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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING. APRIL 20, 1832.

The French Papers of Wednesday are prin-
ipally occupied with the progress of the cholera
nd strictures upon an offer of 12,000 francs
4801.) by the Duchess DE BERRY to relieve
he Parisians in their present calamity. This
[onation has been promptly refused by M.
lONDY, Prefect of the Seine, which has irritated
he Ultra Papers very much, while the Liberal
104rnals pour forth all manner of praise upon
he Prefect for his spirited conduct.
The Constitutionnel is particularly indignant
" the occasion. The offer was made through
CHATEAUBRIAND, who publishes his own
!tter, but suppresses the reply of the Prefect, on
e ground that he was not authorized to make
Public. On this the Constitutionnel remarks--
"We hope the Prefect will fill up the blank left
Y M. CHATEAURRIAND, and himself publish
le letter containing the motives of that refusal,
'hie!' will be applauded by all France. In the
lean time, let us express the sentiments of
Adain and indignation with which the pro-
ktnation of this ostentatious act of charity
been universally received, and pro.
it, in the name of the people of Paris,
ainst this new intrigue of a miserable faction.
'hat ! could the daughter•in-law of CHARLES
imagine that the people of Paris would de-
tde themselves so low as to accept money
her who only two years ago was coolly
4i ng for her picture while the blood of
tltttchmen was flowing in torrents ? from
who, when at St. Cloud, uttered the
q gross insults against therm, on hearing

the roaring of the carmen that Was sweeping
diem to destruction? Could the mother of
HENRY V. believe that the Parisians would
abandon all national fraternity, and accept a gift
from that hand which is showering gold for the
purpose of recruiting and maintaining chouan-
nery, fomenting civil war, and promoting the
plunder and assassination of loyal Frenchmen in
La Vendee?"
Neither the Monileur nor the Journal des
Debuts makes any comment upon the subject,
but the other Journals are full of it.

The Moniteur contains the official pro-
mulgation of the law regulating army promo-
tions ; of that regulating the importation and
exportation of corn ; of that granting
2,000,000 f. for the extraordinary expenses
occasioned by the cholera ; and of that modi-
fying the 164th article of the Civil Code rela-
tive to marriages between brother and sisters-in-
law, uncles and nieces, and aunts and nephews.
The following are a few extracts respecting
the cholera, &c.:—
(From Galignani's Messenger.)
THE CHOLERA.

The Moniteur publishes the report made by M. Ta-
boureau of the total number of deaths by cholera, up to
the 14th instant inclusive, from which it will be seen
that the mortality, though deplorably great, is much less
than public rumour had estimated it. The deaths on the
15th are stated to be 4367 ; namely, 183 in the hospitals,
and 384 at home; and on the 16th, 512—namely, 183
in the hospitals, and 329 at home. From this it is evi-
dent that the disease is gradually and steadily diminish-
ing in intensity. We understand that, in order to be
more correct, the daily reports of deaths will not now
be published until twenty-four hours later than
heretofore; so that to-morrow we shall hare those of the
17th, and so on. 31. Taboureau, in giving his report,
accounts for the inaccuracies in the former statements
in the same manner as the article of the Moniteur which
we have before quoted, and adds, that the number of
deaths which bare occurred in Paris, between the Ist and
14th inst., from causes other than the cholera is 1,454,
making the whole mortality during that period 8,987.
Among the last victims are Count Cassini, Peer of
France, Mesdames Bellanger and Doaan, daughters of
Lieut. Gen. Taviel, who both died within forty-eight
hours, and Count Morand.
The cholera has manifested itself in the following places
since our last account :—Aisne : Laon, Yervins,
Soissons. Eure : Les Andelys. Leiret : Gien. Nord :
Douai, Hasbrouck. Orne : Montargis. Oise : Senlis,
Crevecieur, Bretuil, Clermont, Faye), Luchy, Blain-
Verneuil. Sarthe Courville. Yonne : Sens,
Joigny, Serigny.

From the Private Cirrespondenee of the Constitutionnel.

SWEDEN.
STocKmOLM, MARcir 27.—The most satisfactory re-
ports continue to be received on the subject of the silver
mines of Kongsberg. They yielded, in the months of
January and February of this year, 1,635 marks two
ounces of fine silver; and a fortnight since, a mass of
pure silver, weighing 145 marks and six ounces, was
dug up. The herring fishery on the Norwegian coast is
over for the season ; besides what the minor towns of
Egersund, Fleekefjird, Sagedel, &c., may have caught,
Bergen has salted morn than 130,000 tons, and Staranger
more than 100,000.

By the prohibition of brandy, the State-Treasury has
lost up to the let of October, an income of more than
800,000 rix thalera, a deficit which must be covered by
a higher duty being imposed on several articles of colonial
merchandise. The Counsellor in the department of War,
M. Von Orchimont, has been appointed General Intend-
ant of the camp to be fixed for the purposes of pleasure
in the month of June. The report is prevalent that the
Crown Prince of Prussia will be present.
M. Brouilhon, a commissary of police, accompanied
by several agents, entered this evening at five o'clock the
house of M. Felix Auril, secretary of the " Society of
tl.e Friends of the People," and, in execution of a warrant
signed by the " Juge d'lnstruction, d'Herbelot," seised
500 copies of a pamphlet entitled, " On Civilzation," and
which, it is said, had not yet been publi4hed.

We cannot but regret the fate of Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S motion the other evening in the House
of Commons, respecting the appropriation of a
certain sum for the erection of a National Pic-
ture Gallery. Such a building is much wanted,
for it is a notorious fact, that many of our most
valuable paintings are in no slight degree lost to
the public, from the way in which they are scat-
tered (as if they were merely so much lumber)
about the metropolis and elsewhere. We are
rich in the fine arts : we are in possession of
many of the choicest paintings of the most
consummate artists that ever existed ; yet
for all the advantages that the nation
derives from those treasures, it might just as
well be perfectly destitute. But this is no re-
cent grievance; for years and years past Go-
vernment has been called on by the people,
through the Press, to rectify it : we are surprised,
therefore, that Sir ROBERT PEEL should only
just now have turned his attention to the subject.
He is himself, and has been for a long series of
years, a munificent patron of the fine arts ; he is
well aware ofthe salutary influence their cultivation
works on the intellect of the age : why did he not
then, when he had the power, take up the subject?
Was his Tory Administration so impoveri,hed
by the unceasing demands made on it by the
host of placemen and pensioners whom it kept
in pay, as to be unable to afford even a grant
of thirty thousand pounds, for the erection of
that indispensable requisite, a national Picture
Gallery ? If se, he can hardly wonder that Lord
ALTHORP objected to his motion ; for the pre-
sent Administration cannot, however desirous,
afford as yet to be generous, seeing that its
means are crippled by the lavish extravagance of
the Governments that preceded it. But the Re-
form question, we doubt not, will soon set this,
as well as other important matters, right.

The Times of this morning contains a mas-
terly analysis, by " Radical," of the Duke of
WELLINGTON'S Protest against the Reform
Bill, which is proved unanswerably to be a tissue
of the grossest blunders and inconsistencies. His
Grace's remark, that " we are bound, above all
things, to bear in mind that the Government of
this country is, what from the earliest period of our
history it has ever been, a monarchy," is shown up
in fine style. " Radical," we perceive, attributes
the manufacture of the Protest to a late Presi-
dent of the Council, with the assistance of a late
Secretary of a Public Board. Whoever is the
manufacturer, he does well to preserve his ano-
nymy, for a more illogical, inconsequential
piece of reasoning never yet challenged public
attention.

Lisbon Gazettes, to the 7th of April, in-
clusive, have been received ; but as these papers
are so completely under the control of Don
AlmuEr., it would be idle to expect any news
on which to place reliance. Comment is there-
fore quite unnecessary. The following is an
abstract of a long manifesto published by the
usurper :
Lnimx, Arau. 3.—The Gazette contains a decree of
his Majesty, confirming and extending the provisions of

the defile of the 9th bt %kiwi, 1831, by *bleb two
commissioners were appointed, in the citiee of Lisbon and
Oporto, to try and condemn prisoners guilty of the causes
of excitement to revolt, sedition, tumultuous ease:skimps.
to the detriment and security of the State, and other simi-
lar acts of treason.

His Majesty has issued an extremely loug manifesto.
in which he combats the pretences of his brother Doe
Pedro and of his niece Donna Maria ta the crown of Por-
tu,eal. His principal argument is, that Don Pedro had
accepted the sovereignty of a State which, by Article I.
of its constitution, cannot be connected with Por-
tugal ; that he had caused himself and his children
to be naturalized, not only as citizens, but as Princes
of Brazil. By several articles of that Charter
he had bound himself by articles 104 and 116 to
reside constantly in Brazil ; that on the 15th July,
1824, he had voluntarily declared to his August father
that he had no claims whatever upon Portugal ; that to
be King of Portugal was incompatible with the interests
of Brazil ; that the fundamental laws of Portugal require
that their Kings shall not be foreign Princes, and that
they shall reside in the kingdom. The manifesto proceeds
to show that even had Don Pedro succeeded to the throne
of his father, and taken the requisite oath, he could have
no right whatever to change the fundamental laws of the
kingdom, without the consent of the three estates assembled
in the Cortes ; but as Don Pedro was expresslyexcluded from
the throve of Portugal by the fundamental laws both of
Portugal and Brazil, he could not exercise any act as Sove-
reign of Portugal, nor abdicate a crown which he did
not possess. This abdication in favour of the Princess of
Grand Para (who was besides, herself a Brazilian Princess,
and consequently disqualified) was of course null and void.
The manifesto proceeds to show the illegality of the mea-
sure taken by Don Pedro, and the absurdity of promul-
gating laws in the name of a Sovereign who had abdi-
cated. Meantime a strong party was formed in the
kingdom in favour of Don Miguel, which in July and
October, 1826, proclaimed him King, in Tras-os-Montes
and Algarve, and formed a Regency in his name, in
which movements he, residing at Vienna, had no concern
with the Powers of Europe, save that such a state of
things could not endure, and that it was necessary he
should return to Portugal, to which he consented, bar-
ing first, while at the Court of Vienna, made an especial
reservation of his rights. The manifesto then recites the
return of the Prince to Portugal, and the convocation of
the three estates by which he was declared King. The
manifesto declaims vehemently against the democratic and
disorganizing faction, extols the fidelity of the Portuguese
nation, " which will assuredly defeat the most rash at.
tempt ever made by that rebellious faction, if they should
basely come to attack their own country with the help of
foreign vagabonds banished from their own nation. The
clergy of the whole kingdom, the firm supporters of reli.
gion and the throne, renew the noble example they have at
all times given ; the nobility are in the ranks of the army,
and the numerous and valiant troops hasten to arms; every
moment his Majesty receives proofs of their fidelity ; lastly,
the whole nation rises like one man ready to defend itself:
and as it took a solemn oath to me by its representatives in
the three estates, I have to perform that which I took be-
fore the same estates, and the promise of the assembly
made to the Holy King Don Alphonse Henriques on the
plains of Out ique will continue to be fulfilled, and to save
those kingdoms from impiety and anarchy.
"Palace of Queluz, 28th March, 1852.

" The KING.'
'Lisbon Gazettes to 7th April inclusive.)

Dutch and German Papers have been re-
ceived this morning. We are sick of speculation
upon the affairs of the continent in the present
uncertain state of things. The general impres-
sion is pacific, notwithstanding the unsatisfac-
tory position of affairs in Italy, Belgium, and
Poland :

Bxaux, Aran. 13.—According to accounts from St.
Petersburgh of the 4th instant, the last regiment of the
guards, returning from Poland, had arrived in that city.
His Majesty the Emperor had expressed to the Grand Duke
Michael his satisfaction with the discipline and courage of
those regiments during the war in Poland, and with their
present fine appearance. Of the volunteers here, the re-
giments who offered to assist in the storming of Warsaw,
only 33 remain alive, and have returned to St. Peters-
burgh : 15 of them have the cross of St. George.
The Emperor has enjoined all the authorities of the
empire strictly to enforce the ordinances of his predece►sor
against card-playing and games of chance, and to punish
the convicted gamblers, without distinction of persons,
only observing that the higher the rank of the guilty the
greater shall be their punishment.
In the year 1831, there was at Warsaw 4850 births
and 11,111 deaths, including 2308, viz., 1158 males and
1151 females, of the cholera. The great excess in the
nunaber of deaths is doubtless to be ascribed to the circum-
stances of the times.

AMSTERDAM, APRIL 17.
Actual Debt, 4% per Cent 42L4 to 42%
Amort Syndic, 4% per Cent 6934 to 70%
Ditto. ditto, 3 per Cent.
Exchange on London, one month ll 95
Two Months ll 90
—Dutch Papers, April 18.
VIENNA, APRIL B.—A Secretary of the Prussian Le-
gation is sent to Berlin ; it is said, with despatches of
great importance. A Russian courier has gone to Naples,
and an Austrian arrived from St. Petershurgh. This
evening an Austrian courier will set out for Paris. The
accounts from the Hague have caused great excitement on
our change, andstocks have fallen in consequence of the
decl 'ration of Count Oloff. It is feared that hostilities be-
tween Holland and Belgium are unavoidable, and the next
accounts from the Hague are anxiously looked for. The
higher prices from Paris have had no effect today.
It is especially feared that Antwerp many suffer; and as
our merchants have large magazines of wool there, this
may have contributed to depress the funds.
VIENNA, APRIL P.—Five per Cent. 87 4 5 ; Four per
Cent, 77 i; Bank Silures, 1153. —Aggemeinc Zcitung,
April 14.