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TIM SttN, LONiXiii, Virtbi.ESDAY, AtarSt 5, 1835.

this " superior power" to be permitted to coerce the people ?
Are we strong enough to resist it, or are we not ? If we
are not, then nothing remains but to grumble and submit ;
but if we are, then it is our duty, by all constitutional
means, to oppose it—to reduce it to its level—to show it its
own ignorance and our intelligence—its own weakness and
our strength.

Mr. HUME is entitled to the thanks of the public for the
exposure which he made last night of the proceedings of
the Tories in their Orange Lodges. It is well known
to all who know anything of Ireland, that these Associa-
tions have produced the most pernicious effects in that
country. Their avowed object is to draw a broad line of
distinction between the Catholics and the Protestants, and
thus to excite and keep alive those animosities, political and
religious, which are the bane of social peace and good order
in the sister kingdom. To them may be attributed, more
perhaps than to any other cause, the want of con-
, fidence in the impartiality of the law so generally entertained
by the Irish, with whom it is a maxim that a Catholic has
no justice to expect from a Protestant Jury. Nor is it
wonderful that such a belief should prevail where we
find almost the whole Protestant population leagued to-
gether in secret societies, and under religious sanctions,
for the purpese of keeping down the Catholics. As little
ought we to be surprised at the frequent violations of the
law which occur in Ireland, and which afford so gratify-
ing a theme of declamation to her oppressors, for this is
the uniform and natural result of want of confidence in
the administration of justice. The object which Mr.
HUME had more particularly in view in calling the atten-
tion of the House of Commons and of the country to this
important subject, was to shew that these illegal and uncon-
stitutional Associations were not only distracting Ire.
land, but that they were spreading over England,
and had been introduced, to a great extent into the
British army, under the immediate sanction of his
Royal Highness the Duke of CUMBERLAND. The Ho-
nourable Member proved that Orange Lodges had
been formed in no less than forty regiments, and that the
warrants for their formation had, in every case, been signed
by the Royal Duke in his capacity of Grand Master. No
one of his Royal Highness's friends in the Lower House
attempted to deny the facts. The only sort of excuse they
could set up for the great Patron, the thick-and-thin pro-
moter of Toryism, was that he signed the warrants in
blank, and did not know how they were disposed of after-
wards. All he did was to write the word " ERNEST"
and the warrant was filled up by some subordinate
officers ! This is much too clumsy a contrivance
to blind the public. The Duke of CUMBERLAND
may rest assured that he is the last man on earth of
whom the people of England will be disposed to form an
indulgent opinion in such a case as this—we had almost
said in any case. The debate has been adjourned till Tues-
day next, to give him time to explain his conduct ; and we
pre glad to see, by the speech of Lord JOHN RUSSELL,
that the Ministers are prepared to support the motion for
an address to the Crown, if that explanation should prove
unsatisfactory.

The Brussels and German Papers received this morning,
bring advices from Athens to the 17th of June. Their
general character is favourable. The harvest promised t 4
be very abundant in Greece. We find no other intelligence
worth alluding to in these Journals.

BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussets, AUG. 2
Actual Debt, 2IA per Cent ,
RothFchild's Loan, Five per Cent lOO%
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent 99
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent HO%
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent II2N
—Brussels Papers, Aug. 3.

The recent attempt to assassinate King Louis PHILIPPE
has thrown all France into a state of fermentation. The Paris_,
Papers of Sunday and Monday treat of nothing else ; and the
private letters from that capital state that the excitement is
only less than what it was during the " three glorious days"
which preceded the elevation of the reigning Monarch to
the throne of France. On Saturday Prince TALLEYRAND
arrived in Paris. He immediately attended a Cabinet
Council, where he was met by M. DuriN the Pre-
sident of the Chamber of Deputies, who had only
reached the Tuileries a few minutes before the
arrival of the Ex-Prelate, and had just left the presence of
the KING. The object of the Council was to adopt mea-
sures for the more effectual security of his MAJESTY'S per-
son and Government ; but although all were agreed in ad-
mitting that stringent enactments were demanded by the
state of public feeling throughout France, yet they differed
essentially in their opinions as to the extent to which it
would be safe to carry a system of popular coer-
cion. Even the Press had its advocates, but they
were overwhelmed by numbers, who cried it down as
the cause of every evil that afflicted France. The
Council finally resolved that all political caricatures
should be suppressed with a strong hand. That the writers
of all articles in Newspapers should be compelled to sign
their names to their literary productions, to the effect that
in the event of libelling the Government, an action should
lie against them in common with the responsible publishers;
and that one conviction should for ever disqualify them
for taking any part in Newspaper literature under penalties
of fine and imprisonment. That the responsible conductor
of each Paper, shall, on being convicted of a political libel,
be virtually disqualified to continue to fulfil the duties of a
publisher ; and that the person who succeeds him shall be
so far held responsible for his offence as to be liable, on
conviction for a libel, to suffer such increase of punishment
as the law shall decree fora second or third offence, as the
case may be. The law for the establishment of trial by
jury is likewise to be re-modelled. At present the sys-
tem in France is the same as in England ; but as convic-
tions for the Crown are not obtained with such facility as
to satisfy the KING, Ministers are resolved to adopt the
system which prevails in Scotland, making the guilt or in-
nocence of the accused rest on the vote of a simple majo-
rity of the Jurors.
The adoption of these measures by the Chambers, will
be tantamount to a legislative abrogation of the constitu-
tional charters of 1815 and 1830. Liberty will be, extin-
guished in France ; and unless people bestir themselves they
will soon hold their lives, liberties, and properties, at the
mercy of the Crown. The KING will, if possible, establish a
military despotism, and he is aware that this can never be
effected, unless he first succeed in strangling the Press.
There is no possibility of devouring the sheep, while
the watch-dogs are suffered to live. These are
now doomed. The whole power and influence of the
Government is directed against them. In the Pro-
vinces, or rather Departments as they are now called, the
editors are being seized and incarcerated by order of the
Minister of Justice. No charge of any kind is made
against them ; their profession being assumed by the autho-
rities to be the most positive proof of conspiracy against
the safety of the State. During the whole of Friday and
Saturday the Provincial Police were employed in capturing
the editors and conductors of the provincial newspapers.
GIRARD is slowly recovering, but he refuses to make
any confession which shall implicate his associates. It is
reported that he was offered a pardon if he would disclose
all he knew about the plot, upon which he asked for a
newspaper, and seeing the name of the Duke of Tneviso
among the killed, he declared that the KING could not
grant a pardon to the murderer of a Marshal of France.
He is questioned every day in presence of M. TRIERS,
and others, but he refuses to answer any question which
does not relate to the nature of his wounds.

The following account of this extraordinary individual is
is from the Correspondent of a Morning Contemporary,
who offers it as a summary of all that has yet appeared in
the liberal Parisian and French provincial journals :
" Girard, whose real name is Fieschi, is by birth a Corsican, and
he once formed part of Joachim 3lurat's guard. On his re-
turn to Corsica, after the expedition in which the ill-fated King of
Naples perished, it appears that Fieschi, alias Girard, was con-
demned to ten years' imprisonment, for the unromantic misdemea-
nour of cow-stealing. After undergoing his full term of detention,
he, in 18.30, contrived to get his name inscribed on the list of poli-
tical refugees, and till the year 1834 actually received a pension
from Government, which, however, was then stopped on the de-
tection of the imposture, he himself being at the same time
obliged to abscond, in order to escape the consequences of his
roguery. He next entered as a domestic into the service of a
Monsieur Cannes, of Paris. The day before yesterday the
assassin was recognized by a M. Oliver Dufresne, Inspector-Ge-
neral of Prisons, by Lieutenant-Colonel Ladvocat, of the 12th
legion of the National Guards, and by several other individuals,
from whom, according to report, he made no attempt to conceal his
identity with Fieschi, the ex-retainer of the ex-King of Naples. It
appears, moreover, that he is a married man. His wife, who has
already been arrested and examined, has denied all knowledge of his
guilty plans, and has complained of the personal ill-treatment which
she habitually received from him."
The Chamber of Deputies assembled at two o'clock on
Monday. There were present about forty Members. M.
DUPIN, the President, read a letter from the Minister of
the Interior, acquainting the Chamber that the KING and
Royal Family proposed being present at the funeral of the
victims of the 28th of July, and that his MAJESTY wished
to be accompanied by Deputations from all public bodies
connected with the preservation of the State. The funeral
was fixed for Wednesday (this day). After reading
the letter, M. DUPIN proposed that the Deputies to
accompany him in attending his MAJESTY at the
funeral should be ballotted for ; and that those Mem-
bers who were re-elected during the late recess, should
take the oaths and their seats to qualify them for the dis-
charge of their legislative functions. As the comunications
which the Government had to make to the Chamber could
not be in readiness before Tuesday at noon, the adjourn-
ment of the Chamber, till two o'clock the next day, was
moved and carried without opposition.
An address signed by 900 British residents at Paris was
presented to the King of the FRENCH on Monday, congra-
tulating his Majesty on his providential deliverance. The
address was borne by a deputation of three hundred
of the most respectable British residents, headed by Sir
SYDNEY SMITH. The KING'S reply was sufficiently brief
and explicit Gentlemen, I am deeply sensible of your

kind feelings towards me, and those of your nation." Not
a word more was added, and the deputation withdrew.
The following extracts are taken from the Paris evening
papers of Monday, just received :
Messrs. Eugene Raspail and Galtors, editors of the Reformateur,
have each been called once before the Juge d'lnstruction, but they
have not yet been able to get themselves transferred from the depot
of the Prefecture to another prison. A domiciliary visit has been
made at Passy, in the residence of M. Louis Desnoyees, editor of
the Charivari and the Caricature.

It is reported that orders have been sent to arrest all the chief
editors of the journals in the departments. There is an intention
to disorganize the Press; double courage and activity must be ex-
erted, and the chasms which persecution may make in the ranks
must be immediately filled up.—Bon Sens.
Violence is the order of the day. The Commandant of the city
of Tours has been guilty of disgusting acts of brutality to the chief
editor of the opposition journal of the place. A circumstantial com-
plaint has been delivered to the King's Attorney. —Bon Sens.
A domiciliary visit was made on the 31st of July in the office of
the Liberal du Nord.
On the same day the director of the Industrie de la Meuse was
summoned before the Juge d'lnstruction.
The Journal du Commerce announces, that in pursuance of a
Ministerial ordinance signed by M. Thiers, the authorization
granted to M. Gregoire to print that paper and the Messager at
their office, No. 6, Rue St. Joseph, has been withdrawn, and M.
Gregoire is enjoined to remove the presses, type, &c., to his gene-
ral printing-office within three days, upon pain of their being put
under seal. The same step has been taken in regard to the Re-
formateur. The Journal des Debats and the Moniteur du Com-
merce are also printed at their respective offices, but in their case it
seems the authorization has not been withdrawn. It is also said
that the sale of the Messager in the theatres, hitherto allowed, has
been prohibited.
Such is France in 1835. The Mayors of Paris have
published official lists of the killed and wounded, by the ex-
plosion- of the infernal machine. The whole number is
forty-one, of whom fourteen are already dead. Among
the wounded are four Generals--COLBERT, PELET, HEY..
MES, and BLIN.
FRENCH FUNDS —PARIS, AUGUST 3.
Five per Cents., 109 f. 15c. 10c. sc. 10,if.
Four per Cents., 99.
Three per Cents., '79f 79f 90c. FOc. 75c.
Bank Actions, 2,025 f 2,030 f
Rente de Naples, 97f 2 c. 15c. 97f.
Roman Five per Cents., 1001 i.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 39.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 25% 23.
Royal Spanish Loan, 41 40%
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cent., 40.
Portuguese Three per Cents. 60%.
Paytian Loan, 375 f,
EXCUANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, —f. —c ; money, 25f 473 c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 35c. money, 25C 32%c.
—fours Authentioue
BOURSE, THREE O'CLOCK.—Before the opening of the
Bourse the 3 per Cents. were at 79f. 40c., for the end of this
month, with a brisk market. At the opening, however, they
declined immediately to 791. 20c., and have since further re-
ceded to 79f., sellers.
QUARTER TO FOUR. Five per Cents., 109 f. 95e. ;
Three per Cents., 78f. 93c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, 40 ;
Three per Cents., Spanish, 25; Cortes, 39; Coupons, 214;
Guebhards, 401 ; Differes, l6i ; New Loan, 491-; Definitives,
—; Certificates, —; Actives, 481 ; Passives, 14 ; Ducats,
97 30 ; Romans, 100:11; Belgians, —; Pedros, —; Miguels,
Dutch,--; Haytians, 375 f. ; Brabant Bank, —.

The Motion for the Admission of Ladies into the
House of Commons, during the Debates, was last night
rejected, by a majority of Three—the exact number
of the Graces! Monstrous, that such a number should be
degraded by its application to such a purpose ! It is some
consolation, however, for the fair sex to know, that all the
OTONNELLS were among their supporters ; and that they
will no doubt agitate next Session, in the cause of beauty,
as stoutly and successfully as ever they agitated in that
of their country. But where was the Hon. and Gallant
Member for Lincoln on this interesting'occasion ? We do
not see his name in the minority. Surely he cannot have
been among the Dissentients! Impossible.

DREADFUL OCCURRENCE AT
HOUNSLOW.—(THIS MORNING.)
At a quarter before eight o'clock this morning, a shock
(like that of an earthquake) was heard in Hounslow and
its immediate vicinity. A gentleman standing at his chim-
ney-piece was suddenly thrown down ; he ran out of the
house in alarm, but saw nothing to explain the phenomena.
In a few minutes it was too fatally accounted for—the
Powder Mills of Messrs. Harvey and Curtis had blown up.
In the confusion and terror that prevails, it is almost im-
possible to gather any coherent particulars. Two men it
is known are killed, and many are missing. Hounslow,
and all the country for a mile or two aroun, is in a state
of tremor and alarm indescribable.

SIIIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, AUG. 4.—Wind E., fine weather. Arrived and sailed
for the river the Offiey, Stayers, from the South Seas ; Glaphira,
Mereton, and Ranger, Stewart, from Antigua. Arrived from the
river and sailed the Louisa Campbell, Mac Queen, for Canton ;
13roxbornebay, Chap Man, for Cape of Good Hope ; Lion, Shep-
herd, for Malta ; Martha, Dyer, for Waterford ; Romanoff, Thomr-
son, for Miramichi ; Richard Manut, Everton, for Liverpool ; and
•Galmira, Sparks, for Cork.
PORTSMOUTH, Auc. 4.—Wind N.E. to W., fine.
PLYMOUTH, Auc. 3.—Wind E. S.E. to S.S.E. Arrived off
port the Patriots, Ninia, from Selubal.
FALMOUTH, Auc. 3.---Wind E., moderate breezes and fine.
Arrived the Creole, Tulloch, from Para; Magnet packet, Harvey,
from Lisbon. Sailed his Majesty's ship Firefly, —, for Cadiz and
the Mediterranean ; Nightingale packet, for the West Indies;
and Swallow, M'Queen, for Antwerp.
LivEutrooL, AUG. 3.—Arrived the Belgrave, Williams, from
Wilmington ; Waverley, Philips, from Mobile : Portsmouth, Mar-
shall, from New Orleans ; Elizabeth Whitney, Harding, from New
York. Off port the Robert Burns, —, from Restigouche ; Char-
lotte, Fissie, —, and Sir John Beresford, --, from Quebec.
HOLYHFAD, Aug. 3.—Arrived off, the Fenwick, Kealing, from
St. John's, New Brunswick ; Thomas, M'Taggert, from Palermo;
and Blessing, Green, and Harmony, Bruce, from Quebec.
DUBLIN, Auc. 3.—Arrived the Wanderer, Jenkins, from Trini-
dad ; Boliver, Gunson, from Qnebee ; Sisters, Owen, from Leg-
horn ; Hebe, Pabiridge, from Gibraltar ; and Gras. Alexander,
--, from Riga.
LIZARD, AUG. 3.—Arrived off, the Ocean, Blackburn, from
Quebec.
SCILLY, AUG. 3.—Arrived off, the Flower of Edinburgh, —,
from Lisbon.
BRISTOL, Auc. 4.—Arrived the Severn, Brown, from Quebec;
Adelaide, Dawes, from Newfoundland; and Tempest, Oliver, from
Archangel.
GLOUCESTER, Auc. 4.—Arrived the Silas, Laing, and Break-
water, Sloman, from Bathurst.
MILFORD, Auc. 4.—Arrived the Resolution, Rutter, from
Miramichi ; Celt, Taylor, and Lady Keith, Burrows, from
Alexandria.
PENTLAND FRITH, Auc. 3.—Arrived the Patriot, Law, from
Havannah ; Ross, Wakes, from Quebec ; Latona, Smith, from
Bathurst; and Sarah Flemming, —, from Port Medway.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

,
New York Papers have been received at the North and South
American Coffee-house one day later. They are of little conse-
quence.
From the River Plate :—By the Barque Colonel, from Monte-
video, papers have been received from the above city to the 9th of
May inclusive, and the Buenos Ayres British packet. of May 2d.
A letter from Montevideo of the 9th sadrs—" Times are here as
dull as possible, and likely to continue so."
Buenos Ayres, May 2d.—" Most of our readers are aware that
one or two foreigners were insulted in the streets for not wearing
the Federal device. These outrages caused at first considerable
anxiety amongst the residents, but the promptness of Government
in bringing the aggressors to punishment has had the desired effect."
Accounts from many of the interior towns of the province of
Buenos Ayres state that the fest.a in honour of tine installation of
Governor Rosas, has been celebrated with great brilliancy.
There is nothing of interest from Montevideo. The Govern-
ment have prohibited bull-fighting in that town.
Demerara Papers are received at Liverpool of June 13 :—The
Combined Court assembled at George Town on the 10th, for dis-
patch of business. Some important financial questions were to be
brought under the consideration of the Court.
Our arrivals this morifing consist of one French mail, with ship-
letters from the Mauritius and Sydney of the 22d February.

THE FUNDS.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 90% for the Account, opened
this morning at 90% %; for Money 90%, with a firm Market.
Omni= may be quoted at 3% prem. in demand. Exchequer
Bills 23 25 ; India Bonds 6 8; Bank Stock 2141 2151; India
Stock, 255 256.
Spanish, which left off yesterday at 49% 50, may be quoted at
48.1 50%; Spanish Scrip, which left off at 10% 10 dis., is at the
same price this morning ; Portuguese left off at 90% 90%, are at
present 90% 91 ; Three per Cents. 59%; Colombian, 35 ; Mexican
354 36%; Dutch 2% per Cents. 54% ; Cortes Bonds, 38 ; Cow
pons, 22.

HALF-PAST ONE.
Both the British and Foreign markets have a lively appearance,
Consols, which were in the morning at 90i a for the Account
have improved to 90i ; for money 90i a ; Omnium has also ad
vanced to 3i prem.

~To-morroW being pay day for the first instalment of ten per
cent., the Bank are making preparations to receive it. Exchequer
Bills 23 25 ; India Bonds 6 8; Bank Stock 215 16 ; India Stock
255 6.
The Foreign Market has also a firmer appearance. Spanish
Bonds, 494 50i ; Spanish Scrip, 14 10, discount; Portuguese,
goi ; 3 per Cents, 59} ; Dutch 2k, 54141; Mexican, 351 36 ;
Columbian, 35. Colonel Evans and General Alava depart this
day for Spain.
THREE O' CL CK.
Consols for the Account, 90h 1.

Lord Auckland's appointment as Governor-Genera'
of India is confidently rumoured. We incline to give credit
to the report.

Lord Brougham, it is said, intends visiting Dublin
during the ensuing meeting of the British Association for pur-
poses of Science. The Lord Lieutenant has invited the
Noble and Learned Lord to sojourn at the Phcenix-park.
This we believe is Lord Brougham's first visit to Ireland.

We are authorized by Mr. Mash, of the Lord
Chamberlain's Office, to state that the article which appeared
in the Age newspaper of Sunday last, under the head of
Theatricals," is a gross and malicious libel, and, as regards
the charges and insinuations therein contained, utterly void of
truth. Mr. Mash has also instructed his solicitors as promptly
as possible to bring the matter into a court of law, where the
writers of the fabrication .complained of will be afforded an
opportunity of justifying themselves, it they can ; but in the
mean time Mr. Mash considers it due to the department he so
many years has had the honour of belonging to, and to himself,
thus publicly to deny the truth of the slander in question.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

THIS DAY, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 5.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The Earl of Sii;FTESBURY took his seat on the Woolsack at a
Quarter past One o'clock.
CORPORATION REFORM BILL.

Lord LYNDHURST presented a petition from the mortgagees
of property belonging to the Corporation of Ludlow, against certain
clauses in the Corporation Reform Bill.
Counsel were then called in, and the House proceeded to hear
evidence against the Bill.