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LONDON:
MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1842.

By the steam-packet Columbia, arrived at
Liverpool on Saturday morning, after a passage
of eleven days, we have received a series of
New York papers to the 31st ult., inclusive;
Boston papers, of the Ist ; and Halifax papers,
of the 3d.
In another part of The San we insert the reso•
lotions which Mr. CLAY has laid on the table of
the Senate, for amending the Constitution of the
United States; which is the most import-
ant piece of political information these
papers bring. Mr. CLAY'S object is to restrict
the Executive power, and he proposed that
no Senator or Representative, while he is such,
shall be appointed to any office ; that a majority
of the two Houses of Congress, instead Of two-
thirds, as now required, shall be sufficient to give
a Bill vetoed by the PRESIDENT the force of law,
after reconsideration by the Congress, notwith-
standing his veto; and that the Secretary of the
Treasury and the Treasurer shall be annually
elected by .a joint vote of the Senate and
House of Representatives. The resolutions have
been printed; but no time appears to have been
appointed for taking them into consideration.
The other business before the Congress seems
of little interest out of the United States. It re-
lated chiefly to a Bill for suspending the opera-
tion of the Bankrupt Law till July 1842, which
was on the table, and to fiscal measures, the
United States Government being so pressed fur
cash, that an appeal was made to the House of
Representatives ad misericordium, otherwise
Government bills would be dishonoured to the
extent of 250,000 dollars.

JOHN C. SPENCER, of New York, is appointed'
we see, Secretary of War, in the place of JOHN
M'LEAN, of Ohio, who declined accepting the
appointment.

Amongst the illustrations which these papers
bring of American manners we may mention a
considerable robbery on board a steam-boat, and
the conviction of a Mr. Justice WILEY as a re-
ceiver of stolen property. " Well," says the New
York Express," may it have shocked the people
bat a Minister of Justice and a Magis-
trate, bound by his oath to uphold the laws,
should boldly stand forth and openly violate
them—that he should consort with thieves and
burglars, and stoop so low, for the sake of a few
paltry dollars, as to become the medium be-
tween the robbed and the robbers, countenanc-
ing their crimes, and assisting in their villany."
We trust, from such remarks, that crimes of
this kind are not frequent, even in a Country
which•has for a long period received into her
bosom many of the worst characters of Europe.
Lord Monevrn was at New York, and was
present at this nip's trial.
An expedition, which had been despatched
from Texas to Santa Fe, " more as. friends than
foes," " to open -commercial relations," consist-
ing -Of detaChinent,; one.: under a COlonel
COOK, and the other under a Colonel M‘LEon,
has been entirely captured by the Mexicans;

partly it is said by the treachery of a Captain
LEWIS, and marched off to Mexico. They seem
to have given up their arms without fighting.
Some apprehensions are entertained for the lives
of these prisoners now that SANTA ANNA is
Dictator.
The Illustrious, with Sir CHARLES BACOT,
the new Governor-General of Canada, reached
the quarantine ground below New York on the
30th ult. Sir CHARLES was to leave New York
for Canada on the 3d inst.

The Judges of the Court of Sessions had quashed
the indictment against NICUOLAS BIDDLE and
other parties connected with the United States
Bank, on the ground of informality.
The markets at New York were rather dull,
but we notice that some purchases of corn and
flour had been made for the English market,
and some purchases of cotton, chiefly' for the
markets of the Continent. Very little, it is
added, was purchased for England. Such a cir-
cumstance makes us regard it as of importance
to remind our readers that the Americans can.
now better dispense with our markets than we
Can dispense with theirs. " If they cannot now ob-
tain all the manufactured articles they require
from the Continent, it is clear that the Conti-
nent will soon be able to supply them.
Woollens and hose they already procure to a
considerable extent from Germany ; cutlery
and other hardware are also obtained from Dus-
seldorfand Liege., as well as Sheffield and Bir-
mingham. The wants of the Americans, then,
if.we obstinately continue to refuse to take their
Corn and other raw produce, may be supplied by
the Continent, but it is not so easy to know where
our artisans will find a market equal to that 6f
the United States.

Some of our theorists recommend us to colo-
nize the islands in the Pacific Ocean, in order to
obtain, at the end of a century or two, a market
equal to that which the United States now offers
for our goods. The folly of throwing away a
certain and most valuable connection, for the
sake of one, to be somewhat less valuable two
hundred years hence, is probably not to be sur-
passed by any folly into which a theory ever led
writers and politicians. It is no recommendation
to us that the colonies are to be ours, that is,
governed by the same merciless aristocracy as
now rules us, and which, if allowed, .will no doubt
continue at the end of 200 years to misgovern
the colonies and starve the people just as at
present. Whatever advantages our distant colo-
nies may offer to us two centuries hence, the
United States offer to us more, and the mono-
mania which would cut them off is infinitely de-
plorable, compared to that wretchedness which
sometimes drives individuals to take their own
life, or the lives of others.

We have already expressed our opinion that
the Times is a traitor in the Tory camp. An
article in that Journal of Saturday, on the
intended visit of the King of PRUSSIA to this
country, exhibits such an utter absence of moral
principle on the part of the writer—such an in-
nate contempt fbr the Royal dignity—and such
a picture of regal depravity even in the person of
one of the most exemplary Protestant Princes in
Europe, that it is impossible the Attorney-
General can read it with any other view than
to deliberate how far it may be advisable to
snake it the object of a Crown prosecution. We
are no great admirers of the King of PRUSSIA,
but,ibelieving him to be a Christian and a gentle-
man—characters of whom the writer in the
Times has evidently not the shadow of a con-
ception—we hold it to be impossible that he
should perform the vile part of a spy, assigned
him by the Oracle of Printing-house-square. Of
the JONATHAN WILD code of ethics which regu-
lates the conduct of the writer in the Times,
some idea may be formed from the following
extract from the first " leader" of the leading
Journal of—Old Bailey attorneys :

Nobody., now-a-days, thinks of passing a fortnight
with a neighbour without prying into his affairs, finding
out how he manages his tenantry, tampering with his
land-steward, getting a peep at his banker's book, and
acquiring a tolerable knowledge of his private circum-
stances. A Monarch that would attend a christening at
the Court of one of his allies, and yet refrain from having
a. confidential gossip with the upper nurses, must be
little better than an idiot. Such a precious oppor-
tunity for acquiring the means of circumventing and
undermining his Royal entertainer it would be mere
fatuity to neglect. Facilities for a baptismal intrigue
are much too rare to be lightly foregone ; and accord-
ingly, as self-Protection is a duty not less imperative
than hospitality, every prudent State that solicits a fo-
reign Sovereign to become its guest even on occasion of
a religious ceremony, must see the necessity of keeping
an observant eye upon his movements—must endeavour
to ascertain in due time what he is likely to be after—
must try if possible to fathom his sinister intentions—
and must take every reasonable care that Mrs. Brough
and the Royal rockers be not too loquacious and com-
municative on State affairs.

So, according to the Times, the Monarch who is
not a pimp and a spy at the Courts of his allies,
is no better than an idiot? An observance of the
laws of honour and religion in Kings, is mere
foolery ! As for the first sentence in the above
extract, if the writer has not been in a position
to deduce it from his own experience, he ought
in fairness to have acknowledged that he stood
indebted for it to the matured experience of the
Jew FAGIN in " Oliver Twist," or his hopeful
disciple the precocious CHARLEY BATES.
" Dishonour waits on perfidy.
'Tis the crime

Of cowards."

But perfidy in the guest to the host that
shelters and feeds him, is common sense,
worldly wisdom, according to the Times. So
steeped is the writer in the slough of this New-
gate system of•ethics, that he cannot suppose
any one save an idiot could accept a gentleman's
hospitality without playing the spy and the
scoundrel in his house !

The Times does not stop here. All Kings, ac-
cording to our Contemporary, are arch-hypo-
crites, and the King of PRUSSIA a still greater
one than any of his Royal confreres. Even at
the altar his fkce of sanctity is but a mask for
villany. We again quote the Times:—

To be sure the breasts of Kings, unlike the breasts of
nurses, are plaguy close. One always finds it difficult to
sound them. Oftentimes there is no knowing their real
drift, and especially when they come amongst us as spon-
sors at a royal christening, it is painful to think that
ordinary folks hare no means of anticipating what tor-
tuous duplicity they may be guilty of—standing sancti-
moniously at the font, and all the while worming out the
secrets of the Cabinet—uttering responses to the Arch-
bishop, and in the intervals earivigging the Foreign Secre-
tary—pretending to pore intently upon the Pra}•er-book,
but in reality peering into the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer's bag—in a word, joining with apparent sinule-
heartedness in all the attendant festivities, but in point
of fact—whether waltzing or worshipping, whether cha-
riotted in a State procession or regaled at a royal ban-
quet, whether talking about a Jerusalem bishopric, or
descanting upon railroad wonders—never for a moment
neglecting. to elicit all sorts of important State secrets,
which foreign Sovereigns have no right to know, andwhich
British functionaries have certainly no right to disclose.

So the King of PRUSSIA is not honest even at

his prayers. With the prayer-book in his hand
the Times detects him peering into the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer's bag. Now this is a
trouble which his MAJESTY might very well
spare himself. The Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer has already told the world that
his bag is empty and his credit exhausted. More
than this, we cannot comprehend what dangerous
knowledge the King of PRUSSIA could extract,
not only from the empty bag, but the empty
head of the Right Hon. Gentleman. But—
" Only the base believe what the base utter,"
and, therefore,ze Alan not burden ourselves
with crediting a syllable of the calumnies

against the King of PRUSSIA uttered by the
Times. However correct our Contemporary's
general estimate of the character of Kings
may be in the abstract, the article upon, which
we are commenting demonstrates that his moral
axioms receive confirmation more from what
lie witnessed in the regions of St. Giles's than
St. James's. We rather think that his friendly
recognitions in Seven-dials would bear the same
proportion to his identification of equipages at
Buckingham Palace, that FALSTAFF'S ten shil-
ings' worth of sack did to his ha'porth of bread.
But the Times has discovered that the
King of PRUSSIA intends appearing in three
characters at the Court of our Sovereign Lady
Queen VICTORIA. Having first performed the
parts of a spy and hypocrite, he is next to
figure in that of a bully. The two former
are common to all Kings, the latter his

MAJESTY of Prussia derives from a long line of
ancestors, including several Electors of Bran-
denburg. Again we must borrow a descriptive
sketch of his MAJESTY'S appearance in his last
and real part, from the coarse, sign-board
pallet of the Times:—

It would appear therefore, upon the whole, that what-
eVer be the ostensible purpose of the King of Prussia's
approaching visit, his Majesty's real object is to insult
the English Ministry and Baron Bulow. The latter has
for some time resided among us as Plenipotentiary from
the Court of Berlin. No complaints, that we are aware of,
hive ever been made against his Excellency's diplomacy.
But as it-appears that his Royal master is now about to
take matters into his own hand, the poor Baron, we fear,
is, about to get a humbling. Neither is Sir Robert
Peel's Ministry destined to escape a brush. The Royal
schoolmaster is evidently coming froth abroad to drill
English statesmen in divers' points of duty—to cate-
chise them on matters of common interest to Germany
and himself—to make a serious push for his own profit
--:,-and to ascertain from the questioned Conservatives
hew far they themselves are acquainted with, or are ca-
pable of "revealing to foreign interrogators, the real con-
dition of the English Government.
!Further comments upon these extracts we
feel to be uncalled for. It would be an insult to
our readers to suppose that there is one of them
-however Republican his principles may be—
Who can read without disgust the gross insults
thus offered to a Royal personage on his way to
pay a friendly visit to this country. To brand
ah independent Sovereign who, at the invita-
tion of our Gracious QUEEN, comes a guest
to our shores with the epithets of spy,
hypocrite, and bully, is a piece of low,
brutal, Old Bailey insolence, of which no
Journal in England, save the Times, could be
guilty. Be the designs of the King of PRUSSIA
what they may, the Press generally knows
What is due to the sacred character of a
national guest ; nor will it even suspect a
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King of opening a Prayer-boo 11 cloak de-
signs more sinister than those o uelling
himself to his Creator. Thank He ven, Eng-
land is not in a condition to be terrified at the
idea of 'having her living defences examined
by Kings; and though her TOry statesmen might
dread a reproof from the lips of- Prussia's
dread Sovereign, his MAJESTY is too sagacious
a Prince, and too well-bred a gentleman to
choose the occasion of a temporary visit to this
country, on the hilarious occasion of the baptism
of a Prince of Wales, either to snub the Premier
or to call the Chancellor of the Exchequer to an
account for the deficit in the revenue.

The following is thelatest news from Madrid :
"M. de Salvandy, after receiving from the Spanish
Cabinet a reply to his ultimatum, left Madrid on the 6th
instant for Paris. M. de Salvandy appointed M. De-
ca zes (one of the attaches) to act as Charge d'Affaires."
A Bayonne letter of the 10th instant announces
that two attacks to the French Embassy at Madrid,
-had just passed through Bayonne, on their way to
Paris, and that M. de Salvandy :tad stopped at
Breviesca, a village situate between Burgos and
Vittoria, whither the courier who was the bearer of the
instructions forwarded from Paris on the sth inst., and
who bad just arrived in Bayonne, proceeded.
No cash transaction took place on the sth in the Five
per Cents. The Three per Cents. sold for 234 234 23i
231 at different dates.

The Paris Journals have been received.
All the important news they contain will be
found in our Summary and the Report of
the Chamber of Peers. The following are general
extracts from them
Our Madrid advices, of the 4th inst., state that the
affair of the French Ambassador remained just where it
was, notwithstanding that Sir A. Aston had done all in
his power to bring about a good understanding upon the
subject. In the sitting of the Deputies on that day, the
Minister of Finance had brought forward the Budget
of 1842, which was referred to a Committee. Accord-
ing to this document, it appears that the deficit for 1842
is upwards of 180 millions of reals, or 45 millions of
francs. The estimates of the war department are fixed
at 600,000,000 reels, or 150 millions of francs. The
average revenues of the Spanish Government are calcu-
lated at between 700 and 800 millions of reals, or from
173 to 200 millions of francs per annum.—The Castel-
lano of the above date gives the following:—" The even-
ing before last an extraordinary incident occurred at
the Palace. A carriage drove up to the -steps from
which the Princesses enter their equipages, and a-gen-
tleman alighting went to the door at which are stationed
the first sentinels of the halberdiers, who asked him
.where he was going. He replied that he belonged to
the household. Of entering the saloon he was again
questioned, and then replied that he was the King Don
i'hilip, affianced to Queen Isabella 11., and was about to
'marry her immediately. He was taken before the Cap-
,tain-General, and, being recognised as a lunatic, was
placed in safe custody.' .
The Cure of Vernon, in the Eure, as we learn from
the journal of the department, having refused to perform
the funeral service over the body of a grocer of the town,
who had committed suicide, the grenadiers of the Na-
tional Guard,deterrained to accompany his remains to
the cemetery. As the procession was about to move
from the deceased's house, it was opposed by the Freres
de Charite, but the Commissary of Police interfered, and
declared that the grenadiers had a right to carry their
late comrade to his grave ; but as the Freres de Charite
refused to lend their staves to support the bier, the gre-
nadiers used their muskets for the purpose. It is the
custom at Vernon to throw the bodies of criminals over
the wall of the cemetery, and bury them in the common
fosse, but in this case the gates were opened to the pro-
cession, which was numerously attended, and the corpse
was interred in a separate grave.
The Revue du Havre mentions the detection of a secret
gambling-house in that town, and the prosecution of
several respectable persons as being concerned in it. It
is said to have been denounced by a foreigner, who lost
4,000 f. in playing there.
The Journal de r Eure complains that the wolves con-
tinue to ravage the country round Evreux, and have de-
voured several cattle belonging to feeders in Authou,
Pont Authou, St. Georges Lieurey, and the neighbour-
ing communes.
An eagle was killed last week at La Chapelle-sur-
Erdre, near Nantes. It measured 7 feet inches from
tip to tip of its wings. No bird of the kind had been
seen in that commune for the last twenty years.
A lady and gentleman were one day last week going
from Chaumont to Blois, in a light carriage with one
horse, when the jolting upset a chaufie-pied, which the
lady had under her feet to keep them warm, and scat-
tered the lighted charcoal among the straw at the bot-
tom, .setting it almost immediately in a blaze. They
both-got-mit unhurt, and took the horse out of the shafts,
but fciund-it impossible to save a single article of the bag-
gage, which with the carriage, made of wicker work be-
hind, was entirely consumed.
The report of M. Ducos, in the name of the Special
Committee of the Council of Commerce, recommended
the suppression of the beetroot-sugar manufactories with
an- indemnity, but, on its being put to the vote on Tues-
day, this conclusion was rejected by a majority of 24 to
23. The immediate placing of the duties on home made
and colonial sugars upon an equality, was then discussed
and carried by a majority of 36 to 11.
Advices from Constantinople, of 22d ult., in the Aus-
trian Observer, state that Baron de Bourqueney had
visited the Grand Vizir and other high functionaries the
day before. Mustapha Paella, had sailed for Syria with
1,500 choice troops. Muchta Bey had accompanied
him. Another letter, in the Augsburg Gazette, says that
the new Grand Vizir has dismissed Rifaat Pacha from
his post in the Divan, and has replaced him by Sarim
Effendi' who is known to be opposed to the late reforms.
The National says:—"The 2d light infantry, and the
11th and 59th of the line, between which regiments and
other corps a sanguinary quarrel took place at the be-
pinning of the month, had a dinner of reconciliation on
.Tuesday at the Salon Francais; near the Barriere de
l'Ecole-Militaire, which was attended by numerous de-
putations from each corps. During the repast, the
bands of each of the above-mentioned regiments played
in concert, and among the toasts, the following was
drunk with the warmest cordiality:—' A ['union a jamais
inteparable entre tousles corps, tant d'infanterie que de
cavalerie !"'—The Commerce says that arrests of the
men concerned in this quarrel are still going on.
The St. Petersburgh Correspondent of the Journal de
Frankfort says—" The treaty with Rhiva is beginning
to produce good fruit. Caravans now pass in perfect
security over the Steppes. In July last, one composed
of 29 camels left Bouckara for the fortress of Orskaia,
being the first which has ever ventured upon this jour-
ney, from fear of being pillaged by the Kirghis."
A violent affray occurred the day before yesterday at
Vanvres, south of Paris beyond Vaugirard, between
some journeymen carpenters and some men engaged in
the washing establishments of that place. The cause
was a drunken quarrel in a public-house, ending in a
fight, in the course of which knives were drawn, and
one man was dangerously wounded. The local autho-
rities intervened just as the disturbance was assuming
a serious character, and arrested several of the most riotous.
The Journal de Bourbonnais has just been seized for an
article considered seditious.
The Bordeaux papers state that, on the 9th inst.,
from 1,200 to 1,500 young men of that city went to the
Abbe Lacordaire, in pursuance of resolutions adopted at
the public meeting mentioned by us the other day, to
congratulate him on the result of his Advent sermons. A
respectful address was delivered on the occasion; to which
the Abbe replied by an animated speech, which showed
that he was much moved at this public testimonial of
respect.
The commission appointed during the last session of
the Chambers to take the question of the abolition of
slavery into consideration, reassembled yesterday, at the
Palais Bourbon.

The Toulonnais of the 9th announces that the Bran-
don steamer, bound to Tunis, had neither letters nor pas-
sengers on board.
The mails from Spain have not arrived.
The Ley, a Barcelona journal, says in its number of
the 4th that the Government was going to dissolve the
-societtes of mutual assistance (de secourß mutuels) esta-'
blished in Catalonia on the plait of the French societies.
The Marshal President of the Council has jutt ap-
pointed a Commission to examine a project of colonisa-
tion in French Guiana, presented by Mr. FaTai,l, the

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