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T. Martin, son of the former Member, also a Re former. KlLKENNY.—Counsellor Firm intends to offer himself for this county. He is ready to pledge himself to support the abolition of tithes and the repeal of the Union.—Kilkenny Journal. SCOTLAND. BRECHIS, Nov. 9.—The grain markets rather look up here, but the Tories look down. A Whig will carry the county, and each of the two sets of burghs will return a liberal Member. Aberdeen, both town and county, will send liberals.—Scotsman. The Appeal Sheriffs of Stirling, Lanark, and Ayr, admitted at Alloa, on Tuesday, one of the Secession Ministers rejected by the Sheriff of Clack mannon and Kinros, and others at Kinross, on Thursday. Their rule of judgment seemed to be that the Minister should be in possession of a manse which was the property of the congregation, and worth 101. per annum. They admitted under the same rule all the Secession Ministers in the four other counties of their circuit, viz., Stirling, La nark, Ayr, and Dumbarton.—Scotsman. HOUSE AND WINDOW TAXES.—The following circular has been sent to all the Members and Can didates for the metropolitan districts, and it is un derstood that several of the most influential amongst them have intimated their intention to attend the meeting City, Nov. 20, 1832. Sir,—A Committee of Gentlemen, residing in various parts of the metropolis, have determined to call a Public Meeting, to consider of the best course to be adopted CO secure the repeal, during the first Session of the Reformed Parliament, of the House and Window Tax—an object of the deepest imprtance to the inhabitant householders of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and of the newly-enfranchised metropolitan , boroughs, as upon them these taxes fall with peculiar and most unjust severity. 1 have been directed by the Committee to invite the at tendance of the several Gentlemen who are Candidates for the representation of the shove-mentioned districts, as well as those for the counties of Middlesex and Surrey; and, in pursuance of that direction, I respectfully solicit your presence at a meeting of the metropolitan constituency, which will take place in the Great Room of the London Tavern, on Wednesday 28th November, at 12 o'clock precisely, at which meeting Joseph Hume, Esq.. will pre side.-1 have the honour to be, &c. JOSEPH NEWELL, Sec. pro. tem. P.S.—The favour of an early reply is requested that suitable arrangements may be made for the re ception of the candidates. • CITY OF LONDON ELECTION. Last night a meeting of the friends of Mr. Grote, the banker, was held at the Bay Tree Tavern, St. Swithin's lane. The meeting was crowded, and appeared to be of the most respectable nature. JOHN TRAVERS, Esq., was called to the chair. He proceeded to open the business of the evening, and, warn ing them of the solemn and important nature of the duty which, at the ensuing election, they were called on to per form, he urged them to return only men who would ho nestly, impartially, and independently fulfil their duty to the people, by the amelioration of all abuses, and the pro motion of just and good government. He introduced to them Mr. Grote, a gentleman with whose talent and re spectability they were well acquainted—a man of spotless honour—of the firmest integrity—and of that moral cou rage which W.B one of the most essential qualities in a Member of Parliament.—(Hear.) He was also a man not merely of independent mind, but of independent for tune, and above a bribe.—(Hear.) He thought they could not find a fitter representative than Mr. Grote. Mr. GROTE then rose, and was received with demon strations of great approbation. He thanked them for the kindness of their reception. He bad published an address, setting forth his opinions on political matters, which he , hoped, had proved satisfactory to the electors. His object was to make his sentiments known without any reserva tion ; it was a duty which he conceived himself bound to perform, and be cared not if he offended any man by so doing. He might not, in this respect, be acting the part of a discreet candidate, but it was of an honest one— (Hear)—and there was nothing of which he had so much dread as that any man should give him his vote, under an impression that be was any thing different in politics from that which he really was. The Honourable Candidate then took a brief review of the evils under which the country laboured prior to the passing of the Re. form Bill. Up to that point, indeed, the House of or partnership for the preservation of all existing abuses. There were, indeed, a few glorious men, who set a bright example of virtue and patriotism, but their voices were drowned amidst opposing numbers—their voices might be compared to the voice of one crying in the wil derness, awakening no echo and producing no followers. Tile Reformed Parliament, however, be hoped would see a change of men, and with it a change in the system. The highest qualities and virtues combined were required in a candidate—not that he believed himself to approach that perfect m del of excellence to which he wished to di rect their attention ; but it was well, both for the consti• tuency and the representative, that a high standard of ex cellence should be kept constantly, thereby stimulating both to greater and more honourable exertions. If they sent him into Parliament, his great object would be to ob tain for the people good and cheap Government—(Ap plause)—and he would take the liberty of detailing to them some of the measures which he thought necessary to the accomplishment of that desirable end. He had strenu ously supported the Reform Bill from the first moment it was made known to the public, for he believed that it would in a great measure lead to the first great essential— the enabling of the people to return to the House of Coin mons the men of their own choice. Still that was not enough—the tenant and the tradesman were subject to powerful influence, which was too often increased, and which could only be put an end to by the ballot.—(Cheers. ) The Honourable Candidate then went through the points of his address, and expressed himself in favour of Triennial Parliaments, and of a reduced scale of public expenditure. his would do away with all unnecessary offices, and reduce r aid extravagant salaries to a fair compensation for the work to be done.--( Hear.) He would pay every man liberally; but merit should be the only test. Men should not be ap poicted to offices merely because they possessed rank and irth, and were presentable at Court or Devonshire House; for which qualifications, though of no service to the pub lic, the public were compelled to pay largely. When he looked at the immense revenue of this country, after al lowing for the p 'pliant of the interest of the National Debt, which was sacred—(Hear)—and when be com pared the expenditure with that in 1792, he could not help believing that a very large saving might be effected. A similar economy he hoped would bp effected in the Church; that the great disproportion which eaicted would be put an end to ; that its ministers should be liberally paid for the services they performed, and no more ; at all events, whatever mode of payment were adopted, that of paying by tithes must be put an end to. The Haute and Assessed Taxes, svhich were so unequally levied, should be abolished ; and if any tax were requisite its place, let them have a graduated Property Tax ; ,:'rest taxation was, in his for opinion, always pre ferable to any other system of collection. With regard to the Corn ,Laws, be expressed his Arm belief that they in jured the farmer as much as all other classes—and that a moderate fixed duty should be substituted for the pre sent imposition. There was another error of legislation to which he would azlyert, ,and he declared it to be his belief that the less trade was Iv:elated for the better. Colo nial Slavery be wished to atto i..h; but he found that without strong legislative .control for a few years, the slave would be apt to consider esklat4eipation from slavery as emancipation from labour—a rat* by no means desirable for the benefit of the slave himself. Pe concluded, with declaring himself in favour of a plan of general education and the abolition of the taxes on know ledge,—(Loud cheers.) Mr. ELLIOTT referred to the system of administering the poor laws as a maker which eat into the very yitajs of society, and solicited Mr. Grote's attention to that point. Mr. Ga.o'rx said, that much information was yet to be obtained on that point—a Commision was now sitting. He admitted the evils, and would willingly get rid of the abuses, hut was not prepared to do away with all com pulsory relief.—(Cheers.) Mr. GIBBONS spoke at some length on the principal topics of Mr. Grote's address, and concluded by moving a resolution, declaring Mr. Grote to be a fit man to repre sent the city of London in. Parliament. Mr. ELLIOTT seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. Mr. WIRE moved a resolution, pledging the meeting to exert themselves to promote his return. Mr. KIRKMAN seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. Mr. GROT: V°Vikia Pe I returned thanks. Thanks were ALI the meeting broke up. r ' FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Constitutionnel.) PARIS, Nov. 19.—0 N BRINGING TO TRIAL THE PRINCESS CAROLINE.-The Princess Caroline-Ferdie nande-Louise, of the Two Sicilies, who is no longer Duchess of Berry--who is no longer Princess of France— Caroline, in spite of a formal law, returns to the French territory, and takes the title of Regent, to expel Louis Philip from a Constitutional Throne, founded by the Revolution of 1830. She brings the scourge of civil war, insurrection, an attack by force of arms; isolated crimes, robberies. conflagrations, are multiplied in all directions, wherever her arrival is announced, her presence, and her orders. Finally, after six months of disasters to which the departments of the west were exposed, the Princess of Sicily is captured. In her abode the insurrectionary pro clamations of the Regent are found, calling on the French to overthrow the Government of July and the new dy nasty. Sums of money are found there bearing the effigy of the Pretender of the Restoration. A correspondence is found there essential, undoubtedly, to the knowledge of the conspiracy, but concerning which secrecy is preserved. In the face of these proofs of flagrant crime, what have the Ministers done ? Will they obey their earliest pro mises? In the month of may last, the Ministers announced to France, indignant at this audacious invasion, that the Princess who had thus brought the torch of discord to our domestic hearths, should not commit this crime with im punity. Justice shalt be done, and the guilty shall be judged by the law itself of the country on which she wished to inflict evil. But in November, the Ministers forget this solemn engagement to satisfy the justice of France. Now, the Sicilian Princess must not be judged as a banished woman, for having violated her banishment ; nor as a foreigner, for having violated the laws of nations, in causing crimes and murders in the midst of a peaceful people. Caroline-Ferdinande-Louise of Naples cannot be tried. In France, no Tribunal is powerful enough— respectable enough—for her, because she is not an ordi nary culprit ; because she is a Royal Highness ; because 'he is the mother of a Pretender de jure, and the aunt of a King de facto. Such is the reasoning of the Doctrin naire Ministers. For if these Ministers considered Caro. line-Ferdinande-Louise as the niece of a King de jure, she would be in their eyes the mother of a Usurper, and, as such, might be tried according to all the Monarchical Con stituional laws of all Europe, of all Asia, and of all the States of the world. It is for the French people—the conquerors in 1830 of their National Sovereignty—to weigh the consequences of this doctrine ; this doctrine hich makes Caroline-Ferdinande-Louise an extraordinary culprit--that is to say, a culprit above the laws passed since 1830—above the National Sovereignty, in the name of which these laws have been passed. This doctrine in its turn transforms the French people into a people degraded from their rank, deprived of the National Sovereignty. Let us on this point consult the legitimate Journals applauding the doctrine of the Ministers :—" Her Royal Highness Madame the Duchess of Berry, Regent for the King of France, makes war i❑ the name of her Sovereign She is not, then, an ordinary prisoner, nor the violator of the laws which her legitimate King has not made; she is simply a prisoner of war, arrested by rebels. By what right dare they try her, they whose only business it is to obey—they who have never ceased to be the property of a Dynasty which de mands purely and simply its patrimony ? It is necessary, therefore, respectfully to reconduct Madame to her august relations, in order that she may there seek out better means and a more fivourable opportunity to return purely and simply into the inheritance of her legitimate rights." But this is not possible. The loud expression of the na tional will has annihilated this ancient prejudice of slivery. What then is to be done ? Implicate the two Chambers to spare the Ministers. What ! stop the execution of the laws ! In consequence, an ordinance of the Ministry orders a Minister to present to the two Chambers the pro ject of a law to determine concerning Madame the Duchess of Berry. But the Chambers never determine concerning any person. The Chambers never determine future facts, and never facts already passed. The Chambers could, suppose them wad, decide that, in future, civil war shall not be a crime—shall not even be an offence for the French Princes, and par ticularly for the ex-Princesses of France. But the Chambers cannot declare that an action accomplished, and qualified as a crime by the existing laws, ceases to have been a crime. Even Providence itself, which regulates the whole future, has no power to change the past : it may pardon a crime, but to declare that an action com mitted, which is criminal according to its laws, has not been a crime, Providence, I repeat, cannot do that. Well, then, a whole Ministry, though Doctrinnaires, in spite of sophism, cannot be in this respect more powerful than Providence. Now let the Chamber determine—What ! will they determine simply to regulate a competent tribu nal ? But it will he to declare that a person shall be tried, to assign him judges who are proper for him. If France „ es; eeee e.ee se cease,. tree Leo a, 1.1, to have them executed, and consequently to have them ac knowledged. The Chambers can only say one thing to the Ministers—as soon as it is a question of crimes com mitted, the authors of which are arrested—Execute the laws—cause the laws to be executed. But the laws are repugnant to us—Cease, then, to be Ministers. But we should be afraid to cause them to be exeeuted—That is riot French. You cause your Journals to say that it is not necessary that the culprit should be tried, because fear and other motives will absolve her. Well, then, true patriots will prefer to have the soi.disant Regent of right divine absolved, but tried in the name: of the national sovereignty, by a legal and regular tribunal emanating from this sovereignty, to have her detained indefinitely, by an exceptio❑ superior to the ordinary laws, as the mother of a soi-disant legitimate King. This is the whole Revolution of July, of which we must acknowledge or deny the legality, in admitting the exist-1 enee of its laws and their power as equal to any thing, or admitting their impotency and their annihilation with re spect to the crimes of legitimacy. I mention another difficulty. You require that a preventive or a repressive punishment—that some punishment, at least, shall be directed against Caroline Fetdinande• Louise, whom you unconstitutionally call the Duchess of Berry. You desire that this punishment, this imprisonment should be voted in the form of law ; that is to say, apparently without judicial forms, without interrogations, without calling witnesses, whether for the accusation or the defence, and without even hearing the accused. And you believe, that satisfied with discussing in form the articles of a sentence of imprisonment, we shall vote it by merely rising up and sitting. We, the Deputies, we, having a legislative commission for the future and not for the past—we, the Deputies, who can accuse only the Ministers, we can never judge any person. We must make ourselves into a convention, that is, into an absolute power, a tyranny, if we vote any judgment whatever by the monstrous confusion of the legislative and the ju dicial functions. And even when, to satisfy the theory of the Doctrinnaires, stifling our consciences, we tease ourselves conventionalists—do you think that we shall not equal the conventionalists of 1793 in respect for the rights of the accused ? The convention did not condemn Louis XVI. without hearing him ; it did not condem❑ him with a liberal pleading, and we are to con demn without any pleading whatever —we, who have ameliorated the criminal laws in their most severe points— we, who only completed the Revolution of July to revenge the sacrilege of violated laws, we are to violate laws of humanity and the forms of justice. No, never—never will the Deputies of France in the 19th century thus dis honour the representation of the people of whom they have proclaimed the sovereignty and the justice. What then must be done ? Send the accused be:ore the Court of the House of Peers? In obeying the terms of the Charter, which makes this Court competent to judge of acts com mitted against the safety of the State, without any excep tion, and without any distinction between ordinary and extraordinary culprits. France requires that the Cham ber of Peers should solemnly pronounce, in the pre sence of all Europe, between the Sovereignty founded in July and the dethroned Legitimacy—between a King and an ex-King, between a new Dynasty and an ex-Dynasty. Certainly France does not demand blood ; it would be horror-struck to see that of a weak woman shed, and, above all, that of a mother ; and France did not eve❑ thirst for the blood of the Ministers —very diflerentiy guilty—who were detained at Ham. But a crime prolonged for si - e: months has inflicted infinite misery on twelve departments; revolt has fallen with its heavy hand on persons and property, by destroying the latter and cutting off the former. It is necessary that the Chamber of Peeta should pronounce whether these crimes when they are committed in the name of legitimacy against the power of July, are a crime. —Yes or no ? It is ne cessary that the Peers decide by that means between the family of the legitimates, and the family of the national sovereignty. Let the Peere, fulfil, like great citizens, their patriotic duty, and grateful France will justly rank them among those immovealrle authorities which sustain the throne erected by the will of the French people. We hear from Wirternburg that the States which are about to meet will consist of two-thirde of liberal Consti tutionalists, a filth of Radicals, and the others will vote for the Ministers on all questions except the Frankfort Protocols. prx LA-CHAYELLE, Nov. 17.—1 n spite of the secrecy olmerved by the Government, the following are known it> be the regiments which are to proceed to the Rhenish provinces :—The 13th and 15th cuirassiers; the 4th,Bth, and 17th hussars ; the 16th, 17th, 25th, and 37th in fantry ; the sth, 7th, and 19th lancers; twelve batteries of eight pieces of cannon, according to the troops. The infantry regiments have 3,070 men each, and the cavalry 600. These forces will be the fourth part of those which are to collect on the Rhine, and are only a small part of the Prussian army, to which must be added the landwehr. The latter, it is said, will only be called out in parts ; and it is probable, if Prussia is only to be a❑ observer, that it will not be wanted at all. The calling out the landwehr would be a proof that the Government had some concealed intention to interfere, and tLe departure of this militia would augment the general uneasiness which begins to prevail. We observe that military activity which is inse parable from the movement of large bodies of troops; but we seek in vain for any certain sign of war, or even of taking the field. " Le Courrier de l'Europe particularly deprecates any idea of its party sanctioning any such attempt. Le Temps says that it cannot suppose the police guilty of so infamous an act, but censures it for negligence in allowing the culprit to escape. La Tribune defers its observations until the morrow, contenting itself with merely relating the facts. Le Coast it idionnel says that it will ❑ot hazard any conjec ture o❑ the no less insane than criminal attempt,' but will await the result of the jtalicial inquiries, remarking only, that Paris felt deeply the dangers to which the suc cess of such an attempt would have exposed the public safety, and that all France will have the same feeling. The Ministerial Papers speak in terms of horror and indig nation of the attempt, but give no conjectures as to its origin." On the attempt to assassinate the King of the French, we make the following extracts from the French Journals of Tuesday, the 20th instant : (From ae Moniteur of Tuesday.) • - The King left the Tuileries at two o'clock yesterday for the Chamber of Deputies. On his reaching the extre mity of the Pont Royal a pistol-shot was fired from the left side of the bridge. The King was not hurt. The author of the attempt dropped the pistol. Two sergens de vine, and a corporal of the Municipal Guard, rushed towards the group out of which the shot was flied, and endeavoured to make their way through it; but, in the scuffle, the assassin succeede'i in effecting his escape. Nevertheless justice has instituted proceedings, and di,co vered some traces of crime. The King would not allow the Chambers to be made acquainted with the occurrence. They received him with transports, and applauded him with rapture, without knowing the danger his Majesty bad escaped. The re. port of the event spread rapidly after the sitting. The Chambers spontaneously repaired to the Tuileries, and testified to the King the profound indignation they felt. The acclamations of the populace made reparation to the King for that cowardly attempt. We are informed that several persons have been arrested, and are now undergoing an examination. We have just received the following paragraph : `' Immediately after the close of the sitting, on being informed of the attempt directed against the King's per. son, both Chambers, with a unanimous impulse, repaired in a body, and on foot, to the Palace of the Tuileries, to testify to his Majesty the indignation they experienced at so criminal an attempt, and to assure him of their invio lable attachment. The Peers and Deputies bad the ho nour of being received by the King and Queen. Their respect could not control the enthusiastic manifestation of their feelings, which they expressed by loud and unanimous cries of Vice le Roi !" (From the National.) Our first impression, like that of all the men of honour we know, was profoundly painful ; but, after rejoicing with every body else at the King's escape, we thought proper to make inquiries, in order to ascertai❑ whether the assassin had been arrested, the weapo❑ itself, or the bullet, found, any well authenticated evidence received, and if the persons arrested on the spot were likely to afford means of discovering the guilty individual who committed the attempt. The Nourelliste replies to all those ques tions in a manner calculated to remove a great deal of our anxiety. Until now the whole is inconceivable ; never was the police more shamefully remiss and ineffective or so in. fernally (infernalement) criminal. We need not say how sadly agitated was the close of the Royal Sitting, by the credit generally placed in the first account of the occurrence. Every one supposed, of course, that the King had miraculously escaped a great danger; and it was repeated every where that the new Louvel had been apprehended, armed with another loaded pistol similar to the one he had fired upon the King. Such were the reports officiously circulated at the close of the sitting ; and it is not unworthy of remark that the official Evening Paper stated them in its first and second editions, which left last evening for the departments, where they will create, no doubt, the utmost consternation ; for France had conceived that all parties had renounced the vile and utuon of vb1.41/thig poignard or the pistel. A great number of Deputies, impressed with that feel ing, and wishing to evince their horror of an attempt, of the accuracy of which most of them entertained no doubt, repaired to the Tuileries immediately after the break ing up of the sitting. The deputies who did not accom pany their colleagues viewed the incident with more cool ness, and formed the opinion at this moment entertained by every body with whom we have had communication. They thought that the fact was of so deplorable and serious a nature that, before it was made the object of so solemn a measure by the Chamber, it behoved them to wait until the abhorrence they felt should not be weakened by doubts, which would give quite a contrary direction to their indig nation. Doubts, in our opinion, seem to have decidedly prevailed. (From the Papers ) OPENING OF THE CHAMBERS . Monday being appointed for the op!ning of the Legisla tive Sessions, crowds of spectators, desirous to see his Majesty and the Royal cortege pass from the Palace of the Tuleries to the Chamber of Deputies, assembled as early as twelve o'clock in the vicinity of the Palace-gate, near the Pont Royal : and long before two, the hour appointed for the starting of the procession, the bridge, the quay, the wall of the Tuileries gardens, and, in fine, every spot which promised to command a view, were densely lined with persons for the most part highly respectable i❑ their appearance. The passage fur the cortege was kept clear, as usual, by detachments of the National Guards and the Line ; considerable numbers of the latter were also under arms in the Place du Carrousel, as a precautionary measure. At precisely five minutes after two his Majesty, who had been preceded by the Royal carriages, containing the Queen, Princesses, and their suites, left the Tuileries on horseback, attended by a brilliant Staff. He bowed re peatedly iu acknowledgement of the cheers with which he was received on leaving the Palace. Just as the King turned the Pont Royal, to follow the quay, a man rushed suddenly from the crowd of specta. tors, advanced c!ose to his Majesty, and fired at him a pistol ; but, we are happy to say, the ball passed before the head of his horse, and consequently did not touch ti.e King. The arrangement of the throne, &c., was precisely si milar to that of the old Chamber, only on a somewhat larger scale ; and the appearance of the tribune , ,, filled principally with ladies in elegant carriage dresses, occupy ing the intervals between the columns, with gilt lonic capitals, which support the roof, and form au amphi theatre, was brilliant in the extreme. At ten minutes before two o'oclock the Corps Diplo - and at ten minutes after two the Quee❑ accom panied by Madame Adelaide and the younger branches of the Royal Family, entered the tribunes reserved for them ; and at 27 minutes past two the King took his seat in an armed chair, richly ornamented with crim:,on velvet and gold lace, placed directly under the Royal canopy; on his right and left hand, stools, simParly ornamented, were left vacant fur the Dukes of Orleans and Nemours. The attendance of Deputies was very numerous ; that of the Peers much less so. Among the former we ob served M. Berryer, who was warmly congratulated by his friends on his recent acquittal. All the newly-nominated Peers were in full costume, as were also several of the others ; but all the Deputies were in plain clothes, except the two Questors. The Ministers (all of whom were present) were seated on two benches, covered with crimson velvet, placed on the platform one step lower than the Royal seat ; and below them, on stools also covered with crimson velvet, were the Alarshals of France, the Council of State, and other great officers. His Majesty was received in the most enthusiastic man ner, and, when the shouts of Vive le Roi had subsided, lie read the speech. \ FURTHER PARTICULARS. We briefly stated on Monday that an assassin had fired at his Majesty, on his turning from the Pont Royal to the Quai d'Orsay, and that the ball happily missed its object. From the loudness of the report it would seem that it was highly charged, and this circum stance probably contributed to save his Majesty's life. One of the Aides-de-Camp immediately exclaimed, " Sire, a musket has beeu just fired at you !" " No," replied the King, with the utmost sang froid, " it was a pistol; I saw it clearly." M. Gabriel Delessert leaped roin his horse, and picke eroi du m p d t ; anhepdistGole,nwerhalicphaiohieroadse assin had thrown to the out of the procession, and ordered the arrest of eight or ten persons who were nearest the point from which the re port proceeded. The eyes of the multitude were instantly turned upon his Majesty, who, taking off his hat, ex claimed—" I am not hurt ;" upon which he was cheered with unanimous shouts of " Vice le Roi !" Notwith standing the denseness of the crowd no one was wounded. The miscreant who made the attempt is said to be among the persons arrested, having been identified by several in dividuals who were near him at the moment. He wore a blue coat, buttoned close to the throat. The audacity of the infamous attempt on his Majesty's life excited the strongest feeling of indignation among the assembled crowds, and during the remainder of the way cries of " Vire le Roi !" were reiterated from every side with the greatest enthusiasm. The King, who had displayed the utmost coolnes whe❑ the assassin fired, seemed touched by these marks of attachment, which he repeat edly acknowledged. On his return from the Chambers. she news of the attempt having by that time spread in all directions, the crowds had much accumulated, and the cheers and shouts of " Vire le Roi !" were loud and incessant. 1' he intelligence of the attempt had not reached the Chambers before the arrival of the procession, but some thing unusual, indicative of agitation, was remarked in the manner of General Pajol and other officers who pre ceded his Majesty into the salle; and at this time the ac count evidently began to be circulated, as a general move ment and whispering immediately took place on the benches of the Members of both Chambers, which was followed by a general burst of Vice le Roi on the King's appearing in the Chamber. As soon as his Majesty had withdrawn, the members of the grand deputations, who had learned from the King himself the diabolical attempt, communicated it to their colleagues, upon which an una nimous cry arose, " They would assasinate the King! * Let us go to the Tuileries ; our duty is to go to the Tuileries ! " A great part of the Members of the two Chambers, preceded by the President and Questors of the Chamber of Deputies, then set out on foot. and proceeded to the Palace by the Pont d e la Concorde and the garden. The King, sur rounded by the Queen, Madame Adelaide, and the Royal Family, who appeared deeply affected, received them in the throne-room. The President, in the name of his col leagues, expressed the horror and indignation which they felt upen learning the crime that had been attempted, and eepressed their warmest congratulations upon bin Majesty's fortunate escape from assassination. At night the whole oF the municipal body, the Officers of the National Guards, awl a great number of persons of distinctio❑ also, eagerly pressed to the Tuileries to congratulate the King on his escape. PARIS, ONE o'CLocK, P.31.-We regret to say that the person who fired a pistol at his Majesty is not yet ar rested. The France Nouvelle gives the following details on the attempt, for the correctness of which it vouches : —" It appears that the author of the crime wiis constantly surrounded by about 30 individuals, who, to avert suspi cion, shouted " Vise le Roi l" The assassin, in order to place himself in the foremost of the spectators, as the King was passing, rudely pushed back a young female re cently arrived in Paris, and stationed himself behind a soldier and a corporal of the line. The young woman was obliged to stand on tiptoe, and to look over the assassin's shoulders to see the King. Suddenly she perceived him stretch out his arm with a pistol, which was aimed at the King. She seized his arm, but the pistol had gone off. Upon this the assassin violently pushed forward the two soldiers who stood before him, and mixed again with the crowd. He was soon lost among the thirty or forty individuals, whose enthusiasm for the King seemed to increase, and who, by means of this stratagem, succeeded in averting suspicion, and enabling the criminal to escape. The soldier and corporal, together with a police officer who was near the spot, t:nd a municipal guard on duty at the corner of the bridge, penetrated into the crowd, but the assassin had disappeared. When he pushed the two soldiers be let fall the pistol which he had discharged, and another loaded with a ball. The two pistols are deposited in the hands of the police. The Prefect of Police, on hearing this event, immediately ordered the arrest of seve ral persons suspected of being implicated in the crime. In the evening several of them were examined. We have reason to believe that the result has been such as to give to the Magistrates a clue by which the assassin may be discovered." The meeting at the Hotel de Choiseul last night was attended by nearly 200 Deputies, who chose for their Commissaries Messrs. Ganneron, Baillot, Fulchiron, Jacqueminot, and Francois Delessert. It was de cided amidst acclamations that M. Dupin should be appointed President of the Chamber. It was also resolved that Messrs. Benjamin Delessert and Be renger should be proposed as Vice-Presidents. The two other candidates chosen by ballot are Messrs. Etienne and de Schonen. The candidates fixed upon for the Se cretaryship are Alessi's. Ganneron, Cunin, Gridaine, Mar a. and The Moniteur has the following:—" The Army of the North continues its march in Belgium. Yesterday, the 19th, the vanguard, commanded by the Duke of Orleans, accompanied by the Duke de Nemours, arrived before the citadel of Antwerp. This day and to-morrow the whole army will be collected there, and placed so as either to commence the siege, or to act as a corps of observation." A letter from 13russels states that one of the first houses at Antwerp has received advice from the Hague that Ge neral Chasse had orders to resist to the utmost extremity; and that at the same time the Prince of Orange resolved upon making a diversi•, n, and even hoped that another might be made by the more powerful arm of Prussia. The Augsburg Gazette of the I6th inst. contains the follawing, dated Mentz, Nov. 11 :-The firmest friends of peace have become wavering since the news that a protest has heen entered against the coercive measures of France and England relative to Holland, and that Prussia is making great military preparations. We learn that a great portion of the garrisons of Magdeburg and Erfurth are on their march towards the Rhine, that the reserve is called out, and that the 7th and Sth corps are put on the war establishment. Thus Prussia will have, by the 18th inst., an army of above 100,000 men on the frontiers. On the 14th a courier arrived here with an order for the ussian General Schutz to proceed to Juliers, where he is to take the command of the vanguard. Last week a large quantity of dry provisions, such as peas, lentils, beans, &c., were brought up here for Holland." The same paper has the following, of the 10th, from Berlin :-" Thanks to the vaunted ability of Prince Talleyrand, the London Conference is dissolved, or at least suspended ! With his return in London the seeds of discord were sown, which now hear fruit. Each Power has assumed the position which was assigned it by the revolution of July, and all illusion is past. The greatest activity prevails in the fo reign department at Berlin. Couriers are starting in all directions ; one of the King's Aides-de -Camp has been sent off to Cobientz, and our troops are marching. A considerable park of artillery is to be sent from Magdeburg to the Rhenish provi nces , an d contracts here have been concluded for supplies of military equipments and pro visions." FRENCH FUNDS.-PARB, Nov. 20.-Five per Cents., 96f. 95f. 95c. 96f. 96f. sc. 10c. sc. 96f. 96f. sc. 96f. F our per Cents., 80f. 75c. Three per Cents., 67f. 35c. 40c. 55c. 50c. 40c. ; Treasury Bonds, ! 4 , ; Bank Actions, 1,661 f. 25c. ; Rente de Naples, Sit. 25c. 20c. 25e. 3 , c. 25c. ; Rente de l'Etat Romain, 80y4 ; Rente d'Espagne, 5 per Cent., 13% ; Ditto, Three per Cents., 29% ; iterate Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 5t5% i 2 % ; Belgian Loan, 1831, 74% 1 / 2 . Exchange on London, one month, money,2sf. 75c. ; hree months, paper, 2.5 f. 65c. ; money, 25f. 60c. DREADFUL AND FATAL ACCIDENT BY FIREARMS. — The family of EDWARD ALLFREY, EN., a gentleman of fortune, residing at No. 31, Bryanston squire, St. Marylebone, were plunged into the utmost distreot a few day since, at their country house, Bamp stead, near Epsom, by a fatal accident which occurred to the housemaid, a remarkably fine young woman, between 19 and 20 years of age, who was unfortunately shot through the bo !y by the imprudent conduct of a young man, the footman. He had taken up a fowling-piece, and not having tried whether it was loaded or not, presented it at the unfortunate young woman, exclaiming, in a jocular manner, " I will shoot you," and drew the trigger. The piece was unfortunately loaded with shot, and the whole of its contents entered in one side of the body and passed out on the other ; the poor girl immediately fell lifeless before him. A Coroner's Inquest has been held on the body of the deceased, and the Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death." On Friday evening last, about 8 o'clock, a coach, called the Phenomenon, containing five si , ldiers h a ndcuffed, and in charge of a military guard, drove ra pidly into the Tower by the western entrance, opposite Thames-street, and the gates were instantly closed. On i n quiry, it appears that the prisoners, who have since been kept in close confinement over the " main guard," upon an allowance o f G per diem, wi t h out fi re or candle, are t ntried fortomutthinv i the 7th i l n a that town ; and it is said that the cause of their remov a l to London is to p revent the possibility of any excitement in Norw ich, where the alle g ed mutineers were very popu- L e ss fi ar ice , e unfortunate.a Norivich, young who men belonging have been popu lar with their comrades and the inhabitants, among whom the transaction has excited much discussion. The sol diers, with-whom all communication is strictly prohibited, will b e detained in the Tower until the finding and sen tence of the court-martial is approved of by the Knew. BRUSSELS. " TUESDAY EVENING, FOUR O ' CLOCK. " Marshal Gerard slept last night in Antwerp, at the hotel St. Antoine. It is said that he has sent to inquire if the Dutch garrison will respect the city. The division of the Duke of Orleans, at the head of the vanguard, has moved on to Breda from Antwerp ; his head-quarters are to be at Westwezel. " This city has been, during the day, in continual move. ment. Several French regiments have arrived, of which some have passed through towards the scene of operations, and others are quartered in the town, where, during some nights, the billets have been distributed by sections. " An order was issued yesterday to prevent persons from entering Antwerp without a special authorization from the Minister of War. Colonel Caradoc, the military agent of the British Government, left Brussels this morn ing at an early hour. He bought, as it is stated, four horses yesterday for his service. " Marshal Gerard has stated, as it is asserted on good authority, that the cannons and troops for enforcing the summons of the citadel will be ready on the 24th inst. " The most conflicting rumours have been current during the day; amongst others, that negotiations are going forward for the surrender of the citadel, but as yet there is no ground for this statement. " The war party, which in the Chamber of Represen. tatives is supported by some Ex-Ministers, who wish to regain their portfolios, have this day produced the post ponement of the discussion of the address in reply to the speech from the throne to to-morrow, on the pretence that the report of the diplomatic negotiations presented last Wednesday by the Minister for Foreign Affairs was not printed and distributed to the members, who were bound to take it into consideration in the discussion of the reply. " The most extraordinary rumours have been also scattered,hy the Orangeists, such as that there is no chance for an assault on the citadel until after ten days. They state also that the Prussian troops are to come immediately to join the Dutch army, and to attack both French and Belgians. The Belgian troops have received instructions to be ready to repel all attacks in that direction. " Rumour speaks of the first summons being given to day by Marshal Gerard before he breaks ground ; other persons are of opinion that the works to enforce it will be first prepared. " It is stated that in case General Chasse fires on the city of Antwerp, the Belgian army is to enter Antwerp, and to attack the citadel from the fortifications of the town. " The negotiations relative to the liberation of M. Pes catore are very active. General Goblet sends a❑ estafette this evening to Arlon, with instructions on the subject to General Tabor, and to Colonel Prisse, who was sent on Sunday on a special mission on the subject. " M." " TUESDAY NIGHT, 7 O'CLOCK. " You are of course prepared to expect that a part of the French force has come before the citadel. The re mainder of the army is rapidly advancing towards it, and it is now said that operations against the garrison will be commenced by the 24th. I was led to expect that it would be sooner, but it seems to be a much more difficult matter to commence operations than to put an army in motion. When the whole preparations are ready, Marshal Gerard will give a formal summons to Baron Chasse, after the answer to which, if it be in the negative, as every hour becomes more and more probable, the Marshal will ❑ext demand yes or no, whether the Baron will look upon the city as neuter in the contest. Should the answer be in the affirmative, the French will then take the best measures they can to attack the citadel from their lines, the Belgians being mere spactators of the strife. Should, however, the Baron decide upon firing on the citadel, it is said that the Belgians and French will unite,—that the French army will enter the city, and take it under the joint protection of France and England. If delay be (as it has hitherto been) the object of the Dutch, it is more than probable that Baron Chasse will have received instructions from his Government to respect the neutrality of the city, for it is obvious that his chance of holding out the citadel for any length of time is much greater when oppo.ed to the French alone, than when he should have to contend against the combined efforts of the two Powers, the one intrenched in fortifications as strong as his own, and having so many hundred pieces of cannon and mortars brought to bear upon him. " Amongst the accounts of what is passing, or said to be passing, at Antwerp, we have been told by some of the morning papers here, that the summons to surrender, and the demand to respect the neutrality of the city, have been already made by the Marshal, accordimt to one account, and by the Duke of Orleans, according to another. I can state that no such demand has yet been made by either. On the face of it, it would be extremely improbable that a General should make a demand for the surrender of a place until he had put himself in a military position to en force his demand. " The whole road between this and Antwerp presents a scene of the most animated kind. It is covered with troops of every description ; couriers and military este feues moving to and fro with extraordinary baste. A large body of the French troops is stationed at Mechlin, half-way between this and Antwerp. A considerable force is at Berghern, about a mile at this side of the cita del. The head-quarters are, it is said, about to he re. moved to Merxhem, about a league to the north of the city, as soon as the whole of the troops shall have come up. Two regiments of the line, a park of artillery, and some cavalry, marched in here to-day—a large portion of them have been billetted upon the inhabitants, I suppose to relieve the inhabitants of the surrounding villages, who have hitherto borne that burden. They will set forward towards Mechlin early in the morning. " The Courrier Beige, a paper of the Orangists, has a paragraph to-day, in which it represents Marshal Gerard as having stated publicly that the French police had got hold of a new conspiracy to unseat King Philip of France, and in which the chief actors or abettors were no other than the great northern Powers, and that Holland was to take a part in it—against France, of course. If I were to attach any importance to those Orangist paragraph manu• factuters, I should believe that Marshal Gerard was more fit to be at the head of a tea-party than of an army going to bombard a citadel ; for there is not a place through which he moves that he is not represented as telling some curious particulars. The fact is, the Marsh a l, lik e a goo d soldier, is only attending to the nutters which brought him here, and therefore all the stories thus made for him are mere inventions to serve the purposes of the Orange fac tion. I take notice of this story thus early, for I have no doubt that in a day or two you will find it in the eo lumns of a London morning contemporary, with divers `additions and amendments, and further particulars.' The story is another version of the papers said to be found on the Duchess of Berry. " W."— Times. HAMBURG PAPERS. BERLIN, Nov. 12.—(Fitom A LETTER.)—The bubble with which the English Ministerial papers in particular have so long amused themselves—namely, the assertion that Prussia would look on quietly while the French arm) entered Belgium, has now burst. The official announce ment of the assembly of the Prussian Army of Observa tion on the AL use has produced an astonishing effect. The belief in war preponderates, and the consequenees of the prevalence of such an opinion are incalculable. Persona acquainted with the spirit of our Cabinet had long since expected such a decision ; and the correspondence between tie Prussian General Dumoulin and the Belgian General Tabor, relative to the arrest of M. Pescatore, indicated such an issue. Another pretty general error has been dis pelled by this declaration, viz., that the Three Powers placed confidence in the Doctrinnaire Ministry of France. This is by no means the case. After some reasoning, to show that the Ministry of the Doctrinnaires coil he of short duration, the letter proceeds :—What will then happen ? o.lillon Barrott and War ! But then, France must not reckon on its alliance with England. The very Convention of 22d of October has nearly caused the overthrow of the Grey Administration; the day in which England ventures the first act of hostility against Holland is the last of Lord Grey's Administration, and that in which the Opposition in France gets into power is the last of the alliance be tween the two kingdoms. " England (said yesterday an Englishman of distinction now here) will have no war with Holland, and the Ministers have acted without having sufficiently consulted the public mind. Nay, by calling a French fleet to our coasts, they have given a death-blow to their alliance." Yesterday, though Sun day, the Staats Schuld. Scheine fell 3 per Cent. The phrase in the Prussian Declaration respecting the tran• quillity of Germany causes some sensation, as it seems to have little concern with the measure itself; and this phrase does not seem adapted to make the public easy, which seems to be the object of the article. It is re ported that a person near the Throne drew up the ar ticle—that General Witzleben, though he advised the measure, voted in the Council against publishing it, and that Duke Charles of Mecklenburg strongly advocated the publication, as Prussia's honour required that it should come forward in a decided manner. The garrison of Erfurt has already received orders to go to Magdeburg, and that of Brandenburg to Erfurt; so that all will be as it was six months ago. EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, Nov. 16.-13 11%; two months, 13 10 1 i. STOCKHOLM, Nov. 9.—Seventy-five days, 14. BREMEN, Nov. 13.—Two months, 614 613. —Hamburg Papers, Nov. 17. WA RWI.WS N o y, IL—The Universal Gazette of War saw announces that on the 4th inst. the Prince Field Marshal announced to the authorities who assembled to offer their congratulations on the birth of the young Prince, son of the Emperor, that his Majesty bad resolved to relieve from all further responsibility the following per buns, who are excluded from the amnesty of Nov. I, 1831, viz., those who, on the 7th September, 1831, had chosen another bead of the Government—those who formed part of the Revolutionary Diets of Zakroczym and Plozk, and who had issued a proclamation to the army, calling on it to persevere in the contest against its lawful Sovereign. PRUSSIAN FUNDS—BERLIN, Nov. 15. St. Schuld Sch. 4 per cent 9 1 ,4 Prussian English Loan, 1818, 5 per cent. lo2li Ditto ditto 182., 5 per cent. 1027i Ditto ditto, 80nd5.... 1830, 4 percent. Exchange on London, three months 6 29q, —Prussian State Gazette, Nov. 16. HAMBURG, Nov. 16.—BORSEN HALLE, HALF-PAST Two O'CLOCK.-The arrivals of Wheat during the week have been somewhat more considerable, but the greater part was taken for consumption at the quotations:— Rix-dollars. Wheat, Anhalt, white - red 105 to 11 , 8 Holstein - Marks 9B to 103 Mecklenburg - Lower Elbe 75 to 82 During the week 250 lasts of Wheat have been im ported, 96 exported, and there remains stock in hand 700 lasts. Stocks agai❑ declined to-day, owing chiefly to the fur ther depression of the Amsterdam Exchang-._ - End of Nov. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent. Anglo-Russian Loan 94 Hamburg ditto — Russian inscription, 5 per cent.... ....... ....... Ditto, ditto, 1831 83% Polish Bonds lO6 Prussian Bonds, 1832 Austrian Bank Shares 1064 Austrian Metalliques - New Austrian 4 per c en t . 72 —Hamburg Reporter. JAMAICA. The Kingston Chronicle, of Sept. 28, contains the following speech of Lord Mulgrave :- 44 HIS EXCELLENCY THE EARL OF MULGRAVE'S SPEECH IN A CONFERENCE WITH THE MAGISTRATES OF ST. JAMES'S. " Gentlemen,--4 have thought it necessary to summon you here to-day, that I might, before quitting the parish, address a few words to you upon certain occurrences con nected with the peace of the town, to which my attention has been more particularly attracted, from their having, in some instances, happened during my stay here. Upon my first arrival in this town, I received with satisfaction an address, at the head of which were your names, pro fessing confidence in the intentions and consequent support to the measures of my Government. In my reply, ac knowledging this offer with gratitude, I recommended that as the best means of affording this support, you should be zealous and united in protecting from out rage every class of his Majesty's subjects. For myself. I never make a profession which I am not prepared to fulfil, nor use words up to which I do not [near. to act, should occasion require. As little will I doubt the sincerity of the assurances then put forward by you. On the contrary, I rely upon them, and in that spirit I am happy to observe, that it is not necessary that I should refer more particularly to the last occurrence of this description, as it has by you been put into a train of legal investigation. It is impossible, however, not to mark that there is a violence of party spirit in the town and neighbourhood of Montego-bay, occasionally breaking out in open outrage, disgraceful to the parish, and more especially to the authorities, should they permit them to continue to recur. I can make every allowance for a feeling of irritation produced by the constant melancholy moments of vast masses of property so recently destroyed in open rebellion, by which this parish was the greatest sufferer ; and can imagine that it may be difficult, at first, under the circumstances, to view matters as dispassionately as in periods of tranquillity ; but I look to you as gentlemen of education, with the confidence that, in the discharge of your duties, you will not ever be influenced by any partial motives ; and, for myself, I am determined, whatever the conduct of others may be, to vindicate the autho rity of the law. I have assured you most sincerely of mY sympathy in the distresses of this parish; you already know me enough to feel assured, that should the crimi nal attempts of last winter be repeated, I would redress them with promptitude and vigour, and, should the in tfihueetnneeatofthe my ou p t r s e e s t e , u t c h e at be l th w o o u u g l h d t n d n e t sir h a e b s l i e tat t e o acthaencky personal inconveni e nc e to be h e r e the moment I wag summoned. But that same energy which I would en deavour to display in saving the extensive and valuable properties of the wealthy, I will, if necessary, exert with equal decision in protecting from destruction the humble dwelling of the poorest; and whilst I have means at toy command which, under any circumstances, would not be wanting, I will not suffer that, by any person, whatever may he his station, or under any pretence, however plausible it may be thought, outrage on private property shall be perpetrated with impunity. It is poo• Bible that in the parish of St. James, which has so lately suffered severely from the temporary triumph, of lawless violence, so i n f a t ua t e d an exam pl e should he repeatedly held forth to the negroes in the country of this contempt shown for the rights of private property by those who ought to know better. It is inn' possible, in looking around me, to believe or suppose that gentlemen of station and respectability, and of extensiv e influence, can be any way connected with such criminal and disgraceful scenes ; but I do desire you to employ that influence, the influence of character and respectability, !o . engendering a bett er f ee li ng amongst your ne i g hb ou rs, reminding your fellow-townsmen that it is upon the re gard shown to the rights of property that their security alone rests, and how can they expect the ignorant negr ° to respect that right in his own person which they violate in the dwellings of their n e i g hb ours ? I t i s n the weal'. of the sufferer which marks the extent of the injury--it, tg not the ignorance of the c ulp r it w hi c h s h ows t h e enormity of the crime. On the contrary, the law cannot choose Its victim better than when he who has the smallest excuse O r i . error offends against him who has the slightest means° defence. It is high time to put an end to the state of alarm l ° which many quiet and peaceable persons have been kept by the excited state of public feeling, and illegal threats il" properly put forward, w hi c h h ave at l east pro d uce d a Sta t e of things in which no man's house is his castle, and th e quiet and safety of individuals and their families are en; dangered. But as it i s a l wa y s b e tt er i n suc h a s tate t ( '` society to prevent o u t rage a t t h e fi rst symptom , th..o o suppress it at its height, or to punish it in its ex tremity: and as complaint ha s b een ma d e t h at at suc h a rnorne ri i it is not alway s k nown w h at M ag i strate to app l y t° ; would suggest that y ou s h ou ld di v id e yourselves i nto dif ferent sets of two or three each, to be within call in rr. tation, and I am sure that with the number of gentlemen I see present, this would not entail a greater inconveni ence than you would feel it as much your desire as yo ur duty to submit to for the sake of such an object. Another re' commendation I have to make is, that you should establis h a constabulary force of special constables on whom yo can rely. I object, unless absolutely necessary, the frequent recurrence. True it is that the 1 31 ° . ment a man attempts feloniously to force an entrance Woo dwelling-house, under any pretence, either to drag forth!. person to whom hospitality has been extended, or stall persist afte r sttwhhh more, aeaortundlodiwnn i geeb f j a ls,utty l t v rtio i lipye t ye l frsdol t rio t : , inee e yi oteed forfeited, shouldtt ah b tn e erd r upa a oses t fts e r atitshih i lhe n aa t ntti e :ntv n , ief n tt bwipee o eor f aupdie d adtp e rb s ta t eit r oib o noe y at i ot o oen g rif e by your illegal part some u mt may h l a i that sya a un n ebhme paylvsaeuul iftd,ahesed yet,h aTviieh. property des eru There is rivedisoevfseutduet suggested, s tpu i h n e apr n tsa o oi s c out l e f n pioa t i ct, the ga hi l be tintgu m fe. o xr r pt e he ei powers o g i swu t e n ur saai , p : le a ar p en t ea: e tii : se : t a r n e me alternative measures port all the t the worldwhtuh havewho would w o ai nurl calling which, as Chief Magistrate, I would not prefer to alloy ing the authority of t l he peace broken, and private property violated, from any " i 'an t suggestions,y the details of which will be n' ° ' s o ul : rpropercommand. nun ntu ay n e d n . e r a m l law to sure to that d y e u s despised, i se will, a the ut in f better arranged in my absence. I have made n o accu'r tion—l ask for no explanation I therefore require no re ,P but leave you in th e f u ll confidence, that, as men of in , -Y' -e , grity and charact er , you must be anxious for the rePPJ't, tion of your pari s h, w hi ch the continuance of such (3u j rage would seriously affect ; that as men of prop t t Y., s :ie stake in the country, you are most desirous to Pr°' r for the peac e o f your families, and for the security of ~ dwellings." The same J ournal contains also information ', his L ., * Lordship h av i ng b ecome the patron of an Amateur ti ical Society. His Lordship appears to have been aoli ve a engaged in atten di ng military inspections, free-scb°°'-' and balls. These pape rs con t a i n news f rom S out h Atner i c a o f a later date, but not of much importance. g LOUIS BONAPARTE, th e son o f t h e e x-b t u of HOLLAND, has arrived in London on a visit 0 K . ' uncle JOSEPH, ex• King of SPAIN, whom he has ove r 0 - fore seen. We should not be surprised that our Con ser „iot ti ves made this innocent visit a ground for suspecting S r agailllt the House of NAsati.