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London, England, 1837-07-15 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(TIT'S DAY

DEAL, JULY 14.—Wind W. S. W.— Arrived the Cordelia,
from Canton.
PonTsmorTu, JULY 14.—Wind W. S. W.—Arrived his Ma-
jesty's ship Volagc, from Malta. Off port the Quebec, from
New York ; Well►ngton, New York ; Great Britain, Montreal.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 14.—Wind W. S. W.—No arrivals.
FALMOUTH, JULY 13.—Wind W. N. W.—Arrived the Ellen,
Chadwick, from Odessa ; Astrea, from Normutier. Off port
the Candidate, Cephalonia ; Palladium, Nairn, Terra Nova.
PENZANCE, JULY 13.—Arrived Hoyle, Bosseston, Licata.

MILFORD, JULY 13.—Arrived Recovery, Shaxton, Quebec.
BRISTOL, JULY I4.—Arrived the Avon, Langley, from Bal-
timore; General Moira, —, from Quebec; Frederick, —,
from New Brunswick ; Fancy, —, from Faro.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 13.—Arrived the Peruvian, Spear, from
New Orleans ; Superb, Nicholl, from New York ; Cornelia,
—, from Newfoundland ; Devon, Moorish, from St. Peters-
burgh ; Maria, —, from Stettin ; Eolus, —, from Weimar ;
Emelia, Stromsten, Ekmiel. Off port the Wilberforce, --,
from Maranham ; Globe, —, New Orleans.
QUEBEC, MAY 29.—The Mariner, Skeed, from London, is
wrecked on Egg Island—crew saved. 31. A bark is reported
to be on shore at Gaspe; from her description she is thought
to be the Exmouth, of London.
Memorandum.—The Exmouth was telegraphed et Quebec
on the 4th of June, and proceeded to Revierra de la Loupe,
to load.

The Flora, of C3rdiff, arrived at Portsmouth, towed in
abandoned, dismasted, and leaky, bound to Stettin.
The liendrica, from Rotterdam to Philadelphia, is lost on
the c ast of North Carolina.

COLUMB

from Bogota to the Ist of May
We have received papers
and from Caraccas to the 24th of the same month. On the
Ist of April Senor Jose Ignacio de Marguez, elected Presi-
dent of the Republic of New Granada, proceeded to the hall of
the Congress, and in the presence of the member of both
Chambers took the oaths prescribed by the Constitution,
which were administered by the President of the Congress,
Senor Euscbio Borreto. by
convention between New Gra-
nada and Venezuela, dated December 28, 1834, relative to
the recognition and repartition of the Active and Passive Debt
of Columbia, has been approved by the Grenadian Chamber
of Representatives, and sent to the Senate. The new Presi-
dent had on the 6th addressed a message to the Congress,
urging the approval of this convention, and recommending,
to
the adoption of measures necessary to carry its object into
effect, the principal of which isaers o mated
t a commission, e atedto bethe
appropria-
tion of funds for the ex
pro-
ooed to London in pursuance of article 6 of the convention,
and for the issue of the Grenadian bonds of the foreign and
the domestic consolidated debt; 2, the conferring a special
authority on the Executive to make arrangements with the
holder of the bonds of the foreign loans respectig gradual
and progressive payments ; 3, such act as may withoutn delay
give effective value to the bonds of the domestic debt.

-
The Commercial London ATI Tillackwall Railway
Bill, which has for its object the extension of the line abort
900 feet into the heart of the city of London, at the qq)on,w of
200,0001,, ha! been witOravin ‘951.19.1A1
4.

The Queen held a Court yesterday at St. James's Palace
for the reception of the Addresses from the Universities of
Oxford and Cambridge, and from the Metropolitan Clergy. -
Her Majesty also held a Chapter of the Or,icr of the Garter.
At two o'clock her Majesty and the Duchess of Kent, at-
tended by the Duchess of Sutherland, left the new Palace in
St. James's Palace, escorted by a party of the Life Guards,
fo. St. James's Pal see. Three carriages preceded that of her
Majesty. In the first were Colonel Cavendish, Equerry, and
Master Ellice, Page of Honour, in waiting ; and in the other
carriages were the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, the
Countess of Charlemont, Miss Spring Rice, Miss Rivers, and
the Master of the Horse.

At the same time the Deputation from the University of
Oxford arrived at the Palace, and assembled in the ball
Room. The centre doors in the suite of State Rooms were
soon afterwards opened, and the Deputation were ushered by
Sir Frederic -Smith and Mr. Martins, the Gentlemen Ushers.
in Waitina, to the Throne Room. His Grace the Duke of
Wellington, in his state robes, as Chancellor of tho Univer
sity, was attended by the Officers, and was supported by the
following Deputation and Members of the University in their
respective academical costumes, viz.:--
The Vice-Chancellor.
The University Delegates.
The Master of Baliol. The Rector of Exeter.
The President of Corpus. The Provost of Oriel.
The Warden of Wadham. The Principal of St. Alban Hall,
Dr. Symons. Dr. Frith.
Professor Ogle. Dr. Bliss.
Professor Daubeney. Dr. Wotton.
Senior Proctor. Senior Proctor.
Mr. Eastwick. Mr. Risley.
Mr. Hughes. Mr. Price.
Mr. Palmer. Mr. Bloxam.

Noblemen.
Doctors in Divinity.
Doctors in Law and Medicine.
blasters of Arts.
Bachelors of Civil Law.

Among those present were—Thomas B. "Estcourt and Sir
Robert Harry Inglis, the Members, any', Sir Charles We-
therell, the Counsel for the University ; the Archbishop of
Dublin, Lord Bexley, Sir John Conroy, Bart. and D. C. L.,
Principal Equerry to her Royal HiEhness the Duchess of
Kent ; Sir Henry Halfcral, Bart., G. C. H., President of the
College of Physicians ; Sir Robert Fitz Wygram, Bart. and
D. C. L., Sir Thomas Dyke Arland, Bart. and D. C.L., Sir
Claudius Hunter, Bart., the Dean of Hereford, Dr. Phil'-
more, Mr. Burge, K. C., Mr. William Gladstone, M. P.
About 320 Members of the University were present.
The Queen, who wore the ribband of the order of the Gar-
ter, received the University address on the throne. On either
side of her Majesty stood their Royal Highnesses the Du-
chess of Kent, the Duke of Sussex, and Prince George of
Cambridge, their Serene Highnesses the Duke of Saxe
Meiningen, and the Prince of Leiningen, the Duchess of Su-
therland, the Countess Charlemont, Miss Spring Rice, Miss
Rivers, and the great Officers of State, the Lord Steward,
the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse.
At the end of the Throne.soum, near to her Majesty, stood
tire following Cabinet Ministers:—The Lord President of the
Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the first Lord of the Treasury.
the Secretaries of State for the Home and Colonial Depart-
ments, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the President of the
Board of Controul, the President of the Board of Trade, and
the Secretary at War ; and also the following Noblemen and
officers of the Household—the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ;
the Captain of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, the.
Captain of the Yeoman of the Guard ; Lord Hill, Gold Stick
in Waiting, the Master of the Buck Hounds, the Vice-
Chamberlain ; Lord Templemore, Lord in Waiting ; Dulr es
of Newcastle, Dorset, Leeds, Devonshire, Richmond, or.
folk, Buccleugh, Grafton, and Somerset ; Marquises of Hert-
ford and Exeter, Earl Grey, the Bishop of Worcr„ter, the
Comptroller of the Household; Sir Robert Otway, Groom in
Waiting ; and Mr. Albert Beetham, Clerk of tlae Cheque of
the Hon.. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms.

Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen lined the
approach to the Throne, commanded by Mr. Reeve, Standard
Bearer to the Corps, and between the ranks the Deputation
advanced. The Duke of Wellington, as Chancellor, read the
Address of Congratulation to her Majesty, on her accession to
the Throne, and the Queen returned a gracious answer.
His Grace kissed hanals, and then presented the Vice-Chan-
cellor, the University Delegate, the Master of Balliol, the
Rector of Exeter, the President of Corpus, the Provost of
Oriel, the Warden of Wadnam, the Principal of St. Alban's
Hall ; Doctors Seymour, Frith, Bliss, and Wootton; Pro-
fessors Ogle and Daubeny ; the Senior and Junior Proctors ;
Messieurs Eastwick, Risley, Hughes, Price, Palmer, and
Bloxam, who all had the honour to kiss hands. The Depu-
tation and Members afterwards withdrew.
The deputation from the University of Cambridge arrived
at St. James's Palace in similar order, and were introduced to
the presence of the Queen on the Throne with the cere-
monies. The Marquis Camden, K. G., in his sp',endid robes
of office as Chancellor of the University, attended by the
usual officers, and was accompanied by the Tjuke of North-
umberland, K. G., High Steward of tbt. University, in his
robes as D. C. L., the Right Hon, Henry Goulburn, and tho
Hon. C. Law, Members for the University ; Sir Frederick
Pollock, Commissary ; the 'deeds a? Colleges and Halls, and
other Members of the liniveralty, among whom were, Glow'
Earl of Brecknock, Bishop of Durham, Bishops of...Elyrt
center, and Not wich, the Rev. Henry Glossop (vicarrgo
Isleworth), A. M., Corpus Christi College, Rev. Alfred
Sandils.lids, Dr. Aidis. So numerous was the attendance of
Members of this University (440 being present) that maul
could not obtain admission to the Throne Room, which lass
completely filled, but remained in the adjoining State Room.
The Marquis Camden read the congratulatory address from
the University on her Majesty's accession to the Throne, and
the Queen returned a gracious reply. The principal Mem-
bers of the University then kissed hands, and retired.

The Duke of Sussex atteoded the presentation of the Uni-
versity Address in his robe as D. C. L.
The Bishop of London, the Dean and Chapter of saint
Paul's, and the Clergy of London and Westminster, were
ushered into the Throne-room, to present an Address of con-
dolence and congratulation.
The Bishop of London read the Address, to which her Ma-
jesty returned a gracious answer. His Lordship had the ho-
nour to kiss hands, and afterwards presented the following
Members of the Deputation to her Majesty, who had also the
honour of kissing hands—viz., the Archdeacon of Middlesex,
the Deans of Carlisle and Chester, Canons Tate and Blom-
berg, of St. Paul's ; Rev. Mr. Milman and Rev. Mr. Jen•
nings, Prebendaries of Westminster ; Rev. Dr. Ackland, Pre-
sident of Sion College; and Rev. Doctors Macleod, Ci oly,
and Vivian.

The Rev. John Abbess and the Rev. Gilbert Beresford
were among the clergy present.
The Queen held a Chapter of the most noble Order of the
Garter. The Knights Companions were robed by Mr. Hunter
and Mr. Ede in the superb purple velvet mantles and the col-
lars of the Order, and were called over by Sir William Woods
(Clarenceux King of Arms), Deputy Garter in the Entree
Room, when the following answered :—their • Royal High-
nesses the Duke of Sussex and Prince George of Cambridge.
his Serene Highness the Duke of Meningen, the Dukes of
Wellington, Devonshire, Newcastle, Buccleugh, Norfolk.
Northumberland, Dorset, Somerset, Leeds, Richmond,
Grafton ; Marquises Hertford, Camden, Lansdown, Exeter,
and Earl Grey.
The Officers of the Order present in their respective
mantles, chains, and badges, were the Prelate, the Bishop of
Winchester; the Chancellor, the Bishop of Oxford ; the Re-
gistrar, the Dean of Windsor ; Deputy Garter, Sir William
Woods (Clarenceux King of Arms); Gentleman Usher of the
Black Rod, Sir Augustus Clifford.
The senior Knights, followed by the officers and the other
Knights, entered the throne-room.
The Queen was seated in the Chair of State. Her MajestY,
wore the mantle, the collar, and the star of the Order, and
on the left arm the Queen wore a gold-enamelled armlet'
having on it the motto of the Order, " Honi suit qui Thal !
pense."
The Knights having, by the Queen's command, taken their
respective places at the table, his Serene Highness the Prioce
of Leiningen was introduced between Sir W. Woods, Deputy
Garter, and Sir A. Clifford, Usher of the Black Rod.
The Chancellor of the Order (the Bishop of Oxford
a new statute, which, after reciting a former ste
might be elected.
such e
Order,d sleiT
announced that her Majesty, as Sovereign of' the Order, had
nidtian.gt.thoef number of
r oteKFnitrgshttsasto twenty.five, and
been pleased to appoint his Serene Highness the Prince of
Leiningen a Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.
The Marquis of Lansdowne and the Duke of Somerset, the
two Junior Knights present, conducted his Serene Highness to
the Queen. Her Majesty, assisted by the two Senior Knights•
invested the Prince first with the Garter, and afterwards wi'.o
the Itibband and Badge of the Order. The Prelate pro-
nouncing the usual admonitions.
The Prince of Leiningen having received the }'elicitation]
of all the Knights Companions, the Chapter b"oke up. -„
The Life Guards, with their band in state uniforms, wet;
on duty in the large court-yard of the Palace, and the Queen''
Guard of Foot Guards, with the band of the regiment, in ti!,
colour-court, arid received the Members of the Royal Family
on their arrival and departure with the usual honours.
Tho Queen gave audiences to Viscount Melbourne, 1",
Duke of Devonshire, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and Lo'
John Russell.
At twenty minutes past four o'clock her Majesty and suite
left the Palace in three carriages, for the new Palace, - es-
corted by the Life Guards.
The Right Hon. George Stevens Byng kissed hands 0
T 1;
uesday last, upon
aPl:lntment as Comptroller of be'
Majesty's Household,
The Duke of Saxe Meiningen and Prince George of CO'
bridge, arrived in town from Bu.hy Park.

We are glad that the Westminster electors are nobly
retrieving the disgrace which attached to them from theit:
apathy at the last election. By the returns of the canvasser'
last night the result is placed beyond a doubt; we advise thew'
however, not to relax in their exertions, as the country look:
up to them, not merely to return the two Libetal candidate.
by a large majority, but it expects them to register their se;
nions so strongly in favour of the Queen and good gevernmesi
as to restore them to their original station as the first Libera
constituency in the empire. In the parish of St. George:
Hanover-square, alone, the additional numbers of promises Br,„''
immense. The whole of the Cella tradesmen, who have usurp,
be 3n coerced by
of their Tory superiors, have one and all declared in favour
the menials of Court, under the instructio'f
their " young queen," not through fear or coercion, as no 'Naio
rants have been signed, neither will the appointments be mad
1,11101 after the election, in order that 171() Illimproper,..
pia/ he cutrcisisl,

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING. JULY 15, 1837.

From all we can gather own the subject, and we have
taken some pains to obtain the best information, the
elections bid fair to give the Government as overwhelm-
ing a majority as they had in the first Parliament after
the Reform Bill. To begin with the City of London.
Four Liberals will be returned for the metropolis ;
and these not mere milk-and-water, or bit-by-bit
Liberals, but all good men and true, who are decided
and uncompromising in their policy. and not to be
scared from the path of duty by the Conservative howl
of anarchy, revolution, and so forth. The majority of
the metropolitan boroughs are nearly equally secure,
ahhough the enemy are not without hopes—faint ones
enough, Heaven knows !—that they may be enabled
to smuggle in an odd Conservative or so. As re-
gards Westminster, Sir GEORGE MURRAY has
about as good a chance of getting in for this city, as
Sir
.FRANCIS BunDETT would have, were he to take
the advice of the Times, and once again set up as a
candidate. The Westminster electors, many of whom
have already repented of their late ill-judged sym-
pathy for " Old Glory," are resolved to return
none other than EVANS and LEADER—an ex-
ample which Middlesex will follow by affixing
M.P. to the names of HUMand BYNG. Through-
out the provinces the prospects of Reform are quite as
cheering. Sir JAMES GRAHAM will never again sit
for Cumberland, and we question much whether he
Elsewhere, especially in the
will even go to the poll.
boroughs, the Tories will be kicked out by wholesale.
The Carlton Club cash will not save them in Bristol
or Liverpool ; in Manchester, Oldham, and every
other town where the population exceeds a corrupti-
ble number, they will not venture to spew their faces ;
even BILLY Holm E3.S smock frock—and we allow its
respectable influence—will not save Bridgewater ; and
Colonel SIBTHORP, despite his whiskers, must take
a long farewell of Lincoln ; as Mr. WALTER, despite
his Poor Law Opposition, has already done of Berk-
shire.

These are encouraging facts, but instead of induc-
ing us to relax, they should have the effect of making
us persevere in, our exertions. We should not rest
satisfied with an imperfect victory, but be content with
nothing short of a Waterloo. We should resolve not
merely to subdue, but to annihilate, Toryism, We

have every inducement we could possibly desire, to be
energetic and uncompromising in our conduct. Back-
stairs influence no longer sits squatted at the ear of
Royalty, like the DEVIL at the ear of EVE; our
young QUEEN is with us—wholly with us—we have,
therefore, a sense of Loyalty superadded to our other
inducements to activity. Let him who venerates his
youthful Monarch make every effort within his power
to advocate the cause of Reform. Let him test his
loyalty by his zeal ; and 4cv that he is in heart a
good subject, by aiding the return of those men to
Parliament who will support a Government which
VICTORIA honours with her unqualified approbation.
As for the Conservatives, let no elector
listen to their promises for an instant ; for Con-
servative professions are like pie-crusts, made only to
be broken. Who is—or was till lately---the avowed
head of the C onservative party in Great Britain ?
The Duke of CUMBERLAND—We beg his pardon,
the King of HAxovEn—whose very first step on
ascending the throne of that kingdom has been, to
threaten its Constitution with a total overthrow
Bear this in mind, countrymen, and remember also
that just as his Hanoverian MAJESTY acts towards
his people, would the Conservatives act towards you
were they ever again to be entrusted with power.
Down, therefore, with them all. Now or never is the
time—now, when events are working hourly i❑ the
good cause.

We respect a Tory of the good, old, stiff-necked
school. However bigotted lie may be, he has at least
the merit of being conscientious ; but as for your
trimming, fawning, mealy-mouthed Conservative, silo
shows white on the hustings, and black in the senate ;
who, ashamed of his original appellation, makes all
possible speed to exchange it for an alias—for this
poor vacillating creature we entertain no other feeling
than that of unmitigated contempt. Down, there-
fore, we repeat, w:th all such hollow, truckling politi-
cians. They are not to be believed, even on their
oaths. They would sacrifice every thing that man
holds most sacred ; make promise after promise,
and bolt pledge after pledge ; did they think that
that by so doing, they would be likely to gain even a
Mount Pisgah view of the Promised Land of office.
We saw how they acted during the progress' of the
Reform Bill ; and have Seen them since trying their
best to neutralize its provisions, under the specious
pretext of promoting good Government. Were it pos-
sible for this Un-English faction to resume the reins
of power, there is no public calamity so great that
might not be expected to result from such an event.
The weight of taxation would be increased to a dead
certainty ; jobs of all kinds would flourish in all their
old rank exuberance; Ireland would be in a state of
convulsion from one end to the other ; and, likely
enough, the flames of war would be lighted up
throughout Europe. But vve need not apprehend the
advent of such enormities, if we only resolve to turn
to good account the power with which the Reform Bill
has furnished us. To be irresistible, we need only to
be united. Let us, then, take for our motto—" Down
with the Conservatives," and act on it with vigour
and unanimity. Away with all paltry jealousies and
differences of opinion. They are unworthy of men
engaged in a cause like ours ; and serve no other pur-
pose than to encourage the hopes of that grasping,
reckless, intolerant faction, which, when it quitted
office in 1830, left us " Swing," by way of a parting
legacy.

The QUEEN held a Court yesterday at Buckingham
Palace, and received .Addresses of Congratulation
from various public bodies on her MAJESTY'S
accession to the Throne. Among these the deputa-
tions from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
were conspicuously numerous, comprising between
700 and 800 Members. It is not, however, the num-
ber of these learned folks, great as it was, that formed
the most interesting object of contemplation. In our
eyes, and in the eyes of all the friends of civil and
religious liberty, the great point of attraction will be
the answer which her MAJESTY gave to the Address
from the Universisy of Cambridge. That address was
as usual, a formality—a tissue of phrases dressed up
for the occasion; plentifully interlarded with claims of
" favour and protection," and so forth. Not so the
QUEEN'S answer. Her MAJESTY said, that " whilst
she would continue the favour and protection which
her predecessors had vouchsafed towards them, she
would also endeavour to extend the sphere of their
utility." This extension of utility struck the ad-
dressers like the shower of a cold bath—they did not
expect any breaking up of their exclusiveness, and
they did not know how to look, or how to conceal their
mortification. What a noble prospect does this most
auspicious announcement give to the country !
Thus every succeeding day developes some trait or other
in the character of our young and amiable QUEEN,
which proves that she has been educated, not in the
school of antiquated prejudice, but in that of enlight-
ened reform. Every public act which she has per-
formed since she came to the Throne affords a
well-grounded and cheering hope that with the
new reign a new era has commenced. The
exclusive principles in which our former Sove-
reigns had been nursed, and by which the minds
of even the best intentioned of them wore fettered and
cramped, find no place in the breast of VICTO-
RIA. The extension of the benefits to be derived
from our national institutions, the diffusion of the
blessings of our glorious Constitution among all
classes, without regard to the paltry distinctions
of sect or party, are the objects which she has been
taught to consider of paramount importance to the
happiness of the people, and the well-being of the
empire, and which it will be her earnest and hearty en-
deavour to promote to the utmost of her power.
There can, we repeat, no shadow of doubt rest on
the course which her MAJESTY is Nailed to pursue.
That course is so decidedly liberal that none but fools
or knaves can question it ; but, nevertheless, it must
not be dissembled that the degree in which she may be
able to confer upon her subjects the benefits we
have mentioned—the extent to which she may carry
into effect the principles instilled into her mind by
the best of mothers, and approved by her own ex-
cellent understanding—must depend entirely'on:the de-
gree of support which she receives from the people
themselves. If they are disappointed, they will have
themselves alone to blame. They cannot now com-
plain that the Court is against Reform--that their
wishes are thwarted in high places—that what is done
with the one hand is undone with the other. The Re-
formers have the SOVEREIGN with them heart and
hand. Let them prove by their actions that they know
how to appreciate so great an advantage. Let them
e:nbrace the golden opportunity which now offers, and
will never offer again. Let them second their QUEEN
in her efforts in their behalf, in the only way in which
they can effectually second them—by returning to
~
Par-
liament a safficient number of " good men and true
to keep the Lords in order. This is the one thing
needful.

+NM
We call the attention of the Electors of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland to two letters addressed to the Editor
of the Morning Post, by the Earl of SHREWSBURY
and Mr. Witrarrr, the highly respectable Catholic
Banker, on the subject of the representation
of the Borough of Portarlingt on, which will
be found in our columns of this day, They afford an
admirable illustration of the countless calumnies resor.
ted to by the Conservatives with a view to damage the
liberal cause. All other engines of corruption having
1 partielly fai)(A—thts " No Poperr pr 7 having been

hooted down by every honest man in the United
kingdom—the sheet-anchor of despotism, CUM-
BERLAND, having been transported from our shores
in punishment, we presume, of the sins of Hano-
ver—nothing remains to the faction, now at its
last gasp, but to try the effect flagrant falsehoods
twir have upon the minds of the Electoral body. There
is no .0 re dependen,:e upon the support of the father
of lies. He is apt to betray his votaries at the moment
when they have the greatest need of his assistance ;
and he most mischievously guided the Conservatives
when he prompted them to charge with bribery two
of the most immaculate public characters in England.
Had the Tories had CUMBERLAND to guide them,
they would nut have been constrained to stoop
to such sneaking shifts to procure the restoration
to power of a faction so heartily detested by the peo.
plc. Their idol would have called upon the Orange
Lodges, of which he is the GrandCl_.art rvalain thester,tosaasisTiiest hiway
in trampling upon Magna
which he is now trampling upon the Constitution
of Hanover. But, thank Heaven, all hopes built
upon the chance of his accession to the Throne of
these realms have vanished for ever ; and the Tories
in despair resort to the meanest and most malig-
!lard calumnies, to avert their utter destruction.
Let this exposure of their baseness, prove a warn-
ing to the Liberal electors. Let no reliance be placed
on their statements—their solemn assertions—their
oaths. They will lie through thick and thin, to
iduence the return of the most unworthy
sentative of their faction ; let no Reformer, therefore,
give any credit to anything proceeding from so dis-
reputable a quarter.

We cannot conceive a more striking proof of our
being nationally objects of Divine solicitude—of our
being as a people the peculiar care of a benevolent pro.
tecting Providence—than has been manifested in the
removal of the Duke of CUMBERLAND from our
shores to the hereditary Throne of his Royal and
Electoral Ancestors. had it pleased Heaven to
scourge us by calling him to the supreme authority in
this country, we have in one of his MAJESTY'S first
public acts in Hanover, an intimation •of what would
have been his first experiment
.upon public opinion
here. He has commenced his Royal career by pro-
claiming his determination to abolish the Constitution
of the Kingdom I—a Constitutio❑ sworn to by his
Royal brother, but which he declares to be neither in
form nor substance binding upon him. Now we do
not hesitate to declare that
.without her present Con-
stitution Hanover has no right 'whatever to be consi-
dered a kingdom. With the Constitution ought to fall
the Kingly power, the Sovereign at once descending
to the humble rank of. an Elector of the empire. The
same powers that guaranteed to Hanover the dignity
of a Royal Crown, granted her a Constitution which
was to stand or fall with it. But this is a view of tile
question in the contemplation of which we arc, compa-
ratively speaking, but little interested. What we chiefly
look to is the irrefragible proof offered by the following
official document of the happy deliverance England has
had from the direful events that would have assuredly
followed the accession of the Duke of CUMBERLAND
to the Throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland :

" LETTERS PATENT CONCERNING THE DEATH OF 1113 MAJESTY
ICING WILLIAM IV., AND TILE ASCENSION OF HIS MAJESTY

ICING ERNEST AUGUSTUS.

" Ernest Augustus, by the grace of God King of Hanover,
Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, &c.
Royal Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Cum-
berland,"
It has pleased the Almighty to call out of the world, on
the 20th of this month, our late revered brother, the mist
and most puissant Plinee, William I V., King of the
United Kingaom of Great Britain and Ireland, and al.° King
of Hanovt r, Duke of Brunsaick and Luneburg, &c., and
thereby to plunge us, our royal house, and all faithful subjects,
in the most profound affliction.
" Now, as by virtue of the rights of primogeniture pre-
vailing in our royal house, the succession to the Government of
our kingdom of Ilanover has fallen to us, we have already en-
tered upon it with all our hereditary rights. We are pleased
hereby to make the same known, and have full confidence in all
our loyal spiritual and temporal servants, vassals, and subjects,
that they will pay to us their bounden duty, fidelity, and obe-
dience, and always be devoted to us with sincere attachment.
On the other hand, we assure all of our royal benevolence and
favour, and of our sovereign protection, and shall make it the
constant object of our earnest wishes and efforts paternally
to promote in every possible manner, the happiness and the
prosperity of the subjects confided to us by Divine Provi-
dence. This being the object of our endeavours, we have
been convinced that in many points tile Constitution does
not correspond with our wishes, which are solely directed to
the promotion of the good of our faithful subjects. Being re solved shortly to make known to our faithful people our views
on this most important subject, we do not hesitate to declare
that we cannot find in the Constitution, which neither in form
nor substance is binding on us, a sufficient guarantee for the
permanent prosperity of our faithful subjects, whose welfare
it will be our most earnest endeavour to promote, according to
the duties imposed on us by Divine Providence. Meantime it
is far from our intention to take our royal resolution on this im-
portant matter without a careful examination of all the circum-
stances. It is, on the contrary, our royal will to devote the
raost careful consideration to the question whether and how far
a modification of the Constitution should be brought back to
shat it was before the promulgation of the present Constitu-
tion. After which we shall convoke the General Assembly of
the States, and impart to them our royal resolution. Our
faithful subjects firmly enjoyed happiness and satisfaction un-
der the ancient hereditary constitution of the kingdom :
bond of attachment, and loyalty and confidence in their Sove-
reign, descending from generation to generation, promoted
the happiness of the Sovereign, and the welfare of the sub-
jects. We most earnestly wish to establish such a happy state
of things.

" We have not required our State and Cabinet Ministers,
who took their oaths according to the Constitution, to circu-
late these letters patent, but have caused them to be counter-
signed by our State and Cabinet Minister, N. Schele, who
caused them to take the oath to us, omitting the obligation to
observe the Constitution. We trust to the ancient affection
and loyalty of our Hanoverian people to their Sovereign,
that all our beloved subjects will await calmly, and with full
confidence in our benevolent intentions, our consideration of
the above question, and be convinced that in this consideration
we shall seek their advantage.
" M the same time that, till further orders, all shall con-
tinue in our kingdom of Hanover in its present course, and we
command that this our proclamation shall be posted up in all
public places, and afterwards sent back to our Cabinet Mi-
nistry, with a certificate of its having been published as above.
(L. S.) " ERNEST AUGUSTUS.
" G. VON SCHELE.
" Hanover, July 5, 1837."

The Reformers must not suppose that our gratitude
to heaven for mercifully averting the accession of the
PRINCE to the Throne of these realms who issued the
above despotical manifesto, originates in time doubt of
the result of the mortal struggle that would ensue.
Right well do we know on whose side would be
the victory. The events which placed the House
of Hanover on the Throne of these realms are too
fresh in our memory to permit us for an instant to doubt
the certain triumph of the people. But when liberty
can be maintained without forcing a nation through the
bloody and demoralizing ordeal of a revolution, a glo-
rious moral triumph is achieved for which mankind
cannot be too grateful to the Almighty Ruler and Di-
rector of the destinies of all sublunary states. A single
day would at any time suffice to deliver England from
the yoke about to be imposed on Hanover ; but such
a day, we hope not to live to witness.

What course the Hanoverians will take with respect
to the maintenance of their Constitution remains to be
seen. If they allow it to be thus wrested from them'
at the command of a Despot, we will only say of them
that they a►e subjects every way worthy of the Sove-
reign who now claims their love and allegiance. We
know what we would do under similar circum-
stances ; and so, likewise do they. What we would
do ourselves, that would we recommend to others, did
we hope that our counsel would influence their conduct.

It may be of some moment to the people of Hanover
to know that the British Government will not lend
itself to support the absolute policy of the Duke of
CUMBERLAND in his newly acquired dominions. If
they soceumb to Royal Dearep, abolishing their
Constitulion, they will have only themselves to blame
for the loss of • their liberties. They are strong enough
to assert their own independence, and should they do

so in a Coustitutional manner, they have nothing to
fear, but on the contrary, everything to hope from the
liberal mympathies of England.

The whole of the French Papers of Thursday have
been received. They are dest►tute of any domestic
news worth communicating. The Government had re-
ceived from Spain the following telegraphic dispatches:
" PERPIGNAN, JULY 12.
" NARnONNE, JULY 11.—Barcelona was tranquil on the 9th,
and the new Constitution had been proclaimed there. A courier
was to have left it on the 10th for Bergs."
" The Baron de Meer was on the 7th at Parnadella, on his
return from the Ebro.

" BAYONNE, JULY 10, EIGHT P.M.—Nlirasol has arrived at
Bayonne. Jaureguy has temporarily taken the command,
O'Donnell keeping that of the vanguard. The troops have
been paid, and tranquillity restored. Similar troubles took
place at Bilboa and Castro, but without any bad results. Gen.
Rendon is not dead, nor has there been any engagement at
Hernani. Espartero, appointed generalissimo of the troops
acting against Don Carlos in Catalonia, Valencia, Arragon,
and Castile, remains nominal Commander-in-Chief of the
Army of the North, of which Escalera takes the direction.
Espartero, with some troops, has gone to the head-quarters of
Oraa, who is at Teruel, where Buerens is to join them on the
9th with his division. The corps of Nogueras was at Alca-
nitz, and another at Ilijar. Don Carlos was on the sth at La
Cenia. He was rejoined by Quelez and the cavalry, who had
gone after the passage of the Ebro. On the 6th General
Escalera returned to Logrono with all the troops. The Car-
lists in the Incartaciones returned likewise."

Don CA RLOS will not reach Madrid this year at the
rate at which he has progressed since he crossed the
Ebro. His mode of warfare, too—.which is that of
GOMEZ and CABRERA—indicates that he has more
faith in the fleetness, than in the valour of hi 4 fol-
lowers.