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THE YOUNG KING OF ROME.

(From the Memoirs of Madame Junot.)

What a beautiful child was the young king of
-Rome I How lovely he appeared as be rode through
the gardens of the Tuillories in his shell-shaped ta-
&che, drawn by two young deer, which had been
trained by Franconi, and which were given him by his
aunt, the Queen of Naples. He resembled one of
those figures of Cupid which have been discovered in
the ruins of Herculaneum.

One day I had been visiting the young King, the
I:mperor was also there, and he was playing with the
child, as he always played_ with those he loved, that is
to say, by tormenting him. The Emperor had been
-iding, and he had in his baud a whip which attracted
e child's notice. He held out his little hand, and
when he seized the whip, burst into a fit ef laughter,
at the same time embracing his father.
" Is he not a fine boy, Madame Junot?" said the
Emperor, " you must confess that he is."
I could say so without flattery:for he was certainly
lovely boy.
*

I have already mentioned the Emperor's fondness
for his son. He used to take the King of Rome in
nis arms, and toss him up in the air. The child
would then laugh till the tears stood in his eyes ;
sometimes the Emperor would take him before a look-
ing glass, and work his face into all sorts of grimaces ;
and if the child was frightened and shed tears, Na-
poleon would say—
" What, Sire, do You cry ?
Shame!! shame !"
The hours at which the young King was taken to the
Emperor were not precisely fixed, nor could they be ;
but his visits were most frequently at the time of de-
,
;leaner. On these occasions, the Emperor would give
the child a little claret, or rather would dip his finger
in the glass and make him suck it. Sometimes he
would daub the young Prince's face with it. The
child would laughed- heartily at seeing his father as
much a child as he was himself, and only loved him
the more for it. Children invariably love those who
play with them.
I recollect that once when Napoleon had daubed
the young King's face, the child was hio:hly amused,
and r asked the Emperor to do the same to 'lranian
Quiou, for so he called his governess, Madame de
Montesquiou.

A king, and cry ?

One day at Trianon, when the young King was a
year old, the Emperor was playing with him upon the
grass plot before the pavilion. y He took off' his sword,
girded it on the yonng Prince, and completed his mai;
tary costume by placing his hat on his head. He then
went himself to some distance, knelt upon the grass,
and extended his hands to the child, who walked
towards him, stumbling all the way, because of the
sword getting between his legs, and the hat failing over
his face. Perceiving this, the Emperor ran to him
with all the nimbleness of a young man, and caught
him in his arms to prevent his falling.
One of the Ushers of the Chamber, with whom I
was lately conversing, wept like a child at his recollec-
tions of the young Prince. This man told me that
the king of Rome one morning run to the State apart-
ments, and reached the door of the Emperor's apart-
ment alone, for Madame de Montesquiou was unable
to follow him. The child raised its beautiful face to
the Usher and said—

" Open the door for me ; I wish to see papa."
" Sire," replied the man, " I cannot let your Ma-
jesty in."
" Why not ? lam the little king 1"
" But your Majesty is alone."
The Emperor had given orders that his son should
not be allowed to enter his cabinet unless accompanied
by his governess. This order was issued for the pur-
pose of giving the young prince, whose disposition was
somewhat inclined to waywardness, a high idea of his
governess's authority. On receiving this denial from
the usher, the prince's eyes became suffused with tears,
but he said not a word. He waited till Madame de
Montesquiou came up, which was in less than a mi-
nute afterwards. Then he seized her hand, and look-
ing proudly at the usher, he said,
" Open the door. The little king desires it."
The usher then opened the door of the cabinet, and
announced

" His Majesty the King of Rome !"
A great deal has been said of the young king's vio-
lent temper. It is true he was self-willed, and was
easily excited to passion ; but this was one of the dis-
tinctive characteristics of his cousins ; they almost all
partook of similar hastiness of temper. I have known
Achille Murat so overcome with violent passion as to
be thrown into convulsions, and this when he was of
the same age as the King of Rome. Madame de
Montesquiou once corrected the young king for these
fits of passion. On one occasion, when he was very
violent, she had all the shutters of the windows closed,
though it was broad daylight. The child, astonished
to find the light of day excluded, and the candles
lighted up, inquired of his governess why the shutters
were closed ?

" In order that no one may hear you, Sire," replied
she. " The French would never have you for their
king, if they knew you to be so naughty."
" Have I," said he, " cried very loud ?"
" You have."
" But did any one hear me ?"
" I fear they have."
Then he fell to weeping, but these were tears of
repentance. He threw his little arms round his go-
verness's neck.

" I will never do so again, Mama Quiou !" said he,
" forgive me."
It happened one day that the King of Rome en-
tered the Emperor's cabinet just as the council had
finished their deliberations. He ran up to his father
without taking notice of any one in the room. Napo-
leon, though happy to observe these marks of affection,
so natural, and coming so directly from the heart,
-stopped him and said :
" You have not made your bow, Sire ! Come,
make your obedience to these gentlemen."
The child turned, and, bowing his head gently,
kissed his little hand to the ministers.

In the present state of the Church question, advow-
s,ms are scarcely saleable upon any terms.

FlRE.—Last Saturday night, about eleven o'clock,
the premises of Mr. Sweeting, printer, No. Bartlett's-
buildings, Holborn, stood a very narrow chance of being con-
sumed, in consequence of a fire breaking out amongst some
waste paper in the warehouse. The engines were speedily
brought :nto play, and after great exertions on the part of the
watchmen and firemen the fire was got under, but a great loss
of property was occasioned. The fire originated in conse-
quence of some person belonging to the establishment going
into the warehouse with a lighted candle, a spark from which
fell among a heap of waste paper. Mr. Sweeting is insured
in the Sun Fire-office. Fortunately no person met with the
slightest accident, and the office and materials have escaped
without injury.

A CLERGYMAN'S ANTICS.-A Kentish cont@m-
porary gives the following instances of meekness, decorum,
and kindly feeling on the part of a clergyman (not named)
belonging to the establishment :—" He dismissed the clerk,
who, and whose Lther and grandfather had held the situation
about, or above a century, to make room for a stranger, and
non-parishioner. When the dismissed clerk's mother died,
the singers requested to sing a particular psalm at her funeral,
which the parson refused to allow. During the burial service
he collared a by-stander for holding his hat partly over, and
partly off his (the by-stander's) head. To another, who stood
nearer to the grave, after the corpse was deposited, than the
parson liked, the parson bellowed out to him loud enough to
be heard a great distance."

FATAL EXPLOSION IN A COAL PIT AT RUSIIEY
PARK COLLIERY. NEAR-ST. HELENS.—On Monday the 2d.
instant, six persons descended this pit, each provided with a
Davy lamp to commence their daily labour, when from the
carelesness of one of them, a young female, in the manage-
ment of herlamp, an explosion took place. She was blown
to a considerable distance and killed. The others were scat-
tered about dreadfully burnt, but were found alive. Medical
aid was promptly afforded, but without effect. All have since
died.—Liverpool Mercury.

COAL PIT EXPLOSION.—One of those calamitous
accidents, now of such frequent and fatal occurrence in this
county, took place at Mr. Curwen's colliery, near Workington,
on Friday morning last. The explosion happened in the low
bottom workings of the Isabella Pit, when several men were
just entering on their work. The air of the pit had been foul
(explosive), for some time, and the men had therefore re-
ceived strict injunctions to observe the greatest care with their
lamps. By what means the air became ignited is not correctly
known. Two men were taken out dead ; one has since died ;
eleven remain alive, but severely burnt.— Whitehaven Herald.
[Thirteen men were killed, and many severely injured, by a
similar accident in this pit about twelve months before.]

LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1135.

The one great question that at present engrosses
public attention, namely, that of the Speakership—
cannot be too often—too seriously—or too energeti-
cally canvassed. On it hang the destinies of the Tories.
If they succeed in the re-election of Sir C. M. SUT-
TON, they may possibly still continue to warm them-
selves in the sunshine of Court favour a few weeks
longer. If they fail, the failure will be decisive. They
will be extinguished as an influential party for ever. It is
sheer nonsense—absurder than a sick man's dream—to
suppose that they can survive the defeat of their fa-
vourite candidate. The success of Mr. ABERCROMBIE
will ring their death-knell. We happen to know—
whatever they may give out to the contrary—that
they look on the question in this light ; and that,
despite their bullying, and vehement protestations of
confidence, they are ill prepared to abide the issue.
None knows better than Sir ROBERT PEEL that the
trial will go against him. None at this present mo-
ment is less prepared to struggle, or make head against
such a contingency. What does the election of Mr.
ABERCROMBY decide ? Why this, that the House
of Commons will no longer be biassed by Tory influ-
ence. That it will have a Speaker who represents,
not one who misrepresents, it. In a word, that
it is resolved to have fair play at the hands
of its President. Alas, for the Tories, when
such is the determination of the Commons of
England !
We speak with confidence. We are justified in so
doing. To say nothing of pledges given at the bust-
tings—to say nothing of the determination of the
people to exact justice at the hands of their representa-
tives—we have good reason to know that a majority,
small, perhaps, but quite enough for the purpose,
will declare Sir C. M. SUTTON incompetent, for ob-
vious reasons, to fill longer • the Speaker's Chair.
This is a settled point. But do we wish the people
to relax in consequence ? God forbid ! They must
keep a more watchful eye than ever on their Repre-
sentatives. Waverers are abroad, and while this is
the case, no man with two ideas in his head, will
discontinue his energies, till he see his allies in un-
disputed
possession of the battle-field.
The election will take place on Thursday next, the
19th inst. People of England I look closely to the votes of f

your Representatives. Representatives do not forget
that your Constituents have all their eyes upon you.
Much may be forgiven you. A wrong vote on this
memorable day never will. It will be death to you, with-
'out benefit of clergy. Though the question of the
Speakership be not, perhaps the great battle, yet it
`is the taking up of the vantage-ground, which
goes far to decide it. Be at your posts; then.
Be each Member betimes at his post, and tell
these cross-grained Tories—these mere sweepings of
the lumber-room of bigotry—that a Reformed House
of Commons should, and will, be represented by a
speaker favourable, not opposed to, Reform.

From the first moment that the term " Conserva-
tive," was applied to that political body, whose prin-
ciples were significantly designated as Tory, it became
evident that, some dexterous manoeuvre was meditated
for the security of party advantage. In renouncing a
title that distinctly dissociated them from other classes
of politicians, and in adopting one that so felicitously
implied a purely constitutional purpose, they hoped to
delude persons of,all creeds that patriotism alone ani-
mated them, and that the errors of a false faith had
become abandoned. As Conservatives they were no
longer to embody the tenets and bias of a party, keep-
ing aloof in the State from all others, but stand ready
to coalesce with either for the common safety of the
country, by the preservation of its dearest-institutions.
Well knowing that amid the diversified shades of
political opinion extant, the great majority of the
people were firmly attached to the English Constitu-
tion, and resolute in their desire to maintain it inviolate,
they believed it possible yet to triumph in the general
delusion, and by exciting alarms of a " Destructive"
attempt upon it, to rally the nation round those who
hoisted a " Conservative" flag, as the symbol of their
righteous. vocation.
No two political parties were ever more decidedly
opposed to each other than the Whigs and Tories, or
disputed with bitterer hostility ; and yet, without one
conciliatory event to assuage the moral animosity, the
Tories, in their Conservative disguise, seek to be-
guile their old enemies into an union for the resist-
ance of a common danger—the bugbear coined by
their own conceit—a destructive assault upon the
Constitution. Having, as Conservatives, intrigued
themselves back again to power, which, as Tories, they
forfeited by a long course of misrule, they now call
upon the Whigs, (whose affection for the Coustitution
is as lovingly conservative as that of the Tories, and a
good deal more,) to support them in their arrogated
elevation ; they supplicate the people for a fair trial,
and would cajole the waverers into a belief that the
Conservatives are the only real Reformers—because no
longer Tories.
Now, by what single act have they exhibited a diffe-
rence of political character ? There is not one, nor
the skeleton of one, that could be taken as the outline
of a change. Tories they have lived, and as such they
will die, disguise themselves by what appellation they
may. Place and power is the soul and essence of their
being—' the object of every aspiration.
To involve their opponents, whatever be the va-
rieties of their political creeds, in one common odium,
they seek to fix them with the name of Destructives ;
and thus incensing the public mind by the magic of an
ill name, the Tories artfully contrive their own perma-
nent establishment in power. They would deceive the
nation that the only party, or rather faction, now ex-
isting, is the Destructives ; that every other is obli-
terated ; and that all the loyalty, wealth, intelligence,
and character in the country have sunk into Conserva-
tism, of which they are now the governing leaders.
This is an ingenious process of arguing, and it only
wants truth to establish it into fact. But it is false,
and the Tories know it to be so. Their political cha-
racter remains unchanged. Their principles are the
same now as what they ever have been, and so will they
continue to be to the end of (not time but) power.
Look at the men whom the Tory Chief has chosen
for colleagues : can such a muster-roll be regarded as
the nominal representatives of a reforming government?
Nominal enough, GOD knows, it may be, but little of
reality is there., Contemplate one of the first official
acts of the existing Ministry—the appointment of
Lord LONDONDERRY to the Court of Russia—what
kind of Reform is betokened by such a measure ?
Combine what they have already done with their oppo-
sition out of office, and their deeds when in office as
Tories, and can any reasonable man be stigmatised as
factiously disposed, because he refuses them a fairer
trial-than that which they have heretofore and up to
this moment received ? The Whigs, Liberals, and
Radicals are bound to unite for the ejection of the
Tories, and not a stain will there be on the political
honour of either for the association.

We have received the whole of the Parish journals
of Saturday, with intelligence from Bayonne to the
10th, and from Madrid to the sth inst. The Journal
de Paris contradicts the statement which appeared in
the Augsburg Gazette, to the effect that France would
withdraw her support from the Swiss Government,
unless the Vorort of Berne yielded to the suggestions
of the Emperor of Austria. The Parisian journalist
asserts that France never expressed herself opposed to
the firmness displayed by the Vorort of Berne ; And.
that the rumour circulated by Austria, of France hav-
ing dispatched orders for the recal of her official re-
presentative from Switzerland, was altogether a gross
fabrication, the object of which was to frighten the Di-
rectory into a compliance with the conditions proposed by
Austria, which it was presumed it would have the effect of
doing, before the French Government could undeceive
the Vorort with respect to the idleness of the
rumour. The latest intelligence from Berne, which is
givrm in these journals, would incline us to believe that
in this instance the insidious policy of Austria has
produced the desired consequences. The Vorort
does not seem to have entertained the smallest doubt
of the correctness of the statements put forth in the
Augsburg Gazette. On the contrary, it would ap-
pear that the desertion of France was rather expected
than otherwise ; so little confidence did the Swiss
authorities place in any promises and protestations
made by the present Government of France.
This sentiment, which has been hitherto care-
fully concealed, is sufficiently manifest in. the fol-
lowing extract from the Helvetic de Porentruy of
the 10th instant. Such a public avowal of a want of
confidence in the integrity of France, must be gall and
wormwood to the CITIZEN-KING, and his dislocated
Cabinet :

" The plan of Austria, with regard to Switzerland, is a re-
sult of those principles which have again placed Poland under
the yoke, stifled the liberal movement of Italy, and enslaved
the representation and the press in Germany. Austria will
oppose its veto to any radical reform of Swiss institutions, and
will not hesitate to accomplish its vork by military occupation,
unless it should encounter a formidable opposition, whose con-
sequences to itself it may calculate. To combat these preten-
sions, Switzerland must also adopt a political system in ener-
tietic and presevering hostility to that Qf Austria. Neither

will France see with pleasure the triumph of the party which I
represents regenerated Switzerland ; which party, being ani-
mated by purely national sentiments, would reject the influence
of the French Cabinet, in the same manner as it combats the
Eastern coalition. In August 1833, France would have easily
consented to an armed intervention, if the Diet had urged its
legal authority with respect to the enterprises of the military
Chief of the Sarnian faction, nor would it be more averse to
such a measure at the present moment, if Switzerland were to
undertake the radical reform of her institutions. France will
always endeavour to keep alive two powerful bodies among us,
in order to prevent the accession of that party to power which
would proclaqn Switzerland independent of all influence, and
even of that of France. This is the secret spring of French
neutrality in the deluge of diplomatic notes which overwhelm
us. It is on this account France flatters Prussia, notwith-
standing the attempts at intervention made by the latter
Power in our relations with Neufchatel. This explains the
non-intervention of its diplomacy eight months ago upon the
Polish question. France will not have Switzerland neutral in
the real acceptation of the term. It will have us in a condi-
tion to be turned to account, as a means of attack or accom-
modation with other Powers, as it may find it to its interest."
We differ from the writer of the above extract in
opinion, with respect to the secret intentions of France
in her interference in the affairs of Switzerland. We
do not believe that France ever wished to foment inter-
nal divisions in the Republic, and solely because it
required the closest union among the Cantons to effect
her purposes with respect to the Northern Powers. The
maxim of " divide and rule," may be dispensed with,
where power on one side preponderates to such a de-
gree, as to .bid defiance to all opposition. Now, where
does there exist the shadow of a necessity—even of a
prudential motive on the part of France, to create jea-
lousies between the Swiss Cantons ? France is pow-
erful enough to bid defiance to the united influence of
Switzerland, provided the latter does not throw herself
into the alms of Austria. Neitber can the jealousies
of the confederated Cantons avail France a jot in case
of a rupture with the Courts of Vienna or Berlin, for
Switzerland, as a Government, has no diplomatic in-
fluence abroad, and at home she never can do' more than
safely defend herself.

The independence of Switzerland is, therefore, a ques-
tion of no importance to France, as far as respects herself.
iwitzerland neither is, nor with her present extent of ter-
ritory, never can be an object of jealousy to the
French nation. The real cause of the apparent apathy
of France to the present proceedings of Austria to-
wards the Swiss Republic, originates in the recent
change in the English Cabinet, and the various im-
portant questions which press upon the attention of
the French Government. The several claims for in-
demnification put forth by the United States of Ame-
rica, and the Envoys of the Imperial Courts of St.
Petersburg and Vienna, which may terminate in a war
with one or more of these Powers ; and the uncer-
tainty of receiving succour or countenance from Eng-
land, now that the Tories have clutched the reins of
Government, have filled France with too many serious
apprehensions on her" own account, to allow her to
take the most vigorous steps in support of her allies.
The rumour that France had declared herself op-.
posed to Switzerland and in favour of Austria, how-
ever unworthy of credence, produced considerable
alarm in Berne. The following extract from a letter
from the seat of the Government, detailing the effect
produced by this report, is givens in the Paris Papers
of Saturday : it bears date the 10th inst. :

" The official revelations respecting the affairs of Switzer-
land made by the Augsburg Gazette, the open manner in
which this Journal discloses the views of the Austrian Cabinet
with regard to us, the certainty that the French Government,
after having repeatedly upheld us in our differences with the
Holy Alliance, has suddenly broken with us and made com-
mon cause with those who are even greater enemies to it
than to us—all these circumstances have produced a feeling
in Switzerland the consequences of which it is impossible
to foretell. We arc absolutely left to ourselves in a con-
test of principles, abandoned by those who were our natural
allies. We cannot yet say what part the Directory will
take in order to avert the crisis with which we are
threatened, but we are confident it will make every con-
cession consistent with the honour of the nation, though it
will go no further. The convocation of an extraordinary Diet
is inevitable, but the discussion on our foreign affairs will un-
fortunately reproduce the miserable dissensions which were
occasioned by our internal affairs. It is said that one of the
Members will propose that a camp of 50,000 men be imme-
diately formed in the canton of Tessin, and that the command
be given to General Dufour. After the sudden change in the
policy of France with regard to Switzerland, M. de Rumigny,
who never ceased to affirm the benevolent intentions of his
Government and promise us its effectual support, must neces-
sarily apply for his reclll. After the hostile attitude he has
always maintained towards his colleagues he cannst possibly
assume a totally opposite character. All Switzerland will no
doubt regret his departure ; but we shall, at the same time,
be glad to see an end to strong professions of attachment com-
pletely belied by the actions of the French Ministry."

A telegraphic despatch, dated Brest, the 12th inst.,
appears iu Moniteur, in which the Royal Commis-
sary at Hayti informs the French Minister of Marine
that the vessel La Creole, which sailed from Port-au-
Prince on the the 20th ult., was charged with a letter
of credit on London for the sum of 4,848,904 f. 66c.
to.pay the principal of a draught of the French Trea-
sury on the Republic of Hayti.

The Chamber of Deputies continues its sittings,
but great complaints are made of the slow progress
which it makes in discharging its legislative functions.
Great numbers of the Members do not attend to their
duties ; and the few who do rather retard than accele-
rate the necessary functions of the assembly.
The Court of Peers has published a list of persons
accused of riots, against whom no further proceedings
will be taken, as the evidence against them is not
sufficiently conclusive. Those whom it is intended
shall be brought to trial will have notice given them
fourteen days previously, in order that they may have
-time to prepare their defence. The day for the com-
mencement of the trials is not yet fixed.

We are happy to learn from the Brussels Papers
that the reception which Lord BROUGHAM met with
in that Capital, displayed an enthusiastic apprecia-
tion, on the part of the highest classes in Bel-
gium, of the distinguished talents and pre-emi-
nent public services of the late LORD CHAN-
CELLOR. The Noble Lord, accompanied by Sir
ROBERT A DA IR, the British Minister at Brussels,
attended the Chamber of Deputies, when the instant he
was recognized, the whole assembly rose simultaneously
and bowed to him—an honour as great_ as any
which could be paid to the first Potentate in Europe.
To his Lordship personally, this testimony of deep
respect, coming from the representatives of a na-
tion to whom he could only be known by the
fame attendant on the highest order of merit, must
have been a brilliant compensation for all the
petty annoyances which the intrigues of petticoat
factions at home may have occasioned him. His Lord-
ship's reception at Court was equally flattering. He was
most graciously received by the KING, and the nobility
vied with each other in testifying their admiration
of his talents, their respect for his opinions, and their
confidence in his unsullied and incorruptible integrity.
The arrival of Lord BROUGHAM in London before the
opening of Parliament on Thursday, will add a new
stimulus to the exertions of the Reformers. We
look forward with unfeigned pleasure—with the
fullest. confidence of complete success—to the
re-appearance of Lord BROUGLIAM in the HottsC of
Peers. His most able and efficient services in the

pe'ople's cause were never more requisite than they will
be in the ensuing Session of Parliament:

DON MIGUEL is not yet lost to the world. On
the 31st ult., he made his appearance quite unexpec-
tedly at Genoa, where he was waited upon by some
French officers, who are reported recently to have be-
come partizans-to the party of the usurper.

The arrivals from Madrid, with papers and letters
to the sth inst., bring no intOigence of the slightest
political i:nportance, In the Basque provinces all is
ruin and devastation ; in the capital all uncertainty ;
and throughout the kingdom all ignorance of, and in-
difference to, the causes of the many calamities that
afflict the country. To all appearance, public affairs
have stood still for the last fortnight.

The cause of Lady HEWLEY'S Charity, which has
excited an unusual degree of interest among the Dis-
senters, is fixed for hearing to-morrow, in the Court of.
Chancery. It comes-on in the form of an appeal from
the judgment of the VICE-CHANCELLOR, and was
argued for three days last summer before Lord Chan-
cellor BRoUCISAat, assisted by two of the Common-law
Judges ; but as it was not completed then, and as a
new LORD CHANCELLOR has been appointed since,
the proceedings in the appeal must begin de novo.
The point at issue is whether the Presbyterians or the
Independents are entitled to certhin funds bequeathed,
for charitable purposes, by a Dissenter about 120 years
ago. Lady HEWLEY was, it is admitted by both
parties, a Presbyterian, and the • charity wlkich she
founded has been ever since her death in the bands of
the Presbyterians, having been administered by •Trus-
teeS duly elected in the manner prescribed in the trust
deed executed by her. She directed that the funds
should be distributed among " poor and godly preach-
ers, for the • time being, of CHRIST'S holy Gospel."
The Trustees, not being fettered by any restrictions in the
trust deed as to the doctrinal sentiments of those
" Godly preachers" have, it seems, admitted among the
recipients of Lady HEWLEY'S bounty sundry preachers
tainted with heresy. This was conceived to be a mis-
application of the charity; the Trustees were charged
with a violation of the trust deeds ; and an application
was made to the Court of Chancery to remove them,
and appoint others in their stead. The Vice-Chan-
cellor removed the Trustees, not on the ground that they
had misapplied the funds—that would have been an in-
telligible reason—but because they did not hold the
same religious opinions which Lady HEWLEY held,
or rather was presumed to have held—,--thus laying
down a principle which, if admitted and. acted upon,
would mist the Protestant trustees of every Catholic
foundation in the kingdom. From this decision the
Trustees appealed, and the appeal; as we have already
stated, comes on to-morrow before the LORD CHAN,
CELLOR, who, following the example of Lord
BROUGHA as, has summoned two Common-law
Judges to his assistance.
We insert, in anothor part of The Sun, an able
letter on what appears to us to be the only point to be de-
cided in this case, namely, who are to be considered
Godly preachers e Christ's' Holy Gospel. Our
Correspondent's legal argument seems to us conclusive
on the subject.

We have received Newfoundland papers to the 23d
January, which contain the opening of the Legisla-.
ture, the fifth session, (on Monday last.) with the fol-

lowing speech :

" Honourable Gentlemen,—l have assembled you at an
early period, to enable you to devote sufficient time to the
public business, without injuring your private pursuits. Our
situation is a happy one of tranquility, and therefore your deli-
berations, unoccupied by matters of a temporary nature, may be
directed to such as shall conduce to the permanent advantage of
the Colony. The Road Bill passed in your second session of
last Parliamentary year, though excellent in principle, and in
much of its detail, nevertheless seems in some degree to fail
in its intention, for want of a more efficient and concentrated
superintendence. You will determine whether any alteration
can he beneficially made in that particular. Another object
of moment is the improvement of the Judicature, and
this for various reasons becomes daily of greater importance.
It will he for you also to consider what enactment may be re-
quisite in consequence of the Fishery Act having expired.
Under more prosperous financial circumstances, I should have
been induced to draw your attention to the support of general
education, which, as highly essential to the best interests of
society, will merit your protection ; especially as it might be
fostered here in a spirit of perfect liberality, unfettered by
invidious distinctions.

" Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen—My predecessor when
closing the last Session, expressed a hope that he should be
able to defray the public charges without having recourse to
the issue of Treasury-notes, until he could meet you again in
this place : but I found the remaining funds totally inadequate
to the existing claims, and was consequently compelled
almost immediately after assuming the Government to avail
myself of that resource. You will, I am confident, feel with me,
that the sooner more notes can be called in the better, and
that no subject so imperatively requires your present appplica-
tion in the establishment of a sound and wholesome system of
finance ; and we may be said to have reached a crisis, but a
crisis in which we are cheered by many encouraging conside-
rations connected with the fishery, agricultural produce, and
general state of trade. I trust that the difficulties in your
way will only operate as incentives to exertion, and that you
will fix the revenue on a scale proportioned tp all such demands
as shall consist with a spirited but national economy.
I have directed an estimate for the ensuing financial year,
and various other documents, to be prepared for your informa-
tion, and you may rest assured that I shall always be anxious
to prevent unnecessary expenditure, and to enforce every due
provision for that purpose."
The paper of the 22d of January contains the address to His
Excellency,,in answer to his gracious speech, which fully par-
ticipates in the feelings expressed by His Excellency.

LORD BROUGHAM AT BRUSSELS.-It appears
that Lord BROUGHAM was received with great
honours at Brussels. After being closetted with the
KING, he went to the Chamber of Representatives,
accompanied by Sir ROBERT ADAIR ; and on being
recognized
in the Ambassador's Tribune, all the Mem-
bers lose simultaneously and bowed, as a compliment
to, a man whose great and varied talents have rendered
him celebrated all over Europe.—Sunday Times.

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