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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1837.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The monthly meeting of the Town Council was
held yesterday. - A. most important document, by
the Town Clerk, was ordered to be printed, for
distribution among the members of the Council.
The income and expenditure of the Corporation,
with the effects of the recently-passed ltersey
Conservancy Bill, are laid down with much
minuteness. We have have neither space or time.
to analyse the report of the Town Clerk to-day,
but shall take the earliest opportunity of doing so
The recommendation of the Finance Committee,
to contribute the sum of 2100, for the present year,
towards establishing and maintaining a Liverpool
office in London, was unanimously agreed to ; also
the recommendation to appoint a Deputy-Recorder.
It is generally expected that the Queen's Speech,
which will be delivered this day on the assembling
of Parliament, will refer to the Monetary difficul-
ties, but that this subject will only be treated as of
secondary importance, and that the Speech will be
chiefly taken up with the state of our Indian
Empire. The fact is, that Ministers want to stave
off any discussion on the Bank Charter Act.
We understand that the Manchester Chamber of
Commerce have had under its consideration the
propriety of petitioning Parliament on the Bank
- Charter Act. This petition approves of the Act,
but admits, under the circumstances, the wisdom
of its recent suspension. The Chamber trusts
that Parliament, after sanctioning the step taken,
will, either by a select committee or otherwise,
inquire whether one material cause for the neces-
sity of such suspension of the Bank Charter Act
has not arisen from the reckless system of banking,
and consequent expansion of unsound trade,
pursued by some of the joint-stock banks which
have recently suspended payment.
The Governor-General of India, Lord Canning,
has written to the Lord Mayor of London, in
answer to a communication from the latter, accom •
panied by an instalment of the Indian Fand.
Viscount Canning incidentally states that the
Spirit of violence and bloodshed, though gradually
yielding to our arms, is not yet subdued, and he
remarks that it would, under such circumstances,
be impossible to say how large the field is over
which it would be necessary to distribute the relief
fund. The Committee which came together in
Calcutta to raise money for the same purpose have
obtained according to the statement of Lord
Canning, a sum which represents £5,458
sterling.
• The attempt to launch the Leviathen was not
made yesterday, but preparations of the most
• important character have been going on, and early
to-day they will be tested. Eight rams will be
used instead of four, and all the auxiliaries will be
extended and increased in power. Today's tide
will be the highest this month.
The Recorder of Hereford, Henry Horn, Esq.,
has committed suicide. Various rumours are
afloat us to the cause of the unhappy occurrence.
Mr. Horn his left a widow and a numerous family.
At the 'weekly meeting of the London Ballot
Society, on Tuesday, Mr. George Staveley, of
Geelong, Victoria, explained the working of
the ballot in that colony. It appears that
at the last election in Geelong for the
members of the Upper and Lower Houses of the
Legislature, Mr: Staveley acted as a scrutineer
and so had occasion to perceive the working of the
system. The election was very warmly contested,
and par'y opinion was exceedingly high; and he
firmly bAieved that it was simply frora the ballot
being in use that no coercion was used to influence
the expression of the opinions of the voters, and
they were enabled to exercise the franchise without
intimidation. He believed that the members of
the Legislature, who were elected by means of the
ballot, were the free choice cf the people ; the
expenses to the candidates were but trifling, and
the elections were marked with order and decorum ;
many of the ballot's most violent opponents in
Australia had become converts to it : anal the
Attorney--General, who fought the measure in the
House step by step, had declared that it was
desirable the ballot should have a fair trial.
Germany is now suffering severely under the
monetary crisis. A telegraph from Hamburgh
informs us that, in consequence of not less than
twenty new and extensive failures, and the
absolute want of credit, business has come
• almost to a stand still. The prices of merchandise,
as quoted in the commercial intelligence of the
newspapers, are entirely nominal, no actual
rates having taken place. The latest news from
Constantinopla announces the impending de-
parture of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, who
is expected to remain absent; for two months, being
called home, it is said, by private affairs. He seems
to have chosen his time badly, for it is no secret
that just now the French Government, whose am-
bassador still maintains his menacing reserve, has
pressed forward the Suez canal scheme at Constan-
tinople, as a kind of test of the good faith of
Reechici Pacha, who always pretended to favour
it. The mail actually speaks of ministerial
conferences held on the subject, which, how-
ever, have as yet led to no result, but the most
inportant foreign news to-day is the reported re-
fusal of the Spanish Government, in spite. of the
earnest solicitations of England, and particularly
of France, to receive the Mexican Ambassador on
the terms proposed by the mediating Powers. At,
the same time we hear from Cuba that the Spanish
West Indian squadro4 lac taken artillerymen And

a corps of 1.000 marines on board, and, when the
mail left, was ready to sail at a moment's notice.
Three members of the French Legislative Body
will not take the usual oath. The Dutch Minister
of War has resigned on account of the rejection of
the war budget.

FEW, if any, of the political events on the
Continent have created a greater amount of aston-
ishment, and in some quarters a perfect hurricane
of indignation, than the appointment of M.
DUPIN to the office of Procureur-General of the
Court of Cassation in France. M. DUPIN
formerly enjoyed the reputation of being an
honourable, far-seeing, and consistent statesman.
He was formerly President of the Republican.'
National Assembly of France, and now he has
turned aside from the party of which he was a
leader, and taken office under the Sovereign
whom he not long since publicly impeached
as a robber. His is the first sacrifice of
honesty in a chief of the Orleanist party. The
prominent part which M. Durix has taken in
the politics, not only of France, but Europe in
general, had raised up for him, in almost every
quarter of his native land, hosts of friends and
admirers. His acceptance of the office in ques-
tion must cause them extreme regret. They
must bitterly deplore the degradation of a
statesman too old to be excused on the score of
ambition—too rich to urge necessity—too violent
a political partisan in his early years to take
shelter in cynicism at the close of a long and
eventful life.

Nor do we think it would be justice
towards such a man to attribute to him base
motives, seeing that he is so far worn out in body
and mind as to be incapable of any offence except
it be that of superannu Ited servility. Except
M. DUPIN, all the Republican leaders have stood
aloof from the Empire of LOUIS NAPOLEON.
They saw that he waded his way to the French
throne through blood, and total disregard to the
solemn obligations of an oath. Bribes, numerous
and tempting, have been offered
.to them ; yet,
with consistency and firmness, they have spurned
with contempt every effort to seduce them from
allegiance to that cause which they swore to
defend and maintain- To his dying day, CAVAIG-
NAC was faithful to the violated Constitution ; and
CHANGARNIER, for similar steadfastness and con-
sistency, sees, every day, officers not only of
inferior merit, but much his juniors, elevated over
him, because they cringe and fawn upon the
parvenu Sovereign of their country. LAMERTINE,
we also know, is no advocate or flatterer of suc-
cessful political: treachery, and it is notorious
that all the other members of the Government of
1848 prefer exile before dishonour and disgrace.
To M. DUPIN alone belongs the infamy of
deserting his Republican principles. He has
assumed the official robe which he indignantly
cast off when the Orleans dynasty, which he had
ever befriended, was pillaged and plundered by
vassals of Louis NApJLEON.

Ilow comes it, then, that this grey:headed
citizen has deemed it worth his while to
recant his former principles, forsake his late
political colleagues, and now exhibit himself on
the judgment seat of his country, a monument of
public depravity and political inconsistency.
Was he poo r ? He might have sought the
financial aid of the more wealthy with respect
and decency. Was he an adventurer ? No, for
he has passed that period of life allotted to
enterprize and exertion. Was he self sacrificing ?
then he might have spurned the little " brief
authority" of the judicial bench, and been con-
tented to remain among the despoiled ministers
of justice, who in 1851, decreed in the most
solemn manner, the depositions of the President,
and sought by the Constitution of France, to
deal with him as an outlaw, a felon, and a public
enemy ! St. ARNAUD, who steeped the African
bayonet in pure blood, might, with consistency,
and despi:e any feeling of shame, sport the
insignia of the Empire ; bat the case is widely
different, when we are told that the Venerable
Dupin, has so far degraded him as to mount the
emblems of NAPOLEON, and become his chief
dispenser of justice. One can hardly think of
such political prostitution, without at the same
time regarding the newly appointed Procureur-
General of the .Court of Cassation as a dotard,
without the smallest particle of mind,
memory, or conscience. This will be more
apparent if we reflect for a moment upon the
circumstances which compelled him, as an
Orleanist Judge, to retire from the Bench.

It is a matter of history that that step was taken,
when he solemnly protested that Louts NAPOLEON
had disregarded all the principles of law and
equity, repudiated the very foundations of
property—intruded even upon the sacred rights
of the tomb, and thereby rendered it impossible
fur him—M. DUPIN—tO employ his functions as
a Judge or a Lawyer. Then he spurned the
polluted seat of judgment. He accused his
master and his Sovereign as the perpetrator o f
larceny upon a gigantic scale, and called upon
history to hold him guiltless of any participation
or act which he considered nothing less than " a
flagitious act of plunder." It is evident that he
has been drugged by NAPOLEON'S emissaries, and
that he has agreed to wear the unenviable livery
of a King who, according to his own. showing,
has fraudulently robbed and plundered his
(Duns's) long-cherished friends. Well indeed
may the Emperor accept DIIPIN'S services with
astonishment and scorn. The decision of such
an official can never be regarded with confidence
by his master, seeing that he is as fickle as the
wind. The whole affair fills • the moralist with
regret that public TM are so apt to recant all

their feelings of consistency, and grasp at honour
at the expense of honesty and virtue.