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London, England, 1832-11-03 00:00:00

DUTCH PAPERS.

SECOND CHAMBER OF THE STATES-GENERAL.
TIIE HAGUE, OCT. 28_—A Royal message was
read, accompanied by seven projects of law, con-
taning an equal number of chapters of the second
book of the civil code, from 11 to 17.
The report of the central section was read, rela-
tive to the placing at the disposal of the Govern-
ment the remaining 10,000,000, by virtue of the
law of the 4th cf January last.
Four of the five sections were satisfied with the
answers and communications of the Government, in
rep'y to the observations made in the sections. In
one of the sections only some objections were made
by a part of the members.
His Excellency M. Ropelair Van Driel, Minister
of state and Director of the Bank of Brussels, died
here on the 26th, at the age of 80.
It has been observed for some days past,
that the patriotic gifts for the necessities of the
country are frequently accompanied by a remark
that they are intended as a homage to the most
noble perseverance of the Government for the well-
fare and honour of the country. Thus we find the
following in the Staab Courant :
" A Netherlands bank-note for 500 florins, on the
back of which is written Gift for the country,' in
order to do homage to the Government of his Ma-
jesty, our beloved Savereign, for the wise and noble
perseverance which he manifests for the welfare,
independence, and prosperity of the country, with
the motto, ' To be or not to be.'"
ROTTERDAM, OCT. 26.—Among the measures
for putting our second line of defence in a proper
condition, preparations are making to inundate the
' country, if necessary. The works are already so far
advanced, that in a very short time a great part of
the province of North Brabant may be laid under
water.
SECOND CHAMBER OF THE STATES-GENERAL.
THE HAGUE, OCT. 30,—The project of law for
placing the sum of ten millions at the disposal of the
G )vernment, was adopted by a majority of 38 to 2.
A courier arrived here on Saturday night, with
despatches from the Austrian Legation, by which
Baron Von Burdir, the Minister Plenipotentiary at
the Court of the Netherlands, is recalled. It is
affirmed that his Excellency will set out to-morrow.
His recall seems to be merely a personal affair, wholly
unconnected with political affairs, as the Legation
%ill remain here.
Last night a courier from Paris arrived at the
French Ambassador's.
HAARLEM, OCT. 29.—While the army is daily
receiving reinforcements, and the augmentation of
our means of defence is actively prosecuted, we learn
that the Government is seriouily intent on a greater
development of force than hitherto, and, among other
things, on preparatory measures for forming, in case
of need, moveable corps out of the first class of mi-
litia actually on service, and out of the 2d and 3d,
Actualpalt'C,
which have not yet been called out.
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Ditto, ditto, 183'2, 5 per cent 78114 to 79%
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—Dutch Papers, Oct. 31.

TOO CIVIL BY HALF.—A learned Irish
Judge, among other pe:cuiiarities, has a habit of begging
pardon on every occasion. On his circuit a short time
since, his favourite expression was employed in ratter a
singular manner. At the close of the assize, as he was
about to leave the bench, the officer of the Court reminded
him that he had not pass, d sentenced death on one of the
criminals, as he bad intend d. D-ar we !" said hie
" I really beg his pardon —br,og him i!•"

SPAIN.

EETRACT or A LETTER FROM MADRID, DATED OCT. 23.

In entering upon the political topip which at present
absorb theattention.of every Spaniard, I need not assure
you that, notwithstanding the principles and opinions by
which I have always been actuated, I shall treat the sub-
ject without the least prejudice, and that I derive my in-
formation from the fountain head, to which I have of late
lead all the access that is required to enable me to form a
right judgment.
After the nomination of the Queen to the Regency, the
decree for the liberation of all the prisoners confined in the
prisons of the kingdom, and the more notable one of
the reopening of the Universities, the first attention
of the authors of the projected reform was directed
to the filling up of the principal posts in the Go-
vernment with men known for their idels of mo.!e
ration and energetic characters, previous to the pro-
eeulgation of several fundamental decrees. If the reforms
should continue without a check, and the still most prim-
crful party of the Apostolicals should be unable to rally, or
get the better of the surprise in which they were thrown
by the unexpected denouement of the King's illness, we
may expect to see a civil emancipation in this country
without causing either tears, blood, or anarchy. Spain
will then take her rank among the European nations, get
rid of the baneful influence exerted by the Northern Pow-
ers, tranquillize King Philip on his rear-guard, and place
the Throne of Donna Maria on a firm basis. Neverthe-
less, we ask one another here if there will be sufficient
energy and resolution in the Members of the Administra-
tion to carry into effect the necessarily great reforms which
they have undertaken, and nobody ventures to answer in the
affirmative, because there cannot be much harmony of opi-
nion among the Members of the Ministry, at the head of
whom is the very man who allowed
_the murier of that
brave and unfortunate p itriot the Empecinado, who,
relying upon the faith of treaties, returned from hi-
patriotic duties to the bosom of hie family, to spend hi-
days in that peace and quietness which was promised him,
and because it is still problematical whether the present
changes are made as a concession to the spirit of our age.
or are the effect of some palace intrigue for private in-
terests. To the latter the generalty of the best-informed
people incline, but it is quite evident that there are many
influential individuals who from the first moment have en-
deavoured to take advantage of these favourable circum-
stances. The times are extremely critical, and such tree
as are of our principles and opinions, without relinquish-
ing their labours, as if nothing had happened, endeavour
to assist those who have declared themselves in favour of
the Queen's party, because her Majesty feels the necessity
sof conciliating the liberals, in order to increase her moral
and political force, which, even with their aid, I fear,
will not suffice to make head against the intrigues of the
Carlists, whose numerous ramifications in evety city,
town, and village of the peninsula will offer powerfn
obstacles to the proposed reforms. A propos of intrigues,
it would be endless were I to detail to you all that oc-
sirred during the King's illness. You have probably
heard that Just at the time when he was given up by his
physicians, the bead of the Carlist party made him sign:a
formal renunciation of the rights of his daughter in favour
t,f Den Curios, that afterwards his physicians were re-
quested to declare be had lost his sense., which they re-
fused, and that Ping, also refused to publish the codicil it.
the council. The Dukes of San Fernando, Cerralbo, San
Loreezo, Castrotorreno, and other noblemen, placed them.
selves at the bead of the movement in favour of the
Queen, in which they were powerfully aided by the In-
fanta Carlota, consort of the Infante Don Francisco, and
they succeeded in overthrowing the plans of the Cellists,
and obtaining the changes hitherto effected. The Re-
forMers meet at the houses of the Marquis of Santa Cruz
and of the Duke of San Fernando, but the centre of their
operations is in the apartment of the Infante Don Francisco.
The extinction of the Royalist Volunteers, and Garde-
de- Corps, is in contemplation, as well as the removal of
tnany chiefs and officers of the Royal Guard and army.
The amnesty, a copy of which I enclose in my letter, has
disappointed the expectations of the people of Madrid, and
caused a fall of 2 per cent. in our funds, because it was
confidently anticipated that there would he no exclusion of
persons, and nobody doubts that the lest few lines, so dis-
similar from the rest in the decree, were smuggled in some
unaccountable manner ; but the first and last cf the above-
mention, d measures, as well as the convocation of the Cortes,
composed of all the classes of the nation, will not be puttlislico
until the Generals and Governors newly appointed are at their
pos s. This is a rapid sketch of what has happened up to this
day. The agitation here is very great, the party of Don Car-
los is formidable, the clergy, Royalist Volunteers, and seve-
ral corps of the Guards and army do not show very fa-
vourable dispositions; proclamations are seen posted about
against the Queen and the rising party : in a word, a civil
war is secretly orgatiizing, from which it is gerterallv
hoped the Queen would come out triumphant, but which,
if allowed to be fomented, would plunge the country in a
see of troulees. According to the opinion of the phy-
sicians, it is not probable the King can ever recover, and
though he has been conveyed here, he is in as much dan- '
ger now as on the first day, and indeed on the night of
the 12th they all thought he would die.
All that I have here stated is the result of my mitn ob-
servations, and of those who now have access to the throne
itself, and it will aff frd you as much food for reflection
and apprehension as it does 'tie, .

A correspondent informs us that there is at
this time an apple-tree in the garden of a gentleman in
Sedge&ld in full bloom. It bore a plentiful crop of frui,
this season. To this we may add the fact, that a pear-
tree, growing upon the Ropewalk, on the Town-moor,
near St. John's Chapel, in this town, has one of its
branches in blossom, for the second time this year. Con-
sidering the lateness of the season, it i• somewhat singular,
especially when the situation is taken into the account, it
being within a stone's-throw of the German Ocean, and
exposed to the winds from the east and north-east.—
Sunderland Paper.

The following official notification is puliished
in the Albion, as made on Saturday evening to the Pleni-
potentiaries of the other Powers, in answer to the official
communication of the new convention signed and ratified
between England and France. It was as follows :—" The
Plenipotentiaries of Russia act in conformity with the ex-
press directions of the EMPEROR, their master, in makine
the following declaration;—The adoption of measures of
coercion, which France and Great Britain Lave resolved
to take against Holland, brings the circumstances of the
case to that position in which the Plenipotentiaries o
Russia, in virtue of the instructions with which they are
furnished, and with the tenour of which the Plenipoten-
tiaries of the allied Cabinets are not unacquainted, find
thetnselvcs under the necessity of retiring from the Con-
ference. They will transmit immediately to their Crain
a statement of the important circumstances which, in
altering the character of the pacific mediation in which
they were invited to take part, permit them no longer to
associate themselves in the labours o! their colleagues. It,
suspending their participation in the Conference, the Ple-
nipotentiaries of Russia await the ulterior determination
of their Court, founded on the important circumstances
which have made this declaration imperative upon them."
AFFECTING INSTANCE OF MORTALITY.—
Perhaps a more striking or affecting illustration of the
ravages of the exterminating malady now prevalent has
seldom occurred any where, than the following :—One day
lately, about a dozen females were engaged, at the same
moment together, in washing and bleaching their linens
on the Green Sands, and of these no less than nine had
been made widows within the short space of a fortnight !
These were all decent, respectable individuals, most of
whom, during their husbands' life-time, lived in comfort
and respectability, but who must now—many of them
with large young families--struggle on with " the world
and all its heartleasmss."—Dunfries Courier.
SEDUCTION, AND DETERMINED ATTEMPT
Ar SUICIDE..—(THIS DA .)—This morning, between
six and seven o'clock, the family of Mrs. GLASCCW, a
widow Irdy, residing in Norton-street, Fitzroy-square,
were plunged into the most poignant grief, by the eldest
daughter, a young lady of great accomplishments, between
nineteen and twenty years of age, having swallowed a
quantity of poison, with the intent of committing self-
destruction. It Providentially occurred, that this morn-
ing, being Saturday, the servant maid had occasion to get
up sooner than usual, to perform her domestic occupa-
tion'. On entering the kitchen, with the intention or
lighting the fire, she discovered ber young mistress, lying
on the floor, apparently in a fit, emitting a quantity of
saliva. She immediately ran up stairs, and acquainted
her mistress and the family of the circumstance. On
Mrs. G. entering the kitchen, she discovered a phial
lying by her side, with a label on it, " Laudanum—Poi-
eon," the contents of which the unfortunate young lady
had taken. Mr. Vaasa the medical attendant to the fa-
mily, was instantly sent for, and succeeded, by the aid oi
the stomach-pump, in ejecting the deadly poison from off
her stomach. On searching her pockets, some letters
were found, which led to the csuse of the commission of
the rash act. The unfortunate young creature had been,
betrayed by a young gentleman, who abandoned her, and
has since left the country for India. Another phial full of
laudanum was found in her pocket. She was enabled to
speak, but regrets that her life is likely to be spared.

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The QUEEN paid a visit to the Hulce, Duchess, ar:d
Prince GEORGE, of Cumberland, on Wednesday, at their
residence at Kew. Her MAJESTY partook of a dejeune
with their Royal Highnesses, and left Kew soon after four
o'clock, on her return to the Palace at Windsor.

Prince TALLEYRAND received despatches yesterday
morning from his Government; his Excellency went in
the afternoon and had an interview with Viscount PAL-
MERSTON.

Sir .TASTES GRAHAM had an interview with Viscount
GODERICH yesterday, at the Colonial-office, and also tran-
sacted business at the Foreign-office.
The KING has granted to Captain HORACE SEYMOUR,
Equerry to his MAJESTY, the rank of Lieutenant. Colonel
in the Hanoverian army.
Mr. JEREMIE, the Right Hon C. GRANT, and Sir W.
NICOLAY, had interviews with Viscount GODERICH on
Thursday, at the Colonial-office.
Mr. P. THomrsoN transacted business yesterday at the
Foreign•ofiice.
Viscount ALTHORP left town on Thursday for North-
ampton.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office, from Sir A. WOODFORD, at the lonian Islands ;
from Sir F. PON SONISY, the Lieutenant-Governor of
Malta; from Mr. D. HAY, Consul-General at Tangiers;
tnd from Sir W. flousToN, Lieutenant-Governor of
Gibraltar.

The Neapolitan Minister transacted business at the Co-
lonial-office on Wednesday.

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