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LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 29.

Ceuttsts. is an unlucky place fur pretenders. The
pretenders of 1`432. have, in their way, been as
roughly handled there as the pretender of 1745 was
in the persons of his followers. The Derbyites have
done their worst in Cardiac, and been drummed out
of town to the tune of "the Rogue's March." This is
no exaggeration ; the disclosure made by Sir James
linemen of the agency upon which his opponents re-'
lied fur victory, covers them with opprobrium.
But the peep afforded by Sir JAR r.s into the pew-
lralia el the (*Anton, gives us an insight into combi-
nations and operations extending over • much wider
range of country than Carlisle. It has helped to
drag into light a very important though until lately
almost. unknown agent of the Ikrbyites.
Our friend Mr. Fitalt—the confidential correspon-
dent of " It'. 1/.7 of the (*iirlton Club—turns out to
be • person of much greater consequence than was
imagined. This clerk of the course and barber—die-
regarded on account of his seemingly humble posi-
tion—poem:sees, it seeno, a genius for political com-
bination never before poesessed by any tensor or
scraper of chins since the " Figaro" of BEAUMAR-
CHAP', and wield* an amount of political influence
never before poisoned by one of his profession except
the Ohne le Male of louts IX. Such a political
gem cannot with propriety be left shrouded in the
obscurity of his provincial retreat :
Loam largo ! al Barbie?, ;
Al &omen Sine eat:,
The local TiVkillefiet, of this great man is Shrews-
bury, and shrew sbury, it will be remembered, had
the hollow to bo represented from IN II to
Itsti by no less • person than the pmeent
Memento* of the Excliseivee. But Mr. FROL'S
interference in elections extends far beyond the
sphere of his local residence. In 1.17 he was
busy in Ludlow and Carlisle: of his doing.; in that
year in l erns's, the Carlton (lob was cognisant; in
Inel2 we have the Carlton Club invoking his aid in
Derby. Mr. FRU!. is no mere subordinate agent;
he is " a man in authority "in the Conservative army,
" having !addicts under him." Simple Sir James
Ottani% and Sir J tsts.-.'s equally simple friends,
having been warned to be on their guard against
)lr. FRAIL of shrewshury, sent emissaries thither to
make themselves nequainted with the personal op.
pearance of tl:e man, and watched at the Carlisle
station for his advent. But the Derby letter and its
results show that Mr. FILM. works not in person,
but by his emissaries. He keeps on foot a whole
regiment of dexterous bribers. Ile remains in mys-
terious concealment, and operates by the agency of
others. A letter to Mr. FRAIL ensures the
appearance of one of his emissaries at Derby
who is trusted rith untold gold, not from any confi-
dence. repoeed in himself. but because his employers
know that Mr. FRAIL can keep him right. A par.
liamentars committee would gain no moro by appre-
hending Slr. Fuaii. and immuring him within stone
walls than the French Countess iu "Henry VI." did
by trepanning Tirlbot. Talbot (Earl of Shrews-
bury by the way) told the Countess that he was
merely the name and shadow of the man so
much dreaded in France—that his soldiers were his
thews and sinews. Mr. Fit ‘it, might tell a com-
mittee that he. too, is a mere name—that in his or-
ganised briers his strength Is seated, as SAMPSON'S
was in his hair.
Mr. FRAIL is exactly such a character as novelists
delight in. No external show of power or
greatness about him. Throughout the year he
cuts hair and Aare, like any ordinary barber; at
certain seasons he acts as clerk of the course. The
'heedless may pass him by as a person of no note or
consequence. If a lord or gentleman is seen to speak
to him, men fancy that some question is asked about
the arrangements of the next races, or some commis-
sion given to crop and dock a squad of livened at-
tendants by wholesale. Whereas the balance of a
general eleetion may be trembling in the hands of
the obscure barber. The seeming shaver of chins
may be disposing of a dozen constituencies while
appearing to ply his vocation, as Rai Roy intrigued
for the Jacobites while he seemed engrossed with the
sale of a drove of black cattle, and Grind orf, in the
" Miller and his Men," laid a whole province under
contribution while he seemed to think of nothing but
his mill. The mysterious barber of Shrewsbury
conceals the meddling, prying, intriguing spirit of
Dame Ursula Soddleehap under the meek deport-
ment of her hen-pecked spouse.
'there is something terrible in the contemplation
of such unapparent power. A luckless Liberal can-
didate or agent, under the comb and scissors of
FRAIL fancies he is whiling away the time in equities@
gossip with one of a proverbially garrulous prefer
non, while in fact he is having all his party's secrets
wormed out of him. With stealthy pace, stolid
countenance, and en ears the barber receives his
humbler customers in his shop and waits upon his
more affluent employers at their homes or hotels;
and nobody suspect', him of being the link of com-
munication between holders of and hunters after
place in the Carlton Club, and a dexterous band of
electioneering agents scattered over the whole
country, each it may be concealing his real
calling under some humble vocation to which
be seems entirely devoted. Mr. FRAIL is the Robin
Hood of politic., with his band of friars and millers
mingling unsuspected in all circles. Mr. FRAIL is for
the Carlton the ear of Dionysius to which
all political intelligence flows from his own nume-
rous spies; he is the aide-de-camp of the club, to
convey its orders to its mercenaries wherever quar-
tered on the day of battle. Ile' holds in his hands
in • great measure the destinies of the Conservative
WI;
It is upon their FRAMS that the Derbyites rely
for the maintenance of their power. They debate in
parliament, they harangue on hustings and at meet-
Inge of electors; but all these things are merely the
gabble with which a conjuror diverts attention from
the machinery and associates by whom his tricks are
executed. While Chancellors cf the Exchequer,
" W. Ito" of the Carlton.club, and all their genteel
allies are talking, the Faaltar are doing. While
the Liberals are arguing with ministers, the
Featto are packing the House of Commons. The
Derbyites are wiser in their generation than their
political opponents. A professional electioneering
agent is of necessity an object of jealousy and our-
reillunee ; if his headamarters are in the metropolis,
all his motions are easily watched. But who would
suspect or keep an eye upon an obscure barber, in an
obscure country town ?
The Derbyites disclaim with warmth the imputa-
tion of being fastidiously aristocratic in their tastes
and associations. And they have • right to de ass
They are by no means scrupulous or exclusive in their
choice of friends and allies. They keep on civil terms
with gentlemen at the clubs, but for their confidants
and trusted enadjutors they select not merely men of
the lower rank.% hut the least respectable among
them. They are inveterately addicted to what featly
deserves to be called low companT.
'f he scope and range of Mr. Shrewsbury FRAIL'S
operations have yet been but partially and im-
perfectly diseloecd. With how many constituencies
he may have tampered, how much money has teas
placed at his &penal, nu one can conjecture. And
how many FRAU-4 may lie stealthily mming about
in England it is impossible to say. But their name
must he Legion, for nothing else can account for the
gain of so many seats by a party of whose leaders
it was only known that they have abjured all their
old principles, not what new ones they have picked
up instead of them.

THE retention of office by Lord IfEltBY'S Foreign
fiecrttuty—the hero of the Ko too ceremony per-
formed at the feet of the Emperor of AI:STRIA in the
elm) of Mr. MATIMIL—is produriog its inevitable
results. Every weak and insignificant government
has been encouraged by it to strut, and vapour, and
bully at the expense of Englishmen. " We have only
Lord Nl.ii.wr.miettv to deal with," they say, when
the Bolmalel lit conies on them, and they. give safe
vent to their insolence on any stray british subject
that comes terns them.
Incidents illuatrativo of this galling truth are of

upon
Ar painful du
That the Papal governor at Ancona had wantonly and
Inprovokedly insulted the British consul there; se-
timidly, That King Bonney polioe had with it
violence suppressed the school of an English gentle-
man ; and, luatly, That the Turkish governor of the
Dardanelleshadcauseelthebastinadotoboadministered
to two lonian. The Neal olitan police emulates the
aggression committed by the Austrian on British mis-
sionaries in Hungary; the Turkish governor treats
British subjects after the fashion of the Tuscan autho-
rities; the Papal _Monsignors., in the ease of Mr.
DAVIS, acts up to the example set him by hie supe-
riors in the case of Mr. NIURRAT. To be an English-
man on the Continent, at this moment, is to be the ob-
ject of the petulanccand oppression ofeeery Doyberry.
" The little dogs and all—Tray. Blanche, and Sweet-
heart, how they bark at us." Haying seen with what
resignation Lord MALMESKRY has pocketed the
affronts of Austria, and even Tuscany, the King of
the Lazzarone, the Priest on the seven hills, and the
Commander of the Faithful, all deem him a safe object
whereon to exercise their puny valour.
Our object is not to appeal to what Lord MAlD-
sros E would call the " bull-dog " propensities of our
countrymen. We leave that to the Denim satellites
who try to get up invasion panics, who defend our
overgrown naval and military establishments, and who
lead the country, groaning under a burden of use-
less armour, with, the cur-addition of militia bills. Our
object is to prevent war, by diminishing the chance
of provocation to war. Joint BULL is not the most
patient of animals under insult and provocation.
He is not disposed to sit tamely under blows
accompanied by derision and insult. Ile will not
keep his temper long if he is to be pointed out to
the world as the big bully whom every petty whip-
ster can kick and buffet with impunity. Nor would
it be prudent for him to do so. The habit of mal-
treating every Englishman who comes in ithin their
reach will grow upon the paltry despots of the Con-
tinent if not peremptorily checked. It can be checked
as yet by firm language and a tranquil, resolute de-
portment; but delay will encourage to more intole-
rable aggressions, for which it may only be possible
to obtain redress by recourse to arms. But a dig-
nified, temperate, successful assertion of the rights of
Englishmen in foreign lands, is conduct of which
Lord NI eI.MESItraT Ins shown himself incapable.
Every Englishman who visits countries that are
accessible, and called (bv courtesy at least) civilised j
—whether in search of honest gain, health, instruc-
tion, or even amusement--has a right to rely upon
the protection of his government. When irregular
adventurers penetrate into Bokhara or Central
Africa. the impossibility of reaehiag the rude des-
pots who may there opmesa or murder them may
afford an excuse for leaving such offences against the
English nation unpunished. Bat where the of-
fenders are within reach, every Englishman has si
right to expect that wherever his legitimate avocations
may call him, there will the eye or his government be
open, there will its arm be prompt to ensure to him
defence or redress. The government that neglects ell
discharge this duty exposes is country tow:damp.
and contempt encourages to the perpetration d
wrong and injury.
On points of national honour, as on points of par.
*tonal honour, there are no doubt such things as fads
ish, unmanly sensitiveness, and undue pmnip-
titude in seeking redress by violence. When
Englishmen are silly enough to involve
themselves in the intrigues and cabals of barbarous
or semi-barbarous states, strict justice as well as pru-
dence may sometimes suggest the propriety of leav-
ing them to endure the well deserved consequences of
their folly. And few will defend such measures as
the concentrating the force of a British fleet, large
enough to blow the Mores out of the water, upon the
kingdom of Greece, in behalf of such a very equivocal
gentlemanasnonPAcirico. But to lookonwithapathy
and folded arms, when by a tacit conspiracy of Con-
tinental despots bona fide English subjects are sub-
jected to intolerable wrongs, although every day adds
,to the list of unprovoked injuries, is to degrade the
country in the estimation of all men, to compromise
its interests, and to risk its entanglement in costly,
haglorious, unprofitable wars.
The Derbyites boast that there is no one object
fir the attainment of which the hostile majority in
the House of Commons can be brought to act in
concert. We shall see, when parliament meets,
whether this gross libel on the common sense and
patriotism of the majority is in so far justified by its
truth, that they cannot even sacrifice paltry personal
spleens and jealousies in order to combine to wrest
the management of foreign affairs from a MALMES-
BURY ; and to unite in his degradation all who may
make common cause with him. We shall see
whether the parliamentary party which seeks to give
itself airs as the exclusive depositary of English
sentiment and national honour, will abet Lord
Dzienv's Foreign Secretary—literally foreign, for
not one English feeling appears to animate his
breast. Every hour that the minister who betrayed
Mr. MATHER, who has deserted Mr. MCRRAY, who
has tamely endured Tuscan insults, who has invited
the aggressions of a Turkish governor, the Papal au-
thonties, and King Boan.e's police, remains in office
is a national obloquy and a national peril.

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FRANCE.

CIIANGES IN THE FRENCH MINISTRY.

(BY SUBMARINE TELEORAIIi.)

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, THURSDAY MOINIKO.
Dronyn de L'Huys is appointed Minister for
Foreign Affairs; Magna for Public Works; Lefebvre
Duruite• Senator.

PARIS, WZDSZSDAT EVENINO.
The Moniteur states that the increase of money in
the treasury has enabled the Minister of Finance to
reimburse to the Hank of France 25 millions on ac-
count of the loan of 50 millions made by the bank to
the treasury in March, leritl. This reimbursement
was made en the 26th inst.

The funeral of General Gourgaud took place to-
da,.
the death of this officer of the empire, following
so closely on that of Marshal Excelmans, reminds one'
of Soule* exclamation on hearing of the successive
dying off of several of his brothers in arms : " Est ce
qu'on bet le rappel li haat ? " The funeral ceremony
took place at tho church of St. Louis d'Antin, and
was so similar in most respects to that which has
been already described on the interment of Marshal
Execlmans, that a repetition of the circumstances
would be tedious. Thu only feature worth observing
in this funeral was the total absence of all persons
connected with the household of Louis Napoleon, a
circumstance attributable in all likelihood to the dis-
closures made by Sir Walter Scott concerning the
correspondence of General Gourgaud from St. Helena
with the British government.
Gaspard Gourgaud was born at Versailles, on Sept.
11, 1783, and was brought up at the house of his
maternal uncle, Henri Gourgaud, the comedian, so
well known in the annals of the Theltre Francais by
,the petcdunimie of Bagmen. After having been at
the Polytechnic School and at that of Metz, he en-
tered in 1801 the 6th Foot Artillery, and in 1803
became the aide.de-camp of General Fouche, who
had discovered his abilities. The battles of the
em-
pire succeeded with wonderful rapidity, and at
Tabor, Austerlitz, lens, Friedland, Euling, and,
above all Wagram, Gourgaud gave proofs of an in-
telligence and courage which gained him the honour
of being appointed orderly-officer to the Emperor,
whose life, according to generally received ac-
counts of the Russian campagne, ho was so
fortunate as to save upon two occasions.
Itostopchin, the Russian general, in his depair, had
I placed under the Kremlin and the neighbouring
buildings nearly 309,000 th. weight of gunpowder, fur
the purpose of blowing up the staff, the military
howwhold, and the guard of the Emperor. The the
was already set to the match, which was slowly
burning, when Gourgaud. without measuring the
' extent of the dangt r, rushed into the golf, and site-
ecrded in extinguishing the match, and so saved the
Emperor and the principal generals. Again, at
Brienne, on Jan. 29, 1814, the Emperor found
self enveloped by a body of Cossacks, who pressed
hem closely. At that moment one of them, lance in
hand, spurred at Napoleon, and would have cer-
tainly transfixed him, had not Gourgaud dashed