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The Chamber proceeded to the discussion of the Bill authorizing the provisional collection of taxes for the year 11333, M. Eusebe Salverte did not mean to oppose the Bill, St least as far as the collection of taxes for two months (which he considered quite sufficient) was concerned, be cause he was aware that it was not expedient to clog the march of Government at such a moment, but he wished to be understood that the Chamber did not pledge itself to continue the direct taxes of 1833 on the same footing as those of 1832, because he trusted that some means would be found of reducing them. He then complained that on the Ist of January, 1833, there would be a deficiency in the Treasury of 277 millions, and a floating debt of 287 millions, which he contended it was absolutely necessary should be reduced. As means of doing so, he suggested a More rigid application of e revenues of the Crown LaLandsto their proper object and the adoption of a law to limit the amount of retiring pensions, which he corn- Plained were increasing every year. He concluded by stating that he should propose as an amendment to autho rize Government to receive the taxes for the first two months only of 1833. he'l Mi n i s t er o f Fi nances , a f ter com b at i ng t h e objec tions of various orators who had spoken against the mea sure, urging the necessity of according the grant to pre vent the public service (some parts of which, particularly the Departmental works, required immediate supplies)from being impeded, said that the state of the Treasury was not to disastrous as bad been represented, since the indirect t axes promised a progressive improvement in proportion to the increase of a feeling of stability, and he had every lope of being able to effect a diminution of the public burdens, by a reduction of the interest on the Five per Cent. Stock. He declared the impossibility of any altera tion being made in the direct taxes during the year 1833, but renewed his assurance that Government was actively e mployed in maturing the means of modifying the system in every part, and that the result o f th ose l a b ours wou ld be submitted to the Legislature in the year 1834. He t herefore begged the Chamber to give Government time to carry its plans into effect, and not now to refuse a grant Which was necessary to the public service, and which, by the mode in which it was framed, would have the advan tage of saving a considerable expenditure of time in the f ormation of the lists for collection. He reminded the Chain be r that as this was not a vote of the Budget, but ° ay of the direct taxes, any diminution of expense which Might be found practicable in discussing the Budget, might be employed to diminish the indirect taxes. He then examined in detail two measures which had been sug gested for the alleviation of the existing taxation—viz., a s ubstitution of a property tax for the personal tax, and a Progressiv e ly i ncreas i ng ca pit a ti on t ax , b o th of which he considered as involving difficulties which rendered their sduption impossible. He also stated that an abolition of t he wine dui) , would be impossible, without ruining the %lancet, of the countryitfishd concluded by assuring the C hamber that the Governient wished only to obtain the s upport of the country by its sincere and steady efforts to effect every economy and retrenchment consistent with the Public service. —(Loud applause.) The general discussion was then declared to be closed. (From the Messager des Chambres.) The National and Quotidienne of yesterday were seized. There is a report of reinforcements - being sent to Ancona. A chest, containing the flags taken in Africa, has ar rived at the War-office. The cholera has re-appeared i❑ some of the hospitals of psis, but not hitherto with sufficient severity to cause serious anxiety. (From the Nouvellistc.) One of the Morning Papers says that M. le General Soli Mac is about to leave Paris immediately to rejoin the arty of Don Pedro, of which he is appointed chief of the *ta fr. He will be accompanied by M. le Colonel Duver gl") chief of the st,,fi under him. 4,Z.R-P-Not FUNDS.-Dec. 8.-Five per Cents., 98f. 25c. 35c. 45 e. 40c. 45c. 35c. 4Ec. 35c. 25c. 20c. 10c. 25c. 20c. 15c. 10c.; 1 - ',;„ n of 18...%!, 98f. 40c. ; Four and a Half per Cents, 90f. 50c. ; io"r Per Cents. 81f. 50c. 75c.; Three per Cents., 681. 40c. 55c. At • 45e. 40e. 35C. 30c. 2.1 k. 15c. 10c. • Treasury Bonds for Aril, #34Y , June, 3 3 :1, ; Bank Actions, 1,690 f. ; Rente de Naples, Sit. air We. • Ren'te de Itomain,79 j7•g%•74; Rented'Espagne, Five a i r Cent., 13 13 ;Ileac d'Espagne, Three per Cent.,3l 30% 49 ',Royal Spanish Loan, SOIA %; Bente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, "",_% 59 58% ; Belgian Loan, 77 77 1 ,44 77 76%14.- 65 'e nange on' London, one month, paper, 251. 65c. ; money, 25f. • ; three months, money, 25f. 55c. PLEDGES. A great deal, if not the whole of the dispute I ;Jout pledges, as it has l a tterly been carried on, ihees upon a verbal quibble. What the constituents—the honest ones, we - "an—wish to know, is the present slate of the ero ldidate's opinions. Such an inquiry has never been denied them, in ar ty state of the representation. It is essential to a ui scriminat e election. He is an enemy to the con stituency and the candidate equally, who would deny it now. N 0 011 e is more opposed to what is called " tying 11 Membe r nec k an d h ee ls" than we ourselves are; bu t We have a perfect right to know what kind of a N, I "nber he is that we are about to leave free. t i APplying this principle to the case of Sir John ebhous e , we wou ld demand, and we hope it will e demanded of him, what are his present opinions Of Assessed Taxes—the Newspaper Tax—the 4110 t —Triennial Parliaments ? Are they the same , '147 were ? Are they changed ? Are they free ? o re they fettered ? If he be an honest man , he ght to answer ; if he be a wise man, he will. He vi l t Y have changed, upon conviction, and for reasons w the constituency may approve; he may have th rt te und er o bli gat i ons t h at are t an tamount to a 4 .:thge. The e l ec to rs h ave a r i g ht t o know how 4 tters stan d b etween hi m an d hi s co ll eagues , i n :trader that they m a y d e t er mi ne h ow ma tt e rs are to • nd between him and themselves. hi The ant i- p l edge argument, now so much i n vogue yhtitain quarters, if not a di s h ones t, i s a t l ea st a m;:tiling one. There is no man fit f or a can did ate ° does not k now hi s own m i n d, or w h o scrup l es , declare it. To tell the public what he thinks c ° "'3 does not bind him, in the face of sufficient evi enee to the contrary, to think in th e same . vay a ,I velvemonth hence. What the people really ask 1 ,.! , that no m an s h ou ld go i n t o t h e H ouse of Com ntis, of wh ose present sentiments, on any point pat they deem important, they are ignorant or `lO übtful.—Spectator. 'n F r id a y night the principal pro tem. of I ts s • .octety of Clifford's Inn, proposed as a toast, " Baron It was received With the most boiNterous and ,:uty applause, by one of the most numerous parties that 4 a 4 seriablrd within th e H a ll. Thi s s i mp l e f act i s a dditional p roo f o f th e unpopular i ty of t h e war aga i nst Poat. The polling for the cities of London and West minster, and five metropeliton boroughs, commences this day. The length of our reports of the pro ceedings on Saturday, will not allow us to do more now than merely advert to the present elections. We hope, for the credit of the people, they will return to Parliament men of probity, sound princi ples, and abilities to give effect to them. The character of the candidate is a matter of first-rate importance. It is highly proper that the electors should be satisfied with regard to the principles of the candidates ; but liberal professions are not alone to be taken as a proof of the possession of liberal principles. If the principles be but newly taken up, they may be as speedily laid down. The profession of good principles, at a time when it was no advantage to profess them, ought, unquestion ably, to weigh much with electors. We are satisfied that, upon the whole, the new Parlia ment will contain a great majority of honest and deserving men, who will discharge the trust con fided to them most conscientiously. The constitu ency has been sufficiently enlarged to exclude the chance of the preponderance in the returns of the interests. - of separate We have no doubt that the men sent to the new Parliament' will introduce a new wra into the finances of the country. To an honest. Ministry, an 'economical and retrenching Parliament will be a source of strength—not of weakness. They injure the pre sent Administration, who represent them as jealous of candidates disposed to support an un sparing economy. Tha 'truth is, if Parliament do its duty, Min;sters will be emboldened to do theirs ; for as the Conservatives want place merely to squander the money of the people, and to support abuses, they are cut off from all hope of being able to supplant an economical and Reforming Ministry. The Ministry may lose themselves by placing their reliance on any other foundation than that of the people; but on the foundation of the people they will remain immoveable. One feature in the pre sent elections proves, we think, pretty decidedly, what the complexion of the new Parliament will be. There are every where candidates previously but little known, and depending chiefly on their pro fessions. Everywhere these candidates seek to conciliate the electors by the liberality of their principles. This, we think, proves the general con viction, that very liberal doctrines ara the most po pular. We do not hear anywhere of any man, who has only professions to recommend him, professing Conservative principles. From all this it may be inferred, that the idea of a Reform Ministry strength ening themselves by holding out lures to Conserva tives, is a precious piece of absurdity. If good and honest men be returned to Parliament, the Ministry must also be honest. An honest Ministry ought to wish to have an honest and economical Parlia ment. The people do not distrust Ministers ; but they are now discharging a duty to themselves—. the returning of men who will support Ministers if they are found deserving of support (which, we trust, will be the case), and no longer.—Morn. Chronic/e. The deplorable unpopularity of his Majesty's Mi nisters is placed in the strongest light by the pro ceedings of Saturday in the metropolis. Every where but at Westminster the crowds assembled in front of the various hustings were not able to restrain their feelings within the ordinary bounds of elec tioneering license. At ‘Vestminster only, where an official representative appeared before the as sembled multitude, was any personal outrage offered wan) , candidate. The former favourite of the mob, Sir John Cam Hobhouse, and his patron Sir Francis Burdett, were the individuals selected from the whole number of metropolitan candidates to mono polise the complimentary salutations of cabbage stalks, turnips, potatoes, and mud, their claim to this distinction being simply that Sir John is Secretary at War under Earl Grey, and that Sir Francis has been so foolish as to identify himself with the elec tioneering fortunes of this victim to his alliance with a detested Ministry. That no more dangerous missiles were employed upon this occasion, con sidering the odium in which Ministers and all connected with them are evidently held by the mob, or, to use the now discarded term by which Ministers were formerly in the habit of describing such assemblages, by the people, and considering,' too, the lessons of lawless violence which Ministers and their partisans have been constantly instilling for two years, is a fact which it would seem diffi cult to explain, unless by the supposition that some traces may yet remain of a compact very recently dissolved, and that brick-bats, bludgeons, and pa ving-stones are weapons which are still deemed ap propriate only to the peculiar occasions in which murderous mobs and revolutionary Ministers are in close confederacy with each other. The terror by which the Ministerial candidates are agitated, lest those whom they used to designate as the people should employ against their own precious persons that kind of lawless violence which the present Ministry, and all connected with and apper taining to it have hitherto so sedulously and anxiously patronised, is at once ludicrous and instructive. This agony of apprehension has compelled them to draw their purse-strings wide enough, or to draw upon the secret service money of Government, which is probably much the same thing, so deeply as to induce the Times to write against the violence of mobs, to affect contempt for the power and authority of mobs, arid even to extol the vigour of the Magi stracy and the efficiency of the police. It must have cost the Times much every way—much violence to the nature and habits of its conductors—much loss of circulation among the classes to whose gratifica tion its lucubrations have been studiously and syste matically adapted for so long a period—to publish such a passage as we are about to transcribe. There must, of course, have been a suitable equivalent of fered on the part of those whose panic compelled them to invoke this unparalleled tergiversation. The compensation must .have been enormous, and the terror in the same degree overwhelming, for hear the brickbat and bludgeon Journal of the King's present Ministers:— " There is a report—of which, and of the grounds for it, the civil authorities are well apprised—that some of those disaffected and lawless men who have been habitual attendants at the Rotunda and other non-.reputable places, have prepared plans for obstructing in tlitir progress to the poll such voters as go to support Sir John Hobhouse in Westminster, Mr. Babhage in Finsbury, Mr. Portman and another respectable candidate in Murylebone, and so on. This projected ruffianism there are abundant means to crush. If Colonel Evans have not that influence which we are sure he would wish to have with his own declared partisans, to keep them from committing acts of outrage upon the persons of his adversary's voters, he may de pend upon it that there is another influence amply suffi cient for such a salutary purpose. There is now at the disposal of the Magistrates a body of 4,000 or 5,000 stout policemen, one-tenth of whom would break to pieces in a few minutes the most daring mob that ever showed its ...... . face among the streets of Westminster." The old thirst for blood, the habitual delight in the contemplation of " broken heads," the incen tives just as before to " strike in their faces," are here visible enough, the only difference being that For a sufficient consideration our contemporary has been for once induced to transpose the agent and he victims. \Ve believe that the admonitions and the threats of the Ministerial journal are as unne cessary, in the actual temper of the lower orders of the people in the metropolis, as, from the emi nent past services of that journal to the cause of Ministers, we are certain that if necessary they would be inefficacious. Ignorant and stupid as are the mobs of every great town, they are not so ignorant and stupid as their former flatterer now affects to consider them. They know when they have friends in high places. They know when the subordinate authorities of the State may ex pect reward and promotion, and when they must calculate upon prisons and prosecution on the part of their superiors for the vigilant and vigorous dis charge of their duty. They will, therefore, not meddle with Sir Francis Burdett or Sir John Cam Hobhouse, or their voters, otherwise than by those somewhat rough but characteristic and ordinary ex pression of their opinions which have always been to lerated upon similar occasions, and, if they were dis posed to do so, they would scarcely be dissuaded from their purpose by the moral or prudential homi lies of the " brickbat and bludgeon" Journal. The Secretary at War did not, we hope, expect to be sprinkled with rose water and perfumed by incense at this election. His whole political life has been spent in teaching the people to expect much that he as a man of ordinary sense and ordinary educa• tion must have known to be impossible. He has taken office, and more than this, he has taken the particular office which more than any other was sure., to plai7e his official and his unofficial opinions in the most striking contrast, and upon a subject too with respect to which it is not dishonourable to have been easily misled and inflamed by such men as he was when he was the popular Member for West minster. Is not this enough to try the patience and temper of the people ? That the opinions upon this subject upon which Sir John has acted since he came into office are the cor rect ones may or may not be true ; but it is certainly true that they are the opposite opinions to those which he laboured for years, and not without success, to instil into the people. The magical wand by which he is transformed has not been applied to them, and, as is quite natural, they bestow upon him the full measure of hatred and contempt which he truly earned, not by acting upon sound principles in office, but for teaching erroneous principles when in , opposition. The appointment of Sir John Cam Hobhouse to the office of Secretary at War was an outrage upon the feelings of the people whom he had misled and inflamed, of which no other than a Whig Administration could by possibility have been guilty. The people of England will never, we trust, be flexible and servile enough to please the Whigs, who evidently can be satisfied with nothing less than that the public should have two sets of principles and two sets of feelings, to be laid aside or produced alternately at their pleasure, which pleasure is to be wholly dependent upon the circumstances of their party being in or out of office.—Morning Post . The metropolitan nominations on Saturday last went off without riot, and that is all that can be said of them. As for anticipating any results in favour of this or that candidate from conjectures founded on a mere " show of hands," nothing, of course, would be more foolish. The multitudes which on such occasions flock round the hustings, from idle ness, curiosity, or political excitement, are seldom, indeed never, composed of electors; they represent the rabble feeling, and none else, and are invariably partisans of that candidate who will go the most extravagant lengths towards an overthrow of law and the substitution of disorder and licentiousness. At Covent-garden the mob received the " Rump" champion with acclamations, which, as Colonel Evans is a gentleman, must have severely humbled him. Amongst the marks of opprobrium with which it was their purpose to visit Sir John Hob house, some of these fellows, we are told, exhi bited cats-o'-nine-rails, as if the present Secre tary at War were not one of the most strenuous advocates for the cessation of flogging in the army. It is difficult to imagine a perversion of truth and justice more disgraceful than is implied in the charge against the present Secretary at War—that he is averse to the abolition of all such unmanly and revolting punishments. Were there no other proof (although it is but one of a thousand) that Sir John Hobhouse watches with intense and un remitting vigilance the treatment experienced by the British soldier from those whom he invests with authority over him, we might refer to his conduct in the affair of Major Wyndham and private So merville of the Scotch Greys for a complete refuta tion of the calumny. Those who make it a crime in Sir John Hobhouse that he has abridged his own free agency by his acceptance of office under the Reform Cabinet, are not, perhaps, aware, or have chosen to forget, that in the case of Somerville the Right Hon. Baronet actually made his retention of the War Secretaryship dependent on the institution of a rigorous inquiry into the facts at issue between the parties. He carried his point against the frowns and peevishness of those whom it was difficult to deal with, and the consequence was, a strict inves tigation and a full disclosure of the truth. Col. Evans, not a month ago, declared that Sir John Hobhouse, as Member for Westminster, had " done nothing ►o forfeit the confidence of the constituency." Yet, ill his official character of Secretary at War, he had long before that period brought in the Annual Mutiny Bill. By the " mob-led" Colonel's former declaration, therefore, the proposal of the Mutiny Bill by Sir John Hobhouse was no political delin quency ; yet we find him in his harangue from the hustings, on Saturday, dwelling on that official and unavoidable act av one which evinced in the Secre tary at War a signal inconsistency and dereliction of public principle ! It carries a sort of laughable suspicion with it, that this tool of the " Rump," and plaything of the rabble,—we mean the voluble and pledge-bound Colonel Evans, should fall with so heavy a hand upon the new police, as a force so much less eligible than the " ancient and reverend" watchmen. The reason for getting rid of the old watch was, that they watched nothing, they pro tected nothing; had they cost the parishes but half-a-crown per thousand, it would have been so much money thrown away. The police, on the contrary, have become a most efficient and trust worthy protection to life and property. They cost, it is said—but we are not sure with what justice — considerably more than the discarded old women of the parishes, and so they ought ; they perform some valuable service,—the watch, as we have said, did not perform any, or worse than none, for they were often in league with offenders. But the especial distinction of the police force is, that the mob are everywhere in fear (f it. Is that the mo tive of the " mob-led" candidate for evincing such hatred of the police ? Does he really wish that the rabble should have carte blanche—that every candi date who resisted mob law should, with his voters, be at the mercy of the mob; and that by outrage and brutality of every sort all electors should be driven from the polling booths, save only those in the interest of the " Destructive" candidate ;—is that, we ask, the scheme of Colonel Evans ? If so, it is worthy of some at least of his supporters. But it is an additional ground, we submit, for the deter mined opposition of all honest men, to send such candidates as Colonel Evans about their business as speedily as possible. So in Marylebone. We have already touched on the appearance of versonage of ihe name of Murphy in that quarter. The question asked by every body is, what business has be to to draw upon himself the attention of so important a borough ? However, a day or two ►will dispose of him ; his light ►will go out for lack of fuel. But really one ►would think that all Bedlam, to say nothing of private madhouses, had broke loose when Sir something-or-other Whalley mounts the hustings of Marylehon , . What are this Knight's preten sions ? Was he bred a Statesman—for we know not what other profession has yet rejoiced in him ? Is he a man of independent fortune, or, what is more important, of independent c' aracter ? The electors have a right to ask. It is their positive right to know his history, and all that concerns him—to know his political principles, and whether he is of the Reform or " re-model" school. There are, without disparagement to any others be it said, two gentlemen among the candidates for Marylebone, who could riot disappoint any reasonable expecta tion that intelligent Reformers would entertain at the hands of their representatives. Mr. Portman's name and reputation as a landlord and Member of Parliament, are ample guarantees for the discharge of the most important duties. The Solicitor-Gene ral, Sir William Horne, is a public functionary, brought forward by the Reform Government, and, having their confidence, would neither betray it nor his own professional character; he is a learned and upright gen tleman,Col. Jones, again, must always have our personal kind wishes in every honourable under taking; but if he feels that he cannot possibly succeed in Marylebone, we need not ask him, as au upright and generous man, what course he would pre scoihe to another candidate, similarly circumstanced as he is now, in the actual state of parties. In Finsbury, we will not for a moment allow ourselves I to believe that Mr. Babbage's election can be injured by Mr. Wakley. An infamous attempt has been made to represent this enlightened man as the ad vocate of negro-slavery ; as if intelligence and bar barism could ever be associates ! For the general results of this election we have no shadow of alarm : generally speaking, we are confident that the bulk of the House of Commons will be worthy of the intelligent and high-principled constituency from which it will spring. Mere pretenders will not bear close examination. Let but due care be taken by the civil authorities that the public peace be not flagrantly violated,and that the electors of all parties have full protection from all personal outrage, and the nation can have nothing to apprehend for the general character of the first Refer:Med Parliamen In the course of the present week, the elections will have begun, and in the metropolis and its dis tricts have finished ere its close. The Times still continues its ravings against pledges, and its denun ciations against the party it terms the " Destruc tives"—by whom are meant all those who dare in any county, city, or borough, set themselves up in opposition to a Ministerial Whig. Under this dread, it is calling on the Conservatives to join the Whigs, rather than contribute to the triumph of the Radicals or " Destructives." In this line of con duct the Times is acting a strange contradictory part. One day it is accusing the Conservatives of setting the country in a flame by calling public meet ings to oppose the Dutch war, and the next, it is in. viting them to join the Ministerialists in their endea vours to withstand the progress of the Radical " Destructives." For our parts, we see no danger in the event of the success of the latter. They, we are persuaded, have no desire to violate public faith or injure private property—at the same time we believe it is their wish to cut down our expensive establishments to the lowest possible point con sistent with the welfare of the nation. Such a course of action would probably be as unpalatable to a Whig as to a Tory Administration, for when in power each is in a degree compelled to be the de fender of abuses which it is unable or unwilling to remedy. " Economy," as a writer in the Morning Chronicle well observes, is "destruction to all wbo profit by abuses and extravagance—if the spider could speak, it would term the besom destructive." The Times, intending, no doubt, to support his Majesty's patriotic Ministers, is labouring hard to divide the Reformers into two parties,—those who would treat the Reform Act as a final measure, and those who are bent on obtaining from that Act a great many important consequences. With this view, the Times is become all at once highly Con- servative. I❑ language worthy of the — Morning Post or the John Bull, he attacks those electors who require, and those candidates who give, pledges; bestowing on them the title of " Destructives," which he has taken either from the Standard or Blackwood's Magazine, who frequently use it when speaking of the Ministers and their supporters. Now the fury of the Times on this occasion may serve one present object of the Ministers—it may procure some votes for Whig candidates from the electors who are easily alarmed; but in other re spects it seems calculated for endless mischief. The great circulation of the Times, and its supposed connexion with the Government, give it extensive influence. In this case, it speaks as the partisan of Ministers; and, however the fact may be, the public will suppose that Ministers approve of the following attack upon pledge-asking electors and pledge-giving candidates ‘‘ A system has been yot up by certain mountebanks, under the operation of which no such thing as cool delibe ration or individual opinion can henceforth have the slightest icfluence in directing the votes of Parliament, but the whole body of measures for the next seven, or five, or three years, or whatever may be the duration of that as sembly, not merely in their outline, but in all their pro gressive and intermediate stages, down to the most minute details, are now, on the eve of the election, to be handed over by paltry knots of busy and conceited meddlers seizing the dictatorship on every hustings throughout the, empire,—handed over, we repeat, ready cut and dry, by these Jack Cade grandees, who assume to give orders to every candidate, in the name of his constituents generally, though without one particle of authority from them." The fact, however, is, that " the whole body of measures " on which pledges have been given or required, amounts to about six. In some cases, truly, more than six pledges have been offered,—as, for example, by Me. William Brougham, who has offered eleven; but no where, it strikes us, have more than six been required. Sir John Hobhouse refused to give—only four. So much for " the whole body of measures for the next seven, or five, or three years." In the next place, what are the six questions on which pledges have been most com monly demanded? Repeal of the Septennial Act, Vote by Ballot, Church Reform, Abolition of Slavery, Repeal of the Corn Laws, Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge. All electors, then, who ask for pledges on these subjects and all candidates who give them, are, according to the Times, speaking for the Whig Government, mountebanks, paltry knots, busy conceited meddlers, Jack Cade grandees,— Destructives! Mr. Hume, whose excessive regard for " property " makes him no favourite with the Abolitionists, is a Jack Cade grandee; Mr. Thornely of Liverpool, one of the most sober of candidates, is a mountebank ; Mr. Grote the banker, whose mo desty and extreme caution have rendered him hitherto less useful than he might have been, is a busy con ceited meddler ; and all these, with Mr. Marshall of Leeds, Mr. Gregory, one of the candidates for Stamford, Mr. Gurney of Norwich, Mr. Babbage, and Mr. Briscoe—all candidates, in short, who pro nuse to represent the opinions of electors, and all electors who wish to be represented, are—llestruc hives. So be it ; but if so, the Times must be reckoned amongst the Conservative journals, along with the Morning Post, the Guardian, the Standard, and ,Tobri Bull; and, if Ministers approve of the Conservative tone lately adopted by the "ones, they may as well make peace with the Tories; for, in that case, between Whig and Tory them would be no difference except in name. Let us hope, however, that the Whigs are not bent on GERMAN PAPERS. NUREMBURG. Nov. 30.—According to Mun:ch Papers, every thing is arranged for the departure of King Otho, and M. Von Eichtal, banker to the Count, has undertaken to provide for the conveyance of the baggage. The Greek company of workmen sets nut for Trieste on the sth of December. At the same time, 430 of the men Aready raised, under the command of Lieutenant- Col Von Schmata set out for the same post. The men are to he conveyed to Trieste in waggons. The Greek Herlans already form a squadron of 100 men, but are not yet equipped. VIENNA, Nov. 24.—Last week pretty numerous bodies of troops marched through this city to Italy and Ger many. Among the troops that arrived are some of the frontier regiment, which it is well known are always Palled• into the field, because, wherLat - liome, they follow agricultural occupations, and their absence, therefore, oc casions inconvenience by the interruption of their labours. More heavy battering cannon have been sent from Gratz to Italy. Excs pt a frequent exchange of couriers, much activity in the military branches of the Administration, and a great increase in the coinage of money in all the mints in the empire, there is nothing to indicate speedy breaking out of war, which, indeed, many per sons will not believe. The prices of the Funds, however, fluctuate in as irregular a manner as if battles were al ready lust and won. It is odd enough that the Stocks rose when the news of the entrance of the French army into Belgium arrived. This afforded a new proof that events in expectation have a snore unfavour able effect on the money market, than such as have already taken place. The fear of the speculators is di rected snore to the future than the present. ZURICH, Nov. 23.—Yesterday the Political Union of the Canton celebrated at Uster, the second anniversary of the popular assembly at Uster, in 1830, which over turned the Constitution of 1814. A great number of persons from all parts of the Canton (12,000, or as others say from 15 to 20,000) collected with various intentions. A number of persons, supposed to he about 500, front the eastern parts of the Canton, where discontent has for some time prevailed,on account of the introduction of machinery for spinning and weaving, attacked the manufactory of Messrs. Corrodi and Pfister at Oberuster, and overpowering all resistance, in which Fierz, Member of the Council, dis played great intrepidity, at the hazard of his life, set it on fire by throwing iu burning faggots and straw ; so that the principal building was reduced to ashes, and the others were in danger of the same fate. But now thousands of respectable citizens, who had arrived at Kirchuster, has tened to the spot, drove off the rioters, and took 100 prisoners, fifty of whom were immediately taken to the Court-house at Kirchuster, and there bound and put into waggons and sent to Zunich, escorted by the armed force which was speedily called together. This did not hinder the celebration of the festival, after the tumult was ended. The Government immediately called a considerable force to maintain order, and prevent any further excesses. There are reports of a late date, which say, that the district from which the rioters came is in a complete state of insurrection, and that the inhabitants, who are the most uncivilized in the canton, intend to march against the town, and release the prisoners. Three batta lions of troops were sent thither on the 24th. These people subsist by weaving, and had two years ago urged the Government to forbid the use of all such machinery. It was in vain represented to them that such a measure would only transfer this branch of manufactures to the neighbouring countries, and leave the poorer class entire!) without means of gaining a livelihood.—Nuremburg Cor. respondent, Nov. 30. Sir CAPEL MOLINEUX, Bart., died on Monday at his house in Merrion-square, Dublin. Ms extensive estates in that and other counties descend to his brother, General MotlNaux. We understand a gentleman is in treaty for the purchase of the Pantheon in Oxford-street, with the intention of opening it during the winter season with a German Opera company. It is intended to place the management in the hands of Mr. MONCK MASON, late the lessee of the Opera House. The auto required as pur chase money of the house is 15,0001., and a sum of the same amount, it is calculated, will be required to fit it up for the reception of:an audience.—Court Journal. DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT TO MURDER.— On Friday last, about 9 o'clock in the evening, as the Rev. WILLIAst HETI', vicar of Elksley, near East Retford, was going from that village to his residence in Houghton Park, some person sprung out of a plantation, and when within about a foot of him discharged a pistol at his head ; the Rev. Gentleman, in attempting to put the muzzle of the pistol from him, had his hand shattered by the dis charge. He was afterwards plundered of what property he had upon him, but whether there was one or more thieves he cannot state. No clue whatever has hitherto been obtained to detect the wretch or wretches who perpe trated it.—Nottingliant Paper. WAR PRICES.—At Horncastle, a few weeks ago, Mr. LONGSTAFF, auctioneer, sold 28 lots of oak wood growing on five acres and a half of land for the enormous sum of 5831., being an average of 3s. 6d. per foot cube. Some idea may be formed of the deplorable situation in which the Tories are placed, in order to get signatures to their Dutch war petition, adopted at the hole and corner concern in the Black Bull Inn, by the fact that one of their number actually went into a school-room at the west end of the town on Friday, and obtained the signatures of the boys. The teacher was afraid to turn the intruder out; but he hinted that the boys were surely too young to sign petitions. The answer was, "Oh!it is names we want." Only one of the children was found to refuse, till he had consulted his father. How many children's signatures were attached we cannot tell, as the teacher declines to say.— Glasgow Chronicle. EXTRAORDINARY CONFLAGRATION OF OATS AND HAY SEIZED FOR TITHES.—We are indebted to our Baltinglass correspondent for the following particu lars of a transaction which took place in that neighbour hood on Saturday. Much as we rely on our correspondent, we can scarcely credit his statement :—" One of the tithe owners here has employed a large number of the army and police in seizing the hay and corn of those who refuse to pay him tithes. MATTHEW HEALY, of Rathdangan, was the first man's haggard entered on Siturday morning. HEALY would not purchase, so that two stacks and one cock of hay were put up and sold for 31. to the tithe owner; the buyer at once got five or six of his men, with some of the peelers, and took fifty barrels of oats, and five tons of hay asunder, and put a coal in them, and in less than an hour the hay and corn were burned to ashes. The Rev. Mr. LALOR, the excellent parish priest of Rackets-town, bought two poor men's haggards. There were eighty bar. els of oats and eight tons of hay burned on Saturday."— Dublin Morning Register. W— SOR , I n C o E t S m I o N re P th E a ß n T w U el L ve o. ln —i t miles from fro ie village m t of Nottingham, some parts of which are much infested with those " ear ment " called rats, amongst about half a dozen " notices," which Mr. Amen published, during divine service, to the congregation, on Sunday morning last, one of the sapient conelavi , ts which compose the weekly vestry, ordered him to give the following :—" The neighbours are desired to meet on Friday night, at the tolling of the bell, on account of the poor; likewise at the same time to take into consideration the best means of catch ing the ROTS !!" Such cannot but be an outrage to religion and decorum ; and it is a great pity that the notices of " Statutes for hiring servants," the paying of taxes," " days of appeal," and any thing of a secular nature should be allowed in the house of God, especially during a time of prayer. Also lately, in an adjacent vil lage, in the parish church, whose walls are nearly covered with ivy, during divine service, and as the mi [lister was ascending the pulpit, the clerk announced— • Naybors ! the taxes 'II all be pride this wick ! ! !" What a fortunate thing it would have be:n if they had.— Nottingham Paper. Scheldt ; and if the General had already erected any, that this must be considered as an act of hosti:ity, and he re quired that these works should be demolished. General Sehastiani replied, that he had positive orders not to corn wit any hostilities unless he were attacked, but that he must arm the banks of the Scheldt, from the Pipe de rabac to Frederick Hi nry, to be able to return the fire if ie should be attacked ; that it was evident he did not mean to begin hostilities, since he might have done so•the , lay before. Fort St. Marie was occupied by the French on the night ,f the Ist, and the next day they began to make gabions, to dig trenches, &c. THE HAGUE, DEc. 6.—The Prince of Orange arrited here last night from the army ; a great crowd reetived the Prince with acclamations on his arrival at his palace: A .eell.dressed man was heard to call out to his Rqyal ness, " Persevere, Prince, we too will persevere;" an 'ex- Jression which may be considered as interpreting the feel ings of the whole nation. Today the Prince's birthday has been kept with the usual marks of respect. We hear that in a General Committee of the Second Chamber of the States-General to-day, his Excellency the Nlini,ter for Foreign Affairs will communicate the corres• oondence that has lately taken place between our Ambas sador in London and the English Ministry, and like Wise 'tie latest papers that have been exchanged respecting Messrs. Thorn and Pescatore. The project of law relative to the Landsturm has been greatly modified by the Government. It is —affirmed that after the discussions of the Budget and the project of law relative to the Land Tax and the Landsturm, the Cham bers will be adjourned, and the remaining affairs left for he commencement of next year. The accounts of 'the receipts and expenditure for 1831 laid before the States• General, show that the receipts amounted to 107,293,287 florins, and the expenditure to 103,626,145 florins, leaving a surplus of 3,667,141 florins. The patriotic donations amount to 225,230 florins. THE HAGUE, DEC. 7.—The Prince of Orange left us yesterday evening to return to his head-quarters. Private accounts from Antwerp to half-past eleven in the morning of the sth say, that the fire of the besiegers from five batteries had con•inued till six that morning, and bad then slackened or almost wholly ceased. It had not done any damage to the citadel, most of the balls hav ing passed over it, and fallen into the Scheldt, and da inaged the tackling of some gun-boats. The guns of the citadel, which were well directed, had already done much injury to the enemy, and dismounted a battery in fort Montebello. Prince Frederick and the British and French Ministers are still at the Hague. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, DEC. 7. Actual Debt, 2% per cent 38% to 39 , 4 Amort Syndic , 4Y 2 per cent 64% to 6.3% Ditto, ditto, 34 per cent. .... . .......... 52 to 52y..' 2 Voluntary Loan, 1831, 6 per cent ' 93, 1 ; to 96 Ditto, 1832, 5 per Cent. Exchange on London, one month, ... 12 10 to 12 12 Yr, Ditto, two months l2 10 to 12 7; Dutch Papers, Dec. 8. . POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MAR YLEB ONE. EXTENSIVE GANG OF SWINDLERS.— Thomas Jones, alias Boom, John Boom, his reputed father, Benjamin Ekins, a tailor, and Mary, his wife, were charged. with swindling various tradesmen. _ Keys, an officer, on seeing John Boom, said he had heal in custody before on similar charges. Webster, another officer, understood the prisoners formed part of a large gang of swindlers who infested the metro polis.—They were remanded. HATTON-GARDEN. IMPUDENT FRAUD.—CAUTION TO F'ARMERS.—. George Knight, a man dressed like a farmer, was charged under the following circumstances :—On Thursday se'nnight Mr. W. Pinker, of Lessness Heath, nesx Woolwich, sent his son, aged sixteen, to town, with a quantity of hay to 4.11. On the outskirts of London he met with the prisoner, who got into conversation with him, and off:red to dispose of the hay at a commission of 3s. per load. He then got the unsuspecting lad to leave halt a load of hay at the stables of Mrs. Martin, Chenie Mews, Tottenham court.road, and directed him to drive to London Mews, Oxford-street, where he would follow with the money, and sell the rest. The prisoner, however, never followed him, and it appeared that he had sold the hay to Mrs. Martin for 1/. 154., and decamped with the money. The prisoner, who was apprehended from a description of his person, was fully committed for trial. QUEEN- SQUARE. ANOTHER MUTINY IN ST. iIARGARET'S WORKHOUSE. —Matilda Fellows, Amelia Francis, Ann Titmouse, Jane Bell, and Mary Ann Moody, inmates of St. Mar garet's Workhouse, whose ages vary from ten to fourteen years, were charged with riotous conduct, and wilfully breaking upwards of twenty panes of glass. It was stated that the prisoners were constant'y in the habit of making a noise in the workhouse, but more especially at night, when the old women were asleep. Immediately after the anes had dropped into the arms of Morpheus, the young, ladies commenced their frolics, and nothing appeared to give them greater delight than awakening, by their shouts and vociferation*, the testy old inmates of the ward from their slumbers, and listening to their threats and complaints, which were sure to be met with hearty bursts of laughter. The prisoners were detected as the principal actors in this sort of entertainment, notwithstanding they had pulled the bed-clothing over their heads and feigned to be asleep, when the remainder of the inmates were raised to a per pendicular position in their beds in consequence of the con tusion. As a punishment for their offence, they were ordered to be locked up in a bed .room by themselves for the night, which was immediately put in execution. At an early hour this morning, the master of the workhouse was alarmed by a tremendous crash of glass, proceeding from the room where the girls were confined. He, with others, instantly repaired thither, and there, to his surprise, dis covered nearly every pane of glass demolished. The po!iee were called in, and the prisoners taken into custody. When a policeman took hold of Moody, who appeared to be the most violent, she asked permission to go back for a piece of bread. He consented; but on her reaching the loom she dashed her hand through another pine of glass, and making use of a disgusting expression, said, " Now that makes four to me." The girls said they had no dinner the day before, and were kept on bread and water. One of the girls said she broke four panes, when she was contradicted by another, who said she had broken only three, it being herself that hroke four. They appeared to glory iu their work of destruction, and were near quarrelling while at the bar about who broke the greater number of panes. Mr. GREGORIE convicted the girls in the penalty of e i ghteen shillings each for the wilful damage, and in default of payment sentenced them to six weeks' imprisonment each in the House of Correction. RETFORD.—The return of Lord LUMLEY and G. C. GARDINER, Esq., two staunch Reformers, is confidently anticipated. Mr. HOULDSWORTII, the other candidate, has suspended the labours of all his attorneys, reserving them for a future opportunity! This looks well ! !—Nottingham Paper. BERWICKSHIRE REGISTRATION.--The constituency of this county, including the old freeholders, amounts to I ,o47.—Edinburgh Evening Courant. t At the m eet i ng o f t h e P rotestan t Conserva tive Society o f I re l an d on T ues d ay , Mr. BOSTON gay no ice th a t on t h e next d ay o f me eting he would tnov th t 'adetuomof enable ino t n hm to organizeeieybevotedtot that body, whichheGrandOrange Lo , dg ofire;ana so necessary to the existence of Protes tan tism in Ireland.' The amount of the Protestant rent received for the week ending on Tuesday, was 2561. 2s. 3d. ... NOTTINGHAM ELECTION.—Lord DUN CANNON arrived in this town on \Wednesday afternoon, and his arrival was speedily made known to his friends, who, though certain of his coming, still felt the anxiety el ‘' hope deferred," while it caused an evident depression among those whose " wish was father to the th Gri er ert he had declined. The same evenin!, he . 1717;c 4 FErrousost visited a numerous party of e , . ,IK _'-'A...,_., ‘ ,, JOSEPH PERRY'S, in Peck-lane, and yes 3 1: , -, - . ( 4, , g,z\ , sg jo,ntly commenced a personal canvas', w i tivire;l4o,,\ \7'' satisfactory and grat;fying. I.ast ni ;lit ill.!y: ll ,i4 o i i ,-T ~ the Black Ilorse, and tie S 4 Isaac Nev ( 4 fi . 24 -1VA1:4,1/:' 1 6 4 .' t,,,,_*::::: /c . .4.... .-, / 4 4 Paper. \.;••••..-....-,,, ) 7 ',. •- . 111-13.0.4,14 -