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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER R, 1834.

MARRIAGE OF THE QUEEN OF PORTUGAL

The Chronicle has published a second edition,
announcing the marriage of Donna MARIA, Queen of
PORTUGAL, to the Duke de LEUCIITENBERG, which
was publicly celebrated at Lisbon on the Ist instant.
The Cm/fiance steamer, which conveyed the intelligence
to Falmouth, sailed from Lisbon on the 2d. This
happy event was universally celebrated throughout
Portugal. The people adore the QUEEN.
The discussion of the Budget continued, and upon
every division a majority appeared in favour of the
Ministry.

The country was quiet, and progressing in im

provement.

Up to the hour of our going to press, no accounts
have been received of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S arrival at
Paris, up to Saturday evening. Even if he had ar-
rived there during the night, it is not likely he would
have crossed the Channel before this morning.

Extract of a letter from Dover, dated December 7.

" Sir ROBERT PEEL had not reached Paris yesterday
at noon, but was expected to be there as this evening,
in which case he will be at Dover on Tuesday. This
may be depended on."

Lord BROUGHAM has addressed a letter to Mr.
BULWER, in which, alluding to the calumnious
charges that, for purposes which there is no mis•
taking, have been heaped up against him, he says,
" My whole life has been devoted to introducing
changes of a useful and practical nature, and never at
all of a timid or paltry extent, into our establishments
and our laws ; and when I rely on the good sense and
justice of my countrymen, and on their capacity to
judge for themselves, and not allow their confidence in
me, bestowed upon a uniform experience of above a
quarter of a century, to be shaken by a few para-
graphs in newspapers, I know that I do not in-
dulge a vain hope, that I shall continue to enjoy
what has always been to me the chief reward of
my exertions, next to the approval of my own
mind." This manly appeal to the common sense
of the people will not, we are sure, be met by them
otherwise than by an approving answer. There is no
man of the present age, and not many of the past, who
have conferred on their country greater benefits than
Lord BROUGHAM has conferred on England. When
Reform was a bye-word for all that was absurd in
theory, and hopeless in practice, Lord BROUGHAM
was its staunch supporter. When education was con-
fined to the few, and it was considered all but impossi-
ble to extend it advantageously to the many, Lord

BROUGHAM took up the question, and carried it to
a triumphant issu-. Besides, let it never be forgotten
that since he avowel him:elf the champion of the
education of the poor, a who'e generation has sprung
up, instructed by the mea::s which he placed within
their reach, and this generation it is, that has carried
the Reform Bill. Lord BROUGHAM in the senate
has achieved .quite as many wonders as the Duke of
WELLINGTON has achieved ix 'the field; but the
latter, be it remembered, had always the influence of
Government in his favour; whereas the other had
always to contend against its whole consolidated power.
These things ought not to be forgotten—certainly not
at the present day, when we are now reaping the har-
vest of that constitutional liberty, the seeds of which
Lord BROUGHAM mainly assisted to plant. To those
who may feel inclined to complain of the tardy Reform
proceedings of the late Government, we beg, in common
justice, that they will read and attentively weigh the
following remarks. They account for many blunders
which were laid exclusively at the door of the MEL-
BOURNE (or rather the GREY) Administration :
" Subsequent events may perhaps have taught those who
complained of our scanty doings in reform, that our position
was not without its difficulties. But this I will assert, that
had we met the Parliament, in office, no wan would have said
the vacation had been passed without abundant attempts to
prepare measures of public usefulness—lN A WORD, IMPORTANT
REFORMS—and I will add, that if any man shall suppose I was
behind ANY ONE of my colleagues in the zealous and active
support, and in the assiduous preparation of them—that man,
be he who he may, will fall into the greatest mistake ever man
committed."

Lord BROUGHAM proceeds to askin a manly and
energetic spirit, becoming one whose worthiest actions
have been studiously misrepresented, what right any
one has to suspect his motives. What, indeed ? His
deeds are before the world, and speak for themselves
to all who are not blinded by the most besotted preju-
dice. During the whole of the past year, when Lord
BROUGHAM has been constantly the subject of the
foulest calumnies, we actually do not romember one.
single charge that when closely examined, could
maintain its ground. His slanderers always shrunk
from argument, and when beaten, one by one, from
all their positions, they at last concentrated all their
calumnies against Lord BROUGHAM in this one
vague assertion—that he was a " mountebank." And
wherefore ? Because, being the leading Member of
the aristocracy, he refused to forget that the people
had claims on his respect and gratitude !
We wish to Heaven, we had a few more such
" Mountebanks" in the House of Lords ! But
" Mountebank" or not, a reaction we are, glad to see,
is every where taking place in Lord BROUGHAM'S
favour, for the people now begin to find out that his
chief and most rancorous opponent (a certain Morning
Cotemporary) is utterly unworthy of confidence from
the shameless tergiversation that it has lately exhi-
bited. We quote the closing remarks in Lord
BROUGHAM'S letter :

" In conclusion, let me ask. what right any one has to sus-
pect my motives, when I happen to differ with him ? My
life, excepting four years, was a continued sacrifice of interest
to my principles as a Reformer and friend of liberty ; and even
in taking office four years ago, I made a sacrifice both of feel-
ing and of interests which some alive, and some, alas I no more,
well know the cost of. But all the time I was in opposition, did
I eve,. show the least slackness to do my duty in the cause of
free opinion, and of opposition to the Court? What abuse did
I ever spare? What bad measure did I ever leave alone? What
Minister did I ever suffer to rest while the country was to be
served by opposing him? With whom did I ever compromise, or
treat, or do otherwise than absolutely refuse all parley SURELY,
EVEN WHERE REFORMERS DIFFER, THESE ARE FACTS WHICH,
AS THEY GIVE THE LAST PLEDGE OF SINCERITY ON Tilt! ONE
PART, OUGHT TO RECEIVE THE MOST FAVOURABLE CONSTRUC-
TION AS TO MOTIVE FROM THE OTHER."

The Morning Herald of this day hails the return-
ing ascendancy of good sense and reflection among
the mass of the people over that party influence
which substitutes professions for principles—words
for deeds, and makes political nicknarf,ies, po_
tent to deceive those who shotilel
only
to the actions of the
This is what we balm
always said. Let the people
of Eiviand '
ti.
Pers".:s who ass'lu°n°ll:
. 0 - Look to the principles of the Tories, not
their professions—to their deeds, not to their
words. If they do this, they can want no other ar-
gument to convince them that the Tories ever have
been, and ever will be, their bitterest enemies.

The long foreseen struggle between the Doctrinaires
and the Tiers Parti, or more properly between the
Citizen King and the French Nation, was commenced
in the Chamber of Deputies on Friday, the sth inst.,
and seemed little more than well begun at four o'clock
on Saturday evening. The previous success of the
Royal Juggler communicated a gladiatorial ambition
to the puppets of his power, and on the opening
of the
Chambers, they commenced their new Ministerial career
by hurling defiance in the teeth of every Deputy who
dared to impugn any act of the TIIIERS Administra-
tion. The Opposition at first took no notice of this
burst of Bobadilism ; few men are able to bear up
against a constant run of prosperity, and it was cha-
ritably presumed that the suddenness of the recal to
power had had the usual effect of excessive excitement on
the nerves of M. TRIERS and his rr Colleau es. The silence
o
of the opposition emboldened the Ministers to carry
all before them with a high hand. They.
imputed
the forbearance of the opposition to cowardice, and
with a meanness peculiar to little minds, taunted them
with their previous protests against the policy of the
government. This was too much for the patience of
M. DUPIN and his party. The Ministerial challenge
was accepted, and the conflict commenced on Friday.
The speech of ..11. TIIIERS on opening the debate,
and the speech of M. DUPIN in answer to it, explain
at once the system pursued, and intended to be pur-
sued, by the French KING in the name of his Go-
vernment. The true believers are now able to bear
the sight of the bright brow of the Prophet, and M.
Tit I Ells at last raises the veil, and calls upon the
people to prostrate themselves. The Minister
made no secret of the system which lie was in-
structed to pursue. " Our motto is resistance,
an open decisive resistance," he vociferated ; and, as
a qualification for office, he vauntingly demanded of
his opponents, " Will you resist all parties—your
country itself, if necessary "r" concluding that if so, him-
self and his colleagues were ready to give way to, and
support them with, all their influence. The speech of
M. DUPIN contained one statement equally momentous.
He declared that his refusal to accept the Presidency
of the Council arose from the King's acting as the,
bona fide President, leaving but tile nominal title to
the Minister of that Department. This statement had
been merely assumed before, and was believed by many.
of the Deputies to be greatly exaggerated. The ex-
citement which prevailed in the Chamber, when M.
DUPIN confirmed its truth, may, therefore, be left to
the imagination of our readers. The shock was dread-
ful, for the declaration unmasked the King, and he
;stood forth a tyrant—an intriguing despot—in the Fre-
scnee of his people I It will be well for Lot us
PIIILIPPE if he does not sacrifice his Crown to ,Ilte
Presidency of the Council. :His position at the pre-
,
sent moment is one of fearful Ferii. He has eo9-

strained the tools of his mad ambition to bring him into
open and hostile collision with the people of France—
he dares„ not only to defy them, but to trample and ex-
pectorate upon them, for not seizing the gauntlet which
he has flung down. " Resistance "is now the avowed
motto of the Government. The King spurns the
Charte# of 1815 and 1830, and tells the people, as
plainly as did the last King of Israel and Judah the
assembled tribes, " My little finger shall be thicker than
my father's loins. They chastised you with whips,
but I shall torment you with scorpions." This de-
&oration, which overthrew the throne of the King of
ISRAEL, may yet procure a sentence of national banish-
ment for the least worthy branch of the Bourbon family.
The French nation will not long submit to despotism
in any shape, but least of all to Royal despotism.
The conflict has now commenced ; the struggle is one
of principle, and we have no fears as to the result.
The King of the FRENCH threatens his people with
open resistance to their every demand for reforming
the institutions, and extending the franchise of
the country ; and already is he as absolute as
the Sublime Porte in the midst of his Divan. His Minis-
ters are the mere playthings of his caprice, and only re-
tained at all because the popular resentment may rise too
high to be appeased without some sacrifice. Louis
PHILIPPE was always a tyrant, but his weakness and
his fears obliged him to veil his evil form, under an
affected obedience to the popular will, and so
he juggled the multitude ; but he now begins
to feel his strength, and accordingly flings aside
the hypocritical disguise under which he contrived
to practise his past delusions. Well may the
people of France—well may the liberal Governments
of Europe—gaze with wondering astonishment at the
phantom patriot in the person of the Citigen King.
Well may the philosopher smile when Premiers boast
of unfurling banners whose mottog are " Resistance
to the people !" The people laugh to scorn such
puny attempts to rob them of their birthright.
Resistance indeed I Why, M. TRIERS or the
Duke of WELLINGTON might as well talk of
chartering the winds, and repelling the waves,
as of resisting the omnipotent will of the people of
France and England. We see clearly that the struggle
which is now begun in France, is but anterior, by a
few days,, to one equally fierce in England. If the
French Ministry obtain a temporary triumph, Eng-
land may gird up her loins for the Tory warfare. We
hope to be favoured with the result of the debate early
to-morrow.

PARIS, DEC. s.—The-order of the day called for by the
Ministry is already agreed to. It is drawn up in the following
terms :—The Chamber, satisfied with the explanation of the
policy of the Ministry, passes to the order of the day."
The resolution, in these tern as, will be presented to-morrow,
by some of the devoted friends of the Doctrine. Some mem-
ber, less ardent in his ministerialism, will then come forward
and propose to suppress the words of the Poncy.
It is hoped that the order of the thy. having no longer such
a decided signification, will be less repugnant to the reserve
which the new deputies think to maintain, and that it will pass
in those terms. We think it our duty to point out this
manoeuvre.

It is said that this order of the day will be met by alliithet,
conceived in the following terms :—" The Chamber referring
to its address, passes to the order of the day. "_Journal duCommerce.

M. de Talleyrand arrived at Paris yesterday morning. Soon
afterwards one of the King's aid-de-camps went to frtqttert
him to go to the Tuillerics. The Prince went there about
three o'clock, and did not leave till near six. We hear that
during the whole time he remained closetted with the King, and
that every ten minutes information was brought to the Palace
of the progress of the debate in the Chamber of DepOties.
Th,e Duke of Orleans, on his return from the sitting) tOt thd
old Statesman on the stairs, and could let blv.t: know the
result of the first. day of the Parliamentary struggle. Messrs.
Persil and Thiers then arrived ; and during the whole evening
there was a great concourse of carri3Ees, ;a the court-yard of
the Palace.-21Iessw
Dec. 6.

The AttArsbutg Gazette contains the following article
which is rather ominous at the present juncture. We

have no space for comment :

" PIcUSSIA, Nov. 24.—We cannot as yet judge of the in •
fluence which the changes In the French and English Minis-
tries will have on Europe, but it may be considered as pro-
bable that a formal change in all the relations will be the re-
sult. The frequent exchange of couriers which has lately
taken place is a proof of the opinion of our Government of the
importance of the events at Paris and London. The most
complete understanding with the allied Courts, which act on
one principle, appears to be more necessary than ever, for
matters are nearly come to the point at which either the mo-
narchical or the republican principle must prevail, while the
other loses its influence.

" With the Tories and the Doctrinaires the monarchy seems
to strike new and vigorous roots, but should the former not be
able to maintain their ground at the head of affairs for some
time at least it might be difficult to raise a dam against the tor-
rent of revolution. This is doubtless felt to be the case, and
care will be provided against any unforeseen event. The pre-
sence .)f the Emperor of Russia in Berlin may be important, and
facilitate the negotiations. People begin again to do justice
to the judgment of Louis Philippe, as he has recalled the old
Ministers; but the late confusion in the Cabinet of Paris
is still too recent, and has given rise to too much mistrust in
the stability of affairs in France to prevent the conviction that,
notwithstanding all the ability which the King must be allowed
to possess, this is not always sufficient. The dissolution of the
Melbourne Administration must prove a new source of embar-
rassment to Louis Philippe, unless regard be paid to the diffi-
culty of his position, and an impulse be given him from Eng-
land, which, to judge from his personal feelings, cannot fail to
be agreeable to him, Ns which may be violently opposed by
the elements with which he is surrounded ; for with a Tory
Administration another era commences in England, which can-
not promise Vl° continuance of the existing connection with
France, except on the condition that Republicanism shall be
vigorously checked. Of this we are fully sensible here, and
should a Tory Ministry be solidly established in England,
endeavours will certainly be made that it may seek to carry its
principles into effect with regard to foreign countries, not
abruptly or positively, but with reserved prudence."
VIENNA, Nov. 26.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 99k ;
Four pr Cents., 90 ; Bank Shares, 1,264.
AMSTERDAM, DEC. 5.—A great deal of business was done
yesterday in the Two-and-a-Half per Cents. The higher
London prices of Monday, and large purchases for English
account, brought the price to 53 3-16. They fell again to 53
in consequence of extensive sales. The Five per Cents.
were at 991. To-day there was not so much business done as
yesterday, but there were many time bargains. The Actual
Debt Two-and-a- Half per Cent. for ready money was at
53 1-16.

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DUTCH FUNDS-AMSTERDAM, DEC. 5.
Actual Debt, 2.4 per Cent..... 5O N to 5114
Amon Syndic, 4Y4 per cent 91% to 9134
Ditto, ditto. 3!,i per cent 74 yi• to 7411
Loan (KV) 5 per cent.
Ditto (1832 and .833) 5 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month l2 15
Two months
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bausabas, Dee. 5.
Actual Debt, 2 % per Cent. 5l q
Rothschild's Loan, 6 per Cent B7 14
Loan of the City, 1839, 4 per Cent gg %
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BERLIN, Nov. 28.—The Leipsig Gazette has the following
communication. It is reportect that our King and the Emperor,
who has just left us, have arranged a meeting for next Spring.
Russian and Prussian troops are to be assembled together near
Kalish for a grand review, under the eye of the Sovereign.
The Emperor of Russia possesses in a high degree the affec-
tion of our army. He did not omit any opportunity of ex-
pressing his admiration of the ability of the officers who could
form into good soldiers in so short a time. The fine state of
our army has confirmed the Emperor in the resolution he has
long entertained of remedying the abuses in the Russian
army.—Frankfort Paper, Dec. 4.
An Austrian Cabinet Messenger passed through Brussels
yesterday at noon ; he came from Vienna, and was the bearer
of dispatches for the Austrian Charge d'Affaires in the city,
and also for London.

THE FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICES.