Star. — London, England, 1830-10-22 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. The Times has, by express from Pant, the French papers ,:ourning and evening) of Wednesday, and several letters from their own private correspondents. The substance of them is, that by the determined exhibition, rather than ap plication, of military force, the tumults in Paris have been put down. The regiments of the line were on duty at the Palais Royal, with the National Guard, on Tuesday night. It is intended to increase the force of the latter in France to between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 of men. Several of the French Ministers, indeed all, with two exceptions, on Mon clay had determined to resign, for the purpose of relieving the King from the supposed unpopularity of their labours. On Tuesday the Duke de Broglie and M. Guizot did actually repair to the Palace, and tender their resignations to the King, who refused to accept them, his Majesty being deter mined not to yield the slightest concession to the sound of popular tumult. The Ministers remained and dined with his Majesty ; there will, therefore, for the present at least, be no change in the Administration. The Chamber of Depu ties will re-assemble about the 341 of November; tho Peers soon after. The trial of the ex-Ministers will not, as was yesterday thought, be unnecessarily postponed. The whole process will be conducted with firmness and dignity : any daring attempt at popular feeling will, on the instant, be put down by force. The Quotirlienne was stopped by post, for asserting that the King had suddenly left the Palais Royal under the influence of apprehension from the late tu mults, until the Post-office printers could insert a printed slip with each paper, giving, in three words, the lie to this assertion. The King had passed through the ordeal of ono revolution in his youth, and has no unworthy fears. Ile was for the moment disgusted at the affront put upon him by a riotous mob while employed in his own house, and in the bosom of his family. Had he intended to have gone to Neuilly, there was a lady at his elbow, who has, like him self, seen far worse tumults than these have been, and who would have dissuaded him from such a step. There was a rumour on the Paris Exchange on Wednes day evening, that Valdes and his corps had been cut to pieces in Spain; but the rumour came from the agents of A piado. " PARIS, IVIDIESDAT Ev!xrxo. " All is here tranquiL The King, at half-past one o clock this day, delivered their standard to the National Guard of Hendon in the Cour Royale of the Pabda Royal. His Majesty was in the full uniform of the National Guard, three of his sons (the Dukes of Orleans and Ne. mours, and the Prince de Joinville) wearing also that dress. General Lafayette and General Gerard were present. " The King spoke with great animation when presenting the colours ; but as the railings were closed, the centre of the area being reserved for the military spectacle, I could not hear the purport of his address. His reception, both from the military and people, was in the highest degree enthusiastic. The queen and the ladies of her family were in the baLaany • Last night passed off without any serious violation of the public tranquillity, nor do I apprehend :any, although I am quite aware there is a great effervescence among the ;lower classes, thousands of whom are unemployed; some through their own .folly in standing out from work with their mischievous:combinations, when there wu employment for them, until they turned the run of their particular traffic into other channels; and no small number, who cannot now obtain regular subsistence through their industry, owing to the great decline of their internal trade. These Idle people, many of whom deserve the discipline of your trcad.mill, while others are objects of great pity, live, like the great bulk of Frenchmen, in the open air. They throng the public places, and the Pelais Royal is, par excellence, the great centre of attrac tion : here they gossip and sing, read the newspapers, and, among other enjoyments of late, indulge in the agreeable recreation of dog. fights. " The uproar of the previous night had, as f expected it would, drawn together at sun-set last night a large concourse of people, the greater number evidently respectable, and what surprised the most, an unusual attendance of ladies. The noisy crew of the populace were, as usual, under the windows of the King's dining-room, giving him the shrill symphony of the MarselUais' and the ' Parisian,' and some occasion ally uttering Down with the Ministers,' Death to Polignee.' " The otgks of this mob were of short indulgence, for at nightfall the gate-keepers closed all the iron gates, except one small entrance. The grenadier company of the National Guard, on duty at the Palace, en tered the centre of the Court by beat of drum, hemmed in the song. eters as they did on the previous night, pushed them out into the colon. nodes, the iron railings were then everywhere dosed against the public, and the 19th regt. of the Line, about 600 or 700 strong I should sup pose from their appearance, marched into the area beneath the King's windows, formed a hollow square, in the centre of which they piled their arms, and immediately separated into groups, and commenced gossiping with the people in a friendly manner through the palisades. The sol diers in the line were in full marching order, knapsacks, canteens, &e. each with 30 rounds of ball.sartridge. " When the crowd were dislodged from the area of the Palais Royal, and driven into the side walks, a number of those suspicious -looking fellows, with cotton jackets and greasy cloth caps, who abound here, and resemble the Neapolitan lanaroni, were observed jostling and driving through the respectable portion of the throng. From these you heard urcAbionally the cry of Down-with the Ministers ;" Death to Polls nac !' Many decent people remonstrated with these brawlers; but the most effectual remonstrance was that of half-a-dozen grcaadient of the National Guard, who seized one of them by the beard, and lodged him in the adjoining guard-house. The persons in the glazed passage, which was crowded to excess, made a lane for the soldiers to bear off their prisoner, and testified, by a loud clapping of their hands, their approbation of the military interference. •• The crowd, who were disposed for mischief, finding the chances rather against them in the Palais Royal, passed out through the ave. nuts Into the Rue St. Honors, where they recommenced their orgies. There were here some faint cries Vive la Republique ;' and what ap peared to me remarkable was, that the principal yell of 'Death to tbe Ministers,' came from fellows wbo were in cabriolets upon the Place du Palais Royal. I went amongst them, and they seemed to be well. dressed fellows. This pan of the tumult was of short duration, for the National Guards advanced from the 'Ninnies, the Louvre, and all the surrounding military stations, the drums every where beating the rappel, and swept these people, cabriolets. fumes, and all, into the Rue St. Honore, bearing them on through that narrow street towards the Market of the Innocents. The mob fell back as the National Guards tame abreast of them, crying, • Vive la Garde Nationale !' ran down the narrow streets right and left, and endeavoured to regain their central ;round roar the Palais Royal; but the effort was in vain : the National Guards were already in cordon around this neighbourhood, and debar red them from all further access. " The only confusion which I saw tending to produce accident was at the corner of the street which leads horn the Post-office into the Rue St. Honori. The mails had been delayed nearly two hours, I under. stood, for the purpose of conveying to the provinces the Supplement to the Matthew., with the King's speech is the Palsis Royal, as well as orders to the sea ports to exaroine minutely a certain class of strangers, who are said to mingle very "such in these Parisian rows. It is, indeed, very probable that tilliPlßatiks of all kinds endeavour to make a harvest tf them. At the corner of the street all the mail-coaches had to pass through this throng. The cracking of the postillions' whips, the lamming of the women whe got into this burly-burly, the beating of drums, the uproar of the cabrolet, !'acre, and Omnibus people, and .he monotonous demand of the platoons of guards to retire, pro •'uced the most extraordinary discord I ever beard, but passed off, I be. less, without the occurrence of any serious accident. I was in the ,fight of this melie, pushed with a drummer, into a cone-house ; he ..utubled over the step, drum, cap and all ; but the room was full of .' , ..mino-playen, who were at work in the midst of the deafening street mProar with the most imperturbable gravity. " The streets were cleared about half past 11 o'clock t 54,000 of tbs National Guards were on duty in the str. , ets until midnight, 3,000 troops of the line, with two corps of cavalry. " Several people were, I understand, artested las; night; but again I must remark as a most singular circumstance, that notwithstanding all these arrests I see the same little knot of boys in the thick of these nightly throngs: last night I saw two of them, who have been, to my direct knowledge, at the head of each of these groupes for the last fort night, and yet they are still at large. If their faces have become fami liar to me, I do not assume too much in supposing they must be also known to the polite; and in that case why are they not in custody ? They are about 18 or 19 years of age, and always well dressed. I see them in the day-time, constantly smoking cigars in the Palais Royal. Perhaps as every thing is done here through the convolutions of a cir cuitous policy,the police have employed agents of this kind themselves. " I am informed that the Interrogations of the prisoners apprehended within the last two nights establish the fact, that ex-Royalist agents have largely participated in these nightly tumults. " The posts of the National Guards are now so strengthened, and the men so ready to perform their duty, that not the least apprehension need be entertained from popular violence. " The Chamber of Peers are not expected to re-assemble before the 11th of November. " There is a private meeting at the French Chamber of Commerce now sitting. The discussion is upon the establishment of something like your warehousing system. There is, I understand, some division of opinion, some merchants wishing to have the bonding lock in their own private warehouses, and the Government wishing to have a common en trepot." An Extraordinary Supplement to the Monitevr appeared at a late hour on Tuesday evening, containing what follows s— " Crowds again assembled last night in the courts of the Palais Royal, uttering the same cries and the same threats by which all good citizens have been for some days disturbed and offended. The courts were promptly cleared by the National Guard ; but the crowds re-as sembled on the Place in front of the palace, and the same cries were con tinued. At the same time a number of individuals went through various quarters of the city, endeavouring to excite the people to unite and march oo the Palais Royal. But everywhere they failed, and their language was received with universal marks of indignation. " At nine o'clock this morning, the King, in the uniform of the Na tional Guard, descended into the court of the Palais Royal, occompartied by his Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans, General Lafayette, and Marshal Gerard, the Minister at War. " The court of the Palace was filled with those spectators who every morning at that hour take a pleasure in seeing the guard mounted and dismounted. There were there assembled detachments of the sth and 6th legions of the National Guard a pied, of the sth company of the 3d squadron of the National Guard a ebeval, and the post of grenadiers and voltigeurs of the 31st Regiment of the Line. " His Majesty was desirous of testifying his satisfaction at their firm, vigilant, and devoted conduct during the afternoon of yesterday and the whole of the night. " Scarcely had his Majesty appeared in the Court, when the crowd collected round him. Cries of ' Vive le Roi ' were heard on all sides ; and such were the acclamations, that it was long before silence could be restored. "The King delivered the following address to the National Guard a pied s "My dear Comrades—l come to thank you for the seal you display. ed last night in maintaining the public tranquillity, and in preserving the Palais Royal from a band of senseless agitators, whose ridiculous attempts will fall upon themselves by means of the good understanding ' we have evinced, and of the promptitude with which you have remised them. What I, and what we all, wish is, that the public peace may not be disturbed by the enemies of that real liberty and of those institu. dons which France has conquered, and which can alone preserve us from anarchy and all its concomitant evils. It is time to terminate this de., plorable agitation ; it is time that the maintenance of public order should restore confidence; that that confidence should bring back is activity to commerce, and secure to every one the free exercise of all the rights which it is the duty of the Government to protect and to guarantee--- With your concurrence, with your patriotism, and with the assistance of the respectable General and the brave Marshal, whom I rejoice at all dines to see beside me, we shall accomplish this noble task. Ever de- voted to my country, ever faithful to the cause of liberty, my first duty is to maintain the empire of the laws, without which there is neither liberty nor security for any one, and to secure the force necessary foe it. slating those attacks by which it is attempted to disturb that liberty and that security. Yon will continue to second me with your generous efforts, and:you may count on me as I do on you.' " The crowds on the Place du Petals Royal having been dispersed by the National Guard, a band of from 400 to 500 individuals took the road to Vincennes, by the faubourg St. Antoine. A few of them car tied fire-arms, and others batons. On their arrival at Vincennes they required that the ex-Ministers should be given up to them. General %mann having replied to them as became his character and his duty, they returned to Paris, and appeared again at the Palais Royal, uttering the same cries. The National Guard assembled from all points and In less than half an hour the Place and the surrounding streets were evacuated, the most turbulent were arrested, and the crowds were dis persed, and good order was completely restored. " One hundred and thirty-six individuals were carried to the Pre. (atm of Police, and immediately underwent a preliminary nomina tion. On the Place du Palais Royal, at the very spot where the arrest took place, a number ofplacards were found, several of which, betraying thus their origin, contain violent attacks on the person of the Ring. A severe investigation will take place as to the true authors of these dis turbances, which inspire so just an antipathy on the part of the popula. tiou. The laws 31141 the courts of justice will do their duty upon them. 1 The peace of a great people must not be compromised by a few busy. bodies, who foment the basest passions, mislead the credulous, and directly or indirectly promote the most wicked designs. " The National Guard is worthy of the greatest praise. Its conduct has hem prompt, firm, and judicious. It perfectly understood and fut. filled its mission : it maintained good ()icier, while it acted on the side of justice and of liberty. " Ilia Majesty then addressed the National Guard a Area " My Comrades —I come to tell you how much I value your efforts for the maintenance of public tranquillity and for the defence of our R. betties, of which they would rob us by plunging us into disorder. It is time that these disturbances should cease; it is time to show ourselves worthy of the name of Frenchmen, by defending our institutions against the attacks of anarchy, after having so gloriously triumphed over thou of despotism. It is thus that we shall consolidate our liberties ; it is thus that the hope will be realized, which I proclaimed so joyfully, that the Charter may henceforth be a reality. The King having passed into the outer coon, found there a piquet of the National Guard and the post of the 31st Regiment of the Line, whom he addressed as follows : 1, ' Comrades of the National Guard and of the Line,—l saw last night, with equal pleasure and satisfaction, that you rivalled each other in real, and that you so promptly repressed the in. sensate movement by which the peace and repose of the capital were disturbed. Ever devoted to my country, and to the defence of those liberties and those institutions which I have sworn to maintain, and to which we shall all be constantly faithful, I ought, and we ought all, to repel the unworthy attacks, with whatever mask they may be coveted, and to answer what France is entitled to expect from us. To this I shall devote myself as long as I and I have no doubt of success. " The Quoudienne says to-day, that in consequence of the distill's ances of yesterday, the King and his family had retired to Neuilly. An order was immediately sent to the Post Othee not to allow the numben of this journal to pass without two words of a supplement,contradicting this absurd piece of intelligence. " , NATIONAL. GUARDS OF PARIS. " ' ORDER OT TIC DAT OF TIM 19T= OCT. " ' Although the Ring himself expressed this morning to the Na. Good Guard on service near his person his satiates and his gratitude not only with regard to the post sad the reserves at the Push Royal, but to all the legions who, in she course of yesterday and through. ant the night hare hen magas in seal for the maintenance of pub. I lie order, his Majesty bas charged tae Gcceral•in.Utief to transmit to his brethren in lt:11, the assurance of these sentiments. A great nutnb:r of spoca:,)74 had sn opportunity of witnessing how the Royal confidence and approbation were given and received. These are new and mutual pledges of devotedness to the cause of the revolution effected by the heroic population of Paris, and which the enemies of liberty and publ:: peace, under various pretexts, arc so anxious to endo. The Genaal.in-Chief, proud of commanding this patriotic Nattonal Guard, after having, in common with it, enjoyed the public confidence, of which it is justly the object, wishes also specially to express his thanks for the firmness, the zeal, and devotedness, which have been ex hibited throughout yesterday and last night. It is evident that now, as during the first years of the revolution, time enemies of liberty would wish to see it disgraced by anarchy, sullied by crime, and misunderstood by the peaceable citizens, who would greatly err in confounding it with the causes of those disturbance. which are the means of destroying their quiet, interrupting their industry, and interfering with public order.— Certainly it is not by such means that what we have gained by the glorious revolution of time great week ran be consolidated, and that we shall obtain what is necessary to complete the regeneration of France on the basis of imetfect freedom. without restriction as without alloy, on foundations worthy of the revolution effected by a generous people, acquainted at once with their rights and their duties. " • The people are now too enlightened to become the dupes of their disguised adversaries, too well informed to be trained on by men who would only mislead them, too just not to be horrified at those vocifera tion, which would disturb the course of justice, and would dishonour us among nations accustomed to the principles aed the forms of true liberty, and too proud of their present gluey, to descend from the high station to which we have been raised by our new revolution. No, such an evil is not reserved for an old servant of the popular cause, who con. gratulates himself that be has lived long cnough to sec its pure and glorious triumph. " It is especially to that portion of his fellow.citizens who already form the National Guard, to his dear brethren in arms, that the Gene ral Commanding-in-Chief ought now to repeat the assurance of his sa tisfaction, his gratitude, and his entire confidence in the truly patriotic spirit of liberty and public order of which they have given these new proofs. " LAPAYETTI:.." The Prefect of the Police and the Prefect of the Seine have published proclamations on the subject of the tumults. From the proclamation of the latter we extract the following remarkable passage : " An 111-timed measure may have caused it to be supposed that there existed a concert for interrupting the course of justice with respect to the late Ministers. Delays, which are merely the fulfilment of forms that give to justice a more solemn character, have accredited and ford. bed this opinion, of which our intractable enemies, always on the watch to disunite us, are eagerly availing themselves. Hence this popular emotion, which, with well-meaning men and good citizens, has no other origin than a real misunderstanding. FRENCH Fuxus, Pima, Oct. 20.—Five per Cents, 941 50c 65e 75c 85c 110 c 75c 70c Pc 80c. Four per Cents, 821. Three per Cents. 8M 00c 50e 60e 65c 80c 7k. Bank Stock, 1,690 f 1,680 f. itente de Naples, 62f 61f We 82f 621 25c 62f 10c. Bente d'Eapagne, 16g. Royal Spanish Loan, 46. Rente Perpetuelle d'Ettpagne, 37 361. Ex change on London, one month, 2M 20e ; three months, 2M 10c. IRELAND. Freeman's Journal Ole, ram o'Clock, p. as. IMPORTANT. We hasten to on:monk:ate to our readers Intelligence for which few of them are prepared. The Military Secretary jealous of the laurels reaped by the Duke of Northumberland, through the exercise of a law now universally admitted to be one of the most unconstitutional and despotic with which an individual was ever armed for the destruction of the liberties of a nadon—hu issued a proclamation prohibiting the meeting of a society which was this day about to be formed for the purpose of obtaining legislative relief for Ireland.-- This act of ,the military representative of the Dictator is in strict accordance :with the convolution which took piece be tween his " Highness's and Lord F. L. Gower relative to the " odious imposts," which we were from private sautes ambled to publish. It will be recollected, that when, on that midget, the Noble Lord (F. L. Gower) expressed his reluctance to enforce the payment of the abousi. noble taus then in contemplation, his " Highness" replied, " Very well, I shall send a man to Ireland who will do it." lie knew that his ' aid.de-camp, accustomed to obey, would notishrink from the exercise of any law, however arbitrary or oppressive. The gallant Secretary:his fully realised his anticipations...he has issued his anathema against the expression of public opinion —he has wielded the sceptre of despotism against the privileges of Irish Freemen. His command will, of course, be obeyed. The people of Ireland will be regulated in their con duct respecting it by the advice of Mr. O'Connell. But if we are not much mistaken, a thousand such proclamations would not be sufficient to check the progress of that great question—the repeal of the Union-- to mar which this ordinance is directed. Patrols of armed police are at this moment to be seen in every quarter of the town. There is no oc casion for such a display. The people will obey the law. The first public notice of the Society appeared in an evening paper last night. The assiduity of Sir Henry will be the more appreciated by his master, when he learns that, notwithstanding his being engaged in entertaining a novel group of guests, which we shall notice to.morrow, he did not let even one night pass without manifesting the enormous and unconstitu tional power with which he is invested. At four o'clock this morning we understand the King's printers were roused from their slumbers to print the following, which was posted all over town at an early hour. By the Lord Lietatenant•General and General Governor eff Ireland. A PROCLAMATION. NOZTRU )(WEILAND, Whereas, by an Act passed in the tenth year of his late Majesty's reign, untitled "An Act for the Suppression of dangerous Associations or Assemblies in Ireland," a power is vested in the Lord Lieutenant, or other chief Governor, or Governors of Ireland, by his or their Pro. ' chimation or order, to prohibit or suppress any association or mein. bly, or meeting of persons in Ireland, which he or they shall deem to be dangerous to the public peace or safety, or inconsistent nub the due administration of the law, or any adjourned, renewed, or otherwise continued meeting of th e same, or of any part thereof, under any name or pretext, or device whatsoever. And whereas,it bath been made known to Us, that an association or assembly, or meeting of persons is formed, or is about to be formed in the city of Dublin, under the name of the Irish Society for Legal and 1 Legislative Relief, or the anti. Union Association. And whereas we deem the existence of the said association, assembly, or meeting of persons to bedangeroua to the public peace. We, therefore, the Lord Lieutenant General, and General Governor of Ireland, being resolved to suppress the same. do hereby prohibit the meeting of the said association, assembly. or meeting of persons, and all adjourbed, renewed, or otherwise continued meetings of the same, or of any part thereof, under any name, pretext, or device whatsoever ; and being determined and resolved strictly to enforce the law and the penalties thereof, against all persons offending in the premises, do charge and command all Sheriffs, alayors, Justices of Peace, and all other Magistrates, Officers, and others whom it may concern, to be aiding and assisting in the execution of the law, in preventing the meeting of said association, assembly, or burly of persons, and in the effectual Wiper. aion and suppression of the sane, and in the detection and prosecution of those who, after this notice, shall offend in the respects aforesaid. Given at his Majesty's Castle of Dublin, this lath day of October, 1 1830. By his Graces Command, H. HARDING& GOD SAVE THE KING. ANOTHER PRiiCLA3IATION I A notice, in the following word•, appeared in the piper of yester day and the dap preceding : " Gentlemen of all penuasions having intimated their wish to form a Society for Legislative Relief, there will De a meeting held on Tues. day at the Parliamentary Offi ce , t o ma k e t h e necessary arrangements. The chair will be taken at half-past one o'clock. Tickets, one shilling each, to be had at the door. N.B. A strong whit has been apresaed to can the Society ' The Anti-Union Associatko,' which will be then discussed." We have here an intimation regarding a society used to be formed. We have a notice that a certain assembly was to take place, to make neareary anangements," which must of mune, have been profited. warp. We have a statement that, for the Wended society, no name had been definitively fixed upon. The expediency eladoptiag 4 woe, e.g Rested by some persons, was to be dimuati.—Roe and ease were to be taken is the suggested name, and fee aught any one could tell, it might have been rejected; indeed it was within the bounds of passibility that the meeting assembled to make the " neaisary anangementa," might have deinilA upon the expedieccv of making no a:rang••m, ilia at all on the prevent oczaitan. All het z 'he caw, the wise !ioople at the h:ui th' affair% here avtoundoil the nt i, yeattri.iy mornin 4 , by pro mulgating the fallowin; manifesto - (Here is the proelamai in.: : above.) This is an edict for the suppression ,aciety that never was formed, and whose very name was to become a sitlij:c: of preliminary discus,iim ! We have heard of an er post fact. is worse than its counter part. It would be without a prccederr. i there was not a decree to dis solve the Chambers even before they w:ite issembled. The edict will be implicitly obeyed. There never wa, pvtple more determined to be peaceable than the Irish are at prescr. . I is the whim or the policy the authors of this manifesto to make ..inazing parade of militaly strength, anti fdl the empty barracks by r, re than their dee proporibri of the unemployed soldiery. As fat a, 1.: 1 : rods the public peace, the demonstration, we assure them, it itimmessary. If even a re wail were °Feted for a decent ri vt, we (i f' •• t:lulti produce one. SPIRIT O!•' TIIF CHUONICLE.....it is impossible for us to I are without notice the fol lowing passage in the leading article of v steday's riltlet. which Ws " The armed inhabitants of Brussel:, wet,, invited his (the King's) troops within their walls to protect tlicnt t.nst the rabble, eag7r for pillage and conflagration, and then subjeci,•l them to murd.aous a•tacks, could not be spoken of with any degree ui tavour, as they added • tr..a chery to rebellion !' " Now we;liappen abe informed, froat able authority,that Prince Frederick, in ju ation of his attack, she wed to M. Pourbaix, the Chief of the Li:go:is, wits went to his Royal i I iga. nom 'en Parliamentaire during the right of Ibursday (lst day's coai hat) a bundle of letters from some of the Bourgeois of Brussels,inviting 'inn to enter the town with his troops, and drive from its walls a ' poign , e J, s klutins.' At the tint, tieiniet • !linage no, • conflagration' was appre hended. Pourbaix and his brave hand of • Ouvricrs' wete ready anved to twined the city front every internal end external attack. It Was t he • thachery* of a few cowardly Bourgeois of Brussels that exposed the lives of their noble defender* of the Liegos to the murderous attacl , s' of th.l Dutch, and cruelly deceived the Prince. The Tinges and Courier should not be allowed so quietly to said t their ground and slide, without remark, into their new view of the Belgic question.— Aided by the representations of Mr. Cartwright and by their Brussels correspondents, they have blinded ete public mind of England to the real merits and state of the Belgic cause. The truth, however, has now been forced upon us, despite their endeavours to keep England in the dark. As long as a doubt ex:Sted of the Belgians' success, it was theirs to flatter the feelings of the English Aristocrats, by denouncing the Belgian patriots as brigands, insurrectianists, and unprincipled re bell,. At length these two Papers have turned with the tide, and they both afford a beautiful specimen of disinterested consistency in the lan guage which they now employ, in describing the progress of the Belgians to the assertion of their nehly-t:quited independence, as a nation. Texts.—The proclamation of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, pub lished in this day's Times, will attest that we have not in former nu-ot hers over-rated the importance which might reasonably be sus:heti to the machinations of a certain Irish party, fur erecting a repeal of ti Union. The Duke of Northumberland—authorized, no doubt, hr the Cabinet—has acted upon the law passed in the tenth ye ,r of George IV. " for the suppression of dangerous associations or assemblies in Ire land:* and has used the power vested in his Excellency by that .I t, to suppress the " Anti-Union Association." Mr. O'Connell tak:s s•red'r, or receives it from some Irish letters, for calling upon the peorle to re. spent the Lord Lieutenant's proclamation, and to obey the Lis. could not very well have done otherwise with regard either to his Nt. sons! interests, or to those of any public object. As fur the wisdom of the proclamation itself, unquestionably, if the anti-Union spirit was to be opposed at all by coercive or prohibitory measures, an early it._ terference on the part of Govemment would teem to be the most hopeful of success; that iglu, say, in case of a probability that the cause was likely, when let alone, to grow and spread amongst the people. We confess that the subject appears to us to be not without many difficulties. A regularly organised association, meeting not once or twice and dien dissolving, but adjourned from day to day, and continuing its exisunc. and consolidating its power, and concentrating the force of opinion its own hands, or in those of two or three of its leaders, would be :moth:. Catholic Association, bearding the constituted legislature of the counts , and wielding the bulk of the Irish nation at its own arbitrary pleasut... To those who feel of what enormous value to any political purpose, whether good or bad, is the habitual and open exercise of Au thority over large masses of le, it will be easily intelligible that the Irish Government should wish to meet this new agitatio4 expedient at the threshhold, and thus close up one vent at least throug't which mischief might break forth upon society. But will the bptTll cease to ferment among those to whom public discussion is prohibited ' We fear not. We fear that public discussion itself,—to say nothi ig firiate and eager confederacy , _ under circumstances into which no pa cevcan petietrate,—will not be stopped or so much as crippled by thl, resistance to One only amongst the thousand forms through which it can, by a little dexterity, be promoted. If men are not suffered ta meet and debate in the morning, they will be apt to do so in the after. noon. If they cannot debate where discussion is the ostensible business. they will advertbe for one sat of rneeting,and turn the occasion to thing different from the avowed object for which they assemble. It they cannot debate, they may at any rate dine together ;—if they cannot dine, they will sup -,—if prevented from meeting by public notice, they will send round whispers intimating when they may see each other by accident. There is no end to the !varieties of mode by which the std. mulus of discussion may be administered to a susceptible people, whets the thing proposed is one in which they feel a rational and substantial interest. Utterly condemning the *hone of a separation between these islands, as one which goes at once to the root of the British empire, we are nevertheless, constrained to ask by what mesas can the semi. aunt in favour of that project be enfeebled ? To cheek the expressions of such a feeling is by no means without fur. thee interposition, to diminish its force. Of the upper l'a. 'holies, and of the gentry of Ireland as a class, it may be taken for granted that a repeal of the union can have no charms for them. Its supporters will be found among the priests, who are aware that the Protestant church must fall as the necessary result of a separation ; the Dublin shopkeepers, who want the custom of a resident and numerous aristocracy; an lastly, Mr. O'Connell's peculiar allies, the mob. t o whom change itself, for the love of change, IS a temptation beyond their fortitude. Let that be as it will, the anti.union mania. if through bad fortune it should be widely propagated, must receive a pOWIitUI, and erectual, and final rebuke. The existence of the state cannot be kft fur Mr. O'Connell and his manteuvring brethren to play with. Pose.—A proclamation has just been issatd by the laird Lieutenant of Ireland, prohibiting, by virtue of the powers of an Act of Parliament passed concurrently with that for the relief of the Rcruan Catholic*, the intended meetings of the Anti-Union Asspeiatiem. That some imaeure of this nature had become necessary, no man who has read the recent accounts front Ireland can entertain the least tinutit We trust this dis play of firmness and resolution on the part of the Goren mint will prove sufficient to put an end to popular agitatien on thy: Plibitet of a Repeal of the Union, which the recent history and the pre. leen state of Ireland equally warrant us in aaytng could not long have 'been permitted to continue without conveque nee,' the more ir,jortous to the peace and welfare of the country. If, however, the mesooty rheuld not suffice for the purpose 4 has in view. we do not tri•ate to say that other and more partly' ciirrtetivcs must b,f ministered. The dernagoguee, who have evinced a 44ot:title to employ the subject of the Union as tittatis of distort awe and injury to Iceland. must at all suers Pr .heeled and humbled. They are the enemies of their country. and to ttlerate thior Mgs would be to participate in their int dated (lister. proceedings requires peace, as the Indtspeaaih!e preliminary to her prosperity, as the principal condit , cn upon which de r . the success of whatever efforts have hen, or may he made it, rescue her from the condition of comparative poreny sod de. gradation into which she has fallen Of the truth of this prettied:Jen no doubt is entertained or professed by any honest man, who prelim.* the ordinary degree of intelligence. The claM: to a repeal of the Union is believed by all men of this deticripticn to be not rely an absurd but a hopeless claim. It is plainly teen that it its'dd to nothing but agitation and disquiet—that its only pie table result is to deprive Ireland of that internal peace which above all things is essential to her welfare. What it, such circumstances is the met e.reil and obvious policy of A Government which wishes to pit re Melt she friend and protector of Ireland I Precisely that which we now see nasal to Lope the Irish Rosen:meat has de finitively adopted. The entbusiarte mirucates of the eght eti free and unlimited discussion will perhaps find Mte prised for censure in the course which the Irish ficvemeneet has pur sued upso this occasion. They will vrobably deny that any circum stances tan justify an ir.vasion of this right, and contend that the Irish demagogues should have been kA to pursue without re. laming their pioject: of agitatiem, inasmuch as its sweets mull only have been in proportion to the degree of public auntie's and sympathy it might happen to excite. To this clam of reasoner. we need only to reply, that the safety and welfare of a nation &reponse/at considetatioes, which are entitled to the preference over any me. does of abstract right, supposing the two so be plainly I. competition. Who, Indeed, would hesitate to samelo an individual hum the kink of a precipice. doom which he seemed shoot to kap. hone veneration to the abstract right of personal herdoot P The dir. mass of the Union mionloo, as it would certainly have been tamed salty the agitators ia Leland who had aorlertaltra it, could not ham failed to predate gnat injury is that country. and us the empire at ur ge This is emottih it. p Oto prove that it was the imret he dui: of rrentinea t to sappers 1 , I I)