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this circumstance made on his mind was terrible ; his
attendants dare not. approach him ; and no doubt the
consequences would have been dreadful to those about
him, had not a member of the Divan flung himself at

his Highness's feet, and explained the omen as decla-
ratory of the will of ALLAH and the Prophet with re-
spect to the meditated war with Egypt. This was enough.
The SULTAN was satisfied, and the preparations for
the expedition were forthwith suspended.
Meanwhile, the agents of IBItAHIM are filling the
country with consternation and terror. In Tripoli the

inhabitants are exposed to the most wanton outrages,
cruel robberies, and unjust exactions in every shape.
To add to these calamities the plague is raging with
fearful violence in Constantinople ; and, for the last
three months, the average deaths have been about a
thousand a week. During the late storm in the Black
Sea thirty vessels were lost, all belonging to the
Turks, Greeks, and Austrians.

Advices from Madrid bring intelligence that M.
M. DE LA ROSA is about to resign, in which case it
was expected that the REGENT would commit to To-
RENO the formation of the new Cabinet. A day or
two will decide the matter. The Chambers are doing
very little at present.

The Paris Papers of Saturday, which have been
received this morning, contain no news of any im-

portance. The accounts from Bayonne state that
General MINA has gone to Navarre to take the
command of the troops, and that General
LORENZO was to meet him in the valley of the Bastan
with 6,000 troops. Don CARLOS is still active in
his endeavours to carry on the war, but nothing de-
cisive has yet taken place.

PARIS, Nov. I.—A letter from Bayonne, says—
. Baron de Bergen, who passed so mysteriously into
Spain, and who was the subject of an order of the day
issued by General Harispe, has returned very quietly to
Bayonne. He has passed the frontiers to return into
France, with as much security as he did to enter Spain."
TOULON, OCT. 26.—A superior Commission was present
yesterday at a series of trials made here to ascertain the
comparative strength of cables made of hemp and of aloe,
from Algiers. These trials all turned to the advantage of
aloe. Of cables of equal size, that made oft aloe raised a
weight of 2,000 kilogrammes, that made of hemp a weight
of only 400 kilogrammes.—National, Nov. 2.

At a farmers' dinner at Buckingham on Saturday
last, the Marquis of CHANDOS addressed the com-
pany on the expediency of repealing the Malt Tax ;
but, at the same time, forgot to explain to them how
the three millions produced by this tax, were to be sup-
plied. His Lordship was also wondrously animated in
praise of the Corn Laws, for no other reason, that
we can see, than that it is a most oppressive monopoly.

We find, in the Aberdeen Herald of Saturday, a
long report of a public dinner given to Captain GOR-
DON at Aberdeen, at which the Duke of GORDON,
the Earl Of ABERDEEN, the Marquis Of ABERCORN,
and a shoal of small Tories were present. The
speeches delivered on this occasion were just such as
might have been expected, gloomy, prolix, and full of
abuse of Ministers. The worst—and where all are
bad, this is no ordinary distinction—was decidedly that
spoken by the Earl of ABERDEEN, who, among other
strange things, made the following strange acknow-
ledgment :—" I will freely confess that the main in-

ducement whieh led me to accept and retain office-
certainly my principal reason for doing so, was the
personal gratification which I could hope to derive
fiom thereby possessing the means of constant coni-
munication and familiar intercourse with that imp
mortal man who has filled all Europe with his name,
and who had long been the object of my distant but
most profound admiration." Of all the reasons we
ever heard for a statesman accepting a high office under
the Crown, this is unquestionably the most original.
And then its incomparable naivete ! " Think of that,
Master BROOKE I" The noble Earl scorned to be
influenced by the usual motives that operate on men's
minds under such circumstances ; he did not accept a
place in the Cabinet from any desire to promote the
interests of his country ; public considerations had
nothing to do with his decision—no, no, he took
office purely from motives of " personal gratification,"
because by so doing, he might possess the
" means of constant familiar intercourse,"—that
is to say, of gossiping ad' libitum, with the Duke
of WELLINGTON I What was it to him, that the pe-
riod at which he accepted the Foreign Secretaryship,
was such as to demand his undivided attention, and
leave him but little room for " personal gratification ;"
his sole object in becoming a Cabinet Minister was---
not to calm down, or direct into a proper channel the
revolutionary spirit that then convulsed all Europe ;
not to see fair play between Great Britain and her con-
tinental interests ; not to check the growing ambition
of Russia, or hold out a fostering hand to regenerated
France , • but—to indulge in small-talk with the
" greatest warrior of this or any age !" What a mind
must that statesman possess, who, coolly and delibe-
rately, could volunteer an acknowledgment like this !
Yet he—it,rather, we should say—was once one of our
most influential Cabinet Ministers I Heaven knows
what would have become of us by this time, had such
a driveller still continued to preside over our Foreign
affairs No doubt he would have sacrificed the interests
of the country to the " personal gratification" of an
hour's chit-chat with the Duke. of WELLINGTON ! Hit
Grace was never remarkable for his argumentative sa-
gacity in the Senate, and we now see the reason of it.
He derived his logic from his " constant familiar
intercourse" with the Earl of ABERDEEN. A pas-
sage towards the close of this bright Peer's speech
convinces us that we are correct in our inference, for
he says, " I entertain afeeling of regret when I look
at the situation in which his Grace stands at present,"
thereby evidently implying his conviction that he
has himself mainly assisted in bringing him into
it. For why, otherwise should he confine his
regrets to the Duke ? Why, but because it was
with him chiefly that he indulged in small-talk,
the effects of which being but too visible in the ducal
orations, had the natural, indeed the necessary effect,
of proving to the country his utter incapacity as a Mi-
nister, and so leading to his downfall ? It must be
confessed that the Ear] of ABERDEEN has purchased
his 4, personal gratification" at a high price ; and that
he now feels this bitter truth, is demonstrable in the
remorseful passage we have just quoted. One other
circumstance took place at this dinner, which we give
in the reporter's own words
Lord FORBES proposed the health of the Duchess of Gor-
don, on whom he passed a warm eulogium. The toast was
drunk with much enthusiasm.
The Chairman, the DUKE of GORDON, in returning
thanks, said that nobody could be more zealous or anxious in
his gallant friend's cause than her Grace.
iDecency forbids 11
What is the meaning of this ?

To sober a man when tipsy, without producing any
other effect on him, give him any mild vegetable acid, such as
lemon-juice diluted with an equal quantity of water, and keep
him, if possible, from talking.-- 'MO Doctor.