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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCT. 24. WE cannot go the lengths of our contemporary,the Spectator, in abetting, or carrying to an extreme, the kisser alio. system of foreign policy. We should be delighted, were it possible; we should be enchanted dispense with fleets and armies, to cashier diplo macy, and to scatter treaties to the wind. Even then, however, we should shrink from making over the nations and countries of the world to the French, their King ; inasmuch as the French have proved worst colonists in history, and the moat incapable managing or administering, even with common fairness or sense, a country beyond their European limits. Philanthropy, as well as patriotism, would us make object to see any large portion of the treated after the fashion of Algeria or Tahiti. Most nations have colonised and conquered from At may be considered natural motives, and from popular rather than government impulses. The English, at first in search of religious freedom, then pursuit of trade, have founded empires. The Ipaniards and Portuguese, in search of gold; the Dutch, in search of the costly objects of another he misphere ; have filled vast regions with their race, their name, and their power. The French alone, of European countries on the ocean, abandoned to • government all care and thought of such enter and never made what might be called a na- effort. _ Nor, free as they have been for the quarter of a century, has the country shown any impulse of the kind. The government alone, not genuine motives of colonisation, but from the e of gratifying vanity and reaping idle renown, :expended men, ships, and money, the talent, zeal, the courage and experience of its subjects, on most futile, scattered, barren, and inane of con ; in not one of which has it realised one hope 1, one principle of humanity, one atom of strength, and where it has reaped a far greater har of disgrace than of laurels. its European policy and conquests, we see the government pursue the same pernicious as in its colonial policy. There are many ways A paths for extending the influence and dominion France, in which the nation would have joined heart hand, and from which its material and permanent ' would have flowed. But the intimidation of princesses, and the filching of a crown for a the house of ORLEANS, is no national con- It is a gratification of avarice to the reigning house,—a source of vanity to the party, and of parliamentary triumph to ministry. The bulletins of the marriage are • same tinsel character with those from Algeria iti ; nothing solid, nothing sterling, nothing for . . . nation to take pride in. The entire motive, from be ginning to end, is vanity, vanity. One of the great gratifications of that vanity is the fact of having outwitted us. There is not one scruple of patriotism philanthropy in it ; not even the shadow of an • purpose. _ _ our contemporary anticipates good from conquest achieved with such motives, setting aside altogether manner and the means in which and by which 7 ere effected. This destruction of the consti ' liberties of the Spaniards ; this contempt for independence ; this gagging of their press; this and proscription of their chief citizens, for re g to illuminate or " express delight " on the occasion of the French Prince's marriage ;—all these ' outrages on the Spaniards, achieved amidst their 1 are to be viewed with complacent satisfaction ; ' C are to rub our hands thereat in glee, because Court journal of France preaches the doctrines promises the furtherance of free-trade. We feel pretty certain, for our part, that this sudden conversion of the French court to the doctrines and preaching, but by no means to the practice, of free 'rade, is but a trick to lure and deceive the British, and induce them to contemplate tranquilly the extension he influence of France over all her frontiers. is the secret of Mr. C O BDEN'S gracious recep ; this the cue of the articles in the Journal des its; this the bait which the Spectator so readily swallows; this is the basis of the statesmanship and • convention, by which France undertakes to annex countries around her, and by which England is to - and abet it, on condition that France, at some day, and in its own profound liberality, may extend to us the boon of free-trade. Depend upon it, France will do no such thing. power which she has exercised at Madrid for the year, has been actively employed to our commer detriment. English goods have been completely - from the north of Spain, and the difficulties of contraband and its premiums enormously in creased ; whilst every facility has been afforded to the French. The new Spanish Navigation and Customs , act prohibitorily to our vessels; whilst French vessels arc treated on a par with Spanish. Por al, under the same influence, has raised tariff against us. NAPOLEON himself, perfecting plan of a continental blockade, was never more iveterate against us than the influence of the House 'ORLEANS has proved in the Peninsula, Our govern ' aPp01 1 .20.. once to a French minister to be treated . fairness and equality. His reply was, that to French and English commerce on the same foot ; in the Peninsula would not be fair, for that the English had so many advantages in capital and ma chinery which the French had not, that in order to establish equality, English should pay ten per cent bore than French. Such arc French Government ideas free-trade. r'rance indeed is not without generous spirits, liberal and philanthropic men, who have undertaken to fight the battle of Free-trade, not from temporary or party motives, but from liberal and wise conviction. We much fear, however, that as long as the French constituency remains as it is, in which the producers are all electors, and the consumers are the disfran chised, we can have very few hopes of any liberal or Free-trade vote from the Chamber, however we may hear fine speeches and well-sounding theories. We would therefore keep, with respect to France, an attitude removed indeed from warlike threats or idle bate, but equally removed from infantine con fidence or cowardly apathy. The French people are by no means masters of their own fate, or their own government. Their electoral body forms a close borough, of which his Majesty is the patron. The Court rules; and the Court is selfish, ambitious, and tricky. The Spanish Court will now be rendered influen tial by the same means, and will be pulled by the same cord. Sach a joint system in the two coun tries is not a thing to laugh at, to smile at, to make courteous bows to. It is much more politic, as well as dignified, to show a full sense of our wrongs, our suspicion, our dissatisfaction, our determination not not to be trifled with ; all which can be done with out squabbles, menaces, ill-temper, or war. When the Spanish difference first arose, the Spec tator took to comment upon it with its usual good sense, and exclaimed, " How can we resent this, where is the money to come from ?" A very fair and natural question ; and a fit one, when addressed to Englishmen, who understand it. But the French caught at it instantly, and copied forthwith into their columns the ejaculation of the English print, " Where is England to find money ?" Now, this mode of making old England plead in forma pauperie does not tend to the country's respectability or strength. Neither does our ever jocular mode of contemplating the blows dealt to us, after the fashion of Clown in the Pantomime, at all lead to the conciliation of our - rivals. It is much more calculated to provoke their isbext,, I contempt ALL that the best teacher can do, is to place his pupils in the way of teaching themselves. He brings knowledge and lays it down before them ; he shows them how he set himself to pick it up ; he makes them try to do as he has done. Beyond this he can not go, unless the scholar, too, play his part. It is only by self-exertion that knowledge can be acquired. All who know anything in a manner that deserves to be called knowledge, will confess that, however excellent the seminaries in which they have been trained, and however long a time they may have spent in them, the moat important education is that which they have given themselves, after they were thrown upon the world and their own resources. This is not said in disparagement of schools and colleges. He who enters busy life through these porticoes, starts from a vantage-ground; or, to adopt an appropriate metaphor, he enters by the gate in stead of climbing over the wall. He is at once ab sorbed into the society of those who know, and be comes assimilated with them by an easy process ; , instead of making all kinds of irregular and awkward I attempts, and meeting with unavoidable repulsions, as the irregulars do. Still, he who should sit down con tented with his school or college acquirements, would find them utterly inadequate to the purposes of active life. It is, besides, only by continually adding to them that he is enabled to hold them fast. This is as true of those who are trained in the realisma of mo dern science, as of those who are trained in Greek and Latin words " after the school of Eton-upon- Thames." Any branch of knowledge a man may have been initiated into at school, that bears upon or is useful in the details of his practical avocations, he is pretty sure to retain and augment. Practical acquaintance with its objects, communicates greater vividness and precision to his ideas. The alternate struggles of action, and reflections of repose, develope and strengthen his mind, rendering it more capable of effective study. But the minute subdivision of em ployments in our artificial state of society, renders all knowledge thus acquired extremely incomplete; limited in range, and monotonous in character. Such practical acquirements generate an unhealthy state of mind, in which a few of the faculties are developed with unnatural strength, while the rest are left to wither and die out Hence the importance of all institutions which contribute to the self-education of adults, in the numerous and diversified departmen tal pursuits of knowledge and taste. They supply, in some measure, to those whose education has been neg lected, the advantages withheld from their youth. They are, to the more favoured, intellectual gymnasia, in which, by exercise, they continue to invigorate and expand their intellects. These are the views which teach us to hear with pleasure of the prosperity of all instructive insti tutions, whatever aim they hold out to themselves, whatever their form and organisation, by what ever name they may be known, Mechanics' Insti tution, Literary or Scientific Society, Association, Academy, or Debating Society. All are useful. There will of necessity be much of trivial and common-place, in the proceedings of all of them. All have their periods of growth and decay ; their in tervals of torpor. But as one grows feeble and lethargic, another rises to take its place; and sometimes an infusion of new blood has been known to awaken up a society in a state of suspended animation, and enable it to surpass its former efforts. The mere taking of an active interest in ono or more of such combinations, in itself keeps alive the sacred flame of intellect; exertions which lend eclat to any of them, by widening the circle of those who sympathise with its labours, heighten the intellectspl life of society. It is in some sort the duty of those who can appre ciate the infinitely greater indirect than direct influ ence of such institutions in cultivating the public mind, without bigotry for any favourite form, to promote that which, for the time being, is most acceptable to the public. When Me chanics' Institutions are most in fashion, let us work by their instrumentality ; when Scientific Sock ties bear away the palm, let us be active members. - . Of all the cliversi;ded forms of organization assuried by intellectual cir des, there is none of greater pro- mise than that of the Manchester Athenwur d . It combines earnr.st instruction with literary ind - Ogence and even attwation to mere bodily comfort. It holds out attractions to an immense variety of tar.tes, and it imparts mare or less of a literary tone to all whom it attracts. By one, it is frequented merely as a p l ace where ne may spend the evening pleasantly, or dine comfortably and cheaply. To anoth':r, its lectures are the chief attractions. To a third the library, in which he may quietly follow out his own peculiar studies ; or the newspaper table, where he may look at the busy world through the coloured glasses of so many keen partisans. But the predominance of the intellectual fare imparts a peculiar tone to the conversation of the place, and thereby to the charac tere of all its habitual frequenters. The annual soirees, by bringing the members at their high festivals into contact with the first intellects and notabilities of the age, cannot but have an awakening effect on well-con stituted minds. The members of an institution, too, which can attract such visitors as have graced and dis- tingnished these annual meetings, are more respected on that account by their fellow-citizens. The pro phets have honour in their own land. Lord MORPETII was right when he attributed in no small degree to the silent influence of the Athentenw, the many kindred processes which are actively at work for good in lAnchester—the public parks ; the public baths and wash-houses ; the founda tion of industrial schools ; the weekly half-holiday of the warehouses ; the early closing of shops. It may be confessed that Mr. MARK Pinups spoke the simple truth in his candid confession at the breakfast —that he "did not expect to be complimented by strangers upon the state of the streets, or the beauties of their principal edifices, or the sewerage or sanatory regulations of-the town." But through the instru mentality of the Athena um—not forgetting kindred ^~. THE .. EPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, • 1846 . . least retarded civil war. Nine 'pronouncing in the diet wend the League of the Catholic canton, it desired to obtain tar these a guarantee &gunge the invasion of the free-corps. What could be man equitable or sensible ? Although the Catholic cantons were not the first to give the example of a confederation within• confederation, their league may be admitted to nave beak illegal and contrary to the federal pact, but it was justified by • right, above all written rights—that of self-defence. Having this right, we do not hesitate to say that their cause was that of justice and true liberty. Before proceeding against them, it was necessary to deprive them of this right by securing them against illegal attacks, and this is what the late government of Geneva desired to do. There are defeats which bring honour ; and victories, discredit. The emulta, we are bold to say, will only too well justify the &Ben government. Who does not behold civil war to-day Imminent in unhappy Switzerland ? Does any one imagine that the events of Geneva will render the Catholic cantons more ready to lay down their arms ? We advise the Xrue de Goitre and M. James Fazy to make much of their revo lution ' while they have time, for approaching events will turn their joy into mourning !' " The Journal des Debals then ridicules the idea that Geneva was ruled by an aristocracy, seeing that the Grand Council derived its title and power from po pular elections, and it charges the provisional govern ment that, while they have the name and interests of the people upon their lips, they are urging the same people to its ruin ; that, under the invasion of the free-corps, they disguise a hostility which the laws forbid them to avow, and that they cry out against the violation of the federal pact, while they have attacked its defenders; and it hints at a proceeding which will arrange the difference existing between the Swiss cantons, by which the country will be delivered equally from the Jesuits of Lucerne and the Jesuits of radicalism. At the same time the D4ats disavows intervention. So long as Svritzerlandeonfinee heragitation within her own limits the Debals will not advocate interven tion, any more than with Portugal or Mexico. " We acknowledge," continues that journal, " the per fect right of Switzerland to destroy herself. As a neighbour, we only demand that the may confine the fire within her own walls. It is necessary, perhaps, that the world should learn what a democracy is, which will submit to no restraint, not even to that of common sense, and will suffer no yoke, not even that of the laws. This example, it seems, is to be given at the expense of Switzerland. With all our heart we regret it, but assuredly we know no spectacle less contagious and less to be feared for our country, tree and under the sway of wise laws, than the shamelessness of the Helvetic demo cracy. As Conservatives, we can only ccngratulate ourselves on what is passing in Switzerland. It constitutes a terrible sentence against purely democratic institutions, and decides the question whether universal suffrage is the triumph of reason and justice." The London mails of Tuesday's date were not re ceived in Paris on Thursday, the Calais mail-packet not having arrived at that port, owing, as was said, to the state of the weather. Letters received from Berne of the date of the 18th and 19th, bring a report of a serious disturbance in that city, detailed below, which originated in the dearness of provisions, but which is also said to be more or less mixed up with political causes : " A short time since a petition was addressed to the Council of State, in which it was required to take measures for the prevention of scarcity by excluding foreign buyers from the market until the inhabitants should be supplied. This petition was rejected, and on Saturday morning violent scenes ensued. The gendarmerie who interfered were encountered with a shower of stones. Waggons of , provisions were seized by the populace, and other violence's committed. Processions of insurgents paraded the city, broke into the guard-houses, setting free those who had been previously arrested, plundering bakers' shops, &c. After a tumultuous meeting, the insurgents named a deputation, composed of four citizens, which they sent to the Council of State, demanding the revocation of its division, with threats of force if it refused. The l'resident of the Council answered that he would act as he might judge best, but would not yield to force. In the course of the evening the authorities collected together a military force, and called out the civic guard, which occupied several important posts. The night of Saturday passed without further disturbance. Oa Sunday morning a proclamation was circulated, announcing that remedies would be taken in regard to the dearness el provisions, but that all violence would be repressed by force. During the night, the Council, which sat permanently at the arsenal, obtained proofs that the re volt was favoured and promoted by the supporters of the party which had fallen from power some months ago. In consequence of this fifteen persons were arrested, among whom where the former councillors of state---Sats-Therin, ex-professor Muller, and the merchant M. Stauffe-Gunther. These arrests, which were effected without resistance, seemed to paralyse the insurgents. At ten o'clock, however, on Sunday morning, some hundreds of them, upon the Place des Grevia.es, attempted to attack the corps de garde. They were resisted by a detachment of cavalry, who, however, did not use their arms. A shower of stones was discharged against these, when two pieces of cannon charged with grape were brought with lighted matches from the arsenal, upon the appearance of which the insurgents fled. Up to three o'clock on Sunday no new attack had been made, though loud threats were heard of an attack upon the market of Tuesday. Every necessary measure had been taken to defeat such attempt. During the emeute of Satur day patricians were everywhere met in the streets among the insurgents, with a smile on their lips. On Sunday they had almost entirely disappeared." institutions which have preceded It; soca as the Mechanics' Institution; with its museam, the annual exhibition of paintings, and the Botanical Garden—a spirit is developing itself in Manchester, which will achieve these things hinted at by Mr. Pamirs, and greater things than these. In time it may even cure the great cotton lords of their propensity to tuft hunting, as well as teach the labourers to keep their houses and persons clean. When Mr. COBDEN thanked the author of an ingsby, at a former stride of the Atheneum, for having drawn the character of Mr. Milbank, it was because he knew among his acquaintances, in Manchester, many full-fledged and more latent Milbank.. Upon such minds the at once genial and chastening wis dom of Lord MORPETII cannot fail to work with effect, in urging to concentrated, persistent, unosten tatious action. A new social era is dawning upon Manchester, and the influence of its example will be felt in all our other great towns. Not perhaps by the same machinery, but by some means or other, Bir mingham—the town of PRIESTLEY, WATT, and HUTTON—wiII assertits intellectual and moral equality with Manchester ; Glasgow, slumbering on the laurels won for it by ANDERSON and BIRKBECK, will awaken to renewed exertion ; and in Leeds, Mr. B uNes may pause from diatribes against state-education, to show what himself and friends can accomplish, by voluntary exertion, in the way of intellectual and moral culture of their community. The opposition journals of Paris continue to reiterate the probability . of a speedy modification in the Guizot cabinet, arising out of the multiplied and complicated embarrassments incidental to the foreign relations of France, consequent on the Montpensier m • e. These declarations are contradicted, or at least iscredited, by La Presse, whose connexion with the government is somewhat indirect; but the more avowed official organs of the cabinet are signal ised by an unusual degree of reserve on the matter, devoting their more prominent columns to other topics of the day, such as the movements in Switzer land and Portugal. We learn from the despatches of our Paris correspondent, and from the journals of Thursday, which have arrived by the usual express, that the probability of a ministerial change, and that very speedily, is a general topic of discussion. According to the National, which repeats its in formation on this subject, England persists, and will persist, in her protests against the contingent rever sionary right of the grand-children of Louis Philippe to the Spanish throne. While this protest must hold the sword of war continually suspended over Spain, it will throw innumerable embarrassments on the re lations of France and England. The renunciation by the Infanta would remove these, but it cannot be ob tained. "M. Mole, says the National, " has been private]) sounded ; a statement of the marriage negotiation., with all the documents and dates, has been put before him. The story of the Coburg candidateship, which Lord Palmerston disavowed, has been refuted, and M. Mole, in spite of thene. cessary reserve on such occasions, has not dissimulated his repugnance for this double-faced diplomacy. We are assured, that in this affair he considers there are two dis tinct questions to be decided. One respecting the diplo matic measures: if M. Guizot has not observed good faith towards England in these, he must be sacrificed ; as to the Spanish succeassion, it is a question which belongs to Spain itself. The contingency against which England has made reservations may disappear 117 the birth of direct heirs, and if hereafter any measure on Ike subject should be taken by the Government or Cortes, the matter may be brought under dismssion. Meanwhile, England aad France would retain their present position. But during this diplomatic armistice, their alliance, indispen sable to the dynasty and the peace of the world, must be re newed. As a mutual concession, M. Brawn on the one hand, and Mr. Bulwer on the other, would be recalled. Meanwhile attempts would be made to settle, by common consent, other questions. Once having entered into nego tiation, all sabjects would be examined, and those only in sisted on which aro of pressing importance. We are ignorant if M. Mule has been authorised secretly to communi cate with England, but we believe that several communications have already taken place, and that the Whig cabinet, against which M. Ouizot had directed his batteries in London, has unmasked its own at Paris. We believe also, that the artillery of the former hung fire, but that the bullets of the latter have already made a breach in the fortress within which the French ministry has for eta yeas entrenched itself. The court journals observe a prudent silence. The intrigue must have time to ripen. It is en train; it pro gresses. In 1840, England insults us; we show ourselves vexed and cry loudly against it ; it is necessary to put on a bold face; but behold the fleet in Toulon and M. Guizot drinking the hitter cup of " Peace everywhere and always." To-day on the other hand, it is England who is offended, and behold again the fleet in Toulon, and M. Mole, who is prepared to play after M. Guizot, the same part which the latter played after M. Thiess. We foresaw such a dnioue men, from the first outcry of the journals of the CAUfrwat. We were then reproached with being English ; wait a little, and you will see with what tenderneas they will throw themselves into the arms of England; sad condi*/ sn in which a government is reduces! to this gruel alternative, either to die or be enslaved ! Letters from Basle of the 18th, state that the grand council of that city had held an extraordinary meeting on the evening of the 17th, to discuss the petition in favour of the dissolution of the Ultra-montane League. The unanimity of the people on this subject has influ enced several members of the council, who declared that they would retire sooner than oppose themselves to the popular will. While the Opposition journals, which have al ways rated so low the entente eordiak and re proached the Conservatives with the sacrifices at which it was maintained, now reproach them on the other hand for destroying it for an object of mere family interest, certain sec tions of the Conservatives themselves boast of its rup ture. In an article published on Thursday by La Presse, filled with more than the average amount of anti-Anglican virulence, that journal maintains that the English alliance is as unnatural as it is disadvaa tageous to France. It is the interest of France, ac cording to La Presse, to disembarrass itself of the shackles of the entente cordiale, and. to return to its natural allies. It repudiates the idea that the sym pathy of liberal ideas and the community e free in stitutiona existing between France and England, should be regarded as forming any legitinsate ground for permanent alliance. It is on natural sympathies, on the real and nt interests of states—en the good faith and tV i r e neerity of intarnatiemal relations, that ent alliances are alone founded. " °thing of all that, however," says Le Preens, " Can Milli between Pante and England. neir alliance has been only a passing accident. After 1830 s the inte.vst of the mo ment was mistaken fora permanent interest; it was imagined that the nations would be allied by the analogy of their in stitutiosis. It was blindness not to perceive that the position of England in the world was exceptional, and her national character exclusive. The necessity of her situation forced her to live at the expense of all other people, and to ally herself in good faith with none. It was not then understood that England could live only by using all. Europe—by dominating on the sea—by smothering t'ae industry of other people, and sharing with no one inter national commerce. And if we look narrowly at her to-day, I we shall see what excites her discontent against the measure which appears to her likely to increase French influence in Spain. We have done worse, in fine, than surrendering ourselves to these illusions of the entente cordiale, now dis sipated ; for we have estranged from us powers with whom we might have formed an alliance truly cordial and profitable. Tina is a fault which must speedily be repaired. While France has no interest in common with England except one that is theoretical and imaginary, she has with the continental powers a thousand common interests ; while in every part of the globe she finds English interests to struggle a gain st, on the continent she finds various interests in perfect harmony with her own." La Presse then goes on to hint that it eees nothing amiss in the change of policy which it advocates being effected without any change of ministry. M. Thiers, it declares to be ten times more English than M. Guizot, for the former is so by principle, and besides is the very personification of revolutionary propagan dism in Europe. Although La Prase expresses its great regret at witnessing M. Guizot sustaining for six years the English alliance, yet in spite of the unpopularity with which that policy has Sur rounded him, he appears to La Presse as apt a person as any other to establish and con solidate the new system of international al liances, upon which France must now enter. The significancy of these arguments will be better appreciated, if it be remembered that La Presse is, according to common repute, no stranger to the salons of Russian diplomacy. A very temperate article which has appeared in the Revue de eknere, and one which was but natural in the declared organ of the provisional government, having noticed the manner in which the Genevese movement was animadverted on by . the Parisian min isterial and court press, the ire of the Journal des Debate has been excited to a degree not at all in keep ing with the stately moderation which generally cha racterises its columns. Although it really imputes nothing worse to the article in question than being written in a radical style, which, to say the truth, it is difficult to discover m it, the 11. bats replies by let ting fall on the Swiss Liberals a shower of vitu peration. " We regret," ways that Journal, " that Switserland in general and the city of Geneva in particular, lately so happy, so tranquil, and so free, should have fallen into such hands. If ever in this world there were a revolution unjust, absurd, and destitute of motive, we do not say of causes, but even of pretext, it is the revolution of Geneva! The crime of the government wits, in a word, having hindered, or at Our usual letters and journals from Madrid to the 17th inst_ hare readied us. The intended departure of the French Princes an nounced in our correspondence of yesterday is con firmed by them. The Duke d'Aumale was to have left for France on Monday last, and the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier on Wednesday. The latter were to have slept at Burgos, Tolosa, and Bayonne. The amnesty so long expected had not appeared, but it was known to have been signed by the Queen, and was expected to appear on the 18th. It was reported to be an ample measure, extending to all military men up to the rank of colonel inclusive, and to I civilians up to the title of political chief; the only exceptions were said to be those who had been in vested with commands by the revolutionary junta. Her Majesty reserved the right of extending her clemency to these at a future time. One of the Liberal journals, El Tiempo, states, that it knows that there exists serious dissension in the Ministry, and goes so far as to say. that one of the ministers has tendered his resignation to the Queen, not being able to agree with his colleagues. It appears certain that each individual member of the Cabinet acts for himself, and that there is neither harmony nor unity in the Ministry. Mr. Cobden has been elected an honorary member of the Economical Society of Madrid. FRANCE. PRCGILEIIB OF FREE TRADE.—The bee trade agitation continues to advance; an important meeting was held on Monday on the subject at Havre, attended by one hundred and fifty merchants of that city, including the most distinguished members of the Chamber of Commerce, and the heads of the principal commercial houses. The meeting was addressed in a speech of consider able ability by M. Morlot, who concluded by moving a re solution to form an association for obtaining a commercial reform by the reduction of import dutiesand taxes on objects of consumption. The speaker was cheered as he proceeded, and sat down amidst an expression of general applause. M. de Coninct and M. Clerc afterwards addressed the meeting, proposing a more unqualified title for the association, so as to bring it into conformity with the central society of Paris ; the original resolution was, however, finally carried. Before separating, the meeting decided that the object of the association being essentially national, it was open to all Frenchmen without distinction; but that foreigners would be only admitted to consult and deliberate without voting. The conjecture that M. Guizot contem plated treading in the steps of Sir R. Peel on the subject of free trade, forms the subject of the leading article in L'l-ni vers of Wednesday. That journal declares that the advo cacy extended to that doctrine by the Journal des D.'6a.ts, the most confidential organ of the ministry, has given the greatest disquietude to those who believe a protectionist po licy essential to the interests of the countr7 ; and it broadly hints, that the relaxation of the prohibitive system is in tended to be a boon offered to propitiate England, and to repair the mischief done by the rupture of the entente roe diak, consequent on the Spanish marriages. "Is it not evident," says the Unirers," that England would willingly surrender to us ten kingdoms like that of Spain, to be per mitted to inundate our markets with her products? In of fering her such a compensation, M. Guizot may be very sore to allay the discontent manifested at the other side of the Channel; and those who imagine that such a compensation has been promised, now foresee in the measures, which they thought at first displayed a noble firmness, only a fresh dis grace. The government owes it to its own dignity, and even to its very security, to undeceive the public as to the disa strous intentions which are attributed to it, upon the faith of the part taken by its leading organ. Its danger is too imminent not to make it owe us some gratitude for this warning." Tni INUNDATIONS.—The Marseilles and Saint Etienne papers are two days behind hand in Path, owing to the inundations caused by same of the rivers. The Loire has risen to a fearful height, and it is feared will cause great ravages. On the 19th the waters were already two metres higher than at the time of the terrible inundation of 1910. Roane is completely inundated, and a great many houses are said to have been washed away in the neigh- bourhood. At Andresieur, the whole valley of Percy is under water. One of the faubourgs at Nevers has greatly Suffered; at Angers the Loire rose Eve metres (about six teen feet) in one night, driving back the waters of the Maine. A letter from Orleans, of the 21st, says :—" Yester day, at 11 at night, a sudden rise of the waters of the Loire carried away part of the viaduct on the Orleans and Vierzon railway. A house near the brdge was carried away by the waters but the workmen who wore inside escaped by means of a bo at. The opening of the Orleans and Vierson line is again retarded by this new disaster. The level of the Seine, which on the 20th was not more than 70 eentim. above the low-water mark, marked on the 21st 2 m. 70 centim., having thus risen two metres in one night. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF AN ENGLISH HOTEL isErms.—Mr. Chadwick, :proprietor of the British Hotel, Quai de la Bourse, at Rouen, in an access of fever , from which he was suffering, and which at momenta affected the brain, discharged a pistol loaded with ball into his throat. At the sound of the report, his nurse Arrived. Though the wound is a serious one, hopes are entertained of his recovery. SPAIN.—DINNER TO MR. COBDEN, AT MADRID.— . . . On the 14th inst. a grand banquet was given is honour of Mr. Cobden, at Madrid, by the members of the " Spanish Commercial Association." The guests uaembled at half-put six, among whom were D. Alvaro Flom Estrada, the Spanish economist; the Duke of Sotomayer, Spanish Am bassador to the English court; and numerous other persons of distinction. Counts Santa Olalla, Gonzalo, Moren y Pena Aguyac were prevented from attending by different causes. The chair was taken by S. Alvaro, having on his right Mr. Cobden, Duke de Sotomayor acting as vice presi dent. The health of Mr. Cobden was proposed by the pre sident, after a short and emphatic speech, in which he alluded to the services rendered by Mr. Cobdea to his country.—Mr. Cobd^n then rose and spoke in English, as that language was familiar to nearly all present : we give his speech at length :—Gentlemen, it is with the deepest gratitude that I accept this manifestation of your sympathy; I accept it as a proof of your approbation of the principles of free trade and of the means resorted to by the leaders of the League inEng land. We stood up, gentlemen, as the advocates of free trade, not in a party spirit, but in the common interest of all ; and we obtained our end solely by moral means, which deserve, I hope, the praise of the honour able men of every country. From the very beginning of the struggle we never entertained the slightest idea of having recourse to physical force; we placed our confi dence in the strength of reason and argument. Our only weapon was the pen, our loudest artillery the voice of our orators. We did not make proselytes by force, but by con viction. For seven years a fierce struggle WWI kept up amongst twenty.seven millions of people, without shedding a single drop of blood. The battle was long and fierce ; but, once gained, the victory is eternal. All present are no doubt well aware of the precise object we had in view in our struggle for free trade. We had, gentlemen, a great principle in view. We demanded for every Englishman the right of exchanging the produce of his labour fur that of every quarter of the globe. We demanded the suppression of all protective duties. We said to our govern. ment, you must not concede protection to this or to that branch of industry to the detriment of another. Equal jus tice to all classes is the great principle proclaimed by us. IVe demand for England the right of buying Spanish corn and • wool on the same term; as similar productions in England ; we propose for the sugars of Cuba the same right enjoyed by those of Jamaica. We demand for the agriculturists the right of buying articles of Spanish manufacture which they may stand in need of, on the same footing as if they were British produce. What we advocated has become the dominating policy of the people of Great Britain. Gentlemen, the cause of free trade is not confined to one country alone, it is the cause of humanity and civilisation all over the globe. And where may I hope to meet with greater sympathy than in this illustrious capital of the Iberian Peninsula ? To no country does free trade offer greater advantages than to Spain; to no country has nature been se prodigal in her gifts. Spain produces what other lands must acquire by labour and by industry. Commerce is the exchange of articles of equivalent value, and the nation that exports is, likewise, in the necessity of importing. There are individuals in every country who say, " 11e must produce within our frontiers all that we stand in need of, and we will be then independent of the stranger." If providence had meant such to be the case, it would have framed the earth on a far different plan, and given equal advantages of soil and clime to every nation. My country for instance would have been gifted with the vine and the olive, and other blessings denied to us, and other countries would possess iron and coal mines which so largely compensate with us the absence of other natural productions. But no . providence has in its wisdom assigned peculiar productions to each land, so that nations in acquir ing the comforts of life might learn to live united with each other in the bonds of harmony and of peace. I am confident, gentlemen, that, before long, this great nation will have emancipated its commerce from the restrictions which, but a short time since, weighed upon the commerce of my own country. Another page of your history will be filled, like the im mortal page which records that three centuries ago a great man left your shores to discover a new hemisphere. You must not accuse me of detracting from the glory of that great man, when I say that in my opinion the establishment of free trade will confer greater benefits on your country than the discovery of America. The genius of Columbus procured to your country a large continent exclus:vely inhabited by savage tribes ; free trade will open to your enterprise a civi lised world, and every nation will press forward to offer you the various productions of their industry in exchange for those of your favoured and productive soil. 1 conclude, gentlemen," said Mr. Cobden, in good Castilian, " by drink ing to the universal adoption of free trade, the surest rantees of the peace of nations." The meeting was then ad dressed by several Spanish merchants and nobles, advocating the general principles of free trade, and especially the liberty of discussion ; at the conclusion the meeting expr es sed its gratification at the presence of its ill ustrious guest. ITALY.—The political reforms of Pius IX. have found an unexpected support in some states of Italy, where the desire prevails of shaking off the yoke of Austria. Tuscany and Sardinia have Allied to the Pope, and Naples is upon the point of making her peace with his Holiness. The Italian patriots favour the idea of a confederacy, like that of Germany. The Pope haat just authorised the publication of a journal which will render account of the causes tried in the Roman Courts, by publishing the proceedings. Hitherto the pleadings were always carried on in secret, and the public never knew what took place unlessasentence was proclaimed. The Pope wishes all the acts of his government to be made public ; but this resolution is still kept a secret. GERMANY.—I3Eaws, Ocr. 15.—The Austrian Ambassador to the court of Berlin, Baron Trantmannsdortf is returned to his post, notwithstanding the general rumour; that he was to be succeeded by M. Neumann. The communications between the two capitals will, how ever, be carried on, not so much through the ambassadors, as through cabinet letters—which is to be attributed more to the friendly footing established between the two ministers for Foreign Affair, than to any adopted system. We do not wish to give any ground, says the Cologne Gazette, to a misunderstanding, as if at the present moment the relations between the two cabinets, were not on so good a footing as formerly—on the contrary, Prince Metternich perhaps never found it so coy to transact affairs with the Berlin cabinet, as at the present moment ; but that l'russia and Austria find it requisite to employ different methods, and look upon many things in a different point of view, will be at once understood by all. M. de Rochow, the Prussian Ambassa dor to St. Petersburg, is expected at Berlin from the Russian capital, where he did not succeed in obtaining that position which is dus , to a Prussian Ambassador. Count d'Arneim is also expected on leave from Paris. COLONIAL. cAPE_OF GOOD HOPE. We have received Graham's Town papers of the 25th of August. These p.pers contain the official reports of Sir Andries Stockenstrom, Colonel Hare, and Colonel Johnstone, detailing the combined attack made upon the Kaffir positions in the Amatola mountains (the portion of the Winterberg range, at the sources of the river so named), by the forces under their command, adverted to in the intelligence which we published on Thursday. According to Sir Andries, the Kaffirs did not succeed in concentrating their force, as was evidently their intention in the first instance, but they made a bold stand in detached positions, though they were finally dislodged from them all, in the most gallant manner, with comparatively little loss on the part of the colonists. Driven from all the gorges of the Amatola range of mountains, they were in full retreat towards the Kei river ; and the cavalry horses were so completely ex hausted by the fatigues they had undergone, that they were not in a condition to follow up the advantages gained until they obtained rest. In the meanwhile Sir Andries Stoekenstrom had resolved upon remaining with the force under his command in one of the valleys of the Amatila hills until he received supplies from the rear to enable him to advance to tho in order to convince the Kaffirs that it was not a temporary inroad on their territory, but a fixed determination to punish them effectually for their unjust aggression on the colony. The loss on the part of the force under the command of Sir Andries was finer killed and four severely wounded, but the number that fell on the side of the Kaffirs could not be ascertained.. Thirty-nine dead bodies were however seen at one point, and many more fell in the different skirmishes in the ravines. One of Colonel Hare's vidette's had had a brush with the Kafiri; but Colonel Johnstone's party had not succeeded in coming to close quarters with any of them. In his retarn Colonel Hare says: " By the concurrent state ments of the women and prisoners, it would appear that the Kaffirs had decided upon returning towards the colony; and this seems to be confirmed by numerous spoors of consider able bodice having been seen by my skirmishing parties going in that direction;" and, "I have no dou'ff in my own mind that the Kaffirs have formed the resolution of not meet ing the troops, and that their plan is to harass us by their movements forwards, this appearing mole es ident by nume rous spoors seen returning between my division and that of Sir Andries, and the camp of his Excellency." Sir Andries' dispatch hears date the let of August, hut there is a post script, which appears to have been written on the 4th or sth. Col. Hare's is dated the 7th, and Col. Johnstone's the 10th of August. It appears (from a statement in the Fron tier) that his Excellency the Governor had, at the request of the senior medical officer, increased the rations allowed to the forces in the field, by the addition of an allowance of coffee, sugar, and rice, to the biscuit and beef. The import ance attached to this very simple affair is a proof how nig gardly the colony has been treated by the Home Government in such an emergency; for the account concludes with the hope that the Governor will not be compelled afterwards to pay the cost of the additional rations out of his own pocket. During the quarter ending on the hth of July, the number of vessels that entered inwards at Port Elizabeth was 46, of 8,615 t o ns, and outwinis 40 yeasts, of 7,464 tons. The value of the imports was 101.3091., and of the exports 6.1,6131. The export trade, as a matter of course, lids been greatly in terrupted by the Kaffir invasion. 7drt'cletacKtffm'ee7-%% freoeffißforeaderoldiood:; :t orion F L F dC l ingoa C fm lf urd, L ißvi Jou D foiro l raleftn S , PATe opo (From the Grananes Town Journi The Commander-in-chief pub li shes the f olio'.:4l•L o leney's orders in the Amatola. The our forces through this difficult country, pr a o. ,7'l l amine time from different points, seem to hav e of baffling the calculations of the Kadin, and est intention to resist our troops in their strouehiVel they have hastily abandoned one after acothei., . 11, tunng to risk the result of any decisive tumuli i ll The conduct of the o ffi cers and men empl t" ved i t services, which have been extremely h- thee is entitled to great praise : araasui g and it , 44.1 Fort Cox, August 1,1846 9 , Sir,—ln my letter of th e 28th ult. I acquai' the Commander-in-chief ' a i n f o rmationnted and l°4 move on the following m orn i ng to suppor""mell Andries Stockenstrom, in our proposed operarinnnf.,_witla and clearing the Amatola valley. It had been my to move my force at three o'clock in the mov nina — . 4l la arrive at daylight at the entrance to the ridge 11;4 4 , 14 I had been informed I could tak e my guns. Ta u : 7 411 however, of moving at so early an hour, I was c 0 ... 1 , --- "" 0 1, abandon, in consequence of a brisk fire having b ee4 — "‘ on the camp during the night, which led me t o a t: that the enemy might be i n some f orce in my neighbovh, and therefore that a march in the da r k might not aste --- "' with interruption from the en em y, b ut lead to *ln amongst my own form, from the fact of ito he w ,' wholly composed of fresh raisedA. ed Hottentot levie s ard companies. I consequently determi ne d not t o la * daybreak, having, however, as a precautionary e0 .„,...". 1 detached the Hottentot c om p an i es , under Captain Dra g s ag mo n th orders to possess themselves, of the high via :: hills that overlooked ca mp, and there to awaitin g with the guns and remaining part of the division. Ti t ; companies ascended the hill in perfect silence, and geia i d a , summit without being observed, killing a Kaffir seep, a Z had not perceived their approach. The distance f t *: camp to the entrance of the gorge through which Ire ' pass with my guns might perhaps be above three raile k I reached without seeing a single Kaffir. caused the kloofs to be entered by the Hottentot aatlF aa levies, whilst I moved on, keeping the head of the kkof -7 my guns and the detachment of the infantry of the I:: which were only su ffi cient to form their escort , la e a manner the kloofs were completely secured from the he a t s the valley on this side, and we continued our work mai i reached the hill which overlooks Fort Cox, I have great satisfaction in communicating to the NI. mender-in-Chief the very excellent conduct of the wb v i ia the force under my command ; particularly the Hate* companies and Fingoe levies, on whom devolved the * a , task of scouring the kloofs, a duty which they perfcemedi such a manner as to merit the greatest praise. Sir Andries' operations, as previously arranged bra * us, were directed to the hills and kloofs on the me * range, through which his force passed, carryi ng a n b is him" in his onward course. Their fire during the win & of the day was extremely brisk, and at times hemy ; * these operations, upon the whole, of which we had la ara. sional view from our several positions, must have bees et. tremely fatiguing, and were attended with complete seam having, as I learn, killed about 40 Kaffirs, and wawa( many more. On our side the loss was five killed sad thew wounded in my division ; the ascertained loss of the Min of bodies seen, was 37 killed, and I think the maker wounded must have been considerable, judging from th en. tremely heavy fire kept up during the day is the Weir I have no correct information of Sir Andries' loss, but lase from his aide-de-clamp that it was much the same as ewer'. Having moved along the range of mountain until I Masi that point which overlooks Fort Cox, I at first sight thought of proceeding to take up that position for the night, * having lost sight of Sir Andries, whose fire seemed, as far I could discover, to have ceased about 2 o'clock p.m., I sou apprehensive of losing my communication with him by t i k. ing up that position, and I therefore determined upset re turning to 23y camp,—a point from which I could ram readily co-operate with Sir Andries had he rette:ned to the head of the valley, and at which, as I eubsequently lea ad, he had formed his bivouac for the night. It is evident that the body of Karlin have left that talky, and do not think that, taking the whole of the small per ties that are concealed in the numerous kloofs therein, then are more than a few hundreds, and to this conclusion I as the mere led from the fact, that throughout our course a that day (the 30th of July), net a single head of anion seen by either Sir Andric+ division or mine. Sir Andries having yesterday sent his aide-de-camp to form me of his intention of moving from his bivouac at th wp h ro e: r d ched of pio t n li sgi e ii v oi a : ll h e t y eh , ew t o w eow o udrse m m iles oovfe d thi i n st e an thdae t my fro lgtob m t Bt m uno y :t eam mit p, fra ud th country about the sources of the Keiskama, I instantly& tided upon affording the co-operation of he whole day division by a movement also on this point ; and, after ay abut t wo l o'doti fo di ei v m pectL o y ed n este ,: d fr in t a nn e y , : h th arri e l re e s v :"i e i n :r g hal ed t h h e i fre :co , ii m m e a m , : mo u h yu n b t :ic u a hm r t al h i l o ) :;: i f s m: t a b d u e t te l me h Last . S m e ir en ith A c h r n a dri h d ea di es r Tai n di r e-d r. :3- e cam .y p t , hi t n h g at of l hi sh m o . uld have found ht The express containing his excellency's dispatch pa - . 24 to the camp during the night, and at the very moment dm arrival, on being forwarded to this place, I had the troop 11, bo uei o and sop the troops having marched here with only three days' bind plies,formedol ove r lookscar e nding w d ibhufitacrt o n back nthe rpeer e c ei ving remain tePv Ti f tt:mh the o y ti fn former remova l moving commun ica tio n position, ot°°f l oo k msy k 17 camp Duo t odtt for 4-oh ti c ei whirl in their haversacks, and without a single waggon, as oath previous move. Mr. Stretch having kindly . offered his services to move this dispatch will be able to explain anything which I me have omitted to mention.—l have, ite., J. II A R F., Colonel. Lieutenant-Colonel Cloete, K.H., Deputy- Quartermaster-General. P.S.-4 o'clock, p.m.—Sir A. Stockenstrom has jug arrived, having lett his division in the Amatola valley within a few miles of this. He proposes returning kerne diately to his camp at the Tyumie Hoek, for the purpose getting a :supply of provisions and ammunition, and . fa making arrangements to mare his camp to where mine is s present, under the Amatola height, and establiahing 11 , force somewhere about the Leney River, between Burn' Hill and the Tabendodo. These arrangements will take least four or five days. Sir Andries requests that I will communicate to his et cellency the satisfaction that he has experienced during th operations at the manner in which all under his comma performed their duty; and he would particularize th spirited conduct of the Fingocs under Mr. Crause as de serving of cepecial notice. Amatola Camp. Aug. 1. Sir,—l have the honour to report my proceetlingi fin( my late communication from Shiloh, where I posted my le wing in such a posture as to check the Tambookies as at as Kaffir,, and to be ready to join me to the south of tl great mountain range. Od the 21st ult. I proceeded to Elands Post, and ammo with Captain Sutton, to whose zealous co-operation I a much indebted, the necessary measures for the advance the Kat River Contingent into the field, and for the prow tion of that part of our frontier. On the 22nd 1 proceed' to the camp of my right wing, which I had ordend to tat post on the Chumie Ridge. Having communicated with]] Honour Colonel Hare, and Lieutenant Stoaes (deputed f that purpose by his Excellency the Commanderdn•Chief), marched the right wing to Block Drift on the as leaving the heavy baggage and waggons undira alts guard at that post, started thence at dusk on the 26th wi 700 men in expectation of attacking, at daybreak on t 27th, the great force of Kadin which was reported to ha concentrated in the forests at the head of the Chumie. I proceeded throughout the night, but as soon as day slaws became aware that the enemy had abandoned this sum hold. I nevertheless caused the several recesses to be scout to the tops of the mountains. Some shots were exchanj with straggling parties of Kafir, and a few of them se killed. I then deemed it important to push forward ] camp and show a determination to keep posseision of t country ; my waggons were, therefore, brought to the Chus missionary station during the night of the 2bth, and, hay on the same day communicated in person with Colonel at his camp, I made my preparations for attacking t Amatola mountains and fastnesses._ I had directed my left wing, under Commandant slosbe to move from Shiloh, 800 stnalg, to join the Kat River Cc tiagent, 400 strong, at the foot of the Louheary (Gs& kop), and fall on the Chumie forests from the north, whi I entered them from the south ; but a thick fog and the af take of the guide prevented that zealous commander fn joining me before the 28th. Soon after sunset on the 2f I left my encampment (in charge of Field-Cornet Krug with 200 men) GOO strong, and, taking up Joubert with I 1,200, ascended the western face of the Amatola ranee, t lesser summit whereof we reached about midnight. lien left a reserve of 500 strong in charge of our horses, and tached to my right Assistant-Commandant Botha, with of the Kat River Legion, to keep open my communicati with Colonel Hare, who was to make a iillitatanCOUS RIO' ment against the lower part of the Amatola, as agreed I tween us. An attack made on his Honour's camp during night, as perceived by us from the repeated volleys flashes of firing, delayed his Honour's march till morn" but not so as to diminish its efficiency. Whilst the darken continued we saw numerous lights throughout the whole, the Amatola kloofs and jungles, indicating a cent% t,tr.:e of great force. At daybreak my division rushed down eastern declivity with the utmost alacrity, in hope of so decisive struggle ; the alarm signals of the scouts were ho from every peak, and bodies of men were seen assembling the several elevations rising above the forests. Mr force' at once divided into several subdivision—every kloof, rapier, and bush, where any party of the enemy was P ceived, was rushed at and attacked with spirit. The m e saw that their only chance was in flight, and according after two or three attempts to concentrate in appareu tenable positions, they were seen to fall back from rdtr ridge, as they found us making our way through the thr est forests and the steepest mountains. Nothing dosero the name of a battle can be said to have taken place, but spirited rush of my men clearly struck panic into their op Dents, and whore an attempt at a stand was made, the del mination of the former put a speedy cad to the struge thirty-nine dead bodies of the Kaffir* were seen. and many more fell in the jungles as well as the newts wounded, it is impossible to estimate. The loss on our is five killed, and four severely wounded. About 3 p.m. my several detachments were seen desec ing the steep mountains much fatigued after the rcpca night marches and climbing and dercenling so many I cipitous elevations, but the Kaffir, except a few stingtil rl