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class of trial, shall be indemnified by such travelling ex penses as the tribunal may determine. Art. 30. This allowance is to be paid out of the fund to be produced by the fines imposed on the offenders by sentence in these causes, and which are to be deposited in the treasury of the province ; which establishment shall supply the deficiency in case of need. TITLE FIFTH.—Of the mode of proceedings. Art. 31. When the denouncement of a work shall have been verified, the regent of the audiencia shall cause three of the magistrates of the said audiencia who are to form the tribunal, to be drawn by lot, whose president is to be the elder of the three ; afterwards he shall also cause twelve from among the judges de facto to be drawn by lot from among the whole num ber, and shall have the names of those thus selected written down in a book to be kept for that purpose, handing a copy to the president of the tribunal, in order that those individuals may be immediately summoned. Art. 32. When the tribunal shall have assembled, it shall first of all proceed to render effective the regulations contained in article 28, against such judges de facto as may not have presented themselves to fulfil their duty ; and to exclude by lot such among those present as may exceed ten; which num ber alone are to execute their functions in this matter. Art. 33. When the president of the tribunal shall have re ceived from the ten judges de facto the oath to well and faith fully fulfil the obligation confided to them, they only shall retire to another chamber to examine the publication denounced, and after having conferred together upon the matter, they shall declare whether or no there are grounds for entering an action. Art. 34. This declaration shall be by an absolute majority by ballot. Art. 35. The declaration shall be signed by all the ten Judges ; and the first who shall be selected, by lot; their President, shall convey this declaration to the President of the Tribunal. Art. 36. If the declaration should be that there are no grounds for commencing an action, all further proceedings shall cease on account of this very fact. Art. 37. If the declaration should be that there were grounds for commencing an action, the President of the Tri bunal shall forward the denouncement and the declaration in favour of proceedings to the Judge of First Instance, in whose jurisdiction the work was published, in the forms here inafter stated. Art. 38. In consequence of this last declaration, the Judge shall immediately proceed to suspend the sale of the copies on hand of the work ; this to be verified by the person or per sons who are responsible in the eye of the law ; and the said parties shall be arrested if the publication shall have been de nounced as subversive or seditious. In other classes of crimi nality the Judge shall confine himself to requiring from the re sponsible parties a surety or bail sufficient to meet the results of the trial. In case the party should not fulfil these conditions he must go to prison. Art. 39. When it shall be declared that there are grounds for commencing proceedings with respect to any publication which has been denounced as defamatory and abusive, and it shall also have been ascertained who is the responsible person, no further proceedings shall take place until it shall have been proved that the medium of conciliation has been ineffec tually tried, according to what is prescribed in the provisional regulation of the 26th of September last ; or in the way which may hereafter be settled by law. Art. 40. Notwithstanding what is provided in the preced ing articles under this title, it is declared that if any publica tion should be denounced as a defamatory and calumniatory libel, it is not to be submitted to the previous declaration of the jury (juradoj as to whether or not there are grounds for instituting proceedings, in as far as the defamation is con cerned. As to the calumniatory part, proceedings will go on, without any necessity for such declaration for verifying the responsible person and whatever else is prescribed in the pre ceding article ; the cause being commenced at once, in which no other delays shall occur, nor any replies allowed, beyond notifying to the responsible party the denouncement, and fixing a sufficient and peremptory period in common, with the other party, in order that, by citation of the latter, the imputation denounced as calumniatory may be proved, without admitting exception or tergiversation of any kind ; nor any writing which may not have for its object to resolve or facilitat e the said proof : and thus the trial shall proceed as in those cases in which the grand jury (jurado primcro) shall have pre viously declared that there were grounds for instituting pro ceedings. Art. 41. For the carrying on of the trial the cause shall be banded to the President of the Tribunal, who shall imme diately make the following preparatory arrangements : First, —He shall cause a certified copy of the denouncement to be handed to the person responsible for the publication ; and another, or a copy of the denounced work, in order that he may prepare his verbal or written defence. Second,—lle shall at the same thee regulate that the parties or their repre.seutatives shall appear in the presence of the tri bunal in public audience ; and in the same manner as was practised for the folmation of the first jury ; then shall be se lected, by lot, from thetotal list of the judges de facto, the 15 who are to forwl the second jury. Third,—ln the order in which the names of the said judges (or jurymen) shall be drawn, the denouncer of a private indi vidual and the accused party may each challenge 15 of them, without being required "to give any meson whatever; but neither the one nor the other will be allowed to make any more ehallentzes, unless they can allege some legally deter mined blemish against any of the others whose names may be drawn by lot. If the denouncer should be the fiscal, he may also challenge, without giving any reason, as far as eight of the aforesaid judges (or jerors) and others against whom any le gally determined blemish can be alleged. Fourth, When there shall be two or more informers, or to o or more persons reponsible for the denounced publication, those of each party Shell come to an agreement in order to exercise jointly the right of challenging ; for among the whole there can never be a greater number of challenges than that mentioned in the preceding paragraph. Fifth, The fifteen first judges de facto who shall be named by lot, without being challenged by either party, shall be those who are to concur in the formatien of the second jury. Sixth, Those who may have been judges (refuel° in the first (or grand) jury, cannot be so ill the second, if the same pub lication be concerned; and those who, upon any other cause, may have been judges de facto within the fifteen preceding days, shall have a right to decline serving. Seventh, \Viten thus the number of fifteen judges de facto shall have been completed, the tribunal shall cause them, and the parties to the cause, to be summoned for a certain day, hour, and place, for proceeding to the trial in question with the least possible delay. Art. 4". When the judges de facto shall have assembled in the presence of the tribunal, the latter shall, first of all, proceed to execute the regulations contained in article 32 ; reducing the number of judges de facto to twelve, who shall take the same oath as was madt by the first jury, and the trial shall commence. Art. 43. This trial shall take place with open doors; the accused party, as well as the denouncer (or informer) being allowed to attend, and to speak either themselves, or by their parties representing them. Art. 44. Afterwards the president of the tribunal shall make a recapitulation of all that may have passed on the trial`, for the information of the Judges de facto (or jurymen), who shall retire to a room close at hand, in order to confer upon the matter; and they shall there decide upon the publication Recording to Articles 5 and 6, Tide 11., expressing whether in the case before them there be aggravating or extenuating circumstances. This decision shall take place by the absolute majority of votes, and by ballot. Art. 45. This having been done, they shall return to the public court, and the first who was nominated by lot, and who shall act as president (foreman) on this occasion, shall place in the bands of the president of the tribunal the decision as to the nature of the publication, signed by ail the jurymen, after having read the same in a loud voice. Art. 46. As well in the declaration of the first (or grand) jury, as to whether there were grounds for proceeding to trial, as with regard to the second,• for declaring whether the ac cused party be criminal or net, and in the statement of the ag gravating or attenuating circumstances of the offence, it will always be required to meat-ion the number of votes for and against. If in either of these votings an equality of votes should ensue, it is to be understood that the declaration is in favour of the accused party. Art. 47. Afterwards the tribunal shall cause the Act to be applied according to the decision of the jury. If the publica tion should have been absolved from the denouncement, the accused party shall be ordered to be immediately set at liberty, or the security or bail he may have procured to be released from responsibility ; taking off also the embargo from the copies of the work which might have been detained, and de claring that this proceeding ought not to occasion any pre judice whatever to the reputation and good name of the party interested. Art. 48. In the contrary case, according to the decision as to the nature of the publication, the president will impose upon the accused party the penalties awarded by the pro sent law. Art. 49. The certificates aad sentences, of whatever nature they may be, shall be published in the official bulletins, and in the Government Gazette, for which purpose the President of the Tribunal will transmit certified copies of each to the se veral editors. Art. 50. If in cases of defamation, of calumny, or abuse, the party denounced should claim damages for what his in terests had suffered from the publication, which may have been condemned on the trial, the Tribunal whenever it may con sider that the fine prescribed by Article 12 is not a sufficient indemnity, may augment it in as far as may appear to the Tribunal to be just. Art. 51. The party who may lose the cause shall be con demned in the costs ; but no condemnation in costs shall take place upon the proceedings having taken place by fiscal denunciation the publication shall have been dissolved, and there shall not appear to have been any malice on the part of the denunciator ; if such sho.uld appear to have been the case, he must pay the costs. _ _ _ Art. 52. The three Law Judges, of whom the tribunal is composed, may deliberate secretly among themselves, in order to agree upon their sentence ; but they must deliver it at that sitting; it being sufficient that two out of the three votes be entirely in conformity, in order to form a sentence, which shall always be pronounced in the said public audience, by the President. Art. 53. When a publication shall be declared to be of a criminal nature, it belongs solely to the t r ib una l to d ec l are t h e p ar ti es guilty, and to condemn or absolve, after having admit ted the defence of the parties ; and having heard the indirect co-operators and others comprised in Article 20. Art. 54. It belongs to the ordinary tribunals, without the in tervention of the jury, to condemn the printer wand others who may contravene the dispositions contained in Articles 18, 19 21, 22, and 65. Art. 55. In the judgment in which the jury intervene, there can only bo revision in two cases : first, when the tri bunal may not have imposed the penalties pointed out by law ; secondly, when on the trial the regulations and formalities prescribed by the same law have not been observed. As to the first, the sentence K ill be confirmed or amended ; and with regard to the second, the sentence will likewise be con firmed, or its nullity will be pronounced; and a new trial will tckc place. In both cases the sentence not being con firmed, those who have committed the fault will be considered responsible. The application for revision must be made within three days, and shall be freely granted. In such a case five other ma gistrates of the audiencia shall be the Judges, who, on the day appointed, shall inform themselves of the result of the written cause, shall hear the parties and their counsel, without any necessity for the assembling of the jury; and they shall definitely decide. Art. 56. Every offence for abuse of the liberty of the Press produces excess (desafuero), and the delinquents shall be tried by the Judges de facto, and those appointed by law, according to what is prescribed by this law. Art. 57. The judges de facto alone shall be responsible, when by full legal proofs they shall be found to have been suborned. TITLE SIXTH. —Of Lithographed _Writings, Paintings, En- gravings, and Prints. Art. 58. Lithographed writing shall be considered as printed publications in all respects with regard to this law ; and paintings, engravings, and prints of whatever class they may be, shall enjoy the same liberty as printed publications, and shall be liable to the same responsibility. Ti rLE SEVENTH.- Of Periodicals. Art. 59. Periodicals shall also - be printed and published without being subjected to a previous censor ship ; but, be sides being liable to the same responsibility as other publica tions, they shall be subject to the following : Art. 60. For the first announcement or publication of a pe riodical, a licence must be obtained from the civil governor in whose province it is to be printed; who cannot refuse to grant this licence when it is duly proved that what is prescribed in the two following articles has been complied with. Art. 61. Two persons at least, who, according to the opi nion of the said Civil Governor, possess the due guarantees by their social position and literary capacity, must present to him a declaration in which, under their signatures, they shall con stitute themselves the responsible authors of whatsoever may be published in the periodical. The quality of elector for Deputies to the Cortes shall be sufficient of itself to be a responsible author. Art. 62. The editors or proprietors of the periodical must also deposit in the Bank of San Fernando, or in the power .of its agents in the provinces, the sum of 40,000 reels (4001.) in specie in Madrid, and 20,000 reals (2001.) also in specie, with these agents ; or a quantity respectively double in credits of the consolidated debt. This deposit shall serve to render effective the payment of the fines which may be incurred. It shall always remain untouched, and shall be returned to the parties interested when the periodical shall cease or be sup pressed. Art. 63. To the editors—proprietors of periodicals, which may now be in the course of publication, a period of 15 days shall be allowed for making the declaration prescribed in Ar ticle 61, and two months for completing the deposit required by Article 62, reckoning from the date of publication of the present law. Art. 64. Periodicals exclusively devoted to science, the arts, and literature, are excepted from the regulations contained in the three preceding Articles. Art. 65. Articles communicated to the editors of periodicals by the authorities, or by private individuals whose conduct may have been censured in those journals, shall be inserted entire in the next number after the receipt of4hem ; and the editors shall not be allowed to suppress nor change a single word of the contents of those articles under a penalty of from 1,000 to 3,000 reals (101. to 30/- ) Art. 66. If a periodical in the course of a year should have been convicted three times of criminal abuses of the Press, with all the formalities of the law, it may, in addition to the penal ties imposed by the said law on its editors, be suppressed—ac cording to the seriousness of the cases. Art. 67. When the Civil Governors may consider u periodi cal, or an article which has appeared therein, to be capa ble of exciting to sedition or popular commotion, they may, under their own responsibility, suspend the circulation of the number or numbers which they may consider to be dangerous; and will proceed according to what is prescribed as to other publications in Article 23 of Title 111. Tau, EIGHTH.—Of works which treat of Religion and the Holy Scriptures. Art. 68. Works which, hy Art. 2, of Title 1, remain sub ject to the license of the Ordinaries previous to publication, shall be presented for that purpose; and the license cannot be refused, although the corresponding censorship may not pre viously have taken place. Art. 69. The result of this censorship shall be communi cated to the author or editor, in order that if he should not be willing to conform himself thereto, he may, in reply, demand a see:sAl Art. 70. if this should ' 1. • tie , zo- inter:,ssted may bare recourse to the Government, wk. _.., hav ing consulted the Royal Council upon the clatter, will definitely decide in conformity with its opinion. Art. 71. The laws and decrees concerning the Press, which are not derogated by the provisions of the present law, remain in full vigour. ( Signed) JUAN ALVAREZ MENDIZABAL, ALVARO GOMEZ, MARTIN DR LOS HEROS. Madrid, Dec. 18, NICHOLAS' SPEECH AT WARSAW. POLAND. The Berlin political Wochenbtail, of the 19th Decernkr, has the following article : " For reasons which the reader will easily appreciate, e e have hitherto taken no notice of the remarkable Speech of the Emperor of Russia to the Deputies of Warsaw, er of the truly unbecoming attacks which the Journal des Debats of tri coloured ill-humour thought fit to make on the language of the Monarch. With respect to the Speech, it seems that we ought clearly to determine the point of view in which aline it can be properly judged of. It is manifestly very different whether a Sovereign (even when he has reason to express disapprobation) addresses subjects that have been attached to his House by ties that subsisted for centuries, or to such as k have lately become his subjects—or, lastly, to the latter— after the quelling of an insurrection, when he, besides, feels convinced that the vanquished are less defigient in inclination than in means to repeat the attempt. The Emperor Nicholas was in the last situation. The second case occurred when the Emperor Alexander regulated the future situation of his new Po lish subjects who had come under his dominion by the right of conquest, recognized by all Europe ; for let it, not be forgotten that the Duchy of Warsaw as one of Napoleon's allies in 1812 waged an open war against Russia, that it was conquered in fair battle, and on the conclusion of peace ceded to the con queror, by its Sovereign, against whose legitimacy even liberalism itself did not venture to . allege a doubt. In what spirit the Conqueror spoke to the Poles, and acted for them, is notorious to the whole world. It knows likewise, that the most favoured subjects of the 'Monarch began these insur rections by an attempt to murder his brother, and confirmed by declaring the deposition of the house of Romanoff. It learns from the speech, that secret instigations, proceeding from foreign countries, are still carried on, for the purpose of bringing about a repetition of those scenes, which have already brought incalculable evils on the country. This is, in plain words, the state of the case, and what is surprising in the matter is chiefly that this (certainly disagreeable) state of things is exhibited clearly and unveiled, whereas in the greater part of the rest of Europe the official assurances of attachment and loyalty, even where their hollowness is notorious, are ac cepted, at least apparently, at par, and in many places it seems to be adopted as an axiom, that if we can succeed in blinding ourselves and others to a danger, it ceases to be dangerous. Such a mode of treating the subject was equally contrary to the clear understanding and the manly character of the Em ' peror ; he spoke the plain truth, and it is not his fault if this truth has a harsh sound. It may be lamented that things were come to this point, but no impartial person will blame the Monarch for seeing them as they really are. Perhaps there are many points in Western Europe, from which the most violent outcries have proceeded, where such language, though not advisable, w o uld b e con f orma bl e to t h e trut h ; and it is notori ous that in sonic cases, that has been actually done there which was here only spoken of prospectiveiy; , but we are far from intending to institute a comparison, because the difference of personal situations will not admit of it." The Leuchtharme, a new Frankfort paper, has the follow ing remarks on the speech of the Emperor:_" Let us sup pose that the Municipal body had made a humble speech to the Emperor—that, in the name of its nation, it had said a Paler peccavi—let us suppose that the Emperor, though con vinced in his mind that this was all hypocrisy, had in the usual style promised in gracious terms oblivion of the past, had laid the blame of the insurrection on the ringleaders, who had fled, and shown himself as an easy placable Sovereign to his de luded now repentant subjects—what would the Journals of London and Paris have said then? They would have re proached the Municipal Body with miserable cowardice, and base treachery ; at the best, they would have ascribed the ex pressions of repentance to fear of the chastisement of Russia ; and they would probably have told the Emperor that he abused his exalted station, in expecting an unhappy nation to feign sentiments which it did not feel, and to pretend in his answer to believe in the sincerity of a repentance, re specting the real value of which the truth could be no secret to him. Thus, however the speech at Warsaw had been framed, it would have been sure of being latterly censured." AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vmms, Dec. 22. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Bank Shares —Allgemcine Zeitung, Dec. 27. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaussELs, Dec. 20 Actual Debt, 214 per Cent , Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent. lO O l4 Loan of City, 183 Four per Cent. 99h Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent l4O Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent ll5 DUTCH FUNDS—AMSTEIWAM, Di:C. in Money Bills. Actual Debt, 21.4 per Cent 54 543‘, A wort Syndic, 434 per cent 9l 94 1-16 —Brussels Papers, Dec. 31. On Monday evening last, as Mr. Philip Woolcott, of Sherborne, was on his return home in his gig, his horse took fright in Marson-road, and fell ; the carriage was upset,• and he was thrown out with such violence that he ruptured a blood-vessel in the head, producing apoplexy. He was taken home in a state of total insensibility, and me dical assistance was immediately procured ; but, notwith standing all remedial means were promptly resorted to, we regret to add that he died the following morning. An in quest was held upon the body on Wednesday, before Mr. T. Fooks, coroner for the division, and a most respectable jury, when a verdict was returned of " Accidental death." —Sherborne Mercury. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 18b6. 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S. —lf any order arrivesafie; imthediately returned. y Ntin be NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. SUN OFFICE, JA N. 1, 1836. From this day Advertisements will be received at THE SUN Office up to Two o' Clock, and in serted without any extra charge. The extraor dinary speed of our Machinery, which prints at the rate of One Hundred Sheets per Minute, enables us to delay going to Press much later than other Papers ; and this extension of time will, we trust, be found occasionally very convenient or those who may be delayed in getting Advertisements ready for the usual time of going to Press. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at Three o' Clock. -0 , -. .0 Vitt :: ,-; ,f•-, ... ~..--, ,80., , ,-,g).-- • . - ,;-;.,-. 4 44,te1e,4: ' - , r.e.7. 4 i - -i- , -_,,, - \ , ,,,,\ N 5 , ,,, , -... ..e, ...„,,,,..,,w...„ ,5.,11 feudal chiefs who governed them—the Circassians have for nearly a century been able to bid defiance to the military forces of Russia. The Imperial arms have often devastated the beautiful vallies lying at the foot of the mighty precipices of the Caucasus, and not a few of the Uzdens_or Nobles, together with their faith ful retainers, have perished in the dungeons of the fortresses erected along the banks of the Terek and Kuban for the defence of the Russian territory ; nevertheless the tribe of KABIRDI asserted the inde pendence of a region which its valour had freed from the yoke imposed upon it by the Sophis of Persia. The Circassians are a brave, warlike, independent, and hitherto, a free people. They are the mortal foes of Russia ; and in fact present the only barrier between her and the subjugation of a great part of Persia. Despite of the efforts that have been made to destroy them, they have, within the last ten years, rapidly in creased in numbers ; and as they have considerably abated feudalism among themselves, so as to neutralize by customs regarded as inviolable, the absolute power claimed by the Uzdens, they have risen to the dignity of a people, who, independent of their situation, are de serving of the protection of every free, enlightened, and just Government. We know the answer which Russia is prepared to make should we remonstrate against her invasion of Circassia. She would say to us—" You know no thing of what I have endured at the hands of this stiff-necked, proud-crested race. I have built fortresses along the Terek to protect my territory against its predatory excursions ; I have made it an offer of my friendship, a guarantee sufficient to protect it against every enemy. I have even offered to extend to it that civilization which renders the presence of my arms a boon and blessing to the conquered ; yet how was I repaid for these proofs of my disinterested regard ? The Uzdens dared to refuse me a passage for my ar mies, though dispatched by.me in aid of the authority of my ancient and beloved ally the SULTAN ; and when I proposed to chastise certain miscreant rebels who dared to raise the standard of revolt in the Otto man empire, I found myself bearded, and even thwarted, in my noblest designs by this handful of ungrateful barbarians 7 . Yet think not that I propose to con quer Circassia on my own account. The territory would be useless to me. What I seek is the chas tisement of certain Uzdens who have dared to enter into conspiracies against the SULTAN. You see my hands—they are bloodless. My heart is still, if possible, more innocent, My designs towards the Cir cassians are those of a benevolent' power, who sees with regret the errors of those whom it has cherished, and who, by employing a vigorous, but wholesome re straint, desires to prevent the recurrence of evils which the wise and good must equally deplore. But why alarm yourselves ? You are powerful. If Ido evil, do I thereby prevent you redressing any wrong which I may have the misfortune to inflict upon you ? But dismiss your terrors. My imperial word is a sufficient guarantee that I only seek to benefit those who seek to blacken me in the eyes of Western Europe-- the inhabitants of Circassia." Such is in substance the language which Russia would employ till she had gained her object—such in substance is the language she has ever employed in similar emergencies. When cities present but a heap of smoking ruins—when fer tile plain's are devastated by the arms of victorious Generals—something more than th roar of British cannon is required to re-build, re-peopre;. oLtra re enrich. the former, and to re-cultivate the latter. Merchants are not generated by the smoke of gunpowder, nor are husbandmen increased or rendered more industrious by a shield which only protects when danger has passed away. To act wisely, we must act in time. It is a bitter mockery to evince displeasure at the sight of chains, if we previously stand placidly observing their imposition, with cries of " help ! help !" ringing in our ears. The people of England may hear with indif ference that the independence of . .a race so in significant as the Circassians is threatened by Russia ; and may •even-be tempted- to ask—What are • the liberties of the Circassians an(l Georgians to us ? Th e q uestion will he a nswered to our cost, should Russia be able, by this route, to penetrate to India, and so contest with us the sovereignty of our Eastern Empire. Should Circassia be added to the Russian territory, the fall of Persia—the Poland of the East—will soon follow ; and then will England know of what importance it would have been to have responded to the prayer of the brave people who, for • nearly half a century, have defended the passes of the Caucasus against the devastating hordes of Russia. We have heard, with some surprise, certain pre sumptions on the future policy of Europe, put forth by the political organ of the high Tory party—the • Otandard. According to that journal, the Tories only are capable of forming a government with abili ties to counterbalance the intriguing policy of Russia, and with power capable of resisting her aggressions. Our contemporary, in common with all Tories, is not blessed with the best memory in the world. Of Course he has entirely forgotten Sir ROBERT PEEL'S appointment of the Marquis of LONDONDERRY, as Ambassador from Great Britain to the Court of Russia ! The sentiments of the Noble Marquis with respect to the fall of Poland, are, unfortunately for himself, too well known. He saw in the destruction of Polish independence, only the merited prostration of " rank" rebellion ; and yet this is the Nobleman whom the Tories dared to select, to repel the aggres sions of the Nero of the North ! And even were this not sufficient to undeceive the country with respect to the present Tory squad, what need is there to look beyond the copy of the despatch from Prince LIEVEN to Count NESSELRODE, written during the Wellington Administration, to which we devoted a rather long ar ticle in our impression of yesterday ? That despatch is an imperishable record of the incapacity of the "-Greatest Captain of the age," as a ministerial nego ciator with such an adroit power as Russia. We re peat this with all due deference to the military genius of the Duke of WELLINGTON. We are confident that his Grace's sword would soon correct the errors of his pen ;. but every Tory Chief is not exactly a Duke of WELLINGTON ; and in the figurative language of the East, " If these things happen to the green tree, what may not happen to the dry ?" Russia has already broken down her western barrier let England beware lest she also break down the only one which impedes her progress in the East. 'What has been done in one quarter may be done in another—un less we instantly interfere to prevent it. By saving Circassia, we shall save our - Indian Empire ; by suf fering it to be lost, we sacrifice our Eastern possessions. The whole of the Paris Papers of Wednesday have been received. _ They speak of nothing but the Royal Speech on Tuesday, upon which we made ample com ments in The Sun of yesterday. On all sides, and by every party, the Speech is viewed exactly in the light in which it presented itself to us. There is a great deal of talk about plots and conspiracies ; but some well-informed persons in the office of the Mi nister of the Interior, M. TIMMS, have not hesitated to assure their friends that no conspiracy was detected, for that none existed—at least with the design of at tacking the sacred person of the KING. - - - PARIS, DEC. 30.—The Moniteur says nothing of the reports of a plot and of arrests which engaged the attention of all Paris yesterday. It is affirmed that M. Ilumann shrinks from the responsi- bility of the presentation of two projects of law on the appan age of the Duke of Nemours and the portion of the Queen of Belgium. M. de Broglie will, it is said, take on himself this ministerial demand. Wo may expect to see the Minister of Finance;in return for this kindness, shortly present some project of law which properly falls to the department of foreign affairs. The only way in fact to render a burden more easy, if we cannot get rid of it, is to change shoulders.— Impart ial. The Isabella 11. steam-boat, belonging to the Spanish Go vernment, had entered the river to receive at Bordeaux part of the uniforms which the house of Vasquez and Company is having made up for the Queen's troops, but the ice preventing it from going up the river it has been obliged to put to sea again. Three of the companies of Gonfalonsere and- Silvio Pellice, imprisoned in the Castle of Spielberg, have just obtained a commutation of the punishment of carte duro to transportation to America. Their names are Foresti, Borsiere, and Cas tiglia, who were condemned in 1821.—Messager, Dcc. 30. FRENCH FUNDS.—Peso, Dacrotaxa 30. Five per Cents., 108 f. 30c. c. 49c. 35e. Four and a Half ner Cents. 102 f. Four per Cents., 99f. 50c. Three per Cents. 30f. 15c. 10c, sc. 20c. Bank Actions, 3,110£ Bente de Naples, 97f. 75c. Roman Five per Cents., loig. Spanish Astives, AIN 4 49%. Spanish DifTeres, 24% 25. Passives, 16 15% 16. Royal Spanish Loan. 38. nentePerpet.d'E.pagne, Five per Cent., 3 4 . Belgian Loan, Five per Cents ., 101!4. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 53% ilaytian Loan. 4301. 4:13f. 417 f. 50c. EXCIIINGE ON LONSON. One month, paper, 25f. 52'; c. ; money, 251 524 c. Three months, paper, 05f. 37e. ; money, 25f. 37A c. —Cours Boutin THREE o'CLocx.—There has been very little fluc tuation to-day, and not much business done. The Three per Cents. at Tortoni's were done at 80f. 15c., but at the Bourse they have recovered a little. The Spanish stock has fallen a little; this is not ascribed to any nevi s received from Spain, but proceeds rather from realizations of profits. QUARTER TO FOUR.—Five per Cents., 108 f. 55c. ; Three per Cents., 80f. 30e. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, 24i ; Gueb herds, 38 ; Differes, 181; New Loan, —; Actives, 49i; Passives, 16 ; Ducats, 97 85 ; Romans, 101 i; Pedros, Belgians, 101+; Dutch, ---f. —c. ; Haytians, 425 f...-c. ; Aliguels,,,-; Brabant Bank, Belgian Bank, 14 ; Cos tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, 25 ; Five per Cent. Pei pe tuella!, 38. We have advices from Lisbon to the 26th ult. On the 25th two vessels sailed from Oporto to Spain, with troops, ammunition, &c., to reinforce the Constitutional army. Rumoui s then existed on the probability of a speedy change of Ministry. We give in another part of The Sun a copy of the Spanish Ministerial project of law respecting the li berty of the press. It is an important document. Were we not prevented by the length of our Maga zine notices, we would devote an article to the consi deration of its details, object, and probable effects. In referring to the City Article in the Times of Wednesday, on the subject of the Danish claims, which will be found in another part of our Paper, it is with regret we feel ourselves obliged to express our fears that Ministers do not understand their position as regards the Danish question. Their real friends ex pected that they would have acted up to those princi- . ples which the Whigs from 1807 down to recent times have professed to hold, as to the iniquity of retaining the spoils obtained from the seizure of Danish private property, and the imperious necessity of vindicating the national character, by appropriating out of its pro ceeds the sum necessary to compensate those who suffered in consequence of that seizure. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE There are moderate arrivals this week of all kinds of Grain, and a fair return of flour. The Wheat trade continues without variation from Monday, and the sale dull. Barley, Beans, and Pease, unal tered. Oats Lind buyers slowly at last rates. Flour unvaried. 11r'I , tvA.LS. I Wh et. Barley. o;rloqrs I 10;260,irs IrIs!) Fercign SIOTHFIEL The supply to this day's market dull, at the following PRICES rEn. STONE OF 8L s. d. to s. d. Interior Bezzsts Second quality ditto 2 ti 3 2 Prime large Oxen 3 8 4 0 Prime Scch. &c. I,arge coarse Calves 3 8 4 6 Prime small ditto ..... 4 8 5 0 Sickling Calves each l2 c 28 0 SUPPLY, AS PER CL] Beasts Sleep J ,700 • /%iVVGATE AND LEADENII ALI, MARKETS. At per stone; 4,y the Carcas4. • • • - s *I. Ws d s d. to s "d. . , ,f, int', rior --- midd1ing.........., 2 6 2 8 - middling '' S 3 0 -- prime large - prime '3 4 3 -S -- prime *mat - 2 4 3 6 Pork, large ,:o 3 8 Veal THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY). CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The arrivals this morning are a French and Ostend mail— ship letters from Calcutta, 20th Aug., old date ; Batavia, Buenos Ayres, China, St. Helena, Valparaiso, Pernambuco, and Demerara. Bombay papers have been received of a later date, but do not contain any news of importance. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Those who wish to obtain the latest Parliamentary News, had better give orders, without delay, to their respective News-agents, to insure SECOND EDI TIONS OF THE SUN. A Second Edition will be given every Night during Parliament, containing the Debates in both Houses up to the Hour of Post; and upon all extraordinary occasions, EXPRESS Editions will, as usual, be forwarded all over the Kingdom. The circulation of THE SUN has greatly increased during the last year, upwards of Two HUNDRED THOUSAND Copies having been.. sold more than during the previous year. - „, )V,* ,111,1,4-N+ iZT.) LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1836. THE NEVir YEAR. REFORMERS, BE UNITED! This day commences a new and auspicious era in . : the MuniCipal Corporations of England and Wales. Misrule, corruption, and self-election, give place to order, integrity, and independent manly suf frage. The great body of the people are made the guardians of their own property, rights, and li berties. This is but fair, and just ;--increasing pros perity, kindlier feelings, the gradual extinction of party prejudices and factious political views will be the happy consequences. To achieve great ends, concert and perseverance are indispensable. These have hi therto been fearlessly, temperately, and trium phantly displayed by the people of England. But though much has been done, much y e t remains undone. The Reformers throughout the empire should impress on their :Representatives, before they depart for the metropolis, the extent of their grievances, and their determination to insist upon all salutary reforms, whether in Church or State. Minor differences of opinion should he sunk for the general benefit. Union among Reformers, whether in or out of Parliament, ought to be the watchword with all men who wish well to their country. As Know ledge is power, so Union is strength. Reformers have therefore but to continue UNITED, and victory] is sure. The coming Session of Parliament promises to be one of the most interesting and important that has occurred for many years. Let the people but do their duty in supporting a Liberal and Reforming Ministry, and their representatives in Parliament must do theirs. We beg to direct attention to the copy of the Cir cassian declaration of independence, addressed to the Courts of (Western) Europe, published in another part of The Sun of this day. It is only necessary to read this document to be satisfied of its authenticity. Protected by mountain fortresses covered with eternal snows, and still more by the daring character of the TBE FUNDS. Consols at present continue stationary, at the leaving-off price of yesterday, 921 s for the Account This being New Year's day, it is not expected that much business will be done. India Bonds, 2 3 ; Exchequer Bills, 13 15 ; Bank Stock, 212 213; India Stock, 2561 257 f. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active Bonds, which closed at 504, opened heavy this morning, and receded to 491 50 ; Portuguese, 844 a ; 3 per Cents., 55f 56 • Columbian, 32}, ; Mexican, 38f ; Dutch; 21. per Cents., 54: 1 1. The City is very dull owing' to the badness of the weather, and but few operations doing in either of the markets. HALF-PAST ONE. We have no further arrivals to the present hour. The bad ness of the weather prevents the usual attendance on 'Change, and causes a stagnation in the operations of the various funds. Consols have continued during the morning at 921 for the Account. Scarce a bargain doing. In the Foreign Market the speculations are limited to Spa nish Active and Portuguese Securities. The former continue at the receding price of the morning, 491 to 50 ; Portugicsc have improved, owing to the Bills due this day being pro vided for, 841 ; Three per Cents, 534 to 541, Ex. Div. ; Colombian, 324 ; Mexican, 381 ; Dutch Two and a Half, 54 4 Ex. Div. THREE OCL 0 CK. Consols for the Account, 924 On Christmas day the thermometer, at Salisbury, at eight in the morning, stood at 18 degrees below the freezing-point. A correspondent of a Morning Paper says, that as two of his sons, boys at home,forn school for the Christmas holidays, were passing up Regent-street on Wednesday, a miscreant put a card into their hands, inviting them to a gambling-house. At Vary-le-Francais, last week, a man named Paul Bernard, died in the 104th year of his age, who enjoyed all his faculties - to the last. A pear, of the St. Germaine species, has, been this year groivn in the garden of a clergyman near Salis bury, of the extraordinary size of 14i inches in girth, and 17i inches long. A pauper:whilst in the course of examination as to his settlement, before a bench of Magistrates, not a hundred miles from Arundel, was asked, among other ques tions, whether he was born in wedlock. " No," replied the man, " I was born in Midhurst."—Brighton Gazette. A certain Alexander Day is advertising for a wife in a New York Paper, He's "A. DAY after the fair." MARRlAGE.—Marriage in England is seldom pro moted by a genu i ne di s i nterested love, but is the rusult of that spirit of calculation and foresight, which so eminently characterises the nation.--P. Anichini's Remarks on Mar riage, 4c. Lord Sefton continues indisposed at his residence in Arlington-street, and his dinner parties have been there fore discontinued. The Earl and Countess of Abingdon have been placed in mourning by the death, at Wytham Abbey, of Miss Gage, sister to the Countess, and to Rear-Admiral Sir William Gage. The Marquis of Hertford, accompanied by the Mar chese and Marchesa Di Salsi, are now on their route from Milan to Naples, where there are, however, at pre sent, fewer English fashionables residing than have been known since the peace, owing to the alarm created by the cholera. The Marquis waited at Milan,for the restrictions relating to the quarantine to be removed. The Honourable Colonel Henry Molyneux, son of Earl Sefton, has embarked for Malta, to assume the com mand of the Ist battalion of the 60th Royal Rifles, •to which he was recently appointed. BRIBERY.—Two more cases of Tory bribery were brought to light yesterday by the Dublin Commission.-- Morning Register. DEVIZES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR—Devizes bas at length redeerned its honour. On Sa turday lait, the - bUrgesses of the North Ward elected by a considerable majority nine decided Liberals, being the whole number of councillors allotted to each of the two wards, into which the borough is divided. In the South Ward, the Tories being stronger, and the Liberals not so united arid active as they ought to have been, only two out of the nine chosen were Liberals;, the seven were members of the old Corporation. Two or three, how ever, moderate men. , This day, the Council met and elected their six Aldermen, one from the Council and five from the Burgesses, and to their honour be it written, all firm and consistent Liberals, and men of respectability and talent. The gentlemen elected, are— NORTH WARD. SOUTH WARD. LIBERALS. Mr. Bullock. Anstie. OLD CORPORATORS AND TORIES. Mr. Butcher. William Tanner. Joseph Tanner. William Chandler. John Neate, jun. John Crook. John Bayly. Fowler. Wall ( Alderman for six years). Paul Anstie. - Whitchurch. James Randell. Robert Valentine Leach. Charles Hook. Dr. Brabant, Alderman for six years. Mr. Richard Biggs, ditto ditto. Robert Waylen, ditto three years. Thomas James Heard, ditto. William Cunnington, ditto. SOUTH WARD. Mr. Henry Saunders }Councillors. William Bently C ar t wr i g ht Seven or eight more votes would have secured the election of three more Liberals, in place of three of the Tories. But when it is recollected that the Liberals made no canvass, and spent no money in the election, and that the Tories canvassed most actively, and kept the public-house near the Town-hall (the place of voting) open the day of the election, and had recourse to the various tricks of changing the voting papers, getting names erased, &c., and threatened and cajoled the needy and the ignorant of the burgesses—it must be confessed that the election of the Town Council consists of sixteen firm Liberals, and only seven Tories, is a triumph for the Liberal party, and a most decisive proof that the inhabitants of De vizes are favourable to the principles of liberty and reform, and a fair augurY that the day is not far distant when they will return to Parliament two Liberals ; notwithstanding the in fluence of a neighbouring estated gentleman and his wily Tory friend, whose power is so greatly augmented by the lucrative ()Me he- holds under a Whig Government. Hbw long ,will this anomaly last ? I am Sir, yours &c. A REFORMER. Devizes, Dec. 31, 1535: NORTHAMPTON,-THURSDAY. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The Tories in this borough have gained all that can be de sired. They have succeeded in getting three Councillors, and the appoinment of the Mayor. Yes ; the appointment of the Mayor !—and that, too, a day before the time. They have proved themselves in this case to be the better generals, and we are defeated. The circumstances are briefly these :—At three minutes before twelve o'clock today, Mr. Charles Markham, a red hot violent Tory, got up and proposed that Dr. Robertson take the chair. There was one of the Liberals absent, and as both parties' Were equal in strength, tit.: absence of one gave the Tories the majority. One of the Liberals, Mr. Sharpe, spoke on the indelicacy of commencing so soon ; and the wor thy gentleman sat down. He kept his seat but a few seconds, for, immediately on the parties commencing, he again rose and made the.same motion. Mr. Sharpe met it by a counter motion—" That he do •not take the chair ;" and while the eight Liberals were holding up their hands on that question the ninth entered, and as the motion was not again announced he did not vote on it. The Liberals therefore lost, and Dr. Robertson took the chair. After that the Tories named their six Aldermen; and it was only by a compromise that 'the Libe rals have been enabled to get three. The compromise was— that the late Mayor, Mr. Charles Freeman, once a Tory, then a Whig, and now a Tory again, should be Mayor for the year ensuing. That question will no doubt be settled to-morrow as it is decided, to-day ; and, therefore, it will be needless for me to write another word on the subject. DAVENTRY. D MARKET. t was not great, and the trade was R. TO SINK THE OFFAL;. S d. to s.d. Inferior Sheep 2 4 2 6 Second quality ditto Coarser-woolled ditto 0 4 310 Southdown Wcthers Large Hogs Small Porkers._ . 4 0 4 4 Quarter old Pigs each 10 0 14 0 .ERK'S STATEMENT. I CaliCS. I • Pies 180 280 (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The Tories have got nine men in the new Coune4, and the Whigs three. There has no doubt been some manucevring here ; for Mr. Burton—that Town_ Clerk -who, at the timo the Reform BilL was-before the House of Lords, rendered notorious—that very Mr. Burton actually opened bere the ballotin g papers were plac e d, an d went papers with the Mayor. Whether those two wor thies did anything more is not known, though it is Strongly believed here that foul play has been practised. Oats. • insar - S6 n,rarT cirs., (I; sac s 13,670 - the box wi over those MAIDSTONE. ELECTION OF ALDERMEN. The following is the list of Councillors as declared on Monday HIGH-STREET WARD. C. Ellis, ironmonger 137 J. Heathorn, brewer 133 T. Hyde, chir.aman T. Pybus, timber-merch.... la s.W Edmett, draper KIND-STREET WARD. J. Laker, builder R. Cutbush, plumber_ lB3 J. Mares, druggist ...(T) 165 J. Gurney, ironmonger 179 T. Johnson, butcher STONE-STREET WARD. R. Williams, auctioneer 90 J. Mercer, banker ...(T) 84 J. Arckcoll, grocer B7l WESTBOROITGH WARD. T. W. Allen, builder 39IT. Tassel, build er ...(T) 34 H. Simmonds, merch. (T) 34 1 12 Reformers, 6 Tories. Yesterday the Council met for the purpose of electing six Aldermen. The Court was more crowded than it had pre viously been for many years After the ceremonial of swearing in the Councillors, /qr. C. Ellis was voted into the Chair. The following six gentlemen, all Liberals, were then pro posed by the Liberals :—Messrs. T. Smith (of Tovil), H. Collis, John Warwick, John Allen, George Prentis, and John Green, jun. Mr. Mercer, one of the most slippery of the Tories, depre cated this appointment of liberality in choosing all Liberals, and, with the other Tory Councillors, proposed three Tories,. namely, W. G. D. Tysscr, Esq., Mr. J. Hollingsworth, sen., and Dr. Welsh. The Liberals were, however, all carried tri umphantly, amid the enthusiastic demonstrations of the people, and`to the indescribable consternation of the Tories, to whom this step is a death blow. They had evidently calculated that the Liberals would have had the false liberality to return some of the corruptionists. We are happy to say, however, that our_Councillors are stanch to matt, and determined to act on principle alone. The choice of Aldermen has given the most lively satisfaction to the people of Maidstone, who have, by their late election, redeemed the name of the town from the odium which the venality of the old freemen had brought upon it, by returning a Tory to Parliament. NEW SOUTH WALES. Late and interesting information was received yesterday from New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. At Sydney, much injury had been done to the crops by the rain, but the flocks of sheep had experienced little damage. Wheat had advanced to 10s. per bushel, and fine flour to 241. per ton. There were expected to arrive from England one thousand bushels of wheat. Potatoes were at from 12s. to 13s. per cwt. Several grants of money had been voted by the Legislative Council for the use of the colony, &c. For the year 1836, the sum of 14,3681. 12s. had been appropriated for the Episcopalean Church ; 3,550/. for Parochial Schools ; and about 6,0001. for the Orphan and other. Schools ; 1,3001. for the sending of Missionaries to the Aborigines ; 30,0001. for promoting emigration from the mother country in 1836 ; and 8,000/. for the expenses arising from the arrival of emigrants in 1835, under the direction of the Home Government. Much dissatisfaction had been felt by the colonists, at their being obliged to provide for' the police and gaol establishments out of the colonial revenue. There had been laid upon the table of the Council a minute directing that a further loan should be raised on behalf of the Treasury Chest, in consequence of the short supply of British silver, occassion by the non -arrival of an expected quantity. The security to be given for the proposed advance was to be Treasury Bills. Yesterday advices were also received from Van Dieraen's Land. The following is an extract from one of the journals:— " His Excellency Governor Bourke, has received an an nouncement from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, of the intention of the British Government to declare the whole of the Continent of New Holland part and parcel of the Bri tish Empire ; and it is further intended to nominate a Lieute nant-Governor snbordinate to the Governor of New South Wales, with an appropriate civil and military establishment, to reside at Port Lincoln. A settlement is also to be formed either at Cape York or some other eligible position at the southern extremity of the Continent. Communication is to be opened by land, with the least possible delay, between all the settled points of the great Australian Continent. " It is, however, distinctly understood, that the policy of the Sydney Government, encouraging the spread of popula tion, allowing all persons who may choose to march forward into the interior, as was, and is the case in America, is not to be interfered with. It is distinctly admitted, that the Exe cutive Government has not authority—(we say nothing of power)—to interfere with that valuable advanced guard of ci vilization, by means of which the growth o f woo l an d t h e in crease of ? cattle have reached their present extent." From the accounts it appears that the Enchantress had been wrecked near the place where the convict vessel, George the Third, had been lost. The p assengers and most of th e crew were preserved. Intelli gence h a d b ee n brought by th e captain of the Enchantress th at t h e M a deline bad been wrecked off the Cape de Verds , and the whole of her valuable cargo lost, but the crew were saved. , To-day the new Town Councillors are to elect their Mayors, to appoint Sh e riffs in certain towns which the Act specifies, and to meet for the first time at twelve o'clock, and quarterly afterwards, except on special summonses. The town...clerks, treasurers, and -other officers are also to be appointed to-day. us, w be wi partic ghost that he v c, q made inter‘ the r Man— guag ( a few down astir • soleir, I mind ccena spirit (pet, Shep purel read, Who a mi ( the fi th e fe to th, " A.l be nc of s i r nainc mare of h, cease she Poste by r, facts Bt. th e Terr chid tig er zatio wort Dral the whic of n artic with a pa Is a Lou "T Ole] the tion rea l nor an whi nes!