The Sun. — London, England, 1840-10-08 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. • --- - THE ARMY AND THE HORSE GUARDS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. am in hopes that great good will eventually Conic to the military service at large (although at the cost of a meritorious young officer) by the exposure of the iniquitous system now carried on in the administra tion of the army. he'present question has nothing whatever to do with " party ;" but, upon the opinion shown of this case by the almost unanimous voice of the nation, and upon the authorities being thus forced eventually to alter their present ways, depends the question, as to whether the army is in future to be officered by a set of honourable and high-minded young men, who, although subordinate in every sense to proper military discipline, will not allow their spirit to be borne down by any overbearing and insulting conduct of a commanding officer set over them ; or whether it is to be officered by a set f men t ;tight to bow to every insult, public or private, which their commanding officer may bestow upon them. There is, perhaps, hardly a person in the kingdom who has not a connexion, near or distant, in the army ; and this question, therefore, concerns the public much more nearly than would at first appear. It will be quite impossible for any Comma der-in-Chief, " with the good of the service at heart," to allow Lord Cardigan to retain the command of a regiment, in which the ma jority of the officers evidently feel no confidence in, or personal respect for him (at least, without great detri ment to the service), and it is to be hoped that, if dis placed, no other one will be insulted by having him again placed in authority over it. In this case, how ever, the chief loss to his Lordship will be that he will be drprivel the pleasure of exercising a despotic com mand over two or three hundred Englishmen in uni f.,rm. If, how. —aver, Captain Reynolds is obliged to give up his commission, a fine-spirited young officer, es teemed by all ranks with whom lie has as yet served, and who has by some unaccountable means given the {„reatest satisfaction to his previous commanding officers. will he ruined in his profession for life, because he has hat; the spirit to resist a private insult, the over looking of which would have justly exposed him, on the other hand, to contempt and dishonour. THE REGISTRATIONS. MIDDLESEX. D. Z. The Revising Barristers resumed their sittings yes tcilay at the Sussex Arms, Hammersmith. Mr. Co ventry revised the lists for the parishes of St. Luke • Chelsea, Fulham, and Chiswick ; and Mr. Shadwell those fur ailing and Acton. ( Before Mr. COVENTRY.) Among the objections on the overseers' list for the parish of St. Luke Chelsea, was one taken to Edmund Singer Burton, whose qualification was stated to he " leases of houses for year," and the property situated in " Cadrgm-place." The Overseers stated that they could not identify the property. Mr. Airy intimated that the Court had no power to strike out the name, tie claimant having sufficiently cornp'ied with the Act of P.'rliament. Mr. COVENTRY referred to the Reform Act, and ob served that according to the form No. 2, the nature of the qu:Jification was to be expressed in such a way " as might serve to irtify it." Then in form No. 3, were the words " street, lane, or other like place in the pa rish (or township) where the property is situated, or name of the property, or name of the tenant." Under that healing were t.e words " King-street," but it ap peared to him the qualification must he expressed in such a way as to en able it to be identified. Mr. Adey, on the part of the Conservatives, in isted uprm the case being adjourned, in order that the number of the house might be stated, although the Act required no such thing. Mr. COVENTRY-All the Act requires, Mr. Adey, and all I require is, that such a description may be given as will identity the property. How can the property be identified when the Overseers say they can not find it ? Mr. Adey—The Overseers had no right to make an ob,ectioc.—(Laughter.) What is the reasonable cause of the objection ? The Overseer—We cannot find the property. If the name of the tenant had been given we should have been satisfied. The case was ultimately adjourned, in order that a better description of the qualification might be given. The Rev. Mr. harness, the minister of Sloanc-street Chapel, was objected to by the Liberals, on the ground that he had no freehold attached to his (Alice.— Judgment deferred. (Before Mr. SHADWELL.) The Ealing s Li4 was gone through without any case of interest arising. In the Acton List, the Rev. John Booth, Brom yard, Herefordshire ; Rev. Wd:iam Cooke, Bromyard, Herefordshire ; Rsv. John Wood, Dapper, Porleston court, Leominster ; R v. Joseph Dudley, Bromyard, Herefordshire ; Rev. Thomas Green, Broftdwas, near Woycester ; Rev. William Parsons Hopton, Bishops From-, Herefordshire ; Rev. Chas. Scott Luxmoore, R.:ctory-house, Crailley, Herefordshire ; Eyc:- nezer Smith, Nulbion Port, Somersetshire ; R v R. Broinyard, Herefordshire ; J. Wuburton, a paris!i-clerk, Bromyard, Herefordshire ; cluitnedifor Ire. hold rent-charges, issuing- out of laud in Acton, This objected to by the Liberals ; and Burn4rd, hiving proved service, Mr. Coppeek stated that in the year 158 G, one John Perrin by will left certain property in Acton to the Goldsmiths' Cotrpany, - in trust, to pay, among other sums, 26i. per annum to support a weekly lecture in Bromyard, such lecture to be preached every Monday in the year. The a?pointment of the trintees is vested in the Churchwar dens of Bromyard, and a payment of 103. each ser mon is to be made to the six or eight godly clergymen whom they are authorised to appoint. A payment of 203. is also to he mad 2 to the parish clerk. Upon tli s,?. payments of 10s. each per sermon, there appeared this claim of Mr. Booth and eleven others. Mr. Coppock put in the report of the Charity Com miisioaers, and contended that the parties had no rent charge upon the land at Acton ; that they had no office for life, nor annual payments certain ; that they were mere recipients of money for preaching a sermon, and that the Churchwardens could appoint any persons in their place at any time. Mr. Turner de"ended the claims ; but Mr. SHADWELL said there w..s not a shadoN of a foundation for the claim, and expunged the entire batch. The fullowitig is the result of the revision yesterday : Overseers' , I.lberals. Torics. made sust. made suet. rna:le sust. 0 0 f 3 12 1(1 7 7 7 14 6 3' 1 12 12 I 12 3 , 13 2 (i 3 b 9 1 13 10* . 21 , (1 6 6 13 12 2 1 Total BB • 81 80 43 ' 49 17 r.11:15 , 11F.S Fulham St. Luke , Ckelsca Acton ......... * 4 reserved. At the close of tic proceedings yesterday the Rc for mu a had a majority of 32. ST. ALBANS BOROUGH, OCT. 7. The B.irtisters this morning commenced tha revi sion of the Borough Lists. The Reformers had made no c!aims or objections, but the Tories were not quite .zzo negligent of their duty to their party, and several claims and upwards of thirty objections were delivered against the Liberals, all of which app!icd to the 10/. botisoboldsrs. At the last 'moment the Reformers made a rally, and did their best to support their friends. Jamci Bigg was objected to by the Tories, upon the ground at occupation of a house of insufficient annual value. He attended, and proved that he lived in a house for which he paid ten pounds per annum, by half (,-.ixly pAyraents. - oit. Biagg, the Town-clerk of St. Albans, on behalf iefthe T or i es , su b m i tte d to t h e C ourt t h at rent was no criterion, of yearly value, and cited va r i ous cases t o en force his argument, and he produced two or three sur veyors who swore that the house of the claimant was aa.at worth more than 71. per annum. Mr. Harri s , w ll o appeared for the Reformers, referred to various decisions by Cocamittces of the H ouse o f (commons on the Woodstock and R;p ,, in borough pet', walls, and also to the case of Matthe w Gl ennon b e f ore the Judges in Ireland, insisted that th e b es t crite rion of value was ascertainediigatenst i timputation by the r e nt p a id, w h ere there was not the sh m and putation that the agree ment between the landlord tenant was otherwise • than bona fide. value sur- The Revising Banisters heldtlat ~nsouexal3eince veyors bad sworn that : he meal h o uie was 71., and as no surveyors h a d al b e a e e e o c r a l t i e h a e previously to such ev idence bei ng given to corroborate :he claimant, who had proved his payment of rent of UM per annum, they must decide in favour o f t h e pre ss minance of evidence, which was against the va l ue of lt./.—Vote expunged. Thomas Birch, also in the list of Tory objections, proved his payment of rent of 101. per annum for his 'ouse. The yearly value of which was corroborated by Mr. Crawley, Mr. Bennett, and Mr. Gutteridgc. It was attempted by the Tories again to prove, through their surveyors, Mr. Rumba!), Mr. Page, and Mr. Vass, that the annual value of this house was not worth more than 71. The Barristers decided that where there was such conflicting testimony, however unpleasant the duty irn tiocesieldtron them, between the evidence of respectable , ey felt bound to give their decision in favour of the claim ant , omist Objection disallowed. Sever a l ner, and others c laims w wer e d ec id e d i n a s i m ilar man evidence to p rove Lei struck off for want of sufficient r yearly value. HERTS co i — n - c- ri ----- y REGISTRATION. Aubrey William. s pe Bowen, claimed as Under- Master of the Free Gr a n n , cer r School of St. Albans, for 1 a freehold rent charge of ma fo !flaillin go a year, payable Ito him in right of his offi,, e i taTi oing out of two pieces of kind described in the list. fi e was objected .to by the Liberals , u-ho sho w jr6dlxtion of the Report o' the Corn . of ed habiY ea ISSI antra ties, that the land upon which the 40s, was charged was copyhold—that many years since it had been seised by the Lord of the Manor (the Earl of Verulam) into h's own possession after the death of the surviving trustee, no person coming to be admitted tenant, and that if the payment of 40s. to the Under Master was really made, it was considered gratuitous on the part of his Lordship. It was further urged that the office of Under Master was not for life, but he was removable at the pleasure of the Trustees ; and that even if for life, as the salary issued out of copyhold property, no amount short of 181. per annum would give the qualification. Mr. Durant cited a case from Mr. Stephens's new book on registration elections, in which a voluntary pay ment to an office held by a schoolmaster had been de cided as a qualification to be on the register. Mr. WALLINGER repudiated such doctrine, and ex punged the vote. . The Revising Barristers finished this division, and ad journed to Watford. DISTRICT CHURCEIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,-Llt has always been allowed that a .much greater benefit is derived by society by the prevention of a disease than the cure itself. It is under this im pression (indeed, practical experience both in feeling and pocket convince me of its truth), I volunteer the following statement, with its accompanying hardships and gross injustice, in the hope that it may fully ansever the purpose intended—to open the eyes of the public from being either gulled out of their money, or lulled into se curity by an Act, having for its object " The Building of Churches and Chapels," although I consider the Act excellent in principle, but, without amendment, void of effect, as the subjoined will fully demonstrate. The parent church of Walcot, in the county of Somerset, has, within the last few months, been separated into three distinct parishes, viz.:—Walcot, Trinity, and St. Saviour's, under a permissive Act, authorizing such pro ceedings. The two latter churches, partly erected by voluntary contributions of the friends to religion. Some two years since, the advowson of Walcot changed hands, and new ministers were nomi ' natea to fill the respective churches, the duties of which they so admirably performed, that two of them on leaving were presented by their re spective congregations with a testimony of their esteem and respect. Things went on thus well until the 29th of March last past, when the inhabitants of one of the divided parishes were first made acquainted with the Let that the parish was not only divided, the advowson sold, but their Minister actually turned out ; and how was this intimation conveyed to them ? By the tolling of the bell at a patter before ten o'clock in the morning ? No, at Night ! which act is called the act of induction, for the purpose of notifying to the parishioners the taking possession of the temporalities, i. e. Loaves and Fishes, of the Church ; an act that was clearly in tended to be performed openly, and in the flee of day. Monday, the 3lst, was ushered in by our new Professor of Christianity, with a practical illustration of Heathen performances, to wit, the ringing of the bells, and the exhibition of a flag, as a wind-up to the courteous mode of his coming in. These things have been properly appreciated, and will not fail of eventually being duly resented. The blessings which we were about to enjoy under our new Rector, very soon were peoduced, to our comfort. Notwithstanding he had been only three weeks in the pat ish, the Easter offerings were sought after, with an avidity which would have clone credit to a starved shark. This having failed in expectation, imposts, in the shape of fees, were next tried to be extorted. The bells, which were the munifi crnt gift of a Mr. Hooper to the parish, at the cost of 800/. were fin-bidden to be rung on the occasion of wed dings, &c., under 2/. 25., H. 2s. of which was to be pocketed by the Rector' ! ! For the first three chrisal tenings 2s. 6d. was demanded by the clerk, this was admitted a mistake. The crypt, which was partly erected by our own money, and for burying in which the fees, by sanction and authority of the Bishop, were not to exceed 6/. Bs. Gd., were most illegally increased to 101. 10s.! ! ! And the marriage fees for the poor, from being Bs. 6d. at the parent church, were increased to 12s. 6d. ; and from poor women having to pay ls. 6d. for churching in the old church, are obliged to pay 2s. Gd. in the new. All the above is not only cruel and arbitrary, but manifestly contrary to law, and all fees that have been illegally demanded, must, upon application, be returned. By the same Act, the Ministee is to receive 200/. per annum for his services, provided his services are such that they produce that sum, and, after paying the clerk, 15/. a-year and other expenses ;" the surplus, if any, is to be funded for buying a house for the Minister. The new Rector contends that as he " has bought it" it is his, and that he may treat both the church and its contents like a parcel of bricks, and has liberally claimed all money that the renting the pews may produce. Thus, .then, we have not 3 only aided to build a church, but we are called upow to maintain the incidental charges which are necessary to Divine Service out of our own pockets, in direct violation to the Act, whirl particularly says " other expenses" are to be paid out of the pew rents. The church will produce about 31 1 1. it the Minister is liked. If not liked (as this man can never be), in a spiritual point of view a most serious, if not dreadful infliction, and in a pecuniary point of view it is also a matter of considerable loss to the parish. It is computed that by Michaelmas upwards of sixty seats will be vacant. Many more persons would vacate 1 if they could help themselves ; a nd man y d o not come 1 who at present pay. This reduces the surplus on the one hand, and burdens our pockets in the shape of rates on the other. Again the Act compels every parish so divided to provide a burial-ground ; this is also in this particular instance a monstrous hardship. There is no doubt but that the patron should have intimated his intention of seliing us, that provision might have been made to procure a churchyard. It appears, then, that we must either allow two acres of glebe to be thrust down our throats, and in a most objectionable situation ; to provide ground elsewhere at an enormous price, or pay double fees at the old churchyard, a churchyard that we were some years since compelled to enla-ge at a heavy sum of 1,700/. (never contemplating being so tricked), and in which ground is sufficient room to con tain the bodies of the three divided parishes for at least a hundred and fifty years to come; added to all which blessings, we are liable to be rated to maintain the mother church for twenty years. Is not this sufficient to disgust people and actually drive them from their Church ? Bet this is not the whole. We possess a plurality c!crk, and, to maintain this useless functionary, addi- ' tional fees have been put on. This also is directly 0,- posed to the Act, which expressly states the " clerk and sexton" to the new divided churches shall have the ac customed fecs as enjoyed by the clerk of the mother church, and adds that remuneration is to be made to the old clerk as a compensation, which plainly points out that no clerk shalt hold more than one office, to pre vent a job. Raw this remuneration is to be made is ore thing, but that the parishioners are to be taxed to effect it is not to be tolerated. As the advowson cut up so welt it is considered the patron ought to compensate him. A small but spirited junta of the parishioners have taken up these respective matters to see what can be effected for the general good ; but ii success does not completely crown their labours, it is proposed to petition Parliament as a means of redress in this particular instance, and of preventir ' e such un just proceedings for the future. As lo ng as humility is preached and pride indulged in, charity exhorted and covetousness practised, by the clergy, so long will the Church be despised and her ordinances forsaken. A RATE-PAYER, AND AN OPPONENT TO HYPOCRISY. Bath, Sept. 28, 1840. CHINA. CHINESE ARTICLES OF WAR. Ist Law.—lt is the duty of a soldier in the day of battle always to press forward bravely and impetuously ; for whoever through fear, or to save his life, floes, must by the laws of war be decapitated, and his head exposed to the multitude as a warning. lie who kills an enemy performs a meritorious act, for which he shall be rewarded with promotion. It he dies in battle, his children and grandchildren shall be compass'onated. The coward cannot escape the laws of government. If a man rashes forward and kills his fee, it does not follow that he shall die ; but if he draws back, it is im possible that he can live. This article is abundantly plain, and all the officers should inculcate it on the men, that they may know the great principles of right con duct ; and in the day of battle they will doubtless be brave, having a hundred chances to one that they will "the thieves," their etientie, - ;, and meritoriously distinguish themselves. 2. On enterin g into battle, powder and arrows must not be expended at a distance from the enemy, but re served for the exact point of time in wh'ch they will be most efficacious. To waste them before this time arrives, so that w h en most wan t e d t h e y arc a ll exp en d e d, is like tying their hands and waiting to be slain. 3. The utmost pains must be taken to preserve their goodarms in ord er , and their ammunition dry. shall 4. In W ak h e en th a e nofficer is wounded or taken, the men him. If they tm l ost effort s to carry him off or rescue n u eg e e d ct to . do so, and defeat ensues, the guilty men shall 4 . The men mustb ecaPitelleci. pursuit of a flying foe men on T l d ie u u ty tm a o t to collect plunder. and silence are required of ceoarbpost. On obtlining icfor motion, they must depute 7. AU unnecessary disturbleat:neeesn teoecelmionnuednietaotethiet secretly and speedily. y punished. peaceable inhabitants, injuring cornfields, robbing, pil v shall be re !aging, Sze., must be severe! 8. The soldier who bravely kills an warded ; but he who is detected in Iviennepairetexts about his OWD merits, or who by false tales usu g rp s the merits of others as his own, shall be decapitated. to the arrr 9. The horses and carne!3 belonging must satnvyigpinla; leave th e be treated with affection en:l kindness, and good y water and provender provided for them. At night, if they stray, -they must be forthwith sought for, and brought to wells in regular suceess:o2, so that tilt water may not be fouled by their being ?emitted to strive against each other in crowds. Neglect of this duty must be severely punished. 10. When encamped, the patrol must be vigilant, and especially so at nights. None must be permitted to walk about without cause. In the tents especial care must be taken against fire. On any alarm rumoured, none must act hurriedly or with levity. Secret orders must be carefully obeyed and not allowed to transpire from one to another. . . It is finally required that these 10 laws, or articles of war, be carefully explained to and inculcated on all the soldiers. PEACE OR WAR. TES. : SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8y 1840. SPIRIT OF THE FRENCH JOURNALS OF TUESDAY. (From the Journal des Debats.) All kinds of abuse fell upon us in consequence of the opinion which we expressed respecting the capture of Beyrout. We sec plainly that faction is endeavouring to get possession of the foreign question, and convert it into one of internal revolution. These cries, menaces, and denunciations arc but anticipations of proscription. We shall not, however, be frightened from performing our duty. We do not answer for events ; and we know that were France to fall again under the yoke of the revolutionists, modeitation, courage, and patriotism would become crimes, and be denounced as trea son. This is all the reply we make to the National. The ministerial press joins the republican in attacking us, and denouncing us in revolutionary language. We have sacrificed our opinions, our opposition, our dislike to the Ministry, in order to support it on a great national question. And such is our reward. We have been for precautions, for armaments, and for vigilance ; but it does not follow that at the first cannon-shot fired in Syria we should declare war upon Europe, or march on the Rhine, as the National would have us do, because Beyrout is bombarded. We prefer reflecting and wait ing, and we arc called cowards and traitors. If such be the state of Ministerial opinion, why did Ministers wait for the taking of Beyrout, which real'y makes no alteration in the question ? Why was the French fleet off Syria to watch the progress of events ? The capture of Beyrout is nothing, or it is something ; if something, was it not cowardice to let it take place ? Is it possible that Ministers did not foresee what Napier was about to do, and were for the tenth time in this one affair out of their calculation ? If the Beyrout business was to be the signal for war, why were not the Chambers cenvoked a month ago ? When we demanded this convocation, the Ministerial Press told us there was no . need to be in a hurry. We foresaw what has happened. We foresaw the effect to be expected from the first Syrian news. And therefore we entreated the Government long since to explain its intentions. We supposed that it had a fixed and de cided plan, which we now can scarcely believe. For the Minister opens his mouth to acquaint us that the cases belll was the capture of Beyrout. The Cabinet, to be sure, still deliberates. But the Ministerial Press no longer deliberates. Ministers, in fact, have floated down the current of events, dreaming of peace one day on the slightest presumption, and at the first disappoint ment denouncing war. Can this be called governing, or even reasoning ? The country must know that two dangers now me nace it—external danger and internal danger. That of foreign menace we do not seek to extenuate ; but let us choose our own moment for war ; let us declare it from duly and well weighed motives, not from mo mentary caprice. But there is domestic danger too. The present agitation has given new hope to faction. War offers a noble pretext, but revolution is the pre sent aim ; and a new revolution would not only cause incalculable evils to the country, but leave it weak and disarmed in the presence of a foreign foe." There is no change in the tone of the same journals, but with two or three exceptions, they contain nothing of interest for extract. The Constitution/id which first announced the existence of a division in the Cabinet, on the great question of peace or war, has no leader on the subject this morning, from which we may reasonably in fer that no decision has been come to. The Courrier which had declared in direct opposition to the Constituti• mine/ that there was no:division in the Cabinet,has changed its affirmation into a mere expression of its belief. 1 t says it believes the Ministers to be united, and observes that, as a pledge of this union, it ii announced that the Cham bers will be convoked for the IA of next month. This may or may not be true, but the inference drawn by the Courrier, that the convocation of the Chambers is a proof of the unanimous determination of the Cabinet, is by no means in harmony with the general rumour, which states that, if the Chambers meet before the usual period, it will be for the purpose of relieving Mi. nisters of the awful responsibility which now hangs over them, and deciding by a cairn and dignified appeal to the good sense as well as the patriotic feelings of the nation, whether the peace or the war party is in the right. Il oar memory does not deceive us, it has been . announced from the beginning of the untartnnato (lir fereace which now ngitates the-publid mind, that when the Govcrriment should be in such a position as to he called upon by circumstances to decide as to whether the peace of Europe should be broken or not, it would convoke the Chambers, which alone, as the legal representatives of the zountry, can be appealed to by 7 the Government on this great question. 'life impres- • • sion causcd by this announccment was, that the ters would not call the Chambers together until thel had made up their minds as to the necessity fur war. If nothing had occurred to change their position, the convocation of the Chambers wcu!d be a simple demand for the ratification of their own views, which the peers and deputies would give or withhold ; but if the Cham bers be convoked, and it be true, as asserted by the Conslitutionnel and other journals, that there is a very serious difference in the Cabinet, the representatives of the country will be called upon to decide upon an open question, and either by declaring that the cry about insulted honour was not based on real result, and con sequently that the country is not bound by consistency to relieve the peace party of the odium threatened by the war journals ; or, on the other hand, rendering a war national by declaring it to be necessary through the legal organs, instead of a portion of the public press. The Presse, which two days ago bad appeared to show some inconsistency by recommending that France should plunge immediately into a war which it called insensate, rather than longer endure what it styled a humiliating peace, forgetting that it had for two months been en deavouring to show that France had not. been insulted, and, therefore, could not be humiliated by accepting the position created by the treaty of July 15, feels it neces sary to follow up the explanation which it gave yester day of its views. " We are asked," says the Presse, " whether we are for peace or war. This is our reply—We are for war, hce,vever desperate it :nay be, if a vote o f the tw o Chambers should not compel the present Cabinet to re tire, for every Cabinet personifies France, and that of the Ist March must cot be allowed to have menaced the other Powers of Europe in vain, and permit the violent execution of a treaty which it has formally and repeatedly declared it would not tolerate. We are for peace, if public discussion, the production of all the do cuments connected with the affair in the two Chambers, and the evidence of M. Guizot, should prove positively and incontestably that the isolation of France was the fault of her Ministers, and not the result of a combined system of England, Austria, Prussia, and Russia, to wound us in our honour and interests. We are for peace, if, in order to maintain it with honour, it will suffice to overthrow, by a vote of the Chand.2rs, the Cabinet which placed it in jeopardy ; but we repeat that, rather than consent to a humiliating, ruinous, and precarious peace, we would prefer an implacable war against the whole of Europe." The National has an article which is a strong and painful illustration of the truth of the remarks of the Debals, and a proof that in times of excitement the • barrier between liberty and licentiousness is. easily over leaped. We give it as it is, for reproduction in cur co lumns is not a dissemination of pnison, but an exposition of the state of parties, which may a dile the right minded to form a correct estimate of the different organs of the Press : Old men and babblers are the great scourges Of a Government. Old men wish everything to be station ary ; babblers prevent everything from moving on. This double scourge has particularly afflicted France. Every body knows what the old age of Louis XIV. inflicted upon our ancestors. After him came another oli man, the Cardinal de Fleury, who inaugurated the ignoble reign of Louis XV. This Royal dcbauc/se, whcri he became old, hail no other thought than that of making his monarchy last as long es himself. After no e' s Lid he, 'let Berry do what he can.' After him, his sueces ser had for Minister M. de Maurepas and M. de Males herbes. The former was 80 years of a e ; the latter was capable of speaking for three hours at a time. It was the fault of M. de Maurepas that the French Go vernment did not preserve neutrality in the American in surrection ; and in 1788, when the Duke of Bruns wick invaded Holland, M. do Maieshcrbcs succeeded in neutralising the, ardour of those who were desirous of intervention ruzaiost the Prussians in favour of the States-General. What a situation arc we in when power is placed between two infirmities—old age and bavardage ? Deetive Governrneuts are net subject to these grave et ifs. When a man has serve , : out his time, or age has frozen or impaired his faculties, he is left in repose, which is for him at ()zee a necessity and a duty." This is speaking out ; but the National, as if afraid that its allusion, plain as it is, should be misunderstood, takes care, in a nother column, and so contrived as to be in direct juxta-position with this article, to say, " King Louis Philippe this day entered his 69th year." The Temps still opposes the cry for war of the other Aini 6t' but recommends that th e Ministry sh l u little more energy, such, for instance, cl s d te d ri is a p l y l o ay ur a na l l i as taking possession of Candia, as a sort of security for the good conduct of the Mies- " This," says the Tedrps, " would not be a conquest ; France would de clare so openly, and her word would certainly inspire as much confidence as that of the Four Powers." " W e have reason to know," say s the Presse, " that th e Cabinet is divided, and that. four of its members adverse to the pelicy of the President of the Ceun- Pl. it is worthy of rozarii.that th 444 arc poop' ely those who direct the four most important departments, viz., war, marine, finance, &c. The most warlike Mi nisters should be rimed, for the curiosity of the thing ; they arc said to be M. Vivien and M. Gouin 1" Who is the fourth peace-Minister of the Presse The Minister of the Interior ? The Siecle states that the Chambers are to be con voked for the Ist of November. " If we arc well informed," says the Commerce, " the Ministry has found a new method of gaining time, and a pretext for adjourning any definitiv e resolution. It' is confidently stated that Lord Palmerston has caused a diplomatic note to be presented to-day ( Nlonday) to M. 'Tiers, which is destined to open a way for new tempo ' rization, and that M. niers has h astene d to t h row him self into it." NEWS FROM THE MEDITER RANEAN. MALTA, SEPT. 2 6 . . —By the French steamer, from the Levant, we are in possession of dates from Con stantinople to the 18th, and Alexandria to the 17th instant, which latter quote dates from Beyrout to the 11th instant. CONSTANTINOPLE. -- 'nC steamerTahrißahri arrived here on the 9th, bringing back from his mission to Egypt Rifitat Bey. Mehemet Alt's appeal to the generosity of the Sultan, as regards the possesi.on for life of Syria, has been rejected, as well by the Sultan as by the Four Great Powers, as being contrary t 3 the spirit of the treaty of the 15th of July , and consequ ent ly, a f ter a meeting of the Divan , at which • on the 14 t h , I zzet Mehemet the g o7ernment of Acre, was successor of Meh eme t Ali to t h e all th e Ulemah and oSpfficalcei latelylasi a w m da p t ap o so o it k nh te p e ( a i r t t o , ially Viceroyship of Egypt, this latter being declared a rebel: Redschid Pacha has signified to the Russian Charge d'Affaires the wishes of the Sultan that Russia should also lend its naval aid to the more effectually blockad ing the ports of Alexandria and those of Syria. 600 regulars had been withdrawn float Samson°, and re placed by 800 Albanians, who left Constantinople in a Tuscan steamer on tlie 1 Ith. The Austrian Lloyd's steamer Ludovico had arrived at Volo with Albanian troops. ALEXANDRIA, JULY 17. MEHEMET ALI'S LETTER TO THE GRAND VIZIER, RAOUF BEY. " ALEXANDRIA, 7 RELIES, 1256.-1 had the dis- tinguished honour of receiving the order transmitted to me by your Excellency, a high functionary of the Sub lime Porte, containing the decision of the Conference held in London by the Four HigliPowers,En,gland, Aus• tria, Prussia, and Russia. In conformity with the terms of the treaty, the hereditary possession of Egypt (which forms the principal basis of the question), is granted to me, and a term of ten days is prefixed to give my ac ceptation or refusal. The Sultan, my august master, has sanctioned this Convention. lam consequently ready to submit thereto, in order to give a proof of my obedience to the Sultan ; and conformably to the sense of the determination of the aforesaid Four Great Powers, without awaiting the expiration of the prefixed term, I manifested my anxious desire to give in my note of adhesion. Rifaat Bey, however, having by his in structions been compelled to await until this day, I have deemed it my duty to repeat and confi-m my accepta tion and submission to the commands of the Grand Seignor, my august master. I. In as far as regards the Syrian question, touching which the Foreign Powers have started difficulties and obstacles, I truit that the Sultan will take Into conside ration the long services I have rendered to the empire, and I am led to hope to obtain from his magna nimity and generosity the high favour of retain ing the administration of the Government of Syria during my life, flittering myself that the Allied Powers will ba pleased to accord their consent. Your Excellency will be able to obtain me this act of grace from the justice of the Sultan, and I promise to promote by all the means in my power the felicity and prosperity cf the country and its people, which should materially contr,bute to my obtaining from the Sultan this favour, to whom I beg to renew my humble prayer ; and repeating in the meanwhile my assurances of the most perfect submission, I have the honour, &c." TRADE.—On the Bth of September Bongos Joussoff issued a notification, that, in consequence of the great abundance, wheat, barley, maize, pease, lentils, ceei, sag g;na, and every other description of grain and pulse would be allowed to be exported at a duty of 10 Egyp tian piastres per ardep. Several cargoes were being shipped for Malta and other ports. TURKEY. (From the Ottoman Gaze , te of the 18th of September.) DECREE OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL. 'According to the Convention which has been con cluded between the Sublime Porte and the FoUr Hi h Powers, for the settlement _or. the - Eit,yptiOit question, his Excellency Riffat. Bcy wessent,by his Imperial Me jesty the Sultan to NMlemet Ali Pacha, in order to announce to him their determinations on that point. His refusal to accede to these propssitions, expressed at different times, having been uNde known to the Council-General, hell at the house of his Holiness the Sllciekh Islam, on Wednesday, the 6th of the holy month of Rejab (241 of September), and the letters sent by his Excellency Itiffat Bey having been read by his Holiness, in presence of the Ministers, the Ulcma, and the other notables of the empire, they were unanimously of opinion that the mediation of the four Allied Powers was necessary, in terms of the treaty—that it was nei ther contrary to the Divine Law nor to the interests of the nation—that as the pretensions of Mehemet Ali tend to divide the empire into two parts, which would cause the ruin of the Ottoman power, any concession of these unjust demands was declared to be inadmissible— that the Council, after mature deliberation, arpreving of the steps which had been taken, declared it to be their unanimous resolution, and came under a solemn collectively e cours e w hich h a d b e en and i n divid ua lly, t o sup port engagement, tlie Government b both adopted ; and finally, they denoun ce d as t ra it ors a ll in tl such as should, either directly or indirectly, by word or action, oppose or interrupt these salutary measures, and consigned them to the punishment which their crimes should merit. (Signed) The Sadrazan Ruouir Pasha. Sheiekh ul Islam, 111 ekkis Aade, The Minister of Commerce, Achrn e t Fethi The Seraskicr, Alustapha Nourri Pacha, Pasha. The Minister of M ar i n e, Capndan P Said The Minister for F ore ign Affairs, Mustapha Resbid I acha. 'rho Minister of the Palace, lUza The President of the Supreme Council of Justice, sib Paella. The Minister of Finances, Said The Hassaskir of Rlunielia, Molitrrict Saarlula Effendi. The High Judge ul Emirs, Midurnhii n Effendi. Kasn,skin, the Physician, Abdulhak Essat Ef fendi. Kassaskir, Minister of Public Instruction, Imaum 'Gawk, Essat Effqncli. Kassaskir, the Imperial Historiographer, Mahomet Es sat Effendi. Kassaskir of Anatolia, INlustapha Izatt.Effendi. Kassaskirs Members of the Supreme Council. 1 The Master of the Al:nt, Zivcr Effendi. The Grand Customer and Intendant of the Valide tuna, Table Bey. c C e o u un n s s e e l l l io o r r ofof Marine, At ti A ff Ali ßey The Mi n i ster of Just i ce, Muhib Effendi. The Pr eses o f the Mil i tary C ounc il, H usse i n P as h a . The M aster of the Ordonance„kreff Bey. Minister of Church Revenues, Mahir Be)'. Counsell or of War, Etheim Bey. ForeignAffairs,Effendi. Couns e ll or of Commerce, Enverri Effendi. the Counsellor of Finances, Ismael Effendi. First Secretary of the Grand Vlzir, Zuhdi Bey. Mullah of Constantinople, Tcflik The Lvov, T , tulary Moilas (Judges) of Constan tinople. The First Imperial Imam, Nourri Effendi. Revisor of Ecclesiastie a l Revenues , Aasaff Bey. Profissor of Medressah St. Sophia, Khurst Raja. The Ei ghtMeinber s o f t h e S eco nd Class of the Council of Justice. Grand M ister of Ceremimies, Said B ey . First Secr e t ary of Foreign Affairs, I Effendi. Dragoma n o f t h e Imperial Divan, Saafct Effendi. Chancellor, Shefket B ey , Second S ecretary of the. Grand Vizier, Shidhaah Effendi. Second Secretary of Po kffairs, Ned dim Effendi. Secretary of Minist: e'g r rinstice, SCIA:11111 Effendi. First Secretary of the Supreme Council of Justice, Alo hessin Effendi. IMPERIAL r,IATION OF THE ABOVE. IN CONFIR- We have read the decree of the I.2ouncil Genera!, and are well ! ! pleased with their resolutions relative to the Egyptian overjoyed, as will question, which ive are be all good Mussulinan% to fied so ue;tr a termination. Let ycur sage cooduet ' end the oare you take to ensure the due administrati on et justice', be proeis of the love lIATTI SCHERIFF. you bear to your country r• nd religion ; to set otherwise will be treason to buth. Let all those who, without comprehending . r th e n -esent ;legion (tire to impugn the conduct ur of our overnmerit cl be puaished according t o their demerits. M ay G o d tc ; zn to grant us., through the intercession of the h Hol i'ro p_et, a , t e rmination of this matter s uc h as We desire.. May God recompense the faithful servants of our empire! Am en. _____ REPORT OF THE LATIVE TO THE AFFAIR OF KH OZREF F PACHA. Your Imperial M a j esty having b ee n informed that it would be necess ary to call before t his tribunal the ex- Grand Vizir Khozreff Pacba, to a nswer for his alleged was pleased to issue y our Imperial or illegal conduct, SUPREME C OUNCIL RE dcrs that the aff a i r s h ou l d b e exa mined on the sitting of the 25th of the mont h, Dj amaz iel Akhir (Aug. 23 ). The 120,000 piastres which be bad token from Musta pha Nourri Pikcha, th en G overno r of Janina , had been previously demanded f rom Kb osrc ff, who in his answer ackuowledacd how the m a tt e r had pass9d—ao that letter having been read at the Council, has served as the basis of the accu=ations brought against him ; the audacity with which lie had demanded money in the ;Mlle of the two Ministers, Achmet Fetid Pacha and Reschid Paella, struck the Council dumb with astonish ment. Fethi Pacha having been called to state what concerned him in this affair, said—" Before the arrival of Mustapha Nourri Pacha, Khosreff h id offered - me a present of 25,000 piastres, as from himself, but I seve ral times refused it, until, at the Sultan's intercession, I accepted it—afterwards, when the Seraskier came, Khozrtff owned that the money came from him." Reshid Pacha was called, and stated similar facts, concluding thus I refused the money, bat Khozreff took it and appropriated it to his own use." The Council then passed to the affair of Zecharieh Pacha, who, on the request of the President, exposed as follows :—" Same days after my arrival in Constantinople, Khosreff Pacha sent to tell me to come to hie), and told me that I ought to offer gifts to some high* personages, arid must endeavour to send him 1,000 purses, or 500,003 pias ters for that purpose. I applied to my banker for that sum, but he refused to give it me, us I was already deeply indebted to him, on which Khosreff, despairing of being able to catch so large a sum, proposcu to sell me three diamond snuff-boxes for 80,000 piasters, which he said it was necessary to give to his Highness Achmet Fethi Pacha and to their Excellencies Reshid and Sub Pachas, besides 50,000 piasters for a sword to his Highness Halil Pacha. After having paid him the value of these things, Khosreff gave me to under stand that .he would not be offended if 1 were to make him a present of 100,000 piasters, which I did. On his disgrace lie sent to tell me that he had only been able to give away one of the boxes, and returned me the other two, along with 25,000 piasters, being half the price I had paid for them. Some days after I paid him a visit of condolence, when he told me that he had ex pended the money which he teak from me in repairing the roads to the Sultan's farm." The Members of Council, Etheim Effendi and N, , .ssir Effendi, who had been sent to Rudest to expose the state of the process to Khosreff and take his deposition, produced a letter which he had written to the Council, in which he acknowledged the truth of these accusations, and stated that he had offered to Fetbi Pacha one of the snuff boxes, above referred to, as corning from himself, but he refused to receive it ; on which he beggt.d the Sultan's perm,ssion to offer to him, on the ground that, being given by a superior to an inferior au thority no ignoble motive could possibly be implied by Fethi Podia accepting it. He owns also that he sent the 50,000 piastres to Held Pacha to buy a sword. Fethi Pacha declared that he would not re ceive a prest.nt so unjustly extorted ; and Saib says that not only did he never accept of a snuff-hax, but it never even had been offered to him. The revelations of Halil Pacha elucidated and confirmed the above facts. It was thus clearly proved that the original statements of Khosreff were false, and that Zacharieh Pacha had not given 100,000 pi isters to repair the road to the Sultan's farm, which had been defrayed by a voluntary contribu tion of several pachas, who resided in the neighbour. hood, and profited by it. The people of C)prus, who live at Constantinople, proved that at different times • sums of money had been extorted from them under the I pretext of defraying the expenses of buiiiing a mosque at Mergune, on the Bosphorus. This mean conduct was no less insulting to the sacred person of the Sultan, whose earnest desire it is to observe religiously the oath he has taken, and to promote the happiness of his people, than offensive to the memory of Sultan Mob. mow% who had never in any shape ordered that the Cypriots should contribute to the constructian of the mosque. All these wicked actions merit the severest punish ment ; but the Council, having taken into considera• tion that the greater part of diem occurred before the publication of the penal code, and that the natural ra pacity of the offender covered as with a veil the eyes of his conscience ; viewing likewise his long service as Vizier of the Empire as a powerful plea in mitigation of punishment, they declare that Khosreff, having shown himself' unworthy of confidence, is for ever incapable of being employed in any public capacity ; that his pen sions shall be withOrawn ; that he shall be exiled for two years, during the first eight months of which he shall be under strict surveillance, in order to guard him against himself and his own foolish imaginations. Mustapha Nourri Pacha and Zocharich Pacha merit also punish ment, for having given money to be used as bribes, con trary to the laws ; but many extenating circumstances, such as ignorance of the state of affairs of the capital, and of the promulgation of new laws, accompany their of fences, and they were, therefore, dismissed, after receiv ing an admonition. The money taken, whether from the two Paellas or the Cypriots, must be returned to them, and Lazaraki the capu lchiarja (Charge d'Af faires) of the island of Cyprus, because he acted as in termediary, was privy to the fraud committed, and be sides trafficked Ws influence with. Khozrdf to various versoas, shall be exiled to Boli for one year. COPY OF A NOTIFICATION OF THE BLOCKADE OF THE PORTS OF EGYPT AND SYRIA. " PERA, SEPTEMBER 17. " GENTLEMEN,—I have to inform you that Reschid Pacha, the Ottoman Minister for Foreign Affairs, has notified to his Excellency the Ambassador that the Sublime Porte has ordered the blockade of the ports of Egypt and Syria, which will be enfuced as soon as the ships of war shad be assembled before the ports to be blockaded ; and, moreover, that his Imperial Majesty the Sultan having requeved the aid of the naval forces of her Majesty and of his Imrerial Majcety the Empe ror of Aus ria to carry into execution the above-men tioned blockade, their Excel!conies the British Ambas sador and the Austrian Internuncio have given their corisent to the demand. " I have the honour to be, &c., (Signed) " JOHN CART WRIGHT, " Consul-General. " To the British Merchants, Galati." • The Turkish adjective used here is so construed, ar. cnrding to the idiom of the language, as to refer to tht• Sultan. DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS. AMSTERDAM, OCT. Majesty at the request of his second son, Prince Frederick, has been pleased to accept his Royal Highness's resignation of the office of Admiral of the Fleet, and Master-General of the Ordinance, thanking his Royal Highness for his services in those offices. We hear that his Rlyal Highness will go to Silesia. We understand that his Majesty has been to the Leo ; he has made several appointments, and decided on an entire r‘-organisation of several hrances of the public• service. We hear, among other things, that M. Van Doom is appointed Minister of War. The Mi.dstcrs who are to meet at the Leo on Monday, and to attend the important Council on Wednesday, are expected to return to this city on Thursday next. TUE HAGUE, OCT. '2.—Among the reports of the day, it is said that the Council of State has ventured to ttlze some steps to dissuade the King from execut ing his purpose to abdicate the Throne. An address is spoken of, which the Council will present, or perhaps has already been presented to the King. THE HAGUE, OCT. 3.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange is to go tomorrow to So;lsdyk ; on Monday he will arrive at the Loo, and on Wednesday, at twelve o'clock, the solemn transfer of the Throne will take place. His Excellency the Minister Van Doorn, is gone this morning to the Loo, where he will have a preli►ninary conference with his Majesty to•morrow morning. All the Ministers are summoned in his Ma jesty's name to present themselves at the Lon on Wed. nesd ►y at noon to witness the signing of the abdication of the Throne. It is slid that the King's Proclamation is already ilr.mn no, aryl that M. Van Doom has taken it with him to the Loo to lay it before the King. THE HAGUE, OCT. 4.—lt is confirmed that his Ma. jssty is fu;ly resolved to continue•to reside in the Ne therlands. His Royal Highness Prince Frederick, too is said to have given up his intention of going to live in a foreign country. After his return from Prussia his Royal Highness will fix his residence in North Brabant. —llandelsblad. TIIE llacuE, OCT. 4.—His Royal Highne3s the Prince of Orange is expected to make his solemn entry into the Hague on Thursday, on which day his Map,- ty's proclamation will be published, announcing that he has resigned in favour of the Prince of Orange. At the same time a proclamation will be issued announcing the accession of King William 11. The Hereditary Prince of Orange awl Prince --Fre, deriek will go to Lon on Thursday next. 13nussuts, OCT. 4.—Prince Lieven has arrive] ti is morning from Germany ; he is going to Paris. The Countess of Oultremont has just fixed her resi dence at Liege, and has had all the furniture and other things which she left in Hovland brought to that city. We believe she is now at the chateau of OultremOnt. The Journal des Flanders affirms that she has never c , ased regularly to receive letters from King William, and that i after a long time i n G ermany su b sequent to the marriage, it s pesible the King may come and re side ut Terveuren. This last circumstance seems very We arc assured th it the pictures belonging to 'he Prince of Orange in his palace at Brussels, which were said to have been sent to Holland, are deposited in a house at Brussels, as well as several others. waiting for the directions of the Prince. BRUSSELS, OCT. 5 —The King will return from Wiesbaden on Friday next. LIEGE, Ocr.s.—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge Lr,d suite, travelling incug, arrived here yes terday, on hi s way to Frankfort. Lord and Lady Lis towel have likewise arrived. AMSTERDAM, OCT. 6.—The Prince of Orange ar rived at the Loo yesterday morning at 8 o'clock, and had immediately a conference with the King. His Excellency the Minister Van Doorn_has arrived at the H ague . The other Ministers and the Members of the Council of State will arrive there to-day. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Frederick of the Netherlands and the Hereditary Primo of Orange are expected this morning. On Wednesday. after the ahilic ttion, all the Princ. s, except Prince Fre:kriek, alid the Ministers will returi, to the Hague. The ceremony of the abdication will take place at the Loo, in one of the saloons of the Pa lace, in the presence of the Court, the Ministers, &c. At preent his Majesty seems to have resolved to go to Berlin about the end of this month. On his return his Majesty will reside either at the Hague, in his pre sent palace, or at the house in the Basch. It is thought that before his Majesty goes to Berlin he will be present at the baptism of the young► Prince, which is to be pub• hely solemniz'A at the Hague. 'THE HAGUE, OCT. is said that the proclama tion of the King, with a grateful remembrance of his twenty-seven years reign, will state the reasons which have made him resolve to pass the remainder of his life in repose. These reasons arc his Majesty's advanced age, the obligations arising from the change in the fun damental law, and the consideration that a firmer hand is required to conduct the Government to the advan tage of the people. The proclamation will likewise announce the transfer of the three crowns of the Ne therlands, the Grand Duchy, and the Duchy of Lim burg to the Prince of Orange and his legitimate de scendants. One copy of the proclamation will be de posited in the archives of the Netherlands, and a dupli cate in the archives of the Grand Duchy.—Dutch Papers, Oct. 7. • HUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, OCT. 5. Money. Rill.. Actual Dcbt, )..i per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. k :TM: i syndic, fli, per cent 8414 1454 ciao, ditto, tli i i per cent l!iii 7 4 Commercial Company, 4 , 4 per cent l5B 159 Dqto (1525 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per emit. Exchange on Loudon, One month ll 97% Two months Dutch Papers, Oct. 6. ;;F:c(IIAN 1. UNDB-11aussEts, Ocr. 0. I.ctual Dek. 2 i v per Cent. Rothschild's Lo in, 5 per (7,nt l/2 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent — 3 per Cent. r. 7 1 --- Thirty-seven— -- ...... ~ - , 2 / Loan of City, t8:1•2, 4 per Ce»t. 9O Society of Commerce, 452 per Cent lO9 Bank of Itelgimn, 5 per Cent 74l£ National Society. — Exchange on London (short) Brussels Papers, Oct. 6. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, SEPT. f.B live oer;Ccutfi. Metalliques For per Cents.... llO4. "force p:r Cent. ',W.: !thar,:,s 1675 -..,lllgeineine Zcuung, Oct. 4. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, OCT. 2. Bills. Money. St. Schuh!. Sch., 4', per cent. 10 3 34 10% Prussian English Loan, 183 n, 4 per cent 10174 1 1% Exchange on London, three months 6 17N —Prussian State Gazelle, Oct. 3. H 1 M 11U RG RUMEN 11 ALLE, Ocr. 3. •--- -- hills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. rani: Nharcs 1 ;liri ...- A n,lo-Ittissian Loan lO6 1 , 5% Russian 5 per Cent. !st series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Se.ws . l€2 Russian 5 per Cent. Hop.: and t.o. 3d and 4th . _... _ , .... .. Seci,s . V7 9644 Ditto in Certificates Dutch 'anal Debt, 2y,', pe Cent 43 Mao. l'oli , ll Bond New icket Anglo..i•.anish Loin, 3 per Cep* 4 7'2% 72 1 4 Norwegian Loan, Is3l, 4 per C.,,4„ , , kJ Spanish, New .1 per Cents. ABDICATION OF"raE KING OF HOLLAND. King William is now in his 68th year. He was born on the 24th August, 1772; married on the Ist Octo ber, 1791, a Princess of Prussia ; in 1793 took the command of the Dutch army upon the occasion of the declaration of war by the French Directory against the Stadtholder of the United Provinces. Ile took Land reeks in 1794, retired into Holland with his troops after the battle of Fletirus, embarked with his family for England in 1795, and took possession in 1802 of the small German principalities which had been ceded to his father in exchange for his rights in Holland, and which his father in turn had ceded to him. In 1806 he inherited the sovereignty of Nassau ; commanded the right wing of the Prussians at the battle of Jena ; was taken prisoner, and lost his states after that battle ; afterwards took service un der the Austrian Government, and assisted in 1809 at the battle of Wagram ; was recalled into Holland at the moment when the entire of G,Tmany marched against France ; took the reins of Government of the Lott' Countries. on the 6th December, 1813 ; received on the 30th March, 1814, the oath of allegiance as a Sovereign Prince ; on the 16th of March, 1815, took the title of King ; promulgated the " fundamental law" on the 24th August, 1815 ; was crowned on the 21st September, 1815 ; summoned all Holland to arms on the sth October, 1830, after the success of the Belgian insurrection ; and declared on the 20th October in the same year, that he would confine himself to the Go vernment of the northern provinces. He lost his Royal Consort in the month of October, 1837 ; accepted the " 0 4. articles" on the 14th of March, 1838 ; on the 26th May, 1839, signed the ratification of the treaty of the 19th of April ; and on the 4th of September, in the current year, promulgated the changes introduced by him into the fundamental The Prince of Orange is forty-eight years old, having been born on the Gth of December, 1792. The news at the King's abdication produced an immense sensa tion, both at the Hague and at Amsterdam. In the latter city, the funds immediately fell 1 per cent., and a still further depression was anticipated. A letter from the Hague of the let October, states, that " per sons living in the Prince Royal's intimacy, have already suffered some words to escape them es to the line of conduct which the Prince intended to pursue immeciately after his accession. He proposes to commence by two great measures, the object of which is to restore royalty to that popularity which, in the last conflict with the Chamber and with public opinion, it would seem to have irrevocably lost. The first of these measures consists in taking it on himself to guarantee the payment of the interest on alt the loins contracted for (such as for jhe construction of the railway to Arnheirn). It had been a coestion whether this guarantee should fall ,pn the King himself or on the heir apparent. The new King, by taking this guarantee on himself, would solve this question in a mode the most satisfactory to the holders of these securities. The second measure, which is much more important still, is th, immediate nomina tion of a State Commission, charged with the duty of reviewing the fundamental kw, and proposing, within the shortest passible period, certain changes which would be forthwith submitted to tie Chamber. In choosing the members of this Commission, it is under stood that the new Sovereign will be influenced by pub lic opinion. " The destinies of the Netherlatids," says the Han delsblad, of the 2d of October, " will no kng,:r be di rected by him whose views have been always benevolent, whose undivided cares have ever been devoted to the well-being of his country. Tae abdication itself, de cided by the nobicst motives, by a conviction that the neces,ities of that beloved country require more force and energy in its constitutional administration, will be in itself the greatest and most sublime proof of the Royal devotion. The respec:ei Monarch desires to lay down the sceptre, which he hes cairied honourably for more than a quarter of a century, and by this rare action to crown his long reign —a reign full of difficulties, of cares, of losses, and deceptions, but which, neverthe less, is not without its brilliant passages, entitling it to the gratitude of is contcmporaiies, and securing to it the admiration of posterity. The difficulties of the epoch are immcnse ; atql, the task imposed on the successor to the throne is most critical. But the nation has the greatest confidence in the Prince of Orange. The nation sees and honours in him, not only the hero, who in his youth distinguished himself in Spain, gathered imperishable laurels at Wate,ho, and triumphed at Hassell and Louvain, but it sees, above all, in him, a Prince attached devotedly, by conviction, to constitutional order. God grant that stiecss may re -pond to a hope so well founded! The late of an en.- tire reign depends on the first step taken by the Sove ,eign. Experience has too frequently demonstrated that nothing can repair the consequences of a first rabic step. To-day it is the duty of all good citizens to .upport ffor:s that are directed to secure the future well-being of the country. May Providence have des tined a new era of glory and prosperity for the Nether linds !" Toe Belgian papers state that the King of Holland's principal motive for retiring into private life isthat he may fulfil the saert.fl promise which he has given, and marry he Countess D'Aull re:l-tont. As there is no longer any obstacle to oppose this union, it is supposed that it will speodily take place. W AT TH E OPERA IN PARIS. " The repreFentation of Guillaume Tell, last evening, it the French Ovni, wits for some time interrupted by at cry, from a great many of the audience in the pit, for the 11L►rseillaise' to be sung. The audience had been electrified by the rnaznificent trio in the second ,ct, and had listened with d.tep attention to the words, in which the following (liner ition was pronounced ►gainst these who betrayed their country— " ' Si p..rini rocs 11 est d. s traitres, Que le soled de son flambeaux VA, use a leur yeux lrt loam-re; Le c il, Pewee, a kw- ; Et Is turre—un toutheau.' " The pit in a mass rose, and demanded the " Mar sellaise." The tumult increased until some voices be gun loudly to sing that revolutionary hymn, each couplet of which was received with loud applauses, Which pro ceeded from all parts. When the orchestra proceeded to commence the introduction to the third act, the same cries re-commenced with increasing energy. A Commissary of Police then made his appearance at one of the boxes, and said that the audience had no right to call for the singing of the Marseillaise,' as it made no part of the performance of the evening. That was very true, nor was that hymn in the for mula of the oath of Louis Philippe, and yet that Mo narch sung it loudly at the window of the Palais Royal. No, the Marseillaise' was not on the play-bill for th e evening, nor does that document speak of the bom• bardment of Beyrout, of the treaty of the 15th of July, and of the humiliation of the country. What was there, tlico, extraordinary iu tbie ebullition of the pub- EVEN ING „ED 19 TOW te feeling ? What was there strange, that, seeing in his box .ane of, the Ambassadors of the Allied Pow3rs. the pit of the Opera should wish to manifest their sen timents by demanding the singing of tho se verses whic f the h recalled the glorious victories of fifty years. I Government was sincere should it oppose it s elf to thi s expression of national feeling ? Would it prefer the brave people of Paris to swallow its shame ? w then these warlike preparations, that appeal to France, menaced on all sides in its position of isolation ? If Thies is firm be should rejoice in these manifestatioust which would increase his strength ; if he is not, thee more reason for the demonstration, to convince Eurothp that the Government must not be confounded with e people which is behind it. The police, however, thought diff l re c tly. Some municipal g uards entere d and ar rested a citizen, and soon after some scrgens de use came in, and took into custody an indiv idual in the Uni form of the national guard, and several other of the most forward in the demonstration. They were 11 , 11 ' a pronus e however, afterwards set at liberty, on giv in g to appear when called upon." FORTIFICATIONS OF PARIS. the According to the terms of the specifications to fortifkatior.s of Bclville and Bagnolet , w hich are tbe same as those approved of. by General Bernard, 1833, for the erection of the fort at Charenton, the • stone and rubble to be used will be brought from C tell. St. 11Iaur, Charenton, and Bercy ; the stone the for cement from Brie ; the sand from the Seine ; bricks from Burgundy ; the puzzolano from Issy, se, the lime from Champigny. There W ill be oelt one contractor, and Lieutenant-Colonel d'Aigrepleith; of the engineers, is to have the chief direction u nder t - works. All the workmen employed are 'to be o military authority. The day's labour is to last te, hours. Tho , e who work at night will be paid one- forte more. When the engineer officer thinks it necessarl to employ soldiers on the works, and the tools they are furnished by the State, he will pay them apartr. a ae l • the contractor will not be entitled to any inderai; e but if the contractor supplies the tools, k„ t or to receive two sous a-day for each mili tar y man. Temporary wooden buildings for nine hile cire t . men have bt en erected at the northern foot The Meats matre, where the fortifications are tracing o ut. ll ?fi. or sheds for the soldiers to be employed on the fort' cations of Paris will have in front threedoors a n d windows—those for the officers twelve doors and Wel° windows. The captains will have one room for t each : and other rooms will be occupied by a lieutenan saa room sub-lieutenant in common. There will be a mess' for the lieutenants and sub-lieutenants, canteens for.th: officers, tables for the captains and adjutant-10t1here; a reading-room, ar d a report-room. F huts, 36 will be in the commune of Charente. t ; at the angle formed by the road and the a A Ye l e ti o Be,cy ; '24 at Fontenay, between the roe. an- le pathway of Corneille; 24 at Montreuil, at the angle formed by the roads to Paris and Rosily ; 36 at ? 111 .14 7 ville, between the roads to Paris and Noisy le - S ee • t between Barriere de Fontarabie and the C a nal Ss le si , Denis ; 24 behind the Cemetery of La Vile tte ' the Pont de Fiandres ; 24 at Saint Den is, at the a,P re . formed by the roads of La Revolte and F d lue 0" _1 24 Reuil, between the road from S aint Clouo 040 Suresnes, and 24 at Iviy. The total amounts t bole, huts. One person may make a tend er for the but in that case must make a deposit of 200,000 fran cs, as caution money. ••••••••MoOmumislm.......1•••••••••• ••••••••• _ WRI TTEN CA RICAT UREv• (From the Charivari.) e P r Let us continue the consideration of m an in his 11P extremities—one more word on the head-dress. THE HT. The raking student wears a A napless hat drawn d ° ._° on one car. 'l'hc laborious student wears a similar n. t but descending over his brows. The raw student 47_ imported from the province parades the streets with a white, gray, or sky-blue hat, tapering to a poin t ' broad brims, embellished by a curtain , rope, andtt°l?ull.. . e bootmakcr, the butcher, the grocer, na wa en The dressed, delight in a silk hat with a long • is the o rn lofty, narrow-brimmed, short - napp ed silk hat ment of the Sunday-dressed carpenter and masa"' r The veteran clerk and the old fundholder wea ingenuous simplicity, the bygone h at with brim tare__,_ h up before and behind, which , sho uld a shower co e they protect from injury by co verin g it vvit check' cred handkerchief, the corners o f which are firmly I cured between their teeth. r s If you have any pretensions to philosophy, w. e3 be low-crowned hat with enormous bri m . If your AO at originality, adopt the sugarloaf shape. HAM. Copious and unclean locks which soil the coat e° ll4l. arc e n i e) ,s • r m e t . i h ii e ye e n ab g s t l wotcrt Chinese nl eo n sw l e y , Theof p s r e e l t r_ e s n t d y c le d d pl o ii r l i a g s i o n p a b l philosophers and ) o the old 1 mak er ' the mandarin. cynic, are combed, their hair is dirty, and stick s s iTp c in (l ir 1 • order. The dancer, the hairdresser, the simpleton, and t b l , lion, 6 wear their hair carefully brushed, resplendent' grease, curled all round the head, and scparatcdham' equal or unequal parts, like the waxen figures in a dresser's window. The old soldier, the postillion, and the act9r, " le their ha harbir ercssuil a la Titus. rine r's apprentice, the student in his nov itit"t° • arrange their locks a la .leunc France. Stiff hair is sometimes a sign of obstinacy, sleek Wok. denote patience., a curly head is almost a lways se c° ; panied with wit and the lo v e of pleasure. 1331"r:sob generally the sign of an active mind, unless, be "d to served, the bald man brush his back hair for vu lga r cover the front ; this is the mark of a mean and wig',:x , spirit, or, which is still worse, un less he wear a which case he must unquestionably be claJed the snobs. Premature gray hair denotes misanthropy, continued suffering, whether physical or moral , excessive labour," or nocturnal dissipations. ,;,nc is With regard to those abundant lock s will ,;;; die powerless to bleach, they arc the badge of an C c-- position, and of mediocre int: liect. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Mr. Butler commencetithe campaign pth s ' r t d last night. After the Maison Velc4dre, be 13 dc -o ; need, under the title of The Three Bral l e r p i one act version of that excellent ol d eOrn—ti; Three and the Deuce, Balls being, of cours e ' Three Singles. This comedy has , during 13a ' i s absence in America been shelved , because th e r e t, at present no actor except himself wh o ever attl) the character ; we hope to see him frequen,tlYrr peat it during the course of the season ; it ' s r- o i feet, and we speak this with the full recollectibv on 0 Elliston in the same character. Mr. S. Rw' an excellent Humphrey Grizzle, and IVliss Sheer,: smith made an arch and clever Taffline, and very shy „ the song " Little Taffline in her silken sa in prettily. She looked exceedingly well j „et Welsh costume, and acted - her part with naivete. With care she will make au , C%- ,1 - 1 1 / lent soubrette. A new burletta, erititlen tllir Grandmother's Estate, followe d. Mr. nauel„d, (St. John Horton) is to succeed , under his mother's rx will, to a large prope rt y , on or'" ~0 . . of his marrying his cousin L ad y Emily ' I "; 'g chicr (Miss J. Mordaunt.) He sends ,1n friend, Captain Stanley to visit her, and sbe:"lss; covering his object to be to report to her eeli s ' n , . to her appearance and attractions, passes lie off on him as a learned lady, deeply verse d rit mathematics, chemistry, galvanism, and e ve n ', other " ism" in the circle of the sciences. Se cs the meantime, as Miss Dashmore, she t o and wins Bouchier, wh o is determine(' ant sacrifice the fortune o f his cousin, ,1.4 marry the fascinating girl who has won !c; heart. Mutual explanation s of course take Play; and all ends happily. There is nothing veil c ,c in the plot, but the dialogue is written with gre,'_e care. The language is 'hi g hly polished, and the piece is replete with wit and repartee. Mis s ' 1 . 3 4, aa Mordnt acted Lady E mil y with great 'P n ir o It was Lady Emily herself, the well-bred lad}' he no t, as is too often the case with stage ladies, t lady's.maid aping .the fine gentlewoman. Olie s' P a g; in which she accompanied herself on the guitar, spas to encored. We congratulate Mr. Butler on having obtained the services of this actress. A Y °ll l l a dy s tyled "the Youthful Zitella," danced a pas seti o i which was much applauded ; and the hurleto! A Wife's First Lesson , and t he Railroad Slatirn 01 ' closed the e venin g 's amusement, The house 11 w ell filled, end the performance s were over the by' eleven o'clock ; Mr. Butler stiil adherieg exc ellent rule of last season, closing ma cs so as to enable his friends to re tire t° r est ii if a reasonable hour, a rule which it would be we other managers imitated. vet-fowl; onn ' e ri o l f E th S e r 2 A din i :t i . i st l 7 t t E e the 29 . h ult., had been re ' e t2iivatedetthtceise,rcoonammu, nic3 ...,,, the t " I " h, iptdligence that a note bad been addressed tiy the 6141;0 G E l Nc i Y.—A f d v i cc: Jsrroilan, Id3:tcYcl _French, Belgic n, Dutch, and Portuguese Ambassadors of attempt Espartero, wattling him, that in the vac °f any n a . t pTryesiennetyeLstaabntigshed in Spain , tbeY hi son, ceived orders to demand their passports and quit Selo' Wellesley, a h l e ld au l t l u is mo - _ at Mr. William Arthur Wellesley, are pasta ° t 't''Kt:rigm..e l u i p ect Regency , onsg made to change in the la . t her relatives,Brusels the eMissMisses is res.ding vo slightest dogrel re, lisllc d Mr. Gibson Craig, M.P. , and his acconlP .i bride, neice to Sir Hussey Vivi an, have joined the po suirettY— . Beaufort Castlep 04 seat of Lad Lovat, .lairerUC.