The Sun.
London, England, 1820-11-24 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 23.—Iiis Majesty has been
pleased to direct Letters patent to be passed
under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom,
granting unto the Rev. James Wood, D.D. Mas-
ter of St. John's College, the place and dignity
of Dean of the Cathedral Church of Ely, void by
the death of Dr. Pearce.

The Rev. William French, M.A. Fellow and
Tutor of Pembroke Hall, is appointed (by the
Lord Bishop of Ely) Master of Jesus College, in
the rooni of -the late Dr. Pearce.
On
_Wednesday last the remains of the late
Rev. Dr. Pearce, Master of Jesus College, were
interred in the Chapel, with every mark of re-
spectful solemnity:. -
There will be a congregation this morning, at
11 o'clock,when an address to his Majesty will be
proposed to the Senate:
The subject of the English poem for the Chan-
cellor's third gold medal for the ensuing year

" Evening."
A dispensation has passed the Great Seal, em-
powering the Rev. J. Jefferson, Archdeacon of
Colchester, to hold the Rectory of Aldham, with.
the Rectory of Weeley, both in the County of
Essex, and in the patronage of the. Lord Bishop
of London,

The Society for Promoting Christian Klow.
ledge, taking advantage•of that spirit of inquiry
and desire of knowledEe itow so generally diffused
through the community by means of our Na-
tional Schools, has, of late, with its usual

promptitude and ben,evolence, thought it ex-
pedient to increase the number of its excellent
publications. In order to secure a more ex-
tended distribution of these, the ComMlitee hi
London have lately entered into a correspon-
dence with their numerous Diocesan and District
Committees, soliciting them to further their
benevolent exertions by forming " Parochial
Lending Libraries for the use of the Poor"—kind-
ly offering, at the same time, to supply their
publications, not only at the most reduced terms,
but even gratuitously in all such places where
they are assured the parish is not able to defray
the expellee. The District Committee, in this
place, were not remiss in obeying the call. • By
appropriating one-third of the very liberal col-
lection made after the Archdeacon's sermon,
they have now obtained a whole set of their books,
and we have much satisfaction in informing
our poorer' townsmen that any of these may
immediately be' obtained on application for that
purpose to the Minister of the parish, under
whose sole controul, according to the regulation;
of the Society, the Parochial Library is placed.

In this collection the excellent religious and mo-
ral tracts of the Society are blended. with books
of harmless amusement and popular information,
such as the following :—Selections from Bishop
Horne on the Psalms—Well's Geography and
History of the NewTestament—Tomline's Intro-
duction to the Bible—Hall's Contemplations—
Lives—Bingley!s Elements of useful .

Knowledge—Lessons for young Persons in bum-
ble LifePilgrith's good Intent—Sturm's
tlections—Domestic Happiness promoted,
And in addition to this establishment of a Lend-
ing Library, which' is composed of such books
as the preceding, cannot fail to be productive of
much public good, the Committee willing still fur-
ther to contribute to the religious edification of
poorer inhabitants of this town, have ordered one
hundred Prayer Books -to be placed in the free
pews of the church. _Besides placing a limited
number of their,books at the disposal of the Mi
nister of the Parish, to be by him either gratui--
tously distributed or sold at very reduced prices,
they have ordered one of their better- Prayer
Books and Bibles to be deposited in each of the
apartments of the Poor-house and Prison. Deeds
such as these, deeds of real useful and unosteti-_
tatious charity, need only, .we are convinced, to
be generally known, to be generally approved,
and liberally supported.(Donctister, cifc.
Gazette.)

LrTERATURE.-It is announced from Rome
that M. MAE, the principal Librarian of the Va.:
tican, has made several discoveries interesting
to the lovers of ancient learning. Among.
these are parts of the books, usually desig-
nated as lost, of Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, and,
Dion Cassius ; fragmeuts.of. Aristotle, Ephorus,
Ilyperides, and Demetrius Phalereus. Frag-
ments of various other ancient works haVe also
been discovered, but the names of the author;
are not known. Some fragmentS have been found
of the Byzantine writers, such as Europius, Menan -
der of Byzantium, Priseus and Petrus•Protector.
The fragments are of precisely the most interest-
ing parts of these historians. M. Mai has also
found several harangues of the Rhetorician
Aristides, and seven 'books of the Physician
Oritorious, which are a valuable acquisition.
to the' History of Natural Science. The frag-
ments discovered of Polybius, Contains the '3oth
book, in which he announces that the 40th and
last will treat of Chronology.

AWFUL OCOURRENCE.--On Friday eveniuK
last, a person who resided in Deritend, weut to
a public-house in this town, and 'in the coUrse of
the evening propos4 the health of «the Queen,"
whia .% as drank, uvim an_ttilderstanding that the
King's health and the constitution should be
afterwards given. Upon this being done, 'the
person alluded to refused, declaring " he would
rather go to Hell than. drink the King's health,
and ished he could plunge a dagger heart,"
and continued to pour out the most horrid impre-
cations on his Sovereign. In the course of two
hours he became speechless, and died soon after-
Wards.—(Birmingliant and Lichfield Chronicle,
No:e. '23.)

The account in our Paper of yesterday of the.
QUEEN having dined NI ith Mr. WILLI Am s, at
Belmont House, on Saturday, is not correct : her
.IklA3 ESTY has not (lined from home since she
went to reside at Brandenburgh Mouse.----(Bri-
tish Press.)

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

[DAWY EXTRACTS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.]

Prornin 0- Chronicle.]
When we yesterday stated, that Mr. Broughani had given
regular notice to Ministers that the Queen meant to send
down a Me,sage to both Houses of Parliament, we expressed
it :Is .(inc belief, that after such an intimation no attempt
uovild he made to evade discussion on the Message, as it
‘'..141,1 i,:cow4isteat withwhat was due to the Crown to pro-
ceed to the

. . ensure of a prorogation, until a suitable provi-
l'inn should he made fur the •establishment of heT majesty as
Queen Consort. We never, nuked, soppi•teil that this dis-
cussion would he very palatable to Ministers; but we took it
for grantel that such a comuoinicatian haying Ireen'formally
wade, they would Writ so far forget what was due to the
T-rt rooe and the Country, as to attempt to get rid of it in the
pittlol ;toil shuthiog manner to which 'they yesterday had re
c‘glit'Se. I lasing kept the country in a cotitioued state of agi-
tation, for so Illany months; and done as much as they possibly
totririe• all its authorities iuto contempt, we thought
they. Might at last be disposed to pause in their carter, and
to allow the irritation of the people to subside a little. But
it seems we Were little acquainted with the extent of their
folly and their wickedness. They are determined to heap in.
salt on insult, on
„both royalty and the people—.to persevere
to the last in the career which- has already been the cause of
so much calamity to the country--4nd though haftled.by the
general incligaation, in their open attempt to destroy the,
Clueto, they have not abandoned their liostile intentions to.:
w,o:ds her, but seem resolved to embiltei• her life by all the:
artifices which petty malice can suggest. The scene of yes.
•terciat;• without a parallel in the history of this country since
Tire ltevolotion. Ihe meatioess of it is peculiarly calculated
to excite the indignation of altenerousawoole; and the af-
front cannot - fail to sink deep into their -minds.—P/Olia-,
M.': at has. thus been • proiogoed,- without the least 'pro-
haviog been made for the establishment of the
Queen Consort, notwithstlnding the communication of
a Message from her Majesty, calling for the support to
which, site is entitled: The Queen is thus left totally
destitrite iif all legal provision. Ministers, no doubt,
might.be ready to dole out-such sums as they think proper to
her, font time to flute,-in the shape of an eleemosynary al-
-lowanCe, which a she timid iced accept wit hoist is violation of
law. But is this the situation in which a Quern Consort of
tregiarea neigh' to tic heft ? }respect for the Throne ought to
'bare taught Nltt;sters that this was a matter which ought to
he met at Once,, in some way or -tither. A demand of the
Queen'of Etigland. for an establishment, merited the earliest
consideratioo of the Continuos of England ; aint:t ought to
have been ritst try compliance or refusal, bit not, surely, by
neglect. Wei of course, consider the affront put upon her as
a plain intimation of an intention to harass her ‘n tth fresh
. perseeutions; but whatever be the iiitention of Mini Tres,
they ought still to have remembered what Wil4 doe to thew
Queen; the wife of. their Sovereigo. Though the House of
Comaions, as is well known, usually meets about a quarter
'before four, yet the 'boor Fixed in every adjournment is tell.
We nuderstand a Sufficient number-of Members to constitute
a House met at ten, nod gave notice. of their attendance to
the Speaker, who returned for answer that he would take the
Chair at a quarter before two u'el-elt. He took the Chair
-accordingly at that lime. The moment Mr. Denman entered
on the Nlessage the Deputy Usher of the J3lacli Rod entered,
'the Speaker rose and proceeded down the House, followed by
Lord Castlereagh, Mr. Vansit tart and other Ministerial Mem-
hers, amidSt vehement pries of" shame ! shame!" Mr. Ben-
net even exclaimed,.with aloud voice—" This is a scandal to
the country!" ft is, indeed, a_scandal to the country;--'1 he
dismissal of Parliameot, after .a Session of such unexampled
.fatigtie, without the usual Speech from the Throne,is snottier
circumstance which 'cannot fail to excite general surprise.
The only instance of
.such an tincereitionious dismissal since
.the time of Charles the Second, was the prorogation- which
took place when Lord Thorlow was Chancellor, op the 27th
Oct. 1785. We know not how Parliaoient feels on this sub-
ject ; .but we-10)6w what it ought to feel. But insult and
affront seem to be the ureter of the day with Mio:sters.

Letters from Naples state, that the Bri,tiila Minister, Sir
William A'Court, has invited the King.to retire on beard rime
English Admiral's ship, with his family; and has pledged
himself for his safety, 'title shotild.think proper to rat:, that
step. Our readers will.receive this information with serious
alarm ; since it must be sopposed that Sir William has so
acted by instructions from home ; and that we are, as hereto-
fore, still to be made the in,truninot of Aostroao eiscEo.ch-
mt-nt. The true intere,t of Pl:M.:land is to promote the inde-
endenoe of Italy. That beautiful country, if formed into peekingdom. would be the natural Ally of Great Britain ; and
from .her.fruitful soil, numerous harbours, and geographical
position, would soon recover her fAtruer strength, opulence
and splendour. And what may not Austria stiffer by an im-
potent endeavour to resist the regeneration.of the Two Si-
cilies ? She may lay her Self at the feet of her more crafty rival.
When she has spread out tier feeble, murmuring army to the
marnitains of Calabria--where a Onerilla war will be waited
against her—where are her resources to come from ? She will
look in rain to England, for we have nothing but the osten-
tation of a fleet to give her—and sire may find her hold of
the North of Italy very insecnre,with an army (460,000 San.
dinians panting fur liberty. It is obvious also, that an attempt
to carry this plot into execution may produce a horrible mas-
sacre. The Members of the new Go'vernment are not ignor-
ant of the intrigue that is carrying on; and in the present
ferment of the public mind, it would not be possible to pre-
vent the fury of popular 'indignation front bursting on the
heads of the deluded victims of this insidious policy. It is
truly a misfortune to tile human species, )hat the British Par-
liament, the only Power that could raise its voice with effect,
should be prorirgued at so interesting a crisis:.—(l6i.d.)

• [Morning Post.]
. rARLIAMENT was yesterday prorogued to the 23d of Janu-
ary, and in such a manner as to give offence to the partizans
of our "-most virtuous " and- " unstutned snow" queen.
The Brandenburg!) House Journals had for some days been
employed in advertising for factious harangues, and this hav-
ing excited the senatorial energies of some of. the Members,
there was a fair chance that an attempt to that effect would
be made, and that some ex-parte statements would be offered
under such circumstances as to preclude the possibility of their
being answered; so that they would be left to fester in the
public mind till the next - meeting of Parliament. This was
clearly the plan of the Opposition and of the Radicals, whom,
ill the low condition of the former, we now find united n the
some common work and base mischievous pursuit. But the
unprincipled stratagem was effectually . frustrated. The
Speaker of the House of Commons did not take the chair till
near two o'clock. Mr. Denman then rose, and was about to
deliver a message from her Majesty, when the •Eisher of the
Black Rod arrived, and the Speaker and many of the Niem-
ber's proceeded to the House of Lords, where the Parliantent
was prorogued. We are concerned to add; that when the
Speaker retired from the House of Commons, a most inde-
cent cry of " Shame, Shame" was raised, and some Itis:;es
were heard. Mr. Tierney thought proper to give' these a
voice, and to intimate, because 'forsooth a message ()mu the
King was not turned hack when a paid advocate for the Queen
was about to speak, that such conduct on the part of the
Speaker was improper. Because adisgraceful clamors was
raised, which prevented the Black Rod from being heard by
all the Members, lie thought the Speaker could not know
whether he was wanted in the othertiouse or not-This was au
assompt inn ssortlty of Bohai himself. According to Mr. Tier-
toy, the Speaker otrAlit to hare attended to the tumultuous cry'
of a few malcontents, but. not to the messenger of his Sovereign.
With the uice sense that he has of propriety, it. aotrid hair
au,peared to hint very trueoming fur toe Speaker to have pre-
tended not to understood the summons of the Black Rod. We
put it to anyEnglishtnan of common honesty,coola the Speaker
bare affected ignorance of the errand of the Black Rod,
without being godly of the most base and reprehensible hypo-
crisy ? Every man who knows the orcuinstancesaitider which
the House assembled, must feel, that for the Speaker to have
any doubt on the subject was impossible. Whence then Ibe
cry of " Shame?" It could only spring from is feeling that
the Sovereign ought not to bu attended to, if Mr. Denman,
her Majesty's hireil-Counsel, thought proper to raise his
voice. ft could only spring from site() men- as Mr. House and
Mr. Hohhotise, and (sitter he chooses to he their accomplice),
Mr. Tierney, who saw themselves foiled in their inleution to
take advantage of the forms of .Parliament to inflame the
Country and vilify their Sovereign, and had to carry home
their undelivered speeches. Some idea was entertained that
an attempt world be made to speak in the House of Commons
after the Wilmot' the Speaker. But the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman, as no Royal Speech was made, did not think it ne-
cessary to return; so that this scheme of the Faction, quite
as unworthy as the other, shared the.same.inerited fate. Her
Majesty, were she even not in her present .degraded state,
could not, properly counselled, attempt to regulate the dura-
tion of the Session of Parliament,. by causing her paid Advo-
cates unnecessarily and factiously to occupy its attentioa.—
Wv do not dispute her right, any more than that of any other
subject,, to make a communication; but we unequivocally
(troy the obligation upon Ministers or the Parliament to regard
that communication in the sante light as one front the Crown.
We cannot tolerate the idea of two co-ordinate Powers in the
State, puiliug different ways, and with an equality of strength,

aml must continue to reprobate With all our forCe the 'prepos-
terous doctrine that when the King.; by virtue of his prero•
gative, shall determine to prorogue Parliament, the Quern
hy the artful meddling of her partizans,. shall interpose to
annul the effect of -that just and necessary prerogative of the
Crown.

[Mornino: • Herald.]
Yesterday Parliament met only to be prorogued. In tho
•House of Lords very few Peers were present—not mote than
ten, including the Commissioners, who were the Lord Chan-
cellor, and tire Earls of Liverpool and -Bathurst. They hail
hardly come dowts to prorogue the House, when the Black
Roil was ordered to sUmnions the Commons to theßar. Los if.
Ellenhorough, whose 'name has been connected with an iu
tended proposition, did nut take advantage of the interrallo
make any observations, nor did a-Noble -Lord, on behalf of
,the Queen, as was expected, slibtuit
,arty Message to t
house;he
all was done in perfect tint a question was
asked on any subject, of either douVestic or foreign interest.
In a few minutes atter the Black -Rod bail been dispatched,
the Members of the House of Commont, in a numerous body,
with the Speaker at their head, appeared at Bic Bar. The
Lord t hancellor them intimated, that Itiniself and others had
been enspOWCred to act in the trame ant' his Ma-
v,who, for divers seasons, could " not be present in per-
son,". and were commissioned to give the nuyal AsSent to
-
the. Earl of -flare wood's. Indemnity Bill. The :Commis-
slim conferring the authority was the!) read, and -Royal
Assent glanced. The Commissiou for prof ogning.Patliament
was. read immediately afterwards, and the Lord Chanc;llor
Oceloc4 that the Pal liament was. accordingly prorogued to
.Toe-clay, the 2nd of next *January. The Commissioners in-
stant ly left the W oolsack, and the Speaker and Counnons re-
tired from the Bar. A eonsidelableanitir of Persons were
collected below the Bar, in expectation of the delivery of the
Irwric.i Message. lit the noose of Conimons there Iv!): not
the game rth6nlute tranviihry: As the Ordinary source of
our information Was cut off by the nun-Athnis<4iori of strati4ers
to the U-Ilery, we uvese obliged io culled from other quar-
tets the matter of our Report. By that it will he SCAM that
Mr. Denman actually made an attempt to bring on a:discus-
sion. and stated that he was the heater, of a Mesr,age 'front
her Majesty, but the appearaticc of the Pim k Roil cut-slim!
his speech in the very commencement, as the .Speaker in-
sraw ly left the Chair :rand loud cries of disraptobation fit On
IL" Opposition Benches, and was followed by a iarge.propor-
lion of the Members of the House of Peels.

[British Press.]
Parliament was prorogned yesterday by Cortuusission until
-the 2:3d of •January'. Our readers are aware that in the cor-
respoodemce achich has recent ly 'raken place linty:et-it IhrQitern
and Mini-leis, her Majesty rejected Lord Liverpool's otter at
mo ii y for her support, and for providing- her wit b a reside ace
nut I the next Session of Parliament. Her Majesty's tom e
iu rejet tin{ this 1 troiliating offer might he easily anticipated.
It ,'id nut become the Queen of England to. live a State
pauper upon the eleentosanary bounty and' whimsical libera-
lity of,Lord Lvcrpool andhis associatcsin office. The offer was
not only 'degrading but illusory, for tbe same capsice that
made it ,night at any moment abridge the atuount or the
duration, or take it entirely away. it. is also unconstit u-
tiunal, for why should any Ministee presume to fix -alt e.sta-
lilisbineat for the reigning Queen Consort of England, to
devote the public money fur its support at his own mere will
and pleasure ? The only plea that could he alleged just ifteas
tore of such presumption would .be, that it was a case of
sudden necessity, and that there was no opportunity of apply-
ing to Parliament on the subject. That plea does. not. exist
in the present .case. The opportunity .of applying to Parlia-
Ment nut only existed. but Ministers advisedly and artfully
avoided to take advantage of it. Yesterday was a remarkable
nay in Parliamentary Annals,• and also, We must add, in the
annals (now-a-days growing so voluminous) of Ministerial
imbecility and effrontery. The Queen's Attorney-Gentral, it
should seem, hearing of the intention on the part of Ministers
to effect an abrupt prorogation, wade a communication to the
,Speaker that her Majesty had authorised him to take down a
Message to the House of Commons on its meeting (an event.
to which she had long looked forward with nemiety and colt&
dence), and expressing his hope that, if there was a Soffit:lett:
attendance of Nlemhets, the Speaker would take the chair in
_lime for the. purpose. A similar notice was sent to Lord
Castlereagh. About, half-past one nearly 100 Mtaithers were
assembled ; they waited till ten minutes before twa_o'ehiek,
a hen Mr. Speaker counted the house and took the Chair;
two new Members. were swr.rn, and writs for 2 more were SIR,
cessi,ely moved. In the course of these proceedings something
passed between the Speaker arid the Serjeant at Arms, and at
the moment he Speaker -put the qttestiott ott the last writ,
Mr. Denman stood tip with the Quern's Message, being
knolls' called upon by the House, while the Usher of the
Black Rodi by a singular coincidenc6 made
.his. three
knocks at the door. This conduct, whether pre-arranged by
Lord Castlereagh, or concerted between him and the .Speaker,
we pretend not to knew, excited the marked indignation of the
great majority of the Members present, and when the Usher of
the Black Rod appeared, lie was saluted with laud cries of
" Withdraw, with& aw 1" For a few 111011 It ntS be appeared
to hesitate, but at last be was observed to make outward sign
of speech, and soon retired, when Mr. Tierney, seving the
Speaker about to quit the Chair, rose and said, " It is impos-
sible that any one. can have heard what that person said,"
and Mr. Ihnnett said. " this is an insult to the Hon se awl
a 'scandal to the Country." Mr. Speaker then went forth,
attended by Lord Castlereagh, and ten or
,twelve 'Mem-
bers, amidst repeated cries of " Shame, shame!" the
rest remaining in their seats. But it would appear that the
usual ceremony of prOroguing Parliament was much too
eourteons for an House of Commons who had manifested in the
muset a strong disinclination to be complaisant to the King
and his- Ministers at the expence of truth and justice,
and who had been deemed so little fit to be trusted with the
Bill of Pains and Penalties, when forced through the House
of Lords, and accordingly the King's mandate of prorogation
was delivered by Ministers, without the condescension of a
single word to his faithful Counatins!—a thing for which, in
recent times at least, no precedent is to be. found. Nit..
Speaker, itidignant, as we most suppose, at such treatment of
the Representatives of a people, never more trnly loyal than
when resisting the persecution of the Queen, thought fit to ab-
stain from making his bow,to the Members at the table, prefer-
ring an immediate retreat to his own mansion. A scene more
extraordinary has seldom been witnessed. 'f he whole course of
the proceedings against the Queen have been bottomed iu so
much unmanly baseness, that we wondez not either at the
cowat dii e of its authors in flying from their'Own at
their trembling apprehensions at the very sight of e'en their
O,VII chosen House of COMMOIIi. Unt their present policy, in
adding fuel to the fire that already threatens a general con-
flagration, their perseverance in every species of irritating lit-
tleness, dues really astonish the public, knowing, as it has
lung known, that they have no other object, no other prin-
ciple of conduct, than to scramble un from pay-day to
pay-day. Mr. Caoning, it is said, is sick of the tirm ,
and retires does wisely; if by has not done all he
might and ought to have done, his hands at least are clean
of this nasty wink. He was not present its the House rester.
day, where the cadaverous hue of his colleague's (the. Noble
Viscount's) countenance spoke a mind very ill at ease. It
would
.seem that the talents of LordCastlereagh were actively
employed in the execution of ,this notable matteeuvre. His
Lordship visited the Speaker of the House of COIIIIIIIOIIS at his
• house adjoining Westminster Hall at eleven o'cluayestetelay
morning.

[The Times.]
Such scenes took place yesterday in the House of Com-
mons as we never Ito-right tobare witnessed. or heard related,
in this our day; but there is no I:flowing now what may hap-
pen. Let not any man repine that be has not seen air earth-
quake, an inundation, or any of the wore extraordinary
(occurrences of Nature. He will see wonders as great,
or much greater" than these in tire body politic, it we err
not ; he will not go out of the world without having his
appetite for strange sights—if such he possess—gratified.
For ourselves, we could be well satisfied with the ordinary
occurrences of life, if we might ; but it is our fate to ob-
serve unwillingly., and our duty to describe painfully,
events of a very different kind. Into what state of untried
political being are our rulers conducting us—and that nut
with tardy, but with hasty steps ? The ,Irish troubles are
almost before our eyes ; and surely we are governed by the
sante Counsels'as but recently plunged that gallant and loyal
country into the crime of rebellion, the penalties of treason,
and the less measured sufferings of military execution. Where
will these things end ? The late Session of Parliament, the Ist
of the new reign, commenced but inauspiciously. The King, iii
his opening speech,spoke of public distresses, the machinations
of the disaffected, the necessity of a large military force. But
who could even then, though the period is of no long stand-
ing—only since the 27th of April—who, we say, could even
then, have anticipated that the Session would close by the
Speaker being hissed and hooted down the House of Com-
mons, whilst he tirade Iris escaie from the chair in order to
avoid listening to the elisions of his injured Queen? Yet such
were the Proveeding,s of yesterday, a day for ever• memorabie
iu
the annals of this country, if —which Heaven, in its pity, avert
—its shameful occurrences he not obtiterat ed by the mot e
dis-
Mal events of days yet to come. But it the proceedings in
the Commons were stormy and tumultuous, those in the Lords

Were abrupt, revolting, and unprecedented. It llet°, We believe,
been before observed, that this was the first Session both of
the new Parliament and of the new reign. In this Session
the Civil List has been placed in the midst of great national
distress on a liberal footing; a gene'rons provision had been
granted to other members of the ItoyalTanilly: supplies nn-•
usual in a time of peace. have been, granted ; and Parlia-
ment has been prorogued without n word of thanks for
these its bounties. • No prorogation speed) either by. the.
King or for the King I. What may all this mean ? If his lUa-
jesty were likely to be too much affected by the siill'erings of
his Royal Consort, the Chancellor, , smiling like Hee-
tor's wife in the midst of tears, could have returned the
due and wonted expressions of gratitude in his master's nme:.
and, if hern,Majesty's Message was to be feared in the House
of Commons, the speech aright have been recited in the Lords
without any.sucli apprehension. In fact, we cannot hear ally
possible cause assigned for this most anomalous proceeding, of
dismining the first Parliament after the commencement of a
new reign without a speech from the Throne. When the bu-
sinests'of the day was thus gone through, parties •collected
about the I lonse-and in the lobbies, to talk of these things i
a manner not Much unlike that in which Shalispeare describes
the flubs of artisans assembling to muse and discourse on the
occurrences atthe beginning of King John's reign.

[Arca) Times.]
The Parliament was yesterday prorogued, but the prM-oga-
tion was accompanied wittLa circumstance entirely new, we
believe, in Parliamentary History. In the House of Com •
mons several of the Opposition Members hissed very loudly,
as the Sticalter was quitting the House. We have of late beard.
much of " the signs of the Times"--in what manner is it pits-.
Bible-to construe such a sign At this, hut as indicating a decay
of that spirit which used 'pecoliarly to characterise the•
two Houses of the British Parliament, we mean the
spirit of a f;cutleman. Do Gentlrinen hiss at each othet
Such manners. can only have been learnt in a very despiceble
the school which has [ern so much frequented of
ate by a co tan). small portion of the National Representa-
tives ; the school where the Mob is the Master and the Cri-
tic,ana where the Orator is applauded in the exact ratio of
his servility; for there is not in human nature a noire servile
character than the Statesman who degrades himself to the level
Of a Mountebank, who utters nonsense hy the hour on a public
stage to obtain the applause of a rabble whom be despises even
to loathing. There are in the house of Commons some half
dozen exhibitors of this stamp. That they should bring with
them into the House of Commons the manttet's to which they
Bare of late been so much accustomed, is less surprising. t ban
lamentable, lint we do, earnestly hope that the contagion-
will not spread. We do.hope that the hissing Members will
he marked :Ind shinnied, iii the same manner. though cer-
tainly ivith less iii(arny, than if they had in weightier matters
forgotten what is due to the character of a Gentleman. 'fhe
populace are ready-enough to usurp upon tin it betters ; let
not the higher claws Voluntarily 1101 themselves forward in
the Work of degtadat ion, and spew in their behaviour an " ala-
crity in sinking below the level of summon blackguards. -

[The. Public Ledger.] -
The manner in which the Session of Parliament was yester:-
day closed,.is completely of a piece with the contemptuous
treatment which Ministers had previously shewn towards the
two Houses. In order to evade all discussion upon the
Queen's affairs, it was contrived that, at the moment when
Mr. Denman rose to deliVer a Message from her Majesty, the
Usher of the Black should- enter the House, and sum- •
won them to attend in the House of Peers. The indignation
so loudly expressed by .the iodependent Members at this
paltry trick, after the notice which had been given, both
to Ministers and the Speaker, of the important commu-
nication which- Mr. Denman had in mike, is highly
creditable to their feelings. It was, in-deed,. as Mr. Ben-.
net justly described it, " A Scandal to the Country?!
If the Ilonse.does not, at its next ineetihg take some marl:ed
and severe measures to vindicate its insulted dignity, what
must the Communit y at large think of their Representatives ?
What too must he t lontght of the conduct of Ministers, in ad
suing their Sovereign to put a period to a Session. of unprece-
dented duration, without the slightest reference to he subject
which had so long engaged the attention of Parliament, and
without any exposition of the state of our internal and ex-
ternal relations,- at a joncture universally supposed to be
pregnant with political events of the highestwoment ? The
just expectation of the Public is thus to be disappointed, Par-
liament to be exposed to derision., fresh insults to be heaped
on nor persecuted Queen—and all for what ?—to extricate
Ministers from the scrape which they persisted in getting in-
to respecting- the Green ttag on the tattle of the House of
Commons, and to-obtain a two months' respite for the pm.-
pose of new-bronzing the countenance of my Lord Castle-
reagh.

Frankfort Papers arrived Gist night to the 19th inst. His
Prtissian Majesty arrived at Troppatt in the afternoon of the
7th inst. The Froperot Francis went tint to meet him, and
the place was illuminated in the evenatg. A Courier is said
to haie been dis Patched to Naples wit h the ullimaittht of the
Congress as to the atfairS of that kingdom. A- new process is
:Oman to be commenced by the Prussian Government against
Messrs. Muldenfels and T'ollenins, who have so long been the
victims of arbitrary imprisonment. Piofessors Brown, Arndt,
and the brothers Wittier, have been suspended from their
functions, pending an inquiry into their political conduct. Do-
cuments are said to have come to light which prove that the
subjects discussed by the German youth, at the celebrated
Meeting on'the Wartburg, were entii ely of alooliticat nature.
Under date of Cassel, the 12th of November, it is said thst
all the Newspapers there are prevented from speaking nn the
affairs of Naples. Spain, or Portugal. and even on the late
trial of the Queen. Pp the last subject not hing:iltalhwed to
be said that can lessen the respect due to great Personages.
The Elector, it is asserted, has dismissed his Censor of
the Press; and now personally performs the functions of that
Office. The French General Alix's claiu,s to the tstates
which he purchased in the Hessian territory, during the
existence of the KingdoM of Westphalia, have been conannd
by a Decree of the Supreme Court of Hesse.--(nid.)