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serve with much pleasure that general satisfaction has lacen
given by the terms of' the Coronation Oath. The royal
promise to govern conformably to the laws of the land, and I
to observe faithfully the Constitutional t:harter, is a sure I
guarantee for the repoce of France, and for her future
rasperity. There remains no doubt of the solidity of the
*lineal institutions of the kingdom. The extreme parties
0. each side will be deprived of all hope of subverting
them. The Royalists mutt abandon their design of re-
signing absolute power, and the Liberals will have ntl
,prospect of success in shaking the established order of
things. The future struggles of party, therefore, in Prance,
VW be assimilated to those of our own country. The
sOsestions will be, Who shall guide the Councils of the
State ? What 6:1811 be the principles of admlniatration ?
The extension of the royal clemeney to the political of-
feeders now suffering pttnishment or in exile. is a measure
wen adapted to produce the mast salutary tams. This is
'Weed " closibg the wounds of the ItevolutliM." By
esother Ordinance, all the persons in confinement under the
laws for punishing the, &butes of the press are pardoned.
The coronation began with the least excitement of public
feeling that could have been expected from such a people
as the French ; but we understand that the state of public
opinion has undergone so favourable a change, that the
retutn of CHARLES X. to his capital will in all probability
be hailed with acclamations as cordial and unanimous as
those ishich welcomed his first entry into Paris as King.
I From the Mode dated Wednesday.]
jittEINS,II.I•It
This morning, at eleven, the King received the diploolatie body,
and all thapersons ineited by sealed letter. to attend the Coronation.
The same persons were received by the Dauphin, the Datiphlness,
and the Lluchesa of Berry. .
At seven In the evening the King received the ladies of the city,
and all the ladies presented.
To-niorrow his Majesty will go to prayers at St. Hemi, and af-
terwards go to the camp, to review all the troops there, as willies
those in the environs. Ilia Mojesty will be accompanied by the
Dauphin. the Princes of the Bluod, the Minister of War, all the
Great Officers, an 4 the Officers of hit DouSehold.
[lll. Majesty held to-day, in the Cathedra:, a Chapter of the
Orders, of which the Efoilc gives a very long recount. The ce-
remony was very splendid.]
Paste, M•Y 31.
The pain Which Count Curial felt, .when the accident happened
oa the road from Flames, made it supposed that the shoulder blade
was broken I but M. Duporren finds that it is not the shoulder
blade, but two jibs, that are broken. lictious apprehensions are
entertained for the Count de Cutlery health. This accident has
re-opened an old Bound in the breast, which has been long closed,
Yid the disorder has become compleJr.. The King sends four times
a day to inquire after the General.
On the 27th a .fire broke out in the *tables of the pest-house at
Broine, two leagues from Fishes, ...Llghteen of his :tiniest'''.
fast horses perished in the tire, the origin of which is nut known.
No person was burnt.
[From the Qaolidiertne, of Tuehday.]
• t. RHEIMS. MAY 29, ox TUC Evgnsxo.
One of the man curious sights, even after the Coronation, is the
asap of the troops which his Majesty is to review. A piece of
_WOO nd, bordered by a stream, within cannon.shot of the city, was
hired for thirty.live Ahousend franca, to encamp nine thousand in.
(entry. The camp is in the form of a parallelogram, one thousand
five hundred tomes by eighty.. Eight battalions of the Guards
form the right, supported by a battalion algae guns t the left, of
eight battalions of the line, has likewise eight guns. The centre
is kayoed by two companies of the Erginecrs, and is opposite the
pavilion of the King. -The front .of this line is bordered as
;anal by piles of arms between these and the tents of the
soldiers, which. are ipiu out so as tb make an agreeable
appearance. Blue bottles, jonquils, roses, and tufts of grass, form
ciphers, crowns, crosses of St. Louis, of the Legion of Honour, and
are surrounded by mottles which are affeeting from their simpli-
city. Before the 60th Regiment are the following words, formed of
blue bottles, below the King's bust-- Us instant dams noire Camp,
et dens nos'effll,BlolB.lollll. Before the 13th is a large crown, with
these words—Dicer la. lei a donmic none detains 1a lei conserver.
Before the '2".id—Aw get sa J.ldrlle (Insiie. They might have added
et sea bonne armee, for it is tinpossibli?. to see finer troops. Among
them is a battalion of the 11th of the line, which arrived the 27th
In the morning, with its Colonel, coming direct from Serapes. It
has mule Id stages, and notwithstanding this long march, its gaiety
is unaltered, and its appearance rivals that of the other troops.
The quarter of the guards presents everywhere the word fidelity.;
it Is divided into several streets bearing the names of " the King, '
" the Dauphin," the Dauphine's,' " Bordeaux," " llohour,"
" Fidelity, ' " the Ladies."
The Duke of Bellew, who arrived on the 26th, tmtnedlately
revoked the order which had been given, it is not known how, by
which no officer of the camp was allowed to enter the city ; on the
27th he visited the camp, and when he appeared at the head of the
line, the soldiers hastened from their gardens to see nester this il-
lustrious soldier, who has so many claims to the gratitude of the
army. The Marshal seemed much moved with this tespectfol
attention. The Minister of War followed the Marshal at the
distance of 50 paces.
Some remarkable scenes ()centred after the vespers at the Corona-
tion. The crowd of people that had entered the churl) was so
great that there sou hardly room for the clergy to perform their
functions. When the King was passing through the gallery to his
apartment, the crowd that remained without endeavolued to press
on his passage with so much impetuosity, that the armed force was
obliged to interfere; but the King, sensible of the motive of thin
eagerness, ordered the gend'arnmes to stop, " Your duty is over,"
said he, " ycu may rctire; I wish that my people should approach
me." The Oend'armes obeyed, the people turrourded the King,
and several persons came near enough to kiss his garments.
The French Funds, it will be seen by our quotations
from the Coors Authentique, continue to decline, notwith:
standing the extraordinary efforts that arc making to sup-
port them. We know that no means are spared to insure
the success of M. ax VILLE tx's financial operations by
the great capitalists, who are deeply interested in Support-
ing those transactions. '1 were is abundance of evidence
floating in the Money Market, to attest the exertions of the
patties to whom we allude. But the price of the English
Fund:, is not to be fixed by any firm or fancily, however com-
manding may be its station and influence. The endeavour to
raise the French fund, at the expense of the English has failed.
If the latter have been depressed, so have the former ; and
the consequences have been felt more severely in Paris.
The Directors of dote Bank of France have been induced
by their alarm to call for the repayment of the advances
,they had made, to the extent of fifty millions, on the scrip
of the last loan. They have also resolved to make no
similar advances for thi future, and to discount only for
three months. Unless they are very cautious, M. DE V 11...
Ls and his allies will have their hands full.

MAT 31.—Five per Cents. 101 f.
20e. Three per Cants. 74f. 6k. Bank Stock, 2180 f. eapolitan
Five per Cents. Certif Falconnet, 110 f. k. Rente de E.pagne,
Inf. Royal Spanish Loan, 1823. 64L. Exchange on London:
( kie month, 24f. Pk,; three mor.ths, 241. 66t—Cows
May 31.

The examples of early depravity which our police offices
so perpetually record, and the sad progresa of vice and
crime which will always, more or less, keep pace with the
increase of wealth, has, for some time, strongly attracted
the attention of those persons,—and, to the honour of our

age and nation be it spoken, they are very numerous,—who
interest themselves in the moral improvement of their
fellow-beings, and in the substantive welfare of that
society into which they are born, and to which they belong.
It is to the ever-active exertion of persona of this class, that
we owe the establishment of NATtONAL SCHOOLS, fur
veining the children of the poor to habits of early discipline,
and forming their young minds to the reception of those
religious doctrines, and the practice of those religious duties,
the disregard of which, in the lower classes, is the source
of so much mischief to the community, and so much
misery to themselves. The more any of us know of the
world, and the more we see of human nature, the greater
opportunity must we have had of observing how very early
the infant character is capable of being formed and
moulded, whether for good or evil, and of taking those
impressions which are to give the colour to its future life.
Children are not admitted into the National Schools until
six years of agr, but the poverty of their parents—the
I scenes of vice, and guilt, and wretchedness, to which their
eyes have been open from their cradle—make these six years
a melancholy preparative, in many cases, for the purposes

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which it it the benevolent aim of National Schools to effect.
It having been long manifest that, the good arising out of
th se Institutions would be infinitely extended, could the
'evil here adverted to be obviated, the public will hail
with pleasure the proposed establishment of one dr mole
Schools for the reception of the children. of the poor, froth
two to six years of age, for the particulars of which, and
for the distinguished patrons under whose government
and superintendence they will be placed, we -refer to the
Advertisement in another part of our Paper. The benefit
to be derived by those of the poorer orders whose incessant
'out-door ocetipations tali them, the greater part bf every
'day from their homes, and whose necessities leave them
without the tfteans of placing their children out of harm's
I way, or of keeping their tender years from witnessing the
worst examples, and iceluiring such habits a; make them
an early and an easy prey to vice of every kind—the be-
nefit to be derived by this Oise Of parents from the pro•
posed establishment in this city of London. can hardly be
estimated. The numbers of applicants "hose children the
National &Imola are most reluctantly counselled .to reject,
from their being under the age at which only they are ad-
missible, will enable us to appreciate the extreme urgency,
as well as extreme utility, of such an establishment in this
great metropolis; and the utmost praise is due to the bene-
volence of its projectors; for the great and invaluable re-
stilt of their admirable plan will be, that the National
Ochools, with regard to all the children whose infant minds
-arid morals have been thus prepared, will not have,--as we
leer is too often the ease at present,-.-to undo what has been
dose, and to waste that time in working out bad habits,
whiclisbohld have been applied to the forming theirfuture
character, and making them useful to others and happy in
themselves...
A Petition was presents last night by Mr. Jolts
SMITH, signod very numerously by the principal merchants
and bankers of London, and praying for the further
amendment of the law of merchant and factor. Mr. Htm-
lIIION intimated his intention of giving his support to the
prayer of the petitioners. Mr. scsasstr expressed his
concurrence with the opinion of the Judges, which is un-
derstood to be unfavourable to the proposed amendment
for removing the difficulties that now exist in the way of
raising money upon goods consigned from abroad to parties
in this country. It cannot be denied that the Judges are
well acquainted with the practice of the Courts regarding
commercial transactions; but the question in this case is,
whether they can understand better than the merchant's
themselves what is necessary to the defence of their inte-
rests t The functions of enacting and administering the
law are widely different, and require knowledge and talents
totally dissimilar in their character and application. It is
no disparagement to the Judges to deny that they are the
best qualified to decide when and how the law should
be amended. They are naturally averse from all change.
The perfection of law with them consists in its fixed-
ness and certainty; and they, sitting in their Courts,
occupied with their important duties, cannot be supposed
to be aware of that gradual alteration of circumstances
which finally renders necessary a suitable adaptation of the
law. To men of business, who only attend the Courts oc-
casionally, when business or curiosity leads them, it is per-
fectly amazing to hear the opinions which are sometimes
delivered by the Judges, on matters with which it is evi-
dent they never have been practically conversant. With
all the profound respect we feel towards the Bench, we are
bound to say that we can hardly conceive any tribunal le-ss
qualified to determine when the interests of the State re-
quire the amendment of the law. Mr. &MIME ad-
mitted that the Judges ought to receive some lessons in
political economy we suspect they stand equally in need
of instruction, in order to furnish them with a comprehen-
sive view of commercial principles. Lawyers are notori-
ously bad legislators.
The ATTORNLY-GENEEAL afterwards brought in the
Bill for the repeal of so much of the Bubble Act as
relates to Partnerships and Joint Stock-Companies. The
reasons stated by the lionoursble and Learned Gentleman
for introducing the measure were—first, the universally
acknowledged unintelligibility of the Bubble Act; secondly,
the extreme severity of its penalties; and thirdly, the
importance of having the law clearly defined. Under
01 circumstances he judged it advisable to propose
the simple repeal of the parts of the Bubble Act
to which lie referred. He confessed that he had at
one time contemplated the substitution of some enact-
ments instead of those he proposed to repeal; but on
farther consideration he had abandoned his original inten- '
lion as useless and inexpedient. The only measure he in-
tended to incorporate with the repeal was for the purpose
of increasing the facility of obtaining grants of charters.
By this clause the Crown will be empowered to grant
charters for the establishment of Joint-Stock Companies,
on condition that the members shall be individually respon-
sible for the debts of the Company to the full extent of
their effects. By this measure the cost of carrying a Bill
through Parliament in each particular case will be saved.
The retiring pensions of the Judges were fixed last
night. The Puisne Judges will in future be entitled to
3,5001. a-year, after serving fifteen years on the Bench.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had originally pro-
posed an addition of only 500/. a-year to the present
amount of their reCring pension, but the general feeling of
the House was in favour of a further increase of 400/. by
which the sum is altogether rendered 3,500 L The re-
tiring pensions of the Mattress of the Botts, the
Vica-Cnancsttoa, and the CHIEF BARON, after the
same period of service, were fixed at 3,750/. The CHIEF
JUSTICES are at present entitled to 4,0001. a year, in which
no alteration is made. In answer to a question from Mr.
Hume, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that
on the expiration of the existing patents, it is intended that
the duties of all the offices in the King's Bench and Com-
mon Pleas shall be performed in person, and the salaries
fixed with reference to the nature of the duties.

CITY, TIIrItSDkIr EvExtieS.

PRESS.

This was a busy day in Controls, by reason of their closing at four
o'clock fur the payment of the dividends. In the early part of the
morning the money price was 9*. They afterwards went up to
tili, and closed at 901. For the account .they were done at 911,'
90i. The impression at the commencement of the market was, that
the jobbers were afraid of being caught bears at the shutting, and
were therefore buying to prevent themselves from being surprised
in that manner, but the subsequent decline showed that this opi-
nion was incorrect. Indeed the sales were heavy in the middle of
the day, particularly among the Jews. This is generally the case
before the payment of the dividends, as Brokers do net like to re-
main in a stock that is shut; besides which, the recent fluctuations,
which it was supposed would have raised Consols by inducing pur-
chases, did not affect them. The ordinary result, therefore, took
place at the close of the market. The party operating for the fall
also had been more successful in their efforts than their anta-
gonists ; but •ve are quite satisfied that upon the whole Console
have not been so firm, in point of price, for a lung time, as they
now are.

The attention of jobbers was a good deal confined to Consols,
but still there was a tolerably large share of business in the Foreign