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London, England, 1847-01-04 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1847.

Although the commencement of the Parliamentary
session of 1847 will not be invested with the extra-
ordinary interest attached to the opening of its pre-
decessor, there will be no deficiency of matter in its
discussions to excite the curiosity of the population.
There are no Ministerial revelations, no party bonds to
dissever, no corn-laws to repeal, no intricacies in the
formation of a Cabinet to unravel, it is true ; but
there are, nevertheless, questions of a remarkable
character to submit to the consideration and the
discussion of the two Houses. In France the
meeting of the Chambers is anticipated with
interest principally in reference to the re-
cent jealousies which have arisen between the
majority of the European Governments. Much,
however, as we are impressed with the necessity of
bringing the differences of the Continent to some
satisfactory conclusion (if that be possible), we are
solicitous that the attention of our legislators may
not be occupied by the affairs of Cracow, of Spain,
of La Plata, or of Kafirland, to the exclusion of
matters more intimately connected with the Is el-
fare of the people. There is a visible anxiety in
France to regard the external misunderstandings
of the country as themes possessed of superior
claims upon the time and energies of the Chamber of
Deputies than the internal condition and financial
prosperity of France itself. Even after the distresses
which have ravaged many of the departments, chiefly
originating in a blundering system of taxation,
there is a disposition in the popular mind of France
to slur over every other topic of investigation saving
the prominent one of international alliance.
That this is a grievously-mistaken craving, no man
of moderate powers of discrimination will deny.
Not that we regard the preservation of international
friendship as a question subordinate to the consolida-
tion of our national energies, or the extension of our
national prosperity. It would be insanity to depre •
ciate a question involving not merely the continuance
of peace, but the most sacred interests of humanity
and the holiest principles of civilisation. We
are desirous, however, of seeing our representatives
at St. Stephen's occupied more especially with
measures calculated to ensure the greater happiness,
morality, and intelligence of the community—be-
cause the necessities of the people will be thereby
diminished, and the delicate machinery of diplo-
macy will not be interfered with by a too rough
examination.

It is well, we will acknowledge—nay, it is abso-
lutely requisite—that a candid explanation should be
required by Parliament as t ) the course adopted
by the Government in regard to the French,
Spanish, Austrian, Russian and Prussian Courts. It
i 3 advisable that there should be no hoodwinking upon
matters so intimately associated with the stability of
European peace and the interests of the British
empire. But it is by no means advisable that the
time which should be devoted to the amelioration of
the condition of Ireland, the facilitation of corn
mercial enterprise and the development of our most
valuable constitutional privileges, should be engrossed
night after night by unnecessary discussions upon the
edicts of a foreign prince or the dispatches of a re-
mote ambassador.

There is so much requiring reform in the social and
intellectual condition of the multitude, that the Lords
and Commons will find ample materials for their le
gislative capacities without usurping in any way the
duties of the Foreign-office. An explanation, there-
fore, let there be from the lips of Lord PALMERSTON,
as to the actual state of our relations with the Conti-
nental and Peninsular Cabinets—but let that expla-
nation be of a rational brevity and conciseness. The
nation is waiting impatiently for the application of
those constitutional remedies by which their miseries
may be diminished and their hidden resources dev e-
loptd. Ireland is solicitous for those measures
which were promised in the recently-published
Treasury minutes relating to the reclamation
of her waste lands. A variety of fiscal enact-
ments are still required before the mercantile
wheels of the empire can revolve with perfect
freedom and celerity. The thousands who are located
in the vicinity of pestilential churchyards, long for
the advent of that time when intermural interment
will be severely punishable by the law. Millions—
yes l millions, who are crowded into our unwholesome
towns and cities, with imperfect drainage, and slug-
gish ventilation, and water impregnated with the
most poisonous impurities, ping for the introduction
of those sanatory schemes which will impart new zest to
life and materially diminish the mortality of the coun-
try. The Prodigal Sons of knowledge—and their name
is Legion—those who are wallowing in the mire of
ignorance, are now animated with a feeble hope of
emerging from their degradation. Let the Parlia-
ment concentrate all its energies upon the passage of
a good Educational Bill, a good Sewerage Bill, a
good Bill relating to burying-grounds, and similar
efforts at reform, and the sittings during 1847
will not prove altogether fruitless. It is sa-
tisfactory to reflect upon one considera ion—
namely, that from the extraordinary measures passed
last session under the auspices of Sir ROBERT PEEL,
there will inevitably be a very salutary emulation in
' the conduct of the Administration of Lord Joni.;
RUSSELL. Besides this, there will be less
opportunity in the ensuing Parliament for
the indulgence of those protracted personalities
and long-winded vituperations, which in its predeces-
sor interfered so grievously with the transaction of
public business. The ground, indeed, is smoothed
before the Legislature, the design is already pen-
cilled, the great structure of social reform has even
now been commenced. Let not the labourers
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them derive an additional and irresistible incitement
from the unanimity of the Popular Will. Let them
follow up the destruction ofMonopoly by the subju-
gation of Ignorance and the discomfiture of Disease.
Let the representatives of the people illustrate the
closing days of this remarkable Parliament with a
series of measures such as will confer substantial
blessings upon the people, while they will redound
to their own perpetual advantage.

With some people folly displays a prolific energy,
bordering upon the marvellous. Folly has a variety
of starting points. The love of eccentricity, or a
morbid desire for notoriety, is one of the principal

posts from which-the race of foolishness is most fre-
quently' commenced. This distemper of the mind,
when freely indulged, gains upon its victim with in-
credible velocity. It hurries man into the most ridi-
culous excesses. Beneath its unbridled license the
temple of reason suffers every species of devastation,
till folly, oppressed by the many cares she has
brought on herself, resigns the seat she has usurped
in favour of her heir apparent, insanity. This legiti-
mate successor completes the work of ruin. Instances
of this deplorable revolution of the mind are painfully
frequent. They are confined to no class or profession.
The gay and the grave, the laical and the clerical, are,
in turns, unwarily seduced by the glittering retinue
of reason's acknowledged rival. Folly, by her
attractive conceits, intoxicates mankind. But,
of all those who drink deeply from her cup,
none commit such fearful extravagances as mem-
bers of the clergy. A clerical mountebank
is a sickening spectacle. Buffoonery in a parson is
insupportable. So intensely does the mind nauseate
at the idea of a clergyman having suffered his intel-
lect to become prostrate, by a false and craving appe-
tite after vulgar fame, that it becomes difficult, at
times, to assign the excesses of his conduct to their
just cause. Precisely such a problem, in its full
perplexity, is presented to our view in the career of
the Rev. BRYAN KING, in connexion with the proof
he has recently afforded of his utter incompetency to
discharge, in a becoming spirit, the duties appertain-
ing to the sacred office of a Christian minister.
The unenviable distinction which this unfortunate
and obdurate gentleman, as rector of St. George's-in-
the-East, has acquired, may be summarily disposed of
in a few sentences. He once presided over a large, in-
telligent, and influential congregation, who became
completely alienated in their feelings towards him,
by reason of the extensive innovations he introduced
into the Church service. The parishioners memoria-
lized the Bishop of LONDON. The Bishop replied,
that he could not interfere, regard being had to the
strict letter of the rubric, but that he had nevertheless
written to the minister, recommending him not to
persevere in matters of form, where the sentiments of
his parishioners, as a body, were strongly opposed to
the ceremonial alterations. The advice of the Bishop
produced no effect. The parishioners then refused to
sanction the payment of the rates, which they had
usually granted for the necessary repairs of the
church. The dissensions increased—the congregation
dispersed to attend other places of worship. The Rev,
BRYAN KING remained almost "alone in his glory,"
and continued " playing fantastic tricks before
high heaven" in his desolate temple, where the bell
threatened to cease to peal, the clock to strike, and
the organ to sound. Such, in brief, have been the
disastrous effects of wilful obstinacy and deficiency
of comprehension. Time passed on, and the Reverend
Gentleman deservedly sunk into oblivion, which was
death to the presiding principle of his mind ; the love of
spurious fame seized upon the earliest opportunity of
gratifying his all-devouring passion.
An inquest was held upon the body of the sister-
in-law of Mr. HAGGERTY, furniture dealer, in Rose-
mary-lane, Whitechapel, which was discovered in the
London Dock basin. The jury, according to the version
given by Mr. HAGGERTY before Mr. YARDLEY, the
magistrate at Thames •street, was " found drowned ;"
according to the statement- subsequently made by the
Rev. BRYAN KING, before the same authority, it was
couched in these terms :—" Threw herself into the
waters of the London Dock communication, and was
drowned therein ; but in what state of mind un-
known." Mr. HAGGERTY complained to the magis-
trate that, having paid the customary fees, and the
remains of the unhappy woman having been conveyed
to the churchyard, the minister refused to read the
burial service ; and that, though he had applied to
have the fees returned, they had been retained.
Mr. YARDLEY informed the applicant he had
no jurisdiction in the matter.

On Saturday, the rector, in a very excited state, ap-
peared before the magistrate, denied that he had been
requested to refund the fees, and added, that " ii any
person had received such fees on his behalf, it we:
without his knowledge and against his wishes, for
that, under the circumstances, he would not have
allowed any burial fees to be taken." His Reverence
avowed that, from the character of the verdict, he
had declined to bury the corpse, and wound up with
a violent philippic against Mr. YARDLEY, charging
him with having " expressly countenanced the publi-
city of an ex parte statement in the Times," and with
having "prostituted his so-called court of justice to
one of the worst and most nefarious purposes." What
a compound of bombast, ignorance, and inhumanity
is here disclosed ! Besides all this, we have a little bit of
special pleading, in the shape of an unclerical hypothe-
sis. Quern Deus veil perdere prius dementat. Did not
his Reverence really know, before he went to the
magistrate, whether fees had been actually received
If he did not, he might easily have ascertained the fact
by inquiring of his clerk, or some other subordinate;
and this is what a high-minded man would have
done at once, and, if true, have ordered them to be
returned, instead of dealing in " ifs " before Mr.
YARDLEY.

With respect to his absurd notions of the duties
of a magistrate, and his insane notions of jus-
tice, the rector was in so complete and dignified a
manner laid on his back by Mr. YARDLEY, that,
out of very pity, we would not aggravate his
plight by any remarks of our own. But, in regard
to his avowal that his duty as a minister of the Gospel
prohibited him from reading the burial service under
the circumstances in question, the public are deep].)
interested in doing all in their power to prevent-the
repetition of such shameful antics. Taking the terms
of the verdict to be as represented by the rector, tht
woman might have been sane or insane when she
precipitated herself into the water. The legal pre-
sumption, founded upon the verdict of twelve men,
who solemnly and judicially investigated the cause o
death, is, that she was not in her right senses. Shall
it be said that religion is outstripped by law in
the principles of enlarged charity ? Assuredly not.
The truly religious presumption is identical with the
legal, in the present instance ; and it is loathsome to
find any egotistical minister attempting to establish
a distinction between them, leading to a practical
denial of the last offices of religion to an unfor-
tunate deceased, and to the needless laceration of the
feelings of the survivors. We protest against anx
hair-brained clergyman setting up his individual
judgment against that of twelve jurymen. Were the
Rev. BRYAN ICING to cast himself into the Thames
to-morrow, we are quite certain that a jury would
have no difficulty in teking a merciful view of his
act, and that his relatives would be spared the same
trial to their feelings which those of the connexion.
of poor SUSAN WHELAN were heartlessly condemned
to suffer.

An example has been afforded to the members cf
the Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland exhibiting
the great benefit they might have conferred on their
country had they not suffered themselves to be fettered
and restricted by their 14th General Rule, and thus
prevented from examining into the details of the
measures either pending before, or sanctioned by, the
Legislature, and with which the agricultural pros-
perity in all parts of that kingdom is most intimately
connected. Such societies are chiefly useful in bring-
ing prominently before the public, particularly that
part of it interested in an improved cultivation of the
soil, all means by which the greatest amount of pro-
duce can be obtained therefrom, and its capabilities
fully tested and developed. It would naturally be
supposed, that whenever any new enactments had been
sanctioned by Parliament, having for their avowed
object an increase in the productiveness and value of
land by any means whatsoever, the employment of
labour and the general health of the community,
a full investigation would forthwith be instituted by
the society into the benefits that might be thereby
obtained, how far the adoption of the provisions
thereof would be practicable, and whether these laws
Were likely to effect the desired ameliorations ; and, if
so, to make them public, that all who were not pos-
sessed of full information might learn what was
within their power, and that if any defects really
existed, they might be fully explained, the gocd sepa-
rated from the bv.d, the wheat winnowed from the
chaff, and suggestions offered by which the Govern-
mentmodruetso
may be enabled to judge how far they could
obviate the difficulties and give additional effect to the
advantages. If such would come within the sphere
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of for providing the employment unfortunately so
necessary for the support and maintenance of the
destitute labourers. But a rule prevails that the
Irish Agricultural Society are not to meddle in any
manner with the law. A mutual jealousy and dis-
trust exists amongst all classes, and they appear to
fear that if there was a possibility of any such dis-
cussion, the power would be abused and the objects
t
of the society would be perverted from those for
which it was originally called into existence. A
resolution for a partial suspension of the rule was
therefore received with the most determined hos-
tility, and its adoption led to so many re-
signations and withdrawals from the society
of its most influential members, that the op-
portunity afforded by the suspension was
never acted on, and the rule was speedily restored to
its original stringency. Such has not been the course
of " The Highland and Agricultural Society," and
their behaviour presents an advantageous contrast to
that of their Hibernian brethren.

During the past session an Act directly bearing on
the interests of all the agricultural classes, from the
proprietor to the labourer, was sanctioned by Parlia-
ment. It applied to all parts of the United King;
dom, to Great Britain as well as Ireland. It pro-
vided for an advance from the Consolidated Fund of
a large sum of money : two millions for Great Bri-
tain and one million for Ireland—to be issued in loans
for the purpose of drainage. This Act undoubtedly
contained several serious defects, which prevented it
from being taken advantage of as fully as would
otherwise have been the case ; but, at the
same time, it presented many useful features, which
might be made available by some slight alterations,
and several of its provisions will be acted on by the
Government, and have been used in the New Trea-
sury Minutes. In Ireland there was no general
body competent to discuss its details, or to give it
their consideration for the purpose of seeing how far
it could be carried into execution. Every difficulty
was loudly complained of, but no means were taken
by which these difficulties could be obviated. Because
it was not perfect it was cast aside as utterly value-
less, and •those who saw ruin staring them in the
face from the operation of the Labour-rate Act, and
the application of the large sums of money expended
under its provisions in works of a useless and un-
productive character, did not exert themselves to take
advantage of the facilities actually offered to them.
Because some few were debarred by the Act from
obtaining loans thereunder, a cry went forth
that it was wholly impracticable. This was not the
case in Scotland. The directors of the Highland and
Agricultural Society considered it to be their duty
to give the measure their best consideration, so as to
enable them to express to the society their opinion,
in regard of the advantages it offers; that opinion
they have now published in the report to which we
have alluded, and it will
,be seen, therefore, that al-
though there are many points in which it may be im-
proved, that it is still considered deserving of their
approbation, and may be brought into operation with
good effect. In the report they point out the man-
ner in which parties desirous of obtaining a loan are
to act, how, and to whom the application is to be made,
and what steps are rendered necessary before
it can be obtained, and then they discuss the
questions which will naturally arise. The first and
most important of these questions appears to be bon
far the Act will prove financially advantageous, and
on this they express their decided opinion that the
terms offered are favourable to the borrower, anci
they show how the necessity of the applicant expend-
ing the amount, in the first instance, before he ob-
tains the advance (looked on as a fatal obstacle it,
Ireland), may be obviated, viz.—by lodging the pro
visional certificate with a bank as a security for an
interim advance, which can easily be obtained thereon,
if the applicant is a man of good character. They
then meet the next question by declaring that " Not
only is the procedure indicated by the Act simple and
economical, but also that the Commissioners are dis-
posed to give effect to it in such a manner as to sub-
ject applicants to the least possible expenses." And
they cite the observations which Mr. BLAMIRE
(one of the Commissioners) has recently cir-
culated throughout the country. They then offer
a few simple suggestions, the adoption of whit}',
without in any manner departing from the principle
of the Act, would be very beneficial to the borrowers ;
and also powers which it would be desirable to have
introduced into any new Act. We venture to say
that this conduct on the part of the society will in-
duce many to avail themselves of the provisions of the
statute with benefit to themselves and advantage to
the country ; and we are convinced, that had the Agri-
cultural Society of Ireland acted in like manner,
ruinous evils would have been avoided. Unhappily
for Ireland the habit has been to look exclusively to
the Legislature or the Executive to utter loud com-
plaints, but use no active exertions ; while, on the
other hand, the Scotch meet their difficulties fully
~nd fairly, and carefully examine the resources within
their power, and do not refuse to avail themselves
thereof,might possibly be made stilt
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precedent thus afforded, and use every
means within their power before they give themselves

up to despair.

The Augsburg Gazette has the following from
Rome, 21st ult. :
" A secret consistory was held this morning at the
Quirinal Palace. The Pope, after a short allocution,
tns have been. also re-
cently Mgr. Baled, the Arch-
iO Marini, Governor nt
amounced to the assembly that he had thought fit to
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cently made:—Cardinal Elmat, to be Legate of Bologna;
Cardinal Ferrette, to be Legate of Urbin and Pesaro ;
and Mgr. Grasselini, to be Governor of Rome."
In consequence of the unsettled state of affairs in
Switzerland, a cordon of Austrian troops is to be
established along the frontier of Upper Italy.

The Nuremberg Correspondent of the 29th ult. has
he following :

" The Danish Government has received a note from
the Russian Cabinet, signifying that the indivisibility
more so as the Court of Co.be itself convinced that the
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leDenaaenssi,es
ehamemonarchythe can only be maintained by
right of the Agnates to the succession of Holstein
could not be disputed. We can affirm, from a source
worthy of faith, that the King of Denmark has
himself candidly expressed this opinion to the Duke
of Augustenberg, his brother-in-law, and it is to be
inferred from the letter patent. This attitude of the
Russian Government is the more worthy of notice as it
furnishes an evident proof that the relations between the
mixed, in
three northern Powers have not experienced any change
from the question of Schleswig-Holstein. It is certain
that the Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin have addressed
strong representations to the Court of Copenhagen re-
commending
it to abandon a policy which disturbs and
undermines peace and order in the states of Denmark,
and. keeps up a fermentation in Germany, in which are
addition to the national tendencies, other
e ments of discontent."

______._
Madrid papers to the 27th ult. have arrived. The
Ministry is again on the point
of breaking up. The
Esperanza says—
" The Ministerial crisis has re-commenced. Mon and
Isturitz will remain at their posts. Bravo Murillo is to
be Minister of Justice, and Arleva, Minister of the In-
terior. Pidal will be elected President of the Cortes.
In commenting
on these appointments, the
Espanol says that the
Ministerial crisis has not been
put an end to by the junction of Senors BRAVO Mi-
nna.° and ARLEVA to the Cabinet, in lieu of TIDAL
and CANEJA, as Senor Mori will not consent to Senor
I'IDAL's resignation. The Clamor Public° declares
that six of the Ministers have resigned, and that this
resignation has been accepted. The same journal
says that the state of the finances is not at all satis-
factory to the Ministers. Considerable uneasiness
prevails on account of the designs attributed to the
Count of MONTEMOLIN.
There is a Carlist rising in Catalonia, for the
Fomenta, of Barcelona, of the 25th announces that
the Captain-General had marched against the in-
surgents.
intend to demand the suppression of CHRISTINA'S
The I'rogressistas, on the opening of the Cortes,
do wry.

The following are the addresses and the answers
APOSTOLIC NUNCIO IN THE NAME OF THE DIPLOMATIC

BODY.

" Sire,—The diplomatic body always awaits with the
same hope the return of the solemn epoch of the new
year, because it loves to offer to you, in the name of the
Sovereigns it has the honour to represent, the most
sincere wishes for the perfect prosperity of your
Majesty, of your royal family, and of France. It is
also with a profound satisfaction that it congratulates
ycu, Sire, on the maintenance of general peace, the
admirable result of the wisdom of your Majesty, and of
the other Sovereigns and their Cabinets. It is the finest
title to the gratitude of the people, whose glory and
happiness are promoted by this happy harmony. Proud
of the general felicity, your Majesty has seen renewed
at the same time the joys of your royal family, which
has caused, and will always cause, the sweetest consola-
tions to your paternal heart. Your Majesty will still
many times witness this auspicious day, which will find
you as glorious on the throne, as happy by the side of
' your royal and virtuous companion, in the bosom of your
numerous and brilliant family. Deign, Sire, with the
wishes and congratulations of the diplomatic body, to
accept the homage of its profound respect."
His MAJESTY replied :
" I am deeply touched by the sentiments you have just
'pressed for France, for my family, and for myself,
in the name of the diplomatic body, and of the Sove-
reigns whom you represent at my Court. I feel with
you the confidence that Heaven will continue to bless
our common efforts to secure the maintenance of ge-
neral peace, that fruitful source of the prosperity of
states and of the happiness of their people. It is as
much in my own name, as in that of the Queen and of
all my family, that I thank you for the interest that you
feel in the renewal of the family joys which Providence
had reserved for us, and which are, as you express it,
one of the sweetest consolations that could be accorded
to us. You know how agreeable it is to me to receive,
through your organ, the expression of the wishes of the
diplomatic body."
" SPEECH OF DUKE PASQUIER, CHANCELLOR OF FRANCE,
PRESIDENT OF THE CHAMBER OF PEERS.
" Sire,—Time passes on, events succeed each other,
circumstances differ ; but what is eminently wise, just,
noble, and grand remains only more solidly fixed
in the place which public esteem and admiration have
assigned to it. Such is already, Sire, the judgment of
the contemporary spectators and witnesses of your reign,
and history will ratify their judgment. Commenced
in the midst of a storm, which menaced to shake
what it did not throw down, passing through times
marked with difficulties of all kinds, and even
perils, it has saved and consolidated everything. Its
length has already, thanks to Providence, exceeded
the longest of those which it has been pleased to accord
to all the powers, all the grandeurs which have sue
ceeded each other in this space of half a century, when
after so many painful trials, your name at last appears;
it will remain there as the symbol of the indissoluble
and complete alliance of these two things—monarchy
and liberty, the ardent love and pressing want of which
no efforts, no revolutions, have been able to extinguish
in French hearts. The high and mighty reason which
was alone capable of obtaining so glorious a success
could alone found the calm, but firm and always generous
policy, which your Government has followed for sixteen
years, and from which it will never depart. Such a
policy leaves to men's minds only one anxiety—that
which springs from the desire that nothing may trouble
your glorious work, and that our posterity may inherit
after us the advantages which we enjoy. But Heaven
has deigned to accord to us largely what could
best respond to this wish. Already your dynasty
appears in the future, rich, and proud of the
numerous scions which, under your tutelary and
cherished shade, grow and advance with new
generations, whose destinies will be one day confided
to them. The year which has just concluded has beheld
a union accomplished, which was to complete the circle
of so many beautiful and grand existences, and no one
that fixes his thoughts and looks on the young Princess,
whose illustrious origin is embellished by her native
graces, and by the qualities which they promise, can say
that this last choice that you had to make is not the
worthy complement of all those which have so happily
m-eceded it. I may add that none could be more French.
Receive, Sire, the felicitations which that event inspires
as with; we address you not only as Peers of France,
but also as members of the great family from which your
°eternal regards are never turned away, and of which
rife interests, so perfectly comprehended, are always
present to you. Happy the country where it can be said
that to wish the King long years of life is to wish to the
ration which he governs long years of happiness, and to
the civilised world all the happiness which peace brings
is its train."
The KING replied :
" As you have said, the problem to be solved was the
alliance of monarchy and liberty; it was to make nations
feel that liberty has need of monarchy, and to prove to
kings and princes that monarchy has need of liberty. It
is from having misapprehended this principle—it is from
having believed, on the one hand, that liberty was in-
compatible with monarchy, and on, the other that mo-
narchy was incompatible with liberty, that France had
been dragged into revolutionary storms. May God pre-
serve other nations from the like ! May our example
convince states and kings that monarchy and liberty
may live and prosper together, but that they cannot do
so except at the price of mutual confidence.. If the
national will has raised me to the throne, it
is because the tenor of all my life presaged
that all my efforts would tend to ensure the
triumph of this principle, and that there was no
secret thought to be apprehended from me. You
have so well seconded me in this task, that in this
,eventeenth anniversary wecan congratulate ourselves on
having happily accomplished it. I hope that with your
loyal assistance, as long as it shall please God to preserve
one in this world, we shall continue to strengthen our
institutions and the prosperity of. France. I thank you
'or your felicitations on the marriage of my son; I see
with pleasure how much this event, so happy for my
family and myself, has been appreciated by the Chamber
of Peers.
This reply was followed by cries of " Vive le Roi !"
M. SAUZET, PRESIDENT OF THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
" Sire,—The Deputies present in Paris hasten to an-
ticipate by their good wishes those of the whole Cham-
ber. In saluting the Royal Family, so nobly grouped
around your throne, our eyes are fixed upon a young
Princess who has recently come to partake of and to
increase so much happiness and brilliancy. Niece of
our, Queen, she will possess her Majesty's virtues.
She is of a blood and of a country which have in
all times given illustrious Princesses to France. She
brings among us a lively and natural grace, which
reminds us 'at once of both her countries, as her
consort lately caused delight on the other side of the Py
renees by that affable and generous character which is
equally worthy of two great nations which, without
lowering their dignity, have frequently drawn closer the
ties of their ancient and salutary friendship. Sire, let
us bless the double favour of Providence, which, by en-
dowing France with so many Princes qualified to serve
her in all her fortunes, has willed that the happiness of
your alliances should answer to the grandeur of the
presents it has bestowed upon you; and if among all
these happy and brilliant pairs the magnificent phain of
which your Majesty's youngest son has so very recently
and worthily closed, our pious recollections cannot forget
the void which has been made in past time, we love at
least to contemplate all that he leaves for our respectful
admiration, and our dearest hopes, under the noble and
fraternal guardianship of the first support of your
Crown. May, Sire, this pleasing idea of having so
nobly accomplished your fraternal task, repay the labours
of that other royal and not less paternal task which you
pursue, supported by the concurrence of the country, with
!hat calm and confident courage which is the feelings of
wise kings and great people, for it is the sentiment of their
strength and the guarantee of their future welfare.
Soon, Sire, at your call, the representatives of France
are about to assemble. The Chamber will carry to the
Crown the freely deliberated expression of its political
ideas ; bnt while waiting for that solemn manifestation
which belongs to it alone, we fear no contradiction in
affirming that your Majesty will find it always faithful
to the rights of nations as to the sentiments of the
country ; attentive to the numerous wants which
in difficult times have called forth from all parts
the most touching virtues, and the highest examples, and
more particularly unanimous in its affection for the coun-
try, and for the national throne with which your devoted.
ness and our gratitude hare long identified its destinies.',
The KING replied :-.-..

" I am much touched with the sentiments that you ex-
press for my family and for me. You know well how
devoted all who belong to me are to France; but the
expression of these sentiments is at once, for them as
for me, a great support and a great consolation for
what we have suffered. The way in which you have
spoken of the marriage of my youngest son has gone
straight to my heart. It is delightful to me to see that
this alliance, which can but consolidate the good relations
which have so long and so happily existed between Spain
and France, is generally appreciated in the two countries
in the way in which you have just expressed it, and
that there is seen in it at once a new guarantee for the
reciprocal independence, and for the constitutional li
berty which both enjoy. As I said just now to the Cham-
ber of Peers, it is one of the blessings of my epoch to
have comprehended that monarchy has as much need of
liberty as liberty has of monarchy, in order to preserve
themselves mutually from all danger. lam glad to re-
peat this to you, because I am convinced that it is the
opinion entertained of my sincerity and of my probity
in defending at the same time the rights of the people
and the rights of the throne, that I owe the national
support. (Here the King was interrupted by loud cries
of Vive le Roi !') Receive my thanks for myself, fur
my grandson, for his worthy mother, and for his unele,
who will guide him in the career which he is destined to
pursue after me. The devotedness and their fidelity in
performing their duties and their engagements will
socure the grandeur, the prosperity, and the welfare of
France."

THE AROHEISHOP OF PARIS.
`Sire,—The clergy and the Archbishop of Paris lay
at the foot of the throne their respectful homage, and
the sincere wishes that they entertain for your Majesty,
your august family, and the illustrious Princess, who,
in causing the happiness of one of your noble sons,
papers of Friday and brings new joys to your paternal heart. We pray to
God to grant these wishes, and to spread over France
We have received the Paris his most abundant blessings."
Saturday.
,the Chamber of Deputies and The KING replied :
.
The KING on New " Truly sensible to the expressions of these wishes, it
Year's-day received; and re- is with pleasure that I thank you, and also the clergy
plied to, the usual addresses of the diplomats by whom you are surrounded. lam happy to acknow-
thes
ledge the zeal .
which it manifests in the exercise of its
the clergy of Paris.
circulated at all ir oomn
thisill andthe effort that it makes inces-
important functions,
Chamber of Peer
, AYIAJESTY did not appear to sand to maintain on the population of Paris those sen-
health. The rumours timentsY
of religion, and those principles of Christian
bwhicheweresuffering subject onWednesday mora iy,
were, therefore, without foundation, ' - - , ,
rt the development of which -among them is so
I essential. You may always rely upon my support in the
• - endeavour to attain so desirable A result. I am much

affected with what you say to me on the subject of the
marriage of one of my sons, and with the wishes that
you feel for France, for my family, and for myself."
The sojourn of the Count DE MoNTEmoLIN in Eng-
land appears to occasion considerable anxiety to the
French Government. The Revue dem deux Monderi
which, it will be remembered was the first periodical
that published the substance of the Notes of M
GUIZOT and Lord PALMERSTON on the Montpensier
marriage, gives the following account of the designs
of the son of Don CARLos,and of the means which l.e
possesses for their accomplishment :

" When Don Carlos's son arrived in that capital, he
communicated to Lord Palmerston his anxious desire to
have an interview with him. It was enough to make
Lord Palmerston eagerly pay a visit to the Pretender.
To the Count de Montemolin, who asked how the Eng-
lish Government would view his stay in England, the
Whig Minister replied that he might remain there in
perfect freedom and safety. Some days after the Count
de Montemolin returned Lord Palmerston's whit, and
this other interview lasted above two hours. We
ca,inot pretend to know what passed on the occa•
sion, but that long conference excited great attention,
and the strange overtures said to have been ma,!e
by the Whig Minister to the Pretender were soon
talked of in the diplomatic world. Is it true that Lord
Palmerston advised the Count de Montemolin to acknow
ledge Queen Labelle, to return to Madrid, and resume
his rank there as an Infante of Spain, and member of
the Royal Family ? According to Lord Palmerston's
design, Don Carlos's son would have thus promptly be-
come the centre and leader of' a considerable party ; he
would have exercised great influence over the Cortes,
and perhaps prepared the restoration of the Salic
law. This proposal did not please the Pretender—he
declined it, telling Lord Palmerston that ho had'
already refused more. There was, indeed, a time
when, by submitting to a certain person, the Count
de Montemolin might have married the Queen. This is
what the Pretender alluded to in telling Lord Palmers-
ton that he could not accede to the proposal. Don
Carlos's son will not be treated as an Infante of Spain,
for he considers himself the king of that country. He
will therefore continue in England until further orders,
and there, with Lord Palmerston's approbation, he will
intrigue, raise a loan, buy arms, and prepare to kindle a
civil war in his country. The Pretender is said to have
projects on the Balearic islands. According to what is
alleged, he will attempt to take possession of Minorca,
and establish himself at Mahon, which will be his capital
until he can enter Madrid. Such a design cannot dis-
please the English, who will gladly advance money to
Don Carlos's son, when mortgaged on the Balearic
islands."

The Bey of TUNIS embarked from Toulon on
Christmas-day, on board the Labrador steamer, for

Tunis.

The Presse and the Debats , still continue their po-
lemic on the subject of the English alliance.
It was reported on Thursday that. M. MARTIN (du
Nord) had had an apoplectic attack. The Presse of
Saturday contradicts this rumour, and mentions that
M. MARTIN was one of the Ministers present on Fri-
day, at the Tuileries, at the reception of the KING.
The same journal says—

"There is much talk in the political world of the
schism which, on the occasion of the Spanish marriages,
is said to have taken place in the ranks of that part of
the Opposition known by the name of the Left Centre.
Faithful to the policy of the Constitutionnel, M. Thiers,
it is said, persists in wishing to attack with vehemence
the marriages, responsible in his eyes both for the rup-
ture of the English alliance, and for the annexation of
Cracow, the consequence of which two events is the
isolation of France. Messrs. Billault and Dufaure are,
on the contrary, it is said, favourable to this act of eman-
cipation of France with respect to Great Britain ; they
thus withdraw from the opinion of the Constirutionnel, to
come nearer that of the Siecle, which only wants—in
order to be entirely worthy of eulogium—to be less
timidly expressed."

According to the Gazette de Berri, 1,200 pieces of
cannon and howitzers, destined for the fortifications of
Paris, are now ready.

Courts AUTHENTum.—PARTs, JAN. 2.—Frenelf Five per
Cents., 118 f. 20c. 25c. 30c. ; Four per Cents., -1051.; Three
per Cents., 80f. 30c. 25c. 20c. ; Treasury Bonds, 3% 3 m.,;
Bank of France Shares, 3,400 f. ; Romang, 10034 ; Bel-
gian Five perfCents. (1842), 1021. Exchange on London—
one month,paper, 25f. 321/2c. ; money, 25f. 32%c. ; three
months, paper, 25f. 221/2c.; money, 25f. 22%c.
Rattways:-.—For cash--Strasburg and Bale, 217 f. 50c. ;
Northern, 641 f. 25c.; Bordeaux, 5601. ; Paris and Lyons'
508 f. 75c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 482 f. 50c. ; Nantes, 487 E
50c.; Cette,4sof.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUARY 2.
Demerara, 3:ri —East Indian, %—Great Indian Peninsular,
%—Namur and Liege, 3k—Northern of France Consti-
tuted, 13%—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 81/—Paris and
Rouen, 36—Paris and Strasburg Constituted, 263 A —Sambre
and Meuse, 4%—'West Flanders, 2%.

AWFUL DESTITUTION IN THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOT-
LAND.—The accounts from the Highlands and Islands
of Scotland are truly awful. The labouring population
of Sutherlandshire, Ross shire, Inverness-shire, Argyle-
shire, and of the Hebrides and the Zetland Islands, at e
at this moment threatened with starvation in conse-
quence of the total failure of the potato crop. Already
have many of these poor people perished from cold and
hunger, and, horrible as are the sufferings of the desti-
tute Irish, we believe they are quite equalled by those
of the poor inhabitants of the Highands and Islands cf
Scotland; but, as there are no coroner's inquests in Scot-
land, and but few local newspapers, deaths from starvation
take place, and the public are uninformed or the occurrence.
Under these circumstances, the Edinburgh Committee
for the Relief of Destitution in the Highlands have
determined to appoint a deputation to proceed to London
for the purpose of holding a public meeting and laying
the claims of the suffering population of the Highlands
before the people of England. We highly applaud this
resolution—the sufferings of the people have been great
indeed, and we are sure that the English public will not
be the less ready to come forward generously for their
Fella because they have been born with an uncom-
plaining fortitude which reflects honour upon the Scotch
character.

The accounts of the Quarter's Revenue will not be
fully made up before Tuesday next. We believe, how-
ever, that the apprehensions felt in some quarters, or the
predictions put forth in others, as to any serious falling
off in the receipts, will prove to have been entirely
groundless. The great sources of the Public Revenue
hold their ground, and exhibit a result from which
nothing is to be dreaded for the stability and buoyancy
of the national income. In spite of the dull season of the
year—at the very time when the reduction of some, and
the total abrogation of other duties on imports, by the
tariff of last year, might be expected to be felt in some
degree—and before the recuperative energies of the
country were in full play—still the Customs' duties will
not exhibit the falling off which had been so confidently
predicted. This is one of the most gratifying and con-
clusive evidences in favour of the extension of free trade
doctrines that has yet been produced. The Excise, too,
the next large and important item, and which, more than
any other, exhibits the condition of the people of England,
will show no evidences of being influenced by the partial
destitution which so unhappily prevails. The other
items are neither of such amount nor so much regarded
as it icative of the national prosperity or otherwise, and
exb 'it less variation. The whole financial condition of
the country is most satisfactory.
Diss PHILHARMONIC SOCIETT.—The tenth anni-
versary of the above society was celebrated at the Crown
Commercial Inn on Tuesday, the 29th alt., with great
hilarity, by a large assemblage of gentlemen, tradesmen,
and amateur performers of the town and neighbourhood,
when several instrumental pieces, judiciously selected
from the works of Haydn, Jullien, &c., were admirably
performed, which being interspersed with glees, songs
&c., chosen for the occasion, and sung with considerable
taste and precision, elicited the warmest applause, and
appeared greatly to interest all present. The chair was
ably filled by Mr. Thomas Farrow, whose urbanity and
good humour tended materially to enliven the company,
and keep them together till a late hour. The dinner
and wines were served up in " mine host's" usual good.
stile, and the whole went off with great eclat, and gave
general satisfaction. The national anthem was sung, in
grand chorus, at the conclusion, after which the gen-
tlemen retired to their respective homes, highly de-
lighted with the arrangements and entertainments of the
evening.—From our Diss Correspondent.
THE POTATO DISEASE.—At the meeting of
.the
Botanical Society of London, held last Saturday even-
ing at the Society's Rooms, 20, Bedford street, Strand,
J. Reynolds, Esq., treasurer, in the chair, Mr. Browne
communicated a paper "On the Potato Disease." The
author planted a piece of ground this year with exclu-
sively diseased potatoes, every one of them rotted; con-
tiguous to them the author planted sound potatoes (ap-
parently), the majority of which produced, but were ill
affected by their bad neighbourhood. The author also
planted in pots all the diseased rotted. The potatoes
being planted in tolerably good land, the crop succeeded
to the author's complete satisfaction; the potatoes were
packed in powdered quick lime, this speedily decomposed
or destroyed the vital principle in the unsound ones, while
the sound and dry ones were not affected by it, and
effectually preserved from infection from the diseased
potatoes Which bad been decomposed. The produce of
the potatoes so ,managed was about sevenfold; but, to
compensate for this deficiency in quantity, the author
had never had pbtatoes so thoroughly sound and in all
respects excellent.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES
RAILWAY.—On Friday an accident of a serious character
occurred at the Cheshunt station, by which one of the
signal men in the service of the company met with an
instantaneous death. The unfortunate man, whose name
is George Pivett, had, it appeared, been appointed to the
Cheshunt station but a few days. On the day in ques-
tion, a few moments before tha afternoon express down
train passed the station, he was seen by the station-
master in the act of passing over the rails, and imme-
diately after his signal lamp was discovered lying be-
tween the rails of the down line, and Pivett was found
lying some 40 yards from it. He was quite dead, his
head was dreadfully crushed, and the train seemed to
have passed over one of his legs. From the position the
body was found it, it was evidently the buffer of the
engine which had caught and carried him the distance
described. Au inqueslr has since been held on the body,
and a verdict of " Accidental death" returned.