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THE SUN, LONDON., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1839.

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Morning

HIS Majesty the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA,
Ills Majesty the EMPEROR of RUSSIA,
And His Majesty the KING of PRUSSIA,

having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several Dis-
tributions of Money, which (though they are NO LOT-
TERIES, and do NOT EXPOSE the Shareholders to Blanks)
offer great many possibilities of obtaining
LARGE FORTUNES,
HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGIL and
HEINE BROTHERS at LUBECK,

are NOW SELLING SHARES for any of the said DIS-
TRIBUTIONS of MONEY, at various prices, Tho Dis-
tributions contain various portions, from
NINE POUNDS TO TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS
and upwards. Orders for less than 10/. cannot he attended
to. Persons desirous to purchase may receive PREVIOUS to
giving any order, the Prospectus and Particulars, upon ad-
dressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to
HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Mr. Baines's letter shall appear tomorrow.
In consequence of an accident at the Vote Office we are prevented
from giving the List of Last Night's Division.

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LONDON :
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1839

Parliament met yesterday, after a five months' vaca-
tion, and considerable hopes were, as usual, excited on
the occasion. The streets were thronged, and the two
Houses were crowded. The Speech, which appeared in
our Evening Edition, was delivered at two o'clock, and
afterwards the Houses adjourned.
At five the House of Lords met again, and before the
Address was moved, Lord DURHAM inquired when the
papers relative to Canada would be laid before their
Lordships ? Viscount MELBOURNE replied, immediately
after Ministers had had an opportunity of examining their
contents. Lord Durham's Report was only received
yesterday at the Colonial Office.
The Earl of Lovelace then moved the Address, and
Lord Vernon seconded it. Both speeches were respect-
able, but neither are remarkable for ability.
The Duke of WELLINGTON went through all the
topics of the Speech. He was glad it contained nothing
of importance, and therefore he had nothing to object to
in it. Pie made, however, a few observations on the
Ministry.
The Duke of RICHMOND took the opportunity of
Lord Vernon having alluded to the Corn-laws to declare
that the repeal of those laws would ruin the agricultural
interest, which, on the showing of the Noble Duke there-
fore, now represents the baronial interest of old, and can
only thrive by levying a kind of black-mail on the people.
The Earl of WINCHELSEA took the same side.
Lord COLCHESTER was surprised that the state
of the Navy was not adverted to, and Lord MINTo ex-
cused the omission as proper at that time.
Viscount MELBOURNE stated that the Corn-law
question was an open one in the Cabinet, and repeated
his statement of last Session, and defended himself with
some zeal against the suspicion of ever having encou-
raged Precursor or Political Reform Meetings, regard-
ing all such as hostile to the Constitution. They give
Ministers trouble.
Lord BROUGHAM wound up the debate in a fine
speech, which requires rather to be read than commented
on. His Lordship's observations on the Indian war, in
which he appears nearly to coincide with the Duke of
Wellington, and his thrilling and severe, yet personal
remarks on Ireland, will astonish some readers and de-
light many more. After a short speech from the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne, the Address was carried nem. con.
In the Commons, new writs were moved for Sand-
wich, the Tower Hamlets, Clonmel, Buckingham
(County), and Cavan.
On the part of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, notices were
given relative to measures for better ordering Prisons,
improving County Courts, enlarging the jurisdiction of
Justices, relative to Education, and carrying into execu-
tion the Fourth Report of the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sioners—all matters of detail, which have no interest for
the people.
On the part of Mr. VERNON SMITM, a notice was
given that be would move for a Committee on Church
Leases ; and on the part of Lord MORPETH, that he
would, on February 14, move for leave to bring in a
Bill for the better regulation of the Corporations of
Ireland.

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Lord MAHON, the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, and Sir R.
PEEL, severally gave notice of measures to amend the
jurisdiction and the law in cases of Controverted
Elections. .

On the 19th Mr. VILLIERS is to move to hear evi-
dence at the bar on the subject of the Corn-laws.
A variety of other notices were given, the zeal of the
Members for legislation having much accumulated by
the vacation.

The Address was moved in the Commons in a very
bungling manner by Mr. E. Buller, and seconded in a
manner, not very suitable for a Manchester man by Mr.
G. R. Wood, who obviously prefers serving his oppo-
nents to serving his friends ; and, therefore, candidly
brought forth some truths that were cheered by the
farmer's friends, and might perhaps convince the Chamber
of Commerce of Manchester that he had not forgotten
nor forgiven, his recent defeat. If her Majesty's Speech
had nothing to please the Corn-law Abolitionists,
the speeches of the mover and seconder of the
Address gave them no satisfaction.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE followed Mr. G. R. Wood, and
moved the amendment relative to the representation,
which has already been announced.
His motion was seconded by Mr. WARD, and both
gentlemen took a sensible view of the consequences of
the Reform Act and of the Tory inclinations of the
Ministers.
Mr. HANDLEY opposed the amendment, and lauded
Mr. G. R. Wood's candid statement.
Mr. HOME replied to Mr. Handley and Mr. Wood,
and, adopting the theory of the late Alderman Waith-
man, that men will carry on a losing trade, made it ap-
pear that though our exports had increased our profit-
able trade bad declined. The Hon. Member made a
just attack on the Corn-laws.
Mr. BROTHERTON supported the amendment. Mr.
HEATHCOTE defended the Corn-laws, affirming that all
classes in the country were for them, and expressing his
satisfaction that Ministers had not alluded to them in
the Speech.
Mr. JAMES, though for reform, objected to t4e amend-
ment, as showing a want of respect fur her MAJESTY.
Mr. O'CONNELL was in favour of the amendment,
but the principal part of his speech was directed against
the intended dismemberment of Belgium.
Sir ROBERT PEEL entered at considerable length into
our Indian policy, of which he disapproved, and required
that something more should be done to make the Ame-
ricans respect our frontiers. Sir ROBERT, like Mr.
G. R. Wood, was prepared to show that our exports had
increased, and therefore the present system is not to be
altered, and the people aro to starve. He made a severe
attack on Lord John Russell for his speech at Liverpool,
an attack on all reform, and declared stoutly against
the Amendment. Mr. Villiers laughed at the Right
Hon. Baronet for talking on all subjects but those which
interest the community, and assured the House and the
Ministers that their conduct would be extremely satis-
factory to the Chartists and ajustification of their opinions.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL concluded the debate. He de-
nied that Belgium was injured, in reply to Mr. O'Con-
nell ; and he touched on the affairs of Canada,
in reply to Sir Robert Peel. He spoke favourably
of the repeal of the Corn-laws, and strongly against
Mr. Duncombe's amendment, and referred nith some
asperity to the acrimony of that Gentleman. The
House divided on Mr. Duncombe's amendment,
which was supported by 86 votes—the strength of the
extreme Radical party, and opposed by 4.26, the force
of the United Tories and Whigs. We say nothing of
the judiciousness of Mr. Duncombe's motion, but we
lament to see both parties combining against the people
as if it were determined to oppose, provoke, and sub-
due them.

Alluding to the subject of the Corn-laws last night,
and to Ministers' declaration that the question was " an
open one" in the Cabinet, Lord BROUGHAM observed—
" If he liked the nearer approach of the Noble Viscount
to his opinion, he was far from liking his mode of deal-
ing with the subject, for above all things did he abomi-
nate what were called open questions." Those who re-
member the long and arduous struggle for Catholic
Emancipation, when one-half the Cabinet was pulling for
years against the other half, and parties were balanced
with such exquisite nicety, as most ingeniously at every
turn to neutralize each other's efforts, like one set of
horses pulling at the head of a waggon, and another

pulling at the tail—those, we say, who remember this
state of thins and remember also for how long a time it
was pursued,. with *o other advantage than that of keep-
ing Ireland in u constant state of insurrection—will feel
strongly disposed to coincide with Lord BROUGHAM in
his great distrust of " open questions." " Open ques-
tions" indee d ! Is this all the satisfaction we are to re-
ceive on tht subject of the Corn-laws ? When we ask
for a decisit ►n, be it favourable or be it adverse, are we
to be put off with an " open question ?" When the
country is in agitation from one extremity to the other ;
when the ;topic of the Corn-laws is in every one's mouth,
and every ,one has formed some strong, decided opinion
upon it ; to y, when Delegates from all parts of the king-
dom are at this very moment assembled in the me-
tropolis, ft ►t- the purpose of endeavouring to bring
the questi.on to a crisis—is the Prime Minister
of England' to be the only one who has not yet
made up his: mind on the matter ? It is with bit ter re-
gret that ore ask these questions ; but Lord MEL-
BOURNE'S snscillation leaves us no alternative. We say
" vacillati on ," but perhaps the more fitting word would
be " indiVer once," for no one can read his Lordship's re-
marks on. Om (at present) all-absorbing question of the
Corn-laws, and not perceive at a glance that he is in ro
very particular hurry to trouble himself with the details
of the subj ect, but prefers rather to trust to the chap-
ter of accit tents, and leave the question to shift for—and
if needs be —to carry itself !

Like Lord FITZWILLIAM, we had 'some faint hopes
that the Parliament, alarmed by the general expression
of distrust; and discontent amongst the millions, would
have take a. the earliest opportunity of declaring that it
meant—%" liether they asked for it or not—to do them
justice, a ed set them a proper example of " keeping
their hat Ids from picking and stealing." Lord FITZ-
WILLIAM,. in his recently published pamphlet, says,—
but, alas: Lord FITZWILLIAM is only one generous,
honest-n-tiuded man—and if three were found, peradven-
ture the. :guilty might yet escape

" There is still a noble and patriotic course open to you; you may,
by a dispassionate consideration of this great question, convict of
injustice 'those who have accused you of selfishness, and exhibit a
convincin4 proof that, if you have erred, your error has arisen from
the desire,. of protecting those classes With whom you are more im-
mediately connected, and whom you have erroneously supposed to
be interest cd in the maintenance of the system. If, on tl,c other
hand, you: continue to cling to a system, from which tha agricultural
labourer it; suffering more than any other section of the community,
you wil Ea ve a sanction to those ungenerous suspicions which hang
over your • tbonduct."

Thost! to whom Lord FiTzwu,LlAm thus appeals
have sh own themselves dead to those noble feelings
which c; us alone lend titles a lustre.
We a re less surprised than mortified to find that Mr.
G. W. Woof.), who obviously derives his information
from the :Board of Trade, supplied the Corn-law advo-
cates last night with weapons and cheers to attack his
friends. 'We have not time to examine tho matters
further to-day, but Mr. `Noon's quotations look to
us as if be had been put forward to make out a defence
for bis friend the President of the Board of Trade.

Our x,eaders will see with surprise and grief, the
speech which Ministers have placed in the mouth of her
MAJESTY. The most interesting public topics are
wholly .omitted, as if the Government and the people
belonged to different countries. At the moment when
the people are agitated from one end of the land to the
other with apprehension of distress and with actual
starvation, not one word of sympathy can Ministers find
for their sufferings. Wheat is, or has been, at 80s., it
has doubled in price in three years, and the Ministers
are silent. The harvest is short, the people are on very
short commons, and the harvest is passed over. At a
time when the sufferings of the 'Working Classes, and,
let us add, when no inconsiderable degree of in-
sult, of exclusion from rights enjoyed by the
rest of their fellow-citizens, have almost maddened
them, when they have met in great multitudes
and under the influence of exasperated feelingi, have
used improper and violent language, and have refused
to petition the Parliament, because they mistrust it,—
at a time when, as Mr. WARD said, two other Parlia-
ments—the emblems of the suffering and exasperation of
the people—are sitting within fifty yards of the House of
Commons—the Ministers, deeply do we regret to say,
have not a single word of commisseration, or pity, or of
soothing for the bulk of the people ; but make her
MAJESTY refer to their meetings with an implied threat
that she will call the law into force against hungry, suf-
fering, and therefore indiscreet men. It is, in our
humble judgment, very ill-advised not to place one
word of kindliness in the mouth of her MA-
JESTY—not one expression of sorrow for the numerous
provocations of her people which they have borne most
loyally ; and neglecting that, it is most injudicious, we
must boldly, but honestly affirm, to assign to her
MAJESTY the ungracious task of threatening her sub-
jects. If the law had not sunk in general esteem, and
the law-makers were not openly branded as corrupt,
profligate, unworthy men—if the very source of all
authority had not run dry, and the stream had not stag-
nated in fetid pools, such language might have become a
masculine warrior, or rigid Monarch ready to carry out
his threats by the sword ; but when the Legislature
itself has fallen into contempt, to put such language
in the mouth of a young and gracious QUEEN,
as long as the people are starving, is a sort of outrage
both on her MAJESTY and her patient subjects. It smites
dead at one blow all their hopes. It separates her at
once from them, and plainly invites them to rely on their
own prudence for safety, and their own energy for
redress. He is a most ignorant or most conceited man
who denies that the hard worked and poorly paid people
of England have many very serious grievances to com-
plain of. He must be blind to the working of political
systems who is not aware that a population suffering like
ours, and tantalized like ours, by continually hearing
the accents of liberty, and being continually excited to
seek it even by those who snatch it from them, is peculi-
arly dangerous ; and the Ministers who, being sensible of
this danger, instead of redressing the grievances of the
people, slight or threaten them, peril their own reputation
and the peace of their country. We had not lost all
hopes till we read her MAJESTY'S Speech, and heard
the debate ; but now we begin, like the Chartists, to
fear that nothing good can be obtained from the Ministry
and the Parliament.

The allusion to the torch-light meetings, and violent
language of the Chartists, is the more extraordinary, as
no mention is made in the Speech of the state of Ireland,
which, as Lord BROUGHAM showed, is far worse than
that of England. Unfortunately the English have suffered
patiently so long that they seem now to court oppres-
sion at the hands, both of the Ministers and the Parlia-
ment ; while the Irish by their vigorous resistance have
taught the Government to respect them. If it were
unwise not to allude with compassion to the sufferings of
the English, it is ungenerous to reprove them and say not
one word in reference to the outrages which are committed
in Ireland.

In the course of the debate we could but remark that
it was curious to see the Ministers attacked by their
own friends. Their opponents, bespeaking a divided
House, sat on the Ministerial Benches. It was terrifying
too, also, to hear the landowners yelling out their dis
probation when Mr. Hums spoke of the people, who
receive 75., 95., or lOs. a-week, as slowly perishing of
hunger. If the Ministers are at once powerless to
the great, and severe to the poor, the country gen-
tlemen refuse even to allow the distress of the people to
be mentioned, and are resolved to close their cars
against complaints. No public benefit can possibly
arise from an exasperated people and an insulting Legis-
lature, and the opening of the second Session of the first
Parliament of her Majesty fully justifies the language
we borrowed yesterday from the Times—eventful days
are at hand.

The whole of the Paris Journals of Monday, have
been, received this morning. They are occupied prin-
cipally with the preparatory movements to a grand election
struggle. As usual the National is in the thick of the
strife ; and as usual plays all sorts of vagaries with prin-
ciples, in order to aim a blow at England. In this Jour-
nal, more than any other in France, has the King been
denounced for centering in his own person all the attri-
butes of the Monarchy, executive and deliberative ;
and now the Editor says :—" We have never un-
derstood that in France the King could be reduced to
play the part of an automaton—a part to which the
English Oligarchy attempts to condemn its Sovereign.
It may have suited a King of the Brunswick race to
fatten in his palace, and brutalize himself in the midst
of disgraceful orgies, without taking any part in the
Government, except to sign a few Ordinances, but
France will never put 1119 with a slothful
Sovereign—her Monarch must think and act, at
the risk of sometimes incurring, like CHARLES X., a
responsibility not written in the Charter." It is quite
clear from this that the National is equally ignorant of
the history and the Constitution of this country. Had
the writer of the above condescended to inform himself
—what French newspaper writers very rarely do—of

the facts upon which he was theorising, ne would
have discovered that England has had more cause
to regret the self-willed determination of her Sove-
reigns of the Brunswick line, than to complain of
their indolence or their vice—aye, and so even has
France. Had GEORGE 111. never played the Royal
game which the National deems so worthy of a French
Sovereign, England would have been spared the disgrace
of an American war, fraught with the seeds of a fright-
ful French revolution.

An electoral Committee has been formed by the op-
position electors of the twelve arrondissements of Paris,
which is to put itself in communication with the Electoral
Committees about to be organized in all the several de-
partments of the kingdom.

The Ministers and their friends meet daily at General
JACQUEMINOT'S. The opposition is divided into five
fractions, the members of which assemble severally at
the residences of MM. THIERS, GANNERON, ()DILLON
BARROT, JOSEPH PERIER, and BERRYER. The
leaders, however, are acting in concert, and their
extreme differences of opinion, ■o far from being a source
of weakness, as the Court party assumes, is, in reality,
the great secret of their strength. They address them-
selves to men of every shade in politics, so that, what-
ever be the creed of the discontented, they unfurl a
banner under which there can be no inconsistency in
marching against the Cabinet.

Our Paris Correspondent mentions the prevalence of
a rumour on the Bourse on Monday of the sudden disso-
lution of the Belgian Chambers ; but up to the hour at
which we go to Press no confirmation of it has reached
us. Wo trust it will prove unfounded. A dissolution
of the Belgian Chamber of Deputies might lead to serious
inconvenience at the present moment.

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Letters from Berlin announce the adoption of mea-
sures of a warlike tendency by the Prussian Govern-
ment. The officers on furlough have all received orders
to join their regiments.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, MONDAY, FEB. 4.—This being settling_day at the Bourse,
the fluctuations in the French Funds are owing snore to the wants
of the brokers in liquidating their accounts than to any effect excited
by the dissolution of the Chambers, an event which, as far as inflnenc-
ing the public credit in France, has already been duly appreciated.
The Five per Cents. for cash opened at 110 f. 35c. The Threes were
slack at 78f. 45e., and closed at the same price.
We are all on the qui vivo regarding the results of the approaching
elections, and there is an evident tendency to induce the Carlists to
persevere in the system of coalition, and it is not at all improbable that
to promote their ends they may affect to join in the intrigue. Many
of the French Papers regard the Dissolution as a coup d'etat, more
hardy than that which cost a crown to Charles the Tenth, whilst the
Ministerial organs are vehement in their professions of the preroga-
tive having been lawfully and seasonably exerted. The result of the
elections will be the test.

At Four o'clock the Three per Cents. were 78 50, end of
February.

N.B.—A report on 'Change of the Dissolution of the Belgian
Chambers.

The bankruptcy of Cockerill confirmed.

We have the following from our private Correspondent :
EaroNNE, Tam. 30.—Don Carlos was still at Ascoitra on the 26th.
It seems that the late movement of Espartero from Miranda, in the
direction of Orduna, had not led to any result. Maroto has re-
sumed his position in Maya.

Pants, Fan, 4 —The had success of the expedition, for the pur-
pose ot attempting to establish a communication by land between
Constantine and Algiers has already produced fatal effects. A
letter from Algiers of the 24th January says that the carriage
leaving Stora belonging to Messrs. Duteit and Company had been
stopped by the Kabyles between Larouche and Dueemendi. Five
persons who were in it were massacred and cut to pieces.
A letter from Toulon of the 31st January, says that the extraor-
dinary levy of registered seamen is proceeding with much activity.