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LONDON :
THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 3, ' I 838.

We lay before our readers to-day the chief portion
of a pamphlet with the title, " What are the Wants of
11 the Middle Classes ?" which was prepared at Leipsic ;
but after having been printed was, in consequence of
a communication from Berlin, suppressed by the
Saxon Government. We must do that Government
the justice to say, that it paid for the expense of
the printing and paper, which it destroyed. To our
readers the translation will be interesting on two or
three accounts. They will infer from the calm and
unexciting nature of the article, how great must be
the uneasiness and the alarm of the Governments which
could suppress it. They will infer also from its prin-
cipal application being to Hanover, while it
was suppressed in Saxony in consequence of
a communication from Berlin, how close is the alli-
ance of the timid despots of Germany, and how deter-
mined they all are to put down every shadow of free-
dom, and every argument which they fancy to be in
the most remote degree dangerous to their usurpations.
If political disorders be somewhat infectious, as we
believe they are, the admirers of Prince ERNEST
in this country can scarcely view with satisfaction
that insane conduct in him and in his Ministers
which is alarming all Germany, and dividing all
its population into the friends and the enemies of the
reigning Sovereigns,which is putting a just plea into the
mouths of revolutionists, and is banishing into their ranks
and from around the throne all moderate, prudent, and
independent men. For our parts, we are scarcely sorry
to see those who claim the character of Conservatives
alarming the world by their tyrannical and unjust pro-
ceedings, because that seems necessary to make it cast
off their stifling embraces by some wide-spread con-
vulsion. Those who most dread such a convulsion
should hate the Conservatives worse than the Re-
volutionists.

To reflecting minds the paper will have, we think, a
still higher interest, by demonstrating that the same
difficulty of governing which is felt here and in France
also pervades and is recognised in Germany. It
is indeed at present a general condition of society
which only fools will rail at, while wise men, like the
author of the Paper, see the necessity of adapting
institutions to the altered opinions of men. The
author not only enables us to establish the coincidence
of political unquietness and tendency to disobedience
all over the Continent, he also traces it up to a material
cause, which is well known to he equally operative in
France and in England—the increase of population.
" Every foot of productive land, from the high road to the
edge of the forest is cultivated like a garden." Prussia,
without adding a foot to her territory, has added since
1814 several millions to her population. With that great
physical change, the only one which goes on in society--
the increase of the people--all the social phenomena at
which ignorant, unreflecting statesmen are wont con-
tinually to be alarmed, are connected ; and the stupid
Conservatives, in place of adapting institutions to the
unavoidable moral changes which arc the result of the
increase of population, stimulate the increase of the
people, and at the same time arc offended at the con-
sequences. Their conduct is more silly than that of
the child who crams his little gun with powder and
stones, fires it off, and then dashes it in anger on the
ground, because it recoils and strikes him.

The Post, this morning, lets us into the secret for
which the Tories voted that Prince ERNEST should
keep his revenue. He is to expend it all here in
EnOand. He is, of course, to pay his creatures in
the press, his creatures in the army, and his creatures
in the Church and at Court ; and the .whole sum,
wrung from the people, is to
.be applied to give
strength to that party—here, and in Ireland—hostile
to freedom, of which Prince ERNEST is the head.
The public money is to foment public disorder, and
nourish those who are not the friends of the QUEEN.
This application of it is worthy of the reasoning by which
the Prince's right is defended. We arc told his re-
venue is held by precisely the same tenure as the
Three per Cents. ; so that the appanage of a Prince,
now become a foreign Sovereign, rests on the same
foundation as a stipulation to pay interest on money
borrowed. The ignorance or the dishonesty which
can make such an assertion is quite worthy of the
coarseness with which Mr. HOME is spoken of for
not adopting the Post's fallacy. The Princes of the
House of Hanover have no right whatever to one
atom of revenue from England but what they derive
from the Parliament ; and the sums they annually
received before the accession of GEORGE 111. as
little deserved the name of hereditary property as the
revenues of the Archbishop of CANTERBURY.

We are happy to state that the City of London-
derry steamer safely arrived at Falmouth on Tuesday.
When in the Bay of Biscay she run short of coals, and
was in consequence compelled to make for Corunna,
where she was delayed by the roughness of the wea-
tl►er. The Londonderry was full seven days behind
her tonal time of making the passage from Vigo.

The Paris Journals of Tuesday have all been re-
ceived. Their contents are unimportant. To cele-
brate the KING'S birth-day with all due demonstra-
tions of loyalty, the chambers had suspended their
sittings, the Bourse was closed, and hardly any public
business was transacted in the French capital. Ad-
dresses to his Majesty from the Legislative and
Diplomatic bodies, from the National Guards, from
the Army, and from the Prench Bar, were ready for
presentation at an early hour on Tuesday.
on Monday the Chatiabir of filepui-io -.effected.
by a Talpfity% of I.BT to votes intro-
d4co N141.41xf of Teoll.ll

of the Commissariat. So large a majority against a
Ministerial proposition excited great surprise in the
political circles. We really do not wonder at it.
There is no news of any interest. from Spain. The
Swiss journals state, that the Catholic Canton of
Glaris has effected the abolition of its monasteries, in
defiance of the power of the Archbishop. The follow-
ing are extracts from the journals :
The iccounts from Bayonne of the 27th July confitm the result of
the pitiful insurrection attempted by Munagorry •
The Catalonian journals say that fears are entertained of the tran-
quillity of Barcelona. It seems that the ultra. revolutionary party does
not renounce the idea of exciting troubles in that city.—Gazette de
France, May 1.

The Dutch mail this morning has brought us the
following adviees

ROME, APRIL 9.—Prufeisors Braun and Elvenich, who
have been here almost a year on account of the doctrines of
Hermes, set out yesterday to return to Germany. Perhai-,s
their negotiations may be published. They were treated with
great esteem by every body with whom they had any in-
tercourse.

A general subject of conversation is the purchase, by- the
Crown Prince of Prussia, of part of the Palace of Duke Caf-
farelli, in this capital. The Government as soon as it was
made acquainted with the sale annulled it ; it has reserved to
itself the right of pre-emption, and it seems that this comb
tints was concealed at the sale by the Duke, for which he is
under arrest in his own house. The pubic are anxiously
expecting the issue of the affair, which is more important at
this moment, when the friendly relations with Prussia are in-
terrupted ; in other times it would have been easily arranged.
TRIESTE, APRIL 19. —Accounts from Alexandria of the
29th March, received to-day, announce that Mehemet Ali had
set out on Isislong intended journey to Upper Egypt. News
had been received at Alexandria from Syria, that Ibrahim
Pacha at the head of his army had totally defeated the rebels,
and that the insurrection, from which so much was expected,
was nearly suppressed.
VIENNA, APRIL 23.—Five per Cents. 107-; Three per
Cents. 83i ; Bank Shares 1,458. —A llgemeine Zeitung,
April 28.
HAGUE, May I.—This morning Count Clardenbzrg had an au.
dienee of the King, to deliver his credentials as resident Minister from
his Majesty the King of Hanover.

AM9TERDANI. MAY 2.—A resolution of his Majesty, dated 30th April,
appears in the Amsterdam Courant today, by which his Majesty, on the
report of the Minister of the Interior, directs that au iron railroad shall be
made under the direction of the Minister of the Interior from Amsterdam
to Arnheim by way of Utrecht, which may in the sequel have a branch
from Rotterdam to Utrecht, and be prolonged from Arnheim to the
Prussian frontiers.

A loan of nine millions of florins shall be contracted for the expence,
to which may be added in the sequel a second and third loan of six and
three millions for the above mentioned branch and prolongation. The
interest of the loan shall be 41/t per cent , and if the surplus receipt,
after defraying the expences of keeping the road in order, &c., should
be insufficient, his Majesty will make good the difference.
HAOVE, APRIL 30.--A Courier with despatches from London was
received to-day by the Minister for Foreign affairs.

HAMRURGII, APRIL 28.—N0 change in the prices of funds to.day
and little doing.
The number of Deputies in the second Chamber of the Estates is
still only thirty-one, who daily meet to hear the protocol of the day be-
fore, in which there is nothing, except that nothing was done, because
the Chamber was not complete ; were it not so, they must adjourn be-
cause there is nothing to do, for we do not hear a word of the iron rail-
roads and other matters promised by the Hanover Gazette.

Mr. Stuart, the student from Edinburgh, who was called to account for
a M.S. on the Hanoverian Constitution, has been ordered to leave Got-
tingen. His Majesty had indeed been pleased to pardon the abuse of
his name, and the more so, as it was proved that the MS. had been made
known by accident; but academic authorities judged it necessary to
make him leave the University, in order to prevent collision with his
offended tellow-students, of the Hanoverilin nobility.—Hamburg hoe.
sen Halle, 28 April.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AusTeunam, MAY I.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 214 per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amon Svadie, 414 per cent 95 95%
Ditto, ditto, 3y, per cent 7914 7914
Commercial Company, 40,', per cent 194 184%
Ditto (1832 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Loan 816, 4 per cent.
Ditto 1937, 6 per cent.
A, 91-qi 90%
Exchange on Loudon, One month xe 1217%
Two months
BELGIAN FUNDS—BitusgEts, MAY I.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent.
Loan of Thirty Millions 93%
Loan of City, 1932, 4 per Cent 9FN
Society of Commerce, 4 per Cent l6B
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 142%
National Society
—llrussels Papers, May 1.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, APRIL 27.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent 102.14 10N
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 1031; 102%
Exchange on London, three mouths 6 25%
—Prussian State Gazette. April 28.

The conduct of the functionaries with white sticks
belonging to the British and Foreign Bible Society, at
Exeter Hall yesterday, is full of suspicion, and will
attract the attention of the subscribers who yearly con-
tribute enormous sums to this institution. We place
little confidence in the reports of proceedings at meet-
ings furnished by persons interested. The system
throws- a doubt. over everything connected with them
that •is allowed to come before the public, and if
no rep.orfers are to attend, but those paid by
a certain clique, it would be better to have
no report at all. We were desirous to give an early-
and an impartial account to our numerous readers in-
. terestedin the state of the finances, and the other pro-
ceedings that generally come before the annual meeting;
but it appears that certain members of- the Society
prefer giving their own report. There must be some
substantial reason for this. The correctness and im-
partiality of the reports given in this Journal are ge-
nerally admitted. It could not, therefore, be on -the
ground of partiality that this want of courtesy was so
manifestly evinced; but for some other reason of which
the numerous Branch Societies will require an explana-
tion. For some years past, there has been no great
desire to provide good accommodation, or furnish
documents to the reporters even of morning papers that
have long supported the cause ; but on the contrary, a
desire to make one periodical the exclusive organ of
a. party. We4lo not aver that on this account there
is any wish to mystify accounts involving sums
from 70,000/. to 100,000/. a year, or that
any of these gentlemen with the " long white
sticks" have an interest in any particular
periodical ; because we cannot believe that men of a
religious turn of mind, and engaged in such a holy
cause as the diffusion of the Scriptures, could be influ-
enced by such improper motives ; but we can assure
them, if they want to be above suspicion, they must
give no grounds for it.

Public curiosity is a little excited to ascertain to
whom the Twenty-three Thousand Bottles of Wine belong,
that is announced by Mr. George Robins for Sale next Mon-
day. The reply yesterday was, that the house stands No.
One, in the City of London, and the Wines not to be surpassed
in England.
The grand birth-day fete at St. James's Palace, on
Thursday, the 24th inst., will be on a scale of vast splendour. The
Marquis Cenyngham and Lord Charles Fitzroy are daily engaged at
the Lord Chamberlain's Office issuing the invitations..
Count Anatole Demidoff, the wealthy Russian
grandee, is expected at the Clarendon Hotel from Paris, on diplomatic
business connected with the arrival of the Ambassador Extraordinary
from St. Petersburg.
Mr. Bligh, the first envoy to the Hanoverian Court,
is expected to take his departure for Hanover early in the ensuing
month. Mr. Cartwright has succeeded Mr. Bligh as Minister at
Stockholm.

CUSTOM-HOUSE.--A week ago an air-tight green-
house from India, with some curious plants, was inspected at the Cos.
tom-house by breaking the glass, and, of course, utterly destroying
the exotics. A parallel happened to a Noble Lord who brought a choice
missal from Italy, which the custom-house officer, in spite Of the assu.
rances of his servant, declared to be an oil-painting ; and to prove that
it was so, and chargeable with duty, he spit on hit lingers, and smeared
it all over, rubbing the value completely out.—Literary Gazette,
LONDON AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY.--011
Tuesday the Directors of this Railway proceeded along the line from
London to Woking-common, a distance of QS miles, preparatory to its
being opened to the public on the 14th instant. The object of the
journey was to arrange the stations as well as to test the safety of the
line, and to give such orders as will ensure the public against accidents
on the opening. The excursion was roost satisfactory. The engine
employed on the occasion was made by Messrs. C. Taylour and Co., of
Warrington, and during some parts of the journey went at the rate of
2 miles per hour It was a singular and gratifying circumstance that
the Directors were on this occasion accompanied by John Moss, Esq ,
the Chairman of the Directors of the Grand Junaion Railway, and
by Charles Lawrence, Esq., the Chairman ef the Directors of the Liver.
pool and Manchester Railway, and these gentlemen both Expressed them.
selves highly pleased with the state of the works,
finished state of the Railway. and comparatively
STATE or TRADE.---WO are happy to have it in
our power to confirm, by tho result of yesterday's market, the favourable
report we made last week with respect to the
130th in yarns and in goods there was decidedly more business doing ; all
apprehension of their becoming lower seemed to have passed away, and
buyers were comingt confidence. Prices
into the market with apparent
;rovement of trade.
were readily obtained both for twist and cloth, which a fortnight, or
even a week ago, could not he veaumi; and, in some instances, a posi. '
tire advance upon tha late selling prices was obtained.-310.ffg',iCiNt,'
Chmelloi

Dr. Rolph, for whose apprAtulAuli the Canadian
Government offered a rent-it, 0,4. 6uni. has just commenced the practice
of medichn Ip, York Paper.
Surgeon Phelan, of Clonmell, the Depiity of the
British and Trinity College,
Medical and Graduate of Ireland,
had an interview with Lpyil Nickcpeth on Monday; on the subject of the
Irish Medit,ai c hinnies Bill:
In the course of three years 1,500 mile: €.l. railway
will have been executed in lirtgland ;And calculating the aver.
age cost, exen.iv„
- °I-Vgi4e.i, iii),ooo/. per mile, .airty millions ster,
nue been expended upon them.