The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-19 00:00:00

THE SU.N, LONDON, FRIDAY EVE,-if-o7iii, E? EMBER, 10, IVA

forthwith adopted to check the evil, we shall, ere
another year has passed, witness a monetary panic
far more formidable in character, and serious in
its results, than that which led to the com-
mercial crisis of 1847. Why, then, should not
precautionary measures be forthwith adopted ?
Why should the fatal comment, " too late,"
be applicable to everything connected with the
administration of English affairs ? Under the
present iniquitous code there is no mode by which
the enormous exportation can be checked. So
long as it proves profitable to the speculators it
will continue, and the industrial population of the.
country will have to endure the most fearful
misery and privations, in order that the money-
ocracy may still further enhance their overgrown.
hoards. Large sums have already been with-
drawn from the country. And the Times, a good.
authority on such a point, warns us that we must
look forward to the exportation of at leas t
eighteen millions of pounds sterling a
large portion thereof in silver, within the.
year, commencing in July last. How, we
ask, can this be borne with the existing
money laws, the real cause of the national diFs-
tress ? Should it take place, the Bank reserve,
as well as the notes in circulation, will be reduced
to the minimum amount, and there will not be
sufficient of the measure and representative of
value in the hands of the public to carry on the,
transactions of every-day life. Our fellow-citizen s
will be subjected to the fate of TANTALUS, being
starved in the sight of plenty, while the curren.cy
quacks are carrying out their heartless views.
As OTO have already stated, there is but one
efficient remedy—one mode by which we can
escape from the difficulty. We must economise
the precious metals—must provide a substitute
for the sovereigns—which are now used merely
as counters, where one pound notes would far
more efficiently discharge the necessary functiona.
These notes being issued on National security
would be perfectly safe. There could, in Net,
be no possibility of failure, or even of deprecia-
tion. While some 65,000,0001. is annually re-
quired by the exigencies of the Exchequer, any-
thing that would satisfy the claims of the tax-
:atherer, and render his visits—neither few nor

far between—less formidable, would not be re-
garded as merely " worthless rags." They would
gladly be received by butcher, baker, and all
those with whom the anxious pater familias is
brought into daily contact. The certainty that
every person could forthwith pass them at their
nominal value would insure their efficacy. This
is, then, what we require. The " issue of really
national notes of small denominations, in quanti-
ties sufficient to provide for the domestic circula-
tion of the country, with these we could weather
the storm ; without ,them we shall !have to go
through an ordeal of no ordinary magnitude.
Mr. JANES WILSON has already clearly and dis-
tinctly pointed out that the issue of twenty mil-
lions of Government one-pound notes would be
equivalent to the discovery of a store of gold of
equal amount in the heart of England 1 Why do
we not profit by the information ? Why do we
remain indifferent on a subject of such vital im-
portance, on which the welfare and happiness of the
great majority of the people so greatly depend ?
It is indeed hard to account for this extraordinary
apathy. The bullionists have contrived to mystify
the question, and to puzzle those who have not
devoted time and consideration thereto. But the
matter must ere long force itself into general
notice ; and surely we should not wait until the
evil has arisen. The stable door should be fas-
tened. while the steed is still safe. The Bank
Charter Act must be revoked. next , ses-
sion ; and surely the topic is of suf-
ficient importance not merely to justify,
but imperatively to require a winter session. It
would offer a far better return for the senatorial
labours than the Foreign Enlistment Bill, which
embroiled us with America, and gave us only a
German Legion, to be handsomely provided for
at the expense of the English veterans who have
borne the burden of the war.

A National Treasure has just been secured by
the expenditure of 3,8201. sterling—SHAKsrEßE'3
birthplace, the cottage in which the " Immortal
Bard" was born in the some time village, now the
flourishing market-town of Stratford-upon-Avon !
Good news this, we take it, for every true-hearted,
right-minded Englishman. No more fear now of
a long-dreaded and at one time apparently an
imminently impending desecration. The crumbling
brickwork and worm-eaten rafters are no longer,
thank Heaven, in danger of being carted away for
so much "builders' rubbish"—as happened not
very long ago (don't we all of us bitterly remem•
ber that act of clerical Vandalism !) in regard to
nnother classic tenement—SuaKsPEßE's death-
place, not a couple of furlongs from SHABSPERE'S
birthplace, in that same world-famous Stratford-
upon-Avon. So that there actually remains no
longer any vestige at all of New Place—the com-
fortable dwelling-house in which the greatest poet
the world ever saw breathed his last on the me-
morable fifty-second anniversary of his birth : such
a world of glory, of wisdom, and of poetry being
comprised within the narrow span of time be-
tween April the 233, 1564, and April the 233,
1616, the dates of the coming and of the going of
our glorious Dramatist ! Years ago—and the
honoured home in which he expired was wantonly
rased to the ground by the petulance of a spiteful
Ignoramus, who even took a certain strange and
despicable pleasure in tearing up by the roots the
venerable mulberry tree said to have been planted
two centuries gone-by ii the adjacent garden-plot'
by the glorious hand of WILLIAM SILAKSPERE !
Remembering which same heathenish atrocity the
lovers of the name and fame thus outraged beyond
the reach of reparation, feared, and not without much
reason, lest some evil chance might in a similar man-
ner sweep from the surface of the earth the other,
the earlier and humbler home of SHAKS2ERE at Strat-
ford-upon-Avon. Hence the effort recently made
for its purchase by a sort of national subscription.
The effort but just now crowned with a success so
signally satisfactory. The SHARSPERE'S Houk
Committee having at length been able to realise
its design completely—buying at once and for
ever not merely the cottage itself, but the adjoin-
ing tenements to the right hand and to the left ;
a judicious supplementary purchase, enabling
them to insulate from the accidents of fire and
other casualties the humble pile in Henley-street)
the object of so much natural veneration.

It is at once curious and interesting to relate how
all this has but just now been so very happily ac-
complished. The final purchase-money having, been
munificently supplied byone JOHN SHALSPEARE, a
large-hearted, open-handed gentleman,. of Leices-
tershire. A namesake—this—of the Poet's Father,
a namesake still Jiving amongst us, and long may
he still continue to live amongst us—the worthy
preserver of a wealth he knows how to distribute,
of a name he knows how to honour, of an enthu-
siasm he knows how to demonstrate ! A sum of
2,5001. in ringing golden coin of the realm has this
noble spirited Leicestershire gentleman paid over
to complete the purchase for the nation of the poor
little cottage in which the " Immortal Bard" was
born—a cottage glorified into a shrine by his
advent, as the cottage of BAtras and Panaraox

was glorified by the fabled advent of JUPITER !
For the particulars of this remarkable act of
munificence on the part of " JOHN SHAKSPEARE,
of Leicester, Esquire," we are indebted to that
pleasant, garrulous, bird-like Gossip in the
Illustrated London, News, who delights the public
week by week--(under the slovenly heading of
"Town. and Table Talk in Literature, Art, ic.")—
with so many appetising scraps of agreeable and
out-of-the-way intelligence. Not any more de-
lectable crumb of comfort has he yet given us than
the one now devoured with such eager avidity—the
one which assures us that a not uavrorthy name-
sake of the Great Poet has at length secured to
the English nation the possession henceforth
(until its solid bricks and rafters shall have
crumbled into dust) of the cottage consecrated by
the homage of three centuries, visited by so many
obscure and famous pilgrims, and regarded by all
with such natural and enduring interest as the
birth-place of the greatest of all Englishmen 1

BABY FRANCE'S INVITATION.

PARIS, 16 Mars, 1856.

COURT CIRCULAR.

BALMORAL, Si.tn 17.
Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort drove out yesterday afternoon, accom-
panied by his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange and
his Serene Highness the Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar.
In the morning the Prince of Orange went out deer
stalking.

The Royal dinner party yesterday included his Royal
Highness the Prince of Orange, her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, his. Serene Highness Prince Edward
of Saxe-Weiccar, her Serene Highness Princess Amalie
of Hohenlohe-Schillingfursi, Lady Augusta Bruce, and
Lord James Murray.

' Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived at Cam-
bridge House, Piccadilly, yesterday, from St. Leonard's.
Despatches, were received at the Colonial-office yes-
terday, from the Governors of Ceylon, Hong Kong,
Mauritius, Western Australia, and Malta.

The International Congress of Beneficence held its
first 'sitting at Brussels on the 15th. After a speech
from M. Rogier, who was re-elected president by &cola-
mation, the assembly proceeded to the business of the
day. A letter was read from the Intendant of the Civil
List, announcing that his Majesty the Bing of the
Belgians would honour the Congress with his presence
on the 17th.

LION.
—lt
Et
aVEgNe InNtiGlemCaOnNCwEhßoTSwFaoBll
some
years-
since favourably known as the manager of popular con-
certs in London is in negotiation with the St. George's-
ball Committee, Liverpool, with the view of giving
monstre, Saturday evening concerts in the large music:-
hall/ at rates of admission which will allow the working
people to be constant visitors there.
SALMON FISHERY IN SCOTLAND.—The salmon fishing
in Scotland tilosed on Saturday. The season has been
upon the whole a deficient one ; the greatest deficiency
has been in the seacoast fishings and in grilse. Rod
fishing bad latterly improved, particularly in Aberdeen
and Banffshire, but here also the season has been unfa-
vourable.
We referred a few days ago to the sale of four of the
smaller vessels of the General Screw Steam Shipping
Company. Two of these, viz., the Propontis and the
Harlingen, were purchased, we understand, by a Russian
naval officer of rank for account of the Russian Govern-
ment. The sum paid for them is stated to be 23,0001.,
a price which seems to be considered satisfactory to the
shareholders. It is also reported that the directors are
in treaty for the sale of twelve of the larger veseels.
ARCHEFISCOPAL CottthEßY.—The Bath Chronicle
gives great prominence iii its columns to the following
announcement His worship the Mayor of Bath,
Mr. W. Bush, has had the honour of receiving, through
the Lord Bishop of- Durham, a remarkably fine haunch
of venison from his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury,
as a slight acknowledgment of his Grace's appreciation
of the mayor's courtesy and arrangements for the com-
fort and convenience of the court lately assembled in this
city to adjudicate in the case of Ditcher v. Denison.'"
PERVERSION IN HIGH LIFE. —The Northern Times, a
Roman Catholic paper published in Scotland, says :
" Her Grace the Duchess Dowager of Argyll, who has
lately renounced the errors of Protestantism, received
the Holy Sacrament of Confirmation on Saturday last
at 7 o'clock a.m.) at the Cathedral of St. Andrew's, in
this city (Glasgow). Her Grace subsequently heard
mass, and participated in the Holy Communion. The
celebrant on the occasion was his lordship (!) the Right
Rev. Bishop Murdoch, V.A.E.D."
THE LIVERPOOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND THE
BELGIAN CONGRESS.—LIVERPOOL, Thursday Evening.—
At the meeting of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce
this day, it was resolved, after sn able and earnest, but
very temperate discussion, on the motion of Mr. J. R.
Jeffery, seconded by Mr. R. Gladstone, that Mr. C.
Holland, the chairman, Mr. J. Torr, the vice-chairman,
and Mr. J. Aikin, the treasurer, should constitute a de-
putation to the Free Trade Congress of Brussels, on be-
half of the chamber; and that Mr. W. Brown, M.P. for
South Lancashire, and M. J. C. Ewart and Mr. Hors-
fall, the two members for the borough, should be invited
to accompany them.
FETE AT THE CRYSTAL PALICE.—A circular, addresei
to the principals of establishmants, to the following effect,
has been issued from the Ea:ly Closing Association:—
" I take the liberty of inforning you that the directors
of the Crystal Palace Compaq have kindly consented
that Saturday, the 20th September, shall be a shilling
day ; and that the Early Closing Association shall re-
ceive part of the proceeds of ad such tickets as may be
sold through its instrumentality. The board of manage-
ment are desirous, therefore, of pecuniary grounds, that
the attendance of visitors should be numerous ; and also

because of the hope that it may encourage the directors,
ere long, to make Saturday a general shilling day. -Under
these circumstances, the board will take it as a great
favour, if, amongst your personal friends, and the mem-
bers of your establishment, you will obligingly use
your influence to secure a large company on the .oc-
casion." _
SOUTH AND EAST TAMAR M:DlE.—There is no proba-
bility of the agents of these mines being able to re-open
and work them. In South Tamar the water in the
shafts rises and falls with the tides. A. great deal of
timber has come up the shaft from the 30 and 60 fathom
levels. - A. great deal of timber has also come lip to' the
surface in the river. On Saturday last, the water in the
South Tamar shaft sadcleAly tell 14 feet. It most have
found a way into the East Tamar sett, as the water. was
hen higher in the river than it was in the shaft. In
East Tamar the works are entirely suspended The
water is here rising rapidly, having broken through' the
slide in the level between the mine and South Tamar.
At present the water is above the 60 fathom level, and
is rising fast.
THE CWMDYLE ROOK MINING COMPANY.—The wind-
ing up of this company proceeds on the petition of Mr.
J. F. Delamere and Mr. G. E. Beckers, two of the share-
holders, who state that it was formed in 1850 to work
copper mines in Eeddgelert, Carnarvonshire, under a
lease from Sir R. Bulkeley, with a capital of 30,000/.,
in 10,000 shares of 31. each. Mr. Delamere subscribed
for 582 shares, and Mr. Beckers for 696, and paid. the
deposits thereon. The mines, which are situated on the
side of Snowdon, were worked, but no profit was derived
to the shareholders and there are debts and liabilities
amounting to 2,0681. to be discharged. The working of
the mine is now only carried on to a limited extent,
principally to avoid forfeiture of the lease, and it is alleged
that the difficulties in which the company have been
placed, arose principally from the fact of its having com-
menced operations with a very small working capital.
EXTRAORDINARY SIIIVIDE.—A suicide of a most de
termined character was committed a few days ago in
the Devon County Gaol, Exeter. An old man, named
William Aggett, had been committed from Prince
Town, Dartmoor, to take his trial on a charge of'steal-
ing timber. He had, it appeared, cherished hopes of an.
1
acquittal, but a short time ago his son was committed
on a similar charge to the same gaol. This evidently
preyed upon his mind, and one morning Aggett was
found suspended to a water-pipe in his cell. lie had
)nly one arm, and this he had tied across his belly
,with a handkerchief, and had also tied his legs together.
He had taken other precautions to 'carry out his pur-
nose quietly, and had contrived to hang himself with a
Mete of tar roue which he had to pick into oakum. His
,eck was not 'dislocated, but he was dead when found
by the warder.
CROSSING THE LlNE.—Amongst the vessels composing
,he squadron lying off the west coast of Africa, there is
)ne (the Hecla) just gone out to join those alreaCly, there.
On crossing the line the savage ceremony of "shaving "
was performed on about 90 unfortunate sailors. Amongst
hem was one poor fellow, named Henry Green, who,
after having been subjected to the infamous shaving pro-
ess, in order to escape being dragged into the water by
those ruffians stationed near him for the purpose, at-
tempted to jump into it. In the attempt, however, he
knocked his head against some part of the vessel, and
in a short time expired. On making a post-mortem
axamination it was found that the poor creature's neck
was broken. The poor fellow leaves a wife and family
in Plymouth to deplore his loss. This barbarous custom
is forbidden by the Admiralty, and it will be very strange
should the conduct of the officer in command of the Hecla
'n this occasion be allowed to pass without inquiry.
THE GREAT COMET.—The German astronomers are
divided in their opinions as to the reappearance of the
great comet of 1556, and their learned discussions on the
-übject take up a great deal of room in the limited
columns of their newspapers. ,It was known that Peter
Fabricius, a famous Austrian mathematician-Of those
lays, had written a very erudite dissertation at the time,
and published his own observations of the comet, but
the work itself had been lost. A French translation,
however, printed in 1557, has just been discovered by
the bookseller Herr K. F. Kohler, of Leipsic, amongst
his old books, aed he is now reprinting it for general
sale. It is written in the form of a set of letters ad-
dressed to the Abbot of the Monastery at Lilienfield, in
Austria, and contains a series of illustrations, one of
which represents a segment of the starry firmament, on
which is marked the course of the comet according to
the mathematician's own observations.
THE PERA.--SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 18.—This fine
'crew steamer, now the largest of the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's fleet, arrived last night with the
Indian and Mediterranean mails, and has ace impli-,hed
another rapid voyage from Alexandria. Although dur
iug the out ward passage the Pera, owing to a succession
of strong head winds, was prevented from maintaining
her usual rate of speed, yet homewards, with many diffi-
culties to contend with, this fine steamer fully compen-
sated for the loss of time experienced after leaving
Southampton for Alexandria on the 20th ultimo. The
passengers from Calcutta who have arrived reach Eng-
land in considerable less time than ever yet effeOSed, the
average speed maintained throughout the entire distance
(which is calculated' at 7,950 nautical miles) being 10i
knots per hours • The company's screw steamer Nubia
did the work on the ether side of the Isthmus, having
the monsoon to contend with the, greater portion of the
way. When abreast the Cave Rocks, on the 11th inst.,
Captain Soy, the- commander of the Pere, observed a
flag on them and Men running about. Thinking they
might be some of thee crew of the recently wrecked
steamer Spartan, he bore away at once for the lapd, and
when as near as was judged safe, he sent the chief offi-
eer in a boat to communicate. After being away about
an hour he discovered that they were three Arabs, wbo
bad come across from the mainland, and pitched a tent,
probably with the view of picking up anything whi.h
might remain of the wreck. Complaints have arrived
by this packet of the inattention of the Cowes pilots.
The Pera passed Portland at 6.30 p.m., St. Alban's-head
p thisany'sdescription own
B,wath h
tanedcothme Needles at 9 p.m., with the weather mods.
rate and fine, but did not see a pilot boat until she met
it iomp,orfotarncine
of neglect of
. Theunderstod
similar instances the ship may be detained several hours
piloti osff easLielayp
outside the Needles, or incur the probability of an acci-
dent in navigating that difficult part of the Solent, which,
with mails, passengers, and a valuable cargo oti board,
is a matter of oerioxte onoideration.

LATEST _NEWS.

MADRID, SEPT. 17.

The constitution, as well as the additional act,

has been very favourably received. Nothing has
yet been decided on relative to the sale of church
property and the question of the octroi duties.

A telegraphic despatch from Vienna announces
that on the 12th the King of Naples had received
Baron de Hubner. It is known that the
Austria:n. envoy' is charged with a mission in
support of the remonstrance of the Western
Powers.

The French Government, unless some unfore-
seen events occur, is about to recal M. Brenier
and the whole of the Embassy from Naples.
That diplomatist's last despatches do not now hold
out any hopes of an amicable settlement of the
Neapolitan difficulties.

M. Manin continues to receive numerous sub-
scriptions for the 100 cannons. From Bordeaux
alone he has a list of 306 persons offering 612 f.

The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Times
(second edition), in a letter dated Sept. 11, says ;
—As the Czar is his own Minister, and is un-
derstood to act entirely on his own judgment
and responsibility, people are naturally very
curious to know how he received the
Ministers to-day, and according to the stories
I hear, his Majesty was very gracious
to M. de Morny at the levee; and conversed with
him for some time. He alluded to the readi-
ness evinced .by France to, conclude the peace,
and to remove all impediments to an entente
cordiale. With Lord Granville he was, on
dit, more reserved, and he is understood to
have made some pointed allusions to the atti-
tude of the English Cabinet. "We were tres-lies
in days gone by," said his Majesty, " but it
is to be hoped that the estrangement will not con-
tinue." Lord Granville replied in a low tone of
voice. To Prince Esterhazy the manner of the
Emperor was at first exceedingly dry and cold, but
the veteran diplomatist spoke with such effect, and
gave such assurances of the sincere desire which
actuated a large party in Austria to return to their
premiers amours, that the Emperor was visibly
moved, and held out his hand ere the Prince
ceased. When the Turkish Minister was in-
troduced he read at some length his letters of
creances, but the Czar became impatient ere the
conclusion, and dismissed the Envoy with a few
short sentences. At the ball in the evening the
Empress danced with M. de Morny, Lord Gran-
and the Turkish Minister. Shades of Ma-
hornet, Suleman the Magnificent, and Selim the
Terrible, what must ye have thought when the
Ambassador of the Sublime Porte led the Czarina
forth to the polonaise ! The Emperor danced
with the Countess of Granville, and was very
gracious in his manner towards her.

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.

General d'Orgoui (says the Semaphore of Mar-
seilles), ambassador of the King of the Birmans,
has just arrived here in the Simcis. The general
has been at Alexandria for the last two months,
waiting for information from Paris as to whether
he would be received. It appears that the last
packet from Marseilles brought the requisite infor-
mation, and that an. aide-de-camp of the Emperor
would receive the Birmese mission at Marseilles.

The Moniteur Algerien of the 10th, after giving
the details.of the late affairs with tho, Kabyles,
adds some lines which leads to the belief that ex-
tensive-military operations in Algeria will soon be
commenced. It says :—" Now that we have had
the time to assemble an imposing force at Dra el
Mizan, not only is there no longer any danger of
I hat post being attacked, but the moment is doubt-
less near when we shall assume the offensive, and
extend our dominion further. It is not, in fact,
sufficient for us to resist our enemies ; we must,
for our security, keep them always under the in-
fluence of our arms, and render it impossible for
them to recommence their attacks, either against
us, or against the tribes who have submitted to
our rule."

BOURSE, Sept. 18.—The following were the last
quotations :

_
Cash. h.. s. End of Month.
4} per Cents (ad) 52 75 —f. --a.
3 per Cents 7O 50 70 60
New Loan 7O 50 _ --

Bank Shares 4,125
Credit Mobilier 1,710

Roman
Austrian

Belgian Five 5........ Spanish Threes
Piedmontese (5) 9l Home Debt

RAILWAYS-1108 CASH.

fr. C.
Orleans ......... 1,360 Western 942 50
Northern - Strasburg
r,yons 1,335 New Ditto
nediterranean,..... 1,797 50 Grand Central 6Th

Lyons Geneva 785 Taste
Cette

lopment and progress, both moral and material, are
making themselves apparent.
Nevertheless, we have to deplore great disasters which
have befallen some islands in the Archipelago of the
Molticas. My government, supported by public bene-
ficence,-is• endeavouring-to alleviate their sad effects.
Although free trader with Japan has not yet been
obtained, we are nevertheless striving with perseverance
to attain this result. In the meantime, a provisional
conventluti has confirmed the ancient treaties, has
facilitated the dealings of our countrymen there, and
rendered relations with the government of this country
more favourable.
The lot of the slaves in the western colonies does
not cease to form the subject of my deep solicitude.
Measures have been taken for ameliorating their present
condition, in order to prepare their social reform, on
which head propositions will be submitted to you during
this session.
The inte*r: itate of the zouctry ought to inspire us
with a deep Neling of gratitude.
Commerce, navigation, agriculture, and different
branches of industry are iu a state that leaves nothing
to be desired.
Everything as Tet announces a good harvest.
My attention continues to .be directed to all those
works that can insure the security and prosperity of the

country.
More rapid means of communication, so useful to its
external and internal traffic, ought not to be wanting to
the Netherlands.
The plans for railways warrant the hope of seeing
created a network of railways over the whole extent of
the laud. May this hope not be disappointed ! I de-
pend on your co-operation for supporting, at the expense
of the State, private enterprises, where the resources of
the latter may be insufficient.
The favourable state of our finances will permit a con-
tinuation of the sinking fund for our debt, touching which
a project of law will be laid before you for your delibe-
ration.
Projects of law for the organisation of tribunals, for
a railway police, and other new projects, together with
the remanets of last session, will be prsented to you.
The projects of law for regulating the three branches
of public instruction will be brought before you at- one
and the same time. By this means you will be better
enabled to preserve the necessary connection between
the parts that are intended to form an undivided whole.
To preserve its inviolability for everything belonging
to the domain of conscience is one of the traditional
duties transmitted to me lay ray ancestors. Impelled by
this motive, we have sought the means of removing, as
far as possible, the numerous scruples that the project of
law on priniarreducatiou has given rise to.
I wish to insure with your assistance to the Netherlands
scholastic institutions, in which the religious character
of the nation, forined and developed for ages by Chris-
tianity, may be respected, and which may consecrate at
one and the same time the requirements of science and
the principle of national unity.
My serious intention is firmly to continue developing
the moral strength and material welfare of the people,
whose happiness is so dear to me.
The proofs of affection, of which I and my house have
so often been the- object, and which has so recently been
lavished upon us during those festivals that recalled so
many honourable recollections, as well as the union and
fraternity we have seen prevailing, give me the assurance
that I shall find the nation and you, its representatives,
ready to support me in my efforts to consolidate the
progress of all that is good and just, and to prevent dis-
cord from ever -taking root in our soil.
To this end may Almighty God deign to bestow upon
your efforts and labours his indispensable benediction
I declare the present session of the States-General
opened.