The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-07 00:00:00

EVENING F.,D ITION.

LETTER TO THE QUEEN.

BY A COUNCILLOR OF THE

We extract from this pamphlet, which is com-
monly, ai:d? we believe, correctly, ascribed to Lord t,
Brougham, the fo;:;:wing very just observations on '
the case of the late Lady Flora Hastings : i
MADAM,—It is impossible for any one,. be his party \
in polities what it may, if he have the common feelings '
of our nature, to approach your Majesty withoe Pr' I\
found respect, or to contemplate your peculiar situ. bill
without a feeling of the most touching interest. W ‘l' 1
other Monarchs of tender years have been called to €lll f
the thrones of mighty kingdoms, and been compelled 1 .-0 I
act under the guidance of others, or to rule by vicarious
authority, it has pleased Divine Providence to place in
your Majesty's unfettercd hands, the sceptre of the
greatest empire in the world, one `c upon which the sun
never sets ;" and while barely of the age which the law
of the land recognizes as entitling you to act, you have
wielded that seqstre for above two eventful years with
as entire self-possession as it you had long ago attained
majority, with as much general acceptance among your
people as the greater part of your predecessors, with as
few errors as fall to the lot of men or of princes, and
without a single mischance which could be imputed to
the inexperience of youth. I sincerely hope that your
reign may be long and glorious, honourable to yourself
and happy for your people. But I ouch question if
after it has closed, be its lustre ever so bright., there
will be found in it any passage more striking h'.is a
peculiarity to which I have alluded as marking :1.5n oar
the
e.
mencement.
From the tone and tenor of what I have now , pre-
sumed to say, it will manifestly appear to one f sr less,,
discerning than yourself, Madam, that the purpt Ise of
this letter is wholly devoid of any factious or cap .tious
feeling. With the profound respect due to my : Sove-
reign are united in me the feelings of admiratio, 3 in-
spired by her personal qualities, and the interest e• :cited
by her singular position. Attracted by the sight of
what is so apt to engage the heart as w•ell as to strike
the understanding, I have gone along ,pith the: g rest
bulk of your Majesty's subjects in forming i,o my sell 'the
brightest hopes and expectations of the ,vuture. Yet
the unparalleled difficulties that beset yoL tr path tina-
voidably give rise to some disquietude in ( 'ur bos ours,
and it is the pelt of a good subject—part. I.on the, ex-
pression, Madam, if I add, it is the part of a .true
friend—to point out every possible danger, and to prt le'
r
incurring the chance of being deeme.d officious by offe
ing superfluous coun-el rather than see your Majesl
run the risk of meeting perils of which no wart tillig bad

been given.
But in entering on this very anxious att en ipt to
direct your Majesty's attention to the diffit.ulties o. f your
position, I am met by the suggestion, that some ; things
have recently occurred, if not to weaken t
the re specs
hitherto felt by the people, yet to cool for A me meat
the people's loyal enthusiast). In some sort• this rnaY
have been unavoidable. Fits of heat and cold art apt
to alternate in the public mind. The glow of et: ter
gerated devotion is succeeded by the chill w. Bich
the
exhausted spirits naturally undergo. And no men's'
human creature could have realized all that was at fit
pictured in prospect of your reign. Yet your I ",...ajest)
has given no just cause of disappointment. rirhe un-
happy affair of Lady Flora Hastings leas been put for-
ward as the reason why the general erethuslasni
may
have suffered some reaction. I believe if that lam ens
le
person had never been born or had not diecie the peoPlf
arisen
of this country might have felt the same a;Sateak"! een
their zeal ; far 1 am intimately persuaded that it has
partly from the mere alteration of their spirits.' a
partly from their own extravagant expectations..
Let me, however, pause for a while to ask if tbertehbaet
any just foundation for even the momentary feeleg, the
has arisen out of this unfortunate lady's case. eted
first place, I am somewhat astonished at the atealta-
care of your Majesty's name, which has been olst
tiously paraded throughout the controversy.
th sides)
succeeding statement (and pretty equally on
dis osi
n
has manifested a reluctance to name names, •t
tion to stop, a desire not to implicate, or to coroml •
in short, all have as significantly indicated that
there
was something to conceal as if they had said so—ennid
all have by their studiously assumed mystery, as ploinq
pointed to the Sovereign as if they had named her sa-
cred name. I see no one, even on the side of the
Court, who has taken either of the ties) courses whicit
could alone have effected the purpose they all appeared
to have in view—namely, either made no mystery stbout
the matter, or at once assumed the whole responsibility.
I have next to observe, that I do not believe tht, in-
ferences which are so freely drawn among the credu-
lous and the gossips, and which, through the fa.;nte
heartedness of some, the blundering of others, and t he
clumsy kindness of not a few well-wishers, have for n
season been pointed against your Majesty. Nor is
niy
disbelief at all singular ; it is shared by
the most
acute, practised, and sagacious persons of tr•Y ac"
quaintauce. the
I come now to what is of far more importance to
question—namely, to show that it is utterly immaterial
whether the inferences to which I have alluded be true
or false. For I will at once suppose your Majesty 'Wee
induced to regard the rumours afloat in the Palace, t°
partake in the previous suspicions—nay, I will suppose,
for argument's sake, that these suspicions originated
with your Majesty, which I know to be untrue ;
and still I will venture to assert, that no on e in
your Majesty's exalted but delicate situation could
have done otherwise than act upon such suspicions as
soon as they arose, and require immediate measures to
be taken for either confirming them or laying them at
rest.
Let it only be considered in what position the Queen
of this country stands with respect to the purity of her
own character and of her Court, if she he unmarried
and young, without the shield of long-tried viietue during
a life of some duration, and without the couosel
aid of a husband ore brother. Taught, and most justly
taught, from her infancy to regard a breach of feeusla
virtue as among the worst of crimes, she is dee).*
aware of the pollution never to be washed out, wide
which its sufferance among those who surround the
throne must taint the whole Court. The natural
course of feeling in a young person thus circumstanced
must be to view this contamination with an exaggerated
severity and alarm, and it could scarcely be matter of
astonishment, if, under the first influence of this impres-
sion, all other feelings had been weakened ; among them
the sympathy and charity towards the individual, which
under other circumstances would have prevailed. Let
no one doubt that if a Queen under twenty years of
age could regard such things with any but the strongest
feelings of horror, her palace at a more advanced period
of her life would emulate the Courts of the Catherines
' and Elizabeths of Russia.
On examining the facts (so Jar as they are known to
the public) of this unhappy affair, it is impossible to
• deny that errors of judgment may have been commit-
ted ; yet it does not appear to me that feeling towards
the individual was disregarded, more than the necessity
of the case rendered inevitable. It may be regretted
that some communication was not at once made to an
' Illustrious Lady, Lady Flora's Royal Mistress, and.e'
the time being her natural protector. Yet that tnis
error could have produced any evils affecting LadY
Flora's honour I cannot for a moment suppose, for the
; inquiry was a matter of absolute necessity, and Lady
Flora's honour imperatively required that everything
should be made as public as possible. Whether the
Duchess of Kent was apprized of these suspicions earl,'
. or late, or not at all, could make but little difference
upon this point. The existence of the suspicious ell'
cumstance is admitted ; the existence of the suspici°
is admitted ; the generality
of the impression is admitted.
Then from that—nay, from the suspicion being enter.
tamed by your Majesty for one hour, and whether it
, were carried by others to your mind, or suggested
itself without any communication—from its existence
for an hour there followed inevitably the neces;
sity of an inquiry on your Majesty's account, and 01
r publicity on Lady Flora's. This is a position from
' which I cannot be driven. For I will suppose
further that you had sent ever so secret a message
to Lady Flora or your Royal Mother, or only to one
of them—i will suppose that you had made the•com-
, munication ti Lady Flora herself in the most
manner—nay, I will suppose, contrary to the whole
truth of the case, that the suspicion existed in your
Majesty's mind alone, and that .hus a mere converse-
tion between two individuals had taken lace---surelY
uo friend of Lady Flora's could have been Pso wildly led'
discreet as to allow the result of this e-
, After a
aQii\ii7tind
000 fr ainversation
tion of'
the necessarily
cons&quentinquiry
to be concealedf
NV hoer er did s
sHal nocirtiti'uoeeudern
ona,s syseeur rycya,hnsteaahsn,tiltaby
csnkto:Tdtl ggejur
re
es-f
. o
tie
human nature, turd took an enormous risk upon IPiimrivsaeltf.e
! vocable word had taken its flight—no possibility
hushing
up the matter remained—and the worst even*:
of her who never deserved to have an enemy, could
have devised a more effectual course for the eado ne`
ing
of tier than to attempt concealment. Inquiry and pub;
lie ay were as essentially necessary to prevent innneenace
crom being overwhelmed, as to keep the purity of, t':a
Court untarnished. Many even have not hesitatea
affirm, that nailing but inquiry in a Court of Justice
could eff ctually accomplish the object of protecting
Lady Flora from all possibility of suspicion.
It was a very frequent and a very thong/410S re;
mark (luring the last summer, that the daughter 01
Lord Hastings had been more harshly treated than t!
housemaid would be in any private family. Wonder.fu.
want of reflection ! Is there a doubt that between noetes
of honour and maid-servants—between palaces and pri-
vate houses—there must always be a wide difference,
and that things can be easily and safely hushed up
within the walls of cottages, which within the precinct!
' of the Court it would be vain attempting to concea,
and, if possible, be perilous in the extreme. A servuet
would, even if guilty, have been quietly removed ; ,'rho
so ignorant of events, even by hearsay, as not to know
that in a palace. and with women filling the public sta-
tion of Princesses and their Ladies, this is absolute!):
out of the question ? Who so romantic as to fancy that
a lady, in accepting a high place at Court, shall be ex'
Pos,-(1 to none of the inconveniences Web tvoold
rr
I insufferable in private As well might we exclaine

LAND ON :
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1839.

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.

A Council will be held on Mond--
settle the
day for the assembling of Parliament,
,A., to
hich will be
summoned to meet, we understand, on Tuesday,
January 14.

The great object of all the tirades which are
daily vomited forth against the Ministers and her
MAJESTY about their attachment to Popery, and
the danger of Protestantism, is to turn the public
horn contemplating the beauties of the Church of
England. They all proceed from the parsons,
some of whom find access to almost all the journals
of the country, or from their political tools. These
gentry know very well drat the enormities of which the
Church has been convicted over and over again,
are bringing down on it swift and certain destruc-
tion, to avert which they have raised the " No
Popery" cry. The preservation of the Church
they assert is necessary to keep Papacy from over-
whelming the laud. Such a trick is, however, too
stale to succeed. The public are too enlightened
to
.allow this great delinquent to escape because
he impudently calls " stop thief," and directs atten-
tion to another quarter.
No person but one whose faith is very weak and
tottering will be alarmed by the No Popery cry.
)
.
tvery good Protestant, every Christian who can
'ell the grounds of the faith that is in him, will
Lonly laugh at the apprehension excited by the

parsons, of conversion by the erring Papists. If
there be the least risk of any such conversions, who
is to blame but the clergy, who have neither
taught the people the superior truth of Protestant-
ism, nor made them sensible by their conduct
that it is of greater worth ? But there is no risk
whatever that our people, if their understandings
be allowed fair play, will be converted to Popery
by either the POPE or Dr. IVPHALE ; and the ap-
prehension which the Priests endeavour to excite
of a relapse into Popery, is wholly without foun-
dation. They may have no confidence in their
own doctrines, they may have no confidence in the
people, but the people have confidence in them-
selves, and defy all the arts of the whole army of
Popish priests.

If there be no just ground for apprehension that
the people will voluntarily becom Papists, is there
any reason to believe that they c an, by any means,
be constrained to follow after the idols of Rome?
Can the POPE subjugate them with an army ?
Will O'CONNELL try, at the Ivaad of 200,000 of
the finest peasantry, to make 'viz all go to mass?
Could he find, were he and Dr. M'HALE to raise
the banner of the Cross, one single European Po:
tentate who would aid him on account of his reli-
gion ? Not one ; and the fear that the nation can
he forced back to Popery is even more idle and
groundless than the apprehension that the people
will willingly embrace it.
But Protestantism is to be extirpated, according
to that truth-telling, calm journal the Times, and
Papacy installed in its platae, according to our
political parsons, by the introduction of Mr. SHIM,
into the Privy Council, and by the Ministers being
supported by Papists. Indeed I If there be any
reason for alarm on this account, how has it hap-
pened that with Protestant Kings for upwards of a
century, with every office under Government filled
with a Protestant—with offices made only that they
might be filled with Protestants—with all the mu-
nicipalities in their hands—with the Army and
Navy for many years solely confided to them—their
Church oeing established by law—with every ad-
vantage which the Legislature could give them,
while the Catholics were exposed to all kinds of
privations and penalties--how, we ask, has it hap-
pened, if a Government can so influence the reli-
gion of a people, that there is now a single Catho-
lic in the empire ? When we sec that, in spite of
all the support which the Government could give
the Church of England, and in spite of all the
penalties which it heaped on the Catholics and
Dissenters, the Church has gone comparatively to
decay, and the Catholics and Dissenters have in-
creased, we must assert that Government can do
little or nothing for religion, that the apprehensions
which the parsons and their tools endeavour to
excite in the public of the decay of Protestantism,
from the Government falling into the hands of
Papists, if such a thing even were possible, is as
much destitute of foundation as their alarm lest the
people should be coerced into Popery, or willingly
embrace it.

There is no good ground, then, for fearing Popery ;
but the clergy raise that cry to divert public at-
tention nom their own delinquencies. They hope,
by the bugbear of the POPE, to terrify the Dis-
senters into submission to Church-rates. By ex-
citing great alarm lest Peter-pence should be revived,
and the substance of the people sponged out of them
by the Catholic priesthood, the PRETYMA NS,
and the TOMLYNS, the SPA RKES, and the SUT-
TONS, of the English Church expect to enjoy in
peace the property they have stolen from a too
confiding people. The dread of the POPE and the
dread of O'CoNNELL, will make the nation,
they think, submit to the rule of the Bishops
to Ecclesiastical Courts, and incarceration for
Church-rates, a little while longer. While
they fix our attention on the delusions prac-
tised by the Catholic priests, they fancy we
shall not take any note of their own, nor he
much offended by the contrast between their lives
and their professions. The evils, the great, glar-
ing, untouched, and unreformed evils of the Church
Establishment, are notorious and certain. We all
feel them, and suffer from them ; the evils of the
coming of Popery are all merely imaginary, they
exist only in the pelf-heated minds of the parsons,
and they are magnified a thousand-fold by them and
their tools to screen the enormities of the Church
from public view.
Such policy will only redound to the mortifica-
, non of the parsons and the Tories. All rational
and sensible Churchmen are convinced, by the
moral condition of the people, and the enor-
mous wealth of the higher order of the clergy,
that a great and searching reform is required
in the Church ; and they will resent this
very stupid attempt to scare them by an imagi-
nary danger from the attainment of a great and
certain good. The Dissenters will never be terrified

into submission to the certain tyranny of tl►e
Church by an apprehension of being hereafter sub-
jected to the uncertain tyranny of the Papacy.
Against the arrogant pretensions of the Church of
England, the Roman Catholic and Protestant Dis-
senters, and all sensible Churchmen, will make
common cause. They will not be seduced by the
No Popery cry to uphold priestcraft, nor terrified
by the roar of Protestant ascendancy into sub-
mission to Tory tyranny, accompanied by the risk
of frightful civil commotion.

The Manchester men are again bestirring them-
selves against the Corn-laws. The report of their
proceedings which appears in an another part of
The Sun, shows that that they are undaunted by
the difficulties they have had to encounter, ar,d are
determined to renew their attack in the next Session.
We wish them more success than before, which
seems probable from the fact that they will not be
opposed or, neglected by the great bulk of the people.
Recent events have not only cooled the ardour of
the Chartists, but have convinced them, we believe,
that they cannot obtain their own objects without .
the help of the middle classes, and that the best wdy
ofgetting all the substantial benefits which the Char-
ter could give them is to procure the abolition of the
Corn-laws. It may be anticipated, therefore, that
the million and a half of persons who in the early
part of the year signed the National Petition, will
next year petition for the abolition of the Corn-laws.
The deep distress which now pervades Nottingham,
Dundee, and other towns, and the rapid manner in
which our best workmen are leaving us to teach our
arts to foreigners, and get a better living abroad, will
give an earnestness and a pathos to the petitions next
Session, which must prevail over the selfish obduracy
of the landowners. Louis XIV. is said to have
inflicted a severe wound on Francebyth
workmen,
repeal of
the Edict of Nantes, by which Protestant
carrying with them the silk manufacture, were
banished from his kingdom. Spitalfields rose on
tAhesirmuiianisr Lyons, and Berlin on those of Nismes,
injury to that which lie inflicted on his
country by
redeeming
giblien avarice. ere inflicting on n stupid and more
stupid bigotry the landowners arc now
England by equally
ereTighnere seems to be something
prosperity of his people to a notion, though a verywas promoting
mistaken one, that he sacrificing the earthly
happiness ; but to sacrifice En-
gland to the groveling
t he
prosperity
s p theirrit y heavenly
of
personal selfishness of our
worthless landowners is without one redeeming
feature.

At the meeting at Manchester, Mr. BitooK Es
said the abolition of the Corn-laws Was not a po-
litical question. We differ from him. It is both a
political and party question. All the Tory Jour-
nals are ranged on one side, if all the Whig and
!Acre] Journals are not ranged on the other.
The Tories know that their fate hangs more imrne_

diately on the Corn-laws than on any other of our
many unjust laws—nor can this be disguised by
artful speeches—and they make common cause
against the abolition. They are not deceived by
the professions of their opponents, and exert them-
selves to the utmost to retain the Corn-laws More
they cannot exert tit emselves, and more vigour they
will not acquire by its being openly and boldly
stated that the abolition of the Corn-laws is both a

political and a party question. We declare, there-
fore, that the abolition of the Corn-laws is a great
anti-Tory question, and that no means can be taken
to put clown the Tories, not merely for a season
but in all time, so certain and so efficacious as the
abolition of the Corn-laws. The Tories thrive
only on plunder, and to abolish the Corn-laws
would dry up the largest stream of their nourishment.

The proceedings at a Church-rate Meeting, held
on Thursday in the parish of Christ Church,
Surrey, will excite publiciuterest. It appears that the
Churchwardens, as is too much the practice with
that class, and indeed with every class of eccle-
siastical officials, wished to carry matters with a
high hand. They not only demanded more money
from the rate-payers, but they refused to give any
account of what they meant to do with it. And
more than this, as if they were determined to show
how completely they set the rate-payers at defiance,

they refused to let them know how they had
spent the money already voted. All that they
would condescend to do was to say, We want
" so much monies," and therefore we will trouble
you to lay a rate. This cavalier deportment did
not quite suit the taste of the inhabitants of Christ
Church, and they showed their sense of it by re-
fusing the rate. For this they deserve high praise,
and the thanks of all who value a consistent and
conscientious profession of the Christian religion, to
the spirit of which nothing on earth is so repugnant
as compulsory support.

Our readers will find in another part of The Sun
an abridgment of a very voluminous, and at the
same time exceedingly dull, Report, addressed by
Vice-Admiral ROSAMEL, French Minister of Ma-
rine, to his Majesty the King of the FRENCH, on
the state of the French Navy at the close of the
current year. Though the Report itself is dull,
the facts which it establishes are highly important
to all who take the slightest interest in the naval
supremacy of Great Britain. We have likewise
copied from the Times a leading article on the sub-
ject, which, though just and conclusive in the main,
inculcates a principle upon which it would be pre-

posterous to expect any Government to act now-a-
days. The Times states truly enough, that the natu-
ral right arm of England is her navy, and that of
France her army, and that the instant they reverse
their natural order of defence they indirectly menace
the peace of each other. This position established,
the Times insists upon the mutual right of remon-
strance when either has reason to fear, from the
access of her military or naval strength, the inten-

tions of the other, and hence showers down ven-
geance upon the heads of Ministers for not formally
protesting against the increase in the French navy.
Now we deem no such course at all necessary. If a
good navy be, as we all know it is, the right arm
of England, why not so strengthen it as to render
the increase of the French marine a source of ruin-
ous expense to her ? We can surely better judge
of our own wants than we can presume to do of
the wants of France, and this we would be doing
were we to dictate to Louis PHILIPPE how many
ships of the line he ought to build, and how many
he ought to keep in commission. Ships being our
natural arm of power, can never be burdensome
to us ; but, from the very constitution of
things in France, a large marine must always
be an unprofitable drain upon the financial re-
sources of the kingdom. All the shipping in the
world could not make France the parent of a pro-
fitable system of colonization, and the experience
of ages proves that commerce rarely requires the
protection of floating battle-fields. These are facts
which the Financial Committee of the Chamber of
Deputies will very soon discover ; but, in the mean-
time let us, instead of absurdly calling upon
Ministers to protect us against the naval pre-
parations of France, impress upon them the
prudence and the necessity of providing against
the worst by still more extensive prepara-

tions. Such preparations are in fact called for by
circumstances wholly unconnected with the state of
the French marine, and therefore there is the more
reason for pressing their adoption upon the Go-
vernment. If France had not a single ship of the
line afloat, we should not the less strongly advocate
a large and permanent increase of the naval strength
of Great Britain.

Madrid papers, of the 27th ult., have reached
us, with a manifesto signed by one hundred and five
Members of the late Cortes against the Ministers
and the dissolution of the Cortes. The nine sup-
porters of the Government against the non-collec-
tion of taxes' vote, have issued a counter-mani-
festo, which was the subject of general ridicule in
the capital. There was no news from the army,
except that PALILLOS was desolating La Mancha.
The Funds declined. The Five per Cents. closed
at 28} for cash.

The Constitutionnel of Thursday, which we have
received, together with the other Paris journals of
the same date, announces that Lieutenant-General
CUBIERES, will be appointed to the command of
the French forces in Africa, destined to act against
ABD-EL-KADER. The Commerce after repeating
this statement as a rumour afloat on Wednesday,
adds that this appointment was considered as a
step towards the removal of Marshal VALLEE
from the post of Governor-General, as was the case
with regard to Marshal CLAUSEL, when General
DAMREMONT was ordered to Algiers. The
same journal is furious against the Govern-
ment, to whose incapacity is solely attribu-

table the late reverses in Africa. To make its
censures the more stinging, it invokes the
reminiscences of the exploits of the French army in
Egypt under the command of the First Consul,
when 30,000 men suffering from sickness and want
of provisions held a whole country against 300,000 ;
at the same time insisting upon the fact that there
is not less science, less valour, less patriotisni, nor
less love of military glory in the French army now
than there was in the brightest days of the Con-
sulate or the Empire. It is not an army,
but a Government that is wanted in France.
These reproaches will be acutely felt at the
Tuileries, where no means will be left untried
to repair the consequences of the Prince Royal's
bravado campaign to the Iron Gates. A telegra-
phic despateh from the Minister of Finance to the
Prefect at Toulon, ordered all the vessels of war
in that harbour to be got ready for sea. Five
steamers were to go, on the 2d, to Marseilles, to
take on board the 58th Regiment of the Line.
The Alger and Neptune were ordered to Port
Vendres, where fifteen thousand men were ready
to embark for Africa. In short the most active

preparations for war, on an extensive scale, were
making in all the marine ports of France.
Double the number of reinforcements required
by Marshal VALLEE for the defence of French
Africa will be sent, including several thousands of
bullocks, mules, and other beasts of draught and
burden.

The Duke of ORLEANS it appears will accom-
pany the new expedition. His Royal Highness
could not do less than this without being an object
of ridicule to all France. We copy from the
Temps of Thursday the following paragraph on
this subject :
We are assured that in a sort of Privy Council, which

was held on Tuesday, at which the King, the Prince,
Royal, and the Duke de Nemours, were present, the
question as to whether both or which of these Princes
should go to Algiers was discussed, and led to an ani-
mated scene. Amongst other reasons urged by the
Duke of Orleans for his departure, he stated that,
having so recently made only a military promenade in
Algieria, if was necessary for his honour that he should
not remain in Paris when a campaign was to take place
which presented an opportunity for combat and personal
danger. The Duke de Nemours opposed the depar-
ture of his brother on the ground that, in the event of
his losing his life, the kingdom would be exposed to
the chance of a Regency, although it would, without.
doubt, be a distant event, but which the extreme youth
of the Count de Paris rendered possible. If our infor-
matinn he correct, the King, deeply affected at this
family discussion, resolved to leave the decision to the
Cabinet, and it has been arranged that the Duke of Or-
leans only is to go to Africa, where he will serve, ac-
cording to his military rank, under the orders of Mar-
shal 'Vallee, as he has himself proposed.
Of other news we find none of any interest
in the Journals of Thursday, except that the
Police have got possession of another Infernal
Machine, found floating down the Seine, which
doubtless it was designed to set on fire. Several
fresh arrests have taken place, one for an atteopt
to kill a police agent 'by an artisan implicated in
the conspiracy of the 12th of May. It is further
confidently reported that the Government has lately
made most extensive discoveries of the most dan-
gerous plots against the Monarchy of July.
The Toulonnais quotes a letter from Algiers, which
expresses an a.pprehension that the attacks of the Arabs
wilt not be confined to the plain, but will extend to
Bugia, Boud, Djigelly,
Philipville, and Constantina ;
these points being bare of troops, and many of those
which remain being sick. Oil for burning had risen in
Algiers from If. to If. Me., and the price of meat was
greatly increased, all the markets being deserted, in con-
sequence of the roads being occupied by the enemy.
The Eciaircua mentions several farms near Bouffarich
and in the plain where the owners, aided by their ser-
vants, have held firm and repulsed the Arabs.
I'e have remarked the friendly relations that have
recently been established between our Government and
that of the kingdom of the Netherlands, which, it is
said, may speedily lead to the conclusion of the treay
of commerce. Meantime the Minister has published
the following notice :
" A decision of the Government of the Netherlands
had forbidden all vessels coming from the South to
pass the Scheldt in the passage of Koc, making use of
the inland waters to proceed to Rotterdam."
This obligation might in the bad season expose to
danger the French steam-boats that ply between our
ports and that of Rotterdam. The Baron Bois le
Comte, the King's Minister at the Hague, has made
some representations on this subject, which have been
favourably received.
A new decision of the Government of the Nether-
lands has just granted permission to the Dunkirk steam-
boat to make use of the passage through the inland
waters only on the conditions required by the Custom
House regulations. This favour would have been ex-
tended to the steam boats which ply between Havre
and Rotterdam, did not their great draught of water
hinder them from availing themselves of it."—Le Com-
niel-CC.

BOURSE.—Pnicis, TntinsnaY, DEr, 5.

P~irst

Highest. Lowest

Price Piice. Price. Price..
irench 5 per Cents ll2 55 112 60 ... 112 45 ... I 2 60
4% per Ccnts lO5 65 ... 105 65 ... 105 65 ... 105 65
4 per Cents lOl 70 ... IGI 70 ... 101 70 191 70
3 per Cents 62 25 ... 82 40 .. 82 25 ... 82 40
Bank of France 2930 ...'2990 —4990
Lattitte Bank I,ooof. 86 1075 ...1075 ....DIM —1 75
5.(,00f. 5229 —.5229 ...5220 ...5220
Belgian 5 per Cents
Bank 759 ... ... 747 50 ... 750

C.mpons
Dutch 2% per Cents 53 ... 51 ... 53 ... 53
t,painsh AcCive 26 ... 26 ... 2515, ... 25F4
Passive 6% ••• 6!4 ... 6 ... 6%
Portuguese. 3 per Ccnts 9.4', ... 2334 ... 2f,34 ... 2A
Neapolitan
Roman lolk ... 101% ... 10l}i ... ICI%

. HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, DEC. 3.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares
P n,lo-Russian Loan .. 106% 106%
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Series 10235 102
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series 97li 9731
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 231 per Cent sl)
Ditto ') per Ceti'
Polish Bonds
Nov ticket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent.... 7OX 7BS,
Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent...
Spanish, New 3 per Cents.
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, DEC, :1.-13, 5N —Two months, 13. 3%.
PETERSBURGG, Nor. 22.—Two months, 2S,v•
STOCNIIOLM, NOT. 26.—Seyenty-five days, 11. 38.
lis.aurs, Noy. 30.—Three months, 6.21%.

BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK

ELECTION.

A meeting of the Liberals, friends of Mr. Walter, was
convened both by private circular and public notice, to be
held at the Brown Bear, Southwark Bridge-road, at
eight o'clock on Friday evening—to take necessary steps
to secure that gentleman's return—and as it was ex-
pected that he would he present, personally to explain
his principles, many of the electors were in attendance.
After havinc, waited until nine o'clock without his ap-
pearance, or the probability of any business being transacted,
the meeting began to show symptoms of impatience, and
loudly called for a Chairman, upon which a consultation
was held among the clique, of would-be-great man (in-
cluding that consistent advocate of the people'srights, Mr.
Day, a Mr. Boxer, and a grey-headed splenetic old man who
sat smoking his pipe, now and then calling out, sotto
voce, " you are all d—d vagabonds andlrascals," plainly
showing that he was paid for his zeal, as well a.
denoting his fear that there was little chance of
the success of his party, seeing that the Electors of
Southwark were determined not to allow any more
of these hole and corner meetings to be passed off on
the public as meetings of the Electors, when in reality
they were nothing more than the meetings of five
or six: political tadventurers, the consultations
being concluded without any Chairman being ap-
pointed, from the fact of their not having an
elector of St. Saviour's parish present, though this
meeting was called in that parish. After many at-
tempts on the , part of the friends of Mr. Walter to
obtain a Chairman, Mr. Mayhew, that staunch and
consistent Reformer, was unanimously called upon
to preside. He on taking the chair, said that as
Mr. Walter's friends appeared to be in so destitute a
condition, he would take pity on them, and at once
relieve them from the onus which seemed to press
so severely upon them, viz., the responsibility of calling
a meeting, without the power of transacting busi-
ness—and therefore he would declare it to be a
meeting of the electors in favour of Mr. Wood.
This announcement was received with loud cheers. Three
cheers were called for Mr. Wood, which were loudly re-
sponded to by the meeting. The Chairman proceeded to
business, and the following resolutions were put and
carried :

Ist. Resolved, That this Meeting is of opinion
that the conduct of the Friends of Mr. Walter in
calling a Meeting of the Liberals, and then endeavour-
ing to stifle the motives of such Meeting, is an
attempt to entrap the unwary, and a vile expedient by
which they might ultimately destroy the franchise of the
Electors of Southwark.

2dly. Resolved, ;That this meeting is of opinion, that
Mr. B. Wood is the most fit and proper person to repre-
sent the Borough of Southwark, from his well-known con-
sistency of character, and his being a sincere friend to
civil and religious liberty.
To this resolution Mr. Day begged leave to propose an
amendment (which was boxed and stitched up by himself
and Mr. Boxer), to the following effect :—" That this meet's'
ing is of opinion that the borough of Southwark should be
represented by a man independent of all parties."
In the course of Mr. Day's observations, in endeavour.
ing to persuade the Meeting that he had not changed
his principles, he called the Tories a pack of scoundrels.
it could plainly be seen how the Tories present winced
under the appellation, yet they were mean enough to seek
the support of such a man—a man most heartily despised
by all parties.
The meeting seeing the object Mr. Day had in view, ,1
that of sowing the seeds of disunion among the Liberal
party, immediately negatived his amendment, after
which the Chairman addressed the meeting in a
very able and effective speech, congratulating them
on the happy union whiob seemed to exist amongst the Li-
berals, and he felt persuaded that this evening's proceedings
would strike terror into the camp of their enemies, and
plainly show them the fully of their attempts to deceive
the enlightened electors of this Borough. He also dwelt
at some length upon the state of Ireland, showing
the happy results that have ensued from a mild, yet just
Government ; and, in conclusion, he called upon the
meeting to: join heart and hand to support Mr. Wood,
which was responded to by loud shouts of; " We will !
We will !"
The thanks of the meeting were proposed for the
Chairman by Mr. Day, and seconded by Mr. Boxer, and
carried unanimously ; afterwards the meeting separated.
Amongst the friends of Mr. Wood we noticed the follow -
inm :—Messrs. Bowler, Harris, Embleton, Irwin, West,
and several others.