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other is, that the appointment of these would
be materially influenced by party feelings;
and a third is, that the depriving men of pro-
perty and influence in a town of the administra-
tion of justice in petty cases might lead to greater
evils than the present. The best remedy is pub-
licity. If the press in provincial towns, as in
London, were to watch the conduct of the Jus-
tices and report their proceedings impartially,
they could not -do much mischief. In the
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Metropolis the unpaid—the old worthy Alder-
men, are infinitely better Magistrates than
the juvenile barristers who have a little
law, but are sadly deficient in practical
knowledge, and still more deficient in the exer-
cise of that sympathy and kindly feeling which
a Lord Mayor or an Alderman generally dis-
plays in administering justice to his fellow-citi-

zens. We have watched the two systems long,
and have no hesitation in saying that in the one
we may generally expect law and equity—in the
other only law, often carried to the verge of ab-
surdity, with loop-holes pointed out by Learned
Justices to let great criminals escape, and little
meshes formed to catch petty offenders.

The Hanover Gazette of the oth inst., contains
the following article :
BRUNSWICK, DEC. B.—We have just heard that the
Assembly of the State has revoked the resolution of the
3d of this month, and has to-day adopted, by a great ma-
jority, the proposal of the Governors, by which the ac-
cession of Brunswick to the great Customs Union, is to
take place on the Ist of January, 1842; only the district
of the Weser and Hartz is to remain for another year in
the Customs Union of Hanover and Aldenburg.
:HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Dec. 10.
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents. 107% !ON
Bank Shares 1620 1615
Anglo-Russian Loan lOB% log%
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate 102% 162%
Inscription, Ist Serios lOl%
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope. and Co. 3d and 4th
Series •••••••••• ..... ••••••••• 98%
Ditto in Certificates
Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840)..... ...........
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent soyi 50%
Ditto 5 per Cent
Polish Bonds
New Picket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent :7% 77
Norwegian Lean, 1834, 4 per Cent. 11,23 102%
Sp,inish, New 5 per Cents
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, Dec. IP.-13 7.—Two months, 13 5%.
PRTERSBURGR, Nov 30.—Two months, 38% pence,
BERLIN. DEC, 7. Three months, 6. IN.
BREMEN, Dec. 7 —Teo months, 6 17.
VIENNA, Des. 2.—Three months, 9.35.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Dec. 7.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch.,4, per cent. ...«.«........104% 103%
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent.... 10•2% 101%
Exchange on London, three months 6 19%
—Prussian State Gazette. Dec. 8.

Madrid Journals of the 7th inst. have reached
us. The Madrid Gazette of that date publishes
a decree of the REGENT, suppressing the whole
of the infantry and cavalry of the Royal Guard,
the officers of which all belonged to noble fami-
lies. These corps are to be replaced by two re-
giments of infantry and two of cavalry.

The French mail, which reached Madrid on
the 6th, was robbed within a short distance of
the capital. The correspondence, however, was
spared. Mr. RIDLEY, M.P., one of the travellers,
was among the victims.

The Ministry had prepared a Municipal Bill,
which was said to be extremely liberal, and
would no doubt meet the approbation ofthe Cortes.
The funeral of the Duke DE L'INFANTADO was
celebrated with great pomp on the 7th.

Several changes had occurred in the Spanish
corps diplomatique. M. CONCHA, brother of the
General of that name, having resigned the post
of Minister of Spain in Greece, was to be re-
placed by M. SAENZ DE VINIEGRA, the present
Consul of Spain in Marseilles. M. TOVAR, the
Spanish Consul at Perpignan, has been removed
in the same capacity to Bayonne; and M. FER-
RARI was to succeed him in Perpignan.
The Five per Cents. were done on the 7th at
34f for cash.

The Paris Journals announce, as we stated yes-
erday the important intelligence that the French
army is to be reduced by about 89,000 men. Still
France will have a standing army of 344,000
men—an enormous military force in a period of
profound peace. The saving on the budget of
1843 will be 30,000,000 of francs, or 1,200,0001.
sterling, which will be sunk in the ditch with
which the KING persists in surrounding his
faithful Parisians.
The Court of Peers is still busy trying the pri-
soners. M. LEnnu ROLLIN ably defended M.
DUPOTY, Editor of the Journal du Peuple ; but
it is generally rumoured that the Peers have
made up their minds to condemn him. Nothing
is more likely. Before the Court of Peers inno-
cence is no protection. It is undoubtedly
the most infamously servile tribunal in
France. The Chancellor, Baron PASQUIER, is
one of those renegades who, in getting rid
of their principles get rid of all shame. There
is no work too foul for him either as a legislator,
a Judge, or a Councillor of State. Many of his
associates on the judicial bench have well quali-
fied themselves by the betrayal of every cause,
and the abandonment of every principle, to vote
with him for the condemnation of M. DUPOTY.
But M. DUPOTY is an able and an honest man,
and as the September Laws failed to reach him,
the Court of Peers strains its power to involve him
in the meshes of a charge of constructive treason.
The Peers challenge him to deny that the conspira-
tors read his journal, and, because he cannot
do that, declare him accessory to the attempt
on the lives of the Royal Dukes. Now, if this
logic be admitted, we see no reason why
those who supplied the conspirators with their
breakfast on the morning of the attempt should
not be brought before the Peers. Supplying
them with food was supplying them with
strength to perpetrate their crime. But
the real object of the Peers is to crush the
Liberal Press. The condemnation of M.DUPOTY
is wanted for a precedent, and then we shall hear
of nothing but trials of the National, the Siecle,
the Quotidienne, and the France, on charges of
constructive treason. The September Laws are
too mild, so the Peers have resolved to dispense
with them altogether, by making themselves
judges of all offences committed by the journals.
Marshal Soult has addressed the following report to
the King as the basis of the law, which follows it :
" Sire—The extension given to the army in 1840 by
the creation of 12 regiments of light infantry of the line,
9 battalions of foot chasseurs, 1 battalion of the foreign
legion, 4 regiments of light cavalry, 32 batteries of artil-
lery, 17 commissariat companies, and five other compa-
nies, has augmented considerably the effective of the
army and its expenses. This augmentation, altogether
owing to extraordinary circumstances, to which able
negotiations have given a favourable turn, cannot be
kept up without weighing too heavy on the public Trea-
sury. Hence the urgent necessity of reduction. This
task, delicate as difficult, I have undertaken, premising
that the law of necessity could not have put a War Mi-
nister's devotion to a more painful trial. The first plan
that suggested itself was to reduce the new regiments,
which was demanded by the two Chambers, at least the
reduction of the twelve regiments. This reduction I
have not proposed to your Majesty, lest it might com-
promise your Royal prerogative with the army, besides
that the expenses would not thereby be sufficiently dimi-
nished. The number of battalions and squadrons seems
equally inadmissible. A proportionate reduction of the
force of each arm was also objectionable, the artillery
and cavalry not being so easily augmented at need as the
infantry. A system of reduction by means of leave of
absence would also be objectionable, since to produce
the desired economy, companies would be reduced to
some thirty or forty men, an altogether inefficient force
for a company, besides that the system could not be ap-
plied to the troops at Algiers. My proposal, then, is to
reduce a company of each battalion of infantry, which
will diminish the army from the effective voted for 1842,
viz., 433,000 men, to 344,000 in 1843, and thus economise
thirty millions."
The rest of the Report but anticipates the particulars
of the Ordonnance, which is as follows :