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LONDON, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 13.

THE contributions made to the QUEEN'S Speech by
the noble HECRETARY for FOREIGN AFFAIRS arc
quite as clumsy and ungrammatical in language,—
just as unscrupulous in ststements,—and as poverty-
stricken in subjects, as those of any of his colleagues.
It is sot of France, of Germany, of Italy, of the
North of Europe,—or even of Turkey, left without
the aid and assistance of an English representative,
—that our Matutseune can speak. It is not in the
countries that surround us, or in the dominions
of our nearest allies, that he can find any
crumbs of comfort, or pick up any scraps of
congratulation. Of what he had done in Italy; of
the steps he is taking to support constitutional go-
vernment in Sardinia; of the assistance ho is afford-
ing to Belgium in its crisis of independent exist-
ence; of the great and mighty changes impending
in France; of the bitter disposition of Austria
towards England; of any prospect of Spain return-
ing to parliamentary government ; of the hopes of
freedom generally in Europe—not on all, or any
one, of these topics has this great statesman a
word to say. On the real and imminent
dangers here in our own hemisphere, and of his
policy to avert them) he is ominously dumb. But
crossing the Atlantic for topics, he becomes as glib of
tongue as he is maladroit in expression. Ills tri-
umphs are in the New, not in the Old, World. Like
another CANNING, he searches in South America for
the consolation he cannot find in Europe. But how
unlike that great man in the frankness and truthful.
ness of his statements, the generosity of his senti-
ments, and the skilfulness of hie tactics.
Credit Lord MAL/IFABURT in the Royal Speech,
and it might be believed that the special mission he
sent out to the Argentine Confederation had some-
thing to do with the opening out to the navigation of
W world the rivers which, according to him, afford
amen "to the interior of the vast continent of South
America ;"—u if the Platine countries constituted the
whole of the interior of that continent. The reverse
is the case. Sir CHARLES HOTIZAK had no more to
do with the decree of the 28th August last than with
the storm now raging around us. The policy of
that decree had been resolved upon months before Sir
CHARLES'S arrival in the Plate; its text had been
ppared before he presented his credentials to
UreRQUIZA ; and it was issued ere he had had an
official interview on business with that chief. If
any foreign power deserve credit on the subject it is
the Government of Brazil, whose counsel URQUIZA
sought, and whose advice was to throw open these
riven;—for the purpose, amongst other reasons, of
avoiding the plague and worry of the approaching
mission which Lord histisesettae was sending out.
Equally unjustifiable, but far more mischievous,
are the statements Lord MALMESBURY has inserted
as to Brazil. During all the phases and the discus-
sions on the Slave Trade, former English Cabinets,
even when pursuing hostile measures, have always
endeavoured to be courteous and agreeable in
Speeches from the Throne towards the countries
which suffered from those measures. Lord MALDIES-
BURY regards neither truth nor civility; for on
announcing a change of measures agreeable to
Brazil, ho misleads the Parliament of England, and
he insults the Government of Brazil.

Plain men reading the pusage of the speech in
which the QUEEN is made to say, "I have the satis-
faction of announcing to you that the sincere and
zealous effort. of the Government of Brazil for the
suppression of the Slave Trade, now nearly extin-
guished on that coast, have enabled me to suspend
the stringent measures which I had been compelled
reluctantly to adopt "—would naturally infer that
it was since the dissolution of the last Parliament
these measures had been suspended. Nothing of
the sort. The violent orders were recalled by
Lord MALMEBBURY as long ago as the month of
April; and the proper time for their announcement
(if requiring any notice at all from the Throne) was
in the speech with which the QUEEN prorogued the
last session—certainly not in the speech by which she
opened the present one. And why
.was the announce-
ment thus delayed ? The motive is obvious; and as
mesa as obvious. The government feared that any
such announcement would excite the fears of the old
anti-slavery party, and rouse them to opposition
duriog the general election ; hence its postponement
until the new Parliament, when it is scurvily made to
do duty as if it were only a recent fact.
Mark, too, the ill-judged impolitic, indecent menace
and threat which Lord MALMESBURY has typended
to this statement that the sincere and zealous
efforts of Brazil have nearly extinguished the
slave trade on its costa. They have enabled the
British Government, he says, to suspend the stringent
measures reluctantly adopted, "a recurrence to
which I anxiously hope may be proved to
be unnecessary." This, surely, is not the
way to encourage the Government and people of
Brazil to persevere in the new and higher career on
which they have entered. This is not the style in
which the Sovereign of one State ought to be made
to speak of a nation quite as independent. First, it is
insinuated that the sincere and zealous efforts of
Bruit were the result and consequence of our ,
stringent measures,—than which nothing can be more
untrue; and then Brazil is openly threatened with a
revival of those stringent measures whenever it suits
the wisdom of a MALMEBBURY, or the prudence of a
DERBY, tO recur to violence on its coasts.
. .

Considering the still unsettled state of our com-
mercial relations with Brazil, our third best foreign
customer, this is really the very height and insolence
of indiscretion. Brazil has, it is confessed, nearly
suppressed the slave trade; she has, by her measures
and arms, released the Argentine Confederation
from the tyranny, cruelty, and isolation of
RosAs ; oho has by her advice to littutazA
procured for mankind the free navigation
of the great highways to tho centre and Pacific shores
of South America; and now, when what England
above all things requires from Brazil is a treaty of
commerce and navigation which shallgive security and
permanence to our trading relations with that great
empire, Lord M 41.111:SHURE clumsily and michiev-
ously puts into the QUEEN'S mouth a menace of fu-
ture violence. Folly and stupidity can hardly go
further.

Leaving in this bullying manner the former
colony of Portugal, he turns to our ancient Iberian
ally itself; and thence lugs into the QUEEN'S Speech
the fact that the discriminating duties ou the export
of wine have been reduced : a fact of some little im-
portance no doubt in Mark-lane, but wholly un-
worthy of notice in a Royal Address from the
Throne. We have no wish to undervalue the
recent Portuguese decrees, but to say that
they were produced by Lord MALMESRITRY'S
diplomacy or interference is simply ridiculous.
'the old discriminating duties on the export of
wino to Europe as compared with its exports to other
parts of the world, and tho old absurd regulations
which classified the various sorts of port wine, were
repealed by the Government of Portugal entirely on
domestic grounds. The higher duty on the export
to Europe diminished consumption ; and the classifi-
cation led to endless frauds; and these were tits
grounds, not any remonstrances of Lord MAULER-
BURY, that induced the Cabinet of Lisbon to make
those changes which our FOREIGN SECRETARY, like
Dansis of old, claims as my thunder."

Lord Ntsuentim mast know that the country is
not to be reconciled to his administration of its foreign
affairaby ouch fudges and braggadocios as these. Even
if true, they would in a national point of view
amount to nothing. But, being unfounded, these
announcements in Royal Speeches can only show
how miscrablo the administration of our external
relations must be when, in this crisis of the world's
history, it relies for fame on port wine ! It is of
Italy, of Belgium, of France, and of Turkey, we are
thinking whilst Lord MALMESUURY thus borate about
the Itiver Plate and I'urtugal ; and of his sayings
and doings in France and Turkey during the rceeos,
we must quickly know something now that Parlia-
ment has met.

TUE police " Orders and Regulations to bo ob-
served within the City of London, on the occasion of
the ceremony of the funeral of Field Marshal
ARTHUR Duke of WELLINGTON," seem to hare been
arranged with an eye to inflict the greatest amount
of inconvenience upon the public, without affording
sufficient counterbalancing good. On the day in
question—as will be seen by the order published in
our advertising columns yesterday—Mr.D.WHlTTLE
HARVEY proposes to govern a large portion of the
City and its suburbs as absolutely as any continental
despot governs a town under martial law. London
is, in fact, to be on that day in a state of
sieges The barriers at the Southwark and
London Bridges, at Temple-bar, Chancery-lane,
Holborn-bars, and all other streets running
northwards, from thence to Finsbury Pertinent,
and all streets from the eastward giving access
to Moorgate-street, Princes-street, King William-
street, and Upper Thames-street, will be closed at
half-past six in the morning, and no carriages will
be permitted to eater or remain in any of the streets
enclosed within the said barrier atter that hour,
unless provided with a ticket for the Cathedral.
It is not very easy to describe accurately the effect
of these regulations, inasmuch es they are not re-
markably well worded; but it is not difficult to see
that a cordon, anything but sanitary, will be drawn
rmnd a very large portion of the most important
city in the world. At half.past six o'clock in the
morning, all that vast part of the City will be closed
against the whole nation, except such as have an
introduction to the EARL MAR•IIIAL of England.
Admitting the full validity of these motives which
induce Englishmen to desire to be present at the
solemn ceremonial in the Cathedral of St. Paul's—
recognising the propriety of the enforcement of rigid
regulations respecting the entry of all persons within
the limits in which the funeral is conducted—it may
still be a question whether a Commissioner of Police
is not bound to try all methods of accomplishing
his ends before he encloses a larger space than the
ancient City of London within an impenetrable
wall of barriers and policemen. The citizens and
their visitors within this space will be blocked up
for the great part of the day as securely as if they
were within the walls of any metropolitan prison;
whilst their friends without will be irtually as far
from them as if they were all deported to Cayenne.
It is hardly possible to avoid the conclusion that
the funeral of the Duks of WELLINGTON is being
wantonly made use of by certain authorities to favour
their own ends. Ministers are using the solemnity
of the occasion to throw dust in the eyes of the
people. Not content with the mention in the Royal
Speech, they have contrived a Royal Message to both
Houses upon the subject, and the talk there anent will
make a certain diversion. Mr. WsLrote. throws in
his mite in the form of a proposal to pass an act of
parliament for converting the day of the funeral, so far
as bills of exchange are concerned, into a Sunday ;
and now we have Mr. DtsitaeLfs wish to stop ad
discussion on our political rights by pleading the
national concern at the Dukes death, copied
by a Commissioner of Police, who tells us to
waive all considerations—however important—of
personal convenience on the occasion of the Duke's
funeral. Mr. DISRAELI ignores Free Trade, and
Mr. 1). WurerLe HARVEY puts a dead stop to free
motion on precisely the same grounds. Is either the
one or the other necessary or endurable ?
If there is any meaning to be attached to Mr.
HARVEY'S City Proclamation at all, it is that, after
half-past six in the morning, no person—except a
chosen set—will be allowed upon any occasion, how-
ever pressing, either to enter into the prescribed
limits or emerge from them. The lame, the halt, the
maimed, the sick, are rigorously shut out or shut
in, and precluded from any help that they
might wish to seek beyond the boundary. They
are equally deprived of the possibility of receiving
any aid from such as would be willing to give it
to them, if the assistance requires carriage convey-
ance. So much for those who wish to ride. They
might as well, for the specified time, live on either
side of a broad river, without bridges or boats. The
foot passengers are to be subject to a mode of treat-
ment which at first sight appears less harsh, but
which, in reality, is worse than the other; loss-
I much as there is a mockery of granting per-
mission to enter the barriers, while the exclu-
sion in their case will be as abeoluto as in the
neesor their carriage friends. Mr. HARVEY declares
that " Inhabitants and visitors proceeding to houses
in St. Paul's-churchyard, Ludgate-street, Ludgate-
hill, or Fleet-street, will be permitted to pass the
barriers on foot, north and south of those streets, until
the hour of eight a.m., upon producing a ticket to be
obtained upon the apphica:ion of an inhabitant of
those streets, at the Bow-street Station, Cheapside,
sot later than twelve o'clock on the day previous to
the funeral."
If

H. W. HARVEY is to take
absolute possession of the City of London, the
laws under which the inhabitants are made
to capitulate ought certainly to be laid down
in unmistakable English. The police rescript
should explain,—as it certainly does not at pre-
sent,—whether the only day for applications is
that previous to the funeral, or whether any time
between now and the hour mentioned will suffice.
As confining the place for applications to one station
and the time to one day would make the granting of
them impossible, it is charitable to give the Commis-
sioner the credit of meaning to order the only pos-
sible'course. In what condition, however, does this
Lave our unfortunate foot-passengers who wish to
eater the prohibited streets ? Those who are armed
with a dearly-bought ticket to view the procession
from some house on the line, present themselves
at the barriers with their ticket and pass. They
will then have to proceed on foot,—no matter how in-
clement the weather, no matter how great their in-
firmities,—on foot to their destination. Ladies deli-
cately clad, children, the old and weak, will all have
to trudge helplessly through the guarded—and it
may be slushy—streets. These, however, are the
lucky ones. These have, we suppose, reached the
barrier at Temple-bar and other plates. But
what of that large mass who by no possibility
will ever be able to arrive at the barriers ?
Remember that all progress is stopped at ono of
these, say Temple-bar. Any attempt therefore to
reach this on foot will necessitate a desperate struggle
through the thousands who will have takers their
position in the Strand before daylight. None
will be able to succeed in this but the strong, the
violent, and the unscrupulous. An endeavour to
reach the spot is a vehicle will be nearly as hopeless ;
for the enormous line of carriages would be perpe-
tually stopping, onaccount of the necessity of putting
down. The three favoured streets, then, must neces-
sarily bo almost confined to the policemen appointed
to guard them, unless these new regulations are
corrected. This deserves the serious attention
of those who have seats to let, and of those
who intend to occupy seats on the line;
but we have as yet made no mention of that large
class who may suddenly have occasion to enter the
enclosed space on matters of urgent and unexpected
business. These, after having by dint of superhuman
exertions made their way up to the barrier, will he
kept out by the want of the required pass. Their
time will have been wasted, and their business, how-
ever pressing, will be untransacted.

Is it impossible, it must bo asked, to provide
for a great public ceremony, without thus indicting
a great public wrong? Is Mr. HARVEY incom-
petent to provide a scheme by which persons who
wish, from motives of curiosity or business, to visit
houses on the line of procession, may do so, without
more than a moderato degree of inconvenience? If
not, it would appear that his resources must bo mar-
vellously small. Until any better mode is proposed,
we reiterate the recommendation wo have before
urged, that foot passengers should be kept in con-
tinual motion in a direction opposite to that in which
the procession moves. Let them enter the lino of
procession—say at Bt. Martin's•lo Grand, and In

a kept moving" down Ludgate-hill and Fleet-street
to St. Clement's—or even to Apisley House, where
they might file off into Hyde Park. This would
give all persons in the lino an opportunity of seeing •
at the sumo time, that those who have occasion tO
visit houses will be enabled to accomplish their
wishes. Unless some rtgulationof this kind is adopted-
a large proportion of those who expect to be Rpm.
tators will be disappointed, whilst important busi-
ness must bo at a standstill.

MR. CHARLES VILLIEIas FREP. TRADE IttortoN.—
The following is the notice as it uppeareJ in the
votes of the !Louse of Commons yesterday morning
Mr. Charles Villiers—To move a resolution on
free trade. [Tuesday, 23rd November.]'