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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 4, 1832.

The official accounts from Paris, dated
Tue
4daY, state that the Duke DE BROGLIE had
hot at that time signified his acceptance of the
"fret which had been made to him to join the
m
—'inistrY, but that it was fully expected that his
answer would be favourable. On M. HUMANN,
who Was absent from Paris, Marshal SOULT has
Positively reckoned. M. HUMANN is, as we
stated yesterday, an able financier. Should any
thing
, however, occur to prevent or delay his
be•leclrling Minister of Finance, the portfolio
.1) probably be held ad interim by M. TRIERS,
WhO also enjoys a high reputation as a financier.

We
dehave reason to believe that if the Duke
r,1340.3L1E should become Minister of Foreign
1-'lluatrs France, he will endeavour to give a
t °re liberal turn to the foreign policy of that
:untrY• It is due, however, to General SE-
kSTIANI to state that on three great questions
Belgium,i Poland, and Portugal, he has from
time made earliest representations to
'°4l PALMERSTON of the importance of as-
v'ing a more decided tone, and enforcing it
Y acts of vigour. His Lordship has probably
prevented from taking the dignified course
Ythe Tory influence at Court. But for that,
"ttie three questions would have been long ago
ed, to the satisfaction of every friend to
erty.
Th,

t'e accounts from Oporto received by M.
'LIMA, the charg6 d'qffitires of Don
ie.4", do not enable us to confirm the state
of the desertion of an entire regiment of
le:4i4.Y from the army of Don MIGUEL. The
lib'oertions amounted to about twenty daily,
pectng whom were some cavalry ; but it was ex-
44h,e° that they would speedily becoffie more
~erous.

capture of the brig Carolina, from. Br-
a l,rwas °vvina to an attempt of the Captain to
Port°'
a Miguelite port, although bound for
Great dissatisfaction is felt by the
,()llstitutional authorities here, however, at the
,:i!,ularity of bringing the prize to England. in-
of taking it to Oporto. There is some
tery about ibis affair, and an inquiry has been
()I1 foot respecting it.

t'3oirie time ago, a contract was entered into
:een the agents of Don PEDRO and a Por-
':''e se Constitutionalist of property here, for a
i of 3,000 men, of whom 1,000 were to be
414. This contract, so far as regards the
itl4r 4'
i 8 at an end, as those Polish refugees
-e
in depot in the South of France, refuse
sere
otherwise than as a distinct legion—a
1 tition which appears to be perfectly reasonable
heir part, although circumstances prevent
pl4jance with it at present. We hear, low
(1) that about 400 Poles, not in depot, are
to enter the service of Don PEDRO.
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'ounts have been received of another ship
il,been taken by Don PEDRo's squadron,
kt:liarnan from Goa, which is coming up
ottc,', also, that a steamer has arrived at
t,r With 60 horses and ammunition. The
Of the Indiaman will be of great advan-

tage, as from her size she must be equal to a
large frigate, and when properly armed will,
with the assistance of the Lord Wellington,
render SARTORIUS more than a match for
MIGUEL'S fleet.

No further step has been taken by the Con-
ference. The Members were to have met yes-
terday, but the absence (unavoidable, of course)
of one of them, prevented it.

Despatches have this morning been received
by the Belgian Minister, NT. VAN DE WEYER,
from Brussels. Every thing was tranquil in
Belgium, but considerable dissatisfaction appears
to be felt at the delay of the Conference in set-
tling the question of the treaty.

The last accounts from Madrid state, that the
QUEEN is in great hopes that her daughter will
inherit the Throne after the death of the KING,
which it is thought will soon take place. The
French and English Ambassadors have promised
her every assistance from their Courts. The
Spanish nation is also well disposed towards her
wishes. She has despatched a courier to Seville,
to recal the Infant Don FRANCOIS PAULE and
his wife. It is also stated that the QUEEN has
written to the Marquis AMA RILLA, wishing
to appoint him Minister of War. The same
courier carried secret despatches to General
QUESADA, commanding in Andalusia.

Brussels and German Papers have been re-
ceived this morning. It appears that the Duke
of ORLEANS has set out on his return to Paris.
Preparations for war still continue ; but accord-
ing to an observation of Sir ItOBERT ADAIR
on Monday last, " there was not the least doubt
that all the apparent preparations for war in
France and Belgium, were but a vain show."
We almost apprehend that the King of HOL-
LAND is of the same opinion—at least his con-
duct would seem to warrant such conclusion
but future events may possibly prove both the
English Ambassador and the Dutch KING
to have reckoned without their host. The vintage
in Austria has failed ; but the corn is abundant
and of good quality.

A communication from JOSEPH BONA..
PARTE was read yesterday at the Lumber Troop
Reform dinner, announcing the death of his mo-
ther, Madame LETITIA, or Madame MERE, as
she was styled in the days of the NAPOLEON
dynasty. What a strange, eventful life, how
rife with all the wildest elements of romance,
has this old lady passed ! Her youth undistin-
guished, her maturity brilliant and exalted be-
yond all precedent, she sinks back in age to
nearly (if not quite) all the obscurity from which
the force of circumstances compelled her to
emerge. She has reversed, too, the usual order
of nature ; for those who should have gone
after, have gone before her. The mother has
survived both son and grandson, and is not per-
mitted to find shelter in the grave till she has
drained the cup of adversity to the dregs. The
direct line of NAPOLEON is now at an end.

We cannot at all understand on what prin-
ciple, except it be the very objectionable one
of creating confusion among the Reformers, Lord
HENLEY has allowed himself to be put for-
ward as candidate for the representation of Mid-
dlesex. Mr. HumE, he ought by this time to
know, has established claims on the constituency
of this influential county, which are warmly and
universally recognised by them, and which no
efforts of his Lordship, or his half-Whig half.
Tory supporters, will be able to set aside. Mr.
BYNG has nearly equal claims on Middlesex ;
his principles are well known, and hare been
strenuously advocated ; so that Lord HENLEY
can hope to effect no earthly good by his in-
terference. He may, indeed, put the rival can-
didates to considerable additional expense, but
this is a sorry ambition, and totally at variance
with the principles of a Reformer, who professes
in every thing he says or does to have only his
country's good at heart. We have perused
Lord HENLEY'S address, but must confess that
it is not at all to our taste. We can make little
or nothing of it. It is ambiguous where it
should be distinct ; general where it should be
particular; feeble and vacillating where it should
be stern and decided. In a word, it is an elec-
tioneering address, suited to any time but the
present. It might proceed from the pen of a
Tory with quite as much propriety as from a
Liberal. His Lordship, for instance, will give
no opinion upon any of the great commercial
questions about which the nation is just now so
much interested ; he will merely pledge himself
to " approach the consideration of them with
diligence, candour, and impartiality." Now,
this is just what the Tories promised (Lord
CARNARVON among the number) when the
question of Reform was first broached in Par-
liament, and all the world knows how religiously
they fulfilled their promise. Lord HENLEY'S
pledge we conceive to mean something equally
vague and general, and which cannot be broken,
only because there is nothing to break. We
speak in no spirit of partizanship ; indeed, we
have a strong feeling in favour of his Lordship,
not more for his excellent private character, than
for his judicious publications on Church Re-
form ; still we cannot but think it an act of folly
and indiscretion, for any candidate, no matter
how exalted his rank or honourable his inten-
tions, to attempt, at this peculiar crisis, to drive
Mr. HUME from an eminence to which his con-
stituents, of their own free will, elevated him,
and to which all England acknowledges that he
is justly entitled.

Modern naturalists tell us that the operations
of nature are so simple and uniform that the
principles which keep alive the physical being of
the most complex animal structure, may be
traced in the conformation of the most simple
vegetable. Metaphysical inquiries teach us that
the beautiful simplicity we admire in physics, is
not less remarkable in the operations of the
mind. Beneficence displays itself in many
forms, but its acts, however various, may be
traced up to one and the same principle. So
dishonesty may take divers shapes, but all its

acts may in like manner be traced up to one
and the same principle in the mind, or rather
we should say, to a similar want of principle.
Thus the conqueror of a continent and a moun-
tain robber—a corn-monopolist and a pick-
pocket—a boroughmongering M. P. and a
hole-and-corner overseer of a parish—are all
urged on from the same starting point, by
different means, to attain the same end.
Our last illustration is curiously exempli-
fied by a report in another part of our
Paper, headed " Overseers and the Poor-rate,"
by which it appears that the functionaries of the
Select Vestry o f St. John, Westminster, have,
with very few exceptions, for a series of years
past, taken the liberty of exempting themselves
from the payment of poor's-rate. We do not
mean to say that all the overseers who have done
this are what is commonly understood by the word
dishonest. Far from it ; and we have no doubt
that they are " all honourable men ;" but the
fact is, that there is a tendency in us all to view
with prejudiced eyes whatever is for our apparent
advantage, particularly if we do not act under the
control of public opinion. Hence it is inevitable
that abuses will grow and multiply in the trans-
action of all affairs, whether of the State or of
a Parish, which are not open to the light.
These Gentlemen have been, year after year,
levying the poor's rate upon their neighbours,
and exempting themselves, as regularly as the
Tories have been carving out places and pensions
for themselves and dependants, all with the
gravest face in the world, and, probably, if ever
they gave the matter a thought, uttering the pal-
liative " it's all fair." Counsel's opinion is to be
taken upon the subject, but we hardly imagine
that any quibble can be found to justify such an
irregularity, to give it the mildest name we can
find. Thank Heaven, it will now be the fault
of the people themselves if they permit such con-
duct in future.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY)

RE CliA MBERS'S BANK RUETCY.

An application was this day mode by Mr. Anderson,
counsel on the behalf of Mr. De Beguis, a large creditor,
that an official assignee might be appointed over the above
estate, which application was opposed strenuously by the
solicitor to the Commission, on various grounds, but
which grounds the Commissioner decided were sufficient
reasons for the appointment of such assignee, whom he
therefore accordingly appointed.
It appeared, from the examination of the solicitor, that
the last audit was had in January last, when there was a
balance of 19,0001. in the hands of the assignees ; that
for many years past the assignees Lad allowed a Mr. Treherne
4001. a year as agent or manager of the estate under the as-
signees. That he (the Solicitor) had received about
9,000/. costs; and that the assignees had, within the last
week, let the Opera for about three years to Mr. Laporte,
for 13,2501.

COUNTY COURT, MIDDLESEX,

(THIS DAY.)

FLEMING C. DRUMMOND, CLERK.

This was an action brought by the pl Catherine
Fleming, to recover a compensation from her late master,
the Reverend David Drummond, for an assault and false
imprisonment.
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Mr. C. Putwes stated the case for the prosecution.
It appeared from the evidence of a police constable, that
on the 7th of last May, he was called to the house of the
defendant, who gave his cook, the plaintiff, into his
custody on a charge of felony. That was about
five o'clock in the afternoon. He took her to the
station-house, where the defendant entered the charge, and
the plaintiff was locked up in the felon's cell until seven
o'clock. She was then carried before Mr. LAING of
Hatton-Garden police•ofice, where the defendant charged
her with having stolen some broken victuals and some
cream, but after the defendant had stated his complaint,
and called another servant as witness, the Magistrate de-
cided that the charge of felony was not substantiated, and
dismissed her.

Mr. Robson, a solicitor, addressed the Jury for the de-
fendant in mitigation of damages, and said his client
believed the plaintiff had robbed him, and there-
fore he gave her into custody ; it could not be ima-
gined, in the absence of all proof of malice or
improper motive, that the defendant would have charged
the prisoner with an offence of which he did not believe
her guilty.
The UNDER•SHERIFF summed up the evidence, and
said it was clear there was an assault and false imprison-
ment, and as to the question of damages, the Jury would
award such a sum as they thought the justice of the case
requited.
The Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages 401., which
was the amount laid in the declaration.

CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT.