The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-30 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

Thackwell, Esq., from the Albion Hotel, Cockspur-street,
for Plymouth; Grimes, Esq., from ditto, on a tour; Lord
William Somerset, from St. James's.square, for Brighton; the
Archbishop of Armagh and Lady Catherine Beresford, yester-
day, from Charles-street, St. James's-square, for the Palace,
Armagh, Ireland ; Major-General Sir Willoughby and Lady
Augusta Cotton, from Cadogan-place, for Cheltenham ; Charles
Standish, Esq., from Symmons' Hotel, St. James's street, for
Stoke Farm, near Windsor ; J. Brown, Esq., from Raggett's
Hotel, Dover-street, for the Isle of Wight; Captain and Mrs.
Knox, from ditto, for Brighton ; Sir William Struth, Bart.,
from Ellis's Hotel, St. James's-street, for Cheltenham T. F.
Hill, Esq., from ditto, for ditto; 'F. L. Yates, Esq., from
ditto, for ditto; Major Ebrington, from ditto, on a tour ;
Mr. and Mrs. Austell, from Brook-street, for their seat in
Essex.

Sir FRANCIS BURDETT gave a grand enter-
tlinmeßt lately to the members of the BONAYARTE
at his mansion in the Green Park.

The LORD CHANCELLOR leaves town im-
mediately for Brougham Hall, Lord ALTIIOI' for North-
amptonshire, Lord HOLLAND for Holland House, and Lord
JOHN RUSSELL for Ireland. _

The KING dines with Mr. STANLEY, on his
return to Windsor Castle.

There are 700 prisoners in the House of
Correction, in which there is no sign of cholera, and only
two patients in the Infirmary.
It is reported in the West End, and appa-
rently on good authority, that Sir HARRY GOODRICKE
has left the whole of Lis urientailed property to his friend
FRANCIS HOLYOAKE, Esq.
Mr. Tooke, on Wednesday, entered a notice
upon the Commons' books, that early next session he
would bring in a Bill, for the better regulation of
Chimney Sweepers, and their Apprentices, and for pre-
venting the employment of Infante folder the age a
foertecn in climbing chimneys.

LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST SO, 1833.

The King's speech at the close of a session
is never so interesting as that delivered at its
opening. In the latter every thing is to a certain
extent fresh and new; in the former much is
stale, flat, and unprofitable. Nevertheless there
was something in the tone and emphasis with
which his MAJESTY delivered parts of his
speech yesterday which, to those whose good
fortune it was to enjoy the honour of seeing and
hearing our Sovereign, relieved it from the
charge of dullness and want of interest which
may be generally brought against farewell
speeches. For the benefit of the many who of
necessity were deprived of that honour, we' will
attempt to describe the impression conveyed to
our minds by the ceremony of yesterday. We may
observe, at starting, that his MAJESTY'S voice
was throughout clear and vigorous, and that the
whole speech was read by him in that modu-
lated tone, and with those pauses, which ex-
press the anxiety of a reader to have every
sentence clearly understood. The first place
in which his MAJESTY appeared to us to use
particular emphasis, was that in which he men-
tioned the having sent a Minister to the Court
of Donna MARIA. The sentence seemed to
be uttered with a feeling of pleasure, partly
arising from the triumph of the young Queen,
no doubt, but in a great degree from the down-
fall of the tyrant who had so gulled the different
states of Europe, and almost personally insulted
his late brother. If lowly men might venture
to fathom the depth of royal thoughts, we should
say that King WILLIAM having MIGUEL in
his mind's eye, thus passingly addressed him,
as he read the sentence, " There's a settler for
you, you lubber !" The next sentence, the de-
livery of which struck us, was that relating to
Turkey. When his MAJESTY said, "
hostilities which had disturbed the peace of
Turkey have been terminated, and you may be
assured that my attention will be carefully di-
rected to any events which may affect the present
state or future independence of that empire,"
he laid particular stress upon the words we have
printed in italics. Agai❑ in the sentence which
follows, respecting the Bank, his MAJESTY
dwelt much on the word" important," when he
mentioned that " important establishment." The
sentence, " You may rest assured that there is no
part of your labours which I regard with a deeper
interest than that which tends, by well considered
amendments of the law, to make justice easily
accessible to all my subjects," may be taken as a
kind of rap on the knuckles for the rejection of
the Local Courts Bill by the House of Lords,
and its insertion in the speech is a sufficient
answer to those who have been pleased to dream
lately that the LORD CHANCELLOR'S influence
in the Cabinet has declined.

We were again struck and offended by an

absurdity that has often before annoyed us. We
mean the form of the Royal Assent being in
Norman French. The Normans do not appear
in any country where they settled to have been

in sufficient numbers to have imposed their
language on the people of the countries they
conquered, and why we should now retain
the use of the barbarous and obsolete

jargon they formed in the course of
their wanderings passes our comprehension.
There was, among other foreigners in the House
of Lords, yesterday, one, apparently an Asiatic.
We noticed that he watched all the proceedings
with great curiosity and interest. Their open-
ing with a solemn form of prayer, the deep atten-
tion and decorum with which the prayer was
listened to, the splendid (Tresses of the Peers,
the KING'S state, the arrival of the Commons,
the free interchange of thoughts which appeared
to take place between the Monarch and the
representatives
of the people, must all have
powerfully interested him. Whether his con-
cluding reflections could have been as flatter-
ing to us as his first, is a question which
could not be solved much to our satisfaction.

Surely the KING has the power of doing away
with this antique absurdity, and causing his
assent to be given to the Acts of the Legis-
lature in plain honest English.

As one of the last curiosities we are for the
present to be favoured with from the House
of Commons, we have had sent to us a list of
the notices of motions which now stand on the
Order Book of the House for the next session
of Parliament. They occupy no less than nine
folio pages, and consist of a hundred and
thirty: four notices, long and short. Upon an
average, each of these must be worth one night's
discussion ; but the greater part of them, if
worth bringing forward at all, ought to result in
the passing of Bills, an operation which would
take up broken time, amounting in the whole
to three days for each. Now, as Parliament
has not had more than a hundred and forty-two
sitting nights, even during the late toilsome
and protracted session, it is evident that,
to accomplish only the half of the projects
here set down, and considered by their
several 'proposers as of paramount import-
ance, would require our legislators to manu-
facture every hour at their disposal into a week.
Conceit, selfishness, bigotry, faction, have all
helped to make up the long list before us, and
will all help, when the session comes round, to
waste the public time, to fill the papers
with vapouring speeches, and to delay or evade
the settlement of questions vitally important to
the national welfare. The evil has for some
years been growing to a head, and our only con-
solation is that it will at length work its own
cure by compelling the House of Commons to
subdivide itself into regular departments, which
shall each have in charge the perfecting of cer-
tain sets of measures. The business of the
House would thus not only be better, but more
quickly done. There is one check which it
would perhaps be necessary to impose on the
ignorant part of the House, viz. when prepared
measures came to be submitted to the whole
body of the Members, none should be allowed
to vote who were not present at the opening of
a measure by the Committee which had charge
of it. But whatever principle of change be
adopted, it is quite clear that the present system
cannot go on, and due consideration be, at the
same time, given to important public business.

The German Papers, in an article dated
Vienna, August 24, mention that Russia has
renewed its commercial treaty with the Porte,
and will furnish all the articles necessary for
equipping and arming the SULTAN'S troops in the
European fashion. The Vienna Gazette speaks
of a report to the effect that the Ulemas and the
Mufti have interpreted a certain important pas-
sage of the Koran, to mean that the new mili-
tary organization is one of the things which the
Turks are bound to consider as an article
of their faith. Truly the obsequious, time-
serving spirit of these priests is, and has been,
notorious in all times and places.

We are informed by a gentleman who has re-
cently visited the manufacturing districts in
France, that at no time during the last twenty
years has there been so great a demand for ma-
nufactured goods. In some instances the rise
in the prices has been as high as 40 per cent.,
and in many 25, but these have already sub-
sided to an average of about 18 per cent. beyond
the prices which the goods obtained previously
to the sudden demand. It is not difficult to
account for this favourable change, but it will
be difficult for the people of this country to
credit the extent of folly in the French Govern-
ment to which it has given birth.
After the Revolution of the three days in
Paris, and the accession of Louts PHILIP
to the throne, commerce of every kind was at
a stand. The merchants, alarmed at the pro-
spect of further commotion, and believing that
the despotic powers would take part with
CHARLES the Tenth, and make another at-
tempt upon the independence of the French, no
longer speculated for the foreign markets, and
even declined many of the orders which they
received unless the realization was prompt and
sure. The aristocracy, partly in the dread of spo-
liation, and the belief that they would want the
means of purchasing the necessaries of life,
suddenly gave up a great portion of the luxuries
in which they had indulged ; and began to eco-
nomize from their incomes such sums as would

in a foreign country, provide them with bread.
Even the partisans of the new dynasty held
back, for, knowing the fickleness of the people,
they imagined that their turn to suffer would,
soon arrive, and that they could not act more
wisely than to provide against a storm. Where
there is no confidence there can be little or no
trade, and this must be particularly the case in
France, where the welfare of the manufacturers
depends in an especial degree on the prevalence
of luxurious habits, and the fluctuations of a
capricious taste. Three years having elapsed
since the events which gave rise to so general a
dread of the future having passed away, and no
political calamity having occurred, confidence
has revived, and the French people, to make
amends for the past, (pour se dedonzmager des
privations du passé) are now as profuse in
their orders as they had been niggard during
that time. They have now run to the opposite
extreme. The merchant who would scarcely
execute a good order, now orders himself on
speculation. The manufacturer, who had set all
his artists aside, now employs them freely on
new designs, and makes extensive ventures on
his own account. The aristocracy anxious to
recover their position in society by a luxurious
display, will now spend in one year the savings
of three; and the middle classes, who had suf-
fered wrong by the general want of confidence,
finding themselves benefitted by the sudden
and purchase a
want. Such is the
state of things in France, and, as it in-
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