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Office of Ordnance, Jan. 27,1834. ,„ - • I. 4ilk \t'-''''''.* 0 1 ,1i4 • -e , ( f*oir4ll .k...k‘,..w.1,..... _ (Ikt• b • , ~ • ~,_ ~,,,,,,,,,,....,•_......_. a z , a. ~,,, „d 7". V .,, : t 2 *il.- t,: - / f :, \ :l,,: : ‘, \ r - !, :° . , 4/.- -,•,,,, ,, -, A .... g ".7 .4 - :: 5,., : 4, #,.. .. ‘ ,._ ,:c... ..,u ~.., , . 0 - . ~ IA •-•• 44.- f . ./...- 4 ) ' , f ' --1 4/ 111111k , c • ( ... 0 , , ,,,\4,2 251 . t, 4 ......., : .- ... 4 1 ,;• ~, , ,,,„,„w e z4., . 1 / 2 , - - 4,..b -..--.. 1. ''" '4I ' ilittni— Ro -- -,,--..„-r---s- - .T. , : foi , ..,, " ‘ ,MO .. 'r," 14,1ru, al : et N._ A' 1, i..ISJ 4 . .... ._ _ ' „ .ogz - E . ...-.. ~. *, .,.4 ‘•....—../ - - 1 , . . LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 18:34. o. 2,915.) (PR/CE TO THE CLERGY AND T. AT OF THE CHURCH ABOLITION OF TIIE CORN LAWS. —(Cries of "That will never do.") It was a blot of, the Government of the country that the corn laws had been suffered to oppress the community so long. They bad an inevitable tendency first to produce - distres., and then revolution. The Gallant Colonel sat down amidst loud cheers. FRENCH PAPEIt S OF WEDNESDAY. OF ENGLAND. The great press of matter of •ital interest to the Church of England at the present crisis has induced the' Pro prietors of The Indieateur ia Bordeaux of the 26th inst. says— " We yfatetd ty learned officially by a courier extraordinary, that the Spanish Government has issued two ordinances for the immediate convocation of the Cortes par esta mentos." • 91 - 1 . ; HE BRITISH MAGAZINE, and e- Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, to Give with the FEBRUARY Nums,er an EXTRA SHEET. the price being as usual 2s. 6d. J. Turrill and T. Clerc Smith, 250, Regent-street. DUFFIL could not sit silent longer than the forms of precedence obliged him, while be heard the gentleman who preceded him maintain the right of the landed interest to compensation in the event of the abolition of the corn laws.—(Cheers.) The Tory boroughmougers, when the Reform Bill was about to pass into a law, demanded compensation for the borougba-they were on the eve of losing, .and they undoubtedly had as good a right to: it at the landed aristocracy, There was no gradual abo lition of tht law which prohibited the importation of silks and other articles of foreign manufacture, and which has ruined the English manufacturers. The flee trade, as the weavers in Spitalfielas could testify, in silks and satins was opened up all at once. And why ? Because the aristocracy were the princi pal consumers of those articles—they gained by the measure. But the same aristocracy, though favour able to a free trade in every thing else, were op posed to a free trade in corn. 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MURDER.—Thursday last an inquest was held in the Louth Hospital, before John Byrne, Esq., Coroner, upon the body of John M'Guinness, en old man, upwards of 70 years of age, who died there the preceding evening. The deceased, who had been many years a tithe proctor, went on Friday the 27th inst., in company with one Jahn Henderson, to view the parish of Roach, in that neighbourhood, by direction of Mr. Lloyd, Tithe Com missioner. When they came upon the (Inds of Ballinful, at two o'clock in the day, about 100 men ran towards them crying, .6Dawn with the tithe men." The deceased was on foot, and Henderson, who was armed with a pistol, mounted his horse and rode off to Dundalk, in order to info: tn Mr. Lloyd, but that gentleman was from home. Hen derson then procured a party of police, under die com mand of Captain Jones, and returned to the spot where he left M'Guinness, whom they found lying at the back of a ditch, nearly insensible. He was removed to the Louth Hospital, where he lingered until Wednesday even- I ng- It f ur th er appeared, b y t h e ev i dence of Henderson, ,that when he was riding into Dundalk a man cried out to Down with the tithe proctor ;" he also named other facts, which it would not be prudent to mention.— Drogheda Journal. l Tw o gentlemen, travelling northward from ni for o tii,eittrocopmolis i t , t h e ma i l coach last week, found a lady conversation withl.cl h n t on de voyage, who en t ere d i n t o a n im a t e d she corn em, esp ec i a ll y w i t h t h e younger , w h om plimented on th e lib erality of his sentiments on th e various subjects hi m , it 1 perceive, of discourse. At length she said to Mi I ke tienc,eyou are a titan of the world• ght ta of much conthe as king your opinio n o n an a ff a i r seq liberty of 'Ey journey? A near r t e a l and which now occasions to me an estate in Irelandaor' lately deceased, has willed ing entailed with a mortgage considerable amount, but be of 1 ,2001., which must be immediately paid up, 1 aina lo s s how to raise this sum." The gentleman gave his best advi c e .ounk)this affair, and they proceeded to converse on vario us the incognito delivering her sentiments with great free dom, ouch a fluency of language as made her cot e:dm, and with ipaafnions anxious to see the countenance of so accomplished But they were not so gratifie.l, for she was put down at vil lage near Grantham (where she said a friend resided) ' a ) they only got a glance of her as she desc en d e d , shout and t dawn of the morning. The sun arose, and t h ey were regretting that they had lost the conversation of so agreeable a companion, when the young gentleman pulled out his watch, which was secured round his neck by a steel guard, and discovered that the Irish Heiress had eased him of a valuable gold chain and seals, which were attached to 6,, watch by a spring swivel. Site was well dressed, with a handsome shawl, and closely veiled, no . doubt to preserve her ineoynita....Aberdeen Herald. A very numerous meeting took place yesterday, 'morning, at the CroWn and Anchor Tavern, for the purpose of deciding on the most ,efficient means of obtaining a removal of the " Bread Tax grievance." Colonel Perronet Thompson took the chair shortly after one o'clOck. Amongst the gentlemen present were Sir J. S. Lilly, Colonel Stanhope, &c. The CHAfRAIAN addressed the meeting at some length. According to the statements of thekop ponents, it was a most unfortunate thing to be pros perous. They likeWiie said that, because the land owners.were heavily inited, they were to enjoy the, present. monopoly. But why not lower these taxes, and thus. alloiv the people to have cheap liread? The Gallant Colonel . then read an extract from the. Bdinburwli. Review, from which it appeared, that no less 2a sum than ten millions was taken froin the pockets of the people annually in the shape of poor rate's, &c. Now, he contended - that the landlords themselves had created the poor rates. They had first created the grants, and'they soon taxed the people to destroy them. They like wise affirmed that the continuance of the corn jaws was necessary to recompense the landlords fal'the loss Oki the's. He contended that the tithes were taken actually from the pockets of the people. With the knowledge of these wrongs, it now remained for them to consider what to do to obtain a repeal of this odious impost. A print, in the interest of their adver saries, had lately stated that the question of the re peal of the corn laws was one of mere expediency, and that there would doubtless, in the ensuing ses sion of Parliament, be a number of skins of parch ment defaced with the hieroglyphics of factory chil dren and paupers.—(Shame.) This was always the treatment they received—first injury, then in sult. He would advise the meeting to follow this advice—to deface skins of parchment with hiero glyphics, and let every man sign his name, and, if he had them, those of his ten children.—(Hear.) Mr. CRAWFORD, one of the expected candidates for Marylebone, rose to move the resolutions, among which was the following:— . . . " That all classes be invited to unite in timely re moving the evil and peril cf the corn laws ; and that in particular a call be made upon the liberal Aristocracy, to put themselves at the head of the public feeling, and give society the guarantee of their influence and direction." A friend of his, and what was more, of the people, the well-known author of the " Catechism of the Corn Laws," had told us, that if Noah had formed a resolution to exclude ft= the ark all corn that had not grown in i►, there would soon have been a mutiny. The people of this island were in a some what similar predicament at present. The landed interest of England enjoyed a monopoly over the population of the country in - the article of corn. It was their duty to modify that monopoly ; but in stead of that they only aggravated it.—(Cheers.) Let them only compare what they paid for corn, with what they ought to pay for it. The quantity of grain consumed in this country was estimated at 52,000,000 quarters per year. In London the price of this was nearly 80,000,0001., while at Antwerp it was only 50,908,4391. ; at Paris, 46,468,75(/.; at Amsterdam, 42,513,9631. ; at Hamburg, 41,846,2041. ; and at Stettin, 34,303,1111. ; being equal to 57 per cent. which we paid more than in Antwerp, 72 more than in Paris, 88 more than in Amsterdam, 91 snore titan in Hamburg, and 133 more than in Stettin.—(Cheers.) It had been said by those who upheld the corn laws, that were a free admission of corn into En gland_ permitted, the consequence would be a rise in the price al► the world over. He (Mr. Crawford) denied this. He would instance the case of a free trade in cotton, coffee, &e. The consumption was vastly increased, but there had been no increase of price, notwithstanding the amount of duty reduced. To suppose that such rise in price would be the consequence of the free importation of corn into this country, was to make us a mighty people indeed. —(Cheers.) The sum the people of England paid to support the cora laws was enormous. Supposing that sum were only 30,000,0001, that would be 3,100,0001. more than the interest of the national debt. It was more by a great deal than all the national debt of America.—(Hear.) The house and window duty was bud, but this was really too bad —(Cheers and laughter.) The corn tax was not the only tax which put money into the pockets of landed gentlemen. They had a bounty in their favour for many other productions of the soil. There were timber, bark, butter, cheese, with at least twenty other articles, which, though the importation of them was not prohibited, were heavily taxed. The sum total of taxes on the various articles to which he referred, was 7,500,0001, speaking in round numbers, which was so much out of the pockets of the people, and for the protection of the landed interest.—(Cheers.) It was better to pay did. for a quartern loaf than Bid. The contra pressed exclusively on the poor. It a wife and four children had an income of 401., 201. of the sum would be required for bread and beer. The tax on these articles is about 9/., making an income tax of 25 per cent. A family consisting of the same number of individuals, with a yearly income of 801., would only pay an income tax to the amount of 12} per cent. And the larger the income the less the amount of income tax paid on the articles of bread and beer. A family with a yearly income of 10,0001. would only pay a mere fraction of their income in the shape of taxes on those articles ; so that the bread tax fell almost exclusively on the poorer classes of society.— (Cheers.) The corn laws operated as a protecting duty in favour of foreign manufacturers. They must not rely on the Legislature, but on themselves; they must agitate peaceably, indeed, but firmly. Catholic emancipation had been accomplished by agitation; so had the repeal of the Test and Corpo ration Acts; and so also had been the Reform Bill. —( Cheers.) • Colonel LEICESTER STANHOPE rose to second the series of resolutions just read. He was surprised that none of the metropolitan Members were pre-. sent, to perform it in his stead. He was surprised that none of the Liberal Aristocracy were present, on so important an occasion. He (Colonel Stan hope) was in favour of a gradual but total abolition of the corn laws. A sudden repeal of those laws would be attended not only with ruin to the agri culturists, but to the country in general.—(Cries of " No, no; no fear of that.") He was for a total repeal of the corn laws, because, while they existed, the manufacturers could never compete with those of foreign countries.—(Cheers.) It was the first duty of Government to provide for the security of pet son and property. He would ask how such security could exist with a scarcity of bread. Vvre had a population of 24,000,000, while we had food for only 18,000,000. What led to the French revolu tion of 1792 ? And what led to all revolutions Was it not a deficiency of bread ? These laws held out the grand inducement to emigrate from this to foreign countries. This country would not be safe for ten years to come, should the landed aristocracy be so obstinate as to persevere in their resistance to the abolition of the corn laws. It was urged by the oppo nents of the abolition of the corn laws, that were those laws repealed, there would be less cultivation of the soil. Supposing it were so, then there would be more pasture, and consequently more wool, more chees-, more butter, &c. He (Colonel Stanhope) would propose that a duty of 12s. be imposed on eves) , quarter of foreign grain imported into this country. This would be the fist step in the work of repeal, and in a few years a total abolition could take place. Colonel STANHOPF. explained. All that he meant was, that if the corn laws were repealed, without an equitable adjustment of taxation, the landed in terest would be more heavily taxed than any other portion of the community. Mr. DUFFIL resumed. It was only by taking their :affairs into their own hands that they could even expect the redress of their grievances.—(Loud cheers). Mr. FOSTER, late of Leeds, went on, amid hisses and great confusion, to advocate the corn laws. De. WADE attempted to address the meeting, but could not obtain a hearing. Three or four other gentlemen all rose at the same moment, for the purpose of speaking, but not with any better effect for some time. At length, Mr. COGLIN caught the eye of the chairman, and order being in some measure restored, proposed as an amendment to the second resolution, " That if the farmer, not the landed interest, should suffer un duly from the repeal of the corn laws, the taxes which press most heavily on him should be re duced." Several other gentlemen, among whom was Dr. Wade, addressed the meeting. One of them moved, as an amendment to the amendment on the second resolution, " that the working classes were not at all interested in the subject, and that other parties should be left to tight out the battle among them selves."—(lmmense uproar and confusion followed, which lasted for some time.) Mr. DUFFIL then consented to withdraw his amendment. The mover of the second amendment followed the example. The resolutions were then put and carried unanimously. The petitions to Parliament, grounded on the resolutions, were then put and agreed to. It was moved and agreed to that Earl Fitzwilliam be requested to present the petition to the Lords, and Mr. Hume in the Commons, and that the Me tropolitan Members be requested to support the same in the latter House. Thanks were they► voted to the Chairman, after which the meeting separated. There were about 1,500 persons present. An immense number of signatures was obtained on the meeting breaking up. MEETING IN MANCHESTER ON THE CORN LAWS. On Wednesday a meeting of Merchants, Manu facturers, and others, interested in the repeal of the Corn Laws, was held in the Exchange Committee room, Manchester, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best means of securing that desira ble object in the ensuing session of Parliament. R. H. GREG, Esq., was unanimously called to the Chair. Mr. J. C. DYER said the general impression ap peared to be, that the question would be speedily taken up by the Reformed Parliament, and a just decision arrived at by the Representatives of the na tion, and that therefore extensive organization, or a strong expression of public opinion, was less ne cessary. He was, however, deeply convinced of the error of this impression, and therefore anxious that a manifestation of popular opinion should take place now that Parliament was on the eve of meeting. The people should unite their strength to endeavour to bring before the country this great question, not less important than the Reform Bill itself. Mr. Dyer concluded by moving the first resolution. RICHARD POTTER, Esq., M.P., seconded the re solution. MARK PIIILLIPS, Esq., M.P., thought that the present was a favourable opportunity, when our manufacturing interests were happily in a thriving state, and when occupation and employment were so much more regular than for the two years which preceded the year just concluded—to introduce the discussion of this great question to the country, calmly, and deliberately, but with thinness. Mr.SHUTTLEWORTII moved the second resolution. Mr. JOHN B. SMITH said, these were not times when people were willing silently or long to submit to injustice. If the aristocracy were possessed of worldly as well as hereditary wisdom, let them hasten to do justice. He had much pleasure in seconding the resolution. The resolution was then put and carried unani mously. Mr. POTTER, M.P., moved the following re solution::— " That with the view of promoting this change by the prompt adoptio❑ of such measures as may be desirable in the ensuing Session of Parliament, the following gentle. men ire constituted a Committee, with power to add to their nuurb,rs, to originate such proceedings, by public meet ings and otherwise, as may be suited to the exigency : Messrs. Mark Phillips, Richard Potter, G. W. Wood, J. Brotherton, J. C. Dyer, J. Sbuttleworth, E. Connel, E. Baxter, T. B. Solidi, G. R. Chappel, H. M'Connel, T. Boothinan, James Murray, James Bury, T. Harbottle, T. Potter, E. Swanwick, Wilson, James Ferneley, James M`Connel, Moody, Lewis Williams, John Williams, Thomas Bury, 'ferny Newbury, Joseph Thomson, Wil Liam Hill, James Burt, George Grundy, E. Shawcross, and R. Sharpe." Mr. BAXTER seconded the resolution. Mr. SIIUTTLEWORTII then moved a vote of thank; to the Chairman, which was unanimously agreed to, and the meeting separated. AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL COMPANY. Yesterday the Annuli General Meeting of the Proprietors of Shares in this Agricultural Association was held at the Company's House in King's A /ns-yard, Coleman-street, for the purpose of receiving a Hep ,, rt from the Directors, and to elect a Governor, Deputy Governor, Directors, &c. John Smith, Esq. M.P., the Governor, in the chair. There were present, Mr. Hume, AL P., Mr. Astell, Sir A. Grant, Mr. Crawf.rd, M P., &c., &c. From the balance sheet it appeared the rezeipts last year were 17,2931., and the expenditure 11,435/. The balance in hand was 6,135/. The total receipts of the Company were 288,8344 The Court then adjourned, Extract of a letter from Madrid, dated the 17th ink : " It is certain that the Great Powers have complained to England and France of the late incursions of the Spanish troops into Portugal, and that the British Cabinet has delivered to sure a note protesting against their being renewed under any pretence, and declaring that his Britannic Mijesty would consider. any future violation of the Portuguese territory by a Spanish army as an act of aggre-sion against Great Britain, in consequence of the union Which exists between that nation and Portugal, founded on ancient treaties. - This has had an ill effect at the Court of Spain." No intelligence has-been received .from Madrid subsequent to toe 17th.' At that time the population of the capital was full of enthusiasm at the ac. cession of M. Martinez de la Rosa to the Ministry. The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of Bayonne of the 25th inst., says—" Our correspondence from Spain is to-day without interest ; the eyes of all seem fixed an the liheral manifestations of Catalonia, and the first acts of the new Nlinistry are looked for ,with much anxiety. The Carlists • themselves are quiet, perhaps making preparations. The couriers still meet with the same difficulties and delays. During the short time the Carlists occupied the iron works of Orbaiceta, they succeeded, it is said, in carrying off 1,000 muskets and two pieces of cannon. Z:vala recently appeared before Bilboa, without any attempt hav ing been made to alarm him. The Brigadier Pastor was lately at Onata with his followers; be has returned to Aspeytia, where the insurgents were inclined to rally. An engagement took place last Tuesday at Ochandiano. The struggle lasted four hours, but its result is not known ; we are assured, however, that the Royal troops, to the number of 200 or 250 men, retreated before a superior force as far as Villa Real de Alava. By all we hear from Valencia, there is a prospect that public tranquillity will not be again disturbed in that province." The Suabian Mercury gives the following, under date of Luxemburg, Jan. 20 :—" We are looking anxiously for the final settlement of the differences between Holland and Belgium, so far at least as it will determine the lot of our country, the position of which becomes daily more and more intolerable. It is true that on this point there are many opposite opiiiions, put these are less according to tbe difference in the classes of society than in the age of the parties supporting these opinions ; almost all the young men wish for a union with Belgium, while the greater number of the older men are Orangeis!s. Un h ippily, these political differences frequently disturb the peace of families, and the schisms thus produced become aggravated by the procrastination of a settlement." Extract of a letter of the 15th inst. from Ancona : " A Greek merchantman arrived here yesterday and brought two of the Ministerial Gazettes of that kingdom, and se veral numbers of a new journal called the Sun. In the Gazettes we find two decrees, one nominating M. C. Ciore ambassador extraordin ay to the Court of Russia ; he was to embark on his mission as early as possible, and was expected to come by this port; the ,other appoints a Greek consul-g,neral at Trieste. In the course of the last month the guillotine was for the first time used in Greece; it was brought into action upon a Neapolitan, who had been convicted of murdering a gendarme. No Greek could be found to undertike the office of executioner,which was performed by a Turkish renegado. Greece is perfectly quiet in every part." The 'Freisnatige (Free Speaker) of Zurich has the fol lowing :—" In the sitting of the Cantonal Council on the 13th inst., the proposition of M. Snell, that the Council should join with the States in effecting a reform in the church, was adopted by a majority of 125 to 22. The plan of Lucerne as to the Citholic conference is to endeavour to succeed in carrying the following points :- 1. That the diocese of St. Gall be united to that of Basle. 2. That the Nunciature of Lucerne should no longer be allowed to interfere in the ecclesiastical affairs of Swit zerland. 3. That there should be granted to the bishop ric of Basle a new national constitution. 4. That the ' communications between the Bishops of Switzerland and the Pope should be carried on by an Archbishop, to be created for the purpose. 5. That more positive rules should be laid down as to the interference and power of the civil authorities in the affairs of the church." The Moniteur gives the following comparative table of the number, weight, and value of the packages of French merchandise declared for export at the Custom-house of Paris, from 1828 to 1882 inclusive : Value Years. Number Weight. Declared. K il. Francs. 1828 94,066 8,223,670 66,0)2,457 1829 94,294 8,662,541 64,737,731 1830 87,3 9 8,3'17,513 64,231,168 1831 183" 1833 114.116 10,414,160 95,247,37 (From the Times.) PARIS, JANUARY 28.—1 t is too true, that for ante days past the superior regions have been darkened by a mass of stormy clouds. During 48 hours our Ministry has been on the point, at least, of modification. The Duke de Broglie's compulsory retraction of the approbation so enthusiastically and unqualifiedly expressed by him of M. Bignon's statement in the debste on the address—the dismissal of the Spanish Minister Z,ta, which will probably render the recall of the Count de Rayneval, our Ambassador at Madrid, necessary—but more parti cularly the nomination of 11 members of the Opposition on the committee of 36 for the budget, and the manifest discontent of the Deputies at the expenses of the War Department,—all these circumstances must have occasioned warm discussions in the Cabinet, and doubtless induced the Duke of Dalmatia to tender his resignation, rather than abandon, even fur a moment, as he was advised, his project of an army of reserve. Another incident has just occurred, which has had the effect of carrying these em barrassments to the highest possible point. The Minister proposed M. Wier, a regent of the Bank of France, as president of the committee on the budget. M. Passy was preferred to the ministerial candidate. M. Passy is a much. respected individual, very strict and rigid in his conduct, and belongs rather to the tiers purti than to that party which is designated by the ap• pellation of doctrinuire. M. Passy is, however, a rea' friend of the dynasty. While these elements of disunion and dissolution were fermenting within the Cabinet the ambitious were not iitle without. The accession of the tiers parti to power might prove, in the course of events, a stepp;og-store to that section of the opposition which has not desJarcd itse:f anti dynasties But from this tiers parti, of which M. Dupin, President of the Chamber, is regarded as the head, and the Constitutionnel newspaper as the organ, and to which MM. Odillon Barrot, Mauguin, Laffitte, Coulman, Sze., belong, has proceeded the too famous compte rends —the intended or accidental manifesto of the revolt of the sth and 6th of June. This compte rends is like a spectre armed with a blazing gauntlet—for ever scaring front power those by whom it has been raised. A new expe dient has been hit upon with the view of makin: , this unlucky spirit disappear. The compte rends, say the journals of the opposition non-republican, is an awkward business, an error, a blunder. It ought to be forgotten. All of good that it possessed is confirrned,—all of evil that belonged to it is moiified be the adoption of the address in reply to the speech from the throne. The compte rends tenders its right hand to Louis Philip, its Itfc band tl the tiers parti ; it desires peace and alliance, but it rejects the Dactiinaires, qui fce• nuns Went in corms. The Crown, continue these jour nals, ought to consider itself fortunate in finding friends in orators and statesmen like MM. 0 lillon Barrot, M tuguio, and company ; and it would be no trifling advantage if, by a schism much to be desired, the King should see the Gamier Pages, the Cabets, the Argensons, and the Audi.) de Puyraveaus left in a completely isolated position. The Cabinet easly sees through these tactics, and to bat& them they need only join cordially together. Tl,is is precisely what they have dine. It appears that the illustrious Marshal has consented to the postponement of his project of the army of reserve, and things will be so arranged as to make this session pa-s off very solo :thly and quietly. It is said that his Royal Highness ti e Duke of Orleans has greatly contributed to this re-adjustment of affairs, and that he has had persona: communications with the President of the Council on the subject. The change of a thinistry in the course of a session is a very etnbatrassi ,g :tuly dangerous matter. Besides, this tiers parti tom. to me to be a creation almost chimerical, or at lean: a perfectly ineongruoue conception. Would it have M. Dupin octt; y tiro seet of President of the Council ? Without Joule M. Dupin ie a roan of rare talent, but it must be confessed that no place is so well suited to him re the Speaker's chair. His rough, determined, and absolute character, would render him incapable of submitting to modifications which discussions in the Cabinet so uf:en • render necessary. Let M Dupie's situation be as high as you please, could his relations with diplomacy be attended with a happy result? Would he not be met by feelings of political and aristocratical repugnance? It cannot be denied that foreion Powers would more readily treat with the warrior, whom his sword has made noble and a lorious, than with lawyers, who, in consequence of prejudiceo, unjust though doubtless they he, are regarded in an in f, rior light. Would M. Bignon be proposed to succeed the Duke de Broglie? However well-qualified M. Bignon might be in other times for the post which Le covets, still it may be questioned whether lie is fit fur it in the present state of offairs, and whether there might not be well-founded obstacles to allowing the defender of the cruse of Poland and the friend of Fergusson to have a share in the Government. After those I have just mentioned, whose names are the most prominent in the tiers parti? M. Etienne, 111. Viennet, both of them men of talent, and distinguished literary characters. But on what particular duty could they be employed ? Sup pose the Department of Public Instruction were committed to the superintendence of M. Etienne; this is the only post compatible with his previous habits; but be n was a roan of business, and in the Department of Public Instruction the practical duties are at lease quite as im portant as the speculative. I fear that the witty author of the Deux Gendres of Jacon•le, and of a hundred other pretty dramatic productions, would not exhibit, in his new situation, the necessary aptitude and activity. M. Viennet, poet to the Chamber as well as to the Academy, is not distinguished for application. He is too enthusi astic, and gives way too touch to his passions. Durette is a brave citizen, and worthy of great esteem. Repu diating the Doctrinaires of Guizot and de Broglie'. class, he must neeesrearily join with the Doetrinoiree of the compte rendu, who, if their colleagues of the tiers parti quarrel with them, will soon find themselves obliged to unite, if they desire to form a Cabinet, with the Republicans ; and in that case the Chamber must either he immediately (I.s. solved, or the monarchy will be in danger. This tiers parti is an emanation of folly. TLe rata who compose it, and the Doctrinaires—since Doctrinaires there are—must form a fusion—a coalition against the Thad inventions of the Republican party; while that section of the Opposition which goes by the name of the dynastic will remain in the background, and as opportunity pre sents itself will, in consideration of the guarantees they offer, introduce at intervals some of their own party to the secondary regions of power. How can M. ( tdilion Barrot act in conjunction with Dupin—M. Meuguin with M. Bignon ? How can the public or public credit he reconciled to the nomination of these two celebrated advocates as Ministers ? flow could the secret societies be crushed by placing at the head of affairs the former leaders of those societies? If they con tinue under the influence of the societies, they must second the movement against the throne of Louis Philip ! and if they come to an open rupture with the clubs, the press Sill write these deserters down—n ill completely over throw them, and forced to quit place, they will be stu pidly supported by some for a short time, but eternally re pudiated by all the rest of the world. Could trey who have preached propagandism, and desired to see the tree ties of 1815 torn to pieces --could these men demand the maintenance of peace ? Will they inspire confidence in Europe—they who think it one of tire first duties of the Government of July to extend our frontiers to tire Rhine and the Alps ? Finally, can these men, who have talked so much of the programme of the Hotel de Ville and of the monarchy with republican institutions, prevail on the merchants, the manufacturers, and the capitalists to employ their money in the prosecution of commerce, in the operations of industry, or in the advancement of great enterprises? No ! M. Wilton Barrot and his friends are doomed, by the force of circumstances, to play the part of Oppositionists; and it is not impossible for them to earn a great deal of fame in this p ith. There is still room enough for others to distinguish themselves in the fields which the Foxes, the Sheridans, the Foys, and the Girar dins occupied. M. Odillon Barrot and his friends would be, with reference to the embryo and still precocious Re public, the Ministers for the first fortnight; they would afterwards b- sacrificed by the Republic, as the Girondist.' were by the Mountain. Under these circumstances, the tactics of parties are postponed until after the elections, which will take place in October next. Iu acknowledging that the public men who are styled Doctrinaires possess a great deal of talent, knowledge, eloquence, and an undeniable aptitude for government, I cannot help regretting that they are too exclusive. They will not allow that any capacity exists out of their little sect, and according to them power is their private domain. This conceit has made them many enemies ; it has .been too plainly exhibited, and other people, who think them selves as much entitled to an opiaion of their own as these Doctrinaires, are highly offended at it. Yesterday's sitting at the Chamber of Deputies was extremely interesting. I recommend you to peruse this details of the proceedings, for Lafayette took occ orlon to defend the cause of the refugees. I listened to him with great attention. He still looks well, and it would be difficult to find a man of 77 with a more fresh and healthy aspect—a milder or more agreeable set of features. But he is no more the same orator, nor have his expressions that readiness and grace which used, only two years ago, to characterize them. The afflicting episode to this sitting was, however, the incomprehensible requisition addressed by one Lana bit, a military man, to the Minister of War. You will see that it related to the removal of two officers of ma rines into the land force, and to the insubordination of certain sub-lieutenants of artillery, who thereupon made a great clamour about the violation of their rights, and addressed to the Minister petitions teeming with insolence, The majority of the Chamber, by a formal vote, treated this impropriety as it deserved. The discipline of tho army would have been at an end, if the madness of the excited parties had obtained its deplorable triumph. Read, I request you, the derails of this sitting. You will there see that a refugee named Wolfrumm is represented by the Republican, M. Gamier Pages, as a patriotic and persecuted merchant, whose affairs are in a state of de- rangement ; when, behold, up stands 111. d'Areout, with document in hand, proves this interesting patriot to be a Jesuit —nay, a Jesuitical emissary, who, through the mot d'ordre, Ignatius Loyola arid Capet, has been ini o tiated into the mysterious councils of that society. Whilst these events were proceeding at the Petals Bour bon, the Court of Cessation was employed in rejecting tho appeal of the seditious advocates, who were interdicted from practising for the space of a year by tire Paris Cour d'Assises ; and the latter court in its turn was busied io condemning M. Fouc.slt, the editor of the Gazette da France, to three months' imprisonment and a fine of 11,000 f. You will thus perceire that the time at least has not yet arrived for the sway of either the Republic or that of Henry V., and that Messrs. Cabet and de Chateaubriand have their trouble for their pains. In Spain Martinez de la Rosa at present occupies tie tertae ground of the political scene. I knew him well, and entertain for him a merited esteem, for he is a mart of true probity and of a clear and capacious mind. I have frequently heard him express sentiments on revolution., which be appreciated as they ought to be appreciated, and, more enlightened titan his com patriots, he hesitated not to avow the errors which had rendered so unfortunate their efforts for political re generation. The independence of the nation thoroughly cor roborated, was a joyous circumstance for the Spaniaos, but the Cortes, who began to organize the state, troffer an impression distrustful of power, ruined the superstructure at the very moment of its creation. Ferdinand VII., like our Louis XVI., was inclined to regard as attacks upon his rights and privileges all at tempts at Übsral improvement. There is now a better chance of accomplishing these improvements, since a contract is about to be made with a new dynasty, in which contract the rights and conditions of its existence will be specified ; but great alterations cannot possibly he. effected but through the medium of the power which emeirrteo exclusively from her. Martinez de Is Rosa is a distin guished man of letters. A play of his entitled Alien Humeya, or the Moors under Philip IL, has boen par formed at one of our theatres. Europe would be wrong to entertain any prejudice against this Minister. Sire is immediately interested, it appears to one, in supporting and corroborating him in his power, for his must be the hand which is to motel and guile the iositutions desired by Spain—to be a second Casimir Perier, whose firmness and judgment must marl: the limits to which the revolution should extend. I cannot close my letter without reverting to our do mestic affairs. You have doubtless remarked the projet de loi respecting the hawking of political writings Mean the streets, and the consequent proceedings' against M. Cabet. This measure of the Ministry is very significant. ft declares that they have rallied themselves and (fete, mined to hold their places. It it is, besides, another effect—it ' , envoys a r e ply to the Al ichiavelisin of the violeet parties, t e ir l:e th p ro re a t e n a r s i tti o ne re ex p e re r s c e t n , t iun the o . hadtt:sesentotimtelinetsspoecallinfralont. 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