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ment has, therefore, done well to recognise him as such.
and to restore the ancient pacific relations formerly existing t
be-
tween both countries, without regard to the personal conduc of
the individual who wields the reins of the &ate, nor to the oaths
or obligations be may hue violated when accepting the Throne.
Even if be were what Veil represented to be, our Government
- ought not to refuse to recognise him, since he has been recognised
by his own natiou. Had our Government followed another rule, it
might, perhaps, have to disown its relations with some other mc-
narchy. It ought to have demanded, not what policy thvotherPowen
of Europe would adopt, but what Portugal has done? It is
pretended that our recognition of Don Niguel .as King may give
umbrage to the Government of Brasile, with whom it is much
more important fee its to be on a good footing than with the king-
dom of PortugaL The Emperor Duo Pedro cannot dispute our
right of receiving the representative of a defaces King. Such are
the dilferent views our Journals have taken of this important nu es-
,t ion. With respect to She national opinion, as far as we can jildge
of the same, this measure of Government dose not seem to sa-
tisfy it.
Fascia PinaltPaars, Nov. 16.
Five per Cents,lollf. 60e.
Three per Cents, 84f. Sc.
Bank Actions, !Ole. 1910 f.
/owes rustle.
Neapolitan Renter, Cert. Pal. 93f. 15e.
Rents, 71.
Royal Spanish Loan, 791
Rents Perpetuellu d'Repaine, 9111.
Hayden Loan, 350 f.

wherever meals may be found sufficiently spirited and
powerful to break in sunder the bonds of despotism, than
that an effeminate and bigot tyrant should regain his
ascendency over a people struggling to be free?

Our ingenious contemporary, The Globe, announced
in his column, of Tuesday evening, a discovery, of which
we venture to affirm that tie merit is exclusively his
own :—yet had he contented himself with the simple ex-
pression of bis own rsady belief of the fact for which be
somewhat rashly vouches,—without endeavouring to ex-
ali himself in the good graces of the risisfty,. at the
expense of his more liberal and indepetigeht-brethren—we
should have pt.ssed over his abject sYtiphancy, and his
impudent attempt to bolster up the character, and to
screen the mal-practices, of the Neer Police, with silent
contempt. But it is fit that the inhabitants of " the
Metropolie should be made generally acquainted with
di* flippant air of authority in which their self-consti-
tunid oracle declares, that " The idle prejudiersgainst
die New Police appears to be wearing off in the Metwpo-
Hi, as their efficiency against plunderers, and their in-
noxiousness towards all peaceable perstinikeis are becom-
ing apparent. The idea that the:poor men with coarse
blue coats and oil-skin capes are lid as domestic spies,
and to return regular accounts of the conversations of
the higher circles to the Secretary of State's Office,
would be now only treated as a jae by the most Credu-
lous of the alarmists." And &pin, " The condition of
the streets is improved, many nesti6f``plunderers have
been broken up ; the complaints alienist the New Police
are much more rare than against the watchmen, and the
redress more easy."
Before we reply to each and every of these hardy as-
sumptions,-we are compelled injustice to ourselves to say,
that so far. were we from hastily condemning the estab-
lishment of the new constabulary force—obnoxious as
the mode of its organisation, and the strong repulsive
features of its foreign origin, were to our notions of a
Constitutional Police—that whilst we pointed out some
of the evils, and many of the mal-practices which mili-
tated against its early reception by the people, we stre-
nuously urged the necessity, as well as the policy and
justice, of giving fair play to an experiment, to secure
which we felt that Mr. PELL had incurred a very serious
and twofold responsibility. For whilst, as his Majesty's
Secretary of State for the Home Department, he is offi-
cially responsible for the efficacy of the Police ; as the
author of the measure, he is not only officially, but per-
zonally, responsible for the " well-working" of the new
system. Now, then, for the assertions of our contempo-
rary :—We deny that the " prejudice against the New
Police" was " idle," or that it is " wearing off in the
Metropolis"—unless, indeed, repeated complaints of
unjustifiable outrages committed, and proved to
have been committed, by the New " Police Offi-
cers," can imply " an idle prejudice," and the fact
that some parishes are engaged in organising—as we
long since said they would—a parochial police, or " watch
and ward," of their own, be symptoms of the prejudice
" wearing off." We deny that their " efficiency against
plunder and their innoxiousness towards all peaceable
persons, are becoming apparent :"—unless the negligence
which permits the escape of offenders, and the audacity
with which peaceable persons have been assaulted, render
such benefits " apparent."
On one point—and one point only—the Globe may
be right ;—but for its accuracy it is indebted to a Wilful
perversion of the popular complaint :—" the poor men
with coarse blue coats and oil-skin capes" may not be
instructed " to act as spies" upon the " higher
orders," or " to return regular accounts of the conver-
sations of the higher circles to the Secretary of State's
office." Such "an idea" may be " treated as a joke :"
—but such an idea was never before broached by
any of the " alarmists"—who know too well that in-
structions of such a nature would never be issued
against the favoured great—the privileged, the imma-
culate " higher circles." But does the Globe pretend
to say that the " lower orders" were exempt from
the infamous eves-dropping—the inquisitorial pestilence
of espionage, with which the new system " teemed at
every pore r —Let our honest contemporary read over the
" PROVISIONAL INSTRUCTIONS OF THE Nsw POLICE"
once again, and ifhe then dare to repeat his unblushing de-
fence of this most offensive trench of their duty, we shall
hold him either too obtuse to comprehend that which " he
who runs may read"—or too inveterately besets be longer
corrigible. We deny that " the condition of the streets
is improved:"—some peculiar districts—some places where
" the open and unblushing shame" of their neglect, or of
permitted infamy would be too monstrously glaring, may
indeed be improved ; but to assert that improvement
is general, betrays gross ignorance of the fact, or a wilful
disregard of truth. It is very easy to assure us—on
paper—that " many nests of plunderers have been broken
up ;" but while the Police Reports of every succeeding
day attest the non-diminution of crime, we are warranted
in withholding credit from a statement hasarded upon
mere conjecture. The nests of plunderers, we suspect,
were something like the giants of Tom Thumb, who
" Made the giants first, end then he killed them."
" The complaints against be new police" are not
" much mere rare than against the watchmen." Take
the average of any two months preceding the establish-
ment of the new force, and contrast it with the proceed-
ings of the two months during which they have been in
authority, and the result will be favourable to the
" ancient watchmen ;" both in the number and, the
description of offences and abuses laid to their
charge :—and the redress, except in one or two in-
stances, has been more certain end more prompt
under the old system than the new. Will the Globe
demand our proofs of this allegation?—We pledge
ourselves to produce them. That " the ancient
watchmen" were occasionally given to drink—we ad-
mitt' but have the constables of the. New Police been
proof against that besetting sin ?—Did the " ancient
watchmen" suffer pismire to escape ? Even such mg-

ligence have the New Police betrayed : -it is not a west
since the escape of an offender charged with felony, was
brought to light. It is true we have had wretched
females dragged by the constables from the street! at
midnight, and irmetwed in the watch-house--wa
pardon—" the eation of the letachment ;"—fer "looking
as if they intended to misbeave themselves:"—ad we
have had serjeants threaten respectable housckecrrs
with their mighty displeasnua " bniirg lights In le::
houses a eleven o'clock at night ;" wl have
these same :erjeants knocking the Kinei. subjects on the
head with their truncheons tor daring -to clemand the
number and the letter of their divisioL, although the in-
structions tell us that " each man is conspicuously
marked with the latter of his division, and a number cor-
responding with his name in the book, so that he can at
all times be known to the public."
So far we think the New Police Force has gained but
little credit from the injudicious advocacy which has
forced this comparison upon us ; and so far our contem-
porary may be taught the danger of suffering his officious
servility to betray him into a course which is beset with
difficulties ; and in which—even if the object of his
eulogy escape unharmed—his own integrity must infal-
libly make shipwreck.
By the Flanders Mail this day we have a variety of
gossiping continental notices. As indications of the dissi-
milar aims and tempers of our illustrious neighbours, we
observe, by one Journal, that the Duke of Bay sw wit
has lately issued a mandate prohibiting the writing of
criticisms on the theatre of Dusseldorf, either for the
home or foreign Journals ! while his MAJESTY of
Prussia has been. pleased to allow the Academy of
Sciences to import books, instruments, and other
things, for the encouragement .of learning and the .fine
arts, duty free. The Emperor NICHOLAS appears to
be still occupied in heaping henouri on hianilicers " for
their services in the late war With Turkey ;—and we ere
lastly informed by the Brussels Papers of the 18th inst.
that the ceremony of the Coronation of the Bishop of
Liege took place on the 15th, " with much more order
and decency than might have been expected !" The fol-
lowing are our selections confirmatory of these obser-
vations :

AUGSBURG, N0v.12.
The diaries Okerwr of the 7th, Sib, and 9th of this month
contains the Protocol of the conferences at London of Nov. 16,
1222, together with the several documents ; all of which were
published in the Allentseiss &atm of the 10th and 11th June this
year. We shall take an opportunity to setiecallov dlEerences
which appear on comparison.
The Desseldwfirsurnat says that his Serene Highness the Duke
of Brunswick has lately issued a mandate prohibiting the writing
et cikiciuns oa the theatre of that city, either foe the home or fo-
relp Journals.

GENOA, Nov. 1.
General Prince Von Muffling, on his return from Coestandnopie,
arrived on the 19th October from the quarantine at Vergnano in
I* of Genoa, where he was admitted to the Lawn Patios en the
51st.--Agestssine Zeitung, Nev. 15.
ST. PETERSBURGH, Nov. 4.
His Imperial Majesty has just been pleased to confer additionai
promotions and distinctions oa several general Oaken for their
services in the late war with Turkey. Prince Cheney Mina, the
Persian Ambassador, left this city with his suite on the 50th ult.
Majesty has been pleased Is allow the Academy of Sciences
to import books, instruments, and other things, relative to the pro-
t of learning, duty free.—Prossint State Gowns. Net. 13.
FRANKFORT, Nov. 12.
Her Highness the Princess of Lowks left this city yesterday.—
The Greed Duke 'Constantine will depart to-day.
BRUSSELS. Nov. 14.
In the Sitting of the Second Chamber of the States-General on
the itch, the question of the admissibility of M. Burrows, as a
Member of the Chamber, was discussed, and decided against the
report of the Committee, the majority of which had judged him
eligible-45 Members voted against the report, and 41 for it. The;
election of U. Bergman, was therefore declared void.
Nov. i50,--On *Mb of this month the Vice Consul of France
at the Helder, returning from the Mimeos Diep, was blown by a
gust of wind inter•the canal : he remained ten minutes in the water
but was happily recovered.
The Joss Gnats of the 14th July contains the details of a tour
undertaken by the Commisslooer General, in the province of
Bantam. the chief object of which was to examine the coal
mines at Lebak. His Excellency testified to the Resident Smol-
ders his particular satisfaction with the new roads, and other
public works which be had undertaken. These sew cosensuni-
cations will greatly promote the prosperity of Java : workmen
are employed in that province in making the great southern reed,
which is to traverse the whole island of Java.
It Nov. 17.—A British Cabinet messenger passed through tbi
city yesterday at midnight, on his way from London to Vienna
with dispatches.
The ceremony of the consecration of the Bishop took place at
Lege on the iStb, with mach more order and decency than might
have been expected. Admission tickets were forged by a litho-
graphic engraver, and sold at high prices; they were ill executed,
and the forgery was easy to be seen. Tag magistrates, who appear
to have been informed rather late et this circumstance, took the
precaution of doubling the armed force, which seems to have fully
answered the purpose.—Brustar Papers, Neal*.

It will be remembered, that about a week since, a let-
ter was inserted in all the papers, purporting to be—as
indeed no doubt it was—from the authority of Prince
LZOPOLD, contradicting, in very unmeasured language,
the statements of Mrs. Hz xox relative to the " allow-
ance of 241. per annum," directed to be paid to ber
by the late Princess CHARLOTTE. In this letter—
which was dated from Marlborough House, and written

by Colonel COST—the protigie of the lamented Prin-
cess was not only repulsed in her application, but stig-
matised by the husband of her late portectress, as one
seeking to obtain money under false pretences. The
speech, addressed to this now unfriended applicant—by
some German underling, we suppose, called A-:3IZR-
SCHUBIERS••••" that I.is Royal Higkress could no longer*
afford to pay her," is the best evidence of the spirit in V
which that princely widower fulfils the known wishes
of her, wi.o would have exited him above a throne.
Wehave often regretted the precipitate manner, in which
this country heaped its magnificent endowments upon
that pitiable and =requiting foreigner: and we have always
thought that it was a very silly and short-sighted ar-
rangement not to have settled the annuity of fifty thousand
pounds upon the Heiress to the British throne, instead of
upon her husband, who had no claim to one farthing of it but
through the prospect of her inheriting the crown. His