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This morning, the whole of the Cabinet Ministers, with
the exception of Lord ELLENBOROUGH, left town, in
order to attend the KJ no at Windsoi Castle, where his
MAJESTY held a Privy Council this afternoon, for the
purpose of arranging finally the Speech with which the
Commissioners are to open, in his MAJESTY'S name, the
Imperial Parliament on Thursday next.

We publish, to-day, possibly a last letter from SID-
NEY to the KING. The tone of ardent and pure patriotism
which pervades all the compositions of our distinguished
Correspondent, is not less intensely conspicuous in this
last address. Indeed, these letters have—as might be
naturally expected—excited so lively an interest, and
so general and deep a sensation, that we take this
ooportunity of announcing our intention to reprint them
shortly in another form, for the accommodation of many
of our readers, who have been disappointed in obtaining
tl:e back numbers of our Paper.

The election of M. GUIROT for the department of
Calvados, is a new triumph for the friends of European
freedom, and ought to be also regarded as one fur the
republic of letters, of which he is so distinguished
an ornament. M. Guizor has long been cele-
brated as one of the most eloquent lecturers in
France, while his work on our own revolution has
placed him among the first rank of historical writers.
We have more than once alluded to the class of persons
who are at the head of the French liberal Press, and
thence drawn inferences highly favourable to the future
interests of Europe. If this class presents a striking
and humiliating contrast with its correspondent order in
this country, yet in that which exists in a still
higher branch of the French community—we mean
the popular representation—we do not exaggerate,
when we state that for one literary Character in
either of our Houses of Parliament, there will be
found at least TEN in the French Chambers. The na-
tural consequence is, that there exists a vast superiority
of information and talent among the Representa-
tives of our neighbours. But there is another re-
markable fact which we would press on the attention of our
readers. A decided preference has been given to philoso-
phers and men of letters by the electors ofFrance. We have
already alluded to the circumstance of ROYER COLLARD
having been returned by fotrr different cities and depart-
ments. We need not say what would be the fate of a
man of letters, who might appear before the Committees by
whom elections are managed in this country. What then
are we to infer from the contrasts thus briefly alluded to?
Must we confess that civilisation bits in reality made greater

progress in France than among ourselves ? Be this as it
may, the blush of shame and indignation ought to dye
the cheek of every Englishman, when he reflects on the

advantages of every kind enjoyed in that country, while,
freedom is fast retrograding in this,and distress has become
universal. Let us then hope that the time is at length
arrived when all classes of the social body have recognised
the necessity of redeeming the character of England, and
restoring her to that state of freedom and prosperity,
which can alone render the people happy, and the nation
powerful ! _

The Costrrier Francais of the 30th January, received
this day, inserts a letter from Mahon, brought by the
Circle to Toulon, dated the 17th January, of which the
following is an extract :—" A Turkish Ambassador has
been sent to Algiers by the SULTAN, at the demand
of the French Government, in order to consolidate
our differences with the DET. Since the arrival of
this personage the blockade has not bees strictly
observed ; during a whole night the Chat alone
continued to cruise at a great distance from the shore.
The Secretary to the Turkish Ambassador is now at
Mahon, where he arrived in the English schooner the
Pilorus, which struck on the rocks of oar harbour. He
came to obtain an interview with the Count Admiral Da
LA BRETA M I ERE, about our war with Algiers. It would
appear that the Admiral was far from being satis-
fied with the result of the conferences with the
Turkish Envoy ; for the frigates La Du Besse de Berri,
La Bellone, the sloop L'Echo, and the brig In Voltigeur,
sailed immediately to renew the blockade, which had
been nearly given up for a month past. M. Di LA
BASTA 11 lERE is waiting with great impatience for the
arrival of his successor, M. MASBIERI DE CLERT ALI
in order to give up into kis hands the command of the
blockade, and to return to France."

' Several Paris Journals are received this morning by
express. They convey the intelligence of continued Iris-
'
rule in the East of Europe ; and it is believed on the
Continent that the Porte is using every underhand ma-
noeuvre to escape from fulfilling his engagements
with Russia. The last courier from Constantinople
brought the unpleasant intelligence that several exe-
cutions had followed the publication of a pardon
granted by the GRAND SEIGNIOR to his Rajays—
another proof that amnesties proclaimed by absolute
Princes are nothing more than snares to inveigle those
who have simple faith enough to place confidence in
them. It was in consequence of a pretended amnesty
that the whole population of Chio was put to the sword.
This, however, cannot endure much longer : the Otto-
man has fallen ; and, by his present rule of conduct, he
only shows that he is not fit to govern where he was not
able to defend : he may vegetate, and order executions ;
but he has ceased to reign—be is under the supreme will
of Russia.

The Journal des Debuts of the 30th ult. has a commu-
nication from the Nuremberg Correspondent of the fol-
lowing tenour—" The cession of Palestine has really
been proposed to the Turkish Ministry, by certain com-
mercial houses, in order to establish a new Jewish em-
pire. Nobody, at first, would give credit to the rumour ;
because it seemed unlikely that the SUBLIME PORTE
could, as a high Power, accept such a proposition from
a Banker ! We are now informed that the plan has
been presented to the Turkish Ministry by the English
Legation ; and that the Ottoman Government does not
appear unwilling to agree to certain conditions." We
give this as a mere continental report—believing that it
is of very little consequence whether the SUBLIME PoItTE
does, or does not, treat on the subject.

The Devil is become a great favourite in the literary
and musical world. There is Satan (the Devil), a
poem ' • there is " Robert the Devil," an opera at Co-
vent Garden; and there is the Combat des Demons
(battle of Devils), a piece executed on the piano by M.
Moscuzu.sa, in a concert lately given by that composer
in Paris.

" TbeOrder of the Rose," instituted on the occasion of
the marriage of the Emperor of Brazil, has for its motto
" Love and Fidelity." The Empress found upon her
toilette 240 diamonds of extraordinary beauty. In the
apartments of her Majesty were placed two superb vases,
on one of which was painted the portrait of her father,
Prince Eugene ; upon the other the portrait of Napoleon.
The National, Paris paper, contradicts the report
which stated that M. Champollion, the French savant,
had been stripped of his designs by the Pacha of Egypt.
Of all the individuals who signed the celebrated Act
of the independence of the United States of America, only
one is now living, viz. Mr. Charles Caroll. He has just
entered into his 93d year.
The Limerick Papers state that the price of a vote at the
election now in progress there is 101. and that it is ex-
pected to become much higher. It has been proved be-
fore a Committee of the House of Commons, that at one
of our English rotten-borough elections, 101. has been
given for a canary bird, and 401. for a Tom cat !
The Courier of last night, alluding to the union of the
two Offices of Treasurer of the Navy and President of
the Board of Trade in the same person, talks of the
" double duty the individual has to discharge." The
Courier ought to know that the office of Treasurer of the
Navy is little short of a sinecure, with a salary of 4,0001.
a-year.
M. FROSSARD, Dean of the Protestant College of
Theology at Montauban, died in the beginning of last
month. He was the author of one of the first works in
favour of the abolition of the Slave Trade, and the trans-
lator of " Blair's Sermons."

A letter from Christiana announces that the King of
SWIMS/I has caused to be published, the happy intelli-
gence of the pregnancy of the Princess Royal, sister
of the Empress of BRAZIL. Prayers have been or-
dered in consequence in all the churches in the kingdom.
The Paris Editors dwell with apparent delight upon
the benefit for the poor lately given at the Opera House.
" The Ladies," says the Figaro, " contended with each
other in their toilettes, thus rendering the occasion ad-
vantageous to industry, AS well as poverty. MADAME,
who sat in the King's box, on the left of his MAIRATT,
glittered with jewels and precious stones. The Lim
wore the costumb of Colonel of his Guard. The DAU-
PHIN was also in uniform. All the officers in attendance
were in richly embroidered dresses, a • to their
rank and duties. A pigeon was despatched from a corner
of the house to the pit, with a paper attached to its neck,
on which were written verses in honour of Mademoiselle
SONTAG find Madame Muz.zsa.ter, who distinguished
themselves so suceentfully in the Opera.