The Sun.
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TRE NEW COMIC PERIODICAL WORK.
EBITED BY BOZ, AND ILLUSTRATED BY
GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.
Now ready, No. 1., (to be continued Monthly), price 2s. 6d., em-
bellished with a Portrait of George Colman the Younger, en-
graved by Greatbach, from a Painting by Jackson, and Humourous
Illustrations by George Cruikshank and Samuel Lover, of
BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.
EDITED BY BOZ,
And ILLUSTRATED by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.

• CONTENTS.
Song of the Month, by Father Handy Andy, by Samuel Lover
Prout Old Age and Youth, by T. Haynes
Prologue byDr. Maginn—Open- Bayly
ing Chaunt An Evening of Visits, by J. Fe-
Recollections of George Colman, nimore Cooper, Author of the
by Theodore Hook " Pilot"
The " Monstre " Balloon Who are you ? by Metastasio
Legend of Manor Hall, by the Fontenelle and Samuel Lover
Author of " Headlong Hall" Metropolitan Men of Science
Terence O'Shaughnesey, by the Kyan's Patent
Author of " Stories of Wa- The Original of " Not a drum
terloo" was heard," by Father Prout
The Sabine Farmer's Serenade, A Gossip with some old English
by Father Prout Poets—C. Oilier
Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble, The RisingPeriodical—Mr. Ver-
by " 4 Boz" dant's account of the last Xrial
Ode to Rum Punch, by Father Ascent, by T. Haynes Bayly
Prout An Italian Anecdote, by the
The Marine Ghost, by the Au- Author of" Hajji Baba'
, thor of " Rattlin the Reefer"

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EANING, DECEMBER 31, 1836.

The year 1836 is now fast drawing to a close, and
notwithstanding the many disappointments they have
experienced, leaves the Reformers in a far better con-
dition than they were in at its commencement. On
the Ist of January last, the Ballot and Peerage
Reform were, comparatively speaking, in their nonage ;
now, they have all but attained a fall and perfect
growth. At that period, they were the wish of the
few ; now, they are the determination of the many.
As regards Ireland, the progress, is equally satisfactory.
True, she has for the time, lost her Municipal Reform ;
but what is the consequence ? Why, just this—that
she has since acquired a strength—a unanimity--ex-
hibited a fixedness of purpose, that in the ensuing
Session will enable her to demand and obtain a
greater measure of . Municipal justice than that
of which she has been deprived. If we had
nothing more in the proceedings of the late Ses-
sion to congratulate ourselves upon, we should
find ample materials for congratulation in Lord
LYNDHURST'S application of the word " alien" to
Ireland. It has roused that kingdom from one ex-
tremity to the other ; and by making it feel its de-
gradation, has supplied it with a fitting instrument
for its regeneration. Till now, Ireland has had trdt
too much reason to doubt, and it may be, to despair ;
but now she has only to be determined, to conquer.
Her fate now is in her own hands--.thanks to that
phrase of Lord LYNDIIURST, wh;:e:h he fondly hoped
would become a bye-word and a mockery against her.
And 'now stands the account as respects England ?
She has had Bill after Bill rejected by the House of
Lords—the Post-.offi,-e Bill—the Imprisonment for
Debt Bill—aid lieaven knows how many other Bills !
—Yet st;:a she is progressing, and progressing too,
just ire proportion to the severity of the disappoint-
111.'ents she has experienced. The experience of the
Jast Session has had the effect of giving her a clearer
view of her own interests than she has ever yet had.
She can now discriminate between her real well-
wisbers and her sham well-wishers ; between a
specious Tory Manifesto-monger, and a Reformer
of the firmness and sincerity of Lord MEL-
BOURNE. So far, therefore, are we from con-
idering that the year, whose dirge will be rung to
night, has produced us naught but ill, that we affirm
unhesitatingly it has produced us naught but good.
It has convinced us of the necessity of Peerage Re-
form, and wrought in us a determination to obtain it.
It has proved to us that the Tories are incorrigible,
and confirmed us in our resolution to extinguish them.
Above all, it has taught us to know our strength, and
to bide our time. Is this nothing ? " Then is Bohemia
nothing." What the next year will produce, it is im-
possible for us at this period to predict. But might
we hazard an opinion, we should say that it would

reap the harvest, the seeds of which the present year
has sown ; that it will bring Reformer and anti-Re-
former face to face in a position from which there can
be no retreating, without the utter overthrow of one
or the other party ; and that the defeated troops will
not be those of the Reformers. But more than this
—it will place the Dissenters on :AA high vantage
ground ; give such an impulse to the stirring eneruiPc'
of Ireland, and of the
that neither '.i.igh-minded
C;Jurt ilistruct„ 'a
c tcoicn Liberals,
Dk- stair influence, nor
Corse; cative intrigue, will be able to prevail against
them. As we look back to the old year with sa-
tisfaction, so we look forward to the new
one with confidence. It can abridge none of our 1
rights—it cannot keep Reform stationary—it must,
therefore, conduce to the improvement of our position.
But how will it be with the Tories ? Alas, to them
the future holds out a most chilling prospect ; they
have no hope, for their's is the old age that sees nought
but a grave in the distance. Just as we progress, must
they retrograde; just as we conquer, must they be de-
: feated ; what is life to us, is death to them ; what fills
us with rejoicing, fills them with lamentation. They
are a doomed faction, and who shall say how many of
them will politically survive to welcome the advent of
eighteen hundred and thirty eight ?

The speech of his Majesty the King of the
FRENCH, on opening the Legislative Chambers on
Tuesday, is scarcely noticed in the Paris Journals of
the day following. Comments upon it would be pre-
mature, as the attempt to assassinate the KING en-
tirely absorbs public attention. The Siecle alone
treats the Royal speech as a curious manifestation of
Ministerial optimism. The great philosopher Square,
so intimately acquainted with the principles of the
" moral fitness of things," was but a novice compared
with such masters of the science of optimism as MOLE,
GUIZOT, PERSIL, and MARTIN DU NORD. Who
but a Member of the Mole Administration could dis-
cover in the desolating progress of the civil war in
Spain—in the defeat of the French before Constantine
—in the two attempts to murder the KlNG—and in
the two attempts at a military insurrection at Ven-
dome and Strasburg—the confirmation of the as-
sertion made by the KING, in his speech to the
Chambers—namely, that " the institutions of the
country are becoming strengthened, and that, her
prosperity is increasing ?" With an army in which
General officers are to be found ready to raise the
standard of rebellion—with cities in which famine is
now making frightful ravages—with a working popu-
lation in a state bordering on absolute destitution—
with the daily spectacle of plots discovered and assas-
sinations attempted before her eyes ; we are as a loss
to perceive where France finds objects for self-con-
gratulation on the growing strength of her institutions,
and the mighty increase of her prosperity.
The few other Paris journals which notice the
KING'S speech condemn the spirit of egotism in which
it is conceived. They are right. Such expressions
as " I applaud myself for having preserved France
from sacrifices the extent of which cannot be appre-
ciated," ought not to be put in the mouth of a con-
stitutional KING. They but multiply the number of
his enemies, by confirming the impression that he
seeks to govern by his will alone, without the inter-
vention of a Cabinet.

The assassin's name is reported to be MEURIER.
His father is a coachmaker at La Villette, in the vi-
cinity of Paris. He will be tried by the Chamber of
Peers, in the same manner as was FIESCHI. The de-
claration of ALIBAUD, respecting the twenty-four as-
sassins who had mutually bound themselves to devote
their lives to the ridding France of the citizen KING, is
now remembered with apprehension. The laws of Sep-
tember have signally failed in the repression of attempts
upon the life of the KING. It is, however, reported that
Ministers will immediately proceed to strengthen them
by severer enactments. At the very instant the crime
was first whispered in the Chamber of Deputies on
Tuesday, M. GUIZOT suddenly exclaimed, in the
hearing of a great number of Deputies and strangers,
" Who will now offer to disarm the Government ?"
This startling query implied a determination not to be
misunderstood. The Temps, the Constitutionnel, and
the Courrier Francais, all mention the stringent sys-
tem of policy about to be recommended by Ministers
in terms of strong disapprobation. The Chambers are
now in a state of loyal intoxication. To take advan-
tage of their inebrious devotion to the Royal Family
would be only to expose them to the contempt, not
only of France, but of Europe ; and, what is more,
treble the dangers that now threaten the KING'S life.

The Paris Papers of Wednesday regard the capture
of Bilboa by the Carlists as highly improbable. The
letters direct from Bilboa are to the 22d instant, when
ESPARTERO had again re-crossed the Nervion, along
the right bank •of which he was preparing to
force a passage to Bilboa. There is no bridge over the
Asua, but as the river is neither broad nor deep Es-
PARTERO spoke with confidence of the facility with
which he could cross it. EGUIA and VILLAREAL
were preparing to oppose him with their united forces.
On the 20th GomEz attended a Council of War be-
fore Bilboa, presided over by the Infante Don SE-
BASTIAN, and immediately afterwards proceeded to
join his troops at Orduna. The following observations
respecting Bilboa are from the French journal La
Pais of Wednesday :
Notwithstanding all the reports spread by the Carlist
party, the works for the siege of Bilboa do not advance,
and there is no reason to believe that the inhabitants of
that heroic city are more closely pressed. The want of
positive information hinders us from judging impartially
of the operations of General Espartero. A steam-boat of
the Royal Navy of England has arrived at St. Sebastian
from London, with twenty thousand muskets for the Spa-
nish Government. It is said that fifty thousand piastres
hav e been paid to Espartero's army.
There is every appearance that the war in Spain, con-
fined to the ancient insurgent provinces, will be more active
and more sanguinary. The Ebro, which has been crossed
three times without any result, will not be again passed by
Generals who have not been able to maintain their ground,
on the other side, and who retire more like fugitives than
conquerors.

Letters from San Sebastian to the 21st, and from
Madrid to the same date, have likewise been received.
Their contents are unimportant.

Brussels and German papers have been received,
the former to the 28th, and the latter to the 25th inst.,
with advices from the frontiers of Poland to the 15th.
The communication between Brussels and Antwerp
was interrupted by the snow storm ; and at Amsterdam
the hurricanes which accompanied the first fall of snow
did considerable damage. Two English mails were due.
In Warsaw several arrests of young men have lately
taken place, by order of the -Russian Government. A
commercial traveller in that city at the time narrowly
escaped a journey to Siberia, by making the best of his
way across the frontier. The CZAR has given strict
orders to punish as the greatest crime, the expression
of sympathy for the fate of Poland.

BELGIAN } UNDS—BaussaLs, DEC. 28
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lOO%
Loan of Thirty Millions 94
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent. lOl
Society of Commerce, 4 %per Cent 143
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 134
Brussels Papers, Dec. 29.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, DEe. 27.
Actual Debt, 2), per Cent.
Do do. 5 per Cent.
Amort Syndic 4% per Cent.,
Do. do. 3% per Cent.
Commercial Company, 4% per Cent lBl%
New ditto —
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AUSTRIAN FUNDS.+VIENNA, DEC. 20.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 1394
--"lilgenteine Zeitung, Dec.:2s.

Dr. Camidge gave. the third concert of the season on
Tuesday ; Miss Bruce was the chief attraction. The various
songs allotted to her were performed by her in a superior
style. They were—" Hide me from Day's garish eye," by
Handel ; Mozart's " Dove Sono," and " Kate Kearney."
In this sweet Irish ballad Miss Bruce was encored, and
sung it delightfully. The concert was extremely well At-
tended.—Yorkshire Gazette.