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HOUSE OF COMMONS.

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At Twenty Minutes after Three o'clock the SrEmczn
oak his seat.

On the motion of Mr. BODKIN, the Bill f“r Maintain
inq and Improving the Harbour of Galway was read a
third time and passed.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from the tile-maker•
of London, praying, that as it was proposed by his Ma.
.l sty's Ministers to take the duty off slates, that the House
would be pleased Ow to take the duty off tiles. The Him.
Member said the petition deserved very serious attention
for if the duty were taken from slates and not also from
tiles, the trailers in the latter article would be ruined, be-
cause they would be unable to compete with the slate
.rade. The revenue derived from tiles was only about
30,0001. a-year.
Mr. BRISCOE supported the prayer of the petition.
He was convinced if the duty were not taken off tiles, it
would throw the trade entirely into the hands of the sla-
ters, and then no duty whatever would he received from the
tile-makers—(Hear)—besides which a great number of
persons now employed in making tiles would he thrown
out of employment, and compelled to seek parish relief.

Mr. COURTENAY asked the lUght Hon. Gentleman
opposite (Mr. S. Rice), if this subject had been tskeN
into consideration by 'Ministers.
Mr. S. RICE saul, that in certain places—in maritime
districts—the result would he the run of the tile trifle, if
the duty were not taken of tiles. He could assure the House
that he had moved for pipers connected with this subject,
end that it w.ls under the consideration of his Mlje.ty's
Ministers.

The petition was ordered to !ie on the table.
Mr. HUME then presented a petition from Uxbridge,
complaining that they were compelled to pay the duty on
sea-borne coals, while other places the same distance
from London—Watford, for instance—were exempt from
that duty. The petitioners prayed for relief from !he duty.
Ordered to be printed.
The HON. MEMBER. then said he had several petitions
to which he wished to call the attention of the House. One
was from Cupar, in Fifeshire, numerously signed, but on
looking over it he found some expressions inconsistent with
the rules of the House to riceive. Every word offensive
he begged to state, he had thought it his duty to strike
out, for which he had the sanction of some of the peti-
tioners, but nut of all. He had also petitions from the city
of Perth, from the Political Union of Dundee, from the
Political Union of Leslie, and from the Political Union of
Edinburgh. All of them complained of the delays in the
progress of the Reform Bill, and praying that it might be
accelerated as touch as possible. Some of them (and he
had more tin their way to London) contained expres-
sions imputing motives for delaying the Bill. The Hon.
Member was aware of the perfect freedom of discussion,
and of voting which Hon. Members ought to possess, and
he wished to mention these petitions with a view of having
the Speaker's opinion whether he was justified in the
course be had pursued. The petitions front Perth and Cupar
declared that Hon. Members were influenced by factious
motives and intention illy delaying the Bill ; that, from
Edinburgh complained of the delay, which would be pro-
ductive of very injurious consequences in the country ; but
it was free from the objections of the other petitions.
The Hon. Member having Beta led the contents of each
petition,

- The SPEAKER felt that the Hon. Memb3r had in his
speech drawn a very correct line. If a petition be altered
by the consent of the petitioners, it still was considered as
their petition, otherwise it ci)uld not be so considered.
After a few words front Mr. ROBINSON and Mr. HUNT,
all the petitions were withdrawn, except that from the
Edinburgh Political Union, which was ordered to lie on
the table.

Mr. HUME then presented a petition from George
Ingram, at present confined for debt in Clerkenwell prison.
The petitioner owed a debt of 2/. 10s., and was
taken in execution for a suns, including costs, of
Ws 3s. 6d. He applied to Mr. Justice Tyndal,
at Chambers to be discharged in pursuance of the Act, lie
having been in rust dy more than twelve months for a debt
under 201 ,hut as the Act stated that the prisoner must he
discharged "in Court," he was remanded to prison, where
he will have to remain till the Judges sit at Westminster.
The petitioner prayed for an alteration of the law.
Mr. BRISCOE supported the prayer of the petitioner,
and hoped the law of imprisonment for debt would soon be
repealed,_( Hear, hear.)
Mr. ROBINSON concurred i i the prayer of the peti-
tion, and said that if the law of imprisonment for debts
he hoped some other measure of
under 201. were tepe iled,
enabling persons by other mean' to recover their small
debts would be adopted.—( Hear.)
Mr. HU3IE said the only nelson why he La I not
brought forward this subject during the last eighteen
months was, that he understood the Commissioners in-
tended to make a report.
The petition was read and ordered to be printed.
Mr, HUME said that he had next to present a
petition front two individuals, praying for an alteration in
the Harfaoev-coach Laws, and that the trade might be
thrown open. And also a petition from the journeymen
coal-measure-makers, praying, that as by the alteration in
the coal duties their trade would be greatly injured, they
might receive compensation.—Ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. HUME then rose to present a petition, which, he
said, was of great importance, as affecting the liberty of
the Press. It was from a number of individuals assembled
at the Rotunda, in Blackfriars-road, on the 4th of July,
and it prayed for a repeal of all the laws that levied duties
and imposts on the means of knowledge, which were the
bane of every society, and the repeal of which must be
advantaaeous to the country. The Hon. Member referred
to the Act of the 60th Geo. 111. chap. 9 (one of the Six
Act), by which any person publishing a pamphlet or any
should be liable to a penalty. That law
thing containing news of a less size than two sheets, or sold
at
thereforelera t
han6itil
prevented cheap publications for the use of the
poor, whileoved the rich, who could afford more ex-
pensive works, to publish as they chose. The result has been
that for a long period individuals have forborne publishing
in feared the penalty, but of late there has been such a
demand for knowledge that individuals bad published small
works in defiance of that law, and had been prosecuted. Mr.
was one of those persons who was now suffering
Carpenter ,
,rn;prison • ment having been convicted, not for the matter
of his publication, but for publishing a pamphlet, which
Government called a newspaper, of a less size than
two sheets. The continuance of this act the Ho-
nourable Member held to be wholly inconsistent
with the diffusion of knowledge, particularly now when
6n many schools were established, some of which received
annual grants from this House. Nothing was more con-
trary to good government than the existence of these
laws, This Act was avowedly passed to put down Mr. Cob-
bett's Register, and passed as it were by force. He (Mr. H.)
did not wish to speak of individual publications, but as
t
showing the principle upon whiah he contended, that such
laws should not exist. Some of the works now published
in defiance of the law, even went so far as to impugn the set-
t lo
and eve every
publish
hm
whatwho hwashe
p pleased,
butspose d
ea
person wishing to do good would he afraid to act in defi-
ance of the law. If the law were repealed, one opinion
or argument could be met by another, and the
mischievous consequences now resulting would be
destroyed. Every' man should he allowed truly to
publish what he pleased, for he (Mr. Hume) knew
eimilde n
break
o f propertythe lacy
w ;
4,f no opinion or argument that could not be met by
a reply. Every man now suffering for acting in defiance of
this law Was suffering unjustly, and ought to be imme-
diately set at biter y.—(llear.)
Mt. HUNT concurred in the prayer Of the petition,
that all these Acts, called the Castlereagh Acts, ought to
be repealed. He, however, declared that he never had
seen ally pamphlet that objected to the settlement of pro-
perty, though he hail seen some that objected to property
quslifications.
Mr. O'CONNELL had been reques,ed to support the
prayer of the petition, and lie bad great satisfaction in doing
sea, The mischief was, that cheap works Were now pub.
lished in &fiance of the law, and no well disposed person
would risk disobeying the law by answering them. There
was now a monopoly of mischief in the market. As to
Cobkles Register, although the Act was passed to put

t down, it was afterwards publisl'ed, an i rise fro n 2d.
ei rid. He hoped Government, who ha i—and ought to
ewe—leisure enough to atttend to the wants of the Roy al
would attend to the prayer of the petitioner., ard
epeal this odious law.
Colonel TORRENS spoke also in favour of repealing
his Act. The evils and dangers of the present cheap
mhlications mold only be remedied by permitting the bee
'illusion of knowledge among the people:
On the petition being read and ordered to lie on the table,
Mr. HUNT denied that this Act was passed to put
lown Cobbett's Register, for at that period there were
Iso other works published, each as Wooller's Block
Dwarf, Sherwin's Register, 6v.
Mr. O'CONNELL referred the Hon. Meinter to the
lebates of that period, wherein he would find that the
wowed object was to suppress Cobbett's Register.
Mr. HUNT still denied it, and said Cohbett was out of
the country, and did not return for a twelvemonth,
Mr. HUME nest called the attention of the House to
another petition, of equal importance to the last. It was
from 1,200 individuals in Bolton, praying the House to
rake into consideration the punishments lately inflicted upon
aersons, at the instance of the Society for the Suppree-
:ion of Vice, for entertaining certain religious opinions.
The petitioners referred more, particularly to the ease of
the Rev. Robert Taylor. This individual was known
to entertain opinions differing from those of persons of the
Established Church. A Jew, a Unitarian, a Ilila!!oinmedan,
and a Hindoo, all entertained opinions differing from
those of the Established Church ; and if the principle were
admitted that one clans of opinions were to be put down,
then there would, in consequences be a monopoly of reli-
gious opinion. Every act which bud a tendency to
impugn the religious opinion or sentiment of any &ass
of persons, he (Mr. Home) conceived to be an act of
gross tyranny and of the very worst kind. He also depre-
cated the prosecution of these persona by the Society for
the Suppression of Vice. There were persons belonging
to that Society who were Members of Societies for the
Diffusion of Knowledge (which receiving not less thin
16,0001. a year from this House) and for sending out
missionaries to convett the inhabitants of India, and it
was his opinion that it ill became those persons to institute
prosecutions in this country against persona who enter-
tained opinions differing from theirs. It was a disgrace to this
country to allow such laws to remain on the statute book.
Mr. Taylor was a gentleman ; he had been a member of the
Church of England, who had gone through all the degrees
at the Cambridge University, and held a lucrative situation.
Was it to he supposed, that he was nut acting from con-
scientious motives? When he declined to subscribe any
longer to the Thirty-nine Articles, and when he left the
church and the ernolutnents that he received ? He (Mr. H.)
contended, that to punish an individual whose opinions were
changed solely from his conscientious fet lings,was unjust and
impolitic. That a person oft dents,education, and an enlight-
ened mind, should be confined in Horsemonger-lane gaol for
two years, deprived, if the rules of the prison were followed
up, of every comrort, deprived of the use of all books,
some of which were sanctioned by the Chaplain or by two
Magistrates, he held to be alike monstrously unjust
and dangerous in principle. There was, however, no
medium, he thought, to he observed in the exemtion
of such a system. Mr. Tay lar had only expressed honestly
his private opinions, and in a private room, to them only
who went to hear and were desirous to understand his
opinions.—(Hear, hear, and cries of "Oh, ob.") He
(Mr. Hume) had often roost sincerely regretted, never
doubting the sincerity of Mr. Taylor's opinions, the mode
in which that unfortunate individual had persevered on
many occasions in forcing them on pulrlic notice—(hear)
—because there was most certainly a deference which was
due to the established religious opinions of the country ;
and that they ought never to be assailed otherwise than by
tnoderate fair argument and reason. But he could not hut
consider him the victim, in this instance, of private infor-
mation, and the unfortunate object of tyrannical oppression.
If in places of public resort—at' Charing-cross, for example,
Taylor hail presented himself reviling at and bringing into
ridicule the established religion t f the land, he then ought
roost certainly to have been removed as a public nuisance,
but he was condemned to imprisonment because he had
uttered his opinions iu a private room, (for such lie would
call the Rotunda.---(" Cries of " Oh, oh.") He did not
think that twelve men could have been found in London
that would have, upon evidence he would say surrepti-
tiously obtained, found Taylor guilty of the alleged misde-
meanour, sure he was that Justice of the county who could
have sentenced a man two years' solitary confinement in such
a case, could not have liberal feelings or proper principles.
No man differed from the principli s of Mr. Taylor more
than (Mr. Hume) (lid, but if the sentence were designed
to arrest the progress of infidelity, he could say from pri-
vate knowledge that it could only have a different effect.
Mr. J. WOOD had always considered the opinions of
Mr. Taylor most revolting and pernicious; the manner,
too, in which he had attempted to promulgate them was
not less revolting and obscene. He considered him, how-
ever, rather an object of pity than of punishment ; and as
prosecution for opinion always tended to extend its publi-
city, he regretted that any notice had at all been taken of
him. He would support the prayer of the petition.
Mr. TREVOR was surprised to hear the Hon. Member
fur Middlesex argue this c Ise, as if Taylor had been con-
demned for a simple difference of religi:us opinion ; and
individuals who were not really aware of the cit cuin-
stances, would be led to believe the sentence replete
with harshness and injustice. But had Taylor been convicted
of a mere difference of opinion ? h,d he been convicted
of merely holding those opinions in private? A man
might entertain in private what opinion Le chose, and none
had a right to censure him. But it was impossible to deny
that Taylor had dune his utmost to spread his opinions, and
to gain converts to his blasphemous doctrines ; hence it
was a public offence, an offence against society, which
called for public interference and punishment ; and
those who could bring themselves to believe and imagine
that the sentence pronounced upon Mr. Taylor was
harsh and unjust, must also bring themselves to bold that
the principles of public morality and religion were of no
importance whatever.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Taylor
had been sometimes represented as a man of education,
as one brought up at the University, and capable of know-
ing right from wrong—if lie had an enlightened mind,
he (Mr. Trevor) held it to be an aggravation of his
crime; and calling for, if possible, a heavier sentence...—
He considered that to such doctrines as had been broached
by Mr. Taylor the greater part of the criminality and vice
that prevailed was to be attributed, and he was at a loss
to know how the argument was to be sustained, that in
endeavouring to repress the diffusion of such opinions,
the laws were more harsh than the Spanish Inquisition.
For his part, he never would allow opinions like these to
go abroad without expressing his utter abhorrence and de-
testation of them. He thought Mr. Taylor had not been
treated more severely than his case deserved, for if there
was one crime that ought to be visited more heavily than
another, it was that of which lie had been guilty. The
opinions that had been spread abroad by him were not
only destructive to society, but the salvation of his fellow-
mortals.

Captain GORDON expressed his unqualified dissent to
the speech of the lion. Member for Middlesex. With
respect to the complaint against the Society for the Sup-
pre-salon Of Vice, he not only conceived it unjust, but
he considered the country under great obligations
to it for the meritorious part it had acted ; it bad
reared its influence as a barrier, and put blasphemy end
vice as a patron to virtue. Mr. Taylor had not only blas-
phemed the thirty-nine Articles of the Church of Eng•
laud, but he had done every thing in his power to turn
them into ridicule and contempt. When the Honour-
able Member for Middlesex talked of Mr. Taylor's not
diffusing his opinions publicly, could he be aware that
Mr. T. was the writer and only contributor to a work
called the Deril's Pulpit, than which a more improper
publication could not exist. He considered the sentiments
of the lion. Member for Middlesex could only be consistent
with the views of those who lookad upon religion and blas-
phemy in the same light, and he trusted he should never
see those views advocated by any man who wished well
to his country.

Mr. O'CO5lNELL—Though no man disagreed more
than he did with the sentiments of Mr. Taylor, he would
setup irt the prayer of the petition. lie deprecated all re-
ligious prosecutions, considering that if the principle
laid down by the lion. Member for Dundalk and Durham
was to prevail, the inquisition would soon be revived in
this country. Tile speech of the lion. Member for
Dundalk would douteless operate as an advertisement for
the sale of Mr. Taylor's work which nobody had ever
heard of before, and would be the means of extending the
blasphemy of which he so much complained.
Mr. DENNISON, after the charge that had been made

:ailist the Magimtrates of Surrey, could not refiain from
taking a few observations. He denied that Mr. Taylor
was imprisoned in so solitary a cell as had been referred to.
His room was 18 feet by 24, and he had every comfort
that a man could be allowed, baring wine and spirits.
If his sentence bad been too severe, and he gave no opinion
about it—if the rules of the gaol were too severe, there were
means of correcting that, and he trusted those Gentlemen
whose business it was to lay dawn rules for its regulation,
would, during the present recess, apply themselves to that
desirable object. Ever since he had sat in that House he
had always avoided acting as a Magistrate, thinking it
inconsistent to make and administer the laws.

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Mr. BRISCOE agreed that no man ought to be punished
for uttering expressions in a private room, on any subject,
but that was not the case in the present instance. The
room in which Taylor appeared,vras a large and public moo ,
' into which persons were admitted on psytnent of tia. or 1 .
for the advertised object of hearing a lecture on astronomy.
Taylor was there in the garb of an Archbishop, said' a
cross hanging before him, and turning the Scriptures into '
ridicu'e. He (Mr. Briscoe) never could he brought to
sanction such foolery—such mockery. At the same time
he could not approve of the prison treatment he
had been subject to. Another person had complained to
him (Mr. Briscoe) of the treatment he also received in .
Horsemonger-lane gaol, where he was confined for a mis-
demeanour. He could never bring himself to believe
that a person confined for a misdemeanour in any
,r,aol ought to be treated as a la lon, nor could he
think otherwise hut that the trea,rnent for misde-
.neanours. ought to be the same throughout all the
prisons in England. He had retrain!y felt it to he his
duty, as Visiting Magistrate of Horsemonger-:ane Prison,
to order that Taylor should receive every irnlulg,enee which
the rules of the prison permitted. This was not because
Taylor was the object of it, as he should act in the same
manner whoever might be the individual conffned them
for a misdemeanour.

An HON. MEMBER, whose name we could not obtain,
was surprised to hear what had been stated by the last
Hon. Gent. who had amire,sed the House. If the pun•sh-
ment for any offence was so sevevere that it onelit lint to
be inflicted, no longer nutlet the Judge: of the land
to have the power of pronouncing with a judgment. Im-
prisonment for opinions had never done god_it only
strengthened those opinions. The lilaphemy complained
of was not against the Almighty, but against the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury. It was altogether trash, and such
(i)ifonpaorlfiamJuedngt.esciadmned,timore
htehahtopoefd
ies
pfaffritust,f:s
.is ought not to have occupied either the atten.
A oft
tthele
the law would undergo a ape,-sty rev,si,n, and for th it
purpose he should support the payer of the petition.
Mr. HUNT said he had likewise teen writt-n to by
the petitioner, and that he should sincerely support the
r tition, the object of which he underst.od to be two-fold,
n itnely, the mitigation of Taylor's punishment and the
I etter treatment in the gaol.
The petition, after some further conversation, was or-
dered to be printed.
(LErr strrnic.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The Loan CHANCELLOR took his seat at Five o'clock.

The Duke of WELLINGTON presented a petition from
the inhabitants of G oucester and its neighbourhood, in
favour of the Beer Bill. The Noble DA., presented an-
other from the some City, to the same effect.
Mr. R. CORDON and others from the Commons
brought up the Bill for the Repeal of the Duties on Coll,
&c.

The BisLep of London presented a pe'ition, signed by
95 clergymen of Oxroril, complaining of the immemorial
effects of the Beer Bill.

The Rev. PRELATE took the same opportunity to read
a letter which he had received from a person in Staf-
fordshire, which stated that a metting had been held
there, at which resolutions had been come to. to following
effect : —first, that there houses should be shut on Sunda} s ;
secondly that the prices of license's Ph 'old 1 e raised; and
thirdly, that skittle-ground, should be prohilii:ed.
On the motion of Lord KENYON, the Bil for the en-
couragement of the Irish labouring poor was read a fret
time.

Lord MELBOURNE moved the second reading of the
Beer Act's Amendment Bill.

Aft( r a communication between the Duke of Wellington,
the Lord ChancMor, Lord Tenterden, at.d the Bishop of
London, the Bill was read a second time, and ordered to
be committed on Thursday.
Some petitions were then presented against the Beer
Bill, and the House adjourned.

GALT'S LIVES OF THE PLAYERS.---It
would be difficult, in the whole course of individual his-
tory, to find in any one class of persons a more curious
collection of characters, a rarer museum of human varie-
ties, than in the great body of antic it and modern actors.
It also happens that players, feeling themselves the objects
of public attention and interest, have been more frequently
led than others to the composition of autobiography. It
may be observed that the women who figure in this work
are even more remarkable thsn the men ; it would be im-
possible to co'lect front any other class a number of ladies
of more even•ful lives, or more singular characters, than
those who adorn these volumes. In evidence of this let
the eye of the reader run over the names of NELL GWYNN,
Mrs. CENTLIVRE, Mrs. BELLAMY, Mrs. BADDELEY, Mrs.
JORDAN, and Mrs. SIDDONS.

THE APPEARANCE OF A NEW ISLAND:
IN THE MEDIrERRANEAN.-Towards eleven o'clock of the
10th of July, 1831, Captain Jews ConstAo, Commander
of the brig Theresine, going from Trepani to Girgenti,
in Sicily, at the distance of about 20 miles front Cape St.
Mark, he perceived, at the distance of a gun-shot, a mass
of water which arose 60 feet above the level of the sea,
and presented a circumference of nearly 400 fathoms—a
smoke proceeding from it, exhaling an odour of sulphur.
The preceding day, in the Gulf of Trois Fontaines, he
had seen a great quantity of dead fish and of black matter
floating on the water, and he beard a noise like that of
thunder, which the Captain attributes to a volcanic erup-
tion. He continued his voyage to Girgenti ; and all the
time that he was occupied :n lading his ship he saw a thick
smoke rise incessantly fiom the same point, before which
he arrived on the 16th, on his return from Girgenti. A
new spectacle was then presented to him, namely, a tract
of land, of the same circumference as that of the mass of
water which he had remarked in his first passage. This
island, (which we shall call Corroa, from the name of
him who saw is formed,) is elevated about 12 feet above the
surface of the sea ; it has in the middle a ki,d of plain and
the crater of a volcano, whence a bursting lava is seen to
proceed during the night. The island is b •rdered by a
girdle of smoke. The sounding all around the island
gives a depth of 100 fathoms ; its latitude is 37 deg. 6
min. north, and longitude 10 deg. 26 min. from the me-
ridian of Paris. Such is therelatlon of Capt. CORSA° him-
self, who entered the port of Marseilles the Nth of last
July. This volcano has also been seen by several Captains
going from Malta and Taganroc to Genoa ; the pilot of
the latter learnt from a fisherman, that on the day of the
eruption of this volcano he had seen a brig perish, and also
a fishing-boat, his companion ; and that he considered his
own escape miraculous.—.4fessager des Ciambres.

COMMERCIAL DEPRESSION.—We regret to
state that some heavy commercial failures have lately taken
place in Halifax and Wakefield. At Manchester, in par-
ticular, things wear a gloomy upset, and it ri ad..
mitted that at the present period there is a very ...eneral
depression in all the great mercantile and mantra•turing
interests. In Dewsbury and the neighbourhood the orrice
for bl inkets, for the winter trade, fall deplorably elott 0
what is customary at this season of the year.
The cholera morbus is at present very preva
lent in the metropolis, and though in many instances very
violent, there has not been a single case of the Indian
cholera in any part of the country. The attacks of coin.
mon cholera have increa.ed considerably since the com-
mencement of the warm weather, and have, in twiny in-
stances, proceeded from unwholesome food, eating plume
and cucumbers to excess, and from checked perspiration.
'The complaint is now so well understood, that if it is at-
tended to in time it seldom proves fatal.
FILIAL REVERENCE.—When Sir THOMAS
MORE was seated in his Court of Chancery, his father,
Sir JOHN MORE, who was nearly of the age of ninety, wee
the most ancient Judge of the King's Bench. " What a
grateful spectacle was it," says their descendant, " to see
the son ask the blessing of the father every day upon his
knees before he sat upon his own east !"—Dr. Lardnel'g
Cabinet Cycloperdia, Vol. XXI.

. .
FRENCH CHARACTER.—" NOW to the point
of the Frenchman's nature,—ye shall understand that their
di.iphsition is such that they will be at the first meeting as
familiar with you as if they had bean acquainted with you
long hefore, and commune with you in the French
t ,ngue as though ye understood every word they spade;
therefore, in like manner, be ye as familiar with them
again as they be with you. if they speak to you in the
French tongue, speak you to them in the English tongue ;
far if you understand not thew, t>>.-y r?..•11 no more under-
stand you." And my Lord opoaking znerrity to one of ti e
gentlemen there, being a 'Welshman, " Rick," quoth he,
*peak thou We'sh to him, and I am well assured that thy
Welsh shall be more diffuse to him than hie French shall be
to thee."—Dr. Zareiner'ft Cabinet cgdoprdi., V al, x x

FOREIGN IN'T'ELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the 2ifessager des Chartres, dated Saturday.)
Pants, AUGUST I l.—The sitting, of the Chamber of
Deputies is highly interesting. New men hare lent the
support of a conscientious atiht7ence to the policy of erder
and peace. reader will remark on this point of
view, as well as on the score of talent, the ape-ashes of
Mews. Remusat and Durergier de Hauranne, jun. One
of the meet eminent ancient orators of the Chamber, NI.
Guizot, renewed the interest of the discussion by the no-
velty and depth of his views. It is thesaght that the de-
bates on the address will not be concluded till the sitting
of .Saturday.
NEWS OF THE IIIefIINING.

Yesterday evening at eiglA .:;;leek the deputation of the
(Chamber cf. Peers hai the honour of presentitg to the
King the address in reply to the spetrA tom the Throne.
Pavquier, the President, li&N..ing real the address,
Ilia Majesty answered,

Niessieuri les Pairs----I receive with lively satisfaction
the assurence you give me of that frank and entire co-
operatioa which can alone insure to my Gcm.rbutent the
force that it requires to answer to the national wish, and
to consolidate more and more the political order established
by the revolution of July. I consider as ore of the prin.
cipal means of attaining this end, that the Chamber of
Peers should be always invested with that publi-lonfi-
deuce, without which it rsennot exercise tle' high func-
tions assigned it by the charter with That intlepend nee
and effect which are necessary V.) the preservation of our
national liberties, and to the Inaintenance of tic balatere
of constitutional porvlres. I sin therefore happy to 'ex-
press to you hem CA LI C h the sentiments which 1•ou have
j oat manifeitted to me in this address ttl'Et With my own,
and appear to me conformable tys that 'France expected
from vain.

" 1 was sure of being approved by my country, in ttlriirg
prompt and vigorous measures to check the invasion of
Belgium, to support its independcnces anti cause the nru-
trality of a friendly nation to tva tesperted which is hound
to France by so many ties And which so many recollections
will always render dear to it. My sons, always eager to
place themselves in the tanks of our brave srin!-, are happy
at employing their arms for the first time in so noble a
cause, and it is most gratifying to my paternal hest t to see
how mash their zeal is appreciated by their fellow-citizens.
"'taut I have the satisfaction to give you the hope,
:which I think well founded, that the peace of Europe will
tint be disturbed by this unexpected incident; for all the
Powers are agreed with us, and you may rely on our soon
FLlcceeding in reestablishing and consolidating that peace
which I shall always have so great a desire to maintain
when the national honour and unjust aggressions shall not
impose cm me the painful duty of renouncing it."
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