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ra6ing his rent, he is al,o ruuni.ig about
iaa and enjoying- himself, without buviag a word
to bestow,. Cabinet Minister as he is, on. the
sufferings of his starving neighbaurs. His occu-
pation
on last Tuesdaywas, we are told, to quiz
the answer of Lord JOHN RUSSELL to the Ply-
mouth Address. We have read the quiz. and
lowever praiseworthy it may be as a party
oration, as the speech of a Cabinet Minister; now
l'aising.his rent; while his starving neighbours
must payhirn a tax on their bread, it is worthy
of this paragon of bread-taxers. He is thoroughly
satisfied with himself; his conscience is clear
because he is a Cabinet Minister, supported by
Considerable majority of monopolists. He
could boast, notwithsanding the oppression of
the bread-taxers, that under great privations,
which he imposes, and which he refuses to re.
!Lieve, the patience of the people of England bad
"teen most exemplary ; and while he can boast of
hitherto
he will do his duty towards them as lie has
done it, and continue to tax the bread
of his starving neighbours. He and the rest of
the landlords will be just. towards the people.
When they are convinced it is not safe torbe
otherwise, and not before.

- 0 find no news of rmportance in the Paris
Journals. The following extracts from them
include all the news they contain of any Eu-
rop•au interest :
The Moniteur of the 30th publishes in its official part
Royal Ordnance announcing variouslegal appointments.
The following is the text of the proposal of
_M. Ducos:
" All citizens inserted the
electors." are Jurydepartmental list of the
" A:l citizens are likewise electors who may not have
been entered on this list, on, account of the incompatibi-
lity resulting
cruninell ~
from Article 383 of the code of instruction
.„,The journal of Upper Germany has a letter from
lenna, which says that the Duke of Bordeaux's leg,
Which has been set, is still a little shorter than the other.
The Jourizal des Havre says—" We have been asto-
nished at not rceeiving for some time past any inft.)rma-
tion respecting the internal affairs of the Augustine Re-
Captain Bordku, of the Jeune Raymond, which
"as
silence.' just, arrived from Monte Video, accounts for this
• "'We find in his report the following passage:—` As for
the
for
me political affairs of Buenos
.Ayres, it is very difficult
side to give any particulars of them, because the Pre-
lishet does not permit the slightest matter to be pub-
d
of • A—s for the Unitarian, it is still in the same state
Uneasiness.' "
The 211oniteur Algerien, of the 14th, says—" an-
nounced that a caravan of 400 mules, richly laden, has
inarrived at Constantine from Tunis, without having been
olested ; complete security prevails in that province."
*---Constitutionntl.
A letter from Gex contains the !followins• passage
Such a quantity of snow fell at. Gex on Monday and
caution}.'•Uues this week, that it. was necessary to take pre-
ho to support the roofs of the houses, two of which,
wever, sunk The mini,- was so heavy on the trees,
that the branches broke • and some of the trees them-
Iseives were 'broken, by the weight of this most 'extraor-
ilar.Y fall of snow. We are informed that the damage
suis much greater than that done by the hurricane last
n,
—mer, —Commerce.
The Siecle of yesterday had the following article :
" Odilon Barret has entered into a. formal engage-
irieut with his friends, to- pre-sent, or support, after the
first debates in the Chamber are over, a proposition for
restoring to the press those guarantees which have been
4s"blY compromised by certain provisions of the laws of
"Npteinher and the late unexpected application of the law
of the 17th May, 1819." On this the Moniteur Parisien
observes--" The Siecle does not tell all it knows. It
Ptom the igha
hthave added that a Committee of Deputies, chosen
a most divergent fractions of The Opposition, has
Undertaken the examination of the reforms to be intro-
dneed either into the September laws or into that of
iP9. This Committee is composed of M. Berryer, from
re Extreme Droite, Messrs. Mauguin and Dupont de
'E4re ifPtit the Extreme Gauche, M. Odilon Barrot from
the Ganete Dynastique, and M. Billet from that fraction
of the Ogfitre Gauche which sustained the Cabinet of the
Ist Itilai:ClL
The Archbishop of Tours, M. de Montblanc,, died in
that city a few days ago.
Tiio persons just arrested by order of- the Court of
~,,reers, were interrogated yesterday by Baron Pasquier.
The Debats. mentions the arrest of two persons yester.,
(lay morning, and adds, that the examining commission
Of the Court of Peers met yesterday a. t the Petit Luxem-
bourg. "On Tuesday . evening,'.! says the Droit, " a
German shoemaker, named Bauer, livi
'lour, Place St. Eustache, and several n!ilin the Rae
,du
were
d
arrested under a warrant of the Chancellor. In Bauer's
lodginthere were found 300 political pamphlets, both
411 kre6nch and German, and a voluminous correspon-
wree, which have exposed numerous branches connected
dli the Secret Societies in France, of the Communists
„1"1.,(1 others in llesse, Baden, the Rhenish Provinces, and
-,aer t , These new captures are all
r s oi uerim.ny.
""geil in the C-mciergerie:"—We mentioned the arrest
of the wife of Boucheron, a few days ago ; it was for
robbery, it appears, not for a political offence.
A letter iron) Erzeroutn states that, when the British
L'egation was travelling towards Teheran, Messrs. Todd
;Ind Ablote, two of . the Attaches, were attacked by the
liurds near Bajazlcl, and plundered. Mr. Todd was
aid, Wounded in the hand. Billul Paella, Governor of Baja-
waS said to be the secret chief of the predatory
band by which this attack was made. The Russian
Consul at Teheran, attended b
100 Russians in rand Costume, went out to meet SirJ. M`Neill. Just ags the
rencontre was about to take place, the Consul's horse
became.. frightened, and run away with him, nor could
nFie animal be stopped till after he had gone some
Poe- The Consul then returned to the cavalcade, but
all covered with mud, to the no small amusement of the
Persian dandies.
h A letter from Constantinople of the 2d inst., in the
,4-;ebessde,
e, says,
of a brilliant
" Accounts have been received. here, via
victory obtained by the Circas-
alatis isunover the Russians. An expedition of about 30,000
!tle n had landed on the coast, for the purpose of destroy-
ing the corn which had been got in. by the Circass-ians,
from their
violent storm came on, drove the Russian vessels
from_l*
ns profiting by this circumstance, attacked the Rus-
,sliatns, and compelled them to retreat, without provisions,
a,
eel the mountains and defiles, where all but 2,000 of
t!l were killed or made prisoners." -This account of
the
The Russian loss is probably an exaggeration.
erection of a second tower to the Cathedral at
Metz going on with rapidity, and when finished will !
render this dding one of the finest in France. The
fresco paintings on the inner walls, which have been
covered with lime and plaster, are being restored. The
churchesahut of Notre Dame and Saint Martin, at Metz, are
to be embellished with stained-glass windows.
lle Chateau de Canna, one of the
finest mansions in
the department of the Landes, was entirely destroyed by
gre a few days ago.
C 8„.," It was observed," says the
Siecle, " that among the
members present at yesterdaY's sitting of
.the Chain-
r°f Deputies, there were 95 Ministerial functionaries,
and 13 functionaries belonging to the Opposition."
preneThe Council General of the Bank of France has voted
wal of the grant of 1,200 f. made every year
pro renewal
to 1837, to the Infant Schools of Paris, and
lmoney:has been..paidinto.the Treasury of the Coin-
ittatee of, Management, to be applied to the relief of the
4cligent Children received into these institutions.
the Gitzette de France states that it has received a
e)!lation to appear before the Court of Assize; on the 11th
ranuar
ist the same as that The Gt
againstazette addthes, th
National,at the charge againtake
3 trial st it
on the came day.
fl~serie..s of military marches is in course of publication
Baffin. The 11th number, which has just appeared,
interesting from its containing a march composed by
frederiok the Great, one by the late King Frederica
;Villiam M., and others by the Princesses Albert and
of Prussia, Prince Frederick of Prussia, and the
rrineessll,4yal. of Sweden and Hanover. They are all
arranged for a fall -hand.

" At the moment," says the Moniteur Purisien," when
o,
eneral Bugeaud was preparing to come over to France,
recelkitlTmia One a the points of the territory sub-
Jeet tol:our -government some important intelligence,
which 9,y render
,his presence necessary at this point.
Ile ha§ therefore renounced, fur the moment, profiting
of
this 6tige."
eix An Alexandria letter of the 9th instant states that
sailtof :the line have been laid up in ordinary by
order of Mehemet Ali. •

-110 IntSk-P A RIS, THURSDAY, DEC. 30.

that Highest Lowest Last
rteuelt Price Price. Prick Price.
6 per coral lltl 55 ... il6 60 ... li6 55 ... 110 60
4, i 3 per Cet!. ex div. 78 :0 . *7B 25 ... 78 15 ... 78 20
Llttikt 1o t ranee
,„ e
ii n'r'k:Meof. saares 5025 ...5025 ...1'.025 ...5025
get la'' nank . ...5.........
211315 per Cent.
tNnish 'Atti'vern'.' 1840
1°23434 7. 1211 -.1°241 :: if2.il
P, t Pa55i,........ 5%
.... 5% —... 54 ... 5%
144'11111ese5 perCent.s...
llointtlt4n -....
.1.. ...... .. ........... ..... 102% „. 102% ... 112% ... 102%
RAILWAY SHARES.
klie,.(itzterrn„ in .. ..... ..
08
75 ..: 82,150
1"to. L.ll .......... ..... 2OB 75 ... 210
g'town, 'K. 8... ........ ..
rit44:... ............. ............. 467 50 ... 457 50 ... *7 50 ... 457 f.O
Ittzeb - ' • •-•• • 50612 50 ... 507 50 312 50
"I t° Bare.: ......... -..... 230 ....
232 50 ... 230 ••• 222 30
Ho-

let, JMlcitrE AND SUICIDE.—It is observed, in a
s,;`r published.. in a Weekly Journal, that
ablewriter
fruie and homicide very often go together.
a Mr. Sampson, quotes a consider-
b_te number of instances in which murder has
derercon►nlitted
tier
from a disregard of the mur _
It. l'-‘8 own life, or an actual desire to get rid of
httCur Journarof Saturday evening recorded
combe- case at Mansfield, which will add to the
rtiti of
~ the writer's illustrations. Fromthe
eaDitlci"uo lie notices, he draws a conclusion. that
0_
suielti Puilishments, by gratifying the desire _
et
a ju4'courage and promote murder. If that b
it
supply °llelusio-n, what a commentary does
There is % the wisdom of our law-makers!
\ratio ;„updoubtedly some. truth in the obse.r7
filang.°' init makes apparent a most beneficial
Ancon;eir the character of man. At present no
ted f:'el'able number of murders are commit-
"non "3111 this morbid desire to get rid of the
bi, 9!llatiiac's own existence, which will prob.a-
-' !enate when the law ceases to supply its
.gratify .
ion. But whatever may now be the
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