for each gun,sword, or bayonet, picked up or snatched during that combat, so few were brought into the Hotel de Ville, although for months a public market was held of these military weapons by the people on the quays. You may remember seeing fellows, last summer, selling the swords and accoutrements of the beaten Swiss and Gar(!ti du Corps, near the Pont Neuf, dressed in the breast plates and armour of the Cuirassiers. This was to the Government, I have said, a source of uneasiness, and the police (lid not buy up these implements of mischief with the alacrity they might. During the whole of the last fortnight the police were engaged in seizing small depots of powder in the little workshops of the fauxbourg St. Antoine; the proups of workmen who mingled, as I have be fore mentioned to you, among the National Guards, on Monday and Wednesday evening, in their conversation, talked freely of a republic and young Napoleon, but said they did not want a House of Peers, nor a large pension list ; adding that the best plan would be tut to congregate around the Luxembourg, but to attack the Peers' houses in detail, and plunder the mansions of the rich, until they compelled them to concede a more equal division of the property. The great bulk of the National Guards being shopkeepers, with something to lose, took these hints, as might have been ex peeled; they saw that the reign of principle was to yield to a rush for plunder, in which the bounds of the rich and middling classes were not likely to be very accurately defined or respected : they hinted to their officers that this was an altered state of things, to destroy and not to repair, and from that moment (Monday night), as far agi - the mob broke the lamps in the rue de Seine, and small streets, the shopkeepers who inhabited them put forth lamps and candles and flambeaux from their first-floor windows, anti a line of principle as well as of action was at once drawn between the protecting and the insurrectionary classes of society, which put an end to the hopes of the latter. The arrests still go on, but I cannot learn that any person of consi deration is proved to be among the conspirators. — All the adherents of the Bourbons are under sur veillance ; the Bonapartists Sank will soon dispose of in the •army ; and thousands of the workmen will be employed, as soon as the Freed' Govern ' rnent can raise funds, upon the lines for the fortifica tions °f Paris, and the impro vement of the roads, which are really a disgrace to the nation. With reference to the late trial of the Ex : xMinisi .C . 4 f LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1830. We direct attention to the very important Dublin meeting, which will be found in another column, at which Mr. O'CONNELL presided. If something effectually be not done (and speedily too) by the present Ministry, to put a stop to the mischievous proceedings of this arch- Agitator, the consequences will be dreadful to both countries, more especially to Ireland. Had Mr. O'CONNELL the slightest respect for public decency, he would not select for the purposes of agitation the very period when the new Ministers are doing all in their power to ameliorate the condition of Ireland. He would, at any rate, wait until they had had a fair trial. Were the Duke of WELLINGTON still in power, there might, perhaps, be some slight excuse for Mr. O'CONNELL'S agitation, but as the Ministry is at present constituted, he has not the slightest. Sir ANTHONY HART hid farewell, last week, to the Bar of Ireland, on which occasion the Right Bon, W. SAURIN announced also his in. tention of retiring. We rejoice to learn by the accounts which have been received up to the noon of Thursday, that tranquillity is restored in Paris. The pa triotism of the youth of the Polytechnic School, combined with the prompt energy of the KING and the forbearance of the National Guard, have succeeded in rescuing France from anarchy. We have advices from Mexico, which give the particulars of the execution of General Vic- TORIA, on the 11th of September. He died with great firmness. He had been taken at Flon, and conducted to Puebla, where, as he had been condemned to death by a Court Mar tial, he was ordered by the Commander-General to prepare for' death in 24 hours. He was brought to the place of execution, and the troops were drawn up. A seat was brought him on which he placed himself, and asked permis sion to say two words to the people. This being granted, ho rose and said with a loud voice, " Countrymen and Friends, I am to die, but there will be many to revenge my death, and that speedily. Ho then sat down with, calm. ness, placed his hands upon his knees with a tranquil countenance, and without any other movement than merely turning his hands over on his knees. The commerce of the capital was exceedingly depressed, and that of Vera Cruz in a similar state. We have advises from Maracaibo to the 19th October, and from Bogota to the 17th. On the 4th of the latter month an arrangement was agreed on between the Commissioners of president MORGUIRA and those of Colonel PENENS, Commander of the Callao battalion, respecting the condition embraced in the Articles of Capitulation, which required certain indivi duals to depart from Carthogena within three days. The Government of Bogota was provisionally in the hands of Gen. URDANETA. The communica tion between Maracaibo and Bogota was stopped. A co►t►plete revolution had taken place in favour of BOLIVAR at Mompax, which was besieged 20 days, and, on taking the bridge leading to the town, 300 men were killed. General BRUENA was in possession of the vallies of Cuenta. All was quiet at Maracaibo, and as this was important as a key to new Granada, PAEZ has sent some of his most faithful troops to garrison the place. Business was at a com plete stand, and the place somewhat sickly. We received last night per .Birmingham, from the North and South American Coffee-house, American Papers to the 26th of November. On the 25th of November, the French Revolu tion was celebrated in New York, by salutes from the battery, processions of Mayor and Cor• poration, High Sheriff, Governor and Lieut.- Governor of the State, and Governor of New Jersey, Members of Congress, and the State Legislature, Judges of the United States, and State Courts, the Clergy, Foreign Ministers, and the different Trades and Professions. The usual accompaniments of music and orations were not wanting. The effect of the whole must have been imposing. " Aimee. —The Daily Advertiser contains extracts from private lettets written from Vera Cruz as late as the 23d ult. Colonel Victoria was captured a second time in a farm•house at Finn, and taken to Puebla. Having been previously condemned to death by a court-martial, his execution was ordered to take place in 24 hours. He was shot, exhibiting perfect cooloos en the occasion, on the 11th of September. " Oujaca is revolutionized, and more completely so than is reported. The supplement of the 18th number of the Register Official will give an idea of the state of things there. Colonel Martinez, who was Commandant- General of the State of Chiapas, and who emigrated to Guatemala at the time of the Jalapa plan, is in Comitau, on the frontiers of the two countries, with about 2,000 troops. " General Guerrero is in the south, with Salgado and Almonte, who are his Ministers. Codallos, with 1,500 men, is near Valladolid ; General Alvarez met the division of General Armijo, of 1,500 men, between the 26th aid 30th ult. ; and although it has been said that be lost his life by throwing himself into a ravine, it is the fact, that having taken a piece of artillery, which was posted with a sufficient body of troops, awl approaching Alvarez and his division, Amigo prep wed for ti;Oiting ; but just as a battle was beginning, his troops joined those of Alvarez, and Armijo was made prisoner, after receiving seventeen wounds, and died almost immediately. General Bravo fled from Acapulco, to seek refuge in Chilpancingo. " Colonel Mantilla died at Acapulco, and his regiment (No. 1) was destroyed. " Another letter informs us that the Minister of War, Facie, has been removed, awl Colonel Lander() will probably take his place. " %The commerce of the capital is exceedingly depressed and that of Vera Cruz is in a similar state. " It is stated in the letters that General Guerrero has begun the formation of a new Government, having made two Ministers. Of course we are not to place full credit in what the Mexican papers say on every thing, as they are under Cho controul ike Administration, whose interests would lead them strongly to wish to give a different colouring to the force of the popular party, the head of which Guerrero is considered. " Tn the present state of the country we can trust only lettere." THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Montreal Papers to the 2lat Nov., Quebec to the 20th Nov., and Singapore Papers to the Ist of August, have been received at the North and South American Wee. house. The easterly winds, which km blown without inter mission during 17 day', ceased yesterday, and came round to the West. The numerous fleet which had collected, got under weigh this morning, and proceeded to sea between the hours of eight and ten. Sixty sail were round Point Levy. Snow commenced falling in this neighbourhood on Wednesday, nod the ground it; now concealed, although the • weather i t mild. (From the Sineapore Papers.) _ _ On the I7th 'inst. his 111,desty's sloop of war Zebra anchored in the roads, under a came of nine guns, and we are infOrmed from authentic souses that the settlement is indebted fur the visit of his Alsjesty's sloop to the conduct of Itsjah Miler, whose suspicious proCcedines have been noticed by the Admiral. It was the Zebra's inten tion to have proceeded direct to the Caimans to seize Jafiler. On the 17th, the cutter Emerald re:;...ued ffoM Tringanee, and brings very unfavourable accounts of the negotiations with the Rajah. This being Christmas-day it is a close holiday in the city, all public places being closed. The express from Paris this tuorning, confirms our express which we gave yesterday in eur city article, that Paris was tranquil, and the Nttionil Guard succeeded in dispersing the mob. ters, their sentence was not formally read to them, as I mentioned yesterday, on the same night of its adoption. I subjoin the particulars. It was, how ever, substantively communicated to them by General Daumesnil on the same night. I have already mentioned there was only one Peer (I be lieve a near relation of Polignac) for a general ver. diet of not guilty ; seven were for capital punish ment of Polignac ; four for that of Peyronnet. But you in England will think it rather singular, after reading so much of the value of your constitu tional law, as used and referred to in these trials, and of the importance attached to it in this country, that so little real sense of these important principles had the French House of Peers, that there was ac tually a meeting of a great number of their body on the Sunday night—where do you think ?—at the house of the President, Baron Pasquier, where they ►n private discussed, and if I am not misinformed, actually agreed upon the general heads of the sen tence and forms of proceeding in giving it, which they were on the following day judiciously to deter time upon. At this meeting, the Duke de Broglie and M. de Barante, two very able Peers, took an ac- tive part. It was said, too, that the King was a party to the calling of this meeting, to assist in finishing the pro cess on Tuesday night. The purpose, no doubt, was humane and laudable, but what a notion it conveys of the impression which our constitutional law makes upon the minds of Frenct Legislators. I hope the whole statement is untrue. I have it, however, from a quarter not likely to be misinformed. The reports this morning from all the military posts of the metropolis last might, are fa►ourable to the public tranquillity. P.S. There is no news whatever this morning from Poland or Russia. ratans or IRIAN *rocas, DVILIN, Dec. 21. Bank Stock —lSt. Patrick incur. (per eh.) Consols, S Der cent. Gov. Bieck, 334 per cent. RD National Ditto... ....... Ditto._ New B9N ratriotic Ditto — 4 per Ce at. .-IHibernian Bank 2O tiov. Deb. S 4 percent... --Irrovincial Ditto — Royal Canal *OCIIL ...sets 44!4 Royal Irish Mine — Grand Canal Stock — Imperial Mine — City Deb. 4 per sent — Mining Co of Ireland Walt °Mee Deb. 4p. e. Commercial But;nings MOH WATICR, AT LO/41101K BRIMOR TO-MORROW. Morning... 3 minutes after 11. I Evening... 39 minutes after 11. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta,—l have seen a paragriph in your Paper of this evening, reflecting on the conduct of my brother, in giving notice of a rnotiisn for an address, prayii.g his Majesty to appoint a Fast-day. You observe that " AN a sample of cant, Mr. Percevars notice puts forth strong claims to per fection ; as a sample of good sense, it is deserving only of ridicule." The serious illness of a very near and (lear relation obliged my brother to leave London for Irel old this evening ; and I cannot tell what notice, if any, he would have taken of this severe rene.rk. In his absence, however, I feel it my dutr to give you an opportunity to apologize for'an attack, which,. I think, a very little reflection will convince you was uncalled for, end unjustifiable. I know nothing. of the individual I um addressing ; but I have read in re spectable Oldie/166ns that the Editor of The Sun is a man of talent and education. I feel, therefore, that I ant safe in ascribing to him the station and the feelings of a gentleman ; and I look for that readiness of reparation for offence given by hasty and unguarded words, which belongs to that character. Allow me first to observe that your antithesis is not a fair one. The opposite to " cant" is genuine piety. " Good settee" is incompatible, with cant. But I need not go far for proof, that genuine piety has been found united with good sense in no common proportion. k no w that the simple charge of " cant" does not always imply an accusation of hypocrisy. The merely injudicious and unnecessary obtrusion of religione terms and sentiments nut Of place and seamen may provoke, and justify the phrase. But, I • presume, you will not deny that some suspicion of insincerity is involved in " the perfection of cant," to which you say my brother's notice !aye claim. Whether, or no, it be out of place and out re/season to propose that the representatives of u Christian p eo pl e should, at a time of acknowledged distress and perplexity, call upon their Sovereign to proclaim a day for national humiliation before their God, and intercession for His mercy, I leave to the judgment of all those who believe that the affairs of this world are in the hands of the Most High. In this number I trust that I include most of my fellow countrymen : I am sure that I include all of them whose opinion is worth having. If I include yourself, Sir, and then, neither you nor they can t l lt h i:k pe hmtaybt I may rothet' brother's so, then, fairly cliargeablewith " cant," even in the mitigated sense which I have noticed above, in which, however, I have ehewn that you did snot use the term. As to the " good sense" of the proceeding, that can scarcely be pronounced upon till the House shall have de cided upon the motion ; at all events, it is rather early to call it " only deserving of ridicule," upon the bare no tice, and before the mover has pronounced his reasons. I would not speak harshly of a sentence which has borne a sting that I will not yet thinly intentional. Much must lie allowed for the natural eagerness of a inlblie writer to catch at so obnoxious and tempting a witticism as that with which your sally commences. It would have been hard to wait six weeks for an opportunity to use it. But forgive me if I Add, that it would have been wiser and • better to have suppressed it altogether. It led to the ne crei.eity of rounding the paragraph with insult upon a person whose motives few will condemn, and whole feel ings, 1 believe, still fewer would wits!' to injure. I ant much mistaken if you, Mr. Editor, will not now be one of the first to regret its insertion. I will only add that the reporters have, in some measure, misled you. The`notice was not received with " much merriment." There was,- I understand, a slight tittering among some gentlemen who did not ,at first catch its meaning. Whether, on reflection, they are pleased with their good taste in this matter, it is not for me to divine. But the country will he glad to learn that there is not yet that general absence of &comae in the House of Commons, which the reporter's statement would imply. I have the honour to he, Mr. Editor, Your obedient humble servant, DUDLEY M. PERCEVAL. 16, Wilton-street, Belgrave-square, Friday evening, Dec. 9.4, [We readily insert the` above letter, and as readily dis claim the imputation of any persinality towards Mr. Perceval. We merely alluded to his motion as a public act, which we thought was injudicious, and should have left to the discretion of Minister*, Who have already di rected prayers to be offered up on account of the distress of the country. With respect to the Honourable Gentleman's motion—we a ccord him all due credit for sincerity—and only question the "good sense" of giving notice of such a motion on the eve of a recess of six weeks, when it could he productive of no good whatever. -s-En.) REV. HR. BON:TOL—The Eenivng Packet announces that the Rev. Mr. ilovTores opinions have undergone a Illtklification on the question of a repeal of the Union, and that aspersions have, in consequence, been east upon his political consistency. We are confident, how. ever, that Mr. Borrox it too enlightened and high.minded to be intimidated by such vulgar and ungenerous rebukes. When the mind is eonvinc.eil, an effort at consistency in error is a crime. We trust—indeed ire are confident— that Mr. Borrots will soon he an avowed anti-Unionist, and that the cause of his country will have the aid of his falseassiss.Dublin Morning Regitter. STATE OP Tilt COUNTRY. (FROM OUR CAMBRIDGE CORRESPONDENT.) CAMBRIDGE, DSC. 24. SHERIITS QEFICER KILLED BY POACHERS. An account:his' pat been received of an affray with poachers, whicliV place last night on Colonel Peel's estate, at Wallingt Lnear Downham, and in which Mr. James Weston, Officer to the'Sheriff of Norfolk, and police officer at Downham, lost his life. It appears that Colonel Peel's keepers, hearing the report of fire-arms in the pre- serves soon after eleven o'clock, sent to Weston to assist him in apprehending the poachers. Having assembled their party, they proceeded in the direction of the firing, and on approaching one of the plantations they saw the poachers apparently in readiness to receive them. The keeper's party determined to attack them, and on advanc ing for that purpose, and after having crossed a hedge at the outside of the plantation, and which separated them from the poachers, one of the latter called out to Weston, who headed the party, " Jem, you are near enough." The same person, or some other of the poachers, itnme diately fired. The contents of the gun lodged in Weston's right side, between the ribs. The keeper's party then de ' aisted front the attack, and, after removing pow. 'Weston, sent to Downham for aaaistance. The poachers remained some time in the plantations, but left them before the keepers strengthened their forces, a fruitless search, which conti nued some hours, having been made for diem. Weston, after lingering two hours in excruciating agony, expired. He has the character of having been a high spirited, cou rageous mm, and of having acted in the execution of his offices with fidelity to his employers, and great kindness and humanity towards prisoners under his charge. He was about 32 years of age, and has left a wife and five chil dren. Colonel Peel, I believe, is a brother, or near re lative, of Sir Robert Peel. It is said the poacher who spoke can he identified by his voice, and that the constables are in active selrch after him._ _ .. - On 'Wednesday evening, about seven o'clock, a fire broke out in two places in a hay-stack, near the centre of the town of Chatteris, belonging to Mr. J. C. Dunn, a maltster and farmer of that place ; but, by great exertions, it was got under, without extending to the adjoining stacks and premises. Suspicions fell upon a labourer of the name of John Drake, who was apprehended, and, after under►toing an examination before the Rev. Dr. Chatfield and John Fryer, Esq., two Magistrates for the Isle of E,ty, he was fully committed yesterday, for trial, at the next Ely Mazes. The labourers of the parish of Voulmire, near this place, struck for an increase of wages on Monday last, and as sembled in groups in the street, on th it day and Tuesday. Having refused to disperse on Wednesday, the Magis trates of the district obtained the assistance of the troop of mounted constables, recently established at Royston, and after the lapse of an hour frem the reading of the Riot Act, a skirmish took place, which continued for some time, and terminated in the capture of five of the ringleaders, all of whom were committed by the Rev. Mr. Leworthy, to the Castle here. It is said some heavy blows were exchanged, stud that the troop manifested peat personal courage on the occasion. It was under the di rection of 11. Hawkins, Esq. of Royston. Many of the principal occupiers at Foultnire and the neighbouring pa rishes rendered their assistance. Fifteen sheep, belonging to Mr. Porter, a farmer, at Caveney, were killed Oil Sunday night, in one of his fields. None of the carcases were removed. The perpe trators of the villainous act have not hen discovered. - ---- PRESENT STATE - OF IRELAND. (From a Correspondent of the Times.) DUBLIN, DEC. 21. I have for some time abstained front addressing you, be cause you tight gather from the Dublin Journals a rough notion of the species of agitation which has for some time prevailed in this cauntry. I write now because that I think that a crisis of some kind or other is at no very great distance ; and it is material that the English !Attalla as well as the Government should be made acquainted with our actual condition. The Times is probably the best medium in the empire which could be chosen with a view to attain this object. I shall sty no king about the motives or the designs o f those persons who started the repeal of the Union as subject for agitation. Perhaps there are some political fanatics among the leaders, and I am satisfied that the bulk of the pop's: do not contemplate a separation from Great Britain. Every man here of sense and considera ti.su is thoroughly convinced that the repeal of the Union if the thing were practicable, must inevitably terminate in the dismemberment of the empire. I by no means assert, however, that this is the opinion of the Anti-Unionists. On the contrary, they are in the habit of expressing the strongest indignation against any man who , argues that their proceedings would lesd to that Was ! trophe. - You will, therefore, be cautious In crediting. the accounts which *lay reach you, that there is a strong anti-English feeling in Ireland. I do not think there is. At the same time you will have observed in the reports of the speeches made on this side of the water, that there is expressed a very lively interest in the disturbances and distreesee of England. This feeling arises, I should rather think, from the same source which actuates some of your ' public men in exaggerating these distresses, with a view of applying for a radio, remedy, and not from the indul genes of a sentiment hostile to the connection. I think it necessary to make. these preliminary state ments, because I foresee the probability of your receiving from other quarters certain accounts of a wide extended conspiracy, the object of which will be described to be no less than the forcible repeaLof the Legislative Union, in case the British people should negative the proposition. There is no conspiracy—there is nothing bnt what he that runs may read. But there is quit enough to produce se , dons alarm, without the mention of any plot, in the pre sent circumetances of this country. When the question of the repeal was first broached, many laughed at it—many supposes' it was raised only for a purpose, and that it would speedily disappear. I con fess I had my misgivings ; and in a short time it was felt necessary, by those opposed to the agitation, to obtain a public declaration of sentiment to that effect. The Lein ider declaration accordingly appeared ; and it now contains the names of most of the Peers and men of landed property in Ireland, as well as a considerable display of mercantile and monied signatures. Many, however, have been de terred front coming forward by their position in respect to the inferior ranks of society, who look, nevertheless, with apprehension on the success of the agitation. In the north of Leland the liberals and radicals have almost uni versally declared against the repeal ; and in the south they have been getting up a similar declaration, which has obtained the signatures, I understand, of a great proportion of the resident landed gentry in the county of Cork. Besides these manifestations of opinion, the Grand Orange Lodge of Dublin got up a declaration of a similar kind, but only expressed in much more indignant language, against the agitation of the question, which they described as pregnant with revolution, and meaning nothing but a forcible separation, anti Popish ascendancy. This declaration was very numerously signed, and contained among the signatures several highly respectable names. I beg your readers to bear this fact in mind. But what the repealers wanted in respectability (and I am not using the term in an offensive sense) they amply made up in activity and numbers. In the course of little more than a month they have organized all the trades and most of the shopkeepers in Dublin. It is true that few of the latter appear at the public meetings but 1 should deceive you if 1 led you to infer that they do not take a most lively interest in the agitation of the measure. In short, it is extremely popular among all the middle ranks; and it has become a passion, a sort of fanaticism, with the lower orders. The flame has spread through the country, with, per hops, for the present, the exception of the North of Ire land, with singular rapidity. rEhere is scarcely a town of vote in the three tither provinces which has not had its parochial or trade meeting. In the rural districts the pea santry are addressed in a similar manner by the rustic orators ; and resalutione 'breathing the most determined hostility to the Union, and to all the enemies of indepen , dent Ireland, are passed. It is true, that at very few of these meetings the merchants of the towns, or the gentry of the country, or the mere substantial farmers, appear. But, on the other hand, neither is any attempt made to discountenance them. Many secretly approve, and se veral who do not, feel it most judicious to remain silent. In truth, I doubt whether those who a few years ago would he called the natural 'elders of the people, have flaw any influence among them. The lest general election furnished a tolerably striking example ref the feebleness of theta ties which had to a certain extent previously bubsiated be tween the parties. If there should be a general election next spring or summer, as they report, 1 am satisfied thst the man who would not pledge himself to the repeal elthe Union in at least 20 conntlee out of the 82, would have but a faint chance of success, provided gentlemen could be found who would promise any thing far a seat. Pram this statement, you will have concluded that there is a complete dieseveration between the higher and the lower orders of society. I inn afraid that the inference would be too trite ; and, in fact, the people glory in it. There is no doubt whatever that the rank, property, and intelligence of Ireland is against the repeal; but neither can there be any doubt, ou the other hand, that the mil- Hon are enthusiastically, l was almost going US say, pledged to it. Your readers may be anxious to he male acquainted with the part which that mostimportant body, the Catholic Clergy, have taken in this agitation. Some of them have appeared at their public meetings, and made speeches, bait in general they are not prominent agitators. I woo d not have you infer from this, that they are hostile. On the contrary, I believe that they are generally for it ; but the discipline of their church is so rigid, that they will soarely disobey the direction of their ordininaries. With regard to the latter, I have some reason for believing, that they are generally against agitation, though not perhaps against the repeal of the Union. At the Lune time you must remember, that the priests live in the midst of the people, and that they derive their means of sub- eistenee front the voluntary coelrihutions of their flocks Without at all imputing to then! unworthy motives. which I ate far from Insinuating, for 1 know them to b, an exemplary body of men, it is natural that they shoulde catch the colour of the sentiment with which they may be said to be surrounded, and identified as they are with the feelings and wants of the people, it is nut in human na ture that they should not be imbued with their pasaious and their prejudices. There may be other causes deeper than these, upon which you would not have space, or the writer of this communicatioe a dealer, to expatiate at present. I am now coming to the most singular, end perhaps to the most formidable part of our condition ; indeed, it was the circumstance te which I had princhm;ly to refer, that induced me to break my long silence. Its a preceding part of this letter, mention is made of is declaration got up by the Orangemen against the Union, and very numerously signed by members of . that body. This declaration emanated almost Avow edly from a jealousy of that got up by the liberals, under the presidency of the Duke of Leinster. The p,l ideal Prote.tants, or the ascendency if you choose, were --As pleased at the lead taken. by those Protesitants who had signed the Catholic declaration in ISO, and the more p:irticulary as the latter invited Catholics to the meeting;; the Secretary, Mr. Murphy, being, in point of fact, a Ca tholic, and one of the moat minus and eltatteent agitators of the Catholic Association. The Orange anti.Unionios pledged themeetree far abide , Unwires allover the king dom, and continued ringingl at . loud peal against Popery through their organs at the Press. They bad valeue Wed manifestly that the influence at. Governtnent would be thrown into their scale, and hence their hostility to the Leinster declaration. Whether there were any signs in the late Administration which ehouldlinapire them :with this hope, I will not undet;• take to say ; I believe there were not. The ehangei however, came While both parties were labouring to. stem the torrent,—the Orangemen, in the interim, fighting a by-battle with the Liberals. But when the appointment of Lord Grey's Ministry was made known, there appeared to be a manitest diminution of their energy against the re pellets. They lay upon their oars. They Waited for the appointments which were to be made in Ireland. They began to abuse Lord Anglesea, but when Lord Plunkett was raised to the high office which he now Alla, their hos tility became boundless. The most active leader amongst them hinted at the necessity under which they might find themselves of joining their fellow-citizens for a repeal of the Union, as they could have no confidence they declared in the present Administration—of those fellow.eitietius whom they declared, little more than a mouth before, to be not much better than rebels and traitors. The hint worked well. In the north, the lower Catholics and Protestants have congregated in several places, with orange and green banners, calling fur a reduction of rents, mid an abolition of tithes. But it was in Dublin on Saw day last, that the grand federation was coneutrimated • Perhaps one year ago there was not a man in existence more odious to the Orangemen of Ireland than Mr. O'Con nell. Mark the contrast :on Saturday the trades met to welcome his arrival ; there were at least 60,000 craftsmen, with banners and flags.--the rolours universally orange and green, and the respective trades beteg headed,.l understand, generally by Orangemen. The roe t,..frout Dublin to lluwth, a distance of nine miles, sees crowded with spectator.. The march into town, I am told ,1x those who witnessed it, was one of the most imptOing ealue bilious possible. It was dark when they reached Summer. hill, when, partly through affection, and partly, no double through an apprehension of danger, most of the houses were lighted up. The leaders of the trades were provided with torches, and it was, en the whole, a spectacled wbich a monarch might be proud. You will readily believe -me wlien e l tell you that O'Connell is no favourite of mina; but certainly, whatever the motives of the parties might be, who banned the long array on Saturday last, the abject whom not only Catholics but Orangemen sought to honour, must have been proud, if he were even less vain than he is, of seeing his old enemies shouting at his chariot wbeele. This is a state of thing' suite new in Ireland: whether it will continue is a question which I have no disposition to discuss. That the Liberator does not mean 'to be idlee is evident. Not only is Chief Jostitter Doherty, l hue-Lord Plunkett, already denounced; and the people era' advised not to exhibit any manifestations of regard to lessist , Ane glesca. In this course the ultra. of both parties wee , But what is the intelligent and liberal pert of the pub ? • lie doing, you will ask. What can they do ? They .catt ! .. not condescend to make mobs, even if they had the power, which I very much question. nesidee, we are,at this ano inent without a Government. The press, orange and green, is with the agitation, or if there be a jaurnal or two against it, the conductors must feel that they are working against the sympathies of their former readers, as well as decidedly against their interests. Still there is strong party who are resolved not to submit without mak ing a struggle to the dictation of the ultras. You will see in the Dublin papers a formidable array of speeches, which it is vary possible you will net reed, but they are read here and produce their effect. There are letters from the north to-day, which show olui t )s h firio a lnii t p:kiit t e: vytren,atultit)ntijiilues will receive of eed, Orangemen tiirivanoei no sm , g o :t olama e nsetd C i p a ieo t f h rwe t. l 4 :r i i rsitn: in a pc n in d lueobc O tiki r sna a i n ge vleit n rinty t ies tlr ito l oil s rie t an yt amen have committed some cruel out rages on the Catholics ; and there is some apprehensions entertained that the latter will retaliate if prompt relief be nut afforded. To do the magistrates justice, they steem inclined to preserve the peat*, if they can. Lord Anglesea will arrive at Kingstown harbour to morrow evening, will sleep on board the packet, end conic into Dublin on Thuready. There is no doubt that he will be numerously amid most respectably welcomed back to Ire land, notwithstanding the efforts which have been made to prevent a popular display. His Nuelleriey willhave a difficult and delicate duty to perform in the govertititent of this country during the next three months. COUILT CIRCULAR. Prince LEOtOLD came to town on Thursday,- (rent his seat at Claremont. In the evening his Royal, highness honoured Covent.garden Theatre with his preseoce, to see Miss Itaway Kestitut in the ehereeter of Lady Toten.(ir in the comedy of the Provoked .11usband. The Duke and Duchess of CostueaLawn, and Prior* Gnome of Cumberland, accompanied by the Duchees Dowager of iticumotto, and Lady SOMA ..LONNITh i honoured .Drury.latio Theatre with their presence on Thursday evening. Summonses were issued to the Archbishop of CA BURY) the Archbishop of Yortic, awl the Cabinet Miniatere, from the Council Office on Thursday evening, to attend a meeting at the Council Office yesterday afternoon. About three o'clock the Archbishop of (.1,4,41140w4tv, Earl Gaza, Viscount Metatottase k . Viscount,BoOtatt - STON, Viscount GODEOICII, the Kul ni C ent.tit,v ALMA?, the Right Hon. culAttlatti OttANT, Sir Jaases GRAHAM, and Lord AtIOKWID, itesotibled at the CounCil Office. Their Lordship* sat in Comm:toe about half en hour, and, it is understood, issued en order to the Arch bishop of CANTItItSUOY to prepare a form of prayer on the state of the country. The Archbishop of Yowl slid not attend the meeting, having left town previous to the summonses being The Loan CHANCOLLOR wee absent, having telt sown pa Thursday morning for Brougham Hall, Westmoreland. The Lord President (the Marquis of Lawenowas) wee also absent. The Noble Marquis left town ,-Oti Thursday for his seat at Bowood, Wilts. The Russian Ambassador and .11aron Vt . /asuman ea had interviews with Viscount Pat.tteasros yesterday at the Foreign Office. BRIGHTON, Du. 24. His MAJESTY, Itacompanitti by the Primmer; Anstaltta, took an airing in a chariot and four with outrider*, fur abut two hours yestertily. The Quirts and Prince Gamut of Cambridge, seem. ponied try Lord and Lady CLINTON, Colonol Far Dra w l, and Lady Aimmeta Frier.Lasirtice, and e numerous suite, rode on horeebsek through different parte of the town. lii MAJZSTY 111444 10 bit Viritaust ihiscuity previous to him tirive. The Princess Avoura tad the LandgraTitie of Hun fitment° drove in a carriage awl fout. in the forenoon. His Royal Highness the Duka of Sussex wAlked and rode through the town, accompanied by Muffle. 1,1 - .611 . 8.. Sir ANDISW BAIOI4IIIID SitITIYI yesterday at Of Pilses from London.