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life, and it is said that it was not without a severe 

 struggle against the well-known mildness of his dispo- 

 sition, and yielding only to arguments and considerations 

 of the deepest gravity, that the monarch was induced to 

 sign the warrant. The National publishes letters from 

 Berlin, which leave no doubt as to the intention of the 

 Km^ of Prussia to give a Constitution to his subjects. His 

 Majesty, it appears, feels it impossible to stem the tor- 

 rent which threatens to carry away the existing forms of 

 government, and under that impression he replied to 

 Prince Metternich, who reproached him with his defec- 

 tion— "It is preferable to govern as a. constitutional 

 king than not govern at all."— Letters from Munich 

 state that the gigantic head of the statue of Bavaria a 

 bronze statue, which is to be 68 feet high, was with- 

 drawn from the mould in which it was cast at the Royal 

 Foundry of Munich on the evening of the 14th inst in 

 presence of the King and Queen of Bavaria, and a con- 

 siderable number of distinguished personages The 

 beauty of the head of Bavaria, which is the work of the 

 celebrated Schwanthaler, excited such enthusiasm 

 amongst the spectators, that they joined in a chorus of 

 300 of the Philharmonic Society, who chanted a hymn 

 composed for the occasion by the Baron de Poissel, di- 

 rector of the Theatre Royal. 



Switzerland.— The disturbances of Lucerne are ap- 

 parently suppressed, but great excitement prevails in all 

 the cantons, popular assemblies are held, and a general 

 impression prevails that the late events were the mere 

 prelude of a cr.sis which might yet put in peril the pre- 

 sent constitution of Switzerland. At Berne, notwith- 

 standing the cold and snow, a popular assembly was held 

 in the church of Fraubrunnen. About three thou- 

 sand persons, consisting mostly of citizens of Berne, 

 Soleure, Argau, and refugees from Lucerne, were 

 present at it. A project of association against the 

 Jesuits was read, and received with acclamation. A 

 number of speeches were delivered, which breathed 

 the liveliest exasperation against that religious order. 

 It was finally agreed to address a petition to the Govern- 

 ment of Berne, requesting it to place itself at the head 

 or the* cantons opposed to the establishment of the 

 Jesuits in Switzerland, urging the adoption of the mea- 

 sures it might deem advisable to attain that end, and 

 promising the efficient aid of all the members of the 

 association. At Zurich the Grand Council has approved 

 of the measures taken during the late events at Lucerne, 

 and adopted a motion that it should address to the 

 Oovernment of Lucerne a friendly request that it would 

 reconsider the measure for the recall of the Jesuits. In 

 the event of a negative or evasive answer being given, 

 the executive council is requested to call upon the 

 Vorort to convoke an extraordinary Diet, to deliberate 

 on the means to be adopted to re-establish and maintain 

 the peace of the country. 



Italy.— Letters from Turin state that considerable 

 sensation had been produced in that city early in the 

 present month, by the violation of the Piedmontese ter- 

 ritory by a body of French Gendarmes, douaniers, and 

 soldiers, who, under pretext or real authority of certain 

 French magistrates, arrested six or seven Sardinian sub- 

 jects, and carried them prisoners to Grenoble, to answer 

 for alleged thefts committed in a forest on the French 

 side of the frontier. On becoming acquainted with this 

 outrage the Sardinian Government made the necessary 

 representations to that of France, by whom, no doubt 

 full satisfaction will be given.— The winter has set in 

 with unusual severity. At Turin, on the 5tb, the ther- 

 mometer fell to 16 degrees below zero (about four Fah- 

 renheit), and on the 7th, at 9 o'clock, it was at 13. The 

 poor, who are not at all prepared for such extraordinary 

 cold, suffer amazingly, and the Government is employed 

 h» giving them assistance. Apprehensions are enter- 

 tained lest the excessive cold should be fatal to the mul- 

 berry-trees, which form, with the growth of silk, one of 

 the most important of the national resources. 



Turkey — Letters from Constantinople of the 4th, 

 state that Sir Stratford Canning has returned from his 

 excursion to the Dardanelles, to his country house at 

 -Bujukdere. It is said that Abdullah, Pacha of Trebi- 

 zond, alarmed by the order of the Porte to justify himself, 

 nas offered a large pecuniary indemnification to the ill- 

 used Greek. The Pacha is said to be also threatened 

 with an address of the chief Turks of Trebizond to the 

 ir-orce, representing the tyranny which makt s him hated 

 aI1 , cIa " e8 » an d earnestly desiring that he may be re- 

 moved. The weather is still very severe, the thermometer 



\v°" a ? d the hou8es covered with snow. 



West Indies and South America By the Royal 



wan steamer Thames, advices have been received to the 



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THEJ NTEWSPAPER. 



d.spute, the particulars of which are not liven .J, Mt \?f,' ^""VA™ **" to the Th <" Dfs > Tower'*.!,* 



eased the British barque Horsburgb, at Islav, and placed 

 the Peruv,an squadron that detained her under embargo 



Money 



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CITY. 



Xl*** /Way— Consols for the account 

 Thrw anA UU *\ * Three per Cent8 -' ,0O 8-; New 

 21 of Pi a Q «M, er ?? r CentS " 103 - Ban * Stock, 

 GA^zET^of e T?v 11 ^ 62 t0 G4 ' lQd i* Bonds, 78 pm 



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State of the Church. -A meeting of noblemen and 

 gentlemen took -place on Friday, to consider the pro- 

 priety of adopting some active measures with respect to 

 the present disturbed state of the Church on those mat- 

 ters which have recently been so much the subject of dis- 

 cussion. The meeting, which had been convened by 

 private circular, took place at Lord Howard's, in Bel- 

 grave-square. The proceedings were ail preliminary, 

 but a committee was appointed to draw up for approval 

 a memorial, to be addressed to the Queen or the Arch- 

 bishop of Canterbury, as may hereafter be determined. 



The late Collision on the River.— On Monday the in- 

 quest on the two persons killed by the late collision be- 

 tween the Orwell and the Sylph was resumed. The Jury, 

 after examining various witnesses, returned a verdict of 

 accidental death, with a nominal deodand on the Orwell, 

 and a censure on the captain of the Sylph for navigating 

 his vessel with such speed. 



Common Council Elections. —On Saturday, being St. 

 Thomas's Day, the various wards into which the city of .. .„ „.„„„.. auuiI , 

 London is divided were busily engaged in making their successful attempts. 



Blackman-street.— Waterloo-brid 6 

 Lambeth boundary, southward to 

 northward to the Thames, Waterlo<«*«fe. i 

 -(Office re ed from Whitechapel to KiSnAttm- 

 lane Lambeth). -Waterloo-bridge, S.W. side, Waterloo, 

 London, New Kent, and Kent-roads, to Greenwich 

 boundary, westward to Wandsworth boundary, thence 

 to the Thames, Waterloo-bridge. 



Chrises Chapel, St. John's fVooa\-The incumbency 

 of this chapel, vacant by the preferment of the Rev. 

 Daniel Moore, M.A., to the ministry of Camden chapel, 

 LamberwelK has been conferred on the Rev. George 

 Fisk, I^.L B., Vicar of Walsall. 6 



Model of the Battle of WaUrloo.— A model of this 

 great Battle has just been opened for public exhibition at 

 the Egyptian Hall. It has been constructed by Capt in 

 Siborne, the historian of the War in France and Bel- 

 gium in 1815, and will doubtless become popular anion? 

 the holiday folks of the season. The principal seen? 

 it represents is the repulse of the attack made by the 

 French troops upon the British centre and left wing- 

 one of the most brilliant episodes in the combat. The 

 Household Cavalry are charging in the centre, and put*, 

 ting to flight the French Cuirassiers ; while Kempt's, 

 Pack s, and Ponsonby's brigades are routing the attack- 

 ing forces towards the left. The disposition of the 

 troops, the celebrated farm-house La Haye Sainte, the 

 Charleroi and Wavre roads, are all seen at a glance, 

 while the eye runs along the contending lines, and easily 

 comprehends the nature of their movements. The 

 mechanical part of the model is very well managed, 

 the little figures carefully constructed and painted, 

 while the different crops of Rye, Potatoes, &c, in the 

 fields, are accurately represented. 



Panorama of Xaplcs.—Mr. Burford has this week 

 opened, in Leicester-square, a new panorama of Naples, 

 representing the city and bay by moonlight, and the 

 eruption of Vesuvius in 1822. All the well-known 

 features of the scene are given with truth and effect, and 

 it is generally admitted to be one of Mr. Burford's most 



annual returns to the Court of Common Council. There 

 were only 4 contested wards, Farringdon-within, Cole- 

 man-street, Billingsgate, and Portsoken. The elections 

 in these were concluded on Monday, but the details are 

 of little interest except to the parties concerned. 



Frauds on the Revenue. — In consequence of numerous 

 irregularities which have been lately discovered in the 

 St. Katharine's Docks, four officers connected with the 

 vaulting and delivery department have been suspended, 

 and a rigid inquiry is going on which, it is expected, will 

 lead to important disclosures. 



Victoria Park.— On Monday, by order of the Com- 

 missioners of Woods and Forests, the ancient residence 

 formerly belonging to Bishop Bonner, called Bonner 

 Rail, situated on a part of the site of Victoria Fark, was 

 sold by auction. It is stated to have been a part of one 

 of the wings of the original palace. 



The Improvements in Westminster. — On Friday the 

 long-talked of improvements to be effected from West- 



East India Company.— The Quarterly Court of Pro- 

 prietors was held last week. The Chairman laid before 

 the meeting the correspondence which had passed rela- 

 tive to the grant of 1000/. a year to Sir W. Xott, and 

 the sanction given to it by the Board of Control. The 

 Chairman stated that Mr. Poynder was unable from in- 

 disposition to bring forward his motion on the Temple 

 of Juggernaut, but he was happy to state to the Court 

 that the necessary documents having been received from 

 India, the Court of Directors had taken the subject into 

 their consideration ; and, although he was not in a po- 

 sition at present to lay before the Court the despatch 

 which they had come to the determination of sending 

 out to India, yet he felt himself justified in informing 

 the Court that their decision was such as would, he 

 hoped, complete the severance of the management of the 

 temples from the Government of India al'o 3 'ether. Mr. 

 Thompson again brought forward the case of the King 

 °? P. e * n '> and moved for a variety of papers, but on a 



minster Abbey to Buckingham Palace were commenced, division, 'the motion was lost by a large majority. 



flowing dates .-—Jamaica, Nov. 24; Demerara, Nov. 



^ ; Innidad, Nov. 21 ; and Barbadoes Nov. 27. From 



^emerara there is not a word of news of any kind, and 



scarcely more is to be collected from the papers and 



aespatches from the rest of the islands. There seems to 

 oe a doubt about the fuH powerg of CooI . e emigration 



emg carried out ; and it is a question whether the 



2orm lCa , A8scmb, J will allow a greater supply than 



f t0 b ^ admitted for the first year. The settlement 



a penal colony for convicts was exciting some atten- 



E ° n la f e Elands, and the Earl of Elgin was to meet 



• Dae °J tae other governors on the subject, with the 



tte t j diSp0 " ng ° f the difficuIt 7 ^tending the punish- 



— A a • t0 cuI P rits sentenced to transportation. 



Advices from Arica to the 4th Sept. state that some 



tkh ? Dt 0ccurrences had ta ken place between the Bri- 

 n and Peruvian authorities on the coast of Peru. 



the 2 I V tCamer Cormorant > on her arrival at Arica, on 

 a Sept., was refused permission to water, in conse- 

 quence of which she fired several shots, and threw some 



several men being employed to pull down the houses on 

 one side of Little Tothill-street. It is contemplated to 

 remove the Almonry, Orchard-street, Duck-lane, and 

 to form one wide and spacious street from the west door 

 of Westminster Abbey to the Palace-end of Pimlico. 

 Orchard-street contains the remains of some of the 

 oldest houses in Westminster, and a part of one of 

 Oliver Cromwell's palaces siill stands there. 



The Police Offices.— The Gazette of last week contained 

 a lengthy Order in Council defining the boundaries of 

 the divisions assigned to the different metropolitan po- 

 lice-offices. Heretofore they were very unequally divided, 

 but in the new arrangements, considerable pains have 

 been taken to divide them in equal proportions, and the 

 following are the extreme points of the spaces they now 

 include: Bow-street. — Temple-stairs, Holbcrn-hill, 

 King-street, by Southampton-row to New-road, Totten- 

 ham-court-road, Trafalgar-square, Cleveland-row, Sto- 

 rey 's-gate, crossing the Park, Westminster-bridge, 

 N. side ; Temple-stairs. Queen-square. — Westminster- 

 bridge, S. side ; Hyde Park-corner, Knightsbridge and 

 Fulham-roads to Stamford-bridge, Kensington-canal to 

 the river Thames, Wes>tminster-bridge, S. side. Mary- 

 lebone, — Victoria-gate, Hyde Park, eastward by Oxford 

 and Regent-streets and New-road to Tottenham-court- 

 road, Upper Seymour-street, Maida-lane, near the North 

 Cemetery, Shoot-up-hill, Kilburn, Westbourne-green to 

 Queen's-road, Victoria-gate, Hyde-park. Mailbo- 

 rough-street. — Victoria-gate, Oxford and Regent- 

 streets to New-road, Tottenham-court-road, along 

 Bow-street boundary to Hyde Park-corner, Knights- 

 bridge and Kensington-roads to the Camden Arms, 



Fires. — On Saturday morning, at an early hour, a fire, 

 attended with a greater loss of life than has occurred in 

 the metropolis for some time past, broke out in the resi- 

 dence of Mr. Farey, civil engineer, 67, Guildford-street. 

 The origin of the fire is not known, but its progress was 

 so rapid, that Mr. and Mrs. Farey, their brother, and 

 servants, escaped with difficulty to the roof of the adjoin- 

 ing house. A young man, who acted as Mr. Farcy's 

 clerk, was asleep in one of the attics, and it being impos- 

 sible to awake him, he perished in the flames, with two 

 policemen and a groom, who were killed by the fall of 

 the timbers on the ground floor. The house was totally 

 destroyed ; and as all the floors fell in, and several per- 

 sons were seen about the wine-cellars intoxicated during 

 the fire, it is feared that other bodies are still buried in 

 the ruins. The coroner on Tuesday held an inquest on 

 the four bodies, which have already been found, but 

 after examining two or three witnesses, it was agreed to 

 adjourn the inquiry to Monday next. — A fire broke out 

 on Monday morning in the house of the Earl of Har- 

 rington, in Whitehall-gardens, next door to Sir R. Peel's. 

 It originated under the hearth of the dresiing-room, and 

 passed along the joists of the flooring. The supply of 

 water was very scanty, and the fire was burning in so 

 large a body under the flooring, that it was found 

 necessary to cut away the floor into the ball-room be- 

 neath, a considerable portion of the ceiling of which is 

 destroyed. In the dressing-room also much injury is 

 done, and a great quantity ot furniture has been damaged 

 by water and removal. 



The Royal Alms. — Her Majesty's royal charities of 

 five shillings each to upwards of 900 poor and aged per- 



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thence, including the Palace and Gardens, to Victoria- sons were distributed on Monday and Tuesday, under the 



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gate. Clerhenwell. — Type-street, by Worship-street 

 boundary to Stamford-hill; Hanger, Hornsey, and 

 Maida-lanes } Camden-road, Red Cap public-house ; 

 High-street, Camden-town, and Seymour-street, to New 

 Road, by Bow-street boundary to Holborn-hill ; and by 

 City of London boundary to Bunhill-row. Worship- 

 street. — High-street, Whitechapel, by Thames police- 

 boundary to river Lea ; northward to Highbridge ; west- 

 ward to Stamford-hill ; Kingsland-road, to Regent's 

 Canal ; Ashley -crescent, Shepherdess-waJk ; Bunhill-row, 

 Type-street, to City of Loudon boundary ; thence to 

 High-street, Whitechapel. Thames-police. — Tower- 

 stairs to High-street, Whitechapel, Globe-lane, Mile-end 



orders of the Lord High Almoner, the Lord Archbishop 

 of York, and of the Sub- Almoner, Archdeacon Wilber- 

 force. In consequence of the severity of the weather 

 the distributions were extended to a greater nuttber oC 

 persons than usual. The Royal Gate aims were distri- 

 buted at the same time to 1 63 persons, who received 

 thirteen shillings each. Many of the aged poor who re- 

 ceived the royal bounty are blind, and labouring under 

 bodily affliction. The distribution of the Queen's and 

 Prince Albert's annual gifts to the poor of Windsor, will 

 take place on New Year's Eve, in the ridinu-school of 

 the Royal Mews; and it is expected that Her Majesty 

 | and the Court will be present on the occasion. 



