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London, England, 1842-02-05 00:00:00

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4104`, Ili answer in every breast. The King of P6s ''''W.li-t._,..retr .2.
an ceived with honour and respect as the gms 1e,41r, petz'
loved Queen and the chosen sponsor for her i
but the too short period of his stay amongst u
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cited a feeling far beyond the honour and respect rendere
to the highest in his station. His Majesty is now regarded
in every family of the nation as a personal friend, and
his necessary departure to the great country blessed by
the possession of such a Monarch, is a subject of regret
in every private circle. Thus it is that great and good
qualities force themselves so much upon admiration and
love, that as they become known to us, we covet to do-
mesticate their owners. The Duke of Buckingham's ex-
planation, our readers will observe, fully supports the
view which we have suggested of the real cause of his
Grace's retirement from the Cabinet. His only
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lity due by the Member of a Government for all its acts
and omissions—will not iaeur this responsibility in even
do
the slightest degree, where conscientious conviction does
not go the whole way with the act or omission for which
responsibility is owing ; but to decline responsibility in
a particular instance is a very different thing from de-
claring a general hostility, or even from separation upon
points in which men are conscientiously agreed. It
would no doubt serve the convenience of the Opposition
to obtain the Duke of Buckingham's votes and the influ-
ence of his exalted character upon all other questions of
free trade, because he differs from the Ministers upon
the details of a Corn law Bill. Equally convenient would
it be to enlist Lord Ashley in the ranks of the enemies
of the Church and of the poor, because he differs from
the Cabinet as to the policy of introducing a Short-time
Bill ; but however convenient such accessions would be
to the Opposition—how consonant soever the desired de-
sertion might be to the practice of a party that always
transfers its conscience in gross to the side of interest, it
would scarcely suit the character of men like the Duke of
Buckngham and Chandos, and like Lord Ashley.
COURIER.—IIer Majesty's most gracious Speech
from the Throne, with the proceedings, for debates there
were none, in both Houses of Parliament, on the propo-
sition and passing of the Addresses in acknowledgment,
are now before the nation. Rumours had long been rife
of mighty doings and unruly cormnotions on the first
day of the Session. So terrific was the onslaught pre-
destined, that the Premier was to be put to the rout, or
his " pinions fluttered" at the least,. and the very isle
frightened from its propriety. flow, predicated an
Evening Whig sage', will Sir Robert stand aghast when,
on the very first night of the Session, " big with the
fate" of Whig and Radical, Lord John, the doughty
champion of a miscellaneous host, shall rise in his place
to give notice of a mighty and mysterious motion " on
the state of the nation," amid the exulting roar of deaf-
ening acclaims from—one side of the House at least.
Well, the day at length arrives, the " day fore-
doomed by fate ;" the terrible Lord John himself
arises, and expectation trembles ere. he speaks—the
tempest seems lowering in the distance—the tiny
speck of the gathering tornado, on the first sight of which
the fearful mariners furl all sail and strip the vessel to
its bare poles, is there on the horizon, or, as figuratively
represented in his own person, on the floor, and what
then ? Why, in faint breathings of not a zephyr's '
power, that " speck of the incipient hurricane" dissolves
like the " baseless fabric of a vision" which leaves " not
a wreck behind ;" the conquering Caesar is hardly heard
to whisper in faintest tones, " Give me some drink, Titi-
nius, like a sick child." Such and so quiescent was the
commencement of this stormy sitting, that was to be, and
we would hail it as the auspicious opening of a new era
in legislation, when boisterous passion and fierce party
declamation hall give place to dispassionate discussion
and well digested acts for the relief and regeneration of
the whole diseased body politic. The sting indeed .of
viperous intent was drawn at the outset, or rendered in-
nocuous, by the prescience with which the Government
armed themselves, and the vigour with which they went
to work. Let our readers but cast their eyes over the
documents moved for, and the " notices of motion" al-
ready given, which we extract elsewhere from the daily
records of the House, and they will find ample evidence
already of the untiring industry with which the recess
has been imprd'ved and public business matured for the
early deliberation of the collective wisdom of the empire.

EVENING S
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MONEY MARKET .nd CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

CHRONICLE.—The immediate improvement in the value
of the Funded Debt proceeds upon the belief that the modifi-
cations to be proposed by Sir Robert Peel, both in the Corn..
laws and in the tariff of imports, will be of a comprehensive
and vigorous character, sufficient to settle the question, bold
enough to relieve the prevailing distress, and to restore manu-
facturing prosperity. These views will prove short-lived and
fallacious if the Ministerial measure in regard to corn stop short
of a moderate fixed duty. The Money Market can never be
free from periodical convulsions and panics, while the impor-
tation of the necessary supplies of food from abroad are sub-
jected to the anti-commercial action of a fluctuating duty,
based upon average prices. The currency of the country
has never regained its soundness since it was thrown
into derangement by the sudden drain of gold in
the spring of the year 1839, after the bad harvest of
1838. A succession of bad harvests since that time has cawed
a succession of specie drains to pay for foreign corn, and the
circulation of the country has been in consequence disturbed
from that period to the present. This ruinous state of things
must necessarily occur again at the approach of the first de-
ficient harvest, unless we can previously establish a regular
trade between the raw produce of the land in foreign countries
in exchange for the manufactured goods of this country. Until
that change be obtained the price of the food which we must
import annually, will carry off a large amount of specie front
this country, and to keep the exchanges healthy, prices must
be kept at a very low figure, to tempt the sellers of foreign,
corn to become bu}ers in our markets. There can be no
" trade" in foreign corn under a sliding scale. Some benefit
may be obtained ft ona clipping out the worst features of the
present stale when the averages mount to 6Ss. and 705., but
while a sliding scale exists at all, anything in the shape of a
fair trade in foreign corn in exchange for articles of British,
manufacture can never take place.
SUN.—The tendency ton ards improvement in Public
Securities, which we noticed last evening, became more
developed to-day, and there was a larger amount of busi-
ness got through. We may remark, however, that,
nearly everything depends upon the nature of the re-
forms in our commercial code which Sir Robert Peel
may deem it expedient to propose, as to whether this
improvement shall be confirmed. Consols were quoted
891 to for present transfer, and 89t to for Account.
Exchequer Bills were 17 s. to 19s. premium, and East
India Bonds 9s. to I is. premium. The New Three-and-
a-Half per Cents. obtained 98i to 98k. Bank and India
Stocks were not dealt in.

The Foreign Stocks, although in some instances bet-
ter, did not, upon the whole, participate in the improved
tone of our own funds. Brazil Stock improved to 631•
owing to late ads-ices from Pernambuco, which make no
allusion to the insurrection said to have broken out
the Northern Provinces. Mexican Stock touched 301
and 31 ; and Colombian 22 to 221. Active Spanish.
• kigian continued firm
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P..lf per Cents: were steady
at 51+ to 511.
In Shares there was -very little doing , but prices were
fully supported. Yirighton Railway were 131, Northern
and Eastern and South Eastern 21 discount. London
and Birmingham were 80, and Great Western Fifths,
51 premium. London and Westminster Bank Shares
were 2i.
Bills on the principal Continental cities were taken
upon rather more favourable terms this afternoon. On
Paris at 25f. 724. to 77ic.; Frankfort 150 to 150+ on
llamburgh at 13 •on Antwerp, at 12 4; on
Amsterdam at 12 4 to 41 ; and on Triest at 9 51.

EMIGRATION
.SCHEME.
BRADFORD, WILTS, FEB. 4.—Pursuant to a retp:tisition to
the churchwardens, who acceoded to the request, a public
meeting of the ratepayers and owners of this parish was held
this day at the vestry, to take into consideration the propriety
of panting money from the poor-rates for the purpose of
emigration. The trbeting was so numerously attended that
an adjournment took place to the churchyard, where e Rev.
H. Hervey, the Vicar, being called to the Chair, the proceed.
ings commenced by the Chairman stating the object : it was
then moved by Mr. Merrick, and seconded by Mr. Edwards,
that the sum of 1,000/. be granted for the purpose of emigre,
tion, to be raised by a mortgage on the poor-rates.
An amendment was proposed by Mr. J. R. Jones, and
seconded by Mr. A. Wilkins, " That large sums of money hav-
ing been already raised by mortgage on the poor-rates, and to
carry out the New Poor-law Act; and it having failed in re-
ducing the number of paupers, but produced greater misery
and want, this meeting is decidedly against any further
grant, particularly for the purpose of emigration." On the
question being put but few hands were held up for the original
motion, whilst for the amendment hundreds were raised.
Another motion, proposed by Mr. Edwards, that 500 i. s)•,euld
be granted, was negatived in a similar manner. After thanks
to the Chairman, the meeting separated.
In reference to this subject, our Corralerailent makes the
following remarks :—" The town had been in a state of great
excitement until the matter was taken in hand by a few well-
known Reformers, when the result is as I have stated. The
fact is we had strong stUipicions that this place was selected to
try one of the Gove;enment's first schemes of emigration on ;
and if it had sucAleeded here, no doubt other places would have
been tried."

I DEATH OF THE " BRISTOL STANDARD."--.
The final number of this journal was published en Wednes-
day last. The editor, in his farewell address, says that " the
Standard was called into existence by the expressed wish of
the Conservative party in this city ;" and gives as a reason
for its discontinuance, that it has not met with that support
which under the cireumntlnces it had a right to expect, Sr
which would warrant the proprietors in continuing to publish it.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—On Wednesday night.
between twelve and one o'clock, a report of a pistol was heard
in Samuel-street, Woolwich, by Tyndal, 41 At, who intim.
diately repaired to the spot, when he discovered that Pay-
master-Sergeant Hr'e, of the Royal Marines, had shot hirself in
the mouth with a pistol. On throwing the light of hi•Aamp
oa
the unfortunate man's face, he observed a torrjet of blood
running from his mouth, the flesh of which -was frightfully
torn. With assistance, he removed lum the house No.e
5, and sent for the hospital surgeon, Tato attended, get e
clared that the wound was of so Serious a nature, t
was not fit to be removed at that time. About five o'clock
_hen he
t
wrs taken on a stretcher to the General HeaPital,drhe roof
was. discovered that nearly the whole of his teet.ithan
of his mouth had been drtven in by the belle.
pistol was charged. Medical as well as if=
that the teeth.
ren-
dered, he vomited the bullet, and it is
7irt-n-his throat, as
and flesh toll' .com the jaw were driven own _
nothing but the bullet has been disgencereq•e unhappy
commission frathe
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has not been able to utter a wand saw to
that he had beet] drunk
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also stated that he had
beYtook the pistol from a marina who had
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tang4lAV:bhiti toned to commit self-destruction. The poor
iipelAqvrai•he,;"witl...beretithopes of recovery:
- The Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, on a special
rS ssion, and Baron Schleinitz, Prussian Charge d'Af-
faires, returned to town last evening from attending their
Sovereign to his embarkation at 'Woolwich.