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London, England, 1829-12-21 00:00:00

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1829.

We have received, this morning, St. Peters-
burgh, Hamburg, and Dutch Papers of various
dates. All the accounts from the North repre-
sent the winter as having set in with frosty
severity. There is nothing further respecting
the health of the Emperor NICHOLAS, which
may therefore be presumed as being perfectly re
established :

ISIESSI2iA, NOV. 15.

Our trade with Constantinople and the Archi-
pelago has sensibly declined since the conclusion of
peace. The exportation of corn in particular has
very much fallen off, as these countries can new ob-
tain their supplies from the Black Sea. It is still
affirmed, that part of the Russian fleet will winter
in our port. It is certain at least that preparations
are making by the proper authorities, which indicate
that they expect the arrival of a foreign force.
SCHWERIN, DEC. 11.
The Diet was closed on the Bth, after a session of
29 days.
The new law regulating the mode of recruiting
the army, is adopted. Trinity Term, hitherto
moveable, is to be fixed, and rather later than it
used to be, viz.—from 24th June to Ist July, both
days included. This will not only make a more
equal division of the year, but also enable the land-
owners and farmers to employ in Trinity Term the
produce of their sales at the wool fairs. After a
long debate, it was resolved to contribute from the
general treasury in aid of the making cf toads and
improving the inland navigation. The amount of
the sum, and the condition on which it is to be
granted, are not known.

jIAMBURG, DEC. 15.

BORsES-HALLE, FOUR o'ci.DEN.—Funds con-
tinue to wear a favourable appearance, and a good
deal of business has been done in them since Friday.
The fall in London on Wednesday last, which was
known here yesterday, has produced no impression
upon our place.
We learn from Cuxhaven, that the Castlereagh
packet has arrived in that harbour, and will be ready
,to carry the mail on Thursday to Harwich. The
PrineEsy Charlotte was coming up from Heligoland,
but I-nat.:lig that ship, took from her the mails,
bullion, &c., and pi ceded on her voyage.
End of December.

Anglo-Danish Loan, pe.',:e.r 4.
Anglo-Russian Loan '
ll r...,:.7, 1064
Hamburg-Russian Loan ~. 1.00
got ish Bonds ll`N,
Azi,;44p Bank Shares 1248
Austrian IV.,etalliques 102%
New Austrian 444c,r Cents.
..
Anglo Neapolitan
931,i
„..
Falconets ,
1.11Gr.,E, DEC. 17.
SITTINGS AV THE SECOND CIIANBER 9i? THE
STATES-GENERAL' DEC. 15, 16, AND 17.
The debates on the Budget were continued, but
not concluded.
His Majesty George IV. has presented to the
,Royal Library the catalogue of the Library of his

ate Majesty George 111.. splendidly printed in five

vols. folio.
The Lek is frozen over, and the Rhine and Waal

'ull of floating ice.

ST. PETERSBURGH, DEC. 4.

The Court has gone to-day into mourning, for
two weeks, on account of the death of the Arch-
duchess Beatrice, aunt to the Emperor of Austria;
for three weeks, for the Grand Duchess of Hesse
Darmstadt ; and for two weeks, for the Princess
Caroline Ulrica Amelia, aunt to the Duke of Saxe
Gotha. General Potenhine has arrived from Tiflis.
CRONSTADT, NOV. 27.

On the 13th, a pretty violent north wind having
driven the ice towards the south side of the gulf
between St. Petersburgh and Cronstadt, ten foreign
vessels, eight lighters, and a steam-boat, left the
capital and arrived here: the latter, and another
steam-boat, which could not get through the ice
on the llth of November, returned to St. Peters-
burgh the same day, with five boats which it took
in tow. The next day the communication was
again interrupted by the ice, and on the 15th, in the
evening, four men came on foot from Oranienbaum,
but the next day all communication became im-
possible—a very high south-west wind having
broken up the ice. On the 20th an English ship,
which had just arrived at Cronstadt, and had pene-
trated ten wersts through the ice, was obliged to
stop between Cronstadt and the Merchant's port,
where it was necessary to open a passage for it by
sawing through the ice. The mail from St. Peters-
burgh arrived here on the 25th fer the first time,
and twenty laden vessels, which had remained some
days on the road, finding it absolutely impossible to
put to sea, began yesterday to cut the ice, to return
toihe port where they will winter.

From the period of the issuing of the Ordon-
nance of the King of FRANCE, which dismissed
from his service a Ministry, whose principal
characteristic was their desire of moderating and
conciliating the different parties in the State, and
replaced them by men notorious for their devo-
tion to that ultra Royalist and Priest party, which
is regarded with indignation and hatred by all
the rest of France, down to the present time,
when symptoms have been manifested in that
country as nearly a-kin to revolution as any can
well be, we have watched the commotion that
has been going on there with the most unfeigned
sorrow, and if we have not alluded to the sub-
ject so frequently as the sensation in England
alone might have demanded, it has been solely
from the fear of prejudging the matter, and the
desire of giving the Ministry the opportunity,l
by some redeeming act, of soothing the popular
irritation against them.
The Edinburgh Review contains a short
article, designed to correct the impression that
got abroad on the Continent, of the POLIGNAC
Ministry owing its birth, in some measure, to
the English Covernment, anti of its being, at all
events, regarded by °Pr Government with a sort
of paternal wish for its prosperity. The exist-
ence of any such wish in our Ministry, or in the
body of our people, is stoutly; and we think
truly, denied ; and it is well observed that " the
" French nation, with whom it is our highest
" interest to be on friendly terms, feel almost as
" one man the desire of rational and consitu-
" tional liberty : and as the opinion and wish
" of an immense majority of Greet Britain and
" Ireland coincides with them, nothing can
" possibly tend more to perpetuate peace be-
" tween the two countries than preserving the
" relations of kindness between the inhabitants
" at large of both—and nothing could happen
" more likely to endanger those pacific relations
" than the prevalence of the belief that the Eng-
" lish Goverument represented the sentiments of
" the people, ashen it evinced, if it ever should
" evince, any disposition to resume the policy
" of 1818 and 1821."

As an appeal is made to the public press in
confirmation of this opinion, we have great
pleasure, so far as we are coicened, in expressing
our belief that the whole of tlo-se enlightened and
respectable classes in this country, whose sen•
timents are the most valuable, as being at once
the most independent and the most influential,
view with the utmost disapprobation the attempt
made in France to undermine the foundation of
the Constitutional Government, and to check
the advances so rapidly making towatds practical
freedom, by putting at the head of affairs an illi-
beral and bigotted set of men—several of them
of objectionable personal,,character—and all, as
a body, from their incapacity, deserving the most
hearty contempt. If these men think, because
their names are, by some of the old Buona-
partists, most unjustifiably associated with
that of the Duke of WELLINGTON, for
the purpose of reminding France of the
humiliation to which our present Premier was
once the instrument of reducing her, that they
derive amy support from public opinion in Eng-
land, it is the duty of those who know some-
thing more of the popular feeling here, than
can be ascertained in the salons of Paris, to
tell them they are most grossly deceived, and
that their attempt to prop up those worn-out
and jesuitical principles, which an English Mi-
nister was the first to shock, will meet with no
countenance from the English people ; and we
trust we can say, with equal confidence, will re-
receive none from that Minister's successors.—

We are a busy nation, and we have abundance
of employment at home in looking after our
private affairs, and in devising remedies for our
many laws and institutions that require reforma-
tion ; but though our time is too much occu-
pied to permit us to enter into all the excite-
ment which prevails in Paris, our French neigh-
bours may be assured that the intelligent classes
of this community take a warm interest in the
efforts they are making to get rid of a Ministry,
which is the antipodes of the spirit animating
their nation to a man, and which, in the nature

of things, is destined, sooner or later, to be sig-
nally defeated. It nay press heavily on France
for a night, but joy will return to her as surely
as the morning.