Star.
London, England, 1820-11-24 00:00:00

Mfg EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

LAST AND ONLY DAY, NEXT TUESDAY- TWO
TWENTY THOUSANDS AND EVERY OTHER CA-
PITAL MUST BE DRAWN-ALL IN THREE
HOURS-ONLY 1,100 NUMBER&

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1890.
THE FUNDS.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :
Bank Stock 219
3 per Cent. Redeced 68% 112 %
3 per Cent. Cons. 691/2 1/4 1/2
Si per Cent. 77%-1 per Cent. 861/4 % 1/4
5 per Cent. Navy 103% 78 %
Long Annuities 17% 13-16
India Stock 221 22,11 A
India Bonds 275. 245. pre.
Exchequer Bills 2s. pr. par. Is. prem..
Cons. for Acct. 69 1/2%alA•

The proceedings in Parliament yesterday will sur-
prize nobody who has been paying attention to pass-
ing events for some time past. We mentioned yes-,
tcrday that a Message from the QUEEN would be
offered to Parliament and also intimated our belief
that its reception would be evaded by the measures
determined on by Ministers. Mr. DENMAN made an
effort to present it to the Commons, by intimating
that he held in his hand a Message, which he was
commanded by her MAJESTY to present to the
House ; but his object was frustrated by the instan-
taneous arrival of the Black Rod. An attempt was
znatle by some Members to prevent this fresh insult
to Majesty, but it was vain ; for the business pro-
ceeded precisely as the third or fourth Act of a con-
tested new Play is sometimes mouthed by the per-
formers, without any one being able to hear dis-
tinctly what the actors are saying; and the Proro-
gation took place to the ‘23d of January next.
The following is the Message which Mr. DENMAN
requested leave to read to the House:

" CAROUSE R.

" The Quent thinks it proper to inform the House of Com-
mons, that she has received a communication from the Kiwo's
Ministers, plainly intimating an intention to Prorogue the Par-
liament immediately, and accompanied by an offer of money for
her support, and for providing her with a residence, until a new
Session may be holden.
" This offer the QCLEN has no hesitation in refusing. While
the late extraordinary proceedings were pending, it might be fit
for her to accept the advances made for her temporary accom-
modation; but she naturally expected that the failure of that
unparalleled attempt to degrade the Royal Family would be
inunediattly followed by submitting some permanent measure
to the wisdom of Parliament ; and she has felt that she could no
longer, with propriety, receive from the Ministers, what she is
well assured the liberality of the House of Commons would
have granted, as alike essential to the dignity of the Throne,
and demanded by the plainest principles of justice.
" If the QUEXN is to understand that new proceedings are I
meditated against her, she throws herself with unabated con-
fidence on the Representatives of the People, fully relying on
their justice and wisdom, to take effectual steps to protect her
from the farther vexation of unnecessary delay, and to provide
that these unexampled persecutions may at length be brought
to a close."

We cannot at this moment recollect anything in
English history precisely parallel to the proceedings
of yesterday. It would be vain to look for anything
analogous since the period of the Revolution. 'We
find, indeed, in the reign of CHARLES I. the follow-
ing occurrence :
Roues, a Member of the Muse orCommons,
had his goods seized, in consequence of refusing to
pay the duties of tonnage and poundage, which the
El xo insisted upon hating a right to levy without the
consent of Parliaments A motion was made to this
effects" That the seizure of ROLLES'S goods was a
breach a 'privilege." The SPEAKER would not put
the question, for " the Kum had commanded the
continua," The speech of SELDEN is worthy of in-
sertion. " Direopnnot, Mr. Speaker, put the ques-
tion when we commatilitw ? If you will not put
it, we must sit still : thns, 44. ah all never be able to
do anything. They that come after you, may say they
have the King's command not to do it. We sit here by
command of the King under the Great Seal ; and you
are, by his Majesty, sitting in his royal Chair before
both Houses, appointed for our Speaker, and now
you refuse to do your office." It may, perhaps,
amuse our Readers to mark the conduct of the
House on this extraordinary occasion. The SPEAKER
persisted in his refusal, and the House, in some con-
fusion, adjourned. When it met again, the former
requisition was repeated to the SPEAKER, who again
declined compliance, and said, " he had a command
to adjourn the House," but, as he was quitting the
Chair, some Members forcibly held him in, while
others locked the door; in the meantime a protesta-
tion ready drawn was voted, purporting, 44 That;
whoever should bring m innovation of religion, Po.'
pery or Arminianism, or should advise the taking of
tonnage and poundage, not granted by Parliament,
or should pay the same, should be accounted ene-
mies to the kingdom." In consequence of this, war-
rants were immediately after issued for apprehend-

ing a number of the Members, and, among others,
SEI.DEN, They were committed to the Tower for
." sedition and contempt the Attorney-General,
lils:terit, laid an information against them in the Star-
chamber, LITTLETON pleaded for their being ad-

tnitted to bail, and the Judges wrote to the KING,
humbly requesting his advice, as, by their oaths,
they were obliged to bail the prisoners. Delays

lwere interposed ; they were treated with all pos.
Aible severity, and the matter was put off to the
close of the Term, when they were remanded to
confinement, on account, as the King affirmed, of
their insolent carriage at the Bar. That is, they
claimed, with the spirit of freemen, what they knew
to be their right. With such contempt of law and
justice did the Court pursue its arbitrary and vin-
dictive schemes, and so blindly did it rush into con-
tests with a power daily increasing in that strength
from public opinion, which is the sole support of all
political power not protected by a miiitary force.

We need not remind our Readers what calamities
this blind and obstinate conduct of the Court brought
ultifnately upon the King himself; and upon the
Country. Let us hope that the present generation
may learn a little wisdom from the errors of those
who have gone before tl4m.
Parliament, it will he Observed, was, after a Ses-
sion of unexampled fatigue, dismissed without the
usual Speech from the Throne. The only instance
of such an unceremonious dismissal, since the time
of CHARLES the Second, was the Prorogation which
took place when Lord TnuaLow was Chancellor, on
the 27th October, 1785.
It will also be observed, that the QUEEN had before

intimated to Ministers that she would not submit to
receive alms at their discretion in place of a regular
provision ; and it was well enough known that this
was to form the topic of her MaJEsTr's Message ;
but mark the tresoment she has experienced. It is
notorious that the House was to have been kept
sitting, if there had been a chance of its prose-
cuting the Bill of Pains and Penalties to the issue,
of mining her MAJESTY. This intention was po-1
sitively announced by Lord CASTLEREA4II. But,
when her MAJESTY looks for relief to the House,
from insult, dependence, and oppression, that relief
is snatched away from her by a sudden. and tempos-'
tuous Prorogation. The I louse, therefore, was to sit
months for her destruction, but not to wait even a
few minutes to hear her just complaints! Well might
Mr. BENNETT exclaim, " This is a scandal to the
country !" for never (in our opinion) was a grosser
one offered to the nation at large.

Our political horizon, we are sorry to say, begins
to be overcast in respect to our foreign relations. We
have for some time heard a few fools saying, " Let
us have a war, or a foreign turmoil of any kind, to
occupy the public attention, and put a termination
to domestic bickerings." Fools only would ever
think of a general conflagration as a desirable me-
thod of getting themselves warmed in a cold day ;
but it seems there are such men in the world.
Letters from Naples state (and we sincerely wish
we could say, that the statement cannot possibly be
true), that the British Minister, Sir Wm. A'Counr,
has invited the Kum to retire on board the English
Admiral's ship, with his family; and has pledged
himself for his safety, if he should think proper to
take that step.—Can this possibly be true ? It is
known, that for some time we have had a fleet in the
bay of Naples; and it has been stated in certain. Prints,
that it would remain there " until the determination
of the Sovereigns at Troppau should be made known."
Are we then to embark again in a war against the
liberties of mankind? Have we learnt nothing from
the dear-bought lessons afforded by the late war?
Have the Legitimates forgotten the fate they brought
upon Louts XVI. and his family, by advising that
Monarch to seek refuge elsewhere than among his own
subjects? Alas for the King of NAPLES, should he be
led to listen to such insidious advice !—alas for the hu-
man race! how many the victims that may suffer from
such folly !—how many the widows and orphans that
may yet wail the blindness and infatuation of those
who have power to lead forth men to slay their fel-
low men! But woe to those who may again kindle
up the flames of war in such an unjust and unholy
enterprize against the rights of independent nations !
It requires not the spirit of prophecy to foretel the re-
sult. Talk indeed of " revolutionists and anarchists !"
Who are they ? Where are they ? The principal
promoters of revolution have hitherto been the men
who have made most rfoise -and clamour against
everything which they choose to 6all innovation.—
Time s; ill not stand still for them, nkr can the course
of events be impeded. 13ut how mad the men who
hasten on the crisis of violence by their obstinate
efforts to change the order and course of the moral
world.

The American report of a Revolution in Pernam-
buco,
founded on accounts from that quarter of the
2d of September, is totally without foundation.
Letters to the 12th had previously reached this
country, and yesterday a fresh arrival brought others,
dated the 21st of September, all of which are entirely
silent on the subject. It is incredible what un-
founded and preposterous accounts find their way
into the American Papers.

By ad vices from Trincomalee, dated May 30, ii,
appears that an insurrection had broken out in the
interior of Ceylon, originating in the desertion of
some Malays, who had joined with a body of Can-
dians. They had intercepted the Tappan], and
killed the bearers. To stop the progress of the in-
surrection, a detachment of the 73d Regiment, under
the command of Captain Omni, had gone in pursuit
of the rebels. Subsequent advices, however, re-
ceived at Madras, state that the leader of the rebels
had been seized and brought in by the Natives, and
that tranquillity had iq consequence been re-esta-
blished in the Island.

PARIS, NOVEMRER 26.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

" We are delighted here that the scandalous trial
of the QUEEN is over ; for, whether she be guilty or
innocent, there is but one opinion of the policy ofi
such a procedure. The KING of FRANCE declares it
has been more injurious to Royalty than the French
Revolution ; and the English are preparing a grand
dinner, to be given at Grignon's to-morrow, in ho-
nour of its being abandoned.
" M. ETIENNE, the editor and joint proprietor of
The Constitutionnel, is elected Deputy : we hope he
will be moderate; be has great talents, and will hare
plenty of opportunities of bringing them forth. The
majority of Members, however, are ultra in this
Election. Grand preparations are making for the
baptism of. the Duke of BOURDEAUN. The rumour
is still afloat that M. DECAZES will be recalled to oc-
cupy a place in his MAitsry's Counsels."