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London, England, 1839-12-26 00:00:00

LONDON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26,1839,

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as it shows the spirit that pervades
this deasely-populated district. A stranger who
arrived here late in the evening made some in-
quiri'•s at one of the. small houses, inhabited by a
family of one of the working classes. Ile had scarcely
qurti: d the house before it was surrounded by a largo
numLer of Charti,:ts, who ntA', only inquired the cOject
of the stranger's visit, hut showed evident symptoms of
their resolve to punish the unknown intruder as a spy.
In fact, suspicion is the order of the day. On Sunday
night two strangers put up in a very respectable inn,
and they had been only shown to their chambers when
the suspicious landlord communicated their arrival, and
his consequent alarm to one of the Magistrates, who
was actually compelled to accompany Boniface, and
make some inquiries respecting them, before the anxieties
of the former were allayed. This state of society is one
of the beauties of Chartism.

On Christmas-day the Chartists dine together at the
Angel Inn, which, by the by, is kept by a staunch Con-
servative. The profits of this fe:rst will also be handed
over to the fund raising for the defence of Frost and his
fellow-prisoners. During the day the beer-houses.
were crowded with Chartists. Drury, a delegate of
the late Convention, is said to be here. The authorities
have a strict watch after him, as they are resolved to
arrest him, should he attempt to disturb the peace by
his insane and inflammatory harangues.
TWELVE O'CLOCK AT NlGHT.—There are at this
moment no less than four Chartist lodges holding in dif-
ferent parts of the neighbourhood : bat although the
Magistrates have scouts in all directions, nothing has as
yet transpired to show the objects which those infa-
tuated men have in view.
A macnine has been constructed at Monmouth, under
the supervision of the Magistrates, by means of
which the prisoners will be conveyed from the prison
van into the Court without being annoyed by the crowd
that may be assembled, and for their security. This
plan has been adopted, it is said, in consequence of a
soldier having inadvertently wounded a man with his
bayonet in attempting to push him back as the latter
was attempting to force himself forward to have a view
of the prisoners on their departure from the Court after
tLeir arraignment.

SPEECH Oh LOUIS PHILIPPE.

OPENING OF THE FRENCH CHAMBERS.

By the French mail of Monday we have received the
Speech of the King of the French on opening the
Chambers. Everything went off quietly. The follow-
ing is the King's Speech :
PEERS AND DEPUTIES OF FRANCE—

Since the termination of your last Session, the interior
peace to which your loyal assistance has so greatly eon-
ributed, has not been disturbed. I have been apprised
by a witness who is very dear to me of fresh marks o.
affection and confidence of the French.

The eldest of my sons, in visiting this year a great
part of my kingdom, has observed wherever he has
been, a great supply of work, the progress of industry,
respect lor the institutions, and obedience to the laws
My heart has been deeply touched on seeing in the na-
tional attachment which has surrounded my son, a fresh
cause for his brothers and himself to devote themselves
unceasingly, at all times and places, for the service of
their country, and for the honour of France. My rela-
tions with Foreign Powers have preserved the pacific
character which the common interests of Europe de-
mand.

Our flag, in concert with that of Great Britain, is
faithful to the spirit of this union, so advantageous to
the interests of the two countries, has watched over the

independence and the immediate security of the Ottoman
Empire. Our interests are always to secure the preser-
vation and integrity of this empire, whose existence is so
essential to the preservation of the general peace.
Our efforts have at last succeeded in stopping those

hostilities in the East which we had wished to have pre-
vented ; and whatever may be the complications which
may result from the diversity of interest, I hope that
the agreement of the Great Powers will soon end in an
equitable and pacific conclusion.

A great change has been effected in the situation of
Spain, and if I have to regret not being able to an-
nounce to you that the civil war which has so long
desolated this kingdom is entirely at an end, still this
war has lost its character of gravity which would givs
rise to alarming apprehensions for the stability of the
constitutional throne of Isabella the Second. The
greatest part of the northern provinces is pacified, and
we are allowed to hope that those of the cast will not
be long behind hand.
This important result is owing the wise conduct of the
Government of the Queen Regent, and to the persever-
ing velour of the Spanish army, supported by the assist-
mice which my Government has given them, and that of
her Britannic Majesty, by the faithful execution of the
treaties of 1834.

In America, the Mexican government has fulfilled its
engagement of the treaty which I have terminated with
that republic. The blockade of the ports of the Argen-
tine republic still retains one of our squadrons. Fresh
forces have been directed to this distant point, in order
to hasten the satisfaction V\ hich is due to us.

In Africa, nbw hostilities call for a decided suppres-
§ion, Our brave soldiers and our agiiculturistS, to
whom my sect by his presence bad proved my solicitude
towards them, have been treacherously attacked. The
:ogress of our establishments in the province of Al..
f.rs and of Constantine has been the cause of this un-

~led•for attack ; which aggression must be resented, in
ler that its recurrence may be impossible, and that
~thing may interrupt the continuation of that prosperity
~;,twined for it by France, which the French nation
1-never surrender.

\. fresh supply of troops have already arrived in

and every possible means have been employed
„horten the duration of the war, by carrying it on

vigour ; that hereafter the inhabitants of Algeria,
;. those tribes who shall remain faithful to France,

ever; where find sure protectinn. The expenses
for tha..t purpose will be placed before the
:ambers, to be subject to their controul. I have the
, ,de that their ttsscgt will be obtained, which has never
2n refused when the honour of our arms and our
:;•rnanent interests have been called in question.
'rile state of our finances allows of such increased

..;penses, The question of the sugar trade, which the
iatiibers had left undecided last session, has, during
absence, been momentarily decided. A project of
law will be placed before you on this subject, which
have for its object the protection of public and
private interests,

measures for the amelioration of the situation of
subalterns and oilleers will be brought before you.-
Your attention Will ho required to the organization
of a State Coqoeil, literary property, and public in-
struction.

Other proposals having for their objects the arrango-
mcnt of a system for civil pensions, the execution of the
principal railroad Inns, the increased improvement of
our naval powers, the prison discipline, and the intro-
duction of the penitentiary system, will be presented
to you.
In your dinient labours, your enlightened patriotism
will always search out what can most contribute to the
increase of public prosperity, and the strengthening of
Conservative principles in our institutions. Those
principles it is my duty to preserve within proper
bounds the happiness of having performed my task
will be 4,e reward of my self-devotion. Ten
year; have already elaped since the great not
took place that established me Art the throne, during
which time you have surrounded me with that assistance
which I again gd4iin from you. It is with you and in the
midst of you that I live to felicitate France on her happy
improvements in civilization and legal liberty, which
ins4tinble and turbulent spirits bad endeavoured to in
terrupt. anks to God and your loyal assistance,
their efforts have r, mained useless, and these last rem-
nants of past disorders will disappear before public reason
and the P4tional will.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, Dec, 25.—Wind, •W. S. W.—Arrived the
Tropic, King, from Batavia ; Vibilia, Pinbreath, Mau-
ritius; Falcon, Mahony, Cape ; Widgeon, Capes, do. ;
Emma Eugenia, Wade, do : Rockcry, Hughes, do. after
being on Alaljng Shoal ; Rub Roy, do.; Reform, Knight,
Tenor 'fie. •

LIVERPOOL, DEC. 24.—Wind, W. N. W. fresh breeze.
—Arrived the Lady Stormont, Forshaw, from Africa ;
Sybelle, Armstrong, China; Enterprise, Boys, Bestigngche,
Kinnaird, Singapore—sailcd the Pith August ;
pursuit, .Spruce, St. John's, New Brunswidc; Joseph
Curard, Mirarnachi ; Brisk, America; Abercrombie,
Quebee. _ _

Muse
44..seisoaund.
i iTii,
PORTSMOCTO. DFC, 24.—1 t blew a WAFY gale all last
night, from S. S. W., acgompauied at times with trenif.u.
4,1 s squalls.-25. The gala ontirmd all last night at
S.V., i 3,4 with less violence.
WliiTsTpu.4l, pp.p. 24.—The Industrious, Davis, Pf
Cardif, sank 'yesterday upon the Spaniard Sand, but wits
,t. oti after diseliarpug'part 94 4cr cargo, and towed in
Icor
g !_kuotbor vcSW ;# ITP9rO4 41 Pigif3 Paul( on the
DEC. 23.—The Magie,, Trenarus, from gi.
Ives to a. ley, zhich was on shore on Bar Point, has been
~t. or Without aamago.„—A schooner of about 40 tons,
watcr.logge,d an7rl abuAdoned, with a billet. head and a nar-
row white ribbon, was fallen in with 4t4 instant, lat. 41,
long. 54, by 9.3.! Mt......!1iae packet arrived here-
. .

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
he Speech of the King of the French, which
will be found in another column, is an innocent
document ; rather wordy and vague for a Cabinet
which contains so many Academicians,. but, on the
other hand. of a modesty quite remarkble. It in.
dniges in no praise of any Ministry or system.
Messrs. Soult, Passy, Duchatel, &c., are as much
effaced as if they were nobodies, and of no party.
They have indulged in no clap-traps, and have not
even made the most of the successes which they might
vaunt. Thus, the pacification of Spain is attri-
buted, above all, to the wisdom of the Queen Re.
gent's Government : that is to say, that it was Pe-
rez de Castro who forced Maroto to lay down his
arms. Poor Perez de Castro had as little hand in it
as Marshal Soult. The speech is little communica-
tive in foreign policy. All that it says on the ques-
tion of the East might have been said six months
ago ; and yet the question has made some progress.
The only emphatic and decisive declarations in the
speech are these—that the French will never more
quit the coast of Algiers, and that the Chamber
must seek and preserve the Conservative spirit of
French institutions, i.e., that electoral reform is to
be rejected. Yet these are about the promises that
ought to be last made : for what French Govern-
ment can tell how long France may deem it her in-
terest to keep Algiers, or how long it may be the
humour of France to suffer 150,000 of its thirty-
three millions of population to monopolize electoral
rights and influence ? There is not a word of the
Five per Cents., the state of the finances merely
permitting the country to face the extra expenses of
the Algerine war and colonization. The strength
of the speech lies, however, in its weakness—in its
putting forth not a peg whereon to hang an
amendment or a debate. Our correspondent writes,
that never was an opening of the Chambers more
cold : the effervescence of party was wanting even
amongst the benches of the Deputies ; and, if the
character of the Session might be augured from its
opening, it promises to be without energy, and
lifeless.

(From the Times.)
The exhibition made by a certain Morning
slanderer in its career of impertinence towards her
Majesty the Queen Dowager, and the circle of No-
blemen and their families constituting her imme-
diate Household, has been so discreditable to the
character of the English press, that it ought to be
even more signally chastised and reprobated than it
yet has been. We more than doubt, indeed, whe-
ther any Englishman (using the word in its strictest
sells?) can have lent himself to any such system of
rancorous and disgraceful malice. But see how
each libel in succession has been quietly, tempe-
rately, and decisively rebuked by evidence be-
yond all question. The making tours through the
country, to raise an eclat which should throw
Queen Victoria into the. shade, was one topic,
though a vague one, and utterly uncountenanced by
even the shadow of probability, much less authority
of any description, until the Duke of Rutland came
forward in person, and, so far.as that whole district
of country which Queen Adelaide made the thea-
tre of her principal sojourn was concerned, bore tes-

tiinony to the plain fact, that if her Majesty could
have prevented it, no demonstration whatever, of
even the most decent respect to courtesy, would
have manifested itself towards the Dowager Queen
of England. The insulting sneer as to her Ma-
jesty's motives, for waiving her proposed visit to the
Duke of Devonshire, by reason, as was pretended,
of his Grace being a Whig, though of the ancient
and classic stamp, received an equally significant
overthrow, on the authority of that respectable No-
blemen, who assigned the specific ground on which
he had himself suggested to her Majesty the post-
ponement of her visit to Chatsworth. Next came
the refutation of the Lisbon lie, which had im•
puted to Queen Adelaide the use while in that capi-
tal of slighting expressions towards Queen Victoria,
on the subject of her occupations and amusements.
It would appear that the flat contradiction
thus administered to its falsehoods had thrown
the Morning libeller into a condition little
short of temporary insanity—that state of the fa-
culties which, as Mr. Wakley would instruct one of
his Middlesex juries, must bar any verdict of
"filo de se." Under the mortification of exposed
and hooted malice, thus the maniac raves, " We
will put the Court gossip at Lisbon entirely out of
view." (There is method in this madness we ac-
knowledge.) "We will give her" (Queen Ade-
laide's) "violent partisans" (what violence has
been displayed by any but this unmanly enemy ?)
" the full advantage of the Duke of Palmella's
denial, carried to its utmost extent" (that is to
the fUll extent of proving the Morning journalist a
profligate and audacious calumniator ;) " but under
the cover of this advantage, who but the veriest
fools or knaves will be led astray by the ludicrous
contortions and grimaces of our Tory Contempo-
raries at the notice which we have at various times
deetnedit right (11) to take of the Tory demonstra-
tions made by the little knot of courtiers who surround
the Queen Dowager?" Now the ''notice taken," that
is the falsehoods told,concerned principally the Queen
Dowager herself, but when the lie direct is punish-
ed, next comes a shuffling equivocation to screen it.
He goes on, " The game played by these worthies,
aided by the Tory press, was a deep, and until sue "
(hoity toity I) " interfered, a successful one. The
object was to impress on the country a belief that
all the virtue, piety, and propriety of the Royal
family, were centred in the persons of Queen Ade-
laide and her chamberlains, and that the Court of

her mistress" (mistress?) " and Sovereign was
degraded by conduct of an entirely opposite cha-
racter. In furtherance of this object, orators, lay
and clerical, have not scrupled in their political
orgies to apply the most disgusting and disloyal
epithets to her Majesty's Royal person, to her
Household, and her Ministers." There are to he

made, en passant, just three remarks with reference
to the above sentence-1. It is a downright false-
hood to affirm tint any Conservatives, " clerical or
lay," bearing the rank or name of gentlemen, have
at any time, or under any circumstances, applied
er iercst ooarfri
eal'isenrolmttoorayi
jo.aeulsstplyyesr
dsHoi
snor,eups
ueititla.obl(lliet,
epithets importing the slightest disrespect to her
that
le
entmh
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and pertinaciously retained therein after those
iisnidaijtveriusdteuy a l tsCih,
open and repeated exposures of their character,
towards which it was the duty of every good man
in the community to contribute whatever factS had
come within his knowledge, which it was most es-
pecially the duty of the-Conservative Press to pro-
mulgate, and which it is quite true that the Press
has recorded, with a force and accuracy which no
time will obliterate ; affixed, as it is, in the nature
of an indelible stigma upon those responsible ad-
visers of the Crown by whom Queen Victoria's
Household has been formed. 3. It is the first time
we ever read, mose particularly in a Journal call-
ing itself " liberal," the term " disloyal" applied
to British subjects, on account of any epithets,
however severe or reproachful, by which, in the
full exercise of their freedom of opinion, they might
think proper to designate the Ministers of the
Crown for the selfish knavery and venal wicked-
ness of their public conduct. However, this
is rot the first example by many of the
eagerness with which these mean and de-
graded Ministers have sought to identify them-
selves with their Royal mistress, and to
pass off for dislo) alty to her the just and indig-
nant animadversions of the public on themselves
and their iniquities. But the disordered libeller
goes further:—" The Queen Dowager has been
paraded about the country, housed, fed, and be-
praised by the Tories, and herself and her qualities
held up eternally in contrast with the Queen. This
indecency must and shall be put a stop to! '' Must
and shall! ! How imperial ! But by what means
short of a suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act,
logether with some expedient for cutting out all
Tory tongues, is the above high and niighty "shall"
to be put in execution ? The offences are " pa-
rading" the Queen Do,,vager—" housing" the
Queen Dowager, "feeding '' the Queen
-Dowager,,, hepraising the Queen Do 'a•
vr, and " holding her up eternal'',y
in contrast
with the Queen," These are the " inde-
cencies," quoth the Pimlico Macsycophant,
which must and shall be put down." Well,
then, try your hand, Jack Ketch. Let's
sep how you set about the putting down of this new
class of treasons, As for holding up the Queen
Dowager in contrast with the Queen, it is your own
1;1(14 unlawfully begotten, and you may do with it
what' you Plea"' for nobody else
will own it. No
Cijisrvative at least has ever been guilty of that
species Qf imiccoT 11‘4 h") "" only t)" oneh
c power of seizing anti incarcerating every man in

the kingdom, you will prevent the nobility of Eng-
land from receiving Queen Adelaide into their
" houses," and giving her Majesty " food" conve-
nient for her ; and how, while any moral sense or
esteem for virtue prevails amongst the people—how,
without gagging men, or cutting out their tongues,
will this apostle of liberty succeed in silencing all
who feel inclined to " praise" Queen Adelaide ?
The venom of this bloated spider wastes itself on
the insect's own vitals. In allusion to Queen Ade-
laide's dower, liberally and honourably administered
under her Majesty's controul, and enjoyed as freely
by others as by her Majesty, the foolish bravo of
the Treasury threatens no less than its resumption
by a Radical vote of the House of Commons, in
revenge for the beneficent employment of it by the
widow of William IV. Only hear him :
" But if this enormous sum of money is to be un-
blushingly applied to political purposes, it will become
the duty of Parliament to interfere, and declare that
when this excessive allowance was made, it was never
intended that it should be made applicable to objects
directly hostile to the reigning Sovereign—the head of
that family with which Queen Adelaide is incidentally
connected. It is denied that the Queen Dowager has
ever censured or ridiculed the mode of life and the.; tastes
and habits of her Sovereign, Queen Victoria. Our in-
formation unquestionably is at variance wirct this state-
ment ; but of this we are certain, that the language of
the Tories, who fill all the offices about the Queen Dow-
ager's person, is openly, loudly, and invariably of that
nature ; and that of this her Majesty is, and long has
been,cognisant."

The-atrocity of the above passage speaks for
itself, and if proof can be had of its being instigated
or en couragedby any one of her Majesty's Ministers
(Lords Melbourne and John Russell we acquit at
once of such unmanly baseness), but if proof can be
had that any other of Queen Victoria's Ministers
has been capable of abetting a charge upon the
Queen Dowager of levying what may be termed
war against her Sovereign, then we say that bring-
ing such a man to the bar of the House of Lords
would be an outrage upon the dignity of that illus-
trious tribunal, and a disgrace to the process of
impeachment. He is a fit subject for more summary
and less formal vengeance. The concluding accu-
sation—viz., that the language of Queen Adelaide's
Household is invariably hostile to her Royal niece,
we leave to be dealt with by that Nobleman who
addressed us in Tuesday's Times upon the subject,
and whose letter, spurning the calumny from him,
we here once more insert. As for the observations
of the Times upon Queen Adelaide early in the
year 1832, when the opinion very generally
circulated was, that her Majesty had interfered with
her personal influence to impede the progress of the
Reform Bill, for which we then were, as we still are,
strenuous and cordial advocates, we spoke our own
feelings and those of the public. We did so con-
scientiously, and without either sneering, spiteful,
or offensive expressions. It afterwards appeared,
that in common with the country, we were misin-
formed, and that her Majesty's name had been un-
justly implicated. We did not, in contempt of
truth, or in impatience of correction, persist in our
censures on the Queen. There was nothing dis-
respectful in the tone of our articles. Can others
say as much ?

(From the Morning Advertiser.)
The most profligate and insolent of the Tory
organs crowned, a day or two ago, its insults to the
working classes, by professing for them a violent
and unalterable affection. The appeal of the
Times to the intelligent Radicals of Sheffield was
an elaborate version of the old proposal—" A sud-
den thought strikes me ; let us swear eternal friend-
ship !" Whether the working men are recom-
mended at one time to attack their political oppo-
nents with brickbats and bludgeons, or are them-
selves attacked at another time with a virulency
and pertinacity no less brutal, they are equally, it
seems, to put faith in the zealous devotedness of

their adviser ! This is rather too farcical. The
Times affects that its friendship is to have no end,
while the working men well know that it never had a
beginning :—a slight difference. On the very sub-
ject which is. the theme of the Sheffield address
—the Corn-laws—what has been the conduct of

that venial journal ? Convinced, as it professes to
be, of the ruinous.effects of the condemned system,
did it originate the
.agitation of last year ? Did
it aid the agitators in any way ? Did it report their
proceedings, back their arguments, and echo their
appeals for justice ? No ; while every other daily
paper took its part in the strife, denouncing or en-
couraging the efforts of the Reformers, the Times
was silent on the one subject of vital interest. But
never, during all that time, did it miss an opportu-
nity of vilifying and defaming the leading advocates
of repeal. At last, when the storm was raging
throughout the land, and Right became gloriously
assured of its ultimate triumph over Might, out came
the Times (the last of all the advocates) with its
" sudden thought," and its reluctant exposition of
the mischiefs of monopoly. Since that clay it has
scarcely hinted at the subject. The repairing of a
pump, or the erection of a lamp-post in the inter-
esting parish of St. George, Southwark, presents a
subject a thousand times more attractive and impor-
tant to the Times, than the mighty question of the
Corn-laws, affecting the destinies of an empire. In
this, however, the Times has but followed the ex-
ample of the party it supports. When did the Tories
ever become voluntary converts to the popular faith ?
When did they ever do good but upon compul-
sion ? When did they concede until concession had
lost half its value, and all its grace ? As in the
case of the Times and the Corn-laws, the Tories
never supported one great principle of liberal policy
until they felt that they were siding with the
stronger party, and that its success was inevitable.
In ill-doing they have always acted by design ;
when, at rare intervals, they have been on the right
side, it has been the result of circumstances. The
nation owes them not one solitary debt of gratitude.
" What," asks the Journal referred to, " the
difference between one Government and another,
that should impel us to prefer the Conservatives to
your pretended Liberals ? Why, just that identical
difference which would induce people to prefer a
skilful, cautious, and straightforward physician to
a boastful and blood-ducking quack." Let us
ask, in turn, in -,cnat respect have the Tories proved
their skill, caution, and straightforwardness as
physicians ? While in office they ventured once
or twice into the dreaded regions of liberality. But
did they prescribe the repeal of the Test and
Corporation Acts, like skilful, cautious, and
straightforward physicians ?—or did they with-
hold it until the patient became too trouble-
some, and to consent was more convenient
than to resist ? They did not give the re-
quired remedy—it was wrung from them by
the united and untiring energies of the Dissenters
themselves. They also effected some financial re-
forms—actually diminished the expenditure. Wil-
lingly? No; the physicians were pestered out of
their lives, and begrudged what they yielded ; they
prescribed extravagance, and a partial economy was
forced upon them ; there was nothing " straight-
forward" in their honesty—they were only honest
for the sake of comfort. Above all, they prescribed
emancipation for the Catholic disease that raged
like a pestilence in the land. How did they pre-
scribe it ? Like " skilful, cautious, straightforward
physicians?" No ; they had watched the progress
of the malady, and would allow no remedies to be ap-
plied ; they left it to work its own cure, until the case
became absolutely desperate; then, when the patient
grew delirious, and to hold him down longer seemed
rather dangerous, they yielded to his demand, and
administered the remedy—thus confessedly obey-
ing his will in opposition to their own judg-
ment. Now what is to be said of the skill, cau-
tion, &c., of a physician who declares the draught
which the patient needs to be deadly—and, when
he is driven mad by the want of it, allows him to
prescribe for himself, and even consent*, to admi-
nister the poison to him ? So tw.:icti for the career
of the Tories while in office, In opposition have
they been more skilful, cautious, and straightfor-
ward ? When the languishing, afflicted country
had summoned other physicians to its aid, the To-
ries could discover the advantage of opening the
China trade, of emancipating the Degrees, of
amending the Poor-laws, and of reforming the mu-
nicipal of England and Scotland.
Why, when they were the state physicians, were
these remedies unprescribed ? The evils had long
been notorious ; yet these " skilful, cautious, and
straightforward" practitioners left the cure of them
to men whom they affect to deride
as c<boastful
quacks"—though at the. time they, concurred with
these " boastful quacks,' -An deeming the prescrip-
tions wise and the remedies efficacious f In thus
briefly referring to some Of the great measures that
have been wru»,e
6 roil?, the Tory opposition,
we I'7, answered a question which the Times has
the ef4l'ontery to append to the ptepoaition adverted
to. "- I,Vhat;" inquires the oliidonit'sYnlPd./...',Slng