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FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Journal des Debats of the 7th of October REPORTING IN HANOVER. HANOVER, SEPT: 29.—The proposition made to the Alinistry of his Majesty, Ly the General Assembly of the S ates, concerning the admission of short-hand wtiters to the sittings of the Assembly, was to the following effect :—. 4 . The States must have concluded, from the Royal re script of the I Ith of May of this year, concerning the fun damental law, and of that of the Royal Ministry of the 30th of May, having reference to the new regulation, by which the publicity of the debates of the Assembly by the admission of strangers, and which was proposed in a note dated the 30th of April, shall be suspended to the end of the discussion of the fundamental law, and until its publi cation. _ _ ‘• T he States felt it necessary to confine themselves, in consequence, to consider an arrangement which, without interfering with the decision, might at the same Time make much more complete and exact the reports which have been given of the discussions occurring during the present Session, through the exertions of some of the Members of the Assembly. " The only way in which such an object can be advan tageously attained is by allowing short-hand writers into the Assembly, and the Stites propose that they shall be admitted under the following regulations : " The President of the Assembly of the States shall, on the application of the proprietors of the Gazette of Han over, permit the entrance into the gallery, on their re sponsibility, of a certain number of short-hand writers, and of an editor to take notes, which shall be communicated in their journal. " The persons appointed to perform these duties shall not communicate their notes to any one, save the proprie tors or the editors of the Gazette of Hanover. " They shall evacuate the gallery whenever required to do so by a Member of the Chamber; their report shall present no public character, and the speakers, as well as the voters in each Chamber, shall not be mused in the re ports, unless they are willing to permit it themselves. " The States believing that by these modifications they will be able to remove all the difficulties which at present exist against the proposed arrangement, entertain a hope that the Minister of State will not hesitate to adopt it as soon as passible. They conclude by presenting to the Minister of his Majesty the sentiments of their high con sideration. " Hanover, Sept. S. " V. DECKEN, " HARTMANN, " BUMANN, " MERKEL." " General Assembly of the States of the Kingdom." The following is the answer of the Minister, in which it appears that he has complied with the proposal. " TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATES OF THZ KINGDOM. " We have received the proposition, dated the Bth of this month, by which the States proposed the admission of short-Land writers, for the purpose of affording a suitable decree of publicity to their discussions. " The importance of the proposition, and the well-con sidered resolution of the King relative to the publicity of tie debates of the Stites (which resolution bas been com municated to the General Assembly of the States), have induced us to apply for orders from his Majesty, in order to ant'cipate every scruple which may result from it. " The Siates being of opinion, according to the report, that there was no intention of efftcting a change which would be contrary to the intentions of his Majesty in the resolution respecting publicity, but that this proposition Las substantially for its object to remove the difficulties which have existed, and his Majesty believing with entire confidence, that, in adopting the proposed changes, all the Merrhers of the two Chambers will find in it a powerful motive to avoid in their debates all that may be fairly con sidered as infi inging on the limits of a free and candid di,- ctision, and is thereby endarnering the peace of this country, as well, indeed, as that of ail Germany ; and his Majesty also believing that the Presidents of the two Cham bers will resolutely enforce, in case of met!, the observance of these instructions, and will feel it to be their duty to take care that the order maintained in the Chambers shall not he in any manner disturbed, either by the 'Mem bers, or by any persons admitted by virtue of this proposition ; his Majesty having further thought that as it was well undt,rstood that the right of determining to what ext. nt the Editors of tl.e Journal of this city should go in the publication of the debates ; and that it was well un dcr also, that a due conformity to the regulations of tlio law slinulil be kept up; his Majesty, under all these circumstances, is satisfied, not only to comply. with the wishes expressed by the States, but has further authorized us to declare to the States that he agrees in all points with the aforesaid proposition modified in the manner already stated. " In malting this communication to the praiseworthy Sat s, we leave to them as well as to the Presidents of the two Chatntm,, the duty of carrying it into execution, and to this and we have invitud the editors of the Gazette of Honorer to forward his application to the President of th, two Chambers. " VICEROY OF TILE KINGDOM OF HANOVER. " To the Ministers of State and of the Cabinet, and to the Privy Council." FRENCH FUNDS, OCT. 8, 18E31.-Five per Cents. 95f. 95c. 80c. ; Four per Cents. 80f. 50c.; Three per Cents., 671. 85c. 80c.; Bank shares, 166(1f. 16651 FRENCH FUNDS, YARN, OCT. 9.-Five per Cents., 95f. 80c. 75c. 70c. 73c. 70 , :. 75c. ; Loan of 1832,96 E 55c. ; Four per Cents., 80f. 50c. ; Three per Cents. ' 67f. 65c. 60c. 55c. 60e. 65c. 70c.; National Loan, 96f. ; Bank Actions, 1,667 E 50c. ; Rente tie Naples, 81f. 81f. 20c. ; Roman Five per Cents., 81 ; Rente tlEvagne, 12; Itente Perpetuelled'Espagne, 56! 1 / 4 ; Belgian I.oan, 77 3 , , ,. Exchange on London, one month, money, 2.5 f 80c.; three months, money, 251 65f-Cours Authentique. PARIS, OCT. 7. Louis Philippe is naturally the mast undecided man in the world, when it is necessary to adopt a resolution. In 1815, after the hatre of Waterloo, the Republican party in France sent a deputation to the Duke of Orleans to offer him the Crown. The deputation thrice 'repeated its offer to the Prince, who always hesitated, and called for time to consider ; but in the interval the Allied troops marched on Paris, Napoleon abdicated for the second time, and the Duke was still deliberating. Louis XVIII. Lad arrived at St. Denis, when the city of Paris refused to receive him, in the hope of being able to present to the Allies the Duke of Orleans, as the King of the French, duly elected by the people. The Duke at last came to a resolution. when it was ton late, for the Allied troops were at the gates of Paris, anti Louis XVIII., escorted by the Prussians, had entered that capital. Louis Philippe is really to he pitied in that respect. He is an excellent father, is deeply versed in the sciences and arts, speaks and writes with a remarkable talent; but can not make up his mind to take a resolution, so afraid is he of committing himself. This irresolute disposition is a real calamity in the chief of the State. Letters from Amsterdam, received in Paris, agree in stating that King William will never consent to any ar rangement with Belgium. Such is his resolution, which nothing can make him alter. Those letters add, that it is not his intention to attack immediately, but that lie will await a favourable opportunity of doing so with success. He has the most sovereign contempt for the protocols of the Conference, and those from whom they emanate. A Dutch diplomatist, who was a long time attached to the service of that Prince, related to me the follow ing anec• dote, which displays the character and disposition of the present King of Holland : It appears that during the emigration, William, then Prince of Orange, lived at Lord Malmeabury',, in London. When the Allis had succeeded in expelling the French from Holland the news was received in London with great acclamation. At a rout given at Lord Malmsbury's that evening, all hailed it with raptures of joy, except the Prince of Orange, who observed the greatest silence. Lady .Malmesbury having been the first to notice this, mentioned it to several persons round her, and, accosting the Prince, inquired of him why he was so sad on the eve of his re-en tering in possession of his dominions? "My lady," re plied the latter, " I would have wished to make au ami cable arrangement with Napoleon ; he is, to be sure, a despot, but a wonderful genius, and his word may be re lied upon. I shall now be at the mercy the great Powers, and their diplomatists, who say white, when it ought to he black, and vice versa. The reciprocal inte rests of the Great Powers, and not mine, will be called into play : it will be a complete Tower of Babel, and consequently impossible to come to any equitable arrange- ment." Th e same diplomat's' observed that William had fore told at that time what was to happen in 1832 ; and it is for that reason he so completely di:regards the protocols of the Ginrerence. _ _ The plan of Marshal Gerard, approved by the Govern ment, in case it shall lie expedient to cross the Belgian frontier, is to march straight forward on Amsterdam, leaving aside the citadel of .Antwerp, and thus compel the King of Holland to withdraw his troops from B e lgium, and to pay a Leavy war contribution. It is generally thou:s;ht tiot the Fiench army sent on that expedision will amount to 100,000 men, s u l Tortol by a considerable carps of reserve, to keep she Prussians in check, and that Louis Philippe wil repair Brussels to 1010 - tv the move ment of the army. The ..4os, 01 thdgitim and that of France are the san.e, and Leopold acted wisely in asking for the hand of a French Princess. Nevertheless, his marriage will secure to him the possession of his crown., if the obstinacy of the King of Holland leads to a war. Peace is indispensable for the consolidation of Louis Philippe's throne, which, in the event of a war, will he placed in imminent danger, and Leopol.l's sceptre would necessarily share the fate of the Frenelkliing's. Should a war break out in Europe, Germany will be the first to espouse the cause of republicanism. This state of things is wholly owing to the improvidence of the German Princes in 1811 and 1815. At that time the King of Prussia and the Emperor of Austria were the fir t to en courage sk-cret associations, such as those of the Tugen bend, Burschenbund, and others. The dogma of the sovereignty of the people and independence of nations was openly professed in these societies, who swore death to the tyrant (Bonaparte). The German Princes then profited by the enthusiasm of the youth of the country, and flat. tered them with the hope of the establishment of constitu tional Government Charters, liberty of the press, &c. to encourage their animosity against the French ; but when Napoleon was overturned, they soon forgot their pro mises. Now those same Sovereigns are exerting their utmost efforts to sobdue the very men who saved ►heir thrones in 1814 and 1815. But if war once commences in Europe, the Germ in people will avenge themselves of the ingrati tude of those Princes who betrayed them in so shameful a manner. LITERATURE. COMPLETE ELECTION GUIDE. THE REFORM ACT, 9. WM. IV. CHAP. XLV. DISSECTED, ARRANGED, AND ILLUSTRATED BY A COMMEN TARY ON ITS VARIOUS PROVISIONS, WITH RE FERENCE TO THE GENERAL LAW AND PRAC TICE OF ELECTIONS, DIRECTING ELECTORS, CANDIDATES, AND OFFICERS, IN THE PROSECU TION AND EXERCISE OF THEIR RIGHTS, AND THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR DUTIES. WITH THE BOUNDARY ACT, 2Sr 3W. 4 C. 64. BY GEO. PRICE, ESQ., OF THE TEMPLE, BARRISTER AT LAW. LONDON: JAMES RIDGWAY, PIC CADILLY. 1832. We have carefully examined the Complete Election Guide, and cam safely recommend it to all those who wish to possess a manual to direct them in the way they should act. Many similar publications have lately issued from the press, but the present appears to us to simplify the many technicalities of the Reform Act, so as to render them clear to the comprehension of those who are not learned either in law or election matters. As the author has stated his views so clearly in the preface, we cannot do better than give his own words : " The object is to render the reading of that statute ,nore readily intelligible and more easily legible generally ; but particularly to the official agents required by the Act to administer to its operation, and to such persons as may be interested in the provisions and would avail themselves of the benefits of this " The means by which it has been attempted to accom plish that object are principally these :—Every division (by section) of the statute has been again separately dis •ected and broken, by aid of paragraphs, into the several littinct and often different enactments contained or emho- died in each, with a marginal sum of the substance of every integral provision opposed to eich enacting or pro viding clause. " Appended to the Act so dissected and di.played is ac analytical Commentary, embracing, comprehensively and .uccinctly, the principles and practice of the new election law, with a minute reference to every sentence of the 'ta tute, calculated to establish the accur t cy or expose the er rors of the explanatory passages. " The Commentary is composed of •propo , itions for guidance in practice, made up of the various and often numerous provisions, applying to one and the same sub ject, found scattered in disjointed and distant clauses of the Act, but Ii re collected together and united and at.. ranged under the proper head or topic to which each fairly belonge. " Thus the several sections of the Commentary are con fined to single subjects, following progressively, yet not ervilely and inconsequently, the provisions of the Act, but as each step is to be taken in order of t;nte, from the first necessary to registration down to the last measure required to mature the right to exercise tire elective franchise, and the course of appealing from the adjudication of the revis ing barrister to the House of Commons. " The severil pages of the Act are all headed with a running title of the substantial matter of the contents of -actil, and the statute and the commentary aro made to rtfer mutually to and from each other, wherever on the , ne in n d the treatise explains or expounds the sections of the Act, and where on the other the Commentary is sane- tioned and justified by the terms of the Statue. " The mere wording of the Statute has been advisedly varied, and other langu tge has been used, with a view to explain and enlarge the meaning of the legislature, instead of coasting cautiously al ing each separate enactment in the very course, and in the very terms of the Act. "In executing the design of this undertaking brevity has been mainly consulted. The Act itself is given at large and in full, lest any omission should give to that most inestimable work the semblance of an abridgement; or the forms and schedules and the provisions merely tem porary and no longer of use would have been omitted. " Respect for authority has induced the preservation of the directions to overseers from the office of Secretary of State for the Home Department. " Time order in council making a temporary alteration in the dates of the proceedings for the present year, has however been excluded ; because it is but temporary and has already partly passed away ; and because the change it has effected may be stated and disposed of in one sentence, simply by observing that the tittles appointed by the statute for every act of duty required at the hands of official agents have been, for the year 1832, postponed to the same nume rical days of the mouth next after that which had been appointed for each. " The short forms preser bed have been introduced into the body of the analytical commentary, although printed as originally in the Act ; because, occupying as they do but very little space, they convey too much practical in formati,,n to be referred to in a distinctly detached Ap pendix. To the new law promulgated by the Act has been added the substance of the existing laws of election, pre setved by express provision. That has been done to make this compendium a complete guide to general election bu siness in all its progressive stages. " Such is the substance of the plan and object of the pre sent publication, in which the practical utility of a di,see don of the Act, aided by a commentary on its application, for the purposes of election business, has been alone con sulted." NARRATIVE OF A VO YA GE TO THE SOUTH SEAS, S6-c.—Lo.vvo.v, 1832. SV CHARLES M. GOODRIDGE. This book contains a most curious narrative of the shipwreck of the writer and his companions upon one of the Crozet islands, in the South Seas, and their solitary resi'lence there for two years. These islands are completely destitute of human inhabitants ; and as the shipwrecked crew were without fire-arms of any description, and almost without a tool, they were much more put to their shifts than ever Robinson Crusoe was. After some account of his previous life, which was that of a common sailor, he describes his voyage to the South Seas, the mode of sealing, and, finally, the wreck of the vessel. It is-here that " the interesting part," as we used in our childhood to call the shipwreck of Robinson Crusoe, begins, and here we will venture upon a few extracts. Having saved themselves in the boat on the day of the wreck, the writer says— " On the following morning we succeeded in launching our heat, and we thin proceeded towards the wreck. In our progress we discovered a cove muck nearer the vessel ltanwhere we landed, and we resolved to make this our rnmediate station. " We next visited the wreck, and succeeded, the first day, in saving the Captain's chest, the Mates' chest, and also several planks. On the following day, the 20th of March, we picked up her trisail, and some casks of bread; the casks however, nut being water tight, the bread was all spoilt by the salt water. " The last thing we saved on this day, and which we found floating on the water, was, what proved the most invaluable of gifts,—it was the identical bible put on board by Captain Cux, the agent of the Merchant Seaman': Bible Society, at Gravesend, on our sailing out of the river Tuamcs, as before mentioned. Ott the next day the wind Hew very strong, and we saw to our sorrow, that nothing remained of our vessel but the mast, which had become entangled by the rigging among the rocks, and this was the last thing we . were enabled to secure. ' " The weather continued so wet and boisterous forlhree weeks from this time, that it was as much as we could well do to procure necessary food for our sustenance, and we therefore contented ourselves with the shelter our boat, tutu «1 up, afforded us during that period ; the weather now proving less inclement, and our minds being some. what more reconciled to our forlorn situation, we set about collecting all the materials we had saved, and then commenced erecting for ourselves a snore commodious dwelling-place. The sides we formed of stones and the wood saved from the wreck, for there was not a shrub or tree growing in the whole island ; the top we covered with Sea Elephant's skins, and at the end of a few weeks we were comparatively well-lodged. We made our beds of a long grass, with which the island abounded ; and the skins of the Seals we chanced to kill, served us for sheets, blankets, and counterpanes. " Having saved some of our hunting weapons, the Sea Elephants, from their great tameness, became an easy prey, and they served us for meat, washing, lodging, firicg, candle-light, shoe-leather, sowing thread, grates, and tobacco-pipes. The parts we made use of for food were the heart, tongue, the tender parts of the skin ; the scatters, (a sort of fleshy skin which hangs over the nose,) and the flippers, (a sort of fin, which assists the animal in swim ming.) The blood served for snap to wash with, as it quickly removed either dirt or grease, and was easily rinsed out in clean water, of which there is a plentiful supply in these islands. The skins, as I have before stated, served us for roofing, and might therefore be well said to furnish us with lodging ; of the skins also we used to form our shoes or mogissins, when we were out of King Penguin's skins, or wished to make a more durable article for wear ; and these we used to sew together with thongs funned from their sinews. Their teeth we used to form into the bowls of pipes, and to this we used to attach the leg-bone of some water fowl, and together it formed a good apparatus. Having no tobacco, we used as a sub stitute the dried grass, that grew on the island, and al. though it was but a poor substitute, we were obliged to be satisfied with it. " Of Sea Elephant's blubber we made our fires, and their bones we used to lay across, on some stones, to form grates to lay the blubber on. Of a piece of blubber also, with a piece of rope yarn stuck in it, we formed our candles, and it produced a very good light. These ani mals are, I consider, a species of Walrus, but are very different from those described by naturalists ; at least in such works as I have had an opportunity of examining, among others Shaw's Zoology, Wood's ditto, Mayor's Natural History, &c. " The largest Elephants are about twenty-five feet Imm, and twenty-eight feet round, and their blubber was fre quently seven or eight inches thick, and would yield a ton of oil. " Our cookery consisted principally of soup, comprised of the different parts of the Sea Elephant enumerated, with the addition of eggs instead of vegetables or bread. To this we frequently added the brains of the animal, which was almost as sweet as sugar, and was frequently eaten by us in its raw state. The only kind of veaetable on the island, besides grass, was a plant resembling a cabbage in appearance, but we found it so bitter that we could make no use of it." There is a very full, though not a scientific account of the birds that frequented the islands. The description of one called the King Pen guin is curious. " Their size is about that of a goose ; their rookeries, in some places as much as a mile and a half in circumference, are situated on the low swampy beaches, where the fresh water running from the mountains, causes it to be con tinually wet; but this, as they make no nest, is of no inconvenience to them. They are very handsome birds, the colour of their necks being a mixture of red, yellow, and purple, their backs gray, and their breasts white. They lay but one egg, which they carry in a pouch under their bellies, very similar to the pouch in which Kan garoos carry their young. In this pouch it remains dur ing the period of incubation, which is about 7 weeks. Their flesh is not good fur food, but we used to make use of their eggs, of which we robbed them, and this they would permit us to do, without making the least resist ance, being so tame that we could catch them with our ha❑ds, or knock them down with a stick, whenever we felt disposed. When robbed of their egg, they would lay again. They commence laying in November, and by de priving them of their eggs, they continued to lay till March. Their feathers are very short, and their cry re sembles the hallooing of a human voice. They have no wings, but have instead what are tem:if flippers, which they make me of in swimming. This is also the charac teristic of all the four species of Penguins. Their posture when walking is quite erect, but their gait is awkward. At a distance they have the appearance of a number of young ch Wren, in white aprons. Of the skins of the King Penguins, we used to form a sort of buskin, by turning the feathers inward, and drawing them tight over our feet. They were very comfortable, but not very durabe, for by our excursions over the mountainous and rocky parts of the Island, a few hours tramp would wear them completely out." We have also a singular confirmation of the assertion that wild animals, as they are called, have no fear of man till he has injured them. Not only did Goodridge and his companions knock down birds and beasts with clubs without trouble when they first landed, but killed fish in a way we never heard of before. " The fish we used to catch were much like the Gurnet, only somewhat larger—and they made a very pleasant change in our diet. I had forgotten to mention, that when we first took up our residence on the Island, we had recourse to this kind of food. At that time we used to kill them with our clubs. Our practice was to take long strips of the Sea Elephant's blubber, and lay it close to the wa!er's edge, and the fish were so tame that they would creep up the shelving rocks after the blubber, while we stood by and knocked them on the head. They had, however, in course of time, become so shy that they were not to he taken in this way, and our new contrivance, therefore, as a substitute for hooks, proved very useful ; and fish, flesh, and fowl frequently smoked on our hoard at the same time." The history of their building a vessel with timber, most providentially thrown in their way, for there are no trees upon these islands, their seal-Flin sails, &c. we cannot enter into, any more than their ultimately being rescued from their desolate situation by an American vessel. Upwards of half the volume is occupied with an account of an eight years' residence in Van Die men's Land, where the author appears to have been getting on very prosperously, when letters from home induced him to return. The statis tical part of the work is, we believe, tolerably correct, being copied from the Hobart Town Almanack. We must add, however, as a cau tion to persons contemplating emigration, that however useful to them this work may prove in other respects, they must not rely upon what is said about the terms of granting land, which have been recently changed. The volume is on the whole exceedingly interesting. The sewer now sinking in the Haymarket affords ample proofs of the fine gravelly soil on which London stands. Authentic information was received yesterday, by express, from Paris, importing that the King of PRUS• siA's answer to the despatch forwarded by Baron \VER.- TILER, the Prussian Ambassador at Paris, on the 14th of September, respecting the Belgian and Dutch question, is highly pacific ; that Prussia not only purposes to go hand in hand with France and England, but also proposes to compel Holland, should she continue refractory and in tractable, to pay to Belgium a monthly suns of one million of florins for the maintenance of the Belgian troops, to be deducted out of 8,000,000 florins per annum, which Bel gium was to pay to Holland, as her share of the interest of the Dutch debt, and even to double this mulct after a certain time, should the first attempt prove ineffectual, besides blockading the Dutch ports—the Texel, Amster dam, Botterdiun, and Flushing, by an English and French squadron, so as to cut cff all trade from and to Holland without any fighting; this mode of proceeding being deemed preferable to marching an army to Antwerp, and exposing that city to a bombardment, which would be liable to other objections. Besides, Lord DURHAM, who is expected to arrive to-morrow via Calais, will bring with him diplomatic notes in corroboration of these points, unless his Lordship has transmitted them all eady b y an "avant courier." The King of HOLLAND must, by this time, have received a similar reply from Berlin, in answer to the application be made through Count Lustiottac DE STYRDM, who was despatched from the Hague on the 18th of September.—Morning ,Paptr. LONDON, iTRURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, 1832. The Revenue for the Quarter ended yester day, presents a very favourable return, amount. ing to 696,847/. over the corresponding Quarter of last year. In the Customs we were led to expect a large increase in consequence of the Corn Duties, but the public were not prepared for so great an excess in the Excise—that surest barometer of public comfort and prosperity, and yet we have an increase of 297,591/. In the taxes there is also an increase of 116,383/., which is clearly to be accounted for by the clause in the Reform Act, making it imperative on electors to pay their taxes and rates as a con dition of their eligibility to vote. The other items in the revenue are on the wrong side of the account. In stamps, though there is an increase of 44,2631. on the year, yet the decrease on the last quarter is more than half the excess of the year, being 23,9861. This must afford Lord AL THORP a convincing proof that the stamp duties are too high in many particulars, especially on . . newspapers and advertisements. Indeed his Lordship has much to answer for in this respect, if he well recollect his own promises. But we will not press him on this subject at present as he deserves —a more fitting time is coming, when it Will be out of his power to promise and not perform. In the Post-office there is a falling off of 33,000/. for the quarter, and 80,000/. for the year, which may be accounted for by the great check which the cholera morbus gave to in ternal correspo►:dence. At first the terror of the people was so great, that they would hardly touch any letters from infected places, even though they were fumigated. But now that feeling has so much abated, that the precaution of fumigation is no longer considered necessary. is not th e on l y sat i sfactory circumstance. -- , - But the present large increase in the quar ter's Nearly half a m illi on has been saved by the system - of economy recently intro duced into our expenditure, and when this prin revenue ciple has been allowed ample time and fair play, we may reasonably expect still further improve ment in our national resources. But certain taxes which press heavily on industry must be modified, and a justly graduated property t ax b e i mposed in stead. The cry of the Tories during the Reform has constantly been—" prop er ty must but let pr o p ert y a l so ' b t e rugge representedl ;"—so be it ; be taxed. If the labourer be worthy of his hire, it is but just that property should pay for its protection. We understand that Sir JOHN MILLEY DOYLE, accompanied by his nephew Mr. 13- DoYLE, as his Aide-de-Camp, will leave Fal mouth, for Oporto, by the next packet. We have received a letter respecting the late gallant feat of an illustrious Duke, which would very much shake our faith, if we had ever re posed any, on the affidavits which were pub lished for the purpose of removing the belief that "the galloping dreary Duke " had not been guilty of the rudeness imputed to him by the Misses PERFECT. Our Correspondent, after giving us some curious information as to the habits of the personage in question, and of his complaisant friend and companion, Sir GEORGE QUENTIN, a gentleman who was, we believe, found equally convenient by his late Majesty, desires us to ask the friends and affidavit con• coctors of the illustrious Duke, whether an ar rangement has not for some time existed between his Royal Highness and his man, by which the latter may at all times be able to shield his master from the obloquy which might be ex pected to attend certain visits of a peculiar na ture—whether, in fact, the Duke and his man do not on particular occasions dress exactly alike, and both ride white horses. Our Correspondent, far from questioning the morality of the affidavit makers, or the sincerity of those respectable persons who have volun teered their testimony fur the purpose of esta blishing an alibi in favour of the Duke, chari tably supposes that all the parties may have been mistaken, and that the Duke, on his return from one of his grave rides to Brompton, was un intentionally guilty of the alleged offence, whilst he was personated in Kew Gardens by his friend Sir GEORGE QUENTIN. We do not offer an opinion on the view taken by our Correspon dent, but we readily ask the friends of the Duke to say whether he and Sir GEORGE ever dress alike, and ride the same coloured horses ? Whether the Duke was innocent of the offence charged upon him or not, is, we think, of little importance, compared with the course which has been adopted with a view to establish his innocence. There was nothing so serious in the offence itself but that an apology might have put an end to complaint, without dragging forward so many affidavits; and suposing that the offence never had existence, we must say that the affidavit system is by far too serious a course for exculpation. The Duke's advisers in this affair must have been as mentally as he is said to be physically short-sighted. We refer to our City news for a rumour that the King of HOLLAND has at length decided for peace ! Better late than never, but who will now believe him ? An Express from Paris has brought the Pa pers of Tuesday, which, according to a Morning Contemporary, " confirm the news of a consi derable improvement in the health of the King of SPAIN, and give the list of some of the new Spanish Ministerial changes. M. CA LOAI AR DE has been dismissed in a way that implies dis grace. M. ZEA BERMUDEZ, now Ambas sador in this country, is recalled to Madrid, to assume the office of Foreign Minister : he is to be succeeded in the embassy here by Count D'ALCUDIA. The other Ministers, Messrs. ZAMBRANO, SALAZAR, and BALLASTEROS, also withdraw, but are allowed to remain at Madrid as Councillors of State. M. DUPIN was ex pected to be in Paris on Tuesday ; no progress could be made in the formation of the new Cabinet until his arrival. His friends continued to be of opinion that it would be impossible for him to agree with Marshal SOULT on any Mi nisterial " combination," and seemed to say, that the Marshal thought so himself. The Con stitutionnel speaks of a new treaty of alliance being in negotiation between Austria, Prussia, and Russia, on the basis of the former " Holy Alliance," and for the purpose of adopting the most effective measures to stop the progress of liberalism in Europe. Count Pozzo DI BORGo's late journey to Berlin and Vienna are said to have had reference to the negotiations for such a treaty. The son of Marshal MAlsoN has arrived in Paris from Vienna, and is said to be the bearer of communications which are far from satisfactory." Dutch, Brussels, and Hamburg Papers have been received to late dates. The movements of Lord DURHAM form a principle feature in them ; but as his Lordship has arrived in London, and is now sitting in Cabinet Council, we will not enlarge upon the speculations in these Papers. To-morrow will very likely throw a clearer light upon the result of his Lordship's mission than can be gathered from foreign journals. The age of protocolling, like that of patronage, has departed, and promptitude is now the order of the day:— Bois LE Duc, OCT. 7.—The opinion that the French Government will make its troops enter Belgium, seems to be considerably less confident; and though there are ac counts that the Belgian troops in the provinces of Lim. berg and Antwerp are daily reinforced, no hostile move ment is expected in that quarter. Meantime our troops, as it seems, by way of precaution, remain in their present concentrated positions. THE HAGUE, OCT. 7.—Accounts from Batavia, of the 29th of May, state that the insurrection of the Chinese at Poerwakarta may be considered as entirely quelled. The inhabitants of Kruxvang had, for the most part, returned to their homes, and the dispersed Chinese continued to be t.ken and brought in by the inhabitants and the police. The day before yesterday our Government received despatches from London. It seems that the Conference had not come to any decision, though it sits daily. There is no longer any idea of coercive pleasures against Hol land, which France lately urged, and which appeared to he approved, and not °nosed, by the Austrian and Prussian Pltuipotentiaties. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, OCT. 8. Actual Debt, :I% per cent 42 to 42% Abort Syndic, per cent ...... . ..... Ditto, ditto, 3y, per cent. Voluntary Loaii, 1831, 6 per cent 97 to 97% Ditto, ditto, 1832, 5!: 2 per cent BO to 81 —butch Papers, OCT. apersOut.. Bltli E B.—Yesterday Lord Durham sent a courier to London with his own despatches, and others from Sir R. Adair. The courier was enjoined not to be more than 18 hours on the road to Calais. Lord Durham will set out for Calais to.day. Ile travels with six car riages, and requires 22 post horses. Mr. Dendoit, a clerk iu the War-office, is gone to Paris with despatches from our Government, which are said to be important. It is said that the head-porters of the army will Le transferred to Molines, that General Huret will have the command of the Ist division, end General Goethals of the 3d; General Olevier the let brigade of the 3d, and Ge neral Kenor the 2d brigade of the I st The King had desired the Minister of War to offer the command of the 4th division, instead of that of the re serve, in which be is superseded, to General Goethalas but he has preferred the command of a brigade of his old division, to remain with the troops that he well knows. M. de Meulenaere is gone to Bruges ; Messrs. Genda bren and Rohanla Tulemans and Loop have refused the judici ,1 offices to which they were nominated in the de cree for organization of the Courts of Justice. It is said that there are several other refusals. BRUSSELS, OCT. 9.—The King gave a private audience to Lord Durham, who set out at four o'clock for London. Before he d,pat ted he received numerous visit. He will teach London before the meeting of the English Ministers, which is fixed for the 11th. A Russian Cabinet messenger, with despatches from St. Peter•burgb to London, passed through here yester day. An English Cabinet messenger was despatched from Brussels to London, and a courier from the English Le gation at the Hague passed through, also going to London- NA mult, OCT. B.—We have just received accounta from Rhenish-Prussia, which announce that the garrison of Coblentz has been reinforced by two regiments of in fantry, that of Treves by one regiment, and that of Sanclouis by a battalion. Orders have been received bY the k. , epers of the forests to cut down all the fine oaks to make pallisades for the fortress of Coblentz. Meanwhile letters from the Rhenish provinces say, that the Prussian Government has just made contracts for the supply of army on the war establishment, to be ready against a winter campaign. The Me . tno;ia/ announces that Lord Durham has said to several persons high in office, that the whole Belgium territory would be evacuated by the Duch before the end of October. We do not know whether there is any foundation for this statement, but we can state, on the other band, that Lord Durham has said, that at the present moment the Emperor of Russia, the King of Prussia, and he (Lord Durham) were the only person , who knew the real position of the Belgian question, and that Belgium would still find it necessary " to employ the whole stock of patience she possesses." *—Brussels Papers, October 11. BERLIN, OCT. I. —Prince Paskewitsch left Warsaw► on the 26th, to make a tour through part of the kingdom of Poland. He was to be absent 10 days. We hear that several cities in the Rhenish pro vinces have signified to the King their wish that the new Municipal Ordinance may be in troduced among them, and have, on this occasion, expressed much dissatisfaction with their deputies, w ho did not immediately accept with gratitude this mark of Royal favour. Travellers from the circle of Wigrow, in Poland, relate that on the night of tl-e 20th there was 3 heavy fall of ,now, which lay above ten hours, and in shadi places till the next day. In the fields it was above a foot deep. BERLIN, SEer. 2V.—lt is affirmed that in the mission of Lord Durham the subject of Poland was not at all or but very slightly treated upon. He brought letters from the Emperor and Empress, which he delivered, and was on that account received with great affability. Ile breakfasted with the King at Potsdam the morning that his Majesty set out for Toplitz. The most profound secrecy has been observed respecting the journey of Charles X. It is certain that the post houses have been ordered to receive him with the greatest respect, but without noticing his royal dignity. He goes to Jagan, then across the Silesian mountains and Glatz to Moravia and to G r atz. It is said our King will have a meeting with the Emperor Francis at Toplitz. HAMBURG, OCT. 3.—Count de Chambord (Duke Of Bordeaux), attended by the Marquis de Damas and the rest of his suite, set out to-day from Altona to go by way of Berlin to Gratz. Charles X. (Count de Ponthieu) and the Duke of Angouleme (Count Marne) will set out to morrow with their suite, including the Dukes de Blac,s and Polignac, the Count de Grammont, &c. BORSRN-HALLE, OCT. 5, HALF-PAST 2 P.M.—Very low sales of wheat have been effected during the week, the consumers not being willing to pay the price demanded by holders. From the 22d to the 29th of September 29 cargo-s of corn passed the Sound, of these 4 were bound for British, S for Dutch, and 17 for Norwegian ports. - - Rix-dollars. Wheat, Anhalt, white ---- red 100 to 104 Holstein Masks 97 to 100 Mecklenburgh Lower Elbe 75 to 85 Rye, Dantzic 7O to 76 -- Mecklenburgh 74 to 78 Holstein Petersburgh and Riga 72 to 74 Barley, Mecklenburgh 5B to 1:2 Anhalt 6O to 70 Lower Elbe Oats, Mecklenburg 3O to 33 -- Lower Elbe Discount 3 per cent. End of October. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 67% Anglo-Russian Loan 97% Hamburg Russian Russian inscriptions, 5 per cent. BB% Ditto, ditto, 1831 Polish Bonds ... iiiq Prussian Bonds, 1832 lOl% Austrian Bank Shares 1137 Ditto Metalliques New Austi ian 4 per Cents 75% —hamburg Reporter, Oct. 5. * The Courier quotes those words in English, The vagaries of the Tory and anti-commercial Press, although sometimes calling for argument to counteract their mischievous tendency, for the most part excite only feelings of contempt and pity. Occasionaily, indeed, an absurdity so lu dicrous and harmless is put forth, that general laughter is all that it meets with. Such will be the fate of a leading article in to-day's Post. Judge between us, readers. " Captain Illarryat," quoth our Contemporary, hav ing definitively resolved to offer himself as a Candidate fur the Tower Hamlets, was yesterday introduced to the elev . tors at a highly re-pectable and very numerous meeting of merchants and shipowners, that influential class being, to a man, his cordial supporters. The opinions of the Gal lant Captain are avowedly liberal, but he utterly repudiate the destructive tenets of the Reformers as to the Coro Laws, West India Slavery, the Establi,h t d Church, and the Bank and East India Charters." Our Contemporary's opinion of liberal opi nions must be curious; we should like to hear his definition of a Liberal at the present moment. The Gallant Captain may, profess, or avow, as the phrase is to be, what opinions he pleases but his address to the electors must be mightily like that of the actor who announced SHAIC• SPEARE'S play of Hamlet, the part of Hamlet left out by particular desire. Having told us . what Captain MARRYAT is not, the Post tht ls proceeds, certainly rather vaguely, to inti what he is: mate ‘, When we add to this that he has an extensive practica l knowledge of commerce and navigation, and is intimate!' connected with those great and most important interests, we think a more fit and proper representative for the Tower Hamlets could not be selected. The general tone of the meeting yesterday seemed to hold forth the fairest prospect of his success." We are impatient to see the Gallant Captain's address to his constituents ; for it will require considerable ingenuity in him to clothe his sen timents in language which will make them even utterable. He may throw over them the cloak of vague generalities, so that those unacquainted with them may not perceive their deformities; but if he attempt separately to dress them, curious indeed must be their garb to prevent the most shortsighted from observing, that, stripped of their disguise, they are those of a Tory, that is,. such as Tories now profess. At the meeting of yesterday, referred to by the Post, Captain MARRYAT was so unfavourably received, tha t his profession of faith was not very distinctlY heard, but as far as could be gathered, it W 3B such as the Post describes it. When the Gallant Captain publishes it, we suppose that in plant English it be- something to this effect " Gentlemen—You arc all aware that I an' avowedly a Liberal ; but there are certain destructiv e tenets of the Liberals which I utterly repudiate, and upon which I beg to express my opinions t° BRUSSELS PAPERS\ 'BRUSSELS, OCT. 7.—Liird Durham, on his return from St. Petershurgh to London, arrived here yesterday, at 2 O'clock in the afternoon. He was immediately visited by Sir R. Adair. His Majesty sent one of his aides-de-camp to him. His Majesty, who arrived from Lacken at half-past 2, gave private audiences to Generals Duprez and Hurel, and then transacted business with General Evain. Messrs. Lehon, Minister at Paris, De Theux, Minister of the Interior, and De Meulenaere, and many other per sons of distinction, dined with their Majesties at Lacken. In the evening, his Majesty transacted business with Ge neral Goblet. It is affirmed that M. Coghen, at the instance of our ex-Mitgister, whose influence is well known, has consented to remain in the Ministry some time longer. It is said, on good authority, that General Goethals, in a conference with his Majesty, expressed the discon tent of all the Belgian Officers at the apparent intention of the Government to place them all under French officers. A letter from the Hague, of October 5 :—" The Mi nister of France unexpectedly received, on the 27th Sep tember, an order to leave on the 29th, which he was so far from expecting, that only the day before new furniture was brought into his hotel. On going away, he did not conceal that his leave of absence was only a matter of form, and that his Government had informed the Dutch Cabinet of its intentions not to have henceforward at the Hague any diplomatic agent with the character of Minister Ple nipotentiary. This is the way people account for the re call of the Marquis Dalmatia in these difficult times, leav ing in his room a young Secretary, who has but lately be gun his career, and who is entirely ignorant of the labours of the Conference." It is generally said that the last accounts from London are pacific, and that there is no notion in England of block 'ding the coast of Holland in concert with France. Lord Palmerston, it is said, has expressed himself to this effect; and Lord Durham is reported to have said plainly, at Berlin, that he considered all the reports on this sub ject as unfounded.—Brussels Papers, Oct. 8. DAY AT ONE. O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent. India Stock Ditto Bonds l3 14 pm. South Sea Stock 93% Old Annuities B2 New Ditto ............ B3 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 82% Ex. Bills, .t 1,000 2l 22 pin. Ditt0........ Ditto Small 2l 22 pm. Ditto Commercial pm. Ditto Advertised Bank for Account India for Account. Cons. for Oct. 12 B-114 THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account 10 Portuguese Bonds 4 7 1 /4 Ditto Account j Regency Scrip sg4 dis. Ditto Account Prussian Bonds 99 j Ditto Account _77 Ditto Bonds, 182') lOO Russian Bonds, 1822 01% Ditto Account New Loan `,33/4 xz Spanish Bonds, 1821 13% Ditto Account 13% Ditto Bonds, 18'23 Ditto Account I3N i French Rentes, sp. c. —f —c. ' Exchange —f —c. —S per cent. —f —c. Exchange —f —c. Dutch Scrip 42% Ditto Account 42 S 4 Fr2nch Scrip 2 pin. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONX O'CLOCK. Paid. Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) XlOO Bolanos Mining Company ..£l5O Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm ) £2O Ditto St. John Del Rey British Iron Mining Company £5O Columbian Mining Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) 48% r English Mining Company ......... 12% General Mining Association Real del Monte Mining C 0...., United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 2/. pm.) 40 Ditto New Soil, 2 Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO Protector Insurance Comp. Australian Co Canada Company General Steam Navigation Co. Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, OCT. 8. . - - Bank Stock 197 St. Patrick Insur.(pciShare) Consols, 3 ver cent. Gov. Stock,*,,', per cent. 90% National Ditto — Ditto; New 9l Patriotic Ditto I per Cent — Hibernian Bank 2114 Cov. Deb. 34 percent.... --Provincial Ditto — Royal (anal Stock ....,.... , Royal Irish Mine — Grand Canal 5t0ck......... —'lmperial Mine — City Deb. 4 per cent....... —! Mining Co. of Ireland Ballast Office Deb. 4D. C. —!Commercial Buildings FOREIGN EXCHANGES ON LONDON HAMBURG, OCT. 5.-13 13; two months, 13 11%. BERLIN, OCT. 2.—Three months, 6 29. BREMEN, OCT. 2.—Two months, 614%. HAILS Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. 0 America 0 1 Hamburg 0 0 Brazil 0 Buenos Ayree 0 1 Jamaica. 0 0 Cartbager•a 0 0 Leeward Islands ... 0 I Dublin 0 0 Lisbon I I Flanders 0 I 0 Malta 0 I France 0 0 Sweden I querns,- &Jersey.. 0 0 Waterford HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Murninv...3l minutes after 3 Evening...sl minutes after 3. . _ Azrie-G tti4;pogt.) *ti* A.. 140 4, ♦ PRICER OF STOCKS THIS tank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 8 3% 'A 3 per Cent. Cons. B 4 l / 84 3 per Cent. 9077,, Dili() Red 90% N Kew3% per Cent. 92YB 3 per Cent. Ann. 1726 - I 4 per Cent. 1526 Bank Long Ann. to expire Jan. 5, 186 0 16 7-16 Oct. 10, 1859 16% Jan. 5, 1860 Jan. 5, 1880 April 5, 1880 Jan. 5, 1870 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds B9 Belgian Bonds 76 Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds 4742% Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Bonds Ditto Account 22 Chilian Bonds ... l6 Ditto Account Columbian Bonds... 11 1 A Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1£324 lfli Ditto Account — Danish Bonds ! ,(79 Ditto Account — Greek Bonds 22 Ditto Bonds, 1 , 325. ...... 26% % Ditto Account — Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 22% Ditto Account Ditto, fi per cent °6% Ditto - Account Neapolitan —l Per Share. 84 13i 17 1 4 3 i /2 4 5 4 XI 46 7% 40 3934