The Sun. — London, England, 1832-12-24 00:00:00

TRIUMPH OF REFORM. On Saturday a very numerous and highly re).pcctalilc party of gentlemen dined together at the London Tavern. to celebrate the Triumph of Reform, and the return of Mr. Grote as one of the City Representatives. Nearly three hundred gentlemen were assembled on the ()cession. The dinner and wines did ample honour to the high repu tation for sumptuous hospitality which the City of London claims. Nothing was wanting to render the entertain ment in every respect suitable to the interesting occasion, and to the distinguished character of the eminent indivi dual in whose honour principally it was given. At • lower end of the room was a splendid illumination, whi, exhibited in brilliant lamps these words—" To Grot. the 8412." Mr. WARBURTON presided. On his right was Mr. Grote, on his left Mr. flume. The first toast the CHAIRMAN gave was, of course, " The King ;" in proposing which he said, that as loyal subjects they would cordially receive the toast be was about to offer to them at any time, and under any circum stances; but with how much greater satisfaction must they receive such a toast when they remembered the deep debt of gratitude which the people of England owed to their most gracious and paternal Monarch for the great boon he conferred upon them, in calling to his Councils men pledged to the measure of Reform ; for the firmness be d i-played during the deliberations of Parliament upon that all-important Bill, and the regard for the true in terests of his people which he manifested in giving to that salutary change his hearty consent.—(Applause.) Toast drunk with the usual honours. The next toast was the " Queen, and the rest of the R val Family." The CHAIRMAN—If we are accustomed to do festive honours to the Chief AI tgistrate, and if upon the present occasion, we have done those honours in a manner peculiar to the deep sense of gratitude with which recent events could not fail to have inspired us, it becomes our duty not to forget those to whom Reform was granted, and who received it in so admirable a spirit. With scarcely an exception there had not been disorders anywhere occa sioned by the Reform Bill. The people had shown that they were in all parts of the country, and in every sense of the word, the friends of good order and the supporters of good government. He, therefore, proposed that they should drink " the health of the People," with full honours.—(Great applause.) Toast drunk accordingly. _ _ _ 'The CITAIRMAN-Thetoast which he had now to pro pose was one which he was sure would he received by the company in a manner every way worthy of its high de serts. That toast is no less than " the health of the Hon. Gentleman" who then sat beside him, and whom they had returned as one of the representatives of the City of London, and whose election they had that day assembled to commemorate. When be considered the cha racter of the Gentleman whom the City of London had elected, and when he remembered at the same time the character of that body by whom he had been elected, he confessed himself at a loss to say which had reason for the indulgence of the most pride, the gentleman who had thus been so honourably chosen, or those by whom such a man was returned. He then dwelt upon the high repu tation which Mr. Grote had attained at an early age— how he had combatted successfully with Sir James Mackintosh's articles in the Edinburgh Review—ar ticles from which the Tories drew most of their argu meets, with which they opposed the Reform Bill. He next proceeded to eulogise Mr. Grote as a scholar who had pursued with distinguished success researches into t ;reek history—into the history of that nation which was the source of European civilization—that nation which produe, d the downfall of those principles upon which Eastern countries were governed, and established forms of government independent of the sway of the despot and the priest—that country in which philosophy was first ap plied to morals and to government.—(Great applause.) He next called their attention to Mr. Grote's extensive acquaintance with trade, referring particularly to his evi dence before the Committee on the Bank Charter. He concluded by giving, with all the honours, "the health of George Grote, E.q."—(Enthusiastic applause attended the drinking of this toast, and at the same moment, a ritrtain which had previously concealed the illuminated letters at the lower end of the room which are above mentioned, was removed. _ _ Mr. GROTE said he was sure they would readily be lieve him when he told them, that upon an occasion like that, and circumstanced as he then was, he could not find wools to express the feelings which then swelled in his bosom. Sitting as he did at that delightful and heart stirring banquet, which he had been called upon to par ,,,,,a -e a, a „,, sail d L t y , :g . p , r it l 4 l 7o o t a,... ) l.6 t a io n n o s i w w a h s ic ta h es s e u t c a h e itecasiott iatery worn the language of gratitude threadbare. It would ill become him, as indeed it was inconsistent with his incli nation, to seek for any embellishments of diction ; all he could say was, he thanked them from the bottom of his heart —(Cheers.) That was the first time he had had the pleasure of meeting any body of his constituents since he had been installed in the high and honourable situation of their representative—since he had been pliced in that elevated position by the approbation of so large a body of his fellow-citizens; that was the first time he had had the pleasure of meeting them as their Member, anti, empha tically, he was their Member. To those who had in the first instance espoused his cause he must say lie owed a deep debt of gratitude, and one which never could be effaced from his recollection. At the same he felt that when chosen to represent the city of London by the high-minded men who bad given him their disinterested suffrages, be was not called upon specially to sit as the deputy of any particular part of the nation, but as the representative of the community at large. Whatever there was of triumph in the result of the election, it belonged as much to them as it did to him—or rather, he should sly, it belonged more to them than to him ; and he felt too that that tri umph did not alone consist in the numbers by whom he had been supported, but it was to be found in the energy, the exertion, the zeal, the devotion, the singleness of pur pose, the capacity for system and organ , zation which had operated with such distinguished success during the labours of his committee. It was well known that in election committees the great difficulty was to secure system and combined exertion, fur every one, though actuated by the best motives, was anxious to serve in his own way ; and hence a fertile source of strife and jealousy, and therefore of disunion and weakness. It was with pride and pleasure, then, he recollected that in his committee there was nothing of the sort—all was order, and method, and energy ; each member of that committee entered at once upon the walk which it was most useful he should pursue, and the un paralleled success which attended their effarts was the re sult. It was evident that nothing but a high degree of intelligence and virtue could have produced such effects. Though many on his committee were practised ve terans in the business of electioneering, yet a large piopoition of them were unacquainted with even the worthy and unexceptionable part of those means by which elections were generally carried in this country ; they were likewise strangers to those miserable tricks the; were frequently resorted to—those stratagems and „ ct ifi e ,—those subtle practices and sleight-of-hand so fre quent in other places. To such he was proud to say his comm i ttee would not condescend ; they were honest men and pursued an object by honest means, The late election load drawn forth from the quiet of private life many men, who came forward, not because they sought the glare and bustle of publicity, but because they felt that now, in a Reformed Par. liament, there was a great object at stake ; and they brought to the contest all the virtuous restraints, all the strictness of principle, and all the delicacy of feeling which marked their conduct in ordinary life; and hence it was, that in the whole of their proceedings there was nothina respecting which they need feel otherwise than perfectly ready to court exposure. It was gratifying to him, fur ther, to remember that the late contest had given rise to none of those angry feelings, those bitter reprisals, that not &infrequently made their appearance in other plaaes, where the most injurious falsehoods were circulated concerning the most anetitoritnis snen—and falsehoods, too, which affected private and domestic life—that went to rip up es aa ae solemn and secret thoughts, which should he revealed to nuta.e. but the all-seeing eye of omnipotence.—(Cheers.) But art.4aes of that pitiful kind had been defeated, and he sincerely trust.ed that such would cart he their fate. It was ta-tla infinite M ea sure he reflected upon th e f act , t h at their proceedings had oat been tainted by any a the vices which had degraded the contests of other plaee.a. They had no inflammatory or ttelatlve placards—they b a d no secret schemes to accomplish—theae ;Yes no underhand whispering, nothing but downright, straight-forward, and nbove-board proceedings from eotamencendent to conelu s-on. A victory so gained was at once delightful and ho nourable. He then proceeded to state the principles "Pon which he prop, , seal to regulate-his conduct in Parliament, all of which are already sufficiently before the public. He aepudiated in the strongest terms the idea that people were to go into Parliament without any fixed principles at all, and expect to pick up principles on the floor of the House 4 gk of `oromovs It was absurd to suppose that people were —a-14 • WA i -House undecided. until the very moment of 4 1 taki l A r c „ <,9111 , tjafr -,F - Self, he went in a thorough Reformer, but t aa ,af ; sy ..,.kpa - a other an ignorant nor an inconsiderate ~..,Taja .l litititall)l3 b ruled his opinions with great care— "'-'o"' ''.- '-"-''''. 4 4.:? . f , t: 1 ;*".- rA";/•%-t • !-; . " ( ' - % . 4 .: 5±Lf ... .7--- Si -Auoaaoti,TO be bad, at least, bestowed upon their formation much di ligence and labour—and he had embraced them not with out caution. His principles, such as they were, had co herence amongst themselves, and he trusted that they would stand the test of experience and trial. The present times were such as required men who went to Parliament with principles formed ; and he should be a recreant to his own principles if he hesistated to avow that he thought they required in a peculiar degree men devoted to the service of the country—men of decision and knowledge—men possessing the command of large principles and compre hensive views.—(Applause.) There were faults to cor rect, injuries to repair, grievances to redress, which called for no wavering or undecided band—for no men who would stand aloof till the Minister should set his seal upon a measure ; those surely were not the men for the ensuing Parliament, hut those were the men who drew back from pledges.—( Applause.) The men required were men of enlarged intellect, impartial and dispassionate habits, pos-. sassing at the same time sufficient force of intellect to guide the mind of the House in the channel in which it should run—who would attempt all that reason sanctioned, and aim at nothing besides. He had often been taunted during the course of his canvass with entertaining opinions op posed to a great number of the class to which he belonged. It was true, and with shame and sorrow he acknowledged it, that many of the leading members of the mercantile world did profess Conservative opinions; but he trusted that they would speedily be brought to a due sense of what the necessities of the country required, and he hoped that the younger members of that body, as they rose into life, would abandon the errors of their seniors, and feel that in these times none but the principles of thorough Re form would suit the circumstances of the country—(Great applause)—would pacify the demand for correction and improvement which every where prevailed, and which required that persons of wealth should make them selves familiar with the wants and habits of the humbler classes ; and that, in fact, he their wealth what it might, they would hope for no sway in the Councils of the country, unless such as was commanded by moral and intellectual worth.—(Applause.) He should not then trouble them with anything more than to offer them a sincere assurance, that the possession of a seat did not make him less a friend than before to triennial Parlia ments. Nothing would change his opinions respecting the inestimable privilege of vote by ballot. Once more he thanked them for the vast amount of favours which lie had received at their hands._(Loud and continued cheering.) The CHAIRMAN then gave " Prosperity and Freedom to the Trade of the City of London." So far as his ob servations went, the freedom of trade had not done any in jury to the merchants and traders of the city of London. He looked upon selfishness in matters of trade as a branch of Toryism. It ever had been his opinion that prosperity was most intimately connected with freedom, and, there fore, in the fullest hope that the toast would be most cor dially received, he gave " Prosperity and Freedom to the Trade of the City of London."—(Applause.) This was followed by " Freedom of Conscience—religi ons and political." The CHAIRMAN observed, that in the days of bloody Queen Mary, if any man was threatened with the loss m custom in trade for going to a meeting instead of going to church, he would have been called a person persecuted for conscience sake—he confessed be saw no distinction be tween persecution for conscience sake, whether it had re ference to a political or a religious conscience; and he hoped that the time had arrived when there would be no further persecutions on account of conscience; and he must add, that if they expected to preserve the inde pendence of the poor voter, they must insist upon the ballot.—(Applause.) Mr. GROTE then proposed "the health of the Chair man,"—upon whose knowledge of all political subjects— upon whose proficiency in the exact sciences—upon whose general learning, comprehensiveness of mind, and upright ness of conduct, he pronounced a warm eulogium. The toast was drunk with the greatest applause. The CHAIRMAN expressed his acknowledgments in a few words, saying that he felt it a high honour to have presided upon so important an occasion, and one so deeply affecting to the feelings of every friend of freedom and good government. The CHAIRMAN—The toast which I have now to pro pose is one which carries with it its own recommenda tion, and therefore you shall have it without further pre face. Gentlemen, I give you " Mr. Hume and the 3,254 electors who placed him at the head of the poll."—(Tre mendous applause.) Mr. HtJME thanked the company, not merely on his own account, but in the name of those independent men by whose suffrages he had been returned to Parliament. It had ever been an opinion of his, that the persons who, above all others, were the most worthy to be intrusted me - slate of ma public mind as that - the clergy, the Magis tracy, the Nubility of the county of Middlesex had not been able to exclude from Parliament even so humble an individual as himself, when the popular voice had declared that it should be otherwise.—(Applause.) It was the settled conviction and feeling of the people of England, and had been so fur years, that the whole frame and sye.. tern of the Government was bad, and wanted revision; and therefore they sent men into Parliament willing and able to accomplish that great work. He felt that that was not an occasion on which he should occupy much of their attention by any observations relating to himself, or even to the distinguished county which l e had been called to the honour of representing, but that, on the contrary, he should rather direct their attention to the eminent man whose election they had that day met to commemorate. The nation at large owed their best thanks to the glorious 8412, who had sent such a man not to promote the interests of a party, or a faction, or a corporation, or even those of a great city considered separately; but as a national repre sentative in the great Council of the nation.—(Applause.) Even though there were but a few such men in Parlia ment, he should not despair of the ultimate prosperity of the country. Indeed he could but consider that the pro spects of the United Kingdom were at the present moment must cheering, fur when he recollected what the last Par liament had done with all its multitude of borough mongers' noininuees, he felt unable to do otherwise than indulge the most sanguine hopes as to what might be brought about under the De v order of things which the Reform Act had created. When he looked at the change that had been effected, not on y in the institutions of the country, but in the minds of men, he felt himself incapable of setting bounds even in imagination to the progress of human improvement; yes, he frankly acknowledged that the state of things as they at present stood, and the pro spects of which lay before them, bad quite surpassed his most sanguine expectations—not that he ever much de- spired; on the contrary, he always felt and believed that there was in the people of England a fund of sound sense, general intelligence, anti sturdy uprightness of sen timent, which, sooner or later, would lead them to throw off the yoke under which they had been oppressed so long.— (Applause.) The course of public if tire, however, was now once for all set right; and though they hal to be grateful to many for that happy change, their thanks abo . ve all mere due to the gracious and patriotic Monarch, whose generous devotion to the public good in the first instance, and whose firmness throughout the whole of the conflict, even unto the very end, hail conferred upon them one of the greatest boons that ever had been conferred upon a nation.—(Applause.) The duty which now remained 'or their representatives was to follow up the Bill with all the energy and assiduity that they could muster. lie felt, a s they all must feel, that the 8.41 was not a complete mea.ure—that it did not secure political freedom, and that political privileges never could be secured without the ballot ; and that was a truth which he should never cease to inculcate upon a Reformed Parliament until it was ob. taimd. He then proceeded to repeat those declarations of his political sentiments which have been already so often before the public, and renewed to the company the ex pression of his most heartfelt thanks for the high honour they had conferred upon him, and for the justice they did themselves in giving utterance to their sympathy with their feilow-auliieets in Middlesex; and he had, in conclu sion, but to assure them that the Member for the county would be ready at all times to unite with him of the city in every measure for the public good.--,f,4pplause.) The C44O.ALAN then proposed " the health of the two gentlemen who had proposed and seconded Mr. Grote." lie thought upon that glorious occasion, they could not for those who were instrumental in bringing it about. Mr. Soux returned thanks on behalf of himself and Dr. Birkbeek. After congratulating them upon the result of tli city election, he said, that next to it, they hail to felicitate thcc;s,elyes upon the result of the ',Middlesex elec tion. The present 14.ppy state of things was chiefly owing to the advanced state of human knowledge, and the general spread of education. That diffusion of intellectual cultivatin u world go forward until the whole British Con stitution should undergo a complete change and a perfect r eno v ation.—(Applaus e .) The CiamitAtax, after dwelling upon tI:P extraordinary and most lamotirable independence of principle manifested by the 5,41 ele.ctora who voted fur Mr. Grote, gave .• their bealths with three times three,"—(Gre.it applause.) The ue gt toast was, " the healths of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of Mr. Grote's Committee. Mr. PRES,COTT returned thanks. lie regretted that I Mr. Smith Was ab s ePt) attending to his e l ec ti on in Bock- ingLam hire which election, he had ereat gratification in saying, had terminated in Mr. Smith's favour. They owed to that gentleman their warmes tthanks, for to the in fluence of his name they were indebted for much of their success. He had also much pleasure in being able to say, that there was nothing in the whole proceedings of the election which was not fit to meet the public eye—there was nothing, he rejoiced to say, either of finessing, or trick, or bribes, direct or indirect. It was, moreover, an election not attended with much expense, though Mr. Grote incurred every cost which was necessary for making his sentiments fully known to all those whose suffrages he sought.—( Applause.) Mr. GROTE gave " the healths of the District Com mittees. who had exerted themselves so much during the late election." Mr. Hire Err. returned thanks, sincerely declaring, that though they laboured ardently in the cause of Mr. Grote, it was one in which they could labour with pleasure and with ease, when they stood forward as the advocates of such a man as Mr. Grote—a man whose character stood so high that they had but to mention his natne in order to secure the immediate approbation of those to whom they addressed themselves. Their success was therefore owing, as well to the high reputation of the candidate, as to the honour and discrimination of the electors. " The health of Mr. Croueber" was then given with three times three. The CHAIRMAN said, a more able and efficient Chief Secretary of a Committee he had never known. Mr. CROUCHER disclaimed any other merit than that of having done his duty. He reflected with infinite satisfac tion upon the result of the contest in which they had been engaged, and he could not hut remember with equal pride and p:easure that their efforts had been devoted to procur e the return of a man who had received the votes of 8,412 —the greatest number ever polled in any part of the United Kingdom.—(Applause.) _ The " health of the Stewards" was then drunk amidst much cheering. Mr. WIRE acknowledged the compliment which had been so flittering!y paid to himself and brother Stewards. Immediately afterwards, the Chairman, Mr. Grote, and the principal part of the company departed ; but some remained, and kept up the festivity of the evening till a late hour. BRUSSELS PAPERS. BRUSSELS, DEC. 9.1.--The 3d battalion of the 41st French Regiment of the Line, consisting of 25 officers and 834 subal terns and privates, arrived yesterday at Brussels from France, on its way to Malines, to make part of the division of General Schramm. Today it has proceeded on its march to Antwerp, where the regiment is. " We hear from good authority (says the Courrier Beige) that the fealties de route delivered at the head-quarters of Marshal Gerard to the Dutch prisoners taken in fort St. Lau rent, does not state that these men are prisoners of war ; but they are arrested in consequence of coercive measures employed for the execution of the Treaty of November 15, 1831. Truly nothing was wanting but this singular episode to complete all that the subtle and futile spirit of diplomacy has discovered, to prove that people can cannonade each other without going to war."—Bussels Papers, Dec. 2'2. DUTCH PAPERS. THE HAGUE, Dec. 19.—1 n the first public Sitting in the Second Chamber of the States-General yesterday, the Pre. sident, Baron Collett d'Escury, after his Excellency the Mi nister for Foreign Affairs had delivered the speech, which we gave in our last number, moved, "that we, in the name of the Chamber, thanked the Minister for the very important commu nications made by his Excellency, and that he requested him to express to his Majesty the gratitude of the Chamber." He then added in substance, that his Majesty, especially at this moment, when facts spoke for themselves, might be certain, that if the French, always turbulent, did not cease to prove themselves the true descendants of those Gauls who disturbed the whole world, the people under his Majesty's Government would remember that they are the descendants of the Bata vians and Frisians, who sacrificed everything for their liberty and their country, and by that conduct demanded the respect even of the powerful Ruler of Rome! Accounts from Briskins, of the 16th December, say that it is currently reported on the Flemish frontiers that country people are pressed for the purpose of assisting in the works of the siege of Antwerp. This conduct has excited great dis content among the Flemish boors ; some persist in refusing, in spite of all warning, and it was thought that the military would forcibly seize on those who resisted. THE HAGUE, Dec. :10.—The three sons of his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange returned yesterday evening from their excursion to the Scheldt. In the sitting of the Second Chamber to-day, the law for the partial renewal of preceding enactments for restraining the ill-disposed and seditious was unanimously.,adcpted...iquestion arose, as A message from the ;resident to the communication or-ctre—fdfniket7for Foreign affairs should be entered in the Journals. It was decided that such entry would not be con formable to the regulations, An English Journal, lately speaking of the danger to which the city of Antwerp was exposed, said, " Should General Chasse convert the innocent city of Antwerp into a heap of ruins, he would give an example unheard of in these civilized times, and revive the barbarous cruelties of the middle ages." A Copenhagen Journal observes on this:—" The English re cord the period of the middle ages up to the year 1807 inclusive." We have, in the Breda Courant, accounts from the citadel of Antwerp to 11 o'clock on Thursday morning. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTF.RDAM, DEC. 21. Actual Debt, 2'4 per cent............. ..... :39% to 40 Amort Syndic, 4% per cent. .... .. ...... 653i to 66% Ditto, ditto, 334 per cent. Voluntary Loan, 18.11, ii per cent 991, to 98 Ditto, 1832, 5 per Cent. Exchange on London, one m0nth...,,., l2 to 5 Ditto, two monthsl2 -Dutch Papers, Dec. 22. FRENCH PAPERS. The Madrid Gazette of the 15th inst., received by express, contains the following :—" The Captain-General Castagnos is appointed President of the Council of Castile. M. Pueiz, the Governor of this Council, retires, receiving the Grand Cordon of the Order of Elizabeth the Catholic. M. Fernandez del Pino, of the Chamber of Castile, is nominated Minister of Justice, ad interim, in the room of M. Cafranga, who is ap pointed to the Government of the Council of the Indies. Gene_ ral Cruz, formerly Minister, who has a long time resided at Bordeaux, is called to be Minister of War, in the room of M. Monet, who is appointed to the Captain-Generalship of New Castile. M. Ulloa, Minister of the Marine, is to perform the duties of the \Var department, till the arrival of M. Cruz. M. Castello, the King's first physician, has been decorated with the Grand Cordon of the Order of Elizabeth, and M. Damion 1 Perez, M. Aso Travieso, and M. Castello Rcea, Physicians i❑ Ordinary to his Majesty, have been created Commanders of the same order." The following letter has been addressed by Marshal Gerard to the Minister of War:— " " Headquarters at Berche m , D ec. l 9. Sir,—ln the course of yesterday that part of the parallel contained between the glacis of the Bastion of Toledo and the half-moon was completed, and furnished with gradins. A bed of fascines, covered with hurdles to render the passage prac ticable, has been made all along the communications between the first and second parallels. A bridge of fascines over the fosse of the half-moon, and a parapet towards the Bastion of Toledo, were commenced in the night. These works, in spite of the acti vity displayed by the working parties, could not be terminated, chiefly on account of the bad weather, before day-light. The Commandant of the engineers ord ere d th eta t o b e suspended. The battery placed on the left flank of the counter.guard has had the desired effect. Yesterday it broke down the dam, and ceased tiring till further orders. In the night we commenced the construction of a battery for ten mortars upon the principal line, at a distance of ISO metres from the bastion No. 2. A bat tery for six swivel-guns was also commenced on the left of the counter breaching battery. The construction and supply of the breaching-battery and counter-battery are going on satisfactorily. Powder-magazines have already been established in the rear of the communications. Lieut.-General Saint Cyr Nugues, Chief of the Staff; was struck on the shoulder, last night, by the frag ment of a shell. Hopes are entertained that the wound will not have any dangerous consequences. Accept, &c._ a Count GERARD." The Augsburg Gazette of the 18th instant, has the following letter of the 11th from Berlin :—" Our Government having considered it expedient to demand of the French Ministry an explanation relative to the concentration of a French corps of observation on the Rhine, the Prussian Ambassador at Paris applied to the Duke de Broglie, for the purpose of learning the motives which rendered such concentration necessary. From the answers given, it appears that the French Ministry intends no concentration of troops on the Rhine, but will collect a corps of asmo men in the department of the Ardennes, which will be withdrawn upon the termination of the differences between Holland and Belgium, and is now only a reserve to the army of the north. This explanation would, under any other cir cumstances, be satisfactory, but it appears not s o at present, as the French Government object to the propos e d occupatton of the territory of Limburg and Venloo by the Prussian troops. Representations have, therefore, been made ag,tinst a measure but also opposed to which appears hostile not only to Holland, the security of Germany. The French Government, however, is essential to preclude to, whereby serious eons. will not relinquish its resolution, and the corps of observation will remain in the Ardennes. As the occupation, by a neutral Power, of a territory guaranteed to the King of Holland, but on our Luxemburg,s iside tb e be furtherstill i nt objectionshe s possession ;pros proposals i s il::g r i e a e n d s , plications might be produced, and the integrity ofetohmepGreormmiagendic, prepared against every attack. The Confederation also will be called upon to adopt such measures as may tend to the security of Europe as mCoela'sfedureersatairoeniowbiethadreogpaterdd ot well as to the security of the Confederate States. No doubts are entertained as to the readiness of the several Governments of Germany to concur in these views. They must perceive that the military movements which have already taken place on the part of Prussia, a re more for the general good than on behalf of her own Interest. It is even asserted that the Frank- ' fort Diet has unanimously declared its willingness to accede to any measures that may be required by circumstanc es. The concentration of the Prussian corps .on the Nleuse, may thus be considered as a measure proceeding from the Germanic Con federation. M. Salomon de Rothschild, the head of the banking_ house at Frankfort, arrived the 14th instant, at Frankfort, from Paris, and will proceed to Vienna. It is asserted that his journey relates to a grand financial operation, on which the Austrian Government has been negotiating with several great houses for some time past. (From the Journal des Debats.) PARIS, Dec. 'A.-France is neither more liberal nor more republican than before the Revolution of July. Her convic tions and her wants are the same. The Revolution of July was not one of those social crisis which overthrow property and introduce new customs. We are the same to-day as we were yesterday. The storm has passed by, and fine weather finds us in our place. The tide of passions has carried us be yond the mark-in retiring, it has carried us back to the proper point. The factitious agitation of the two last years has ceased, and France, left to herself, is calm. .She has obtained all she sought--a Constitutional Monarchy. All the liberties which she could not have wrung in fifty years from the Restoration, she has gained by the Revolution. The rest is the business of a party, not of France. Hence the indifference to discussions which have no serious interest. It is important to the country to preserve what it has. Under the Restoration it had something to conquer ; now it has something to preserve. It no longer attacks ; it defends. All its ardour is only awakened when attacks are made on the Monarchy and the Charter. There is a calm which is quite afflicting for the inventors of new theories and laws. Even the Government itself, which in general does not like change, is not fully aware of the degree to which the public is tired of innovations. It supposes that it does us a great service by its many laws ; it only fatigues us. France is more conservative than the Government imagines. Symptoms of this indifference are visible on every side, and even the Opposition cannot conceal that it is weary. The only violence is in some newspapers. There the sacred fire burns still ; but even there it is easy to see that the violence is not in the hearts of the writers, but only in their words. Let the Press take care, or it may end in becoming a stranger in the country. Nobody will under stand its language. Its office is to be the interpreter of the public sentiments. That gave it credit under the Restoration. A thousand voices responded to its words. It ought never to sulk against public opinion ; it ought to follow it, and agree with it. That is its duty and its interest. FRENCH FUNDS.-Pasts, Dec. 2 1.-Five per Cents.,9Bf. 25c. 99f.; Loan of 1823, 98f. 90c. 99f.; Four per Cents., 83f, 40c. ; Three per Cents., 68f. 40c. 60c. ; National Loan, 99f. 99f. 15c. ; Bank Actions, 1,697 f. 50c. Neapolitan Routes, SOf 90c. ; Roman Ditto, 78%; Spanish ditto of October, 32 32% ; Spanish Perpetual An nuities, 58%; Belgian - Loan, 76% ; Haytian Loan, 220 f. FRENCH FUNDS, Dec. 22.-Five per Cent., 99f. 15c. 10c. 15c. We. 15c. 10c. 15c. 20c. 25c.. 99f. 30c. 25c. 20c. 25c. 30c. 35e. 40c, 35c; Loan of 1832, Five per Cent., 99f. 20e. 50c. ; Three per Cent., 68f. 80c. 90c. 90c. 90c. 25c. 69f. 68f. 95c. 69f. 69f. sc. 69E ; National Loan,99f. 30c. 50c. ; Rente de Naples, 81f. 81f. 10c. 15c. 20c. 10c. ; Rente de Romani, 79 7814 ; Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cent., 12% ; Three per Cent., 33 33 1 6 03 3.3!‘, 33 al% 334 14 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 83; Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, 58%%; Belg. Loan 1831, 77 -Exchange on London, One Month, Mo ney, 25f. SOc. ; Three Months, Paper, 25f. 70c.; Money, 25f. 70c. HAMBURG PAPERS. BERLIN, DEC. 18.—Baron H. Von Knoblesdorf, Prussian Resident at Cracow, died there on the 4th of this month. Not withstanding the short time he had resided there, he had gained general esteem and regard. He was buried on the 6th with great pomp; the Members of Government and the Au thorities attended. CUXHAVEN, DEC. la—A Dutch East Indiaman, which arrived in the Elbe yesterday, was indeed visited by the Eng lish, who sent an officer on board, but was allowed to land passengers, received provisions and an English pilot, and pro ceeded unmolested on its voyage. It was under Danish colours. Besides this ship originally bound to Rotterdam, the Russian ship Adrianople, Captain Janssen, from Archangel, also bound to Holland, has returned from that coast to the Elbe, because the Captain could not obtain a pilot on the Dutch coast, and was unwilling to expose himself to danger in the North Seas, far all the buoys and sea-marks are removed, and no lights in any of the light-houses. It may be expected that the ships bound to Holland will come to the Elbe, though the English have rather relaxed their proceedings against the Dutch both in the channel and on the Dutch coast. Thus they lately allowed a Dutch ship, under Danish colours, sailing in company with two Americans, to proceed to its desti nation in Holland. LEIPSIC, Dec. 13.—The Senior of our University, Dr. Christian Daniel Beck, Professor of Roman and Greek Litera. ture, died this morning at the age of 76, after a most dis tinguished Academical career of nearly 55 years.—Hamburg Papers, Dec. 18. I'ETERSBURGH, DEC. 7.—By an order of the day of the the Ist inst., his Majesty the Emperor was pleased to tes ty this entire satisfaction to all the general officers of the corps of the Caucasus, who took part in the late expedition against the rebellious mountaineers, and by their intrepidity contributed to the complete destruction of the bands of the rebel, Kazil Monlla. His Majesty was also pleased to give to the subalterns and privates a donation of a silver rouble each man. The navigation of the port of Cronstadt has ceased. It has been open 214 days, five more than last year.—Journal of St. Petersburgh, Dec. 8. ANTWERP, FRIDAY Noom. The last act of the siege has begun. The breach battery, armed and fully prepared, began at half-past it o'clock, the work of destruction on the left face of the bastion Toledo. This battery consists of six 24-pounders, the balls of which strike the wall at the water level, and shattering the old bricks of which it is composed into pieces, raise clouds of dust. The firing is vehement on both sides, for the besieged, whose only defence has hitherto been not art, but the strength of their guns, are now compelled to make a last, and, as all allow, a fruitless effort to repel the attack. The battery plays hori zontally upon a width of about 15 yards, and from a distance of about :34 The sounds are, therefore, such as have not yet been heard during the siege, from their frequent and forcible detonation. (The counter batteries also direct their fire on the flanks of the Fernando and Pacietto bastions. It is feared that some halls may fly over the esplanade to the next street of the town, called Rue de la Cuilliere, which has produced the departing of the persons resident therein. Sentinels are placed to prevent all passage through that street. This commencement of the breach has silenced all the doubts of the adherents of the King of Holland; the citadel must soon yield—opinions vary within what period, from three to seven ' days. Rumour speaks of a final summons having been sent by Marshal Gerard this morning, to demand the surrender, be fore the breach batteries opened. It is not easy at this mo ment to learn the truth on the subject, particularly as it might be supposed to have the appearance of fear. Such summons, it is asserted, could not have been sent until the breach be practicable. 4 O'CLOCK, AFTERNOON. The great Liege, or, as it is now called, monster mortar, has been tried to-day, and has succeeded. It is placed on the counter-guard, between the Mechlin gate and the fort Monte bello. The first enormous shell thrown by this mortar during its approach to the citadel, revolved as it were on its own axis, and fell upon and sunk into the rampart of the citadel, near the gate of the Esplanade. After a delay of about three minutes it burst, and scattered an immense quantity of earth on all sides. The second shell, from some fault in the fusee, broke in the mortar, and bursting at 100 yards, threw the fragments for ward. A delay of two or three hours then followed, during which the shells were examined. I saw a truck drawn by two horses, and sufficiently laden, bear two of those huge masses of metal to their destination. At 4 o'clock four or five more were thrown with precision into the citadel,—a distance of more than 1,000 yards. The appearance of the citadel is hourly growing more hideous. The little turret of the chapel, long one of the distinguishing features of the place, has fallen, as well as a great part of the building itself. A fire broke out this morning among the ruins, as if to leave no vestige of the works of olden time. A shell also fell among some Dutch shells ready charged near the masked mortar battery, in the interior of which it caused at least a dozen of them to burst, and of course to do even more mischief than those thrown by the French. Yet General Chasse, who is the passive instrument of the Dutch King, is compelled to hold out, and to run the risks of a useless siege. To account for this extravagance, I must men tion a statement given to me on respectable authority this evening, that the Dutch King has been buoyed up in this foolish resistance by the explicit assurances of certain high Destruc. a a t c h t h a e n g e e l e o c t f i i o n n e s a s w u r i l e l s p i n r oc u Greatr e a Britain. Toryo ry Af i - n t i i v s e t r s I ' ' , w a h n o d e o x f p c e o c u t r steh 3 o'cr.ocK. There has been considerable firing on the river. The French have guns of heavy calibre stationed, one at Burcht, and the other on the opposite side, which have discharged a considerable number of shot against the Dutch gunboats in the Scheldt, near the citadel, to cut off, as it is said, the corn. munication with the Tete de Fland res. The distance was too great to produce any effect. It is also asserted that there has b een a h e avy cannonade down the river towards Lillo, but the haziness of this rainy weather prevents all chance of distin guishing the places. It is asserted that the arrangements of the French corps under Generals Sebastiani and Achard are such as to interrupt effectually all communication down the lower part of the Scheldt. The execution of the howitzers on board the ships has alarmed the Dutch. If the " monster mortar" be placed on the bank so as to throw one of its shells into a frigate, the Dutch will have to boast of more than one Van Spyk, I saw the King, Leopold, attended with a brilliant staff ride on horseback along the road to Berchem about two hours ago, on his return to Brussels. The rain nor the dangers of the road did not cause him to hasten his usual pace, although ,all the Belgians n a g l r t e h a a d t y c h r i a d u t i s i s et e e fe a h r o u t h s e a s t s o o n m e t c; e f r ( h a7 s s e i h have injury The Royal carriage fo I _ lowed, into which the King, after having paid a visit to the head-quarters of Marshal Gerard, entered, and drove off. During his stay in Antwerp, his Majesty has visited all the hospitals, and made inquiries into the cases of all the wounded, even of the Dutch prisoners. He a l so rode through every part of the city, which his presence contributes to console at this critical period. His return here is stated to take place early next week. The number of killed and wounded of the French now amounts to about 600; the latter are treated with great kind. ness and attention ; those who are not seriously wounded are removed to the neighbouring towns, gulch as Mechlin, Louvain, &c., while such as are incapable of being tranTorted -;o far, are received in the hospitals, &c.. of this city. Yesterday af ternoo❑ Marshal Gerard, with some staff officers, visited the military hospital here, when with a soldier's frankness he con soled the wounded, and told them that their King, Louis Philip, in order that nothing should be wanting even in the smallest degree to their present comfort, had sent 10,000 francs for their use. 8 O'CLOCK. Great stress is laid by some favourers of the policy of Hol land an the semiofficial report of the siege, published in the Staates Courant Dutch paper of the 18th inst. It professes to have been written in the citadel ; and, although it does not bear the signature of General Chasse, it is by those persons attributed to him. It admits the loss up to the 15th, of GO killed, 194 wounded, and 67 missing, being the prisoners taken by the French. Among the killed and wounded are several officers. After having given a detail of the advance of the French to the capital of the bastion Toledo, which detail does not vary from those already published, the report contains a description of the taking of the Lunette St. Laurent, which it concludes with the following remarkable passage, which, as worthy of public attention, I transcribe in the original :—" Het strekt echter tot trost, dat doze lunette het cerste buiten_ werk is, dat door cen zoo magtigen vijand na reeds 16 dagen tie tranchee de hebben geopend, genommen is." "It however is a consolation that this lunette is the first external work that has been taken by so powerful an enemy, after the trenches had been opened 16 days." Dutch consolation, in_ deed ! There was no other external work to be taken, and it was taken, as the French official report states, with 3 killed and 30 wounded. If such consolation be satisfactory, it is to be supposed that the Dutch King and people will not prove in consolable when the citadel and General Chasse shall next week he taken also. This report is by the Dutch partisans most oddly contrasted with the simple statements of the French Marshal, as if the disclosure of the Dutch loss, from a superior force, in this, to them, fruitless contest, could excite commiseration or pity. They paint the citadel as ploughed up by 40,000 shells, and yet they forget that it is because the Dutch will not hear justice. Let the Dutch act fairly with their neighbours, by giving freedom to the Scheldt, and restore what does not belong to them—the Belgian ct tadel and forts, and accept peace on just terms, and they may have tranquillity and commerce with all the world. It is amusing to find a society in Rotterdam now contribu ting to buy 297ilbs. of smoking and 3751b5. of quid tobacco, to be distributed among their soldiers and sailors now defending Lief kenshoek and Lillo. They do not think, as it would ap pear, of those who defend the citadel, yet they will, it is pre sumed, take care to send tobacco to them, and also to their friends in England for consolation, and as repayment for their fine assurances. DEC. 22, SATURDAY MORNING, F.IOIIT O'CLOCK, There was during the night a cessation of the battering cannon, although the fusilade continued brisk. The cause of the former is conjectured by some to arise from the flow of the tide into the ditch of the citadel, which prevented the con tinuance of the horizontal cut; some think it arose from the darkness. The ditch of the citadel being six feet deeper than that of the town, water must necessarily remain in it, and at high water there are consequently several feet more. This intermission of the breaching fire must delay the assault for some days more. Others suppose that General Haxo has been at work in mining some part of the bastion. The firing has recommenced at a brisk rate. At 3 o'clock yesterday there were four distinct vertical cuts in the brick work of the scarp of the bastion ; at 4 o'clock these cuts were said to have reached the earthy sand forming the rampart. After which there was to be a horizontal cut formed at the lower part, just above the level of the water. When this is completed, there are to be salvoes fired into the masonry to shake it down, and a few shells into the earth, to make the breach there practicable. The ditch is to be filled up. The counterscrap is mined, in order to be thrown into it. 10 O'CLOCK. The French appear to have given up the intention of attack ing the demilune near the bastion Paccietto, which, as the passage leading from it into the citadel is destroyed, can be now of no avail to the besieged, and can be taken when useful by the besiegers. 11 O'CLOCK. On the river this morning nothing new. The gun-boats opposite to the citadel have not suffered from yesterday's fire, which is described as ton distant from them. The fleet at Lillo cannot be distinguished from the quay, on account of the weather. Some of the balls fired from the counter battery at the flank battery of the bastion Fernando have fallen into the river between the Tete de Flanders and the Fort Austruwee). Christmas continues to be stated as the nearest possible time for the assault of the citadel. 12 O'CLOCK. I have just heard that the Belgian staff has sent three young officers of the engineers to Venloo. Their object is stated to he to labour in the repairs now going on in that fortress. The breach is considered now as nearly completed, and probably by tomorrow morning the passage into the ditch will The number of killed and wounded during the night has been very great. The weather is cloudy. K. BRUSSELS. SATURDAY NOON. ne suojosnea orncsat " announcement, .... the commencement of the battery in breach out of all question --you will find in the annexed accounts with what effect, eve❑ in the tirsefewihours. From the accounts which reached later, it appears that there was some cessation of the battering in breach during the night, but that it was resumed this morning with most destructive effect. Many officers here think that a breach will be practicable on Monday, and that everything will be ready for the assault on Christmas day. (The French are fond of the eclat of great efforts on fete days.) A paper of this morning talks of a summons being sent to Chasse before the opening of the battering in breach ; I cannot trace it to any authority better than that of the paper itself, and I am in clined to think it is a mistake. lam informed that it is the practice to send a summons after a breach is practicable, but not before. The following are from the morning papers : (From the Moniteur Beige.) (OfficiaL) TWENTY-SECOND DAY OF THE SIEGE. ANTWERP, DEC. 21. The fire of the batteries Nos. 1 and 2 of the second parallel, was warmly kept up during the night of the 20th. The besieged replied to it by their mortars, their flank pieces, and their rampart fusils. The batteries in breach and the counter batteries opened their fire at eleven this morning. The first fired by salvoes, which greatly damaged the scarp of the left front of bastion No. 2. The fire will be continued until a breach is made in that side of the bastion near the salient. lhe first bomb from the great mortar fell in the centre of bastion No. 1, against which it was pointed. It exploded in its passage, owing to the fusee. Every preparation for the descent of the fosse is now ready, and every means have been adopted to open immediately a communication between the covered way and the breach, when the latter becomes prac ticable. (From the Emancipation.) This morning at 11 o'clock the battery in breach, armed with six 2 4-pounders, and placed at a distance of about 50 metres from the scarp of the bastion Toledo, and supported by several other batteries, making together a force of 36 pieces, opened its fire with great vigour ; the effect was most satisfactory. The solidity of the walls is not as great as was expected; the bricks are large, and in some places joined with a cement of so soft a_nature, that the balls pierce it. On the average it may be said that every shot displaces two bricks. The battery in breadth itself will discharge about 6,000 bullets in the day. For in such a service the cannon are used very frequently, but there are also other pieces brought near the battery to be ready in case any of the others should for a moment become unserviceable; so that the fire will not for an instant be relaxed until the breach is practicable. We may therefore now calculate that in 48 hours the fa tigues of the army wiil be brought to a close. It is now six months since Marshal Soult required from the engineer de partment a plan of the attack projected against Antwerp. That document, which is still extant, pointed out the 28th or 29th day from the opening of the trenches, all the preparations for the assault would be ready. The event has come within 24 hours of the calculation of the engineer. The commandant of the battery in breach, M. litrunet, has been wounded by the bursting of a howitzer shell. He cannot remain at his post, but his wound is not of a serious nature. The large mortar cast at Liege was placed in battery this morning. A great many officers were present at the trial. It was served by Belgian artillerymen.—(There must be a mistake here, as the Belgians have not taken since the commencement any part in the service of the cannon against the citadel.) Of two bombs thrown, the one hit its object, the other burst in the air. It is not, however, necessary, in the present state of the siege, to have recourse to such a piece of artillery, and it will not be farther used. Another account says that the second bomb exploded as it left the mouth of the mortar, to the imminent risk of those present, though, as it happened, no mischief was done. To guard, however, against similar accidents, the use of this mor tar has been abandoned for the present. Marshal Gerard paid a visit to the hospital yesterday , and evinced the greatest anxiety for the situation of his wounded men. He said to one man," Have courage, my good fellow ; I myself was once a private soldier." "It must be confessed, General," replied the other with great naivete, that you have had a fine promotion of it." The Marshal consoled another by telling him that he should have a pension of 300 francs. " Oh," said he, " I am quite reconciled ; I know very well that one cannot make omelets without breaking eggs." (From the Union. BERCHEM, DEC. 21, 3 o'cLocK, AFTERNOON. The Duke of Orleans has claimed his turn in the trenches, and he takes the command on the 25th. 5 O'CLOCK. The tire is well kept up on both sides. i have been on the tower, and while there, remarked that every bullet from the besiegers hit the bastion, and dislodged some bricks. To morrow the opening will be very deep, and probably the day after the casing will be quite destroyed. (From the Indepenclant.) The lodgement effected by the sharpshooters in the covered way of the half-moon, in the rear of the Lunette St. Laurent, is complete. The other works of attack on that point appear to be abandoned for the present, and will only be resorted to when the capture of the half-moon is necessary to against the citadel. The subterraneous descent of the fosse towards the front of the bastion Toledo has been pushed to the 6 tcrscarp. I have this moment learned that they have eftW te4 means of a mine, an opening in the external wall, 0 , done in the case of the descent of the fosse St. Laurent have commenced a descent outside, parallel to that Whir subterraneous. The interest of the conflict increases daily. The b 65 2 47 and besieged are now using all their means. The enenlY " - 0 to the present time concealed those resources by which l ' e e l retard the opening of the breach. If , as h as b een said, "io provisioned the garrison am ply, an d t h at h e h as the tVi i md let out the waters at hi s pl easure, it is very poss i b l e his ID may be most murderou s t o th e b es i egers, an d t h a t the, encounter dreadful obstacles in their passage to the fosse , , 4 , General Desprez has given orders to Lieutenants 8 0 ', 4 s and Kerens (of the Engineers) to repair immediately to l to direct the works of that fortress, which is to be P I state of defence. There is nothing new from the left bank of the rive.o At the moment the batteri es i n b reac h opene d the'r d on the citadel, the fo r t s o f B urg h an d H o b oten co mfi ts theirs on the gunboats. Several were hit, but the° they suffered is not yet known. BRUSSELS, Elva P.S. The following is from the second edition of th e petulant, just published : " BERCHEM, Drc. 22 , HALF-PAO " The fire, which had rather slackened a few hours P ing the break of day, commenced with redoubled force' before nine, and still continues very loud. I have hel l examining with a telescope the effect of the breach ih • ries, and I find that they have just traced the line tio lg, which they are to act, and h ave cut very d eep at the 104 the bastion. It is impossible to form any idea, withou t r 4 actually on the spot, of the immense extent of the work' 0 1 tack against the citadel. They extend to 11,000 meter • cover about two leagues. " As soon as the breach is practicable, they will spew7 f ,o portion of the counterscarp which comes down to the and the passage will then be commenced. " The night has been close, according to the the officers who have just left the trenches. The of the breach in battery has been wounded." PRICKs OF STOCKS THI flank Stock 3 per Cent. 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LORD BROUGHAM. why THE News-venders in the country e , have not received a SPECIMEN of tb e f if, quisitely executed PORTRAIT of this GREAT, FORMER and able man , w hi c h i s to b e pre s,nte' v i! in their January A g e t t s h in and town6t are No. tuirously t o the purchasers of No. I of MF R ", Sunday, s4 WEEKLY REGISTER (New Series), on Satur tl e dlu street, Strand. 11 1 This b e autif u l N ew Y ear ' s G i ft i s acknow l e dged; who have seen i t , to b e THE ONLY LIKENr'%'OI , 's requested ue ping w t o through Lord Brougham ever published, and to be equal jo P of execution and appearance to any guinea engravingt4 Merle's Register, price 81d stamped, conta ins siO r 'ig large pa ges o f three columns each, aud comprises complete Newspapers in one. s ir LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, Mg' The Conservatives have end eavoure d, au rio ,he elections, t o o b ta i n votes f or t h e i r cant'!" ate, by raising a cry against the Liberal party in thi country, and com p ar i ng i t w i t h t h e mot'erne party in France. The comparison is an " I ' tunate one; for, without inquiring whether may not be much to improve in the polit stitutions of France, it cannot be said ' degree of truth, that those who are obtain the advantages which they v expect as the consequences of the are desirous, like the motive?, France, of overturning the whole vernment, and erecting a repub' of the throne. Much as we depreciate French institutions our own, it is but too true, Lion of the limited nature France, the people enjc over us in every respect and civil state. They taxation, to support officers of state. Thr electors to vote aga' is no imprisonmer investigation as There is no far overpower the puties on su! Peers, from pursuits dc those Air KING a Libera' of ma Fral