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to have recourse to another mode of protecting so
precious a right against its own excesses and against
the wandering which commences by discrediting, and
generally finishes by destroying it. Reasons similar
to those stated have determined your Ministers to
propose the suppression of the first of the additional
articles, in which it is said that the laws will deter-
mine the time and the mode of the establishment of
trial by jury in every kind of offence.' This point,
like the preceding, will remain, as is required by its
nature, to be regulated in the codes without its being
necessary that it should be announced in the consti-
tutional law of the State.
" The principal reform which the Ministry consider
necessary is in regard to the Senate. Since the pub-
lication of the Constitution in 1837, it has been dis-
covered that the institution of the Senate is vicious.
It could only give tha advantage of the division of
the legislative body into two branches instead of one.
However defective their organisation, it was in vain
that an attempt has been made to establish certain
differences between the two, by requiring that the
senators should be of more advanced age, and that
,hey should have means of existence and other qua-
lities required by the electoral law. These palliatives
could not remedy a radical fault in that body.
By the very fact the senators are elected by
the same persons who elect the deputies—the iden-
tity of origin destroys the basis of the institu-
tion. A body of that kind, to answer the intended
end, must have stability and firmness, must
be sheltered from the flux and reflux of popular opi-
nions, and must support the institutions of the state by
its conservative spirit, and, at the same time, serve as
a regulator and counterpoise to the renovating and
progressive spirit which animates the Chamber of
Deputies. The Senate, as constituted, offers none of
these advantages, notwithstanding the presence of so
many illustrious persons among its members. Thus
we have plainly seen, within the few years of its ex-
istence, the faults of the institutions, and it is fortu-
nate that greater inconveniences have not arisen, as
might have been the case in a nation less grave and
reasonable than ours. Nevertheless, it is not the less
established that the time has arrived in which the
provisional Government was under the necessity, for
the public convenience, to renew the whole of the
Senate, thus giving a new testimony that the political
wheels are not constructed so as to run smoothly.
Without reckoning this and other extraordinary
cases, the frequent renewal of the senators
vitiates the very essence of the Constitution. It
is notorious that the Senate, by its present
organisation, is by no means conformable to the cha-
racter of monarchical government, even with the re-
strictive faculty allowed to the Crown of choosing be-
tween the three candidates elected by the people—a
faculty which often, and especially in times of popular
excitement, may become rather a subject of derision
than the exercise of a noble prerogative. These rea-
sons, and others too long to enumerate, have con-
vinced your Secretaries of State of the absolute neces-
sity of completely changing the constitution of the
Senate ; a serious change, it is true, but for which the
way has been cleared by public opinion, for there
are few subjects upon which enlightened men
are more unanimous. The principle of po-
pular election, which is only applicable to
the Chamber of Deputies, being once put
aside, and the Senate being about to be established on
a different footing, your Secretaries of State have
gravely considered the basis to be adopted for this im-
portant institution. It could not escape them that the
most natural element of such bodies, conservative as
they are in their nature, is the hereditary principle,
the principle of order and of stability analogous to
the very spirit of the monarchy, and which unites to
fidelity to the throne the independence necessary to
guard and maintain the liberties and privileges of the
nation. Your Secretaries of State would not have
hesitated to propose to draw a portion of that element
existing in Spain. Rejecting for the Senate both
popular election and the hereditary elements, your
Secretaries of State are of opinion that the Senate
should be for life, and on the nomination of the
Crown. Without pretending that this new essay shall
not be without inconvenience, they can affirm without
fear that the giving of that dignity for life offers
pledges of independence and stability. In order to give
the institution a certain prestige, and to prevent as far
as possible the honour from being given to persons
unworthy of occupying so eminent a post, the nomin-
ation must be limited to certain classes. It is true
that this limitation may in certain cases be inconve-
nient, but upon the whole, your Secretaries of State
have thought this plan preferable to that of allowing
the choice to be entirely free, and exposed to all the
influence of political passions, of favour, and of fami-
liarity. In the new organization of the Senate, those
will ba allowed to enter who, by their high dignity,
by the services which they have rendered in their
respective careers, by their characters, by
their illustrious names, or by their fortunes
can give weight and value to the resolutions of a body
which ought to be the reflection of the national
glories, and the depot of ancient traditions. The
Senate being thus formed, it is to be hoped that it will
fulfil its principal duty, which is to concur with the
Crown and the Chamber of Deputies in the formation
of laws ; but your Secretaries of State have thought
that they could also invest it with judiciary functions
in certain determined cases—as, for instance, when
Ministers of the Crown are to be put on their
trial who have been impeached in due form by the
Deputies of the nation, or when one of its own
members is to be tried, or when, as shall be deter-
mined by the laws, offences against the Crown, or
against the State, shall be submitted to that re-
spectable body. This prerogative is given to the
Senate, not as a privilege, but as a charge in favour
of society itself, which cannot confide those sa-
cred objects to a higher or more independent body.
" Your Secretaries of State propose one single mo-
dification to Title IV. of the Constitution. It is that
the Deputies be elected for five years instead of three.
This change has a certain harmony with that which
is proposed with regard to the Senate. Both are a
part of a system. In a nation in which municipali-
ties, provincial deputations, and Chamber of Deputies
are all elective, it is necessary to moderate to a cer-
tain degree this changeableness, so as not to trouble
the people too often with elections, for that is apt to
disgust them with the institutions themselves. It is
necessary, on the contrary, to endeavour to establish
a certain stimulus to system and order, which is dif-
ficult to reconcile with too frequent renewals. For
this reason your Secretaries of State think that five
years is more proper, to avoid the too frequent repeti-
tion of elections, while it does not go too much to the
other extreme of being too long a time without con-
cultinte the natinnal will
" Your Secretaries of State will not stop to give their
reasons for suppressing the 27th article of the Con-
stitution, in which it is stated that if the King should
fail to bring together the Cortes before the Ist of De-
cember, it will assemble precisely on that day. The
very tenour of the article shows that as regards the
royal authority, it is inconvenient, and in every re-
spect useless for the defence of the rights of the na-
thn. When, to the misfortune of thrones and peo-
ple, a conflict of that kind arises between the powers
of the State, the articles of the Constitution, which
have already been destroyed, will not be appealed to.
" On examining the Bth article, relative to the mi-
nority of the Sovereign and to the Regency, your
Secretaries of State have found that the text
of the Constitution gives rise to serious in-
conveniences. According to the terms of the 57th ar-

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NEW SPANISH CONSTITUTION.
We give the following report of Narvaez and Co.
to the Queen, we should rather say, the Queen-Mother,
as an argument for doing away with constitutional
government in Spain. Our readers will possibly take
little interest in the affair, but we find it necessary to
give the report as a public document, which may lead
to the most serious consequences.
"Madame—When your Ministers had the honourof
proposing to your Majesty the convocation of the
Cortes, which are about to meet in the capital of the
kingdom, they thought it proper and fitting to express,
in the decree of convocation, the intention which the
Government had that a reform of the constitution of

govern the kingdom until the Cortes proceed to that
nomination. In default of a father or mother there
should he called to the Regency the relative the
nearest heir to the throne, inasmuch as it will unite
age and indispensable circumstances.
" Thus will be filled up the great blank occasioned
by the minority of the King, by favour of a means
analogous to that which is observed in the succession
to the throne. The risks will thus be avoided which
might supervene in the interval, however short it may
be, between the decease of the monarch and the no-
mination of the Regency ; and on the occurrence of
this deplorable event there will be found some one
fitted to take in hand the reins of the State, without
uncertainty or violence, by a natural transition pro-
vided for beforehand, and calculated to captivate, with-
out effort, the obedience and the respect of the people.
" These reflections, and others not less powerful,
have induced your Secretaries of State to propose this
very important modification as regards the Regency ;
but with respect to what affects the care and the tute-
lage of the minor King, they have found no reason to
modify the text of the 60th article of the Constitution,
inasmuch as it is not less in conformity with sound
principles of policy as to the ancient laws and Cll3.
toms of the monarchy. The last modification pro-
posed by your Secretaries of State is the suppression
of the 77th article, by which it is enacted that there
shall be in each province corps of national militia, the
organisation and the service of which shall be regu-
lated by a special law. This is not the moment to
examine the advantages and the inconveniences of this
institution, and still less of tracing its history in
Spain ; it is too modern to be able to be presented
with the wished-for impartiality. Without entering
into the examination of either the one or the other
point, it is sufficient for your Secretaries of State to
be convinced that the existence of the national guard
neither is nor ought to he the subject matter of a con
stitutional article.

" Such are the principal reforms which your minis-
ters propose, and, if your Majesty authorises them,
they will have the honour of submitting them to the
Cortes. Because they desire that there should be in
Spain institutions similar to those which give so much
power and splendour to other monarchies, they pro-
pose, without hesitation, in conformity with their duty,
those changes and meliorations in the Constitution
which will correct defects from which no human con-
trivance is exempt, and assure its complete and punctual
execution for the future. Thus we shall impose silence
on those who pretend that a nation cannot be granted
the exercise of its legitimate rights without exposing
the throne to danger ; and on those who wish that no
limits should be placed to liberty, as if that were not
an infallible means to make it degenerate anarchy.
" We pray to God, Madame, to grant to your Ma •
jesty, whom He has protected in such an evident
manner in your earliest years, the inexpressible happi-
ness of recompensing the nation for the great sacrifices
it has made, by founding its prosperity and its glory
on the faithful observance of the laws.

"This volume contains a correct and plain account of the nature
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interesting cases which have been effectually cured by his peculiar
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the State should be proceeded with. This notice,
given with frankness and good faith, in order to take
away even the slightest appearance of surprise, then
called the public attention to the subject, and it may
be supposed that it had an influence on the feelings of
the electors when they placed in the electoral urn the
names of those whom they were willing to intrust
with so important a mission. In order that there
may be no longer the slightest doubt of the intention
of the Government relative to this point, the character
and nature of the projected reform was indicated in
the decree of convocation in the following terms,
which it is proper that we should repeat to-day
`The time has arrived to introduce regularity and
harmony in the different branches of the State; to
lay down the laws necessary to consolidate in the
most stable manner public order and tranquillity, and
to carry reforms and ameliorations even into the con-
stitution of the State, relative to those parts which
experience has demonstrated in a palpable manner not
to be in harmony with the true spirit of the repre-
sentative government, and not to leave the flexibility
necessary for all the exigencies of this kind of go-
vernment.'

By R. J. CULTBRWELL, M.D.,
Member of the Royal College if Surgeons of England, Licentiate of
the Hall, and twenty-three years Resident Practitioner in Loudon.
" Of human ills and frailties I discourse,
Those taught by nature and by art acquir'd.
Of griefl3 conceal'd, and disappointments keen,
Which young and gentle—the matured and sage—
The lonely and the mated—all sustain ;
In kindly spirit herein counsel's given,
How health, how hope, how happiness to gain."
Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street ,
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(Signed)
" RAMON•MARIA NARVAEZ.
FRANCISCO MARTINEZ DE LA RO
MAYANS, &c.
" Madrid, Oct. 9, 1844."

" It was thus the Ministers expressed themselves at
the time of calling upon the electors to exercise their
important rights. The persons whom they have
honoured with their confidence being on the point of
uniting, the time has arrived of laying before your
Majesty the ideas of your Ministry relative to constitu-
tional reform, which is the most important point the
Cortes will hare to consider. In examining this subject
with the attention which it so well deserves, the Minis-
ters have been confirmed in the opinions which they
have for a long time had relative to the Constitution
now in force. Founded genera'ly on sound prin-
ciples of public right, it was a great step towards the
establishment of a good monarchy, especially if it be
compared with the Constitution of 1812 ; but never-
theless it could not but feel the effect of the circum-
stances under which it was formed, and accordingly
more than one important error was found. The first
pointed out, which experience has proved to be so :
It is a fact that different ministries who have suc-
ceeded each other of different opinions, and even of
opposite principles, have all found more or less
obstacles in 'governing within the limits of the Con-
stiution, and have been obliged to violate some
of its dispositions, in order not to run the risk of
leaving the authority of the Government without de-
fence, and the tranquillity of the State exposed
to alterations and dangers. And when even that ne-
cessity failed to it certain extent in preventing the
circumstances in which the kingdom found itself of
being troubled with revolutions and civil wars, it is
not less certain that an essential part of the evil
proceeds from a defect in some of the institutions.
It is thus that public opinion, and even a certain feel-
ing.of self-preservation which animates the people,
have pointed out as necessary the reform of the con-
stitution, in order to give to the action of Government
a strength which is considered indispensable. Spain
has learned to its cost that when the power of the
Crown does not find in the institutions that rigour
and strength necessary to protect the interests
of the public and the rights of individuals, it
will fall of necessity into one of two extremes.
It will expose itself to the attacks of disorder and
anarchy, or it will make use of illegal arms for
its own defence and that of society. Desirous to avoid
these two rocks, and to establish at the commence-
ment of your Majesty's reign a new era of legality
and of order, which promises to the throne glory and
splendour, and which ensures at the same time the
repose and the happiness of the nation, your Minis-
ters propose the following reforms of the Constitution
of the State, limiting themselves to those which they
consider necessary or fitting, for the reasons which
they are about to lay before your Majesty shortly and
clearly. They believe, above all things, that the pre-
amble of the Constitution should be changed, con-
sidering unseasonable, if not even dangerous, the
principle which is announced in it, and from which
consequences may be drawn by no means conform-
able to the majesty and the security of the throne, and
to the harmony which ought to subsist between the
principles State. P
m Far, then, from having recourse
yoourre
ionri s
tel
re
ss sh
avveaugluoeughin
t
o
a fact, namely, that in the
iPtt the abstract
f gse ri°an fbolt feh cetoon s
at
ni t
nu
ot iuo
nn
cs
e,
Constitution which is about to rule Spain, the Crown
and the Cortes concur in wishing to reconcile the an-
cient fueros or liberties of the nation with its present
state and wants, giving to the Cortes the right of in-
tervention, which it has always had, in the decision of
the important affairs of the monarchy. In this manner,
as far as is possible, will be obtained the inappreciable
advantage of giving as a basis for the Constitution the
united will of the monarch and of the representatives
of the nation, and the exaggerated pretensions will be
avoided of those two extreme parties, who ordinarily
commence by jealousies and rivalties, and finish by
overturning and scandal.
" In entering into an examination of the reform of
the Constitution, the Ministers will not stop to exa-
mine matters of little consequence. They will only
call your Majesty's attention to some of the principal
parts. The first paragraph of Art. 2 is left untouched.
In it is acknowledged the right of Spaniards to pub-
lish their thoughts, without their passing through the
hands of the censor, while they must conform to the
laws. Whatever may be the inconveniences of the
liberty of the press, and the abuse to which it has
been exposed in Spain, the spirit of the times and the
character of the institutions in force require that that
law. It is to be hoped that when people are a little
right should be considered sacred, and a fundamental
more calm, and when public manners have insensibly
improved, the press will consecrate Itself to a more
noble object, the instruction and improvement of the
people. 13ut while by the Constitution the Ministers
I leave liberty to the press, they are of opinion that that
paragraph ought to be suppressed in which it is estilbs
lisheel that the trial of all offences of the press should
belong exclusively to juries. It is unnecessary to
point out alt the advantages, as well as inconveni-
ences, of such an institution. It is also unnecessary
to poiot out all those things of which Spain was a
witness at the two periods when juries were estab-
lished to judge of offences of the press; for no one is
ignorant of the filet that the most sacred objects are
exposed to all sprts of attacks—government without
defence, the reputation of indivi luality without pro-
teetion, and impunity consecrated to the detriment
of the pnhlio weal and in contempt of the laws.
It is possible that the troubles of the epoch and
the loose given to political passion, which vitiate
similar institutions in times of trouble and revolt,
and which convert the sword of' justice into the
weapon of party, has contributed to this result.
however that may be, your Ministers ore of opi-
longthat this is not a point which properlyL. be-
s to the Constitution. moue an. ,orrn
. . 3 al- -- -
of trial, both as regards the offences of the
.press
'The
and other offences, ought to be Tpattersof ofditn ,al7
law? and it is for the Crown and the Cortes to say

THE PENSIONERS.

',Arum' ON DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS, AND ALL
DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, &c.
" He who ih pleasure's downy arms
Ne'er lost his health or yeuthfu lcharms,
A hero lives, and justly can
Exclaim, in me behold a mar l"
ust published (In a scaled envelope), Tenth Edition, price 24. 6d.,
or sent by post, free, to any address, 3s. d.,
QELF-PRESERVATION : a Popular Essay on
those concealed disorders originating in youthful excesses,
and terminating in Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional
Weakness, and all those Sinkings, Anxieties, and Tremors, which
afflict the Weak, the Sedentary, and the Delicate. With Practical
Observations on Marriage and on the Anatomy, Physiology, and
Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, with plain Directions for
their perfect Restoration.
By SAMUEL LAMERT, Consulting Surgeon,
9, BEDFORD-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary
Member of the London Hospita I Medical Society, Licentiate of
Apothecary's Hall, London,&c.
" The various positions of Lover, Husband, and Parent, the in-
herent privileges of mankind, are frequently marred and prevented
througt the follies and frailties of early indiscretions. To such,
among others, this Essay addresses itself; and by its perusal many
questions may be satistUctorily adjusted that admit of no appeal even
to the most confidential friend."—Stafford Gazette.
"The design of this work will be tolerably obvious from its title,
and we cordially recommend the author and his book to all who are
saffering from nervous debility and general weakness."—Wakefield
Journal.
Published by the Author, and sold in London by S. Gilbert, 51 and
52, Paternoster-row; Starie, 23, Tichberxe-street, Quadrant, Regent
street ; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street ; Noble, 114, Chancery.
lane; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; and by all Booksellers.
At home every day till Three, and from Fly* till Eight.

The following information has been afforded to us
respecting this body of men, and may be interesting
to our readers. The United Kingdom is divided into
a certain number of districts, in each of which the
pensioners from the army are under the command of
a commissioned officer, who sees that the men are paid
monthly. Scotland is divided into ten districts.
The Edinburgh district contains about 1,630 pen-
sioners, the military commandant being Ciptain
Tulloch, lately 90th regiment. From the whole
number, about 300 men who are fit to bear arms ,

A NEW AND IMPORTANT EDITION OF THE SILENT'
FRIEND ON HUMAN FRAILTY. .

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Price 3s. 6d.,
THE SILENT FRIEND ; a Medical Work on
rluman Frailty and Physical Decay, its causes, and the
baneffil effects of excessive indulgence and infection, illustrated
by engravings, with observations on Marriage, and directions for
the removal of certain disqualifins.
By IL and L. PERRY and CO.
Published by the Authors, and sold at their Residence, 19, Berners.
street, Oxford-street ; also by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row; Purkis,
Compton-street, Sohe ; Noble, 109, Chancery-lane; Hannay and
Co., 63, Oxford-street; J. Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street, Lon-
don; and by all Booksellers in Town and Country.
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the Medical profession, for what reason we are at a loss to know.
Wemust, however, confess that a perusal of this work has left such
a favourable impression on our minds, that we not only recommend,
but cordially wish every one who is the victim of past folly, or aught*_
ing from indiscretion, to profit by the advice contained in its pages."
—Age and Argus.
" The Authors of ' The Silent Friend,' seem to be thoroughly
conversant with the treatment of a class of complaints which are, we
fear, too prevalent in the present day. The perspicuous style in
which this book is written, and the valuable hints it conveys to
those who are apprehensive of entering the marriage state, cannot
fail torecommend it to a careful perusal."—Era.
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have been selected and enrolled for the purpose of
being occasionally called out for a few days, and dis-
ciplined according to Act of Parliament. The en-
rolled men are clothed by Government, and each
man receives a bounty of 1/. annually from the same
source. They also receive each 2s. daily, with-
out any deduction from their pension during
the period they may be called out for training,
and 2s. Gd. when called out to aid the civil
power. When on duty, they are liable to the
provisions of the Mutiny Act and Articles of
War, exactly in the same way as soldiers
of the regular army. They have lately been on
duty in this, and, we believe, in the other districts,
for a period of six days, during which they were
drilled from two to three hours daily. Only four
cases of military delinquency occurred, all con-
sisting of the same offence, namely, inebriety. As
a warning to others to abstain from intemperance,
their names were erased from the roll, and their
uniforms taken into store. Considering the alleged
inconsiderate character of old soldiers, their con-
duct has on this occasion been in general most exem-
plary, regular, and highly praiseworthy. For the
most part the able-bodied pensioners who reside in
Edinburgh, have obtained some employment, by
which means they are able to add a little to their
pensions, and much praise is due to their employers
for having permitted them to attend the regular drills
and parades. In the corps there are fourteen men
who have Waterloo medals, sixteen with good-con-
duct medals, and thirty-two served in the Peninsula.
We have already adverted to the circumstance of the
force having been inspected by General Sir Neil
Douglas, the Sheriff, Provost, and other municipal
authorities, who, were all highly pleased with the
steady and soldier-like manner with which they exe-
cuted a number of military manoeuvres.—Scotch Paper.

ARNICA MONTANA, OR LEOPARD'S. BANE.
NERVOUS DEAFNESS.—This plant is a native of Ger•
many, and belongs to the class Syngenesia ; order,
Polygamia superflua of Linnaeus, and to the tenth class;
third order, Corymbiferae of Jussieu. It is placed in the
System of De Candolle in the Corollifloral Exogens,
ordeps Asteracce or Composite. In the " Materia
Medics" it is classed with the Narcotics, and, from
its botanical position, it may be considered as a
Narcotico-acrid. The flowers, leaves, and root, have
been applied to medical purposes. The flowers of
this plant have a slightly fetid smell, and a taste pone•
trating and bitter. The infusion from maceration in
water shows that both the taste and smell are
extracted during the process. When administered
their stimulating power and narcotic effects are
evidenced in their action on the general system. In
a moderate dose they increase the force of the circula-
tion, and they further serve to give tone to the mus-
cular fibre. In larger doses they induce purging, vomit-
ing, &c., which are sometimes succeeded by pains in the
muscles of voluntary motion, vertigo, and occasionally
convulsions. According to Dupuytren, the emetic
effects arise from certain downy particles from the plant,
which got diffused through the infusion. This infusion
has been very successfully exhibited in amaurosis,
paralysis, convulsive disorders, and also in rheumatism
and gout (and the last two years by Dr. Cronin in
nervonq den fnesv, and palpitation of the heart, duct;
which time several eminent surgeons htkve testified to its
efficacy). The root of this plant is tonic and aromatic,
so much so, that it has been used as a substitute for
Peruvian bArli.--Fron4 Dr. Cronin's, Craven-street.
Strand, "Treatise on Arnica Montana is the Cure of
Nervous Deafness, and Palpitation of the Heart."
CAPTURE OF THREE SHARKS.-011 Saturday last
while some of the fishermen employed at Hood's Head
fishery were drawing in their nets, they experienced,
like the fisher in the Eastern tale, great difficulty in
bringing them to land. When their task was at length
accomplished, the obstruction was found to arise, not
from an iron casket enclosing a genii, but from a couple
andou fu yw sharksoNovtlitentrteginAp:
arefTtkides
hiront
encigt
hswhichvborißlmo
ei
oolaidtuchhihs anamdesdote:rg:ubsoc
ig,euit
eg,roeneel
struggles
osttnaxi
hnint
toitgr
iwat :an
Cdstriecd:
Idialsng:oeettafhrh
Colliery
from
carcases
oa:
yen
isernees
serveha at feetseies
ds,
ai I
weretrl eo nu
rgt
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as manure. On the Tuesday previous, ono equally large
was caught, malting three of these voracious and dan-
gerous fish caught within the week.—Beneich Advertiser.

tide, in case of the vacanc=y of the throne, the im-
mediate successor being a minor, the Cortes ought to
name, to govern the kingdom, a Regency, composed
of one individual, or of three ar five persons. Thus,
in all cases of minority of the Novereign, it is for the
Cortes to proceQ4l to the nomination of those who are
to be called upon to exercise, ad in(6eini, the royal
po Ner.
" Your Secretaries of State regard this provision as
not being in conformity with the character of an
hereditary monarchy. They think also that it may
expose the State, and often without necessity, to a
contest of parties, generally so excited and embittered
when it affects the conferring, even temporarily, the
exercise of the extreme power. They believe, in
short, that it is necessary to avoid as much as possi-
ble that the people should see immediately beneath the
throne persons making a display who are not of the
race of their princes, to whom the march of ages and
habitual veneration has given at the same time a pres-
tige and authority,
principles that we should confine ours.
,when there is no
existence an elective regency, only. w
monarchical
other resource more in harmony with a
inconveniences and dangers.
" It consequently appears more conf:elvremsatoblectaolltlilnotsoe
reoinze and legs exposed Co incons s
etcorettialertens
Regency
entcayte
that there _
the mother o' the infant sovereign, Who is
her or
.they
by the git article of the Constitution to
charged • otuhrrehatavtOceboef your
rd
Thus,l

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TIM NELSON DISPATCHES AND LETTERS.—We are
requested to state that Mr Colburn of Great Marlbo-
rough-street, has this day published the first volume, in
Svo., price 13s. bound, of "T he Dispatches and Letters
of Admiral Lord Nelson," edited by Sir Harris Nicolas,
G.C.M.G., which can now be had of all booksellers. The
work will be completed in three volumes, the second of
which will appear in January next. Mr. Colburn has
heguteeenns
also published this day "A Journey Across the Desert
from Ceylon to Marseilles ; comprising Sketches of
Aden, the Red Sea, Lower Egypt, Malta, Sicily, and
Italy,", bYillGusrtirthattiho'nisn,
price 21s. bound.
OPENING OF THE NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE.—Fu-
ture English Historians will have a fine field for elegant
Bvol!..,firvsit
hGeo George
twenty-onel)a l-
vnaircrtaortiioanoipneiriecingortdhiengNtehwe giotoryggaol uEsxeshpeaentgaec.le of
T
of thousands who witnessed this ever memorable event
oolubym eAsi,aj smallor and
when they beheld their Queen, it was as if the very
win-
dows spoke : such eager looks—such vivid, -
sparkling,
animated eyes, gazing with rapture on the
glorious scene
—while the all-attractive charms of the
shone resplendent in their power •f* ''''letl'e""
‘t lin
swan-like nook, the rlteli luxuriant tresses,anti
e white and
yet of itc,,tia, fori.,ii,a admirable
trophies and the pearly
Ede qualities of Rowland's Y 1 of the intstima-
Oil, and Rowland's 0 l ‘.tt ydor, Rowland's 111ncm-rtt
k Olltg, -..