Allistellantous.

The Duke of Wellington has given directions for refurnishing the principal apartments at Strathfiebisaye; and it is said that the Queen and Prince Albert will visit him in the spring.

Lord and Lady Stanley departed from St. James's Square on Friday, for Knowsley Park ; where they are expected to remain for some time.

On Tuesday, the Queen's ship Illustrious, Commander Erskine, sailed from Portsmouth with Sir Charles Begot, the Governor-General of Canada, and suite, for America.

There have been all varieties of winterly weather during the week. It opened with fog and frost. On Tuesday the sun shone, and ice coated the waters about the Metropolis: on that night the thermometer fell to 20 degrees. On Wednesday night, there was a fall of snow, which melted on Thursday ; and sleet, followed by rain, replaced the white clothing of thezround with mud. Wild-geese were observed wending their way to the South over Wandsworth and Putney Commons. From the country come the same accounts of variable weather, with fog, frost, snow, sleet, and rain. On Monday night the snow lay four inches thick near Brighton. In some places the mails have been delayed by the weather. Piercing winds, snow-storms, and thick snow on the hills, are mentioned in Western Scotland. Edinburgh, on Saturday, was covered entirely with white ; and some miles South of the city the snow Jay to the depth of more than a foot. The heights near Dublin were clothed on Tuesday night in the garb of January, and several of the country-mails were kept back. Paris was visited by a fall of snow on Monday afternoon ; but it did not lie on the ground.

proposed an address to the present Lord President ; and She Solicitor- The Anti Bread-Tax Circular proposes a new scheme of compel=

.tton, as the,pnrchase-money to be paid to the agriculturists for the re- peal of the Corn-laws-

" Something was:lately said about offering to buy off the opposition of the landlords by:giving them, compensation for the reduction of their rentals, con- sequent uponsthe total repeal of the Bread and Provision taxes. The proposal originated with the Spectator; • but in justice to the landlords;it must be -re- marked that their newspapers did not fall in with the project. We suspect the clever journal which threw out the suggestion was only quizzing the *farmers' friends,' who, far from laying claim to any pecuniary conCere in the matter,'

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have unanimously agreed to sink their own nterests, and to argue the question solely with reference to its effects upon the agriculturists, viz, the tenants and labourers. We have an idea of our upon the subject of compensation to the agricultural labourers, which we will throw out for the consideration of our readers.

"When we are told that land would be thrown out of tillage by the shell-, tion of the Provision-taxes, allusion is made only to those poor soils which' have been brought under the plough in consequence of the high and artificial' prices caused by the Corn-laws. It is not contended that the land which was under cultivation before-there were any import-duties on grain would now be- come waste if the duties were abolished. Nobody, for instance, supposes that. the vale of the Severn, the rich soils of Warwickshire or Leicestershire, the alluvial banks of the Tay, or the hop-plantations of Surrey and Kent, would be abandoned if the Corn-Jaw were repealed. It is the clays of Buckingham- shire, the sands of Dorset, and the chalk-bills of Sussex that are referred to. Let us endeavour to meet this difficulty with a plan of compensation. "The only statement we remember to have seen of the probable extent of land which the repeal of the Corn-law would throw out of tillage, is that'

made by a brother of Lord John Russell; who estimated it at two millions of acres. Let us, then take the case -upon our opponent's own showing. Upon inquiry, we find that ;bout one hundred thousand agricultural labourers, heads'

of families, are employed upon this extent of land. Now supposing that all these men are entirely deprived of work, and estimating their wages at 10s. a week each, (which is more than an average in the counties in question,) there is an income of 2,600,000/. to be made up. Let as then silence for ever the hypocritical plea of the bread-taxers, by advocating -compeneation to these la- bourers. Repeal the Bread and Provision taxes, which are estimated by the oldest and ablest officials of the Board of Trade to cost the country upwards of fifty millions sterling a year, and the bread-eaters will gain more than forty- seven millions per annum by undertakingto support the agsricaltarathiboarers, who, as allegedhy the Bread-taxers, will be thrown out of employment. Let us not leave ourselves open to the charge of designing to starve the ploughman or the thrasher, or of wishing to bring their families into the factories ; let 111' procure the cooperation and good-will of the agricultural labourers, 'by offering to secarethem in any possible case a subsistence on the soil. We shall merely add, that we have brought forward our plan of compensation to meet the case of the Bread-taxers, without meaning to express oar concurrence in their views of the effects of the repeal of the Corn-law. We do not believe that one agri- cultural labourer would be deprived of work 'by the total repeal of the Corn.' law. But we will assume that our opponents' alarms are well-founded, and we silence them by our scheme of compensation." [If the organs of the landlords have not grasped at the suggested compensation, the most probable reason is, that they..have no imme- diate fear of Repeal—that-they do not think'the-time for capitulation is come. And undoubtedly, those who are ultra-parsimonious, who object to paying something for it; will have the Repeal some day without pay- ment, if they care to wait for it so long. Whether or not it may then come too late, is a question for the future to solve.] We are glad to find that the amount of loss said to have been in- curred by the late destruction of the Small Armoury of the Tower has, been greatly exaggerated. An estimate of the value of the Ordnance stores deposited therein was completed, by order of the Government, the day preceding the fire, and the amount was stated to be 186,600/. Of this amount, 10,000/. (5,000 percussionsmuskets) was saved, leaving 176,600/. If to this be added 50,000/. for the cost of reerecting the building, the sum total will not exceed 226,6001,—United Service Gazette.

Lord Cowley, the British Ambassadorshad his audience of reception with Louis Philippe on Monday.

The 'Court of 'Peers, 'convened to try'Quenisset and his accomplices, assembled on Monday. On that day and Tuesday, the 'report of the commission.appointed to make preliminary investigation was read. It began with a list of the acceused : Napoleon Bazin, under-cook ; An- toine Boggio, locksmith ; Jean Marie Boucheron, long-sawyer.; Charles Henri Bonzes, cabinetmaker ; Just Edouard Brazier, joiner ; Jean Baptiste Colombier, wine-dealer ; Claude Charles Francois Xa- vier Considere, wine-dealer and collecting-clerk to Messrs. Laffitte and Co., bankers ; Fremont, alias Dufour, (absent); Auguste Dispoty, editor of the Journal du Peuple ; Alexis 'Fougeray, cabinet-maker ; Jean Marie Jarasse ; Pierre Paul LaunoiS, copper-worker; Napoleon 'Fran- cola Mallet, shoemaker ; Jean Baptiste Charles Martin, cabinetmaker ; Auguste Petit, cabinetmaker ; Auguste Marie Prioul, chairmaket ; Francois Queuisset, long-sawyer. After remarking that Providence " watches.over a life precious to France," since for the fifth time within six years crime had been seen "struck with powerlessness, and,the arms of the assassin break useless in his hands," the report asserts that "the present crime, 'like others of the same kind during the last ten years, is the result not of accident or circumstances, but of a vast and persevering conspiracy, batched by secret societies." It calls to mind the disorders in Paris which preceded the attempt at assassination on Monday the, lath September- " On the:evening of the 12th, several persons were arrested by the Police, 'in a wine-shop of the Rue St. Denis, for -having exercised a seditious command over the riotous assemblage in the streets. The gerant of the Trumanitaire (C.dsaranay) was one of these; and an important seizure Of papers was made at his house on the 13th. This was the day fixed for the entrance of the Due d'Atimale. The Police had taken every precaution ; but the factions took their precautions also and the most audacious of them met on the 13th, at the wine-shop of a man named Colombier, situated in the Rise Traversiere St. An- toine. Here was taken the resolution to Attack the Prince and his staff, to strike only the officers' and to commence the attack with the cry of The le Dixseptieme Leger.' The conspirators were not agreed, and some, not 'then ready, wished to defer the attack;' but the more impatient. prevailed, and dis- positions were made in consequence. Quenieset was of the meeting. Car. touches and arms were distributed, :Rid the conspirators scattered through X.126 Rue St. Antoine, through which the Prince was to pass_ Their chief aim wee the Dim d'Aumale ; and scarcely had the Prince, at the head of his regiment, surrounded by his brothers, passed the Rue Traversiere, when a shot was fired,: and it was fotind thitethe Prince must have been strickeit if thp.balls had not been intercepted by the bead of the horse belonging to the ColoneL" Quenisset,", says the report, " laeloags to the honest family of the Jura." Though violent at times when young; his habits were ,generally tranquil and orderly. He inlisted in the Fifteenth Regiinent of Tn- fartry.; but being guilty of insubordination towards his corporal, he was coade.nmed to five years' imprisonment with.the houlet. He escaped at the end of two, years, took the name of Papart, and came to .Paris. He became connected with a woman named Leplatre, and had a child by her- He was subsequently confined in the -Idadelonnettes. , Here he found a feud raging between the thieves of the prison and the Repub- lican prisoners, who seem to have been at a disadvantage. Quenisset took the part of a one-legged Republican ; and this man, Mathieu, affected to take a great interest in him, and . promised him a .place of five thousand francs a year when the Republican party should triumph. From this prison he was rernoved to that of St. Pelagie ; and during the two months of his detention there he was constantly worked upon by the Republicans, in order that he might be " moulded IMO a inan of action." On leaving prison he returned to work— lie hoped to get a certificate from the biayor of his parish, attesting the age and sulferings of his parents,' thereon to found an exemptioo from military service. Failing in this, he became irritated, and met his old prison comrades, Prioul and Boggio, is locksmith, ;both members of the society ,of Travailleurs Bgalitaires, operatives, friends of equality. Colombier received at his wine- shop the Communists and the men of their clam. Popular and democratic journals were read there. [The National, the Journal des Potpie, the Popu- ldrie, and the '('ommerce.] Here were initiated the new' adepts of societies, engaged to destroy King and Government. Quenisset, with Boucheron, an- other sawyer, was presented 'there by Boggio in the first days of August, ad- mitted a member after listening to ft revolutionary speech, and took the oath.. From that day till the 13th' September, Quenisset went every day to Colom- bier's wine-shop. * * * On Monday the 13th, Quenisset went at five in the morning to the Greve to look for work, and found none. Ile met Boggio on his return ; who told him that a-movement was in preparation. They went to Colombier's, and found a dozen people discussing whether they should stir or remain tranquil : several of them had cartouches, which had been distributed by a certain Fremont, alias Dufour. Queniseet received two cartonsbes. And afterwards Brazier or Just, one of the members.of the society, brought Que- nisset home with him, and gave him two pistols,. which they charged. Re- turning to the Rue St. Antoine, Quenisset met his comrade Boucheron, and gave him one of the pistols. They also met Boggio. And' Quenisset being by this time worked up 'to a state of exaltation, fired at the Prince as the cortege came bp." After his seizure on the 15th, Quenisset made a confession, on 'being assured that his wife and child would be. saveclifram the veageance-of his accomplices. It is only an amplification of the briefer narrative in the foregoing extract but one passage in it is curions-r. -44 I went [to Colombier's, about the middle of August,] With Boucheron, a fellow sawyer. We found there Martin, Just, Auguste, Dufour, otherwise called Fremont, a 'man named Chassenr, another called Napoleon, Jean Marie, Millet; and some others. After some drink, Auguste shut the door, and made a sermon. He said= Citizens, you must perceive how' badly we are governed. The police and lawyers are the only people who gain money. There is a King who gets twenty-four millions a year, and people like him who get as much for doing nothing. Look at the very peasants, who are less enlightened than we' are; even they begin to feel the oppression and to stir. We are here revolu- tionists and outuiers egalitaires. Our meaning is, after having upset the , throne, to form national workshops, mutual schools, and establishments of the same kind. There shall be ,a national ate/ier in each department. Workmen shall always have work. Higher wages than we can get now shall be ordained by law, and there shall be but eight working-hours in the day. What think you of this ? ' We all approved of the idea. 'The mutual schools shall be composed of a schoolmaster paid by the Government, who shall educate our children as well as the children of the prince. You all have children, who are forced to work because they are ignorant. Let us upset the Throne, and all will be well. Which Of you can refuse to enter such a promising society ? '

After another drink' we consented," *

" I had no intention," says QuenIsset, "of firing particularly at the Due d'Aumale ; but I went out for the purpose of fighting the Seventeenth, as I was told." The report proceeds to maitre the evidence against the other prisoners, dwelling, especially upon that against Colombier. One remark of his to Quenisset was strongly pointed out: he said, speaking of the deed to be performed, " You shall never know the time Mail two hours beforehand," He was the Treasurer of the society. Mention is made of a well-dressed stranger, who accosted Quenisset in the Place de la Bastille, using Colomluer's name as a password, and urging the "man of.action " to..be discreet.

In the remainder of this voluminous document, which fills eighteen pages of the Ministerial journals, it is a main object to show that a series of secret societies have subsisted since the great Revolution, under different names ; and that the late attacks on the King likewise constitute a series of acts dictated by those societies. The report asserts that Darmes was a member of the society to which Quenisset belonged, the Egalitaires ; which is traced to the Republican clubs of 1703, from which it is said, to differ ,only in name. In the society entitled "The Rights of Man," originated the attempt of Fieschi. Alibaud and Meunier belonged to "La Societe des Families." The Hurrianitaire was one of the,organs of, the Egalitaires : as such it ad- voeates "truth," materialism, abolition of separate families, abolition of marriage, abolition of fine arts and "luxury" except as "relaxation," destruction of towns, community of property, and travelling !

. The trial of persons concerned in the publication of the Huntanitaire was concluded on Friday. One only of the accused was acquitted. Another was.sentenced to two years! imprisonment with 300 francs fine; three otherszo one year's imprisonment with a fine of 300 francs each ;

and the remainder to imprisonment-varying from six to two months. .

'Early on the morning of the 6th, says the Toulouse Emancipation, the second half of the persons accused` of hating taken part in the troubles of,Toulouse were removed.for Pau. Among, them was M. Cazalas, the bat-manufacturer.. The same luxury of.precaution, the same brutality, were employed on this as on the former. occasion. .

The :National of Friday publishes the, following communication from Tulle, dated the 8th instant- " At three o'clock, a post-chaise; drawn-by three horses, drew up at the door of the prison. Madame' lAffarge, 'attired in mourning and enveloped in a rich cloak, which was sent her from' Paris, entered' the carriage, followed by • her maid-servant Clementine, and two gendarmes. It appears that the ,Prefect had received an order from Paris for her 'removal [to Montpellier] several days, previously, with a recommendation from the Minister to pay her all the i respect due to her misfortunes." Upon this the National observes, that whilst the editors of the . Toulouse journals are transferred to the ,prisons of Pau on foot, and , with chains round their necks, and only a little damp straw to sleep on , at night, Madame Laffarge, convicted in a court ofjustice of murder by i poison and robbery, travels in a; post-carriage drawn by three horses, to the house of correction assigned to her for a residence ; and the Minister, who has no pity for M. Raulet [the editor of the Emancipa- tion] and his aompanions, merely accused of a political offence, orders his functionaries to treat the prisoner of Glandier with all the respect due to her mi.sfortues!

The Paris Sikle gives the following intelligence from Brussels- " It is certain that M. Lebon -has received instructions to conclude a com- mercial treaty with France, for three years, upon the following basis. France is to reduce her import-duties on iron 25 per cent., and on linen- cloths 20 per cent. She is to receive Belgian woollen-cloths at an ad valorem duty of 25 per cent, and admit all other Belgian produce at 20 per cent, below the present tariff. In return, Belgium will receive French wines duty-free and preserve them from all taxes and charges greater than those they are liable to in France. The same favour is to be granted to brandies, except that they are subjected to a customs-duty of 15 per cent. On all other French produce the present tariff is to be reduced 50 per cent. A negotiation upon thefe bases cannot fail to , have a happy result, unless France exacts the adoption of her tariffs on this German and Dutch frontier of Belgium. This is a point which the Belgian Chambers will never concede."

The Moniteur announces the renewal of negotiations between the French and Belgian Commissioners.

Letters from Madrid state that the Juntas of Valencia, Badajoz, and Alicant, had dissolved themselves on receipt of the decree of the Regent.

The Government had conferred upon S. Olozaga, their Ambassador in France, the Grand Cordon of the Order of Charles the Second.

General Van Halen seems to have had more trouble in Barcelona than was at first supposed. The journals of that town contain an address to the inhabitants of that city, purporting to be signed by the President of the Junta of Vigilance, calling upon them to take up their arms, as their ' liberties were threatened by the order to dissolve, and inviting the . troops to join them in the continued demolition of the citadel. General Van Haien, Espartero's representative, had issued a proclamation stating that this address had been published without the knowledge of the Junta of Vigilance, which had dissolved itself, and that he relied on' the patriotism of the inhabitants of Barcelona to support him ha the- preservation of the public peace. He did not enter the town, but occu- pied a neighbouring fort, as if not too abruptly to interrupt the work of demolition. On the 8th, the Junta finally dissolved itself; but recom- mended the demolition to continue. Barcelona continuedtranquiL The, correspondent of the Times makes a charge of petty interference in 'Spain against France, which is important on account of its direct nature— "The Parisian -Christino papers are making the most of the noise in Barce- lona, calling heaven and earth to bear witness against the evils which-spring from Spanish patriotism; and especially uplifting their testimony against that vile Catalan journal El Constitucional.' Now the fact ought to be made known, that this alarmist, patriotic, Republican, mischief-making journal, (which cries out so stoutly against the danger of foreign invasion, and at the same time excites the Barcelonese to pull down the only stronghold by which they could success- fully resist it for a moment,) is actually a French one in disguise. It was es- tablished by M. de la Redorte, sent hither during the troubled reign of M. Thiers to repair the errors of M. de Rumiguy. The grand error of the latter- ' the Barcelona error '—the counsel given to Maria Christina to undertake the fatal journey which led to the removal of both from Spain, had left French in- fluence at a sad discount in the Peninsula ; and as it had 'fallen through' at Barcelona, M. de la Redorte was commissioned to fill up the gap with the leaves of a provincial journal; and actually founded El Constitucional, which is now the leading organ of the Catalan Francais smuggling interest, and the first to promote any or every scheme which may tend to unsettle society in Spain, pave the way fur the importation of intrigue and anarchy from its own side of the Pyromees, and, though last not least, keep up:the supply ofcontra- band cottons.'

The ratifications of a treaty of navigation between Sardinia and Great Britain were exchanged at Turin on the 6th instant. The treaty is to endure ten years from that date. It is on the principle of complete' reciprocity : English ships sailing direct from the United Kingdom, Malta, or Gibraltar, or British vessels making Sardinian ports in ballast after a voyage, and all Sardinian vessels in ballast or sailing from Sardinian ports to the United Kingdom, Malta, or Gibraltar, are to be treated reciprocally as native vessels of the ports which they enter, in all that regards tonnage, freight, pilotage, quarantine, port-dues, light- houses, and signals. The coasting-trade of either country is reserved from the provisions of the treaty.

We learn through Vienna, that at the end of last month the town of Komorn, on the Island of Schutt, in Hungary, at the confluence of the Waug and the Danube, was visited by an earthquake, which shook down all the timber-houses, and seriously damaged other buildings. In consequence of this disaster, upwards of five thousand people are said to be ruined, and left without shelter. The general loss is esti- mated at an immense amount.

The Columbia steamer has arrived at Liverpool, having left Boston; on the 1st, and Halifaxon the 4th instant. The latest date from Quebec is the 22d October. •

The papers have little other news than the reports of Mr. M'Leod'll, trial, and the announcement that he had arrived at Montreal. The. Sheriff of Oneida and two officers of the United States Army conveyed him, by the way of Lake Champlain, to St. John's, Lower Canada.

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He was greeted n Montreal with a public reception, and was made quite the lion of the day. A public dinner was given to him at Mon- treal on the 20th. He took that opportunity of denying that he had ever made a boast of being present at the attack on the Caroline. One of the toasts at this dinner was "Great Britain and the United States—., may peace reign over their mutual relations." . We have just been informed that the. Americans have succeeded in, damming the waters of the Aliguash, in the "Disputed Tenitory,” sour to‘ turn them into the Penobscot. It seems that the work was com- menced last spring, and is now so far completed that they intend running their timber in that direction, which they have been cutting in that neighbourhood, which, it is said, abounds in timber of the very best description. We cannot vouch for the correctness of the report. We shtill, however, institute an inquiry, the result of which we shall lay before our readers at an early opportunity. But a very little distance intervenes between the head-waters of the Aliguash and those of tile Penobscot, probably not more than four or five miles. With the acielivities of the lands in question, and the facilities afforded 1 y nature for making a canal, we are unacquainted. If the facts are as have been stated, it would certainly appear that there is remissness somewhere.— Woodstock Telegraph.

The latest date from New York is the 30th October. " Publicus," the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, gives the most interesting fatts- Every thing continues quiet on the frontier. The acquittal of APLeod on the one side, and the surrender of Grogan on the other, seem to have stilled the elements of discord for the present. I must not forget, however, to record that the Legislature of 'Vermont have appointed a committee, and passed some strong resolutions in relation to the violation of the sovereignty of the State,' and the violent procedure of the British authorities in Canada in forcibly selling within the State, and conveying beyond the limits of the same and of the United States, Colonel James Grogan, an American citizen,' &e. This committee is to report to the Legislature, but the result of the proceedings and investigation have not yektranspired. 'While on this subject, several of the United States journals, and especially the New York Courier and Enquirer, are out in favour of a treaty with Great Britain, in virtue of which criminals shall be given up who escape over the line ; and the cases of Holmes, charged with murder in Canada, the murderers of Captain Usher, and Grogan, charged with arson, &e. are cited as instances in point."

Mr. Webster, the Secretary of State, it was rumoured, would before long leave the Cabinet, probably for some other post. In that event, Judge Upshur would take the chair of State, and Mr. Cushing, of Mas- sachusetts, that of the Navy.

The Honourable John Forsyth, the late Secretary of State, had died at Washington, of congestive fever, in his sixty-first year. He was appointed to the Secretaryship in the year 1834, by General Jackson ; and he filled the post with great ability until the removal of Mr. Van Buren from the Presidency. The Madisonian gives an outline of his life-

" Mr. Forsyth was born at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in October 1781. Be graduated at Princeton College, in 1799. Ile entered the practice of law at Augusta, Georgia, in 1802. Soon after, he was appointed Attorney-General of tbe State, and rapidly rose to distinction. In 1812 he was elected a Repre- sentative in Congress. From 1814 to 1818 he was Chairman of the Com- mittee of Foreign Affairs, in which position he sustained Mr. Madison and the war with Great Britain. In 1818 he was elected a member of the United States Senate' where he took his seat in November of that year. In 1819 he was appointed Minister to Spain' where he became involved in the contro- versy in relation to our treaty with that country, settling differences, ceding the Floridae, which lasted until October 1820. 'With theexception of a brief visit to the United States, he continued at Madrid until 1823, when he re- tamed to this country ; and having in the mean time been reelected to Con- gress, he resumed his seat in the House of Representatives in December of that year; and was restored to the Chairmanship of the Committee of ForeignAffairs, which he continued to occupy as long as he remained in that body. In Oc- tober 1827, be was elected Governor of Georgia. After filling that post two years, he returned to Washington as Senator of the United States, in place of Mr. Berrien : that post be filled from 1829 until the summer of 1834, when, on the resignation of Mr. M-Lane as Secretary of State, Mr. Forsyth was called to' that department by General Jackson. That office he filled during the re- sidue of General Jackson's term, and continued to hold it until the close of Mr. Van Buren's administration ; when he was succeeded in office by Mr. 'Webster. Mr. Forsyth has continued to reside in this city during the past summer; and had reached the age of sixty-one years."

The Erigone French frigate arrived at Singapore on the 4th Sep- tember, from Rio Janeiro, which she left on the 14th June. Colonel Dubois de Jaucigny was on board, and would proceed immediately to China to watch the progress of events on the part of the French Go- vernment —Morning Chronicle, Nov. 17.