The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-18 00:00:00

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EXETER, JAN. 16.

Our city was thrown into the deepest consterna-
tion on Saturday morning, in consequence of a ru-
mour that the Worshipful the Recorder, T. Stevens,
Esq., had died suddenly. On Sunday morning the
report was confirmed, and the additional fact was re-
lated that his death was caused by his own hand.
It appears that he rose on Friday morning as usual,
and proceeded to his dressing-room, when, after a
short time had elapsed, the inmates of the house
were suddenly alarmed by the report of a gun pro-
gpfrreosmenttleide room.
most Histerrific
and in thither,this
horrible condi
expired.h e
Thesuri kint into
domesticsh er arms
rushed a and im-
mediatelyththe
met him staggering towards the door ; his
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heels of their mistress, who fell lifeless beneath her
dreadful burden ; they instantly conveyed the de-
ceased to that couch which he had so recently
quitted, but life was perfectly extinct. No rational
cause can be given for this dreadful catastrophe.
The following has been assigned as the reason—
our readers will judge for themselves whether it be
a rational one or not. His Worship resided at
Cross, near Torrington, in the north of Devon; ad-
joining the latter town is a considerable piece of
waste ground, to which the neighbouring poor, &c.
have an undoubted right of pasturage; connected
with this waste is an extensive coppice, from which
they had been in the habit of gathering fuel. The
coppice is the property of Lord Rolle, and the de-
ceased, who was his Lordship's heir to the property
of Stevenstone, and the immense estates attached to
it, had forbidden the people from entering the cop-
pice.
The latter, fancying they had an undoubted
right to the wood, assembled in considerable numbers,
and a few of the ringleaders entered the coppice, and
cut a great quantity of wood. At the instance of Mr.
1 Stevens, they were apprehended and committed to
Torrington prison ; on the day following their corn-
mitrnent, a great mob assembled in the town, broke
open the gaol, liberated the prisoners, and proceeded
to commit other excesses. Mr. Stevens immedi-
ately sent to Lord Ebrington, as Vice-Lieutenant of
the county, for assistance. His Lordship imme-
diately hastened over, and finding that the forms of
law had been violated by the rioters, and that they
threatened still further violence if any attempt were
made to recapture the delinquents, immediately
called out a troop of the yeomanry cavalry. The
ring leaders were recaptured and sent off to Exeter
gaol, and the good town of Torrington having been
restored to peace and order, his Lordship took his
leave of Mr. Stevens, whom, he has been heard to
say, he left in very good spirits. On the following
morning the lamented gentleman committed the
desperate act alluded to, and the perturbation of
mind arising out of the above occurrences is said to
have been the cause of it. But Mr. Stevens
was always considered to be a man of a strong
and energetic mind, with a degree of moral
courage that enabled him to hold fast a de-
clining political creed with a constancy and
affection which seemed to increase in proportion
as he saw others falling off around him. Hence we
infer that the true cause has not been assigned. Mr.
Stevens was Recorder of Exeter, Barnstaple, and
Torrington. On the 2d instant he delivered a charge
to the Grand Jury of Exeter, in which he took occa-
sion to say that if Exeter had escaped the " fate of
Bristol," it was owing to the promptness of the
measures taken by the Corporation for the preser-
vation of the peace of the city, and not to the want
of exciting and inflammatory speeches and addresses.
lie concluded the charge by expressing his sincere
belief that the people of this city would speedily
return to their original character for loyalty arid good
order, and that he should for many years to come
have the pleasure of addressing the Grand Jury of
Exeter in confirmation of this pleasing anticipation.
This speech may be adduced as a proof that the
melancholy end was not contemplated.
Mr. Stevens, as has been before stated, was heir
to Lord Rolle's domain of Stevenstone, in the north
of Devon. He was brother to Archdeacon Moore,
having adopted the name of Stevens on account of
his title to the property. He was an exceedingly
good-looking man, and from his healthful appear-
ance gave promise of as long a course of years as his
venerable and noble relation. He was a rigid and
zealous Tory, and was supposed to possess uncon-
troulled power over the Corporation of this city.
Mr. Praed, son of Mr. Serjeant Praed, and brother
to the Member for St. Germains, has been named
for his successor.—Morning Herald.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—In all pro-
bability the management of this theatre will be in new
hands before the end of the week. It is believed that M.
LAPORTE is to have it for three years, and to take posses-
sion forthwith.
It has been said that politics were excluded
from the brilliant circle which was quadrilling it till
five o'clock in the morning upon a late occasion at the
Tuilleries. This is not strictly true. The Duke of OR-
LEANS, whose passion for dancing e very body knows, left
the giddy maze for a moment, and joined a noisy group of
Deputies, who malgre the many merry faces round them,
were lashing themselves into a rage with politics. The
Prince said, " Pray, gentlemen, what are you talking so
loudly about ? Me ! oh, impossible ! Pray don't give
yourselves any more trouble at the Chamber on my
account. Ido not want one million a year; my father
long since inculcated upon me that a competence was a
fortune,"—French Paper.

FRENCH PAPERS.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, JAN. 14.

The order of the day was the continuation of the project
of law respecting the Civil List.

The Chamber left off yesterday at the temporary ar•
rangement proposed by General Strolz.
General Strolz then developed his amendment. The
Hon. Member called to mind that when M. Lafitte was
President of the Council, he presented a project de loi, by
which the Civil List was stated at eighteen millions. The
present Ministry, he said, had thought it right to found
the temporary Civil List paid to the Crown upon this
calculation, and they had another reason for doing so in
the faith that it was favourably received by the last Cham-
ber. I believe that the present one would have adopted
the estimate if the situation of our finances had allowed of
it. At all events it cannot refuse to the Ministry a Bill of
indemnity.—(Yes, yes.)
M. E. Salverte opposed the amendment. The Cham•
ber, he said, would give its decision upon the measures
proposed when the Ministers had given an account of their
expenses.

-M. Eugene d'Harcourt professed himself to be more
than any other person an admirer of cheap Governments,
but thought economy to be useful, should be applied judi-
ciously. Every thing was now reduced to a question of
money, without reference to its consequences. The speaker
concluded by urging the Chamber not to be led away by
the cry of cheap Government, now raised by Levellers,
Carlists, and Republicans, who had entered into an open
alliance on this question.
The Keeper of the Seals—Yesterday the Chamber re-
jected both the amendment of the Commission and that
of M. Cabet. The amendment of M. Strolz will recon-
cile these two votes. With the amendment the Civil List
will commence from the day of accession, but you may
decide that the first year of a reign requires some heavy
expenses, which it is necessary to provide for. Thus a
discussion will terminate which might hive occasioned
considerations of detail, but in which the sentiments of
devotion of the Chamber• for the Royalty of July displayed
themselves. I demand in the meantime that the date of
the 9th of August be substituted for the 7th, because it
was on the 9th that the oath of • Louis Philippe terminated
the Revolution, and opened the era of our Charter..
(Supported, supported.)
M. Mauguin agreed with M. d'Harcourt, that in our
age there was an unfortunate tendency to reduce every
thing to a question of money ; but he drew an opposite
conclusion fi-om that circumstance. If any extraordinary
expenses had taken place, let them justify them—we are
prepared to recognise them : but it is necessary that they
should give the accounts of thetn.—(Murmurs.) If some
individuals are interested in concealing the extraordinary
expenses, there are others who have an interest in their
being known. The speaker thought that the question had
been decided yesterday by the votes of the Chamber, and
that it would redound to the honour of the Chauther to
persist in its previous decision. One word more ; it has
often been represented that the accession of the King was
a sacrifice.—(Yes, yes.) No, Gentlemen, it is nut a
sacrifice—it is an honour, which it was lawful to desire,
which it was glorious to have obtained.—(Assent from the
extremities.)

The President of the Council—The preceding speaker
has completely displaced the question. This is neither a
question of money nor of dignity, hut one of good faith.—
(Sensation.) I therefore appeal to all the Chamber, when
the provisional twelfths were voted, did you not really
think that these were carried to the Civil List, and that
they should remain to the Civil List. It is demanded that
an account of the Civil List should be submitted to a sort
of revision. This is impossible—there is no account to
be rendered of the effects of Royal generosity. The King
would prefer paying out of his own private revenues.--
(Bravo, bravo.)
M. Alauguin—l shall not deviate from the question as
it has been laid down by the Minister. The President of
the Council has said that we are now considering a matter
of gocd faith. Let us see on which side is the good faith.
There is proposed to the Chamber a project of a law
carrying the amount of the Civil List to 18,000,000 f.
Every body recollects the uefavourable effect which this
increase of the amount produced.—(Numerous dissents.)
It is recollected what complaints were raised in and out of
this Chamber.--(Fresh dissents.) What has occurred?
Provisional twelfths were demanded, and granted without
discussion ; but nobody thought that this allocation implied
that of 18,000,000 f. to the Civil List.

The President of the Council—The Ministry has been
accusedfyrooumr dthe
decision.
sffiaosenut.r surprising
Besides,
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abtreeirtis Thetullemci t
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perfectlyaree st
su
to
knew these expence', and no voice was raised against them
when they were commenced by the preceding Administra-
tion, of which MM. Lafitte and Dupont (de l'Eure)
formed a part.—(Prolonged sensation.)
M. Dupont (de l'Eure)—Since I am appealed to I must
say that I always considered these payment, as subject to
be discounted.—(Movement.)
M. Lafitte, after alluding to the period when be came
into power, the 2d or 3d of Nov., 1830, remarked upon
the difficult circumstances in which he and his colleagues
had been placed, and said that lie did not intend either to
support or oppose the amendment. He then entered into
a short explanation, in the course of which he observed,
that the Ministry having found that no observation was
made respecting the 12,000,000 demanded for 1830, and
the 18,000,000 proposed on the amount of the Civil List,
he presumed that it had the tacit approbation of the
Chamber.—(Slight disapprobation.) M. Lafitte, after
some further observations, said, that if they were now in
the same circumstances, and with the same opinion, as in
1830, he would have made the same propositions with re-
spect to the Civil List, as be did in that year.
The amendment was adopted by a large majority.
The result of the votes on the ensemble of the law was
as follows :—Number of votes, 366—White balls, 259
Black balls 107. The Chamber adopted it.
(From the Journal des Debuts of January 15.)
The Royal Court of Paris has, at a solemn sitting, re-
versed its first decree in the affair of Dumonteil, relative to
the marriage of Priests. The Court still persists in its de-
cision against the marriage of Priests.
The following are the chief grounds for that decision :--
That by the old laws of the kingdom Priests were in-
terdicted from marrying :—That this prohibition was
founded upon the canons introduced into France by the
ecclesiastical authority and recognised by the civil law :
That the prohibition was re-established by the concordat
of 1807, the articles 6 and 26 of which revived i❑ full
force the canons anciently received in France :—That the
reason why the civil code had not re-enacted that prohibi-
tion was, that it was subsequent to the concordat, and that
that code had for its object but the consideration of civil
matters :—That the concordat was part of the law of the
State, and that the Charter of 1830, in modifying the 6th
article of the Charter of 1814, had in no manner derogated
from the authority of the concordat. The Court, there-
fore, set aside the judgment of the Court of First Instance.

It is rumoured that our respected Member
Sir GEORGE ROBINSON, Mr. HANBURY, and the Hon. F.
SPENCER, Will, in the event of an addition to the Peerage,
rank in the list of the new creations.—Northampton Mer.

Maryborough Castle is levelled to the ground,
to make room for some new building. In removing away
the lower part of the Castle a cannon ball of 211 b. weight
was found lodged in the eastern wall.—Limerick Chronicle.

[We believe -some Noble Pier (we doubt not an Anti-
Reformer) holds. snug sinecure as Governor of this Castle,
which " is not."]

PAYING TITHEs IN KIND._A parishioner
in Chester some time since required his clergyman to stand
godfather to his child, as it was the tenth, and the tithe
belonged to him. The Rev. Gentleman readily consented,
and continues to call the child his own.—Scotsman.
The following notice was circulated about this
neighbourhood on Monday last:_" Wanted, a few per--
sons to sign an address to his MAJESTY against the present
Ministry, and their endeavours to renovate the Constitution
of old England. N.B. Those who can write will be pre-
ferred, and all reasonable expences paid. An early appli-
cation is requested, as the person who presents it object.
to do so unless it contains ten signatures: secrecy may be
relied on. For further particulars apply at the Nevi
Town-hall."—Beds Chronicle.
HANOVER,JAN. I.—As was to be anticipated,
the commission appointed to examine the plan fur the net'
Constitution will nut be able to complete its task before
the meeting of the new Assembly of the States. People
are, therefore, looking forwards with great interest to the
result of the new elections, as it is hoped that a consider-
able number of those Deputies who held any public office'
dependent on the Ministry will not be elected. The
province of Calinberg will elect its Deputies on the 9th
of January. We hear that Professor SUALFIELD has
prospect of being elected for Gottingen, but hardly as De'
puty from the University itself. Groningen, which ►6
beginning to recover, has this winter, according to the
off►cial lists, 913 students. The fear of the cholera, which
was raised to the highest pitch by the public declaration 01
Professor MAix, a decided contagionist, has now almost
wholly vanished, through the propagation of more mode-
rate views announced by such men as HIaILEY and Cur('
RAW, and by the temperate measures of our Government.

LITERATURE.
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many varied communications on important scien-
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BRITAIN'S HISTORICAL DRAMA.
LONDON, 1832. --'.,
Mr. Pennie, who is an antiquarian as well as Ete 4?
C.-4-
n Art
.1:-.• •
a poet, has here published a volume, which is as
far superior to the pompous, inflated trash with -
LONDON,
Which we have been lately deluged usque ad
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18. 1832.
nauseam, as Hyperion to a satyr. We do not
approve the amphibious character of his compo- CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT.
sitions, half-poems, half-dramas, conceiving that COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL.—(THIS DAY)
they should be either decidedly narrative or de- DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES.
cidedly dramatic ; but, with this exception, we ---- ..,
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7: ''' 1 ' 5 Can have no hesitation in saying that they would ~.., a -c.,
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do credit to any poet now before the world. The 6 ..e.
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sentiment has no sickliness about it, the language ,--, ~. z g g ~,,L-4 ..4.-
no inflation ; above all there is no painful wire- Jan.
drawing of thought or imagery visible. Mr. Sunderland
Pennie writes with ease, because he writes from Newcastle l6 75 21 12 21 63 737 229
the inspiration of a well-stored and imaginative Gateshead
North Shields ana
tnind ;in scenic description he is particularly '
ryaemouth l6 17 5 1 0 21 72 27
happy, he places the spot at once before the :". b,
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Wall
14 24 80 35
10 5 5 20 10
aUsend) j 16 3
reader's eye. His females, too, are graceful ov
Houghton-le-Spring
creations, not made up of blue-gauze wings and DanAlaHmetton, &c l6 18 2-; 2) 40 15! 41
rainbows, but real flesh and blood, breathing Huaddington and vi- 14 1 4 1 1 , 0
cinity, N. 8...
life and animation, and full of affection, loveli- _
Total 132 55 27 36 168 2030 696
ness, hope, health, and beauty. In this, the A report has been received, stating five cases to have occurred
brazen age of poetry, it is something to meet at Tranent, seven miles west from Haddington, two of which
have proved fatal.
With an author who reminds us of the older and (Signed; . WM. MACLEAN, secretary.
better times. Most sincerely do we hope that _-_-__ __ - - ---- ---
his volume—which, by-the-bye, is rather bulky The two Houses of Parliament met last night,
--may be successful. but little business of importance was transacted
• •., TT I 1 • • -I Cl

LARDNER'S CABINET CYCLOPEDIA.

PART 26. LONDON, 1832.

Comprises, within judicious limits, some cu-
rious particulars respecting the porcelain and
glass manufactory, together with historical
notices of the rise and progress of Potteries,
and a general description of ingredients used in
the manufacture of porcelain.

OI3SERV.ATIONS ON THE MUSSUL-

MA UNS OF INDIA.
Two VOLS. LONDON, 1832.

Mrs. Meer Hassan Ali—how strange is the
union of Mrs. with Ali, the English Mrs. with
the Mahometan Mr. ! has here produced
two volumes, bearing in every page undeniable
tokens of research, and unwearied industry. The
subject of her enquiry is a difficult and compli-
cated one, but she has not been appalled by the
difficulty, but grappled with it in an inflexible
spirit, with the energies of a Grotius or a Ca-
saubon. Indeed, in point of curious research,
Mrs. Hassan Ali has produced a work worthy to
vie with any two of the twelve volumes of the
" Asiatic Researches."

MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY.

A well condensed epitome of all that is ser-
viceable and interesting to students in this com-
prehensive department of knowledge.

WORKING MAN'S COMPANION.
LONDON, 1832.
This work is published under the superin-
tendence of the Society for the Diffusion of
Useful Knowledge, and the present number of
it, entitled the " Physician," contains the best
and most elaborate account we have yet met
with, of that frightful scourge, the cholera.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.
WAL, JAN. 17.—Wind W., light—Arrived the Mary
and Jane, Winter, from the Cape of Good Hope. Arrived
from the river, and remains, the Robert, for the Mauritius.
STANDOATE CREEK, JAN. 17.—Arrived the Rachel,
Dysart, from Cephalonia; Argo, Hammer, from Dantzie ;
and Express, Jay, from Riga, after being assisted off the
Alaplin Sand.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 16.—Arrived the Royal George,
Sraife, from Charleston ; Elizabeth, Gillespie, from Ali-
cant ; and Fairfield, Bloom, from Riga. Off port—the
•Julian from Africa.
DuaLIN JAN. 16.—Arrived the Czar, Ashford, from
Cadiz.

DUNBAR, JAI?. 15.—The Thane, of Fife, from Banff
tr' London, after discharging her cargo, had been floated
°fl the rocks, and carried into North Berwick.
BLAXENEY, JAN. 17.—The Oscar, from Stockholm
to Redon, was brought in yesterday by some smacks.

The Ruby Castle, from Stockton to London, came on
411ure yesterday, but got off the following tide and proceeded.
Vitsms SPOKEN WITII.-The nstitution, of White-
l'aven, from Trieste, 12th ult., 20 leagues S.W. of Lar-
-11,41e ; the Harriet, of Yarmouth, bound to Cadiz, 18th
114., off Cape de Gall.
The Gertrude, AlDonnell, from Gateway to Cork,
IPrung a leak at sea 9th instant, and sunk.—Crew saved.

To save his country CURTIUS jumped into a
Suif--the just medium into our pockets.—Paris Figaro

The two Houses of Parliament met last night,
but little business of importance was transacted
in either House. Lord ASHLEY in the Com-
mons announced his intention of retiring from
the representation of Dorsetshire, in con-
sequence of the great expense to which
the maintenance of his claims would expose
him. Mr. HUME turned this announce-
ment very happily against the Anti-Reformers.
The Right Hon. JOHN WILSON CROKER
snapped and snarled as usual. The LORD AD-
VOCATE gave notice that he should bring in the
Scotch Reform Bill tomorrow evening. The
English Bill is to be proceeded with on Friday•

Dutch and St. Petersburgh Papers have been
received of late dates. The Dutch state that a
courier had arrived from London with the
answer of the Conference to the protest of
the Dutch KING. From what had transpired
at the Hague, it was inferred that the Con-
ference adhered to its original determina-
tion, and consequently rejected the protest or
petition of his High Mightiness, who seems
chiefly remarkable for obstinate effrontery. If
we may credit the " conservative" oracle of the
Ultra-Tories, the Emperors of RUSSIA and
AUSTRIA both refuse to ratify. The King of
PRUSSIA is put forward as willing to ratify, pro-
vided his two Allies of Austria and Russia join
with him—and which he well knows they are
resolved not to do ! If this be not juggling on
a large scale, what is? The Holy Alliance and
triple-faced hypocrisy !

THE HAGUE, JAN. 12.—His Royal Highness the Prince
of Orange is expected here on the 16th, to be present at
the celebration of the birth-day of his august consort.
It is affirmed that a courier arrived yesterday from Eng-
land, with the answers of the Conference to the protest of
the Dutch Government against the twenty-four articles.
The Belgian Papers give only extracts from the answers,
from which no just opinion can be formed of the whole. It
seems, however, that we may infer that the Conference
has not declared itself disposed to deviate from the resolu-
tions it had already taken.
Accounts from Breda of the 11th, say—" The march
of troops through this town continues without intermis-
sion; almost every house has four or six men quartered in
it." The movement of the troops which we have al-
ready announced began on the 10th, and continued
on the 11th. The troops are cantoned over a great ex-
tent of country. for the convenience of the inhabitants,
and will be quartered in many villages now unoccupied,
especially about Breda.
The latest accounts from Maestricht say that all was
quiet there. Belgian troops bad arrived at Belsen, on the
left bank of the Maese, three leagues from Maestricht.
Quarters had also been bespoke for them at Pietersheim,
Hanaken, and Flocht, all places situated near the fortress.
In consequence of the mildness of the weather, very
little floating ice remained in the Maese before Grave on
the 9th, so that the river could be passed without difficulty.
AMSTERDAM, JAN. 12.—A courier has arrived here
from London, with despatches for our Government, who
immediately proceeded to the Hague.
BaEna, JAN. 12.—The accounts from the frontiers,
next Flanders, announce that the Belgian troops cantoned
in those parts are again collecting near our frontiers.
About 900 of them are assembled close to the Capitalen
Dam. Meantime desertion continues among their troops :
last week, eight men, one of them a seryant-major, de-

Retied to us. It is reported, that a whole battalion of Bel-
gian troops which was on the frontiers in tended to desert
to us, but the Belgian Government having received timely
information, removed it to other quarters.
In Dutch Flanders every thing remains tranquil.
Workmen are employed in putting Fort de Ruyter, near
Ramekers, in a good state of defence. It is reported at
Flushing that three brigs and four frigates are to be got
ready for sea immediately.
The Java Papers bring accounts from Batavia to the
10th of September, 1831. They contain reports from
Lieutenant-Colonel Elout, resident ou the west coast of
Sumatra, from which it appears that the military opera-
tions, of which an account was given in the Papers of
July, had been continued with success.
AMSTERDAM, JAN. 13.—The Journals contain very
long accounts of the festivities, which had continued for
three days, in henour of the two hundredth anniversary of
the High School, or Athenaeum Illustre, to which men of
letters from all parts of the kingdom have resorted in very
great numbers.

AMSTERDAM, JAN. 13.
Actual Debt, 9.% per cent.
Arnort Syndic, 4% per cent 665 to 671,4
Ditto, ditto, 31% per cent.
Voluntary Loans, 6 per cent 91,1; to 92V,
Exchange upon London, one month ll 92 5-10
Two Months

ST. PETERSBUAGII, DEC. 27.—The Emperor has ap_
proved of a plan of the Council of Ministers for the esta.
blishment of a Lazaretto in the town of Gourieff, to pre-
serve the Government of Orenburg from the introduction
of the plague, by the tribes which trade on the confines of
that Government and of Persia.

According to official accounts received by the Minister
of the Interior, up to the 13th of December, the number
of cholera patients remaining i❑ the different Governments
was as follows :—Archangel, 32 ; Livonia, 3; Courland,
; Wilna, 712 ; Minsk, 427 ; Volbynia, 347 ; Tauris,
6 ; Bialystock, 30.—1 n all, 1,563.

The interest that has been raised in this
country by the suit for the annulment of the
Duke de BounnoN's will is certainly greater
than has been excited by any French trial since
that of FUALDES. Political considerations
have been so mixed up with the evidence bear-'
ing upon the validity of the will, and the ques-
tion of the suicide of the Duke has been made
so to turn upon a question from which it is in
truth quite distinct, that people regard the trial
with their own peculiar political bias, and in
France the matter has been made one almost
wholly of party. The advocates for the Duke
d'AUMALE and Madame de FELCIIERES have
thus had a great advantage over their adver-
saries, in so far as they have enlisted on their
side all the partisans of the existing order of
things in France, comprising a monstrous body
of placemen and expectants for place—the bulk of
the French stock-jobbing, or as they style them-
selves, moneyed interest—and a large class of
easy, good sort of people, whose fears lest a
worse thing should befal them, have attached
them, for better for worse, to the powers that be
in Paris.

'Whatever may be the result of the suit—and
it is plain that the suicide or murder of the Duke
of BOURBON can but very remotely influence
that result—it will be quite impossible for Louis
PHILIPPE to get over the effect of the letters
originally cited by the Advocate for the Princes
de Ro AN, tending to fix his MAJESTY and
Madame de FEUCHERES with a combination to
obtain the inheritance destined for another.
It is one thing, whether or not the French tri-
bunal deems the evidence sufficient, according to
the law of France, to upset the will, and another,
what sort of judgment public opinion will pass
upon Louis PHILIPPE'S conduct. The public
are chiefly interested in the effect which a judicial
proceeding has upon a man's public character,
and that effect may be often as prejudicial and
damnatory when the verdict is in his favour, as
when it passes against him.
The British public have very little concern
with the character of Madame de FEUCHERES,
late Miss DAWS or DAWES, or NESS CLARKE,
or under whatever other name she may have re-
joiced. But they have a very great concern with
the character of the King of the FRENCH,
because, upon the opinion of his personal worth
depends, more than upon any thing else, the
prospect of the perpetuation of his dynasty.
The PERIER Ministry we consider as having
given up the ghost, or, at least, as being in a
transitive state. The KING must, before long,
provide himself with different advisers from
those who, at present, guide his Councils.
If he had had the sense to have chosen
his Ministers from those who sought to
carry into effect, not to annul, the prin-
ciples of the Revolution of July, Louis
PHILIPPE would have had little to fear from
the effects of the suit now in progress. But his
proceedings being contrary to the general sense
of France, it is not to be wondered at that there
are many who lie in wait for an opportunity to
fasten upon the faults and offences of a Sove-
reign, who, though assuming to be the choice of
his people, is not in f'act beloved or respected by
them.

trickery and cunning, which is the best possible
preservative of national morality.

We have this moment received by express the
]%iessager des Chambres of yesterday :

PARIS, JAN. I6.—The Iffessager des Chambres states
that the Five Powers have never disagreed a moment
about the affairs of Belgium, and that the public, there-
fore, may be fully satisfied about the favourable decision
of the negotiations.

The exchange at Paris was so quiet, that not even a
rumour of the lea.t importance was circulated, and the
funds fully maintained their rise, although the speculators
who had bought a few days before, at four per cent.
lower, had come into the market to realise their profits.
The Prussian State Gazette, and the Augsburg Ga-
zette, begin to find out that they have been imposed upon
in their private correspondence from Warsaw; they firmly
contradict the reports of the cruelties that the Russians
exerted towards the Poles, almost all the individuals who
were alleged to be sent to Siberia, or in another manner
torn from their families, having re-appeared again ;
it was only the fear of a political re-action which
induced them to leave Warsaw. We are in posses-
sion of a proclamation of Prince Paskewitch, grant-
ing assistance for three years to the widows and chil-
dren of the officers of the Polish army. The Prussian
Gazette tells us to-day that the Commissioners named
for the execution of this proclamation have already had
their first sittings under the Presidency of Prince Galitzin.
French Funds.—Three per Cents. 66f. 75c., Five per
Cents. 96f. 60c.

We direct attention to a letter which will be
found in another column, under the head " Bris-
tol, Jan. 17."

Some people in England, who having seen
so many changes in France, think that changes in
that country can only be from bad to worse,
discountenance whatever tends to shake the
Citizen KING'S Government, because they
fancy, that if it were to fall, it would be
succeeded by some power supposed to be
highly abominable, and called by some the
movement, and by others, the Republic. It is
true, English morality always supports whatever is
uppermost, and appreciates merit solely according
to its success. We would venture to say that if
the movement party could keep in power in
France for a twelvemonth, they would have a
host of worshippers in this country, composed
principally of the same individuals who now
cry up Louis PHILIPPE for better for worse.
But, for ourselves, we are at a loss to compre-
hend that species of morality which is to up-
hold, for the purposes of assumed political ex-
pediency, a Government, in which both KING
and Ministers have shewn themselves utterly re-
gardless both of honesty and of honour. The
late exposure of M. PERIER by M. de 1110-
LART, the Prefect of the Rhone, fits in ex-
tremely well with the developement which
Louls PHILIPPE'S character has received in
the Tribunal of the First Instance. The ad-
vancement of truth, and not the support of
this or that Government, is the object of honest
reasoners,—and those who strive to palliate or
gloss over the inferences from this trial, do
what in them lies to stiff virtuous sentiments
among the people, by weakening that general
feeling of indignation at the exposure of low

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