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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21,. 183 g.

not violated, and that every infringement of it be legally
p uni shed ."
BERLIN, DEC. 20.—The Duke of Brunswick is expected
here, and it is hoped that by that time M. Alex. V. tium•
boldt will bring from Paris the Act of Abdication of Duke
Charles. It has been long supposed that M. Van Hum-
boldt must be detained a long time at Paris by a diplomatic
mission, and this report is now confirmed with this addition,
that the Baron has been successful in persuading Duke
Charles to abdicate. His Royal Highness has only pro-
posed some stipulations which it is expected will be agreed
to here and at Brunswick, so that the important act will
perhaps be completed this' year.
FROM THE EIDER, DEC. 7.—Letters from Copenhagen
mention the news of the conferring of the Danish order of
the Elephant by the Swedish Crown, on Prince Oscar.
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE„ DEC. 15.
FOREIGN FUNDS. Bills, Money.
Austrian Metalliques, 5 per cent.
Ditto ditto 4 per cent. 9S ,A 93
Ditto ditto 3 percent.
Ditto Bank Shares 1162 1360
Russian 5 per cents. Metal.
Anglo-Russian Loan lO5

_
Paper Inscription, 6 per cent --•
Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto, Certificates
Portuguese Regency Bonds. 5 per cent B2 q 82
Ditto, 3 per cent. 52 s:n
Dutch .4, per Cents. 53% 53
Ditto 5 per Cents l—. 1—
Polish Bonds, 3 per cents.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 73% 73%
Norwegian Loan of 1834, 4 per cents.
Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents.... —
Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent 44Y4 44%
Greek 4 per cents. 1833, guaranteed by France
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, DEC. 15.-13 9% ; two months., 13 81i.
CHRISTIANIA, DEC. s.—Three months, 5 12.
Sr. PETERSBURGH, DEC. 4.—Three months, 10 11-32.
BREMEN, Dun. 11 —Two months, 612.
BERLIN, DEC. 12.—Three months, 6. 28%.
—Hamburg Papers,' Die. 15.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN; DEc. 12.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch. 4 per cent. lOl% 101%
Prussian English Loan, IMO, 4 per cent 10014 99%
Exchange on London, three months 6 28%.
—Prussian State Gazette. Dec. 13.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Dcc. 10.
Five per Cents. Metalliques ' 10114
Four per Cents.
Bank Shares
—Allgemeine Zeitung, Dec. 14.

rating from Brazil. The President, Braga, not being sup-
ported by his forces, took refuge with his family on board
of a vessel in the roads, and subsequently left for Rio
Grande, where he arrived with other Government officers;
and was preparing to oppose the forces of Bentos Gon-
calves, which were advancing upon the place. In the town
there were only about 150 National Guards, who, it was
supposed, would declare for the insurgents on their appear-
ance, There had been no bloodshed. The. Vice-President
was acting Governor at Puerto Alegre until another Presi-
dent should be appointed by the Court of Rio Janeiro.
Rio Pardo had surrendered to Bentos Goncalves da Silva."

REFORM DINNER AT NEWPORT.

( Abridged from the Hampshire Independent of Saturday.)
The electors of this place celebrated the emancipation of
their Borough from Tory domination, by a public dinner at
the Green Dragon, on Monday last, R. G. Kirkpatrick,
Esq., in the Chair, supported on his right by W. H. Ord, Esq.,
one of the Members for the Borough, Abraham Clark, Esq.,
Henry Nunn, Esq., and George Kirkpatrick, Esq. ; and on
his left by S. Prin.., Esq., Wm. Major, Esq., John Cook,
Esq., and Willianißuckell, Esq. ; Mr. John Sayer officiating
as Vice-Chairman.
Above 60 Gentlemen sat down to an excellent dinner served
up in Squire's best style.
After the usual toasts—
The CHAIRMAN said, the next toast which he had the ho-
nour to propose, was one which he was sure would be received,
not only with pleasure, but with enthusiasm, it was " Lord
Melbourne and that high minded and talented Ministry who
had so nobly fought, and conquered, in the cause of the
people."—( Cheers. )
Mr. ORD, in rising, was loudly cheered. He said they
could now boast that they were not only represented in Par-
liament by men of their own choice, but that the affairs of
Government were conducted by men whom they, in conjunc-
tion with the Reformers throughput the kingdom, had also
made choice of.—(Cheers.) The people know their inten-
tion to be honest, and feel as warm a gratitude as if success
had crowned their labours. That the Ministry and the House
of Commons had not been able to do all that had been ex-
pected from them was too well known. The fault rested not
with his Majesty's Ministers—tbe fault rested not with the
House of Commons—they have each done all that was in
their power. During the late sessions a great measure had
become part of the law of/he land, and that mighty phalanx was
formed by the union of Reformers of all different opinions in
one common object. The Government and the House of Com-
mons with them considered the reform in the Corporations a
measure of paramount importance, and to which minor
objects, great as they might be in themselves, must
give way. The same feeling which actuated his Ma-
jesty's Ministers to postpone the consideration of several im-
portant measures for the present; induced several members to
forego the introduction of measures which they believed would
prove advantageous to the country. He would take it for
granted that the policy adopted by Governmeht in the passing
of the Municipal Reform Bill, was one which, under its pecu-
liar circumstances, ought to have been adopted ; as that mea-
sure, even injured as it had been by the Lords, gives to the
inhabitants of Newport the election of those who are to have
the management of the affairs of the town, and puts an end to
that system of self-election so highly injurious to the country
at large. Great thanks were due to the ultra.liberals for
their strenuous support during the past Sessions, and the
lesson the Reformers had learned by union, and the advantages
they had gained by it, would never be lost sight of. He would
now direct the attention of the company to the policy pursued
by Ministers with regard to Ireland. His constituents, he was
proud to say, had always expressed their sympathy for the
oppressed people of Ireland, and therefore the subject which he
was about to submit to their notice was one in which they were
warmly interested. A new era was now arrived, and an end
would soon be put to all the miseries which distract that unfor-
tunate country.—( Great cheering.) The manner in which
his Majesty's representative in that country (Earl Mulgrave)
has been received, demonstrates the gratitude of the people
of Ireland to a man whom they have every reason to believe
their friend, and his enthusiastic and triumphant reception in
every city and town in that kingdom, plainly proves how little
kindness is thrown away upon the people of Ireland. The
intense sympathy which had always been expressed by his
constituency was a sufficient apology for his entering rather
largely upon that portion of the policy of Government, and
he claimed at their hands that support which they had hitherto
given to Ministers in the question of Municipal Reform. Of
all calamities which ever afflicted an unhappy country—which
has sown the seeds of discord among its children-,-which has
retarded civilization and improvement, and rendered one of
the fairest and most fertile spots on God's earth the scene
of bloodshed and anarchy, it is the system of an Orange
Government a party Government of the worst descrip-
tion—a Government which, he was bold to say, in spite of
all the professions of Sir Robert Peel, could not attempt to
exercise all their former tyranny. But a liberal Government
is now in the ascendant—a Government resolved to do justice
where injustice has too long prevailed.—( Loud cheers.) The
evils of Ireland have arisen not from its laws being bad, but,
because they have been badly executed. It is that the admi-
nistration of its laws have been committed to a small party
consisting of a very small portion of the population, and that
they have been executed for party objects, and perverted for
the very worst of purposes. Of what good has the Emanci-
pation Bill been to Ireland ? in many instances of no no avail !
because a party administration acting upon exclusive principles,
sought to retain the power granted by the laws to all in their
own hands. In that country there is not as in this, a numerous
middle class, between the rich and the very poor, there is no
intervening gradation between the landlord and the farmer,
who is, indeed, a mere labourer. There is not there the ma-
terials for carrying on self-government as in England, and
the administration of the laws have hitherto been confided in
the hands of men whose political and religious opinions are at
complete variance with those entertained by the great ma-
jority of the people. The administration of laws in such hands
is almost as powerful as the laws themselves. In England,
that powerful body the middle class prevents any encroach-
ments of the rich upon the rights of the poor; and here laws
are well known, and fairly executed ; and, however light we
may treat charges made against persons of high birth, being
desirous of usurping the highest station in the realm, but the
usurpation not of that highest point, but of that of dispensing
the laws of Ireland by faction at once, formidable—by
connection of wealth and power, was a question of the
deepest moment. Let not the people of England ima-
gine that the prosperity of Ireland is not indissolubly
bound up with their own. We know what evils were
inflicted on this country by not doing justice to America ;
it is too well known to need repeating the millions of money
and the thousands of lives sacrificed in that unfortunate
struggle. But those consequences would be greatly increased
by a contest with Ireland, and the loss ten times greater. Ire-
land demands nothing but justice from the hands of England,
and for centuries has received nothing but injustice. It has
been often repeated by the Tories that his Majesty's Minis-
ters had made sacrifices to gain the support of Mr. O'Con-
nell and his friends ; this he positively denied. He knew of
no sacrifice, he knew of no compromise ; but he did know
that Lord Melbourne and his Majesty's Ministers were deter-
mined to do justice to Ireland. And he would defy any one
to say that they were actuated by any other motive than that
of carrying into effect measures which the.), honestly and con-
scientiously believed would be for the mutual benefit of both
countries. It was also said that his Majesty's Ministers had
introduced measures, the end of which would be the destruction
of the Established Church in Ireland. This he also positively
denied. He considered himself a good Protestant, but he was
not such a bigot as to sec no difference between the Protes-
tant Church of Ireland and Protestant ascendancy, as it
is called. It was the spirit of persecution -exercised by
the Roman Catholic church, which first roused to resistance
the early Church Reformers ' • it was that which induced them
to cast off the trammels of Rome, and yield their bodies as
living testimonies to the faith which they avowed. In the
same manner the Reformers of the present day recorded their
testimonies against the persecuting spirit of the Protestant
ascendancy, which, he was sorry to say, exercised the worst
practices of the dark ages of Catholicism. The crusade was
commenced, and he felt convinced that if an exclusive faction,
assuming the power of government, was allowed to exercise
any sway in Ireland, peace and tranquillity could never exist
in that country. The benefits which would be derived to this
country from the good government of Ireland they were able
to appreciate, as they knew the immense expense which was
incurred by keeping a large body of forces in that country,
and the difficulties which it imposed upon Ministers—pre-
venting them from giving that attention to other subjects
whichdeserve their attention, and to which they wish to
direct their powers. He felt it was a moral impossibility
for the Orange party to govern Ireland by the army of Eng-
land—the attempt would only end in their own discomfiture.
The Duke of Wellington, when he changed his mind so sud-
denly with regard to Catholic emancipation, and wished the
House of Lords to change their minds quite as suddenly, said he
was not prepared to attempt to govern Ireland by the sword ;
but if at that time he thought the- attempt a hopeless one,
he would find it a work of greater difficulty at present. Upon
these two great points—to secure to the people of England a
reform in their corporations and the administration of their
local affairs, and giving to Ireland a liberal government, and
one which enjoys the confidence of that country, his Majesty's
Ministers have succeeded. Of the Municipal Reform Bill,
he considered it only in a degree passed—the branches which
had been lopped off must be restored before that measure
could be considered perfect ; it was now in the hands of the
people, and it required all the union and all the energy of the
Reformers to carry it into full effect, if they hoped to derive
the benefit of it. The Government would still look to them for
their forbearance and support, which they have always so
kindly shown for the cause of liberty and good government.
Ministers are prepared and determined to pursue that straight
forward and honourable course which marked their proceed-
ings in Parliament during the last session, and the people
of England may rest assured that as long as they support
Lord Melbourne and his colleagues, they will never be weary
in well-doing, and that they will persevere in the introduc-
tion and supporting of such measures as Will be advantageous
to every portion of his Majesty's subjects. Ministers have
been magceuvering in the face of a powerful army—an army
which has sought to rouse all the antiquated prejudices of the
nation against them. That " union is strength," was never
more forcibly demonstrated than during the last session of
Parliament. If the Reformers had not kept in a body, they
would have been beaten in detail. Mr. O'Connell, in a manner
highly honourable to himself; suspended the agitation of the
great question of the repeal of the Union, at the risk of injur-
ing his own popularity throughout Ireland, because he would
not impede the measures of Government, believing- Govern-
ment to be kindly-intentioned towards that country. He be-
lieved that the destruction of the legislative union would be a
great calamity both to England and Ireland; the agitation of