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LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1844.

position on the right hand of the Speaker's chair.
From having been the partizan of Monopoly, Govern-
,
ment became all at once an advocate for "free trade
in the abstract." It had previously lent a willing ear
to the sophistries of Mr. BAN E 5. It now listened
with deference to the suggestions of Mr. COBDEN.
By such equivocal—such shuffling conduct
it succeeded in alienating one large portion
of the community—namely, the Monopolists,
while it failed in securing the confidence of
another numerous body—viz., the Free-traders. Both
equally felt that it was making a tool of them—
countenancing or discountenancing them, just accord-
ing as it suited its own interested views ; consequently,
both hold it in distrust, and despairing just at present
of obtaining a change of administration, have fallen
into a state of calm indifference from which
we see no immediate prospect of their
being roused. The equivocal proceedings of
Government are, we contend, the chief cause of the
existing apathy of the people, and this apathy bids
fair to continue so long as Sir ROBERT PEAL sees fit
to legislate on what he calls, the " expediency
system." Expediency! We contemn and abhor
the phrase. It is in direct antagonism to principle,
and is in too many instances the pretext pat forth by
knaves to justify their most indefensible practices.

from so sombre a tail-piece to a Governor's address
as this :

" Although I am satisfied that there is sufficient
vigour in our resources to enable us to overcome the
difficulties still affecting all classes of the community,
and to lay the foundation of a secure and lasting pros-
herity, I cannot but deeply lament the reverses which
ave so grievously, during the last three years, injured
the fortunes of individuals and the credit of the colony ;
and I shall continue, with your assistance, to give my
most anxious consideration to the means by which per-
manent relief may be afforded.
Really this is a chilling portrait of the actual con-
dition of a magnificent colony, whose advance,
hitherto, in agricultural improvement, the develop-
ment of a native staple, and the commercial rela-
tions consequent on such advantages, and the inci-
dents of its geographical position, have been hitherto
almost without a parallel in the history of European
settlements. It is important to the best interests of
civilisation, and to the great cause of colonial policy,
that the erroneous principles which, alone, can have
worked out so lamentable a conclusion as this from
beginnings so auspicious, should be corrected, or re-
placed by others of a sounder and more beneficial
character. To this end, as we argued in a former
paper, some weeks ago, the absurd and suicidal dis-
abilities and amercements proposed to be inflicted on
the great flock owners, or squatters—the pioneers of
territorial discovery, and the true founders of Aus-
tralian greatness and opulence—must be at once re-
pealed, and the notion of reimposing them for ever
abandoned. The Colonial Government must relax
and diminish its tariff of official license fees, and
other duties and imposts ; and with the other must
deal out more sparingly and discreetly the grants, of
which the liberality and the extent have hitherto
been followed by results so little commensurate.

Whilst we, in London, were deploring, on Mon-
day last, the lifeless apathy with which that anniver-
sary of the glorious battle of Trafalgar, and of the
almost consecrated death of our Great Admiral,
seemed to be regarded in the very Capital whose
streets had so often echoed to the thunder of the
guns—and glowed with the festival lights—which
celebrated the succession of his brilliant triumphs by
land and by sea, over the enemy, there were other
hearts still throbbing to the immortal recollections
associated with his name, other hands, performing
grateful and reverential homage to his illustrious
memory, within the same stout walls of British oak,
from whence he achieved his last and crowning vic-
tory, and where he encountered his heroic fall with
the sublime constancy, and simple grandeur, of a
hero ! Often as we have been called upon, in common
with all our fellow-subjects, to commend the truly
national prepossession which her MAJESTY so pointedly
manifests, at all times, for the Naval Service of the
country, and the fine manifestations of that dauntless
hearing on the waters which so well becomes the
QUEEN of the Islands, we have never experienced
a feeling of more enthusiastic admiration for her
MAJESTY'S personal character and deportment than
has been excited in us by the account of her unex-
pected visit to the Victory, on the 21st instant. It
seems that, attracted by the unusual decorations of
that majestic vessel—(every timber of which, like
that of the adventurous "Argo" of old, or of the
craft which carried DRAKE in safety on his memorable
circuit of the globe, ought to be carefully preserved
as an heir-loom to our posterity)—her MAJESTY—in
the act of proceeding in the state barge of the Port-
Admiral to the Royal Clarence Victualling-office at
Portsmouth, where the Lords of the Admiralty were
awaiting her arrival—inquired the reason of the
Victory's being dressed with laurels over her taffril,
decks, sides, round-tops, and figure-head, and of the
firing from her guns? On being apprised by Captain
RowLEr that these honours were paid to the anniver-
sary of the day of Trafalgar, on board NELSON'S
own Victory, her MAJESTY at once exclaimed, " I
will go on board that ship." The course of the barge
was accordingly altered, and the QUEEN presently
stood upon its quarter-deck, animated by emotions
which, as none could feel more keenly, so, assuredly,
none could give more graceful expression to. The
signal devotion, the incalculable services which the
early friend of her royal uncle, and predecessor on
the throne, had exhibited and performed throughout
the whole of his mighty career to the country which
idolised him whilst living, and can never, without
signal ingratitude, be wanting to his posthumous re-
nown ; the disinterested and chivalrous intrepidity of
his character, and the eventful success, though sealed
with his heroic blood, which signalised his last ex-
hortation to each of his followers "to do his duty ;"
—these remembrances and others, awakened by the
passing scene and its associations, seem to have arisen
vividly to the mind of the young SOVEREIGN. She
was profoundly affected. She plucked an impressive
and apt memorial—a leaf or two from the spray of
laurel which garlanded the spot where a brass tablet
still records, with touching simplicity, the fact—
" Here NELSON fell ;"—and descended, after a brief
pause of sympathising regret, to the dark and silent
cabin, on whose walls a homely, but still more solemn
legend, apprises each patriot pilgrim to the locality
that had witnessed the departure of his heroic spirit,
that " Here NELSON died." On this hallowed spot
the QUEEN dropped a generous tear ; and she lingered
some minutes, in the indulgence of feelings that may
more easily be imagined than described, from the
conflict of spirit-stirring recollections with more
painful and saddening sympathies. At her departure
from the stout old ship, the tars who manned the
yards, or were distributed throughout the various
shipping and the large flotilla of boats in the harbour,
testified by their boisterous, but honest cheering, how
highly they appreciated the grateful respect which
her MAJESTY had testified for one of the boldest, of
the most intelligent, and able, and fortunate com-
manders, who had ever vindicated, on its ocean home,
the glory of her flag, and, with it, the rights of her
crown.

The Paris journals, for want of a better subject,
still keep up the war with each other about the result
of Louts Puretpra's visit to England. The Globe
thus attacks certain ill-natured comments in Queen
CHRISTINA'S journal the Presse, and with some effect
These malignant war journals vainly claim the merit
of representing the feeling of universal France :
" The Loan MATOa of London, in having done to-
wards the King of the Disown what has never been
done for any Sovereign, by going out of the City,
and carrying to Windsor the expression of
the sympathies of the great capital towards his
Majesty of FRATSCH, has, in the opinion of the
Presse, done nothing more than an act of com-
mon politeness, which established no distinction
between the ♦isit to Eu and the visit to Windsor ;
and exclaims—' Acknowledgments for such a trifle !
Can any one think of it !' But Eight not England have
left undone what she has done? If the Loan MATOR, for
example, had chosen not to disturb himself; if he had con-
fined himself within his city, we should have had war pro-
claimed against all England to teach him his duty.
The Debats considers that the shouts of Vire la
Reined' Angleterre, uttered by the French squadron,
was the faithful expression of the sentiments of
France. No I that is false I replies the Presse, and
attempts, as follows, to prove it so. At the discussion
of the next address, it says, the Ministry will not
again talk of the entente cordiale, or if it does the
Chamber will modify the paragraph more essentially
than last year. 'What other answer can be given to
this than that the Ministry will again talk of the
entente cordiale , and that the Chamber would not
modify the paragraph more essentially than last year.
What will the Presse say then ? Why, if that hap-
pens, as we do not doubt it will, the Prase will say
that the manifestation of the Chambers is not the
sense of the nation, as it now says of the manifesta-
tion by the squadron. The Kixo, the Ministry, the
officers of our squadron, or the Chambers, neither
of them represent, neither of them compre-
hend the national sentiments. Messrs. DE GI-
RARDIN and DUJARRIER alone represent and
comprehend it. Is not the Presse the representative
of the nation, at the rate of 48f. a year a head ?"
The reconstruction of the Polytechnic School, which
excited considerable interest throughout France, has
not yet been finally decided. We may infer, how-
ever, from the following remarks of the Journal des
Debats, that the severity with which the ardent
spirits of that establishment was threatened will be
greatly mitigated, and perhaps a general amnesty
granted. The youths of the Polytechnic had a hand
in the days of July, and were the foremost in every
attack upon despotism
" Several journals have announced that the commission
appointed to re-organise the Polytechnic School proposes
to exclude a certain number of the pupils sent away in
August last, some saying 70, others 20 or 30. We do
not believe this news to be exact : we do not think the
commission has had any occasion to make a proposition
of the kind, and we are of opinion that a partial exclu-
sion would be but little just, and not handsomely done.
The Polytechnic School is not to be decimated : deci-
mation is not th• custom of our time. The fault, for we
acknowledge that some existed, was common to all I the
measure of exclusion ought therefore to be general. That
that would, in truth, be to punish with a rigour which
belongs neither to our epoch nor our Government. It is
just to add besides, that except the passing infringement
of discipline, of which the pupils were not perhaps the
most culpable, the conduct of these young men was ad-
mirable. We persist, ,therefore, in believing that the
school will be re-opened to all. If there are to be any
changes to make either in discipline or in the system of
studies, let them be made ; that will be good and useful,
whereas it would be unjust to make some bear the fault
of all, and cruel to punish 300 families and 300 young
men full of promise, for a moment's error. If the school
needs an amnesty, never will an amnesty have been more
happily applied. A journal makes this remark, and we
willingly adopt it."

In the last number of the Edinburgh Review there
is an article entitled "The Results of Tory Rule,"
which is penned in a moderate and—considering that
the writer is a partisan of the Whigs—an impartial
spirit, giving all due credit to the Ministry where
credit is due, and pointing out their numerous errors
frankly and boldly, without, however, indulging in
the slightest exaggeration or acrimony. In the
course of this article, the Reviewer makes one or two
remarks, which, at the present crisis, are worthy of
particular attention. "The growing inattention,"
be observes, " manifested by both Houses to the
performance of their functions, is, we know,
daily more and more complained of ; and
this subject is of infinitely greater moment
than it is generally considered to be. The
respect and confidence which the public have been ac-
customed to feel for the deliberations and decisions
of Parliament are, indeeel, lamentably diminished.
The keen interest which its proceedings formerly ex-
cited, exists no longer. Even the ambition to obtain
a seat in Parliament is lessened ; the difficulty of in-
ducing well-qualified candidates to come forward is
complained of; and the whole relations between the
public and both Houses are, we grieve to say, altered
for the worse. The tone in which public affairs are
discussed, is lowered, and a languid indifference is,
by degrees, extending its chilling influence over
the representatives of the people and the people
themselves." Disheartening as is the tone of
these remarks, no one can deny that they have
their foundation in truth. The deep interest with
which the public used to regard the proceedings of
their representatives in Parliament has of late—that
is to say, since the accession of the Tory party to
office—given place to a sort of phlegmatio indiffer-
ence, which is one of the most dangerous symptoms
that the-popular mind can possibly exhibit. Through-
out the last session, this indifference on the part of
the people was specially marked, sad towards the
close, men seemed to think no more of what was doing.
in Parliament than if there had been no such institu-
tion in existence. A slight stir, indeed, was created
by Sir ROBERT Pi zL's announcement of his intention
to prepare, during the recess, some remedial
measures for the benefit of Ireland, for which
he was paid in advance by the applause
of the • Liberals ; but if we except this
momentary excitement, nothing could be more
humiliating nothing more decided than the
general indifference which existed when the House
of Commons closed its labours for the year.
There must be some cause for this apathy on the part
of the people, and that cause may, we think, be found
in the conduct which our Conservative Government
has thought fit to pursue since it first established it-
self in snug quarters in Downing-street. Instead of
steering its course by the steady light of principle, it
has anow ed itself to be led out of the right track by
the .
se.a futue.: of expediency. It was placed in office
by the energetic efforts of the Monopolists, under a
firm conviction which those bigoted and weak-minded
men entertained, that it -would do their bid-
ding promptly, cheerfully, and successfully. In-
stead of this, however, no sooner was it fairly
installed in power, than it began to lo
oki
coolly on ts supporters, and even attempted
to kick down the ladder by which it had risen. The
principles it professed on the hustings were all for-
gotten. The measures which it had scouted in oppo-
sition, were fostered the instant it bad taken up its

The Comtitutionnel contains the following biogra-
phical and political details of the new Austrian Am-
bassador to the Court of St. James. Whatever sub-
ject this journal writes upon, England is sure to be
mixed up with it in an invidious sense :
" Count Maurice Dietrichetein, who has just been ap-
pointed Ambassador from the Court of Vienna to that
of London, belongs to one of the highest families of the
Austrian empire. His father, at ono time Minister of
Francis 11., was the Governor of the Duke of Reich-
stadt, and with whom the new Ambassador passed the
days of his youth. Count Maurice is still young for the
eminent post to which ho is called, being only forty
years old at the utmost. He for several years was
Chargé d'Affaires at the Court of King Leopold, who re-
ceived him into his intimacy. His nomination may be
taken as a symptom of the decline of the influence of
Prince Metternich at the Court of Vienna. The father
of Count Maurice is, in fact, on the line of aspirers to
the political succession of the Prince Chancellor, with
whom he, in a measure, stands in rivalry, since the
Prince has refused to give one of his daughters in mar-
riage to the new Ambassador. For a long time Austria
has had no Ambassador at the Court of Queen Victoria.
The policy of England, whether the Tories or the Whigs
be in power, will always be to give checkmate to Franco,
by opposing to her the fasces of the great European
powers. Austria is at this time making advances to the
British Cabinet, of which it will not fail to take advant-
age, in spite of all the cordialities of Windsor."

We are convinced that, had her MAJESTY pur-
posely devoted the mature deliberations of an entire
year's privacy to the determining by what course of
action she could best ensure a permanent impression
of enthusiastic loyalty and personal attachment to-
wards her, on the part of her people—and of the
Naval Service more especially—she could not have
arrived at a happier conclusion than that which was
the result of her spontaneous resolution, adopted on
an unexpected and accidental communication made in
answer to her own casual inquiries, on the thirty-
ninth anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar !

We cannot discover, in the last files of Australian
papers which we have received, any much more sub-
stantial grounds of encouragement as to the prospects
of our various colonial possessions in those distant
latitudes, than we detect in the present aspect of our
West Indian Islands. Sir GEORGE Gil-es, indeed,
at the opening of the Legislative Council of New
South Wales, on the 24th of May last, pressed into
the service of the sessional inauguration speech every
possible topic on which he seems to have thought
that he could raise a touch of hopeful sympathy in
his audience. But these scattered touches of conso-
lation have no more principle of sustained vivacity
about them than the motions of the " Platypus"—
the paradoxical otter-duck of the territories he
governs—bear to the energetic action of veritable
birds, or genuine quadrupeds. His Excellency con-
gratulates his Council on the commencement of their
second session; but the business he cuts out for them
supplies little or no matter of congratulation. his
admissions, his facts, and his qualifications, both of
the one and the other, are in the nature, politically
speaking, neither of fish, nor flesh, nor fowl. He
owns to the "large number of mechanics and labour-
ers, out of employ," and then in Sydney, " who have
been long in the colony," and yet felicitates the Coun-
cil on the arrival, during its previous recess, "of an
additional two thousand immigrants from the United
Kingdom." He exults in the fact that these latter
have, for the most part, subsequently obtained en-
gagements in New South Wales ; but he forgets
that, in the same proportion, and to at least the same
amount, must the labour have been displaced by those
Sydney idlers, of whose case he remarks that "he
shall be happy to concur with the Council in any
measures it may judge expedient for their relief."
Another source of his exultation is drawn from the
opinion he has arrived at " that there is nothing in the
state of the public finances to create alarm." But he
acknowledges, on the other hand, "the pecuniary dis-
tress which has so long prevailed in the colony."
For the fact proclaimed by his Excellency, that the
" decrease of the revenue of New South Wales had
been very large in the second half of the past year,"
we can hardly accept as a countervailing quantity,
his "disposition" to " hope that the ordinary revenue
had now passed its lowest point of depression." It
is rather a bitter qualification of the positive evil that
" the territorial revenue of the Crown (only) is en-
cumbered with a debt," to be assured of the negative
good, " that the ordinary expenditure of the whole
year had not exceeded the ordinary revenue." The
alchemy of the Utopian optimism, itself—which is so
cogious am oscnagrctehleyoeffixteriaaletfuenoractfioornta:rvees
apprehend of f dints t a
colonies—cannta

The Siede gives the following statements respecting
the new French loan :

"It appears the Minister of Finance is determined to
dispose immediately of the second series of the loan,
and that it is to be made by a creation of Three per
Cent. Stock. The sole question to be determined is—
whether the amount of the loan is to be 150 or 300
millions. That will depend, probably, on the courage of
the contractors. The immediate conclusion of the loan
will have the unpleasant consequence of adjourning
the conversion of the Five per Cents. for two or three
years. We deplore this bitterly. The immediate re-
mission of 80,000,000 Dutch Rents in Two-and-a-Half
per Cent. Stock is announced. Between French and
Dutch Stock the Stock-Exchange is about to have an
abundant harvest, which will ne doubt calm the senseless
taste which has arisen for new shares, or promises of
new shares."

The Madrid mail of the 15th, had not reached
Paris at the usual hour of post. Some attributed
this to bad weather, and others to a rising of the
Carlists. Letters from Perpignan state that Generals
AMETTLER and SANTA Cauz, together with five
Captains of the Progesista party, had been arrested
by the French Douaniers just as they were about to
enter Spain.
BOMISE--MoNDAT, OCT. 21.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
FrenchPrivaperCsate•••••• 118 25 .. 118 40 .. 118 25 .. 118 40
Fours.••• • ...... •• 107 25 .. 187 25 .. 107 25 .. 107 25
Three per Cents,— 82 05 82 15 .. 82 05 .. 82 10
Bank of Fran0e••••...3057 5O .4057 50 .•2057 50 ..3057 50
Laititte Bank, how. sharesll2o ..1129 •.1120 .. 1120
s,ooot.Sharesso43 75 ..L043 75 —5042 50 ..5042 50
Bsigian Bank. .•.
BeigianFives.lB3l .. 1011 •-• 1011 •• •• 1011
1840 •••••••• 1031 ".• 1031 1031 1031
1842 •••••••• 105}
.. 1051 .. 105 i .. lob&
Spanish Passive.••. ..
Active •• •• •• •• .• •• 321 •• 821 •• 321 .. 321
Threes• ••••••• •• .. 354 .• 3.51 .. 85} 351
Neapolitan
Doman •• •• lO4 lon .. 105} •• 105}

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain .• •• •• 912 5,0 .. 512 50 912 50 .. 912 50
Versailles, R.B.
L.B .. 277 'SO . 278 75 .. 277 40 .. 277 50
Rouen .•.. ..
Rouen to ilana• •
Orleans .......•.•••• •••••1017 60 ..1017 50 ••1016 25 —lOl7 50
Strasburg to Bale.. •• 277 50 .. 278 75 277 50 . 276 75
Avignon to liarseilles.• •••• 781 25 . 782 50 .. 781 25 .. 782 50

RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, OCTOBER 31.
Versailles, R. 8.. • 393 .. 395 .. 895 .. 395
L. 8.... ....... 277 50 -. 280 .• 277 50 .. 277 50
Rouen •• .. • • •• ....... 1032 10 ..1032 50 ..1023 75 ..1025
Rouen to llavre 770 .. 770 770 .• 770
Orleans •.....
Strasburg to Bale•• .• •• 277 50 278 75 .. 277 60 .• 377 50
Avignon to Mareeigts...... 782 50 Is 782 50 • 750 •• 789 50

THE SUN, LONDON, THTJRSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 24, 1844.

OPENING OF THE BELGIAN
CHAMBERS.
SPEECH OF THE KING.
On Tuesday his Majesty the King of the Belgians
opened the parliamentary session for 1844-45. The
Rue Royale and the Rue Ducale were lined with
detachments of the civic guards, infantry and ca-
valry, and with a few troops of the line. The
Queen, accompanied by the two young Princes
(the Duke of Brabant and the Count of Flanders),
arrived at the Palais de la Nation (the Parliament-
house) about one o'clock, and was shortly after-
wards followed by the King on horseback,
who was dressed in the uniform of an Officer-
General of the Civic Guard, and accompanied by
Lieutenant-General D'Hane, by the General-in-
Chief of the Civic Guard, by the military Governor
of Brussels, and by a numerous staff. The escort
was composed of half a squadron of the Regiment des
Guides, and a squadron of the Civic Guard on horse-
back. The space near the Parliament-house was
occupied by a company of artillery of the Civic
Guard. Their Majesties were respectively received
with marked respect throughout their passage to the
Palais de la Nation. A discharge of artillery an-
nounced their departure from the royal residence.
The following is a translation of the speech delivered
by his Majesty:—
GENTLEMEN, —I have anticipated the ordinary epoch
of your session. I was desirous of enabling you to
vote the budgets before the commencement of the
year to which they apply, and to complete the exa-
mination of several Bills which you have already dis-
cussed.
You meet under auspicious circumstances. I con-
gratulate myself on the sentiments of cordiality and
reciprocal confidence which prevail in our relations
with the various Powers.
In the preceding session you decided on the conclu-
sions arrived at by the committee for judicial investiga-
tion (enquete) appointed four years ago. The law
which you voted will occupy an important place in
our national legislation.
The commercial suggestions which you forwarded
to the Government have been the object of my most
serious attention ; some of them I have realised. The
measures which I thought necessary to take will be
submitted to you; I doubt not that they will obtain
your approbation.
By the aid of the commercial policy which you
have sanctioned, I have concluded with the German
Zollverein (Association Allemande des douanes), a
treaty of navigation and commerce, which secures our
mutual interests. The examination of this treaty will
be the object of your first deliberations.
By a recent convention, the postal communications
between Belgium and Great Britain have been regu-
lated on a basis at once more extended and more fa-
vourable to commerce. The charge on letters has
been reduced, and special advantages have been stipu.
lated for the transmission of foreign correspondence.—
(Expedition des Correspondances Etrangeres.)
A broad and liberal entrepot system, combined
with new facilities of transit, will be likely to assist
in the development of our international relations.
A Bill having this object in view will be presented
to you. It will also remain for you to consider
other measures likely to increase our distant con-
nexions and exports.
The harvest, which caused some momentary alarm,
has turned out satisfactory; no exceptional measure
appears necessary. The Provincial Councils have con-
tinued their deliberations on the measures to be
adopted for clearing the uncultivated parts of our
territory ; it will be soon possible to determine what
assistance is to be required from the legislative
power. Some improvements have been made in the
course of the Meuse, the Government introducing
some also with respect to the other rivers of the
country.
The important works undertaken in the Campine
and in the Flanders continue to be actively pursued.
The increase of traffic on the railway, and of the
receipts, has surpassed expectation. This state of
affairs may become even more prosperous by perfect-
ing the conditions of circulation, which the incomplete
state of the lines and of the stations renders difficult
and expensive.
The re-organisation of modes of carriage, irre-
spective of the railway, is also an urgent subject for
consideration.
A law relating to the remuneration of the members
of the judicial order has been presented to you. The
state of our finances removes all necessity for adjourn-
ing the discussion of that law, the propriety of which
you will acknowledge with me.
The government of the prisons has already under-
gone some useful modificatior.s, and I am desirous
that additional measures shall be taken to complete
them.
The benevolent institutions have not failed to re-
ceive a portion of my solicitude. My Government is
resolved to introduce into them all the ameliorations
which humanity claims.
Your aid will, on this occasion, be requested in an
especial manner towards the reform of the establish-
ments for the insane.
Some propositions will be laid before you to cor-
rect the vices and to fill up the gaps (lacunes) which
experience has brought to light in certain portions
of legislation. Thus will the revision of the codes
which has been prescribed by the constitution be gra-
dually effected.
The army, that essential element of our national
existence, commands all our solicitude. I am
delighted to be able to acknowledge that it shows
itself deserving of it by its devotedness, its discipline,
and the excellent spirit which animates it.
It remains for you to decide upon the Bill which
has been already laid before you, the details cf which
are so important for its organisation (that of the
army).
Some change in the laws relating to the militia
have become necessary ; they will be proposed to you
simultaneously with a new law on the organisation
of the Civic Guard.
Thanks to the consolidation of our credit, the
powers accorded by you to my Government have
allowed it to effect successfully, and without any
shock (secousse) two grand financial operations ; their
results have been the reduction of the rent, and of
the capital of the public debt.
You will join with me in congratulations that the
expenditure has been made to balance with the re-
ceipts ; the beneficial results for the treasury of the
last loan, and of the conversion of the rent, the in-
crease in the receipts of the railway, and of several
branches of public revenue, have contributed to
facilitate this happy equilibrium.
Some efforts, nevertheless, are necessary to corer
the new expenses which the public interest may re-
quire, and by a permanent excess of revenue to arrive
successively at the extinction of the floating debt, and
the creation of a reserve fund.
You will assist me to attain this object, which a
prudent foresight renders obligatory on us to pursue.
GENTLEMEN,—The country may have confidenee
in itself. Its elements of moral activity and material
prosperity are freely developing themselves. I doubt
not that this favourable situation will be strengthened
and completed by the support which the Government
will find in your patriotism and loyal concurrence.
Shortly after the Speech was delivered, her Ma-
jesty and the young Princes left the House, and
proceeded to the Palace by the Rue Royale. In
a few minutes after their arrival they presentedthem-
selves in the balcony in front of the Palace, and waited
there till the King had returned from the Parliament.
His Majesty entered the Palace for a few minutes,
and shortly afterwards returned on horseback to the
open space in front of the Palace, and reviewed the
whole of the Civic Guard, who defiled before him.
He was saluted repeatedly with cries of Vice le Roi
which he frequently acknowledged by lifting off his
hat. The Volunteer Regiment, who occupied the
posts of honour, displayed their flag, which they
bore at the time of the revolution.

THE UNITED STATES.
LIVERPOOL, TuzsDA.T.

The packet-ship Cambridge, Captain Barstow,
arrived in the river this morning, bringing New
York papers four days later than those received by
the steamer.

The threatened crusade for the extermination of
the Mormonites had assumed an aspect of immediate
danger, pd we find that the anti-Mormon party of
Haneoci4ounty, Illinois, had called an armed assem-
bly, to veil_a that place on the 27th ult. Prompted
by this :.; • iAtit, kid in pursuance of his an-
nounce* 40`4,yernor Ford had ordered out
2,500 of tzheAate.filiMia for the preservation of the
public peacei,pnd'to plive2t the violation of the con-
stitution laud laws of the State. The result has not
reached `vsi !Put it is- highly probai that finding
Governor Ford- -sO determined to quell disturbance,
the meeting would not proceed to extremities. Great
complaints had been made of the delay in bringing
the murderers of Joe Smith to justice. The Go-
vernor had intimated that he was ready to sustain the
proper authorities in proceeding with the prosecutions.
The unexampled orderliness and freedom from out-
rage which have on this occasion characterised the
preparations for the approaching Presidential election,
have at length been disturbed in New York, where
a Whig procession was assailed by a Locofoco mob ;
and the ill-blood engendered by the collision had
produced such a great and immediate excitement,
that both parties were threatening to come forth into
the public streets on every future occasion fully
armed. We extract the following from a series of
resolutions adopted at a meeting of the " Buttend
'Coon Hunters," as they elegantly term themselves :--
" Resolved,—That each hunter keeps his flint
picked, his powder dry, and when they see the white
of the eye—let split!"
The naval court-martial at Washington was still
engaged with the investigation of the circumstances
connected with the burning of the United States
steamer Missouri.

NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY.—The contractors,
Messrs. Ross and Mitchell, are getting rapidly forward
at Cockburns-patk with this work. They have laid above
1,200 yards of temporary rails, and have above 400
workmen employed. One of the workmen named Ro-
manis, from Stow, was returning home on Sunday night
to his house in Little Dublin, when he lost his way, and
fell over Linhead Linn, a height of 60 feet—the first fall
being 25, and the second 35 feet. He was sadly injured,
and, when found, was carried to Mr. Weatherley's, Lin-
head, who immediately sent for medical aid, when his
wounds were dressed, and he is now in 'the way of re-
covery. They are getting fast on with erecting planks,
&c., for Douglas Dean-bridge, which is to have six
arches. It is not yet known when the foundations will
be laid, but it will not he for a month to come.—Berwich
Advertiser.

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