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London, England, 1837-05-27 00:00:00

result.

In referring to the decision on Thursday evening,
on the motion respecting the French Claims, we must,
in justice, state, that the arguments of the CHAN-
CELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER do not by any means
convince us that enquiry ought to be denied. On the
contrary, we consider the mode in which the distribution
of the French Indemnity Fund has been conducted to
be a case which particularly calls for investigation by a
Select Committee of the House of Commons, and that
Members ought not to be led away with the fallacious
notion pressed upon their notice that such investiga-
tion would re-open the case of the Baron DE BODE. It
is truly lamentable to observe the inattention of many
Members, and the indifference shown by others, to
questions of great grievance of this nature, and to think
of the clamour they make about some canting clause
to prevent Sunday travelling, or some other trifling
matter, which had better be left alone.
Refusals of enquiry into real abuses similar to those
which have taken place in regard to the British Claims
on France, is only an'encouragement to a Treasury
Board of any Government, and to a set of Commis-
sioners, who must always be the mere tools of that
Board, to commit any act of injustice and oppression,
however great, with impunity.

It was generally expected that the marriage of the
Duke of ORLEANS would call forth and rally round
the monarchy of July the loyal sympathies of the
French nation. The' heir apparent has all the per-
sonal requisites for winning the admiration of a gallant
and highly cultivated people ; and it is but justice to
add, that he has hitherto neglected no means which
his exalted rank has placed within his reach to cherish
the good opinion which all parties entertained of him.
He prudently abstained from mixing himself up with
political movements of any kind ; formed no exclusive
associations ; appeared not to have imbibed any strong
prejudices ; and seemed, even when importuned, unwil-
ling to employ the influence he was supposed to have
over the Royal mind, save in instances where the object
was to obtain pardon for individuals obnoxious to the
Royal displeasure. Moreover, besides the admiration
and esteem thus claimed by the DUKE on his personal
account, as well as on account of the relationship in
which he stands to the French nation, it was expected
by many, and by ourselves among the rest, that the
KING would have seized upon the occasion of his
son's marriage to convince the people of France, by
some proof not to be questioned, of his entire devotion
to the promotion of their social welfare, and of
his fixed determination to find in _ the reflec-

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tion of their happiness the true interests of
his family. We imagined the proud—the noble
triumph of the KING, on taking, as it were by storm,
the hearts of his people—on witnessing the enthusias-
tic devotion to his dynasty, inspired by a realization of
the national hopes—and above all, on convicting the
Ultra-Republicans of error, in propagating the belief
that the patriots of July had shed their blood only to
effect a change of despots.
But we, it seems, and all who shared our anticipa-

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lions, laboured under a delusion. The Royal nuptials
promise to be no more than a re-representation of a
familiar scene in the courtly annals of France. It is
not patriotism, or wealth, or integrity, that must supply
a passport to the presence, and procure an invitation
to the table of the Duke of ORLEANS and his illus-
trious consort, on the occasion of their Highnesses'
marriage. Blood—gentle blood—alone constitutes the
true talisman of admission. Incredible as it may ap-
pear, such is the will of Louis PHILIPPE—such the
pleasure of every member of the House of ORLEANS.
Even the new nobility are despised or overlooked ; and
if we may credit the statements contained in the French
Journals, the wives of three Cabinet Ministers, and
the mother of one of them, have all quitted Paris, to
escape the mortification of being excluded from the
nuptial festivities, on account of their plebeian
origin. It is stated, moreover, that the Duke,
reviving the courtly euetoms of the Regency, has
caused his cypher to be engraved on a button,
which is to be worn by young men of noble fami-
lies, to whom his Highness will present it, as a
mark at once of his regard, and a proof of the nobility
of their descent. Now, we hesitate not to pronounce
all these things as Very foolish—very absurd—very
dangerous. The antiquity of the House of ORLEANS
is sufficiently established—its branches can afford to
dispense with the prim scrutiny of upstarts—and its
head stands in no need of imitating the littlenesses of
the petty Courts of Germany, in which ceremony is
invoked to gratify pride, supply the want of power,
and screen from popular view the presence of poverty.
If the KING'S motive be to do honour to the future
Queen of FRANCE, he pays but a poor compliment
to her understanding or her heart, in presuming that
she will be happy to find excluded from her presence
all to whose valour she is indebted for the Crown which
she is destined to wear. If, on the other hand, his
MAJESTY be resolved to attempt the gradual oblitera-
tion of the popular opinion with respect to Kings and
Nobles, he will soon repent having provoked the hos-
tility of the most potent of all aristocracies—the aristo-
' cracy of wealth.
The fact is—though we begin to fear the KING
knows 'it not—that France at the heart's-corn is
thoroughly republican. We include the nation in a
majority of nine-tenths of the entire population—for
so many are there who would fight to their knees in
blood rather than submit to such a despotism as that
which existed in France before the Revolution. Now,
by these persons the antiquated, ridiculous, and insult-
ing ceremonies of the Court of Louis XIV. are
despised and detested. They look upon them in the
light of fooleries unfit to employ the understanding of
children ; or they regard them as the dishonest de-
vices of incipient tyranny. The race of the old
French Noblesse is not extinct; but, politically speak-
ing, it is powerless, and its exclusive spirit—were
there no other obstacle—must for ever prevent it from

recovering its former position in the social Government
of France. It still exists a sort of bastard body in the
State—repelling all attempts to blend and amalgamate
it with the more wholesome elements of social order.
It has lost its power, its influence, and its overgrown
wealth ; but still retains all the prejudices and. vices
engendered by the abuse of wealth and power. And
yet to gain the affections of this clique of Exclusives
the Court of France has, for the last six years, submitted
to a series of insults which the most sycophantic, toad-
eating plebeian aspirant to aristocratic distinctions would
have spurned with indignation. Before it would ho-
nour the KING by an appearance at his Levees, it re-
gulated the cut of all the coats to be worn within the
Palace, and dictated to the Sovereign a ceremonial
code, from the strict observance of which his MA-
JESTY dares not depart, on peril of having the QUEEN
and Princesses left to seek the society of Milliners.
Things ought not to have been suffered to come to
this pass. The KING could have easily crushed the
insolent pretensions of an useless Aristocracy ; and it
was his duty, as well as his interest, to have done so,
seeing the desolation they twice before brought on the
Royal Family and people of France. Heaven forbid
that the Princess HELENA should be confined within
the magic circle which proved so fatal to the beautiful
MARIA ANTOINETTE!
To keep the populace in good humour, there is to
be an extension of the Amnesty. This is well so far ;
but it will not cure the wounds inflicted on the pride
of the wealthier classes by an exclusion from the
nuptial festivities. Such wounds are indeed the
hardest to cure— and in some natures they are incura-
ble. More traitors have been made at the Levees of
Kings, than by the operation of all the laws against
treason, promulgated since the reign of TIBERIUS—
the first framer of such defensive appendages to the
Royal dignity.

The whole of the French Papers of Thursday have
been received. The Clzarte of Thursday night con-
tains the following important telegraphic dispatches :--
BAYONNE, MAY 24.
On tLe 21st Don Carlos was at Castellinar, uncertain as to
the movements.

On the 20th a tolerably strovig corps, composed of National
Guards and troops of the Line, moved from Srragossa to
Huesca; on the same day Burens entered Tudela with four
battalions and 600 horse.

lribarren was on the 21st at Jaurte, covering Saragossa, in

order to come up with the Carlist expedition in the plains be-
tween Exea, Jaurte, and Zueva.
NARBONNE, MAY 24, AT NIGHT.
On the 14th the Carlists were in possession of the villages
in the neighbourhood of Valencia. The National Guards had
refused to go out of the city. Sorrador was at Xenia, and
Cabrera and Forcadell in the Xenia Mountains.

On the Bth, General Orra was preparing to march on Can-
tavieja.
On the 18th everything uas quit in Barcelona, and Tarra-
gona had submitted to the Queen. Baron de Meer was in the
direction of Cala. General Pastors has been named second in
command at Catalonia.

The Queen Regent has signified her thanks to the British
fur their conduct on the 4th. Ever since the 20th, with the
approbation of the Governor, the same flag as at Reus is hoisted
at Puycerda, viz., green, red, and yellow.
Rayo was on the 21st at St. Florens Nos d'Erodes ; and
two other chiefs have taken possession of Villanova de Mayu,
a fortified town. The garrison, expecting to be relieved from
Lerida, where there were two brigades, defended themselves in
the church.

METZ, MAT 2% SIX P:24.

The Princesses (of Mecklenburgh) have just arrived hither.
Their entry has been superb : Princess Helen has been de-
lighted with it. On the frontier the fete has been brilliant.
BAYONNE, MAY 24, EIGHT,

LISBON, MAY 13.—0 n the 11th MM. Passos and de Sa
Bandiera sent in their resignations, which were accepted. M.
Diaz Oliviera, President of the Cortes, is entrusted with the
formation of a new Ministry. Lisbon is tranquil.
As far as regards Spain these dispatches are highly
favourable to the Constitutional cause. The move-
ments of General IRRIBARREN have been prompt,
judicious, and well executed. He can now prevent
the passage of the Ebro, and if well seconded, so
harass the Carlists as to afford no opportunity for the
development of their projects.
The Pretender has addressed a proclamation to
the inhabitants of Navarre, inviting them to join his
standard.

The debate on the Sugar Duties' Bill occupied the
Chamber of Debuties again on Thursday. M.
DUCHATEL opposed M. Gout N's amendments pro-
posing the impdsition of a duty upon sugar manu-
factured from beet root. The debate had not termi-
nated whet► the mails left Paris.

The annexed advices from Africa are copied from
the Journals of Thursday :
NEWS FROM AFRICA.
(Private Correspondence of the. Constitutionnel.)
ORAN, MA r 15. After much parleying a final arrangement
with Maki Kader seems to be at hand. On the Bth four En-
voys from the Emir arrived in this town, and were introduced
to General Bugeaud, with whom they remained for two hours.
After this conference two of them set out to return to Mus•
care with M. Allegro, orderly officer of General Bugeaud;
the two others waited here for his return. On the 14th in
the afternoon, M. Allegro came back with letters from the
Emir, who, it is said, proposes to send as hostages his uncle
and two of his nephews, to whom he is much attached. But
the General requires that the Emir shall come in person to
Oran to ratify the treaty, and this is said to be the substance
of the dispatches sent to Muscara by the two Envoys, who
waited for the return of M. Allegro. This officer was well
received by the Emir, and had a very agreeable journey.
After his conference with General Bugeaud orders were given
to the Castor steam-boat, Captain Leveque, to be ready to
depart, which it does to-day, with dispatches of great import-
ance. The departure of the expedition has been put off, in
consequence of the arrival of the Envoys from the Emir.
The army goes to the camp at Tafna, where it will remain

till the end of-the month, by which General Bugeaud expects
to receive an answer to the despatches sent by the Castor.
The expedition will afterwards go to Tlemecen. The cam-
paign may be prolonged to the end of next month. General
Bugeaud set out for the army yesterday, at noon, escorted by
detachments of infantry and cavalry.
Our Correspondent at Toulon writes on the 21st May, that

" as the armi, will be long absent, General Bugeatid has
taken all fit precautions to put Oran out of danger, whatever
may happen. The following order was published on the 12th:—
By virtue of the powers conferred on Generals-in-Chief,
Governors and Commanders of fortresses, by the Imperial
Decree of 24th December, 1811,—
" Seeing the urgency of the circumstances which will
shortly withdraw from Oran the principal force of the army,
expose the place and the harvest of the environs to the attacks
of an enemy who is within three days' march, the Lieutenant-
General decrees as follows :

" The town of Oran is placed in a State of Wnr, the
National Guard is put under the command of the military
authority, which has likewise tho police of the place. It may,
in case of need, require the inhabitants to execute works of
immediate necessity, either in the place or in the avenues of it.
" No change is made in the jurisdiction of the Civil Power.
( Signed) "'BUGEAUD.'"
—ConstitutionneL
FRENCH FUNDS —Pants, MAY 25.
Five per Cents.. 108 f. 20c. 15c. 20c.
Four per Cent., 9:/f. 25c.
per Cents., 79f litt 25c. 30c.
Bank Actions, 2,4401
[(ewe de Naples, 59f 75c. Roc. 7Pc. 75c.
Roman Five per Cents., 10134.
Spanish Actives, 25 2434 hi 3k.
Spanish Differes,
Spanish Passives, 5
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 29,34.
excliA NOR UN LONDON.
Onemonth, paper, 25c. 37%c.; money, 25f. 35c
Tkree months, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money, 25f. 17%c.
—fours Authentioue.
LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents., 1051. 30c.
Three per Cents. 79f. 35c.
Hank Actions' 2,440 f.
Brussels Bank, 1,425 f.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 2933.
Spanish Actives, 243/x,
Spanish Passives 534.

Letters and Papers from Madrid to the 18th inst.
have been received. Their contents are more favour-
able than we had ventured to anticipate. Order
reigned in the capital, and the people seemed to rely
with confidence o❑ the firmness and the resources of
the Government. In the sitting of the Cortes, on the
16th, M. MENDIZABAL defended himself against the
charge of having abused the vote of confidence about
which the Opposition has clamoured so loudly. His
speech elicited a general expression of satisfaction from
the majority of the Deputies, who were almost all in
attendance to witness the result. The question was
not decided, when the President 'adjourned the sitting
till the following day.

A question of some importance to the public came
before the Magistrates at Queen-square three days ago,
and, after a short hearing, was postponed till this day.
The Watermen's Company it appears have laid an in-
formation against a Steam-boat Company, which for
some time has been running boats between Westmin-
ster-bridge and London-bridge every half hour ; and
they call on the Magistrates to put a stop to the prac-
tice, on the ground that it interferes with the rights of
the watermen, and if allowed to go will ultimately lead
to the ruin of that body. These London monopo-
lising Companies certainly got strange clauses inserted
in their charters ; but we doubt much if any privilege
exists in this instance such as would warrent the inter-
ference of the Magistrates, and compel the public to
pay two hundred per cent more to a waterman than to
the proprietor of a Steam-boat—nay, even prevent the
Steam-boat altogether from running between the bridges.
If any such privilege exists it ought to be abolished
by Act of Parliament. The Agent for the Company
expressed his fears and sympathy for these ill-used
watermen, while, in fact, the public are the only par-
ties who have aright to complain. If their trade is
falling ofi; they ought to know the cause, and take the
necessary steps for removing it. The insolence, the
overcharges, and the rude language of these men,
prevent respectable individuals, particularly ladies, from
going by water ; and now that a remedy is found for
the evil, and persons can be conveyed to the City,
without the inconvenience and delay caused by crowded
streets, an obsolete claim is to be put forward as a bar
against it. The hackney-coachmen at one time, not
more refined than the watermen, put forward similar
claims against cabs and omnibusses; but the Legisla-
ture thought the benefit of the public of more weight,
their monopoly was broken up, and both parties in
consequence have been placed on a better footing.
For what the public paid formerly 3s. they now pay
only 6d., and these gentlemen have been greatly ci-
vilized by the change. We know of no class now
who require so much this system of civilization as the
watermen.

PRINCESS VICTORIA, ENGLAND'S HOPE.—We
have seen a medal, prepared by T. Emmett, 27, Holborn-hill,
in honour of the commemoration of the anniversary of the
birth-day and arrival at legal maturity of her Royal Highness
the Princess Victoria, which event was celebrated on Wednes-
day, May 24, 1837. On the obverse of the medal is a correct
likeness of her Royal Highness, with her title, and date of her
nativity; and on the reverse are three female figures, allego-
rically representing England, Scotland, and Ireland, offering
their congratulations to her Royal Highness upon this great
epoch of her life, and placing the emblems of their respective
nations on the rock on which she is seated, resting on an-
chors, expressive of their confidence and hope. We esteem
this present for youth a well-executed piece of workmanship,
and highly creditable to the taste of the designer.
ST. JAMES'S THEATRE -- MR HA LFORD'S
BENEFIT.—We see it announced in the bills, that Mr. Halford
Will take a benefit at this elegant and commodious little theatre
on Monday evening—being the last night bu: two of the pre-
sent season. The performances are to include The Strange
Gentleman, The Eagle's Haunt, Jack Brag, and a variety
of other entertainments, supported by the comic and vocal
We wish Mr. H Ilford all the sue-
cstersesntgothwhofichthaedcmoimrepdanypr.
professional talents sad an unblemished
pirate character can entitle Wm,

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