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.FROM THE GAZETTE DIE WitANCE, DATED DEC 23.

JASSY, Dm. 5.
A courier f om Sr. Prteisbitrgh has brought to Field
Marshal C u Wittgenstein an Imperial Re,cript,
*WO his Majesty replies in the most gi :scions ter ass,
and in a very fl.ticting manner to the General, that in
:he present ci!cunistances, when it is absolutely hetes•
nary that he should be at his post, for the re organiza-
tion of the troops—an office in wh ch no person can take
his place—it is quite impossible to grant him even a
short leave of absence, which he had asked tor, to visit
his estate The same dispatch inloi used him that his
imperial Majesty has se:it a courier to the Counie‘s, his
consort, with per mi,sion lor her to come and j him
at heackparter, The Russian troops which daily ar-
rive from the right ban* of the Danube immediately go
into quarters. The Metropolitan Bishop of Moldavia
has received 1,0(X) ducats from the Emperor, to be dis-
tributed among Vie Convents, for the purpose of having
Mas,es pet formed for the repose of the soul of the late
Empiers Maria.
Generals Witt and Soff-moff. left Jassy on the 4th of
December, to raise and form recruits in Bessarabia.
Count Palliest and Messrs. Daschoff and Minziacki
are expected here (in Jassy); and immediately after
their arrival the changes in the Administration, which
have already been announced, will probably take
place. As symptoms of the plague have again mani-
fested themselves in Wallachia, the Russian quarantine
on the Pruth, which is only sixteen days, has been pro-
longed to thirty, i,nd is enforced with great rigour ;
that several divisions which were to pass that fiver and
go to more distant cantonments, have received ciainter
orders, and will remain for thwpresent in Moldavia.
According to letters from (Lilacs, a liusbian corps,
between 50 and 40,000 men, remains on the right bank
of the Danubei including the garrison ut Varna. This
corps occupies the whole road from Varna to Issak:
tchi, communicating with the garrisons of Brailow and
Matchin. It is added, ihat a considerable corps af
Turkish cavalry, floss Schumla, joined with part of
the garrison of Silistria,was advancing towards Hirsova.
LitoBl THE JOVRNAL DEs DEBATB.
PARIS, Dec. 24.
Qn the 20th inst. -cones of riot occurred at Brussels,
on M. Potter being sentenced to eighteen months im-
prisonment, and to pay a fine of one tho,:sand francs.
Violently excited by the war carried on by the Ministry
for Sri% fill mouths agamst the press, tile Belgians have
shows d under these circ ani-tances what *impression has
been niaue by all these attacks on the liberty of the
press.. ft is a melancholy thing for the Magistrates to
;be vla:ed, being removable at pleasure Under the rod

DA:DRIED DES PAYS SAS.
A great crowd assembled at this trial, to which late
circarnstances gave an extraordinary interest. The chief
accusation against the (cornier consisted in an attempt
to stigniatize ore hart of the nation by the name of
Minizac ialists. The author cf the article, M. de Potter,
a'as accompanied into the (3-uit by gendarmes, and
placed
~at the bar. Alter his Advocate, M.V Weyer,
hai spoken in the language of the eirmitry, U. &Potter
pronounced the following disci:no se in Lis own defence,
in Fiench t
$ Living *under a Constint innal Governasent, the
contract, sworn testy sll the de;assitaries of power, gua-
ranteeinig to all the citizens the e", joy meta of their
sights,ill thought I was at all times entitled to defend
those rights, and :hat I was obliged to defend them
when they were attacked. I did not hesitate for a ni
meld in my choice of the means- by which I coulf
attain my object. Our in, titiitioos supplied me
with• an efficacious means in the Liberty of the
Pies, which is inscribed in onr Prtidaniental law.
Th,s liberty is illusive, if it be nut complite; it is
wick.d, it it be n general, and equal for all. The
pi 'allege of a patty ei caste of the :axe, it is the most
terrible weapon, and arles with an unerrin'', aim its
disariaed enco.ies. Placed in the hinds of theGovern-
meilt and its agents, it is the %%vole of despotism. The
law which acknowledges the iirpersciiptible lights or
men and citizens, imposes on all :ben the duty of trans-
milting to their de-cen.!ants these rights as lull as they
received them. This daty, Geot'erneo, I have enders- I
squired to fuefil accor ding to my conscience. I wrote
in the mils because they are the most active organs
of public opinion, which they guid... 1 chose the
Courrier in preference, because all its Editors are Bel-
gians at.d my friends, and on most points our opinions
are the :AMC. A public writer is the representative of
the civil z r.ion of his aAe ; those who preceded him in
the same career are the authors of our liberal institu-
tions—and in him tie Deputias of a people with a Re-
ineseritative Gomnment ouAht to glace confidence. In
this country we yet heat expressions of Contempt Wiled
horn tie Ti ibune against a Class of men a ho have c in-
tt buted to support that Tribune, and oho have also a
Ti 'bone of their own, by which Deputies, Judges, Ma.
gistraie-, and Citizens, are tried without any appeal.
foe .I:Ritualists speak daily to s of their fellow
tubjecs, and Ito ex; res.ions of contempt can prevent
then labours (tom enligt:tening the world. I ask of
you, Gentlemen, if I have ever forgotten what I owe to
you, and to the I.tw ? and in calling you Ministerialists
you will not find me guilty of an outrage against the
Magistracy. You will not accuse me of sowing sedition
I among the people. Before you the people cry shame
to the Nl.triverialists,war against core ui,tion and against
those who oiganise it, and against those poltroons who I
are corrupted. And you, Belgian Magistrates, you
*ill be the first to c•mfirm this denunciation, because
yOu find that those gr;edy wretches, who only desire to
sell their cr witty, are worthy of being put to the bar of II
the nation. 1 shall limit my defence to an explanation
of my opinions; you will weigh them, Gentlemen, and
decide a ith impartiality. Whatever may be your de-
cision, I shall have nothing to reproach myself with.
because lam completely absolved before the tribunal of
my conscience."
The close of this speech was followed by tepeated
rounds cf applause, which drowned the vice of the
President when lie tried to restore order. At length
Ihe succeeded in clearing the Court ; but when the
'Judge, retired to deliberate, the crowd again rushed in.
The hiends cf M. Potter surrounded Lim and congra-
tulated him. At this time it was two o'clock, and the
galleries of tt e Court were filled with persons anxious
to hear the sentence. At half-past too the Judges re•
turned into Court, and the President read the laws,
which forbid signs of applause or disapprobation in
Courts, ani ordered the door-keepers to take care they
were executed. He then read the decision of the Judges,
that M. de Potter was found guilty. The Public
Minister required the application of the law. The Ad-
v.,cates for the accused took some objections on the
legality of the application. At tour o'clock the Court
retired to deliberate, and at six o'clock pronounced us
decision, and sentenced NI. de Potter to be imprisoned
eighteen mouths, and stay a fine of 1 OCO florins, as well
as all the expense,. When the sentence was pronounced,
the audience hi,sed, and clattered with their feet, and
then cried out" Down with M. Van Mainers r "Down
with the pretended Mi:,ister of Justice r The Prtsi

Covet tunetit is a party to a league fotmed to crush all
the Ii sr bat y Pisa ers.—Nous venous.
The weather here continues to be mild as with you in
the latter end of April. The thermometer, even at mid.
nigh t, being 47 to 50 (Fahrenheit). you again see the
Parisians walking bare headed. These Frenchmen are
the queerest fellows in the world. It the weather be
temp.rately milt, and that one f them enters a public
room where you are, he sans ceremo»ie tt rows open the
casements. If you see lism in the public walks he is
.ted on nee of the benches, which ate always to be
and in the it neighbourhood, or lounging on two
chairs reading a newspaper, or mopping. If the heat
of tit:. weatl.et increas• s he is not to be seen—none but
Engiishmen and mad dogs are to be found abroad in a
top temperature. Let the mercury fall a few de-
grees, and you find bun s►.rvcring and giving all the
s•gns of suffering from c n in the open air. If
it aiiproach Ztirn th. gay, airy Patisian is, if he be seen
ac allso disguised that you cannot recognize him
Ile is either enveloped in 20 or 30 yards of cloth, formed
into a cloak, which is lapped closely up t. his eyes, or
wrapped in a most unseemly great coat, carted a carsick,
and he is himself shrunk into one half of his or‘inary
dimensions. If frost sets in he disappears alt gether
from the streets and walk, and is only to be tound in
Cares, where the temperature is kejt up by the crowd
of visitants and the unwholesome heat of ;here& to 85
or 90 degrees. (Here again the adage applies to your
countrymen, for, as if they delighted to punishing them-
selves, you find them abroad in crowds, in light frocks
and unencumbered by great coats, moving a iii► al the
animation and appearance of gaiety so Fahey ,2tttibuted
'to the branch). In short, a Frenchman is, coo paced
with any other man, a most unaccountable person. If
he loves, it is to madness; from the slightest repulse he
takes to the river with the avidity of the spaniel. If he
hates, the guillotine has no terrors for him, No ap-
pearance r f danger can stop a French soldier in a vic-
torious career; his courage amounts to the most con-
leuptunus disregard of death. if he meat. a check,
and Unxgines it possible that he shall be defeated, no
human power can rally him, and his pusidar.imity be-
comes equally contemp•ible and Ci;f3Ordiltal y. If you
please him he laughs. capers, and claps his hands, like
a child. Vex Mir, and he becomes a maniac, make:
the most hideous grimaces, foams at the mouth, and
dances pith rage. If be be a Royalist, his loyalty is
iJolatry ; if a Liberal, he is a fcrocious Reruhlican. His
teligion is fanaticism—his infidelity ultra-atheism—his
joy delitium—his despondency despair; and let, with
all ►hese peculiatities, he is a very agreeabk

We learn from Prot Santa Maria, that on the 30th
ult. a shower of stones fell in that t•rwn during the space
of two hourr, by which great damage Ma, done to the
houses. The stor,es in general were as big as eggs, snd
the quantity so great, that they lsy in the street to the
,depth of tour feet, and completely °hitt ucmd the cir.
culation.—/'aria Paper.
Tut LANGUAGE IN S,PIERSETSHINILe••••At •
small Inn at Mattock, in tt.e county r f Somerset, the
legend under the celebrated emblemAtic fl4wer on tha
signs is thus painted-44 Flower di I owe I"

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27. K`2B
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The etter of the Puke tit tit SLLINGTON to the Ca.
tholic Primate of Ireland, speaks the voice of every
ote4ant in the United Kingdom, and me hail it as
the harbinger of protectii n to the best interests of the
Empire. There is nothing bigotted nor intolerant in
the Protestant Church—the most zialous of its digni
lades, the most timid of its members, would rejlice to
be convinced that Catholic Emancipation could be
granted with safety to the national or reforme i relit ion.
It is only our own peace that we wish to preserve, and
there is not a Protestant in Britain who, once convinced
that we could safely allow the Roman Catholics to par-
ticipate in all the advantages which the true, and faith-
ful, and uticonditional subjects f the KING enjoy,
would not at once grant the boon. The Duke of
WELLINGTON re-echoes this sentiment, and while he
expresses but little hope of seeing that desirable and ne-
cessary fact established, adm'ts his deep anxiety t
r do
all that can be done to settle the important question of
Eacancipation. The letter strikes daggers to the agi-
tators of Ireland. The rebuke which it contains, in re.
gird to the party feelings which have been mixed up
with the qui stior, is pointed; and as the only possible
mode of ever atriving at a favourable decision is to
suffer all these feelings to subside, to bury antipathies
in oblirien, and with trtal absence of rancour, preju-
dice, and irritation, diligently to consider what can be
deviwd for the common benefit of the State. He must
be an insensible person who, in defiance r f this advice,
coupled as it is with a sincerely expressed anxiety for
the welfare t.f all, wilfully persists in goading the
Catholics to acts of treason, and forcing the Protestants
to reluctant, but necessary, measures of self defence.

The Paris J ,urnals of Wednesday, and the Gazelle
de France dated Thursday, were received last night.
Their contents are not of notch importance. The lat-
ter contains advices from Ja,sy of the sth imt. which
nsay'be regarded as in some. degree an cfficiakconfir-
matiun of consiJerable disasters having been sustained'
by the ltos,iatt army. An ititperial rescript, it appears,
has beer rtceived at the Russian bead-quarters, in
which the Emperor NICHOLAS refuses to General
WITTGENSTEIN leave of absence, and the reason as-
signed for t is refusal is, the absolute necessity of that
Gri.eral remaining at his post for Vie re-organization

or t%e !mop,.
The-e Pai.ers contain an account of the trial of M.
DE Purrbit, EJiLl.r of one of the Brussels Journals,
for label, which ended in a popular tumult' of a very
seditious character. Froth the cr. tice taken of the trial
by 'he Paiis papers, the arbitrary proceedings of the
Court anuld seem to have eaeited as much
ii tetest in Fiance as in tl.e titherlands.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
eStrFols, which left off yesterday at 873. opened this morning at
11-I 3 for the Account, and up to the present hour little or no bud-
nes* is doing.—The Ford n rnariut is dormart.
CITY, 11A I.F-1' AST ONE O'CLOCK.
Very urf-enterable reptirt o;: 'Change of a certain banking house
In the City havirg stopped payment.
Consols, width were looking steady in the early part of the
morning at 873, have, within this hour, become very heavy, and
receded 3 per cent. since which they have been done at 873. and
at present may be quoted 873 3. 94,000 Reduced and 100,000
fon•ols were sold; but soon after a purchase was made of 100,000
lit duced,which prevented a further jail in the market.
In the Foreign market not a feature worth mentioning at present.

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THE KING, ftc.
Watmsoal Drc.26.—Last evening his MAJESTY en-
tertAined a distinguished Company at the Ca.tle at
dinner. The principal dining-room was again used,
and the banquet was attended in the 'same style of
splendour as on the preceding evenings. His MAJESTY'
Private Baud occupied the music-ro m, and played a
variety of sacred pieces during the err,wing. Tne Cr m-
pany con-fisted of Lord and Lady.STRATHAVEN. Lrd
and Lady MOUNTCHARLES, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. A.
STANHOPE, the Bishop of CHICHESTER, and the distin-
guished individuals of his MAJESTY'S Household.
Yesterday the Rev. Dr. CARR, With his MAJESTY%
Suite, attended Divine Service at St. George's Chapel.

esie Ace t, are a
treeenwoiti Itoeatnci—rheibelle- at ere' ptiemerhasps'whthicahn wesdm The
"Ill'
burlesque of The Batik inrp and a satirical s=orice of
certain vocalists, who call themselves rbe Blhemints
brothers, and who are lauded as capital singers. their
whole stock in trade consisting of some remarkable in-
tonations of voice. he Bottle Iv we think a pew
in-
liar fair subject fur sidica§l-410 rpm 4iplyese PO4
such diableties is pantoif,ime. For I first represen-
tation, we never saw machinery work so smoothy ;
in fact, there was but one ' St;ck" in the course of the
e= ening and that of a very t ivial description. The
tricks ate not very many, but they were adroitly pet-
tot oned ; and, so far. gave satisfaction. The scenic ti.ns-
formaions were excellently massaged. The sudden con-
version of a number of brick fields ihto well tenanted
s•reets. (a good idea. and pelf ctly accoida t w ith
tru h) was managed w.th a swiftness and precision th it
we have never seen excelled. Tuwat ds the end if t‘se
pantomime, the American Dwarf, as he is denominated,
a very earaordinary being, was i:itiod ced, and es
cited great astonishment. He can, however, scat eels
be denominated a dwarf. His ley and thighs are,
indeed dwaifi-h. being only 13 inches in length, but hi-
t= rink is th t o a large and well prow), tinned man. The
muscular powers of his aims must be enotnsous. lle
runs upon his hands with as much fence and celet t
as well made men do upon their legs. When )0
see him descend, head filemost, ihorn the first rung
of a chair, placed on the top of two rat.les. to th
ground, you almost imagine that you behold a eery
clever specimen of the undo genus. Scenery has lat-
teily usurped the place of th t coai se but hilarious
humour by which pantomimes were formerly dis-
tinguished—and in scenery The Queen Bee is tit h. Mr
Stanfield has coots Roiled a grand multi= g picture, the
inttinsic merit of which wiuld save a bad pantescime.
His peseta scene is folly equa'—in some pasts stipe-
rior—to anything thai be has Iteretnfote done. It com-
mences with a view of S, .thead—tl.ence we are wafted
in succession to Portsmouth hatbour, the Dockyard.
the Upper 11 etbour, G ispint, the Mother Bank, Isle 01
Wight (a here a beautiful view I f the sailing r f the
Royal Yacht Club is exhibited), the Needles, by mono.
tight, the ocean, the sock I f Gibraltar, and finally
Constantinople. It i. an esquisite picture. The vie
o L rd Nevis.% slip, the V ctory, 's the most gorheous
specimen of naval architectural painting that we ev r
saw. It is upon a splendid scale, and gives a greed
idea of the original. The view of Gibraltar, bristiing
with fortifications, is uncommenly tine. It exhibits an
extent of space, all men' led by the Ohne:ratio regune
aud a grandeur of elevation. which seem to say, ••
am invulnerable." Of the performers Miss Ritiata. is
perhaps the Lest Columbine on the stage at present
She danced through the part with skill and spit ic. As
Harlequins go— Mr. Howes.r. may Ise sin ken sell Di,
without any undue partiallity. Sou runs, as the Clow se,
has something to boast of on the tense of bodil)
strength and activity ; but we must oppo.c his claim to
any portion of the vii cornica. The whole of that qua
lily was absoa el by Mr. BARNES, whose Pantaloon
has at present ho equal on the stage. The Pantomime
was extremely well received.
COVENT-GARDEN.
Jane Shore was pet formed last night ; bat the galle.
ties were so unceasingly rkitous that not a word cf
what was saying on the stage could be heard, until to-
wards the close of the fifth act. The new Pant nine
is called Harlequin and Lee Bed Riding Hood, or the
Wizard and Me Wolf. It has, in point • f menet y and
decorations, been got up with great splendour. and it
has perhaps about the average amount of practical wit,
that belongs to this class of productions. The first
scene brings us acquainted with the Wizard, or Brown
Man of the Hill, and frightful enough he looks for any
degree of wickedness that can be imputed to him.—
He is resolved that his son Mumpo (E. J. PansLor)
who is shockingly de/rimed, shall massy Ito,e
d'Amnur, who is the Little Red Ridinghood of the
Pantomime. For this purpose the Bloats Man puts
in requisition all
.the fiends over whom i.e has power,
and an assemblage takes place which rivals the de-
moniacal displays of Der FreiseAutz. In order that
his son may gain admittance to the cottage where
Rose lives with her Granny. Ile transfotms him into
a wolf—a shape in which ?ammo& makes an admi-
rable exhibition of the skill and Neil ty with which he
can imitate the actions and habits of animal-. When the
magical proceedings for insuring succ. as in obtaining
pos,msion of Rose are completed, the enchanter causes
his" chaotic dwelling" to vani.h, and changes the scene
to Rouen, of which city a very fine view is given.—
In the next scene we are introduced to B irley dust, the
Miller ("I'. BLANCHARD), who also a pires to the hand
of the beautiful It se. Her favoured lover, however,
we find, is Colin (Eu.an), t! e M Iler's apprentice, and
an amus:ng struggle mum between the master and,
man, on the appearance of the obj ct of their joint
affections. She runs away so her Granny's tottage,
where Barley-dust follows her with some men, to
catty her off, But Mum's", the wolf, has at- ive.:
there beiore him, and made his entrance by the
-tratagem related in the old tale. He gots into the
bed in Granny's night clothes. and after holding she
conversation with Rose about his great ears and his
great eyes, which used to amuse and a-tonish our child
hood, be rushes forth, and (tightens the invaders out
of the cottage. The patties are then all gathered
together in the Rosy Bower, where the Genius of the
Rose. a benevolent fairy, descends, and taking the
lovers under her protection, sets at defiance the Brow.,
Man. and finally changes the hetoine and her pursues:
into their usual pantomimic charmters. Colin becomes
Harlequin, and Barley-dust Pantaloon ; Granny, who
is well played by young GRIMALDI, is made Clown;
umpo is converted into a nondescript being, under
the title of Blanche-Noir, and Rose, of CORM, Co-
lumbire. The otdinary fun then begins, and con-
-tingles through fifteen or twenty scenes, until the Genius,
taking pity uu the faithful couple, descends again and
unites them. None of the tricks Were particular l)
novel or striking ; but there was a liveliness throughout
the whole that kept the audience in a laughing humour
from beginning to end. The Clown nearly suffocates
himself by stuffing something too large into his mouth
He is conveyed to a doctors house, and the offending
mouthful is extracted. He becomes instantly well, and
by way of requiting the doctor, puts him into a mor
tar, and pounds him alive. Harlequin is afterwards
killed, and fired out of this mortar, then converted into a
piece of ordinance, and he is seen to ascend into the air,
and after showing himself in the highest stagebozes on
each side of the house, be (or the figure that represents
him, descends, and by his revival renews the merriment
of the piece. Among the scenery there was an excel-
lent view of the Isle of Wight at the time of the Re-
gatta at Cowes. The New Post Office was also moss
accurately and sit ikohgly displayed; and in the opening
of the St. Katie( inn Duck. in another scene the entrance
of the vessels was admirably managed, and the repro.
seutltion of the actual fact as perfect as ant could give
The style in which the vessels steed round the bus
sits was indeed excellent. But the triumph of the even-
ing as to thit daps meat was in the lisoling panoramas

Ri.BERTS. giving views to the country through ay.,i,L
the Rossiast aim, Ma: died its o Tu, key, .and of the
.oi.s t is that Koh place in the cuts, e if the last can.
p eign. Tots was received with applause throughosi
Ind it richly deserved it. e have see nothing tots;
mpaied with it yet on the stage. GRIMALDI sso
eesi baldly say. distinguished himself by his agilitylieti
'rollery. But PARSLUE% exploit, with his brew lee_
a 1 rivalry at an immeasurable distance. The
sum!, ant', as they would !sem., impossible
into which he co ti rives to twist Itorn.el.f ese petfectf.re_
i sing, and the st•ength lie manifests. in suqd,„l„s hie
yimd,wesuppor w.th 6144 "
ell and ntl era in posstions them, at singular is masin.
i lewas inhabited is a strange dress of black atahhity
Blanche Not,. Miss Pomo fti7l,,Tl'
gattaetrinnut: picaar;sn,taoncleororie
a I.te ty Columbine, but she was hardly etioutth afore
he mhience, and had therefore a smaller portion of
laming than is customary. T. BLANclimto is ka
to be a first rate Pantals,un, and
.he fu ly suppittsii
scorner seuuta last e Thee ate one cries
,cehes in thisP ntameeele, We
its close, %hitt, it
ould he well to omit. We Whisk eisecially to the
a ene oft it Pl. VICIOUS Academy 1 which hn%eietCleitr
ui the urieitsal conception, is flat
.and whims Lemid
mine :ince in the redo( mance. !he PAtitoniink wat
nnounced for reretition eve, y evening, end st
:lave n • doubt it will draw full houses of holiday folks.
; The ussmi, g Panorama is alone an ample conspres4,
ion to the visitor.

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