The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-17 00:00:00

AFFAIRS OF GERMANY.

The Frankfort paper, entitled the Ober Postamts
Zeitung, of the 10th inst. contains an official proto-
col of measures adopted by the Diet of the Confede
racy, the chief object of which seems to be to ren-
der the representative bodies of the several States
useless, by relieving the respective princes from the
embarrassments which the efficient control of such
assemblies is calculated to create to arbitrary Go-
vernment.:, and to protect Austria and Prussia against
the dangerous example of the beneficial operation of
popular institutions. This extraordinary document,
intended to crush the spirit of freedom in Germany,
is entitled " Public Protocol of the 22d Sitting of
the Diet of the German Confederacy, holden on the
28th of June 1832." It commences with a list of
all the Ministers present, from the Austrian, who
is the President of the diet, to the Envoys of the
Hulse Towns; and then follow "the measures for
maintaining legal order and tranquillity within the
German Confederacy." We have not room for the
details, which are prolix and lengthened by repeti-
tions, but we shall extract all the essential parts,
and give as complete an abstract of the whole as
our limits will permit.
The President, after stating in an address to the
Diet that the present situation of affairs in Germany
had attracted the attention of the Emperor of
Austria, proceeded thus : _ _

" The fermentation in several countries of Germany
having reached to such a height, that it ❑ot only menaces
the internal tranquillity and the safety of the different
States, but even the existence of the whole confederation,
the permanent contact of the German States, the immense
number of journals and revolutionary pamphlets which in-
undate the country, the abuse of speaking even in the
Chambers of the States, the daily progress of a system of
propagandism which at first prudently held itself in re•
serve, but which now does not blush to appear in open
day, and the ineffectual attempts of each particular Go-
vernment to repress these disorders, have impressed on his
Imperial M ajesty the painful conviction that the revolu-
tion of Germany is advancing at a rapid pace to maturity,
and that it will unavoidably burst forth if longer tolerated
by the confederation.

" The Minister then informed the Diet that the Em-
peror had entered into negotiations with his august ally
the King of Prussia, to consider in common the state of
Germany, and subsequently, together with the King, to
discuss with the other German Governments the measures
which the present state of things imperatively demands.
" In consequence of various conferences with all the
members of the Confederation, the object of which was the
desire to maintain that which exists legally and in accord-
ance with the law of nations, and to fulfil the duties im-
posed on them to watch over the welfare of the people
confided to them, the Ministers of Austria and Prussia are
commissioned to make to the Diet the following °vet ture."
The overture addressed to the Diet on the part of
Austria and Prussia, is a long exposition of the
views indicated in the President's address. The
conduct of the Chambers of the different States is
condemned, both as their proceedings respect their
own Princes and the Confederacy. The tendency
which has been given to these institutions is stated
to be most deplorable. From what is stated on
the subject of the press, we extract the following
passage :
" With regard to the unexampled abuses of the periodi-
cal political press, the Diet, convinced that it is its duty
to employ all the power and means afforded by the federal
constitution, for the maintenance of the internal tranqui -
lity of the Confederation, has already, by its decision of the
10th of May of the present year (§ 154), drawn the
attention of the Governments to the dangers which
threaten the federal bodies, if the Governments do not
fully execute the decisions of the Confederations in the
affairs of the press. Moreover, the Diet appointed, on the
17th of April, a committee (selected from its own body)
to take into immediate consideration the project contained
in Art. 18 of the federal act, relating to uniform arrange-
ments on the subject of the press; and from the intelligent
zeal of that committee. it may be expected that its task
will ba executed in such a way, that without checking the
activity of useful and estimable writers, and without seek-
ing to impede the natural advancement of human know-
ledge, it will restrain within due bounds the intolerable
licence of an insolent press, labouring to shake and over-
throw all existing institutions, and to defame all that is
most august and sacred.
" The Courts of Austria and Prussia not only conceive
themselves obliged once more to declare their conviction,
that until the period when all the Governments shall con-
cur for that purpose in a constitutional decision, the pro-
visional law of the 20th of September, 1819, continues to
be obligatory for all the Confederation, and that, for the
interest of public tranquillity, its decisions must be con-
scientiously maintained by all the Governments, and by
the Confederation; but they also conceive it to be their
duty to contribute with all their power, and in concert
with their Confederates (to whose conformity of senti-
ments they attach so much importance, that they believe
that they may confidently rely upon them in anticipation),
to enforce the execution of that law fully and without ex-
ception.

" If, after this, the Diet be enabled to maintain the
rights of the Confederation against the attacks of the
Chamber of the States, and against the abuse of the press
—if it employ these rights in a suitable way, and if its re-
solutions be executed with vigour and energy—if, in short,
the combined efforts of the Princes should succeed in
bringing under the deliberation of the Diet, arrangements
of general utility and interesting to all Germany, to which
the Courts of Austria and Prussia solemnly pledge them-
selves to contribute, by means of their legations at the
Diet—it may be hoped that the measures of the Confede-
ration (which will operate efficaciously for the general
good), and its authority, will be acknowledged and re-
spected, and that the public opinion, disavowing the
erroneous and sophistical doctrines by which it is now
misled, will return to the paths of truth, law, and good
order.

" But if this expectation should be disappointed ; if
Germany should be doomed not to see the revival of or-
der and internal tranquillity, and if the authority of the
resolutions adopted by the Diet by virtue of the federal
laws, fur the maintenance of those greatest of all blessings,
should incur the risk of being disavowed, then, their Ma-
j,Nities the Emperor of Austria and King of Prussia, in
their solicitude for the destiny of the States united in the
Confederation, which they do not separate from the care
they bestow on their own, justly appreciating the danger
of seeing the whole social system of Europe shaken by
anarchy, and faithfully fulfilling their duties to the Con-
federation, are firmly resolved to employ, at the invitation
of one or all of the Confederate States, every means at their
disposal for the maintenance and execution of the federal
constitution, its important objects, and the resolutions of
the Diet, to which they have served, and will serve, as
bases,—in short, to avert every attack upon the Confedera-
tion and its members, from whatever quarter it may be
directed, so that the punctual and exact execution of the
resolutions of the Diet may be secured, with that degree of
certainty which alone can guarantee the tranquillity of our
common country."
Next follows the formal accession to the propo-
sitions of Austria and Prussia by all the States, be-
ginning with Bavaria, including the King of Han-
over, and ending with the House Towns. Some
verbal amendments are suggested in the votes of
Bavaria and Electoral Hesse; but, in fact, the
measures are carried unanimously. The protocol
concludes thus :

,4 All tt.e Governments of the Confederation gratefully
acknowledging the attention (of which the Emperor of
Austria and the King of Prussia have given new proofs)
to the general welfare of Germany, Lave unanimously re-
solved as follows :

,‘ 1. Considering that by article 57 of the final act,
concluded at Vienna, all the powers of the State must re-
main united in the head of the State, and that the Sove-
reip, by the constitution of the States, can be limited
only in the exercise of certain rights by the co•operation
of the States, every German Sovereign, as member of the
Confederation, is not only authorised to reject the petitions
of the Estates which may be of a contrary tendency, but
his duty to reject them flows from the object of the Con-
federation itself.
gc 2. As, farther, according to the spirit of the said
57th article, and the consequences comprehended in the
58th article, the Estates cannot refuse to any German So-
vereign the means necessary to conduct the Government
in a manner conformable to his obligations as a member of
the Confederation, and those which are imposed on him
by the Constitution of his c entry, therefore, ail cases in
which assemblies of States may attempt to make the grant-
ing of the taxes necessary for the G ivernment, depend not
directly or indirectly on the fulfilment of other objects or
wishes, must be reckoned among the cases to which Arti-
cles 25 and 26 of the act of Vienna are applicable.—
(Article 25.) The maintenance of internal tranquillity
and order in the Confederated States, belongs to the Go-
vernment alone. Nevertheless (and as an exception) for
the internal security of the whole Confederation, and in con-
sequence of the obligation of its members reciprocally to
assist each other, the co-operation of a lifor the rnaintt-

nance or restoration of tranquillity may take place, in
ea.e of resistance of the subjects to the Government, of
open insurrections or dangerous movements in several of
the Confederate States. Article 26. When in any Con-
federate State, by the resistance of the inhabitants to
the Government, internal tranquillity is directly threa-
tened, and a propagation of seditious movements to be
feared, or if an insurrection was actually broken out, and
the Government itself, after having tried all legal means,
claims the assistance of the Confederation, the latter is
bound immediately to offer its assistance towards the res-
toration of order. If, in the latter case, the Government
is notoriously unable to suppress the rebellion by its own
moans, and hindered from applying to the Confederation
for assistance by circumstances, the Confederation is then
bound, even though not applied to, to interfere for the re-
establishment of order. In no case, however, ca❑ the
measures in question be continued longer than the Go-
vernment to which assistance is given shall think it ne-
cessary.

"3. The internal legislation of the German Confede-
rate States must not be opposed to the object of the Con-
federation, as described in Article 2 of the Act of Confede-
ration, and article 1 of the penal act, nor impede the ful-
filment of the federal duties, particularly the levying of the
necessary supplies.

" 4. To secure the dignity and rights of the confedera-
tion, and of the Assembly representing it, against demands
of all kinds, and in order to facilitate in the several States
the maintenance of the constitutional relations between the
Government and these Assemblies of States, a Committee
shall be appointed by the Diet, expressly for this purpose,
to make itself constantly acquainted with the proceedings
of the Estates in the German Confederate States—to take
into consideration the proposals and resolutions, contrary
to the obligation, with respect to the Confederation, or
the rights of the Government guaranteed by the federal
compact, and to give notice of such to the Diet, which
will then, if it judges the matter deserving of attention,
consult with the Governments interested. The Commit-
tee shall be appointed for six years, at the end of which its
continuance shall be taken into consideration.

" 5. As by article 59 of the final act of Vienna, in
those countries where the publicity of the debates of the
Estates is guaranteed by the constitution, the free ex-
pression of opinion cannot be used either in the debates
themselves, or in the publication of them by the press, in a
manner calculated to endanger the tranquillity of the par-
ticular state, or of all Germany, and that provision must
be made for this in the regulation of the Chambers,—the
Government of the Confederation bind themselves severally
and collectively to each other, to adopt and carry into ef-
fect, as they have hitherto been bound to do by their fe-
deral relations, proper measures to prevent all attacks on
the Confederation in the Assemblies of the Estates, and to
repress such attacks, each according to the forms of its
own constitution.

" 6. As the Diet is already called by article 17 of the
penal code to maintain the true meaning of the Act of the
Confederation, and of the enactments contained in it, to
declare it in conformity to the object of the Confederation,
should any doubt arise respecting the interpretation of it,
it is evident that the German Confederation, alone and
exclusively, is authorized to interpret the Act of Confede-
ration and the penal Act, which right it exercises through
the Diet, its legal organ.
" With respect to the abuses of the periodical Press,
the Diet waits for the report of the Committee appointed
in its 14th sitting this year, for the introduction of uni-
form ordinances respecting the Press, that it may take a
final re,olution ; and it confidently expects, from the zeal
of the Committee, th it it will, as speedily as possible, com-
plete its labours in the spirit of the above representation."
[Here follaw the signatures.]

TREATY of COMMERCE and NAVIGATION
BETWEEN HIS MAJESTY and the FREE
CITY of FRANKFORT.

SIGNED AT LONDON, M 13, 1832.

Extensive commercial intercourse having, for a series of
years, been established between the dominions of his Bri•
tannic Majesty and the free city of Frankfort, it seems
good for the security, as well as for the encouragement, of
such commercial intercourse, and of the trade carried on
between Great Britain and Germany, and for the mainte-
nance of good understanding between his said Britannic
Majesty and the Senate of the said Republic, that the re-
lations now subsisting between them should be acknow-
ledged and confirmed by the signature of a treaty of com-
merce and navigation.
For this purpose they have named as their Plenipoten-
tiaries, viz.:—

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Henry John
Viscount Palmerston, Baron Temple, a Peer of Ireland,
a Member of his Britannic Majesty's Most Honourable
Privy Council, a Member of Parliament, and his Princi-
pal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ;--and the Right
Honourable George Lord Auckland, a Peer of the said
United Kingdom, a Member of his Britannic Majesty's
Most Honourable Privy Council, President of the Com-
mittee of Privy Council for Affairs of Trade and Foreign
Plantations, Master of the Royal Mint, and a Commis-
sioner of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich :
And the Senate of the free city of Frankfort, Edward
Louis Harnier, Esquire, Doctor of Civil Law, a Senator
of the said free city :
Who, after having communicated to each other their
respective full powers, and having found them to be in due
and proper form, have agreed upon and concluded the fol-
lowing articles :
Art. I.—There shall be between the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, and the free city of Frank-
fort and its territories, a reciprocal freedom of commerce-
The subjects and citizens of the two countries respec-
tively, shall have liberty freely and securely to come with
their ships and cargoes, or with goods borne by land, or
by inland navigation, to all such places, ports, and rivers,
in the respective territories aforesaid, to which other fo-
reigners are, or may be, permitted to come, and to enter
into the same, and to remain and reside in any port or
part of the said territories respectively, and to hire and
occupy houses and warehouses for the purposes of their
commerce, in such manner as is permitted to merchants
of the most favoured nations; and, generally, the mer-
chants and traders of each state shall, within the territo-
ries of the other, enjoy the most complete protection and
security for their commerce, subject always to the laws
and statutes of the two states respectively ; and, generally,
each of the said high contracting parties agrees to place
the other, in all that respects trade, commerce, and navi-
gation, on the footing of the most favoured nation.
Art. IL—No higher or other duties shall be imposed
on the importation of any articles, goods, wares, and mer-
chandize, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the
territory of the Republic of Frankfort, or of any other
country, into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, which may be legally imported from the free city
of Frankfort or the territories thereof, than are or shall
be payable on the like articles, goods, wares, and mer-
chandize, imported from any other foreign country; and,
reciprocally, no higher or other duties shall be imposed on
the importation of any articles, goods, wares, and mer-
chandize, into the free city of Frankfort, or into its terri-
tories, from the territories of his Britannic Majesty in
Europe, than are or shall be payable on the like articles,
goods, wares, and merchandize, imported from any other
foreign country.
Art. lII.—No higher or other duties or charges shall
be imposed, nor shall any lower drawbacks or bounties be
allowed or granted, in the territories of either of the high
contracting parties, on the exportation of any articles,
goods, wares, and merchandize, to the territories of the
other by sea or land, or by inland navigation, than such
as are or shall be payable, or allowed or granted, on the
exportation of the like articles, goods, wares, and merchan-
dize, to any other foreign country.
Art. IV.—No prohibition or restriction shall IT imposed
upon the importation or exportation, by sea or land, or by
inland navigation, of any articles, the growth, produce,
or manufacture of the territories of either of the high
contracting parties, into or from the territories of the
other, which shall not equally extend to the like articles,
the growth, produce, or manufacture of the territories of
all other foreign Powers.

Art. V.—All goods, wares, and merchandize, imported
into the free city of Frankfort, or into the territorits
thereof, from the territories of his Britannic Majesty in
Europe, shall be admitted into the said free city, and the
territories thereof, on paying duties according to the tariff
now in force there ; and all goods, wares, and merchm-
diz., imported into the territories of his Britannic Majesty
in Europe, from the said free city of Frankfort, nr the
territories thereof, shall be admitted into his Britannic
Majesty's said territories, on paying duties according to the
several Acts of the British Parliament now in force, re-
specting the trade and navigation of the United Kingdom;
of which respective Tariffs, authenticated copies have been
interchanged between the high contracting parties, at the
time of the execution of this present Convention. Ti,
e tofincreasing
ni
article into those territories front the
high contracting parties mutually reserve to themselves
the right to establish all such changes as to them shall
seem meet, respecting the mode of estimating and collect-
ing the duties imposed by the said respective Tariffs.
Should any such change be hereafter made in the Tariff of
duties now payable in the territories of his Britannic Ala -
the
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payablel have theon effect
importation
ref.: city of_Frank-

ort, or the territories thereof, the said free city of Frank-
[oil reserves to itself the right of making such an addition
ri their before-mentioned Tariff, as shall countervail and
lc equal to any such increase.

Art. Vl.—The same duties shall be paid on the impor-
tation of any articles, goods, wares, and merchandize,
into the territories of his Britannic Majesty in Europe,
from the free city of Frankfort, and the territories thereof,
whether such importation shall be in British or in Frank.
fort vessels ; or whether such articles, goods, wares, arid
merchandize, stall be transhipped at any foreign port from
a Frankfort into a British vessel, or be laden on board any
such British vessel at any quay, wharf, or warehouse, at
which the same may have been discharged from any such
Frankfort vessel ; and, reciprocally, the same duties shall
he p lid on the importation of any articles, goods, wares,
and merchandize, into the territories of the free city of
Frankfort, or into the said city from Lis Britannic Ma-
jesty's territories in Europe, whether such importation
shall be in Frankfort or in British vessels ; or whether
such articles shall be transhipped at any foreign port from
a British into a Frankfort vessel, or be laden on board any
such Frankfort vessel at any quay, wharf, or warehouse,
at which the same may have been discharged from any
such British vessel.

Art. Vll.—The same duties shall be paid, and the same
drawbacks and bounties allowed and granted, on the ex-
portation of any articles, goods, wares, and merchandize,
from the territories of his Britannic Majesty in Europe,
by sea or by inland navigation, to the free city of Frank-
fort and the territories thereof, whether such exportation
shall be in Frankfort or in British vessels ; and, recipro-
cally, the same duties shall be paid, and the same boun-
ties and drawbacks allowed, on the exportation of any ar-
ticles, goods, wares, and merchandize, from the territories
of the free city of Frankfurt, or from the said city by in-
land navigation, to his Britannic Majesty's dominions in
Europe, whether such exportation shall be in British or
in Frankfort vessels.

Art. Vlll.—No higher or ether duties er charges on
account of tonnage, light, or harbour dues, pilotage, sal-
vage in case of damage or shipwreck, or any other local
charges, shall be imposed in any of the ports of his Bri-
tannic Majesty's dominions in Europe on Frankfort vessels,
than those payable in the same ports by British vessels ;
nor at Frankfort on British vessels, than shall be payable
at Frankfort on Frankfort vessels.
Art. IX.—ln consideration of the limited extent of the
territory belonging to the Republic of Frankfurt, it is
hereby stipulated and agreed, that any vessel, being
Frankfort or British built, and being navigated by a
master and a crew, three-fourths of which, at least, are
citizens or subjects of the free city of Frankfort, or of any
or either of the States comprised in the Germanic con-
fede, ation, as described and enumerated in the 53d and
56th Articles of the General Treaty of Congress, signed
at Vienna on the 9Lh of June, 1815, such vessel, so built,
navigated, and wholly owned by Frankfort citizens or sub-
jects, shall, for all the purposes of this treaty, be taken to
be and considered as a vessel belonging to Frankfurt.
Art. X.—lt is further mutually agreed, that no higher
or other duties shall be levied in the territories of either of
the high contracting parties, upon any personal property
of the subjects and citizens of each, respectively, on the
removal of the same from the said territories (either upon
inheritance of such property or otherwise), than are or
shall be payable in each State upon the like property, when
removed by a subject or citizen of such State respectively.
Art. Xl..—The high contracting parties reserve to
themselves to enter upon additional stipulations for the
purpose of facilitating and extending, even beyond what
is comprehended in the treaty of this date, the commercial
relations of their respective subjects and dominions, citizens
and territories, upon the principle either of reciprocal or
equivalent advantages, as the case may be; and in the
event of any Article or Articles being concluded between
the said high contracting parties, for giving effect to such
stipulations, it is hereby agreed that the Article or Arti-
cles which may hereafter be so concluded, shall be consi-
dered as forming part of the present treaty.
Art. XII.—It is further understood between the high
contracting powers, that nothing in this treaty contained
shall be considered as binding the free city of Frankfort
in a manner inconsistent with the obligations contracted
by the said free city as a Member of the Germanic Con-
federation.

Art. XIII.—The present treaty shall be in force for the
term of ten years from the date hereof, and further, until
the end of twelve months after the King of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on the one part,
or the Senate of the free city of Frankfort, on the other
part, shall have given notice of their intention to termi-
nate the same ; each of the said high contracting parties
reserving to itself the right of giving such notice to the
other at the end of nine years.
Art. XlV.—The present treaty shall be ratified, and
the ratifications shall be exchanged at London within the
space of two months, or sooner if possible.
In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have
signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their
arms.

Done at London the 13th day of May, in the year of our

Lord, 1832.
(L. S.) PALNIERSTON.
(L. S.) AUCKLAND.
(L. S.) HARNIER.

HAMBURGH AND DUTCH PAPERS.

WARSAW, JULY 2.--His Majesty, on the proposal of
Prince Paskewitsch, for providing for the orphans of
subalterns and privates of the former Polish army, who
are destitute of resources, has been pleased to order—
(l ) The children, of both sexes, of the military of the
inferior ranks in the former Polish army, who are unable
to maintain them, shall be provided for according to the
wishes of their parents or guardians by the Government,
viz. the girls till they are 13, and the boys till 15 years,
and educated at its expense at Warsaw, in the insti-
tution called that of " the Infant Jesus." (2) When
the boys have attained their seventh year, they are
to be placed in the battalions of the military can-
tonments ; the girls, when they are of age, and ac-
quainted with female works, shall be put out to ser-
vice in private houses. (3) Orphan boys of the above
description now in the kingdom of Poland, who have at-
tained the age of five years or more, may at the desire of
their mothers or foster parents be given up to the military
officers of the Waiwodeships, to be sent, together with the
wholly destitute orphans, to Minsk, to the battalions of
the military cantonments. Prince Paskewitsch has pub-
lished directions respecting the admission of actual inhabi-
tants of the kingdom of Poland into the Russian army,
who have not served either before or since the 29th Nov.,
1830, in the former Polish army, if they express a wish
to enlist for fifteen years into the Russian army. 'rho mi-
litary officers of the Waiwodeships, shall ascertain whe-
' tiler those who will enter the Russian army are free from
bodily defects : the applicant must not he under seventeen
nor above thrity-five years of age, must be his own master,
not implicated in any criminal transactions, have no debts
either to the treasury or private persons, and if under 21
years of age must have the consent of his parents to enlist
in the Russian service.

AMSTERDAM, JULY 13.
Actual Debt, 2Y, per cent...
Amort Syndic, 41i per cent 70% to 71
Ditto, ditto, 3!4 per cent. ..........
Voluntary Loan, 1831, 6 per cent 9SIA to 953/4
Ditto, ditto, 1832, 5 per cent. 85% to 8614
Exchange on London, one month l2 105-10 12 15
Two months l2 7 5-10 12 10
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, JULY 13.—1 a 1314 ; two months, 13 12.
BREMEN, JULY 10.—Two months, 618.
BERLIN, JULY 10.—Three months, 60n9,•
CHRISTIANIA, JUNE 27.—Three months, b 38.
JULY 6.—Two months, 6 18,4.
HAMBURG, JULY 13.—..B0RSEN HALLE, HALF.EAST
Two o'cLocx.—Wheat has again declined this week ;
Rye maintained itself, but with little business doing.
During the first six days of July, 81 cargoes of cern
passed the Sound, of which 13 were bound for British,
and 21 for Dutch ports.
Wheat, Anhalt, white Weight................... 115 to 12. PO to 128
to 12 7
120
118 :ca. 32
135
agdeburgh .....................120 to 125 115 to 120
1
M
118
Meeklenburgh .................... 118 to 124 120 to 140
t 0•125
Duringofhave been imported,
339 exported, and there remains stuck in hand 800 lasts.
Anglo-Danish Loan 3
, p End of June,
er cent.
Anglo-Russian Loan
Russian Inscription, 5 per cent., 1831 B5
Polish Bonds
107
Austrian Bank Shares 1114
Austrian Metalliques
New Austrian 4 per cent. 751
—Hamburg Reporter.

DIORAMA, REGENT'S PARK.—Two new
dioramic views at the above place were on Saturday last
submitted to private inspection previously to their being
opened to the public. The first is a view of Paris. The
fore-ground is occupied by a part of the butte Montmartre,
and this we consider the best painted portion of the
picture. It is well coloured and spiritedly relieved. Of
the other view, which represents one of the enclosures of
the Campo Santo, we must speak in terms of unqualified
praise. It presents to view a kind of corridor of great
length, which is so ably executed in regard to its perspec-
tive, and the application of the lights and shadows, as to
impress the spectator with the idea of the positive exist-
ence before him of the venerable fabric. Indeed, we may
pronounce the present view a elief d'oeuvre in this style of
art.

LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 17, 1832.

This day, a little before two o'clock, his MA-
JESTY arrived in town from Windsor, escorted by
a party of the 14th Light Dragoons. His
MAJESTY travelled in an open carriage and
four, and was accompanied by Colonel Lord
'CLINTON, the Lord in Waiting. Shortly after
the KING'S arrival, the Dukes Of CUMBER-
LAND, GLOUCESTER, and the Princess SOPHIA
arrived. Hl3 MAJESTY, at two o'clock, held
a Court and Levee, which were most numerously
attended.

After the Levee his MAJESTY held a Privy
Council, to which the RECORDER of LONDON
was admitted, and made his report of the pri-
soners capitally convicted at the May Sessions.
His MAJESTY will return to Windsor at
half-Past six o'clock.

In the House of Commons last night, Mr.
BARING, who but a few weeks since had a
narrow escape of the Chancellorship of the Ex-
chequer, postponed till next year all further
proceedings on the Dignity of Parliament Bill.
St. Stephens, therefore, must remain undignified
till next Session. The Hon. Member afterwards
proceeded to move an amendment to the Russian-
Dutch Loan question, which ended in a majority
for Ministers of 36.

The Paris Papers of Sunday contain many
miscellaneous matters, but few of paramoun t
importance. Among them are the accounts of
the surrender of Acre to IBRAHIM, son of the
Pacha of EGYPT (of Navarino notoriety), of
some disturbances said to have occurred among
the Russian troops at Warsaw ; of considerable
boa' preparations going forward at Cherbourg,
V1(1 of the increase of the cholera at Paris.
In every other respect the French capital was
Perfectly free from excitement.

There are two antagonist principles of freedom
and despotism, as the Edinburgh Review ob-
served some time since, now actively at work
throughout Europe. In these two great prin-
Ples all minor ones are merged. They resemble
'0 vast armies which are daily drawing closer
t° each other. Occasionally, as if by common
'°usent, and as if the leaders on either side were
Well aware of the disastrous consequences of but
Ole false movement, a halt is made, then again a
rapid march ; then another pause, then another
()award movement. Such is the present state
°f Europe, with this sole difference--that her
"10 armies of opinions having at length put an
„lid to their armistice, and broken up their
respective encampments, are now in full march
towards each other. There are no longer
114tional jealousies at work to embarrass the
Proceedings of either party, for the people of
IThlversal Europe are fraternized, bound together
by the links of one common sympathy, and bent
equally on the attainment of one common object
**--the restoration of their rightful liberty. In
Qerrrianv despotism has already made the first
°I those final movements which are to decide—
and that at a nearer period than we choose to
mention—the great questions between Kings
and People. The
t" Edict has gone forth, that
roughout every state composing what is
taro
the German Confederation, might is
° he every thing, right
nothing. That the
PeePle are still :to enjoy, as heretofore, the

blessed privilege of paying taxes to the fullest
possible amount, but that in return for such
privilege, they are to have no free Press, no li-
berty of speech, and, if it can be so managed, no
liberty even of thought. Should they be silly,
mad, or mischievous enough to grumble at
these paternal proceedings of authority, they are
to be " prosecuted"—as fat, sporting squires are
in the habit of posting up outside their preserves
—" to the utmost extent that the law will allow."
But should this not prove sufficient to restore the
grumblers to reason--should, for instance, the
Bavarian people prove tiu strong for the Ba-
varian authorities, then the German Confedera-
tion is to step in, and " immediately offer its
assistance towards the restoration of order."
Offer its assistance ! Restoration of order !
Blessings on these honied phrases! How modest
they seem—how discreet, nay, how bland and
dove-like in their innocence ! Yet look deeper ;
take them in connection with the context and the
circumstances of the times that have drawn them
forth; in a word, translate them into plain, honest,
downright English, and you shall find that they
breathe of " threatenings and slaughter ;" of ra-
pine,—of confiscation,—of imprisonment,—of
long, lingering, hopeless exile. Viewed in its
right sense, " offer its assistance," means neither
more nor less than that the Emperor of Aus-
rßlA, as head of the Confederation, is ready to
pour his legions over Germany the very instant
he can find a plausible pretext for so doing ; and
" restoration of order," that he is equally ready
to cut the throats of all who grumble at such a
monstrous stretch of despotism.
It would be ludicrous, were not so many me-
lancholy considerations involved in the task, to
contrast the difference between the " Sayings"
and " Doings" of the Legitimates. Nothing
can be softer or more promising than the former,
nothing more ruthless or bloody than the latter.
Your true Legitimate always scratches like a cat,
with a soft velvet paw. He fawns and smiles
on you even while his sword is at your breast.
This is one of the advantages of good breeding.
Your vulgar, common-place assassin, murders
you with a frown, as if to forewarn you of the se-
rious inconvenience to which lie was about to
submit you ; your royal cut-throat does the busi-
ness in a far genteeler fashion, with the sweetest
of smiles, the politest of bows, the most lengthy
of apologies, the finest show possible of reluctance.

It is in this fashion that NERO NICHOLAS
has played the " Royal Game of Goose" in Po-
land. His " Sayings," as evinced by his Mani-
festoes, have invariably run over with expressions
of fondness, pity, benevolence, and so forth :
his " Doings," as proved by his Cossacks, have
been those of a " miscreant" and a " monster."
The hand, red with the blood of Poland, is the
same hand that drew up the Manifestoes, promising
forgiveness to its erring sons. Finding this political
methodism answer so well in Poland, the Em-
peror of AUSTRIA now seems inclined to adopt
the same cant towards Germany. His late Edict
may be looked on as his first sermon. But the
Germans, we trust, will be shrewd enough to
mind, not what the parson preaches, but what he
does; in other words, to be guided in their esti-
mate of the uses of despotism, not by its pro-
fessions but by its actions.

The Bill for establishing the Birmingham
Railway has been lost in the Lords, partly, it is
said, from the the Tory Peers bear to-
wards the town of Birmingham for the energetic
aid which it gave to the great principle of Re-
form, partly owing to the Countess of BRIDGE-
WATER, through part of whose estates the line
of road would have passed (though not within
two or three miles of the mansion), having ad-
vanced a large sum to oppose the Bill, and
partly owing to an active personal canvass of the
Earl of BROWNLOW (we believe her Lady-
ship's heir presumptive) against it. The Bill is
therefore lost for the present, but only for the
present, for it is impossible that a great and bene-
ficial undertaking like the Birmingham railway
can he permanently lost. The undertaking, had
it proceeded, would have given employment, in
various branches of the work, to some thousands
of individuals, who for the present lose the be-
nefit of their several occupations.

The late festival at Hambach, a clever imi-
tation of the Birmingham Political Union,
has put all the big and little despots of
Germany into a sad state of uneasiness.
From the potent Sovereign of Austria, down
to the hereditary ruler of a Principality
(Hesse this or Saxe that) about the size
of LEIGH'S nursery ground at Hammersmith,
not a German authority, it is manifest, but is
just now in a most edifying state of appre.
hension. The Baron Thondertentronchs are
everywhere fraternizing under the title of the
German Confederation. The family of the
eighty-four quarterings proclaims itself in danger,
and is seriously bent on putting down the mob.
The German papers contain some curious parti-
culars on this point, to which we refer our
readers :

VIENNA, JULY I.—The negociations that had been
carried on here relative to Cracow are as good as ended.
We hear that a convention on the reorganization of that
republic ' was concluded a few days ago, which will be
published as soon as it shall have been ratified by the three
Powers under whose protection Cracow is placed. Count
Alvensteben, who came here as Prussian Commissioner
for this affair, will leave Vienna in a few days. Great
movements are observed in our army, especially in 13J--
hernia. Accounts are expected from Germany respecting
the measures proposed to the Diet.

The accounts from Greece continue to be very melan-
choly. It seems scarcely possible, without the application
of extraordinary measures, to restore any thing like order
in that country.
BERLIN, JULY 6.—We are very anxious here for
news front Frankfort, on the arrival of the President,
the measures to be adopted for the safety of all the German
Governments will be discussed and published. It is un-
derstood that there are six points likely to be resolved upon
by the Diet as organic laws, the object of which is to
maintain the monarchical principle in all its purity, arid to
protect the Princes and several branches of the German
nation, against the dangerous doctrines and views of the
demagogues. It will be seen whether any impediments
will occur in the execution, and whether, when the reso-
lutions of the Diet are published, interruptions of public
tranquillity may not here and there occur, when the new
laws are to be put in force. At all events, pru
dente certainly commands us to be prepared,
to interfere at once with vigour, and to check any revolu-
tionary movement. Orders have accordingly been given
here to have ready several divisions, each, it is said, or
1,200 men, which may be movedi n any direction at the
shortest notice. The amount of thesetroops, from which

moveable columns may be formed, is from 70,000 to
72,000 men, a force which, united with the several states
of the Confederation, is more than sufficient to enforce the
!awe, and to give to the authority of the Diet the weight,
without which no effectual duration of the confederation is
conceivable. This communication may contribute to cool
a little the zeal of the ultra-German liberals, that they
may net implicate themselves and their partisans, and
not expose the innocent masses of the people, whom
they have thrown into a state of excitement, to
uncertain dangers. The development of consti-
tutional freedom, and the full enjoyment of liberal
institutions, regulated by wise laws, must be gradually
attained in Germany by the co-operation of oil, if it is to
be beneficial and durable. All violent impulsion on a
destructive course can bring only misfortune and misery
over Germany, and defeat for a long time the fair hopes of
the present generation. Let every well-disposed person,
use his influence that no rash steps may be taken, and no
measures of severity be rendered necessary to execute the
existing or the expected resolutions of the Diet. Criminal
and contrary to the objects of civil society as the endeavours
of those persons are who make it their business to inflame
the people's minds, and to place every act of the Government
in a hateful light, they were fruitless in Germany, where
the Governments, strong in the moral tendency of the
principles of their administration, aim only at the happi-
ness and tranquillity of their subjects, and possess also
sufficient force to keep down the self-created reformers
and the unsuspicious multitude whom they mislead into
excesses; to punish the former, and to make the latter
sensible of their real interest and duties. Our demagogues
in vain flatter themselves that they shall be supported in
their crude doctrines, and the crimes proceeding from
them, by their neighbours and associates beyond the
Rhine; for according to all that is known, the French
Ministry has declared in the most positive manner, that it
has nothing to object to the measures to be adopted by the
German Diet, and that it will remain neutral, if to conso-
lidate the mutual relations the agitators are proceeded
against with rigour, and suitable measures for the future
are adopted. It has even within these few days made a
new declaration, from which it is manifest how greatly the
French Government desires to maintain peace, and to re-
main on friendly terms with all Europe.
VIENNA, JULY 6.—Five per Cent Metalliques, 86
15-16 ; Four per Cents., 76k; Bank Stock, 1132 3-5.
Allyemeine Zeitung, July 11.