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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 11, 1832.

The Marquis of PALMELLA has not vet left
town, but he is expected to do so this day.

The French Ambassador, M. DE ATAREun,
has been for the last two or three days on a visit
to Lord COWPER, at Penshanger. It is believed
th It a political object is connected with this visit.

We find by authentic accounts from Paris
that an active intrigue has been going on there
for some time past for modifications in the Mi-
nistry, and that the Ultra-Liberal party have
latterly gained ground.

We are authorised to state that there is not the
slightest truth in the statement of the i'Jessager des
Chambres, that the French Cabinet have evinced
a disposition to enter into a treaty with Russia.

We are sorry to perceive that some of our
contemporaries, under a mistaken idea that they
are rendering service to the Constitutional Por-
tuguese cause, take a very partial view of the
state of the contest between the forces of the
Usurper and those of the legitimate QUEEN,
concealing facts which are unfavourable to the
Constitutionalists, and exaggerating in an extra-
ordinary degree all that appears favourable to
their hopes. It is an old adage, that a true cause
can only be served by truth. The Marquis of
PALMELLA, and the other honourable men who
represent Don PEDRO in this country, have
acted up to this adage to an extent which will
entitle them to high and permanent credit, what- •
ever may be the result of the enterprize in which
they are engaged. Why cannot their partizans
of the public Press do the same ?
Among many falsehoods of the past week
we have seen it stated that two large ships of
war and three steam-boats had been purchased
and sent out to Oporto ; that 1,600 men in one
body had actually embarked for that city ; that
money was plentiful ; and even that the British
Government had acknowledged the Portuguese
Regency and ade facto Queen. Now the facts
are, that no large ships of war have yet been
sent out, and that the 1,600 men were 390
inKuitry and 60 cavalry ; that there has been
great difficulty indeed in obtaining money for the
service of the young QUEEN ; and that the Bri-
tish Government has refused to recognise either
the government of a Regency, or that of Donna
MARIA as Sovereign (le facto of the country
of which de jure she is Queen. Nay, more,
we will go farther and state, that at the very time
when some of the English newspapers were de-
scribing the prospects of the Constitutionalists in
Oporto as cheering in the extreme, the army was
in a state of total discouragement, and the officers
had implored the EMPEROR to provide for his
own safety by flight, whilst the army should make
a desperate and indeed hopeless attempt to cut
through the Miguelites and leave their bones
to whiten on the soil of their birth. The EM-
PEROR, with tears in his eyes, acknowledged
this devotion, which was worthy of the highest
period of historical romance,•but wisely remon-
strated with his officers, and bade them not de-
spair. He was right; the prospect has brightened,
and Portugal may yet be free ; but let our
readers note how nearly the cause was forfeited
at the very moment when the over-zealous par.ti-
zans of Don PEDRO in this country were de-
scribing it as full of life.
We hope it is not necessary for us to say
hat we are Pedroites to the heart's core. Where-
ever liberty is threatened, there is our sympathy
with the object endangered ; wherever a blow
is to be aimed at despotism, there will be our
support and advocacy on the side of the patriots
who strike the blow. Through good report or
evil report we have ever been on the side of
freedom. The public know it well—we need
not say, that we shall ever be the same ; but let
us not forget our duty as Journalists, and forfeit
confidence by the concealment or exaggeration
of farts,

The real situation of things in Portugal is

this :—The people of Witt country, even inclu-
ding nine-tenths of the inhabitants of Oporto,
disappointed at the arrival of a force of 8,000
men with Don PEDRO, when they expected
15,000, and alarmed at the recollection of the
vengeance taken after the fai ure of the expedition
in 1828, by the blood-stained monster who has
usurped the throne, remain apparently, but not
in reality, indifferent to the contest between the
competitors for the crown. Nine-tenths of the
educated and influential part of the population
are for Don PEDRO in heart ; but looking at
the smallness of his force, and knowing that if
he should be compelled to give way, they would
he exposed to a heavy and cruel retribution from
Don MIGUEL, they await anxiously the arrival
of reinforcements, which would enable the
EMPEROR to commence active operations against
the enemy, and encourage open declarations in
his favour from his friends. Those reinforce-
ments are slowly but gradually arriving ; and if
PEDRO can only resist one general attack from
the besieging army—and resist it he will—the
lateness of the season, and the scarcity of pro-
visions, will compel the enemy to withdraw
from the neighbourhood of Oporto, leaving the
country open for the Constitutionalists to act
with their cavalry, and, as the Marquis of PAL-
M ELLA sensibly observed to Lord PALMER-
STON, changing the whole character of the war.
It will be seen, therefore, that nothing is wanting
but a little further pecuniary aid from the people
of this country, who have a decided interest in
supporting the Constitutionalists, in a commer-
cial as well as a political point of view, to make
the cause of Don PEDRO one of certain and
entire success ; and, considering that the false or
exaggerated accounts which have appeared were
calculated to lull the British public into a belief
that the cause was already secured, we hope we
shall be rendering it an effectual service by point-
ing out the necessity of further aid.
With respect to the conduct of our Govern-
ment, we cannot say that it has been either so
politic or so generous as it ought to have been.
In a commercial view it was bound to support
Don PEDito, for he promised as the condition
of support advantages to our merchants, which,
under no other circumstances, they could expect
to gain. Politically, too, the obligation was
equally, if not more strong. As there is an
alliance of despots in one part of Europe, so
ought there to be an alliance of freemen else-
where. Great Britain, France, Portugal, and
eventually Spain, would form this alliance, and
prove an effectual barrier to the avowed attempt
of those despots to subjugate the whole civilized
world. Lord PA LifERSTON and his colleagues
may bitterly repent their conduct in this respect ;
but it is some satisfaction to us to know, that
they have recalled the British Miguelite Consul
frlm Oporto, and appointed a Constitutionalist
in his place; and that the Marquis of PA L-
MEL LA proceeds to Oporto in a Government
ship, with a Messenger from the Foreign-office,
who is the bearer of despatches from our Court.

We refer to the extracts under the head of
German Papers for an account of a singular
subterraneous fire, which has destroyed the roots
of a fine forest in Switzerland.

New York Papers, to the 17th of August,
have been received. If we may credit the news
in them from Mexico, the negociations lately
going on between SANTA ANNA and the Mexi-
can Government, have been broken off. The
cholera was spreading in North America, but
with abated virulence.

We draw attention to some particulars respect-
ing the Kendal Reform Jubilee, which will be
found in another column, wherein Mr. J.
BRouGunm satisfactorily refutes the stupid ca-
lumnies long so industriously circulated against
his illustrious relation, that because his original
plan of Reform was more moderate than
the one just carried, therefore he was
a lukewarm Reformer. " I think you will
agree with me," said the Hon. Gentleman, " that
a Member in Opposition has but little chance of
carrying as efficient a measure as a Member in
power ; this was the situation in which my bro-
ther was placed, but, I state it fearlessly, there
is not a keener Reformer in the Cabinet."

The Post of this morning makes an urgent
but insidious appeal to the " class of agricul-
tural voters," exhorting them not to '' permit
themselves to be deceived at the next election by
vague and indefinite professions," and hinting
that the Reformed Parliament will make vigo-
rous attempts to procure a measure " detrimental
to the agricultural interest." This appeal, which,
like the majority of our cotemporary's diatribes,
is bottomed on delusion, will, no doubt, meet
with the reception it deserves—the contempt
and ridicule of every agriculturist who knows
how to count ten on his fingers. So far
from attempting any measure " detrimental" to
the farmer's interests, it will he the express ob-
ject of a Reformed Parliament to protect such
interests to the utmost,—to a far greater degree,
in fact, than they were ever protec'ed by the
Ultras ; for monopoly is not protection, but a
mere flimsy, temporary,bulwark, which gives way
before the first assault of common sense. The
great object the nation had in view when it
thundered for Reform, was that the balance might
be so carefully adjusted between the agricultural
and the commercial interests, as that neither should
flourish to the detriment of the other, hut both be
equal gainers by such adjustment. Our co-
temporary is far too shrewd not to be aware of
this, but it does not suit his purpose to say so.
None are so blind as those that will not see.

Another of those deplorable squabbles, grow-
ing out of the iniquitous tithe system, has just
occurred in Ireland. As usual, a Protestant
clergyman was mixed up with the matter, and, as
usual, blood was shed, and lives were lost. Mr.
STANLEY must by this time, we hope, be pretty
nearly convinced of the utter inutility of all his
boasted propositions for the adjustment of the
tithe question. He must see that at the best,
he has lopped off but one head from the Hydra ;
that he has been experimentalizing with the ex-
tremities, when he should have struck at once to

the vitals of the grievance. What mute, but ex-
pressive comments on all his vaunted tithe reme-
dies, are the eternal marchings and counter-
marchings of the police and the military, in de-
fence of an establishment whose doctrines are
based on charity, whose first and most imperative
commands are " peace on earth and good-will
towards all men !" The Irish Church is not
metaphorically, but literally, the " true Church
militant." It advocates its claims at the point
of the bayonet, it enforces them by the thunder
of the cannon. Alas, what a system must that
he which requires such means to uphold it ! Yet
its advocates cannot yet see that it is rotten at
the core, but think that with a few slight, tem-
porary props, they shall be able to bolster up an
edifice, not a beam or railer in which but is hourly
tumbling to pieces. The tithe system is indeed
worn out, and nothing but its total abolition can
now pacify Ireland.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LOLYD'S

DEAL, SEPT. 10 —Wind W.—Arrived the Sir Charles
M‘Carthy, from Jamaica ; Ruckers, Soper, and Dorothea,
Craig, from Grenada ; Coldstream, Hall, and Harriet,
from Quebec; a- d Osborne, Renn, from Mauritius.
FALMOUTH, SEPT. S.W.—Arrived the
Galston, Guthrie, from Fayel.
PLY.AtoUTII, SEPT. 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived his
Majesty's ship Britannia, from Lisbon—sailed on the 4th
inst. ; and Pantaloon, from Oporto—sailed on the Ist
inst. ; the James, Edwards, from Quebec.
POOLE, SEPT. 9.—Arrived the Mercury, Strickland,
from Quebec ; Active, Lion, from Memel ; Lisby and
Commerce, Per nor, from Newfoundland.
DOVER, SEPI'. 10.—Arrived off port, the Robert,
Nlrlaitten, from Matanzas; the Willemot, from the Mau-
ritius; the Robert, Sterchen, from Montserrat; and the
Charles, Henry, from Havannah.
Cowes, SEPT. 10.—Arrived the Cannier, from Ha-
y ,nnah ; the Eliza, Kellick, from Sr. Domingo; and the
Wm. Osborn, from N-w Orl-ans.

STA NDGATE CREEK', SEPT. O.—Arrived the Stirling,
Annard, from Smyrna; the Hunter, Humphries, from
Trieste; and the Henry, Alexander, from Palermo.
TORBAY, SEPT. 9.—Arrived the Jahn, Sellers, from
Carfiz.

BRISTOL. SEPT. 10.—Arrived the Caledonia, Arrow
smith, and the Eden, Jones, from Jamaica; the Adel tide,
Brooks, from Tobago ; the Feleza, Forster, from Trinidad;
the Wilton, Simpson, from Quebec ; the Spotters, John-
ston, from Newfoundland ; and the James, —, from
Riga.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 9.—Arrived the Jean, Hamilton,
from Pernambuco ; Mary Queen of Scots, from Ceara ;
Liverpool, Neverson, from St. Vincent; Cheshire, Camp-
bell, from Barbados; Mexico, Smith, from New Or-
leans ; Tiber, Eldridge, from Boston ; Norna, from Ma-
ramichi ; Hebe, Easter, from Smyrna. Off port the
Eclipse, from Jamaica.
SCILLY, SEPT. B.—Arrived off port, the Harriet,
from Buenos Ayres ; Express, from Trieste.
CORK, SEPT. 7.—Arrived the Woodland Castle, from
Barbados ; Corsair, Dick, from Massena ; Alert, Tor-
rington, from Gibraltar ; Thomas, Domerville, from
London.

Artived off the Wight—the Jane, nittray, and the
Draco, Barry, from flavannah; and the Zodeacua, from
St. Thomas's.

The Maria, Le flag, from Jersey, was stranded near
Valencia on the 24th ult., but it was expected she would
be got off.

TIIE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, T WEL YE O'CLOCK.

Montrf-al Papers to the 10th of August, Quebec to the
same date, and 13omlay to the 26th of April, have been
received at the North and South American Coffee-house.

(From the Montreal Papers.)

We subjoin the reports of the Board of Health for the last
two days. and could wish they were more favourable :
New cases of cholera in private practice from the 6th to
the 7th of August, 9 ; Deaths, Catholic ground, S ; Pro-
testant, 8 ; total 16. New cases in private practice from
the 7th to the Bth of August, 6 ; Deaths, Catholic ground,
11 ; Protestant, 5 ; total 16.
(From the Quebec Papers.)

The old Quebec Gazette asserts that a number of dis.
appointed emigrants have returned home in the outward
heund vessels which have lately sailed from this port, and
more would follow if they had the means. In Quebec
and Montreal they often run a good chance of starv-
ing for want of employment, and find, when employed,
that they earn less than they did at home. This is the
real state of things with respect to the lower towns in
Canada. The cholera report in this city hardly shows
any abatement, and some fatal cases continue to occur.
A gentleman writes from New York, says the Balti-
more Paper, that it is estimated that upwards of 20,000
French, inhabit that city, and that but two of the number
have died with the cholera.

Total of emigrants arrived at Quebec, 43,921 ; the
number arrived to the above date in 1831 was 40,100.

The Bombay Papers are void of information of any
Consequence.
We have a great number of arrivals of ship letters this
morning, with some from Oporto, but we do not bear
that they bring any thing of importance.