The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-20 00:00:00

THE SPEECH.

" Gentlemen of the Chambers of Peers and Deputies—
" France is free and tranquil. Her prosperity rapidly in-
creases; her institutions are daily gaining strength, and she
trusts more and more in their stability.
" The restored empire of the laws has permitted me to fol-
low the impulse of my heart. A great act, the recollection
of which will ever be dear to me—the amnesty, has proved the
strength of my Government. It has calmed the minds,
weakened the influence of bad passions, and discouraged each
day, more and more, those who indulged in projects of disorder.
" I was anxious for the convocation of the electoral col-
leges. My confidence in the country has not been deceived.
I shall experience from you that frank support which my
Government received during seven years from the Chambers,
in order to secure to France the blessings of order and peace.
" I have only to congraturate myself on my relations with
all the Foreign Powers, and never did general peace appear to
me more assured.

" Civil war, nevertheless, is still desolating the Peninsula.
The Queen Regent supports with courage and perseverance
the rights of her august daughter, Queen Isabel 11. I con-
tinue to execute faithfully the stipulations of the treaty of the
quadruple alliance, and I hope that a cause which has all our
sympathies will ultimately succeed.
" The marriage of the eldest of my sons has fulfilled my
wishes. The recollection of this event, a source of so much
happiness for my family, will always be inseparable from that
of the marks of affection which France, the Chambers,
and the inhabitants of this capital bestowed on a young Prin-
cess who became one of my children.
" My second daughter, Princess Marie, has since contracted
an alliance which will increase our relations of friendship with
neighbouring states.
" In Africa our expectations have been fulfilled. The
French flag waves on the walls of Constantine. If victory
has sometimes done more for the power of France, it has
never raised to a higher pitch tl,e glory and honour of its
arms. My son, the Duke do Nemours, took the part which
belonged to him in the danger. His younger brother wished
to join him, and to share that community of labour and danger
which for along time identified my sons with the army. Their
blood belongs to France, the same as that of all her children.
" In addressing to Heaven thanksgiving for protection af-
forded to our arms, I have to deplore with you the loss of so
many brave men kited in the field of honour. The country
surrounds their biers with its regrets,and its gratitude. It has
ratified in advance all which I had ordered to satisfy the pub-
lic sorrow, and to discharge her debt towards its heroic sup-
porters. A project of law will be presented to you to give to
the widow and children of the brave General Damremont
a testimonial of national gratitude. I have promoted to the
first dignity of the army, the old warrior who has succeeded
him, and who, to use his own language, has never in his long
career seen anything which our young soldiers have not now
equalled.
" In the east of Algiers, as in the west, I desired peace,

but the obstinacy of the Dey who commanded at Constan-
tine obliged us once more to prove to the natives of our
African possessions that they must renouce resistance to us.
In the west a convention has been concluded, of which the
conditions are faithfully executed, and the results of which are
already happy.
" A complete description of our situation in Africa will be
presented to you, and I shall have to ail: of you the means
of providing for the wants of our establishments.
" Everywhere our squadrons give to our commercial rela-
tions the support and protection which they have a right to
expect. Envoys have sailed from our ports to smooth the
difficulties so long opposed to the execution of the engage-
ments made by Hayti with France. At the same time a na-
val force is going to the coast of Mexico to secure for the
French who trade in the interior of that country, the justice
and safety which are due to them.

" I have concluded with the Bolivians a treaty of commerce,
and I hope that we shall in succession establish with all the
States of South America connexions of which our commerce
will feel the happy effects.

" The situation of our finances continues prosperous, and
the public revenue has increased since last session.

" The projects of law announced by the 69th article of the
Charter will be again presented to you.
" For a long time our penitentiary system called for all the
attention of my Government. You will have to examine the
project of law for its improvement. Another project of law
will have for its object the reform of our legislation with re-
spect to commercial companies.
" Already considerable funds have been voted for public
works. It remains with you to complete our great lines of
communication, and to create new ones, in order to facilitate
the conveyance of the continually increasing products of our
agriculture and our industry. Collective views on this vast
subject will be presented to you, as well as detailed plans of
several important undertakings.
" Never have I found myself surrounded by the Chambers
under more unfavourable circumstances. Let us learn, Gen-
tlemen, to preserve by our union and our wisdom what we have
acquired by our courage and our patriotism. Let us endea-
vour to efface the painful recollections of all our dissensions,
and let there not remain any other trace of the agitations from
which we have suffered so much, except a deeper feeling of
the necessity of preventing their return. Let us persist in the
regular and peaceable system to which we owe the increase of
wealth and prosperity, which France now enjoys.
" This is the dearest wish of my heart. My life is conse-
crated to the maintenance of all the securities of our peace and
our liberties, and it is to accomplish this great work that I
claim your concurrence."
M. Barthe, Minister of Justice, then called over the names
of the newly elected Peers, who took the oath in the usual
form. The Minister of the Interior, Couat Mountalivet,
went through the same ceremony with regard to the Deputies,
the whole of whose names were called over. One of the De-
puties, whose name we could not distinctly hear, instead of
the Constitutional formula Je le jure, answered to his name
with the word present! This momentary fit of absence, if we
may call it so without a misnomer, excited much merriment,
in which the King himself joined. M. Barthe then, in the
usual form, announced that the session of 1838 was duly
opened, and his Majesty and the Princes having bowed to the
Deputies and the auditory, withdrew by the passage on the
left, amidst reiterated cheering. The Queen and her suite
left her Majesty's tribune about the same time.
The reading of the speech occupied scarcely ten minutes,
and at the conclusion the acclamations of " Vive le Roi"
were repeated as enthusiastically as at the moment of the
King's entrance.

The Sentinelle of Bayonne of the 12th, says :—" The Pretender
is in want of money to pay for the contracts which he has entered
into, as well in the provinces as in France, with various persons who
have supplied cloth, shoes, arms, and other articles, which were de-
livered before the expedition. These persons have lately come to
receive the amount of their bills. Don Carlos has given them
Royal Bonds fur the amount duo to them."—Journal des Debuts.
PETERSBURGn, DEC. 2.—From the Private Correspond-
ence of the Constitutionnet —Ceuriers are continually crossing each
other on the high road from Moscow to Berlin ; the cause is sup-
posed to be the affair of the Archbishop of Cologne. The Em-
peror Nicholas wishes the affair to be arranged amicably, that the
the Pope may not be offended, he having shown so much com-
plaisance to the Czar at the time of the revolution in Poland. The
preparations for the war in Circassia are proceeding with great ac-
tivity. It appears that the Circassians are to be attacked at the
same time on the lines'of the Terek, of the Kouban, and in Abasia,
supported by the forfresses on the Black Sea. It is even affirmed
that the Grand Duke Alexander Nicolojcivitsh, the heir to the
Threne, will take part in the expedition under the command of
General Yermoleff, at the head of the Cossack cavalry, in the cha-
racter of Ataman. The Bulletins of Odessa say, that on the 13th
November there were only five patients in the Plague Hospital,
and that no more cases had occurred in the town or in the suburbs.
It is believed that the danger is past, and that in a short time
Odessa will be again open to trade.
A letter from Bayonne of the 12th says, " the Pretender has
summed Gomez to Amurres ; it is supposed that he intends to offer
him to accompany him on his projected expedition beyond the
Ebro, and perhaps offer him the command of it. Don Carlos, it is
thought, would take up his abode at Villa Franca, in Guipuscoa ;
some repairs doing to the House where he resided before, have
made it supposed that he is going thither again, but it is doubtful
wi:,-ther Gomez, irritated by long captivity, will choose to accept
a mission which will be equally hazardous, whether Don Carlos
puts himself at the head of the troops, or gives him the authority
of his Lieutenant. The 12 battalions which are to compose the
expedition, are almost wholly composed of deserters, prisoners, and
sonic youths from 16 to 18 years old, and volunteers recently from
their villages in Old Castile. The Navarese and the Biscayans,
if we may believe the reports from their country, positively re-
fuse to pass the Ebro again, and insist that the Castilians shall
carry the war on the other side of that river. If the Pretender
resolves to march, it is because he cannot do otherwise, and there
is no doubt that if he can avoid exposing himself without hazarding
the respect in which he is still held, he will pass the winter on this
side of the Ebro, awaiting for the course of events.—Moniteur.

FRENCH FUNDS.. PARIS, Dm 18.
Five per Cents., PM. ICE 95c. 108 f.
F. nn. per Cents., 1011 S'lc.
Three per Cents., 791 10c. 15c.
Bank Actions, :2,575f.
Itente de Naples, 951. 15c.
Roman Five per Cents., 1004%%.
Spanish Actives, 21 20% 21%.
Spanish Passives, 4%.
Belgian Loan, 1021. 74.
Brussels Society, 1,79.0 f.
Belgian Bank, 1,540 f. 1,545 f.
Portugue,e Three per Cents., 1934%.
Dutch Two and a half per Cents., 54%.
Haytian Loan, 370 f.

EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 47 4c. ; money, 25f. 45c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 30c.; money, 25f. 30c.
—Coors Authentioue.
LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents. 10-4.
Three per Cents., 79f. 2Uc.
Bank Actions, 2,575 f.
Romans, 1003.
Belgian Loan, 102 X.
Belgian Bank, 1,545 f.
Brussels Society, 1,720 f.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 193(.
Spanish Actives, 21%.
Spanish Passives, 5%.
Haytian Loan, 370 f.
Dutch Two and a Half per Cents.; 543{.

Madrid Papers of the 11Th inst. have come to hand
A royal decree of the 9th appoints General ESPINOSA—
an officer popular with no party—Minister of War. There
was no business of importance before the Cortes. Reports
were in circulation that the QUEEN intended to give the
command of the army to CORDOVA—the hero of Arlaban—
now on his way to Madrid. This indeed will be making bad
worse.