The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-11 00:00:00

(From the Manchester M'ercury.)

We do not recollect any event, for m ►ny years past, that
has excited so strong a feeling of disappointment in this
town and neighbourhood, as the speech which has been
put into the King's mouth at the opening of the new Par-
liament, and the accompanying declarations of the Prime
Minister against any, even the smallest, reform in the
representation of the country. The ominous illusion
to the differences between the King of the Nether-
lands and his Belgic auhjects,—even aft r the glosses and
explanations which Ministers have chosen to put upon it,
—together with a somewhat respectful mode of alluding to
the new King of France, hare caused a very general appre-
hension that Ministers intend to mix themselves up with
continental politics in a manner calculated to endanger very
greatly the continuance of peace. We have not, however,
any very lively apprehension that they will he able to
force the nation into a war. Their influence have pro-
digiously declined since the commencement of the French
revolution ; the mercat►tile, manufacturing, and other pro-
ductive classes of the nation, are now too well informed to
be cajoled as they were at that period, and far too power-
ful to be driven into hostilities against their consent. But
what has excited the strongest feeling in this neighbour-
hood, is the positive and almost angry declaration of the
Duke of Wellington against the most trifling reform in
Parliament. His Grace can see no defects in the present
system of representation, and will heir of no alterations in
it I The effect which this declaration has produced
amongst men of all classes, and of all parties in this town,
is far greater than could have been anticipated by the roost
ardent friend of reform.

• (From the Liverpool Albion.)

The speech which our most gracious Monarch delivered
to his Parliament on Tuesday last, when he opened the
session, maintains the character which speeches front the
throne, except on some rare occasions, have uniformly, of
late year., exhibited. Its principal topics had been anti-
ciliated ; and it contained one or two passages which took
the nation by surprise, and which are not calculated to
give much satisfaction to the country at large. They con-
tain a decided condemnation of the late revolutionary
movements in Belgium, some harsh epithets being, at the
same time, bestowed on the Belgisn people ; and an anti.
oration, that the King, in conjunction with his allies, is
devising measures for settling the differences between the
King of the Netherl aide and his rebellious subjects. Thus,
the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of
foreign states is virtually abandoned, and the English Go-
vernment is about to entangle itself in the affairs of the
Continent. The royal speech hat been censured, not
merely for what it does contain ; it has also been censured
for what it does not contain. That the silence of the
speech might not, however, he misconstrued, the Duke of
Wellington explicitly avowed his admiration of the present
system, and his determination to resist to the utmost any
attempt on the part of the people to improve, or, rather,
to cheapen the Government, by reforming the House
of Commons. He is more aristocratic than Earl Grey,
if that be possible. He is clearly of opinion, that
England could not survive the extinction of " the order;"
and seems to wonder that the people do not regard him
and his compeers with mere reverence than they have of
late manifested towards them. The respect which the
people used to entertain for the aristocracy has certainly
decreased, and it will, we think, continue to decrease.
Yet the people are not hostile to them because of the rank
which they hull in the state. They are hostile to the
oligarchy because its members have engrossed nearly all
the legislative and political power of the state, and becaute
by means of this unconstitutional usurpation of authority'
they first tax the industrious classes beyond endurance,
and then quarter, if not themselves, at least their relations
and dependants on the public purse. This conduct and
these proceedings have brought the aristocracy into disre-
pute with the thinking and intelligent people of England.
The Duke says, it is true, that he never will consent to
reform. We remember that he used to say, he would
never consent to emancipation; yet, circumstances corn-
pencil him to cot his own words, and to carry the very
measure againit which he had declared interminable hos-
tility ! So will he be compelled, if he live and reign a
few years longer, to consent to the reform of the House of
Commons, the outwork" of " the order to which he
belongs." The people will, in the end, be too powerful
for the aristocracy, thottA headed by the great Duke him-
self. Meanwhile, his popularity is gone.

(From the Halifax Chronicle.)
The Speech delivered by his Majesty to both Houses of
Parliament, on Tuesday last, is neither so full, so explicit,
and we may add, so interesting as the complicity of fo-
reign and domestic affairs prepared us to expect. His
Majesty commences with a brief allusion to the Oahe of
France, which is less remarkable for its brevity than for
its obscurity. The French King is designated " King of
the French" rather in the way of a sneer than out of regard
to the minuteness of official etiquette. But it is in refe-
rence to the affairs of the Netherlands that the verbose
emptiness and unmeaning brevity of this 'loyal Address are
more especially conspicuous. His Majesty has " wit-
nessed with deep regret the state of affairs in the Low
Countries." " 1 lament (he continues) that the enlight-
ened administration of the King should not have proterved
his dominions from revolt, and that the ioise and prudent
measure of submitting the desires and the complaints of
the people to the deliberation of an extraordinary meeting
of the States-General should have led to no satisfactory re-
sult." Now, it appears a little puzzling to connect the
two opposite ideas of an enlightened administration and of
an insurrection of the administered, upon the strength of
grievances partially admitted by the King of the Nether-
lands himself. Val Maarten and his colleagues were, for
aught we know, models of wisdom ; but they had the mis-
fortune of displaying both folly and obstinacy throughout
their proceedioge, Be this as it may, however, we cannot

concede the latter p trt of the proposition—that the States-
General exhibited either wisdom or prudence in their de-
liberations. Not knowing the grounds upon which his
Majesty and his Allies are to devise the " restoration of
tranquillity of the Netherlards," we cannot form any
judgment of the mysterious allusion to the " general Trea-
ties by which the political system of Europe has been esta-
blished." But thus much we do know, that the nation will
never suffer itself to be embroiled in a crusade aptinst Ikl
gian independence. hundreds of millions of pounds were
spent in placing the Bourbons on the thrones of Frame and
Spain ; and what has been the result? Charles X. is a fu-
gitive and a wanderer, driven to our shores in attempting to
stab the liberties which he had sworn to defend ; and Per-
dinand is rocking in insecurity on his perjury-cemented
throne, The next topic relates to the anticipated recog-
nition of King Miguel of Portugal. " The Portuguese
Government," says the Speech, " having determined to
perform a great act of justice and humanity by the grant
of a general amnesty ; the time will soon arrive for a re-
newal of diplomatic eel 'dons between the two countries."
It is satisfactory to find, from this statement, that his
Majesty's Government place such reliance upon the deter•
minntions of this-excellent Prince. Some time ago Migut
was detertnined to rule his subjects by the provisions i f
the Charter ; and in proof of this determination lie re-
GPM his dungeon with State prisoners, half-ruined the
merchants in the kingdom by en issue of w mete paper
callerisnssignots ; and ended with capturing three vessels
belonging to his good ally, the King of England, anti re-
fusing an indemnity to the owners. That we should
injure our commerce by keeping this Prince miler the hart
of diplomacy, would be a suicidal piece of policy ; but ad-
mitting the necessity of the recognition, it might have
been as wet to have said nothing of Miguel's relentings,
which bet " mock the eye with feigned conceits." His
Mtjesty next speaks of the measures of economy and
retrenchment, about which so much was said at the close
of the last Parliament. With that frank, cordisl, and
kind-hearted benevolence, which p .culiarly distinguishes
his Majesty, he has made a patriotic surrender to his
people of certain pecuniary rights hitherto enjoyed by the
Sovereign. Happy would it be fur the country if the
Royal example was to be followed by the noble pensioners
who, unlike his Majesty, have no rest pretensions to the
public money. But it would appear that retrenchment is
not to extend beyond the walls of the palace. The same
system of costly endowment, to the scandal of public de-
cencv, and to the shame of those who participate in it,
is still to pervade the expenditure ; and no approach to
be made to those reforms which Sir James Graham half-
wrung from a virtually defeated Ministry at the coin-
meneetnent of this year. Thus much for the opening
act of the legislative drama which has greatly disappointed
the hopes of the country.

(From the Deronport Teleyraph.)

The alarm which the first rerding of his Majesty's
Speech on the opening of Parliament excited has somewhat
subsidid since the Duke of Wellington gave his explana-
tion in the House of Lords. The Speech openly expressed
an intention to interfere with th, affairs of the Nether-
lands. This was interpreted to mean war; but the mis-
conception has been cleared up. We shall only interfere
in conjunction end in co-operation with France, Austria,
Prussia, end !lassie, who are all parties to the Treaty of
1815, which attached Belgium to the kingdom of the
Netherlands, and who bound themselves to the main-
tainance of the compact. Thus has inter erence be-
come a duty, the omission of which would be more likely
to breed war, by creating jealousy among the coinhined
powers, should any one in p irticular pursue a sep trate
line hf policy ; and however lamentilde is the necessary for
putting down the " revolt" of the Belgians, we see that it
must be put down. The only difficulty we can perceive
in the way, is the possibility of the allies differing among
themselves. Another prominent feature in the speech is
the contemplated recognition of Don Miguel, upon the
condition of his granting a general amnesty to the emi-
grants. The recognition may be necessary for our com-
mercial interests, but as for the amnesty, we knew the
Portuguese refugees too well to believe that they will put
any faith in a ruler who has proved himself so perfidious.
The amnesty, therefore, is a dead letter to the great body
of Donna Maria's followers. Much surprise has been ex-
cited by the alPence of any direct allusion in the Speech to
Ireland, or to th% principle of Reform, for which a loud
cry has been raised throughout the country; but we have
enough on these sulijects from all parties in Parliament.
The people never expected Ministers to patronise schemes
of reform. They know that the boroughtnongers would
sacrifice them instantly, and such an immolation of them-
selves upon the altar of public interest is too much for mo-
dern virtue. It is only the voice of the people themselves
—long, loud, deep, and unanimous—that can ever compel
Parliament to set about reforming the Representation.

(From the Arottingham Review!)

We have this week to present our readers with the
anxiously expected ministerial message, commonly called
the King's Speech. As'we anticipated nothing from it,
we have not been disappointed; but a more meagre and
vague composition of equal length, is not to be found. even
among the verbiage called King's Speecht s. No reference
whatever is made to the fact of the French revolution
being effected by the voice of the people, in the same
manner that the present reigning family was hrought to
the Throne ; but it is alluded to in precisely the same
language that might have been used, if Charles X., and all
his family bad been carried off by a general mortality, and
Louis Philip hail come to the Throne as the natural suc-
cessor. But if the pattern revolution of France is thus.
ungraciously mentioned, what shall we say to the allusions
to the affairs of Belgium! We are distinctly told that the
present political system of Europe, as parcelled out accord-
ing to the Metterniah policy, is to be maintained inviolate.
The great Duke therefore intends to be meddling in con •
tinental affairs, awl risk the possibiliiy of a European war.
The word " economy" stands conspicuous in the reference
to our domestic affairs; every one knows what it means,
a lopping off of the small salaries, while the great sinecu-
rists remain untouched. The surrender of the Draits of
the Crown is what is commonly called a tub to the whale ;
the Ministers have persuaded the good natured King that
this will appear on his part as a generous consideration
for the people; but not one farthing of the money will find
find its way to the people's pockets, it will go into the immense
fund which is distributed under different names to the tax-
eaters. The. speech concluded with the usual rigmarole of
" conunercial prosperity" after having insulted the people
with a talk of disaffection. It is not to the King that they
are disaffected ; but in his Ministers they can place no re-
liance, nor in the Aristocracy, which monopolises the pro-
ductive energies of the country. No mention whatever
is made of teform ; we never expected it. The obstinacy
of the dominant faction in opposing the slightest charge,
cannot fail to produce a still more general opinion of the
imperative necessity of the measure which shall restore to
the
people the power of legislation and of representation ;
these sentiments are rapidly diffusing, and they must ulti-
mately attain that pre-eminence which will render the
denial of an efficient reform impossible, however the Duke
of Wellington may declare perpetual hostility to any Par
liamentaty reform.

(Prom the Lichfield Mercury.)
We begin with the beginning of all Parliaments, the
King's Speech. The present one is remarkable,—aye,
and highly to be remarked,--as containing a passage,
never recommended by a Minister, nor suggested by a
Secretary, but the spontaneous effusion of a benevolent
Monarch. We are informed by it, that our King has
voluntarily resigned to his people an income of nearly one
minion Pounds. May his noble example be followed.by
all (anti they are many) who, with less claim on the public
public purse, continue to exhaust it ! So much, and
brave matter it is, for our King's own part of his own
speech. Now for the Minister's part. The question of
Regency, a question which ought have been settled before, is
recommended fur consideration. Discontent anddisaffection
among the loyal race of Englishmen is admitted, and a fulmi-
nating paragraph follows against the discontented and dia..
affeeted—but no allusion is made to the causes of discowent
and disaffection: We should like to know when the Eng-
lish nation was disaffected, with a popular Monarch on
the Throne, unless an unpopular Ministry presided over
that Grace of Wellington is " determined
the natton's Councils? The MiniisthternitallrpAarlitieolf,tthheossiewegcelnierrn;
forms us also, l
to maintain, in conjunction w
ietsh'at our war-worn country
egiald Medi'!" which
ere?ait'ilti.tsi,caatielsy:letanit
is thus called upon to
uphold? Is the useless and forgotten treaty of Vienna
these,Tres political
systemsh ab:err;
among %bents—or is the Holy Alliance at Laybach, scorned
by wise men and hated by free men throughout Europe,
to ba resuscitated by 4nglibh tneatb.ror than the otOle4

of Verona which consigned Genoa to the despotic rule of a
Prince of Sardinia, be thought worthy of support by the
most free and most Protestant nstion in Europe—or is it
the later treaty of Paris, concocted by Emperors and sealed
by the Duke of Wellington himself, the mightiest warrior
of the age, but disso'ved.tbe ever by three days' movemeet
of a Pat is populace, that is now to rouse the energies of
the British nation intaa &fence of the presumed " Politi-
cal system of Europe?" The treaties we hare mentioned
are the only treaties we know—and what they have done
for " the best security for the repose of the world" we leave
our readers to find out, from the convulsions of France and
Belgium. The allusion to these treaties, in the King's
speech, have a scent of war : and in this opinion we are
backed by the Premier's speech, and by still better autho-
rity, namely the most interested and therefore the most
clear-sighted persons, the fundhoblers. We have done
with his Majesty's speech in its miuisterial chat Hetet ; and
in adverting to the Minister's own personal speech, we
have time only to point out one fewure in it. The Duke
of Wel.ington declares that " no measure of Reform shall
be proposed by Government as long as he is at the head of
it." And this in deft Ince of public opinion, and the pro.
sent alarming exhibition of tbst opinion. Is this wise ?
(From tie Itull Packet.)
The columns of our present number contain his Ma-
j.sty's most gracious Speech on the assembling of Parlia-
ment. For ourselves, We ate bound to confess, we feel in-
clined to agree with tho.e who consider it in some respects
a very unsatisfactory document, awl one which will cause
a c.msiderable degree of anxiety throughout tie country.
Notwithstanding the disclaimer of Sir It. Peel, its tone 14
obviously warlike, or tending to war, in regard to Bel-
gium; and at the present period, it is morally impossible
to devise a measure more unpopular, more dreaded by all
el .saes of his Majesty's snbjectr, than war. The contexts
of the speech, viz. the declarations of the Ministry in their
places in Parliament, are anything but c-nsolatory ; the
announcement of Sir Robert, that no inquiry is to be in-
stituted into the distresses of the labouring classes, is not

likely to meet approbation at the present period. The
sweeping denunciation of the Duke against reform in Par-
liament, at a time when that question is becoming daily
more popular, is unwise and impolitic, and his confidence
eXpre,sed in the present state of the representation, rash
and unbecoming.
(From the Stamford News.)

A Parliament, which we do not hesitate to predict will
before long hurl this country into all the horrors of a re-
volution, or save it permanently from them, commenced
its important functions on Tuesday. Never dill a Parlia-
ment sit with more anxious eyes fixed upon it than the
Parliament now sitting. Never was that usually silly
thing—a King's Speech—expected with more impatient*,
and never, we venture to assert, was any one of those silly
things t ead with more disappointment by the vast body of
the people. "IT WON'T Do," according to the daily pa-
pers, was the universal exclamation in London; in Not-
tingham we hear the people intend publicly to burn it; in •
Stamford, we trust, our friends will make a better use of
;—let it, however, be recollected, that it is not the
speech of the exalted, and we believe warm-hearted indi-
vidual who fills the throne, but merely of his Ministers.
Unlike his Majesty's own warm heart and quick percep-
tion, the man who compos, d this trash must have bad a
bosom of adamant. The Speech commences by stating
that the Government " had not hesitated to continue
diplomatic relations with the French Court," alter the
tyrant Charles had been compelled to fly before the liberal
Philip. To this there is no objection, except as to the
uneeurtly coldness in which it is expressed. The
speech goes on to "lament" that the "enlightened"
ad-
ministrstion of the King of Holland should not have pre-
,erved his dominions front wok. " His dominions!"
Pray who gave hint those dominions? the will of the
people or the will of a Holy Allitnee? And then to
lament that his "enlightened" administration—"
enlight-
ened," indeed, when they lost every move they made—
"enlightened," when they put out the light of the press
and put down the trial by Jury--" enlighteued," when, to
conciliate a people that were theoretically equal to the
people of Holland, they allowed none hut Dutch wen to
rule over them,—very "enlightened, forsooth !" but then
the subjects are rebels, they " revolted," and our King is
male to " lament" their revolt. Away with such "
is-
mentations." We have no room for more. Toe infa-
mous monster, Miguel, is to be recognized. The King
has give up the West-India duties, and the l)roits of the
Admiralty, to the country, (the only good thing in the
sreeb)—without a word, however, as to the reduction of
taxation ;—not a word of the miseries and disturbances of
Ireland ;—not a word about the all-paramount subject of
Reform !—On the last great subject we call the attention
of our readers, to the declaration of the Duke of Welling-
ton against it, once and for ever. No wonder the people
of London boot him in the streets—no wonder the funds
fall, and a panic prevails on the Stock Exchange, where
men even buy awl sell by the signs of ae times ;--on
wonder the people of Nottingham are in tumult and rage;
we are at " the beginning of the end."
(Puma the Dumfries Courier.)

The Parliamentary campaign opened on Tuesday, and
already gives note of a busy, stormy, and moat eventful
se►sion. Though no division has yet taken place to indi-
cate the relative strength of partied, the elements of die.
cord are abundantly rife in the House of Commons; and
even on the supposition that the Duke of Wellington hes
purFosely thrown reform overboard, as the price of the
adhesion of the anti-Catholic part of the ultra-Tories, he
must at the same time perceive, that his general popularity
is again on the wane, and that he is far from reclining on
a bed of roses. Regarding the King's speech, it is not,
we think, too much to a ty, that it has die printed the just
expectations of the nation. Indeed we recollect no similar
document that has been more sharply criticised.
(From the Scotsman.)
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The new French Revolution is alluded to in the King's
Speech, in terms cautiously guarded, which neither expreis
dislike nor approval. In speaking of the revolution in
Belgium the language is very different, and in our Opinion
both reprehensible and impolitic. The movement in
that country is called a " revolt against a King whose ad-
ministration was enlightened." Now what right ha; Our
Government to erect itself into a judge of the conduct of
the Belgians in their internal concerns? William Frederick
wits placed over that people by external force. It was his
first duty to adapt his Government to their temper and
character, which no nation can change in a short course
of years, any more than it can modify its stature or com-
plexion. If the King could nut do this, he did not under-
stand his trade, and justly forfeited his office, because he
was unfit to fill it. A revolt! The Belgians are acting
in one united mass ; and there, c►n he no revolt or rebel-
lion of a whole people. But our Government is about to
arbitrate between the nation and their quondam ruler.
How imprudent, bow mask, was it in these circumstances
to condemn one of the parties beforehand ! Besides, con-
trast the strong terms of reproach applied to the people in
Belgium, with the abstinence from the slightest expression
of Maine in speaking of the criminal act of Charles the Tenth
—where the wrongdoer was a King. Call you this impar-
tiality? The Belgians, we hope, will get justice, hut our faith
is in the Government of France, not in our own, after
such a declaration. The surrender by his Majesty of the
Droits of Admiralty, the Four-and dt-half per Cent. We►t
India duty, and other casual perquisites of Royalty, to
Parliament, is an act worthy of our good, liberal, and Ile..
servedly popular King. The amendment moved by the
Marquis of Blandford was too eccentric and Ultra-Radical
to. be of any service. Its nnly supporter was Mr. O'Con-
nell. Mr. Hume spoke with a degree of keenness, which
spews, if we are not mistaken, that his opinion of the spirit
and views of the Duke of Wellington's administration, is
materially changed from what it was a few monthe ago.
Mr. Brougham made a powerful speech, and it will he ob-
served, that he is to bring forward the question of Reform
on Tuesday the Itith. O'Connell, who enjoys the distine'
tion of furnishing matter for an entire paragraph of the
King's Speech, defended himself with greater success thaw-
' usual.

(From the Glasgow Chronicle.)
The first speech of the new King in opening Parliament
verifies none of the hopes fondly held by patriotic credulity.
It says little of retrenchment; nothing of reduced taxa-
tion ; nothing of Parliamentary Reform ; nothing of any
great measure to turn to beneficial industry the unem-
ployed pelt of the people. Instead of ptomising Ants
for the mitigation of misery, it announces only coercion
for disorder, nod prosecution for Wiliam In Foreign
affair" it is still more unsatisfactory. Nut a ward is said
about the flagitious violation of the Charter, which pro-
►luced the expulsion of Charles X ; but the change at
sovereigns is drily owed. In intimating the fortheutuing

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rnogaition of Don Miguel, that "
act.* not:ascribed, ai it
ought to be, to the right of eery s,tatitO'etitolditili.'
own form of Government ; but ii ei!S,Pply4utdl itp,tm an
amnesty which has been extorted froOt that .Coatempfilde
Monarch. it styles this amnesty ” a great Winleoffustiee
and humanity ;" although it be notorious chat the men to
whom it applies have not committed the ahaJow of legal
offence. We recollect no instance of a more w.Anton mis-
application of good words. The most impolt:ic
however, of the speech, relates to the Netherlands. The
side of the King of Holland is warmly espoused. Thu
Administration, whose measures have so disgusted the
Belgians, is termed " enlightened." The British Sove-
reign laments and regrets the state of affairs in " theiow
Countries ;" engages, with his Allies, in devising means
for tranquillizing " the Netherlands ;" and is determined
to aid them in maintaining the treaties by which Europe
was portioned out at their pleasure.
(From the Glasgow Free Press.)

The result is known. Parliament has commenced
operation, the King's Speech has been delivered; and—
Ministers remain the old Ministers, aid Parliament the.
old Parliament still ! Those who expected a little front
the King's Speech, and some little also from "his faith-
ful Comtnons" (would that they were the faithful Gem-
mono of the people !) have found theinselves wofully dis
appointed. His Majesty relinquishes a little of the in-
come over which he himself has direct contiol,---an act
for which he deserves all praise, inasmuch as this must
have proceeded spontaneously from his own generosity, and
not from the desire or suggestion of his Ministers; but in
every other respect, his Address can be regarde I only as
an extinguisher of all those hopes which the people had
entertained of his Government conforming itself to public
opinion, and carrying into effect those palutety oteasures,
which cannot now he deferred but at the risk of eonvol-
elan. Not one word is tittered on the subject of Irel,nil,
although that country at present threatens us with civil
war, and has just been placed beyond the pale of constitu.
Lionel law, and under a system of military ordonnances;
nor is a single word vouchsafed relative to those die-
eremite in this island, which already have provoked a
*mile war in Kent, which threatens soon to spread
over the whole country; neither is the slightest al-
lusion made to that system of Parliamentary corruption
front which all these hideous eels spring', and for the removal
of which the best and the wisest of the age are now in oft
parts raising their yokes, and combiOing their energlem,
Good God ! And this is the kind of assuasive need by

Alinistare to allay that storm which is itirw gathereii
around them in portentous darkness ? Are all lessons of
the past entirely lost upon them? flare they drawn no
moral from the events of the lest few months? Are they
ignorant that the :nays of the people are starring, and %%ell
know the reason why ? And has neither experience nor
philosophy taught them the general truth, that a people•
thus circumstanced, never yet selunitted to lie down
quietly and surrender life, without a last desperate
effort to preserve it? lt cannot be that sheer ignorance
on thee,' polo, leads to the present temerity of Ministers.
The teeth we believe is, that the leading aristocrats
and boroughmongers, alarmed at the recent events on the
Continent, and at the rapid spread of the spirit of Reform
in this country, have at length, as their only remaining
hope, given in their adhesion too our military premier, on
condition that he should make the stiff! he has thus made
aphid the intelligence and wants of the age, flow will
the country brook this? We almost tremble to content.
plate the effects it may produce. As is justly remark, d
by The Sun, in reference to this ominous coalition between
his Grace and a party an obnoxious, "at this very moment
they both stand upon the crater of a volcano; which has
already ►hreatened, and may ere long explode. Will they
not retrace their steps, and, by so doing, ►ecure their own
and their country's safety? A writ-6 from the Doke in
favour of Reform ;. a pledge, unequivocal n:►d decided, in
favour of strictest retrenchment, may yet do Poch; for
though the dock is on the hour of Twelve, it has not
thank God, yet struck."
(From the Dublin Morning Register.)

We have a very brief ohset vation to make relative tq 'l4
Royal Speech. The last, wc said, was the best we eves'
read—•this is, incomparably, the worst. Every thing was,
expected—and it promises nothing. It-,expresses gentle
lamentation at the conflagrations in Kent, hut breaks
forth in emphatic tied 'rations of •e grief upd indioution"
in reference to Ireland, where there is certainly an active
movement of tongues and pees, but in all other respect*
so profound a tranquillity as never (Mfg re exist d. Its.
lesions to France and Belgium would be dishearten::►ae if
France and B,lgium was in a condition to care one p►..,
about them. We speak of the document, of course, as the
composition of an incapable and misguided Minister. We
are convinced it is less than any speech that ever proceeded

from the Throne en emanation from the• mind of our
imtriut king.

(From the Waterford Chronicle.)

Taking this production as the speech of the. 13titi41
Minioers, we pronounce it to' be a most unmeaning awl
unsetiefactory document 4 Miins are to b$ devised for
I. restoring good Government in the Netherlands r but
we advise bits Highness to rector* " goal government" at
home, before he exercises his benevolent* in behelf of

foreign stares. There is a determination expreastql in the
Mpete to " maintain those general treaties by which the
politics) system of Europe has been established. H this
has any meaning, it is, that oppressed Poland shall rennin*
under the Russian yoke--that the descendauts of Fabius
and Ciucinnatni shall he eternally trod upon by the-iron
hoof of Austrian despotism—that Belgium shall be recoil-
onered for the detested House of Nassau, and that France
shall have once more imposed on her, by congregated
despots and their hired mercenaries, " a legitimate
Sovereign." These were the dispositions mask at the
Us►ngreas of Verona, and it is to this "general treaty,"
we preeutne, that the Kind's Speech alludes; but
this is, in part, a dream of the Dictator's, which be
will never see realivd. The speech promisee economy,
but what do our readers suppose will be the kind
saving effeteel by this promised economy ? A
London Paper mays, One Hundred Thotorand Pounds
a•year---and this off an expenditure of Sixty Millions an-
nually !! ! There is no intention whatever manifested in
the speech to relieve the country un !er its present state of
distress and suffering ; and so we must console ourselves,
like the Milennarians, by the hope that the and consum-
mation of all things will put an end to our calamities,.
The Speech, however, would nut be coos►plete if it did not
contain a promise to recognise that atrocious monster,
I)on Miguel, as King of Portugal. The reason assigned
for this recognition is worthy of such *rolls as Welling-
ton's and Aberdeen's. It is, because thin Royal Felon has
"determined to grant a general amnesty !" Au amnesty
to whom? To the en►all resonant of those noble spirits
whose fathers, uncles, and brothers, he had either hinged,
shut, or transported to Africa. An amnesty to men who
owed hint no allegiance, but who were contending for the
rights of their lawful sovereign !

The Paris Journals complain bitterly of the
Stamp Duties, and the charges of the NW Office. "
liberty of the daily press is annihilated," rtaye the Condi-
tutionnel, " if the Stamp Duty and Post-office Duty are
not reduced one-half it least." They have been obliged
to enlarge the size of their papers, to he able to report the
proceedings of the Chamber of Peers, tee. and " in such
a position we must necessarily increase our subscription,
or cease to publish. To increase the subseripthin
would he to diminish the number of subscribers, and con-
sequently the number of readers, and thereby impair its
utility." They look forward to the ettrainuation of the
dismission on M. liovones motion respecting the Prra,,
as a teat of the dispositions of Ministers. The French
have not been &Merit by the big leering* of ill. King`e
Speech. "We believe (says the Consfitoliontort) in the
continuation of peat% not because the great Powers pre-
Nre fur war, but becalms peace is still more the iuterest
of the Governments than the wish of the people. . •
To interfere in favour of the Governments would Ie
leave France no other alternative than to declare against
her natural Allies, or to interline in behalf of the Na-
tions ; her position and her principles sufficiently tell on
which aisle the tri-eoloured etanderd would wave." General
ASA ICIIIII has re'ormeti from hill fOilittiOlt, to the Provinces
of the West, and declares that there is not the alighest
foundation for the rumours that the people in those pro-
vine** ate not well affected tweeds the Government. The
people everywhere wish to live in pram nutler the protec-
tion of the laws and the guarantees for public liberty. In
La Vendee the people entertain the utmost horror of ant
attempt at civil war ...Morning Chronic/4

CURE or CouNS,— A correspondent of the
Lancet recommends the use of caustic in caries of corns ;
he says, " I applied it (the lunar caustic) thus put
the feet in warm water, and allowed them to remain till I
(mod the outer surface of the corn was soft; 1 then dried
the feet, and applied the c rustic all over the corn ; in
few minutes it was dry; it remained so for ten days, when
1 remosed the black skin, and applied the caustic again;
and so I continued till I hart completely eradicated the
corns —.l have tried the same plan wilt many of my pa-
tients, and those who have been sufferers fur years, all
have been curer) ; it produces no pain, nor the least incon-
venience, rind dors away with the necessity of cuttir.,
which is dangerous in itself, and likely to produce wattle-
ilifittirMiatiOk with, frequently, the tows 9f atfo.Y.•