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LONDON. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 3, 1850.

Our Most Gracious SOVEREIGN, with a benevolence
becoming her august pthirion, and according,well
with the known generosity of her character, h 33 re-
cently contributed a sum of fifty pounds towards p.
subscription now getting up for the assistance of the
unfortunate Mrs. HOLLEST, of Frimley. It cannot
be forgotten under what afflicting circumstances thf
lady in question was suddenly deprived of her hus-
band, by the band of a burglarious assassin. The
courage and presence of miad evinced by her in a po-
sition of peculiar peril were as beyond praise as the
greatness of her after misfortune was removed from
the reach of alleviation. Considering, moreover, the
excellence of the unhappy gentleman, her husband, a
clergyman of unblemished reputation, of unoffending
habits, of tranquil and religious life, and bearing in
mind also the appalling abruptness with which he
was struck down in the midst of his home, in the vigour
of health, and in the moment when death was least an-
ticipated, the event in which the subscription referred
to originated could scarcely be of a nature more cal-
culated to excite our sympathies. Condolence is un-
luckily the only reparation capable of being offered
by society to the family which its remissness has thus
lamentably plunged into affliction. That condolence
will be merely :idle: and ineffective :unless it prove a
really practical tribute of regret, offered in
the hour of bitterest necesaity to the in-
nocent victim of the outrage. After the
noble example given by the SOVEREIGN, we can-
not doubt that the project to which we are here di-
recting attention will
et wits the support that
ni :;.Y,lit be juqly expected. A list of sub!criptions,
headed with a donation of such munificence coming
from the noblest personage in the land, cannot surely
f;il in extending to limits compatible with tho neces-
sities of the occasion. For the sorrow under which
Mrs. HOLLEST is now bowed down might have be-
fallen any one amongst us as reasonably as herself. The

sanctity (X (40.er housieholdi might as readily have

been violated, the privacy of another home at easily
p3vpii.plwrupon; and now that she has provcd the vic-
" dnr rt,,f_ibSe most lit'inotra acts of violence it be‘ owes
thy ttruiltlib evidence the. 6 incerity of their un
doisk)ticl e/miseration. Oar household grids appeal'
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to us in her behalf with all the eloquence of those blessed
' i home azlociations surrounding the least and highest
i I amongst ul, from the QUEEN in her palace to the
; I peasant in her cottage. Not :to the most callous
amongst us should those earnest entreaties be ai-
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dressed in vain, coming to us as they do in those
; .
piercing tones of anguish which are wrung from the
survivors of the murdered. Every consideration, in
short, combines to force upon the public sympathy
the affliction of the unhappy lady, now left alone
in the world to watch over the interests of
her children. From among the clerical body espe-
cially she may reasonably look for that earnest and
practical condolence which we have already specified
—her case coming home of course with peculiar
meaning to the bosom of their domestic circles. From
them she may look for the assistance which would
come from that quarter with particular grace, taking
into account the sympathies of position and tha gentle
feelings inspired by uniting at once the practice and
the preaching of Christianity. Among the ecclei•
a,tios of the Established Ctiurch are numbered many
conspieunni for their virtues and their belie-
ficelice, men exemplary in their lives and
-admirable in alt their relations to society,
:"romp whose generosity the persons interested in con-
ducting this teinioniat to Mrs. HOLLEST may con-
fid,iii ly expect assi,tanc,-. Stir will their anticipa-
ti„„s, we are satisfied, be dinappointed in this particular.
Tne wealthier class of the clergy especially will
participate, we feel assured, with becoming alacrity,
in a cause so eminently calculated to elicit their ap-
proval. With them, moreover, will be united, we
believe and are sanguine, a very large section, indeed,
of the lay community—our hopes in this regard being
confirmed by the reflection that the griefs of Mrs.
HOLLEST appeal, in the very first instance, to the
kindliness and humanity of her sex, that
sex which has been called the gentler sex from
the greater delicacy of its sensibilities, that sex the
most bewitching charm of which—its tender-hearted-
ness—has just been vindicated, as we have observed,
by the loftiest lady in the land, our beloved and gra-
cious SOVEREIGN.

It is from our solicitude that the beautiful example
here revealed to her subjects by the QUEEN may- not
be alttgether fruitless, that wehave in this express and
emphatic manner directed attention to an act of
personal beneficence. Fervently do we hope that our
intentions may be fulfilled, and that the subscription
list opened in behalf of Mrs. HOLLEST and headed
by the name of her MAJESTY, may rapidly extend in
a manner capable of rendering the amount
collected together really beneficial to the object of the
testimonial. Otherwise the benevolent endeavour of
its originators would in the most painful manner be
frustrated—the sum proving rather an insult from its
insufficiency, than a benefit from its magnitude.
That such a disastrous result awaits the undertaking
in question we are certain will not prove the case—the
catalogue of contributors already yielding promise of
the happiest consequences. By this means the poignant
sorrows of the widowed lady of the unfortunate Mr.
HoLLEsT may in some measure be alleviated. By
this means the outrage inflicted upon an innocent
family in consequence of the remissness of the local
authorities, may be in a fair way to be followed by
sympathy for the victims as well as by punishment
for the offenders. By this means, moreover, not only
the mojsty of human laws but the majesty of
human benevolence may be vindicated.

Every day's experience proves, beyond the possi-
bili;y of dispute, that the great and all-important
question of Currency Reform is making considerable
progress in the country. The agriculturists more
especially are beginning to discover the true source
of their depressed condiion, and the nature of the
remedies likely to produce effectual relief. It is
rrnr. that some still cling with desperate fidelity to the
,sld regime of protective imposts, that the
r. stto-ation of the bygone monopoly appears the
Alpha and Omega of their aspirations. Others ,
perceiving the utter hopelessness of the attempt to
induce the people again to submit to the monster
grievance, and voluntarily to bend their necks to the
yoke froin which by superhuman exertions they have
happily relieved themselves, advocate extensive re-
ductions of rents, tithes, and taxes, not the 10 or 16
per cent., which well-disposed and wealthy landlords,
whose pecuniary resources enable them to submit to
such sacrifices, return at the audit, but from 30 to 50
per cent., which would involve the great majority
of the landowners, encumbered as they are with
heavy fixed payments, in absolute ruin, curtai
and reduce the national establishments to an extent
incompatible with efficiency, and render the punctua]
liquidation cf the interest on the public debt impos-
sible ; while others, more sagacious, and entering
more deeply into the real conditions of the question,
demand a repeal of our iniquitous currency laws and
of the restrictions that unduly affect the circu-
lating medium, and the establishment of free
trade in money as well as in commodities. This
clear-headed and intelligent section is ac-
quiring strength every day. The currency
question now forms the chief topic of discussion at
the meetings of the farmers' clubs ; the new views
are listened to attentively and respectfully. Speakers
may proclaim their adhesion to free-trade doctrines
without their words being drowned in storms of in-
dignant hisses, and themselves driven with ignominy
from the platform ; nay, on a division, as many
voices will be uplifted against as in favour of import
duties on agricultural produce. This is an im-
portant sign, an auspicious omen. The moment
the people seriously apply themselves to obtaining
a tangible end practicable reform that will benefit all
c!zs,4 s in the community, and not be for the exclusive
advantage of any clique or section, that moment augurs
their ultimate triumph. The Legislature cannot re-
,,ist the voice of public opinion firmly but temperately
?xpreSsed.

We recently alluded in laudatory terms to the
proceedings of the Burton and Trent Farmers' Club,
and the able address of the excellent chairman
Mr. GISBnENE, showing that the great deside-
ratum, to which -all their exertions should
i)e directed, was the re-enactment of the monetary
code, under which all classes enjoyed real prosperity
in the beginning of the present century, notwith-
standing the enormously heavy war expenditure, and
he unceasing drain on the national resources. It
now becomes our no less pleesing duty to direct the
ouelic attention to the meeting of farmers resident in
tie southern division of Norfolk and the northern
livi4on of Suffolk, held at Harleston on
W,cinesday last, in which THOMAS LUCOMBE
TAYLOR, Esq , of Stanton, a faithful and
consistent Free-trader, occupied the chair, and
enlightened the assembly with a clear and lucid expo-
sition of the causes that have led to the present un-
toward state of affairs, and the ruin that is impending--
and we say it, with deep regret and earnest sympathy
—over the agricultural interest.
Like Mr. SAMUEL A. GODDARD, and many other
influential Free-traders, Mr. TArLoa long perceived
the close and intimate connexion between corn and
currency. He believed that if the principles of free
trade were true, exceptions ofany kind were erroneous,
and that if partial exceptions, such as those on corn,
iron, silks, or cotton, eould not be justified, the re-
striction on gold—the medium of exchange of all
articles—was still more objectionable, and that so long
as the price of gold was fixed, and our internal cur-
rency dependent on its possession, free trade in other
respects was a mockery and delusion. Mr. TAYLOR,
then, while he advocated the abolition of protective
imposts, strenuously urged" the revision of our mone-
tary laws and the reduction of taxation," and he still
maintains these opinions, in which every sincere and
disinterested Free-trader, who does not desire to ad-
vance the interest of a class at the expense of the
remainder of the community, participates. Conscious
of the justice of his cause, he invites discussion—de-
sires that all persons shall advaeca their opinions
freely, and without concealment, together with the
reasons 1, which he is influenced. This is the
great of jeer, to be attained—truth must ba
promoted thereby. An acute commentator on
Horee infortns whist students that there should
be a reason for every card played, that it is better to
advance a wrong reason founded on perfectly er-
roneous grounds, than to be guided by mere impulse
or chance. One party, who thinks, may become a
player, hOWevei n
hope for the other.
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be bLEseci, in kons judgment,

may regard matters through a fallacious
111€ du m, but his prejudices will eventually
be dispersed, and he will acquire an accu-
rate knowledge of affairs, and draw correct conclu-
slims from the existing data. But the man who pins
his faith on another, who will not take the trouble of
thinking for himself, is hopeless.

11-iolutions, in which a stringent and searching in-
quiry into the effect on prices of the monetary or
currency laws, and more especially those fixing the
Mint price of gold and limiting the bank-note circu-
lation, were unanimously agreed to ; while an
addition recommending import duties on agricultural
produce, was carried by a small majority, the num-
bers for and against being nearly equal. But for this
latter circumstance our satisfaction would be unal-
loyed. But na it is, we must rejoice at witnessing
the progress of sound and healthy opinions among the
sturdy yeomen of Norfolk and Suffolk—of the
Eastern us well as of the Midland Counties.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
They al comment on M. GUIZOT'S publication of
ttie preface to Moisx. Scarcely any of them rega-d
it with an eye of favour. The Bonapartist Paine
complains of it as a breach of the contract entered
into between the Bourbonists of both classes and the
Bionapartists, to adjourn the consideration of their
differences until the spring, in order to de-
vote their undivided energies to the Judas-
like tack of betraying the Republic to
which they have sworn fidelity. Neither
Bonapartists, Legitimatists nor Orleanists are over-
pleased with M. GUIZOT for his endeavour to raise
into a position of even still greater importance that
mysterious CHANGARNIER,WhOM, FRANKENSTEIN-like,
they have created, but whom they cannot understand,
and whom they alike dread end hate. It is evident
that the cautious M. GUIZOT has been for once too
candid, and has given utterance to the hopes and plots
of the Monarchists before the proper time had arrived
for their divulgement. The Republican journalists
comment in severe terms on the impudence of the
whole affair. The National says—
"We think, for our part, that when a capital like
Faris has proclaimed on the barricades the Republic,
when all the departments of France accepted that Re-
public, when they sent 900 representatives to found a
republican constitution, and when that constitution was
unanimously voted, the last Miniver of the monarchy,
culpable, in the eyes of the Republicans, of having
made an attack on liberty, came forward with a bad
grace, at the end of three years, to ask if the Republic
can be founded. But M. Guizot conceives that he is very
kind in asking the question. With his billets of think-
ing, he cannot hesitate on the choice of a master; but
will France give herself to the masters whom she drove
oat in 1830, or to those whom she drove out in 1850;
that is the whole question for M. Guizot. He at one
moment has said—' Shall we have a Washington or a
Monk?' but lie demonstrates, as he believes, that we
have not in France the stuff to make a Washington of;
Monk therefore remains. Where is he? Every one is
to say: at the Tuileries: Monk is M. Changarnier, and
Charles 11. is a prince of the house of Bourbon.
M. Guizot does not choose at present between Clare-
mont at Wiesbaden, he only pronounces against the
Republic and against the Empire. He traces out the
conduct to be pursued by M. Changarnier, who is to
preserve his authority, giving way apropos as at Satory,
and resisting apropos as in the matter of General Neu-
mayer. He is to preserve his post at the head of the
army, and to bear in mind that the old Monk had two
talents—to temporise and to lie. M. Changarnier's
force depends on two causes—he leans for support on tbe
Royalists, and is necessary to the Bonapartists. Let these
latter send him away, and their party falls on the in-
stant; let them guard him, and he will wear them out.
When the great name, under the shade of which France
makes a bait, shall have lost all prestige, M. Changarnier
will only have to bring back in triumph M. Guizot and
his pupil. His motto will be as it W 33 Monk's, Victor
sine sanguine ;' the revolution of February will have
been only a dream. And Richard Cromwell, what
of him? Id. Guizot is rot less explicit for him
than for M. Changarnier. He carries his harshness
to insult; Richard's debts will be paid; that is all the
gratitude which the monarchy feels—for him. I also
publish,' says M. Guiz it, a letter addressed, a fortnight
ti fore the Restoration, by Richard Cromwell to Monk.
When the Parliament meets, you will have the kindness
to use your credit to have certain debts paid, which I
(mullet conscientiously look on as mine. For I have in
you this confidence, that if I ought to judge myself but
little worthy of great things, yen will not judge me
worthy of complete ruin? Singular mixture of modesty.
almost humble, and of a reminiscence of greatness!'
Atter having read this preface, we will give M. Guizot
but one encomium—he is frank."
There have been some disturbances at Argentiere,
in the department of the Ardeche. Tranquillity,
however, has been restored.
There were rumours yesterday in Paris of the dis-
covery of various Legitimatist plots.
The Prefect of Police has ordered the Passage de
l'Opera to be cleared every evening, in order to pre-
vent stock-jobbing from being carried on there after
the Bourse is closed. The following notice has been
affixed at the Bourse : -

" The assemblages under the name c f Cerele au Pas-
sage de l'Opera ' are already known to the public. It is
also known that before the opening and after the closirg
of the Bourse sales of public stock are wont to take
place there, and it is, in fact, a sort of brarch establishment
of the Bourse. It is not necessary to insist on the dangers of
the operations in the spotreterred to—operations without
any serious character, and often in consequence of false
or true rumours of which jobbing is the life and soul.
At all events such a practice is an infraction of the re-
gulations of the Bourse, which is specially set apart for
the operations in the public funds, effected through
the agency of brokeets instituted by law, and which alone
present guarantees of the publicity the administration
owes to interests of every kind. The Prefect of Police
has therefore prohibited Bourse opera ions in the Pas-
sage de i'Opera, and has ordered that those which took
place at the Bourse alter the hour fixed by its regula-
tions, shall cease."

Letters from Brest of the 29th tilt. announce the
sailing of Admiral MONTAGUIES DE LA ROQUE to
take the command of the French fleet in the Levant.
He will hoist his flag on board the Pandore at the
Piraeus.

There was considerable excitement created at the
Bourse today by a notice posted there by order of
the Prefect of Police, announcing that in future the
couli3siers or jobbers for time bargains are no
longer to be permitted to assemble as they
were accustomed to do in the great hall. The Bourse
was animated, and the price of public securities rose
considerably. The Five per Cents. opened at 93f.
70c., and closed at 93f. 95c.; the Three per Cents.
closed at 58f. 10c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 800 f.;
Rouen, 600. ; Havre, 238 f. 75c.; Great Northern,
456 f. 25e. ; Avignon, 190 f.; Vierzon, 3751.; Basle,
131 f. 25e.; Bordeaux, 3861. 25c. ; Paris and Stras-
burg, 340 f.; Tours and Nantes, 2411. 25c.
BUSIM SS Di )zN. FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 2.
Anglo-Italian (late Italian and Austrian), 2% East
Indian, 12—Luxembourg, 1%--Namur and Liege, 7 'A--
Northern of France 1434—Orleans and Bourdeaux, 24,4_
and and Rouen, 20/I—Paris and Strasb >tug, B%—Sambre
and Meuse, 2%.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 27th ult. have arrived.
In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on the
previous day M. BRAVO MURILLO, during the discus-
sion on the address, entered into lengthened details on
the financi2l state of the country, and held out very
flattering promises for the future. According
to the statement of the Minister of Finance, the
deficit for the present year will only amount to
thirty millions of reals, and he expressed his
opinion that the direct taxes would not be increased
next year. The Duke of VALDNTIA, the President of
the Council, also gave explanations relative to the state
of the country, and maintained that prudence, mode-
ration, and wisdom had influenced all the acts of the
Ministry. He strongly denied the justness of a re-
proach that had been addressed to the Ministry, of
having shown weakness in their foreign policy, and
maintained on the contrary, that the dignity of the
nation had been always supported. The address was
voted by a very large majority.