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London, England, 1834-12-31 00:00:00

T SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1834.

your former achievements, instead of being remembered
to your honour, will one add to your degradation.
Hold, then, no parley we' your enemies. Follow the
honest impulses of your Own hearts at whatever hazard.
Obey the dictates of an enlightened patriotism, and
show an admiring world that the citizens of London have

Hearts resolved and hands prepared,
The blessings they enjoy, to guard.

When bad men combine, the good must associate
for common safety. Political coalitions can be only
justified by extraordinary emergencies. When the
objects of a nation's wish resolve themselves into one
point of concentration, minor differences of opinion
upon mere matters of detail, theoretical or practical,
must be forgotten, in order that the one desired en('
may be surely and fully attained. When men have to
pronounce aye or no, discussion becomes irrelevant.
Recent events have split the people into two parties,
which admit of no shades of gradation in either. By
what name soever these parties may be severally dis-
tinguished—Tories or Whigs, Liberals or Conserva-
tives, Loyalists or Radicals, Reformers or Anti-Re-
formers—there are now but two, and on one side or
the other the electors must range : the Neutrals—if,
at a juncture like the present, there be any such in all
the land—were too contemptible to deserve regard.
But every true lover of his country and the Consti-
tution—every man who is not at heart a traitor to
both, must make his selection ; he is with us or against
us, on this side or on that,—there is not an inch of
intermediate ground whereon to maintain a footing,
and at once lie must take his stand. TORY or ANTI-
TORY (for that, after all, is the best antagonist term),
he must declare himself and prepare to fight accordingly
for one party and against the other. There is no
alternative course.

A good general is not over much squeamish about
little peculiarities in the philosophy of the men that
swell his forces in a time of need ; their zeal is all he
wants, and that given, all minor peccadilloes must be
overlooked. The Whigs have been craftily urged to
dissociate themselves from the Ultra-Radicals, because
of the violence and extravagance of their doctrines ; the
Greys, and Lansdownes, and Hollands are ad-
monished not to disgrace their noble houses by a poli-
tical intermixation with the Cobbetts, and Fearons,
and Wades, and " that sort of people," for the
attainment of an object common to both, though
differing in measure—Reform I Is a good officer
to thin his troops by the expulsion of those whose
valour he suspects to be somewhat overbold ? Will
Lord GREY forsake the cause which has immortalised
his name, by reason of the advocacy of Mr. Trades-
unionist Fuzboz ? Hardly so. Union is the soul of
the anti-tory body. Whatever may be fire-side shades
of difference in opinion, all such nice distinctions must
now for a season be abandoned. There is but one
enemy, perfect and complete in its unity, and equally
united must be the forces opposed to it—else more
than doubtful may be the fight
We cannot in language too emphatic implore the
people to be true to themselves in the approaching
" struggle of struggles." If ever the aid of Heaven
might without profanity be invoked in the warfare of
man, the present is an occasion that justifies the
prayer. It is not (as has been impudently and falsely
alleged,) because Reformers desire to desecrate
the Church, jeopardize the Throne, or undermine
the Constitution, that they war with the Tories. We
love those institutions too sincerely to endanger either.
It is because we wish to uphold them uninjured to
the end of time, that we oppose a party whose blind
infatuation must inevitably lead to the overthrow of
all. By pernicious counsel the Tories are alienating
the affections of the people from the Monarch, the
Church, and the Constitution. The corruptions which
deface the Church Establishment, and the institutions
of the country, are sought to be maintained in perpe-
tuity by a wrong-headed, or wrong-hearted, faction,
who, wickedly or unwisely, would bring the Kings
name into public odium, as a support to those corrup-
tions.

Never sat a King more firmly in the hearts of his
people than WILLIAM the FOURTH, from the hour
of his accession to the throne of this kingdom, up
to three little months of time since. Never was
the Christian Church more devoutly or more sin-
cerely reverenced, by good and wise men, than it
is at this moment. Never was the Constitution
more justly appreciated for the excellence of its
contrivance than now. But the glaring corruptions
that beset both- Church and Constitution are in-
spiring popular contempt, and so endangering the
downfal of these sacred institutions ; and it is on this
account, and for such reason alone, that their true
friends are desirous to thrust forth the real despoiler,
that they may be once again established in purity, and
the veneration of the people.
All the infidel writers or talkers, from VOLTAIRE
down to ROBERT TAYLOR, never accomplished so
much injury to the Christian Church as its Tory
supporters have in this country wrought. No mad-
brained Republican that ever ranted, has effected by a
thousandth part so much danger to the safety of
the English Constitution, as its Tory maintainers.
It is of the abuses which have " crept in "
upon them during Tory misguidance, and which
are now rotting both Church and Constitution to
their core, that complaint is made by Reformers ; and
it is against a faction which has battened upon the
corruption that they are alone rebellious.
Let none be deluded. The Reformers of England
are denounced as haters of order and promoters of
anarchy ; the foul aspersion they throw back with
scorn upon the maligners who make it—the Tories I
It is they, the Tories, who by incessant and pertina-
cious attempts to regain their lost step, and thereby
uphold the abuses which would supply them in place
and power, now really endanger the tranquillity of the
Empire, and the stability of its institutions, and, if
possessed of official influence, they will never rest in
their career of abuse-sustaining, until an oppressed and
disgusted people are goaded to a resistance that may
burst the bonds which holds society together.
One or other of. two things must sooner or later
happen—the downfall of the Tories or the downfall of
the Constitution ! Englishmen, which shall it be ?
With you now rests the decision. .

The Paris Papers of Monday have been received,
with intelligence from Bayonne of the 25th inst. The
former contain a report of the death of the King of
PRUSSIA, which however is discredited by the Jour-
nal des Debats. The subscription for paying the fine
of 10,000 francs, in which the National was amerced
by the Chamber of Peers, already much exceeds that
sum. We presume the surplus will be devoted to the
private use of the incarcerated Editors. One of the
most prevalent rumours in the Parisian political circles
is that Marshal SOULT will be appointed to the Pre-

miership, in the room of Marshal MoaTIER, who has
suEcieutly pioved his inadequacy to discharge the du-
ties of such an office.

The Bayonne Papers are filled with an abundance
of rumours respecting the war in the North of Spain.
It appears from them, as well as from private letters
from San Estevan, St. Sebastian, and Madrid, that
the recent victories obtained by MINA, and his subor-
dinates, are far from being as important as they were
at first represented. MINA himself is at Pampeluna,
confined to his room by a sudden attack of severe
indisposition—such is the general phrase in which
his illness is described. So conflicting are the
reports of the success on both sides, that we are
obliged to abstain from giving them. Spanish battles,
or rather the accounts of them, are different from any
to be found in the annals of chivalry. Not only do
both- parties claim a victory, but both declare solemnly,
in the presence of the same audience, that the other
is only to be found strewed, and torn limb from limb,
on the field of battle I Thus, after every engagement,
MINA, or some of his subordinates, publish a bul-
letin, in which the Carlists are all shown to be either
slain or made prisoners—not one of them remains alive
and at liberty to tell the unfortunate fate of his
companions in arms ; yet hardly has there been
time to read this record of victory, when forth
issues a Carlist proclamation, in which the
whole order of the battle is reversed, and MINA
and his generals are represented as running for
their lives before the subduing army of ZUMALACAR.•
RiAG UI I In a word, no report can be relied upon ;
and the persons who have been sent there for the ex-
press purpose of telling the truth, are not a whit more
entitled to public confidence than the native journalists.
We speak of them of course collectively. They are no
doubt " all honourable men," but by some means or
other, they are continually Contradicting themselves,
and each other. In their retrospective glances at our
own policy, in elucidation of their views, some of
them make sad blunders. As an example, one
of them, in a letter to a veering Morning Con-
temporary, states very gravely that the Dukc
of WELLINGTON had been always in favour of
'the accession of Donna MARIA to the throne of
Portugal, and therefore her Most Faithful Majesty
may calculate on the good offices of a Tory Govern-
ment in England I What a consummate blockhead
this wiseacre must be I Why, in the very debate on
the address from the throne at the opening of the first
Session of the Reformed Parliament, the Duke de-
nounced her MAJESTY'S claims to the Crown as
spurious, and repudiated the recognition of the inde-
pendence of Belgium.

(From the Sentinelle des Pyrenees.)
We have some further particulars of the affair of the 15th.
Cordova and Oraa had advanced by the wood of Sorlada with 8,000
men ; Lopez advanced from Muez with 2,000 infantry, 300 cavalry,
and 3 pieces of artillery. The Carlists and Christinos are said to
have expended 32,000 cartridges. The latter had 1,200 men
killed, wounded, and taken prisoners, not 1,500, as we stated by
a mistake.

The Carlists had 200 men killed or wounded.
The son of General Oraa was killed in the battle of Ararta.
Charandaja and two other superior officers of the Christinos
were killed on the same day at Carascal.
The Budgat will be presented to the Chamber on Tuesday ; the
amount is said to be 1,009 millions, besides the supplementary vote
of credit.—Messager, Dec. 29.

FRENCH FUNDS.—Panta, Dec. 29,
Five per Cents., 106 f. 30c. 15c. 30c.
Four and a Half per Cent, 100 f. 10c.
Four per Cents., 92f. 25c.
Three per Cents., 76E 35c. 40c.f0c.
Bank Actions, 1,752 f. 50c.
Heide de Naples, 9:IE sc. I°c.
Roman Five per Cents., 94 94 94g.
Rente d'Eepagne, Five per Cents., 41 40% 41.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 27 271,41/4.
Royal Spanish Loan, 4314,i%.
Retite Perpet. d'Espagne. Five per Cents., 42%N.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 97% 814.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cent., 8A %.
EXCHANOS ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 325,9 e- money, ---f. —c.
Three months, paper, 25r. 17):;e.; money, —f.--c.
—Cours Authentiaoe.

HALF-PAST 3 O'CLOCK.—Five per Cents. Rentes, 106 f. 65c. ;
Three per Cent. Rentes, 76f. 65c. ; Five per Cent. Spanish, 424 •
Three per Cent. ditto, 27i ; Corte., 41i ; Coupons, 24 • Guebhard,
43i Differes, 13i ; Ducats, 93i ; Romans, ; &tiros, 85} ;
Miguel., 21 ; Dutch, 54. 25.

We have received from Madrid a report of the
debate in the Chamber of the Procuradores, during
the sittings of the 17th, 18th, and 19th inst. The
subject was the project of the law for regulating the
civil list. The speeches on both sides are dry and
uninteresting, and refer entirely to questions of mere
detail. In the sitting of the 19th, M. MARTINEZ
DE LA ROSA informed the Chamber that the Go-
vernment had received despatches from the army in
the North, detailing the victory of the 12th instant.
Strange enough the Spanish Ministry know what is
going forward as imperfectly as we do ; and in
Madrid, hardly one person :in a thousand takes the
slightest interest in what is going forward at so remote
a distance as Navarre. There is no account of the
intended resignation of the Ministry in the journals
last received from Madrid.

Letters and papers from Lisbon, bearing date the
22d inst., by his Majesty's brig Espoir, Lieutenant
RILEY, which arrived at Falmouth on the 29th, have
been received. On the 18th instant, her Majesty,
Queen DONNA MARIA, prorogued the Cortes in per-
son by a speech from the throne, which will be found
annexed. All the accounts received agree in stating
that she went through the ceremony with all the dig-
nity of a sovereign, and all the grace and elegance
of an accomplished woman. She was received with
the loudest acclamations of joy by the people, and
her presence seemed to give the most unfeigned pleasure
to every member of the Cortes. It is thought that her
MAJESTY expects an appeal to the people will put
an end to the fierce opposition between the parties
headed by the Duke of PALMELLA and the Duke of
TERCEIRA, by giving such a preponderance to the
one as shall render the opposition of the other of no
avail. It is astonishing with what rabid bitterness the
Duke of PALMELLA is opposed by numerous bodies
of Liberals throughout Portugal. During the whole
of the morning of the prorogation he sat silent, moody,
and apart in the Chamber as if ruminating on the
future. Not so the Duke of TERCEIRA. He was in a
most talkative humour, and had a smile, a nod, and
compliment for every person. PALMELLA is in some
respects the PEEL, and TERCEIRA the DURHAM of
Portugal. The following is the speech of her Most
Faithful Majesty
Worthy Peers of the Kingdom,
64 Gentlemen Deputies of the Portuguese nation,
" It is time now to interrupt, for a short period, the labours
of the General Extraordinary Cortes. Their minds—fatigued
by assiduous and protracted application—need some relief from
such a laborious task, and the approaching Christmas holydays
render a religious repose of some days advisable.
The principal objects recommended to your zeal by public
exigencies, and the solemn speech at the opening of the Cortes,
were twofold, namely—the continuance of the Regency of
the kingdom, which, during my minority, was intrusted to my
august father, and the measures which appeared to be neces-
sary that my then eventual husband should be selected from
amongst foreign Princes. Both these objects were fixed by
the Cortes, with that prudence and wisdom which might be
expected from an enlightened nation, and in both the Cortes
obtained the general approbation of the Portuguese, and de-
served my praise and cordial thanks.
" A melancholy event covered the nation with mourning,
and changed the first of these wise measures. A fatal disease
attacked my august and blessed father, and, in a few days put-
ting a period to his glorious life, rendered it indispensably ne-
cessary to provide for the government of the nation. A per-
fect unanimity of the Chamber of Deputies, and a great ma-
jority of that of the worthy Peers of the kingdom, pronounced
me to be of age, and conferred upon me the exercise of the
government. This resolution, which was accepted with uni-

versal satisfaction by the whole kingdom, pledged my gratitude
so much the deeper, and will ever be a powerful motive for
exerting all the efforts in my power to promote the general
prosperity of such loyal and honoured subjects, and to repair,
in every possible way, the otherwise irreparable loss which all
experience by the demise of the immortal Regent, the father
of the country, and true friend of all Portuguese.
" My marriage with the august Prince, the Duke of Leuch-
tenberg and de Santa Cruz, adjusted and concluded under the
most happy and felicitous auspices, and with the sincere appro-
bation and general applause of the whole nation, afforded me
another proof of the love and loyalty of the Portugese. and
will give, as I hope from the favour of Heaven, anew basis of
stability and perpetuity to the Throne, and new strength to the
political institutions of the monarchy and the Constitutional
Charter derived therefrom.

" I likewise must not forget in this place to thank the
Chambers for the generous attention with which they have
provided my endowment and that of her Imperial Majesty,
the Senhora Duchess of Braganza, and of her august daugh-
ter, in accordance with this respect to the noble sentiments
which so eminently belong to the Portuguese people, and in
deference to the recommendations of my august father, as
laid down in his last will.

" The same relations of peace, friendship, and concord,
continue to prevail between us and friendly, and allied foreign
nations. From others I have proofs of benevolent dispositions,
and I am confident that within a short time there will be re-
stored with all that ancient correspondence which is suitable
to the reciprocal interests of the people, and the general peace
of Europe.
"The interior of the kingdom verges towards tranquillity.
Some disquietude, which might have been dwelling in minds
less reflecting, or swayed by more ignoble sentiments and pas -
sions, must vanish, when they become sensible of the necessity
of merging in, and conforming to the general wish of the na-
tion. The conciliating discretion of Government, seconded
by a prudent degree of activity, energy, and vigour, will ulti-
mately be crowned with the desired success.

" It would have been very conducive to the attainment of
this object, if the Cortes could have employed all their time,
all their zeal, and all their efforts to discuss the regulating
laws, which ought to develope and put in practice the prin-
ciples of the Constitutional Charter, to impart unity and regu-
larity to the judicial and administrative system of the kingdom,
to improve its fiscal resources, to promote the most important
branches of public prosperity, and, finally, to make the Por-
tugugse feel all the salutary effects they may and ought to ex-
pect from their new institutions.
" I trust, however, that these grave objects will be consi-
dered in subsequent Sessions, and be attended to with re-
doubled zeal, and that the nation will experience very ample
and beneficial effects from the wisdom, prudence, and constancy
of its illustrious Representatives."

Since writing on the article on the prorogation of
the Portuguese Cortes, intelligence has reached us,
that the Government, at the express desire of the
QUEEN, has ordered troops, to the number of
five thousand effective men, to march into
Spain, for the purpose of aiding the REGENT
to crush the rebellion in the North. We
have further learned from the same source, that on
the 16th instant the Belgian troops recently engaged
in asserting the constitutional cause in Portugal marched
into Lisbon ,and encamping before the Palace)threatened
to set fire to it, unless the whole of their arrears were
instantly paid. Their demands were complied with,
and vessels were provided to carry them to Belgium,
unless they preferred joining the Royal army in Spain,
which they declined doing. It is further rumoured
that the Irish and Scotch battalions are resolved to
adopt such another expedient, to obtain the arrears clue
to them.

Such is the statement as it has been conveyed to us;
but we confess, except as far as relates to the sending
of troops into Spain, we can hardly credit a word of
it. We ourselves published, some weeks since, on
the authority of the Portuguese Government, a
statement declaring that the demands of all auxilia-
ries in the late war had been settled ; and
advertisements have appeared in all the London
Papers, appointing days for the payment of all
monies due to such of the British auxiliaries
of the QUEEN, as left Portugal- without receiving
their wages. Now, it is not likely that the
Portuguese Government should pay up all arrears due
to men in England, before settling the demands of
those who are in Portugal, and who, while unpaid- and
unemployed, must be a burthen to the country. This
being settling day in the Foreign Market, we rather
suspect that the above is a stock jobbing manoeuvre.

The following arc extracts from German papers :

VIENNA, DEC. 17.—The Hungarian market town of Ganz,
where, on the Bth September, 350 houses were burnt, was deso-
lated on the 19th November by another fire, which destroyed many
houses and the Catholic church.

VIENNA, DEC. 19.—This forenoon news was received here of
the arrival of Sir Robert Peel in London, of his appointment to
tho Office of Prime Minister, and of that of the Duke of Welling-
ton to the Foreign Department, and also of the probable dissolu-
tion of Parliament. This news has caused some sensation, espe-
cially because it was believed that the Parliament would not be
dissolved, and that the Duke of Wellington, if he accepted office,
would confine himself to that of Minister of War. The Exchange
was greatly agitated, but at the close the funds bad risen.
The mail from Constantinople has arrived; it brings no very in-
teresting news. The Porte is said to continue its armaments, and
to be uneasy on account of the state of Syria. It is said that as
soon as the season will permit the Sultan will go to view the army
in Asia. It was also reported that the Turkish Ambassador at Lon.
don was recalled, and that another would be sent in his room.
The plague had abated ; but cases still occurred every day.
VIENNA, Dec. 20.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 994 ; Four
per Cent., 91i ; Bank Shares,l,277.—Allgemiene Zeitung Dec. 25.

HAMBURG, DEC. 26.—BoasRN HULLE.---The corn market
continues in a depressed state, and, generally speaking, the quota-
tions are lower than last week. Prom the 13th to the 19th, three
cargoes of corn passed through the Sound, of which two were
bound for England, and one for Norway. There passed also one
cargo of flour, bound for London.
Rlx-dollars. Rix-dollars.
Wheat, Anhalt, white ... to Cats, Up1an1.„.....—... — to
------ red 74 to 78 ltleiclenburg IS to 4t2
Mal ks 74 to 80 Lower Elbe 34. to IS
- Mecklenburg - Petersburg!' & Riga to
-- llolstein
Lower Elbe 6O to 78 Buck %Vhca' to
Rye, Mecklenburg
-- Holstein
--- Danish — to Tares 95 to 1:2
Barley, Magdeburgh — to (SO Rapeseed 140 to tni
Holstein
--- Lower Elbe 44 to 51 Linseed ditto 9O to 111!