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d- • , ,c - 14 1 $.;„ • • 4 'l4" 'f_ . flirt, , lif 1 4 1. iAtI , P II. !lOWA 41° I r 'll ill ADMIRALTY -OFFICE, San. 21, 1880. NOTlCishereby given, th at a SESSION E ' of OYER and TERMINER and GAOL DE LIVERY for the Trial of Offences committed on the HIGH SEAS, within the jurisdiction of the Admirby of Wayland, will be held at Justice Hall, in the Old London, on Money, the 25th of October next, at Eight &aloek in the morning. And all Sheriffs, Gaolers, and Keeper. of Prisons, in whew custody, any Prisoners, ;barged with Offences com mitted on the High Seas, or within the said Jurisdiction Ility he, are hereby required to transmit a copy of the Commitment of every such Prisoner to Mr. CHARLES JONES, the Solicitor of the Admiralty, at his office, No. 10, Laneaster•place, Strand, . London, in order that the necessary 3110111Urei may be taken, for removing all such Prisoners to his Majesty's Gaol of Newgate, for trial at the mill intended Session : and all Mayors, Justiees, Coroners, and other. OfEcaors, before whom any loquisi tioos, Informations, Examinations, or Recognizance; may lave been taken tonehity nay such Offenoes, are required to transmit the same forthwith to Mr. JOHN CLARKE, the Clerk of Arraigns of the High Court of Admi ralty of England, at his Offios, at the Sessions House in the OW Dailey, London. vine° you that this abrogation was tecestiaty. ft Is satisfactory to your, commission that they have mot to propose it without the formal assent of the nistry. The necessary provisions will become tl.e -nth article of the present nroject. Two observations remain to be made on the last lrticle of the project. It is as follows :—" The f►►re vnint provisions will not take &l et until the 30th of June, 1831." In the first place, ft is not easy to see why a tem porary character should be given to the 2d ankle, as to the market of Fleurance, which, after the 30th of June, is apparently not to enter as an element in re gulating the price which its interposition has only too long falsified; nor even to the 3d article, the ob ject of which is to give to commerce conducted in good faith a security which it should never have wanted. You will also doubtless be of opinion, that it is definitively and for ever that the facilities of the fictitious entrepot should be restored to the ware housing of corn. The Ist article, which modifies the elements by which the duties are levied, appears therefore to be the only one the duration of which ought to be subjected to limitation. On the other hand, in fixing the term of the 30th of June, has it not been lost sight of that it was the supposed insuflicieney of the lest harvest, taken as a ,whole, that it was to be provided foe, and 'that the next will not be availuble until after the 30th of June on almost any point of the Freud* teirit,ry ? These considerations have determined us to propose to you the modification at the final article in the fol lowing terms The provisions of the let article of the present law shall not take effect until the 30th of July, 1831." We shall conclude this report by the , expression: 'of a regret which will doubtless be felt at 64161)u:5e when it is taken into consideration. The custom house laws, when applied to the reduction of taxes, are usually so framed as to postpone the commence ment of the new defies fur a period of three months, This is a reasonable arrangement for the holders of commodities which hsve paid ; the old taxes, and gives them time to get rid of their stock withoot too much damage. If on this occasion we ribettrie from such a postponement, the Government will remem ber that it is with reference to a law which is at once temporary and urgent, and that to delay its execution would be to compromise its efficacy. Your Committee, while they regret this necessity, are unable to overlook it. They have considered, also, that the project was presented on the 18th of September ;—that it will scarcely be in force at the points of import before the end of October ;-.that six weeks nearly will thus have elapsed between the date of the intimation to the commerce of the country and the date when the new tuxes will be put io force ;—that a shorter period is generally all that is necessary to realize the trallSaCtlolll in foreign corn, as the authority to put it in entrepot authorizes a delay in paying the duties up to the moment when the sale is effected ;—that besides the legal price of corn at those places where importation has been au thorized fur several months admits of the receipt of only a low duty : and we may therefore be permitted to hope, that private interests will suffer very little from the necessity which thus presses upon us. Your Committee, Gentlemen, have the honour to propose to you the adoption of this projet cle lui, with the amendments thus puiuted out. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1830. PRICE 7D. No. 11,876. T HE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. LXXXVI. FRENCH CORN TRADE. you, as a general measure, the reduction of dutie► pointed out at the commencement of this report. They do not materially affect the principal taxes, hut are considerable as to the :unpins duties, since corn imported in , French bottoms, from Hamburg, for instance, and which now pays 4f. 25c., 3f. 25c., and 21. 25c., will hereafter pay only 31., 21., and If.; snd that which is imported in foreign bottoms, of whatever country, will pay only 41., 3f., and 2E, in place of 31. 50c., 41. 50e., and 3f. 50c., which they pay at present. Introduction by the land frontiers will be particularly favoured since it is at present ..objected to all the surplus taxes, and will hereafter be freed from them. of the bills of lading, although they generally mark the day on which the loading has been completed, depend also upon the will of the captain and the freighter. Supposing it to be valid, it does not bear the day of departure, still less does it prove that this departure preceded the knowledge of the re establishment of the prohibition. If the bill of lading were alone a leading testimony of good faith, the risk would be incurred of abusive importation, succeeding each other, long after the return of the legal interdiction, and aggravating by their multi. plicity the state of markets already overcharged. To establish otherwise than by presumption that a citron which arrives after the expiry of the legal 9 period had sailed directly from the port of lading for any given French port, before the legal pike 'which closed the port was known in the port of lading,—such ought to be the obligation imposed on the parties claiming admission. It has appeared to your Committee that a certificate from the French Consul should be added, or in his default of a local magistrate, whenever the fact is not sufficiently esta blished by the register and other papers on ship.; board in connexion with the distance from the place of departure and the datiof arrival. Before coming to the 4th and; lust article some thing remains to be said of an additional arrange ment of great importance which we think necessary to propose to you, and which, if it meets with your approbation, will fall to be introduced before the 4th article. Will be published on WEDNESDAY NEXT. Price Go. the Seventh Monthly Part of a new, greatly im proved, and cheap edition, of 'THE ENCYCLOIVEDIA BRITAN -- NICA. To be completed iu Twenty Volumes 4to. Edited by Professor NAPIER. Printed for Adam Black, Edinburgh; Sitnpkin and Marshall, 'Whittaker, Treacher, and Co , Hamilton and Ad.uns, and Jennings and Chaplin, London. - - - This day was published, THE EDINBURGH MEDICAL and SURGICAL JOURNAL. No. CV. Pi ice Gs. Also, the EDINBURGH NEW PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL, Conducted by Professor JAMESON. No. 19, with Three Engravings, price '7s. Gil. Adam Black, Edinburgh ; and . Longtnan and Co. London. J. W. CROKER. We cannot but applaud these reductions, consi tiered as temporary, because at all the points of im portation corn is at prices of which the producers cannot complsia, and because the prices are such in other countries generally, that even considerable im portations will, with difficulty, bring down ours to a rate which will affect the interests of the producer. On the other hand, greater reductions could not be proposed without inconvenienee; for although corn is dearer at Odessa at this moment thnh in ordinary seasons, it might bar-carried to Marseilles at lot, so that, after adding interest and profit, local ex penses, and duties, it might easily be brought to market at less than 244, a price below which native corn cannot now full at Marseilles, without disturb ing the markets in the rest of the south. We must, however, declare that by admitting the diminution of the surplus duty on French bottoms, and its total suppression on the land frontiers, we do not mean to say that the diminution would be good as a permanent rule, nor that the suppression should be established as a principle in the importa tion of other sorts of merchandize by the land frontiers. 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One evening I was playing Sharp, in e Lyiny et, when. he and my friend Ilerwattrr were in the stage box; and on my repeating the words ' I lied bad nothing to eat since last Monday was a fortnight !' little HAvootr ex— claimed, in a tone audible to' the whole house, What a wopper ! Why, you dined at my father's house this after noon " REPORT TO TILE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, ON THE PROJECT OF THE LAW AS TO TILE INTRODUC. TION OF FOREIGN CORN, PRESENTED ON 'THE 2D OF OCTOBER, 1830, BY AL DR ST. CRICK. Gentlemen,—The Committee to whom you re mitted the project on the importation ' of corn has charged me to submit to you the result of its in quiry. The details of the existing law by which importation is regulated, were brought under our consideration; but I am only here to trouble you with a short summary. The departments which bound our coasts and frontiers are divided into four classes and eight sections, in each of which impor tation is interdicted, after certain deductions, as long as native corn is not raised above a certain price. This price is, for oats, 24(., for the first class ; 22f. for the second; 20f. for the third; and lilf. for the fourth. When these prices are reached, importation is by that fact alone authorised, in consideration of a duty which decreases in proportion as the price in creases, and which for oats vat ies from the maximum of 3f. 25c. per hectolitre, to the minimum of 25e. But these duties suppose, Ist, that the corn has been imported wider the French flag; 2d, that it comes from one of those countries which are wider stood by the name of places of production—that is to say, from the Black Sea, Egypt, the Baltic, the White Sea, or the United States of America. If it comes from any. other country, it is subjected to a surplus tax of If: 25c. per hectolitre. If imported in a foreign bottom, or if introduced by the land frontiers, it is subjected to a new surplus tax of If. 25c. per hectolitre ' with this difference—that the surplus is reduced to If. when the principal tax is at the minimum of 25c. To reduce the present maximum 3f. 25c. on im portation in French bottoms to 3f. and consequently to 2f. and If., the duties of 25c. and if. 25e. form ing the intermediate degrees between the maximum and minimum—to abolish all distinction as to the place of production—to reduce to one franc, on every degree of duty, the surplus tax imposed on foreign flags—to treat the introduction by the land frontiers on the same footing as by French bottoms, and finally to substitute in the first class the market of Lyons for that of Fleurance, as the elementary or regulating price—such are the modifications in troduced by the present project, snd to affect the existing law only till the 30th of June, 1831. Thus the essential of the law remains in force, viz.—the division of the frontier departments into four classes, the nominal prices of which traverse a scale of from 18f. to 24f.; the establishment of the regulating market, with the single rectification as to the mar ket of Fleurance; and,finally, the principle of even tual prohibition. Of what modifications will each of these be sus ceptible at the period of the general revision which the Government seems prepared to undertake ? Then, as now, it will doubtless be thought unjust and unwise to give up our agriculture without de fence to a competition which the serious differences existing in the conditions of production would snake extremely formidable. But will it be thought that the protection ought to go so far as to interdict all external speculation of any extent as to time—to disturb the seasonableness of the public supply—and expose the home-market to sudden fluctuations ? Or will it not rather be thought that all interests will be better consolidated by means of a scale of duties wisely graduated,whicb,while it reserves to the French producer a sufficient protection, will leave sufficient freedom to commercial movement—will place the imports of each period on a level with its wants, and will thus maintain the perfect equilibrium of our markets ? Will it be thought reasonable to retain a classification which subjects a hectolitre of corn imported at Caen to 21. 25c. of duty, and at Cherbourg only to 25c.? Nor is this the only anomaly in the choice of the regulating market, which remains to be corrected. Will it be believed that no legislative measure remains to be adopted regulating the assessment of the duties ? These questions, gentlemen, or at least several of them, are at once serious and delicate; much inquiry and long meditation would be necessary to solve there, and your consideration has thought it necessary to confine itself to the duty of laying them before you without attempting a solution on the occasion of a project purely transitory in its nature, and in the ab sence of the documents which could only be pro cured after long investigation and inquiry. It is besides no part of the duty of the Com mittee to evince snore anxiety us to our immediate wants than the Government itself; and it must not be forgotten that it is for these wants only that the Government wishes to provide, by the measures it has submitted to your consideration. The substitution of the market of Lyons for that of Fleurance is doubtless one of the most effective measures, as it enters into the element, and affects the regulating price, of corn in the class to which Marseilles belongs. What is chiefly important i s , that importation be not impeded where our wants are most urgent and prices most el e v at e d, if thosel prices have really reached the limit beyond which protection results only in duties. But such is the situation of Marseilles and those parts, in the pro. visioning of which that port is naturally called to assist in times of scarcity : and it is precisely a t Marseilles that importation has been found to be for bidden during the last three years, the month of Fe bruary, 1828, alone excepted, while in the same years, it has been almost constantly authorized from Dunkirk to Rochelle. Thus we see that in an im portation greatly where ly exceeded that of the rest of France, only receive d 4,000 hee t h e of price i c 4 rf o o f o, 00 corn o bas of always tolitres. The consequence is, that in that city corn costs 30f., while it only costs 191. in the little town of Fleurence, which, being situated in the Ger., has never sent a grain of corn to the department of th e Douches du Rhone. And is it not odious that the population of one of the largest cities should be con demned by means of a legal fiction to pay 30f, for its corn, without having the right to recur to fo. reign, and when the true object of the law is, that when prices are at 24f. the impartation should be gin, and should tend to produce rum equilibrium ? Will it be said, that if this fiction raises the price, it at least preserves for native corn a great centre of consumption ? Yet this is not the case. Ships sail from Marseilles loaded with foreign corn, which has not been admitted into consumption, go to natural ize themselves in en Atlantic port on paying the low duty of 25c., and bring it back to Marseilles loaded with charges greatly exceeding the duties at which it would have been udmitted at Marseilles, even if the regulating price had been the true expression of the facts. Operations contrary to all regular service, the effect of which is to keep up the price beyond the term required for the well-being of our agricul ture, sufficiently testify the reality and the pressing nature of our wants. They afford also a powerful argument in favour of the system of a graduated scale of duties, in preference to the alternating chances of prohibition and permission to import. Every thing seems to announce, that the pro posed measure, on its first application, will open the port of Marseilles to importation, dtich will be a great advantage to the district least favoured by the late harvest, and which would now receive assist ance at very high rates from the French provinces, whose surplus produce they are accustomed to re ceive. The wants at other places are else urgent, and it is on that account that the Government proposes to We propose, then, the adoption of article 1, with a slight change in the expression of the 2d and 3d paragraphs, which are united in one. But in this article two important omissions have been remarked. In using the generic term corn (de grains), the project has no doubt had in view both rye and Indian corn, or maize, us ►►ell us the other kinds of corn. And yet the application of the desired re ductions, if it were not expressly stated, would be irreconcilable with the progression established by the 6th article of the law of the 4th of July, 1821. This article, in fact, requires that importation be forbidden when the price is under 161. for the first class, 14f, for the second, 121. for the third, and 10f. for the fourth. On the other hand, it requires that the supplementary duty should be applied pro gressively up to and including the prices of 191. 171. 151. and 131. There is, then, at present, three intermediate rates between the maximum and mi nimum rates on rye and Indian core. As to them, the maximum is 41. 25e., while it is only 3f. 85c. on oats, which admits of only two intermediate rates .as to which the prohibition commences sooner than on rye and maize. Five degrees on rye and maize cannot be maintained at the same time with only four on the others. We propose therefore an addi tional paragraph as follows :- The maximum of 31. shall be applied to rye and maize, when the price has reached 161. in the first class, 144 in the second, 121. in the third, and 10f. in the fourth. The minimum of 25e. shall only be levied as soon as the prices reach 181. 161. 141. and 121. The second omission is in flour. The present rule is as follows : Flour, like corn, is subject to a permanent duty, that is to say, to a minimum, which remains eligible even after the supplementary duties have ceased. This minimum is regulated as follows If imported in it French bottom — Coming from the productive countries, 50c. per 100 kilogrammes; coming from other countries, 2f. 50c. If imported in French bottoms — When the supplementary duty is exigible, 2f. 50c., when it is not exigible, sf. _ Thesupplemen'iary duty per 100 kilogrammes on flour, is equal to the supplementary duty on 3 hec tolitres of corn. Thus, according to the present lard, the smallest duty on flour imported under a foreign Aug, is M., since the permanent duty is only reduced to 2f. 50c. when the supplementary duty is added, which al ways raises the duty above the 51. Such a mini mum, although not unobjectionable, might be tole rated when the same flour, introduced on the same terms in a French bottom, might be subjected to a minimum of 2f. 60c., in consideration of the place of production, but this is a distinction which we would not certainly think of maintaining as to flour, when we abolish it as to corn. And as the minimum duty on flour imported under the French flag is in every case to be reduced to 60e., it would be intolerable that the same flour, under the same circumstances, should be subjected to a minimum of M. because it arrived under a foreign flag. Such a surplus would be exorbitant, and out of all proportion with what affects the foreign flag, on the importation of corn. It would be so if the new law were silent as to flour; and we therefore propose a second paragraph to do away with the distinction as to the place of production for flour as well as corn, and to maintain the minimum of 60c. per 100 kilogrammes for flour imported in French bottoms, and reducing the minimum to 2f. 25c. on importa tions in foreign bottoms. This surplus will be neatly In proportion to the duty of If. per hecto litre on corn, As to the supplementary or intermediate duties, they will continu e to be levied according to the old law ; that is, they will remain the triple of those on corn. This is the time to observe that it is inconsistent to double the duty per hectolitre on corn for the 100 kilogrammes of flour, when it has been thought necessary to triple the intermediate rates. This dis proportion would cease if we were to make the mi nimum 75c., hut we have thought that any increase would be misplaced in a law, the objects of which are to remove ob , tacles and create facilities. We return to the 2d, which substitutes the mar ket of Lyons for that of Hem-mice, to propose it in i ts order to your approbation. The 3d article is as follows: When, in consequence of the legal price, im partation in any seaport shall have ceased, the car goes which shall happen not to have arrived in time, but which shall have been despatched in good regularly proved by the exhibition of bills of lading, shall be admitted on payment of the highest rate of duty." Nothing can he more proper than to give to honest commerce a guarantee against a contingency w hich in spite of all fores►ght Might constantly place it in the alternative of abstaining from an operation useful to the country, or of being pre vented from realizing its object at its place of desti nation. But it is necessary that this guars►►tee should only be given to honest dealings. The dates You have not forgotten, gentlemen, that in 1825 a law was passed for the express purpose of subjecting to the conditions of a real entrepot those foreign corns which till then had enjoyed the greatest facili ties of a fictitious entrepot. At that period, and for several years before, a suc cession of good harvests had Membered our mar kets, and produced a great reduction of pricer. Modern prices are an advantage to the population, but we must not be afraid to say that extreme cheap ness is an evil to the producer, and a discourage ment to production. The law came to the assistance of both, and it is to that period of plenty which this piece of legi,lation belongs, which protects our markets by duties up to a certain limit, and beyond that limit by prohibition. Was the measure exces sive at that period ? And was it likely to produce circumstances which were afterwards to lead to the opposite evil ? This, gentlemen, is what you will have to examine at the period of the revision of the law which is promised us. But whet cannot be doubted is, that the more we endeavour to exclude foreign corn from consumption, the more it is neces sary to facilitate the warehousing system, either to indemnify the speculator in his foreign relations, when he is interdicted from all transactions with the home market, or for protecting resources which may always be ready for seasons of scarcity. But tho late, which is all-powerful against exter nal competition, has no effect on that which is in ternal. Propitious seasons continue to succeed each other, and prices to decrease. The proprietor suffers, and often unjustly : take, for instance, the entrepot of Marseilles. It has been signalized as a permanent means of fraud, and an active cause of the deterioration of prices. Its suppression has been demanded. It has been !armed by the public officers, and has been demonstrated, that the abuse, if that flame can be given to some slight differences, favoured, perhaps, by the mode of weighing and measuring, was imperceptible in its effects. Com plaints were not less eager, and it was thought in dispensable to concede something to the alarm uni versally spread over twenty departments, and which, by the very circumstance which created them, had aggravated the evil for which they required a remedy. The principle of the entrepot was maintained, but the conditions of the real entrepot were substituted for those of the fictitious entrepot. These conditions ore, that the commodity shall be placed in warehouses, united under one roof, in the neighbourhood of the custom-house, and under the key of the officers. It was well known that at Marseilles at least, the only port where foreign corn was warehoused in large quantities, such conditions, if rigorously exe cuted, would make the trade impracticable. It was therefore declared beforehand, that it would be ma terially modified in its application; that, in place of requiring the buildings to be all under one roof, a great number of separate buildings would be allowed, insisting only on their being situated in the same quarter of the town; that the depositors should be entitled to require that the warehouses should be opened whenever they thought it necessary to work or turn the corn ; and that there would be no objec tion to increase the number of officers, in order to meet the wants of this particular traffic. These arrangements, to which many others have been added, have only served as a palliative. No concession could, in fact, be sufficient for a commo dity which requires daily attention. The restriction against working until after the warehouses were opened by the officers, and at the hours to which the public service is limited, could not fail to be a perpetual source of opposition, loss of time, and ma terial damage. No concession could atone fur an other loss, which consists in tine private warehouses remaining unoccupied, while rent and other expenses were paid for those which were situated in the only acceptable quarter. These inconveniences are felt more or less in all parts; but it is at Marseilles that their severity is the greatest. In consequence of local wants, which are more frequent in that part of France than any other, or in consequence of this warehousing system, which has id waya been the life of Marseilles, im mense quantities of corn have, tit till periods, been carried thither from Italy, Sicily, Africa, and now from the Crimea. In all quarters of the town an immense number of warehouses have been built at great expenee; either by merchants or by proprietors unconnected with trade, and which are known only by the names of miles au bM, in consequence of their special, and in some degree exclusive destinatiou. Bence the in conveniences, so much the more annoying, and charges the more burdensome, in proportion as the trade to which it applies becomes more extensive, and lage properties becoming useless in the hands of their possessors. Such is the consetleence to Marseilles of the rule of real entrepot, after all the care which has been given to its modifieution. But is the system a necessary preservative egalnst serious abuses ? It is affirmed by the official func tionaries now, just as it was affirmed by them six years ago, that the fictitious entrepot, us applied to corn, had never given rise to any but insignificant abuses, They have even &clued that more emir:- ties have been found in the fictitious than in the real entrepot. That is easily understood. In the former the depositor engages to verify either the re-expor tation or the consumption of the whole corn he has registeted at the custom-house. The differeitee, , whatever its cause may be, is at his cost—'-a condi tion which is justified by the confidence which the law reposes in him. In the latter, on the contrary, by the very principle which requires that no opera. don shall take place, except in presence of the officer, while in fact the multiplicity of simultaneous operations makes such surveillance very often illu sory, the depositor is absolved from all responsibi 14 for those deficiencies which, if be be unfaithful,' may have himself created for his own adviottage. Fewer words might have sufficed, gentlemen, to point out the convenience which bus been approved by experienee, 4 and which bus satisfied every tote rest. But we have to consider the abrogation of a l aw , and we were bound to neglect nothing to con. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Messager drs Chambra of Ort. b.) PARIS, OCT. 4. M. Alexander Von Humboldt urriveil ut Paris yesterday. We learn that Ikl. 41a Werther, Minister Plenipotcatiary of his Altijesty the King of Prussia at Paris, has received his credentials to his Majesty Louis Philip I. (Correepoudeoce of the Messayer des Chandires.) MUNICH, SHPT. 27. On the 24th, 25th, and 26th there were some disorders here. The regiment of cavalry in garrison refused to do duty, under pretext that it was ill paid, and treated arbitrarily. The other troops of the garrison were sent against that regiment. The people took the part of the regiment of cavalry, and some blood was spilt. The combat was chiefly in the suburb called the Au (the meadow). Prince Charles, the Kingla brother, riding through the city on horseback, was wounded in the arm by a musket-ball. The people loudly demanded the change of the Ministry, winch they considered as devoted to the Jesuits. •The pre se►tee of the king, who arrived here on the 26th, has calmed the people's minds a little. One of his Majesty's first measures was to change two Mini.. steed. M. J. Pfcffel, Ambassador to the Court of France, is named Minister of Foreign Affairs, and M. ittidhart Minister of Finances. At the moment of my writing, numerous patrols parade the city. The Burgher Guard does duty. The night has been perfectly tranquil. MADRID, littn. Yesterday arrived here Don Jouquim Magalloo with despatches of the highest importance, addressed by the Emperor of Austria to our Court. Being by chance at Vienna, his relationship with our Minister at that Court caused him to be intrusted by the Emperor with this mission. His Majesty has tran mitted to the Council of State the contents of these despatches. Nevertheless, nothing hiss yet transpired to satisfy the curiosity excited among the diploinstie body, particularly at Count Brunette's. The king and Queen of Sicily have authorized Don Francisco and his consort to be their proxies as sponsors for the young Prince of whom it is hoped the Queen will be delivered. His Majesty has just sent a decree to Don Lon►a de Cordova, allowing him to travel in. Italy for the recovery of his health. He retains his pout of Mi nister Plenipotentiary at Berlin without being pet mitted to come to Madrid. (From the austitutiowsel,) THE BELGIAN QUESTION. PAP S, O("t'. 3. The diplomatic negotiations relative to Belgium cannot be dismembered of two facts—ht, the conew plate and absolute separation of :Belgium from Holland; 2d, the cessation of rule in the House of Orange. Every other arrangement would be essentially vicious, and would excite storms. We make this remark because we understand that the English Cubinet would proceed in its diplomatic measures upon the assumption of an arrangement beta can King William and the Belgians, upon the grounds of an administrative aunt constitutioeut separation of Belgium, but which would !entre it still under the House of Orange, &twee the shots have furrowed the streets of Brussels, every arrange , ment of - this kind has become Impossible; iiisteed of ending the diipute, it would make it , mote bitter ; it would be a subject of vexation and discord.. The forfeiture•of the House at Orange is an event which is accomplished. The diplomatic negotiations can, therefore, only enter upon a prospective question, upon the admit- Ilion of Belgium, constituted a distinct nation, amongst recognized powets. 'When once this question is admitted, all the others will adjust them. selves. The iudependence of Belgium gets over a vest difficulty. As to the form of government which B e l g iu m will adopt, of what consequence can this be to Europe ? Whether a federative republic or an inde. pendeut State, she cannot disturb Europe ; her in., terms are altogether distinct from those of France Prussia, and England; the new governm ot site may choose will not interrupt the getieral peace. The proceedings against the • Society of the Friends of the People, of whielt we gave en account in yesterday's Paper, is a new and u hundred -times repeated proof of the enormous error committed in retaining the magistracy of Charles X. It is a great evil ut all times, and especially ut the cos meirco. anent of u political regeneration, and the outset of a new government, not to yield to the vaiee of piddle opinion. In unch u ruse, the nationuf sent un tat list! surest WO best Ruts reason. 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