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ase or the Haut Ton, will take place at this Arryl. Roams est MONDAY
NEXT. April 24.—For Roses to view the MaNuerade, without mixing
with the Motley Group, and for Domino and Character'llekets, &c., apply
to the Committee, at Mr. Charles Wrieht's, Opera Colonnade, *to La
appointed to supply the Wines on the ocea-ion.

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The BRITIIIi Pavia commenced publishing yesterday morn-
ing at iii o'clock.

LONDON, SATURDAY, AenTL 22, 1846.

By the French Papers received yesterday we learn that
the process of M. de la CHALOTAIS against the Editor of
the Etoile has been decided, as we anticipated, in favour of
the defendants. Unfavourable reports have been circu!ated
respecting the termination of the negotiations at St. Penn-
burgh, but they have met with little credit on either side
of the Channel. The Austrian Metalliques have halm
one per cent. in consequence, it is believed, of the news
from Russia, which says that General BASSASIEFF had
passed the Pruth. It is also stated that a Ccngress is to
assemble at Cracow. We se ,join a few extracts from the
French Journals which we have received :-
IFrom the Etoik dated Thursday, April 20.1
PAS/S, APRIL 19.

The Journal des Debate pretends to-day that the advocates of
Paris and of the principal Courts of the kingdom, who had mu to
deliberate on Al. de 'llontlosier Mcnav:rr a Consoler, have, after
several sittings, come to the following result:—

Ist. That the exister.ce of associations, aggregations, and con'
gregations not authorised, was an act punishable by the laws.

2d. That the existence of Jesuits in France was a fact contralto
the lass ; that the dissolution of the society might be called for
with the reserve of other penalties, according to circumstances.
3d. That the declaration of the Clcrhy of 1682 was s law of the
state, and that it was a misdemeanor publicly to teach propositions
or dcctrinea contrary to it.
4th. The Count de illontlosier had a right to denounce to tiie
tribunals the facts quoted in his memoir, and to represent theta as
so many misdemeanors to which the penal laws are applicable.
We defy that Journal to show us the signature of a single Advo-
cate, and there were eighty of them at the n-eeting, who approved
of what it calls the remits of their deliberations.

It is thought that the corona,lon of the Emperor Nicholas, at
Moscow, will take place en the 13th of June ; and that at Wilma',
as King of Poland, in the h.:Tinning of August.
The Swedish Government Lave resolved to employ 30.000 lit
dollars in completing several ships, and in repairing tne Sete:
Carlscrona, via.-17,000 in completing the Charles John ; 140
in repairing the Drislighoten ; and 2),000 in rebuilding the Prince
Oscar. All these ~re .hips of the line.
The concert for the hearth of the Greeks will be on Friday;
there will be 1000 tickets at :20 francs, and 200 at 10 Manta WI
are assured that they are all taken, and that several of the Per-
formers have resolved to pay for their places ; there affil thus to
22,000 franca for the Greeks, for the proprietors of Vauxhall have
refused to take anything for thin concert rooms.
FRENCH FUNDS.—Punta, APRIL RI —Five per fects.,96l.
05c.; Three per Cents., Sdf. 00c.; Bank Stock. 21/221*
Renee* de Naples, 74f. 50c.; Boys] Spanish Loan, 44f. :
llsyhas
Loan, 7701.—Exchange on London, one month, 25f. ;o ; 'Mtg.
ditto, 2.1:. 30c.—Court Autheut;que.

The distrust which from the first we expressed as*) ibe
truth of the intelligence relating to the fall of Miszolonght.
turns out to be amply justified. Had this event actually
happened, or should it hereafter arrive, we should by no
means consider the fate of things in Greece as finallY de-
cidetl on the side of misfortune. We know that FADVIIR
has with him at Athens an army consisting of six thoussrd
will disc;plined troops ; he is daily augmenting his fti?"'"
hers, and if the Greeks do but act in the spirit of unto.,
and are true to themselves, we have no fear for the ulu'
mate triumph of their cause. With regard to the on'
trality which our Government has observed, it is a line of
conduct confirmed by sound policy. There is, no doubt'
much danger in the present position of things, but It!
danger most difficult to deal with. Mr. PANNING, for mr"
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may be heartily disposed to recognise the rights of the
Greeks, but as a Statesman, he must govern himself by
the principles which regulate the policy of the leading
Cabinets of Europe, so far as those principles accord with
the national integests which are placed under his guardian-
ship. lie may—and we have no doubt he does—wish for
the political improvement of mankind, and would willingly
obtain for Greece a rational and well-regulated Govern-
ment, in lieu of that horrid system of oppression under
wh'cli the Turk has so long held her in bondage. But as
n Minister, having the welfare of his country in charge,
his wisdom dictates to hint to keep aloof from those
councils which might embroil Great Britain with foreign
',Jeers, sod:endanger the peace of Europe. That FRANCS is
hostile to the independence of Greece is unquestionable ; she
is jea'ous of the preponderant share of her commerce which
England, in all likelihood, would obtain, were she once
et %cued from the dominion of the Porte, and established un-
der a separate and free Commonwealth. AUSTRIA, though
from different motives, would be equally alive to any inter-
ference on the part of Great Britain co form Greece into a
*Tarsus overeignty. As to the prevailing policy of the
Russian Cabinet, it has been plainly enough demonstrated
from the beginning of the contest. In this aspect of affairs,
it requires no length of reasoning to prove that the princi-
ple of neutrality to which the British Government adheres,
is justified by every maxim of expediency, end by every
motive of prudence. Our Minister will, no doubt, in the
mean time, keep a watchful eye on any attempt on the
part of Russia to bring herself more near (she is already
quite close enough) to Constantinople. The Turks are
a degeuerate, self-dissolving power—they are morally
and physically exhausted—and, should the Russians once
obtain possession of the central source from which the
power of the Turks has chiefly flowed, a pretext Would
never be long wanting for taking the fine provinces of
Greece under her protection ; and, in that event, the Hydra
with many heads would no longer be the monster of fable.

If our readers will refer to an article in another column,
respecting the result of the colliers' combination at Glas-
gow, they will perceive that Mr. Hume has still further
reason to congratulate himself on the amazing benefit
which he has conferred on the " operative" classes (as they
are now elegantly ternietl), by procuring a repeal of the
Combination Laws. Not warned by the distress which
the Bradford cambers and weavers, and even these nearer
them still—namely, the weavers of Glasgow and Pais-
ley—brought on themselves, by bolding out for an increase
of wages, the colliers must inhale the same mischievous
spirit—mischievous, however, in the end, only to them-
selves and their families. In the pride, or rather vanity, of
their hearts, and in the intoxication of their joy, at believ-
ing their apostle (Mr. Hums) had enabled them to force
what terms they pleased from their master, they lavished
from their " hard hands" their " vile trash," in order to
present their emancipator with a piece of plate. Plate
from the colliers of Scotland 1 Had the present been a
gewter planer, the had furnished by Lord HO.PETOVNII
miners, mixed with a small quantity of the fine sin of Corn-
wall, and accompanied by a horn cattle spoon (our friend
Joss en brmerly understood what that means), we should
have expressed no surprise ; but for any portion of Isis own
grave, calculating countrymen, to think of giving him a
piece of plate, for enabling them to undo themselves and
Carve their families, we confess it does excite our amaze-
m'nt. 'We recollect that, like CAESAR'S affectation in re-
fusing t'ee crown, be once mat away the plate; but that was
when there was little likelihood of its being subscribed for,
even after he had been accused of offering to make up any
deficiency in the amount of the subscription that had
been at first agreed upon. It is fortunate that he never
got it, if the poor colliers can make use of the silver, or
the money that may be raised by its being melted again, to
relieve the distresses brought on them by this eminently
rhetorical advocate of all sort of freedom. We are
far from thinking it right that masters should be allowed
to combine to screw down their workmen to a bare pittance,
while they give no corresponding reduction in price to
their customers. But surely that must be an alteration
for the worse, which legalizes the combinations of the
working classes, and induces them to go to the still greater
length of intimidating and absolutely brutally asuplting
those who are inclined to labour at the price which the
routers off, r. The consequence of such conduct is, that
the latter are compelled to incur a heavy expense in keep-
ing up a large armed jam?, to protect the sober and in-
dustrious men who are willing to support their families by
honest labour, and by so doing to increase the wealth of
their employers and eventually the resources of the nation.

CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.

The Stock Exchanges were to-day in the same uninte-
resting state that they have been in for several days; and
the City has been without reports, if we except a most
Wile one, that could be traced to no authentic foundation,
and which was evidently got up by the speculators for a
fail—that the negotiations at St. Petersburgh had, totally
fa led, ani that hostile demonstrations, as far at least as the
Russians and Turks are concerned, had succeeded the con-
fer.-ncex. The limited business of the morning, more pro-
bably than the rumour we have alluded to, caused the
British Funds to droop, and Consols, which opened at
79i ; closed at ja. The new Scrip fluctuated between
1 and pm., but the business in this stock was by no
mai' so extensive to-day as on the previous days since its
appkarance. Ministers are certainly evincing a most lan-
dahle anxiety at pre:-rat for upholding, as far as is in their
purer, the commercial credit of the country, by paying
str:ctest attention to all the details of the public busi-
nem that bear most closely upon the financial operations
if the tre:eautile interest.

The Exchequer Bill Market continues to feel the good
offer.' of the recent arrangement relative to these Bills.
The prices to-day, both for large and small Bills were los.,
I la., premium. The India Stock transactions were reported
at E2S 227, and the Bundy at 65., 7s. premium.

Notwithstanding the announcement of the Atinister fart
night in the Rouse of Lords, that Mistsolonghi had not
filen at the period when the advice. lately received stated
that it huh been taken by storm, has as yet had no effect
upon Greek Bonds,—probably from the uncertainty that
attaches to every circumstance related of the Greek warfare,
wh;eit reniers speculators in the Securities of that country
wary in acting upon any information that may reach them
regarding that warfare, even when it is surrounded with all
the appearance of official accuracy,—still the declaration of
Lord Liverpool must he consolatory to the friend* of the
Greek cause. The Bonds to-day were 1.5, 141; South
Arreriean Securities were languid, R.II the transactions in
chum trifling; Colombian Bonds were 41 ; Mexican 6
per Cents. 634 ; Peruvian Bonds 30, 1 ; Chtlian ditto 41 ;
Russian 771 ;And Old Spanish 81, 7t. The Share Market
was, if possible, more depressed than ever. A price could
scarcely be obtained for Shares at any sacrifice.

It is understood in the best-informed Parliamentary
ci cies that the present }louse of Commons will be (It.-
adred about the middle of next month. By this mean.
the whole bustle and confusion of a general election will
be rot over long before the conan.ncement of the harvest.