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London, England, 1842-10-22 00:00:00

have accordingly enacted severe penalties against
those publicans and sinners who are guilty ofsuch
enormities. At Reigate, and other places within
acertain distance ofLo'ndoa, a man cannot have
music and dancing in his house withottt a license,
while in large towns beyond that limit, dancing
and singing are considered very harmless
amusements. Some of our wise legislators occa-
sionally advert to the laws and customs of other
countries in no very respectful terms, but if they
would look at home, and compare the anomalies,
and contradictions, and absurdities which per-
vade our code of laws, they would find little
cause for congratulation. Every man tries his
hand at law-making, official personages con-
sider the subject generally not worth their
notice, and the consequence is, that we have
a string or enactments as different from
one another as light is from darkness. It
is high time that this preposterous system
should be stopped, that the people should be
governed as rational beings, and be induced to
obey the law—not from fear, but. from a convic-
tion of its justice, consistency, and mercy.
Were our municipal laws adapted to the
age, we should hear of fcwer convictions
at police offices, and not one instance in
ten that now occur of resistance to its authority.
The people are making rapid progress in moral
and intellectual improvement, and require other
restraints, and also other amusement::, than
those fitted for a barbarous and enslaved
peasantry. In confirmation of these filets
we have great pleasure in quoting the
words of Mr. Sergeant ADAMS derived
much delight in having witnessed the vast multi-
tudes that flocked to the Musard Concerts at the
theatres. The crowds I saw there saw filled me
with wonder, but not more so than their excellent
conduct, the admirable results of educa-
tion. Let theta (our legislators) now that they
had removed the blinkers from the eyes of man-
kind, take care that they were provided with
such food in the shape of entertainment and pro-
fitable amusements, that the day might never
arrive when that intended to be a blessing to the
people—namely, their education and enlighten-
ment—should lead to evil results."

The Hanoverian Gazette of the 14th contains
the formal consent of the KING to the marriage
of Prince GEORGE with the Princess of SAXE
ALTENBURG, in conformity with the laws which
regulate the conditions under which the reigning
members of the BRUNSWICK-LUNEBURG family
may marry.

The Frankfort Journal of the 17th instant,
states that the authorities at Berlin had dis-
covered a secret association amongst the students
in the University of that city, which, although it
was not of a political character, was unautho-
rised, and consequently illegal. The Academical
Senate had condemned two members of the as-
sociation to expulsion, and the others were se-
verely reprifflanded.
The Augsburg Gazette of the 15th inst. states
that on the 2Sth ult. the representatives of the
Five Powers had a conference at Constantinople,
which lasted several hours, and at which the
affairs of Servia and Syr:a were discussed. The
change of Government in Servia having taken
place without the consent of any European
Power, and being merely the result of the enter-
prising spirit of IzzET PACH A, the five represen-
tatives resolved that they would defend Prince
TrixcHAEL's rights before the Divan, and oppose
by • all the means in their power Wfcztcn's
party. The Ambassadors were likewise agreed
as to the Syrian question, but their accord was
purely negative. It was even feared that should
it become necessary to adopt a definitive resolu-
tion a difference of opinion would arise amongst
them.

The intelligence from Madrid is to the 12th
instant, when an extraordinary Cabinet Council
was held under the Presidency of the REGENT.
The deliberations were long and animated, and
were said to have exclusively turned on financial

matters. M. CALATRAVA entered into a full
exposé of the situation of his department ; and
completely satisfied his colleagues that, if his
endeavours to improve it and to raise supplies
had been unsuccessful, no blame should be im-
puted to his administration.
The Three-
per Cents. were done at 20i for
cash, and 21
at 60 days; and the Five per Cents.
at 26! for cash, and 27 at 60 days. The debt
bearing no interest sold for 5 2142 :.tt 60 days.

Most of the Paris journals received con-
tain articles on the great topics of the day—the
negotiations for a commercial treaty with Bel-
gium, and the reported attempt to revive the ne-
gotiations with England on the same subject; but
they contain no new information, nor any symp-
toms of a return to common sense. The National
cannotEeven
without betraying evident proofs
insanity,
nallude to a commercial treaty
with
of England
may be seen from a long article
las
GUIZOT and the English, which co..-
e iu d againste
s
in M
these words :.-.." Let the Government
commence negotiations with Germany and Sar-
dinia; let it try to abolish the Custom-house
barriers between France and Belgium; nothing
can be better. But with England, we again re-
peat it, no! We have not forgotten what our
imprudent alliances wilds that felon Government
have at various periods cost us. In every instance
we have left behind something of either our
wealth or our power. We have had enough of
these fatal experiments, and we have no desire
to recommence them."
The Moniteur Parisien, on the other hand,
states that commercial negotiations were now
pending between Great Britain, Belgium, Sar-
dinia, and the German Customs' Union, and
France.

The Journal des Debuts devotes two columns
to the affairs of Canada, and with satisiliction
looks forward to the violent separation of that
colony from the mother country. "It is impos-
sible," says that Journal, " not to foresee that at
a future period not remote, a contest will take
place between Great Britain and her American
colonies, similar to that which terminated in the
emancipation of the provinces, now the United
States—a contest which has already commenced
in the Legislature, and which will no doubt ter-
minate on the field of battle. This emancipa-
tion, now inevitable, will not be determined, we
believe, by any foreign influence. It will vege-
tate, increase, and explode of itself, by the mere
force of circumstances, like a fruit which ripens
slowly and is detached from the tree by the
slightest agitation. By a singular change of
fortune the men who at present compose the
Executive Council of Canada were almost all
proscribed in the year 1837 as rebels. M. LA-
FONTAINE, the acknowledged head of the French
party, and a notary, M. GIROUA RD, who is now a
member of the Executive Council, were pro-
claimed, and 500 British pounds sterling were
offered for their apprehension. For our part, we
are happy to see the French party at length take
that position in the Government which the jea-
lousy and fears of the English party had until
now refused them. :We arc not carried away by
any illusion. The interest which the destiny of
a population,
issue of our common country, in-
spires, can only at present be an interest of re-
membrance; but we cannot see without sym-
pathy this energetic and persevering resistance
of the manners,
and religion of our
I. ane, o.warre
ancient colonists to the abserbing action of their
new metropolitan."
The Moniteur contains a Royal ordonnance,
dated St. Cloud, Oct. 16, granting a supplemen-
tary credit of 330,000 f. (14,0001.) to the Minister
for Foreign Affairs to meet the outlay of extra-
ordinary missions and unforeseen expenses.

The Prince de JOINVILLE and the Due d'Au-
MALE arrived at Brest on the 1:51h.

The King of the FRENCH on Myynday last went
on horseback to inspect the detached fort at
Mont Valerien.

The Toulonnais of the 16th instant states, that
the expedition under General BUGEAUD, which
left the Maison Carree on the 30th ult,,
scathed the Oued Soufflah on the sth instant,
without firing a shot. There some resist-
ance was offered, and Colonel LEBLOND,
of the 48th Regiment, with three other
officers, who accompanied him in a reconnais-