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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1837.

It is with no little gatification that we are enabled to
state, that our exertions to procure for our town and
country readers the earliest report of Sir ROBERT
Peel's speech, at the great political dinner given to him
on Friday last at Glasgow, have been crowned with
complete success. By this time our Sunday morn-
ing edition is dispersed far and wide through the country ;
is in the hands of our Parisian contemporaries ; and,
no doubt, in those of Lours PHILIPPE himself.
We have thus fully redeemed our pledge with the
public, and on every really important occasion shall
exert the same industry, and enterprise, and, we trust,
with the same results. And here, before we quit the
subject, we cannot but return our cordial and best
thanks for the attention shown to us by the parties en-
gaged on the line of road along which our Express had
to travel. They seemed as anxious for our success as
we ourselves could possibly have been.
We have already animadverted on the Right Hon.
Baronet's remarks at the Glasgow Dinner, and have
consequently little to add on the subject. It is through-
out a virtual begging of the question of Re-
form a pompous and elaborate shuffle—not so
satisfactory), even as his famous Tamworth Mani-
festo, in which he did contrive, with incredible
difficulty, to stammer out something intelligible, though
that something was but next door to a nothing. On
the great questions which will agitate the country this
next Session, be made not the slightest remark—ot-
fered not the slightest opinion. We can gather no-
thing from his Glasgow Speech, but that he is op-
posed to a Reform of the House of Lords, and takes
fright at the mere mention of the word, democracy.
But no—we do injustice to the immaculate Conserva-
tive leader. He assures us, and surely this is some-
thing new, that he ever was, is, and ever will be, the
sworn foe of corruption, assigning this cogent reason
for our believing him, that he can get nothing by it.
This is correct in the main, but was it always so ?
Was Sir ROBERT PEEL never, at any time of
his political career, an influential member of that
high Tory Cabinet, whose influence 'was based
on corruption, and on corruption only ? Was
he never in office with the BATIIIIR.STS' and DUN-
DASSES, one of whose jobs even a boroughmonger-
ing Parliament thought so infamous, that they scouted
it with contempt ? Did he never defend the corrup-
tion of East Retford, and fight with all his " heart, and
all his soul, and all his strength" against Earl-GREY'S
proposal to reform the wholesale corruption of the
House of Commons? And will he who acted in
this way—who was for many years of his life the
sworn advocate of a corrupt system in all its branches
—now dare to come forward and expect us to believe
him, when he says that he was always the sworn foe of
corruption ? The Jew APELLA may believe him,
but we will not.

As regards the Right Honourable Baronet's
declaration of hostility to " Peerage Reform," we think
nothing of it. Fettered as he is, he could not have
spoken otherwise. But who shall say that be-
cause he is in favour of an irresponsible system of
legislation this year, he shall be so the next ? For
very many years of his official life, he was just as
strongly opposed to the concession of the Catholic
claims; yet he granted them, despite the evident dangers
which he fancied he foresaw in such concession And
let the popular clamour for " Peerage Reform" deepen
to a hurricane; let the people show themselves unani-
mously in its favour—and they are fast waking to a
conviction of its necessity—and we do not despair of
seeing Sir ROBERT PEEL play over again the
game that he played on the question of Catholic
Emancipation. And our reason for such an expecta-
tion is, that we are convinced the Right Hon. Baronet
is not a statesman of principle, but of expediency.
He has no stern, settled opinions of his own ; but is
acted on by those of his party. He is bold enough
on occasions; but even in h:s most stirring speeches he
always takes refuge behin I generalities. What, for
instance, are his remarks on the hereditary principle,
but vague, frothy, ad clptandam common-places ?
Attempt to analyse them, and you are surprised to find

how little substantial matter there is in them. The
argument bears the same proportion to the verbiage,
that Jack Falstaff's " halfpenny worth of bread"
bore to his " ten shillings worth of sack." On
the whole, therefore, we unhesitatingly pronounce
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Glasgow speech a failure, be-
cause it is weak where it should be strong ; wordy
and general, where it should be sententious and par-
ticular ; and explicit only on that point where explicit-
ness was not needed—for who cared to know that Sir
R. PEEL would oppose Peerage Reform, when every
one knew, from his present embarrassing position—as
standing mid-way between the moderate and immo-
derate Tories—that he could not possibly for the
season have acted otherwise ?

The whole of the Paris Papers of Friday and Sa-
turday have been received.. On Friday the Chamber
of Deputies proceeded to the discussion of the address
in answer to the Speech from the throne, paragraph by
paragraph. In the course of the debate, which was
very animated, Ministers were twice defeated, under
circumstances which would induce any men, not pre-
ferring place to personal honour to send in their
resignations. The two first paragraphs were
adopted without an amendment. The third, which
is conceived in these words, was then read :
" Your MAJESTY hopes that the peace of
Europe is for a long time assured. We concur
with joy in this expressed hope, and France will
ap-
plaud herself for having, by her firmness and her wis-
dom, contributed to the maintenance of the repose of
the world." Whereupon M. ODILLON BARROT,
the distinguished champion of Polish freedom, rose,
and moved that the following words should be added in
continuation :—" Which repose can never be more
strongly guaranteed than when it shall rest upon
the respect of rights consecrated by treaties, and
among which France will never cease to place in
the first rank those of the ancient nationality of
Poland." The cluestion having been put, and the
majority twice declared doubtful, a division took place,
when there appeared--

For the Amendment
Against i•
Majority against Ministers. —8

The cheering which followed the announcement of
the Ministerial defeat, was really deafening. When
the noise of congratulation had subsided, the fourth
paragraph, on the recent Ministerial misunderstanding,
between France and the United States, was read and
adopted. The fifth, having reference to the Swiss
affair was also read, when a most interesting debate
ensued with respect to CONSEIL, the spy. M.
ODILLON BARROT directly attacked the Govern-
ment upon this point, and at once demanded to be in.
formed whether CONSEIL, whom the French Govern-
ment insisted should be expelled the Swiss ter-
ritory, was not in reality a spy sent into Swit-
zerland by the very Government insisting upon his
expulsion. Count MOLE, President of the Coun-
cil, immediately rose and said that if such was
the fact he was ignorant of it. He had merely fol-
lowed up a transaction commenced by his immediate
predecessor in office. All eyes were now turned upon
M. TIIIERS. He immediately rose, and declared in
the most positive manner that he knew nothing of the
real character of CONSEIL when he demanded his
expulsion from the Swiss Cantons. M. GASPARIN,
then Secretary of the Minister of the Interior, and
Prefect of Police, but now Minister of the Interior,
had addressed a Report to him, recommending
the'expulsion of CONSEIL. He had previously heard
nothing of this individual, and then simply regarded
him as a dangerous political refugee. He was even
• yet ignorant of the particulars of the affair, though it
had been supposed—greatly to his disadvantage—that
he had known all. He could assure the Chamber that
the subsequent revelations surprised and pained him
more , than they did any other individual who
then heard him. When M. Timm sat down,
MM. BERRXER and TEST?: insisted that M.
GAsPA RlN—who, in the Committee, had admit-
ted that :CONSEIL was a spy—should explain
all that he knew of the affair. M. GASPARIN re-
fused to explain anything. As Minister of the Inte-
rior, he was ready to offer official explanations of mat-
ters connected with his department, but, at the period-
referred to, he was a subordinate servant of the Crown,
and bound to observe silence. He would tell the
Chamber nothing. M. PERSIL, Minister of Grace and
Justice, followed, and defended the conduct of GAS-
PARIN. Whereupon M. THIERS again rose, and
declared that though, as Minister of Foreign Affairs,
and President of the Council, he had a right to know
all, yet that, in justice to his own character, he was
bound to assert that he did not know all that he ought
to have known.

A scene of indescribable uproar ensued. It was
now clear that the spy-system was concocted and
conducted, not by the leading and responsible Minis-
ters, but by parties in the back-ground, with the full
approbation of the KING. The responsibility of the
Government was in an instant proved to be a farce;
and though nothing was heard but murmurs of general
discontent, the Chamber had heard enough to be certain
that the KING knew more of CONSEIL than the late
President of the Council. In vain did the President
ring his bell, and implore the Chamber to be calm—in
vain did Ministers move the adoption of the article
under discussion ; neither were attended to ; and the sitting
was adjourned by the opposition till Saturday. On
the Chamber re-assembling the next clay, the para-
graph was adopted, after which the debate commenced
on the paragraph relative to Spanish intervention.
The discussion upon this most interesting portion of
the Address had but. just commenced when the mails
left Paris.
After these disclosures the world will cease to
wonder at the frequency of the attempts made to
assassinate the King of the FRENCH. The af-
fair of CONSEIL is certainly a foul stain upon the
political character of Louis PHILIPPE. The
mighty Sovereign of a great and independent nation
has taken an odd way of recompensing the favours so
gratuitously conferred upon the wandering refugee
LOUIS CORBET, his sister, and his governess. But
bad as is this view of the question, it is by no means
the worst. France must now see that Ministers are but
puppets in the hands of the KING, and henceforh she
will take care—whatever the laws may say to the con-
trary—to hold him, not them, responsible for the acts
of the Government.

Should Ministers be defeated on the Spanish ques.
tion, they will be obliged to resign, for they dare no
present an Address so amended upon all importan
points. As it is, Russia will be furious.

FRENCHFUNDS-PARIS, JAN. 13.
Five per Cents.. 109 E Ir9f. sc.
Four per Cents., 100 f. 10c.
Three per Cents., 79f. 75c 70c. 75c.
Bank Actions, 0,355 f. 2,350 f. 2,341 f.
ltente de Naples, 9Sf. 85c. 00c.
Roman Five per Cents., 10132%.
Spanish Actives, 263{ 27;01 %%.
Spanish Differes, 121/%34•
Spanish Passives, 7!t % 34.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 10232.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 304 31 31! V..
EXCIIANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25c. 325;c. ; money, 25f. 30c.
TAree months, paper, 251. 12%c. ; money, 051. ICc;
-Cours AuthentiQue•
FRENCH FUNDS.-Psais, JAN. 14.
Five per Cents., 1091 109 E sc. 100 f.
Three per Cents. 79E The. 70c. 80c.
Rank Actions, 2,3544.
Rente de Naples, 98f. 75c. 70c.
Roman Five per Cents., 101%.
Sp.inish"Actives, 27 271 20%.
Spanish Differes, 121,4.
Spanish Passives, 734%%.
Portuguese Three ner Cents. 313 31.
haytian Loan, 370 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25;. 3:2;4 c. ; money, 23f. 30c.
'three months, paper, 251. 1216 e.; money, 25f. 10C.
-Ln,rs Authenti7un

BOURSE, HALF-PAST FOUR.--There has been very little
business done here to-day. Under the influence of the Lon-
don stock-list of Thursday the Spanish Active gave way, but

not to any important extent. No news of interest from Spain
has been received. Letters of the 6th from Durango speak of
an expectation that the Christiaos would attack the Carlists,
but the weather was still so severe as to render military move-
ments nearly impossible.
The French funds were torpid until the report had reached
the Bourse that Ministers had had a majority in the Deputies
on the article of the address relating to Switzerland, when
they improved a little, but few bargains were made neYerthelcss.

LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents., 109 f. 20c.
Three per Cents. 70f 90c.
Bank Actions, 2,350 f.
Bente de Naples, 99f.
Roman -Five per Cents., 101%.
Brussels Bank, 32.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 31;4.
Haytian Loan, 370 f.
Spanish Actives, 267 g.
Spanish Passives. 7%.
Spanish Differes, 9;4.
New Differes,
BELU lAN UNDS—BaussELs, JAN. 14,
Actual Debt, 2!4 per Cent
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. 100;4
Loan of Thirty ..........
Loan of ('its', 1032.4 per Cent lOl%
Society of Commerce, 4 i., per Cent 134
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent l2B
Brussels Papers, Jan. 15.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, JAN. 13.
Actual Deb', 2 per Cent.
Do do. sper Cent.
Amort Syn.!ie 4.4 per Cent.,
Do. do. 31„', per Cent.
Commercial Company, 444 per Cent 18314
New ditto
—Joi!rnal du Commerce & Anvers, Jan. 15.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JAN 5.
Five per Cents. illetalliques
Four per Cents
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 1395
Zeitung, Jan. 11.

The Paris Jouinals of Thursday contain no political
intelligence of any importance. The Opposition
prints taunt the Ministerial Journals with the popu-
larity just acquired by the British in Spain ; to which
the organs of the Government respond, by pronouncing

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.he blame of such an untoward event more attributable

to the policy of the THIERS than of the MOLE Ad-
ministration. Now this is noL the fact. The Mi-
nistry of 'M. THIEns has enough to answer for,
without being made responsible for the dishonest
policy of the Cabinet which has succeeded it.
M. LHERs did all that an individual could do to

induce the King of the FRENCH to grant an armed
co-operation in favour of ISABELLA 11. ; and failing
in his eft'orts to conquer the determination of the KING,
he resigned the Presidency of the Council. This is
no secret. The fact is well known throughout Europe.
Now Count INIOLE took office on the express condition

that he would support the KING'S views just so long as,
and no longer, than his MAJESTY might be pleased to
entertain them. TITTERS was never overburthened
with principle, but he is a man of unquestionable talent,
and his opinions with respect to the foreign policy of
France are for the most part sound. Now MOLE is
quite as unprincipled as THIERS, without possessing
a fiftieth part of his natural ability, or acquired infor-
mation.

Her most faithful Majesty the Queen of PORTU-
GAL has issued a Decree for the abolition of the in-
famous traffic in slaves throughout her dominions.
This is one of the first fruits of the re-establishment
of the Constitution of 1822. Humanity, in its more
enlarged sense, is ever a gainer by the diffusion of
liberal pl inciples. This is a fact, the importance of
which has not been sufficiently dwelt upon, even by
the staunchest advocates of political equality. Let it
never be forgotten that to the influence of those
doctrines which have for ever extinguished the domina-
tion of Toryism in England, is mankind indebted for
the abolition of the accursed slave-traffic--a traffic the
frightful enormities of which have never yet been fully
developed. The Decree of the Queen of PORTUGAL
is founded upon a report of the Ministers of the Belem
insurrection, and hears date the 10th of December,
1836. This document is important, but its exceed-
ing length renders its insertion in our columns im-
possible.