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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1836.

are not very well known, the anxiety and doubt are the
greater as to the spirit which will guide them, and the
measures they may adopt. A vital question will occupy
the fiat sittings of the Assembly ; and the manner in
which this is resolved will make it appear whether the
new Procuradores fully comprehend their mission. They
are obliged by the law to settle the ;Regency, which is
to last during all the minority of the young Queen.
Will the Assembly ratify the voice of the nation in con-
tinuing to entrust the regency to the Queen who has
hitherto wielded it ? 'We do not lightly start so grave a
question ; but a periodical, some time since talked of,
named co-Regents with Christina. If the will of the
Spanish nation is known on any one point, it is clear in its
fidelity and attachment to Christina, even before the
death of Ferdinand. This, indeed, is so clear that
the promoters of the idea of co-Regents admit it. But
they add, that her Majesty is exposed to insidious
counsels from bad advisers, who deceive and lead astray
her undoubted patriotism ? But, we ask, will the possi-
bility of this be lesEsened by the appointment of a co-re-
gent ? Will the new regents be exempt from human
frailty ? Will they be insensible to ambition, which can-
not stimulate the elevated Christina ? The representa-
tive system, in our opinion, offers, on the responsibility of
Ministers, the best remedy against the evil above com-
plained of. A reformed Constitution, and legal order, will
prove the best guard against counter-revolution. It would be a
bad mode of putting an end to our present misery to open
the sphere of private ambition, and place individuals on the
very steps of the throne. For if Ministerial power be so
coveted as to be the object of such intrigues, such rancour,
such dissensions, how much more of these evils would arise
were a portion of the sovereign power opened to the am-
bitious ? History presents terrible examples of struggles
for power during a Royal minority ; let us not increase the
number of these examples. Not to dwell upon its obvious
effects in domestic police, how would the nomination of co-
regents complicate our ',foreign relations? What effect
would it have on the Quadruple Alliance, and upon each
of its members ? Let us, by avoiding such complications,
secure the efficacious co-operation that has been promised
to us. But the representatives of the nation will not be
blind to reasons so obvious and so strong ; they will pre-
serve the reins of government in the hands of her whom
an enthusiastic people called their mother; nor will they
set aside the example of moderation given by the French
n 1830.

The German Papers, received this morning, contain
advices from Berlin, to the effect that a rupture was
breaking out between Russia and Prussia. The Rus-
sian authorities, it is alleged, have prohibited Prussian
subjects from crossing the frontier, and some who un-
consciously disobeyed this injunction have been seiced,
their goods confiscated, and are now on their way to
Siberia. We vouch not for the authenticity of such
rumours. The following article, however, which we
copy from the German Courier, evinces such an anxiety
with regard to Russian policy, and is, upon the whole,
so hostile to the designs of that Power by the prema-
tureness of its exposures, that we can only account for
its appearance by assuming that some of the German
States are not on the best terms with the CZAR. It

well deserves the attention of our countrymen :
" Whilst the west of Europe directs its whole attention
to the operations of Russia, that of the Cabinet of St. Pe-
tersburg appears for the moment exclusively directed to the
East. The plan of sooner or later incorporating the Otto-
man empire with Russia is said to have been entirely aban-
doned for the gigantic but more sure project of extending
Russian domination to the centre of commerce. A Russian
State functionary is reported to have some years ago ad-
dressed a remarkable memorial to the Emperor on the
subject of the futility and the danger to Russia of any at-
tempt to conquer Constantinople, as even were such an
attempt successful, the relations between that capital and
other European States, and the circumstance that the former
would be exposed to continual attacks from the maritime
Powers, would lead to the necessity of adopting a line of
policy which must in the end divide the Russian empire, and
deprive it of the fruit of its conquests. The memorial in
question also represented that the possession of Constantino-
ple would divert Russia from the task of extending her farces
and her territory, so as to attain the dominion of Asia and
the possession of India. ' After the conquest of Constan-
tinople,' says the Memorial, Russia would be continually
at war with France,' England, and Austria, who would
follow her operations step by step, and dispute with her
every important point ; but she would be placed in a much
more favourable position were she to direct her efforts at
once against India, and thus succeed in giving strength and
grandeur to her power a:.d dominion. In this career no
other Power would be able to follow her, and her object
once gained, she would only have to engage in a war with
England, the issue of which could not be doubtful, to have
in her own hands the destinies and the commerce of the
world. As the means of attaining this object, the author of
the Memorial has pointed out the possession of the shores
of the Caspian Sea and the Ravines of the Caucasus, and
a decided preponderance in the affairs of Persia. The new
aspect thus given to the policy of Russia explains several
diplomatic acts of the present day. The Porte seems
already to have a presentiment of passing events in Russia,
and keeps. an uneasy eye upon its Asiatic possession!,
which could not, in the hour of danger, be defended like
European Turkey by its allies."
rsEI.GI AN 1. UNDS—Brtuastms, OCT. 25
Actual Debt, 2i per Cent. ......
Itothschilit's Loan, 5 per Cent. 99h
Loan of Thirty Mi11i0n5...... ............
Loan of City, 1832. 4 per Cent lOO
Society of Commerce, 4 Ls; per Cent 1.13
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 123
—Brussels Paper=, Oct. 26.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, OCT. 17.
Five per Cents. Mctalliques
Four per Cents.
Three der Cents.
Bank Shares 1313

—Allgemeine Zeitunz, Oct. `..2.
FRANKFORT, OCT. 22.—Exchange on London, 1431 ; two
months, 1474 —Frankfort Paper, Oct. 23.

The Reform dinner at Worcester; on Monday last,
at which upwards of seven hundred and fifty Reformers
were present, and for which, as the Chairman ob-
served, fifteen hundred tickets were disposed of, is a
triumphant answer to those who assert that there is a
re-action in favour of Toryism. We did not need
this additional testimony, but it is as well we have
been furnished with it ; for it will put an effectual stop
to the cackle of even the most prejudiced Conserva-
tives, who will henceforth see that not a chance is left
them. But it is not mere numbers that we so much
regard at the Worcester meeting, as the determined
spirit that prevailed at it. All who spoke, spoke the
language of zealous Reformers. There was no at-
tempt at flinching ; no resort to vague generalities—
such as the Tories are constantly compelled to have
recourse to, when they touch upon the ungracious
topic of Reform—the sentiments were in strict har-
mony with those entertained by the great mass of the
community. We should certainly have been better
pleased, had Mr. R °Jai NSON been more decided on the
question of the. ballot ; but this is not so immediately
pressing as that paramount one of—" What shall we do
with the Lords ?"—and on this branch of his subject, Mr.
ROBINSON disburdened himself of a great deal of
Taluable indignation. He expressed his opinions of
their Lordships in just such bold, indignant terms as
these Aristocratic Incapables deserve ; and called on
the people to express theirs in a similarly unequivocal
spirit. This is precisely what, at the present crisis,
we desire to meet with in our Reform Members. We
desire that they should give their deliberate sanction
to the popular opinion, respecting the incorrigible
Noodle-ism of the House of Lords, knowing that the
grievance of such an incompetent, irresponsible Insitu-
tion, being once formally recognized by those who from
rank, situation, and circumstances, are every way qua-
lified to form a correct estimate, the remedy will follow
as a matter of course.

The Conservatives of Leeds gave what our fashion-
able Morning Contemporarythei Post callsa"gErTand
dinner" to their representative sr JOHN BEcK r,
on Monday last. Before the cloth was removed the
wine drank must have been immense—if we may be
permitted to draw an inference from the ordinary effect
of wine upon the wit, the judgment, and the talka-
tiveness of after-dinner orators. Poor Sir JOHN
talked three columns and upwards of such trash
as, in the words of a humourous Irishman, would
have " disgraced the intellect of a sucking-tur-
key." The Right Hon. Gentleman commenced
with lauding the Conservative Members of the House
of Commons, for having redeemed their pledges to
their Constituents. We are old enough to remember
when Toryism, ashamed to show its face in the land,
assumed the alias of Conservatism ; and we likewise
remember that it was the peculiar boast of its renegade
supporters that its representatives spurned the idea of

giving pledges—that its friends never exacted any.
How then could the Conservative Members rise in the
estimation of Englishmen by redeeming pledges which
they boasted they never gave ? To exact pledges is,
according to the Tory organs, a disgraceful radical
innovation. Sir JOHN tells the Conservatives of
Leeds that ,the country prizes highly the redemp-
tion of such pledges, and by implication, that the
country does now, and will exact them. Does not this
prove one of two things—namely, that the Right Hon.
Gentleman did not know well what he was saying ; or
that the great bulk of the electors are Radicals—

Whigs ?
Could we but place reliance in the truth of one de
claration of the Right Hon. Member for Leeds, we
should rather assist in forwarding than in oppos-
ing the establishment of Conservative Associations
throughout the country. " The Operative Conser-
vative Associations," said the Right Honourable
Gentleman " will go on as they have begun.
They will establish among themselves a system
of high moral conduct, without which feeling is
as nought ; and they will, as heretofore, continue to
devote a portion of their time and their labour to sup-
port the institutions of the State, and disseminate the
truths of our pure religion." We protest we like this
mightily ; but we were not before aware of the mis-
sionary appointment of the Conservatives. Of course,
Bishop PHILPOTTS has laid his hands upon them,
so that we can have no doubt as to the colour of
the spirit with which they are imbued. The Conser-
vatives, in fact, are the Templars and Hospitallers of
Protestantism, as their semi-sacerdotal architypes were
the crutches of enfeebled Popery. We lament, however,
to learn from so respectable an authority upon this sub-
jectas Sir JOHN BECKETT, that the system of " high
moral conduct" which the operative Conservatives are
establishing is confined to themselves, and is not to
extend to their leaders in either House of Parliament.
We wish their influence could be made to extend to
Lords LYNDHURST and Co., whose leisure, we are
sorry to, say, is devoted to something else than the
dissemination of religious truths. As the Right Ho-
nourable Baronet warmed with his subject, he fell
foul of the Government, which he declared to be one
of the paltriest and wickedest that ever existed.
It had all but destroyed the Constitution, root
and branch—for it had actually ousted MAN-
NERS SUTTON from the Speaker's Chair, and
prevented the KING from appearing in Russia, in the
person of that most noble pink of diplomacy, the Mar-
quis of LONDONDERRY I The audience was hor-
rified, as well it might, at such an awful charge against
the Whigs. It was clear to every Tory understand-
ing that the pillars of our happy Constitution in
Church and State, were tottering to their fall ; that
Protestantism was at her last gasp, and would die of
the terrors of a Popish nightmare, unless the Whigs
could be driven from the Ministerial Benches. From
the Government to Mr. O'CONNELL the transition
was, of course, natural. In reference to the Carlow
Election transaction, Sir JOHN BECKETT declared
that if a Conservative had been guilty of such an act as
Mr. O'CONNELL was charged with, he would have
been sent to Newgate I Whose fault was it, Sir JOHN,
that Mr. O'CONNELL was not sent to Newgate?
Not the fault of the Whigs and Radicals certainly, for
they were the minority in the Committee, whose
Report. acquitted the Hon. and Learned Gentleman of
all culpability in the transaction. But we presume
Sir JOHN'S observation has no reference whatever to
the merits of the particular case. What the Right
Hon. Gentleman most probably means to have inferred
is, that were a Conservative accused of such a transac-
tion the Whigs would pack the Committee, and, con-
trary to the O'CONNELL case, justice would be de-
nied to the luckless Conservative wight placed in such
a predicament.
The other political speech-makers during the even-
ing were a Mr. C. HILL, who had the honour to act
as Vice-Chairman, Mr. WORTLEY, Mr. BETHELL,
M.P., Mr. GASKELL, M.P., the Hon. JAMES
STUART WORTLEY, M.P., and the Hon. W. S.
LASCELLES. Mr. HILL lauded the ability of all
Conservative Members of Parliament _past, present,
and future—but particularly the Right Hon. Member
for Leeds. Mr. WORTLEY wisely confined himself
to the meridian of Yorkshire, which he assured his
friends was the finest soil in the world for the growth
of Conservatism ; and such was his zeal for the cause,
that he •was ready to take a seat any day in the House
of Commons, if they would only elect him. This
announcement was received in profound silence, which
was slightly interrupted by a low whistle from a gentle-
man in a remote corner of the room. Mr. BETHELL,
M.P., contented himself with praising the bril-
liancy of a Leeds festival, and accordingly his
speech was the most sensible of any delivered dur-
ing the evening. Mr. GASKELL, 1V1.P., opened his
speech with O'CONNELL, and the subject was not
exhausted when the impatience of his auditory forced
him to sit down. The other speeches may be dis-
missed in a sentence. They are, from first to last, one
tissue of nonsense, and absurdity. Upon the whole
the Leeds gathering was a decided failure. The prin-
cipal speakers fumed, and raved, and abused the Go-
vernment ; but they evidently felt that the game of
Toryism was all up with them—that they might hope
to embarrass, but could never hope. to become the Go-
vernment.

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The conduct of the Tories puts us in min
which is attributed to the crew of a ship, when they
have lost all hope of saving their lives. Seeing nothing
but certain destruction before them, they rush to the
spirit-room, and drown the consciousness of their un-
happy situation in the stupefaction of intoxication.
So is it with " those of the adverse faction." There
never was a time when their affairs as a party were in
so desperate a state, and never did they carry the re-
galing system to so extravagant a pitch as at the pre-
sent moment. Feed follows feed, with breathless
haste—one debauch treads upon the heels of another,
as if to drown care was the only consolation left for
those unfortunnte scape-graces.
To what excess they carry this, their now favourite
practice of steeping the senses in forgetfulness, we
want no surer criterion of judging than the immense
quantities of ineffable nonsense hiccuped up on these
occasions. We have before us a notable example of
this Tory re-action, bless the mark I in a guzzle held
at Maldon in Essex, by a few scores of riffraff Blues,
in the interest of that long-eared patriot, Mr. QUIN..
TIN DICK. The effects of the stimulants imbibed
became perceptible at a very early period of the even-
ing. When the health of the Princess VICTORIA
was drank, it was coupled with a wish that she might
ever remember the principles which seated the House
of BRUNSWICK on the throne. Now, nothing can be
more preposterously ridiculous than such a toast in the
mouth of a Tory, inasmuch as the House of BRUNS-
WICK was seated on the throne in direct opposition to
the principles, and in spite of the treasonable machina-
tions, of the Tories, who, not content with doing all in
their power to prevent the succession of the BRUNS-
WICK line, actually raised two rebellions to dethrone
two successive Princes of that illustrious House So
much for Tory loyalty to the House of BRUNSWICK.
We may also remark, that one of the principles of
which this meeting reminds the PRINCESS is triennial
Parliaments. Is this altogether to the taste of the
Tories ? We apprehend not. Indeed, we are sure
that if she were to sanction the re-introduction of such
a principle into the Constitution, the Tories wculd all
unite in one yell, that she had forgotten, instead of