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THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 5.

Pow's' Pgar.—Hommv as we Baps.

This day despatches were received at the Colonial-office,
from Major-General Sir JAMES 'AGM(' the Governor of
Barbadoes, dated the 20th of September; and from Saint
Thomas's, dated the 12th of October.

This afternoon, at half-put one o'clock, the KING held
a Council in Saint James's Palace, at which the RZCORDIR
laid a Report of the persons under sentence of death in
Newgate, before his MAJESTY.

Some of the French Journals state, that Prince Woaost-
s I( t, a Member of the Household of the Emperor of Rvsat♦,
is appointed Ambassador from the Northern Autocrat, at the
Court of the King of the FRENCH.

The affairs in the Netherlands seem to be getting worse
and worse. We are this morning favoured with the perusal
of a private letter, to a Gentleman in the City, from Ant-
werp, dated the Ist instant, to the following effect:—
" We cannot advise you to send any goods to Holland ; as
it seems pretty certain that the insurgents are determined
to attack all the Dutch towns, seriatim; and lay waste by
lire and sword, all places that fall into their hands. No-
thing can be shipped from Antwerp." In addition to this,
we are enabled to state, that letters from England, are
recommended to be sent via Ostend, as a quicker mode of
conveyance than by way of Flushing. The Antwerp pilots
have refused to go down to Flushing, alleging that their
personal safety would be compromised.

It is not, we think, improbable, as indeed we perceive it
is now rumoured, that the victorious Belgians may ulti-
mately even turn their warlike exploits towards Holland ;
and it is not quite impossible that a sadden attack in that
quarter—a kind of home blow, at the KING of the Ns-
THERLANDs-might be successful. If the finances of
the Belgian reformers are deficient, as was said a few
days ago, the object of a visit to the coffers of
Holland, is no small excitement to the achievement. We
hope, however, that all this is mere surmise and alarm;
and that the intervention of the great Powers, is the conse-
quence of mutual arrangements, betwixt the opposed parties.
Instead of regretting that such an intervention is probable,
we are inclined to look to its speedy adoption, as the most
probable step to ward off impending wars.

The change in the French Ministry is at last officially
announced ; and, as far as we can judge, we are inclined to
consider it augurs more favourably for the tranquillity of
France and Europe, than we had apprehended. For some
appropriate remarks on the characters of its new Members,
we refer our readers to the letter of our Correspondent, re-
ceived this day; and as a proof that there are not wanting
parties in Paris, who are still dissatisfied, we refer to an
annexed paragraph from Le Globe.

MOMS. LATITTE we consider a bold man; for whatever
may be his virtues and patriotism, he kas, we fear, indelible

faults with la pantie progressive—ss it is now called—
for he is a banker, and a wealthy one. We fear in
France, the shade of difference is not strongly marked,

between the terms progressive and
between the latter and anarchiste ; and we are sure M.
PITTE will not progress—as the Americans say—many
steps farther, than was agreeable to the retiring Ministers,
without being carried by the unruly animal he has ventured
to mount, like Joe N GILPIN, much farther than he ever in-
tended. We anxiously wish success to his exertions; as we
have little doubt, that he takes the post of danger, more from
an honest anxiety to save his country, than from ambition.
We like to see him with military men for his colleagues; for,
if there be any firmness and decision derivable from the pro-
fession, that firmness ind decision will now be indispensable.
When the new Ministers shall have gone a certain distance,
beyond their present spot, to satisfy the party which bas oc-
casioned their elevation, they too, it is easy to predict, will
want to step; and then will be required much more of the

!, nor

qualities just mentioned, than has lately signalized the Mi-
nisters of King Louts Puna.' r. We cannot suppose but
'that the present Minieters have fully viewed, and made up
their resqlre, won zolttingancies lei ftevitable and so pal-
pably before them; anithereforeeps we conceive they must
be temperate, firm, or perishAltepUngeshat has taken place
may possibly brighten, rather thandarken, the prospects of
Europe; but all depends in this, ki on many human affairs,
upon k premier pas. •
The concluding words of the last piairapit might almost

form the first of the paragraph we are sow commencing—
for it is reflection on the important responsibility of is
premier pas, which affords an explination to some of the
sentiments already elicited in Parliament. —We allude to
the opinions on the subject of Parliamentary reform.
It is curious to observe the action and re-action of opinion
at the present moment in Europe. The French revolution,
—the triumph of a predominating opinion—has produced,
as might have been foreseen, a kind of sympathetic ex-
citement in other countries. The immediate objects of this'
excitement, are the people throughout all Europe, who
have entertained the triumphant opinion, augmented by all
who have real grievances, or fancied ones—all in fact, who
are in tem per to complain. The Governments of Europe,
which must be supposed—under some course of reasoning or
another—to think that they are governing for the happiness
of those they govern, are not a little perplexed what
course to adopt, whether to meet the advancing spirit,
by an amicable policy and accommodation, or resist its ad-
mission. Had the new government of Louis PnituP, the
result of the triumph we have mentioned, not been so unset-
tled, the example of France would have been more decided-
ly powerful; and probably the friends of reform In this country
more hazardously bold in their projected improvements ; but
until the Revolution be finished, in that country,
even decided Reformers become timid, as to the
degree ; and those who were always inclined to op-
pose it entirely, are now more adverse to it than
ever. They may see the advantage of some reform—
of some partial alterations of the venerable fabric
they are anxious to support ; but they dread le pre-
mier pas in concession ; and no one can deny that it could
be taken without anxiety and apprehension.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

ILICEIVED THIS DAT.

PARIS, Nov. 3.
SlR,—Our state of suspense, which was becoming into-
lerable, has at length been concluded, by the definitive ap-
pointment of a new Ministry, to meet the renovated
Chamber. At three yesterday afternoon, the Portfeuilles
were delivered, only 22 hours before the assemblage of the
Deputies, and the Doctrinaire party sounded their retreat.
Among a people so exquisitely sensitive, and so actively
alive to ridicule, to fasten a happy soubriquet upon a Mi-
nistry, or party, will halfway ensure its defeat. To fix a
stigma, it requires only a taste for ridicule, and however un-
deserved it flies from mouth to mouth, those to whom the
application is obvious, wince when applied to themselves ;
and to the more ignorant, it conveys an idea of something
dreadful, and the more so, from its being undefined. The
feeling which your all-dreaded word " Radical " calls forth
in England, will explain, In some measure, the amazing
influence which a name has in French politics.
The seceding party, or Doctrinaires, which answers to
our idea of Theorists or Benthamites, derived that title more
from the circumstance of two of its members being popular
and esteemed authors, previous to the Revolution, than to
any act during their administration, which demonstrated
a love of speculative theory, unreduced to the dictates' of
sober experiment. Mankind seems to entertain a sentiment,
that an author is that abstracted being from the world in
which he lives, that he can only write, and that his literary
habits impede his facility of action. This is an error
which, with many others, has been handed down to us from
that ludicrous term, " The wisdom of our ancestors."
Formerly, when colleges were the only places where learn•
ing and extensive reading were to be enjoyed, the
whole of a life was requisite, to obtain that
knowledge, which from the multiplied sources of sup-
ply, are now attainable in a few years, and leave the
recipient, leisure—while in the height of mental and corpo-
real vigour, to fill a prominent part in society.
The late Ministry, particularly Messieurs Galva and de
Broglie, will carry with them into private life, the esteem
and gratitude of their fellow-citizens. They seised the
helm in boisterous times; they did not flinch from the task ;
and, by a degree of prudence, firmness, and moderation,
they have placed France in an attitude so formida•
ble, that she may laugh to scorn the idea of foreign
invasion, from those who bat ill conceal their dig
like to her present form of Government. When
the future historian reviews the labours of those
who have retired, and the arduous task, in which
they engaged, with so many hostile, and jarring interests
to conciliate, I cannot entertain a doubt but they will be
handed down to posterity as honest, laborious, and foresee-
ing. Let us now, having spoken of the past, look to the
men from whose exertions France will have to date her
weal or woe : first, M. Lafitte, Minister of Finances, and
President of the Council. The union of those offices will
give him a preponderating weight in the new Govern-
ment. He will be the Prime Minister. Very
few men are better known, than the gentleman I am
speaking of. Lord Byron has immortalized him as, " the
truly liberal Lafitte ;" and be has bought, to use Shakespeare's
expression, " golden opinions from all sorts of men." In
his youthful days, be was in the house of Messrs. Hammers-
ley and Co. where he learned the principles of the banking
profession, which he has since prosecuted with such success.
That he is eminently qualified ass Minister of Finance, there
can be no doubt whatever. No man is more conversant with
the exchanges of Europe ; and his operations have been, for
France, upon a very extensive scale. Of the liberal opi-
nions he professes, he gave on, the evening of the 26th of
July, a most decisive proof. As sn influential mem-
ber of the society " Aide toi," he wu one of
the first to advise recourse to arms. He boldly
proclaimed his opinion, that force wu the only resort
left to the people ; that by the violation of the charter they
were absolved from their obedience. He offered to risk his
whole fortune, to support resistance, to purchase arms for
those who would use them, and to supply them with funds to
commence their campaign on the morrow. Many of those
who began the glorious struggle, were armed in the Rae
&Artois, his residence ; which now, by a most appropriate
compliment, bears the name of the Rue Lafitte. His
very name, well-known prudence, and immense riches,
were an host, at that awful period, when all
felt the ueeeesity, but paused ere the first blow
was struck. Every one felt the dreadful responsibi-
lity be was incurring, by beginning a revolution; and
placing arms in the bands of that claw, whom history bad

depicted, bat a few years previously, as turning them against
the property and the lives of their fellow-citisens. There. was
an awful passe, s' and the boldest held his breath for a time."
At that moment, when the far-famed banker same forward,
be who had so much to lose, and whose fate was certain, if
victory bad alighted on the Royalist banners, shame operated
upon the timid ; the wavering felt that his name and character
I were a tower of strength; and the resolution was taken, by
which,with the least possible expense of human like free and
rational Government was secured to a brave and generous
people. Notwithstanding the 'vantage ground on which
M. Lafitte stands; his friends--and no man has more—
' appear to think, that his seal has perhaps outstripped his
judgment, in aspiring to the situation of the Presidency of
the Council. Not any doubt exist'', but that this step, on
his part, has not arisen from 'any low ambition ;
but solely from the motive of being more active by being
useful, than merely as a financier. The situation
gives great power to the individual holding it, and many ire
of opinion that the burthen may be too weighty for its pos-
-1 Demmer. However, we must wait the result, all parties feeling
the fullest conviction, that his newly acquired dignity is only
valuable to him, as an extension of his means of usefulness
to his country. M. Moirrizav ET, who has taken the
Portfolio of the Interior, is very young for the situation he
is appointed to fill. He is not a Member of the Chamber of
Deputies. The principal employment by which be has been
known, has been the liquidation, and future arrangement of
the Civil List, which was left in great confusion by the
former occupants of the Throne. In this department be has
given great satisfaction. He is supposed to represent the
energy and feelings of the young men of the present day,
and to embody Young France—as those rising into life call
it—as contra-distinguished from the prejudices and for-
malities of their ancestors. You will hear from me, with
the conclusion of this sketch, by next post ; meantime I
remain, yours truly, J. L.

P. S. The following advertisement baa just appeared :
The members of the Belgian Committee of Paris to the
French Nation :

Brave and generous Frenchmen—New misfortunes arise
to overburthen our beautiful country, heroic Belgium. By
order of the infamous Dutch Government, the city of Ant-
werp has been sacked, and nearly reduced to ashes. This
horrible event has plunged into misery an immune popula-
tion, but lately rich and industrious, who have committed
no other crime than the wish to tread in your footsteps, and
to throw off • yoke, which was pressed hard upon them, by
a sanguinary and tyrannical Government. Generous French-
men, you are not insensible to our heroism and our misfor-
tunes. Your generosity is a sufficient guarantee to us that you
will hasten to reply to our appeal, and to tender your suc-
couring hand to these noble victims of the most holy of
causes. The Subscriptions will be received at the office of
the Committee, No. 10, Rue du Mail; at the office of M.
Godot, Notary, 7, Rue des Fosses-Montmertre, Trea-
surer of the lesion ; and the houses of all other nota-
ries in Paris.

The Members of the Committee,
MOEll'lll5, VANDEALINDEN, BEATIER,
LEPAGE, CONSTANT.

In the new Ministry, three names only, these of M Lafitte,
Dupont (del'Eure) and Merilbon, appertain to the Gawk*.
Is it enough ? We believe not. Unless the other members of
the Ministry show themselves docile to'the impression with
which their colleagues would impress them, and turn obe-
dient satellites in the circle traced for them we do not see
that unity of direction and power, which will draw us from
the sad state in which we languish. Wherefore has not the
Gauche a greater number of representatives ? Where is the
homogenity which has been promised us; and which after ten
days of attendance, we had • nght to hops for. It is not a
last manoeuvre of the doctrinary opinion, which seeks to
give, especially in the Interior, a successor in every way
proper to occupy the place par interim ? Nevertheless, let
us wait : we eagerly wish that M. Lafitte, and the two col-
leagues who will work with him, will find sufficient force
to rule the Cabinet, to lead the Chamber, and to conduct us,
e ithout any thing too startling, to the developement so no.
cessaly of the Electoral Constitution.—Le Globe.

CITY, 01111 O'CLOCK.
With the exception of the Leeward Island mail, which
sailed from St. Thomas on the Bth Oct. we have no arrivals
of the least consequence. The funds continue in the same
state as yesterday ; and the rents., coaling considerably
lower from Paris by the express this morning, has had the
effect of damping the market. Consols which left off yes-
terday at 811 to t for the account, opened at the same price,
but soon after receded to 8011, at which price they are at
present, with a very heavy appearance.
This being the sth of November, the Royal Exchange is
shut until 12 o'clock. The Bank is also closed.

We do not bear any news as yet by the Leeward Island
mail.

In the Foreign Market Spanish bonds continue to decline.
Spanish bonds 161.
In other foreign securities little or nothing doing. A re-
port that Lord Grey has been sent for by the king.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCt
The Consol market was looking very heavy, and Consols
were done at 80j II for the account, when the Bull party
came Into the market, and perchsaed 100,000 Consols,
which prevented a further deeline. Consols may be quoted
at present 80j to 81.
We have reports of fires in Sussex.
There are various opinions on the new French Ministry.
By some it is stated to be of a very weak description, and
will not last long.
In the Foreign Market little Bonds 15+.

doing. Spanish
elemon . .

The Prince of Orange sent a eseentunication yesterday
morning to the Duke of Welling**. His Royal Highness
afterwards arrived at Apsley home, and had a eonisrenco
with his Grace.

YORICSIIIIIIZ HUSSAIS.—A piece of plate, of the value
of 100 sovereigns, has been presented to Lieut. Tireman, by
his brother officers, as a token of their esteem for his in-
defatigable exertions in the management of the officers' mess,
the public balls, &s. during a series of years.
The Duke of Wellington, in his way to the House of
Lords last night, was followed by some persons who loudly
hissed and groaned as his Grace's carriage poised olong the
streets. Several stones were flung at the carriage,but without
doing injury to anyperson. The carriage passed on at a rapid
rate

ILLUMINATION OP TamPLI-BAIL—Mr. Alderman
Copeland having obtained permission, has given orders
that Temple-Bar, on the City side, shall be splendidly illu-
minated in every part with gas, on the night of the Royal
visit, at his private expense; and within these few days a
caffold has been erected, and the work is rapidly proceeding.
We were not aware, till the matter was brought especially
under our notice, that the Merchant Tailors' Company
was one involving such vast property, as it appears to be.
Some idea may be formed by the general reader of this, by
the perusal of a report of the proceedings of that body, in-
serted in the first page of this sheet. The details of the dis-
pute, as published in a separate and compact form, would
occupy too much of our limited space, at this basy season ;
otherwise we would cheerfully make room for it. It may,
however be briefly noticed, that the proceedings of the inde-
pendent portion of the livery, have aimed a successful blow
at the monopoly of corporatism', in general; and of the
gunner propensities death bodies, in particular.

THE ICING'S GRAND DINNER.

His Majesty pm a wed &Mee bra mob & at his Police it
St. lamas's, So the forolp ambusadoes sod adoismes, the of of
state sad the Wambold, sad a party of the nobUity and gentry,
_ _ •

The dinner was served in the berigustdag room, which was' beii.
Handy lighted by the five opleedid eumein chandeliers, and a number
of amdelabres on the table in the middle of the room, and also 05
the sideboard at the end of thereon. On the dinner table woe ,
lcamber of handsome centre ornaments, on raised plateaux of plate.
glass. The middle centre piece represented the Muses and Graces
supporting a large circular basket filled with artificial flowers ; the
other centre pieces had representadens of similar subjects, and were
all filled with artificial flowers. The table was generally covered
with articles of gold and silver plate. Several large articles of phi
plate were displayed on the sideboard at the end of the room.
The party consisted of—

The Dike of Sussex, the Prince of Cerolath ; the Austrian, French,
sad Netherlands Ambassadors; the Spanish, Prussian, Uneaten, swe.
dish, Neapolitan, Bavarian, Mexican, Wurtemberg, Sardinian, sod
American Ministers; the Danish and Brazilian Chassis d'Affaires ;
the Dukes of Wellington, Buckingham, Leeds; Marquisees Brittol,
Londonderry, Winchester, Salisbury, Bute; Earls Jersey, Howe, War.
wick, Cbutwilliatn, Gower, Aberdeen, Amherst, Cathcart ; Viscount
Strangford ; Lords Farnborough, G. Beresford, St. Helens, Burghersh.
G. Seymour; Count Munster; Mrs W. Fremantle, F. Watson, W.
Houston.

The whole of the Palace. except the Levee and the Throne Room,
was lighted up. Both the entrances to the Palace were opened the same
as on Court days. The company, on their arrival, were ushered into
the Ball Room, passing through the Presence Chamber and the Guard
Room, which was lined with the Yeomen Guard. The company passed
through the Picture Gallery (which was also lined with the Yeomen
Guard) to the Banqueting Room. The tame attendants were ea duty
as on Court days. The Pages appeared in their new uniforms.