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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1836.

\Vc stated yesterday that Sir C. PEPYS was ap-
pointed Lord Chancellor, and Mr. BICKERSTETH
Master of the Rolls. We further learn that Mr.
BICKERSTETH is to be created a Peer, in order to
give effect to the Bill to be brought forward
for separating the political from the judicial func-
tions of the Lord Chancellor—a measure which can-
not fail to give universal satisfaction to the country.
The Opposition Papers arc furious at these ap-
pointments, which they admit are unobjectionabk
in themselves, but their wrath knows no bounds, be-
cause they see in these appointments the determination
of Ministers to persevere in rooting out the abuses
in Chancery—abuses which have ruined thousands of
suitors and been a disgrace to :our judicial administra-
tion.

The assistance of that able legal Reformer, Sir
JOHN CAMPBELL, is deemed as necessary in carry-
ing the Bill through the Commons, as those of the
LORD CHANCELLOR and Mr. BICKERSTETH are in
the Lords, ata the ATTORNEY-GENERAL will there-
fore continue to hold his present distinguished post.
Lady CAMPBELL is to be created a Peeress.

The newly elected Mayor, Aldermen, and Coun-
cillors of the City of Norwich, hare addressed his
MAJESTY, thanking him for the Municipal Corpora-
tion Reforms, and expressing their full and entire
confidence in the present Liberal Administration.
We presume most humbly," says the language of
this Address," to express to your Majesty the increas-
ing confidence we feel towards the eminent and en-
lightened statesmen whom your MAJESTY has chosen
to continue as your advisers, and who have been
enabled, by your MAJESTY'S Most Gracious as-
sistance, to carry through measures for the government
of the nation, which are producing a wider extent of
satisfaction and happiness to all classes than their most
sanguine friends anticipated, whilst, at the same time,
those measures are uniting into a closer and more com-
pact form the whole body politic with the Constitu-
tion." The example of respect and gratitude thus set
by the Corporation of Norwich towards his MAJESTY
and his chosen Ministers, will, we trust, be followed
by the rest of the Municipal boroUghs ; for, if ever
public boon was worth acknowledging in the most
earnest and grateful terms, Corporate Reform is that
one. Its good effects will not be merely of a transient
character : they are destined to be eternal. They will
not benefit a sect only, but a people. Hence the
great outcry that has been raised against this Reform,
by the more sharp-sighted among the Conservatives,
who saw, from the very first mooting of the question,
that it
_was' caroulated to give a greater shock to their
authority, than areifyit4e Reform Bill itself. We for-
give them, however, their clamour, in consideration of ,

the great national benefit that has given rise to it ; and
shall be right glad to hear them again in Parliament—
and we are equally desirous with our high Tory Co-
temporary, the Times, that they should be constant
in their attendance--aivina vent to their favourite
0
ominous vaticinations respecting the disasters that
must inevitably, and at no distant period, result
from the passing of the Municipal Reform Bill.
The opposition and outcry of the Tories are always
the most encouraging symptoms of the utility of a great
public measure. The more fervently they declaim
against it, the more deeply are we impressed with a
conviction of its absolute necessity. It was their
breathless eagerness to support the Irish Coercion Bill
that made us think it even worse than it really was—
bad enough as we allow it to have been—and in like
manner it is their systematic, inveterate hostility to
Municipal Reform, that has given that great remedial
measure double value in our eyes. We subjoin the
Address of the corporation of Norwich to his MA-
JESTY :

TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
MAT IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY,
We, your Majesty's loyal and faithful subjects, the Mayor,
Aldermen, and Councillors of the ancient city of Norwich,
Beg to approach your Majesty with feelings of deep grati-
tude, that that Almighty Power, by whom Kings reign and
Princes decree justice, has continued to sustain you in health,
and to preserve you in the midst of a grateful, a happy, and a
loyal People.
We feel thankful especially that your Majesty has been the
willing instrument in the hand of Providence for effectuating
those great moral alterations in the state of your empire, which
have been called for by the progress of knowledge and the
legitimate influence of a noble-minded and generous People.
We see with sincere pleasure that your Majesty's acts of
liberal Government, which are now elaborating their bene-
ficial and happy effects among, all classes of your People, do
not depart from the spirit of the Constitution by which your
Majesty governs, and under which we delight to be governed.
We presume most humbly to express to your Majesty the
increasing confidence we feel towards the eminent and en-
lightened Statesmen whom your Majesty has chosen to con-
tinue as your advisers, and who have been enabled, by your
Majesty's most gracious assistance, to carry through measures
for the government of the nation, which are producing a wider
extent of satisfaction and happiness to all classes than the
most sanguine friends anticipated, whilst, at the same time,
those measures are uniting into a closer and more compact
form the whole body' politic with the Constitution.
We now beg to tender our assurances to your Majesty that
we, your faithful Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of Nor-
wich assembled will direct our utmost exertion to make effec-
tual for the general happiness, comfort, and prosperity of our
fellow-citizens, the New C,,orporation Act, under the authority
of which we arc this day met together.
We take leave of your Majesty by assuring you of our
attachment to your Royal House, of our ardent hopes that
the blessing of Providence lay rest upon you, and that you
may be in the possession of health and- peace during the
remainder of your existence, and that consciousness of moral
rectitude may be your solace hereafter.

The whole of the Paris Papers of Tuesday have
been received, together with reports of the proceedings
in the Chambers of Peers and Deputies up to the
departure of the mails for London. The Deputies'
report will be found in another column. As the Peers
continue to sit in a judicial capacity, we have consi-
derably abridged the details of the examinations re-
specting the conspiracies of April, and the meetings
of the " Society of the Rights of Man." In the
Chamber of Deputies, MM. BIGNON, ST. MARC
GIRARDIN, SALVERT.E, GLAIZ Brzong, and LEY-
RAUD opposed the address, on account of several
articles upon which they severally moved amendments.
The speech of M. ST. MARC GIRARDIN, one of
the principal Editors of the Journal des Debats, was
a luminous exposition of the policy of France respect-
ing Poland. He stated that Prussia had put herself
in the leading-strings of Russia ; that 'she had de-
serted the cause of European liberty ; but that much
as he regretted her secession from the standard of
freedom, he looked with much more sadness to the na-
tional disappearance of an cider sentinel of free insti-
tution, viz.—brave but unhappy Poland. He would not
trouble the Chamber with an account of the glory, the
power, and the strength of the Poland of 1772—he
would not harrow up the noblest feelings of its Mein-
, hers by relating the acts of_treachery by which its par-
tition was so infamously•effected. He would merely
speak of the Poland which survived -the Treaty of
Vienna—of the Poland to which France and England
guaranteed national independence. Puny as was the
Power of which he was about to speak—shrunk as it
was on all sides, appearing but the spectre of what it
was—still it had free institutions, liberty of the per-
son, liberty of the Press, and, what was of more im-
portance, a Diet, the Members of which were invio-
lable in their persons, and unrestricted in their speech.
These conceded rights formed a strong barrier against
the barbarism and ambition of Russia—a barrier that
would, have been impassable, had France and England
acted in the spirit of great nations, jealous of their ho-
nour, and observant of their pledges to Poland. The
rights thus secured to Poland formed a frontier of free-
dom against Russian aggression ; the only frontier by
which Russia ever can be restrained within her
natural limits. But NICHOLAS had broken down
this barrier, to the inviolability of which the
two Great Powers of Western Europe stood
pledged to liberty and to mankind. He had moved
the frontier of Russia one hundred leagues westward,
thereby formally proclaiming to the whole world that-
Poland no longer had a political existence. By this
step he contended, that the CZAR had set France and
England at open defiance—he had flung their Treaties
in their very teeth—and dared them to enforce their
observance, after it pleased his Imperial Majesty to set
them aside. He further stated, that the fall of Poland
was deplored by two of the first Statesmen and Diplo-
matists of the Age—the Princes METTERNICH and
TALLEYRAND. The Hon. Deputy then took a sur-
vey of the conduct of Russia towards the Porte, and
contended, that the only way to keep the Russians out
of Constantinople was to stand between them and the
capital of the Ottoman Empire. Every thing depended
upon the timely energy of Western Europe ; but, he
confessed, that he was without hope, of any thing
being done while we had the power of preventing the
aggressions of Russia. The Hon. Deputy was heard
with marked attention, and his denunciations of the
perfidious conduct of Russia elicited symptoms of ap-
plause and sympathy for the fate of the brave Poles.
The other orators dwelt on pretty nearly the same
topics, though some of them laid more stress on the
question of the American indemnity, in which they
contended that the honour of France had been com-
promised. M. BIGNON condemned the Fieschi laws,
and maintained that the KING ought still to grant a
political amnesty to such of the prisoners as had not
imbrued their hands in the blood. of their fellow-citi-
zeng. Nevertheless it was evident to observers in the
Chamber, from the tone assumed by Ministers, that
the Address would be carried without any amendment.

The following telegraphic despatch is officially com-
municated in the Moniteur :

" A telegraphic despatch from Bayonne, received yester-
day, announces that on the preceding day the Meteors arrived.
off St. Sebastian, for the purpose of taking vengeance for in-
sults offered to the French flag by the Carlists. After wait-
ing to receive the first shot, she returned such a warm and
well-directed fire upon the Carlists, that they were obliged to
send a flag of truce, with an assurance that in future the
French flag should be respected. Deplorable excesses were
committed at Barcelona on the 4th inst. Upwards of 100
prisoners were massacred by the populace in the citadel. The
body of Colonel O'Donnel was horribly mutilated. The dis-
turbance continued on the sth. The lives of all persons sus-
pected of Carlism were threatened. On the 4th, upon re-
ceiving an aecount of these disorders, General Mina left San
Lorenzo for Barcelona."

We deeply regret the murderous excesses committed
by the Spanish peasantry. But scenes of the kind
here referred to, are almost inseparable from the most
direful scourge with which society can be afflicted—a
state of civil war.

During the sitting of the Court of Peers on IVIon-