The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-24 00:00:00

BERLIN AND HAMBURG PAPERS.

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ST. PETERSBURGH, JAN. 4.—The Emperor having de-
cided that the Polish order of the White Eagle and of St. Sta-
nislaus shall be added to the orders of the Russian empire, has
been pleased to confer both orders on Prince Galitain, and that
of the White Eagle on Privy Councillor Engel.
llis Majesty has appointed General Yermoleff member of the
Council of the Empire.

The Gazette contains the names of eight traitors, who took
part in the Polish rebellion, and have been sentenced to degra-
dation from their rank, banishment to Siberia, and the confisca-
tion of their property.

.Is, according to the laws in force in the Grand Duchy of
Finland, Jews are not allowed to enter that province, the civil
government of those provinces in which Jews are now per-
mitted to reside, have received orders not to give them pass.
ports to Finland.

BERLIN, JAN. 13.—The pardons which his Majesty has gra.
ciously granted by the amnesty to those inhabitants of the
Grand Duchy of Posen, who took part in the Polish insurrec-
tion, without violating their official duties, has had the happy
result of causing great numbers of landowners to return to their
estates. As for those whose offences must be decided judicially,
their pardon may be delayed for some time, as above one thou.
sand processes before the tribunals will be necessary. It is
honourable to the Prussian Polish regiments, that only five offi-
cers joined the insurgents. There is nothing certain at present
respecting the destination of the Poles who do not return to
their country (said to be 18,000 men) but it is generally
believed that they will go, probably at the expence of
France, to Belgium, to be incorporated with the army of
that kingdom, in case of another attack by the Dutch,
where their example would encourage the Belgians, and
prevent such another defeat as that at Ilasselt. General
timinski is spoken of as their Commander, in case the French Go-
vernment should consider further intervention as unnecessary.
Our Cabinet seems likewise to he by no means inclined to an
intervention, for fear of a general war, though the ratification
may be delayed some time; and no secret is made of the wish,
that the King of Holland may obtain better terms respecting
the navigation of the rivers in his dominions, where no other
Power should be allowed to interfere.

BERLIN, Jay. 14.—1 t seems we may soon expect a visit
of the Emperor of Russia, who is expected at Warsaw. Doubt-
less, without reason, this news has been considered by some as
indicating an approaching interruption of peace; though, at
this time, there is no Cabinet in Europe more inclined to peace
than that of Prussia. The armies of Russia, too, have been
much weakened by the wars in Turkey, Persia, and Poland.
STOCKHOLM, JAN. 10.--The Cholera at Abo.—From the
•21)th to the 27th of December, there we:e 52 new cases, 15 reco-
veries, and 24 deaths ; remaining, 29,

H 81.71 W, JAN. 17.—We have now four cholera patient.,
remaining.l3l

Jrom the Hamburg Reporter.)

BORSEN-lIALLE, JAN, 17, HALF-PAST Two P,x...-Great
fluctuat:ons have been daily taking place in the price of stock,
owing chiefly to the feverish state of the Bourse of Paris. On
Saturday the price of Rentes on the 9th was received here by
express, and stocks of every description fell in consequence.—
Yesterday prices rose again. To-day business was dull in the
beginning, but improved towards the close, on the strength of
letters from Amsterdam, according to which Rentes had risen
again to 64f. 70c. In Amsterdam, sales of French Rentes were
effected at 65f. Discount 5 per cent.

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Anglo-Danish Loan 3 per Cent. e2
Anglo-Russian Loan 91%
Hamburg-Ittissian Loan
Russian Inscriptions, 5 per Cent.
Russian Inscriptions, 1831 .... 83%
Polish Bonds 113,i
Austrian Rink Shares 1129
Ditto Metalliques
New Austrian 4 per Cents
BERLIN, JAN. 16.—Since yesterday, two patients in La
Charite have been attacked by cholera and removed to the
Cholera Hospital, where one died, and the other is the only
cholera patient here.—Prussian State Gazette, Jan. 17.

fi[CIIANCE6 ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, JAN. 17.-13 ; two months, 13 6k.
PETERSBUIWIL, JAN. 3.-10 19-32.
LEIPSIC, JAN. 9.—Three months, 6 17k.
VIENNA, JAN. 7.—Three months, 9 50.

FRENCH PAPERS.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, JAN. 20.

The Minister of Commerce brought in a private Bill respect-
ing the department of the Marne.—Ordered to be printed.
M. Voyer D'Argenson read a proposition relative to the
mode of grants of mines by Government. He was ordered to
be heard in support of it on Saturday week.
The President announced the death of hl. Brousse, Deputy
of the Aude. A deputation was nominated by lot to attend
his funeral. The general discussion of the budget was then
r2sumed.

M. Thierry Poux eulogized the exposition, professed himself
proud of the appellation of revolutionary in the most extended
sense of the word, insisted on the necessity of economy, and
declared that he should vote against the Budget.
M. Falguerolles should vote for the Budget as amended by
the Committee.

H. Salverte referred to the riots at Lyons, the true cause of
which had never been clearly explained ; and then drew a
strong picture of the misery of the lower classes of the popu.
iation. He next pointed out various departments of the Budget,
in which he conceived that further reductions might reasonably
be made. In the course of his address, the Hon. Deputy took
occasion to allude to several questions not directly relating to
the Budget; he censured the Government for compelling M.
Nyemojowski, the late chief of the Polish Government, to quit
Paris ; he repelled the idea of any union existing between tire
patriots and the ('arlists, on the contrary, he said, that it was
the Government who favoured the latter, by allowing them to
retain offices from which the former vainly urged their removal.
The Hon. Deputy also accused the Government of favouring
the Carlists, in not having arranged that the Bill for abrogating
the law respecting the celebration of the 21st of January should
have been passed through the Chamber of Peers before that anni.
versary. In conclusion he said, he should not vote against the
Budget, because he considered it impossible to refuse it, but
that he should throughout the discussion vote for every feasible
amendment proposed with a view of diminishing the amount of
expenses.—(Applause.)
M. de Remusat said that the discussion of the Budget was
the discussion of the whole Government, and that in the pre.
sent instance both were deserving of the warm support of the
Chamber. He concluded by combating the arguments and
statements of M. ',aline relative to the st de of the country
and the deficiency existing in the Treasury, accusing that Hon.
Deputy of having lost his memory both in politics and figures.
M. de Tracy, in his observation respecting those who took a
share in the Budget, did not mean to throw reproach on those
who received a salary from the State for their honourable ser.
vices ; his remark applied only to the sinecurists.

M. Lafitte, although not old enough to have lost his memory,
was too old to be taken to task in the manner adopted by M. de
ltemusat. He (M. I.afitte) had always carefully abstained from
personalities, and ho had hoped that his example would have
been followed. lithe Ministry wished to attempt to reflite any
part of his statements, either political or financial, he was per-
Letly willing to enter the lists in support of them.
M. Larabit could not give his support to a Ministry which
presented a Budget scarcely differing in any thing from those of
the restoration.

The President of the Council felt the necessity of once again
laying open to the Chamber his views, principles, and feelings.
lie reviewed the conduct of the Opposition, of which he formed
a part during the restoration, and which he represe tied not at
having been for 16 years engaged in playing a comedy which
was to end in the tragedy of the destruction of the Monarchy,
but as having sought only the maintenance of the charter, and
the overthrow of the party who were endeavouring to under
mine it. He next traced the manner in which, after the revo-
lution of July, the supporters of that revolution became divided
into two parties, one of which, known under the name of" Move-
ment," wished, in opposition to the charter, to have recourse to
States-General, and universal 6uffra,ge at home and imprudent
war abroad; while the other, to which the name of " Resist-
ance" had been given, but which he (M. Perier) called the party
of conservation, desired honourable peace abroad and constitu-
tional order at home. A dissolution of the Chamber soon after
the development of these two parties, gave the country an op-
portunity of pronouncing between them. The majority of the
Chamber pronounced itself on the question of the address, and,
had ever since continued to support that party and that Admi.
nistration of which he formed a part. He then, after alluding,
to the perpetual attacks made by the opposition on the Ministry
continued thus—" If after the numerous attacks made upon us
in this Chamber, we have been able to obtain your suffrages,
may we not be permitted to deny the propriety of the epithet
Ministerial given to a system consecrated by proofs so reiterated,
and proclaim it to be a national system?"—(" Hear, hear," in
opposite senses from the different parts of the Chamber.)
M. Bavoux—Say quasi-national.
Boudet— Anti-national.
(Numerous voices cried, " Yes, yes ;" and others, " It is in
conformity with the opinions of the nation.")
The President of the Council repeated " and proclaim it the
only national system, since it has been adopted and supported by
the legal representatives of the people."—(Fresh interruptions.)
Odillon Barrot—No, I appeal to 30,000,000 Frenchmen,
who are not within these walls.
The President of the Council (addressing himself to M.
Odillon Barrot)—You repeat, Sir, words which I made use of in
lBi4, when I said, " we are but six in this assembly, but we
have to back us 30,000,000 of Frenchmen." I then stood in
this Chamber, with only five friends by my side, against a body
introduced by means of the double vote and by fraud. We had
every right then thus to express ourselves. But can you, (at the
present day) bring the same accusation against the majority
,shish has been the product of free elections, made under a law
voted by yourselves ? Dare you venture thus to declare that it
does not represent the country ?
M. Dupin, aine—This puts the question in its true light.
Members on the right—These elections have been made dur-
ing your administration.
The Pre: id ,nt of the Council—lf you attack the result of
these elect on you impugn the law voted by yourselves.
Other voices—lt was not we who made the law, but the
Chamber formed by the double vote.
Garuier Pages—Can you say the Chamber of the double
vote represented the country ?

The President of the Council—To argue this is to go beyond
all the rules of legitimate parliamentary discussion. This
system, gentlemen, must be the system of the nation, since it
has become yours ; for in what consists the nation, if it be not
in those returned by free election, under a law passed with
your concurrence and by your votes ? This truth must be ad.
milted both in law and in fact, or the existence of a repre-
sentative Government must be denied, unless you establish that

/ henceforth a representative Government is vested in the mino.
rity, and not in the majority. The Hon. Minister then pro.
eeeded to reply to the speech of M. Lafitte, arguing that the
financial system pursued by the present Administration was
founded on the same basis as that laid below by M. Lafitte
' When he was President of the Council. To prove this, he en-
tered into a variety of calculations, and then proceeded to main-
tain that the same uniformity of principle between the pre-
sent and the preceding Administration existed on the ques-
, tions of .external policy, and quoted from the Moniteur, in
support of his assertion, a speech of M. Lafitte's, when Mi-
nister, in which he spoke of the desire of the country for
Peace ; and also reviewed the conduct of Government with
respect to Italy, which he said was precisely the same as that
of M. Lafitte. In conclusion, he said, that although he had
the full conviction that the Opposition was actuated by a wish
to secure the welfare and prosperity of the country, it was
his duty to say that the course it was pursuing, in recom-
mending measures out of the pale of the constitutional system
of Parliamentary majorities, was a fatal error, and that if it
Were ever to arrive at a return to power through these paths
of destruction, it would find that it had destroyed beforehand
lits means of force and action,—that it would be governed in-
stead of governing, and would be pushed onward by passion
instead of being supported by conviction and interest. " The
country," he concluded, " demands at your hands repose,
calm, confidence, and future happiness. All these blessings
it will find in your union. That alone can develop its mate.
rial prosperity, and prepare a true relief for the burdens which
Press upon the country."—(This speech was received with loud
and general applause.)
M. Lafitte, in reply, gave a history of his administration;
he stated that he considered the Government of the revo-
lution of July to be based on the revolution of 1789, not the
restoration of 1814, and that he had never understood the
principle of quasi legitimacy. He detailed the disinclination
Which he had to enter into the administration, and the princi-
ples on which, when he consented to do so, he founded his
system of government. He admitted the correctness of the
quotations of the President of the Council, but argued that the
principles which he had supported had subsequently been de.
parted from, and instanced the abandonment of the Polish
cause, the severities exercised towards the Italian patriots, and
the state of the Belgian question, as proofs of it. With respect
to the division of the friends of the revolution into the two
parties pf the mouvement and resistance, he confessed he did
not sufficiently understand where the one ended and the other
- ' began, to enable him to say in which he was to be classed. In
conclusion, he repeated that the basis of his system was non-in-
tervention; and that he was convinced, that if that principle
were supported with firmness and dignity, the state of suspense
in which France and Europe had been so long kept might soon
be put an end to.
The closing of the general discussion was then put to the
vote, and pronounced by a small majority.
The President then announced, that on Monday the reporter
r Would sum up the general discussion.—Adjourned.
CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT.
COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL.—(THIS DAY.)
DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES.
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Places. -a r. UC.,' ..E ,-43 Eaei 2
AI Ts' Z it -ei ts° i 74 E ca) .- E
A 4.= X a g cc r-E ,E
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Jan.
Sunderland
Newcastle
Gateshead
North Shields anti
Tynemouth
South Shields and
Hepburn Colliery
Newbuni
Howden Dock
... Walt-er Township
Hetton, Houghton-
le-Spring, &c.
Haddingtos and vi-
cinity, N.B.
Tranent, N.B
Musselburgh, MB— 21 .17 17 I 5 0 29 44 15
Total I 126'2 I IX' 124 1111 215 12282 765
Totals from places where the disease has ceased,
and from which no returns have been this day
received
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1 ___ Grand Total 2473 MU

N.B. Three cases and two deaths have been reported to have
taken place at Preston Pans, N.B.
(Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary.

WARWICK, JAN. 23.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sia,—l wish, through the medium of your extensively cir-
culated Newspaper, to call the attention of the country to the
following statement of facts, viz., in regard to getting up Ad-
dresses to his Majesty against the creation of Peers, and also
the Reform Bill ; that is to say, 'Warwick to wit. An address was
got up here on Friday, the 20th instant, for the purpose above
stated, which, after being carried round at midnight from house
to house, and lying at the Cemrt-house for three days, ob-
tained the enormous number of 74 signatures, out of a popula-
tion of nearly 11,000, which may be thus explained : six who
style themselves gentlemen at the end of their names ; five par.
sorts (no doubt thinking if a Reform takes place they shall
Rrer); six attorneys, and would you believe it, at least seven
of their clerks, none of age and no householder ; two notorious
thieves, both in confinement, one in gaol and the other in the
House of Correction ; also, what is worthy of remark, there is
down on the list the name of" Hyla Holden, Esq., County Magis.
trate," put down by the instigators of this dirty job, at the end of
Which is this remark—"erased by me Hyla Holden, this 20th (1"
January, 1832,"—t0 enumerate the whole would be taking up
too much of your valuable Paper, suffice it to say— not one-half
are house dwellers or have a farthing at stake in the county.
But pardon me, I ought not to omit stating, there are two other
names, the former concludes with R.N. at the end--he is a pate_
per, receiving pay from the parish of Leamington—the other, a
son of a Rev. Divine, a notorious character—getting his living,
partly by writing begging letters, and partly from his wife.
Surely, Sir, such a kidney as this attempting to address his Ma-
ittty, contrary to the wise, just, and noble principles of the best
of monarchs ever seated upon a British throne, is not to be en-
dured.—Your'.:, &e.

EXF,( UTION AT EDINBURGH.

(From the Scotsman of Saturday.)

This morning, John Howison, who was lately convicted in
the Justiciary Court of the murder of Widow Geddes, at Cra.
mond, underwent the last punishment of the law, at the usual
place of execution, head of Libberton's Wynd. Since his con.
viction, Howison has evinced but few symptoms of conscious-
hems of the awful situation in which he was placed; but at the
same time he indulged in none of the usual vagaries of imagi-
nation common to persons who are not held morally account.
able for their actions. Last night he slept but little, and when
he awoke, made the following startling confession to Mr.
Fisher and other individuals who remained with him during the
night. He had all along protested his innocence of the Cra_
Mond murder, anti denied having been in the village on the day
it was committed. On being farther questioned, he refused to
sa?' more, but stated that in the morning he would tell some.
thing that would surprise them all. After the lapse of some
time, he was pressed to fulfil his promise, upon which
he solemnly declared he had been guilty of six murders. He
afterwards said the number he deprived of life amounted to
eight. He was then asked when and where these crimes were
perpetuated. He replied, the first murder he committed was
about four years ago, and the last one about twelve months ago,
In the harvest of 1820 he murdered a labourer of the name or
Jameson, with whom he had quarrelled in a house near Lauder.
and followed some distance on the road. He had a grudge at
this person ; and being afraid of detection, left that part of the
country. About two years ago, in a wood, near Whittingham,
between Morpeth and Wooler, he quarrelled with a labourer
and murdered him with a stick. The other six murders took
place in Edinburgh, namely, two boys and a girl in the West
Port, two boys in the Cowgate, and one boy at the Head of the
Canongate. When asked what induced him to commit these
barbarous. crimes, he replied that he had been the worse of
liquor, at a time when he had about two pounds on his person,
of harvest wages, and that he fell asleep, and was robbed of
the money. When he awoke from his 4. drunken sleep" he
Missed the money, and having shortly after seen his young
victims, bethought they were the persons who had stolen his
cash, and " marked them out" in consequence, that he might
murder them to satisfy his revenge. He knew there were others
connected with the robbery, and he "does not know what he
Would have done with them had he fallen in with them."
After he killed the children "he took no more thought of
fern." He thought his sentence unjust as related to the
Cramond murder, as he had no connection with that ; but he
deserved to die for the other crimes. The culprit also con_
(cued, that during his travels as a pedlar and common
beggar, he had stolen four gold watches and several silver ones.
He had also stolen a great number of rings and brooches.
such are the confessions which the wretched man made during
the tight, in presence of a clergyman and several respectable
Individuals. It is needless to remark, that they appear scarcely
credible, although they were made with composure, and with-
," any apparent indications of a disordered mind. He had,
"°wever a decidedly vacant stare previous to his execution,
but scarcely more so than we have noticed in some others, while
remarkable
14eParing for their ign
anominious end. It is that n ,
relation, or friend of y description, requested to see Howisono
Previous to his execution.

A Cabinet Council was held this day at two
°'elock, which was attended by the LORD CHANCELLOR,
Earl GREY, the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, Lord AL-
l'Hoitr, Lord MELBOURNE, Lord DURHAM, Lord PAL-
141k1TON, Lord GODERICH, the Earl of CARLISLE, Lord
HOLLAND, Lord JoHN RUSSELL, the Duke of RICHMOND,
iSir Jams, G 11.4.11.1.34 the Right Hon. CHARLES GRANT,
-u" Mr. STANLEY. The Ministers were in deliberation
1944 our Paper went to press.