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to be augmented, furnishing a pretext for the
continuance of the Corn-laws. The Magistrates,
therefore, are, in a measure, the cause of all our
disorders, and the cause of their own alarm. Such
policy must end in mischief.
Coercion, we are assured by every page of his-
tory, can only in the long run answer the pro-
posed object by ruining all prosperity. The
peace which it establishes is the peace of
desolation. It is incompatible with the
hum of energetic industry. No good there-
fore can ultimately come from the eagerness
of the Tories to carry into effect the Whiz
scheme of a general police. It might do were
the country very thriving, but then they would
not think of it, and it would not be required. It
is the wretchedness of the people which begets
the necessity for constables, and supplies them.
Were they prosperous, men would not be found
for the unpleasant occupation. But when the
wages of labour are Bs. or Os. a-week, the pay of
a constable 16s. or 20s. will be opulence and
ease. To us it is a singular spectacle, to see
the opulent and unproductive classes of England
incessantly engagedin forging and rivetting fetters
on the industrious and productive classes. Such
is not the end nor approved object of Govern-
ment, and in despite of the calculating prudence
of such men as Alderman COPELAND, and the
sordid care for their own interests of such Corn-

triment of our finances, and of agricultural
labour. Examine for a moment the progressive
increase of the expenses into which France has
been successively drawn of late years. In 1837,
the army estimates were 230,000,000, undoubt-
edly a very considerable sum. In 1812 they
amounted to 361,000,000, being 131,000,000 more,
or fifty per cent. of increase. The navy esti-
mates in 1837 were 66,000,000, and in 1842,
130,000,000, or more than double !• And this is
not deemed sufficient ! And every day the
journals of the Left, those great cleavers-down
of large budgets, cry out, treason ! if they only
suppose the Ministry to have the slightest in-
tention of effecting a slight saving ! Can it be
supposed that our finances can long resist these
enormous expenses, out of all proportion with
the state of our resources ? What is to be left
for the day on which some great effort is to be
made, if thus, when all is calm and tranquillity
around, when the chances of collision are on
every side removed to a distance, you fritter
away your revenue in unproductive sacrifices ?"
The same journal contains the following ex-
tractfrorn a letter dated Alexandria, the 25th ult.:
This morning a French brig of war arrived here
from Beyrout, which announces that the Druses and
the Maronites have risen in a mass ; that the most
perfect agreement exists between them, and that the
Turks had retired from all their positions in the moun-
tains, not being able to stand against the population.
Artillery had been dispatched from Beyrout, but it
could not penetrate to the mountains. A caravan from
Beyrout had been pillaged by the insurgents, but all
the goods belonging to Europeans, Syrians, and Chris-
tians were respected.
Letters from Constantinople of the 19th also
State that MVSTAPHA PACHA has had orders to
remain in Syria, on account of fresh disorders in
the Lebanon, and because the Envoys of the
Great Powers have not accepted the offers of
the Porte relative to Syria. OMER PACHA. also
remains. The Arnauts are ordered to the Per-
sian frontier. The SULTANA MOTHER has recon-
ciled RIZA PACHA with the SULTAN'S brothers-
in-law, FETHA ACHMED and HALIL, so that the
appointment of them is extended.
The Courrier de la .211oselle contains the fol-

law makers as Lord SANDON, we venture to pre-
dict that their protective and coercive police will
hasten the national decay.

Just as we anticipated, people are everywhere
beginning to cry out against the Income-tax.
The shoe pinches, even before it is well on to the
foot. " We daily hear," says a Morning Con-
temporary," of mercantile establishments in the
City, of reputation as unimpeachable as any of
her Majesty's Ministers, being served with sur-
charges by a huckster or vender of small wares,
residing in some obscure alley or lane in their
locality." But this, though:quite bad enough, is
not, it seems, the worst part of the business.
The same authority adds, that it has
good reason to believe that the per centage of
the tax-collector is to be doubled for diligence—

lowing :
The Chamber of Commerce of Metz, after a long
deliberation, during which the majority (7 out of 8)
declared themselves in favour of a commercial union
with Belgium, refused to accede to the demand which
the iron-masters had made to them to send one of their
members as a delegate to support their representations
with the Government. The Chamber of Commerce
contented itself with again expressing its desire of
last year, that the iron-masters of the Moselle should
have their interests considered as much as possible,
but without intending, by so doing, to declare against
the commercial union of Belgium, which appears con-
formable to the wishes of the majority of the traders
and manufacturers of the department.
The adjudication of the contract for the works of
the first section of the railway from Paris to the Bel-
gian frontier took place yesterday, at the Prefecture
of the Seine. There were seven tenders ; two by
Messrs. Lacasse and Laboure and M. Beaubau, at a
sum beyond that fixed by the Government ; the third
by M. Nepveu, at a reduction of three per cent. on
that sum ; the fourth by M. C. Seguin, at a reduction
of if. 60c. ; the fifth by M. C. Langlois, at a reduc-
tion of six per cent. ; the sixth by M. Paucellier, at
two per cent. reduction ; and the seventh by Messrs.
Sherwood at seven per cent. under the Government
estimate. The latter were consequently declared the
contractors. Messrs. Sherwood were the contractors
of the London and Croydon railway, of which the en•
gineer was Mr. Gibbs. The Commerce states that
after the adjudication, some of the persons who had
put in tenders demanded the production of a certifi-
cate of capacity by Messrs. Sherwood. This demand
not being sanctioned by the parties acting for the Go-
vernment, a protest was made against the contract, on
the ground that Messrs. Sherwood were foreigners,
and could not therefore have a certificate of capacity
from a French engineer.—Galignani.
BOURSE—Rams, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 119 ... 119 15... 119 ... 119 5
Four per Cents 101 70... 101 70 .. 101 70... 101 70
3 per Cents 89 35... SO 40... 80 30... 80 35
Bank of France 3280 —.3280 —.3280 .. 3280
Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1055 ..1055 ...1055 ...1055
5.000 f 5082 50...5082 50...5082 50...9082 50
Belgian Bank 810 ... 810 810 810
Belgian Fives 103} 1031 . 1031 ... 1031
1840.... 104 i 104¢ ... 104/ ... 1041
Threes 72 ... 72 ... 72
Spanish Active. ...... • 221 ... 221 221 ... 221
Passi v -•• • • 4 ... A ... 4 ... 4
Neapolitan... ........ 108 90... 109 ... 108 90... 108 90
Roman, ex di!.......... 104 ... 1041 ... 103; ... 104 i
Portuguese Fives ...... 324 32 324 32}
RAILWAY SHARES.

that is, of course, for speedy returns. Pleasant
prospect this for John Bull ! He will now reap
the full harvest of his exertions in. the cause of
Toryism. A host of ravenous harpies, in the
shape of tax-collectors, who have a direct per-
sonal interest in annoying him, inasmuch as

they will be paid in exact proportion to the ex
tent and activity of their annoyance—a host, we
say, of these ravenous creatures will avail them-
selves of every opportunity of subjecting him
to their paltry, teazing importunities and insults,
and establish a raw in his temper which they will
take good care shall not very soon heal. We
cannot say we think honest John wholly un-
deserving of such treatment. He was desirous
of having, what he called, a respectable set of
men to govern him, and he is now paying the
penalty of his love of respectability. Seven-
pence in the pound is the exact sum John Bull
pays for his admiration of the genteel and the
respectable I
That the clamour against the Income-
tax will very shortly be universal, and
that the proposed doubling of the per centage of
the collectors will add greatly to the popular
detestation of the impost, we have not the
slightest doubt; but what will Sir ROBERT PBEL
care for all this general discontent? What will
he care, even though Anti-Income-tax Meetings
should be held in every county, town, and village
throughout the kingdom, so long as he can com-
mand his present subservient majority in Parlia-
ment ? He has a giant's strength, and he
knows it ; and like a giant, will he use that
strength, utterly indifferent as to whether
his measures are popular, or the reverse. In
the particular case of the Income-tax, however,
he had some grounds for supposing that his pro-
position would be readily agreed to by the
people, for, when it was first broached, scarce a
-whisper was heard against it, out of Parliament.
No meetings were held—no remonstrances made
—and the petitions, considering the repulsive
nature of the impost, were singularly few. But
now, when the tax is fairly clapped on John
Bull's back, and his broad shoulders ache under
the burden—now, when the nuisance is no longer
distant, but brought to his own door ;—in a
word, now, when it is too late, honest John be-
gins to cry out against the
,Income-tax, and to
abuse his respectable friend, Sir ROBERT PEEL,
for having saddled him with it. John Bull—
John Bull, you may as well hold your tongue,
and be resigned, for say what you please—do what
you please—you will not prevent the collector
from honouring you with an official visit twice a
year, for at least five years to come.

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.82295 F 2,6565.5 86529655
Rouen .............. 572 50.,. 572 50... 572 50... 572 50
Orleans. .................. 588 75... 586 75... 587 50... 587 50
Strasburg to Bale ...••• 206 25... 206 23... 205 ... 205

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, Nov. 10.
Parliament was further prorogued by Commission,
to-day, until Tuesday, the 13th of December.
Shortly before three o'clock, the Lord Chancellor,
the Duke of Buccleuch, and Lord Wharncliffe, entered
the House, robed as Lords Commissioners, and took
their seats below the Throne. The Lord Chancellor
having directed the Commons to be summoned to hear
the Commission for further proroguing Parliament
read,
Mr. LET, one of the Clerks at the table, accom-
panied by several officers of the House of ommons,
appeared at the bar as the representatives of that
House. The Commission having been read by the
Clerk at tho table,
The Loon CHANCELLOR, in her Majesty's name,
declared the Parliament further prorogued until Tues-
day, the 13th of December next.
The representatives of the Commons then retired
from the bar, and the Lords Commissioners left the
House.

The Speech of the KING of the BELGIANS, on
opening the Chambers is very satisfactory on all
points which relate to the internal prosperity
and government of the country. A loan has
been contracted on favourable terms—a proof
that the credit of the State is considered
good. The 'law passed last session for encou-
raging education has been eminently successful,
and all the difficulties caused by the violent se-
paration of Belgium front Holland, have been
finally removed by a friendly treaty, which ap-
pears equally acceptable to both countries. This
may be regarded as one of the beneficial results
of the abdication made by the late KING in fa-
vour of his son, for his obstinate and violent
antipathy to the Belgian nation would in all pro-
bability have precluded any amicable settlement
during his life time. As regards foreign coun-
tries, and especially England and France, the
speech does not afford subject for congratulation.
The rage of the day has also seized the Belgian Go-
vernment, and rneasuresare to be proposed during
the session for increasing the duties on imported
goods, and lowering them on exports, in order
to raise the revenue and encourage home manu-
factures. The KING could not fail to see on his
visit to Paris that the delegates from
the manufacturing and corn-growing dis-
tricts were totally unmanageable, and de-
termined to resist every rational plan for a
commercial union, and he therefore takes the
earliest opportunity of convincing them that
Belgium can return the compliment. This is a
pitiful, and at the same time a destructive system
of annoyance to two countries so intimately
connected by position, language, and family ties,
ainnfiduemneuestoninthtehier
peond
litipcarodlreulcae an unfavourabletions.TheKlNG
carefully avoids all allusion to the late negotia-
tions with the French Government, but in two
brief sentences points oat to the monopolists the
, return they may expect from other countries for
their obstinate attempts to isolate France and
carry on the war of tariffs.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, THURSDkT.—Her Majesty and Prince
Albert left this morning, attended by the Lord in
Waiting and the two Equerries, and accompanied by
the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal.
The Royal party reached Slough at eight o'clock
precisely, and were conducted to the special train by
Mr. Saunders and Mr. Howell. Mr. Saunders, the
Secretary, and Mr. Brunel, the Engineer, attended
the train from Slough. Mr. Gooch superintended
the drawing of the train, and in five minutes after the
arrival at Slough the train was proceeding. The
" Prince" was the name of the engine which con-
veyed the august party to the metropolis on their way
to Walmer Castle.
The Hon. Mr. Murray, the Hon. Mrs. Anson, and
the two Maids of Honour, will leave the. Castle in
the course of the day.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal and suite,
arrived by a special train at the Paddington terminus
of the Great Western Railway yesterday morning
from Windsor Castle. The Royal party took their
departure twenty minutes before nine o'clock, in three
of her Majesty's carriages and four, escorted by a party
of Hussars, for Walmer Castle. Her Majesty and
his Royal Highness Prince Albert were in the first
carriage. Their Royal Highnesses the 'Prince of
Wales and the Princess Royal and the Dowager Lady
Lyttelton occupied the second carriage. Lady Port-
man, Lady in
Waiting ; Lord Charles Wellesley (Clerk Marshal),
Waiting ; Viscount Sydney, Lord in
Equerry in Waiting on the Queen ; and Col. Wylde,
Equerry
in Waiting on the Prince, were in the third
carriage.
Sir George Seymour had an interview with Lord
Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Captain
Fitzgerald, R.N., and Mr. James Erskine had also in-
terviews with his Lordship yesterday.

The Madrid journals of the Ist instant have
been received, but their contents are barren of
interest. The REGENT has given a grand ban-
quet to all the members of the Cabinet, at the
Palace of Buona Vista, in order, it is thought,
to throw discredit on the rumours which have
been prevalent of a want of accord between the
Ministers.
Nothing doing on the Bourse►

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It is generally expected that Parliament will meet
for the dispatch of business about the third week in
January.
NARROW ESCAPE OF FIVE OF THE THAMES PO-
LlCE.—Wednesday, as the Lord Mayor and the City
Companies
were proceeding in their State barges
up to Westminster, and when off Waterloo-bridge,
one of the Thames-police boats, containing four
men and an inspector, in passing through one
of the arches of Waterloo-bridge, came in contact
with one of the City barges and instantly capsized. The
whole of the men were in an instant out of sight; on
rising, they were fortunately within reach of the long
oars used by the watermen belonging to the City
Companies, and being rescued from their perilous
situation, they were taken on board, when the citizens
administered restoratives to them in the shape of
excellent brandy, after which they were sent ashore.
With this accident the civic procession reached
Westminster Hall; but, upon their return, they were
doomed to meet with another accident. To escape the
strong current of the tide, which was running up, the
steersmen ordered the barges in shore on the Surrey
side. On arriving opposite Goding's brewery, the
whole of the barges got aground ; where, in spite of
great exertions, they remained immovable. The
looks of the worthy citizens at the prospect of losing
their annual dinner were heart-rending. At length,
after about an hour's suspense, the tide rose sufficiently
to enable the barges to be got off, and the procession,
in due time, set foot on the shore at Blaeldriars'.
bridge.

The editors of Paris journals, finding their at-
tacks on England little noticed here, and weary
of fighting with phantoms of their own imagi-
nation, amuse themselves occasionally by all
writing against each other. The Courrier Fran-
cais had a furious article, some days ago, against
their own Government, and especially M.
GulzoT, for faring to reduce the navy, in defi-
ance of a vote of the Chambers. The Presse,
in reply to this, defends the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, and points out the folly of those warlike
editors in calling for large armies and large
fleets in a time of peace. It at the same time
tells theta some plain truths respecting theenor-
mous sums thrown away since M. TruEns raised
the war-cry against England, placed France
in a state of isolation, and drove her Governt-
ment to the necessity of increasing the eiti.
mates to an amount totally disproportioned to
the resources of the- country. " There is," says
this journal, " assuredly in France an injurious
propensity to prodigality as regards expenditure
for the national forces. Owing to this tendency,
an immense force is kept up, to the great de-

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