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London, England, 1831-01-01 00:00:00

FRENCH FUNDS.—PART/, Dtc. 30.

Five per Cents. 93f 76e 60e 7be 70c 75e 80e 70e 80e 90e 96e 94f
If 9k 80e 80c 70e 60e 50c 611 c 50c 10..
Three per Cents, 62f 95e 63f 6Sf 10c 16e 10s 62f 90e 6Sf 85c 80e
k 40c 60c.

Bank Actions, 1,510 t 1,515 f.
Renee de Naples, 6.0 75c 60c.
Rene d'Espagne, 134.
Royal Spanish Loan, 64 644.
Renee Perpetnelle d'Espagne, Sof 51 601.
Haytian Loan, 320 f.
Exchange on London, one month, paper, 23f 20e; thou tisanes,
'per, 25r 10a.

A report is current, that the School of Medicine is to be closed for
three months, on account of the proclamations signed by a number of
the pupils. This rumour, we are assured, le unfounded ; but it appeals
certain that the Minister of Public Instruction has convoked the Acad..
mical Council, to consider the course to be adopted respecting those who,
sipcd the proclamations in question.
We have already announced the arrest of M. de Maraud, son of the
Count de Mesaard, first Equerry to the Duchess of Berry, as well as
that of two brothers, Messrs. Dues, advocates. M. de Mesuard was u.
rested at No. 252, rue St. Honori, at the house of 11. Geslain, es-
Valet de Chambre to the Duchess of Berry, against whom a warrant of
apprehension has also been issued. The rollowing letter upon the
subject appear in the Quoildienne :
" Mr. Editor—l was in bed. M. de M—, jun. having come to
Paris on business, and begged me to give him a lodging, was at my
house, when four men one of whom wore a al-coloured scarf, and
celled himself a Commissary of Pollee, entered my a t. The
latter took several papers from the chimney.pieee, out of my writ-
ing.desk, and after having examined dun vary minutely, opened some
drawers, where he found a pound of gunpowder with some balls and a
pair of pistols. He also took some other correspondence, which had
nothing to do with politic. After having scrupulously examined a
number of letters, the contents of which were harmless, the Commissary
of Police put his band upon a paper containing some allusions and hopes
relative to the return of the Duke of Bordeaux to France. Although
this paper, which was merely the draught of a letter, was entitled to no
attention, the Commissary thought it of high importance, and gave it to
one of the trusty persons in attendance on him. I then felt that advan-
tage would be gladly takes of this vain pretext to ascribe to the Carlists
the commotion drat had arisen, notwithstanding the absurdity of put.
ting at the bead of a conspiracy a mere valet.de.chansbre to the
Duchess of Berry. Not disposed to share the fate of the prisoner,
I decided upon making my escape. 1 went behind the alcove, end
thence ran down stain without a hat. The Commissary, on
finding that I had escaped in spite of his precautions, lost all
moderation. He again examined my papers, sad es lading some nails,
files, old keys, Le., which came into my pommies by being left in
some furniture which I bought in 1825, at No. 1, Rae Neuve de Lux-
emburg, the Commissary, addressing M. de 14-4sid with the WPM.
don of mortifying him, ' You are living with a thieL' Th. Cons.
miseary, DO doubt felt that in order to ruin a me It me noes.
vary to &geode him. He himself was not the dupe of his own
words. /Wry object in my house would have set him right.
Whom then an be hope to Sod that will believe such unworthy sup.
positions ? These am all the pounds of the famous trial which is
pigpens& and the causes of the arrest of Messrs. Dues. It was
that the des et frindship, which had united OW DI see of them
these 12 years, would give sue Mugu to change disk opinion. Whet
nodes can they bare et conscious ? "B. GESLAIN."
The Quefidieserte says—" We shell add to these details, that the
sin of DI. di /Seward, a young man 20 yeses of see, who hod jut at.
Tined horn the coustry, meat have already conesed the eitaislidng
magistrate, that be was quite a stranger to political afi its."

SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS.

Cuernact.s.—We could weekly amuse our readers with extracts
from Country Newspapers, exhibiting the rapid program' of the contests
of Property against Property, and enlarge on the various suppositious
causes, effects, and cures of a century of misgovernment of the king-
dom, if we had space, and if the amusement was not saddened by the
melancholy and humiliation reflection of the intense and Increasing mi.
sexy of the country. Every Ecclesiastic has his efficacious prayer,
every country gentleman his favourite nostrum, for staying the progress
of the ehoieramorbus now aging in their parishes. The political cor-
don armholes of Corn Laws, the turning the paupers into " rounds.
men," clipping the Sovereign, Joint Stock Banks with shares at a high
premium to increase the circulating medium, emigration, throwing land
in and out of cultivation—these and all the conundrums of an English
Christmas fire-side, are in vain invoked to remove the devastating ma.
lady pressing on agriculture. In this fermentation of society it is ape.
cially curious to notice the increasing unpopularity of the clergy, and the
mine springing under the Church, perhaps we should more correctly
say the sapping sad mining of Tidies. The temporal interest of man-
kind always prevailed over their spiritual and future welfare, except
with the Martyrs of the Reformation sad the Hindoo Widows of mo-
dern times. We are all old enough to iecollect the war-whoops and
halos of " Church and State," giving the Church the precedence.
Sinbad now feels the inconvenience of his upper servants he in vain
struggles to get from under the old man. Before distress and the
schoolmaster visit the landowt:en and their tenantry (previous to Mr.
Cobbett's Lectures, and, he would say, before his History q( the
Church), when war prices existed, the agriculturist and the Parson
rode the same horse; the Parson before, each upholding the other.
Amicably they trotted in company. Now that the aged and jaded ani.
mal will no longer carry double, the agriculturist, on the original sin
doctrine of self-preservation, gives his old and revered clerical com-
panion a shoes from the pillion. The weakest must go to the ground.
Probably all parties are now practically convinced that the system diet
not " work well."

Trans.—There is one thing which we cannot imagine, via. the pos.
sibillty of two Legislatures--onelof them English, the other Irish, of
the new O'Connell school—acting cordially together for a single twelve.
month, considering the notions which now and then gain currency among
the crew composing that learned gentleman's auditors one day. and Ms
delegates, commisaioners, or rent-collectors, the nest. That means might
be found to concert the hostile senators of the thenceforth foreign Par.
liament, we do not mean to deny, even the most stubborn of them. We
know of what materials the old Irish House of Commons was composed,
and how majoritierin that house were concocted. Does Mr. O'Connell
malt to Insist that any given 300 Irishmen of the present day would of
necessity be less amenable to ministerial reason than those of the year
1799 ? Who sold their country to the Minister of that day ?—The
Irish Parliament—the independent Parliament the Halcyon Perlis.

meat of College.grcen.Who, again, sold their country ?—The Roman Ca.
Moller in Ireland : it is on record they, the Catholics, shamefully sold
what is now called the independence of their country to Mr. Pitt and
Lord Cornwallis, for a promise of being suffered to hold seats in that
very foreign parliament, among that very " Saxon" people, with whom
rays Mr. O'Connell. in one of his peacemaking speeches, it is impossi.
Me for the genuine Irish to have any thing in common. If all this be
denied—if the British minister is not to command a majority in the
Irish parliament—why the question is settled in another way, for he is
voted out of once by Ireland, and supported there by England ;—and
what is this—what, at least, does it induce—but a direct separation of
the crowns? But what matter, others may demand, what signifies it
whether Ireland swing herself loose or not? We might answer the in-
terrogatory by another. What matters it whether Scotland rends herself
from England or not Why should not Wales ? nay Yorkshire, if she
listeth ? It might not be very easy to satisfy such inquirers. Perhaps
a plausible argument might be raised in favour of the individual virtue
and happiness to be found in small states, as contrasted with those of
larger growth. But the prejudice inns against breaking up an ancient
realm, and sending its fragments to seek their fortunes separately. Very
confined commonwealths are found to be weaker, as well against internal
faction as against aggression from without.

Conistx.—lf we be to appeal to our pious &meshes, and pious
and praiseworthy we most allow them to have been; if the Ilford
Winchilses and the parsons will insist upon referring us to these our an-
cestors as examples foe us to follow as to this great matter of tithes, we
have to remind it and the parsons of these eight things r—l. That the
doctrines of the Catholic Church, which our pious ancestors endowed
with the tithes, are, by our present parsons, declared to be idolatrous
and damnable.-2. That our parsons call the head of that church An-
tichrists and the whore of Babylon.-3. That the Society for pro-
pagation of Christian Knowledge" advertise no lees than fourteen sepa-
rate works written by our bishops and archbishops 1, against Popery;"
that is to say against that very faith to support which our pima antes-
, toes instituted tithes.-4. That we may be allowed to wonder bow it
Gan have come to pass, that, as the errors of our pious ancestors were
found, at the end of eleven hundred years, to be so damnable, the
tithes which they granted were not at all erroneous, but, as this
parson now tells us, wets, dedicated to God r-5. That
our pious ancestors gave only a third of the tithes to the par-
sons.-6. That they required the puma to expend a third on the build.
ing and ornaments of the church.-7. That they required him to dis-
tribute the other third to the poor and the stranger with his own hands
in mercy and humility. And, & That they required him to be con.
star tly resident, and not to marry, and compelled him to take an oath of
celibacy, in order that, divested of the cares and missile inseparable from I
a wife and family, be might wholly devote himself is the service of 00D,
and be in very truth that which the Bible, from one end to the other, re-
quires a priest to be, a faithful and diligent dephrrd of the reli-
gious flock : and for being which merely in acne, such was
I are pronounced against priests both by prophets and apostles. Of
these eight things we have to remind the parsons, when they tell us to
look at the conduct of our pious ancestors ; and especially when they
tell us to follow the example of those ancestors with regard to tithes.
These were the conditions on which the tithes were given, and this
might be truly said to be dedicating them to Oat. Accordingly we
find that, as long as the tithes were applied to these purposes, there
were no poor-rates; no Vagrant Act was required; no church-la:es
were demanded of the people; and yet all those magnificent cathedrals
and those churches were built, the beauty and solidity of which are now
the monuments of their great, and of our little, minds.

Tr ettta.—lil. Lafitte's notable intimation of a republican plot, formed
by Royalists, to dethrone Louis-Philippe, scarcely wanted the crowning
grace which M. Persil has given to it by the production of his proofs :
but the subordinate has saved the credit of the principal, by exhibiting
a lower depth in absurdity. The discussion on the regulations of the
National °used, is not concluded ; and it is probable that the Chain.
ber will afford no decisive test of the strength of the parties till the elec-
toral law is laid before it. The accounts from Poland received through
Paris, and by the Hamborgh mail, are so far favourable that they ex-
hibit the Poles in a State of active preparation, and in an attitude of re-
solute defiance. We wish them success in the name of justice, and of
humanity, and of libeety ; though we are not prepared, like the Condi-
tutiorntel. to invoke the active aid of other countries in a cause which,
however glorious, presents, as yet, no features which justify rational in.
inference.

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body et die doetisa r Noatiliouer tamed oat he as advance of
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itombod. No wreath lo so Sdismillt of the tlre betwee°
the mimeos mad ma Me yet howl ode that side.— Courier.
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