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FRENCH PAPERS.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.—SrrriNa or JAN. 23.
M. Berenger took the chair at a quarter past 1.
After the proces verbal had been read and adopted.
the sitting was suspended until five minutes to 2,
when the discussion of the bill for regulating the
departmental organization was resumed on the
amendment proposed by M. Comte on the 48th
article, which consists in substitutin{ the following
oath to be taken by electors previous to votinz in
the election of members of general councils, or
councils of arrondissements, for that proposed b}
Government :—" I swear before God, on rrt
honour and conscience, that I truly fulfilled each of
the conditions prescribed by the law for taking part
in the present election, that I have not either for-
mally or tacitly received or accepted, for myself or
any member of my family, either gift, employment
or promise, of any description, to influence my
vote; that my vote shall not he influenced by an)
consideration of fear or private interest, but given
according to my intelligence and conscience, will,
the ttro,e view of the public good."
General Bachelu, a deputy newly elected, took
the oath and his seat.
M. Is Pinsonniere read a proposition for amend-
ing the exiting laws relative to the Juges de Paix
The Chamber decided that he should be heard in
support of it after the discussion of the budget of
the Department of Justice.
M. Merlhou proposed that the oath of " fidelity
to the King and obedience to the constitutional
charter and laws of the kingdom," as in the art'elr
of Government, should be administered, in addition
to the oath proposed by M. Comte.
After a few words from M. Comte, in support of
his amendment,

M. Pataille pronounced a discourse against it,
which was perpetually interrupted by cries of "Aux
mix." The hon. deputy having animadverted
somewhat severely on those who wished to sup-
press the oath of fidelity to the King, which must
have been taken by every deputy,
M. Comte said, with great energy, " I have taken
but few oaths, but I have never betrayed any."
The article, as proposed by Government, was
then put to the vote, and adopted by a large ma-
jority.

The oath framed by M. Comte, and proposed by
M. Mex.:Thou, as an addition to the former, was re-
jected by a similar majority.
Articles 49 to 57 inclusive, consisting of admini-
strative regulations of no general interest, were then,
suc'.o-ssively adopted without giving rise to any diq-
'...-ussmn of the slightest interest, except a convvr-
sation which arose on article 53, as to whether one-
half, one-, bird, or one-fourth of the whole number of
electors should be necessary to render the elections
valid on the first ballot; the Government proposed
rne-fourth, the committee one-third, and M. Be-
rigny one-half. The latter proposition was nega-
tived, and the Government having acceded to the
proposition of the committee, the article so amended
was adopted. The elections are by the same article
declared void, as a second ballot, whatever may be
the number of electors present ; and it is also de-
clared, that if two candidates have an equal number
of votes, the most aged shall be declared duly
elected.

Articles 58, 59, and 60, relating to the manner
in t..hich any informality in elections shall be judged
of, gave rise to some discussion in consequence of
an amendment proposed by M. Dulong, by which
such questions are to be referred to the decision of
The Councils of arrondissement instead of that of
the Councils of Prefecture, as proposed by the Go-
vernment. The amendment, which was opposed by
the Minister of the Interior, was rejected, by a small
majority, and the original articles adopted.
FRENur FUNDS, PARIS, JAN. 23.-Five per Cents., 101 f. 63c.
70c. 85c. 80c. 75c. 70c. 65c. 60c. 65c. 101 f. 60c. 65c. 60c. ; Four per
Cents., 90f. 90c • Three per Cents., "i3f. 60c. 65c. 85c. 80c. 75c.
70c 75c. 70c. 60C. 731. 55c. Sec. • National Loan, 101 f. 50c. 40c. ,
Bank Actions, 1,160 f. 1,662 f. gOc.; Rente de Naples, 851. 85e.
80e. 65c. 130 c 65c. 85f. 70c.: Roman Five per Cents., 81 80% ;
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 1234 ; Rente d'Espagne,
Three per Cents., 36 357 36 35% 36 3.5A,4 35% ,• Royal
Spanish Loan, 13356 ; Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 59 583 59;
Belgian Loan, 1831, ' 78 77% • Haytian Loan, 210f.2051 Ex-
change on London, one month, paper, 251 65c.; money, 25f.
65c three months, paper, 25f. 50c. ; money, 251. 50c.-Cours
A uthentique.

His late Majesty GEORGE the Fourth was
of a capricious and uncertain temper. Mr. 8., when hi.
Royal H,gh,.ess was Prince of Wales, was one of his
constant companions, and they were as familiAr, it woul,,
appear, as if they were equal in rank and fortune. One
day, while the Prince was expatiating on the excellence
of his snuff, with his box op-n, the hapless B. familiarly
took a pinch ; on which the Prince flung the snuff in the
fire, giving the off-•nder a look, which was easily under-
stood to be " a notice to quit." The day after, while et
dinner with his Royal Highness, one of the company,
who missed 8., who was not present, asked GEORGE
HANGER what had become of him ; to which the latter
answered—" Poor B. was Ohm at a pinch, which
offended the Prince, who bowed him out of the drawing_
room."

Mr. CHALMERS, who was convicted of forgery
at the Sessions of May last, at the Old Bailey, has received
his MAJESTY'S gracious pardon. The cow was reserved
by the Court over several Sessions, for the opinions of the
Judges on ♦arious points of law, which were ultimate!)
decided against hint, and be was at length sentenced to
be transported for life. Sentence having been passed, the
ease became fit to be reviewed by the Secretary of State
on the merits, and the result of the investigat.on is, that
Mr. CHALMERS has received a pardon under the Great
Seal, diseha ging him from all the ccnseqttences of the
verdict, and restoring him to the enjoyment of all his
civil rights and privileges, the same as if the conviction
bad not taken place.
PART 11., OF THE GALLERY OF COMI-
CAUTIRS.—Seventy-eight Comic Wood Engravings for
Three-pence only, which have appeared from time to time
during the past 18 months in that popular sporting weekly
newspaper, Bell's Life in London.—Just published,
Part II , price 3d. 78 Comic Prints, illustrated by prose
or poetry, taken from Bell's Life in London, comprising
37 Portraits after the manner of LAVATER, and 42 miscel-
laneous political, quizzical, and humorous. The 78 prints
cost engraving alone 400 guineas, and can now be had on
oue fo io newspaper sheet for 3d.—Published by G.
GOODGER, 169, Strand, London; and sold by all book-
sellers, stationers, and newspaper dealers. Of whom miy
be had a new edition of Part the First of the Gallery of
130 Comicalities, of which 128,000 have been sold. The
trade are supplied at 2s. fur 12, and copies of Part I. and
Part 11. will be taken back at the office of Bell's Life in
London, 169, Strand, at the cost price, any time before
the 94th December, 1833. Placards for shop windows.

Some alarm has been produced among the
moneyed interest by its being stated, with much seeming
confidence, that an arrangement has been entered into
b tween Ministers and the Bank of England, by which a
new charter of the short duration of five years only is to
be given to the latter, with only one material deviation
from that at present in existence, to the effect that 200,0001.
per annum is to be deducted from the charge made for the
management of the public debt. Assuming this to be true,
(which, by the way, is, however, quite at variance with
tne sagacity usually evinced in the city), the current re-
mark on it has been, that it would be to the capitalists
and other traders in money worse than no change at all,
since, by leaving the Bank possessed of all its other pri-
vileges, those would infallibly be applied to screw out of
the community at large, to their infinite injury, that sum
which was remitted to tie Government in order not to
leave the proprietors of Batik Stork with a smaller di-
vidend than before. But the statement cannot be worthy
of the slightest credit, and our city friends are, we think,
highly censurable for the supposition, after what they have
seen of the independent conduct of Ministers in regard to
this subject, that any arrangement whatever can be sanc-
tioned by them until it has came fairly under the con-
sideration of Parliament.— Times.

On Thursday afternoon an accident, which
nearly proved fatal, happened to a young man in the
church yard of Charlton, Kent. The body of a young
lady was brought from Blackheath to be buried; the ser-
vice being concluded, the c, ffin was lowered into the grave
12 feet deep), but the ropes got entangled, and the young
iudn, who was one of the bearers, was lowered down the
grave to lift the coffin arid draw out the rope ; he had
scarcely reached the bottom when one aide of the grave
fell in upon him, and it wa• one hour and a half before be.
could be extricated, and, strange to relate, he did not re-
ceive the slightest injury. Had be remained but two
minutes later be would in all probability have lost his
life, for, immediately upon his being released, the whole of
thegrave fell in.

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1833.

The Paris Papers of Thursday, and the
ifessager des Chambres, dated yesterday, have
been received by Express. They are principally
filled with comments on the result of the suc-
cess that the troops of the Pacha of EGYPT
have had over those of the GRAND SULTAN,
and the interference of the ambitious Autocrat
of RUSSIA.

A Cabinet Council was held on Thursday, at
which all the Ministers were present, with the
exception of Marshal SouLT, the President,
who is still much indisposed. Very great ac-
tivity prevails in ►he corps diplotnatique. The
aff.tirs of Belgium, and more especially' those of
'Turkey, are the great subject of their delibera-
tions. An Envoy Extraordinary has been de-

spatched to Constantinople, and a squadron from
Toulon is ordered to sail immediat ly for the
Bosphorus. The intrigues of Russia with the
Sublime Porte create a great iinxiety among
the merchants; this has induced Ministers to
send a force to the East, for the protection of
French subjects.

Accounts have been received from Constanti-
nople up to the 3d instant, which state that
MAHNfOUD and the PACHA were about to
enter into negotiations.
It was rumoured late on Thursday, that
the Duchess of BERRY was not expected to
recover from the violent inflammation she has
been attacked with, since her confinement in
the Chateau de Blaye. The best medical advice
had been given her, and everything been
done to render her as comfortable as her painful
situation will permit.
The approaching marriage of the Duke of
ORLEANS with an Austrian Princess, is the
subject of much conversation in the Paris sa-
loons, as that young and amiable Prince has,
for some time past, evinced a sincere attach-
ment to the daughter of a Peer and Marshal of
France.

The news from Madrid is up to the 16th.
The mission of Sir S. CANNING is considered
as a complete failure. FERDINAND Was for
supporting Don MIGUEL ; the QUEEN, who is
a liberal•minded woman, and much beloved by
the nation and the troops, was for remaining
neutral in the contest between the two brothers
of the House of Braganza, and leaving the
matter to the Cabinets of St. James and the
Tuileries: The capital was pretty tranquil, not-
withstanding all the endeavours of the partisans
of the infuriated Don CARLOS to create a dis-
turbance.

A change in the French Ministry is fully
expected to take place shortly. Paris continues
tranquil. The non-arrival of their Belgian
MAJESTIES at the Palais Royal, was agreat dis•
appointment to the Parisians. The reason give►
is, that her Majesty the Queen of the BELGIANS,
in her present interesting state, could not support
the fatigues of the journey.

It is stated in the diplomatic circles, that
among the proposals made by the King of
HOLLAND to this Government, through our
Charge d'Affaires at the Hague, are two, which
Lord PALMERSTON wishes to accept, but
which the French Cabinet cannot, it is said,
honourably listen to.

We understand that the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER feels much annoyed at the
various speculations which are afloat, and some
of which are declared to have been founded upon
communications from himself, respecting the
Taxes on Knowledge. Up to a late hour this
afternoon, it was asserted in the department of
which his Lordship is the Chief, that he has
not authorized any statement on the subject, ex-
cept the contradiction of a pretended interview
(which appeared in a Sunday Paper), and that
he cannot determine as to the extent to which he
will carry the reduction of the Taxes on Know-
ledge, until he knows what the temper of the
House of Commons will be as to the Assessed
Taxes. It is to be regretted, we think, that the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has not
openly stated his views on these important sub-
jects. The official reserve in which he has
wrapped himself is calculated to do harm rather
than good, inasmuch as it affords ground for
speculation.

It is an auspicious sign of the times when a
clergyman commences a pamphlet on Church
Reform by falling into transports of ecstasy at
the idea of the venerable establishment being
subjected to a thorough purification. Still more
auspicious is it, when in his second page he
talks in good set terms about " the plenitude of
human weakness," which those must necessarily
possess who set themselves in array against such
purification. When Mother Church thus con-
fesses her own imperfections, be sure the case
is urgent, and that the good lady, really ima-
gining herself in extremis, is willing to make
" a clean breast of it," before her dissolution,
or at any rate her purification (which, with some
of our bloated pluralists is pretty nearly as bad),
takes place.
Two pamphlets on the subject of Church
Reform, one entitled "An Address to the
Clergy, by the Rev. W. Pullen ;" and the other
" An Historical Argument on Tithes, by the
Rev. G. Glover," are now lying before us. Both
are temperately and guardedly written, especially
the former, which has none of the odium theologi-
cum—themost envenomed of all hatreds--about it,
but meets the great question in a frank and manly
spirit. Our only surprise, on peruSing this and
similar pamphlets is, that the Rev. Authors who
display such evident sagacity, have never till now
discovered that the Church stood in need of
Reform ; or that, if they have, they never up-
lifted their voices in favour of its regeneration. It
is strange—passing strange—that after having
lived so long in the Temple, they never found
out till yesterday that the walls and floors were
giving way, that the beams and rafters had got
the dry rot, and that, unless they quickly shored
it up, the whole consecrated pile would infallibly
tumble about their ears. Perhaps, however, from
long acquaintance they had become so familiar
with the fabric, that its very blemishes were re-
garded as beauties, as Don Quixote thought
his Rozinante the most lovely of steeds, and
his Dulcinea the most faultless of women.
But whatever be the cause of the Church's
long silence on the subject of its imperfections
—and we will not further speculate on an un-
gracious topic—certain it is that the good old
lady is now making up for lost time. At the
age of eighty she has cut her wisdom teeth.
She now sees that her life hitherto has not
been the most blameless possible ; and that
if she would desire longer existence, she must
" reform it altogether." What says Mr. POL-
LEN on the most important points of Church
purification ?

" The extreme poverty of many of our parochial clergy
might, of itself, form an adequate motive for improve-

went in this matter, had we not a higher one ; and doubt-
less, could the abject condition of some of them be publicly
known, the exp,•sure would fall, with an affecting force,
on the sympathies of society. Many a scene of penury and
suffering might be extracted from the private history
of poor incumbents and curates, that would compel
tears of commiseration from the sons and dauehters of
affluence, who had been early taught to look up with reve-
rence and love to those who instructed them in the way to
Heaven. but whose only idea of a pastor's income had been
derived from an occasional association with a wealthy Plu-
ralist, who, while his coffers were filling with the
produce of a sinecure, was wont to supply his well
stocked board from the labours of a far off and miserably
paid curare, content to be fed with the crumbs that fell
from the rich man's table.

This is an affecting passage, and not more
affecting than true. Yet who, even among the
most temperate, can draw any other inference
from it than that, up to the present date, the
Church establishment is tainted from head to
foot with the leprosy of corruption ; that it is a
living libel on Christianity, whose main tenets it
advocates in theory, but in practice repudiates ?
For in what portion of the Sermon on the
Mo unt, or the parables of our Saviour, in
what Epistle of St. Paul, or Exhortation of
St. Peter, is it recommended that the lowly
apostle who does all the duty, should exist—
if existence it can be called—in such a condition
as (in the words of Mr. PULLEN) " to compel
tears of commiseration from the sons and
daughters of affluence," while the lordly Plu-
ralist, the clerical drone, who does nothing but
" eat, drink, and be merry," should exhibit him-
self, clothed in purple and fine linen, among the
idlest and most showy sons of fashion, at Vanity
Fair ? Christianity says—or sadly have we mis-
interpreted its divine doctrines—" He that hum-
bleth himself shall be exalted, while he that
exalteth himself shall be humbled." But the Esta-
blished Church reads the lesson the other way.
Humility knows no exaltation, except the old
apostolic one of rags and wretchedness, while
pride secures perhaps the rich see of Durham,
and sees the spires of Canterbury glittering be-

fore it in imagination.
It is the object of Reform to restore, like a
good commentator, the corrupted text of Chris-
tianity ; more particularly to interpret the above
passage, in its fitting spirit ; to exalt generous,
though humble worth, and depress in an equal
ratio, pride, ignorance, and their twin-brother,
bigotry. But on this subject let us again have
recourse to Mr. Pullen :
" By none (says this gentleman) can Reform be more sally
taken up, by none inure fairly and spiritually considered than
by those able dignitaries, whom Christ, by his Holy Spirit,
has delegated to be the stewards of his kingdom en earth ;
those, whom he has placed in elevated posts for the
sole and particular purpose of spreading his heavenly light
over a benighted world, watching over the temporal and
eternal interests of his Church, and (knowing that all eyes
will he fixed on them, both for instruction and example)
imitating, in humble distance truly, but still imitating, the
divine graces of that immaculate and holy Master, whose
meat anal drink it was to do his F ather's will, and who
did it, though the Son of God, in humility, charity, and
self denial."

We beg leave to enter our decided veto
against the spirit and tendency of this passage.
The partisan speaks throughout it. The cloven
foot peeps out in every sentence. To entrust
clerical reform to the Bishops, is like entrusting
political reform to the Ultras. It is sure to be
strangled in its infancy. The Rev. Bench
has too much at stake to be able to set about its
task in a fitting spirit. It will hesitate, and
temporise, and look this way and look that way ;
in fact, look every way but the right. No, no.
Reform, to be effectual, must be taken up by
those who can afford to view it impartially.
The polluted hand of prejudice must be kept
off the sacred ark. 'Therefore is it that we look,
and the country looks, to Government alone for
the means of perfecting a thorough clerical puri-
fication.

The following are extracts from German
Papers :

MUNICH, JAN. M.—French journals, and even Ger-
man journals copying, have given accounts respecting the
Greek loan, which betray entire ignorance of notorious
facts. It is sufficient to refer to the official statement
already published, that the loan for forty millions has
been contracted with the horse of Arguado, hanker, at
Paris, under the guarantee of England and Russia ; and
that only the guarantee of France for the remaining twenty
millions, depends on the approbation of the Chambers.

We learn 'corn Naples that his Majesty King Otho, and
his Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Bavaria, arrived
there on the 3.1 of J inuary.
On the 14th, the corps of the trove enlisted for the
Greek service took the oath of allegiance on the sword
of the commander, and at nine in the morning on the 15th
it set out on its march for Trieste.* The Greek squa-
dron of Hulans formed the van ; the infantry, consisting
of two companies of grenadiers, the centre ; and the artil-
lery the rear.
A regular post between Bavaria and Greece will be esta-
blished by means of an English steam-boat. The letters
may be sent every three weeks (tiy way of Trieste and
Ancona alternately) horn Napoli to Bavaria, and riceversa.
The convoy with Bavarian troops, that sailed from Pe-
sana on the sth instant, consists of 35 transports, 23 un-
der Austrian, and 12 under Greek colours ; only three
were still remaining on the Bth in the harbour of Trieste.
They are under convoy of the Madagascar English frigate,
Captain Lyons, the Cornelie French frigate, and
the Russian frigate Anna, Captain Selinarvoff. The
commander, General Von nettling, is on board the latter.
The Madagascar has steered direct to Brindisi, to take
on board his Majesty King Otho and the Greek Regency.
—Nuremburg Correspondent, Jan. 18.
BERLIN, JAN. 10.—Toe retiring of the French army
from Belgium, is a new pledee for the continuance of
peace ; and it &es honour to the French Ministry, that
its promise has been so quickly fulfilled. It cannot, how-
ever, be dissembled, that the ease with which the French
undertake foreign expeditions affords ground fur uneasi-
ness, and may one day lead to unpleasant consequences.
All Europe is intere-ted in seeing this state of things
changed. So long as the French Government is able to
restrain the revolutionary movements in the interior, and
to prevent the principles on which the present system of
Government rests from exerting a dangerous influence
abroad, so long will the possibility remain of pacific and
even friendly relations between France and other Powers.
M. 13ressau, hitherto French Charge d'Affaires, who is
now appointed ambassador at this Court, is much re-
spected both in his official and private character. The
situation of French Ministers at Foreign Courts, is cer-
tainly surrounded with many difficulties, both from the
fluctuating and change of the Ministers in France, who
have to manage the power of the Coambers, and from the
circumstance that it is not easy, in foreign countries, to
evade, or to throw into the back ground, so important a
principle as that of legitimacy, which has been univer-
sally recognised in Europe for these eighteen year.. It is
even said that some words, dropped on this subject, lately
occasioned a difference between persona belonging to the
French, and to another foreign legation, but which have
not led to anything further.
The Belgian ambassador, General Mem, lives very
retired, especially since the events of Antwerp.—Allge-
meine Zeitung, Jan. 18.
a The troops already embarked at Trieste were selected from
the regular army. Those spoken of are volunteers.

Died, i►► Devizes, v,idow CROOK, aged 103
years, fur several yenrs inm.te of the poor-house of St.
Mary, in the invariable enjoyment, until within a very
few weeks, of ti.e toot robust ►.ealtb, and in pos•essio❑ of
all her faculties. About a year or two ago her eyesight,
as might naturally have been expected, became dim ; but
this was a sad puzzler to the widow CRoox.•-she could
not tell how to account for it.