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IRELAND.

deposed Government again dares to brave the legal authority, Mr. O'Connell has addressed two letters to the Reformers of rigorous justice must reach it. Its foolish hopes must be anni. Great Britain, calling upon them to support the claims of Ire-hilated. Measures will be taken to efface even the traces of land, and accusing the Ministers of double dealing with that country. The first letter contained the following passages:

"Derrynane Abbey, Sept. 14.

"BROTHER REFORMERS!-There is blood on the face of the earth!-blood,-human blood, profusely shed!! Will it sink into the earth unnoticed and unregarded, or will it cry to Heaven for retribution and vengeance?

"There is blood on the face of the earth-the once green fields of Wallstown are red with the latest Irish blood! Said I the latest? Alas! before these lines meet the eye of any one British Reformer, another massacre may have been perpetrated another tale of slaughter may have been added to the dark catalogue of crime, and a more recent enormity may have thrown the butchery of Wallstown into comparative oblivion."

And again,

"Yes, there is blood on the face of the earth!-the blood of the father, who has left a widow to weep and children to mourn! the blood of manhood-strong blood, and resolute manhood, looking with confidence to many years of existence! the blood of the betrothed, who had in his home waiting for him the object of his choice and his solicitude; in that home to which he was never to return! the blood of boyhood, in its early dreaming of the promised joys of dawning life; the flower cropped in its early May!

They have been buried, they are sweltering in their graves! Their funerals were numerously attended, but no funeral cry was heard. They were buried in sorrow but in silence. No man's lamentation, no woman's wailing, was heard! unless, when nature, yielding to the force of suffocation, made the mo ther's heart, as it were, explode in one wild scream, or the widow's single shriek, or the orphan's convulsive sobbing, break upon the ear.

"They have been buried in silence and in sorrow. Men grieved over their graves, but shed no tears. There was determination, dark, taciturn, profound."

There was a rumour of the arrest of O'Connell, in consequence of this letter; but Ministers probably bethought themselves of the danger of catching a Tartar.

the troubles which have agitated some departments. Anarchy was conquered at Paris on the 5th and 6th of June, by the noble devotedness of the National Guards and the troops of the line. The factions in those deplorable days manifested both their audacity and their weakness. The Government is neither ignorant nor in fear of any of their projects. Sedition would strength that it might require. Sixty-five Peers have been find the country unanimous to give to the Government all the created in the outset to strengthen this new Ministry. The press of Paris is a thorn in its side.

The Duchess d'Angouleme has arrived at Vienna, where, according to the French papers, she was received with great distinction by the Imperial family. She has taken up her abode in the Imperial palace.

Charles the Tenth has been received with great respect in the Prussian dominions. It is said the Duke of Wellington, and others of the ultra Tories, subscribed a handsome sum to send this old gentleman abroad, to aid in mischief. We give them credit for the motive, but not for the money. The Duchess de Berri has now left France, and is in Holland. She is said to have escaped in the disguise of a peasant from La Vendee, and performed a part of the journey from La Vendee on foot. Her Royal Highness did not enter Dieppe, but rested for a short time at a country house in the vicinity, where several of her friends from the town (which is well known to contain many most devoted adherents of the Royal Family), to whom her arrival had been notified, paid her their respects, SPAIN.

dozen times, is alive still, and not in a dangerous state of health. The King of Spain, after being reported dead and alive half-aTwo stories are given respecting Spain-one that Ferdinand, on his brother Don Carlos agreeing to the marriage of his eldest son with Ferdinand's daughter, had agreed that Carlos should succeed to the throne; and the other, that, on the suggestion of the British Minister, the eldest son of Carlos should marry the young Queen of Portugal, the condition being that Ferdinand should use his influence to terininate the contest between the two Princes of the house of Braganza.

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The Queen of Spain has, by virtue of her office as Regent, opening of the Universities. The language of the decree does credit to her Majesty's Cabinet-" From this disastrous source,' [ignorance,] it says, "have sprung the capital vices which destroy kingdoms and annihilate institutions the most just, prudent, wise, and beneficial; by the same cause are produced divisions, factions, foul denominations, the specious arguments by means of which the most abominable crimes are effected as which most injure and oppose it." virtues; and those passions assume the name of public good

There has been a great anti-tithe meeting on the Curragh of Kildare, at which several Members of Parliament, and candi-issued a decree (dated the 7th instant) for the immediate redates for seats in the new Parliament, attended, and resolutions of the strongest and most uncompromising character were passed. The Rev. Mr. Goold, a clergyman residing in the county of Tipperary, has had two tithe sales lately; but it was found impossible to procure the services of an auctioneer, or, indeed, any assistance whatsover in carrying through the sales. One of his sons, therefore acted as auctioneer, and others of his sons purchased the cattle. But here arises a serious difficulty, no butcher dare kill the cattle-he would be immediately placed under the ban of the peasantry, and all intercourse with him would be suspended. Aware of this circumstance, Mr Goold, jun., a few days after the last sale, proceeded to a distant fair, but he and his servant were waylaid, the driver of the cattle killed on the spot, and Mr. Goold so severely injured that little hope is entertained of his recovery. Such are the fruits of Mr. Stanley's perseverance in enforcing a law which is utterly indefensible in every point of view.

Lord Milton has written a letter, which has appeared in several Irish papers, addressed to certain tenants on his father's estates in Ireland, who had written to him to beg they might not be requested to vote for Mr Grattan, one of the sitting members for Wicklow county. Lord Milton disclaims all idea of dictation or interference of an improper nature, but individually approves of Mr. Grattan.

Several Irish newspapers have been prosecuted. We wonder what Government will profit by this piece of wisdom.

PORTUGAL.

Don Pedro still holds Oporto. Military adventurers, and young men who can find nothing to do at home, are going out from England to join him as recruits, and calling this love of the cause of freedom. Were it not for the amount of British property endangered by the struggle between these brothers, no one would care a rush how it went.

GREECE.

the palace of Preysing (Bavaria) on the 8th inst.
The young King of Greece was proclaimed and installed at
Belgium and Holland we have noticed in another section.
AMERICA.

AMERICA.-Papers have been read from New York to the 30th September. They are principally filled with discussions dential election. The opposition to the re-election of General and reports of proceedings relative to the approaching PresiJackson will be very severe, and unless his friends are extremepre-ly strong, and exert themselves with great spirit, he will be defeated. We learn from these papers that the cholera, though spreading in the south, is on the decline in all the great cities of the northern and middle States. The war with the Indians seems to have been brought to an end by the capture of their most distinguished chief, Black Hawk.

Mr Stanley will, in all probability, be removed from his sent situation. He has made himself so hateful to the Irish, that, were his future conduct that of an angel, he would be loathed for years to come.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.

France has at last a Ministry, of which Marshal Soult forms the head. Talleyrand having lent his assistance in hatching the new brood of French Ministers, has returned to help our Government to keep the Dutch in order. The new French Ministry is a Tory one; for we have no word better to describe. It is, of course, most obnoxious to the French people. Soult commences his reign by declaring, that every attempt to excite disorder will be energetically repressed. If the party of the

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE MISSIONARIES-NEGRO SLAVERY.

JAMAICA.-The Planters are continuing their fierce persecution of the Missionaries. At Savannah-la-Mar, Mr. Kingdon was residing peaceably, without even exercising the functions of his ministry, when he was required forthwith to leave the town. To this demand he replied, that, as a British subject, he had an indisputable right to remain; and that if he was in danger of molestation, the magistrates must protect him. This

took place on the 14th of July, being the muster-day of the Militia. During the next month, threats were continually held out to force him away; which it was resolved to put in execution on the following muster-day. On that day (August the 8th,) a meeting of the Colonial Church Union was held at the Court-house, and in the evening the murderous assault took place. An armed party of fifty or sixty persons marched up the street, exclaiming "Union for ever!" and commenced a most furious attack on the doors and windows of the house in which Mr. Kingdon lodged. Some females from the window of an upper apartment threw out hot water on the assailants; which extinguished an ignited rocket placed beneath to blow the house up; immediately on which, they began firing in at the windows, and continued to do so for some minutes. At length some shots were fired in return, by which three of the rioters were wounded. Attempts were then made to fetch the cannon from the Court-house, but this they could not effect. Some magistrates having arrived, they endeavoured to disperse the mob who promised to desist from their outrages if the Messrs. Deleon (who are well known to be among the most respectable coloured people in the neighbourhood) and Mr. Kingdon would leave the house. They agreed, and were fired upon notwithstanding Happily, no life was sacrificed by this treachery of the rioters, but they wounded one of their own party. Mr. and Mrs. Kingdon were afterwards sheltered by the Custos in his own house at Anglesea, some miles from Savannah-la-Mar; from whence Mr. Kingdon was taken, and lodged in gaol, under a warrant, signed by the magistrate who had, at the Court-house, moved the resolution for the expulson of all sectarians..

The Jamaica papers gave an account of this affair, which was circulated throughout the country, in which the persons who lodged and protected the Missionary, are represented as having commenced the fray by first showering boiling water on some visitors, who only called on Mr. Kingdon to ask him to be so good as to quit the island in a vessel about to sail, and afterwards by firing on these civil moderate gentlemen, as they stood in the street. On this the Examiner remarks, "This exceeds Esop's quarrel of the Wolf and the Lamb. That the friends of a persecuted Missionary (it is unnecessary to describe a Missionary as persecuted, for the name of Missionary implies all) should commence an attack upon the slavers and their partisans, is without exception the most extravagant invention we ever heard. The tumult ended in the destruction of the house in which the Missionary was lodged, and the night after, in the destruction of two other houses, belonging to individuals of the Baptist persuasion. The persons who were loudest in their abhorrence of the Bristol crimes, will see no harm in this little ebullition of zeal for slavery, and antipathy to moral enlighten

ment.

"Mr. Kingdon procured his personal safety, by pledging himself to the magistrates, to go away by the first opportunity, and never to return again as a Minister of the Gospel. And this had place in a dependency of the Country which fasts sgainst Cholera, and has Bible Societies! But the abomination of slavery and its kindred persecutions are near an end.' The Chronicle remarks:

"Many of those who advocate what is termed the fitting the Negroes for freedom, and exclaim against immediate abolition as the dream of fanatics, can hardly be aware of the state of opinion throughout the country on this question. Are they aware that, at a special meeting of deputies from the several congregations of Protestant Dissenters of the three denominations, in and within twelve miles of London, it was resolved that the principles of Christianity and slavery are so opposed to each other, that the only remedy for these evils is the immediate and complete extinction of Slavery; and that it is the opinion of this meeting, that, in the approaching general election, it is the duty of every friend of humanity, and of the Christian religion, to give a decided preference in his vote to those candidates who will support in Parliament such measures as shall have for their end the accomplishment of this desirable object. The three denominations represent the great body of English Dissenters. The Methodists are equally determined in favour of immediate abolition. The Quakers soon began to see the incompatibility of slavery with Christianity, and emancipated their slaves. In the year 1787, there did not remain a single slave in the possession of any member of the Society of Friends. The Friends are determined advocates of immediate abolition. The United Secession Church, in Scotland, forming a large part of the population, are to a man for immedate abolition. If any thing, the feeling in favour of immediate abolition is more universal in Scotland than in England, as might be expected, from the people being more generally religious.'

ABOLITION OF NEGRO SLAVERY.-On Friday the 19th, a meeting of those friendly to the immediate abolition of Neg slavery, was held in Edinburgh. The Rev. E. Craig presided, and in introducing Mr. Knibb, formerly Baptist Missionary is Jamaica, spoke at some length in support of immediate abation. Mr. Knibb then addressed the meeting with considerable force and fluency. He mentioned many circumstances to show that the negroes were fit to receive immediate emancipation; and as to the dread that blood would be shed in consequence, argued that the contrary would be the result. Why, said be, if the slaves were so murderously inclined, do they not now execute vengeance on the whites? for in the country, on almost all estates, the proportion is 300 Negroes to four or five whites He narrated a number of facts to show that the Negroes are generally actuated by the best feelings,-kind to the unfortunate, and keenly alive to a sense of gratitude. In the black popalation, there are no paupers,-the work-houses are filled with lazy whites. Petitions to both Houses of Parliament for the immediate abolition of Negro slavery were unanimously agreed to. Mr. Knibb has since visited several Scottish towns, and still continues his tour of humanity and justice. CANADA.

By the brigs Rowley and Gleniffer, which arrived at Greesock on Sunday, we have letters and papers from Canada, to the 18th ult. inclusive. There had been no deaths from cholers at Montreal for fourteen days previous to the 15th, bat typhus fever and small-pox were very prevalent. In Quebec, cases of cholera were occasionally occurring. A private letter, dated the 8th September, states, that the total deaths from cholera at Quebec, up to that date, exceeded 2200, while those in Montreal were fully 3000. In the country parts of Lower Canada, about 1000 more had died of the disease, making a mortality of upwards of 6000, in a population of 511,000, being one out of every 85 of the population. What makes it the more distressing, is the fact, that a large proportion of the victims were male heads of families. In Upper Canada, the deaths are not recko ed at more than 1000. Among the number is that of Brandt, the Mohawk chief, ("the fiend, the monster Brandt!") son of the Indian leader, who is consigned to a painful immortality in Gertrude of Wyoming. VAN DIEMAN'S LAND.

Van Dieman's Land papers to the 17th of May, state that the trade between the colony and Great Britian was improving ; in the quarter ending the 5th of April, 1832, the value of the im ports being 20,5431., and the exports 12,9021. The revenue presented an excess of about 1,000l. over the expenditure.

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Accounts from Sydney state the discovery of some valuable districts in the interior, by George Clark, a bush ranger, who had been committed to the gaol of Sydney. He had succeeded in attaching himself to the aborigines, beyond Bathurst, and was adopted a member of the tribes with whom he travelled. He speaks confidently of the discovery of a great river far to the north, and of a rich track of country on the northern side of the river, extending to the sea-coast.

RAILWAYS. It is expected that application will be made in the ensuing session of Parliament, by several companies, for bills to enable them to commence railways, which are intended to pass through various parts of the country. The first is the long-projected railway from Birmingham to London, which, it is stated, is again to be brought before the Legislature, and, it is presumed, with better success than it experienced last Parlia ment. It is expected that the railway will be continued from Birmingham to Liverpool, and from thence to Edinburgh. The next project is a railway from Southampton to Londen, the intended course of which is from Vauxhall, passing to the southward of Wandsworth and Kingston, across Ditton-marsh and Walton-common, to the southwest of Weybridge. From thence it will pass on the south side of the Basingstoke Canal to Frimley (a village about six miles below Guildford), where it will cross the canal, and proceed in a direct line to Basingstoke, passing on the north side of that town to Winchester, and them through Stoneham to Southampton. The whole distance of the line will be rather less than 77 miles. The railway from London to Brighton has been under consideration a long time, but it seems that the projectors have determined to commence operations, and intend to apply to Parliament for a bill. Every preparation has been made to commence the railway from London to Greenwich the moment Parliament will sanction the measure. It will be continued to Woolwich, and from thence, by two other companies, to Chatham and Dover. The French have it in contemplation to make a railway from Calais to Paris.

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FASHIONABLE NEWS.

THE COURT are wonderfully quiet at Windsor, whence the King has, during the month, made several journeys to St. James's to expedite business. The Royal Family are expected at Brighton about the 10th November.

The Duchess of Gloucester is recovering from the effects of her late severe indisposition. MARRIAGES TALKED OF.-The Court Journal says, "We have seen a scion of the Whig house of Grey, an eaglet from the eyrie of the proud parent bird, seeking a mate in the dovelike daughter of the High Tory family of Copley; and we now hear that the Earl of Lincoln, the hope of the hierarch Newcastle, is about to plight hands with the lovely Lady Susan Douglas, sole daughter of the house of the Whiggish Chief, the Duke of Hamilton; and the Tory descendant of a race of Tories, the Marquis of Abercorn, is about to wed the fair daughter of the Duke of Bedford, one smile of the beautiful Lady Lousia having banished from the enamoured Marquis's thoughts all recollection of Whigs; or if he did recollect them, he only remembered that such things were, and were most sweet, in the shape of a Whig's daughter. We foresee that all distinctions and differences, between Whig and Tory, will soon cease, and melt away before the benign influence of domestic affection."[And some few other influences, the profound journalist might have added, which the public are well aware of.]-Examiner.

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

An old man named John Stewart, a forester to the Duke of Athole, murdered his wife with a hatchet on Wednesday the 10th; the murder was committed in their own dwelling at the foot of Craigy Barns. The man seems to have been in a state of frenzy. He was sent to Perth jail. Eight children, mostly grown up, out of a family of twelve, live to lament the fate of their parents. After having killed his wife, who was in the house alone, the wretched maniac, for he must have been such, attempted to murder two of his daughters. He was seized on the top of Craigy Barns, after making offers of resistance.

LANARK.-CHILD POISONED.-The consequence of indulging children with ardent spirits, proved fatal to a fine little boy here, of about four or five years of age; and it adds lamentably to the catastrophe, that it was done partly by the hands, and in the presence of the child's father. Another monster who was in company bragged that the boy had swallowed half a mutchkin of whisky before breakfast time, besides an additional quantity in the middle of the day.

WRECK, WITH Loss of LIVES.-About eleven o'clock on the forenoon of the 16th current, a small boat belonging to the fishing village of Boddam, near Peterhead, with thirteen persons on board, while sailing across the bay to the latter place, was upset by a sudden gust of wind from the west, and we are sorry to add that seven of them met a watery grave.

for the purpose of inning some corn, who, finding he could not make him answer the call, looked in at the window, and seeing blood on the bed-clothes, he gave the alarm to the neighbours, who, on entering the house, found him murdered in his bed, his brains literally smashed out, Samuel Nelson was a blind fiddler, who had amassed five or six hundred pounds, and had lately become a dealer in horses and cattle, meal, &c. He was in the habit of playing the fiddle to young persons of both sexes till one or two in the morning. He always shut out his young friends for half an hour about ten o'clock, during which time he made worship. He was a single man, and possessed great talents, with some little eccentricity of mind. The person supposed to have committed this dreadful murder was, on Friday, apprehended at the Kirk of Shotts, and after being carried to Hamilton for examination, has been transmitted to Glasgow jail. We understand he makes a full confession of his guilt.

POACHING is an incurable habit under the restraint now employed. From a Huntingdon paper, we learn, that James Clare, for the twenty-ninth time, is committed to the Huntingdon county prison, for poaching. He is now in the eighty-first year of his age; and for the last twenty-five years, he has made the prison his "town-house," as he calls it."

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.-A man of the name of Hender-
son, while in a state of derangement, fell from a window five
stories high, in St. James's Square, about four o'clock on Sunday
morning the 14th. His limbs were shockingly fractured, and
some of the pikes of the area railing penetrated his abdomen.
in the course of the morning.
He was carried to the Royal Infirmary by the police, but died

murder of his wife by throwing her on the fire.
A wretch named Duffy was lately tried at Glasgow for the
The unfortu-
nate woman had been the victim of her husband's cruelty for a
length of time.
burned, before death released her. This man is to be executed'
She languished for three weeks after being
on the 7th November. One of the witnesses said, that after he
had burnt his wife he swore she was not half roasted.

DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS.-In the beginning of the month, swelled the rivers and streams, and laid many parts of the counthere were violent storms, attended by heavy rains, which try under water. Monday the 8th will be long remembered over all the country. The Water of Leith, the South and North Esks, the Eddlestone Water, and all the neighbouring streams, rose to an alarming extent. At Earle's Vale, a man was drowned. A bridge was carried off on the Biggar road.— But in the West, the inundation was much greater: The Clyde rose 15 feet at Glasgow, and all the lower parts of the town were laid under water. Several accidents occurred at the Broomielaw, among the passengers coming and going by the steam-vessels, to and from which they were forded across the streets in carts or boats. The thieves were busy in the confusion. The Findhorn, the Lossie, the Spey, and the Nairn, SINGULAR RECOVERY OF THE PAISLEY UNION BANK STO- banks. A man was carried down by the Nairn, while attemptwere in high flood, and occasioned considerable damage on their LEN NOTES.-Upwards of twenty years ago, the Paisley Union ing to save some sheaves of corn, and unhappily drowned, in Bank's branch at Glasgow was broken into and robbed, and sight of his friends. The same storm was severely felt at Liverthe greater portion of the stolen notes was recovered, except a pool, where a number of vessels were driven on shore, and both considerable sum of the Company's L.20 notes, which could not lives and property lost. be traced. In the end of August last, five of these notes hav-shore, and on several parts of the English coast, is considerThe damage along the Lancashire ing been put in circulation, the Bank determined upon making another attempt, and employed that intelligent and active messenger, Mr. Henry Miller of Glasgow, who, after many weeks spent in Edinburgh, London, and Birmingham, succeeded in recovering and bringing to Scotland the whole remaining amount of the L.20 notes.

DROVERS. Sometimes worthless persons assume this character, for the purpose of vending counterfeit coin, or forged notes. On the 15th instant, David Smith, a drover from Bewcastle, in Cumberland, on his return from Falkirk Tryst, in passing the Kailzie toll-bar, near Peebles, gave in payment a one pound note of the Commercial Bank, receiving the change. Shortly afterwards it was discovered to be a forgery, and on information being lodged with the procurator-fiscal, a warrant was obtained, and Smith apprehended in a stable at Traquair, and in the stall where his horse stood, a purse was found containing two forged notes, the one a guinea note of the Bank of Scotland, and the other a 20s. note of the Glasgow Bank. Smith is lodged in Peebles jail, and the case is undergoing judicial investigation.

able.

Sir Peter Lawrie is elected Lord Mayor of London for 1833. The Lord Chancellor completed his fifty-fourth year on Wednesday the 19th ultimo. The Kendal Chronicle now says, that his Lordship did not dine with the Earl of Lonsdale, as was said in our last Register, on the authority of various papers.

The Duke of York's creditors are about to bring their case before Parliament.

Polish Associations are extending through the country. Besides the parent Society in the Metropolis, and its eldest offpring in Hull, one has been formed at Sheffield, and another in Glasgow.

The quarterly account of the revenue is, in a comparative sense, extremely satisfactory, the increase over the correspondent quarter of last year amounting to no less a sum than L.699,817. The increase on customs is L.356,388; on excise L.297,591; assessed taxes L.116,383. The decrease of L. 23,986 on stamps, and L.33,000 on the post-office, whatever the causes, have not the same direct or intimate connecMURDER. An atrocious murder was committed at Cambus- tion with public well-doing, as many temperate and subordinethan Church on Tuesday or early on the morning of Wednes-nate events may very slightly raise them at one time, and lower day the 9th, on the body of Samuel Nelson, a blind man of con- them at another. The general result is therefore highly satissiderable property in that village. On the previous evening the factory, demonstrating, as it does, the possibility that with prudeceased had ordered a young man to call him up in the morning dent and economical policy the nation may emerge from the depression to which a long course of reckless and profligate expenditure has exposed it.

• This marriage took place at Gordon Castle, on the 26th inst.

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JOHNSTONE'S POLITICAL REGISTER.

LATEST NEWS OF THE MONTH.

landed. By the last accounts from Canada, 49,569 persons
had arrived. Business was improving as disease disappeared.
From Liverpool alone 14,500 have emigrated this season, of
Land. The great body who set forth from this port are
which a few are for Canada, and a very few for Van Diemen's
for the United States. With all the discouragements attend

Scotland in the approaching season. "Shall we tarry on
will not be easy to stop.
till our capital has wholly vanished," is the cry, which it

EDINBURGH, 31st Oct. 1832. The treaty between France and England, authorizing coercive measures to force the Dutch troops out of the Citadel of Antwerp, and from the Belgian territory, has beening emigration thousands are meditating departure from signed at Paris, and returned to London. Another grand Palaver was held on Friday last, by the plenipotentiaries of the five great powers. The new propositions of the King of Several large vessels have recently left the Thames, with re Holland were read. Talleyrand for France, and Lord pectable tradesmen and small capitalists, and their families, Palmerston for England, declared them inadmissible, and for Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales. The rank the Ministers of Russia, Austria, and Prussia remonstrated of the passengers is guaranteed by the high price of the pas against this fiery haste of the British and French Govern- of handsome young women were on board one of the vessels sage money, from L.15 to L.30 each person. A nusla ments, and walked away! It is said, that as soon as Louisa valuable acquisition to a colony deficient of the far Philippe signed the offensive treaty, the Prussian Minister in Paris demanded his passport. Marshall Soult, as the first act of his administration, is resolved to put his troops in order of march forthwith, and to enter Belgium; and the French and English fleet is in readiness for the long-ments have produced. It is stated, that an association ba threatened expedition to the Scheldt.

There are accounts of trifling actions, military and naval, between th brothers of Portugal, but nothing decisive. Don Pedro still holds Oporto, but makes no progress otherwise. We grudge to see bands of British officers and recruits going out to the certain misery of that service, if not to unavoidable destruction.

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EMIGRATION FROM GERMANY.-The liberal German Germany to the United States, which they attribute to the journals contain much discussion on the emigrations from general discontent which the arbitrary systems of goverE

been formed to effect an emigration on a very extensive moval of 60,000 individuals, of both sexes, and of about scale. This association, it seems, has for its object the re. 25 years of age each, to America, where it is proposed 19 found a state, under the name of New Germany,

MONUMENT TO SIR WALTER SCOTT.

A meeting was held in the Assembly Rooms, Edin The trial of the Bristol magistrates for supineness and burgh, on the 5th, for the purpose of doing honour to the neglect of duty during the riots in that city, consequent up-crection of some lasting monument of the gratitude and in memory of Sir Walter Scott, and of taking measures for the

on the appearance of Sir Charles Wetherell, is going forward. As there are a great many witnesses to examine, the case is adjourned from day to day. We anticipate acquittal.

M. Berreyer, a celebrated Carlist Deputy, who suffered a tedious imprisonment for his attachment to the fallen dynasty, has been tried at Paris on various charges, and acquitted. The principal charges were, maintaining a correspondence with Holyrood, and going to the Duchess de Berri in La Vendée.-The object of this journey was to dissuade that misled woman from the madness of her at. tempt.

EMIGRATION. .

We have conversed with individuals who, within the last few days, have returned to Elgin from America, after the unusual quick passage of four weeks. The accounts they give us of the state of matters beyond the Atlantic are most gloomy. Thousands on thousands of the poor creatures who have emigrated thence are in a most miserable condition,-enduring all the horrors of want among a strange people, and in a strange country. Myriads of them, particularly those called labourers, can get no work, at least none that would keep body and soul together. They may get employment at cutting down wood, but then, as they are paid by the quantity cut down, there are many of our Scotch labourers who cannot earn as much wages in two days as would afford them as much remuneration as would procure them competent support for one. Our informants mention, that there is scarcely a ship that sails for this country from Quebec, and other parts of North America, whose captain is not implored, in the most affecting manner, to take back a number of the poor unfortunate creatures who lately set out with her. Some mothers, we are assured, actually go to their knees in begging ship captains to take them home again.-Elgin Courier.

We trust this picture of distress is but the result of temporary causes. The prevalence of cholera to so frightful an extent in the seaports has aggravated the distress. Adany of them have fallen victims to the discase as soon as they

perishable esteem of his fellow-countrymen. On the plat form were noblemen and gentlemen of all political parties, among whom were the Duke of Buccleuch, the Marquis of Lothian, the Earl of Rosebery, the Earl of Dalhousie, Lord Clerk Register, Mr. Adam, Accountant-General, Sir George Dalmany, Lord Meadowbank, the Lord Advocate, the Lerd Clerk, Sir J. Gibson Craig, Sir William Rae, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Sir John Forbes, &c. &c. &c. The principal speakers were the Lord Advocate and Professor Wilm mory of the illustrious dead, and a large sum has already The meeting resolved on erecting a monument to the me been subscribed. Similar meetings have been held at Glasgow and Aberdeen; and in both places monuments wid probably be erected. We have been still more gratified to notice meetings of the trades to do honour to the memory of Sir Walter.

After a good deal of idle talk or print, we believe Sir Walter Scott's family affairs will be left as they are. Mest, if not the whole of his debts, will be paid in time from his own resources. His correspondence and journals alone must be worth a great deal.

MR. GALT. We fear we are doomed to lose another of the most characteristic of our national writers. The unfinished Autobiography of the Howdie will in all proba bility be the last effusion of the copious pen of the author of Annals of the Parish. About three months ago he had a severe attack of paralysis, which excited considerable alarm in the minds of his numerous friends and admirers. Subsequently, he recovered, so far as to be able to resume his literary avocations, although the effect of the stroke upon his limbs was such as in a great measure to confine him to his apartment. We regret now to be obliged to add, that, according to letters from London, he had another attack of the disease, of so serious a description, that his recovery is completely despaired of.-[31st October. We are glad to find, that later accounts of Mr. Galt's health are more favourable.]

It is said that the destination of Charles the Tenth and family is changed, and that, instead of taking up their re sidence at Gratz, they are to proceed to Broon, where the Emperor of Austria has placed a chateau at their disposal.

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

STATE OF POLITICAL OPINION.

tion of their conduct; it is feared they are unconscious of their true position, and likely to lean on the reed which will pierce their side, that they will finesse with a faction, truckle to a Court, instead of heading a people; but nevertheless it is desired that they should pursue their course, and put their chais the room for redemption. They are as yet committed chiefly in appearances; conduct would set all this right. If they want courage to be honest they are lost; and let them not scare themselves by counting the heads of Dukes, Marquises, and Lords, on their fingers, and supposing they are reckoning the forces of the country, omitting only, as they are apt to do in such calculations, the small item of the people. We don't deny that they will have difficulties to contend with, but we would say with the augur of old, strike, and strike boldly, and the obstacle will be severed. Courage is now, as it is in many circumstances, prudence. The Scotsman says, let prudent men be chosen to direct the course in the critical and embarrassing junctures which must occur. So say we, choose prudent men; but the extremities upon which we are drifting are of such a sort that the prudence cannot be without boldness and resolution, a clear eye for emergencies, and a firm, prompt hand for execution; men who have a long sight for what we must come to at last, and who will take the measures for it at once, and not waste themselves upon expedients for the intermediate circumstances. The State will be in what the French call a false position, undoubtedly, with one branch of the legislature representative of the interests of the people, and the other of the Lords with their antagonist prejudices. To this we must come. The House of Good and the House of Mischief will be in opposition, and the sooner the conflict is brought to extremities in a just cause, and the ascendency of the righteous power determined, the better for the peace, temper, and well-being of society.-Examiner.

The Ministry has but very slight hold on the affections of the people. And why is this? Because Ministers, while engaged in Reform, have, by a thousand indications, discovered themselves indif-racters for good or ill forever out of doubt. Ample ferent, or actually hostile, to the objects for which Reform is sought. The people understand perfectly well, that the Reform in Parliament is a means to an end-the end, good government; but they have not seen in Ministers any signs of dissatisfaction with the existing system since it has been placed under their control; and, on the contrary, they have, with disgust, heard them advocate some of its worst vices. Malversation, oppression, abuse of authority, have all had their course and impunity precisely as heretofore. Indeed, by what circumstance but the passing of the Reform Bill could the Whig Government be distinguished from the Tory Governments that preceded it? The shackles of Castlereagh are yet on us,—not a fetter has been struck off. The exception, however, it may be said, is a large and a governing one; it should be so, but let it be observed, that as Reform was the Whigs' tenure of office, it alone is not a sufficient test of their dispositions. Reform gave them place, and kept them in place; without it they could not have maintained their ground for six months. It has served them well, and it is not necessary to seek beyond party purposes for the motives to the adoption of the cause. We say that it is not necessary to seek beyond party purposes for the motives, but it would be most unfair and ungenerous to limit our inquiry for inducements to that sinister ground, if we were not precluded from a worthier field. Men, who propose desirable means, should be presumed to propose the objects to which they tend; we should give them credit for the design, though not a syllable be breathed of it; but in the case of the Whig Ministers we have had declarations of sentiment and purpose opposed to the onward course of reform, which have allowed of no scope for favourable presumptions.

THE MINISTRY.

The last number of the Edinburgh Review contains rather a desponding article on the prospects of the Ministry in the next Session of Parliament.

After referring to the complaint so generally urged against them in respect to the small amount of real business transacted within the last Session, and enumerating, in a tone quite as important as the measures would justify, the catalogue of their Parliamentary exploits during that period, the Reviewer proceeds, as usual, to lecture the public on the unreasonableness of finding fault with the Whigs.

The rapacity of the Church, the tyrannies or fooleries of the unpaid magistracy, the extravagancies of the military establishments, jobs, malversation in all its shapes, have all had their ministerial advocates, and we have seen a Brougham stretching and straining the Treason Law-and that uncalled for-volunteered-as it were a labour of love! Added to these signs, the patronage of the Tories by the Whig Government has seemed to mark the preference of their principles, which may have been imbibed with a taste of their practice. We all know We do not dispute the Reviewer's right to labour the beauty of appropriation, and misrule may have in his vocation and work for his employers; nor do discovered new charms to the Whigs since they we question that he is more likely to be acquainted came into possession of it. The power and patron- with their hopes and fears than other people, who age they thought so extravagant and dangerous in have not the same interest in observing their flucthe hands of the Tories, doubtless seem just and mo- tuations; but we think he is much mistaken if he derate in their own. Men become reconciled to supposes that, by any ingenuity, he can reconcile abuses with wondrous rapidity when they get the the people of this country to the slow progress which handling of them. All these observations have been they were obliged to put up with from a House of made by the people, and therefore it is that they Commons over which they had no control. feel coldly towards the Ministers. The service ren- form has laid the foundation for many changes, dered in Parliamentary Reform is balanced against and, amongst the rest, for an important change in the opposition threatened to the course of Reform the quantity of public business that will be expected in Church and State; and the effect is, that at best at the hands of the Legislature. The men of treMinisters are thought of as untried men, and sup-mendously active talent, of whom Sir Robert Peel ported for experiment. On no one subject that occu- spoke with so much alarm, will inoculate even the pies the public mind is there a favourable anticipa- men who have no talent, or talent of that aristo

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