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At the risk, therefore, of disappointing those of your readers who may not be able to enjoy this spirited and admirable reply in the Fr enc h languag e , I f ee l b oun d to insert it in the original tongue. The extract is somewhat long—but it is splendid—and it will repay you if you read it even twenty times:— "Se reprends, et je die que le gouvernement nous re tire petit a petit tout ce que nos quarante ans de revolt]- . Cons nous avaient acquis de droite et de franchisee. its die que c'est a la probite destilunaux de l'arreter dans cette voie fatale pour lui comme pour nous. Je die que le pouvoir aetuel manque particulierement de grandeur et de courage dans la maniere meaquine dont it fait cette operation basardeuse que cheque gouvernemeht, par on aveuglement singulier, tente a son tour, et qui consiste a substituer plus ou moms rapidement l'arbitraire a la Con stitution, le despotisme a la liberte. " Bonaparte, quand 1! fut Consul et quand i 1 fuit Empe reur, voulut aussi le despotisme, mail il fit autretnent y entry de front et de plain-pied. II n'employa wittier des miserables petitee precautions aver lesquelles on ewe mote aujourd'hui toutes nos libertes, lee ainees comme ire catlettes, (Tiles de 1830 comma cella de 1789 ; Napoleon ne fut ni sournois ni hypocrite; Napoleon ne nous fd.inta pas nos droits l'un spree l'autre a la faveur de notre a.soo - pistaernent, comme Pon fait maintenant ; Napoleon 'prit tout ala foie, d'un seul coup et d'une settle main. f.t. lion n'a pee lee moeurs du renard. " More, Messieurs, c'etait grand. L'empire, commie gouvernement et comme administration, fut aesuremenr une epoque intolerable de tyrannie; mais sonvenons-nrets que notre liberte fat largement payee en gloire. 11. a France d'alora avait, chose extraordinaire, une attitude touts ala foie soumise et superbe. Ce n'etait pas la France comme nous la voulons, la France fibre, la France .ouveraine d'elle-meme, c'etait la France esciave (Pun tiomme et reine du monde. knowing, of the Promissory Notes of the Five per Cent. Loan, dated the 31st of March, 1823, numbered from q,241 to 2,720 inclusive, and also the discharge, on the Id July following, of the Promissory Notes of the Loan tf 1825-26, from 1 to 250. inclusive, Proprietors, resi snt in Europe, of Notes included in the above arrange- Aleuts, (whose instructions to their Agents in India make 10 provision for such an event), will, under recent orders LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1832. I ; 1 111 loire fi li. , (No. 1.2,573.) (PRICE 7D.) 'transmitted to that Presidency, be entitled to receive, for It . he Principal of their Notes, discharged Treasury Notes This day was publis hed, H OOD'S COMIC 'ANNUAL for 1833. Charles Tilt, 86, Fleet-street. COURT CIRCULAR. FRANCE. announced for repetition—and would have cdn• tinued to have drawn very full and remunerative houses, but that the proprietors of the Theatre Francais received, on the 10th December, 1832, the following order : " Le Ministre Secretaire d'Etat au Departement du Commerce et des Travaux Publics, vu Part. 14 du Deoret du 9 Juin, 1806, considerant que, daps des passages noir'. breux du drame represente au Tbeatre-Francais, le f 22 22 Novembre, 1832, et intitule ' Le Roi s'Amuse,' its maeurs sont outragees (violent' murmurer et rifts ironiques au fond de la salle), nous avow arrete et arretons: " Les representations du drame intitule Le Roi s'Amuse' sent desormeis interdites. the 13;ngal Government bearing interest at five per nt. for on; year, the said interest payable half-yearly by Its drawn on the Court at ls. I Id. the Sicca Rupee and Of whom may be had, New Editions of The COMIC ANNUAL for 1830, 1831, and 1832. Despatches for Viscount PALMERSTON were brought to the Foreign-office on Tuesday from firtmels by a mes senger. THE LIBERTY OF THE FRENCH DRAMA AND M. VICTOR HUGGO AGAINST THE DOCTRINNAIRES, AND M. D'ARGOUT. velve months after date. This Notice is given in order that the Proprietors resi lit in Europe may communicate instructions thereon to ieir Agents in India, in time to allow of those instructions Prince TALLEYRAND and the other Ministers of the Conference bad interviews with Viscount PALMERSTON in the course of Tuesday evening, at the Foreign-office. Their Excellencies also received despatches by couriers from the Netherlands in the course of the day. Prince LIEVEN, the Russian Ambassador, had a conference with Earl GREY yesterday afternoon at the Treasury. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of KENT and the Princess VICTORIA walked and drove for some time yes terday in Hyde Park. Divine service was performed before their Royal Highnesses and household on Tuesday (Christ mas-day) by the Dean of Chester. . The Belgian Minister vi'ited Viscount PALmEasTorr yesterday. HOOD'S WHIMS and ODDITIES, a New and Cheaper Edition ; the two volumes now comprised in one, with Eighty Cuts. Price 12s. neatly half-bound. "Je n'ai plus que quatre mots a dire, Messieurs, et je desire qu'ils soient presens a votre esprit au moment oa vous deli bererez, Ii n'y aeu dans ce siecle qu'un grand homme, Na poleon, et une grande chose, la liberte ; nous n'avons plus le grand homme, tachons d'avoir la grande chose."—VictorHugo. . mt received there previously to the 14th of June and 2d July, 1833, at which dates respectively all interest on f! Treasury Notes will cease. PETER AUI3ER, Secretary. MR. MORIER'S NEW NOVEL. Second Edition, in 3 vols. post Bvo., ZOHRAB, THE HOSTAGE. By the Author of. " Ha ji i Balm." " This is the best novel that has appeared for several years past; its story richer in materials and more artful in construe tion,'-and its style simple, manly, Engli s h—th e l anguage o f a ma ture observer of men and manners, as well as a scholar, and a ripe one."—Quarterly Review, Dec. To the EDITOR of the MORNING CHRONICLE. Paris, Dee. 21, 1832. Sir,—This is the shortest day in the year! Let us endeavour to improve it. The French drama is in danger, and it is our duty to pre serve k. Let us do a good action which shall last long—on a short day—and we may then look back with satisfaction to the close of the year 1832. I have prefixed to my letter an extract from the speech of M. Victor Hugo, delivered last Wednesday in the hall of the Tribunal of Com _ ;E l4 to& to TO THE ELECTORS OF THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX. GENTLEMEN, N compliance with the desire of numerous and respectable bodies of the Electors of Middlesex, I (Signe) Comte D'ARGOUT. " Fait a Paris, le 10 Decembre, 1832." The proprietors of the French theatre, instead of disobeying this injunction, as they were bound to do, being an illegal and unconstitu tional order, thought fit to comply with its de mands—and " Le Roi s'Amuse ' was with drawn. came a Candidate for your suffrages at the late Election; lie triumphant majority that was manifested in my favour . 4 1 the day of nomination, demands my warmest acknow :dements. That the result of the poll should not have 'YPTI correspondent therewith is not to me a matter of sue_ °• 111 le, when 1 recollect the undue influence that has been fed to counteract the popular voice. Neither can Ibe tlrprised that the political party lately opposed to his Ma- Us Ministers should have used every exertion far that Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. (Late Colburn and Bentley.) SIXTY BEAUTIFUL VIEWS. FOR FIFTEEN SHILLINGS. This day was published, p r i ce 15 5 ., e l egan tl y b oun d, THE LANDSCAPE ALBUM, or IL LUSTRATIONS of GREAT BRITAIN, in a Series of Sixty Views. By W. WESTALL, E.4q. A.R A. With Descriptions of the Scenery. 4 1 4 „ 4 This Work is uniform in size with the Landiappe and Picturesque Annuals, but contains more thaiaiMle the number of Plates. It is peculiarly suitable as a Pre sent for Youth, or a School-pri z e. Charles Tilt, 86, Fleet-street. Lord Jouw RUSSELL paid a visit yesterday to Earl GREY at the Treasury. The Princess LIVEN was stated to be " rather better' yesterday. Her Highness has been indisposed at Ash burnham•house since her return from Brighton. The Baron de WESSENBUEG visited Prince TALLEY.. RANI) yesterday. Earl GREY visited Lord HOLLAND, at Holland-house, Kensington, yesterday. Arrival.—Lord JOHN RUSSELL, on Monday evening, from Devonshire. Departure.—Viscount MELBOURNE, on Monday even , ing, on a visit to Earl and Countess COWPIZR, at Pan sanger, Herta. _, ..: HON. MISS C. GRIMSTON'S PRAYER-BOOK. Lately published, THE FORMS of MORNING and EVENING PRAYER, according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland, together with the Psalms of David. To which are added, the First Lessons, to be read on Sundays, and the Second Lessons, as they are appointed to be said every Morning and Even ing in the year. The whole arranged in the order in which they are used; the first volume containing the Morning, and the second the Evening Service. Third Edition. 2 vols. 12mo. 18s. boards, or 1/. 10s. bound in morocco. J. Hatchard and Son, 187, Piccadilly. BRIGHTON, DEC. 26. Itlnot ; but that other influential and official characters . uld h av e be e n publi c ly r epres e ntid as haiing espoused ge cause of any particular Candidate, with a view of in sencing the votes of the Electors, is, I must confess, a Liliatter of surprise, such proceedings (if true), having 'ben pronounced by resolutions of Parliament to he highly Nrninal. , A candidate for the county of Middlesex, in the year 806 , observed in his address to the Electors, that 4 ' . t Whenever the leaders of contending parties and lac- L ll 3B in a state unite, the history of the world bears evi 17en that it is not in favour of, but always against, the rnale, whose renewed and augmented pillage pays the 14Indalous price of the reconciliation." Whether such i lt utirnents may be applied to the late occasion or not, it is ill' you to judge. ln obeying the call made upon me, I Jtee done my duty, and I have to return my thanks to up . 111 tirrla of 1,000 Electors, who, by their independent votes, 41 deavoured to do theirs. Before you are called upon I tain for your suffrages, I trust that certain legislative 41easures will be adopted, so as to enable you to act ac- Ning to the dictates of your consciences and of your iilterests, whereby you may be enabled to relieve yourselves , legal and constitutional means from the multiplicity of u levances to which you have been subjected by the ini- Nitous enactments of nomination Parliaments. You will en, but not till then, be enabled to elect as your Repre- Intatives those whom you may think proper to call for ard as your candidates.' I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble Servant, JOHN SCOTT LILLIE. John's, Fulham, Dec. 26, 1832. I SSRS. ROSS AND OGILVIE, ARMY AGENTS BANKRUPTS. ALL Persons having UNSATISFIED CLAIMS against the Estate of the Bankrupts, or 4. b0 hav e a l rea d y prove d t h e i r D e b ts an d rece i ve d Divi kds,, are requested to transmit their Addresses (post .4 ) to Mr. Alexander Mackay, No. 28, Charles-street, the Ist of January will appear the Ist No. for 1833 of FIRE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 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They will repre sent various Members of almost every noble family in the Kingdom, and the Royal Families of England and France. Published by Edward Bull, 26, Holles-street, London. Orders also are received by every Bookseller and Print seller in the United Kingdom. Yesterday the Bishop of WORCESTER read prayers in one of the apartments of the Pavilion before their MAJES TIES, the Princess AUGUSTA, the Duke of GLOUCESTER, Prince GEORGE, and the Royal suite and household ; after which he administered the sacrament to their MAJESTIES. The QUEEN, accompanied by the Duke of GLOUCESTER, the Bishop of WORCESTER, and the Hon. Miss BAGOT, attended divine service yesterday afternoon at St. George's Chapel. The commanding officers of the Scots Fusileer Foot Guards, and the 3d Dragoon Guards, were honoured yes terday by the KING with audiences. A messenger arrived yesterday afternoon from the Fo reign-office with despatches for Sir HERBERT TAYLOR, which were immediately laid before his MAJESTY. The dinner party last evening at the Palace was formed of the Princess AUGUSTA, Duke of GLOUCESTER, Prince GEORGE, Duke of DEVONSHIRE, Captain WOOLMORE, the Bishop of WORCESTER, and the suite and household. 1 Colonel Fox and Lord ADOLPHUS FITZCLARENCE, have arrived at the Palace on a visit to their MAJESTIES. The Bishop of WORCESTER will continue at the Pavilion until after the holydays. The health of the Duchess of GLOUCESTER since her arrival at Brighton has considerably improved. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS, AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazette.) j, TO-MORROW, Dec. 28. M. H. H. Palmer, timber-merchant, Alfred.street, Bow G. Price, bookseller, Clapham-road 2 I W. Caffall, sen. , butcher, Rickmansworth 2 11 J. Pearce; licensed-victualler, Museum-street 2 12 S. Harrison and Co., nurserymen, Old Brompton G. Beeby, haberdasher, London-wall 2 1 J. Saunders, schoolmaster, Corbet's Tay, Essex 2 10 J. Laver, tallow-chandler, Clapham 2 11 11. Grace, painter, Regent-street W. Jarvis, victualler, Peterborough W. Smith, fishmonger, Billingsgate 2 1 J. Joy, bricklayer, Ashford, Kent 'H. Back, grocer, Margate E. Howell, wine merchant, Bread-street THE MARKETS. KET.—Dec. 26. Per Ton. F. d. Walls End Newmarch.... 17 3 Walls End Riddell's ........ 18 3 Walls End Lamhton 19 3 W. E. Russell's Helton— 19 3 Walls End Adelaide..... 17 6 W. E South Durham 17 0 Walls End Tees .............. 19 7 New Flockton, Milne, and 17 0 Greenwich 15 0 ice last market-day, 3. merce. I have done so because the phrase is eloquent and impassioned, and truly French. It .expveassa-tha4 T ininn 22nti ' faolin the wIQJIpQ and the hopes d.: the millions in this country ; and although you .may not be prepared to go all the length of M. Victor. Hugo in his previous admiration of Napoleon, yet you will not hesi tate to admit that he was a " great man," as you will be sure to maintain that " liberty" is indeed a " great principle." We have lost the man, let us retain the principle. The question which has been discussed before the Tribunal du Commerce is grave ; one of the gravest which has been raised before any Court in the modern history of France ; and on the decision of which will partly depend the realiza tion or the denial of the promise made in 1830, " That henceforth the Charter should become a reality." The question is this, " Has the Mi nister of Louis Philip King of the French, the legal and constitutional right, since the Revolu tion of 1830, of prohibiting the performance of any Drama he may think fit ?" This is the question at issue, and we will take care that it shall be understood and duly appreciated. And, first of all, let us give the facts of the case —the history of the prosecution, and the argu ments of the author—.the Theatre—and the Doctrinnaires—and then examine whether, after the revolution of 1830, this Theatrical Censor ship can possibly exist in France. M. Victor Hugo is a poet, a dramatist, a patriot, a gentle man, and a scholar. He has a school of his own. You may admire or censure it, as it ac cords kit9rary opinions, your ideas of poetry, or your standard of imaginative compo sition. He has''enthusiastic admirers, and he has literary opponents. lam not about to dis cuss this question, for it would be foreign to a political correspondence. I belong not to his school. I may be wrong or right. I will not enter into that examination ; but I must render justice to his talent, and ac knowledge that he is a genius. M. Victor Hugo, as a poet and a dramatist, has published a poem and drama, entitled "Le Roi s'Amuse!" Some of his enemies accuse him of having writ ten this piece out of revenge for a cool or dis respectful reception he met with at the Tuileries. His friends deny the statement. Some of. his enemies state, that his object in publishing the piece, and desiring its performance at the Theatre Francais, was, to bring royalty into con tempt, and to render Republican principles and institutions more popular. His friends reply, that these are nothing more than the arguments of his opponents on the impression which. the piece made on them, and that " Le Roi s'Amuse" was written as a drama by a poet, without any real or hidden intention than that of amusing and interesting the French public. M. Victor Hugo goes further than this, and maintains that " his drama is of the highest morality—contains nothing offensive to the Government—and that as to an allusion which his enemies and prose cutors believed to have discovered in the piece to the father of the King, Louis Philip—that it would have been ignoble and cruel on his part to have done so, and that the blindness of some wretched courtesans, who endeavoured to cause it to be believed that such was his intention, was as insolent to the King as it was to the poet:" But I will not enter into this question. I will neither admit that M. Victor Hugo is a Republican, a patriot, or a lover of a constitu tional Monarchy. I will not say whether he ap proved the. ' programme of the Hotel d e Vill e ," or the niirable system of the " juste-milieu." Nor will dissect his drama, or analyse his poem. I will not trouble you with an analysis, which enters into the province of a reviewer, but not of a political journalist. All these are very minor questions. Nay, I will go further ; and, in order to state broadly my proposition, and to place before you strongly the memorable pro cess which is about to be decided, I will say, that for the sake of argument I admit M. Hugo to be a Republican—l admit M. Hugo to desire to alter the present state of things in this country — I admit M. Hugo to have such an intention when he wrote this piece, " Le Roi s'Amuse"-- I admit that he desired it to be performed at the Theatre Francais for this very reason—l admit that, if performed, it would have this national tendency—and now I maintain, after all those admissions (made for the sake of form), that still the prohibition of this piece was illegal, and op posed to the letter as well as to the spirit of the Charter. " Nous n'avous plus le grand homme, tachons d'voir la grande chose." Let us go on with our facts. The play being written, M. Victor Hugo presented it to the Theatre Francais. It was announced, looked forward to, and performed. When performed it gave general satisfaction, excited general cu riosity, and would have been sure of a brilliant success. Before its performance, M. d'Argout, the Minister of Public Works, whose business it is to look after the theatres, objected to the spirit of the new play. M. Victor Hugo waited on the Minister, protested against the censor. ship—declared that since the Revolution and Charter of 1830, that censorship could no longer exist—but yet assured the organ of the Doctrin naires that there was nothing in the drama which was calculated to disturb the public peace, or offend public morals. The poet went yet further, and sa id, that rather than expose his work to the censorship, after the triumphs of July, 1830, he would withdraw the play altoge ther. To this proposal, M. d'Argout replied in the negative. The piece was performed—then TWO HEADS BETTER THAN ONE.--Mr. PARKER left at our office a small living tortoise, with two distinct heads and necks, each head having two eyes, and possessing and exercising all the natural functions. The little double head appears to delight in water, but there is not always a perfect agreement between the two heads as to which should be the head.— United States Gazette. SINGULAR PETITION.—We are indebted to a " traveller," alias a ballad singer, for the following anecdote:—ltt the reign of GEORGE the Third, a man of some eccentricity, of the name of GEORGE KING, was sentenced to be executed in Loudon, in consequence of being convicted of forgery. After sentence was pro nounced, his friends interposed on his behalf, and got up several petitions to Government for a commutation of his sentence. Their eflOrts, however, were wholly fruitless. The unhappy delinquent at last bethought himself of try ing the effect of a petition to the KING, drawn out by himself, and without the knowledge of his friends. The following was penned, after a few moment's pretnedita tion George King to King George sends his humble petition, And hopes that King George will pity poor George King's condition; ]f King George will grant to George King a long day, George King for King George will evermore pray." The petition was sent exactly as we have given it. It had the desired effect. In ten hours after it was despatched from Newgate, a reprieve was received by the unfortu nate man. His sentence was commuted to transportation for life. KIDNAPPING.—The following revolting fact ought to be generally known :—About six months ago, two girls (13 to 15 years of age) went with their parents to see the Bristol illumination ; by some accident they se parated from their parents, and were overtaken in their way home by several iock•up Gipsy carts. They were seized by the drivers of dugn, put into separate carts, and threatened that if they de the least noise they should be murdered. One of *Sic , carts lately came within four miles of Worcester, the,owners of it being employed in txillecting bones. Duryng the abs:nce of the man and woman belonging to it, one of the girls who had been kidnapped, made her escape to that city, and related ber else to an individual, who kindly wrote to her uncle, John Bidgood, 17. Broad-street, Bristol. He immediately sent her money and clothes to take her home, whither she was conveyed on Thursday last. The Gipsy, on dis covering his loss, had the audacity to offer a sovereign for her apprehension, saying she was his sister's child. He confessed, however, that he should have made a good deal of money of her by sending her into Wales. The girl stated that there was a little boy and girl in the cart when she was first taken, but they disappeared. She says the carts have the names of Mears, Smith, Lewis, and others, on them ; and that the owners went about collecting bones, and stole every thing they could lay their hands on. When children are stolen, they are stripped, their faces b!aeked, and ragged clothes given them to disguise them. She was treated in this way. It is to be regretted that !leans were not adopted to apprehend the scoundrel who claimed the child.-.-Learninyton Spa Courier, COAL MAR Per Ton. s. d. Adair's —..,—.. 17 0 Hebburn Main ----- 16 6 Ord's Redhugh 15 0 Pontop Windsor .......—... 15 6 Shipcote l5 6 . 17 3 West Hartley Wall,: End Callerton .. 15 9 Ditto Clarke and C 0....—. 16 6 Walls End Heaton 17 9 Ditto Northumberland.. 16 9 Ships arrived sin COUNTRY (:OEM MARKETS DURING 11.1 E WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. S. to s. s. to s. a. to s. Abingdon 62 81 31 43 22 30 38 Andover*. 73 80 37 41 56 66 40 44 24 32 52 Bridport 56 74 32 36 26 30 .... 54 Cirencester 48 60 28 36 19 28 36 40 Earingdon 54 86 36 40 26 34 46 Guildford 48 74 23 32 26 35 43 Henley--, —.. 54 83 30 35 20 30 40 Hereford -- 84 92 44 48 52 Highworth 62 80 32 42 28 34 56 Maidenhead 56 68 34 44 22 30 36 37 Monmouth. , 34 58 23 32 17 32 Reading 65 70 31 47 21 27 34 42 Salisbury * . 46 54 28 34 20 23 36 54 Southampton --.. 54 58 33 40 28 32 48 Stroud Tewkesbury 65 74 30 42 30 38 44 Uxbridge ............—. 48 74 37 40 23 33 46 Wantage*. 58 80 27 43 21 30 34 42 Warminster 44 56 26 36 21 27 34 46 59 21 2 52 Worcester---... 65 66 44 51 31 34 -- 50 LEWES MARKET.—Dec. 24. White Wheat (per quarter),..~.,,, £2 15 0 to £3 0 0 Red ditto 2 10 0 2 14 0 1 10 0 1 12 0 Oats, New 0 17 0 0 18 0 Pease ,,,, 1 15 0 1 17 0 Oil Cake, New..., l2 0 0 per thousand. HULL MARKET.—Dee. 24. Wheat, Old .............. —s. 50s. 60s. Now —s 40s. 60s. Foreign . ........ —s. 50s. Ms. ln bond... —s. —s. Oats, Poland , —i. 20s. 225. ......Old —s. —B. —s. ........ Small or Feed.... —s. 14s. 20s. Foreign ............ --s. 15s. I6s Barley, Norf. & Suf. ... --s. 28s. 345. Linc. & Wold —s. 26s 30s. Foreign 6. --s. Beans 30s. 325. 34s Foreign. - 323. Sts. . Pease, White — S. 3 65. 38s. Grey —s 30s. 345. Tares — S. —s. —5. F0reign......... —3.305. 325. Rapeseed, in bond n0ne.......... Free, per last 22/. 231. Os. CHELTENHAM Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Wheat Barley 4 0 5 6 Mutton Oats 4 0 4 3 Veal Beans Pease 5 0 7 0 Lamb Hay 3l. 10s to 31. 15s. Od. per ton. A RKET.—Dec. 24. l'er lb. d. to d. 6 7 di 7 6t 7f, 7 8 0 0 DUMFRIES MA s. d. s. d. RKETS.—Dec. 19, Wheat, Imp. Bush... 6 0 to 6 0 Butter, 16oz Barley ...... Oats ........ .......... 2 0 2 5 Beef, per lb. 00000 00 00 04 05 04 05 04 00 07 09 Flour, 141 b. '3 0 3 4lMutiOn Oatmeal 1 8 1 9 Veal Potatoes, cwt. A new code of naval instructions, which were expected to have come out in July last, will, it is said, be issued early in January, the same having been delayed by alterations which the consolidation of the Admiralty, Navy, and Victualling Boards, has rendered necessary therein.--Devonport Telegraph. PLOVER SHOOTING.--Grey plover must also migrate in thousands hither. Nothing else could ac count for the immense flocks that have been seen, and will continue, as lam informed, to arrive. The shores and moors are every where crowded with them ; and within an hundred yards of the lodge, HENNESSEY, with two birrels, killed seven couple and a half last evening. The bent-banks are their favourite fixture ; and I have never crossed them of late without finding at least one stand. These vary in numbers; but lam certain I have seen three hundred of these birds thus congregated. There , s, in shooting plover, a common remark made by sports mea, that the second is always the more productive bar rel. The rapidity with which they vary their position when on the ground, seldom admits of a grand combina tion for a sitting, or rather a. running shot. But when on the wing, their mode of flight is meet favourable for permitting the shot to tell ; and it is by no means unusual to bring down a number. When disturbed, they fre quently wheel back directly above the fowler, and offer a tempting mark if he should have a barrel in reserve; and even when too high for the shot to take effect, I have often thrown away a random fire; for the plover, on hear ing the report, directly make a sweep downwards on the wing, and I have by this means brought them within range of the second barrel,— Wild Sports of the West, M. Victor Hugo then applied to the " Theatre ,n pi l e e piece. . to Francais" for redress. H e requ i re d t h e per formance l tr ' s his th :v e as a u r e e s ts e n d 07 and itr n ,4r, of ;n the r, the validity of such ttnconstitutionat injunctions, issued by the Doctrinnaires and "Juste-milieu," brought his action against the French theatre for damages, and the Theatre Francais brought its action against the Minister of Public Works for a guarantee against any loss or verdict which might be pronounced against it, in consequende of the order issued prohibiting the performance of the piece. This was the question which came on for solemn hearing in the Tribunal de Commerce last Wednesday ; and this is the question to be decided by the Judges of that Court on that day fortnight. The trial attracted great attention, drew to gether a very large audience, and the talents of M. Odillon Barrot and M. Hugo, on the one hand, and of M. Chaix d'est Auge on the other hand, rendered the 19th of December a memo rable day. M. Chaix d'Est Ange, the Counsel for the Crown, objected to the competence of the Judges, and fumbled out of his pocket an old law, which he says is not repealed, and which, bearing the date of the 24th August, 1791, prohibits the tribunals from judging the administrative acts of the Government. This is on all occasions the system of the Doctrinnaires ! It has ever been so, and ever will be so ; they go back to the old Monarchy, to the Revolution, to the Re public, to the Consulship, to the Empire, and to the Restoration, for their laws, their forms, and their precedents. When a law is not dis tinctly repealed by some legislative enactment, if it suits their purpose, they say it is still " a living law ;" but if their enemies make use of the same weapons, and cite in their turn the laws of the Republic, why, then, the Doctrin naires reply, " Oh, that is a dead •law—it has fallen into disuse—and though the Charter has not repealed it inform, yet, in fact, it is dead." M. Odillon Barrot, who pleaded the cause of the liberty of the Press, and the non-violation of the Charter of 1830, was not to be thus cajoled, and he entered broadly on the main question of —whether, since the Revolution of July, the Mi nister of the Crown had the right of preventing by his simple command, the performance of any play. The Charter of 1830, declares in its 7th Article—" That the French have the right of causing their opinion to be printed and published, on conforming themselves to the laws; and the Censorship can never again be esta blished." This is the Constitutional Charter of France! and the 59th Article of that Charter declared that those laws which were opposed to the Char ter, should be considered as abolished, or, in other words, that all should exist which were not contrary to its spirit. _ _ _ . Now, then, what is the Censorship—if it be not an arbitrary order, issuing from the bureau of a Minister whose responsibility before the tribunals is denied, under an old law of 1791, commanding the non-publication of a work, or drama, or poem, or writing in fact of any sort, without having any other authority for such an order than his own will, caprice, and pleasure ? For as the publication of a poem is its printing and circulation, so the publication of a play must be its performance ; and as the Charter abo lished the Censorship entirely, it necessarily re pealed that of the Theatre. I will not reason this question, for to deny it would be monstrous. The Charter of 1830 says, that " the French have the right of publishing and printing their opinions, and that the Censorship cannot be established." Well, then, M. Victor Hugo published his opinions at the Theatre Francais, by means of a theatrical representation, entitled Le Roi s' Amuse, and he had the right of doing so—a right consecrated by the Charter. If M. Victor Hugo's piece was immoral or se- _ . ditious, calculated to excite bad feelings or dan gerous opinions, the Charter provided a remedy. That remedy was to prosecute M. Hugo, to try him before a Jury, to try him according to law ; and if convicted by that Jury, then to inflict on him the pains and penalties specified in the code of laws on this subject. The Counsel for the Government—for the Doctrinnaires—for the system of raking up musty old laws, and long since defunct Ordi nances, then produced, in defence of the Minis ter, a Decree of the Empire ! That Decree is dated the 9th of June, 1806 ! ! And by vir tue of the 14th Article, M. d'Argout claimed the right of interdicting the performance of L Roi s' Anzuse, as dangerous to public morals !! How pitiable is this !—a Decree of the Empire —of a state of perfect absolutism—of the Go vernment of a single man—of the most decided military despotism which the imagination of the most inveterate lover of " divine right" could possibly devise—a Decree of the Empire ;is cited, by a Minister of Louis Philip after the revolution of July, 1830, as his justification of the violation of the most positive declaration of the new Charter, that the " Censorship sho u ld never be re-established r Yet this was the de fence of the Doctrinnaires, and for ten days longer we have to wait to learn whether that de fence will or will not he available, As the Minister was so ill advised as to cite a Decree of the Empire for an arbitrary and niatist read him a terrible lecture when he ad illegal proceeding in 1832, the poet and the dra- dressed the Judges of the Tribunal de Com merce. lam fearful, I assure you, of weaken- Aloes on nous prenalt notre liberte, c'est vrai, main Tel jour, a telle heure, j'entreral dans are capitate ; et on y entrait au jour dit et a l'beure dite. On detronait tine dynastie avec un decret du Moniteur. On faisait se coudoyer toutes et rtes . roie dans les antichambres. Von avait la fantiasie d'une colonne, on en faisait fournir le twonze par l'Empereur d'Autricbe. On reglait, un pen arbitrairement je l'avoue, le sort des comediens Francais. mail on datait le regrement de Moscou. On nous prenait tau es nos libertes, dis-je, on avait un bureau de censure, on metrait nos livres au pilon, on rayait nos pieces de l'afficbe, mitt a toutes nos plaintes on pouvait faire d'lnt seul mot des responses magnifiques, on pouvait nons re pondre. Marengo ! Jena! Austerlitz !! ! • * " Alore, je le repete, c'etait grand; aujourd'hui, &est petit. Nous marchons a l'atbitraire comme aloes, mail nous ne sommes pas des colosses. Notre gouvernement nest pas de ceux qui peuvent consoler une grande nation de la perte de la liberte; en fait d'art, nous deformons les Tuileries ; en fait de gloire, nous laissons perir la Pol,igne, eels n'empeche pas nos petits hommes ci'Etat de traiter la liberte en despotes, de mettre la France sons !emirs pieds, comme s'ils avaient des epaules a porter le monde. Pour peu que cela dure encore quelque temps, pour pen que les lois proposees solent adoptees, la confiscation de tons nos droits sera complete. " Aujourd'hui, on fait prendre ma liberte de poete par un censeur; demain, en me fera prendre ma liberte de citoyen par un gendarme. Aujourd'bui, on me bannit du theatre ; demain, on me bannira du pays. Aujourd'hui, on me baillonne ; demain, on me deportera. Aujourd'hui, i'etat de siege est dans la litterature ; demain, it sera, dans la cite. De liberte, de garantiea, de Charte, tie droit public, plus on mot, neant. Si le gouvernement, mieur conseille, ne situ rete sur cette pente pendant qu'il en est temps encore, avant pen nous aurons tout le des.. potisme de 1807 sans sa gloire, nous aurons I'Empire san. l'Empereur. " Je n'ai plus que quatre mots a dire, Messieurs, et je desire qu'ils soient presens d votre esprit au moment nu vous delibererez. II n'y a en dans ce siecle qu'un grand nomme, Napoleon, et une grande chose, la liberte ; nous n'avons plus le grand homme, tachons d'avoir la grande chose." To such an examination and to such a reply not a word of defence could be offered. It was in vain to talk about " the letter of the decree," for the revolution of 1830 had destroyed its spirit. It was in vain to attempt to shelter this ordinance of M. d'Argout,l under the mantle of a period of glory and bravery which no longer existed ; and public opinion, both within and nut of the Tribunal of Commerce, decided im mediately, that unless the charter of 1830 was to become a vain illusion and a splendid trick, the conduct of M. d'Argout had been both illegal and unconstitutional. But what will be the decision of the Judges of the Tribunal ? To this question I can offer no reply. - If they decide not in favour of M. Victor Hugo, then the censorship will continue to exist in France in spite of the charter of 1830 ; then all the contests of the last thirty years have been in vain—then the blood of heroes and of patriots has been uselessly and cruelly shed, and then the battle must be re-begun, and re-con tinued between absolute power and public right. Let us hope then that the Judges will under stand their mission, and the importance of their decision ; and let us trust that, as they have taken 15 days to consider their verdict, the re sult will be not that we shall lose the great " principle," as we have lost " the great man," but tkat though we have done with the age of "glory," we may at least preserve the era of li berty. Your obedient servant, O. P. Q POPULAR NOTION OF PREACHING.--Otie Sunday, the Rev. Rowtrom HILL was preaching at the Tabernacle, Tottenham-court -road, in the bearing of a lady who remarked the uncommon attention paid to him by a very old person sear her. When the discourse was ended, the attentive hearer exclaimed--" God bless his sweet heart, he's as funny as ever !" TRADE OF AN EXECUTOR.—One of our Judges is fond of telling curious anecdotes. Travelling in one of the Northern counties, he met a boy, with whom he entered into conversation, and was much amused by the shrewdness of the boy's remarks. On being asked what trade he intended to be ? the boy hesitated a little, and then answered, that of all trades he thought he should like to be an executor ! An executor, said his Lordship, why an executor ? Because, replied the boy, formerly our family was very badly off, but ever since my father was wade an executor we have wanted for nothing ! ABHORRENCE OF WAR.-4 wish you joy of the marvellous conclusion of the strange and terrible drama which our eyes have seen opened, and I trust, finally closed, upon the grand stage of Europe (date, July, 1814). I used to be fond of war when I was a younger man, and longed heartily to he a sold i er; but now, I think there is no prayer in the service with which I cou ld close more earnest l y , t h an " S en d peace i n our time, go o d Lord !"—Sir Walter Scott's Letters. MURDER.---On Thursday night an atrocious murder was committed in the New Vennel, High-street, fellow Part partaki n g i on the body of a poor man named N IEL ADAMS, a war per, under cirumstanees of rathe r a peculiar and mysteri ous character. It appears th a t t h e deceased, on the night h somewhat fr same yo e f s ng workman, inthe street where the m ur d er was perpetrated, and that in re peiftoirten-amu e s n liquors too ed, had tsi t hbee a n turning home, and with . 44 a few paces of his own dwelling, he had been assaulte4 by some person who had inflicted a violent blow on the head of the deceased with a heavy stick or bludgeon, which almost instantly proved fatal, as his lifeless body was shortly afterwards found weltering in blood, at apparently the same spot where he had been as saulted. The deceased, it is believed, bad no money on him at the time] but it would appear that the perpetrator of the crime h a d carried off the hat worn by the unfortu nate man, and left his own in its stead, as an old bat was found lying near the body. No satisfactory trace has as yet, we are given to understand, b een found of the assas sin; but an individual of the name of SUTHERLAND (a labourer), who had been Observed by the watchman lurk ing about the spot on the night in question, was seen in a spirit cellar in High -street with the deceased's hat on his head, and on being questioned as to how the hat Caine into his possession, he immediately took it off and left the shop, from which he proceeded to a broker's stall on the Bell o'Jhe Bree, where he purchased a bonnet, with which he has since absconded. ADAMS has left a widow ia a state of mental derangement, consequent on her melanch ,iy bereavement, and six children, to deplore this fearful ea.. testrophe,-- Glasgow Courier, Lo day was published, in foolscap Bvo., price 7s. 6d. neatly hound, NE AURORA BOREALIS; a LITE RARY ANNUAL by MEMBERS of the SOCIETY of FRIENDS. Illustrated by Two beautifully engraved Plates. a rlea Tile, 86, Fleet-street, London ; and Charles Empson, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Ig°l 0.1